Queen Amidala's Revenge {Crew Manifest}
Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 11:43 am
Queen Amidala's Revenge
Aggressor-class Star Destroyer
Aurek Fleet, Blue Star Pirates
Rank: Captain
Gender: Male
Species: Twi'lek
Age: 44
Clan: Corsairs
Capsule: Fearsome force of nature.
Appearance: A pitch black Twi'lek with large, oppressive lekku and standing over six feet tall with an aura of intimidation about him, Eddvar d'Ti'ich is truly a fearsome sight to behold. Typically garbed in an obsidian cavalry coat that flows all the way to his knees, over a dark grey undershirt and matching trousers, his sidearm and Cortossis blastsword attached at his waist to a belt with a silver skull buckle. The most noticeable thing about him is his ghostly gaze - his irises are as white as his sclerae, hence indistinguishable from afar. He walks with power, a straight back and broad shoulders, and his gaze is a withering white glare.
Visible Personality: With a dark visage and a murderous glint in his cold eyes, Eddvar d'Ti'ich is one of the most feared pirates of all. Legendary for his wicked and cruel personality, d'Ti'ich understands the value of appearances; better to strike fear into the heart of one's enemies, than rely on bluster alone. He is a renowned pirate, his cognomen derived from his unusual skin tone - pure black is rarely seen in Twi'leks - and the fearsome appearance he wishes to present to his enemies.
True Personality: While d'Ti'ich is no doubt fearsome and is often cruel to his enemies, he nonetheless has a heart beneath all that grisliness. He will certainly never show anyone that he cares for anyone, but he does, at least for his crew, and perhaps Brakken and Mertaal and the rest of the Blue Stars to an extent. Ultimately, they took the place of the mother he had lost so long ago. Black'lek believes himself irredeemable for all the lives he has taken in his crusade to end slavery, which is why he keeps a Jedi around for a Quartermaster: Rainwalker, ever since he showed up, has acted as a beacon of hope for d'Ti'ich personally, and helped reign in much of the Black Twi'lek's dark tendencies.
History: Among other legends, it is said that Black'lek was born with a blood clot in his right hand. In any case, what is verified that he was born to Norra d'Ti'ich, a black-striped grey Twi'lek slave on Nar Shadda. He never knew his father, who had been killed by his mother's slaver before he was born. The slaver had allowed Eddvar to be born just so he could make use of the child, and Eddvar's childhood was filled with abuse. Not only was he, as a five-year-old child, forced to break his back working for his mother's slaver every day, the child had to watch the slaver torture his mother daily. She was forced into the harshest of chores, treated worse than a bantha, and the Slaver would find any excuse to beat her into submission. This was during the day. At night, Eddvar would hear his mother's screams. Every night, the Slaver used her for sick pleasure against her will.
Eddvar was nine years old when the Slaver finally killed his mother. "I told 'er I was gonna sell ye aff to the Hutts, 'n the bitch suddenly grew a spine and tried to go against ma will. Against me! After all these years I've been so good to 'er! Kraffin' whore." That night, Eddvar pickpocketed a vibro-knife off a Rodian smuggler and stabbed the Slaver. No less than a hundred times. It wasn't enough. No matter how many times he tried to torture the dead carcass, it wouldn't bring peace to his heart. It wouldn't undo the pain.
Eddvar ran away, making his way off-world. Years passed, and Eddvar lived the lives of a cabin boy aboard a smuggling freighter, then a mercenary once he came of age, but it was the day he came upon a slave ship did he find his true calling. Brutally decapitating the slavers and landing a heavy freighter over their bodies to crush them, he freed the slaves, and the Black'lek Pirates were born. His privateering would eventually bring him face to face with Admiral Brakken of the Blue Star Pirates, and although they started out as fierce enemies, the Blue Star Pirates' and the Black'lek Pirates' common antislavery operations forced them to work together more often than not, and Black'lek secretly came to respect Brakken and the Blue Stars. After many years of stalling, in 29 ABY Brakken extended a hand and d'Ti'ich took it, and the Black'lek Pirates merged into the Blue Star Pirates.
Quote: “Yer all now subject to the laws of piracy.”
Rank: Quartermaster
Gender: Male
Species: Firrerreo
Age: 25
Clan: Corsairs
Capsule: Cool as ice.
Appearance: Annan is a long, lanky man with light gold skin and silver blood - and thus he blushes and scars over silver as well. He has green irises with slitted pupils like those of a felinoid that may appear grey or blue depending no the lighting thanks to the high refractivity of the natural pigments inside a Firrerreo's body, and nictitating eyelids. He also possesses elongated canines, and has recently allowed a light beard to grow out predominantly over his chin in the form of a faded goatee. His two-toned hair, predominantly black but with brown streaks, end at the base of his neck, is always unkempt, and is parted down the middle. These wild and feral Firrerreo features automatically give off a first impression as a dangerous yet handsome man.
His clothing typically varies with the day, though he is typically concealed beneath a black, white, grey or cream-colored hooded cloak. His usual attire with the Blue Star Pirates consists of a gray fur-lined jacket over his double-breasted Antarian Ranger vest, his legs are covered in dark, skintight, armor-padded Antarian Ranger pants, with gray knee-high fur leggings covering his lower legs, and his arms are covered in gray, elbow-length fur armbands, which end at his wrists. He wears a silver belt with a buckle resembling rock-lion's open jaw, which contains holsters for both his WESTAR-34s and his lightsaber.
Visible Personality: Annan used to be quite short-fused and rough before his Jedi training largely because of his biology and his past, but since experiencing the Unveiling of the Force on Yaronn, his temperament has settled into a permanent, serene calmness. He comes off as cool as ice, unperturbed by the raging tides about him, showing no visible signs of distress or concern no matter how dire the circumstances. To the extent that he ends up coming off as particularly uninterested in whatever is going on around him, even though he is observant and a capable analyst. His feral appearance often intimidates those who do not know him, yet once anyone interacts with him on a regular basis he exudes a gruff warmth, very like the feeling one would get from a distant but caring father; no doubt a result of the vergence of Light Side about him.
True Personality: Originally, Annan - Resh Roarrk, rather - was an anxious beast in constant pain due to his violent past. There was a void inside him that couldn't be filled, and so he remained in perpetually angry. He wandered the galaxy as a drifter at sea, going from one system to another, trying to find purpose, and fill the ravenous void inside him that could not be satiated. His outlook on life was bleak, but something inside him used to egg him to keep searching, and so he did. He had very little patience for those around him, preferring to be alone due to disliking and distrusting the company of others. Despite his disgruntled nature, he had a very dry sense of humor, constantly insulting others and giving them demeaning nicknames - this is a habit he still retains, though it is now usually reserved for Sith Lords and Imperials. Being a Firrerreo, he has a natural 'animal' side; feral and primal, rendering him instinctual and berserk, especially in combat because it was triggered by anger, fear, frustration, great annoyance, general distress or pain. He used to become highly aggressive and mindlessly brutal - the Beast - prone to roar with rage in such situations.
However, one day Master Buggie of the Jedi Coalition found him, and then he came under the tutelage of Jedi Master Han Xin, and the rest was history. Annan found the source of his perpetual anger - his distance from the Light. The flawless, profound connection that he possessed, at once magnetic and galling in its intensity, that he was deprived off engaging with. As he trained as a Jedi in the Temple on Naboo, and then on Yaronn, Annan rose into his true self: an instrument of the Force, of Peace, of Light, of Life, of Compassion and of Justice. His animal side personified in the Sith Lord he had bested during his Trials, Annan conquered himself and thus found himself, becoming truly whole. His pain was gone, forever - the one wound that he could never heal was healed by a power far greater than his own. He still harbors the Beast inside, but it is now tamed and docile - a guard vornskr, only let loose when needed, ferocious yet obedient.
History:
It was 0 ABY, and Moff Straikorr, a scientist and researcher by profession, had been overseeing many experiments patroned by the late Emperor on gene farms studying Strand-Casts. Many programs were undertaken in an underground Imperial research facility on the planet Argai Minor in the Haldeen sector: the Imperial Department of Military Research's Weapon Resh Program, a sequel to the failed Weapon Qek Program, is the one we're concerned with. To the IDMR's then-knowledge, it was impossible to Strand-Cast Force-sensitives while retaining satisfactory M-counts. If they survived the embryonic and fetal stages at all, all such neonates were born disfigured or congenitally malformed, and died within hours of being born.
Weapon Resh was about using one of the few surviving Firrerreo in the galaxy, a woman named Lyra Roarrk, in the hopes that their impressive regenerative healing factors could help a subject infant survive the process. Lyra, a prisoner experimented on against her will, was herself was not Force-sensitive at all. She was artificially impregnated using the most stable Force-sensitive genetic material the ISB had access to, from the Wayland facility. The pregnancy held, and the child - christened Resh after the Program itself, was born. His M-count was not nearly as high as his paternal donor's, but still quite phenomenal. It was a breakthrough. The galaxy's first Force-sensitive Strand-Cast - that they knew of, anyways. He was to become the first of the IDMR's greatest weapons line after the Dark Trooper program.
Except for one problem: the child simply could not use the Force.
It was 4 ABY, and the child was now four years old. Moff Straikur just one of many Imperial Service Bureau agents who aimed to bring back some order to the world after it had collapsed in the wake of Emperor Palpatine's demise, but his prospects were not looking good. M-counts were one thing, but the Child, as he grew, was angry and wild - an animal, a cub but still a beast in every sense of the word. He once tore off the arm of one of his medical droids with his bare jaws when he was three. Furious against those who constantly hurt him and his mother - one of the many horrific experiments involved breaking their bones every day just to compare the limits of Resh's regenerative powers with Lyra's, to determine if his were any better due to his M-count - he would lash out like a carnivore trapped in a cage. Straikur called upon whatever Inquisitors and Force experts he could find (who decidedly, in that time period immediately after the destruction of the Second Death Star, were not very good, as the Emperor and Lord Vader ensured that any powerful Force-sensitives who could pose a threat to them were either subjugated or eliminated). Still, it was incorrectly determined that Resh Roarrk was not Force-sensitive.
The IDMR's Weapon Resh Program had failed, and the powers above decided to pull the plug on Moff Straikur - eighteen failed programs had taxed the Imperial remnant's budget more than enough. This was literally days before the New Republic forces under General Hera Syndulla led the attack on the Imperial forces in Argai Minor, and the remaining Imperial forces destroyed the facility in order to prevent their research from falling into NR hands. Lyra Roarrk and her child were supposed to be killed, but Lyra had been planning a way out ever since Resh had been born, her maternal instinct overcoming all sense. She escaped from her confines during as the facility collapsed around her along with the Child, but Straikur's forces caught up with her. Resh mewed helplessly as his mother threw him into an escape pod. He watched through the viewport, clawing and scratching against the durasteel as the escape pod took off while Lyra was still ferociously preying upon Straikur's forces in an effort to keep them back. He watched, tears in his shamrock eyes, as the facility finally exploded while the pod took him into space.
Resh doesn't know how long he was in space, but by the time his pod crashed on an unnamed, uncharted planet, he was emaciated. A Monk pulled him out; a middle-aged hermit named Zorek Rainwalker, who lived on that planet along with his youngest and only surviving sister, Zulara. Zorek and Zulara nursed the Child back to health, but Resh was feral and untamed. The Monk, who wielded the Bendu, realized the fragile state in which the boy was, determining that the origin of his anxiety was both emotional and spiritual. Should he unlock the boy's latent Force connection - which the Child himself had buried using an unintentional Force Mask, likely when someone had hurt him in the Facility - the resulting surge of power would be too much for the Child's already fragile mind. The Monk then decided to let Resh come around on his own. It took a couple of months, but Resh stopped stealing scraps from the Monk once Zulara established rapport with the Child, and eventually, began to warm up to the bald elder.
Resh Roarrk would spend the next many years with the Monk and the Girl, until his teens. The Child had literally been neglected since he was born. The Monk taught Resh how to read and write, how to speak Galactic Basic, a few other common tongues and the Ancient Tongue, basic sentient decency and social skills, and guided his mental and psychological development as gently and effectively as he could given the circumstances. Since the Child couldn't articulate his own name properly for the first few years, the Monk had nicknamed Resh 'Annan', which meant 'star child' in the Ancient Tongue eluding to how he had literally fallen from the sky. The first thing Resh wrote were the two words: 'Annan' and 'Rainwalker' - the name of the Monk - inscribed using a twig on a small quadrangular piece of wood that Annan eventually threaded and began wearing as a necklace. As Resh matured and came of insight, Zorek taught him a little about the Force (without unlocking his sensitivity), to cherish life, and simple exercises on how to temper his aggressive, animal tendencies.
Resh was fifteen when Zulara left the planet, telling him that her training as one of the last Bendu was complete, and that she now wished to go explore the galaxy. The survival of his legacy with his youngest sister assured, the Monk told Resh that he had fulfilled his purpose and would not be with him for long, and that he too should follow Zulara out into the world. Resh refused vehemently, and frankly told the old hermit to shut up and that he wasn't dying. The Monk chuckled, but nonetheless in a few days fell ill. As he was in the pangs of death, Resh began to agitate wildly again, wanting the Monk to live but knowing he was powerless. Resh growled and roared, but the Monk wouldn't get better. In his anxiety, however, Resh had instinctively reached into the Force in an effort to call upon it to heal the Monk. The Monk felt the shift in the Spiritual Tide. Resh had reawakened his masked Force powers, but as expected, it came with all the baggage of years of suppression; it was too much for Resh's mind.
Suddenly void of memory, the feral teenager glanced at the Monk. He could recall he had a strong emotional connection to the elder who lay there dying before him, but he couldn't pinpoint it. The Monk smiled in death, his last words guiding the boy to find his own way and no longer worry over him, for he was one with the Force. Then, the Monk disappeared, just his grey robes left behind. Resh, who couldn't even remember his own name anymore, sobbed uncontrollably for reasons he could not describe. He clawed and splintered the trees, and he howled and he roared, and he mourned, for three days straight, not knowing why he was so distraught.
He looked at the wooden amulet he was wearing, the one with 'Annan' and 'Rainwalker' written on it. He figured that must be his name. Annan then made his way off-world, the disappearing Monk's ship being the only means off it, now. He wandered aimlessly, a drifter at sea, for many years, exploring many worlds both known and unknown. He had running-ins with scum and villainy of all kinds during his travels, becoming a mean gunslinger, and occasionally dabbling in hunting bounties where warranted, although he never formally joined the Guild. The galaxy became an increasingly unsettling place, a meaningless one, for the amnesiac Firrerreo, who went by many aliases: Nolan Myles, Myles Marmaduke, etc. Ultimately, as the boy grew into a man, the dreams - visions he began experiencing during both wakefulness and sleep, began to intensify, and there was uncontainable urge within him, a spiritual hunger he could not satisfy. Then, one day he saw the name Naboo on a star-chart, and instinctively knew that's where he needed to be. There he, as Myles Marmaduke, would meet Master Buggie, the first Jedi he ever encountered, who saw his potential in the Force and took him to the Naboo Temple.
Annan Rainwalker suddenly found the answer to his restlessness. It was here, all along; it surrounded him, emanated from him and bound him and the universe together.
Initially, Annan served for a while as an Antarian Ranger, before he was formally assigned as a Padawan under Master Han Xin. Time flew by quickly, and Annan eventually ascended to the rank of Jedi Knight. He would continue to serve the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi Coalition as a loyal member of honorable repute for quite some time, rising through the ranks as both a starfighter pilot and a Jedi. He found his first love in Murph, then lost her just as quickly, but he knew how to channel his greatest enemy, his pain now, and the loss only brought him higher in the Light. His greatest moment came during the Battle of Rhen Var, where Annan Rainwalker, callsign Green Two, shot down the Echani dreadlord Silas Karn's infamous TIE Interceptor and then valiantly engaged the much more experienced Force user in order to ensure that the MC90 Liberty, one of the GA Fleet's greatest flagships, would not fall into Sith hands. Master Buggie, who had left the Alliance some time prior, showed up on the Bridge of the Liberty and recognizing each other, the two united their minds, the Light flowing through them as one and engaged Silas Karn forcing him to flee and saving the Liberty. However, Rhen Var was to be an overall victory for the Sith, and as the Armada rained destruction down upon the Alliance task force, Master Buggie would take the unconscious less-experienced Jedi away with him to the safety of his own associates: the Blue Star Pirates.
Mindmelding with Master Buggie had a strange side effect: as Annan saw into Buggie and Buggie into Annan, the two exchanged memories temporarily, and once the exchange was returned, Annan regained consciousness with all his memories in-tact. From the day he was born: his birth name, Resh Roarrk; the Program; his mother, Lyra... the Monk, the Girl, the Bendu, suddenly Annan recalled everything. Disturbed again, despite himself, Annan couldn't go back to Naboo immediately. He stayed with the Blue Star Pirates for some time, with Master Buggie entrusting him to a former crewmate, Captain Ashara of The Luminis End. He found the Blue Stars to be different from other pirates, finding himself taken with many of them. Most of them were good, if troubled, people like himself. Yes, they were on the wrong side of the law, but they truly sought to heal a painful galaxy. Although their methods were heterodox and, some, absolutely disagreeable, he still found them to be a lot more direct and effective against the Sith and the Imperials than the oh-so-noble Galactic Alliance's political roadblocks. Not to mention, thanks to the mind-meld, he knew he shared the sentiment with Master Buggie.
Unable to decide what to do, Annan took a trip back to Yaronn, the Force nexus where he had attained Knighthood and completed his first lightsaber. The Force had been his source of serenity all this time, ever since he his troubled days as Resh Roarrk, and it was in the Force he would search for answers again. After several months of meditation and inquiry, the Unveiling came, and Master Rainwalker finally knew. He returned to The Luminis End just in time to hear that the Kingsmaker Protocols had gone into effect, and Ashara and Annan had been reassigned to the Queen Amidala's Revenge under Captain Black'lek for the intense days to come.
Quote: “I can tell you what I believe. I believe that a Jedi should not allow themselves to be enslaved by politics. I believe we can make a greater difference acting outside the system.”
Rank: First Mate
Gender: Female
Species: Togruta
Age: 22
Clan: White Blades
Capsule: No-nonsense hothead.
Appearance: A young, female Togruta with sapphire eyes, knee-length lekku, orange skin and white facial markings, who typically dresses in a blue silken dress - the colour of the Blue Stars - that overflows down into twin tails on each side of her legs while being held at her waist by a silver belt. The belt bears her two WESTAR-34s, her Merr Son Deck Sweeping Blaster strapped along its posterior against her back, and her Cortosis blastsword. She wears tight-fitting black trousers, but shin-length dark grey boots (as pictured above), and has a Velocity-7 Dart Shooter strapped to her left wrist.
Visible Personality: As the Captain of The Luminis End, Ashara was much-loved. She is bold, fearless, strict and no-nonsense, but not senselessly dictatorial, and a natural leader, and her crewmates generally look up to her. Prone to overconfidence, she tends to boast a lot, to the extent of coming off as arrogant, talking down others as if she is naturally better than them, though most of the time she does it in jest.
True Personality: Ashara is like an open book, and so her true personality is in fact her visible personality. She is not hiding any secrets: she hates slavery, she hates those who abuse and oppress others, and she loves her crew and she really, really loves money. Having not had her way for so long, she is always determined to win and tends to sulk when things don't go her way. She can be quite aggressive in her actions and postures, willing to use terror and threats as a means to get any information she may need. Despite all this, she is quite selfless when it comes to those she cares about - her crew in particular, Captain Buggie and his crew, Bexel and DeCola who helped her escape from slavery, Admiral Brakken and the crew of the The Azure Storm, and generally most other Blue Stars she knows. If needed, she would lay her life down on the line for them or for the greater Blue Star objective in a heartbeat.
History: Ashara Rys was an untrained Force-sensitive Togruta third-generation slave. Her mother had been a Togruta slave born to a Togruta slave couple during the Clone Wars, and her father was a smuggler, one that had gotten his hands on the deactivator wand of her mother's slave chip and, thus, effectively stolen her mother from her original slave master. But while her father had never much cared for her mother, largely utilizing her for his personal wants, he did in fact care about her, his only child.
He showed her the ropes. She was meant to be his successor, Daddy's Little Girl Partner-In-Crime. He taught her how to handle a blaster, and a vibro-knife. He showed her how to pilot anything from a freighter to Y-wing. He pulled some strings to help her learn programming, allowing her to recondition droids and hack her way through the holonet into any holopad on any planet within five hundred lightyears of her current location. He also showed her every smuggling safe-spot in the Galaxy, and how to circumnavigate her way through the seediest and most dangerous of places, from the deserts of Tatooine and Jakku to the polluted heavens of Nar Shadda. He also taught her pick-pocketing.
So, while Jaymi Rys had been far from being her mother's sweetheart, he had been a pretty cool dad all things considered.
However, when she was fifteen years old, Jaymi Rys ended up double-crossing the wrong guild without an effective escape plan. What the Red Key Raiders had done then had planted the seeds of vengeance in her heart forever. They had murdered her father, and her mother, and made her watch. Then they had transplanted her mother's slave tracking chip into her own left deltoid, without anesthesia, just to make sure she knew what it felt like.
For the next ten years, the RKR employed Ashara's skills for various purposes. After various odd jobs for them, she served as a waitress and entertainer at Derelict Bar at Ponemah Terminal in the Western Reaches of the Outer Rim Territories. She was acting as the eyes and ears of the Red Key Raiders against her will when she was found and freed by Captain Buggie, Jak Bexel and Rane DeCola, eventually joining the Blue Star Pirates. Initially a part of Captain Buggie's crew, her performance during the liberation of Roche ended up gaining her the right to command her own vessel, and so she became the Captain of The Luminis End, a Venator-class Star Destroyer. However, due a reshuffling taking place among the ranks of the Blue Stars to ensure that their best were at the helm of the Kingsmaker Protocols, she and the Luminis' first mate, Rainwalker, and sailing master, Kromo, were all eventually reassigned to the Queen Anne's Revenge, herself as the third part of the Triumvarate that would form the command structure of the fearsome star destroyer.
Quote: “Well. Kriff.”
