Spaceborne Assault Trooper Armée

The SATs : Spaceborne Assault Troopers
The groundpounders of the Griffons Alliance. Those whose eyes glimmer with joy when they see a weapon will fit here. These forces do everything from unconventional warfare, to normal warfare, to security functions, to Zero-G operations.

The Spaceborne Assault Troops is a rapid deployment strike force designed to operate in close coordination with the Navy to engineer the kind of lightning fast, overwhelming armed response that characterize the Griffons armed forces. They are specially trained to feel at home at zero G, as well as at the bottom of a gravity well. Their specialty is a kind of hard hitting mobile warfare waged at a breakneck pace never before seen on the galactic core. They are tough, well armed, and strongly motivated. Only the best of the best make it here since it requires a very stable psychological profile as well as above average strength and stamina to master this kind of style. Some common specializations on this area are Infantry, Armor, Artillery, Demolitions, Hoovertank Drivers & Gunners.

The SATs basic unit is the platoon. A platoon is composed of an even number of soldiers but that number can vary to adjust to the mission profile. Normally a platoon is composed of 8 troopers, usually under the command of a Midshipman or Lieutenant and one or two non-coms. Our soldiers never fight alone, they always work in pairs (and sometimes in trios). In each pair, one of the soldiers is responsible for the mission objective and the other is responsible for the protection of his partner. Let's call them A and B. If the mission objective is to demolish a communications dish and AB find resistance, B's mission is to engage the enemies while A sneaks by towards the objective. Once A has passed the obstacle B must disengage and move behind A, covering him. That's, of course, if B hasn't obliterated the target by the time A has passed.

As the name 'Spaceborne' indicates, the SAT operations are tightly linked to the Fleet. The Griffons SpaceFleet is designed for small, incredibly fast attacks and this kind of design is ideally coupled with the SAT mission profile... Heavy firepower, split-second coordination and high mobility for short, but incredibly violent attacks. The SAT concept is based in attack... When in doubt charge. Keep your enemy out of balance, hit him hard and disappear before he recovers. The SAT have distinguished themselves for using innovative approaches and always exploiting the Enemy weakness.

Distinctive Equipment

 * Griffon Enhanced Armor
 * Blastech A280

Famous Units

 * SATs Third Platoon used to be stationed on Pride-1. It is that platoon that engaged the Imperial forces and retook OS Guardian. Since the destruction of the station, that platoon no longer exists and no platoon will be called "Third Platoon" in memory of that event.