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Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

@Genni
These GM responses are usually written by multiple GMs by the way.

On nickname:
How about her nickname being based on something she did, rather than her name? Maybe something about how she jumps about?

Good on the atmosphere, acrobatics, planet name and guided towards guardian stuff.

The bits about referring to anakin/Yoda Confused @Sundered Echo a bit. He began to think you thought the RP was movie Era. It is to avoid confusing people that we recommend avoiding referring to unborn folks.

The thing with Jedi healing and medical care is that the best of the best aren’t on Coruscant. They are on H’Ratth, as that is the place where the best healers are trained and reside.

What we’re suggesting is that you have her having gone there (H’Ratth) first to be treated, maybe spend a bit of time there too, then eventually go to Coruscant for some reason (you can no doubt figure something out, and yes, it can be secret from the other players if you want) before being deployed back into the war. The Sacking and capture prevents that redeployment. An added bonus of spending time on H’Ratth is the option of creating new connections with other players. There are a few others also recovering from war injuries and such.

The Short shoto sabers can just as well block and deflect as larger sabers can. They just don’t have the same reach. Still, if you prefer to have Force Deflection rather than Tutaminis then that is fine. Its Jedi reflexes combined with lightsaber (of whatever size) that helps with deflection, not the size of the saber alone.

6-7 years is perfectly common age for someone to be taken in by the Jedi in this era. They’re not as strict in this era as they are in the movie era as age goes.
Still, your idea works as intended - though many of the children taken at such an age get over the bonds they may have formed, it may impact more or less on individuals. With the War still young when she was taken, the Jedi may not have been able to give her the appropriate care for one taking the separation hard.

The council isn’t opposed to relationships so long as they are healthy. Jedi having children is, after all, a fairly safe way to get more Jedi later. Force potential is hereditary. The one thing they do stop is parents training their own children. The council doesn’t go about killing someone’s partners. Not only is it not something they’d do, but it would also set the “widow(er)” on the path to the dark side.

In the case of your character, with non-force sensitive parents, there would still be reasonably enforced separation from her parents, at least until her adulthood, at which point her duty would largely keep her away from them.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

Alright @Rtron, we have reviewed your characters.

Sish and Nazca are fine, and accepted by all three GMs.
Zanna, however, needs a little bit of nerfing on the power front. Here is a revised power list for her.

Zanna’s powers:
Force Deflection OR Tutaminis(adv)
Force slow
Force fear
Force Lightning
Drain Knowledge
Sith Alchemy

We would suggest her simply knowing a lot of languages instead of Comprehend Speech.

With that out of the way, Zanna will be in acceptable state.

I do remind you to fulfill the Additional Requirement for all Characters.
Even Veterans such as yourself must do it in case of major catastrophe… which we really hope doesn’t occur.

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The OOC is up.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

GM checking in.

I'm in charge mostly of the Sith side of things, people can feel free to PM me or contact me on the IRC.

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Darth Nyiss

Name: Nyiss
Species: Sith Pureblood
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Faction: Sith Empire
Rank: Darth

Appearance:

Without the Lightsabers. Clothing varies.
Her Lightsaber:


Voice: Rich Contralto, natural high class Imperial accent.
Notable Race Traits: Natural Force Sensitivity. Natural Dark Side sensitivity.
Flaws:
Vain, easily seduced, obsessive with her goals.
Skills:
Lightsaber Forms: Form I - Shii-Cho, Form II - Makashi, Form III - Soresu, Form VI - Niman, Jar-kai, Trakata.
Bio-engineering, Archeology, among others.
Force capabilities:
Basic Sith powers - all at high levels of skill with the exception of Force Sight.
Force Lightning (Regular and Chain lightning)
Tutaminis (Capable of absorbing blaster shots with bare hands. Capable of catching the majority of Force Lightning. Not Capable of deflecting a Lightsaber.)
Force Healing
Detoxify Poison
Animal Friendship
Telekinetic Whirlwind
Tapas
Force Fear
Force Slow
Force Drain
Sith Alchemy

Biography:
Darth Nyiss’ rise to power is not well known among the Sith. She did not appear on the galactic stage until around nineteen years ago, roughly at the time she gained her present rank. What is known about her before that time, is that she is native to Dromund Kaas, like almost all older generation red sith. Her early training likely differed from many modern Sith due to being so far before the war. Her rise was not exactly meteoric, but nor was it slow. The details of what she did to gain her ranks are known only to very few, but rumour abounds that she possesses three holocrons that significantly aided her in gaining her position.

Her first well known action in the Galaxy was the command of a rather controversial battle far from the main lines. She was able to break a months long stalemate between Republic and Imperial forces through the orbital deployment of a type of mutagenic gas. The republic force was annihilated, most reduced to unidentifiable masses of flesh, with a few surviving beings but horrifically altered individuals. Roughly forty percent of the Imperial force on the ground also suffered this fate however. Imperial soldiers escorting Nyiss to the aftermath of the attack were reportedly unnerved by her clinical, cold fascination with the results.

She spent several years supporting the war effort directly - sometimes as a commander, employing often unusual (and costly) tactics to gain victories in extremely difficult situations. Sometimes fighting on the battlefield herself - bringing her considerable ability with the Force to bear on hapless Republic soldiers and Jedi alike. She did this both to aid the Empire in eventual victory and to gain enough personal favor with the Imperial armed forces to sequester a Harrower class dreadnought and several Terminus class destroyers directly to her command indefinitely. After she acquired the ships, she used them in only one engagement with Republic ships, crushing them handily, before disappearing once again for several years.

When she reappeared, she had one less destroyer and a number of highly unusual dark side artifacts in her possession. She travelled immediately to Korriban and transferred the artifacts to her facility on the surface (which she is believed to have acquired sometime before becoming a Darth). Though it is not known what knowledge she extracted from these mysterious artifacts, one thing that is certain is that she gained her eternally youthful appearance when she emerged from studying them.

It is believed that much of the knowledge she discovered from these strange artifacts has been distilled by her into three Sith Holocrons.

After this venture, she has only occasionally diverted her resources towards the war effort, and always with a specific personal goal, though it was not often clear to onlookers precisely what she was gaining. When not on the hunt for specific items or information, she has spent much of her time on Korriban, split between several archeological digs she controls and her personal facility, with its ever growing laboratories. Much of her research is, of course, private, but it is known that several chillingly lethal bio-weapons have come out of her labs, and that she has a voracious appetite for live test subjects, both animal and sentient.

Her most recent contribution to the war is to assist in the attack on Coruscant. With her Harrower class dreadnought in drydock receiving repairs, she instead contributed her Terminus class destroyers, including a heavily modified variant, the Kaggath. As ever, her presence is entirely due to an ulterior motive. In this case, that motive is to obtain Jedi prisoners, as well as more republic citizens to conduct tests on.

She has allowed a number of lesser Sith to join her for the return journey, and, seeking a competent individual to become her personal apprentice, has decided to institute a competition of sorts. The Sith who holds her favor, whether by turning the Jedi to the dark side most successfully or by impressing her in other ways, will be allowed access to one of the three Holocrons that contain the sum total of her power. At least until someone else manages to gain her favor.

Personality and/or Motivation:
A vain, power hungry woman with perhaps a little too much appreciation for the finer things in life. Nyiss is motivated equally by knowledge (any knowledge) and pleasure, but her ultimate goal is to ‘save’ the peoples of the galaxy… by bringing them all together under a perfect Sith Empire.

Player’s long term goals:
Complete the secret experiments. Facilitate Sith rivalry. Provide a ‘boss encounter’ of sorts for any Jedi or Sith seeking the ultimate challenge.

Relations:
Association with Lord Callidus. He is one of her more significant agents in Imperial Intelligence.

Admiration of Tolun Fi's work.

Final Point - Secrets:
The Secret experiment.
Contact Sundered Echo privately if you want in on this, but be aware that it will have major, life changing effects on your character if you agree to involve your character in it. By default no one is involved in this.

Jewel Namore

Name: Jewel Namore
Species: Imperial Human
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Faction: Sith Empire
Rank: Sith Lord

Appearance:

Voice: Mezzo-Soprano, cold and clinical. High class Imperial accent, but to the trained ear it is revealed this is not natural.

Notable Race Traits:
Though somewhere far up her family tree there were Red Sith, she has nothing to differentiate her from a regular human, such as found anywhere else in the Galaxy.

Flaws:
Unwilling to acknowledge anyone not a Darth is better than her at anything.
Handicaps her own Force ability through lack of self belief.
Overly cautious - sometimes doesn’t take opportunities if they present too much personal risk.
Complete lack of Empathy, calculating the worth of people as though they are objects.

Skills:
Lightsaber Forms: Form I: Shii-Cho, Form IV: Ataru, Form VII: Juyo
Skill in the use of poisons and drugs on others, as well as the Chemistry needed to create custom drugs.
Minor skill in Slicing.
Manipulation, particularly blackmail and framing.

Force capabilities:
Basic Sith Force powers.
Force Wound (extension of Choke).
Force Fear
Force Slow

Biography: Jewel Namore was born to a common family on Dromund Kaas, capital world of the Sith Empire, nine years before the war began. Her Force sensitivity was identified early, when she was a girl of six, and her parents immediately sent her off to the Sith academy on Dromund Kaas, for becoming Sith is the highest honour any individual can attain in Imperial society, and such a future was far more prestigious than any her parents could’ve given her. during these early years, she was fed a diet of propaganda decrying the Republic and the Jedi, while making the Empire seem like the best thing that had ever happened to the galaxy. The three years spent at Dromund Kaas Sith academy were largely to reinforce this, with many a lecture to her and the other young prospective sith about the history of the Empire and the nature of the Force. During this time she never really stood out, avoiding the ire of the more powerful children but never exhibiting any great displays of Force aptitude herself either. She simply never allowed herself to be challenged by the powerful children by often being the one that would point them at weaklings.

Just after her ninth birthday, the war began. The initial assault on the Republic was an incredible success, the Republic being caught totally unprepared and, like any loyal Imperial citizen, Jewel was thrilled to hear this. The most pertinent part of the assault however, was the figurative and practical retaking of Korriban. Though the Korriban facility was not ready for months after the victory, Jewel was sent there as soon as it was.

Life changed drastically when she arrived here. The academy on Korriban initially had only the most extreme overseers assigned to it, those whose goal it was to forge excellent Sith or kill the acolytes in the process. She was unprepared for the intensity, but it was adapt or die. Spurred by the recent Sith victories, she drove herself hard to fulfill her overseers demands. It was at this time that her lack of much Force aptitude became painfully evident. Among other punishments, she endured Sith Lightning from her instructors many times when she failed to demonstrate telekinetic feats fast enough, or later on failed to generate her own Sith Lightning.

Determined to redeem herself in the eyes of her Overseers and prove her worth as a Sith, Jewel threw herself into her Lightsaber training. She picked up the basics of Shii-Cho quickly, finding the randomised but simple strikes to her liking, though wishing for a more aggressive form to better vent her rage. Her instructors, seeing that, while by no means physically weak, she was still not built for power dueling, began to instruct her in the use of Form IV: Ataru. Though initially the Force acrobatics Ataru required proved difficult for her to incorporate into her movements, excessive practice allowed her to operate at least on par with the other Ataru students.

As well as this, she did her best to learn and understand as much Sith lore as she could get her hands on, primarily with the intent of overcoming her perceived inability to easily wield the Force. After a time she proved her ability in combat against the instructors, and was earmarked to become a Warrior for the Empire. To this end, she was promoted to an Apprentice and given training in the advanced Form VII Juyo, as well as limited training in recognising other forms of lightsaber combat. She was promoted to a Warrior Apprentice at the tender age of sixteen, having risen through the ranks somewhat faster than expected of her (and often at the expense of her compatriots) and sent off to the front to fight the Jedi and Republic soldiers.

During the many battles she participated in, many Republic soldiers fell under her blade. Not every battle she participated in was a victory, but even the defeats regularly proved costly for the Republic. Over the course of four years, she slew three Jedi Padawans and one Knight in single combat, before being struck down by a Master in a duel. After this defeat, she was rotated off the front lines and given extended Kolto tank treatment to restore her body from the moderate lightsaber wounds. When she was healed, she began to serve on the second line more, currying favour with Imperial military officials and carefully avoiding the attention of her Sith superiors. Though she saw only minimal combat for several years, she spent the time honing her skills on a more theoretical basis, as well as beginning to learn a wider variety of non-Force related skills.

At the age of twenty-four she rotated back onto the front lines for two years, slaying a further three Padawans and two Knights in battle. It was not long, however, before her prowess caught the attention of a Sith Lord in need of skilled minions. The Sith Lord recruited her into a covert ops division, initially to provide the heavy hitting power for when her squad needed to quickly deal with Jedi. She learned a great deal from her fellows though, walking the narrow line between respecting them enough to learn from them and still looking down on them for their lack of Force ability. Among them, she learned the art of poisoning, to which she took an immediate interest, and slicing, which she was merely competent with. Here as well she climbed the ranks and impressed her fellows and superiors.

One particularly memorable event during this time was a furious duel with a Jedi which ended in a stalemate. The Jedi’s cocky manner ensured that he earned a permanent place in Jewels plans. He would die by her hand, but only when he was thoroughly beaten and broken.

Eventually, she was sent on a mission to recover a number of artifacts from a temple uncovered by the war. The mission was personally issued by her patron Lord and without backup. She initially believed it a means of disposing of her, which was probably true, except when she discovered the nature of the artifacts, a plan dawned on her for usurping her patron. The artifacts were lightside Holocrons. This worked even more in her favor because if he actually was a lightsider, it was her duty as a Sith to remove him anyway.

Using the lightside Holocrons and the espionage skills she had picked up during her service, she framed her Lord, making him look like a Jedi sympathiser, then had one of her fellows report this further up the chain. With the blackmail in place, Jewel stepped naturally into the space vacated by the former Lord, who was now being taken away, investigated and ‘disposed of’ by people with even more power than him. Taking over a good portion of his network and calling in some favours from her military contacts, she had herself officially proclaimed a Sith Lord at the age of thirty-two.

Her power hungry nature demanded that she not stop there of course.

Initially she worked on strengthening her power base, ensuring she made few enemies and many friends. Though it cost her several opportunities to grow her power, she favored the slow and steady approach, knowing what happened to many a Sith who did not temper their ambition with caution. She began in earnest searching for a way to gain the rank of Darth in her thirty-fourth year. Competence alone was not enough for such a position. She had to be either truly powerful or truly brilliant. Though it counted for little at this echelon of Imperial society, she continued cultivating her connections with the Admiralty and Generals of the Empire. She began seriously looking into the collection of Sith Lore - something she, until now, had largely ignored in favor of more present concerns. She took and began training several promising Apprentices, using them to keep up her combative skills in between occasional deployments to the battlefield.

For a time, in her thirty-seventh year, she even managed to acquire direct control of a Terminus class Destroyer through her admiralty contacts. Three months after, the ship was sabotaged near Republic space by a rival Sith Lord who saw her as a threat. It came under attack by a Republic Heavy Cruiser, Jewel only narrowly escaping in a shuttle, but not before finding and interrogating the traitor that had carried out the sabotage. With the knowledge of who her Rival was, she waged a shadow war with her network, now including several covert ops groups of her own. She discredited her rival at every opportunity, making his powerbase look weak and diminishing his accomplishments.

Six months before the attack on Coruscant, she finally defeated this rival once and for all. Meeting him on Dromund Kaas, she poisoned him with a lethal toxin. Rather than let her actions be known and risk paying the price for murder, she instead framed one of his two most trusted Apprentices, making the murder look like just another clumsy attempt to gain power from the lower ranks. The authorities fell for the ruse, and Jewel got away cleanly with the murder.

The time between then and now she has largely spent restoring her own power base and putting up a strong appearance to the rest of the Sith world, for the shadow war was not without losses. Most recently, she has turned to the idea of personal power over wide influence to gain her rightful title of Darth. To that end, she has manipulated her way into a place on Darth Nyiss’ latest venture, the prison ship Kaggath, in an attempt to learn from the more powerful Sith. She is eager to acquire the Holocrons Nyiss is offering, for the alternative, attempt to have personal instruction from Nyiss, seems far too much like acknowledging she is not capable of doing it on her own.
Personality: Having combined determination, cunning and a highly versatile skillset with a selfish lust for power worthy of the most Arrogant of Darths, Jewel has climbed over countless other Sith to get what she wants. She has few scruples and will do almost anything to get an edge on her opponents. Above all, she is motivated by a need to feel superior to everyone around her, and so tends to keep them at a distance. For the most part she is cold, detached and haughty, but if sufficiently provoked is capable of great rage, which she controls only through the use of Juyo channeling techniques.
Player’s long term goals:
Ruthlessly pursue Darth Nyiss’ favor. Black mail and otherwise eliminate as many of her rivals as possible. End the life of a certain Jedi. Corrupt as many Jedi as possible, to make them see just how wrong about the galaxy they were, and in doing so set herself up as their superior.

All of this is only a means to an end. Ultimately, Jewel Namore seeks to gain the rank of Darth, possibly be usurping Darth Nyiss, and in doing so, prove her superiority to the entire galaxy.
Relations:
A lasting Vendetta with a particular Jedi she encountered during her covert ops missions. He has gained the dubious honor of being someone Jewel thought she could crush handily and then surviving her onslaught. Should she get another chance, she will ignore everything else to put an end to this man and prove her superiority once and for all.

Final Point - Secrets: She hides it as best she can, but she has difficulty wielding the Force while remaining in control of her actions. Regardless of her actual capability, she feels that she is weak in this area and because of the nature of the Force, she is weak, compensating for lack of raw strength and showy displays by making use of more subtle and complex powers. On the rare occasion that she totally and completely loses control, this self imposed inhibition evaporates. Her greatest fear is that someone will discover and exploit this secret.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

It is, in fact, listed in the ooc, which will go up tomorrow.

Part of the character creation is selecting Force powers, and we have provided a fairly large list of approved powers. Force Sight is not one of them, and since all Miraluka have Force Sight by default, they are, by extension, disallowed.

I know, it sucks. Miraluka are awesome. But Force Sight allows easy alignment detection and sight through walls, which makes it not only impossible to hide an alignment change but also very easy for the Miraluka to escape by virtue of knowing the position of every guard and Sith in the general area at all times.

Of course others might achieve similar results, but they will have to have done it with cunning and effort, not with an innate ability.

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I hate to be the negative one, but I'm afraid Miraluka characters are not being accepted, much as I love seeing a good Miraluka character.

This is because the nature of Force Sight gives them several rather extreme advantages that cannot really be accounted for and would lessen the enjoyment of the RP.

Coruscant Sacked: Aftermath

We're all full up on Sith Lords, but more Sith Apprentices are always welcome.

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, handedly 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. This is where you come in.

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

Option one: Jedi Prisoner

If you chose this path, you are a Jedi in the service to the Galactic Republic. You were among those counted lost but whose body wasn’t found, thankfully because you had avoided the atrium at the time of the Sacking. Else you would’ve been killed and added to the numerous dead found, further denying any hope to those who still desperately sought any survivors among the temple ruins. No matter if it was bad luck, the need to finish up a task or some other reason, you will now find yourself a prisoner of the Sith and Imperial troops who ransacked the temple. The only fate that awaits you are rather grim ranging in torture, clever tongues of truths and lies, and even cruelty beyond description… at least according to the Temple teachings.
Options: Turn to the dark side, attempt to escape or die trying. What option will you chose in your tale?

Option two: Jedi Rescuer

Unlike the Temple Jedi, you weren’t on Coruscant during the events that ended up rattling both the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order at their core. Instead you were away, completely ignorant of the struggle and horrors your fellow Jedi face. You were either among the numerous Jedi preparing for a mission intent upon rescuing several prominent captives of the Sith empire. Or you might be on a completely different mission. However, like many, when word reaches you about the Sacking it will most likely shock you. On the outside, the Jedi Order continue the peace negotiations but behind the scenes, a previously prepared rescue mission is launched. You are informed that both the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order cannot claim to have any responsibility for your actions because of the peace treaty, when it’s sign each of you are on your own in the end.
Options: Finding the missing Jedi, then doing everything in your power to rescue them or prevent more Sith from joining the ever growing ranks. Do you think you have what it takes either way?

Option three: Sith

As a Sith, you’re onboard the Kaggath, one of the numerous Sith ships involved in the Sacking of Coruscant. At first your task is simple as once on the republic ecumenopolis you must seek out, subdue and capture any Jedi found within the Temple. It’s an order bestowed by the powerful Darth Nyiss, herself. Your reasons for impressing her might vary as it does with all Sith. Some would do it to keep their lives from becoming a living nightmare onboard the Kaggath, using the power her influence would bring to their goals or even what they could learn to overcome future threats. The reasons are unlimited and few would deny there’s great benefits to becoming an apprentice under her. Sadly, like many great challenges, there are obstacles: your fellow Sith. It is a fact they view you as the same and have little whims about cutting you permanently out of the picture to achieve their goals.

Options: Earn Darth Nyiss’ attention to rise above your fellow contenders, either by capturing numerous Jedi or notable ones and turning them into future Sith. In addition, a close second is to ensure to remove your fellow Sith from the competition through any means necessary, even murder. How far are you willing to go to avoid being crushed and instead rise to the top?

Reveal your interest here or on the IRC and show which path you’ll take, or...
are you afraid to reveal it?

Mass Effect: The Face of Injustice

Character Sheet:

Name: Khel Zhar

Species: Krogan

Age: 693

Gender: Male

Appearance: In many ways Zhar looks like a completely unremarkable everyday Krogan. He has no distinguishing marks, his eyes are a normal Krogan yellow, his skin is the tan color of a middle aged Krogan and his plates are a fairly common dull brown. However, unlike most Krogan, Zhar puts effort into maintaining the symmetry of his head plates and generally ensuring he doesn't look too rugged. He favors a black custom-made business suit of light and highly expensive material with a number of micro shield generators inconspicuously hidden beneath the fabric. He is well spoken and has a deep but smooth voice, somewhat uncharacteristic of a Krogan. The Reaper war has left him with scars he had managed to avoid before then. He has several gouges across his head plates and scar tissue on the left side of his neck and elsewhere on his body.

Weapons/Equipment:
Evolution of the Viper Sniper Rifle (Phasic Rounds/Tungsten Rounds)
Evolution of the Carnifex Heavy Pistol (Cryo Rounds)
Evolution of the Locust SMG (Cryo Rounds)
Shielded business suit
Krogan Heavy armor (on the rare occasion when he puts himself into a combat situation on purpose)
Omni Tool
Asari Frigate (custom refit)

Skills and Abilities:
Excellent business sense.
Energy Drain
Shield Boost
Recon Mine
Tactical Scan
Sticky Grenade

Background:
Khel Zhar’s history is a long and storied one. He was born on Tuchanka to clan Khel, and was raised there as a true Krogan, although rumour has it that he was never very good at being ‘true Krogan.’ Precise details of his escape from the blasted rock that is the Krogan homeworld are surprisingly hard to come by, and will not be detailed here, suffice it to say that he ended up on the Citadel at the age of seventy-two with no idea what to do with himself. He worked for thirty years as a mere janitor, unwilling to take jobs involving violence as his compatriots did, but unable to find anyone on the station willing to look past his lumbering exterior at the keen mind within.

Eventually, Zhar managed to find one of these people - a Volus named Colu Sen. Under the Volus’ tutelage, he learned of Galactic finance and economics, and while initially not as fast to learn and adapt as his Volus partner and teacher, his persistent nature quickly saw the two of them founding and operating a small Galactic Finance company. The pair continued to run this small business for sixty years, until Colu Sen, in his old age, inadvertently thrust the pair into the world of corporate espionage and the buying and selling of Information. Colu died shortly after that, though it is not public knowledge as to whether he was killed or not.

Zhar remained on the citadel maintaining the business the pair had set up for roughly one hundred years, keeping the original company alive while branching out into founding other small companies, often only to let them die once they’d recouped their costs. This period of time broadened and deepened Zhar’s understanding of the business world considerably, to the point where he has an almost innate feel for the fluctuations that normally make it so unpredictable. While no psychic, Zhar’s personal worth has skyrocketed due to well placed and well timed investments. Unfortunately, some of his investments eventually drew the attention of the wrong people, and after narrowly surviving a brazen attack on his Citadel apartment, Zhar liquidated all of his citadel holdings and moved to Illium. He planned to let his reputation on the Citadel fade for a few hundred years while his detractors died of old age.

Once on Illium, he founded the first iteration of his business in Nos Parnello, and while initially highly successful, its fortunes followed those of the city into ruin. Ever the entrepreneur, Zhar not only survived but flourished in the adversity, relocating to Nos Astra and riding the sudden wave of popularity the city received to make his company one of the foremost in its area on Illium. Altogether, his stay on Illium has lasted approximately two hundred years.

When the Reapers finally arrived, it came as a surprise to Zhar, but not for the reasons most found it surprising. He had certainly believed there was more to the Geth attack on the Citadel than met the eye, but he never anticipated the scale of the Reaper invasion. When his contacts in the Batarian Hegemony went dark, he immediately saw to preparing his own defenses, as well as coordinating Illium’s preparations.

When the Reapers finally reached the Crescent Nebula, Zhar, and Illium, were ready. Though technically an Asari colony, and under protection by the Asari fleet, Illium has always been a haven for the rich and scrupulous - people that, for all their normal inability to get along, have one thing in common - a burning sense of self preservation. When the entire upper class of Illium put its considerable financial might towards that goal, they were able to assemble a formidable resistance to the Reapers.

With this corporate might, Zhar and a number of other Illium businessmen and women were able to survive the Reaper invasion, holding out long enough for Shepard to finally defeat the Reapers.

Following the Reaper war, Zhar decided to reevaluate his business. With such significant damage done to his Illium holdings, once the heart of his current business, he chose to start anew. Rather than rebuild Illium, he chose to create a mobile center for business. Initially he started small, making his office out of a tiny room on an old light freighter that had been one of his backup escape methods. He scrounged together a small merchant fleet and immediately began using it to assist in relief efforts throughout Council space, though with a particular focus on Asari colonies and Thessia.

Rather than greedily extort colonial governments in need of aid, he instead charged only enough to keep the business running at a very small profit. Though some of his rivals and fellows questioned his sanity for such a seemingly selfless act, the more intelligent among them realized it was not selfless, simply the long game being played at its finest.

His goals at that point were to aid in the restoration of a galactic economy and ensure the Asari could retain a significant role in galactic politics in order to continue carrying out their role as diplomats and negotiators. All to ensure there would continue to be an ideal peacetime environment for him to continue his goal from before the Reaper war - living a comfortable life far from Krogan ideals.

In more recent decades, Zhar has turned to somewhat more profitable endeavors. Though he maintains the colony relief and supply business, he has gone back into Information brokering, which has allowed him to restore much of his personal wealth and keep his debt to the Shadow Broker satisfied.

He is currently involved in personally overseeing his company's efforts in the Pylos Nebula, observing primarily from his personal command ship, the refitted Asari frigate Prosperous Heart, from which he also simultaneously manages his intelligence network.