Strikers

Strikers are a highly skilled and widely revered and one would go as far to say feared, group of soldiers whom serve and report directly to the ruler of Ashai. Their primary duty being the protection personal protect of the king/queen by any means necessary.

Potential recruits to the rank of striker are usually come from the elite of Ashaini military. Existing Strikers act as head hunters, trainers and mentors for new cohorts of would be Striker, however, once recruit pass the grouling training culling process required to earn the rank of Striker it is generally accepted that no one striker 'officially' out ranks an other; Striker regard themselves as equal masters, even as brothers in arms.

Striker possess a wide gamut of armed and unarmed combat techniques; survival and tracking skills; leadership skills; diplomatic and political acumen; spying and espionage skills, physician skills - to the magnitude of "master healer of the mundane"; navigation skills, business and trading acumen; military strategic planing skills, linguistic skills, various stealth skills; local and kingdom wide legislative knowledge; trading law; current affairs and foreign policy; social etiquette training; Building and construction knowledge, and a number of highly specific and set of highly rare skills single purpose which are a difference widely from striker to striker. all with general set off elite skills

Their physical strength, dexterity and stamina are at the peak of human capability with each striker committed to a gruelling routine of daily strength and skill maintenance training.

A striker primary purpose is to serve as the elite guard to the current ruler of Ashai. They take collective and personal responsibility for the safety of the king/queen; to the extent that the personal shame and sense of failure felt by a strikers whom was unable to protect their monarch can often become unbearable  and psychologically damaging. It is not uncommon for a striker to slip into a deep state of depression if they fail at there primary duty.

Secondary in there priority of duties is the protect of the kingdom of Ashai itself.

Other duties striker and powers exercise by Strikers are:
 * Automatic rank of general on the battlefield, striker can also co-opt entire companies of soldiers on a bases if they believe the resource would help them succeed in  their given mission.


 * magistrate / jury / executioner; if a striker bears witness to a crime or is needed to presides over a civil or criminal hearing they have the authority to serve judgment and dole out an appropriate punishment. Striker have the authority to sentence criminals to imprisonment, physical punishment  / beating and torture; the ultimate extent of the judiciary powers being the death penalty, which they are permitted to carry out personally without consultation of any other official or due process.

Members

 * Striker Farson
 * Striker Adona
 * Striker Gant
 * Striker Kai