Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170818160242

Lictors are genetically created body guards of nobles, officials, and even the Emperor himself. They are breed (normally) to be tough, muscle bound, and with unshakeable loyalty. Lictor's genome is taken from the largest and most successful Gladiators.

Lictors, unlike other clones, are not created in mass or on a very industrial scale (Still rather large, but not like the hoards of clones created on other worlds). Once they are 'born' they instantly become part of a monastic order upon their rather brutal desert homeworld known simply as Lictor Prime.

Lictor Prime itself is home to very few people save the feral natives, Lictors, and the Lictors trainers. Beyond that not much lives on this world. Lictor Prime also lacks major cities only having one small space port while the rest of the planets population live in either fortified monasteries or cave cities.

Here the young lictors are trained in martial arts, weapons training, and trained to be both tough and resilient. Once they reach the age of 14 they are left out in the desert wilds to survive on their own for a few months (3 to be exact) if they survive this they are allowed to continue their training.

After they pass their first test they continue training in mainly swordsman ship and martial combat until they reach the age of 20. At this point the recruits are gathered and duel to the death within their classes until only 10 out of the 50 are left. This decade of Lictors is then ready for wider Imperial usage and shipped/sold off to the Empire at large.

These decades are the only groups of Lictors ever sold to the Empire at large as larger formations (Centuries and Cohorts of Lictors) are solely for Imperial usage. Lictors are not to be confused with Praetorians however as Lictors are the personal house hold guards and body guards of important officials while Praetorians are as well as ceremonial guards also a large military force (The elite of the elite within the Rin military)

These are the male Lictors though. A female breed of lictor does exist and are also raised upon Lictor Prime, but they live within monasteries built on the peaks of the mountains. They are trained to be fast, decisive, and flexible as well as being both strong and loyal. While a male lictor is a sledgehammer the females are a fine knife both precise and swift.

All Lictors are given fine and rather lavish armor, large bladed spears/guns for the males and swords for the females, and a personal protection shield to defend from ranged attacks and to defend their masters. Lictors are, as already stated, good in hand to hand combat and even without weapons a potent warrior. 