COMBAT TRAUMA

Legion Priority Target

Battlefield trauma presents one of the biggest obstacles to mission success. Once downed in a fight, the critically injured casualty is now out of combat, as is anyone forced to come to their aid if the casualty is at risk of going flatline. That’s multiple people in a single squad not fronting aggressive forward motion to the enemy, thus reducing the effectiveness of the unit as a whole. 

Front line Repub units and legion assault regiments have some methods of combating an enemy’s strategy for willingly injuring versus killing. First and foremost, battlefield doctrine forbids running out immediately to aid a casualty. The adage being, the best first aid is unrelenting fire to the enemy has found a home in the Repub forces, and they use it as a baseline to effect battlefield recovery and care. 

You can’t just run into a hail of blaster bolts and snatch a wounded comrade unless you want to get slagged right beside him. By pushing suppressive fire at the enemy so assault elements can put targeted fire on the objective to take the enemy off the board, those recovering the wounded have a better shot at doing so once the enemy is dealt with. 

Beyond the fight harder mentality of the Repub infantry units, the Legion proper has copious amounts of tech at their disposal to one up their adversaries and continue the fight. 

Each set of legion armor has bio-sensors that constantly monitor the leej and detects when there’s a drop in lethality during combat. Injuries are addressed and drugs are administered for minor casualties who are still combat capable but needing of a little boost. Segments of the armor can lock in place to create splints, apply pressure via the undersuit to control bleeding, and push IV drugs straight to the leej so he can continue fighting.

For those times when the leejes are so critically injured that the armor can’t compensate, most legion units come equipped with a legion qualified medic capable of rendering next level care in the field. 

Although some in the public criticize the forces for not using medical-bots, units like the Legion know all too well the consequences of relying on a bot for anything, especially when they can be so easily EMP’d out of the fight.

To see the legion medics in action check out, the Wanted, coming soon from Galaxy’s Edge.