Sep

Star Wars: Rebel Scum | Recruiting because of bailouts.

I think that an ex-pirate is a fine addition to the group, but yeah, this is a 'regular' (as much as such applies in the Alliance) 'line' (same) unit of the Rebel Alliance Army. There's no doubting that someone with a background in piracy can be very useful, but these characters are part of a platoon in the war as a matter of organizing the whole thing to keep it cohesive.

Edit: The Intruder could easily be an ex-pirate ship, however, crewed by ex-pirates. That'd make for an amusing backstory as the opinion of the infantry about the freebooting supplemental activities of their Naval counterparts is less than legal in a lot of ways. Also, black marketeering, which goes hand in hand with the Hutt someone proposed as a character. It might just be the remnant of a Hutt Cartel operation that had nowhere to go but the Alliance Navy, especially since someone else proposed a Hutt on board.

That'd give the whole ship a sideline -- black marketeering and various profit-motivated enterprises as a supplement to their naval operations. They'd have to cut in the platoon, as they're the boarding force and security.

@HeySeuss

That'd be an interesting idea to play with, especially if any of the rebels are ex-militia or really high morals and then suddenly they're on an ex-pirate ship that still won't be exactly squeeky clean.

Star Wars: Rebel Scum | Recruiting because of bailouts.

Hey Seuss

What about a Pirate and just bear with me, quite often in the SW galaxy especially Rebel Era a lot of pirates worked solely against Empire freighters and ships in fact some of the first Rebels were pirates (Who later joined the fleet or became pirates in Remnant space in OldCanon). What about a pirate group that's just starting to join in the Rebellion? I could be an attachee.

If not I'll come up with an alternate back story.

The Relics

Name:
Ardee Karchak (actual)

Thom Adonis (Assumed)

Age: 32

Gender: Female, but currently disguised as a Male, as she's well aware of the power the opposite sex holds in the lands outside Kalesia

Faction/Allegiance: Kalesian Empress(May she live forever)

Relic Description: Ardee's relic is a quill pen, that does two things. One, it can permanently alter someone or something's looks and physical traits. The looks is fairly obvious. She dips her quill pen in someone's blood, and draws them a new body, clothing, and face. The traits she has to list to the side. For simple things such as 'strong' or 'fast', it only requires the first dip and she's done.
For things like 'super humanly fast' or 'unnaturally strong' she requires more blood, a pint to be exact. For something as extravagant as 'can cast fire balls' requires more blood, at least 1 quart. The more powerful and extravagant, the more quarts required. It's easy for her to go back to normal, she just needs to smear the image in her note book with a bit of her blood and it will undo all the changes done.

Two, it can create simple 2D drawings that are given life and can report back to Ardee. Useful for intelligence gathering that would be too dangerous for her. This too is made from her blood.

Appearance:

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That's Ardee. Currently she looks nothing like that.

She looks like this:

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Flaws:
Combat - Ardee has basic spear training from her time in the camp, so she can hold off your average street thug, but anyone more skilled has her beat. This includes hand to hand combat.
Sensitive - Ardee is very, touchy about the subject of rape, and her own self esteem. Sometimes violently so.
Doesn't like to be touched - Ardee tries to avoid people touching her at all costs.
Dislikes Murder - Ardee, despite all her training, prefers to avoid killing people, if left with any other choice.

Skills:
Artist - Even before she gained her relic, Ardee was a skilled artist, be it changing how she looks, or simple painting.
Actor - Ardee can fake just about anything, given the right tools.
Fast - Ardee is very quick, both in the traditional sense of running, and the not so traditional sense of with a spear.
Rough survival skills- She can cook her own meal, create simple snares, skin, and knows enough about plants to not eat the ones she's even unsure of. It won't be pretty, but she could eek out an existence in the wilderness.

Biography:
Ardee has never known her parents. Her mother died in childbirth, and her father was a foreigner who raped her mother then left. She grew up in an orphanage, feeling something was wrong with her despite repeated assurances that there was nothing wrong with her. How did she know she was a child of rape? Children are cruel. One of them had overheard the mother's explanation to the priestesses who ran the orphanage. The rumor was quickly made known and eventually, a few years later, thrown in her face. She was a child of rape, a result of the sick mockery of worship. At best she was unclean at worst she was a living insult to the Goddess, and thus, the Empress(May she live forever). At the age of 12 she decided the simplest thing to do would be to redeem herself by serving, and dying for, the Empress(May she live forever) in the military. Hopefully she could gain a redemption in death. During her time there, she met a young man named Roan. The two became friends, despite it being obvious they were going into different factions of the Kalesian military. Ardee's talents lay more in espionage and deceit, while Roan's was more suited for the mauler cavalry. They managed to stay in touch when they went their separate ways, primarily through letters, and meeting face to face when they could. It was an imperfect system, but one that worked nonetheless.

At that same military academy, Ardee met Jana and became fast friends with her as well. While she was close to Roan, Jana made the idea of dying in the service of the Emperor less appealing, pushing Ardee into the decision to join the espionage section of the military. Ardee didn't tell that to her, of course. She hadn't told either of her friends the real reason for joining the military, and wouldn't tell Jana until much later into their relationship. After years of friendship and an attraction everyone but they could see, they finally became lovers and soon after married. They made the marriage work as well as possible, trying to keep as close together as was reasonable, Ardee later using her status as Evoker to make this easier. Then everything changed when Jana got her relic.

After the initial panic and she was assured Jana wasn't killed by her Relic, Ardee started fervently scouring any and all archives and texts for a way to reverse the curse. She found none, but refused to give in, finding the perfect excuse later to search other lands for a cure.

Ardee actually discovered her Relic by complete accident(years before Jana's own relic find). She was researching in one of the libraries the Imperial Intelligence had and picked up a quill pen to write down notes from a book she was reading. . It was a peculiar sensation, to feel it bonding to her,and the silence was only broken by her heartfelt 'well, damn.' She couldn't do anything but report the event to her superiors, and be moved to another faction of the Empress's(may she live forever) military. As luck would have it, her Relic only increased her talents in the Imperial Intelligence force. Still, she spent some time learning how to control her new powers, and during that time, word of Roan Adonis's betrayal reached her. It was a hurtful, enraging blow. Upon learning of his betrayal to the Empress(may she live forever) and his subsequent escape, she begged her superiors the right to track him down with Jana and demand answers. Much to her relief, she was given that right. And much to her joy, they could now search the archives of other nations.

Personality/motivation:
Ardee is usually reserved and dignified, keeping her true emotions a secret from everyone but her closest friends. When you can put on emotions like most people put on clothes, you tend to stop showing your true emotions for everyone to see. She's mistrusting of new people, thinking that they might have an agenda that they aren't showing. However once she's sure you're not going to betray her, and you're a friend, she's fiercely protective. Ardee never had many friends and she treasures the few she does. Right now however, her confusion and anger aren't faked. Roan was one of the most loyal people she knew. And to hear of his betrayal was a blow she was not prepared for. She's more concerned with finding a way to help Jana than she is with actually bringing him in right now, but when they find them, she'll get answers. One way or another.


Relations:
She had a strong friendship with Roan Adonis before word of his betrayal reached her.

Wife of Jana Karchak

@Rtron

Personally, I'll wait till I can get a discussion with Ellri about it but right now this Relic seems far too powerful. I mean with it the entire Kalesian Army could be shooting fireballs with super soldier strength and skill. You could knock people out and make them look like other people by force or give them an ability that's damaging to others around them to get them killed.

Hell, find out what the King of Othea looks like and you can replace him with someone of your choosing.

Star Wars - Scum and Villainy

I am, I'll get up a post. Just had my schedule switch so on different time frame again.

@ColonelCaboose

That makes sense, no rush there buddy.

Star Wars - Scum and Villainy

Anyone else alive?

The Relics

She was taught how to dance and entertain at social settings and to be meek and submissive to her future husband. At the age of seven, she was betrothed to another boy that she never met.

LiverisGood

Doesn't make sense in Othean Culture. Women have basically equal rights to men, perhaps meek and submissive may pass in certain families but arranged marrages don't happen, if they do it's below board.

The Royal Relic Constabulary

LiverisGood

No longer existant, as I said before it is now the Kings Hand which operates in secret, if you were identified however you would either be offered to be trained and become a shadow in secret or you would be imprisoned if you refused to serve and worst comes to the worse you'd be handed over to the Dominion.

Inquiring on what they do, she was shocked to learn that they were hunting down evokers and handing over to the Dominion of Idris.

LiverisGood

This bit doesn't make sense, the last King was totally in the pocket of the Order yes but Othea has been practicing with the Order of Idris for a period of time at least since before your character was born being raised in a noble house hold even if the religious shift was a new thing you would most certainly have known pretty early on.

Star Wars - Scum and Villainy

Tony leaned against the wall in the hallway. He then tapped the ships hall with his knuckle twice. "I think you will find I did not find her in a junkyard, I found her as a shipwreck and then managed to convince an old boss to give her too me. Also just because I don't tidy up doesn't make it junk. She'll give a ship a fraction of her size a run for her money. I've outrun TIES in this thing, and those buggers make up for lack of shielding in speed and manueverability." he looked into the room nodding at Tors new toy, or was Tor her new toy?

"If you guys are really wanting to get all chummy if we're going to be doing some missions together all you need to know is this ships my baby, my names Tony and I'm a slicer and ship mechanic. If you want anything else you go to Tor he does the guns and the vehicles and thinks he's a good pilot but last time I saw him use his jetpack I needed to save his ass on the same day he tried to collect a bounty on my head." He shook his head. "I'm sure it was so embarassing, before we left a couple of kids called him Falling man I found it quite amusing."

Star Wars - Scum and Villainy

Will interlude tonight if Enalais doesn't

The Relics

Edited the LoreDoc so it has the basics on the Knights Hand which is the replacement of the Relic Constulary and the Gellor Shadows, as it's a refined idea and it works with what I have in mind for Othea.

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

Arc almost screamed. "That bloody well hurt you absolute idiot. Please refrain from piercing my eye socket with your thumb, I still feel pain you know. Which is strange, I didn't feel pain before..." Maybe it was a side effect of being detatched from his body a decrease in arcanite reserves which more or less... Well no idea. It was all wrong all twisted this wasn't supposed to happen. He was supposed to die hundreds of years ago beside those who were taken from him, but it wasn't to be apparently. It just wasn't to be...

"All right, so Liam a few ground rules. No poking or proding, and certainly don't attach me to your belt like that other person did. I'm quite happy being a free floating skull, it'd be nicer if I had my body but I'm not a fashion accessory-" He dazed off for a moment, missing a reply if any, as he saw another butterfly. Watching it for several minutes, or longer, he eventually zoned back in to hear the plan.

"You know if you had two balistas it'd be better, you could attach a net between two arrows and fire them at either side of the Roc capturing it. Though I suppose it's too late for that, the main question I have is what's for lunch? I know I cant' eat but I realllly feel like trying. It has been a long time and I feel pain so I might be able to taste things as well. That'd be brilliant." He paised for a second.

"No wait, that wasn't my main question. My main question was, how am I supposed to distract it?" Something distracted him again. "Ah look it's another butterfly. Do you know how amazing doors and butterfies are?"