[hider=Minah Saden][center][h1][color=4169E1]Minah Saden / Guardian of the Empire[/color][/h1]
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[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Full Name} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Minah Saden[/indent]
[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Age} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]28[/indent]
[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Species} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Zygerrian[/indent]
[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Gender} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Female[/indent]
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[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Force Sensitive/Alignment} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Yes - Gray to Dark, as needed[/indent]
[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Appearance} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Minah is tall for her species, her ears just barely crossing the six foot mark, with a thin wiry build. She sports a subtle pair of horns on her forehead, with peach colored fur and shorter, darker red hair. Her usual adornments consist of a well-maintained imperial uniform with Jedi armor’s chestplate, greaves, and shoulder guards hidden underneath a dark crimson hooded cloak with matching mask covering her nose and mouth. In more casual situations she tends to forgo the cloak and mask, and supposedly has a selection of more exotic dresses yet to be seen. [/indent]
[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Equipment and Personal Belongings} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]-Dual Hooksabers: Perhaps one of the more unusual designs for lightsabers, the hooksaber was created in response to the CIS’ increasing use of saber-resistant materials, utilizing a curved hook shape at the tip that could grab onto anything that a lightsaber could not pierce or cut on its own. Saden possesses a set of these unusual lightsabers in a deep red color, altering hers with a saber-resistant handguard and smaller straight blade coming from the other end.

-Saden’s Light Armor: A mixture of imperial officer uniform and Shadow Council Guardian armor with a bit of her own flair, Saden’s armor trades protection and defense for ease of movement and speed, while also helping her appear less militant to others, to reassure or mislead as needed. Her mask also features a rebreather that can sustain her in suffocating conditions.

-Justicar: A modified Arquitens Class Light cruiser serving as a diplomatic vessel and flagship, possessing comfortable quarters and a seasoned, hand-picked crew, as well as potent armaments, two shuttles, and a wing of fighters should the need arise.

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[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Physical Abilities} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]The Negotiations Will Be Short: Minah enjoys a reputation as one of the best diplomatic officers in the Empire, won with her natural charm, seasoned cunning, and most of all ruthless manipulation. She will gladly make friends, and indeed is very good at doing just that, bringing warlords and planets happily into the Imperial fold with a few well-said arguments, but if something is an obstacle to her goals, she will not hesitate at finding a way to remove it. After all, why negotiate with an unfriendly warlord when they have plenty of underlings who are more amenable. What better concessions could you give to a stubborn planet seeking vassalization then removing the orbital cannon pointed at the palace? Minah ultimately has known little but success, and has proven quite adept at getting everything she wants out of a negotiation, even if her target doesn’t realize it.

Web Weaver: Minah understands the Great Game all too well, and she plays to win. An expert at navigating social circles and complicated webs of intrigue within the Empire and without, Minah plays the spider when it comes to politics, charming her enemies and making friends and connections, waiting for what she wants to slip up and fall into a carefully laid trap, never knowing that Minah was after them until it's far too late.

Agile Fighter: It would truly be foolish to assume that because she is a diplomat that Minah cannot hold her own in a fight. A talented duelist with her unusual dual hooksabers, Minah is a light and dextrous combatant, relying on speed and agility rather then outright strength and endurance to wear down an enemy, aiming at weak spots to exploit them as she whittles down enemies. Indeed, her hooksabers can give her an edge in fights against other sabers and saber resistant materials, allowing her to grapple and disarm enemies with the curve of her blades.

Seasoned Commander: Sometimes words and manipulation is not enough, and when diplomacy gives way to swift action, Minah is capable of holding her own when a military solution is required. While not a tactician on the level of Eltro or Alcyorr, her natural cunning serves her well on the battlefield and she has a handful of victories under her belt where a well-placed ambush or surgical strike won the day. 

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[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Force Abilities} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]-Telekinesis
-Comprehend Speech
-Force Barrier
-Force Deflection
-Force Speed
-Force Sense
-Force Empathy
-Mind Trick
-Force Illusion
-Force Jump
-Force Blind
-Force Choke
-Can Perceive Shatterpoints (Nothing beyond objects and occasionally people, and she still has difficulty exploiting them via the force)
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[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Limitations} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Breaker of Chains: Minah takes to heart the Shadow Council’s doctrine of fighting darkness by any means necessary, and her ruthlessness when fighting that darkness is well known. She shares a particular ire for slavers however, and has been known to be especially cruel to those who practice the vile trade, oftentimes beyond the point of reason, and other forces she sees as wicked or corrupt do not fare much better. It is all in quite stark black and white to her, and oftentimes she fails or even refuses to see the shades of gray in between, for better or worse.

Lead From The Rear: In those rare instances where Minah is drawn into combat, she is best suited to commanding from the bridge of her ship or behind a holo-map of the battlefield. She is no frontline leader and is severely out of her element in the thick of combat, even though physically she is an excellent fighter.[/indent]
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[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Personality} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Minah is an enigma. Affable and effortlessly charming, with an air of elegance from her noble background, her clever smile hides an intense, oftentimes extreme sense of morality. In her eyes, good is to be cherished, and wickedness is to be destroyed, and there is no in between or compromise to be had with either. Minah is as capable of compassion and kindness as she is capable of intense ruthlessness and even cruelty towards those she deems deserving of it, and if it was the latter you were deserving of, you would simply never know until it was too late, and that clever smile would be the last thing you’d ever see.[/indent]
[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Place of Origin} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Minah was born on Zygerria to a minor noble family, showing force sensitivity from an early age but thankfully spared from Knightfall because of her people’s allegiance to the CIS.[/indent]
[color=4169E1][b]|[u] {Background} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Zygerria was quick to flock to the banner of the CIS and reinstate its old slave empire, but the transition was not without its detractors, and a young Minah found herself caught in the middle of it. Despite the Saden family growing powerful off the resurgent slave trade, her family were also supporters of abolition during the years after the trade was outlawed by the Republic, and to survive her father stooped to moderation, trying to improve the lives and working conditions of slaves through his influence. Despite being taught all her life that slavery was simply the natural order of things, the weak submitting to the strong, she found herself distressed even at a young age by her father’s compromising, and was more entranced by the hardline abolitionist her father distanced himself from; Scarza Olek, a charismatic cleric rumored to have been behind violent attacks on slavers and slavery supporters in Zygerria. It was his lessons that she took to heart, that there can be no compromise with wickedness, and that the only answer to evil and cruelty is its utter destruction. Even as the last hope for abolition seemingly died with the Republic at Knightfall, Olek’s resolve did not waver, and Minah watched with wide eyes as he continued his fiery speeches, calling for all those who would enslave others to burn, in this life or the next.

Then as the mighty CIS began to come apart at the seams, a shockwave ripped through Zygerria as a band of abolitionist fighters led by Olek stormed the Munificent-class starship Pursuer, intending to launch a slave revolt and use the ship to strike back against the slaver forces. The attack was ultimately a failure, too much of a long shot to have a hope of succeeding, and as Olek was martyred for his anti-slavery beliefs, Grievous stepped in to authorize Operation Kolibri, putting the might of the CIS behind Queen Miraj Scintel plan to purge the planet of future malefactors, starting with those attending the protest at Olek’s execution.

Minah attended that protest, escaping from her detestable family to do so, and it was there that the powder keg that was Zygerria began to smolder as the droids set to fire into the crowd were suddenly opposed by the royal guards, and at the height of the tension, Minah saw a figure step from the shadows and cut down Queen Scintel with a glowing blade. The powder keg exploded and chaos reigned as guards and protestors and droids were drawn into the maelstrom of another CIS planet struck by rebellion, but Minah felt instead drawn to the strange figure and crept through the crowd, trailing them back to their ship. The strange figure, a Jedi of the Empire’s nascent Shadow Council, silently took her on board to escape the planet, her motives as unknown as her face and name as she brought this promising young student to the council.

Now a padawan, Minah Saden became a steadfast student, taking the Shadow Council’s credence to heart and showing an innate talent with the more esoteric aspects of the force, with the drive to match her cunning and craftiness. The masters were impressed, and felt that she would be a natural candidate for a diplomatic officer in the Empire, assigning her to a master consular best suited to hone her natural ability. It was with her new master that she showed her worth as a member of the Shadow Council when she helped to uncover and purge an underground black market within the Empire. Her deft navigation of Imperial intrigue and politics as well as her ruthless pursuit of the criminal enterprise, especially the infamous slaughter of the slave traders, was one of many services to the Empire that allowed her ascend to the rank of Guardian, where aboard her personal flagship Justicar she continues the delicate work of protecting and expanding Imperial authority throughout the galaxy as she delves into a greater understanding of the Force and some of the powers it can grant...



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