Ok. Thinking of using some Hellknights soon in my game. There is very little info on Starfinder ones, so after some basic info and whats available.
What races are usable
Any stat blocks people know off (Or something easily flavoured)
How open would they be to using 'outside' forces, like paying a band of mercs as cannon fodder and the like.
Edit to add. I have used the Azlanti a bit recently, so I am after another group and I remembered liking the Hellknights in Pathfinder a few years ago.
1. Hellknights accept any race. They only care about the Law.
2. Stat blocks are in Pact Worlds.
3. Depends on the commander and the mission.
Somewhat oddly enough, the statblocks for various Pact World factions (cultists, criminals, HK's, Knights of Golarion, etc.) aren't included on Archives of Nethys, so you'll need to either buy Pact Worlds or improvise your own.
There are seven known Hellknight orders still around -
Order of the Chain
Order of the Gate
Order of the Nail
Order of the Pike
Order of the Furnace (everyone thinks this is just Order of the Pyre renamed -- probably supported since it's implied they're the ship-builders for the Hellknights and the Pyre had a pretty nice fleet)
Order of the Scourge
Order of the Eclipse (implied to possibly be Order of the Rack which has changed its focus to information/media suppression and control)
Pact Worlds Star Knight archetype has some Hellknight-specific feats that give you imbued fusions at level 6 which are great for NPC's but which quite frankly are terrible for PC's at the moment and cripple you.
I would recommnend purchasing Path of the Hellknight and reflavoring the order-specific boons if you want to give a player character something to work with.
As part of my personal restructuring to make Hellknights more terrifying/worth it I've added Djezet-material to all Signifer armor and Adamantine material to all non-Signifer Hellknight armor aside from Armiger.
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There's some additional Hellknight stuff from Society adventures, as well. We know from some scenarios in seasons 1 and 3 that the Order of the Pyre still exists, and is still about destroying heresy and forbidden knowledge. You can find stat blocks for various Hellknights and their allies in the below (putting it behind a spoiler tag, but the descriptions and cover images for most of these mention or depict Hellknights, so it's not really a huge surprise):
I think I remember seeing in one of the Paizo People AMAs at an online convention that the Order of the Eclipse is as of yet still undefined, but that there were rumours of them being "social media experts" - so presumably masters of disinformation, smear campaigns, media manipulation, and so on.
Order of the Eclipse is mentioned in Starship Operations Manual. Citadel Zerval is described on page 120. Their MO is consistent with Order of the Rack, though of course it remains to be seen whether they are actually their successor.
Cheers for the intel, I had forgotten about checking pact worlds for anything, I was using Archives to browse and didn't see anything for them, for obvious reasons.
Cheers everyone again for the responses
