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Worldbuilding/Setting Thread

We recently finished building the necessary bits for our current RP, Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

the OoC is now up. Don't hesitate to come there or to the IRC.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

the OoC is now up. Don't hesitate to come there or to the IRC.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

the OoC is now up. Don't hesitate to come there or to the IRC.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

Lea Rahn

Name: Lea Rahn
Species: 93% Human, 7% Vahla
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Faction: Jedi Order
Rank: Padawan
Captured: Seven or eight weeks prior to the Sacking of Coruscant

Appearance:

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While older than most other padawans at the age of sixteen, Lea Rahn is still in many ways a child. At the last measurement in Jedi Records (on her sixteenth birthday), she stood at 163.4 cm tall and weighed 56 kg. For humans, that is fairly average, but for someone of her particular near-human descent, it is somewhat below average, but not so far as to be unusually low.

Though she has been a captive of the Sith Empire for a good while now, she has neither gained nor lost any significant amount of weight, though she may have grown a little taller. Her captors may be trying to turn her to the Dark Side of the Force and to make her willing to serve the Empire rather than the republic, but no matter how hard she’s resisted their efforts, they have not resorted to starving her.

Though, obviously, she personally has had access to basic facilities for cleanliness, her traditional Jedi robes have not been cleaned even once in her captivity and are as such rather dirty, or at least as dirty as clothes get after such long use on a starship. Unfortunately, her green-bladed lightsaber was taken from her back when she was first captured.

Notable Characteristics of Species:

She looks like a baseline human. Somewhere, several hundred years back in her family tree, there was a near-human ancestor with a cartilage-based skeleton. While these genes only make up about seven percent of her genetic code, there are still measurable traits to be found. The most notable of these is the fact that her bones are noticeably more flexible than those of a baseline human. Paradoxically, they are actually more resistant to fractures than those of her ancestors who had more of the Vahla genetics in them. But this also comes at a price, for as all know bone is tougher than cartilage. Where a pure-blooded human would have a clean break, someone with Lea’s genetic heritage is practically guaranteed to get a complex fracture if the bone first breaks.

Biography:

Lea Rahn was born sixteen years ago (in 3669 BBY) in the Jedi medical center on H’Ratth. As the youngest scion of a long, unbroken line of Jedi knights, no one even bothered to have her checked for Force sensitivity. Instead, they started training her in the ways of the Jedi even before she could really understand most of the lessons. Because of this, she got the jump on many other younglings skill-wise. Her family, while it had rarely risen to holding seats on the Jedi Council, was nonetheless fairly influential within the Order, not in the least because they all well-known for being strong in the Force and fair to all they dealt with. Jedi Census records has a slew of noteworthy healers, shadows and diplomats in her family.

Her childhood, by most standards, could be considered carefree and peaceful. For though the Great Galactic War broke out a dozen years before Lea’s birth, it only touched H’Ratth indirectly. To the Jedi Order, the H’Ratth praxeum was known far and wide as a place of healing, a place of peace. The only Jedi to normally come there were those eager to master the healing arts, or those in need of the master healers. Though her family did not expose Lea to the full extent of the war, she wasn’t completely isolated from it either. From a young age, she helped treat the injured who came to H’Ratth.

Lea’s natural inquisitiveness and penchant for not taking a no for a no quickly led to her learning more about the war than most suspected, as well as losing any trace of shock when it comes to major injuries. To her, a major fracture is only different from a shallow cut in the level of treatment required. Even as she learned more about treating the wounded, the other Jedi continued to give her lessons in how to use the Force. Some three weeks before her eighth birthday (in 3661 BBY), she passed the initiate trials and was formally apprenticed to Jedi Master Ral Shodon, a renowned diplomat and healer. He was known to be fair but strict to all he dealt with, and many hoped he could teach Lea that a no actually does mean a no. Few thought that likely, though.

Master Shodon’s training regimen was intensive and strict, allowing Lea far less free time than most Padawans, something that ensured that she was well ahead of her peers both in skill and knowledge just three years after gaining the padawan status (3658 BBY). While this meant that Lea learned far more in these years than her peers, her social development was somewhat stunted by it. She did have some friends, but none of them truly close, rarely having the time necessary to form closer bonds. This matched the opinions of her master well, for he felt that in order for the republic to win the war, some things had to be sacrificed. His was also the opinion that the Jedi needed to work much more closely with the Republic.

Thus it was that though she was, physically and skill-wise ready for the Jedi trials long before her peers (in 3656 BBY), her master did not let her go through them. Instead, he took her away from H’Ratth to the Republic Elite’s Resort world of Alassa Major, where he had every intention of fixing her lack of social skills, even as he trained her in the pitfalls of dealing with politicians. Lea’s time on Alassa Major was anything but relaxing. When she wasn’t learning diplomacy, she was studying the history of the republic and the Jedi. When she wasn’t doing those, she was honing her physical skills or her use of the Force.

Her master’s goal was to have her spend four years on that planet to learn all she needed, but that was cut short (in 3653 BBY), some eight weeks before the Sacking of Coruscant. In a daring raid far past the front lines, a Sith armada jumped straight to that planet, fully intent upon capturing or killing a good portion of the Republic’s richest and most powerful. Though there were a numerous ships in orbit above the planet, few of them were warships and none of those had full or top-notch combat crews.

Within nightfall, virtually all who were on Alassa Major at the time were either in hiding, dead, or more likely, captives of the Imperial Forces. Lea and Master Shodon held their own for a while, but were soon pinned down by overwhelming numbers. Lea’s lightsaber training had early on been focused towards the aggressive Ataru form. While that form is excellent against multiple opponents, even it has a limit. Not even a master of Ataru can hold out forever against a hundred or more soldiers with blasters. In the end however, neither of them were cut down by the countless blaster bolts flying through the air. Instead, they were both hit with stun blasts fired by another group of Imperial troopers.

When Lea next woke up, she and Master Shodon were both tied up and surrounded by Sith troopers. But that was not what caught her attention. No, what caught her eyes was the Sith standing right before her, fingering her master’s lightsaber. That Sith had no right to do that! Lea tried to get up and rush the red-skinned woman, but before she could even get her feet under herself, a pair of Imperials resolutely pushed her back down.

What happened next went beyond Lea’s comprehension. Without any warning, without saying a word, the Sith drew her lightsaber and cut Master Shodon’s head off in a single swipe. Lea tried to fight those holding her down, but they were far too strong. Oh how she wanted to kill that Sith! For a few moments, Lea expected her own head to be cut off as well, but instead she was lifted up and carried away. What happened after this point and before the Sacking of Coruscant can only be guessed at. Certainly there were no republic-aligned witnesses to it.

Flaws:

Lea is more than anything inexperienced. Though her training and education has been far more intensive than that of other padawans her age, she has yet to put most of that training to practical use. With the loss of her master and all connections to the past, her nascent uncertainty has begun to bear fruit. As a lone prisoner of the Sith, she knows that there are no one around who can be trusted with anything. This has caused her to bury questions she would have asked in the past. Her master had taught her well how untrustworthy the Sith are.

Skills:

Her master’s training has given her knowledge in many far-ranging fields. History. Tactics. Politics. Subterfuge. Diplomacy. Even basic piloting. However, Lea has never flown any ship alone before, there has always been someone to help and guide her in controlling the vessel. Since her capture, she has picked up several new skills, like bypassing cell security.

Force capabilities:

Lea has, naturally, been trained in all the basic force powers common to her age, but isn’t too practiced in using most of those abilities under stressful circumstances. Some, she was taught by Master Shodon, the rest she learned from others.
Like all Jedi, she’s trained in the basics. She has learned a fairly wide range of skills for her age, but still lacks practice. What her master did not teach her, she picked up from other Jedi. She’s fairly adequate at mental skills, but is quite inexperienced with using the more physical skills. Its not that she’s incapable of doing them, that she’s weak, but simply that she’s not used to using those abilities much. The one skill she has had plenty of time to practice is her meditation. Being stuck for hours or even days at a time in a cell has given her plenty of time to practice that.
Basic abilities, including some extra training in using mind tricks. Force Healing, Breath Control, Crucitorn.

Personality:

Lea doesn’t give up easily. Her master’s strict training regimen hardened her in this fashion. He taught her not to give up even when circumstances seem hopeless. Thus it is that she’s taught herself to escape from most any sort of containment. It hasn’t helped her get off the Imperial transport Kaggath yet, but even if the first thirty-eight escape attempts don’t work, doesn’t mean the thirty-ninth or fortieth attempts won’t either. When she’s set on a goal, she’s very hard to dissuade.

Relations:

When Jedi Master Sela Kythor was grievously injured in trying to break the Blockade of the Hydian Way (in 3661), she was taken to H’Ratth for the level of Medical care only available there. When she arrived, Lea aided the masters in treating Sela’s injuries. During the time afterwards, in between her intensive lessons with Master Shodon, Lea also guided Sela through the recovery.

IC discoveries: Lea Rahn

Lea Rahn respects people who are direct. It doesn't have to be the truth, but people sliding around facts, trying to hint at some sort of hidden stuff will only annoy her, never earn her respect. Trying to push her around to giving respect that way will never work. She's far too stubborn.

Her vocal pitch is Contralto.

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Kennith Rahn

Name: Kennith Rahn
Species: Near-Human (92% Human, 8% Vahla)
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Faction: Jedi Order
Rank: Jedi Knight - Investigator
Captive? Nope.

Appearance:

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Standing 176 cm tall, Kennith is neither remarkably tall nor short. He’s relatively muscular, but not overly so. The partial armor beneath his robes may give the impression of a stouter build than he really has.

Notable Characteristics of Species:
Like his niece, Lea Rahn, he looks like a baseline human. While he’s mostly human, he shares the same Vahla ancestry as her, though the randomness of genetics has him with a whole percent more Vahla, which is not enough to make any significant difference. Like her, his bones are harder to break than those of a human, but in turn if they do break, they are considerably more prone to fragmentation.

Flaws: Kennith is many things, but a duelist is not one of them. Over the years, he’s practiced some dueling, but he never became what anyone would consider good at it. As such, he’d much rather run from than fight another Jedi/Sith.
Though it is excess weight most of the time, he nonetheless carries a second lightsaber sheathed within a specialized compartment on the side of his left boot. This allows him both to pull a second lightsaber if some accident (or capture) should leave him unarmed and to wield two lightsabers at once, but like with dueling, he’s no expert at this either. This does mean his boots are bulkier than optimal, which can be a hindrance.

Skills:
When it comes to lightsaber combat, his primary form is V, Shien, as he deals more often with the scum found throughout the galaxy than he does with Sith. He’s had some basic training in a couple of other forms, but not enough to reach more than very basic proficiency. He has basic proficiency in Jar’Kai, but still prefers to stick to the fifth form due to his lack of regular practice with dual blades.
While training as a Jedi Investigator, Kennith picked up a wide range of skills, from slicing to demolitions to galactic law and linguistics. Knowing the nuances of laws in many sectors and systems has helped him get away with doing things of questionable legality on more than one occasion, something not all the masters of the order fully approve of. In many ways, he’s followed an “ends justify the means” methodology for much of his career. In particular, his skill at hot-wiring speeders and sleight of hand has met with lackluster approval from more than one Jedi Master.
Over the years he's become a decent pilot. Not an Ace, but more than passable. Having to occasionally run from a pissed-off Hutt necessitates a certain level of skill.

Force capabilities:
The basics, with increased focus upon acrobatics and mind tricks, as well as convenient skills like Breath control, detoxify poison, Tapas and disable droid. He’s not above using messier abilities like Malacia, but he won’t use abilities of a darker nature. As an investigator, he’d have practically salivated over the idea of using Psychometry, but that aptitude is practically non-existent. He’s tried at times to use Force Cloak, but has not quite gotten the hang of it. After several failures at very inopportune moments, he’s stopped experimenting with that. Mostly.

Biography:
Though he was born on and went through childhood on H’Ratth like most other members of House Rahn the past many generations, he shared neither the temperament for nor the particular aptitude towards healing with the Force. When that became clear to the masters, he was given a quite different training regimen, including that of becoming the padawan to a Jedi Investigator, a Rodian named Grogos Anwan. He took to that like a Thranta takes to the sky. Within a decade, he passed the trials, had thoroughly perplexed his master and gotten on a bad footing with three different criminal cartels. Not bad for a decade’s work.

The outbreak of the Great Galactic War in 3681 affected him less than it affected most Jedi. Sure, he’s not fond of the Sith, but he did not get recalled to fight in the war, being far more useful where he was. The scene in the criminal underworld got shaken up by it, but soon stabilized once more. He’d learned that criminals might fight and compete, but they liked a certain level of stability. Thus, when the Mandalorians loyal to the Empire blockaded the Hydian Way in 3661, Kennith could see the repercussions throughout the underworld. He and his fellow investigators didn’t have even remotely close to enough pull (or credits) to outright get someone to break it (the sum for that would’ve been immense), but a few words here and there, a few credits dropped in convenient places ensured that eventually some smugglers got the idea of breaking it. Once that ball started rolling, all he had to do was keep an ear to the ground and tip off the SIS at the appropriate time. What happened next is all history.

As the years went by, he continued building his network of informants and dealing with criminals that went too far, but did not stand out in any particular events. He might’ve had some involvement with contracts the republic gained with questionable legality, but if he did, it is a well-kept secret, just like the existence of such contracts is.

When the Sith attacked Alassa Major, taking his niece Lea captive as well as a good number of the republic’s elite, he dove deep into the criminal underworld, only communicating with his superiors when he found things that were of significant importance, either the the war effort or for the search for his niece. Some sort of sixth sense, perhaps linked to the Force, told him that Lea hadn’t been sent directly to Korriban. Many of his peers told him to give it up, but Kennith could not. In some ways, he felt he’d failed her by being absent as much as he had, even if he deep down knew that it could not have been any different. He’d heard both from her parents and from her master that she was not of quite the same temperament as him, so even if they had not been kin, it would not have been right for him to train her. Seeing that fact, and that they were kin, he could not have trained her properly even if it had been allowed.

The day he learned she’d been captured, he swore a vow that he’d not stop searching till he found her and if possible, brought her back. The following day, he left H’Ratth behind, Only stopping by Alassa Major to take in the scene of the destruction left behind by the Sith before delving into the criminal underworld. Ever since, he’s followed a fairly regular pattern, starting with the Coruscanti underworld, then Tatooine followed by Bothawui and Nar Shaddaa, before going to Trandosha, only to go back to Coruscant again. On each of those worlds, he’d spend a few days to a week, never more. Over time, he built up a fairly extensive portfolio on the Sith responsible for the Alassa Major attack.

Some Jedi feared he might fall to the dark Side, but others who knew him better knew there to only be minimal risk of that. He might have a history of twisting the laws, but he had never strayed from the principles of the Jedi Code. His feelings for Lea were those proper between two who are close kin, no more. She was less than half his age.

His search led him no closer to her, but it was not all in vain. On one of his trips to Nar Shaddaa, maybe a bit over four weeks prior to the Sacking, one of his informants told of a recent strike against a hutt-opposing group of criminals, in particular, a young woman who stood out in it – Someone the hutts really wanted to punish. He did not normally work at recruiting the way some other Sentinels did, but he could not deny the evidence that indicated she might be Force-sensitive. After a couple of hours of debating, he decided to seek her out and fetch her. Seeing as she was scheduled to die in the Arenas, he did not have time to acquire the credits to buy her, nor did he think the hutts would sell her for any reasonable amount even if he had had those credits. Thus he had only one option. The violent one.

He made his way to the correct arena and found his concern to be more than justified. That particular arena wasn’t one he usually contacted informants in, but it took but a few moments to figure out that she was scheduled to fight a fairly renowned Zabrak, one with a history of brutal kills. It wasn’t hard to figure out, seeing how she was the only female scheduled for that particular day.

Using the Force for all it was worth, he threaded his way through the crowds until he got close to the cage the fight was in. By the time he got close enough, the fight had already started. It was already messy. Calling on the Force once more, he rushed forth, slicing the cage open and splitting the Zabrak in half with a single swing of his lightsaber. With two more slashes, he cut the side of the cage away, and made it abundantly clear that she was to follow him away. Even in deep shock as she was, she did not object.

The cheers of the crowd were deafening, most of them not yet having realized it wasn’t part of the show. By the time they got to the edge of the arena, enough had figured it out to start shooting. He easily turned those bolts back on their owners. A dozen more kills and two hot-wired speeders later, and he took her away from Nar Shaddaa, fully knowledgeable about the fact that he had probably gotten on the wrong footing with yet another Hutt. But he’d gotten the girl away safely, that was the important thing. Killing one cage fighter and stealing another wasn’t sufficient for the hutts to issue a death mark. Probably.

He brought her back to the Coruscant by the fastest reliable route, then dropped her off for the Masters to deal with. He certainly had no intention of training her. In their time together, he’d quickly learned just how nasty a mouth and temper she had. He did not want to have to live with that for the next decade or two. Besides, he needed to continue searching for traces of his niece, and that would not be possible while dragging a padawan along.

Personality and/or Motivation:
Kennith Rahn is a bit of an enigma. As a Jedi Investigator, he helps the Order and the republic maintain the law. He is very clear on that front. But on the other hand, he’s not above going into gray areas to achieve that, including, at times, charcoal gray areas so far as the laws are concerned. The ends justify the means.

He respects the Jedi code, but is willing to flex certain rules when needed. However, no matter how flexible he is with certain rules and laws, he has never yet strayed from the light side, which might be why he’s not been chastised more by the masters. He knows enough about the family history to be very wary of the Dark Side.

Player’s long term goals:
Kennith will be a source of information for the rescuers. A bit unorthodox in his methods, but he’s known for results and with a personal stake in the rescue, none will doubt his resolve to see it through.

Relations:
Nazca: He’s the one who found her on Nar Shaddaa and brought her to the temple. He knows a little about her, but not much.
Lea Rahn: Lea is his niece. While he’s looked in on her on occasion and has kept a certain eye on her progress, he’s not had much chance the past couple of years. With her being less than half his age, he treats her accordingly. By the time she became more than a toddler, he was already knighted. She is in many ways the daughter he never had. Her capture by the Sith hit him hard because of this.

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Miasa Trentax

Name: Miasa Trentax
Species: Sluissi
Age: Uncertain, youthful (30s) {Secret: 62}
Gender: Female
Faction: Sith Empire
Rank: Apprentice (Architect)

Appearance:

As Sluissi go, Miasa has a fairly standard appearance. Her eyes are black with just a faint tinge of blue, her scales a grayish green. When standing upright without stretching higher or crouching, she is roughly 1.6 meters tall, though she can easily stretch well over a meter higher without much effort. She can naturally also slide upon the floor like a serpent, though she prefers not to. Stretched out, her body is 3.72 meters long, but she generally keeps her tail end fairly close, or at least bent. When at rest and not moving about, she can easily coil it up beneath herself. When compared with male members of her species, of whom she cannot recall having seen any, she is somewhat smaller, both in resting height, length and in girth. Her weight is roughly 52 kilograms, which puts her similarly somewhat beneath the average for her species.

Her clothes are simple, worn primarily for appearance rather than the need to conceal anything. She’s not got anything to hide and there’s no part of her that should be seen as interesting to males of non-sluissan origin in any case. As clothes go, she only wears a few series of Herglic-leather belts and bandoliers filled with firmly strapped-down tools of her trade. The muscles of her body are sleek but powerful, able to lunge fast like most snakes and reptiles are, capable of building up crushing strength due to the ability she has of locking certain muscles. The scales forming her underside are larger than the others, making movement easy while offering added protection from anything upon the floor.

Notable Characteristics of Species:

Sluissans tend on average to be roughly 1.7m tall while at rest, ranging from a total length of 3.6 to 4m long. Their adult body mass at regular gravity can go from around 50 kg up to 80 kg on average, depending on body length and girth. Being reptilian, they have no hair. Unlike most species, they do not have legs. Their tongues are forked, their eyes ranging from blue to black. As senses go, their regular sight is somewhat diminished, though they can to some degree “see” heat and they can taste the air. Because of their large area of contact with the ground, certain types of vibrations are possible to sense and to some degree pinpoint.

The average lifespan of a Sluissan is 76 years, with clear signs of aging showing up around the 50th year. Scales are shed a few at a time, rather than a full set at a time. They range from light-brown to deep-green in hue.

Flaws:

• When it comes to the biology of Sithspawn, Miasa knows quite a bit, having at one time studied under Darth Nyiss. But when it comes to other species, she thinks she knows more than she actually knows. This can cause unforeseen mistakes and misunderstandings.
• With no legs, she can’t climb the way other humanoid species can. To climb up anything, she either needs to have something to grab onto, or for it to have sufficient friction for her scales to grip. Vertical or near-vertical surfaces are virtually impossible to climb. Due to her body’s natural friction and low balance point, she can have far greater reach than many other species without putting herself at risk of falling.
• Though her species is not cold-blooded, she is anything but fond of cold temperatures and climates, as her body has very little natural insulation. Thus, exposure to low temperatures over long time can be devastating.
• When it comes to her belongings and her places of work, she is meticulously organized. Anyone messing up her system can and will get on her bad side quickly and not easily earn forgiveness. Same goes for people who try to make her rush her work.
• While most assume she is the age she looks, an enterprising Sith might discover that she is considerably older, that she should have been near the end of her life, not in her prime. How this came to pass is not so easily discovered, but some might draw a connection between her age regression and Nyiss’ youth. They would be right, but that would not help them find the how of it. Having been old once, Miasa does not particularly look forward to being so again, finds a certain relief in it being many years off still.
• Compared to most others, despite her size, she is not heavy. Even without the Force, she can easily be thrown about by others.
• At several points in her past, she showed a strong tendency towards hubris. This tendency, while not seen lately, may not fully have been eradicated.
• When it comes to combat, she is at times too careful, letting fights drag on and ignoring others’ mistakes despite her near-mastery of Soresu, simply because she’s sure they’re feints. This can be risky, as nobody’s perfect in their combat.
• When she’s frustrated with machines not doing as they are supposed to, she frequently uses Sith Lightning upon them, despite deep down knowing that will not do anything beneficial. It might even damage the machines further. Still gives her a certain satisfaction.

Skills:

• All Sluissi have a natural aptitude with technology. Be it from small objects like lightsabers to droids and even up to starships, Miasa can fix them all given enough time, maybe even improve their functionality. This ability, particularly the last, comes from a mixture of seeing how things work, patience and massive amounts of experience and knowledge.
  Her level of preferences go in this decreasing order: Tools, ships, large machines, droids. The reason for this is simple: tools don’t have minds of their own and are easy to meddle with. Ships are complex but with the same basic set of functions no matter the size. Their mainframes are rarely too wilful. Large machines are generally not too willful and tend to be easy to rework. Droids however, can be rather wilful and uncooperative.
• Similarly, computer security systems are merely a hurdle, not a barrier, so long as they do not have a timed self-destruct, that is.
• When it comes to lightsaber combat, Miasa has a highly customized style, not in the least because of her unique physiology. The principles behind her style is primarily Soresu, but she will just as often utilize two lightsabers as she will one. Seeing how she doesn’t have feet, her footwork is… lacking. Instead, she utilizes her tail for all its worth. Where a legged individual can theoretically be kicked/pushed over, a Sluissi is practically impossible to destabilize in that fashion.
• She is very hard to escape, as her sense of smell and taste is far superior to that of species like humans and she can to some degree sense vibrations. This makes her a natural tracker, a skill she has had some practice with, but it is not something she has chosen to master. The quality of the tracking depends on the climate and environment.

Force capabilities:

• Being non-humanoid, some of the basic skills do not work the same way for her. Jumping, for example, is very different. But she’s naturally trained to use them all in her own fashion.
• While she is of course capable of choking people with the Force, she prefers to use her own body, be it hands or tail to do so. It gives her more satisfaction. Locking her muscles, she can drag such out for a long time. providing them just enough air not to die, but not enough to do anything meaningful.
• Her primary training in the Force comes in the form of Sith Alchemy. She’s no master at it, but neither is she a beginner. Her favored subjects are certain Sithspawn and complex machines. In her years of serving the Darth, she has designed and/or built many things for her, though she never knows what the Darth uses and what machines/designs are simply false leads. She knows well that she is far from indispensable.
• Some say that her work with machines and Sith Alchemy is very similar to the art of Mechu-deru, but to Miasa, who has never learned any form of Mechu-deru, it is simply alchemy. Whereas Mechu-deru (normally at least) doesn’t utilize the Dark Side, her skill with imbuing technology with the Force is based upon using the Dark Side. If confronted with an object enhanced/created through Mechu-deru, she will not readily see how it was done, or be able to replicate it.
  Where an object crafted with Mechu-deru might be made to work at 120% capacity due to the internal parts being streamlined and structured beyond design capacity, Alchemical creations tend to be designed with the idea of doing things beyond what they should be able to do. Tools that cause the user mild pain to hold. Machines that can splice genes of the different species. Ships whose controls bring out the darker nature in their pilots. Where “enhancement” and calm emotions fuel traditional mechu-deru, Alchemy is fed more by harsh emotions.
• She has a certain level of skill with Force lightning, but it is more often used on machines than on people, and then only when the frustrate her sufficiently.

Biography:

The known facts about Miasa Trentax are few and far between. Its not that the details don’t exist, but rather that few know them and fewer still share them with people. But there are a few obvious facts. One, she was clearly not hatched in the Empire, as there is no notable Sluissi population in the pre-war Empire. Two, it is not known exactly who brought her to the Empire or when that happened. Those who do dig deeply enough assume she was taken captive early in the war.

Those who dig a little deeper, will find that someone remarkably similar to her in appearance and name was seen in the empire decades before the war, but that she is too young to be that someone unless there is something more to her than her appearance suggests. Most who dig will not find much beyond this.

Those who dig deeper, will find that whomever brought her to the Empire from the republic had wanted her as a “pet project” of some sort, only to be killed not long after returning with her. For the next decade, she was thrown about between various functionaries both in the imperial navy and in the Sith Order. Few liked her, fewer still trusted her. Some time after that, she was put to work in the shipyards of the Imperial Navy, where she proved to be naturally apt for both repairing, constructing and improving machines and ships. She spent a few years working there, then someone got the crazy idea of testing her for Force-sensitivity. Few believed a lower species like hers could have aptitude, but those few were proven wrong shortly afterwards, when the test results came in.

Her aptitude for the Force meant only one thing: Sith training. The training was harsh, many of the Sith piling challenge after challenge upon her, hoping to see her fail. But while some took her more time than others, she never left a challenge unfinished, never left a foe unbeaten. In time, she revealed herself to be highly ambitious and quite cunning. Despite the handicaps she had, she rose faster than most through the ranks in the Sith Academy. Too quickly, many said. In the end, her rapid rise resulted in hubris, for she soon thought herself ready to challenge a Sith Lady.

It doesn’t take a genius to see how an apprentice barely out of the academy, even a skilled one, cannot easily best a Sith Lady. The Sith Lady she chose was a fairly reclusive one, who was not well known to anyone, going by the name “Nyiss”. She located the Sith Lady, then went to her hideout, fully intent upon victory. Exactly what went down in that challenge is not known to anyone outside it, but when she did not return, most assumed it had gone with her as it went with others who failed such challenges. They assumed her dead.

Decades later, some nineteen years before the present day, the recently anointed Darth Nyiss emerged onto the imperial scene, for the first time joining the war against the republic. Her battles were short, sudden and messy. Many commanders disliked having her involved due to the cases of friendly forces being hit by her biochemical weapons, but higher up in the hierarchy, her victories were met with widespread approval. The war in that theatre, which had long been stagnating, started advancing once more.

Five years and countless casualties later, shortly after the Darth got a small fleet permanently assigned to her, she up and left the war for the unknown regions. For several years, none saw anything of her or her fleet. When she returned, she not only looked younger than she had looked when she left, but she had at her side a fairly young Sluissan who bore a remarkable resemblance to the ambitious Sith who had set out to depose then-Lady Nyiss. The Sluissan, Miasa, had knowledge far beyond her years, so soon rumors arose in certain parts of Sith ranks that the Darth had found the means of controlling her age. Several Sith tried to investigate, but after several such investigations were thoroughly discouraged from completion, most Sith gave up on finding that particular truth. There enough corpses of those who had failed to discourage even the most eager of Sith Lords.

The new Miasa, though evidently the same person as the old one physically, was a different person altogether when it came to behavior and personality. Where the old one had been brash and impatient, the new one was patient and meticulous. The same ambition could be seen in her, but it was tempered. And there was no doubt about her loyalty to the Darth. She often disappeared for months at a time, presumably on various lengthy projects for her master. For the two months leading up to the Sacking of Coruscant, she has been overseeing the refits on Nyiss’ personal fleet.

Personality and/or Motivation:

Above all other traits, Miasa is patient. Ever since her long-ago exuberance ended up with her being in the service of Darth Nyiss, she has shown how much she values patience. When she sets a goal, it is rarely set on a short timetable. Like other Sluissi, she has been known to achieve miraculous things with machines, but never so when rushed. As such, she tends to have fairly free reins in her work, so long as she delivers.

As someone belonging to a species that isn’t remotely similar to her master’s, she knows well that she will never truly be considered worthy of learning all her master knows. Once, she might have resented that, but in the decades since she first entered the Darth’s service, she has learned to live with it. To her, knowing even 80% of what her master knows is enough. If she can at the same time ensure that her master’s knowledge and power grows, so too will her knowledge and power grow. She knows better than to supplant her master, but that does not mean she is beyond taking part in the intrigue of the Sith.

Relations

Though Miasa Trentax has not been around the Kaggath for the sacking, she has kept a certain eye on some of the dossiers of the other Sith and upon bits and pieces of the surveillance footage from the cells. Seeing how she’s been rather busy, she has not had the time to watch much of it. The opinions below are just as much how her view will most likely become as it is what her view currently is.

Sith

Darth Nyiss: For decades, Miasa has been in the service of Darth Nyiss. As such, she knows the Darth well.
Sish She has heard of this Sith Lord and knows there’s more to him than meets the eye, but what she does know doesn’t make her overfond of him. She would not go out of her way to ensure his survival.
Jewel Namore Jewel’s almost unbridled ambition reminds Miasa of how she was in her youth. As such, she considerers the 39-year old Sith Lord to be child-like and impatient, neither trait favorable. In her eyes, Jewel could use a good thrashing from someone to teach her patience.
Jayda Mirthios Jayda’s unwillingness to give in to Sish’s brutality raises her value in Miasa’s eyes, but at the same time her unwillingness to fully use the dark side is not a good sign. As such, her view of Jayda is relatively neutral.
Zanna Like with Jewel, Miasa views Zanna’s ambition with a bit of concern. Ambition needs to be bridled. Power needs to be earned through patient and hard work or it will slip away as quickly as it was gained.
Jakali Harcor She does not know too much about Jakali. He isn’t quite so ambitious as others and has been known for a certain patience, so her opinion of him is higher than of others, but seeing how he is human, he is still inferior in her eyes. His loss of a limb shows that he was not patient enough at one time, but the fact that he is still alive is a possible indication that he learned something from it.
Azariah Alexander Azariah is one of few Sith that Miasa respects. He seeks knowledge much the same way she does, and he does not rush about. These two traits combined mean considerable respect from her.
Ven'ren Dijktra Miasa doesn’t trust Ven’ren. All she has learned of him makes her view him as unreliable and incapable of long-term plans.

Jedi Rescuers

Lyric Novan No knowledge or opinion yet.
Sela Kythor No knowledge or opinion yet.
Kennith Rahn No knowledge or opinion yet.
Avix Veir No knowledge or opinion yet.
Voson Pha No knowledge or opinion yet.

Jedi Prisoners

Tolun Fi He is patient and technologically apt. As such, he is worthy of a certain level of respect. His conversion either to the Dark side and/or to the side of the Empire is a high-priority goal, but not something that should be rushed.
Alat SevNot formed yet: His calm demeanor is a plus in Miasa’s eyes.
KorenNot formed yet
Xid TerrikNot formed yet: Though she does not yet know much about this prisoner, she will find him interesting and focus somewhat upon him.
Nazca Barsavi Despite her distance from the Kaggath, Miasa has heard of this one’s loud-mouthed and thoughtless tendencies. They do not make her worthy of respect.
Lea Rahn Miasa was present back when Lea was initially captured, but has had very little to do with the young human in the months since, having been away working on various projects for the Darth. Her opinion as such is somewhat unformed.
Shir'Inilim “Shiri” Miasa considers Shiri to be a bit of an unknown. She is young and thus has much room for growth. Her opinion is as such fairly neutral.
Arix VaasNot formed yet: Much like with Shiri, Miasa thinks the full extent of Arix’ value to the Darth is an unknown. Neutral opinion.
Jade YuNot formed yet: Same as the previous.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

Recruitment wishes

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath has three main factions:
The Sith in the service of Darth Nyiss, the Jedi in captivity on the Kaggath and the Jedi hoping to rescue the captives.
Because of the disparate but interconnected nature of these factions, the sorts of characters we most desire varies almost constantly, so as to maintain a relative balance. But even with such wants, Aftermath is remarkably flexible. Even if the character type you really want to create isn't available right now, it might be available later. Or you can ask if it is ok for you to make such a character anyways. If we like the concept and think it fits with the plans we have for the RP, we will flex things to let such in.

When you come to reading the rules further down here, you need not be afraid of the number there are. The essence behind them is common sense. We won't go nitpicking on a CS if some rule isn't followed to the letter.

We will be semi-strict with sheets, but that is only so that we can relax and have more fun once a sheet is approved. Its a lot easier for everyone if characters that don't work out are stopped in the CS stage rather than being cleaned up in the IC.

The goal of Aftermath itself is to explore the nuances and differences between the Jedi and the Sith and the differences between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. This means delving into the nuances of the force as well as the politics of the Great Galactic War.

Most of all, we desire characters that fit naturally into their factions without being overly special. Not too powerful, not blatantly weak. Jedi and Sith alike who are both familiar with and experienced at wielding the Force. But even with the Force as an ally, there are also other skills of value. Pilots. Slicers. Thieves. Spies. Pillars of stability. Leaders. Followers. The list is almost without ending.
For Jedi, the norm is not to even have touched the Dark side. While some Jedi do touch and use it, the vast majority essentially have a phobia of it and would never consider using it. Those few rare who do touch it, usually have (in their minds) reasonable justification.

For Sith, we desire Sith who have a reasonable amount of training, but who are in the service of a Sith lord or another Sith. It would not hurt if said Sith is present in Aftermath.

It is rare for Jedi not to have been uncovered as Force sensitive in early childhood. Most can barely walk by the time they’re found. In the Empire, all citizens are tested by law, so undiscovered Force-sensitives are extremely rare there too.

The older a Jedi is, the more firmly his or her grasp on the Force and the Jedi way is. In this era, if a Jedi has started to stray from his/her firm stance on only using the Light Side of the Force, it is most likely accidental and due to the war with the Sith Empire. Any artifacts of the Dark Side that are found and not destroyed are safely locked away in the vaults of the Order, far beyond the reach of vulnerable individuals.

Contrary to popular belief, Sith do not base their rise through the ranks upon killing their masters. While occasionally that does happen, the Empire views such killings as depriving the war of an asset. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that is not popular. Similarly, The Sith Order do not follow the "one apprentice per master" rule that the Jedi follow. A Sith lord will have a lot of apprentices serving him/her. A darth has a number of Sith lords and possibly apprentices as well. Anyone who isn't an initiate, A Sith Lord or a Darth, is an apprentice. Thus, where a Jedi padawan rarely is above low 20's in age, a Sith apprentice can be any age.

Some Sith Apprentices have titles and are thus higher in the hierarchy than mere apprentices. They aren't on the level of a Sith Lord, but they're more than the rest. The true level of power any Sith has, is measured in what they claim and how much power their master grants them. Independent Sith who do not serve a Sith lord or a Darth are exceedingly rare.

Remember, just because some Jedi happens to use darker aspects of the Force, that does not make him or her a Sith. A Jedi might easily use darker powers and still serve the Republic and the Jedi order. Loyalty to the Jedi is not always loyalty to the Republic.

Anyways, what we need at this point:

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Jedi Rescuers

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Full right now

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Jedi prisoners

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Jedi Knights
Two or three.
Restrictions:
Not human.
Some experience.
Late 20’s or higher in age.

Padawans
One or two.
Restrictions:
Not human.
Above 16 years of age.
If older, not trained from birth.

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Sith

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One or two.
Male preferred, due to high population of female Sith.
Species can be several, but male Sith Purebloods are welcome if done right.
Right now, we only desire apprentices and titled apprentices, no Sith lords.

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If your character concept is not on the list of requests, you can still ask the GMs for exception, but don't be hurt if its a no.

Character overview

Rules and useful information

Most of these rules are, in fact, based purely on common sense. There are some that are present for the sake of balance, but

Species, alignment and rank:

• All characters must be force-sensitive. This can either be as a Sith or as a Jedi. The only exception is if you have undiscovered potential and have just been discovered by the Sith. This means you can’t play as bounty hunters, mandalorians, smugglers, etc. Reason: they’re not Jedi/Sith.
• You will either be in the service of the Sith Empire or the Jedi Order. Your loyalties lie with one of these, and there will be no exceptions. If you want to be some sort of double-agent or a spy, clear it with the GMs first.
• To play anything above Jedi Knight or titled Sith Apprentice in rank, you must have GM approval.
• There are restrictions on character species. No one may play a miraluka, and you may not play any species that cannot speak basic without technological aid.

The Force:

• Jedi won’t wield dark-side powers without justification. If you want such on a Jedi, talk with the GMs.
• Talk with the GMs if you want special powers.

Skills:

• Combat skill will reflect your character’s age and experience. Most powerful warriors won’t be assigned anywhere near the Kaggath / Memory of Coruscant. If you’re uncertain, ask a GM.
• Try to pick skills that make sense in your character.

Equipment:

• If a prisoner is wearing anything other than robes upon capture, he or she will be dressed as the Sith that receives him/her deems fit. Yes, you’ll be searched on arrival.
• Your character’s appearance must be plausible. If in doubt, ask a GM.
• Your clothes must be such that you’d get away with wearing in public without violating any laws.If in doubt, ask a GM.

Character origins:

• Jedi prisoners originate within the Republic, though they can have been captive of the Sith for a while.
• All Sith stem from the Sith Empire. They may have been undercover in the Republic, but their loyalty lies with the Empire.
• In principle, all Sith serve Darth Nyiss, either directly or through an intermediary. Their purpose on the Kaggath is twofold. Firstly, they wish to turn Jedi to the dark side and/or to serve the Empire. Secondly, they seek to earn Darth Nyiss’ favor.
• Jedi Rescuers come from the republic. They are not former Sith, and they are first and foremost loyal to the Jedi order, represented by Jedi Master Lyric Novan.

Character’s future:

• When you design your character, leave room for growth. This can be psychological, power-wise, physical or other ways.
• Do not set in stone that your character will never fall to/from the Dark Side. For the most part, it should not be easy, but if it makes sense for the story, do consider the option.
• All characters can die. It will not be something that happens too easily, but if a character gets in a spot where there is no plausible way out that is not death, he or she will die.

Biography:

• Write a bio of the length you feel comfortable with. We do not need to know the entire life story, or how that jedi totally beat up some sith warrior in single combat three years ago. Cover the moments that made your character who (s)he is. Remember, all characters can die, so it’ll kinda suck if you’ve written ten pages of background only to have him die after a few days IC time.
• The biography is an excellent place to tie your character to other characters in the RP.

General rules:

• While we do not demand that you read the entire IC, we will ask that you read the summary, so that you have a rough idea of what has happened so far.
• All sheets must be placed in a hider once they are approved and put into the CS tab.
• Use your own character, not something someone else has made. A quick rewrite of a canon character won’t be approved, so it’ll just be a waste of time for us all.
• If in doubt about anything, ask another aftermath player and/or a GM.

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Sith character sheet

Use the blank template provided in the hider

Blank template

[b]Name: [/b]
[b]Species: [/b]
[b]Age: [/b]
[b]Gender: [/b]
[b]Faction: [/b]Sith Empire
[b]Rank: [/b]
[b]Master: [/b]

[h2]Appearance: [/h2]

[h2]Notable Characteristics of Species: [/h2]

[h2]Flaws: [/h2]

[h2]Skills: [/h2]

[h2]Force capabilities: [/h2]

[h2]Biography: [/h2]

[h2]Personality and/or Motivation: [/h2]

[h2]Player’s long term goals: [/h2]

[h2]Relations: [/h2]

[h2]Final Point - Secrets: [/h2]

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IN PM: Any secret secrets
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Name:
Species:
Age: (If apprentice, young. If anything else, you are probably older. See species specifics for exact age)
Gender:
Faction: Sith Empire
Rank: (You are either a Sith apprentice, a plain Sith, or a Sith lord. The last is only with GM permission.)
Master: (Whom does (s)he serve? Answer to?)

Appearance:
(Text or image + text. See rules above for certain restrictions)

Notable Characteristics of Species:
(If you chose any Alien race who might have any special, notable traits or beyond human then list them here. If human, feel free to ignore it)

Flaws:
(The more, the merrier)

Skills:
(What can your character do that isn’t Force-based?)

Force capabilities:
(what Force disciplines beyond the basics is your character trained in? Are there any he/she/it excels at or is incapable of? Please don’t just copy/paste a long list from some wiki. Try to keep abilities balanced for your character’s training level. See this link for approved force powers.)

Biography:
(you know, regular background stuff. Its up to you if you want to have just a couple of paragraphs or half an essay, but quality will trump quantity.)

Personality and/or Motivation:
(explain how your character works. What makes it tick? What sort of quirks are there?)

Player’s long term goals:
(If your character should survive, what do you see him/her do in the long run? are there aspects you want to explore, stories you want to tell? Feel free to pm the GMs or make a small paragraph summary here. Keep in mind, this rp explores the contrasting aspect of both Jedi and Sith views as well as the areas where they blur.)

Relations:
(how does your character relate to/think about the other characters in the RP, both from his/her faction and from the opposite? Have you clashed or worked with any in the field, on missions, etc?
Put in at minimum two relations with other players’ PCs.)

Final Point - Secrets:
(Secrets can be public or secret. If they’re public, the other players know about them, but not their characters. If they are secret, only you and the GMs know about it. The latter must thusly be sent in a PM.)

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Sith Rank structure

Sith Ranks:

• Darth - An individual of incredible power, not comparable to Jedi. Must have strength in multiple Force disciplines and Lightsaber Combat. Must have a large following. Has significant political pull. Has significant military and civilian holdings. Within the Empire, The will and whims of the Darths change society. A Darth is only answerable to the Dark Council and the Emperor, and even then it may take force of arms. At any one time, there are only a relatively small number of Darths throughout the entire Empire.
• Lord - A powerful individual comparable roughly to a Jedi Master. Usually strong in either the Force or Martial skills. Never overly specialised. A Sith lord generally has a decent-sized power base and a good number of followers, including a few apprentices and acolytes, as well as moderate political pull. Not on the scale of a Darth, but enough to be a force to be reckoned with. But even a Sith lord will generally serve those higher in the hierarchy, though the nature of such service varies greatly, as does their loyalty.
• Apprentice (title) - Comparable to a Jedi Knight. Apprentices who have gained either enough specialisation in a specific area or have enough ambition to climb the ranks. Titled Apprentices only outrank their fellow Apprentices within their area of expertise. There are many titles an Apprentice can attain, each denoting a different specialty and role within the hierarchy. Within the RP, some common titles will be:
  
  Inquisitor - an Apprentice specialised in torture, interrogation, research (of all kinds) and ensuring loyalty among Imperials. Usually also favour Force techniques over Lightsabers. Might have a minion or three, but the only political pull they have is through their master, and that can be… flighty.
  Overseer - an Apprentice specialised in training Acolytes in the ways of the Sith. Must be skilled in the iconic Sith Force powers and the standard Sith Lightsaber Form - Form V: Djem So. Might have a minion or three, but the only political pull they have is through their master, and that can be… flighty.
  While other types of Titled Sith Apprentices exist, none of them are relevant in this setting.
• Apprentice - Usually comparable to a Jedi Knight. Apprentices have at least base level competence in both Lightsaber and Force techniques. No following, no political pull. The majority of Sith fall into this rank.
• Acolyte - Comparable to a Jedi Padawan.

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Jedi character sheet

Use the blank template provided in the hider

Blank template

[b]Name: [/b]
[b]Species: [/b]
[b]Age: [/b]
[b]Gender: [/b]
[b]Faction: [/b]Jedi Order
[b]Rank: [/b]Padawan / Jedi Knight
[b]Master: [/b]
[b]Captive? [/b]

[h2]Appearance: [/h2]

[h2]Notable Characteristics of Species: [/h2]

[h2]Flaws: [/h2]

[h2]Skills: [/h2]

[h2]Force capabilities: [/h2]

[h2]Biography: [/h2]

[h2]Personality and/or Motivation: [/h2]

[h2]Player’s long term goals: [/h2]

[h2]Relations: [/h2]

[h2]Final Point - Secrets: [/h2]

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IN PM: Any secret secrets
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Name:
Species: (For Jedi, you have no real restrictions as species go, so long as they were known in the republic during this era. If you’re in doubt, ask a GM.)
Age: (for species near human life span: padawan = 8-14 years, Knight = 15-30ish, Master = older. For other species, scale similarly or estimate.)
Gender:
Faction: Jedi Order
Rank: (Padawan / Jedi Knight / (only with GM approval) Jedi master)
Captive? If your character is a captive, how was (s)he captured? If not a captive, how did (s)he get involved in the rescue operation?
Master: (Whom does (s)he serve? Answer to?)

Appearance:
(Text or image + text. See rules above for certain restrictions)

Notable Characteristics of Species:
(If you chose any Alien race who might have any special, notable traits or beyond human then list them here. If human, feel free to ignore it)

Flaws:
(The more, the merrier)

Skills:
(What can your character do that isn’t Force-based?)

Force capabilities:
(what Force disciplines beyond the basics is your character trained in? Are there any he/she/it excels at or is incapable of? Please don’t just copy/paste a long list from some wiki. Try to keep abilities balanced for your character’s training level. See this link for approved force powers.)

Biography:
(you know, regular background stuff. Its up to you if you want to have just a couple of paragraphs or half an essay, but quality will trump quantity.)

Personality and/or Motivation:
(explain how your character works. What makes it tick? What sort of quirks are there?)

Player’s long term goals:
(If your character should survive, what do you see him/her do in the long run? are there aspects you want to explore, stories you want to tell? Feel free to pm the GMs or make a small paragraph summary here. Keep in mind, this rp explores the contrasting aspect of both Jedi and Sith views as well as the areas where they blur.)

Relations:
(how does your character relate to/think about the other characters in the RP, both from his/her faction and from the opposite? Have you clashed or worked with any in the field, on missions, etc?
Put in at minimum two relations with other players’ PCs.)

Final Point - Secrets:
(Secrets can be public or secret. If they’re public, the other players know about them, but not their characters. If they are secret, only you and the GMs know about it. The latter must thusly be sent in a PM.)

Character list

Found here

Lore

Ships

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The Kaggath

Type: Transport.

Class: Gage.
Modifications:
Terminus-class superstructure.
Greatly increased armoring.
Enhanced Shields.
Improved engines (but effectively same as a regular Gage, due to greater mass)
Internal layout altered.
Armaments: Six Turbolasers and eight laser point defense turrets.
Ship complement: 6 ISF interceptors, 2 Imperial tri-wing shuttles.

Layout of accessible sections:

Animal Pens - upper deck
Sith Practice Chambers - upper deck
Main Jedi Prison - above arena, accessed from main deck
Sith Quarters - main deck
Arena - main deck
Nyiss’ Quarters lower deck

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All of the Decks together:

Animal pens and Sith practice chambers

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There are three ways up to this deck. One Turbolift on each side of the Sith sector and one turbolift at the stern end of the arena.

The red-carpeted room is the Sith practice chamber.

Prison complex

The prison complex can be accessed through four turbolifts from the observation area above the arena, which is on the same deck as the Sith quarters.
The right bunk room (forward of the showers) is Aurek. The left bunk room (forwards of the medical bay) is Besh.

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The entire prison deck

Claimed bunks:

Prison bunk room (there are two of these):

Sanitary facility:

Sith Sector

The Sith quarters and the session rooms are all on the same deck as the arena observation.
The red-carpeted room is the Sith common room, while the starboard room beside it is the surveillance chamber.

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The six rooms at the center beyond this are the Sith quarters.

The doors of the Sith sector

Arena

The arena is situated beneath the prison deck, easily visible through the prison deck’s floor.

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Nyiss’ Quarters

Darth Nyiss’ quarters are located below the other decks and are accessible through the starboard turbolift beside the Sith Sector.

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The Memory of Coruscant

Type: Corvette (Warship).
Class: CR-12 Thranta.
Modified: No.
Armaments: 2 Twin-mounted Turbolaser cannons, 24 laser turrets, Ion Cannon, Concussion Missiles.
Ship complement: 14 Liberator-class starfighters, 3 bombers, 4 Fortitude-class Assault Shuttles.

Layout:

Full Size

Deck Layout

]Deck 1-4, Bow: Forward Deflector shields, Weapons Capacitors
Deck 4, Midsection: Jedi Practice chambers
Deck 5-6, Bow: Forward Sensors & Communications
Deck 5, Midsection: Jedi Meditation Chamber
Deck 6-9, Midsection: Storage
Deck 7-8, Bow: Non-essential Storage
Deck 9, Bow: Forward life support Systems
Deck 10, Bow: Water Storage
Deck 10, Midsection: Auxiliary control room
Deck 11, Bow: Bridge shield generators and capacitors
Deck 11, Neck (above hangars): Mess hall
Deck 11, Neck (rest): Medical Bay
Deck 11, Midzsection: Shield capacitors and generators & sensors
Deck 11, Aft: Engineering access
Deck 12, Bow: Sanitary Facilities
Deck 12, Neck: Crew Quarters
Deck 12, Midsection: Hangar supplies
Deck 12-15, Aft: Engineering
Deck 13-14, Bow: Bridge & Main Weapons access
Deck 13, Neck: Crew Quarters
Deck 13, Midsection: Heavy Munitions Storage
Deck 14, Neck: Jedi quarters & Storage
Deck 14, Midsection: Missile launchers
Deck 15-16, Bow: Sanitary Facilities
Deck 15-16, Neck: Trooper quarters
Deck 15, Midsection: Crew & Trooper common rooms
Deck 16, Midsection: shield capacitors and generators & sensors
Deck 16, Aft: Engineering access
Deck 17, Bow: Forward armory
Deck 17, Neck (midsection access): Shooting range
Deck 17, Midsection: Armory
Deck 18, Bow: Water Storage
Deck 18-21, Midsection: Storage
Deck 19, Bow: Forward life support Systems
Deck 20-21, Bow: Non-essential Storage
Deck 22, Midsection: Briefing room.
Deck 23-27, Bow: Forward Deflector shields, Weapons Capacitors

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

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Deceit

By many, it is said that this is the trademark of the Sith. For Twenty-eight years, the Galactic Republic has been at war with the Sith Empire. Untold millions have died on both sides. Countless lives have fallen into ruin as worlds beyond count have been laid to waste. While most still support either the Republic, the Empire or smaller factions of their own, many are tired of the war. Many do not see the war as more than a religious conflict between the Jedi and the Sith.

Recently, the Sith Empire started gaining ground against the republic. This is one reason many, particularly within the ranks of the Jedi Order, suspected the deceit to come after the Sith Empire sued for peace. But no matter how expected the deceit was, no one in the entire republic had in their wildest thoughts imagined exactly what the Sith would do. It came as much as a shock to them as the wish for a peace negotiation did.

Even as the Peace talks were progressing on the neutral planet of Alderaan, A mandalorian warrior working for the empire disabled the Coruscanti defense grid. Shortly afterwards, long before anyone noticed the disabled defense grid, Darth Malgus, accompanied by fifty Sith Warriors, struck straight at the Jedi Temple. At the same time, a fleet of Imperial warships jumped into Coruscanti Orbit, immediately taking out the planet’s Holonet connections. To the greater galaxy, it was as if Coruscant simply disappeared. As the warships started their bombardment and took out what few defenses remained, they also set up blockades along all the hyperspace trade routes away from the planet.

Down in the Jedi temple, Darth Malgus and his warriors decimated the defenders, handily slaughtering them. This is all common knowledge now. What is not known is that not all the Jedi in the temple died. After the bulk of the defenders were taken out, the Sith spread throughout the temple, capturing countless Jedi and other persons of interest. Six hours later, the explosives placed throughout the Jedi Temple were detonated, killing all who remained within and burying the dead within the rubble.

The Jedi captives were taken onto ships in orbit, with the majority being detained upon the Kaggath, a warship/transport controlled by the enigmatic Darth Nyiss. Shortly afterwards, the ship departed from Coruscanti orbit, heading out along the Corellian run for destinations unknown.

The question is as such:
Which are you?
Prisoner, Rescuer or Captor? Jedi or Sith?

Option one: Temple Jedi

You are a Jedi Knight in the service of the Galactic Republic. Wherever you were when the Sith assaulted the temple, you somehow survived. You are uncertain whether this is a blessing or a curse, for though you survived, you were captured by the Sith. After some time, you were sent to the Kaggath, where most other captive jedi are being held. If captured by someone not in Darth Nyiss’ service, you may arrive through a rendezvous with the Kaggath. You now have to resist the Sith and find a way to escape, but at least you are not alone.

The question is this: Will you be able to resist the influence of the Dark Side? Is escape possible? Will you even survive?

Option two: Offworld Jedi

Shortly after the Sacking of Coruscant, you were contacted by a Jedi Master named Lyric Novan, who sought you out for your specialized skillset in a mission to rescue Jedi taken captive by the Sith before and during the sacking of Coruscant. You were informed of the high risk this mission poses but you still chose to join it. You might have many reasons, you might have few, but you nonetheless seek to rescue your brother and sister Jedi.

Your task is simple: Finding the missing Jedi and doing everything in your power to rescue them.
You know full well that both the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order cannot claim to have any responsibility for your actions, for when the peace treaty was signed, your mission could no longer be formally supported by the Order, let alone the Republic.

Option three: Sith

You are a Sith. Whom you served before matters not now. Following the Sacking of Coruscant, you entered the service of Darth Nyiss, perhaps for the glory of turning captured Jedi to the dark side and to serving the Empire, perhaps to earn her favor so you might gain influence in the Empire and greater knowledge about the Force. Whatever your reasons, you now find yourself upon the Kaggath, entertaining the Jedi captives there, but you are not alone. There are many other Sith also there, some having the same goal as you, some having others. Some will ignore you, some will seek to kill you, and you don’t know who are which. In the months to come, you will have to do your best to avoid death, turn Jedi and gain influence all at the same time.

The question is this: How well will you do it, and will you survive long enough to earn your patron’s favor? Or will you be killed by your foolishness, mistakes or peers?

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Jump over to the IRC and show which path you will follow.
Or are you afraid to reveal it?

Note from the GMs

This RP is a reboot from an older version first started prior to the guildfall. While most of the original RP survived, it died some months after the guildfall due to design flaws. These flaws have been fixed in this version and while some of the players left after it was put into hiatus, many others waited eagerly for its return. Most the vets from the previous iteration have made a return, altering their CS’s from the original format so don’t let their longer sheets intimidate you. It’s just their excitement shining through. However, the NPCs number has been limited and lowered compared to the earlier vision so to lessen the GMs’ work, stress and allows us to torment focus on our players and story more.

It has taken almost a full year to hammer out the kinks, flaws, and listening to the players of old, taking their wishes and ideas into account in order to make the story reach its maximum potential. The group is a dedicated, cooperative, and fun group that will welcome players with open arms and help work them into the story with plot ideas, connections, and more. These traits are highly encouraged and valued among this core group of players, so don’t be afraid to share what you got to further enrich the world we’ve made.

Because of the nature of some events in the RP, it can in some ways be considered “Mature”. There will be torture. Maiming. Death. There might be other things of a not-nice nature. Nothing in public eye that violates guild rules, of course, but who knows what some might do in private? If you are faint of heart, afraid of descriptions of violence and blood, then it might be wise to avoid Aftermath.

Timestamps

By learning from lessons gained during Aftermath I ^{(thats the name of the previous iteration, if you’re in doubt)}, We will enforce somewhat of a timestamp system for this RP. While a system based around the biggest monumental event in the SW universe in this time period might seem appropriate, that choice caused just headaches in Aftermath I, as the biggest event was the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant, which is three days after RP start.

As such, the timestamps will be fairly simple:
Day number, hours:minutes after midnight

It will be using Galactic standard time (24 hours in a day, 60 minutes per hour)
The day of the Sacking of Coruscant is day 1. (and the time it started was 11:30 in the morning)

The defined nightfall for the Kaggath is at 22:00 GST.
The defined dawn for the Kaggath is at 07:00 GST.
The Memory of Coruscant operates with the same timetable (for practical reasons)

If you don't understand how a 24-hour clock works (say, if you're used to the silly AM/PM system), if its after noon, you add 12 to the hour and use the sum. anything between midnight and 01:00 is 00:nn.

There are older timestamps from the previous system for time. They are based on a "days, hours, minutes since the sacking started". If you're unsure when a post happened in that system in the present system, look here.

useful links & other information:

• New Characters are posted here in the OoC, but once they are approved, then they can go to the CS tab.
• Galaxy map
• Wookieepedia article: Sacking of Coruscant
• Star Wars Name generator
• List of currently existing Jedi academies, enclaves and praxeums
• Force Power List
• Summary of IC

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

@potatochipgolem.

The Jedi Order and the Sith Empire alike are experts at seeking out Force Sensitives in this era. The chances of someone not being detected by either faction, especially on a central planet like Coruscant, are slim. The horrors on Coruscant aren't really more special than other horrors in the galaxy at this time. Unless (s)he got to Coruscant from some obscure place far from the war and Jedi/Sith attention, (s)he would not likely have escaped notice. At least not if of the level of sensitivity that would make him/her eligible for eventual knighthood.

But it is possible that your character is a recently discovered Force Sensitive if the above is taken into account. There is no requirement that you've been training as a Jedi or Sith for a long time, though that may be advantageous in the long run. If you go with this path, you must have a pretty clear idea in mind for alignment in relation to Empire/republic, as the conflict explored in Aftermath is just as much that as it is Jedi/Sith.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

@SimplyJohn.

We read through the relevant bits of that book. There are a few points of note... Most important is that it was written sometime not long after the Ruusan reformation, which was when the Sith as a large, prominent faction faded from the galactic scene. That event changed the Jedi training and knighting protocols.

Aftermath is set some 2650 years before the Ruusan reformation, during a great war with the Sith. Wartime breeds changes to policies. regulations are relaxed, requirements changed for convenience.

Secondly, even if that book had been accurate lore for this era rather than later eras, it clearly states "The Grand Master or Ranking Jedi" in the passage about formalizing knighthood. With the many places Jedi were knighted in this era and countless other eras, the formal knighting would at least as often be performed by the ranking Jedi in that particular locale, be it the Jedi Temple of Coruscant, one of the numerous specialized academies, or a praxeum ship.

As such, there is no logical reason for your Jedi to be waiting for the grand master, no matter if the procedures described in The Jedi Path were defined this long before the book was written or not. If it had been relevant for the Grand Master to judge him, he would have been sent to Alderaan where the Grand Master is at the time, not been asked to wait many days on Coruscant.

Worldbuilding/Setting Thread

sometimes concepts fail, other times they succeed. You have to time them right, which unfortunately requires either innate understanding of practical use of chaos theory, or luck.