Classified Entry: Mercenary Command – Lockdown's Specialist Units
Compiled for Decepticon War Archives | Clearance Level: Black Omega
Submitted to: Lord Galvatron, Supreme Leader & Warmaster of the New Decepticon Empire
Compiled by: Tactical Oversight Division – Subsection NEMESIS-17
Designation: Lockdown
Function: High-Risk Asset Retrieval, Tactical Assassinations, Elite Mercenary Command
Overview:
Originating outside traditional Decepticon ranks, Lockdown rose to infamy through his brutal efficiency, code of personal profit, and cold detachment from factional loyalties. Known for treating warfare as a business and viewing his targets as contracts, Lockdown answers to no ideology—only results. He accepts high-risk assignments, typically those deemed suicidal by conventional standards. Lockdown's ship, the Nightmare's Prize, functions as a mobile fortress, command vessel, and prison all in one. It houses a wide array of modifications, black-market tech, and a personal trophy collection.
Psychological Profile:
Calculated. Ruthless. Opportunistic. Holds no allegiance to cause, only efficiency and survival. He views himself as above most Decepticons, yet respects power when proven. Has a long-standing disdain for idealism and sentimentality, often mocking it in others.
Known Loadout: Shoulder-mounted harpoon cannon, energon-shock blade, cloaking field, necro-nano restraint net. Internal surgical suite for interrogation or disassembly.
Visual Profile: Tall, armoured build with a narrowed, wolf-like visor. Combat-worn plating. Emblems from conquered marks were occasionally displayed on his frame or ship interior.
Confirmed Subordinates:
Lockdown rarely deploys standard infantry. Instead, his elite corps consists of three primary unit types, each with distinct roles in sabotage, infiltration, and heavy assault. These forces often function autonomously and are surgically deployed in coordination with Lockdown's strike forces. Behavioural markers suggest tight control via remote command cores housed aboard his flagship.
Designation: Ashveil-Class Disruptors
Unit Type: Electronic Warfare & Sabotage Commandos
Overview:
Named after the infamous ambush on the Ashveil Nebula blockade, these disruptor units specialise in battlefield blackout operations. Outfitted with pulse jammers, anti-sensor plating, and EMP mesh nets, Ashveil Disruptors are deployed to cripple defenses ahead of main assaults. Their tactics rely on confusion and misdirection—many planetary garrisons were overwhelmed before ever detecting their presence.
Typical Loadout: Wrist-mounted spike chargers, stealth field emitters, fusion core flares.
Visual Profile: Matte-black plating, purple tracers, honeycomb optics. Broad shoulders, compact gear packs.
Designation: Prowlers
Unit Type: Stealth Infiltrators & Silent Killers
Overview:
Prowlers are Lockdown's shadow. Built for zero-noise infiltration and precision elimination, they are deployed in dense terrain, urban environments, or void stations. Their claws can shear through armour; their silenced boosters allow for vertical stalking. Often dropped behind enemy lines days in advance. When one is seen, it's already too late.
Typical Loadout: Vibroclaws, internal cloaking matrix, retractable magnetic tendrils.
Visual Profile: Thin, angular frames. Tri-pronged visors. Jet-black alloy finish with red underglow.
Designation: Weldjackets
Unit Type: Siege & Breach Troopers
Overview:
Heavily armoured and ruthlessly methodical, Weldjackets are designed to tear through fortifications and bottleneck corridors. Their burn rigs melt plating, their grav-bolters shatter barricades. Originally salvaged from a collapsed refinery world, labour droids, Lockdown, modified their programming for war.
Typical Loadout: Dual plasma cutters, grav-impact bolter, heat shield generator.
Visual Profile: Thick-set, industrial builds. Glowing forge vents. Scorched yellow-and-charcoal armour.
Known Auxiliary Craft:
Stiletto-Class Interceptors – cloaked pursuit craft designed for rapid retrieval and short-range warp jumps. Capable of attaching magnetically to enemy hulls.Scalpel-Class Dropships – medical-torture hybrid shuttles repurposed for rapid-strike insertion teams, frequently carrying Prowlers.Harvester Drone Swarms – used to retrieve corpses, salvage tech, or destabilise environmental cover during engagements.
Flagship:Nightmare's Prize
Designation: Modified Leviathan-Class Cruiser
Key Systems: Black-market wargear bays, transphase cloaking hull, slave-linked prisoner stasis grid, surgical operating wing, personal trophy gallery.
Last seen: Critically damaged above Threxis following engagement with the Decimator. Believed destroyed or inoperable.
Deployment Note:
All three unit types were engaged during the Outer Rim conflict under Lockdown's direct command. Their final confirmed deployments were against Decepticon forces near Threxis Minor and Nightshade Ravine. None returned. Remaining assets are considered neutralised unless otherwise recovered.
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