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[b]Name:[/b] Samuel Spedam
[b]Species:[/b] Human
[b]Age:[/b] 17
[b]Appearance:[/b] [hider=Appearance][img]https://pre00.deviantart.net/7a46/th/pre/f/2015/299/1/c/padawan__by_severdhead-d9ej4nf.jpg[/img]
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[b]Equipment:[/b]
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[*] [url=http://cdn.playbuzz.com/cdn/3236ffbb-5596-479f-82d6-3da626b4834f/d3d58a6e-73a7-4c16-bb8b-34ab45969484.jpg]Straight-hilt Lightsaber w/ Green Kyber Crystal[/url]
[*] [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a6/61/4a/a6614a61616ebc59a87c0401eb283fc2.jpg]Consular Padawan Robes[/url]
[*] [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/9/97/Datapad_negwt.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20060804121723]VersaFunction 88 Datapad[/url]
[*] [url=https://i.imgur.com/zaLmlss.jpg]Four Empty Datacards[/url]
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[b]Skills:[/b]
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[*] [i]Historian[/i] - Long entranced by tales of great clashes between the Jedi and Sith, of pioneers who mapped the known galaxy, Samuel had his head buried in the words and recordings of holocrons from days of old ever since he passed his trials to become a padawan.
[*] [i]Empathetic[/i] - A subjectively useful trait, Samuel is empathetic to beings. His initial reasoning to walk the consular path was to help people. He has however grown disillusioned with the consular path as of late due to the image of his master, Knight Evan Asani, revered Jedi General of the 117th Legion, which has inclined Samuel to walk the balanced path of a sentinel.
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[b]Lightsaber Forms & Force Powers:[/b]
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[*] [i]Lightsaber Form I Shii-Cho[/i] - Intermediate
[*] [i]Lightsaber Form III Soresu[/i] - Basic
[*] [i]Force Speed[/i] - Basic
[*] [i]Force Telekinesis[/i] - Intermediate
[*] [i]Force Sense[/i] - Basic
[*] [i]Force Precognition[/i] - Intermediate
[*] [i]Force Jump[/i] - Basic
[*] [i]Tutaminis[/i] - Basic
[*] [i]Hibernation Trance[/i] - Basic
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[b]Weaknesses:[/b]
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[*] [i]Without a Master[/i] - His master, Knight Evan Asani, was summarily killed by the 501st Legion on Coruscant. Samuel, distraught as he was, was left without guidance, and still in the prime of his time as a padawan, had no medium of which to learn and advance to the status of Knight. And even despite the loss of a teacher, Samuel lost a close friend which had counseled him in every matter as to how to be a better person.
[*] [i]Broken Pacifist[/i] - Cracks which had spread since his first taste of action on Kamino, Samuel is a broken pacifist, dismissive of the role of a pacifist Jedi in the modern age. After witnessing the exploits of Jedi Generals leading clones, and then eventually the death of the same Jedi at the hands of the clones, his faith in the consular path is all but gone, and his own time used to further diplomacy and academics wasted in his mind.
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[b]History:[/b]
Born in 36 BBY on Alderaan, Samuel was child to artisans, an architect father and a chef for a mother. His existence was simple for the first three years of his life, before being noted as force sensitive by an envoy of Jedi seeking out a new batch of younglings. His parents, convinced into handing Samuel over, did so as he was barely four. Taken to Coruscant, he began the initiate training. Years of reciting the Jedi Code, learning Shii-Cho with a training saber, and becoming familiar with most forms of basic academics filled his time as an initiate.

At 13, Samuel underwent his trials to become a padawan. The Trial of Wisdom was the first, and the easiest by the standards of an academic and one well-read in the Jedi Code, his extensive comprehension giving him an easy pass. Next, the Trial of Skill, with a trip to the frozen world of Ilum to acquire the kyber crystal necessary to craft a lightsaber. Samuel, pushed to his limits, was tested under the limit of time, venturing his own path alone, before coming upon a green kyber crystal which he seized upon, leaving Ilum. Having crafted his saber, he was put through the final trial, the Trial of Insight, given the task of assisting hydroponics farmers on Coruscant for two months’ time, or until the grow cycle was complete. Yet again an easier task, he bided his time, patient yet bored, until the grow cycle ended.

His trials were complete, and at 14 years of age, he became a padawan. Initially, he was selected to be padawan to Knight Evan Asani, but the outbreak of the war that year delayed the process, as Evan was deployed as part of Master Mace Windu’s task force during the First Battle of Geonosis. Upon the return of Knight Asani, Samuel was finally assigned to the Knight who was specialised as a Jedi guardian, more specifically as a peacekeeper. A polar opposite to the pacifistic ways of the young Samuel on his path to a consular specialisation.

The two were immediately deployed to Kamino, as the command of Knight Asani, the famed 117th Legion (nicknamed ‘Rancor Battalion’ or ‘Rancor Legion’, marked with crimson colors), was assisting in overseeing the training of the new batch of clones at Tipoca City on Kamino, with the intention of taking on new clones to bolster the Rancor Legion’s strength. The attack on Kamino happened mere days after their arrival, and the 117th, along with men of General Skywalker’s 501st Legion, General Kenobi’s 212th Battalion/Legion, and General Secura’s 327th ‘Star’ Corps, fought off the droid attackers across Tipoca City. Samuel, in his first real taste of combat, was at the frontline along with his master.

Though never directly under fire, as the battle ended, Samuel came to realize not only the dwindling use of the consular Jedi in the new age, but also the evolving place of the Jedi as field commanders rather than peacekeepers. He began to doubt the consular path, but yet still considered himself an academic and pacifist above all else. Exploits across the battlefields of the galaxy proved again and again the power of warfare over diplomacy as negotiations between both sides broke down multiple times. However, Samuel remained pacifistic, refusing to draw his blade unless necessary to use it. Knight Asani, though puzzled by these ways, respected his padawan’s choice, often keeping himself and Samuel out of the fray, but still close enough to the frontline to command his men.

In 19 BBY, Knight Asani, recalled to the Temple at Coruscant for unspecified reasons, gave Samuel his first independent assignment to assist scientific operations aboard a vessel by the name of the [i]Reclamation[/i]. No sooner than had he arrived that word of Order 66 spread. Huddled in his own cramped quarters, he watched the very recording from Master Kenobi, and slept a very somber sleep that night.
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