Alternate Names: The
Templar Vagabonds
The rim of the Galaxy has more than its
fair share of beggars and religious pilgrims. One can find them in a
cantina drinking quietly, or sitting in the street with a raised
bowl, begging for credits or scraps of food. They seldom stay in one
place long, often wending their way to some distant temple, or to
richer planets. They make easy pickings for thugs or pirates, but
most criminal scum native to the rim tend to leave religious
itinerants alone, for they know who travels with pilgrims. Those who
violate this taboo may find themselves casually disarmed by a
staff-wielding pilgrim or wake up in a gutter with no memory of what
happened after they first uttered a threat. The religious itinerants
of the Rim enjoy the protection of the Templar Vagabonds of the Far
Strider Chapter.
The Templar Vagabonds resemble the
pilgrims they protect. Many wear simple brown robes, belted with a
sash over a tunic and pants and sturdy, serviceable walking shoes.
Others might wear an old, well-worn, patchwork vacc-suit. They often
wear hats, to keep the sun off their face, or a scarf over their face
to keep out dust. They typically wield either a staff, usually just
a very long length of pipe or some rough-hewn wooden walking stick,
or a cobbled-together force sword at their belt. Many mistake them
for scavengers, beggars or wandering trash; the Templar Vagabonds
prefer it that way.
Those who fought against the Great
Galactic Menace, when away from prying ears, will sometimes whisper
of a rumor of assistance from deep in that arm of the Galaxy. The
wildest intelligence reports from the Cybernetic Union which discuss
looming threats against the Terminus Council, confirm these rumors.
Both discuss mysterious, armored space knights seemingly unstuck from
time, caricatures of the Knights of Communion from before the fall of
the Alexian Empire with devastating force sword skills, powerful
psychic abilities and a message for all who came to the world of
Sepulcher “Go. This world is forbidden.”
