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Darth Ares
Topic Started: Jul 7 2014, 06:57 AM (63 Views)
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Name: Tora Venaris
Sith Name: Darth Ares
Age: 24
Species: Miraluka
Homeworld: Katarr
Gender: Male
Height: 180cm
Weight: 73kg
Eyes: N/a
Hair: Dark Brown
Skin Color: Caucasian
Appearance:
Possessing a lean build, Ares is of average height for a Miralukan, with a perpetually firm expression that hides his slightly boyish features. His dark brown hair is naturally unkempt, but is usually combed neatly back to keep most of it out of Ares' face. His torso is heavily scarred, as is his left arm, with the most prominent being a single, large scar over his right lung.
Personality:
Carrying a strong sense of right and wrong as well as an equally strong sense of justice, Ares is compassionate, sociable, impulsive, and idealistic to an almost child-like degree - factors he keeps hidden behind a persona of authority, respectfulness and professionalism. Whilst he treats his fellow officers and soldiers with respect, fairness and equality, Ares possesses a strong dislike of many of the Brotherhood’s members, particularly the Dark Lord – though he doesn’t allow this to get in the way of doing his job, and usually keeps his opinions and feelings to himself. Despite attempting to remain fair and unbiased as a teacher, he forms deep connections with his apprentices and tends to play favourites with them, with one instance – Darth Amorata – leading to a romantic relationship.

An extremely competent tactician and leader, Ares feels more comfortable strategizing and commanding than he does personally fighting, preferring to lead operations removed from the front lines. Despite his disagreement with many of the Union’s policies and a firm hatred of tyranny and totalitarianism, he follows the Union as he believes democracy is incapable of maintaining peace, security and liberty, preferring instead a meritocratic system of government with one political voice to lead and direct all others. Ares cares very deeply for his close friends and family as well as the soldiers under his command, consciously making command decisions intended to minimize casualties as much as possible. Somewhat pacifistic, Ares usually first tries diplomatic approaches in any given situation, normally only resorting to violence if other parties initiate it and preferring not to kill if he can avoid it.

Speaks, Reads and Writes Basic, Miralukese and Sithese

Equipment:
Lightsaber, Blue
Armour, Cobalt, constructed of armourweave and beskar, with crushgaunt gauntlets.

Ships:
Skies Above - modified CR90-class corvette.
Arquitens-class light cruiser (6)
Interceptor-class Frigate (6)
Consular-class Cruiser (Charger c70 Retrofit) (12)
VCX-820 Escort Freighter
YZ-775 Medium Transport
Stark Truth - YZ-900 Freighter
YT-2000 Light Freighter
Lyanna - Luxury Yacht 3000
Baudo-class Star Yacht
Kappa-class Shuttle

Background/Bio:

Born on Katarr to Toran and Marie Venaris, Tora began his life in late 10ABY. His mother died unexpectedly several months after Tora’s birth, prompting his father to move them from the planet’s surface to one of the orbiting stations, where Tora spent most of his early life. Exposure to a variety of alien races and passengers resulted in Tora developing a multicultural attitude to the galaxy in lieu of the traditional familial values expressed by Miralukan society, as well as causing him to develop keen social and communication skills. Tora was educated on-station, mostly by private tuition, and began working part-time on the station’s docks at age 12, rapidly developing considerable leadership and coordination skills. His relationship with his father was terse, with little communication beyond Tora’s progress in schooling and his work.

When he was 14, Tora’s leadership skills put him in conflict with another dock worker who felt he was being given special treatment due to his father’s position as foreman, and a violent confrontation eventually ensued. During the confrontation, Tora panicked and used the Force to defend himself, which resulted in the dock worker’s death and caused Tora, no longer thinking straight, to flee and stow away on an out-going vessel. Despite his young age, Tora was able to convince the ship – the Starbound Waltz - ‘s captain to take him on as a crew member, working as a permanent member of the crew as they took a variety of legal and somewhat illegal jobs – during which time he became very close with the Captain’s daughter, Celeste, seeing her as a surrogate sister. When the Yuuzhan Vong War erupted a year later, the crew took up work ferrying supplies (and, later, refugees, arms and munitions) across the New Republic and Galactic Alliance, coming into combat with Yuuzhan Vong Coralskippers several times but nonetheless escaping the war unscathed. Following the War, the ship’s captain retired, leaving Tora and Celeste to pick up where they had left off.

Several more years passed in relative peace and routine before they ran afoul of the Galactic Alliance; though Tora doesn’t remember exactly what happened, he does remember that he was somewhere he shouldn’t have been or saw something he shouldn’t have, leading to Tora and the rest fleeing Alliance space to take refuge in the emerging Obsidian Union. Eventually making their way to the capital, New Bethrezen, Tora’s powerful Force-sensitivity was noticed by members of the New Sith Brotherhood, and they offered a deal – in exchange for his crew’s protection amidst the ranks of the Brotherhood of Independent Traders, Tora would join the Brotherhood to train as a Sith. He agreed, and parted ways with the ship and crew, joining the Brotherhood as an apprentice to Lady Vidia. After several months of training and missions, Tora was officially inducted into the Brotherhood and dubbed Darth Ares. Vidia took on an almost motherly role in Ares’ view until her abrupt disappearance, leaving Ares to finish his training under several different masters – during which time Ares’ loyalty to the Union began to waver, despite his idolization of the Dark Lord, Darth Xaos.

Shortly after Ares was Knighted, Vidia returned to the Union and attempted to sieze power, and Ares was responsible for recovering the Scepter of Marka Ragnos from the deceased Dark Lord’s tomb to ensure the failure of Vidia’s plans. A confrontation with another Brotherhood member shortly before he entered the tomb, coupled with Ares’ guilt and despair over his situation and his past actions within the Brotherhood, resulted in Ares facing a series of trials within the tomb created with the Force by the spirit of Marka Ragnos himself that allowed him to overcome his negative feelings and move past them, culminating in Ares seeing a vision of a happy, enlightened and peaceful future that would eventually come to define him. Ragnos himself commanded Ares to take up the Scepter and become his champion, an order Ares initially accepted without hesitation, participating in the rest of the civil war against Vidia and the subsequent campaigns to restore order. Following the end of the war, Ares was appointed the new Supreme Commander of the Terrestrial Forces and assigned several apprentices to begin training, which he would quickly develop strong relationships with.

Ares was one of the first to come into contact with the One Sith along with Lady Loon, and was also partly responsible for the discovery of the hidden armoury world Dol Gorath along with Lady Hecate. During this period Ares also became aware that he had a younger half-sister, Sierra, and returned to see his father shortly before the latter’s death, becoming Sierra’s guardian. Despite an initially cold, terse relationship, the two eventually warmed up to each other over the course of several conversations, Sierra acting as Ares’ moral center on occasion and Ares in turn coming to see her as and treat her like a little sister. Despite his overcoming of the trials within Ragnos’ tomb, Ares’ conflicting loyalties eventually resurfaced again, causing him to take a leave of absence away from the Brotherhood’s eyes on New Alderaan. Whilst there, Ares and Sierra patched up the last few gaps in their relationship and had a long heart-to-heart on Sierra’s sixteenth birthday over dinner, shortly after which Sierra made the discovery that, despite what Ares’ father had told him, his mother was both still alive and was in fact Sierra’s own biological mother. A week later, Ares again encountered a member of the One Sith, who would have almost killed him if not for Ragnos’ intervention allowing Ares to claim victory. Even so, the fight left Ares in a catatonic state for several months, during which time Ragnos subjected Ares to multiple visions of the future showing what would become of Ares if he followed his ideals to their end.

Level: 11

Basic Path: Dark Force Adept

Advanced Path: Sith Lord

Master Path: Sith Warlord

Core Stats:

Strength: 10
Agility: 9
Toughness: 10
Intellect: 15
Presence: 14
Spirit: 18

Combat Proficiencies:
Can Use Single-Bladed Lightsabers
Can Use Lightsaber Shotos
Shii-Cho: 3
Makashi: 3 + 1 (Lightsaber Form Focus)
Soresu: 3
Blaster Weapons: 1
Simple Weapons: 1
Exotic Weapon (Sith Sword): 1
Armour: 3 (Heavy)

Skills:
Astrogate: 0 + 1 (Spacer)
Bluff: 3 + 1 (Persuasive)
Climbing: 2
Computer Use: 1
Diplomacy: 3
Intimidate: 0 + 1 (Persuasive)
Knowledge (Sith Lore): 2
Knowledge (Philosophy): 2
Knowledge (Influence): 3
Knowledge (Tactics): 3
Knowledge (Physics): 2
Pilot: 3 + 1 (Spacer)
Search: 2 + 1 (Sharp-Eyed)
Sense Motive: 3 + 1 (Sharp-Eyed)
Survival: 2
Treat Injury: 2
Tumble: 1

Backgrounds:
Unusual Ability (Detachable Mind): 2
Alternate Identity (Ven Ores): 1 - A spacer, typically found piloting a fairly new YZ-900 Light Freighter purchased using his inheritance, running odd jobs all around the galaxy.

Perks:
Athletic
Blind-Fight
Cautious
Combat Expertise
Danger Sense
Force Channel
Force Power Focus (Force Lightning)
Improved Martial Arts
Iron Will
Lightsaber Form Focus (Makashi)
Martial Arts
Persuasive
Two-Weapon Fighting
Weapon Focus: Sword
Sharp-Eyed
Situational Analysis
Spacer

Force Powers:
Sense
  • Force Empathy: 3
  • Telepathy: 3
  • Sense Force: 3

Control
  • Enhanced Senses: 3
  • Force Absorb: 3
  • Force Jump: 3
  • Force Speed: 3
  • Force Valour: 2

Alter
  • Detoxify Poison: 3
  • Force Armor: 2
  • Force Barrier: 3
  • Force Deflection: 2
  • Force Grip: 2
  • Force Healing: 1
  • Force Push/Pull: 3
  • Force Resistance: 2
  • Force Stun: 2
  • Mind-Trick: 3
  • Lightning: 2 + 1 (Force Power Focus)
  • Telekinesis: 3


Path Abilities:
Sith Weapon
Sith Talisman
Contact: Kuat Drive Yards
Resource Access
Minions
Minor Influence: New Alderaan
Twister of Thoughts
Skilled Lieutenants
Moderate Influence: Kuat Drive Yards
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