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Fair enough. Like I said, I'm not going to stop you placing your character where you like.RuedyN said:
Name: Mira Quee
Species: Togruta
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Appearance: 1.7 meters(roughly 5'9"-5'11" Don't know the actually conversion.) She has yellow pigmented skin with the montrals(the curved horns) making up the last 6 inches of her height. Three lekku, two extending in front to just reach her stomach, one in the back extending to the middle of her back. Both the Montrals and the lekku are striped black from tip to tip. She has a white stripe along her eyes and 3 more down each cheek.
Profession: Jedi Knight
Skills: Jedi training with a focus on the Niman combat form, allowing her to focus on the study of history and diplomacy.
Starting Equipment: Yellow lightsaber strapped to the inside of her vest. A set of Jedi robes she keeps in a pack. A fur over vest, leather shirt and pants, with no boots. Earings made from the teeth of her first kill. 300 credits.
Back story: Mira was born on Shili to a pair of hunters who trained her in their ways. From a young age, Mira could always feel there was something more around her. She didn't know what until sometime after her first hunt. At age five she was taken her first hunt, tracking a slaying a ferocious Akul. The hunt lasted a number of days and she watched and learned as her clan tracked the beast. She stayed back when they finally found the beast. She watched in stunned silence as The Akul fought, nearly cleaving the hunter in two with it's powerful jaws. When it was on it's last legs, her mother handed her a knife and she made the final strike, killing the beast. Her life as a hunter was short lived however; after a visiting Jedi master, A human jedi by the name of Gwen Yolee, revealed she was force sensitive. While her family and tribe were sad to see her go they knew the Jedi would not let a force sensitive go untrained. So after a tearful good by to her tribe, she left for the temple on Coruscant.
Her training was long, and difficult. Mira had been raised in a fighting mindset, hunt down your enemies, and slay them before they can be trouble. This was far different from the Jedi way of peace. She often struggled with this trying to over come what nature had drilled into her species. But after 18 years of training, 8 as an apprentice and 10 as a padawan to Master Yolee she over came her nature. for the next 6 years a a Jedi Knight Mira would fight for the Jedi against the Separatists. She careful in her fighting mixing her old hunting instincts with her Jedi training.
She was on Krios with Master Yolee when Order 66 was passed. The Squad of Troopers that had accompanied them to fight the entrenched separatists killed Master Yolee before she had a chance to defend her self. Mira, with her enhanced connection to the force through her montrals sensed the sudden hostilities was able to flee before she could be killed though not before being wounded. She was able to flee to a nearby village wear the locals treated her wounds.
Nearly six months later, she has blended in with the locals. She knows she is being hunted, ironic in her eyes. The Villagrs know this as well. Fearing for what the newly founded empire might do to their small village, they have asked her to leave, supplying her with enough Credits to buy a shuttle off planet.
Starting Location: Krios, Expansion Region.(Couldn't find it on the map but it was around during the clone wars, The wiki says it's somewhere in the expansion Region. I'm gonna put it along route 5, probably south of Corsin, if some one finds it let me know and I'll remove this.)
Species: Togruta
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Appearance: 1.7 meters(roughly 5'9"-5'11" Don't know the actually conversion.) She has yellow pigmented skin with the montrals(the curved horns) making up the last 6 inches of her height. Three lekku, two extending in front to just reach her stomach, one in the back extending to the middle of her back. Both the Montrals and the lekku are striped black from tip to tip. She has a white stripe along her eyes and 3 more down each cheek.
Profession: Jedi Knight
Skills: Jedi training with a focus on the Niman combat form, allowing her to focus on the study of history and diplomacy.
Starting Equipment: Yellow lightsaber strapped to the inside of her vest. A set of Jedi robes she keeps in a pack. A fur over vest, leather shirt and pants, with no boots. Earings made from the teeth of her first kill. 300 credits.
Back story: Mira was born on Shili to a pair of hunters who trained her in their ways. From a young age, Mira could always feel there was something more around her. She didn't know what until sometime after her first hunt. At age five she was taken her first hunt, tracking a slaying a ferocious Akul. The hunt lasted a number of days and she watched and learned as her clan tracked the beast. She stayed back when they finally found the beast. She watched in stunned silence as The Akul fought, nearly cleaving the hunter in two with it's powerful jaws. When it was on it's last legs, her mother handed her a knife and she made the final strike, killing the beast. Her life as a hunter was short lived however; after a visiting Jedi master, A human jedi by the name of Gwen Yolee, revealed she was force sensitive. While her family and tribe were sad to see her go they knew the Jedi would not let a force sensitive go untrained. So after a tearful good by to her tribe, she left for the temple on Coruscant.
Her training was long, and difficult. Mira had been raised in a fighting mindset, hunt down your enemies, and slay them before they can be trouble. This was far different from the Jedi way of peace. She often struggled with this trying to over come what nature had drilled into her species. But after 18 years of training, 8 as an apprentice and 10 as a padawan to Master Yolee she over came her nature. for the next 6 years a a Jedi Knight Mira would fight for the Jedi against the Separatists. She careful in her fighting mixing her old hunting instincts with her Jedi training.
She was on Krios with Master Yolee when Order 66 was passed. The Squad of Troopers that had accompanied them to fight the entrenched separatists killed Master Yolee before she had a chance to defend her self. Mira, with her enhanced connection to the force through her montrals sensed the sudden hostilities was able to flee before she could be killed though not before being wounded. She was able to flee to a nearby village wear the locals treated her wounds.
Nearly six months later, she has blended in with the locals. She knows she is being hunted, ironic in her eyes. The Villagrs know this as well. Fearing for what the newly founded empire might do to their small village, they have asked her to leave, supplying her with enough Credits to buy a shuttle off planet.
Starting Location: Krios, Expansion Region.(Couldn't find it on the map but it was around during the clone wars, The wiki says it's somewhere in the expansion Region. I'm gonna put it along route 5, probably south of Corsin, if some one finds it let me know and I'll remove this.)
Seranya
Name: Seranya Nyx (Cover Name: Shel)
Species: Arkanian Offshoot [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100328022509/jedipedia/de/images/1/19/JaraelPortrait.jpg] (Sephi hybrid)
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Appearance: Seranya stands at about 1.7 meters tall and has a slim/fit build. Her skin and hair--which she generally keeps bundled in a curly ponytail--are snow-white, like many of her kind, and she has piercing light blue eyes. Though she'd spent much of her time in the Order wearing Jedi robes, she'd never really been fond of them and has since been sporting a dark ensemble including a grey jacket, black/silver belt, large black mechanic goggles she usually wears on her head, tight fitting black pants with black boots and gloves. Despite her pointed ears and incredibly fair skin, she'd still be considered attractive by human standards but due to her cover she tries to conceal her appearance.
Profession: Ex-Jedi and Ex-Dark Jedi. Currently on the run and poses as a droid mechanic for her cover.
Skills: Seranya was trained as a Sentinel and is adequately skilled in both lightsaber combat and most Jedi-trained basic force abilities of that era (mostly telekinetic). She specializes in using Force Speed to increase her agility in combat and to make quick escapes. She has also learned to block blaster bolts with her hands since she's been primarily using her blaster of late. She's a good shot, but if nothing else she excels at being hard to hit. She also has a strange force ability that she doesn't quite understand. When others meet her eye-to-eye they may suddenly feel wracked with an intense guilt. For some it is arbitrary guilt, but for many others they are suddenly consumed by guilt-filled memories. She's come to call this ability "Penance".
Starting Equipment: She sports a heavy blaster pistol on her hip and conceals a blue single-hilt lightsaber inside her jacket.
Back story: Seranya was recruited by the Jedi when found at an orphanage on Corellia. Kloston Val, a young and recently promoted Jedi Knight, discovered her affinity for the force while undergoing an investigation in the area. Though she was only three years old at the time, she had heard tales of the valiant Jedi and agreed to come with him to Coruscant. She proved to be an incredible asset to the Jedi as her training progressed, however she did have some problems grasping the Jedi's philosophy on life and the force. By the time she was fourteen she saw Kloston as a father and they became an inseparable pair. He taught her the best he could about the Jedi's philosophies, but wasn't articulate enough to really get Seranya to understand it. And then, a few years later, war came.
Seranya was a brilliant fighter, but the realities of war hit her hard. Fighting and destroying druids was one thing... but when it came to taking lives. The few men she had been forced to kill during the war were like needles constantly pricking her psyche. Kloston tried to explain that it was the will of the force that they died and that death wasn't anything to be afraid of, but she didn't understand. Then, during one fateful battle her master was struck down. She'd hesitated a moment too long before finishing off her foe and he managed to get a lucky shot off before she took him down. Blaming herself for the death of her master Seranya became a "troubled" padawan and was recalled back to Coruscant. After some special counselling it was deemed she was ready to continue her training and was assigned an new master, Jedi Knight Tors Vakar.
Little did the council know, Tors was a a servant of Palpatine and she'd been selected to join their ranks. He began teaching her forbidden Sith teachings and, without her knowledge slowly guided her down the dark path by playing off her guilty nature. Tors ingrained in her further that she was the cause of her master's death and that she'd unfairly taken the lives of those she fought against in the war. Eventually the two of them traveled to the front-lines of the war once Tors had convinced the council she was fit for duty once more. It was there that her fall to the darkside had been completed. When Order 66 was given she and Tors turned on their former allies and cut them down. Tors had convinced her that she couldn't feel guilt for orders given to her to protect the Republic, but the logic only went so far.
The guilt of her betrayal consumed her and so too did the darkness in her heart until eventually she became numb. However, one small part of her that opposed the darkness remained... screaming to be heard at every waking moment. She and Tors went on to hunt other Jedi across the galaxy as the Empire rose to power and after four months of murder Seranya had had enough. When ordered to slay a child (youngling LOL) that small part of her that remained true to her nature screamed loud enough to be heard and she refused the order. Frustrated, Tors went forth to kill the child himself but was stopped when Seranya's lightsaber pierced his heart.
After that she ran. She ran as far away as she could from the Jedi, the Empire and anything that reminded her of her past sins. She wanted to forget the Force, but it wouldn't leave her. It haunted her like a specter everywhere she went. She was neither Jedi nor Sith, tormented by her own memories and constantly fighting the temptation to be devoured by her guilt and grief. Because of this she developed a unique ability she calls "Penance". When looking into someone else's eyes she can use the force to make them relive painful memories of guilt and even make those with great sins feel the pain of those they've wronged. It takes incredible willpower to use the ability when she intends to however, and it has a tendency to manifest by itself when she's feeling emotional.
She's currently hiding on Ord Mantell posing as a droid mechanic (she tinkered with them during her training and had a knack for metal working). A well known and dangerous bounty hunter has recently arrived on the planet in search of her and he wouldn't be the first. She knows too much and the Empire needs her silenced.
Starting Location: Ord Mantell
Species: Arkanian Offshoot [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100328022509/jedipedia/de/images/1/19/JaraelPortrait.jpg] (Sephi hybrid)
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Appearance: Seranya stands at about 1.7 meters tall and has a slim/fit build. Her skin and hair--which she generally keeps bundled in a curly ponytail--are snow-white, like many of her kind, and she has piercing light blue eyes. Though she'd spent much of her time in the Order wearing Jedi robes, she'd never really been fond of them and has since been sporting a dark ensemble including a grey jacket, black/silver belt, large black mechanic goggles she usually wears on her head, tight fitting black pants with black boots and gloves. Despite her pointed ears and incredibly fair skin, she'd still be considered attractive by human standards but due to her cover she tries to conceal her appearance.
Profession: Ex-Jedi and Ex-Dark Jedi. Currently on the run and poses as a droid mechanic for her cover.
Skills: Seranya was trained as a Sentinel and is adequately skilled in both lightsaber combat and most Jedi-trained basic force abilities of that era (mostly telekinetic). She specializes in using Force Speed to increase her agility in combat and to make quick escapes. She has also learned to block blaster bolts with her hands since she's been primarily using her blaster of late. She's a good shot, but if nothing else she excels at being hard to hit. She also has a strange force ability that she doesn't quite understand. When others meet her eye-to-eye they may suddenly feel wracked with an intense guilt. For some it is arbitrary guilt, but for many others they are suddenly consumed by guilt-filled memories. She's come to call this ability "Penance".
Starting Equipment: She sports a heavy blaster pistol on her hip and conceals a blue single-hilt lightsaber inside her jacket.
Back story: Seranya was recruited by the Jedi when found at an orphanage on Corellia. Kloston Val, a young and recently promoted Jedi Knight, discovered her affinity for the force while undergoing an investigation in the area. Though she was only three years old at the time, she had heard tales of the valiant Jedi and agreed to come with him to Coruscant. She proved to be an incredible asset to the Jedi as her training progressed, however she did have some problems grasping the Jedi's philosophy on life and the force. By the time she was fourteen she saw Kloston as a father and they became an inseparable pair. He taught her the best he could about the Jedi's philosophies, but wasn't articulate enough to really get Seranya to understand it. And then, a few years later, war came.
Seranya was a brilliant fighter, but the realities of war hit her hard. Fighting and destroying druids was one thing... but when it came to taking lives. The few men she had been forced to kill during the war were like needles constantly pricking her psyche. Kloston tried to explain that it was the will of the force that they died and that death wasn't anything to be afraid of, but she didn't understand. Then, during one fateful battle her master was struck down. She'd hesitated a moment too long before finishing off her foe and he managed to get a lucky shot off before she took him down. Blaming herself for the death of her master Seranya became a "troubled" padawan and was recalled back to Coruscant. After some special counselling it was deemed she was ready to continue her training and was assigned an new master, Jedi Knight Tors Vakar.
Little did the council know, Tors was a a servant of Palpatine and she'd been selected to join their ranks. He began teaching her forbidden Sith teachings and, without her knowledge slowly guided her down the dark path by playing off her guilty nature. Tors ingrained in her further that she was the cause of her master's death and that she'd unfairly taken the lives of those she fought against in the war. Eventually the two of them traveled to the front-lines of the war once Tors had convinced the council she was fit for duty once more. It was there that her fall to the darkside had been completed. When Order 66 was given she and Tors turned on their former allies and cut them down. Tors had convinced her that she couldn't feel guilt for orders given to her to protect the Republic, but the logic only went so far.
The guilt of her betrayal consumed her and so too did the darkness in her heart until eventually she became numb. However, one small part of her that opposed the darkness remained... screaming to be heard at every waking moment. She and Tors went on to hunt other Jedi across the galaxy as the Empire rose to power and after four months of murder Seranya had had enough. When ordered to slay a child (youngling LOL) that small part of her that remained true to her nature screamed loud enough to be heard and she refused the order. Frustrated, Tors went forth to kill the child himself but was stopped when Seranya's lightsaber pierced his heart.
After that she ran. She ran as far away as she could from the Jedi, the Empire and anything that reminded her of her past sins. She wanted to forget the Force, but it wouldn't leave her. It haunted her like a specter everywhere she went. She was neither Jedi nor Sith, tormented by her own memories and constantly fighting the temptation to be devoured by her guilt and grief. Because of this she developed a unique ability she calls "Penance". When looking into someone else's eyes she can use the force to make them relive painful memories of guilt and even make those with great sins feel the pain of those they've wronged. It takes incredible willpower to use the ability when she intends to however, and it has a tendency to manifest by itself when she's feeling emotional.
She's currently hiding on Ord Mantell posing as a droid mechanic (she tinkered with them during her training and had a knack for metal working). A well known and dangerous bounty hunter has recently arrived on the planet in search of her and he wouldn't be the first. She knows too much and the Empire needs her silenced.
Starting Location: Ord Mantell
Me likey this but I got 3 questions about this.
1. Seeing how we start scattered out, does your planned storyline have us meeting up or at least making contact with each other because it could be pretty lonely if you only have 1 character on one planet.
2. Can one start out as a Dark Jedi or can your Jedi fall to the Dark Side throughout the RP?
3. I feel like joining in but I can't really give a long 6 paragraphs long backstory, do you mind if I keep it to 3-4 paragraphs long?
1. Seeing how we start scattered out, does your planned storyline have us meeting up or at least making contact with each other because it could be pretty lonely if you only have 1 character on one planet.
2. Can one start out as a Dark Jedi or can your Jedi fall to the Dark Side throughout the RP?
3. I feel like joining in but I can't really give a long 6 paragraphs long backstory, do you mind if I keep it to 3-4 paragraphs long?
The story will be fairly open ended. I expect characters to band into groups at various stages. As for planets, we have lots of space travel!Yokillernick said:
And both dark Jedi options are good, whether they're rogue or serve the empire.
I want to join this but I'm not too particularly versed in star wars lore and I don't have the time to read up on the vegetation and culture of each planet and system. Should I not join? Cos I was thinking of maybe a smuggler, a Jedi and Dark Jedi.
Edit: I also don't know what type of names people would have in this universe or types of ships and guns other than naming things "blasters" and lightsabers?
Edit: I also don't know what type of names people would have in this universe or types of ships and guns other than naming things "blasters" and lightsabers?
Well, the wiki is linked in the OP, and any time something stumps you, just run it through the wiki.ProtoChimp said:
You don't need to know all about every planet. Even I only know some, but each page has a paragraph summary before the main article.
'Comlink' refers to both audio communicators and holographic image communicators. Dark Jedi are not Sith. Sith institute the rule of two, by which there can only be two Sith so a majority cannot conspire against a minority.
A vibroblade is a popular non-jedi melee weapon, that has sonic frequencies going through the blade so wounds tend to be very severe. A lot of people prefer them in combat to regular blades.
If you're playing a Jedi, I'd at least familiarize yourself with the Force's applications, and leaf through the seven primary forms of saber combat (summarized in a subheading in the lightsaber combat article) so you can pick ones out for your characters.
That shouldn't take too long, and as I said, the Wiki's also there, and when I make a group for this, I'll happily answer any questions you have.
Well, today's the deadline. I was going to make my final pick for participants later today.Spector29 said:
I'd love to join but on top of other role plays I don't have the time. Would it be possible to join at a later date?Binnsyboy said:
Done.Binnsyboy said:
Name: Specton Darkrai
Species: Twi'lek
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Appearance: A Deep-red colored skin tone, with Black Lightning Bolt tattoos that seemed to be applied by hand. His right Lekku seems to have massive scarring the closer you get to the tip.
Profession: Sith Sorcerer
Skills: Force Sensitive, Force Heal (lesser), Force Lightning, Dominate Mind, Force Scream, Force Cloak.
Starting Equipment: A small pack of minor focusing crystals in a bag tied to his waist, a red Double-bladed lightsaber, a blood-stained ring studded with a glowing red force crystal.
Back story: When Specton was just a young, un-tattooed Twi'lek Jedi, he always wanted to be a badass. He had seen holovids of all sorts of races duking it out with big bad Sith, using those amazing looking Double-bladed lightsabers. He had petitioned his master for training in this deadly weapon, but each time he was refused, saying he was 'not ready'.
Time passed, and he eventually mellowed in his quest to kill the fuck out of things. In fact, he felt more attuned to the mental and metaphysical powers The Force granted him. His master noticed his progress in healing others, and decided to do something...risky. She took her student to the uninhabited ruins of Korriban with only a droid-staffed ship, telling her student tales of the crystals attuned to the Light Side springing up after the Old Empire's fall. Giving him her blessing, she sent him off alone to find a crystal for his lightsaber at last.
Instead, he found only death. There were many bodies in that cave, some animals and some sentient. Believing this was part of his test, he carried on to the crystal cavern. Inside, there was the body of one man. As his eye was drawn to the glowing pack he was carrying, he realized that this must have been his answer!
Opening the bag and gripping one of the crystals, the energies of the Dark Side smashed into him. His mind flooded with new and strange powers, he felt the body begin to stir. It rasped something, maybe a cry for help, or maybe a demand to return the crystals. Ether way, Specton channeled his new power and electrocuted the man. Drunk on his kill, he looted the body of the man further, finding a weapon that symbolized all of his hopes and dreams. A blood-red double bladed lightsaber.
Hiding his prize and returning to his master with the bag of crystals, she was delighted in her student's success. Specton, with energies of the Dark Side still flowing in his mind, stuck down his master in a surprise betrayal. But he was untrained with his new weapon, and the Force can only guide someone so far. In killing his master, he shaved off a small portion of his Right Lekku.
Since then he's spent his time in blinding pain, only recently being able to heal his wound with the pure power of hatred.
Starting Location: Meditating amongst the ruins of Korriban.
Species: Twi'lek
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Appearance: A Deep-red colored skin tone, with Black Lightning Bolt tattoos that seemed to be applied by hand. His right Lekku seems to have massive scarring the closer you get to the tip.
Profession: Sith Sorcerer
Skills: Force Sensitive, Force Heal (lesser), Force Lightning, Dominate Mind, Force Scream, Force Cloak.
Starting Equipment: A small pack of minor focusing crystals in a bag tied to his waist, a red Double-bladed lightsaber, a blood-stained ring studded with a glowing red force crystal.
Back story: When Specton was just a young, un-tattooed Twi'lek Jedi, he always wanted to be a badass. He had seen holovids of all sorts of races duking it out with big bad Sith, using those amazing looking Double-bladed lightsabers. He had petitioned his master for training in this deadly weapon, but each time he was refused, saying he was 'not ready'.
Time passed, and he eventually mellowed in his quest to kill the fuck out of things. In fact, he felt more attuned to the mental and metaphysical powers The Force granted him. His master noticed his progress in healing others, and decided to do something...risky. She took her student to the uninhabited ruins of Korriban with only a droid-staffed ship, telling her student tales of the crystals attuned to the Light Side springing up after the Old Empire's fall. Giving him her blessing, she sent him off alone to find a crystal for his lightsaber at last.
Instead, he found only death. There were many bodies in that cave, some animals and some sentient. Believing this was part of his test, he carried on to the crystal cavern. Inside, there was the body of one man. As his eye was drawn to the glowing pack he was carrying, he realized that this must have been his answer!
Opening the bag and gripping one of the crystals, the energies of the Dark Side smashed into him. His mind flooded with new and strange powers, he felt the body begin to stir. It rasped something, maybe a cry for help, or maybe a demand to return the crystals. Ether way, Specton channeled his new power and electrocuted the man. Drunk on his kill, he looted the body of the man further, finding a weapon that symbolized all of his hopes and dreams. A blood-red double bladed lightsaber.
Hiding his prize and returning to his master with the bag of crystals, she was delighted in her student's success. Specton, with energies of the Dark Side still flowing in his mind, stuck down his master in a surprise betrayal. But he was untrained with his new weapon, and the Force can only guide someone so far. In killing his master, he shaved off a small portion of his Right Lekku.
Since then he's spent his time in blinding pain, only recently being able to heal his wound with the pure power of hatred.
Starting Location: Meditating amongst the ruins of Korriban.
Well, as I'm only filling so many slots, it wouldn't really be fair to everyone else, but if someone drops out, I'll let you know. Might as well have someone to fill that gap.ProtoChimp said:
My second and third sheets,
Just want to clarify before anyone gets confused - the following character -is not- a Sith. While she calls herself one, she's never had any Sith training.
Name: Savren Khaen
Species: Kel Dor
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Appearance: A typical Kel Dor male - mottled orange skin, curled external sensory organs on either side of his head, and a rather disturbing opening in his face containing his nose and mouth. Most of his face is covered by a breathing mask, necessary to supply supplemental gasses, as Kel Dor are incapable of breathing the more common nitrogen-oxygen mix. His black eyes are likewise covered by goggles in atmospheres other than his home's. He wears the black uniform of a Republic Captain most times, without the cap.
Profession: Captain of the Venator-Class Star Destroyer Liberation, traitor to the Empire.
Skills: Savren Khaen is a life-long military officer and has extensive knowledge of tactics and strategy, as well as being an inspiring leader. He knows most of the workings of his ship inside and out. Besides that, he is also a respectable albeit rusty starfighter pilot and a decent hand to hand combatant, despite his age.
Starting Equipment: The Liberation, a Venator-Class Star Destroyer. As a Venator, it is equipped with eight heavy dual turbolaser turrets, two medium dual turbolaser turrets, fifty-two point defense laser cannons, six tractor beam projectors, and four proton torpedo tubes. The ship's craft complement includes nine squadrons of Alpha-3 Nimbus V-Wings, three squadrons of ARC-170 Starfighters, six squadrons of Eta-2 Actis Interceptors, thirty-two LAAT/i gunships, and ten Kappa-Class Shuttlecraft. The Liberation's hull is scored with carbon scoring and slapdash hull repairs, but the ship remains mostly fully functional.
Back story: Born on Kel Dor, little needs to be said of his youth - it really isn't relevant. He joined the Republic Judicial Forces at the age of 20. Shortly after his enlistment, the Stark Hyperspace War broke out, and he was among those who fought in that conflict, flying an A-6 Interceptor against the forces of the Stark Commercial Combine, distinguishing himself in the Battles of Qotile. As the war came to an end a few months later, he was transferred to the Thunderchild, a light frigate patrolling the rim, engaging pirates and criminals.
He would serve for eight years on Thunderchild, going from flying a single starfighter to commanding the frigate's fighter squadron, before transferring at the age of 29 to Fleet Command and transferring off Thunderchild to the Bal Kora, a Consular-Class Cruiser, serving as the vessel's first officer. His career on Bal Kora would take a radical shift five years later, when the Captain, Lacrus Vath, was killed during a raid on a pirate base, a laser blast penetrating bridge shielding and destroying much of the vessel's command crew - by luck, Savren was handling a situation on lower decks at the time. He took command from the secondary bridge and finished wiping out the pirates. As Khaen was already on the route to direct command, it was decided that his temporary command would be made official.
For the next eight years he would serve in this position, dealing with pirates, raiders, and other assorted scum until the breakout of the Clone Wars, where it quickly became apparent that Bal Kora was outmatched by the CIS' firepower. While he served in a number of early actions, it was soon declared that Bal Kora would be decommissioned, and he would be reassigned to a new vessel - the Liberation, a Venator-Class Star Destroyer.
From the bridge of the Liberation, he fought in the rest of the Clone Wars, until six months ago when it came to an abrupt end with the declaration of the New Order and the Jedi as traitors. A mutiny took place aboard Liberation, as Palpatine loyalists and Clone troopers fought Republic loyalists for control of the ship - a battle that came to an end when Savren pulled Republic loyalists back from the battle into the heart of the ship before opening all airlocks in clone-controlled portions of the ship.
Undercrewed and damaged, the Liberation has been fighting a guerrilla war against the Empire for the past six months, and it is beginning to take a toll.
Starting Location: Deep Space, between Bimmisaari and Boz Pity, aboard Liberation.
Species: Kel Dor
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Appearance: A typical Kel Dor male - mottled orange skin, curled external sensory organs on either side of his head, and a rather disturbing opening in his face containing his nose and mouth. Most of his face is covered by a breathing mask, necessary to supply supplemental gasses, as Kel Dor are incapable of breathing the more common nitrogen-oxygen mix. His black eyes are likewise covered by goggles in atmospheres other than his home's. He wears the black uniform of a Republic Captain most times, without the cap.
Profession: Captain of the Venator-Class Star Destroyer Liberation, traitor to the Empire.
Skills: Savren Khaen is a life-long military officer and has extensive knowledge of tactics and strategy, as well as being an inspiring leader. He knows most of the workings of his ship inside and out. Besides that, he is also a respectable albeit rusty starfighter pilot and a decent hand to hand combatant, despite his age.
Starting Equipment: The Liberation, a Venator-Class Star Destroyer. As a Venator, it is equipped with eight heavy dual turbolaser turrets, two medium dual turbolaser turrets, fifty-two point defense laser cannons, six tractor beam projectors, and four proton torpedo tubes. The ship's craft complement includes nine squadrons of Alpha-3 Nimbus V-Wings, three squadrons of ARC-170 Starfighters, six squadrons of Eta-2 Actis Interceptors, thirty-two LAAT/i gunships, and ten Kappa-Class Shuttlecraft. The Liberation's hull is scored with carbon scoring and slapdash hull repairs, but the ship remains mostly fully functional.
Back story: Born on Kel Dor, little needs to be said of his youth - it really isn't relevant. He joined the Republic Judicial Forces at the age of 20. Shortly after his enlistment, the Stark Hyperspace War broke out, and he was among those who fought in that conflict, flying an A-6 Interceptor against the forces of the Stark Commercial Combine, distinguishing himself in the Battles of Qotile. As the war came to an end a few months later, he was transferred to the Thunderchild, a light frigate patrolling the rim, engaging pirates and criminals.
He would serve for eight years on Thunderchild, going from flying a single starfighter to commanding the frigate's fighter squadron, before transferring at the age of 29 to Fleet Command and transferring off Thunderchild to the Bal Kora, a Consular-Class Cruiser, serving as the vessel's first officer. His career on Bal Kora would take a radical shift five years later, when the Captain, Lacrus Vath, was killed during a raid on a pirate base, a laser blast penetrating bridge shielding and destroying much of the vessel's command crew - by luck, Savren was handling a situation on lower decks at the time. He took command from the secondary bridge and finished wiping out the pirates. As Khaen was already on the route to direct command, it was decided that his temporary command would be made official.
For the next eight years he would serve in this position, dealing with pirates, raiders, and other assorted scum until the breakout of the Clone Wars, where it quickly became apparent that Bal Kora was outmatched by the CIS' firepower. While he served in a number of early actions, it was soon declared that Bal Kora would be decommissioned, and he would be reassigned to a new vessel - the Liberation, a Venator-Class Star Destroyer.
From the bridge of the Liberation, he fought in the rest of the Clone Wars, until six months ago when it came to an abrupt end with the declaration of the New Order and the Jedi as traitors. A mutiny took place aboard Liberation, as Palpatine loyalists and Clone troopers fought Republic loyalists for control of the ship - a battle that came to an end when Savren pulled Republic loyalists back from the battle into the heart of the ship before opening all airlocks in clone-controlled portions of the ship.
Undercrewed and damaged, the Liberation has been fighting a guerrilla war against the Empire for the past six months, and it is beginning to take a toll.
Starting Location: Deep Space, between Bimmisaari and Boz Pity, aboard Liberation.
Just want to clarify before anyone gets confused - the following character -is not- a Sith. While she calls herself one, she's never had any Sith training.
Name: Alara Kovaris, Darth Eris
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Appearance: Tall and willowy - 1.8 meters and roughly 70 kilos - with long red hair that hangs free, dark green eyes that turn a sulfurous yellow when she is fully immersed in the Dark Side. Eris eschews the traditional clothing of both Jedi and Sith, favoring subtle civilian clothing, most often wearing a black bodyglove with a crimson hooded cloak. A gray belt circles her waist, holding a few essentials - comlink, a stimpack, credcoins and credsticks, and a number of false IDs.
Profession: Dark Jedi, self-styled Sith Lord
Skills: Expert Lightsaber duelist, favoring Form II Makashi. She has little interest in the use of the Force in direct combat, instead utilizing her skill in the Force to counter her opponent's use of it, forcing them to engage her blade to blade. Her greatest skill with the Force is her ability to hide her presence - as long as she does not directly use the Force, such as to use telekinesis, and instead only passively listens to it, it is effectively impossible to detect her presence in the Force. She could be sitting right next to you and even a powerful Jedi would not recognize the dark presence.
Starting Equipment: Her lightsaber. It's not a particularly unusual design - an unpainted metallic cylinder with a rubber grip near the head. When activated, it is a single blue blade. Besides that, she owns an Aka'jor Class Shuttle, which as yet is unmodified. Aboard her shuttle she keeps a trove of Jedi and Sith artifacts - primarily writings and datacards. She carries little else as far as equipment.
Back story: For centuries the Force has been strong in the Kovaris family, producing roughly one Jedi every generation. It has become family tradition to have their children tested, and to willingly - if not gladly - give them up to the Temple. So it was for Alara, she was given to the Temple at six months of age - she's never met her family, doesn't even know their names beyond that they share a surname.
As she grew, Alara proved to be in many ways the ideal Jedi - scholarly, stoic, and driven. She absorbed knowledge like a sponge. At the age of ten she was selected by Master Aven Kolath to become his Padawan. Master Kolath was not a warrior or an adventurer like so many of the more well-known Jedi. His power with the Force was middling and his skill with the lightsaber was negligible, but he made up for it with boundless enthusiasm, endless determination, and enough cunning to cheat a Hutt in his own gambling den and get away clean. Kolath's real area of expertise was archaeology and negotiation, which came together more often than one might think.
For most of her career as a Padawan, Alara was at one dig site or another, unearthing ancient artifacts - of the ancient Republic, of Empires long gone. Once, however, they uncovered something much darker. Seven years into her apprenticeship the two were exploring a ruin on Bpfassh, uncovered near the Jedi Praxeum on that world. The two of them split up to explore the ruins, neither sensing any danger. Alara entered a chamber and discovered a spherical object lying on a podium. When she touched it, the device activated, revealing itself to be a Holocron. The dark powers within that holocron assaulted Alara's mind, exposing her to the full power of the Dark Side.
Kolath sensed the dark presence and rushed to her aid, disabling the device the old fashioned way - direct application of a lightsaber. After the device was deactivated, Alara lost consciousness.
When Alara awoke, she was back on Coruscant, in the care of the Temple. While she had been exposed to the power of the Dark Side, she had emerged without being tainted by it - at least to their eyes, moreover deeming it to be a suitable Trial of both Flesh and Spirit - she had faced both tremendous pain and the full unveiled power of the Dark Side and survived with mind intact.
Despite their faith in her, in truth Alara's soul was darkened by the event. While she did not fall - not yet - she had been awakened to both the real evil and the incomprehensible power of the Dark Side, and an ugly, buried part of her awakened - she saw power and she wanted it. Despite this, she would resist these feelings, and four years later would undertake the remainder of her trials - that of Skill, Courage, and Insight - and passed them all, albeit with great struggle, and finally completing her path to becoming a Jedi when she constructed her lightsaber, becoming Alara Kovaris, Jedi Knight.
Her exposure to the Dark Side had altered her in other ways - she began refocusing her training away from the purely scholarly, learning how to use the raw power she had at her command, and studying the lightsaber forms in greater detail, moving away from the simplicity of Shii-Cho and Niman to a style better suited to her mindset, the elegant Makashi. She sought means to protect herself from that dark power she had faced, and learned to conceal herself within the Force and counter it when used against her.
After her elevation to Knight, she worked to protect the galaxy - a hunt for criminals here, a diplomatic mission there, an archaeological site there. Archaeology remained her true passion, but she began to move beyond pure academic curiosity, focusing on Jedi and Sith sites, uncovering stores of knowledge and absorbing, only passing some on to the Order, telling herself she wanted to study them further before handing them off, but often never giving up her artifacts.
Her slow seduction would accelerate as the Clone Wars broke out and for the first time she was exposed to combat and death on a massive scale, the cries of the dead and the echoes of their deaths in the Force awakening the whispers of the dark Holocron in her mind, only made worse when a number of Bpfasshi Jedi fell to the Dark Side and joined the CIS, forcing her to return to that world she hated and feared, pursuing one of the fallen Jedi into the same ruins. She thought she was facing her fear.
Fear wasn't the danger she was facing.
In those ruins, the whispers of the Dark Side seemed deafening, as though the darkness within these ruins had awoken when she had opened the holocron twelve years ago, and as she did battle with the Dark Jedi she felt it clawing for her soul. And in a moment of weakness, as her foot slipped and her blade slid out of her hands, she reached out for the dark power to save her own life, applying the teachings of the Sith writings to the dark power in the ruins.
The Dark Jedi never saw it coming as lightning coursed into his body, burning him from the inside out.
With the dark power now coursing through her, she embraced it. This was her real path. This was her destiny. She dubbed herself Darth Eris in the style of the ancient Sith Lords.
She departed soon after. Only a scant few months later Order 66 was given. She's spent the time since then continuing her hunt for writings of the ancient Sith and Jedi, gathering artifacts, gathering power.
Starting Location: Korriban
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 30
Appearance: Tall and willowy - 1.8 meters and roughly 70 kilos - with long red hair that hangs free, dark green eyes that turn a sulfurous yellow when she is fully immersed in the Dark Side. Eris eschews the traditional clothing of both Jedi and Sith, favoring subtle civilian clothing, most often wearing a black bodyglove with a crimson hooded cloak. A gray belt circles her waist, holding a few essentials - comlink, a stimpack, credcoins and credsticks, and a number of false IDs.
Profession: Dark Jedi, self-styled Sith Lord
Skills: Expert Lightsaber duelist, favoring Form II Makashi. She has little interest in the use of the Force in direct combat, instead utilizing her skill in the Force to counter her opponent's use of it, forcing them to engage her blade to blade. Her greatest skill with the Force is her ability to hide her presence - as long as she does not directly use the Force, such as to use telekinesis, and instead only passively listens to it, it is effectively impossible to detect her presence in the Force. She could be sitting right next to you and even a powerful Jedi would not recognize the dark presence.
Starting Equipment: Her lightsaber. It's not a particularly unusual design - an unpainted metallic cylinder with a rubber grip near the head. When activated, it is a single blue blade. Besides that, she owns an Aka'jor Class Shuttle, which as yet is unmodified. Aboard her shuttle she keeps a trove of Jedi and Sith artifacts - primarily writings and datacards. She carries little else as far as equipment.
Back story: For centuries the Force has been strong in the Kovaris family, producing roughly one Jedi every generation. It has become family tradition to have their children tested, and to willingly - if not gladly - give them up to the Temple. So it was for Alara, she was given to the Temple at six months of age - she's never met her family, doesn't even know their names beyond that they share a surname.
As she grew, Alara proved to be in many ways the ideal Jedi - scholarly, stoic, and driven. She absorbed knowledge like a sponge. At the age of ten she was selected by Master Aven Kolath to become his Padawan. Master Kolath was not a warrior or an adventurer like so many of the more well-known Jedi. His power with the Force was middling and his skill with the lightsaber was negligible, but he made up for it with boundless enthusiasm, endless determination, and enough cunning to cheat a Hutt in his own gambling den and get away clean. Kolath's real area of expertise was archaeology and negotiation, which came together more often than one might think.
For most of her career as a Padawan, Alara was at one dig site or another, unearthing ancient artifacts - of the ancient Republic, of Empires long gone. Once, however, they uncovered something much darker. Seven years into her apprenticeship the two were exploring a ruin on Bpfassh, uncovered near the Jedi Praxeum on that world. The two of them split up to explore the ruins, neither sensing any danger. Alara entered a chamber and discovered a spherical object lying on a podium. When she touched it, the device activated, revealing itself to be a Holocron. The dark powers within that holocron assaulted Alara's mind, exposing her to the full power of the Dark Side.
Kolath sensed the dark presence and rushed to her aid, disabling the device the old fashioned way - direct application of a lightsaber. After the device was deactivated, Alara lost consciousness.
When Alara awoke, she was back on Coruscant, in the care of the Temple. While she had been exposed to the power of the Dark Side, she had emerged without being tainted by it - at least to their eyes, moreover deeming it to be a suitable Trial of both Flesh and Spirit - she had faced both tremendous pain and the full unveiled power of the Dark Side and survived with mind intact.
Despite their faith in her, in truth Alara's soul was darkened by the event. While she did not fall - not yet - she had been awakened to both the real evil and the incomprehensible power of the Dark Side, and an ugly, buried part of her awakened - she saw power and she wanted it. Despite this, she would resist these feelings, and four years later would undertake the remainder of her trials - that of Skill, Courage, and Insight - and passed them all, albeit with great struggle, and finally completing her path to becoming a Jedi when she constructed her lightsaber, becoming Alara Kovaris, Jedi Knight.
Her exposure to the Dark Side had altered her in other ways - she began refocusing her training away from the purely scholarly, learning how to use the raw power she had at her command, and studying the lightsaber forms in greater detail, moving away from the simplicity of Shii-Cho and Niman to a style better suited to her mindset, the elegant Makashi. She sought means to protect herself from that dark power she had faced, and learned to conceal herself within the Force and counter it when used against her.
After her elevation to Knight, she worked to protect the galaxy - a hunt for criminals here, a diplomatic mission there, an archaeological site there. Archaeology remained her true passion, but she began to move beyond pure academic curiosity, focusing on Jedi and Sith sites, uncovering stores of knowledge and absorbing, only passing some on to the Order, telling herself she wanted to study them further before handing them off, but often never giving up her artifacts.
Her slow seduction would accelerate as the Clone Wars broke out and for the first time she was exposed to combat and death on a massive scale, the cries of the dead and the echoes of their deaths in the Force awakening the whispers of the dark Holocron in her mind, only made worse when a number of Bpfasshi Jedi fell to the Dark Side and joined the CIS, forcing her to return to that world she hated and feared, pursuing one of the fallen Jedi into the same ruins. She thought she was facing her fear.
Fear wasn't the danger she was facing.
In those ruins, the whispers of the Dark Side seemed deafening, as though the darkness within these ruins had awoken when she had opened the holocron twelve years ago, and as she did battle with the Dark Jedi she felt it clawing for her soul. And in a moment of weakness, as her foot slipped and her blade slid out of her hands, she reached out for the dark power to save her own life, applying the teachings of the Sith writings to the dark power in the ruins.
The Dark Jedi never saw it coming as lightning coursed into his body, burning him from the inside out.
With the dark power now coursing through her, she embraced it. This was her real path. This was her destiny. She dubbed herself Darth Eris in the style of the ancient Sith Lords.
She departed soon after. Only a scant few months later Order 66 was given. She's spent the time since then continuing her hunt for writings of the ancient Sith and Jedi, gathering artifacts, gathering power.
Starting Location: Korriban