Blackguard is a roleplaying plot created January 15, 2024 by GM Charmaylarg. It is the continuation of the plot Die Screaming or Die Trying.

The Symbol for the Blackguard. And the Unit logo for the 4th-fleets Blackguard Team-4.

Status: This plot is currently open for any approved Nepleslian military character to join.

Blackguard is a Nepleslian role-playing ship plot of the Star Military of the Democratic Imperium of Nepleslia (SMDIoN). Centered around the clandestine operations of the elite Nepleslian Special Forces group known as the 'Blackguard,' a unit made up of some of the DIoNs most highly skilled marines and sailors handpicked in recognition for their ability to perform extraordinary feats and their daring-do.

Posting is often minimum once per week on a GM cycle but players can post multiple times to respond to one another, events, or actions.

• Format SP/JP
• Pacing once per week.

See Characters Wanted.

After their involvement in a series of encounters ending in a micro civil-war on the Kuznyetski planet of Svodog, a group of marines are recruited into the Illustrious Blackguard; A unit of exceptional soldiers who, each having accomplished extraordinary deeds, being in possession of incredible skill, or just being considered some of the luckiest to have survived such encounters¹⁾…

History will continue as is performed!

Originally launched as the NSS Anemone; One of the Big Four named jackdaw class corvettes once under the command of Lysander Calloway during the war on New Bernese, The Anemone was lost with all hands durring the Kuvexian War only to be recovered and rebuilt on Svodog in YE 44 and relaunched that same year with a number of updates such as a new Checkmate Aether Reactor, and Twinmaker cloning vats where it was Contentiously renamed by it's new haughty captain, Dirk Maximus, the dwarfism-suffering but larger-than-life hard-charging ship commander of the vessel.

The BIG DEAL has been modernized to carry alongside its curbstomper torpedoes a number of Suplex Cruise Missiles that have had one of the curbstomper torpedo tubes modified to take the larger ordinance.

See NAM 'Suplex' Joint Strike Cruise Missile JScM-01a

• Amount: One torpedo tube
• Primary Purpose: Anti-ship
• Damage: T-11
• Range: 23,383,811 kilometers.

For vehicles the BIG DEAL has traded its Maximus tanks for room to hold a Corona Heavy Gunship, and a Variable Turret Infantry Fighting Vehicle and Coyote Light Tank replacing the two maximus.

The blackguard teams cabins are all near or next to one another positioned between the brig and one of the fabricators on the second deck near the rear of the ship. The current cabins and bunkmates are as follows:

• Cabin 1:
• Cabin 2:
• Cabin 3:
• Cabin 4:
• Cabin 5:
• Cabin 6:
• Cabin 7:
• Cabin 8:
• Cabin 9:
• Cabin 10:
• Cabin 11:
• Cabin 12:

The armory of the BIG DEAL contains the following:

The Armory would contain the following:

Likewise the ship has the following:

The power armor bay contains the following to outfit its marine detail: