A Doctor in Need of Treatment
Airus Vel Aath
| {Age} |32
| {Species} |Miraluka
| {Gender} |Male
| {Force Sensitive/Alignment} |Yes Light
| Role on Ship |Doctor and resident nerd
| {Appearance} |One might mistake Airus for a poor pilgrim or wounded civilian at first glance, and even more so if they were to truly look at his clothing and bandaged over his. His features kept hidden by his cloak and bandages, though tufts of soft red hair can sometimes be seen upon his head. Well muscled and agile he seems rather strong for someone with no eyesight and no credits. Standing roughly over six and half feet tall with a medium build Airus has little in the way of defining features that can seen with his usual attire on. He bears a handful of scars along his body that seem different from a blaster but he never speaks about them if asked.
| {Equipment and Personal Belongings} |Beskar walking sticking with force locked compartment for two lightsabers
DL-44 blaster
Datapad with Jedi archives information
Medical Jedi Holocron
Jedi combat Holocron
Medical Kit
Two dual phase lightsabers hidden within his walking stick
Jedi Knight robes
Pilgrims robes
Headband
Boxes of heavy bandages.
| {Physical Abilities} |Doctor: Airus might not look it but you’ll never find a more steady handed and calm surgeon or capable of diagnosing a sickness rather quickly with examination. Thanks to so such time spent roaming the outer rim and treating sickness with a variety of species. His talent as medical and surgical doctor stem from helping a lot of communities on the outer rim as the Clone Wars ended.
Saber combat: Airus always practiced saber combat as a form of meditation and on the backwater worlds while the Empire was still organizing itself Airus had years to practice the forms he’d studied and hone himself as a warrior, lacking the ability to advance his force training. While a pacifist in a world ruled by Sith he knew he would need to defend himself from Imperial Agents and against any who might hunt him just for being connected to the force. Shii-Cho which Airus mastered as a Padawan before turning his attention to Soresu, finding the defensive form to be useful especially at defending himself until he could escape. As a Consular Airus strove to improve himself further and began learning yet another form, Shien/Djem So. With the fall of the Republic, he understood he make come up against enemies with sabers and so began to practice Makashi. With his second saber, he would relearn many skills applying Jar’Kai to them. Since becoming a more staff based combatant he has trained in Ataru using is as a way to quickly dispatch a single aggressor realizing he requires an aggressive style if he needed to deal with threats.
Lorekeeper: Airus spent most of his Padawan years in the great archives reading and learning the history of the Sith, the Jedi, the Republic, and the conflicts that defined the Republic and the Jedi order. He is an expert on many ancient artifacts and era’s of history few studied while not versed in local history well he knows much of galactic history and enjoys sharing the information. Acting as a sort of encyclopedia of information that turns pieces of junk into treasure. Thought his favorite bits of history relate to the Mandalorian wars and Revanite Schism that followed.
Conventional Combat: Airus adapted to staff combat as a method protecting himself and those around him without drawing lightsabers and gaining more attention than needed. He also has drawn on his gifted sight and ability to predict movement to be a crack shot with a blaster. While he is not heavily trained in these forms of combat he can keep with most non-force sensitives in battle.
Diplomat: A founding tenet of the Jedi order is to attempt peace through negotiation Airus will always try to reason and talk it out with people. Not to mention he is willing to warn them what will happen if anyone attempts to harm those he cares about. A Jedi Knight is taught the first form of combat is not to fight and Airus tries to embody this in how he approaches things and acts towards people. Though he is also wary of traps and tricks picking up on deceit easily.
Veteran: Airus served in the Clone Wars as a General, even if he wasn't a supporter of the war. As such he has experience in tactics, combat, and thinking up plans on the fly. Though he avoids fighting that doesn't mean he hasn't become quite adept in how to perform it.
| {Force Abilities} |Natural Abilities:
Force Empathy
Force Sight/Farsight
Abilities learned at the Jedi Academy:
Jedi hibernation
Mind Trick
Comprehend Speech
Force Body
Telekinesis
Force heal
Abilities after the Academy Clone Wars:
Tutaminis
Shatterpoint
Saber Barrier
Abilities learned after Great Purge:
Revitalize
Force Stealth
Detoxify poison
| {Limitations} |Needs a reader: Airus adores books but he can only through braille or having something read too him as such Airus usually asks some to read for him or uses a device that speaks the words on written before him.
The way of Wanderer: Airus no longer staunchly avoids violence whether his emotions boil over, he witnesses acts of cruelty, or those he cares about are in danger Airus will attack. While it may take some riling up or simply finally lose his patience Airus can lash out and has before. This is especially common when clones are brought up or Jedi are mocked, having a short temper with things he once held dear.
Hounded by Blades: Airus is a Miraluka, an illegal race, a fact he hides well by making use of force stealth and his staff when walking. However Airus reputation has not vanished a Jedi healer who killed two Inquisitors means the Inquisitorius hunts Airus with a passion. While they have not yet found him slowly they are building an image of what this healer looks like. He is not a priority to grand inquisitor who is more worried about Master Jedi than what he feels is probably a lucky former medical corps Padawan washout. However killing an inquisitor killer is sure to gain an Inquisitor influence.
The Terrors of Force: Airus has and continues to be haunted by Force, he sees visions of the slaughter at the temple. Haunting images of himself broken to the dark side uncaring and unfeeling. These visions started after the fall of the temple and still scare him to this day. The memories of wars, the visions of the future, happy memories decimated, and at the center of Airus feels his lack of conviction to the tenants wounds his departed masters to the core.
Fading Light: Airus was never the strongest in the force, finding more comfort in communing with the force through his lightsaber than meditation. His last learned skill came a year after the fall of the Republic, since that time he's been unable to learn new skills in the force and his old ones have weakened. In truth, many of his powers seem to exhaust than they used too as Airus spills further into being unsure of his path his Jedi training and dependence on light leads his own abilities to be weaker. Without a lightsaber in hand to help steady and focus him Airus's own force abilities drain his body much faster and cannot be sustained as long.
| {Personality} |Airus is a conflicted soul, a Jedi trying to do good also trying to survive the Empire's brutal grasp. He prepares for combat and expects violence against him but never raises his fist first, taking any step he can to avoid fighting. Airus gives freely of his medical talents, force skills, and time to anyone who needs the assistance. However, the Jedi Consular can be devious he's infamously gambled and won against many people, barely ever losing, due to the fact he can see all the cards through the force. He does try to only take Imperial's and only win enough to wander ever onwards. Kindly, compassionate, and deviously clever Airus is strange but interesting Jedi Knight.
| {Place of Origin} |Coruscant, born and raised on the planetwide city Airus Vel Aath was one of the few to become a Jedi Knight. Raised among the Order alongside his sister and many other students his sister and himself both serving as Lorekeepers with his sister traveling off with Exploration corps and his last assignments to begin contact with the Mandalorian about swapping historical records.
| {Background} |Airus Vel Aath was never supposed to be a Knight, he was a Padawan apprenticed to a Chief Librarian Jocasta Nu while he had passed the initial trials and attended the Academy Airus ability to use more advanced force techniques was limited, unlike his sister who lacked sabers skills but had force mastery. While his saber skills were impressive and could have allowed him to continue on to become a Sentinel or Guardian his passion for knowledge and a love of history especially of the Republic and Jedi Order made him a choice pick to become a Lorekeeper. Believing he would not become a Lorekeeper due to the need for Jedi to fight the war Airus even during his academy days became rebellious often slipping away to explore Coruscant usually dragging his sister along.
During his time training at the academy, he practiced in the path of Sentinel as the High Council wanted him before allowing him to become a Padawan to a Consular, the Chief Librarian. The Council allowed this due to disagreement in just how many Knights and Padawans they were sending out to fight. This was also due to the Council of First Knowledge threatening to deny records access if another Padawan request was turned down.
Airus trained in investigation and practical use of the force, before shifting focus to research and artifact recovery. His other training came in how to deal with people with depending on the force and learning about how to negotiate whether discussing money with a Hutt or dealing with Alderaanian nobility, he even attended Senate meetings... Most of which he slept through. These skills served him well as the Chief Librarian could give him field assignments or recovery missions alongside Knights where he could hold his own and retrieve valuable historical items for the Order. Especially about the recently returned Sith who the Council wished to gain as much insight about as possible.
His time as a Padawan under Master Nu ended during the final years of the clone wars. Due to the war, few initiates became Lorekeepers with so many Jedi needed to fight alongside the clones. Airus did not face the trials like most Padawan's instead earning his knighthood facing a Separatist General who tried to take an ancient Holocron from him. Airus had traveled with Jedi Archaeologist Rachi Sitra to the shattered and corrupted planet of Malachor V under direction advice from the council tracking an artifact the Dark Acolyte Sev'rance Tann was pursing. The dark sider managed to render Knight Rachi unconscious and wound her, the hunt for the artifact and battles went on for days. Airus alone managed to defeat and escape not only with the Holocron but caring his fellow Jedi to the shuttle escaping the wrath of Chiss General.
He impressed the High Council saw him promising Jedi even if he preferred books to battle, Airus became a Knight with little debate among the Council his trials had been faced on the hell that was Malachor. Airus saw a few deployments as a general, mostly after finding out what had happened on Ryloth and other horrifying crimes. He along with many others were against the war but once it had ramped and the truth of what the CIS was doing came to light he had to serve. Originally assigned to the Mudjumpers serving on Mimban, Airus served proudly with the unit. With his skill in mind, Airus would be a natural fit as an attache for service corps Jedi who entered the field often times with no saber.
Airus had been dispatched with a few Jedi service corps from medical corps to Mandalore after Maul was removed from power. His duty at the time had been to search for items Maul might have left and to record the events that had transpired on Mandalore. His host family even offered him a gift a walking stick made of Mandalorian Iron, a gift for his efforts in chronicling the life of Duchess Satine Kryze so her deeds would be remembered by all of the Republic not just Mandalore. Airus contacted his sister before she left with colonists for a new world beyond the rim that was apparently a great habitat for rare plant life and seemed to have ruins on it that needed to be studied.
Airus was given shelter and a place to stay in Sundari, he was welcomed and shared many long debates of Mandalorian history with the Clan that gave him a place to stay. He also found himself spending time with the host clan's matriarch's daughter, a young Mandalorian woman. Airus sparred often with her and they chatted for hours other Jedi spread rumors that he forming an attachment to her. He finished his records and discovered nothing pertaining to Maul, nothing even about the Darksaber that the Mandalorians so revered. Mandalore had fully broken into civil war with the Capital becoming a safe zone for non-combatants Airus remained along with Clones to provide security for the medical corps.
Yet all was not well, Airus was on Mandalore that day when the Order fell. Those who had sheltered him told him to run yet, that the clones would kill him but he couldn't leave the medical service corps Jedi. He wasn't sure all of them even had a lightsaber, Airus arrived too late he saw Mandalorians being dragged away for trying to help the Jedi, others opening fighting the clones. The entire medical service corps dead save for one shivering young Echani Padawan, Antalis Helac, cradling her wound the corpses of several clones around her.
Airus moved to her side, he could do nothing there to care for her. He could not save her life, but he could be with her and offer her some comfort before she returned to the force. He held her talking with about Coruscant a few moments, offering a distraction. Finally, she pushed her holocron she'd been hiding to his chest and told him to carry on the legacy of the order... That people like the medical corps and the Lorekeepers would need to survive just as much as the Knights would. She passed away after that, taking her lightsaber to honor her commitment he made a vow he would survive to give his knowledge to the next generation of Jedi. As he meditated more he understood that joining this war had doomed the Jedi, he became more committed to avoiding violence than ever... It had to be the right way forward now.
Airus nodded, placing her back near the others he gave them one last honor burning the bodies as he made his escape. He escaped that night on a freighter the young man crying as he realized his life was over as he knew it. Airus rebranded himself as a pilgrim, a blind doctor simply wandering from place to place collecting knowledge in the outer rim. He trained himself through his personal archives of data on Jedi healing skills, he'd hoped to learn something while on assignment with the medical corps.
Days later Airus was alone traveling Rim world he barely knew the name of, he found a village with a group of clones mocking the Twi'lek settlers. Airus still reeling from the effects of deaths of hundreds of Jedi, the forces pain having snapped his force connection to his sister he felt more vulnerable than ever. The force wracked him with visions of what had happened at the temple his own powers as an empath multiplying the pain. Something snapped and Airus unable to feel anything but pain assault the clones, only wishing to render unto the same tortured emotions he felt.
A moment of hatred, pain, and anger saw him beat five clone troopers to death his staff, the attacks savage and uncontrolled. The Clones struggled, one tried to gouge his eyes only puncturing through the skin as tried to claw the force user off of him. Nothing liked the disciplined and skilled Jedi he became animal at that moment shattering the plasteel armor tearing at the clones inside. He left the bodies ripped apart by the force and bones shattered by his now blood coated staff. What scared him the most was not that he did this... But how good it felt to release the stress, the anger, the guilt, and unleashing in brutal fashion. Steadying himself shaking in fear with choked sobs Airus ran from the village, he knew he was not a proper Jedi anymore, not anything his master would be proud of.
Airus wrapped his eyes in bands, his hands as well not wanted to look at the once bloodstained hands, he knew he would have to atone. He would perform good acts and fight this darkness he would not become like what he had seen on Malachor, he would be a good Jedi... For his departed Master's he would do good. Airus became a hermit, sleeping in caves or under trees sometimes even in alleys or hidden in places non-force users couldn't reach.
He gave freely of his growing medical talents to the sick and poor, never accepting credits for the task. His dreams haunted by seeing the faces of academy students cut down or shot by troopers. Other nights he saw himself having bled his own lightsaber striking down clones before destroying the lightsaber of Padawan Antalis ending any hope of him carrying on the order. When rumors reached his ears of a mystical healer he found a ship to hide on or Imperial to cheat to earn enough credits to leave whatever rock he was on behind.
Airus spent years that way slowly building back his belief he could be redeemed, all the time slowly feeling the crushing grip of the Empire expanding with each passing day. Airus had finally settled himself in for the time being on the distant and rather simple world of Dantooine. Working as a healer he spent nearly a whole year on the planet finally feeling he could do good and trust himself to live among people once more. He gave freely of compassion for the locals, in return, they shared food with the mystical Miralukan.
However after two galactic years after having decided to remain on Dantooine Airus's first taste of the Empire's wrath. Airus sensed it his presence... He retrieved his armor and sabers, Airus knew he would come and if he ran the people here would just be slaughtered. He did not want the fight but the fight was before him the only thing he knew to do... Protect the innocents and stand up, be the guardian dying a Jedi would be better than living like a coward. So he thought at least.
The Dark side acolyte came Airus found himself standing saber in each hand, he met the human Inquisitor on a small wooden bridge over a river, the farms to Airus's back. The Sith could only cackle as dark warrior ignited the crimson saber in his hand as the last traces of light vanished behind the green hills. Airus's own saber a stunning yellow lit up, rain began to fall sizzling as it impacted the sabers. Then the purple saber ignited as he raised it to guard, the symbols of the Jedi order and Republic boldly on display. No words were needed, they both knew what had to be done, though the Dark Jedi even had a second join in the fray Airus won out. Wounded and exhausted Airus stumbled back to the old barn he called home, he was leaving.
Airus defeated those tracking him that day but at the cost of the homes of those he had once lived with. The fear they felt towards him after learning he was one of the Jedi, he could sense it and he understood something... The felt the same towards him as they did towards the Inquisitors fear, hatred, and he had fought for them yet they. He chose not to dwell on this... But he removed the Republic markings his armor, only choosing to save his robes with the emblem of the Jedi he didn't serve anyone but himself now. Perhaps it had never been worth fighting for in the first place, Airus found himself reconsidering everything he'd been taught as even the people he'd once served turned on him.
Another year of traveling, this time Airus held no qualms of gambling against the imperials for than transport money he played to get himself food or lodgings for the night. Things that up until now he had felt a good Jedi would not need, but as Master Vos once told the council "I'm not a good Jedi through" and Airus felt the same applied to him now. However as Airus moved onwards he felt a pull, a tugging at his mind and soon he found himself sitting in a bar nursing a drink he didn't much care for after having operated on the most recent orphan who had been injured working for the local crime boss.
When a familiar face sat down across from him, well more a familiar aura. Solace was alive it seemed she had walked with in and found him with how he was hiding at the moment that was impressive. Either way, talks went on awhile both were happy to see each other, in their own way Airus buying her a drink as they discussed the past. However, Airus found out Sena was alive as well and decided he would be better off with them... Failing that at least, strength in numbers. He agreed to serve as a doctor on 'The Mariner's' ship with the condition being he would use his normal cover as a wounded doctor from the last war.
Airus paid into the ship giving up the red lightsaber crystals he'd taken from fallen Inquisitors, knowing Solace would find a buyer or use them herself. He stowed his sabers, armor, and robes away. Hiding his other Jedi items and deciding to live as best he could as a Miraluka, it would be easier, for now, Solace's way of life seemed to have ended with less hurt perhaps he could adjust to that. Until then he still felt he just a wayward Jedi trying to do good in a galaxy that no longer knew what good was.
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