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Hey Stellar.
How many vessels accompany a normal Star Destroyer?
32 lesser combat vessels and 64 noncombat support vessels?

Just have him transfer with a battalion of soldiers en route to rendezvous point. I'm sure they'll slot him in. Ferno will gather his forces near Coruscant, so that's always a plausible destination.

Name only associated with the prototype plaguetrooper.

The plaguetrooper would be far more popular than Ferno, though that's the only connection so far. It is the next advancement in shocktroopers.

Ferno will be more well read about the saw than vice versa, so I imagine that the conversations will be more from that direction.

It really does not matter. Ferno is still quite unknown personally. his reputation is quite legendary throughout the sith, but few have actually seen him. Talk about the "spectre" is sort of like... legends about william wallace; everyone knows he exists, but nobody is sure how much to really believe, so much of it is reguarded as propaganda to scare systems in line.

HM, being the face of Ferno, probably is recognizable. Not as "popular", but definately recognizable.

IF you're catching the drift.

Take one Stormtrooper, add a parasite to his back, and put him in armor.

Consider that his skin produces a mucus layer (courteousy of the virus) that is like a hutt's, and can take several shots before physically damaging them. Also consider the bones take up large amounts of calcium, providing stronger resilience to bone damage. Adding on to that, the excess minerals create neural instability, which nullifies mind tricks by inducing battle psychosis.

You have to subtract they are more vunerable to concussion type attacks (grenades and the like) due to their density, but short of a grenade barrage, they are superior to a standard soldier in many more ways. Also, ripping the parasite (now only 1 inch by 1 inch due to it being a Phase II trooper) causes severe bleeding, usually death.

They basically handle the rigors of battle far more than a normal human, but if you hit them hard enough, they fall down just the same. Its more of an increase in tolerance.

however, they're only human. So a sith should easily take them down. Probably good for a fisticuff workout though.

Who knows? Maybe one day they'll be as tough as a Feeorin. lol

Well, if we're simply talking no-force powers or enhancing, they probably could give quite the workout to any race. Hell, I would't be surprized if they could take a wookiee punch without being knocked over. Just pop the neck back into place, and punch back.