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War of the Force: The Angel's Relic

Unknowable, let me know what you think about the addition to the end of Vindica's biography and see if there's anything there you object to. Kurai, might also want to look into this, just in case.

Also, is it me, or does Rin look decidedly non-human? She definitely looks Chiss to me.

War of the Force: The Angel's Relic

There I think that about does it. I may go back and include some more information about her master at some point provided nothing in the OOC encourages linking two characters. I also cleaned up the force powers. I talk about the powers before listing them. That's where it was a little confusing before.

SW: Edge of the Empire: Ep. I - Escape from Mos Shuuta

*lol* Of course, a female overseer! So much for plan B, allowing Arla to be captured on purpose and brought to the person in charge.

SW: Edge of the Empire: Ep. I - Escape from Mos Shuuta

*grins* So much for plan A :) I was thinking if they were people, whether hired sec-goons to stormtroopers Arla could distract them with some flirtation.

War of the Force: The Angel's Relic

Character Image, The centermost figure. The others are students in Sith training

Vindica

Age:24
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Homeworld: An unimportant mudball
Current Residence: Korriban
Current Occupation: Sorceress
Affiliation: Sith

Physical Info

Appearance: Vindica is a pale skinned human with dark chestnut hair. She has several lighter braids spread throughout. Her garb is mostly leathers, taken from animals she hunted herself, and adorned with a skull at her belt. Her midriff is bared, her leather skirt is split on two sides and she wears black lipstick and darkens her eyelids with kohl.

Casual Attire: Vindica dresses archaically. She lived her entire life upon a primitive world and the Sith ruling over it and visiting there played to the expectations of what the primitive species there would more readily accept as a god.

Battle Attire: Vindica's battle attire is the same as her casual attire.

Personal Info

Personality: Vindica is Sith to the core. She's always looking for an angle, some means to advance her position with the Sith. Thus she is always looking for information she can blackmail other Sith with. She is also always looking for scapegoats in case anything goes wrong. Vindica also likes hurting people. She enjoys inflicting nightmares and filling people with irrational fear until their minds break. She also, secretly, likes being ordered about and likes being in the throes of a more powerful Sith. She, of course, would never admit this to anyone and fights this part of her own nature.

Connections:
--Vindica's Parents: Not important. They are mere mortals.
--Vindica's Sith Lord and Master: Possibly another PC. If not I'll make one up later.
--Keffa, a rather pretty Jedi that she tortured relentlessly until she became Sith.

History: Vindica was born on an insignificant mudball of a planet. Her people were primitive and agrarian and had the misfortune of being deeply inside territory belonging to the Sith. The Sith here were worshipped as gods and all they needed do was perform a few miracles, heal the occasional person and then they could demand half of their crops.

Vindica was the daughter of a hunter. Her father teaching her how to move through the woods silently and stalk prey. Her mother making tallow from the fat of the prey he felled. On her twelfth birthday that she was taken by the gods who senses her divine nature. They would teach her their ways and make her one of them they told her parents and as reward for their "sacrifice" they gods forced the others to provide them with a palatial home.

So it came to pass that Vindica was trained in the ways of the force, only seldom returning to dwell amongst the mortals of her homeworld. She came to delight in trodding upon the week and ruling with an iron fist inside a velvet glove. Oh certainly, so long as the people obeyed she could treat them with kindness but a single spoken word against the Gods was rewarded with smiting and a righteous wrath.

Training on Korriban was the most difficult thing Vindica had ever undergone. She wasn't strong physically, nor particularly gifted with the lightsaber but her mastery of the force, especially the ephemeral. The hardest part was when the Sith had them hunting down and killing humans released onto the surface of Korriban. They were innocents, prisoners taken in various raids into Republic space but Vindica did her duty and, to her horror found she enjoyed it. She began turning the students against one another, stealing things from one room, planting them in another, started whispering false rumours which resulted in animosity. All of which she rode to a prestigious position amongst the graduates.

After graduation she was assigned a Darth master and served as a special agent. She helped route out rebels on various Sith worlds. Her ability to break the mind was a powerful tool to such effect, allowing her to create sleeper agents in rebellious factions. Her ability to wipe memories and implant false backgrounds into common mortals made her the ultimate spy. What rebel would argue with a comrade who swore upon his life that he knew Vindica for years and that she was trustworthy?

Some time after her graduation she was presented with an interesting challenge, a captured Jedi woman. Normally Jedi perished rather than be taken and those that did not perish soon used the force to end their own lives. This one, however, chose not to die. Vindica tortured the woman and pleasured her and occasionally did both at the same time. She even presented mortals to Keffa, promising a several day respite should she simply take the innocent life. In time Keffa broke, came to realize what Vindica was trying to teach her. That delivering pain was far preferable than receiving it and that delivery could be quite pleasurable.

Her new sister is now something of a rival. While Keffa is already trained and cannot be considered an apprentice by any means Vindica is her senior and mentor. Vindica knows that Keffa is plotting to take her place and that is part of the fun. While at the same time, Vindica intends to include Keffa in her own plans for those that scheme together advance together. Simply put, if Vindica advances then she will advance Keffa into the position she so recently vacated.

It was for her performance in these matters that she was chosen to pursue an ancient artifact, one that would help tip the war between Republic and Sith empire in their favour.

Combat Info

Vindica prefers not to engage in combat. She prefers hiding in the shadows and manipulating events from as far away as she can manage. Why fight an enemy when you can plant a document in his possession and report him anonymously to the authorities?

Weaponry: Vindica possesses a short lightsaber, it has less reach but it is faster and easier to control to better to defend herself.

Non-Weapon Technology:
--A Pain Inducer: an adhesive disc with a remote control that inflicts varying levels of pain, especially if one tries to remove it.
--Analyzer: In effect, a miniature hand held droid. This droid can analyze unfamiliar technology and can talk Vindica through very simple technological tasks. She mostly uses it for bypassing door locks, disabling power junctions and other things that help enhance her stealth.

Armor: None. Only heavy durasteel helps against lightsabers and such armour interferes too much with the force and slows the reflexes. Personal force fields are even worse!

Standard Abilities: Lightsaber Combat

Force Abilities: Vindica is strong in the ephemeral arts. Her ability to alter the physical world is quite limited. Her telekinesis and force push are easy to resist and her ability to lift objects is limited to what she can carry in her own two hands. She is also capable of leaping a fair distance but that is the limit of her physical arts. Force Leap, TelekinesisOn the ephemeral side she is something of a monster. Force Sense, Mind Trick, Mind Control (like the Mind trick but takes some time to implement as it requires the mind to be broken first), Mind Wiping, Illusion, Invisibility to life forms (Doesn't work on droids. This is, in effect, a powerful mind trick), Force Visions

One of her favorite tricks is to hit Jedi with an illusion. When the Jedi see through this illusion she sends in the Sith Troops... covered in an illusion of Sith troops... This often has the spectacular effect of having the Jedi disbelieving the illusions and not even bothering to deflect the very real blaster bolts that cut them down.

Special Abilities: None

Weaknesses: Vindica, having come from a primitive culture, is particularly deficient at engineering, electronics, slicing and other technical skills. This does not mean that she can't order a Sith engineer to do so in her stead but can be a weakness when she's sneaking about.

Other Info: Vindica has had a force vision. She has seen herself and her trooper bodyguards slain by either a light blue skinned Twi'lekki female or a Togruta aboard some sort of spaceship or space station. This bothers her to some extent and fears it shall come to pass. (If the situation does occur, Vindica will be slain.)

Notes:

SW: Edge of the Empire: Ep. I - Escape from Mos Shuuta

The con tower, I'm guessing, is guarded by either Stormtroopers or Droids? After all, such an important installation wouldn't be unguarded or guarded only by a locked door.

SW: Edge of the Empire: Ep. I - Escape from Mos Shuuta

It wasn't easy avoiding attention, the only thing Arla wore beyond her miniscule loincloth was her jewelry and the naked bosom of the twi'lek amongst them drew stares. She kept close behind the others, not wishing to stray. She had no skill with technology and starships and her only ticket away from Teemo was them. That was, after all, why she'd freed them from their cells back at the palace and started this adventure.

Then the man named Cor led them to one of the standing caves, this one metal and not hardened dried clay. From the sounds of it, this was either where they kept the flying metal boxes that moved through the stars or this was a place that controlled them. Arla wasn't quite sure which but she understood that getting inside was important for some reason and that they couldn't escape without doing so.

"Droid is metal man yes?" Arla asked, making sure she understood what was being said, "and what is a Nah-boo? Is fish?"

X-Men: The Divided

Alternate universes aren't complete fantasy. As improbably as they may be they are still possible. They're extrapolated from points of divergence. A decision gone a different way, a random factor falling askew, or in the rarest circumstances, an immutable law of physics differentiating in some fashion.

What point of divergence involves biological twins being born a generation apart? Additionally, certainly, they didn't declare Moira's age but there are SIXTY years between her first appearance and her second and she's barely aged. Additionally, the CIA does not allow non American citizens to join.

All this really becomes moot. Some things can be explained away and earn you a "No Prize", some things can't. The important thing is that Fox Films, simply didn't care. They were simply out to make a quick buck in the beginning since comic book movies were a means of making quick easy money without spending much. Expectations were low because none of the produces were producing quality films. Then Marvel Studios came along and crafted the Iron Man movie and changed everything, further solidifying the genre as a serious prospect.

What we should take away from this is that Fox is doing something surprising and noteworthy. As seen by the recent Spiderman movie, audiences now have higher expectations and the producers of such movies are putting more thought and efforts into their storylines. Sony consulted with Marvel and hired several of their writers for the new Spiderman movie. Fox, from the sounds of it, Fox is effecting a reboot of their franchise without invalidating everything that has gone before.

SW: Edge of the Empire: Ep. I - Escape from Mos Shuuta

Then Ruusaan's demeanor changed. The metal head woman was looking out one of the junk shop's sand rimed murky windows and her following urge that they leave the vicinity immediately. Apparently the warrior had seen something through the window and Arla didn't like the woman's reaction.

"Arlas'eon," she answered the question and then simplified the name, "Arla."

While she didn't agree with Ruusaan, she didn't quite agree with Cor. She appreciated the need for violence and for killing, but at the same time every battle involved risk and why enter into battle without necessity?

"We go?" she asked, pointing her blaster at the doorway leading out back to where giant towers of spare parts were arrayed haphazardly. After all, going out the front would likely mean encountering whoever it was metal head had seen.

SW: Edge of the Empire: Ep. I - Escape from Mos Shuuta

No problem. I was just stating that in some of the novels that is the case. The books are crazy sometimes. The books also have sniper rifles that supposedly can shoot rocks, ordinary non-ferrous rocks, at high mach speeds without creating a sonic boom :)