Reference Resource Thread for the Dark Reach Saga

Dramatis Personae

Sith
Insipid - Shadow Emperor - @Sinrebirth
Aryan Graul - Emperor - @HanSolo29
Bellorum - Empress - @Lady Belligerent
Soliloquy - Circle Lord - @Mitth_Fisto
Bernael - Circle Lord - @darthbernael
Iudex - Circle Lord @Silvertough
Renn Turon - Prince Regent of the Hapes Consortium - @darthbernael
Tamus Turon - Child - @darthbernael
Helinith - Sith Lord - @darthhelinith
Hekate - Sith Lord - @Nehru_Amidala
Serapis - Sith Lord - @DarthIshyZ
Azathoth - Sith Lord - @Shadowsun
Anark - Sith Lord - @Snokers
Ravenous - Sith Lord - @WookieeRage

Imperial Knights
Cera Tan - @TheAdmiral
Arthur Donvoy - @Silvertough
Sam Hhat - @CosmoHender
Walce Quia-Vis - @ConservativeJedi321
Will Tyrell - @galactic-vagabond422
Kazan Aima - @Shadowsun
Madelyn Linnett - @TheSilentInfluence
Charles Brokenborough - @Ananta Chetan
Aveline Lawson - @Corellian_Outrider
Blue Deck'nd - @pashatemur

Important NPCs
Ike - @Sinrebirth
Shimmer - Sith Acoylte - @Sinrebirth
Ormes Apolin - New Republic Senator of Kuat - @Sinrebirth

 

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@darthbernael, @Silvertough, @Nehru_Amidala, @Shadowsun, @darthhelinith, @Mitth_Fisto, @DarthIshyZ, @Snokers, @WookieeRage

New CSes for new game...

https://boards.theforce.net/threads/dark-reach-episode-ii-–-the-storm-of-one.50056783/

 

The New Game Starts in December, giving us November to iron out loose ends, approve sheets, and get ourselves to the Beginning of Chapter Two!

 

NOTE: This is a WIP

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Sex: Male
Age: 59
Species: Human
Homeworld: Nubia

Height: 6’2”
Weight: Average
Physical Attributes: With his tall frame and confident stride, Aryan exudes the air of a strong politician. He has a youthful disposition, characterized by the impish smirk that is always playing over his features and the zeal reflecting in his blue-gray eyes. His silver hair is finely combed and slicked back, and he sports a neatly trimmed beard. His left leg is also cybernetic below the knee, an unfortunate result of an injury he endured while serving with the Galactic Alliance starfighter corps.







Clothing: Aryan prefers a more conservative style of dress, typically a smart suit or a military-cut uniform. They are usually fairly simple with no additional adornments, aside from the occasional cape draped over one shoulder.
Abilities: In addition to being a capable pilot from his time in the Alliance military, Aryan is a bright and cunning politician. As a public servant, he relies on his charisma and charm to network amongst his peers and win favor with the people he serves. He is also a competent speaker and can easily influence a crowd through his choice of words. While he maintains a strong public persona and is generally popular with the people, there is another side to Aryan that is less than desirable. He has become masterful at hiding his true intentions and utilizing certain techniques some may consider tasteless, such as manipulation and blackmail, to achieve his long-term goals. He is cruel and deceptive, especially when it comes to his lust for power and indulging his controlling nature.
Weapons/Tools: A holdout blaster concealed within his tunic and a vibroknife sheathed to the inside of his boot; personal datapad and wrist comlink

Occupation/Title: Emperor of the Galactic Empire
Family: Bellorum Graul (wife and Empress of the Galactic Empire); Norin Graul (father), deceased in the original timeline; Ashaiya Graul-Kinth (mother); Arek Graul (son)
Associates: Bellorum Graul (wife, lover, and confident); Darth Insipid; Ike (a love/hate relationship); Aston Ess (Chief of Staff)
Biography: Aryan was born on Nubia as an only child to Norin and Ashaiya Graul. His parents were the proprietors of a rather large mining and shipping company, which included several bronzium processing plants in the capital region of Rordis. As the sole heir, Aryan would one day have a stake in the company for his namesake alone, but his dreams and aspirations remained elsewhere...among the stars.

He had a natural love for flying and tinkering with starships. This translated into wild excursions across the Nubian frontier in a modified snub fighter Aryan had restored and maintained himself in his youth. When the time came for him to announce his desire to join the Academy and become a pilot, his father was not thrilled with the proposition. However, he was willing to acquiesce under certain terms – Aryan must attend one of the major universities to earn a ‘proper’ education before he could go off to ‘pursue a childish ambition.’

Aryan abided by his father’s wishes and enrolled at the University of Corellia to major in business and galactic relations. Shortly after graduation, he finally joined the Galactic Alliance to follow his passions and become a pilot.

His military career was littered with excellence, and he eventually rose to the rank of Commander, becoming a hometown hero in the process. With each passing achievement, he became more and more convinced that a career as a fully commissioned officer was the way to go, but that all came to a crashing end when he was seriously wounded in a scuffle in the Mid Rim. His injuries were extensive enough that he ended up losing his left leg, and he was medically retired from the military at the age of 28.

During his tenure in the Navy, he met his wife, Lyzia Eross; the two were married in 126 ABY, with their only son, Arek, being born two years later. It was Lyzia who served as Aryan’s lifeline and moral support during the intervening months following his injury. As a philanthropist, she actively traveled around to various worlds stricken by the war to offer assistance and provide for those people in need. She also held rallies on notable worlds to garner support for her cause, mostly siding with the Alliance and their ideals. Aryan often accompanied her, and it was soon discovered that he had a natural talent for interacting with the public and charming a crowd. His speeches were often engaging, and he soon gained the attention of a prominent politician working within the Senate – Garrit Pilleu, a member of the Nubian Ruling Council and aide to the current Senator of Nubia.

The politician was infatuated by the young man’s passion and took him under his wing to help him learn the ropes. With Pilleu’s help, Aryan’s impact over the people remained strong. When the time was right, it was the older man who ultimately pushed Graul to seek elected office.

At the age of 33, Aryan won his first public seat beside his mentor on the Nubian Ruling Council. For the next two years, he continued to make a name for himself by steadily gaining influence and fame within his home system. He was young, and many considered him an attractive and charismatic politician; a fresh face among the usual line-up of tired old bureaucrats. He had the hearts and minds of the people. This would prove crucial when he ultimately ran for Nubia’s empty seat on the Galactic Senate. Aryan eventually won the election by a landslide and became the next Senator of Nubia in 138 ABY. He viewed the outcome as some kind of epiphany; he was their savior, and anything less than that was simply unacceptable. It was a dangerous thought that would slowly begin to consume his mind.

In fact, it wasn’t long before he became a victim of his own machinations. While he adopted a public mask that kept him quite favorable to the people, he continued to obsess over the government and his quest to obtain the kind of influence he needed to become the liberator he envisioned himself to be. It was at this point that the line of morality began to blur – he began to willfully participate in unscrupulous and shameless acts that would ultimately destroy his marriage and distance himself from those he loved. And yet, it still wasn’t enough; his quest for power became insatiable over the intervening years.


Senator Graul during an HNN Broadcast circa 141 ABY

Finally, shortly after winning his third term in the Senate, Aryan approached Darth Insipid and allied himself with the Sith in a desperate bid to elevate himself. In exchange for information and other nominal tasks, he hoped that the Sith would provide him with the kind of push he needed to achieve his ultimate goal – the Chancellorship. Even if it drove him to madness...

After the siege on Coruscant, Aryan, as the last remaining member of the Senate, was finally declared Chancellor by Emperor Insipid himself. But it was a fool's victory; aside from a few isolated cells scattered across the galaxy, there was nothing left to rule. It was an empty title, one that the Sith continued to exploit as things rapidly spiraled out of control.

Without anywhere else to turn, Aryan soon realized that he was in way over his head and instantly regretted his decision to forge this alliance with the Sith. This feeling of helplessness culminated with the attack on Mortis. During the battle, Aryan found himself assigned to Insipid’s personal squadron against his will, presumably to keep him under the watchful eye of the Emperor himself. What he didn't realize was that this fateful trip would test him in ways that were previously unimaginable, especially when faced with a glorified god in the form of Typhojem. He would be changed both mentally and physically, and if not for the aid provided by both Insipid and Teafa Phadraig, would have likely succumbed to his emerging madness.

But he would soon discover that it was all just a ruse.

After fleeing across space and time to escape Typhojem’s clutches, the Sith found themselves in a place not their own – 5 ABY. It was in this place of new beginnings that Aryan found that Insipid’s ritual to save him on Mortis had resulted in unwanted scars, a consequence he would come to resent. Somehow, the Emperor had endowed him with the Force. As Insipid learned of his revelation, he called upon Teafa to train him and to show him the ways of the Sith. Aryan temporarily became known as Darth Skelm.

Once again, Aryan saw through the deception. Teafa, who had suffered a great deal on Mortis, was slowly losing touch with reality; her mental state had slipped to the point where she was nothing more than a broken husk. Insipid undoubtedly saw this, and yet had insisted that they carry on as master and apprentice. Aryan viewed this move as a complete insult to his intelligence, and it was clear that the Emperor was setting him up for failure. Just like his spurious ascension to Chancellor, it was all a ploy...a game. And Aryan was the pawn.

Leaving Teafa and Insipid behind, Aryan fled to seek new avenues and new opportunities. His search eventually brought him to the Night Herald, Darth Haretisch. After a brief exchange, Haretisch agreed to take on Aryan as his apprentice, and subsequently, rolled him into his plans as an agent for the Internal Sith Intelligence Bureau. It was under this moniker that he met Darth Syren. While he was initially at odds with the beautiful assassin, this would soon change as their duties brought them closer together on the pleasure yacht, the Luxury Elite. After dispatching a common foe, they found that they could no longer ignore the attraction that was pulling them together, and they expressed their love for one another.

Their relationship would only continue to grow and flourish after they found themselves the prisoners of Zeb Targon and his notorious crime syndicate. Being locked up in close quarters for two months had only solidified their bond, but the ultimate test was yet to come. Their time on the Luxury Elite was supposed to culminate in a grand fight between Darth Alva and Grievance Vexx, however, when the day of the fight arrived, Darth Bellorum had other plans. She launched a mutunity that would tear the fledgling Sith Empire apart.

Now at odds with their former allies, it became a fight for survival. Aryan, still struggling with his loyalties for Haretisch, Insipid, and even his duty to the Force, found himself on the brink of destruction – should he continue on this tired path and choose a side, or escape to start a new life? After Insipid had used and betrayed him, he knew he could not ally with the Emperor, and he remained skeptical of Haretisch’s longevity… which left only Syren. With the assassin at his side, the answer seemed obvious, but the journey would not be easy. Despite their best efforts, circumstances beyond their control would force them to flee onto the Night Herald’s shuttle to accept their fate. In Aryan’s case, it was all he could ask for.

Darth Haretisch, having suffered life-threatening injuries from his duel with Darth Insipid, sought to sustain himself. Reaching out with the Force, he latched onto Aryan’s life-force and began to unconsciously drain him of his energy. While Graul felt himself dying and succumbing to the Night Herald’s power, master and apprentice struck a deal in the ether that existed between life and death. Aryan would live, but his connection to the Force would be severed. This ritual had set him free from Insipid’s influence. He was whole once again.

Six months after their escape, Aryan became poised to lead. As a high-ranking member of Haretisch’s Imperium of the Fist, he served as the Imperator’s Hand and oversaw the inner workings of this new government as its Prime Minister. During his tenure, he oversaw the liberation of Nirauan and subsequently defended the besieged Imperium capital from the opposing forces of the First Order. It served as a formidable challenge for the distinguished leader, but nothing compared to the one he would face in the Bedlam system.


Aryan Graul, Prime Minister of the Imperium of the Fist

After Supreme Leader Snoke revealed himself as the true leader of the First Order, he performed a ritual to unleash Typhojem on an unsuspecting galaxy. Aryan answered the call by joining together with the remaining Sith above Bedlam to fight this new foe. He returned to his piloting roots and hopped into the cockpit of a TIE Defender to lead a rag-tag squadron into the heart of battle. While he successfully led an assault against the Star Destroyer Eclipse, imploding it before it could destroy the planet, the victory was short-lived. His starfighter would soon lose power and deplete its supply of oxygen.

Unconscious and drifting listlessly in space, he would have surely died if not for a timely rescue from the woman he loved. Syren might have saved his life, but unfortunately, it was too late to prevent lasting damage. Aryan suffered from anoxia, an acute lack of oxygen to the brain, which resulted in a significant injury.

Just as the survivors were thrust through the World Between Worlds into a new space and time, Aryan found himself tumbling into the unknown on his own personal journey of discovery, not knowing who will emerge on the other side. He had a long rehabilitation ahead, and it was hard to say how well or how fast he would recover. In some ways, he was starting over.

 

Name: Darth Bellorum
Sex: Female
Age: early 30’s
Species: Chiss/Human
Mother was half human, half Chiss and Father was Chiss
Homeworld: Unknown
Height: 158 cm (5’2”)
Weight: 48 kg (106 lbs)

Physical Attributes: Physical stature is more human than Chiss. Pale blue skin, eyes normally a soft shade of scarlet which turn golden when she is angered. Unruly hair the shade of Lapis, deep blue with scattered threads of gold. Worn pulled into a tight messy bun held in place by pins of aurodium.

Clothing: Soft black leather leggings tucked into tall boots of the same color. Black silk, or leather tunic belted with black leather. Billowing silk black cloak and hood lined in deep violet or crimson depending on her mood.

Diamond diadem that drapes across her forehead and through her hair. Wedding ring with a large cushion cut amethyst surrounded by diamonds.

Abilities: A profoundly dangerous force user. Currently the only living being with knowledge of Assimilation, the ability to permanently drain artifacts strong in the force to empower oneself, learned from the holocron of Soa. Formidable lightsaber duelist - favors Soresu form adapted to dual-wield technique using shorter blades. Possesses a deep knowledge of toxicology and pharmacology, generally prefers to attack with poisons before weapons, and relies on lightsaber skills only as a last resort defense. Extremely powerful in force telekinesis, with the ability to collapse buildings or explode an enemy's heart. Nearly unrivaled in her command of pyrokinesis. Able to break an enemy's sanity with force illusions. Possessing an amazing clairvoyance, able to see the truth of past and future events with intuition and to see the weak points in people and objects. Bellorum learned the ability to project Force phantoms using the method that was thought to be lost, and was developed by Darth Vectivus.

Weapons/Tools: Dark violet shoto lightsaber modified to emit a wide tapered blade, glossy ebony outer casing rimmed with clear gemstones. Mandalorian Beskad, used in off-hand when dual wielding.

Occupation/Title: Empress of the Galactic Empire

Family: Aryan Graul, husband and Emperor of the Galactic Empire.
Archaeologist grandmother, Sybelle, now deceased.

Associates: Darth Insipid - former master. Ike - best friend. Darth Haretisch - former on and off lover and rival.

Biography:
Bellorum never knew her parents, and was raised by her archeologist grandmother living a nomadic lifestyle. Granny's fellow scientists were an odd mix of misfits who doted on the child and assisted in educating her in their fields of specialty.

Her favorite was an herbalist/botanist who taught her to not only heal using elements found in nature, but to use them for evil purposes; to torture and kill.

It was alone that her hunger for knowledge was sated. Combing the dig sites, she made friends with dark spirits that awoke in her presence. The ancient voices told stories of great wars and tragic defeats. They encouraged her to make herself blend into the shadows and stalk prey. The spirits demonstrated the beauty and power of the Force. One sinister presence led her to a magnificent weapon that had been hidden years before, a brilliant violet bladed lightsaber.

After Granny's passing, Bellorum worked for a while as a mercenary, occasionally for the Sith - never forgetting the dark spirits who insisted she seek out and learn to harness the force. When she caught the attention of Lord Insipid, he claimed her as his secret apprentice, and the raw potential which had long made her a magnet for the malevolent spirits, was finely honed under his tutelage.

Guided by spirits who had foreseen the demise of an Emperor, she ingratiated herself to both Insipid and Haretisch and bided her time.

Through a combination of ruthless scheming and tireless study, Bellorum ascended quickly and within a matter of only five years would become a member of the Sith Triumvirate.

In 155 ABY, an assault party was sent to the Golg fortress to retrieve the heart and helm of Dathka Graush. When Bellorum was added to the team after the fact by Insipid with the secret objective of retrieving the holocron of Soa, she saw her opening and jumped.

Before the mission could depart, she destabilized the team by murdering a vulnerable apprentice, sending the mission into chaos. She had befriended Insipid's consort, Ike, who quickly became defacto leader due to the original leader’s incompetence, and with his help would end up with the heart and helm of Graush and the holocron of Soa in her possession, multiplying her power tenfold. Using a technique learned from Soa, she quickly drained the power from the heart and helm and attained force potential on par with a Dark Lord.

Shortly afterward it would become clear that the spirits had not misled her, and she was named Dawn Herald. Her ascent was complete.

As the Dawn Herald, Bellorum would see Haretisch's coming betrayal, and allowed him to release Typhojem - gambling on herself as the triumvirate's only survivor. Again her intuition would prove correct, and for a brief time she would take the mantle of Empress when both of her counterparts perished on Mortis.

When Haretisch returned from hell and Insipid successfully essence transferred into Aryan Graul, however, she willingly passed the title back to Insipid. Though he was briefly vulnerable, she reasoned that it would be impossible to survive Typhojem without her former master, and that destroying him would offer only a brief reward.

Instead she opted to cooperate with her fellow triumvirs, to assume the title of Dawn Herald again as the order fled to 5 ABY, and to work patiently toward a more permanent attainment of her goals. Bellorum's time would come, and none would stand in her way. She bided her time, establishing criminal contacts and securing funding for her schemes.

Within a mere three months, her plan was in place. With all of her enemies clustered aboard the Luxury Elite, she sprung a trap, eliminating the most powerful crime family in the Unknown Regions, and setting the ship’s security forces (whom she had bought off months before using funds secured from a jewel heist) against her former Sith comrades. Darth Insipid and Darth Haretisch would limp wounded from the aftermath, each slipping through her grasp, but she had succeeded nonetheless; Darth Bellorum had now taken the final step to establishing her new order, the Twilight Sun. And she was its Empress.

The War of Three would follow, and Bellorum would score an early moral victory on New Moraband by destroying the strategically valuable Citadel. She would then score a crushing blow while defending the Hapes Cluster by capturing Darth Haretisch himself and freezing the Imperator in carbonite.

Things would come to a head on Bedlam, as Bellorum would arrive with the Hapan fleet, newly allied with the freed Imperator, to confront the gathered forces of the First Order.

There Typhojem would once again attempt to cross the divide between dimensions, freed to do so by the maniacal Snoke. At the last moment, however, her former master Darth Insipid would save them again, sending Bellorum, Haretisch, and others through the world between worlds and into a safer past.

In the end the Sith Civil War was a disaster, and now Bellorum was in another era without her Luxury Elite and Twilight Guard.

While in the past, Bellorum and Ike secured a ship for the group, and then Bell set about finding a physician competent to care for Aryan Graul. He had sustained a brain injury moments before they were thrown into the past.

Her search led her to an ex-Jedi named Olag and his lover/assistant Cheryl. Olag was skilled in intricate healing methods and was able to slowly repair the damage to Graul.

The group was pursued by cultists and had been forced to flee. Bellorum took Olag and Cheryl with her so that Aryan Graul would have care.

Meanwhile, Hel and a child had been captured by the cult leader and were being held hostage. They were retrieved, but the group ended up being suddenly transferred back into the timeline they had come from. Most of the group members had little or no memory of events that occurred. Bellorum recalled some, but not all that had happened. Olag and Cheryl were now permanent fixtures in Bellorum’s team, and for some odd reason she trusted the strange man and was grateful he had healed Aryan.

Sith being Sith, they fought and made up as always.

Bellorum had her eyes on a very large prize, an empire. She realized she needed help to accomplish her goal, and the natural choice was Aryan Graul. He frequently appeared in her visions, and that was a mystery that plagued her. Graul had never held back his dislike of Bellorum, which she tried to ignore, but it was something she was very aware of.

With Insipid’s blessing, Bellorum came up with a detailed plan to invade Coruscant and take over control of the Galactic Empire. Aryan would assume the role of Emperor beside Bellorum as Empress.

She arranged a meeting with Graul onboard the Luxury Elite to propose her idea. Graul was hesitant at first, but they negotiated a bargain that he couldn’t refuse. The ink wasn’t even dry on their agreement when they exchanged vows. It all sounded easy for Bell to get everything she wanted. Her marriage with Graul was to be in name only, and in return he received a small interest in her businesses.

They announced their union during a meeting within the Hapan Queen Mother, her consort, and Soliloquy. This group would be key in taking control of the orbital defense platforms guarding Coruscant. The Queen Mother was nearly hostile but agreed to participate.

The team secured all Golan platforms except two. The one assigned to the Hapan Queen Mother had to be destroyed when the programming glitched on the replacement team from Bellorum’s forces. The second one was blown up by a Force user that had been living there in hiding.

Before the station was destroyed Bellorum, exhausted from using a Force Phantom technique the night before, and from fighting both YVH and assassin droids, was wounded when a small droid stabbed a poisoned blade into her leg.

After the crazed Force user set the destruct sequence off, Bell tried to make it to the ship. She realized it would be too close, so she commed Aryan and ordered him to leave. He refused and kept speaking to her, even after she had dropped her comlink.

Aryan ordered Cheryl to take the controls of the shuttle and he rushed to the boarding ramp to help Bell get on board. She has no recollection of getting to the hangar or of collapsing to the hangar floor. Graul ordered Cheryl to maneuver the shuttle close enough, but it was Aryan’s use of the Force that pulled Bellorum into his arms and they landed on the floor of the shuttle as Cheryl got them free of the blast.

Olag observed Aryan’s use of telekinesis and his pulling The Dark Lady into his arms. He had spent countless hours inside Aryan’s head and felt it was time Graul acknowledged who he really was and to make use of the power he possessed. Olag also insisted Aryan help with stopping the powerful toxin that was likely to result in Bellorum’s death if nothing was done.

They patched her up enough to complete the invasion and celebrate their success. Olag made sure Bell was aware of what Graul had done for her, and she began to feel an undeniable change blossoming.

Behind the scenes she had their agreement rewritten to make Aryan her full partner and she rechristened their ship to The Stardust as a nod to Graul.

Insipid introduced the Galactic Emperor and Empress Graul at a Gala event, and during their first dance the couple realized they had been wrong. They would not have a marriage in name only, and their union was far more than either imagined.




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Name: Hel
Sex: Female
Age: 8 (biologically 21 due to growth acceleration)
Species: 3/4 Human, 1/4 Nagai
Homeworld: Moraband
Occupation: Sith
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 110 lbs

Physical Attributes: Hel was thin and wiry like her father, though much smaller in stature. Her one quarter Nagai blood was not evident outside of her pale skin and slight build - her hair was reddish blonde, eyes green, and facial features soft like her mother's.
Clothing: Hel eschewed elaborate attire in favor of utility; flexible, form-fitting black pants and sleeveless black top, black gloves and boots and a black belt accompanied by a light gray cape and hood.

Abilities: Despite her youth and inexperience, Hel was quite skilled with the force, and possessed abilities beyond the grasp of some who were many years her senior. Her natural affinity for Shatterpoint was the most notable of her force skills. She also boasted considerable stamina and endurance, shown in her exploits during the battles of Moraband and Mortis, in which she defended an invaluable choke point from undead and survived an assault by dozens of cultists, respectively.

Weapons/Tools: Hel's lightsaber. Focused a violet blade. Keiron Wanderguard's lightsaber, inherited by his son Plo upon his death, and subsequently passed to Hel by her father upon the reveal of her parentage. Focused a green blade.

Occupation/Title: None, outlaw.

Family: Daughter of Darth Haretisch and Theona Kalo, granddaughter of Keiron Wanderguard.

Associates: Close friend of Dr. Cal Jepsun, Olag, and Cheryl. Former comrade to Darths Hades, Anark, and Ravenous, with whom she fought at the Battle of Moraband.

Biography: Hel was a human female Sith Lord who lived during various eras of galactic history. Created secretly by a Sith Emperor in 151 ABY using DNA samples from Darth Haretisch and a long-dead Jedi Padawan named Theona Kalo, by the age of four she was biologically an adult due to growth acceleration. Hel spent most of these first four years of her life training in imposed solitude, with her only contact coming by way of handlers and droids.

It was not until the Sith Emperor's death and Darth Insipid's ascent to the throne that she emerged from isolation and began to actively serve the Empire. Assumed by most to be a clone, her parentage was unknown to all but Darth Bellorum, who had stumbled upon a datapad containing a holorecording triggered by the Emperor's Death and explaining Hel's creation as an elaborate scheme totorture her father in the event of a betrayal.

In 155 ABY, only days later, Hel played a pivotal role in the Battle of Moraband when circumstances placed her in command of a small squad defending a pivotal choke point against a horde of undead. She gained a measure of notoriety in the aftermath of the victory,when she was awarded the Seventh Sith Empire's highest individual honor - the Badge of Ziost - for her bravery and leadership, alongwith Darths Anark, Ravenous, and Hades.

Shortly afterward on Mortis, during the mission to seal Typhojem permanently away, she would fight alongside other Sith to repel dozens of Infinite Sith cultists. She nearly perished but for being rescued at the last moment by another Sith piloting Bellorum's personal shuttle The Allotrope. It was on the ship, among the other survivors, that she realized how disastrous the battle had been, and would learn the truth of her birth. Darth Haretisch had been a traitor - releasing Typhojem before having a change of heart and saving them all. Rightfully, no one trusted him.

And he was her father.

After escaping with the rest of the Sith via a time travel ritual to 4 ABY, Hel served in her father’s campaigns to tame the new Sith homeworld of New Moraband, but was seriously injured by friendly fire during a battle. Saved near miraculously by Dr. Cal Jepsun, she found herself at the outset of a challenging recovery and rehab process.

Once her recovery was complete, over the following months Hel would periodically sneak aboard the Luxury Elite against the wishes of her father. When the Sith Triumvirate finally collapsed, it came down to Hel, with Cal Jepsun’s help, to save her father’s life and escape to safety.

During the Sith Civil War, Hel found herself saving her father again after he had gone to try and reason with Bellorum, who had taken him prisoner and bit his ear off in a fit of temporary insanity.

At the beginning of Dark Reach chapter two, Hel is still resisting on Bellorum’s ship, the Stardust. Her father left one night and never returned, leaving her bitter and angry. She blames the Empress for her father leaving and will have nothing to do with her. Hel spends all her time with Cal and Olag.

 

OOC: All three CS's Triple Approved by the GM's

CHARACTER SHEET​

Name: Darth Bernael
Sex: Male
Age: ?? but at least 2500 standard years
Species: Base is Anzati, but due to DR I, much evolved
Homeworld: Anzat

Height: 1.85 meters
Weight: 110 kg
Physical Attributes: Human tan with grey base, hair is black, eyes are silver-grey with black sclera, hidden proboscises in recessed cheek pouches, dense musculature, Anzati physiology which includes dispersed into nodes around the body brain and heart, ability to regenerate from almost any wound, given time. Due to recent events these attributes are those he normally let's be seen, but among other things he can shapeshift, a relic of absorbing the shard of Ooru that remained in this reality.







Clothing: Constantly wears specially designed light armor that makes no noise when moving,
Chameleon cloak with a hood that assists with blending into the surroundings. When necessary will change clothes to those appropriate for the occasion while hunting. Featureless black mask, openings for eyes, slit mid cheek, each side.
Abilities: He is extremely fast; natural stealth ability; highly charismatic (allows him to get close to targets more easily); high degree of mind control without using the Force power; is highly intelligent but after so many years of life easily bored with most subjects; at his weakest point is stronger than 5 humans combined; master of many martial arts from across the galaxy; has a voracious hunger, that can be stretched out for months due to age, for sentient beings essence but prefers Force users; and can regenerate from almost any wound once out of battle due to his physiology. These are not learned skills but rather are part of an Anzat from birth and become stronger as an Anzat ages.

Bernael has studied and utilised Jar'Kai since before he left his home world. And, as needed, he incorporates parts of other forms such as Ataru, Soresu, and Dun Moch while he fights.

When he was killed and reborn, he took back a portion of himself that had been occupied by the remaining shard of Ooru that existed in this timeline, absorbing all of his cousin’s abilities into his own, including shapeshifting as one that he utilizes as needed in battle.

Weapons/Tools: 1 Pair Combat Lightsabers; Color-Black Blade; Solari and Heart of Darkness crystal embedded, Doubles blade width, More effective at blocking blasters and other lightsabers; Pistol Grip style, i.e. Count Dooku style; Collection of knives covered in Force Runes to penetrate shields and get in close in battle that he keeps on his person
2 proboscises kept coiled in cheek pouches to appear more humanoid until use for draining a victims "soup"
2 Blackened Blade Kukri with similar strengths to ancient Sith swords. Enhanced with runes of Essence Drain, Hunger, and Shatterproof, becoming aware.
When going into battle, Bernael wears his combat armor, has a brace of daggers in various locations, and has his 2 kukri sheathed at the small of his back, for most missions, duels, or battles.

Occupation/Title: Assassin-Sorcerer/Circle Lord
Family: Lord Hekate (Spouse), Thanatos (Son), and Persephone (Daughter) ((Twins))
Associates: Emperor Insipid, Emperor Graul, Empress Graul, Circle Lord Iudex, Lord Hekate, Lord Helinith, Renn, Lord Azathoth, Lord Sabel

Biography:

Bernael was born on Anzat as all Anzati are. He was trained during his first two centuries, the youth of an Anzat, to be a hunter of any being by his sire. He respected both his sire and grandsire as he was raised on the stories of them associating with some of the greatest Sith, such as Exar Kun. His sire had trained in the double bladed Form of Jar Kai while in the company of Exar Kun.

When Bernael left at a young age to travel the galaxy and hunt he chose his given name to blend in with other races. While out and hunting he began to realize that much of the truth or learning that had been passed of his species had either disappeared entirely from the galaxy or had been spun into myth and legend. In some ways this made it easier to survive as all Anzati do by draining life essence and “luck” or “soup”, also known as the mind and force essence. Because of his nature he quickly learned he had to move from planet to planet as once found out most societies would willingly scorch their own planet to destroy him.

At one time, during a hunt he was discovered by a Sith assassin, named Darth Kwaad, while in the process of draining said assassin’s apprentice. He fought the Sith to a standstill before agreeing to become his new apprentice to learn his Sith arts. On a mission his master perished and he continued across the galaxy seeking out more Force users to drain. During his studies under the assassin he learned that the best meals were Force users and that doing so increased his own strength in the Force.

At his current age he must feed only infrequently so only does so in the course of an assassination or if his client is unworthy upon completion of the task at hand. His strength in the Force is such it has greatly reduced his need to feed.

For the last 500 years he has travelled the galaxy, searching out nexuses of both Dark Side and Light Side energy, studying them, and removing artifacts of great power from such before the unworthy could find or utilise them. At the end of time, he was called to meet with his old master on Kesh, and his tale began anew.

The following takes place during events of Dark Reach Chapter I

Spoiler

Bernael, along with Renn and Helinith had been taken from the dying timeline and thrown into the current timeline, sent back in time almost a hundred and fifty years as well. They had to fight for their lives, pretending to die, at the hands of the Sith Order before being ‘reborn’ as a part of it. Each was sent upon their own missions after a banquet celebrating the Sith and their becoming a part of it. Bernael was paired with Lord Manticore and Leda, to assist the Emperor in his mission to Kuat.

The mission itself seemed wimple, but even with that, there were always complications. In this case, it was the complication that Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, and Luke Skywalker were already there. Their cover was blown from the moment they attempted to reach their contact and a massive battle ensued. During it, the Emperor ‘died’, transferring his essence to Leda as Manticore and Bernael fought their foes, trying to escape the battle. Bernael fed upon the remaining essence of Insipid as they fled and that assisted them, even as a New Republic cruiser fired upon them. Insipid took the body of their contact, and they used the ruse of a medical shuttle to escape from under the noses of the New Republic.

Their troubles were not at an end when they returned to Kesh, finding that a pair of Force twins had taken control when the Order departed. No sooner had the Order returned than the male twin, the only one still upon Kesh, attacked. The battle was fierce, Insipid almost assassinated by one of the Sith themselves, Vyatoris, before Manticore and Bernael were able to drive the twin into the arms of his sister, who had returned from Hapes to save him.

The Sith regrouped and Insipid gave over the punishment of Vyatoris to Bernael and Manticore. They confronted the traitor and, in the end, chose to have Bernael drain his soul and mind. The experience was interesting and touched the closed door of his mind that hid his ‘Father’, even as the parts of Insipid in his mind escaped with Vyatoris’s soul into the Netherworld.

The second feast of the Sith was as boisterous as the first, leading to Insipid directing Manticore and Bernael to track down the twins, and the missing Leda, snatched as the twins departed. The Emperor set the task of tracking down Leda, sending them out into the Unknown Regions. Bernael and Manticore requisitioned a cruiser, in the process learning even more of the changes that were there between timelines. And, in the process, found that Leda and the twins had retreated to the rebuilt Star Forge.

Their first trouble hit when they stopped to refuel at Yag’Dhul. They were ambushed and those that they had secured the cruiser from was less than inclined to aid them, as it turned out he was this timeline’s version of what Bernael had been in the previous one. The First Order were the ones behind the attack, it turned out. During the battle, it also turned out their contact aboard their craft was Wapoe himself, which only added to their troubles.

The battle eventually brought both Bernael and Manticore onboard the Resurgent that led the assault. They fought their way through the craft Bernael made it to the bridge first and began to destroy the operating systems of the craft. After chasing Hux through the ship, defeating his Praetorian Guard, they faced one last, great task, Snoke himself, in the hangar bay.

The battle between the three of them was fierce, ripping apart the hangar, causing great damage to both Sith as they fought. In the end they melded, into almost one being, using all of their power to drive off Snoke and Ship, which had been aiding the misshapen being during the fight. Wapoe reappeared at the end of the fight in time to returned both Manticore and Bernael to life.

It was then that Bernael began to truly merge with his Father’s shard, absorbing it almost completely into himself, or so it seemed. This drew the remaining shards of gods that existed in this timeline to himself. The Red Guard that had survived their battle swore fealty to both Sith, dividing into those that were warriors and those that were assassins.

The Emperor called them back to Hapes, where the Sith had taken command of the Consortium. They were ensconced in their places in the current scheme of the Order and new orders were given by the Emperor, including the use of the Resurgent they had recovered, to use as their battle platform. While at Hapes, Bernael, at Renn’s insistence, released most of the godly fragments, which would lead to chaos for others along the way.

As Bernael and Manticore headed to confront the Twins and, possibly, Leda at the Star Forge, they once again ran into Wapoe. His aid brought them toward the battle to come, by way of Jakku. After temptation was led before them, the two Sith decided that to press on and defeat their foes was a more pressing issue. Both Sith lead the assault on the Star Forge, their personal retainers following, or spread out around them, allowing them to breach the facility. The fight against the Twins, Sian and Merel, was long, Manticore facing off against the former and Bernael against the latter. In the end, though, they were able to overcome the twisted Twins. With the help of a mysterious Chiss Sith, they left the facility, even though the mission to find Leda had failed. To compound all that was occurring, the presence, the essence of the Emperor disappeared from reality as they fought, the Star Forge destroying itself around them.

The two Sith found themselves with the Chiss, named Lord Sabel, a Sith and ruler of a territory in the Unknown Regions. They thanked him and convinced him to return with them to see the Order and decide if he wanted to take part of it, join with them. However...their return to Hapes revealed a massive trap. The Sith had taken Hapes but the Hapan nobles were rebelling. A massive armada, including First Order elements, had invaded the system.

That they had a Resurgent with FO codes allowed them to infiltrate as they headed in system but both Bernael and Manticore had to decide how they would react and aid the Sith in this fight. Most of the Order was within the shield of mines that protected the capital, with a small portion of the rebel fleet. Which left the two Sith the option of destroying the fleet beyond the shield. Both, dedicated to the Sith, took action. Manticore sacrificed himself to destroy a large portion of the fleet, as Bernael and his retainers destroyed as much of the rest of the fleet as possible.

It was during this time that his Father began his true assault against Bernael and the fight drove him into the hunger killing frenzy. He ignored damage after damage as he fought, until he found himself aboard a Beta class cruiser, all but dead. He revived himself, to a great degree, as he fought his way through the cruiser, slowly approaching the bridge as another of the Sith, Iudex, was doing the same.

As the battle continued to rage, Bernael fought his own, internal battle. He managed to finish the job that Manticore had begun, leaving the Sith to only have to face the smaller fleet before them before the battle against his Father was lost and his body stolen by the God. He disappeared from the galaxy, it seemed. However, he found one of the shards that still was left, of Ooru. The godling fought against Bernael’s spirit, but since it had taken of Bernael to make itself, Bernael overcame it, stealing the godling’s power and abilities as he reabsorbed the god.

He stole a miy’til during the battle against Ooru and, by the time he was reborn he found himself at the edge of the Akkadese Maelstrom, adrift in space. Luckily Manticore had been reborn as well and his battle brother found him in space. Landing on the nearby planet, they faced the forces of the Pyke Syndicate, defeating them handily before allowing the Darkstaff that Manticore had take over the body of the leader of the Pykes.

The First Order forces that had been within the Maelstrom emerged, forcing the Pykes and a small force of the Sith that had come from Hapes to fight them. In the process, Manticore and Bernael found themselves aboard one Resurgent with Iudex and Shimmer aboard another. The two ships jumped, locked into a course that would have attacked the New Republic capital and proclaim that it had been their Order that had been the ones to cause it. Manticore and Bernael fought a battle through the Resurgent and took it over, forcing it to stop in its headlong drive for Chandrilla. They dropped out of hyper, right into a Republic blockade of the Hapes Consortuim. Which allowed the Sith to sense their presences for mere moments before they jumped again, chasing the second Resurgent.

With the other Sith’s help, and the timely intervention of their retainers who appeared in a ship they’d been given as they searched for their Lords, the four Sith stopped the assault on the Republic capital before it truly occurred. Taking the craft their retainers had arrived in, after destroying the Resurgent, they took to hyper and back to the Maelstrom.

After arriving, they found themselves caught up in a massive battle. The trip there had been eventful on it’s own as the FO’s superweapon revealed itself. They’d had to fight through hyper to reach the system and when they arrived the system was crowded, Hapan craft and FO craft, including what seemed like a living Death Star, were all present. Included there was the returned Emperor Insipid and a large portion of the Sith, including Bernael’s wife, who he had not been able to interact with through most of the recent action, as she was pregnant.

The battle split, a portion of their forces, including Sabel, Shimmer, and Iudex heading for the Death Star while Manticore, Bernael, and many of the others assaulting the other vessels. Snoke eventually revealed himself and pulled a large group of them into the Eclipse resulting in a massive battle against the misshapen being. Each of the Sith suffered wounds and injuries in the process of finishing off Snoke. Bernael was injured to the point he even had to feed upon ancient souls to revive himself, with Manticore’s aid as well. Eventually they won, staggering away from the battle.

As the Sith made their escape from the Eclipse the New Republic made its presence known, including that of the Jedi, Luke Skywalker. Once again, there was a battle to fight, against the living Death Star. Which Bernael knew was housing his father’s soul. Between the united Sith and the Jedi, they managed to defeat the superweapon, even if, unbeknownst to most of the others, the shreds of his Father escaped, only to be trapped in his mind once more.

Finally done with this battle, the Sith departed the Oba Deah system, headed to Coruscant. When they arrived, they had one final battle to face, against the Imperial forces there that refused to recognize their command. The battle was a slaughter, non Force users against an order of Sith that had spent the last year fighting battle after battle. With the battle finally won, the celebration commenced and the Sith prepared for the next stage of their dominion over the galaxy. Bernael was elevated to the Circle of Lords and he prepared to aid the others of the Circle in leading and guiding the Sith.

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CHARACTER SHEET
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Name: Renn Turon
Sex: Male
Age: 600 years awake, 4300 years in hibernation
Born 4710 BBY
Species: Neti
Homeworld: Ryyk

Height: 2.5 meters normally but can grow to 9.5 meters
Weight: 850 kg
Physical Attributes: Due to being a shapeshifter Renn has no need for garments as he can alter his form to appear to wear them if he so desires. As a shapeshifter, he can appear in any form he desires but most often appears humanoid with brown skin and hair, yellow-green eyes, and a rounded hump where his nose would be.



Clothing: None
Abilities: Shapeshifting, long term hibernation, photosynthesis so no need to eat, extreme life span, speed, strength, can harden his bark-like skin to be able to shrug off most blaster or saber strikes. Being what he is, he found himself studying sorcery, in depth, as his natural strengths already seemed in line with the skills many Sith Sorcerers use. As well, with his dark sense of humor, the ability to use the Force to create different things or force changes onto items or beings, warping them as he desired was something he could not ignore.

Weapons/Tools: Renn can use a wide variety of weapons at the same time. Most often he tends to wield two yellow bladed lightsabers and a heavy blaster, with a fourth arm appendage to use force powers.
He also carries 2 vibroswords and several daggers sheathed in a flexible harness.

Occupation/Title: Sorcerer/Prince Regent of the Hapes Consortium
Family: Lord Helinith (Spouse), Tamus (Son)
Associates: Emperor Insipid, Emperor Graul, Empress Graul, Circle Lord Iudex, Circle Lord Bernael, Lord Hekate, Lord Helinith, Lord Azathoth, Lord Sabel

Biography: Renn was born on the Neti homeworld of Ryyk. There he learned how to shapeshifting into almost any form, living appearance or not. He learned combat skills from single appendage fighting up to and including balanced on between two and four leg appendages while wielding upwards of six weapons with arm appendages.

At the same time, due to the Neti's force sensitive nature, Renn began to learn some of the arts. He found himself naturally drawn toward the dark side of the force as he was a fast learner when it came to what was called Sith alchemy. He learned much of the basics of these arts before his life took a turn he did not expect.

Around his 400th year the astronomers made calculations that determined their sun would shortly enter a supernova phase. As with the remainder of his species, he fled the planet, seeking a new home. His ship developed a malfunction while searching worlds for one appropriate to him and seed pods he could spread over said world. As a result he crash landed on the world of Anoat. This world being an almost completely inhospitable one, he entered a state of hibernation to wait for another ship to land so that he could resume his journeys.

Little did he know that it would take almost 4300 years before another ship would notice his wreckage on Anoat and investigate. The only reason he was discovered was that scouts from the Galactic Empire had come looking to exploit the world's resources. They left their main ship in orbit and one of the two scouts flew down to investigate.

When he was awakened, Renn assumed only a few years had passed. He felt the scout's approach and when they were close enough he struck, killing the scout instantly. He then shapeshifted into the form of the scout and returned to the main ship, a Raider II, and, wearing the form of the scout, came close enough to kill the second pilot.

Renn took the ship and began searching the galaxy for his kind. As he flew he studied the histories and was startled to realize how long he had hibernated. Much had changed and he soon realized that very few of his kind ever went off world or appeared on the galactic stage.

He had been keeping watch over the starlanes, like a spider in a web, watching for signs of other Neti but a ship he knew well had caught his gaze. It was of an old acquaintance, friend if that kind had friends, one he had been involved with on different adventures. If they were headed somewhere new then wherever they were headed was worth investigating.

As he followed the ship, he found the feeling of power in the Dark rising and rising. It was different from what he had known but still strong. He put his ship in orbit around the world his compatriot had landed on, and studied the world while he decided if this new Dark presence was worth investigating.

The following takes place during events of Dark Reach Chapter I

Spoiler

Renn had followed his old friend Bernael to Kesh, run into him and a female human Sith, Helinith. They had come in contact with the Sith Emperor, Insipid and he found himself and the other two being tossed through time and space, into a new timeline, and many years into the past. When they arrived they faced a battle that led to the three of them being introduced as the new members of Insipid’s Sith Order.

After a party that was vague to the old Neti, he found himself sent with Helinith, her Master who was a spark of life in an android body, and another Sith to negotiate with the Hapan Matriarch. He’d found out more about the little female assassin and found himself enjoying being her candy holder and distributor. On the way to Hapes the group got to know each other more.

However...when they got to Hapan space they were immediately attacked, the shuttle they were on disintegrating around them. Escaping the various Sith found their way onto the Battle Dragon that had attacked them, he taking the form of one of the guards that had boarded their shuttle. Once again attacked, the Sith overcame the guards and stopped the hangar they were in from being vented to space. Now angered, the Sith took to the corridors of the ship, racing to the bridge to take over or destroy the ship themselves.

As the battle ended, the Captain dead at Renn’s hands, with assistance from the other Sith, the Queen Mother, on her ship entered the system. After some quick negotiations with the Queen Mother, the Sith made their way to the ship, Star Home. The Sith split up as they entered the ship, some speaking to Princess Secciah, Renn as Helinith to Ta’a. Both groups realized that not only was Ni’Korish mad but that both Princesses were plotting to kill the other and take the throne.

As all parties approached the throne room it was obvious that the Hapans had been warned fully, in advance, about them. So the dealings would be very interesting. A Force user was present as they entered the throne room, obviously the one that had warned the Matriarch. A standoff ensued as Ni’Korish and Renn argued, the power and energy of battle soon to come. Renn had the Queen Mother at his mercy when the Force User invaded his mind and attempted to subvert or take him over.

There was a fierce standoff before the woman, Merel, retreated, of her own accord. When Renn returned to his senses he made his decision and removed the head of the Matriarch, installing Ta’a in her place. Which, of course, after warning Bernael of Merel approaching, was when Luke Skywalker decided to show up. After a short fight, the Sith escaped, picked up by Helinith in a ship she’d captured.

The group of Sith returned to Kesh, arriving after the Twins had departed, taking Leda. They joined the rest of the Sith, in another feast where the Emperor put out the new assignments. Which meant that Renn and Helinith would be returning to Hapes with Serapis.

The return to Hapes had it’s own interesting moments. Renn and Helinith had begun to realize how they felt about one another and before the journey back to the Consortium was done the two of them had admitted their feelings to the other. It did add it’s complications to the mission as Ta’a was fully prepared, or so it seemed, to take Renn as her Consort. But the two Sith were not going to deny their own feelings.

When they arrived, things became even more complicated. The system was crowded, ready for war, it seemed, and they made their way to the Palace. They were kept waiting for a few moments before they were ushered in to see Ta’a...and Leia. That Luke’s sister was there so soon after they had faced him was a complication. Which became more as Renn and Leia bgan a back and forth that was both trying to outdo the other in political maneuvering. When Helinith added her own impressions it soon became clear the way the two Sith felt which allowed Ta’a to spring her trap.

She disappeared from sight as the Palace filled with battle droids. The droids attacked both the Sith and Leia as the three of them fled. Escaping to the hangar they took one ship over the long drop at the hangar entrance, falling down to the pool below. Soon enough both parties were rescued, the Sith by Serapis in his Hapan body and Leia by her husband, Han, in the Millenium Falcon.

Serapis and the Sith, with a warning from Leia that she would return with a fleet, departed Hapes, only to run into Insipid himself, who had come to ensure that his plans were going to be enacted. Once reunited with the Emperor, he required they explain, which was a few moments of interesting discussion, during which even the union of Renn and Helinith came out. Which had it’s own humorous moment as the Emperor, possibly unknowingly, married the two of them in an ancient custom of the ‘captain’ of a vessel blessing the union of two beings.

After the discussion the group headed to Hapes itself, to deal with Ta’a and take command of Hapes. When they arrived, the Emperor took charge, bringing them into the same hangar they’d recently fallen out of. The Sith attacked with a fury, taking out all in their path. The battle was a near rout until they reached the Matriarch’s bunker. As they attacked both Renn and Helinith were covered in injuries but fighting hard. That was, until Helinith collapsed in Renn’s arms.

Both were grievously wounded but, as Serapis and Iudex finished off the guards and Secciah, Renn sucked the life from Ta’a. He funneled it into Helinith to bring her back but had to pass her his own lifeforce as Serapis took Ta’a’s head from her shoulders. The next thing he truly knew was several days later, waking in a garden room. He found out from a servant that he had been made Prince Consort and Helinith Queen Matriarch.

The two of them reunited, more than happy to both be alive, even if neither felt they were truly suited to leading a star nation. But they had been placed there by the Emperor so would do as he’d commanded. After a passionate reunion with Helinith, they followed the summons of the Emperor to the renovated Star Home, to meet him and the other Sith.

The conference, led by the Emperor, was another setting for his commands to be put out, theirs being that they would remain at Hapes and ensure that the Sith had control and a home base to operate from.

Before the meeting with the Sith, Renn tracked down Bernael, feeling the presence of the godly fragments. In their discussion, he was able to get his friend to let go of any that would and even took one into himself, Mnngal-Mnngal.

He explained the situation to Helinith and, after driving off the shard of Abeloth for a time, they were preparing for the coronation when a squad of assassins appeared, led by Aurra Sing. The fight was long and bloody. She focused on Renn first, as though getting rid of him would make the task of killing Helinith easier. However, it only enraged Helinith and the battle raged until Helinith subdued Sing and began to attempt to heal a collapsed Renn.

With some quick thinking Renn began to recover and, after Sing was taken away to a cell, the duo returned to preparing for the coronation. Which was when the death of Insipid impacted them all. He had to get her to a safe place to let her vent, which, once again, resulted in him being injured as he tried to reach her in the depths of her anger and pain. Which became one of the things that brought her back, thankfully.

Several of the Sith joined the duo, just in time for a rebel Hapan fleet, at the time unknown to the Sith led by the sister of Helinith’s chief ‘maid’. During the discussion Soliloquy realized that Mnngal-Mnngal inhabited Renn and managed to destroy the essence of the godling, healing the Neti even more.

Taking to the skies, the Sith began the battle against the rebels. They were aided in their endeavors by Bernael and Manticore destroying most of the rebel fleet and those First Order craft assisting them, beyond the shell of mines that protected Hapes. With the assistance of the unassociated Sith Lord Sabel, Helinith and the others defeated their foes, Helinith making a speech that rallied the Consortium to her side, in the process.

A small discussion about who should succeed Insipid occurred and Renn basically pushed Soliloquy into the position, partially as he knew he was not one who would fit as the ruler of the Sith. The coronation came soon enough, although that too became an involved affair with another assassination attempt and Snoke appearing via holo. After a brief back and forth, infuriating their foe, he cut off the transmission, the Sith now knowing who their direct foe was.

A few ‘moments’ of peace were broken by the New Republic, led by Leia, blockading the two major entrances to the Consortium, demanding the surrender of the ‘Acolytes of Beyond’. The blockade became an ongoing affair as Helinith dealt with Sing, in a very final way, before admitting a new Admiral to lead the fleet. Soon after, the new Admiral took the fleet to face off against Leia.

The blockade became both political and physical as the discussion was ongoing, especially with a shipment of goods to fortify the capital stuck beyond the blockade. As this was ongoing, the situation continued to escalate elsewhere, which caused an almost invasion.

Lord Insipid returned, a different variation of Insipid, but one that both Renn and Helinith knew well. Using subterfuge and deception, the Sith managed to get free of the blockade, following the trail of the freighter that had jumped away for reasons unknown.

Renn and Helinith, as the rulers of the Consortium, remained behind as the others departed. During this time they managed to find time to themselves, ‘hiding’ from the others. They found themselves in a small garden and together managed to create curtains of sentient vines that blocked anyone from entering. What Renn had forgotten was that this garden, on Star Home, was where he’d planted some of the seeds that he’d carried from his long dead home.

The lifebringing caused those seeds to sprout and form the curtains. The Dark Lady Bellorum, not yet Empress then, called a meeting aboard her ship and as the two of them left, one of the seedlings erupted further into life, becoming almost a small, infant Neti. The two of them brought him with them and he continued to grow as the meeting continued.

Without the two of them; three of them, knowing, the Dark Lady’s ship had already prepared to depart as they boarded and they felt as the ship leapt to hyper, headed toward Coruscant. Causing a little strife because of it, but little that could be done except continue on the path they demurred.

When the ship was a jump away from Coruscant, a plan that had been put forth was set into motion and the various Sith aboard prepared to take over the Golan stations that ringed the capital. Renn, Helinith, and their now even more grown son Tamus, boarded their craft and headed to their target.

Distracting the crew of the Golan, over and over, racing back and forth across the station, Renn and Tamus allowed Helinith to have enough time to take over the station from its core. For such a little being, their son showed the ferocity that he’d gotten from them both.

Eventually succeeding, they took their ship to join the other Sith for the final battle on the surface, before the Senate. All three, of them, in the end, enjoyed themselves as they destroyed stormtroopers right and left. With the battle done, the Sith victorious, all were recalled to the Empress Bellorum’s ship. A grand Gala was hosted and their victories lauded as they prepared for the next stage of their conquest and rule of Known Space.

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CHARACTER SHEET​

Name: Tamus Turon
Sex: Male
Age: From Birth, less than a year, but appears and has the mentality of about a 3-4 year old human child
Species: Mostly Neti, some human genes from mother as well
Homeworld: Ryyk originally, born on Star Home

Height: 1 meter
Weight: 100 kg
Physical Attributes: He appears in a humanoid form, about the size and shape, except for the fact that he’s wood, of a kindergarten age human child. He can shapeshift, as a part of his Neti heritage and often does for fun.



Clothing: Doesn’t wear any, except that he mimics the form and shape of clothing based on his surroundings.
Abilities: Like his father he can shapeshift, long term hibernation, photosynthesis so no need to eat, extreme life span, speed, strength, can harden his bark-like skin to be able to shrug off most blaster or saber strikes. His ability to do so, with most of his abilities, is not as refined as Renn’s or as long lasting with a young child's inability to focus for as long, in most cases.
Weapons/Tools: He’s a little terror in his own right, when in the right form, but seriously who would give this little crazy Neti a weapon?

Occupation/Title: Child
Family: Lord Helinith (Mother), Renn Turon (Father)
Associates: Emperor Insipid, Empress Graul, Emperor Graul
Biography:

Dictation Droid DB-08 engaged

I borned, mama n dada doot maggik n I bornd.

Met Granda n Borum. Hav spcy appl juze.

Fly lots. Fight with dada, bad guys mean.

Fly gain, moor bad guys.

Mama n dada go party, lady no fun.

Find Borum, hav baf. Good fud, funny juze. Sweepy.

“Kriff, kriff, kriff.”

Dictation Droid DB-08: Never again, the child almost made me blow a gasket

Biography Version 2:

Tamus began life as a seedling that Renn carried from Ryyk when his home was destroyed as its star went supernova. He carried it with him, among others, for millennia. During a break of the chaos, he planted a good quantity of the seedlings in a garden on Star Home.

At one point during the chaos, Renn and Helinith managed to find peace in the same garden and used the Force to create a barrier of vines, or so they thought, blocking the entrances to the garden. Several large buds began to form.

When they were called away, one of the buds released and dropped into their arms, shifting and becoming the form of an infant, Tamus. He stayed with them as they met with the other Sith, growing more and more, his growth accelerated by how the duo had woken the seedlings. He met the Dark Lady Bellorum at the end of one meeting and then again when she called Renn and Helinith to her ship.

After a flight to Coruscant, there was no way the duo would leave him behind, he’d grown even more and was a precocious toddler. He assisted in the fight on the Golan battlestation, and further when they descended to the surface of Coruscant.

After the battle, he was left with a babysitter as his parents attended a Sith Gala. Following a call by them to the babysitter, she was knocked unconscious and he escaped their quarters. Following his senses, he found the, now, Empress Bellorum, who took him in tow. She bathed him, fed and gave him a drink after calling Renn to retrieve him. Eventually Renn was able to do so, taking his sleeping child back to the quarters, engaging the services of another babysitter. He’s continued to grow at an accelerated rate in the last six months and now appears the size and mentality approximately of a three to four year old human child.

 

Holy belated, but will be edited in above also.

Name: Darth Insipid, originally Aden Kya, occasionally Darth Malthus, answers to the Son, or to Zelmar

Sex: Male, most of the time

Age: Spirit is in its twenties, and hundreds, and neither. Essence transfer is a thing. Or, rather, was.

Species: Human, always

Homeworld: Which name?

Height: Variable, in original body less than 6ft

Weight: Variable, in original body less than 11st

Physical Attributes: Prefers a more supple form than not, and the longer he holds a body it will assume his features; turquoise eyes when not golden yellow, paler skin, his spirit makes the body his physical mental image over time. As of late however he has adopted the appearance of the Son, the deceased Celestial whom he reanimated on Mortis.

Clothing: Prefers a simple Sith robe upon a tunic, a holdout sleeve in both arms

Abilities: A charismatic man who is just as proud of his abilities to manipulate someone as he is to kill them, Insipid is a cipher, constantly consuming those he approaches - not in the literal Force drain sense, as he would not partake in self destruction - but by using people around him to for his own ends. More of his kills are those he caused the end of, not his actual hand in the death. An adequate lightsaber duelist, Insipid prefers to wield many abilities rather than master a few, considering that an esoteric strategy or weapon (such as a lightsaber), will win the day rather than a battle of wills. Short version? A liar. But a brilliant one. Beyond the gamut of powers one would expect of a Dark Lord of the Sith, he has himself obtained the skills of Essence Transfer, Celestial Instinct and Doubt Shroud - not easily attained from the traditional rise of a Sith.

Weapons: Single Crimson dual-form lightsaber, occasionally a lightwhip if the body possesses space on the cybernetics (he does love having a cybernetic leg to hide weapons in, but does not currently abide such a body), and in one of his two holsters a fletchette pistol. His white lightsaber blade remains in the possession of Bellorum. Frak her.

Occupation: Dark Lord of the Sith.

Family: On-off husband named Ike. An ex-girlfriend trapped in a tiara that he sacrificed to escape a mind trap - who sired him a son. He has that body for the moment. As one of, anyway. Oh and a very dead father and mother. Grandmother, more akin to his real mother, Lomi Plo? She stood toe to toe with Luke Skywalker but was quartered in the fourth round. It happens.

Associates: That ex-husband he mentioned. Darth Kronos, his pet project from afar. Bernael, Helinith, Anark, Saadi and Azathoth; his former apprentices.

Bio:

Birth

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Darth Insipid was born a slave.

Abandoned by his insane mother, his father a footnote in the struggle after the Battle of Endor as one of the few Prophets that aligned with Cronal and not Kadann. But Aden Kya found a Sith bloodline willing to uplift him, and he happily discarded the foolish teenager who he despised so, in a galaxy he despised for casting him aside as he emerged from the womb.

Everything was insipid, including he, and so he became Insipid.

Insipid

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In the chaos of the aftermath of the Battle of Endor, he grew strong between competing legitimate and illegitimate Sith influences - even whilst pretending to be incarcerated for a decade in a GA prison. Many Sith saw him as just a pawn, but in every instance he carefully cultivated what each Dark Lord or Lady taught to entice him to their allegiance, furnishing each with the information to keep groups from ever becoming true allies.

He was made a Darth in barely a few months to appease his loyalties - in name but not in knowledge - Insipid found that he had a skill for deception, and managed to manipulate the reigning Dark Lord into allowing him to infiltrate other Sith cults, all of which he kept to himself the knowledge of the treasures they held.

With every Sith cult annihilated by the Dark Lord, Insipid seized more secrets for himself, sharing what was of ill-import, and even though his initial Holocron collection was of lesser Sith, he eventually broke from Darth Krayt and stole his collection, only to dangle them in front of his former Dark Lord. Having no desire to plumb the depths of a single Holocron and master it, which took more time than Insipid was willing to dedicate to any one teacher, Insipid discarded them all, repeating the process of offering Holocrons to groups with Sith knowledge to entice them to revealing their secrets and destroying them.

Until he found the Holocron of Darth Gorog - formerly Darth Soros in life, and having taken the title of his Queen in death.

Night Herald of a Sith lineage older than any he had ever encountered, until he met Ku’ar Danar, Insipid kept that Holocron for himself and plumbed its depths, finding a true master at last. From its depths he plucked the secrets of Essence Transfer, Celestial Instinct, and Doubt Shroud, and from that he set himself to become more than just a Sith, but to become Dark Lord

Death

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Eventually he returned to the One Sith which had made him, intending to use Holocrons to lead the Dark Lord to his doom. The Dark Lord saw right through Insipid, and, dutifully, killed him, grounding his bones to dust.

Insipid learned a lot that day, and essence transfer saved him, but it took him years to recover. In that time he met new Sith allies, among them Helinith.

Returning to a Sith group with enough strength to it that had allowed it to survive a civil war in the shadows of Moraband, he manipulated the reigning Dark Lady into expending her energies on reunifying the Order and then usurped her place, before discovering power was boring; the game, the infiltration, the manipulation, was much, much more fun. Having frittered away at his support and the Order itself, it was only a matter of time before Darth Insipid found a more enjoyable past time; joint rule with three Dark Lords, seizing upon the older tenants of the Rule of Three and attaching himself to all the millennia of the Sith.

However even this was fraught with peril.

Triumvirate

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The nominal Emperor, Danar - although jointly seeking to prevent the return of the Father of the Shadows, the Immortal God of the Sith known only as Typhojem - repeatedly exceeded his authority and slowly but surely pit himself against Insipid and the other Triumvir, Darth Haretisch, formerly of the New Sith Order that Krayt had supplanted. Insipid had met Danar during the Shadow War, and tricked him into a decade long imprisonment in a mind trap, though during the same Insipid and Danar has became familiar to the point of intimacy; though that did not stop their conflict.

And as such Insipid was countering Danar’s endless politicking as he marched on Coruscant beside the High Lords, even as defeated Sith from failed Orders returned to Korriban with warnings of Typhojem’s pending return. Unbeknownst to Insipid or Danar, Haretisch was in league with Typhojem and assisting in the surreptitious shattering of His seals.

What occurred thereafter was devastation itself. A successful coup against Danar involving a Celestial artefact, the rediscovery of Mortis, and the return of the Gods of Rot and Chaos, each in league with the God of Shadows. The Well of the Dark Side - opened; Insipid called forth Sekot to assist him in a half-century-old plan to take the body of the Son. The finale - a rent in time itself.

Post-Apocalypse

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In this world they were refugees; a battered remnant in the face of what found them - the Empire of the Hand. Thrawn put them to work against the remnants of the Eternal Empire and the nascent First Order, even as Insipid contacted the latter. He began amassing a power base as it became apparent that Haretisch and the new Triumvir, his former secret apprentice Bellorum, had in-fact been together all along. Having lost Ike to his delusions of being God - and thus becoming God-Emperor, going as far as quoting the maxim of Valkorion that a ‘God has no family’ - he became more deranged, consulting with the Celestial Holocron behind the backs of the Triumvirs and anointing himself Snoke of the Rule of the Seven, after reading of a mere fragment of the Holocron’s contents before his forced entry into it caused it to explode.

Seeking to assemble a Seven, he found that his preparations were needed when respect for him dipped to the point that his room was violated; a corpse with his features butchered and dumped. Enraged, he enacted a coup against the Triumvirs aboard the casino ship Luxury Elite only to discover Bellorum was a dozen steps ahead of him. She had finances prepared, schemes afoot, and a small mercenary army paid for in advance. A round of betrayals by Darth Kronos and Aryan Graul was added to the damage, and Insipid, High Lords Ravenous, Lords Soliloquy and Anark, and a group of apprentices were driven off - however it just propelled Insipid to accept the role which prophecy had foretold.

Supreme Leader of the First Order.

Treachery

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But that did not last; Dr Shadow, in-fact Snoke, a mysterious Master of the dark side, had set the ersatz Thrawn and Empire of the Hand as a cunning trap. To learn more about Typhojem and the power the Old Ones possessed, knowledge taken from captured and tortured Sith. He made his move against Insipid, Haretisch and Bellorum during the War of Three, and sought to pull Typhojem across to this timeline through the Sith themselves - the only expression of Typhojem in this reality was us. With His power, Snoke intended to access the World Between Worlds and take control of time.

The Sith, even divided, resisted Snoke and his newly seized First Order, and managed to slow the escape Typhojem. Insipid pushed Haretisch, Bellorum and other Sith through the breach in the World Between Worlds, and sealed the way - trapping himself, Anark’s brother Bo, Hades, Kronos, Cocytus, Drost and a host of other Sith in this timeline - even as he fragmented and reached out to the fallen timeline for former allies.

But Snoke, his true goal defeated, abandoned Typhojem, preventing him from crossing into this reality. He left the Sith to die... but Insipid had Kronos, and still he had secrets left to reveal.

Resistance

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With Typhojem spoiled, it was all about tracking down Snoke and his First Order, and destroying the Twins that had formerly served the Sith, and instead were now working for him. But his first step was to obtain a foothold in the New Republic Senate, by way of the particularly Imperial-leaning Senator of Kuat. Assembling a team of three to escort him there, and dispatching other Sith to secure the treaty with Hapes that Bellorum had once commanded, he found himself confronting Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Leia Organa. He was killed (decapitated), but managed to tether himself to Leda and escape with the Senator as his new body and asset.

Regrouping on Kesh saw an attack by the Twins, in the middle of Insipid meeting with Iudex, a new Sith adherent seeking revenge against the Acolytes of the Beyond, who were tangentially, Insipid believed, connected to Snoke. The Twins absconded with Leda when Soliloquy's holocron revealed all manner of illusionary menace, and Insipid tasked Manticore, Bernael and Leda to destroy the Twins, who were rogue and potential issues. They were intercepted by Snoke and nearly killed if not for the assistance of the mysterious Wapoe, even as Helinith, Serapis and Renn wrestled with Hapan politics. Soliloquy lead a team including Cocytus to Kamino, to ensure that the Twin's were not duplicated, which exposed that Cocytus was intending to betray them, and drew the eye of Snoke when Cocytus sought to create an Imperial Confederation.

Even as Manticore and Bernael prevailed over the Twins with the assistance of Sabel, a Chiss Imperial from the Unknowns, Insipid installed Helinith as Queen Mother and headed to Kamino himself. Wapoe antagonised Manticore and Bernael, stalling them until the Hapan nobles could rise up in civil war against the Sith monarch. Worse, Insipid was himself killed by Snoke, and Cocytus forced to become his apprentice. Snoke moved on, and a subsequent confrontation with Skywalker saw Cocytus and his apprentice captured by the New Republic - and placed in a beskar prison.

The Sith fought a tremendous battle at Hapes against First Order supported nobles, Manticore and Bernael also feared lost, even as Helinith, Renn, Soliloquy, Iudex and Serapis fought back with all their might. Only through their combined efforts did the Sith triumph, but at great cost.

The Hapan Consortium was crippled, but Manticore and Bernael made their way back to the Order with clues to Snoke's seat of power in Known Space; the Maw. There he was working with an Old One to forge the True Death Star, which an experiment in hyperspace weapons. Firing on Sabel's confederation with the Chiss and other lesser species, the Sith were rallied to the cause, but with what?

Two windfalls saved them.

Firstly, the Sith who had been propelled into the past of the old timeline mysteriously resurfaced, and with Bellorum, Graul, Hekate, Syren and others returned the Order was reinvigorated. Better yet, there was a secret Darth Insipid had; that he had left an inclination behind in the old timeline to guide others across before the End of Time completed the destruction there. He had already assisted Helinith, Bernael and Renn across, and later Arek Graul, but, adorned in a Black-Coat, he tracked down his son, a surprise reveal by the trickster Wapoe. Not revealing the truth, he and Azathoth made great strides as master and apprentice, and as fortune would have it, escaped Typhojem on Coruscant and sealed one of the last ways across from the old reality; triumphant, and closely bonded.

On Coruscant they overthrew the underlord of the former Imperial world, the equally irritating Arb, and it became apparent how much Wapoe and Arb were pulling opposing and joint strings when they intrigued with Ike, efforts brought to an end by Soliloquy, the acting-Dark Lord. With Insipid and Bellorum back, the Sith were reorganised and dispatched to two goals.

One, to secure Coruscant, currently in the care of Mas Amedda, the surviving Grand Vizier.

Two, to take down Snoke.

Bellorum, Helinith, Ike, Graul, Soliloquy and Renn headed to Coruscant.

Insipid, Azathoth, Manticore, Bernael, Hekate, Serapis and Iudex to the Maw.

With masterful manipulation, Insipid led the New Republic and Skywalker to confront the True Death Star, even as a team boarded the Eclipse and slew Snoke. The destruction of the True Death Star came at great cost to the New Republic, and Skywalker issued a stark warning to the Acolytes of the Beyond - who Insipid professed they were loyal to - that if they crossed the New Republic again he would have no choice but to destroy them all.

Suitably rebuked, Insipid and the others re-joined the rest of the Sith as they secured the orbiting Golan battle stations - and the allegiance of Mas Amedda, who was overjoyed to serve the Sith again. A short assault on the Imperial Senate saw Insipid crowned as a shadow Emperor, and Bellorum and Graul as public Emperor and Empress of the rump Empire. The only surprise in all this was the sudden relationship between the two, and the disappearance of certain Sith during the events of the day to unknown factors and forces.

And now...

But with Snoke dead, the First Order survivors commanded by Grand Admiral Sloane expelled to the Unknowns, and Kuat, Hapes and the Empire under their command, Insipid was content. He revealed the truth to his son at the coronation - unfortunately slightly too slow to prevent Ike and Azathoth hooking up, which had so many permutations dear lord he wasn't going there.

Bellorum hit upon the brilliant idea to recruit Jedi to their cause as the Imperial Knights, while Insipid was forced to investigate the most unlikely and yet terrifying possibility - one presented by Azathoth himself in the form of a vision.

That Palpatine had somehow survived, and ruled from a hidden world known only as Exegol.

Possessing secret knowledge of Wapoe and his manipulations, Insipid adheres to the shadows even more than he ever has...

His son is the Heir... he must grow into what he will need to become. Tasked to serve him, Bernael and Iudex will keep him keen, and with the aid of the Kuati Senator, their Imperial Knights and Sith will take the Empire more fully as their own... submerge it within the Centrist political party...

... and take the New Republic from under the nose of Luke Skywalker.

He placed all his hopes in Bellorum, in Graul, in Soliloquy, in Azathoth, in Bernael, in Iudex, in Helinith, in Renn, in Hekate, who gave birth to the most key component of all; children of the Sith, as did Renn and Helinith.

Their Legacy.

This was a golden opportunity to seize the future in a Changed Galaxy.

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