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@CaptainBritton 10/10. Would approve again.

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@Sebastian accepted.

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@Sebastian

Sebastian

My problem here is the identification of Sith. During TCW Palpatine was very careful and while I imagine he may have had other possible apprentices lined up he focused heavily on Dooku while grooming Anakin. Once he knew of Anakin Dooku really was just a stepping stone to get there.

Dark Force Wielder I am perfectly okay with, there are more than just Jedi and Sith who wield the Force, or who wield lightsabers out in the Galaxy. I should point out that Darkside practictioner does not mean Sith, if you want to look at another Darkside lightsaber wielding group in the Empire for example you have the Inquisitorus. I'd suggest that the easiest way for you to go from Slave->Force Trained->Empire is to have ended up in this organisation, Palpatine was notorious for planning ahead so I'm not against him taking you in and keeping you hidden away as a backup... without giving you the rank/title of Sith. After all Palpatine was very much a believer of the Rule of Two. When Maul resurfaced, with his brother in toe, and built a criminal syndacite for him Palpatine shut it down pretty hard. There's some good concepts here, and if you wanna discuss them in detail to work out the kinks in private you can hit me up on discord or PM. If you have anything you disagree with in what I said, let me know.

I like the faction. No issues there, consider it approved.

@Burning Kitty

Burning Kitty

I like what I see so far, I really do and I like the input of the Inquisitorus and the references to Kanan and Ezra (Plus I love that she uses a 'replica'(I suppose?) of Ezras lightsaber as it's a reallly interesting design. I would say I would like it if the history is fleshed out a little bit more, I know you've said what needs to be said but the history is where I really gauge you're writing... however if you aren't fond of long bios (not everyone is) you can always write up a sample post instead. Though if you choose to expand the Bio what I'd be looking for is, how/why did the Inquisitorus choose her? What was she doing when she crashed on this planet? How did this old Jedi change her? How did she go about joining the New Republic? What kinda stuff did they have her start doing? What made them send her towards Hutt Space? I know it's just filler, but I feel it's important filler. If you wish to discuss/debate these points or even if these are points you don't want everyone to know, feel free to PM me.

@Alias I'm really wanting to limit the number, but throw up a sheet and be sure to include lots of lovely detail. I'm gauging it on a case by case basis.

@Archmage MC

Archmage

There's some typos, but I'm cool with that as we're in cas and you did say it was a draft.

I do have some issues, I'm not against it but I'd like you to tone down a couple of things. Such as her ability to break down any form of matter, form any kind of weaponry and replicate herself. I feel like she should be limited to either projectile shots where she essentially shoots part of herself (meaning there is ammo as she can't shoot too much without loosing actual mass) or blaster style where she uses power reserves.

In terms of breaking down everything I'd like it if you stuck to just metal and that it takes time, not to mention the metal she uses will affect her build as it's real hard to change the atomic structure of something. So if she's made from like durasteel that's pretty darn awesome, but if an arm is made of plasteel nanites it's having a less fun time. As with other reviews feel free to PM me/Discord me with any disagreements/issues. I'm willing to discuss in detail in private should you wish.

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STATUS: OPEN

Current Plot Arcs:

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Faction Name:The Golden Exchange
Faction Classification: Information Brokers
Faction Leader: Koren Graeff
Faction Members(Players):
Important NPCs:

Thinker

Thinker is a T-Series Super Tactical droid comissioned by the Separatist Alliance during the ending years of the Clone Wars. Decimissioned during the droid army shutdown Koren Graeff successfully re-activated the droid and succesfully introduced new programming to make it loyal to him. Since then it has been the logistical runner of his organisation, running the day to day business aboard Paradise as well as predicting changes in the political landscape of Hutt Space and bringing anything important to Korens attention. Due to the sensitive nature of the information Thinker posesses, Koren has built an explosive device into the thinkers head so that if he is ever taken Koren can protect his secrets.

As a double standard precaution Koren doesn't allow anyone outside of his organistation to know of Thinkers existence.

Ballick

Ballick is Korens personal body guard, and is with him wherever he goes. He is younger than Koren, naturally, though even then his natural canine skills make him an extremely deadly combatant. Not only is he deadly in melee combat, an excellent tracker through his increased senses but he is a good shot with a blaster.

Tram

If Ballick is the shield, Tram is the sword. It isn't often someone breaks the rules on Paradise and flees. Nor is it often that someone double crosses the Golden Exchange, though when they do they'll soon feel the blaster bolt fired from this Kyuzo. Not even Koren knows a lot about Tram, he's silent and never speaks. Though that kind of discretion is something Koren can agree upon, which is why the Kyuzo is now exclusively on his payroll.

Loretta Graeff

Loretta doesn't know where she came from, Koren found her dumped as a baby not long after opening Paradise. Not being completely heartless he took her in and raised her, as someone to carry on his legacy. She's the daughter he never had, while he never had time for romance or love he truly loves her like he never thought he could. While he cares about his own raise to power, while he will never admit it, he cares almost more about Lorettas future than his own. He's the unexpected variable he never expected to have in his life.

As such she's the heir to his fortune and his information Empire and second in command despite only being seventeen years old.

Tara

While Thinker is in charge of the day to day runnings, logistically, of Paradise, Tara is in charge of ensuring that the high end clients are taken care off. Whatever they may need, alcohol, spice, massages... partners. A slave Koren bought and freed due to her ability to get people to feel comfortable and talk, she rarely does any of the dirty work herself these days, and the main reason she was even hired was due to her past as a slave girl. After all, it is always more beneficial and less risky to have willing participants being paid than people who are forced to do things and may have loose lips.

Faction Assets:

• Paradise, a Providence Class Destroyer which has had its interior redesigned in order to mirror a luxury resort. There are casinos, clubs, pubs, hotels, restaruants, spas and basically everything anyone could want. Catering to the low class workers to the Lords and Ladys of Hutt Space. There's something for everyone aboard.
• Informants: Koren has spent a number of years gathering informants and placing people in key positions. The exact number isn't entirely known, but he has his finger in about every pie Hutt space has to offer.
• Droid Power: Aboard Paradise he has a full contingent of droids, many are inactive however BX-Commando droids stand in doorways and patrol ensuring clients are well taken care off, and no flights erupt. While many old B1-battle droids have been repurposed into waiters and bartenders, being painted, dressed up and decorated depending on where they are and the clientele they interact with.
• Ship Defense: While he has sold off all the old Droid Vehicles to private collectors, he has retained the Gunships, Vulture and Tri-Fighters to act as a deterrent against possible attack.
• Nightfury: The Nightfury is a specially retrofit Consular Class Cruiser (Charger retrofit) that has it's interior redesigned as a Luxury Yacht. It is the vessel used to pick up and drop off any important clients, who wish to board Paradise even if it is in another system.

Faction History:

19BBY - Clone Wars End. Koren Graeff reactivates a T-Series Tactical Droid (Later named Thinker) and flees to Hutt space with the Vanguard.
17BBY - Having Spent two years building contacts, Koren unvails the newly renamed Paradise formerly the Vanguard and begins taking clients aboard. He begins selling information to the Hutts. He also finds an abandoned baby aboard Paradise and in a moment unlike him, decides to raise her as a daughter.
16BBY - Paradise is recognised as a Neutral Zone, Koren frees a Twi'lek Slave 'Tara' and hires her to look after the needs of high end clients. Tram first fufills contract for Koren, upon a Bounty Hunter who smuggles weapons aboard Paradise to fufill a contract.
15BBY - Koren comes across the Shistaven Ballick and hires him as his personal body guard.
14BBY - Former Pirate Lord Xandu flees to Paradise as a neutral zone to seek refuge after his crew mutinies against him.
13BBY - Tired of being stone walled, Xandus former crew attack Paradise. Koren uses the resources at his disposal, and contacts to repel the attacks. He pushes Xandu out the airlock for bringing conflict to Paradise.
10BBY - Fledgling Rebellion groups reach out to the Golden Exchange for information/assistance. Koren refuses.
5BBY - Loretta begins to take part in day to day operations of the Golden Exchange. Local Imperials begin using Paradise for R&R and Information.
4BBY - Second attempt by Rebel Alliance to recruit Koren, and the ship. He sells them old AATs and MTTs, before selling information of the drop off to the Imperials.
0BBY - Destruction of Alderaan and then the Death Star (Death of Tarkin) shakes the Galaxy. Chaos erupts. Alderaanians are hunted down by the Empire, some seek refuge in Hutt Space and on Paradise. They become some of the few organic employees working in the higher class lounges and bars.
2ABY - Small up and coming band of smugglers attempt hiest aboard Paradise. Security measures are improved.
3ABY - As the War Continues outside, Koren starts gaining informants outside of Hutt Space.
4ABY - Jabba the Hutt dies, chaos erupts in Hutt Space creating a surge in Korens business as various individuals attempt to capatalize on the death of the most powerful Hutt. Emperors Death soon follows and the war takes a new turn as the New Republic forms. Koren gives a special tour to the new 'Queen Hutt' Boonatta, gives special treatment to Imperials left within Hutt Space in the hope that he can gain assets to expand his enterprise in time. Learns of New Republic task force sitting outside of Hutt Space.

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K O R E N G R A E F F

^{F O U N D E R O F T H E G O L D E N E X C H A N G E}

Species: Human
Age: 45.
Faction: The Golden Exchange
Equipment: 2x DL-18 Blaster Pistols, 2x R-1 Recon Droids (Personal), 1x Personal Energy Shield.
Skills:

• Combat Trained: Having been an Intelligence Officer in the CIS, he is profficient in short/mid range combat and hand to hand.
• Intelligence Gathering: It was his living for the CIS, and even now in CIS his living demands his knowing things. His organisation was built by him from the ground up, and he has an extensive network of agents throughout Hutt Space and even some beyond.
• Politics: He's a seasoned veteran at navigating deals and working with conflicting parties. Allowing his base of operations to become a neutral zone.
• Charismatic: Links to politics, however he's generally a well liked and respected individual. He is a smooth talker who has a way of putting people at ease.
• Psychological Student: Before he went on to become an Intelligence Officer he studied at Reena University and left with a degree in forensic psychology.

Weaknesses:

• Age: With age comes experience, though in potentially hostile and combat ridden environments the body slowing down and aching isn't a good thing. While he's still a good shot, his eyesight is worse, reaction times slower and he's not as agile as he used to be.
• Well Known: He's one of those figures that stands out in a crowd, not due to his actual appearance but simply because in the criminal underworld his is a household name.
• Lack of power: As the leader of an organisation in Hutt Space his currency is information, and money, there are many organisations that may even not be as well known as his with substantially more combat capability. Meaning he relies heavily on deals in order to stay alive.
• Untrusted: No-one in the criminal world trusts anyone else, least of all someone who deals in other peoples secrets.

History:

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Childhood

Koren was born in a time before the Clone Wars in the Outer-rim. Like many worlds during this time period his was one that was growing increasingly agitated at the Republics continual 'core world first' policies. Where everything seemed to be about the importance of the Core, and as such tensions on Raxus grew they shaped Koren into who he would become in later years. That said he always had a knack for finding out things, people told him their secrets and confided in him. As he grew up he honed his skills at reading people, though he didn't know it yet he was studying their body language and their tone of voice. He was picking up on cues to how they were feeling without even knowing it.

His parents, being Law Enforcement agents always wanted a similar line for career for their Son. He never really cared for the idea of helping people however, and was in fact far more manipulative. He only cared about how other people thought in order to further his own agenda, at fifteen he blackmailed another individual for the first time. A fellow student at the private school he went too, a rival from from another high ranking family who was seeing someone from a poorer district. The rival pretty quickly fell in line to what Koren wanted him to do for fear of reprecussions if his family ever found out he fell in love with a commoner. Towards the end of school he decided to study away, a course that would both benefit his ability to understand and manipulate people and keep his parents happy. So he was off to Reena.

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Secession

Shortly after he completed his studies the seccession crisis happened, as systems splintered away from the Galactic Republic finally fed up of their mistreatment, and the corruption in the senate. Raxus was one of these planets and the Separtatist Alliance was formed. While not officially recognised by the Galactic Republic, nevertheless it started the formation of it's own Parliamentary Assembly, Military and Intelligence Agencies. Seeing an opportunity not presented to him before hand Koren joined the newly formed Separatist Intelligence Agency. He was trained in methods of combat, infiltration, subtrefuge, information gathering and torture. Like many agents he was sent to other outer rim and mid rim worlds ahead of a representative of the Separatist Alliance in order to gather information on the local feelings towards the Republic, and if necessary help emphasis the feelings of discontent towards the Senate on Coruscant. Koren and agents like him helped to fuel the growth of the Alliance in its early days before the onset of the Clone Wars.

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Clone Wars

The Clone Wars were a turbulant time, Information was almost as important as ships and soldiers in the battlefield. Misinformation could cause the loss of a strategic planet while the perfect secret could be the key to victory in battle. Koren expanded his arsenal during this time, while many intelligence operatives preferred to rely on droids due to their reliability Koren placed himself in the middle of politics. Organic contacts were his currency, Senators Aides, Janitors in military complexes, waiters in officer clubs and clubs frequented by clones. He became well known in the Intelligence Community both on the side of the Republic and the Confederacy for someone who used anything at his disposal, crossing lines that others may not necessarily cross.

Blackmail, torture, coerscion, scandals. He placed people where he wanted them to be, and if they crossed him he would remove them from power just as fast as he had put them there. As the fire that was the Clone Wars burned he gained more renown, more power in the Intelligence Community. He gained rank, respect and power. All that was taken away by the death of Dooku. As Dooku perished and the war made a swift turn around, from a faulty attempt at capturing the Chancellor of the Republic which he felt was foolish, General Grevious took control of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Many systems loyalty began to falter and fade as they doubted Grevious' ability to lead the Separatists to victory, and true to a fault the war moved from stalemate to the Separatists loosing ground.

It wasn't long until a shut down order disabled all the droids in the Separatist military, the Galactic Empire stepped in and peace was brought to the Galaxy. Knowing there was no place for him in the newly announced Galactic Empire, and that the Separatist holdouts could not last forever Koren managed to reactivate a T-Series Tactical droid about the Providence-class Destroyer Vanguard. Inserting new protocols into the droid he took control of the ship and fled towards Hutt space.

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Hutt Space

Piracy would have been the obvious solution to gaining power quickly and efficiently. Though he knew better than to do that, while he had droids work on the interior and exterior of the Vanguard now named Paradise he left the ship in an uncharted system and went out into Hutt Space to work on gaining contacts. While initially it was slow going, so many intelligence networks already existed within Hutt space. With competitors at eachothers throats almost constantly he eventually got a substantial number of Organic and Mechanical contacts throughout the sector. Then the hardest part came.

He waited. For two years he gathered information, while some of it had to be acted upon quickly he didn't rush into things. He knew enough about the Hutt Cartel to know that if he sought power, and to thrive he needed to be patient and make sure he had enough influence to dissuade anyone of simply trying to capture or kill him. Then two years after the formatin of the Empire he appeared in Paradise above the trader world of Ilos Minor. The ship transformed from a warship into a vertiable resort, complete with luxury suites and casino rooms. A cruise ship for the most elite of the criminal underworld, a neutral zone to conduct business free of scrutiny.

Since then he has struck deals with many of the important players within Hutt space to allow Paradise to be a neutral zone, with weapons not permitted outside of the hangar. Security is tight, fighting is taken very seriously and most of the patrons know not to break the rules when in Paradise. As the Galactic Civil War turned from a spark into a raging fire the Rebellion discovered Korens past and tried to approach him in order to get him on their side during the conflict, though he saw little value in it for him. He never really held true to the beliefs of the Confederacy just as a means to an end. It was during this formation that he met his future bodyguard Ballick, who when they first met was beating up a drunk dug with a gambling problem for crossing him. While initially the partnership was difficult for Koren, he has come to know Ballick as the closest thing he has ever had to a friend.

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Out with the Old

AS the Emperor fell, Jabba fell and the New Republic rose things took a drastic turn within Hutt Space. The Hutt Council, designed to prevent infighting between Hutts faltered and failed. With Boonatta taking control Koren was quick to pay homage, offering her a week in the royal suite aboard Paradise free of charge. Her every need, and desire, catered for. After all she rose quickly to power, and reshaped the Hutt Council as it had been for centuries into her own court with her sitting firmly on top of the pyramid. Though he was sure to pay homage to the Imperial Moffs in Hutt Space, not that they had ever been incorrupt or in any real position of power other than as a figurehead between the dealings between the Empire and the Hutts. Though they had become an unpredictable variable, as while they had been content with their life of luxury and no rebel activity in Hutt Space with the fall of the Emperor and the disintigration of the Empire with lack of a leader there was the risk of them lashing out like caged animals.

He has also been taken into account the presence of a New Republic Task Force near the border of Hutt Space. Times are changing, though he isn't worried. Power changing hands is good for business, as people tear eachother apart they are always in need of information.

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@EliteCommander Given you your only bit of feedback on Discord.

Working on my character and his faction now.

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OOC

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@POOHEAD189@Warborn123@Rawk@Burning Kitty@Archmage MC@Tominas@Chev@Zarkun@Heat@Enalais@LordLinguinie@SunsetWanderer@Paradoxial

There be a thing here, though some of you noticed already.

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^{A C C E P T E D S H E E T S}

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^{A C C E P T E D C H A R A C T E R S}

Koren Graeff - Golden Exchange - @Sep
Sirka Rhiko - Independent - @EliteCommander
Elias Folen - New Republic Pathfinders - @CaptainBritton
Akazin - Prudii Verda - GM Controlled
Tez Novacore - Independent - @Alias - GMNPC
Boqo Stin - The Golden Exchange - @Sep Controlled.
Willoh - Independent - @Archmage MC
Zaheed Kast - Independent - @Vietmyke
Jascen Orro - Imperial Remnant - @Enalais
Elias Joranis Ordo - Independent - @Zarkun
Sol'id Fist - Independent - NPC
Talina Eriston - Imperial Remnant - @Heat
Klaatu - GORT Company - NPC
Ken Neumann - Believers - @Letter Bee
Uushaya Payano - Independent - GMNPC
Lez’Varfin - Believers - GMNPC
Leonard L. Scipio - Independent - @Letter Bee
Victor Tarick - Imperial Remnant - @vietmyke
Tesar Raine - New Republic Pathfinders - @Sep
Leonard Scipio - Independent - @Letter Bee
Strakisssh - Independent - @Chev
Lalni Vudeiz - Independent - @Heat

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^{A C C E P T E D F A C T I O N S}

The Golden Exchange - Information Brokers - @Sep
Prudii Verda - Mercenaries/Paramilitary
Operational Detatchement Foxtrot - NR Pathfinders - @CaptainBritton
Imperial Remnant - Ultmara Sector - @Enalais
GORT Company - Slave Traders