Star Wars: Retaliation (OOC, Signups)

[Kenobot]

Very interesting scenario. Would be hilarious if someone had the high ground during operation knightfall and killed Vader, but potentially a bit too much of a meme.
Will put an app up ASAP

[Kenobot]

•Character Full Name: Woltorus

•Gender: Male

•Race/Species: Harch

•Age: 120

•Physical Appearance:

•Homeworld: Secundus Ando

•Personality: Bold, headstrong and more than often philosophically opposed to the Jedi Council, Woltorus was once a great Jedi Master known throughout the order for his combat skills

•Biography:

In the Final Days of the War, Woltorus was sent to the planet of Tythe to assist in the clean up operations to destroy all CIS forces on the planet, as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker whom had been there previously were rushed to Coruscant to rescue the Supreme Chancellor. Now in their make-shift headquarters in the old LiMerge Power Headquarters on Tythe, Woltorus and his commander continue co-coordinating their assault on Separatist positions.

•Lightsaber:

•Force Abilities:

•Preferred Saber Style: Woltorus is one of the most skilled practitioners of Form V of Lightsaber Combat in the Jedi Order; becoming far more experienced in its use over the course of the Clone Wars. Certainly useful against the Battle Droids they faced on a near-daily basis.

•Secondary(Second favored, Optional) Saber Style: While Form V is Woltorus' favoured style and most used, while a Padawan he was taught Form II by his master. While out of practice, he could pick it up fairly simply with enough training

•Location (Prior to Protocol 66): LiMerge Power Headquarters, Tythe

•RP Sample: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=482353&p=36960721#p36960721

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[Brusia]

When i typed that up it was in Word. Word didn’t like some of the spellings but it gave no grammatical errors.

As for the name of the Flag ship not going to matter much since it is full of evil clones and they are going to abandon it.

Word doesn't catch everything, so I'd definitely still recommend proof reading. For instance, Word may not have picked it up but the sentence: "When they go their they found little to no activity, they found several dead engineers and four destroyed droids as well as numerous inactive droids" in Jay's app has a number of grammatical errors.

And the problem is, even with a brief appearance, it's still inconsistent with Star Wars lore, so I'd still recommend changing it before a final evaluation.

[Richonne]

Word doesn't catch everything, so I'd definitely still recommend proof reading.

for something i do for fun if word doesn't catch it then it doesn't matter if you are going to be a grammar nazi the entire time then I'll have to drop

[Jedi Council]

Word doesn't catch everything, so I'd definitely still recommend proof reading.

for something i do for fun if word doesn't catch it then it doesn't matter if you are going to be a grammar nazi the entire time then I'll have to drop

Disclaimer: I am not an OP or Co-Op in this RP so my opinion may not matter.

I am going to just have to say it is not terribly hard to proofread. I find Word failing to capture a lot of my mistakes when I write, especially narratives like RP posts. While mistakes are natural and everyone can make them, they do degrade the quality of the writing and makes it harder for the reader to follow along.

I would say Brusia is not at all being a "grammer nazi," I am sure they are just interested in maintaining quality writing and giving constructive criticism.

My strategy is reading out loud; I find that when I write for school I tend to read all my work over out loud to make sure it flows well. Vocalizing it makes you focus more on the words themselves as well, so you can pick up things you may have missed by just reading in your head.

Maybe that might help?

[Richonne]

My strategy is reading out loud; I find that when I write for school I tend to read all my work over out loud to make sure it flows well. Vocalizing it makes you focus more on the words themselves as well, so you can pick up things you may have missed by just reading in your head.

Maybe that might help?

That’s fight for those that can hear.

[Dentali]

tag hope this doesnt die like so many Star wars RPs

[Dentali]

•Character Full Name: Berethon Horn (Jedi Knight)

•Gender: M

•Race/Species: Human

•Age: 36

•Physical Appearance:



•Homeworld: Corellia

•Personality: Cold, Calm, Collected, Pragmatic, Focused, Believes in giving himself over to the force, tendency to blame himself, loner

•Biography: (A minimum of one paragraph)

Berethon was born to the illustrious Halcyon/Horn Family in 55BBY. He was quickly identified as force sensitive and taken to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, he was identified as a gifted student and at age 12 was promoted to a padawan under Master Depa Bilaba in 43BBY. He was good friends with Siri Tachi, and Bant Erin developing a friendly rivalry. In 39 BBY was commended for his role in helding negotiate the end to the Andoan Wars alongside his master after successfully investigating and uncovering a plot to disrupt peace negotiations, this is just one such incident where the Jedi would use stealth and subterfuge to ensure peace. From 36BBY- 34BBY he committed himself to study and training at the Jedi Temple as his master became a member of the Jedi Council.

Knighted in 34 BBY he eagerly joined the Jedi Task Force led by Count Dooku against the Mandalorians in the battle of Galidraan where he distinguished himself as a noted practitioner of Soresu. Berethon would continue to travel the galaxy taking a padawan and inserting himself in conflicts and various investigations over the galaxy including covertly investigating the Trade Federation following the battle of Naboo. In 26BBY he was part of an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a peace to the Spean Civil War. before deploying once again in the campaign against the Pirates of Iridium after which he became disillusioned with the ability of the Jedi to handle further military crisis, in light of this he enrolled at the Anaxes War College until 22 BBY.

During the Clone Wars Berethon Horn led a battalion of special forces on missions behind enemy lines to attack and sabotage Sepratist military assets. This included notable actions at Mygeeto, Garqi, Ord Radama, Ossus and Sluis Van. He and his battalion are currently on the planet Enarc in order to sabotage a number of Sepratist ships currently in port.


•Lightsaber:(Linked image or detailed description.)



•Force Abilities:

Like all members of the Halcyon/Horn family, Berethon is notably lacking in telekinesis but is particularly strong with illusions and tutaminis.

Scale of 1-10

Force Push/Pull: Level 1

Force Speed: 6

Force Strength: 6

Force Stealth: 8

Force Illusion: 8

Tutaminis: 8

Battle Meditation: 5

Non-Force Abilities: Lockpicking, Hacking, Disguise


•Preferred Saber Style: Soresu (Master Level)

•Secondary(Second favored, Optional) Saber Style: Shien/Djem So(Apprentice Level)

•Location (Prior to Protocol 66): Enarc

•RP Sample:

[The Imperial Republic]

Word doesn't catch everything, so I'd definitely still recommend proof reading.

for something i do for fun if word doesn't catch it then it doesn't matter if you are going to be a grammar nazi the entire time then I'll have to drop

I will not stand for disrespect to my Co-OP. Since you will not adhere to Co-OP instructions, consider yourself removed from the RP. Please do not post here again.

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[The Vaktovian Empire]

Very much so interested. Out of pure curiosity will you as the OP or Co-OP be taking on all of the actions of our clones and such, following their betrayal?

[Herador]

So here's a question: in this version of the setting do Clones have inhibitor chips or are they just mentally conditioned?

If it is an inhibitor chip, would Clone commando's also have them?

[Herador]

A'ight, gonna get a little strange here with some things I want to do, but lets see how it pans out.

•Character Full Name: Cor Jardin

•Gender: M

•Race/Species: Human

•Age: 27

•Physical Appearance:

•Homeworld: Nar Shaddaa

•Personality: Cor's caring nature and compassionate disposition are the very things that his master tried to bring out in him during training, the things that would make him a great Jedi, but these things are muddled with the anger and pain he holds deep inside. Prefers to become a part of social groups rather than stand out, evidenced by his proficiency with not only hand to hand combat but also his usage of a vibroknife and DC-15 blaster pistol in combat. Subscribes to the theory of The Unifying Force.

•Biography: Raised in the slums of the Hutt's crown jewel, Cor's early life was a brutal lesson in how the galaxy worked. Even today Cor refuses to speak about what happened then, what little he could manage to remember is held deep inside, the only person to have a sense of what these memories are being his current Padawan Shel Tozu who could get glimmers of what was there through their powerful force bond. Out of respect for Cor's privacy she would never reveal specifics, but admitted to Master Depa Billaba that what was there wasn't dangerous, it was simply a pain carried without an outlet.

Found alone and abandoned at age 6 by Jedi Knight Xavrud, a Seeker, would recover the child and return him to the Temple. Though old, he showed promise, not prodigious, but a talent never the less and a clear ability to control what he did have access to. Cor's arrival was rocky, he was self-isolating and seemed to stick closely to older authority figures. From early on it was clear that something troubled the lad, so much so that he only seemed to truly confide in Xavrud, so much so that by the time it was time for him to begin his apprenticeship, he made it clear he would accept no one else, a situation made somewhat problematic in that Xavrud did not feel like he would be an adequate teacher to a Padawan and had yet to take one. What transpired between the two is a secret to everyone but them, but it's clear that whatever was said convinced Xavrud to take on the youth, and the two would become inseparable for nearly a decade.

The two managed to get into no end of trouble, they continued Xavrud's tradition of going to places where young force users would be abandoned, mistreated, or outright abused for their gifts, seeking to rescue them from lives of misery and bring them to where they could make the most of their gifts. During this time, Xavrud trained a young Cor on the finer points of stealth and his personal creed that a fight might sometimes be necessary and, if it is, you need to end it quickly. In the softer parts of the Republic a Jedi can solve any problem with a word and a wave, but in the outer rim? Where a credit was dead weight and your aim meant everything? You had to be ready to fight to live. Cor took these lessons to heart and was a quick learner, good enough that he passed his trials on 22 BBY, beginning the roughest period of his life as a Jedi so far.

Cor meant to be good, he tried hard, but his assignments never felt right to him. He always felt like the places the Council sent him were ill-suited to the skills Xavrud had given him; Cor wasn't a diplomat, he was an infiltrator, he had the skills of a spy, and when the time called for it he could take a life. So when war came, Cor was privately relieved. He knew conflict, he was comfortable in a fight and if he could use his talents in pursuit of the Jedi goals, he could feel like he had a purpose.

His purpose was Saber Squad. A Clone Commando unit that Cor fell in with on deployment to an outer rim hot zone. At a joint request form both himself and Saber Team, he became the Clones squad leader, they were weapons and Cor was quickly accepted as a squadmate in the tight night group, becoming an ersatz brother when he lost his lower right leg sheltering CC-8911-22 "Cable" from a thermal detonator that would have killed the incapacitated clone. Some Jedi saw the Clones as disposable, others tried to justify the expense of lives as a necessity, but Cor saw something else. He was, to his own mind, like the Clones, given little choice and bred to become something. Instead of privately raging against the man he was like he had been for so long, he came to accept himself in the company of these soldiers. Esprit De Corps could do wonders, it seems.

After two years of active frontline service, Saber was rotated back for a brief stint of rest on Coruscant, here Cor would meet his future Padawan Shel Tozu, a similarly trouble youth who had gone well into her teens, closer in age to Cor than to the majority of her fellow younglings. Shel and Cor became fast friends, she hung onto his stories of daring and espionage, begging him to accept her as a Padawan. He agreed, but on one condition: Saber had to accept her. Saber's trial was a fast one, Commando "Colt" told her bluntly that she needed to go toe-to-toe with the squad and not tap out for them to accept her as a worthy addition. Before Cor could intercede, Shel accepted. The Trial was nothing like a Jedi Ceremony, it took place deep in Coruscant's lower levels in an abandoned warehouse. The rules were simple: no guns, no knives, no armor, and no force, only hand-to-hand. She had to last thirty minutes without submitting and Saber would be willing to work with and train the young Jedi. In sixteen minutes she had bested two of the four in an ambush, appearing from the shadows to subdue both with quick strikes. By minute twenty it was only Colt left, but the former squad leader was as skilled as they come, and the pair grappled until the thirty minutes was up. As Cor called time and ran to assess the youngling, Colt helped her up first, brushing dirt from her cheek, he calmly grunted "She'll do." and motioned for her to help him collect her new squadmates. She was now both a Padawan and a member of Saber squad.

No master would have been happy with the arrangement, but few knew the specifics of how Cor operated and no one knew what had gone down in the abandoned warehouse, in fact, the most challenging part of the arrangement was getting young Shel a suit of Katarn Armor, becoming the second Jedi deemed worthy of wearing their own suit. They have been fighting as a unit ever since, and seemingly most importantly to the pair of Jedi, a family.
•Lightsaber:

•Force Abilities: Battle Precognition, Force Cloak, Force Deflection, Force Push (general telekinesis).

•Preferred Saber Style: Form V Djem So trained using the Jar'Kai technique.

•Secondary Saber Style: Form III Soresu trained using the Jar'Kai technique.

•Location (Prior to Protocol 66): Jedi temple, returning from assignment to rearm.

•RP Sample: Everything I apply to has died. I can link something but it's only going to be a few pages.

So depending on the inhibitor chip question, I'd love to keep saber squad around, gives me a chance to flesh out some sick Generation Kill/Republic Commando vibes. If the Padawan and Clones are approved, I'll do short write-ups for them

[The Imperial Republic]

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[Castriarta]

•Character Full Name: Ra Ada Vian Aenir (Jedi Knight)

•Gender: Male

•Race/Species: Anzati

•Age: 200

•Physical Appearance:

Despite Anzati having considerably higher than average levels of physical performance than humans or most other near-human species (the baseline for a normal, healthy Anzati when it came to speed and strength being the pinnacle of what a human could hope to achieve in athletic performance), they were surprisingly small in stature. Ra Ada is an average-sized Anzati male, standing at about 5 foot 5 inches, or 1.67 meters. This makes Ra shorter than most other male humans or near-humans, despite his physical superiority due to the enhanced strength, speed, and superhuman reflexes of his naturally predatory species. Ra has long flowing white hair, and apart from his eyes (glowing golden with a slightly diminished light orb in the center) he is indistinguishable from a human.
As far as clothes, Ra dresses in a slightly more sophisticated manner than many of his Jedi peers, distinguished by his inspiration from traditional Anzati garb that affects his robe-choice. He is often seen in elegant, flowing cassocks and cloaks that are adorned with beautiful yet minimalistic designs that pay subtle homage to the omnipresent auroric lights of his homeworld.

•Homeworld: Anzat

•Personality: Ra Ada is a reserved and watchful Jedi. Always a master of restraint, the Anzati prefers to hold his tongue and stand in the shadows, watching events as they play out rather than asserting himself in a brash and overconfident manner. He is cautious, but also restless, always on the move, analyzing and studying every situation with the hyper-inquisitive mind of a centuries-old scholar. However, despite his stern demeanor and seemingly composed exterior, Ra Ada has a reputation as being one of the more eccentric Jedi Knights. Years of study into the esoteric histories and philosophical secrets of the Jedi and of his people, the naturally Force-sensitive Anzati, have left their mark on Ra, making him a rather uncommon Jedi. Ra has a unique mesh of progressive and Traditionalist perspectives in his ethical and philosophical worldview, and a quite abnormal personality of one who does not like to assume answers any more than he likes to give them. He was known as a frustrating teacher to any Jedi who studied under him during his time as a scholar at the Temple due to his emphasis on self-discovery and his conviction that the weight of learning lies on the learner. Ra has a mixed sense of heritage and the continuation of Tradition alongside a strong belief in individualism.

•Biography: Due to belonging to such an extremely long-lived species, Ra Ada has had a lengthy life compared to most beings. Although he is nearly ancient compared to many of his peers, Ra is young by the standards of his species, having not yet reached middle age. Anzati are not even considered full-grown adults until they have reached one hundred years of age, although they exit childhood and enter adolescence around the same age as humans, when they are twelve or thirteen.

Ra Ada was discovered and taken by the Jedi during his infancy, before he can truly remember. Thus his earliest memories are of years in the Temple as a Jedi youngling, becoming increasingly dedicated to the teachings, history, and tradition of the Jedi order. As an Anzati, Ra was self-conscious and shy of his identity, ashamed of his species and their reputation as predators and killers. He was an eager young Jedi, wanting to prove himself and how different he was from other Anzati, determined to serve the Force in a wholehearted and noble manner for all of his life, and to walk his path through the story of the Galaxy as a servant of the Light Side. Ironically (but predictably for those familiar with the mysterious workings of the Force), this desperate need to reject the “evil” Ra saw in his own nature and to purify himself as an instrument of the Light, actually drove the young Anzati to his first encounters with the Dark. Ra had not yet discovered that one cannot deny their nature, and that the path of the Light Side is one of total acceptance. His passion to become a servant of the Good threatened to fill him with a narrow-mindedness that excluded the humility necessary to actually discovering the will of the Light. His drive to be the perfect Jedi became a dangerous temptation in itself, an ambition tainted by vanity that blinded him to the compassion and acceptance that transform any true Jedi with the action of passivity, where the individual’s will is totally surrendered to that of the Light Side of the Force, and the One becomes transcendently unified with the All within a single body and mind. Ra became a somewhat troublesome youth, getting into conflicts with other Jedi in his short-sighted drive to defend his supposedly “perfect” and untarnished commitment to the Light Side. Ra Ada became unable to hear any serious criticism, unable to consider that his zeal was misguided. He faced, for the first time, the lust for power: the promises of the Dark Side, although they were hidden within his commitment to the Light Side. He grew in emotional volatility, easily provoked by bullying from other younglings. His desire to prove how far away he was from the predatory evil of his people turned this predatory nature in on himself, creating internal conflict for the young Anzati.

It was at this age that Ra Ada began vigorously training himself in the lightsaber discipline of Makashi, which he saw as being the purest and most traditional of the forms. It was his belief that the neglectful attitude taken towards it by many of his fellow students, who favored the “flashier” or more modern forms, signaled a deeper neglect to the demands of being a Jedi at all. The Makashi lightsaber form matched well with the Anzati child: as predators, the Anzati are built for the refined art of combat analytics, calculated stalking, and tactical force-of-mind. This predatory mindset aligned with the heavily focused approach of control and intensity in Makashi. His extraordinarily heightened reflexes and psycho-physical awareness, due to the Anzati’s highly developed sensory organs unknown to any other sentient species, allowed Ra to excel at the form. Another key component of the Makashi form is its implementation of a multi-layered mental manipulation of the battle by the practitioner. A Makashi master is known to be able to effortlessly guide every level of the fight to his advantage, creating the exact situation that he desires without his opponent even gaining awareness. This tactic meshed particularly well with Ra Ada’s skillset. All Anzati are naturally gifted with powers of psychic manipulation or mind control, and as a Jedi Ra excelled in these areas. This allowed him to be constantly active both physically and mentally, foreseeing and guiding all aspects of the duel. He could feed into his enemy’s emotional, intellectual, or physical strengths/weaknesses, becoming a very skilled tactician. By the time Ra and his peers were old enough to graduate from younglings to padawans, the Anzati was known as a promising duelist, capable of beating almost all of his fellow students.

Furthermore, the Anzati youngling gained a passion for the scholarly vocations of the Jedi. Despite his skill with the blade, Ra Ada’s true love was always the pen. He was a voracious reader, eager to spend endless hours in the Jedi Archives, ceaselessly thirsty for more knowledge. Due to the fact that Anzati have no need for either food or sleep, Ra Ada was able to spend extended periods of time studying that would have been unrealistic for almost any other being. It was a common occurrence for Ra to spend multiple days immersed in uninterrupted research, pouring through hundreds of obtuse documents. Ra Ada developed good relationships with the Order’s older librarians and scholars, often engaging in high-minded academic or theoretical discussions with a competency that was considered very impressive for someone of his age. Unfortunately, these special qualifications only increased Ra Ada’s temptation to the Dark Side by fueling a latent sense of pride in him. Facing, on the one hand, an unhealthy shame and desire to suppress his natural condition and, on the other, an unhealthy sense of superiority over his peers, Ra had many struggles ahead before he could become a true Jedi.

When he was chosen as an apprentice at the age of twelve, he made a very good match with the Togrutan Jedi Gonsul Kharoch who was to be his Master. Master Kharoch was an energetic Jedi who was always seeking the hardest and most missions that the council had to offer. The Togrutan Master had a philosophy of the Jedi’s role as living servants. He believed that Jedi must always be engaged in active dedication to those in need around the Galaxy: and the Galaxy is never in short supply of those in need. Kharoch and his young Anzat padawan often found themselves in the middle of planetary conflicts, civil wars, natural disasters, and so on. Ra Ada’s passion for scholarship was put on hold for the years of his apprenticeship to Master Kharoch, as the Togrutan believed that the pursuit of knowledge must be completely subordinated to the real tasks of the Jedi: providing concrete material aid to those in need of help. Beside this extreme and somewhat controversial interpretation of Jedi philosophy, Master Kharoch also had a reputation for his political views: he was a staunch critic of the Republic, completely sickened by the bureaucratic Galactic government the Jedi upheld and defended. During his apprenticeship to Master Kharoch, some of the Togrutan's infamous radical political views began to rub off on the developing Anzati Jedi. Ra Ada was taught in this early political education to view the Republic as a decadent, corrupt bureaucracy that was slowly and parasitically stealing power away from the People -- the trillions of ordinary beings across the Galaxy who were (in Master Kharoch's eyes) the true might and wonder of Galactic civilization.

The pair were prolific servants of the People. Ra Ada and Master Kharoch were constantly going from mission to mission, with rare breaks in between. As Kharoch’s padawan, Ra Ada began studying and eventually gained impressive proficiency with the lightsaber form Niman. The Togrutan Jedi saw the Light in a much more pragmatic manner than the views Ra had formed in his time immersed in the ancient scrolls of the Jedi Archive. Kharoch saw the Force almost as a tool. To him, a Jedi did not serve the Force best by contemplating its mysteries and gaining esoteric powers that aided nobody but himself: the true Jedi pursued the Force only insofar as it aided him in his mission to serve others. He stressed the importance to Ra of applying his power’s practically. Thus, Niman became a useful practice for the Anzati padawan to develop. Form VI’s emphasis on integration of Force powers into combat sequences was something that Ra picked up swiftly. Beside this, now that Ra found himself in the field and forced to deal with a huge range of unexpected situations at a moment’s notice, the jack-of-all-trades skillset provided by the Moderation Form suited his needs well. His lightsaber was no longer simply an instrument of power demonstration in competitions with his classmates, or the object of abstract theoretical reflection based on texts he found in the Archive: it was now his lifeline, the very means of his success or failure in crises of profound importance. During his time as Kharoch’s apprentice, Ra’s relationship with his lightsaber come to life for him in a dimension he had not experienced before: as an applied tool.

Unfortunately, although they gained fame and respect across the stars for their successful resolution of countless crises around the Galaxy, Master Kharoch and Padawan Aenir eventually got in over their heads. The two Jedi got caught up in a messy Outer Rim mission involving an intergalactic crime syndicate and a conflict between an ancient planetary government and a revolutionary movement. In the chaos of that most difficult mission, the aging Togrutan master was slain. Caught up in his grief at the loss of his master, and the idealistic flames of the Togrutan’s political fervor, Ra Ada disobeyed orders from the Jedi Council and stayed to complete the mission, whatever the cost. Although it was taxing, the young Jedi Padawan succeeded, and returned to a hesitantly approving Council. Although the Padawan had completed his mission, the Council was wary of his rebelliousness and his passion, which they saw as temptations and dangers. To ensure the young Padawan faced and conquered these weaknesses before initiation into knighthood, the Jedi gave him a second master -- a fellow Anzati, the stern and conservative Master Beo Za Rathalt.

Under this second master, Ra’s training moved at a much slower pace. The Anzati Jedi Master was nearing 1700 years of age when Ra’s apprenticeship to him began. Master Beo Za had seen a lot: governments and political movements rise and fall; young species born and ancient ones gone extinct; entire generations of heroes and villains passing by like dust in the wind; technological and scientific breakthroughs; tragedies and triumphs that defined an age and yet were quickly forgotten by their grandchildren; wars and hard-won treaties; and much more. The venerable Jedi had begun to see past the inevitable swells and fluxes of life in the Galaxy: he knew there was something beyond it all. That permanent, immovable Beyond, he called the Force. The Sustainer of all life in the Galaxy, yes: but also its destroyer. The Force called everything into being, but so did it take it all away. Master Beo Za saw that the mind of his new apprentice had been captured by the tides and currents of this world; Ra was not fixed immovably in the solidity of the Force, like a Jedi should be. Yes, Master Beo Za did think the Jedi were servants: but not servants of the world. Not servants of anything that might fade and die. The Jedi were called to be servants of the unfading Light. Beo Za determined to clear Ra Ada’s head of idealistic illusions, and pierce his heart with the transcendent reality of the Light Side.

To do this, Master Rathalt reintroduced his new apprentice to Anzat culture, wanting him to know exactly where he came from and what it meant, and how to be proud of this history. Beo Za saw that his apprentice was struggling deeply with his identity, and he understood. He too knew the difficulties of being a member of a species naturally connected to the Dark Side, and yet finding oneself commissioned to service to the Light. He had compassion for Ra Ada, and knew that his path would not be an easy one. Their study began in the Jedi archives, where they spent months together dedicating most of their time to the study of their people. Every story or artifact with any mention of or connection to the Anzati was examined by the pair. They understood their species from the perspective of hundreds of scientists, historians, warriors, diplomats, priests, criminals, and more, from hundreds of eras and cultures. During this time, Master Beo Za forced Ra into a rigorous training regimine. The two spent countless hours honing their dueling skills, with Ra Ada multiplying his proficiency in both of his preferred combat styles, as well as gaining familiarity with all of the others. Master Beo Za taught Ra that he must play to the advantages of his species: he must not fight against his nature. Ra began training his already exceptional mental and sensory powers. Ra’s powers of awareness, premonition, telepathy, active meditation, empathetic insight and emotional control, and Force-enhanced senses were brought to a level impressive for nearly any Force user. Besides these skills, Ra gained increased proficiency in Control powers such as superhuman strength, speed, jumping, endurance, and reflexes; extreme stealth and ability to cloak oneself from nearly all detection; extreme proficiency with Art of Movement; pain control; and Ra even began to gain skill with the rare Force power Morichro, where one manipulates another being’s internal physiological condition.

He sought to encourage Ra Ada to apply himself to intellectual challenges and develop an ability to see nuance in the world. In their studies in the Archives, Beo encouraged Ra to see both the relativity of every individual view, and their underlying elements of universality. That is, though every idea is of course a consequence of the environment in which it is born, and no single mind or association of minds has possession of the ultimate Truth, every single idea contains some inkling of the transcendent Idea, every small truth is derivative of the ultimate Truth, and all minds are connected to and have varying degrees of access to the transcendent Mind beyond minds where they are all united as One.

Following their period of intensive study in the Jedi Archives, Master Beo Za initiated the next stage of his plan to overcome Ra’s shame-fueled attempts to suppress his nature. The two Jedi traveled to Anzat, the ancestral homeworld of their species. While here, they began a hands-on exploration of the ancient ways of the Anzati. Ra discovered ever-more about his people’s culture, beginning simply with exposure to the geography of the planet Anzat itself. One thing stands out about Anzat, above all else: the omnipresent, ethereal auroric lights. These lights were believed by the first Anzati to be the souls of their ancestors, and were a foundational element of the Anzati belief system. Called the “Silent Voices” since ancestral times, they guided the Anzati into their first encounters with the “Soup”, the “personal presence,” the “life essence”, the “sea of memory” that the Anzati hunted: in other words, with the Force. From his readings in the Archive, Ra knew that many Jedi scholars believed this Soup to be the future, and thus, the Force. He also read accounts by smugglers and pirates who had witnessed Anzati gaining full knowledge of the memories, emotions, desires, and personalities of those whose life they had devoured, and thus believed the Soup to be the past. Ra knew that the true nature of this Soup was beyond anything offered by mere rationalistic conceptual definition: it was the mystery of the primordial unfolding of Being itself. The Silent Voices on Anzat were the forces of disclosure of this primordial unfolding: an unfolding that is hidden in its very revelation, by its means of revelation. Thus the voices speak in their silence, they are silent in their speech. Ra encountered the Silent Voices of Anzat in a mystical way, as an encounter with the Living Force. It was in this way, overwhelmed by immersion in the Silent Voices of Anzat, that Ra first truly experienced the staggering presence of the binding reality that is the Force.

As Beo Za and Ra Ada traveled deeper into the shadowy world of Anzat, Ra discovered another element of Anzati culture that would bring him closer to Jedi ideas he had read about. This element of Anzati culture was the Hunt. For Anzati, the Hunt is a synonym for Life, and for Death. It is the end and the beginning of Anzati existence; the genesis and the conclusion; the means and the ends; the goal and the method by which it is achieved; the meaning and the truth. The hunt is the purpose of life and the way it is to be lived. It is the absolute center of Anzati culture, the point around which all else revolves. The Hunt is the only thing that matters to the Anzati. Many have called them a species of addicts. What Ra discovered, however, in his time with Master Beo Za, is that what the Anzati are addicted to is the pure flow of the Force. Whether Light or Dark, Life or Death, the Anzati are hunters of the passing of the Force, and its presence in other living beings.

As Ra and Beo Za traveled through the Anzati homeworld, more and more of their brethren were revealed to them. The Anzati lived in solitude or with small groups, lurking in caves and various hiding place across the planet. The eldest Anzati were the hardest to find, the most secretive. The ancient ones, the oldest of which were believed to have lived for eons, were also considered the wisest. Wisdom, in the eyes of the Anzati, is very different from what most other species consider it to be. Knowledge, in the Anzati view, does not consist of the accumulation of facts, truths, ideas, concepts, or anything else that would normally be considered the task of wise men, scholars, or academics. To the Anzati, all of that is passing, fading, temporary. For beings who can live for hundreds, thousands, millions, or even billions of years, and have seen languages be born and die out, countless systems of thought, political, scientific, religious, and every other idea rise and die out, to engage in contemporary “scholarship” is as much of a passtime as playing sports. The greatest of poetic, literary, artistic, philosophical, or political pursuits and pastimes are, to the Anzati, but fading pleasures. Why spend years dedicating yourself to an art that will fade and be forgotten in less time than it took for you to reach middle age? The only thing that matters is the Hunt. The only thing with value is the Hunt. The only true wisdom is the wisdom of the Hunter, and the only true knowledge is knowledge of the Hunt. The eldest Anzati, the ones who are older than entire star systems, have been totally consumed by the Hunt. They are one with the Hunt, and have disappeared into it. Their craving is totally the craving of the Hunt. The wisdom of these ancient ones is a living wisdom, a killing wisdom, a wisdom beyond any words or teachings or practices. It is a felt wisdom, a wisdom known during the pursuit and killing of the prey.

The more time Ra spent on Anzat, the more he learned from the elder Anzati who lived there and from the ever-present Silent Voices. He gained a deep respect for his people, and Master Beo Za was proud to see that his student was beginning to overcome some of the temptations to the Dark Side that Ra had long hidden from himself. However, Beo Za knew that now Ra had finally faced the truth about his people, instead of hiding from it, the greatest test was soon to overcome: to grapple with these truths, and overcome the Darkness of his natural instincts. Not to deny them, but to accept them, and transcend them by doing so. Beo Za believed that to be an Anzati Jedi meant stepping into the Darkness so one could be redeemed by the Light, a task beyond most other Jedi. For this reason, he wanted his padawan to go on the Hunt.

Master Beo Za explained to Ra how most Anzati received their name: it was earned in the Hunt. Anzat was a planet teeming with extreme forms of exotic and dangerous wildlife. Unlike most other humanoids, the Anzati had no interest in consuming any of the life on their planet, as it was non-sentient and offered next to no benefit to them. They also were generally neglectful of great technological pursuits, building no massive cities or other architectural projects that would disrupt the natural environment of the other native animals. So, for all of Anzat’s long existence (the planet is considered to be one of the most ancient in the entire Galaxy), the wildlife flourished. Many great beasts lurked in the swirling auroric mists of Anzat, thriving in its untamed wilderness. These dangerous animals are known only to the Anzati, for no foreigner has resided on the planet for long enough to document any of them in any detail. At best, there are vague sketches given to those rare souls who got an Anzati to speak about their homeworld. These beasts were hunted by the Anzat one time only: the naming ritual. All of the young Anzat, when they reached the age to be able to kill, were released into the wild. There they entered a brutal hunt, tasked with killing many of the planet’s numerous Fauna. When they returned to their parents, they would tell of their hunt, and decide which of the beings were their favorite to slay, and which element of the hunt was their favorite. These things would become their name.

It was on this hunt that Master Beo Za sent his apprentice. Ra departed his master, who remained meditating in a cave where Ra was instructed to return after his hunt was complete. Ra engaged in this ancient Anzati ritual, an arduous task that pushed the Jedi to his limits. Many nights he spent, stalking or being stalked, fighting for his life against perfectly evolved predators, always surrounded by the mystical lights of the Silent Voices. This test pushed Ra to his limits, forcing him to confront all of his beliefs in a radical way. Eventually he conquered his enemy, bringing down a mighty beast native to the planet. Finally, standing over his subdued foe, watching the terrible monster writhe in pain beneath him, Ra understood the relationship that a Jedi must have with the Hunt. Silently, he released his prey, calming its mind with the Force and allowing it to escape. Upon returning to the cave where Master Beo Za awaited him, the two Jedi conversed on the nature of the Hunt. Beo Za explained that an Anzati Jedi must be a hunter, but not a killer. She told Ra that they must follow the path of the Hunt, but not the taking of life. For although they could not deny that, as Anzati, their life was to be one with the Hunt, they also knew, as Jedi, that what was taken would be returned. What was consumed was bound to be released, and they must not claim unrightful possession of it. They must follow the Hunt, as the natural flowing cycles of life and death, but they could not exert control over the Hunt. Thus, Anzati Jedi were the best hunters, ones who had the highest respect for and understanding of the Hunt. To contemplate this mystery further, the two Jedi would stay on Anzat for another year. Half of that year they spent on the Hunt, traveling the planet and feeding off of its power but never taking a life. The other half they spent in meditation, six months straight of sitting in a cave high up in a shadowy mountain, constantly surrounded by the swirling lights of the Silent Voices.

Finally, upon his return to the Temple, the Council decided that the young Jedi had matured and was ready to be awarded the rank of Knight. Now a Knight of the Republic, Ra embarked on his quest to find oneness with the Force and unity with the Hunt. Ra spent many decades of his early Jedi career on covert missions investigating these mysteries, collecting artifacts, recording stories, and visiting sites. Although Ra never completely abandoned interest or conviction in his earlier political ideals of the Jedi as a champion of freedom, a servant of the people, and a defender of the innocent, Ra also gained a truly exceptional prowess with the less “practical” roles of the Jedi: as philosophers, historians, keepers of Tradition spiritual leaders. Truly, these two points of Ra Ada’s Jedi power, the applied and the abstract, developed in tandem, as one. His pursuit of knowledge was a pursuit of applied knowledge, living knowledge. Ra believes that real knowledge is not theoretical understanding that happens purely in the conceptual spheres of the mind, but real participation in the flow of knowing. This view of knowledge as participation in the Force is heavily influenced by the nature of the Anzati and their philosophy of the Hunt.

When not pursuing the mysteries of the Force in hidden corners of the Galaxy, Ra Ada was immersed in periods of intense study at the Temple. Much of his time at the Temple was spent contributing the knowledge he had gained to the Archives. Because of this, as well as the fact that he was renowned for his knowledge of the information already stored there, Ra Ada was asked to be a teacher. Ra Ada accepted, and while at the Temple he took up the position as a scholar and aid, guiding younger Jedi to understand more complex aspects of the Force.

Ra Ada was present at the inception of the Clone Wars, fighting in the arena on Geonosis and then leading Clone Special Forces through the catacombs in the ensuing battle. Throughout the war, Ra Ada was conflicted about the use of Clones as the Grand Army of the Republic, only taking part in missions with them and leading forces when directly ordered. For his part, he spent his time as either a scholar or a special agent, investigating the root causes and true effects of the conflict. He is currently on Coruscant, conducting research in the Jedi Temple.

•Lightsaber:

Ra Ada's lightsaber design is very Spartan, unadorned and utilitarian and yet sleek and elegant. The saber combines Ra Ada's taste for modern efficient design with his sentimental love for Tradition and established practices. He does not want his saber to seem too modern, filled with all kinds of the special gadgetry and gimmicks that Ra has such distaste for, but neither does he want it to appear antiquated, overdone with flourishes that clash with a futuristic feel. It is right down the middle between Modernity and Tradition, a perfect weapon for the Anzat Jedi.

•Force Abilities: Due to his Anzat identity, Ra has a great proclivity for telepathic Force techniques. All Anzati have a talent for mind control and their culture has developed a practice similar to the Jedi mind trick technique. Ra's extensive study of this personal heritage and of the nature of telepathy itself has made him into a formidable telepath, very skilled in the many applications this ability offers. Ra is also a master of stealth, trickery, and deceit, capable of being unnoticed nearly wherever he is, and of spying and observing without being discovered. As Anzati are a species of natural predators and this hunting instinct cannot be suppressed in any of them, he has the same highly developed sensory organs of any Anzat, only increased by his status as a Jedi Knight. However, coming from the Anzat martial tradition, Ra is certainly no push-over in a traditional fight. All Anzati are born with exceptional might and startling reflexes, but this is only heightened in the case of Ra due to his years of intense Jedi training and Force enhancement.

Control: Ra Ada is a true master of the Control aspect of the Force, performing at the top level that can be achieved by any Jedi Knight. Ra has developed an expert usage of basic Force Control powers like enhanced speed, reflexes, strength, endurance and more, taking these rudimentary Jedi powers to the next level. His body is a weapon honed in the Force. In Anzati culture, the hunter must become the Hunt. Ra has embodied this philosophy, turning his very flesh into a weapon of truly immense destructive power, applying his physical body as an instrument of the Living Force. The sophisticated predatory nature of Anzati combat is reflected in Ra’s training of his body. He is not a lumbering monster, but a viciously quick beast, prowling like a tiger and striking like a cobra. His strength is such that he can lift objects many times his weight, throwing enemies larger than him around like dolls, and strike blows with such force that he can easily crush living tissue and bones like paper and even break through reinforced armor. Ra’s speed is simply superhuman. The Anzati is able to move faster than the human eye can follow, striking down foes before they can even begin to react and moving around the battlefield with an inhuman agility. Besides these basic Jedi practices, Ra Ada has also mastered to a very impressive degree powers such as Art of Movement, Center of Being, and Control Pain. Art of Movement allows Ra Ada to dexterously traverse all kinds of terrain in even the most intense conditions, whether this means scaling sheer walls or giant trees or just moving around a battlefield with incredible speed. Ra’s ability with the Center of Being power is used mostly in tandem with his lightsaber combat, especially his practice of Form IV. He uses it to greatly deepen his balance by planting himself firmly in the immovable wellspring of the Force, giving him great serenity in a fight. The Control Pain ability of the Anzati is used alongside his ability to increase his durability beyond its natural limits. Not only is Ra able to endure blows of terrific force and might that would crush other beings, he is also able to shrug off intense pain and continue with his objectives. Given his natural mind powers as an Anzati, Ra Ada is also a formidable practitioner of the Thought Shield power. But perhaps the most well-developed of all his Control powers is his use of Force Stealth. Anzati are famous for their abilities as assassins, and Ra has taken this skill to the absolute extreme, able to pass completely unnoticed through seemingly impossible scenarios. Even other Force users are nearly helpless to Ra’s ability to disappear from notice, a fact which is aided by the Anzati’s lack of any natural biorhythm and thus diminished presence in the Force.
Sense: Ra Ada’s Sense powers are without a doubt where the Anzati excels the most. His powers in the sphere of Sense easily rival and even exceed many of the sitting Masters on the Jedi Council. Ra’s natural sensory abilities like sound, smell, taste, sight, and hearing were elevated to the absolute Nth degree, almost to the highest degree even possible for a Force user. Ra could sense detailed analyses of enemies miles away, being able to feel their presence in the Force just as much as he could physically sense it. Besides these heightened sensory abilities, Ra has another secret weapon: an extremely well developed power in Battle Precognition. Perhaps his greatest combat advantage, Ra’s powers are honed to the point of a borderline practice of the rare ability Shatterpoint. This ability gives Ra the power to see with great clarity the internal structural integrity of objects, events, and living beings. This enables the predator to understand and take advantage of vulnerabilities in every obstacle he faces, always choosing the path of least resistance.
Alter: Ultimately, Ra’s Alter abilities are his least developed. In this area, Ra has mostly developed his telepathic abilities. Anzati are noted for their natural ability to control the minds of others, and Ra has leaned into this power. Ra has developed a notable combination of his extraordinary precognitive abilities with his mind control powers, being able to perfectly perceive the smallest weak points and vulnerabilities in an opponent’s psyche and strike with devastating effect. By doing this, Ra is able to greatly increase the effectiveness of his mental abilities without having to rely on an extreme increase of raw power. He does not need the brutal strength to just bulldoze over other beings’ mental defenses and assert himself as their master if he can intricately see the precarities in their psychological state, guiding in subtle ways to meld his opponent’s will to his own or striking in precise ways to take down their mind with one small hit. This tactic matches well with the Anzati’s Makashi fighting style, and his usage of Dun Moch. With Dun Moch, Ra Ada uses his Battle Precognition abilities and strategic mastermind to oversee and manipulate the fight on an invisible, psychological level as well as the physical one. Aside from his impressive telepathic capabilities, Ra has developed use of telekinesis. Ra’s telekinesis usage similarly relies on application via his incredible precognitive and tactical abilities. He does not rely on overwhelming barrages of power to crush and batter his enemies, but on precisely timed and subtly applied maneuvers to off-balance opponents and take advantage of small openings.

•Preferred Saber Style: Makashi

•Secondary(Second favored, Optional) Saber Style: Niman

•Location (Prior to Protocol 66): Jedi Temple

•RP Sample: From a Harry Potter RP I joined recently

Anton lay on the hospital bed as if in his tomb, motionless, though appearing as if some part of him were in a long descent to the realm below. True sleep, he could not find; nor light. All around him was dark and dreariness, only soft movements swirling through his near-deadened mind. Somewhere, deep within, the boy reveled in this night of the psyche. Anton felt as though he had embarked on the miserable counterpart to the journey described in St. John's "Dark Night of the Soul": where the Catholic friar had climbed the ladder to divine light in happy ascent, the young wizard now approached the murky depths of being in a sluggish descent. But Life stirred within him still. Anton half reached for this movement of Life -- and he half resented it, that Life encaged him still in its vise. He wanted rest -- return. Return to that silent solitude he knew before his birth. Return to death, the conclusion of every living souls' journey. He thought his time had come.

But why, why could he not rest? Why the whispering insistence -- was it not the pale persistence of a day now departed? To return to Life, for he to have a tomorrow - would it not be but the living corpse of yesterday's lost life? These thoughts, or the impulses to think them -- untraceable, half-concealed intonations and feelings -- moved within his comatose mind like monsters swimming in the dark depths of the sea.

But closer, closer to the surface -- there were images. Memories. The silvery light of the moon over dark castle walls. The sounds of battle. Bright flashing lights -- spells bursting from wands and clashing in the air. Bodies falling and flying. The screams of the terrified and the wounded, the wailing of inhuman beasts. The grim faces of his comrades, his peers -- and of his enemies, menacing and determined. Fires and explosions. As he lay on his bed, deep in his comatose sleep, Anton relived that night -- the night of the battle.

He remembered, before the fight began, standing at a window of the great castle of Hogwarts in that anxious intimacy of approaching evening, waiting for the stars to begin at this vantage point that looks out on the infinite, his emotions moving to the rhythm required by a foreboding feeling of journeys yet unknown, or experiences which were simply hypothetical or impossible.

He remembered the fear in his body as he met the lifeless gaze of the Inferi's cloudy white eyes. He remembered fighting with all his skill and cunning, exhausting himself as he bravely battled the Ravencloaks and their undead minions. Anton had tried to hold the outer defenses with other students, but their opponents were too many and too skilled. He had been on the walls when they were overwhelmed, the Huffelpuff boy beside him falling onto Anton, collapsing with pained cries as blood sprouted from wounds on his chest and arms, having been struck by one of the many spells bombarding their position. Anton and another Ravenclaw girl had been doing their best to heal and comfort the wounded boy when a Ravencloak came spiraling through the air, landing on the opposite side of the wall as them. Before either could move, he had lashed out with his wand, sending the girl toppling backwards over the edge of the wall with a shriek. Anton had countered, petrifying the wizard and leaving him collapsed on the ground. Helping up the wounded Hufflepuff, Anton moved deeper into the castle as the outer layers were more and more overrun by Ravencloaks and their Inferi.

After leaving the wounded Hufflepuff to the medics, Anton had returned to the fight. He had fought with cunning, weaving through darkness and lashing out in ambush at the enemies when they had their backs turned. Behind columns and over rubble, through hallways and onto staircases, he and the other Hogwarts defenders had battled Ravencloaks and Inferi alike. He had sent a Ravencloak sliding across the floor with a curse that ensnared his opponent's legs in barbed wire; he had taken off two Inferius heads with an explosive charm; he had crushed another's chest and abdomen by hurling a large stone at it. He had incapacitated another Ravencloak witch with a stunning spell that sent her headfirst into a wall. But in the process, Anton had taken a heavy beating: his right shoulder had been grazed by a curse and the cloth was incinerated, leaving a burnt shoulder covered in painful and oozing blisters. His left foot had been pierced with flying debris and he was limping heavily. But he fought on.

Anton and his comrades had been retreating down a hallway, taking out as many enemies as they could, when they heard rumbling on the other side of the door at the end of the hall. Freezing, their eyes turn on the great oak doors. Cracks began to appear, then fingers of flesh rotted nearly to the bone began to claw through. Soon, the door was shredded, and another horde of Inferi were swarming toward them. Forming a circle, the wizards and witches fought with brave ferocity. Anton sent forks of lightning crackling through four or five Inferi, their weak bodies crumbling. More pressed in on them, and he was raising his wand for another spell when they were hit.

A Ravencloak had successfully cast a powerful explosive spell right in the middle of the student force. All that Anton felt was a crushing force behind him, white hot pain, and then darkness. He had been thrown off of his feet and into a wall by the spell, stunned for a moment. He blinked slowly as he returned to consciousness, bringing himself up onto his hands and knees and retrieving his wand from the floor. Rising smoke clouded the hallway, but he could see shapes approaching. Inferi. Lifting himself to his feet, he leaned on the wall and gasped. His left arm felt almost immobile, rigid with pain, hanging at his side. Gritting his teeth, he looked around with dazed eyes through the smoke, and spotted a side corridor. Limping into it as fast as he could, he tried to escape down the path.

But the hungry rasping of the Inferi followed him. Turning, he lashed out with a yell, dropping the first two Inferi as they entered the corridor. They tried to rise again but were trampled by more undead soldiers. Anton stumbled down the hall, grimacing fiercely as more Inferi moved in on him. Lifting his wand, he pushed his endurance and cast another spell, hitting the lead Inferius in the chest and sending it hurtling back into the others, knocking a few over. But they kept coming. To his dismay, through the smoke at the end of his hall, another figure appeared, cloaked in black, holding a wand. One of the Ravencloaks.

Determined to go down fighting, Anton cast another spell. This one hit an Inferius in the arm, leaving it dangling from his body. The creature barely seemed to notice, stumbling back a few steps and shaking its head with a wild and nasty snap of its rotting jaws before continuing its approach. Yelling with exertion, he lifted two Inferi in the air, slamming their bodies into the ceiling with a satisfying crunch before hurling them back into the crowd.

The approaching Ravencloak was at the front of the crowd now. As Anton lifted his arm once again, his face twisted with pain and exhaustion, the Ravencloak lashed out. Anton's wand went flying, his palm numb. Crying out in anger, the boy balled his fists and stepped toward the approaching wizard. Again, the Ravencloak simply flicked his wand. Anton felt his feet lift off the ground as he was raised in the air, kicking futilely. Slowly, he felt his throat begin to close, his breathing constricted. Gasping and choking, he was sent hurtling back into the wall, pain flaring across his body. Wheezing now, he attempted to rise but could barely move his limbs. The hooded Ravencloak raised his wand, point lowered directly at Anton's eyes, and uttered one word: "Crucio!"

The pain started in Anton's spine, but traveled over his whole body, like an army of fire ants spreading across a great foe. The pain felt alive, like some evil being occupying his body, inside his veins, flowing through his blood, spreading its venomous talons over every inch of his being. His eyes, nose, and mouth burned like they were being flooded with boiling water. He wanted to cry out, but couldn't. He twitched and shuddered as if struck by lighting, and his tormentor watched with grim satisfaction as his victim danced with pain.

In this pain, Anton felt revealed to himself by a sinister light. He was nobody, absolutely nobody. When the lightning flashed, what he had thought to be a city was revealed to be a deserted plain, with no sky above it. Darkness was spreading, death was approaching. As his mind reeled and the curse continued pushing the near-dead boy further to the brink, he did not see the aurors arrive to save him, nor the trip to the hospital, nor anything after that one word. Anton was trapped in the abyss. Deep in his sleep of recovery, the boy toyed with impossible ideas.

"I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the prologue to some unwritten book." The boy heard his own voice within his mind, but wanted it to end. "I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I am falling through a trapdoor, through infinite, infinitous space, in a directionless, empty fall." In his coma, the boy made a barely audible groan, and his muscles shuddered as if he were going to move. The forces of the boy's soul battled within, all victim to the cold wind of fate.

The heavy night began to fade. Anton felt his mind become more active, the spiraling thoughts moving closer to the surface. A final utterance escaped the boy's mind before he re-entered the world of the fully living: "If only I could think! If only I could feel!"

Heavy eyelids moved with painful exertion, opening Anton to the light of the world once again. The light assaulted him in a pleasant way, piercing his body and his mind to rid it of the sickness that comes from too much darkness, too deep depths, too much quiet. Life is loud, and Anton welcomed the noise. He lay still for a few moments, letting memories return to him. Many things were bleary, many details smudged in the archive-books of his thought. Turning his head, Anton looked out of the window in his room. The sun was rising: it was early morning.

It felt to him as if this dawn were the first the world had seen. Never before had this pink light dwindling into yellow and then white hot fallen in quite this way on his face as it turned to the silence that comes with the growing light. Never before had this light, this hour, his being existed. He was awake!

[The Imperial Republic]

App

Accepted.

As of now, the OOC is closed to new applications.

[Newrey]

Spent too long kicking around an idea and missed the cutoff.

Tagging in case a spot ever opens up

[Dentali]

im waiting for the Force call before i post because i dont want to suddenly have to change all my plans

[Brusia]

Just for some context with my last post, this is what the base's exterior looks like: Base (Martius' ship will be where that Defender class is parked in the image).

Here's more information on the Force call as well, for those who'd like their characters to hear it. Though none would know where Odessen is, assume that the Force will guide those who heed the call to its location.

[The Imperial Republic]

Because I've received telegrams from those who wanted to join but didn't get here in time, I've re-opened the OOC.

[Newrey]

•Character Full Name: Afon Ekker

•Gender: Male

•Race/Species: Human

•Age: 47

•Physical Appearance:

•Homeworld: Naboo

•Personality: Afon is characterised best by his ambition to live up to the tenets of the Jedi Code, but also by his frequent failings at doing so, he finds it difficult to not form attachments with people, especially those under his command, and is hesitant in leading his men into operations that can result in large numbers of their deaths. Unlike many in the Order, Afon views himself as a tool in the fight for the Republic, and focuses himself as such, once deciding his mind, his is rare to change it.

•Biography: Born to a merchant family on Naboo, Afon has very little recollection of his childhood there, only brief memories of the golden sun and flashes of his mother and father's face. Being a Core World, it was not long before he was identified as force-sensitive and taken by a visiting Jedi and brought to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant as an infant. As a youngling, it was noted that Afon was particularly curious on the history of both the Order and the Republic, while he seemed disinterested in the nature of the Force.

It was this unique combination of interests that piqued the curiosity of the Jedi Scholar, Tinor Caardin, a renowned expert of Jedi history. The first meeting between Afon and Tinor was enough to convince Tinor to take the young boy on as his Padawan, though he took care in building the boy's interest in the Force, as the understanding of it was crucial for a proper understanding of the Jedi Order. His time as a Padawan lacked much of the excitement that he heard other Padawan's speak of, instead he followed his Master too and from dig sites and research facilities, and a considerable amount of time was spent in the Jedi Library at the Coruscant Temple, and it was during this time that Afon began to have doubts about his future in the Order, feeling that life as a hermit was not one that was particularly attractive to him. He brought these feelings up to his Master, who explained them as typical feelings for many Padawan's, and that the desire he felt for something more was something that he understood, however as a Jedi it was important that they rise above them.

Finding his answer unsatisfactory, something Tinor could sense, he was brought to the Outer Rim so that Afon could be shown what the Order stood for. Seeing the sight of slavery and rampant corruption transformed the formerly dissatisfied Padawan to one committed not to the Order's principles, but those of the Republic. Shortly after Afon completed his Jedi Trials and became a Jedi Knight, and frequently requested assignments that would see him challenge injustice in the Galaxy, instead of his old passion of learning about old ones.

Despite his hardcore support of the Republic, he at times felt that they required a much firmer hand in how it should be run, disagreeing with the overwhelming bureaucracy. These grievances had begun to bubble to the surface when the Separatist Alliance first began to form, outraging Afon and leading to his hardline rallying against the Confederacy and his suppression of dissent against the Republic, instead he began to become more involved with the politics that the Jedi Order found itself embroiled in, frequently taking on assignments that would shore up the Republic's strength. It was with this that Afon join the Jedi Assault Team that was formed to rescue Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. At that time, his combat experience was limited to skirmishes against pirates, or some small rebellion that he had previously mediated the end of, so he found himself shocked at the scale of the battle he found himself in. In the wake of the battle, Afon was given command of the 303rd Strike Legion and the rank of Jedi General.

Under his command, the 303rd became renowned for its hardhitting assaults and toughness of its troopers, with Afon earning the respect of his men due to his ruthless pursuit of the enemy and his presence at the heat of the action. While he initially acted with a sole focus and was curt with his commanders, his tone soon began to soften as he recognised his troopers as distinct individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses. Currently Afon is leading the 303rd in the pursuit of a fleeing separatist fleet over the planet Mestra.

•Lightsaber:

•Force Abilities: Due to his hardline support of the Republic, Afon utilised the Force as a means to perfect his fighting ability in preparation for a conflict that seemed increasingly likely to happen, as such his core strengths rely on the powers of Control, utilising abilities such as Force Speed and Force Sight to improve his effectiveness, while utilising Centre of Being and Control Pain to expel thoughts in his mind not pertaining to his fight.

•Preferred Saber Style: Form 3 Soresu

•Secondary(Second favored, Optional) Saber Style: Form 1 Shii-Cho

•Location (Prior to Protocol 66): Venarator-class Starship Insurmountable over Mestra

•RP Sample: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=436461

[The Imperial Republic]

App

Accepted.

[American Pere Housh]

•Character Full Name:Hanna Solo

•Gender:Female

•Race/Species:Human

•Age:24

•Physical Appearance:Auburn red hair, forest green eyes, and a swimmers build.(Linked image or detailed description.)

•Homeworld:Corellia (Prior to Jedi Integration)

•Personality:Playful and Sadistic, serious in fight

•Biography:Born in 44 BBY to a wealthy family on the Core Planet of Corellia, Hanna Solo learned something was special about her when she joined the Jedi Order in 39 BBY. In 37 BBY, Jedi Master Luminara chooses Hanna to be her Padawan training Hanna over the next 14 years. In 23 BBY, the Jedi Council granted her the title of Jedi Knight. As one of the few in Jedi Order to not believe that Anakin Skywalker was the Chosen One, she never trusted the boy from the time he first joined. Hanna was one of the jedi sent by the Jedi Council to rescue Master Kenobi, Padawan Skywalker and Senator Amidala. After 3 years fighting in the Clone Wars, she hears about the Clones betraying their Jedi commanders while on a secret solo mission to Taris given to her by Grandmaster Yoda himself. (A minimum of one paragraph)

•Lightsaber:Hanna carries two purple lightsabers with curved handles. (Linked image or detailed description.)

•Force Abilities: Force Healing, Force Speed, Force Lightning, Force Cloak, Force Jump, Force Push/Pull, Force Grip

•Preferred Saber Style:Form V(Shien& Djem So)

•Secondary(Second favored, Optional) Saber Style:Ataru

•Location (Prior to Protocol 66):Taris

•RP Sample:

[The Imperial Republic]

•Character Full Name:Hanna Solo

•Gender:Female

•Race/Species:Human

•Age:24

•Physical Appearance:Auburn red hair, forest green eyes, and a swimmers build.(Linked image or detailed description.)

•Homeworld:Corellia (Prior to Jedi Integration)

•Personality:Playful and Sadistic, serious in fight

•Biography:Born in 44 BBY to a wealthy family on the Core Planet of Corellia, Hanna Solo learned something was special about her when she joined the Jedi Order in 39 BBY. In 37 BBY, Jedi Master Luminara chooses Hanna to be her Padawan training Hanna over the next 14 years. In 23 BBY, the Jedi Council granted her the title of Jedi Knight. As one of the few in Jedi Order to not believe that Anakin Skywalker was the Chosen One, she never trusted the boy from the time he first joined. Hanna was one of the jedi sent by the Jedi Council to rescue Master Kenobi, Padawan Skywalker and Senator Amidala. After 3 years fighting in the Clone Wars, she hears about the Clones betraying their Jedi commanders while on a secret solo mission to Taris given to her by Grandmaster Yoda himself. (A minimum of one paragraph)

•Lightsaber:Hanna carries two purple lightsabers with curved handles. (Linked image or detailed description.)

•Force Abilities: Force Healing, Force Speed, Force Lightning, Force Cloak, Force Jump, Force Push/Pull, Force Grip

•Preferred Saber Style:Form V(Shien& Djem So)

•Secondary(Second favored, Optional) Saber Style:Ataru

•Location (Prior to Protocol 66):Taris

•RP Sample:

First, the name "Hanna Solo" is not going to fly. Way to similar to Han Solo. Second, you need to flesh out your Bio alot more than just a few snips of info over the course of her 24 years. Jumping from founding to Knight status is lazy. Third, force lightning was wholly a Sith power and will not be used by Jedi, especially not a Knight. Force Healing is an advanced Jedi ability and I will allow it at as long as it drains your player. Getting a mission from Yoda himself is borderline unrealistic but if you fix everything else, I will allow it.

[The Blazing Aura]

Couple of questions.

This open in general or only to those who TG'd you about wanting a slot?

If we get in do we have to use the Discord?

If I can put an app in, I haven't RPed here (or anywhere else) for close to four years now, I don't really have a RP sample I'm happy with, can I just link a writing sample or do you want me to pull something decent from a few years ago?

[The Imperial Republic]

Couple of questions.

This open in general or only to those who TG'd you about wanting a slot?

If we get in do we have to use the Discord?

If I can put an app in, I haven't RPed here (or anywhere else) for close to four years now, I don't really have a RP sample I'm happy with, can I just link a writing sample or do you want me to pull something decent from a few years ago?

Open in General, no you don't have to use the Discord but it is encouraged and just put in an app and I'll waive the RP sample.