[hider=Khosin Grathe Sedgoroh] [center][h3]Khosin Grathe Sedgoroh[/h3][/center] [indent][B]Race:[/B] Batarian [B]Sex:[/B] Male [B]Class:[/B] Sentinel [B]Age:[/B] 41 [B]Homeworld:[/B] Khar’shan [/indent] [B]Appearance:[/B] [center][hider][img]https://orig00.deviantart.net/95f7/f/2011/310/2/6/batarian_portrait_by_efleck-d4f9z5q.jpg[/img][/hider][/center] At a quick glance, it becomes readily apparent that Khosin has a lean figure when compared to other men who have underwent military training, standing at 6’7 feet and weighing 180 pounds. However, in spite of this, Khosin has an athletic, muscular, build thanks to his training. It is thanks to this very training, coupled with almost 3 decades of combat, that Khosin’s body is riddled with multiple scars, albeit these are often hidden behind his armor or whatever clothes he is wearing at any given situation. The only things that make Khosin stand out from other Batarians are the red prosthesis that replaces his right forearm and the tattoo located on his neck; otherwise, Khosin looks like your average, brown-skinned, Batarian seen throughout Omega or in one of the Hegemony’s worlds in Kite’s Nest. When outside of battle, Khosin usually wears short-sleeved shirts with matching cargo pants. [B]Psychological Profile:[/B] On the surface Khosin seems like an affable enough man, ready to go out for drinks with his comrades or to engage in small banter with them between contracts. But, were one to look deeper, a pattern would begin to emerge in the way Khosin behaves himself; he prefers to keep conversations focused on the present and away from himself and his past, not divulging anything truly personal. In other words, despite his seemingly affable disposition, it becomes apparent that Khosin keeps people at arm’s length rather than allowing himself to form deep friendships with his comrades. This stems mainly from the loss of his previous crew and from the simple fact that mercenary crews are volatile by their very nature, with their members changing regularly as they replace their losses be they due to the death of one of their members or from their retirement. It is simpler, and better in the long run, to keep a certain amount of distance in Khosin’s mind. Aside from this, Khosin prefers mostly quiet afternoons where he spends his time with either a book, doing maintenance on his prosthesis, or practicing his woodcarving. Though, like mentioned previously, he isn’t opposed to going out for drinks or more social-oriented activities. In contrast to his demeanor during down time, when in battle Khosin is fully focused on the mission and on the task of achieving the objectives that he and his teammates set out to do and fully ready to do whatever is necessary to achieve said goals. This is a result of the training that Khosin underwent when he joined the Hegemony’s military forces, in which he and other trainees were taught to pursue decisive victories no matter what methods they had to employ to achieve said victory. “Defeat your enemies so thoroughly, so decisively, that they can’t get back up to challenge you again. That is the only mean to attain true victory.” Such were the words of one of Khosin’s instructors, words that the Batarian still remembers to this day and which shape his choice of tactics in the battlefield. Still, in spite of the ruthlessness that Khosin displays on the battlefield, it is not like he fights that way due to deriving pleasure from it, rather in his mind it seems the most efficient way to fight and the best way to ensure that any battles in which he participates are as short as possible, no matter how bloody they might be. [B]Equipment:[/B] [indent][list] [*]Kishock Harpoon Gun [*]M-96 Mattock *Improved Heat Sink, Omni-blade Attachment [*]AT-12 Raider *Polonium Rounds, Extended Barrel [*]Medium Partisan Armor Set [*]Cipher Model Omni-Tool *Utilizes all regular functions, omni-blade replaced with Enforcement gauntlet [*]Gemini Bio-Amp [*][hider=Prosthetic forearm] [img]http://www.metalgearinformer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/MGSV-TPP-Full-Scale-Bionic-Arm-22.jpg[/img][/hider][/list][/indent] [B]Powers:[/B] [list] [*]Drone [*]Flamethrower [*]Reave [*]Tech Armor [*]Shockwave [/list] [B]Background:[/B] Born from a moderately wealthy family in 2143 CE, Khosin found his initial life to be an easy one. His parents were a loving couple that often doted on their children, and he adored his trio of younger brothers and sisters and the discovery of biotic potential within the young Batarian proved to not be problematic and his family managed to find a school that accepted Biotic children easily enough. As such, most of the life of the young Batarian would be a pleasant -fairly uneventful- one. His parents were kind people, treating their slaves well, and would recite excerpts from the Pillars of Strength from time to time to their children. In short order, Khosin's family was a 'model' family so to speak within the society of the Batarian Hegemony. That all would change the year 2165 CE, when his father invested most of the family's funds in what -at the moment- seemed a secure investment in a fledgling mining colony being funded by the Hegemony in the Skyllian Verge. But what seemed to be a safe prospect turned to be anything so, as the colony was lost to the Alliance's aggressive colonizing efforts which -along with the Council favoring the Alliance in that particular instance, and the Hegemony paying a meager, if they paid at all, insurance- the Sedgoroh family found itself barely making enough money to not sell themselves into servitude. It was at this point that Khosin found himself enlisting with the Hegemony's military in the hopes of making the humans that had ruined his family pay, a decision motivated mostly by the newfound hatred of humanity that the young Batarian felt. It wouldn't be so and although Khosin proved himself a capable soldier he was deemed a troublemaker -starting fights with his fellow soldiers and getting into arguments with his superiors- and was being considered for a discharge before his second year within the military, it was at this time when he was approached by a Colonel within the Hegemony's military for a 'special' project as the man himself put it. Seeing no reason to say no, Khosin accepted the offer that the colonel gave him and soon the young Batarian found himself listed as being honorably discharged, a cover for his transference to the command of colonel Khesrak Sed’mevan. The 'special' project of colonel Sed'mevan, as it turned out to be, was to be inducted into a black ops squad of the Hegemony’s External Forces. The principal objective of the squad, as colonel Sed’mevan put it, was to raid ships that travelled near the Mass Effect Relays that led to Hegemony space, preferably those of the Alliance if the opportunity presented itself, and then funnel the resources back to Hegemony space via Sed'mevan's contacts in the black market. However, before Khosin could join the team he, along with the others who had been earmarked for the colonel’s squad, would have to undergo the training that those selected to join the Hegemony’s External Forces underwent before they were accepted into it. The training was arduous, pushing Khosin and his fellow trainees to their limits and beyond them in most occasions. It wasn’t uncommon for some of them to die during the hellish exercises they were subjected to but, in the end, Khosin and many of the other trainees persevered through the program and were accepted into Sed’mevan’s black ops squad. The newly formed squad was promptly given a ship, which was swiftly christened as [i]The Serrated Sun[/i] by the members of the squad, and told to set off to do the task that the colonel had given them. Being an off the book squad, Khosin and the other crew members of the [i]Serrated Sun[/i] enjoyed a great deal of freedom in how they conducted themselves both during their free time and during missions; as long as they raided ships and funneled the resources back to the Hegemony, they were free to do as they pleased. In this freedom were planted the seeds of Khosin and his squadmates downfall. As the years went by and the crew of the [i]Serrated Sun[/i] continued with their piracy of those ships unfortunate enough to be caught by them, Sed’mevan’s hold on the group began to loosen more and more as the crew of pirates became emboldened by their successes. Issues where Sed’mevan’s orders ‘mysteriously’ weren’t received became more and more frequent and the crew began attacking instead more high profile targets and keeping more of the spoils for themselves. The continued assault on ships eventually got the crew on the radar of the Alliance and colonel Sed’mevan, who at this point considered the corsairs of [i]The Serrated Sun[/i] a lost cause, was more than happy to let the crew fall to the Alliance, withdrawing information from his one-time subordinates about a trap that the humans had prepared to wipe them out. The plan of the alliance was simple: have one of their transports, usually staffed with non-combat personnel, actually be manned by trained forces ready to eliminate the corsairs while keeping the facade of being easy prey to the emboldened pirates. Predictably, the crew of [i]The Serrated Sun[/i], their egos bloated from years of easy piracy, fell for the trap set out for them by the Alliance. What originally seemed like an easy run soon turned into a bloodbath, the trained marines of the Alliance more than capable of being a match for the batarian corsairs who had grown accustomed to assaulting ships piloted with only a token security detail. The heated firefight between marines and corsairs soon turned in favor of the former, with more and more of the Batarian pirates dying by the second. Khosin himself was taken out of the fight near its end, his right forearm mangled beyond use by a close-quarter blast from a shotgun, narrowly avoiding death thanks to the quick intervention of one of the few corsairs that still stood unscathed. The battered corsairs beat a hasty retreat to their ship, leaving those of them that couldn’t muster up the strength to run back to [i]The Serrated Sun[/i] behind for the Alliance to deal with. But, even when they had made their way back to their ship, their troubles were far from over. Fighters soon appeared and began pursuing the Batarian’s ship; after only a few hours of pursuit, critical systems were failing aboard the [i]Serrated Sun[/i] and those who could had found their way aboard the vessels escape pods. The Alliance was thorough and many of the pods were either intercepted or outright destroyed but, either through providence or sheer luck, Khosin’s pod managed to avoid capture. Eventually, in a twist of irony, the pod in which Khosin had escaped was picked up by a Turian merchant ship making its way to the Terminus system, towards Omega specifically. The Turian merchants didn’t ask too many questions, and what questions they asked were answered with difficult to track lies, and gave Khosin medical aid for his mangled forearm which unfortunately, due to the lack of timely first aid, had to be severed. Eventually Khosin was deposited in Omega and, after paying a small fee to his rescuers, disappeared into the bowels of the space station. With only the weapons on his back and the clothes that his Turian rescuers had graciously given him, Khosin was left adrift on the galaxy. What meager savings he still had left after paying his rescuers soon went away when the Batarian bought himself a prosthetic replacement for his lost forearm. Lost in the world, and far too used to violence to ever reintegrate into a civilian life, Khosin soon found himself working on the closest thing to his previous occupation: as a bouncer for one of the many strip clubs that dotted the levels of Omega. But, even with a steady job as a bouncer, part of him itched to return to the old days or, at the very least, something similar to them. Still, it’d be many years before the Batarian would have the chance to leave the station yet again and, as the years wore on, Khosin himself began to change. Slowly but surely, the hatred that had at one point drove Khosin to join the Hegemony’s military began to evaporate as he lived on Omega and he was forced to live amongst the humans that he had once so thoroughly despised for his family’s misfortune. Eventually Khosin managed to gather enough money to buy a new set of armor and, shortly after that, the former corsair entered the world of mercenaries, leaving behind his job as a bouncer. Settling into the lifestyle of a mercenary was easy enough for Khosin, who had long ago grown accustomed to risking his life on a nearly daily basis during his time on the [i]Serrated Sun[/i]. And so Khosin settled into the life of one of thousands mercenaries on Omega, sometimes working by himself to clean nests of Vorcha or sometimes working in groups with other mercs as security for a merchant or to wipe out a gang or two from time to time. [B]Strengths:[/B][list] [*]The training undergone by those chosen for the Hegemony’s External Forces is a brutal one, with a fatality rate of 18% amongst the trainees that undertake it. Khosin, having undergone such training, has an incredibly high amount of resilience, both mental and physical, and as such he is an incredibly disciplined fighter, being able to keep his cool even in the face of overwhelming odds. [*]Like most Batarian soldiers, Khosin is an utterly ruthless combatant. Enforcement gauntlets, harpoon guns, polonium rounds, Khosin is willing to use any sort of weapons, no matter how cruel they might be, as long as they get the job done in a decisive, quick, way. [*]As a Sentinel, Khosin is skilled in the use of both technology and biotic-based abilities. This gives him a greater degree of flexibility during combat when compared to other combatants, allowing him to react to a greater number of threats. [/list] [B]Weaknesses:[/B][list] [*]While Khosin’s prosthetic forearm is built sturdily enough, there are still some defects in it’s making. The most crucial of them is that, should a sufficiently strong electricity shock hit the prosthesis, it will stop working and, even worse, send Khosin’s right arm into a brief fit of spasms as the electric current makes its way from the metallic prosthesis to the flesh and bone that connect to the robotic appendage. Along with this, the prosthesis requires frequent maintenance to ensure that it works to its full extent. [*]While Khosin’s ruthless tactics might be useful in battle, not everyone might approve of them which might cause some friction between Khosin and other members of the team who might disapprove of the use of such tactics in combat. [*]Due to the very tactical flexibility afforded to him by his Sentinel training, Khosin is unfortunately outclassed by other combatants who specialised in only one specific form of combat. As such, when specialist are required, Khosin is of less use that he’d like to be. [/list] [B]Misc:[/B][list] [*]During the process of recovering from the loss of his forearm and getting accustomed to his prosthesis, Khosin picked up woodcarving as a means to help himself regain fine motor control in his prosthetic hand. As time went on, the Batarian found the hobby to be relaxing and a way to wind down after a stressful day, during his time as a bouncer for a strip club, or after a mission once he became a mercenary. As such, even to this day, Khosin continues to practice his woodcarving skills as often as he can. [*]Khosin also enjoyed doing maintenance on his prosthetic arm, finding the task a way to center himself, sometimes even reciting excerpt from the Pillars of Strength as he works on the robotic appendage. [*]Khosin also enjoys reading in his free time whenever he isn’t occupied with his woodcarving or doing maintenance on his prosthesis, a holdover from the days before his family lost it all and were forced to live in on the streets. [*]During his time on Omega, he picked the bad habit of smoking tobacco. As such, Khosin can be found from time to time smoking his own hand-rolled cigarettes. [*]He periodically sends an amount of credits back to his family in Kite’s Nest to try and help them survive and, hopefully, one day be able to regain what they lost all those years ago. [*]The tattoo on his neck is his own form of honoring his deceased comrades from [i]The Serrated Sun[/i] [hider=*Tattoo design][img]http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/8/80/SerratedSun.jpg[/img][/hider] [/list] [/hider]