Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Black Cloak

"…" -… The Black Cloaks is an Voshkod Tier III infantry unit that serves as the Anti-Psychic team. Planned to be voiced by Elsie Lovelock.

History
Suffer not the tainted to live. -Motto of the Black Cloaks Due to the power they wield almost every superpower in Gaiaterra has used every resource they could to create their own psychic division, from the Alliances Lensmen, the Protectorates dedicated Psionic Division, to the entire Collective being a psychic army. It is perhaps ironic that the Voshkod was the first nation, barring the secretive Heralds, to discover and research the field of psychics, while also revealing the field to other nations, and yet in the modern day have an extreme abhorrence for it, only rivaling the Chaos god Khorne. With their equivalent to such forces, the Black Cloaks, being tasked to kill said psychic soldiers. This disgust towards this field, despite being the first to research it, was from a combination of Emet-Selch Garlean and his successors Cherdenko and Lunafreya. The discovery of psychics had come around the middle of the GVAW, where both sides had reached a stalemate, when Emet had noticed a soldier displaying strange powers, from predicting where his enemies would be, getting classified information without being found out, to outright causing soldiers to willingly surrender through words. That man is simply known as Yuri (back when he was just a young conscript). Intrigued Emet invited Yuri to his court to display his power and impressed by its powers he immediately promoted Yuri to become the head of the new “Omega Branch”. And until the end of the GVAW the Voshkod became infamous for its “Omega” soldiers, who could take over the minds of their soldiers or cut them up with telekinetic blades, with Yuri leading them. All of that came crashing down when Cherdenko took over. As his first edict as Premier was the absolute destruction of the Omega branch, despite how much of an edge it gave the Voshkod. From executing every Omega soldier to sending entire Spetsnaz teams to ensure that Yuri’s lab was destroyed, though the team had suffered extreme casualties due to underestimating Yuri’s personally trained guards, known as Epsilons. To this day no one knows why he would destroy his own nation’s secret weapon, with the only rumors being that he was either a time traveler from the future who witness his nation destroyed by psychics (shakingly supported by the fact that his close associate and now insane asylum patient, Zelinsky, constantly spouting about how they changed time) or that he had witnessed the depravity of the Heralds at some point in his mysterious past. His successor, Lunafreya, follows a similar sentiment, in fact, it was the only thing she agreed with Cherdenko, with her personally having led the psychic purge and installing the Witch Hunter Project when she became Premier. Her hatred stemmed from participating, and being the sole survivor, of the “Tunguska Incident”, a classified military operation she loathes to recall. The product of her program is the Black Cloaks, an elite branch of soldiers tasked with killing any psychic enemies. Due to a psychic being significantly stronger compared to a normal person. Each Black Cloak is trained from childhood and is equipped with a special mask, known for its black color and featureless face, built to completely negate psychic powers, most of all making them immune to mind control, around them while instilling a feeling of fear in normal people, and special equipment, such as “psyk-out” grenades meant to sever the psychic’s power upon detonation, which also has a side effect of inducing fear towards normal people. Even before training these individuals are often grim and uncaring to the point of suicidal but possess nearly supernatural sight, reflexes, and psysique to the point of being considered the peak of a Humans potential, a permanent side effect upon wearing the mask. But the recruiting of the Black Cloak is fickle, though not by Lunafreya’s fault. This is because the mask, which is a crucial component to the Black Cloak’s success, will only activate when worn by certain individuals. This led to a law that every child at the age of six must wear the mask, and if it activates, which they know as the activation inflicts incredible pain upon the child, the parents, under the Premiers law, must gift their child to be trained as a Black Cloak, and will be compensated in turn. Refusal is tantamount to treason and will be punished accordingly. The results speak for themselves. As the Black Cloaks have proven time and time again to be crucial in protecting the Voshkod, as psychics who could easily sweep aside their forces falls in seconds to the Black Cloaks withering volley of cyclotronic fire. And even when fighting against normal soldiers they project an aura of fear that most soldiers would rather run than face them. While in times of peace they are tasked with rooting out psychics within the Union. With enemies being killed on sight while citizens are given a choice, sever their psychic powers or be executed. The greatest irony in all of this, and a major frustration to Lunafreya, is that there is an actual reason why the mask activates or not, which was discovered far earlier than thought but was kept hidden under death. The mask will only activate when it’s worn by someone who is a latent psychic, and the pain it inflicts is the mask severing their powers and projecting it as a field that dispels magic near them, gives them super healing, and pushed their bodies physique to its limit, with the side effect of making them look “unnatural” to normal people, similar yet different to a “Blank”. And their general fatalistic attitude is a common side effect of psychics who lost the connection to their powers. Knowing how devastating the news of their paragon in destroying the witch must be a witch themselves Lunafreya has done everything in her power to make sure that this truth is never revealed, while also making it so that her people will consider others saying as such to be slanderous rumors (such as an Alliance scientist who managed to get his hands on a mask), with the exception to the Black Cloaks. Instead, she uses this fact as a way to fuel their hatred to psychics, letting the know that their duty isn’t just to kill the tainted but also penance for being tainted themselves.

Guardians of the Tacitus

 * Nova Soldier (Aquila)
 * Lensman (Alliance)
 * OSA Agent (ADI)
 * Battle Idol (Protectorate)
 * Battle Psychic
 * Mystic (Andora)
 * Telepath (Empire)
 * Valka (Community)

Destroyers of Balthazar

 * Black Cloaks (Voshkod)
 * Mouth Of Kane (Brotherhood)
 * Weirdboy (Horde)
 * Junkhead (MLA)
 * Magi (Collective)
 * Avatar (Encantadia)
 * Horrors (Scrin)

Neutrals

 * Runelord (Coalition)
 * Chaos Sorcerer (Heralds)
 * Khorne Berserker
 * Seer (Order)
 * Newtypes (Survivors)
 * Mind Hacker (Syndicate)
 * Psi Operative (Conglomerate)
 * Sanctioned Psyker (Legion)

DLC

 * ... (Federation)
 * ... (Corona)
 * ... (Party)
 * ... (Skynet)
 * ... (Dominion)
 * ... (Elemental)
 * ... (Autocracy)
 * … (League)
 * … (Swarm)
 * ... (Pirates)
 * … (Elona)
 * ... (Ascalia)
 * ... (Confederation)
 * … (Kingdom)
 * ... (Goo)
 * ... (Security)
 * ... (Imperium)
 * ... (Dynasty)
 * … (Warlords)
 * ... (Cult)
 * ... (Raiders)
 * ... (Theocracy)
 * ... (ASA)
 * … (Insurgents)
 * ... (Bastion)
 * ... (Guardians)
 * ... (Hierarchy)
 * ... (Sundered)
 * ... (Ecumene)
 * ... (Concordat)
 * ... (Contingent)
 * ... (Rangers)
 * … (Eden)
 * ... (InGen)
 * ... (Hallows)
 * … (Commune)
 * ... (Clique)
 * ... (Guild)