[OOC] Star Wars Old Republic: The Founding of Cyphan

[TheUnknowable]

based on this RP.

The Sith War with Revan and Malak just ended, and people from both sides were recruited to come to the newly discovered planet of Cyphan to start a new life. Sometimes people would fall in love with someone on the other side. Sometimes they would sympathize with the others, or stop believing in the cause, and these people came to Cyphan, knowing that the Republic would never accept them or even fearing punishment.

The one who discovered this world, and who came up with the idea of settling it with people from both sides is a former Jedi Knight named Kale Durran, who married a Sith Assassin named Jenna Brek, AKA Darth Vindis. They teach what they call the Cyphan Way, that the Force isn't light or dark. The Force is life, and those are different sides of the life that creates it, both the benevolent and selfish sides.

Durran is trusted by most of the refugees, and wishes to found a direct democracy in which all adults vote in rulers that only remain as long as they maintain a 50% or greater approval rating.

He is founding a town called Cyphan City on one of the planet's large plains, near a crystal cave which is strong in the Force. There he will institute his government and treat everyone the same under the law, with the Force being treated as a tool, not an excuse to rule over others. His wife will serve as the local constable should the need arise.

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The plot will basically be us adapting to this new life, culture, etc.

Think of it as a western, but with Jedi as the Mayor, a Sith as the sheriff, and a gang of Sith trying to birddog the town.

Basic CS

(A picture if you have one.)
Name:

Alias:

Species:

Skills: (I'll use the ones from KOTOR, but you don't really have to.)

Combat Skills: (weapons you use and how good you are with them)

Force powers: (If you have any. If you are Force sensitive, Durran and Brek will train you if they trust you to not abuse the power.)

Personality:

Bio:

Equipment:

Kale Durran

With a yellow light saber, as he was a Sentinel

Name: Kale Durran

Alias: none

Species: Human

Skills: Computers, Repair, medicine, Persuade

Combat Skills: Learned several lightsaber forms, and prefers Forms one and three. Unlike most Jedi, though, he also carries a blaster, a watchman's blaster, meant to stun opponents, though it can kill.

Force powers: Battle meditation, Force push, mind trick, healing, destroy droid

Personality: Curious about the way things work. This is why he studied medicine and repair, and why he chose to spend his time honing his understanding of the Force instead of his combat skills.

Bio: He went to the Temple on Dantooine to learn to use the Force as a teenager, when the Mandolorians attacked the farming world he lived on, killing his parents. They trained him, though by the time he finished his training Revan had already started recruiting. He wanted to go, but his master held him back, and a few years later he was fighting against those he had trained beside, only with them serving the Dark side.
That was the one point he didn't understand in his training. Light and Dark sides of this one Force meant that you were not seeing the whole picture. Yes, the Sith were blinding themselves to the light side by abandoning themselves to the darkness, but the Jedi did the same when they refused to even look at that darkness. Surely, if life created the Force, then there was a way to find the balance in the Force that nature had found.
One day the Jedi sent him to infiltrate the cadre of a Sith operative on Corellia, Darth Vindis. He convinced her that he was a fallen Jedi, telling her the truth about his view that the Dark side could be used for good and the Light side for evil, and joined. After a few months they fell in love, though he knew it was only a matter of time before he has to turn on her.
She sent him into the unknown regions to scout new Hyperspace routes for the Sith, a dangerous job made considerably safer when one could sense the flow of energy in hyperspace through the Force, but when he found an uninhabited world whip he named Cyphan, after his dead father, he knew that he couldn't let the Sith or Jedi have it. The Force was strong there, and either side would corrupt it.
When he was ordered to betray her a week later, he told her of the world and suggested they hide out there. She knew that the Sith would not accept that she had failed in her mission to prepare the sector for invasion, but wasn't willing to hide in fear like some mewling pup. Instead, she faked the death of both Durran and herself, and started using her real name, Jenna Brek. She ran for public office, certain that she could reveal herself and her info and save herself from the Sith's anger, and he got a job as a droid mechanic. A year later, they got married.
When the Star Forge was destroyed, she heard of it through a Sith she was supposedly being bribed by, and they knew it was only a matter of time before the war was over and all of her machinations would be in vain. They secretly reached out to other people like themselves and, when the war was declared over, had already begun a basic colony near the mouth of a Force crystal cave.
They use their ship to farry people in or buy supplies, but make sure that they do not lead the Sith or Republic to their new homeworld, as this world would be poisoned should the Jedi or Sith settle on it. Hopefully, Durran and Brek together could prevent that from happening as a consequence of their arrival.

Equipment: Basic Mynock-hide armor (good against energy, only decent against physical attacks.), Watchman's blaster, yellow lightsaber, two droids (A1-B3, a protocol droid and M2-D9, an astromech), a freighter (though he locked the nav computer so people can't learn the location of this world and leak it) with a work bench and a chem station. He's working on a recreation of the Temple on Dantooine, but so far he only has the landing pad, a side room (the Guard's office). He also has several thousand credits, as they are currently used as money here.

Jenna Brek

Name: Jenna Brek

Alias: Darth Vindis

Species: Human (Corruscanti)

Skills: Stealth, Awareness, Demolitions, Security

Combat Skills: Trained to fight with a light saber staff, though she uses a metal stun staff most of the time, as she prefers not to kill. Also good at hand-to-hand

Force powers: Force lightning, Force Choke, Throw saber (uses it with her staff too), Dominate mind

Personality: Cold and calculating when need be, but kind and friendly most of the time.

Bio: Growing up in the Corruscant underground, she joined the Sith it order to learn to be strong, like she never felt she was before. She learned strength, but also a learned to turn the rage and fear she had dealt with into power to destroy her enemies. For a time she used her power to destroy everyone the Sith sent her after, earning the title of Darth, but one day they sent her on a special mission. She was to prepare the Correlia Sector for invasion.
Once on the planet and carefully hidden among criminals, using her skills to convince them she was a thief, she researched the possibility of a new hyperspace lane leading into the nearby systems, a possible way to surprise their defense forces. A month later she met Kale, a Jedi defector who wanted to join her, and she sent used him as her agent, even sending him out to scout new hyperspace lanes. They fell in love and, when the war was over, decided to try and start a new life on the world he had found. They recruited a few fellow refugees and traveled to Cyphan, where they founded Cyphan City.

Equipment: Sound dampening stealth unit (belt), red lightsaber staff, metal stun staff, few thousand credits, Hssiss hide armor

[TheUnknowable]

We are still in need of colonists, if anyone is interested.

[slayerofkings]

I am interested. Could I play a Droid?

[TheUnknowable]

@slayerofkingssure. Just make it an era appropriate droid.

[TheUnknowable]

@slayerofkingsI like the idea of a sentient droid, but there are 4 issues with it.

1) I prefer if you post your CS in the OOC and then only move it to CHAR when it's approved, so we can keep unapproved CS's out of the CHAR tab. The other's CS were approved in the Int Check, which is why they moved them directly to the CHAR tab. Sorry for the confusion.
2) the picture is broken.
3) Cyphan is a newly established planet that only my characters Kale and Jenna, as well as @Sirkaithethird 's character Eric know the coordinates of. This means that he couldn't be from a space station orbiting Cyphan, nor could he travel to the planet on his own. One of us could have recruited you, though. For example, Jenna was a mid-level politician on Corellia, a Regional Governor, and a Sith, so she would have had use for an assassin droid. She could have brought you with us. Or maybe Kale or Eric found you in space and decided to give a sentient droid a chance to live as part of a society that accepted him.
4) E-11 blasters weren't developed until a couple decades BBY. This takes place during the old Republic, several thousand years earlier. Tech from the KOTOR games or the Old Republic online game would be era appropriate.

[slayerofkings]

1. My apologies.
2. The picture works fine for me, maybe it's an error on your end?
3. I could change it to a lab on a ship instead of a station, and then the escape pod from the ship crash-landed on Cyphan?
4. Could I just change them to generic blasters and blaster rifles?

[Sirkaithethird]

@slayerofkings the pic also doesn't work for me so I think that it might be a site error

[slayerofkings]

Alright, I made the changes. Does it work now?

[TheUnknowable]

@slayerofkings3) The chances of the ship randomly jumping to the Cyphan system are astronomical, and they couldn't know the coordinates.

If you want him to just be waking up, we could say that he was bought from a scrap dealer along with other junk, then reassembled enough on Cyphan by Kale to finish assembling himself. Otherwise we'll have to come up with some other way to get him there. Stowaway? Pretending to be a non-sentient protocol droid and tricking Capt. White into giving him a ride? It's possible there are rumors of Cyphan from people that turned down the offer to join the colony.

[Sirkaithethird]

@slayerofkings
You could RP that you hid in a crate that I was bringing to set up the colony

[Burning Kitty]

@TheUnknowable My character lives in her ship and would be unwilling to give it up. How would we get her ship there?

[TheUnknowable]

It depends on how big it was. Shuttles and small freighters could probably be docked with @Sirkaithethird's ship. Anything larger would need to have someone (probably Kale) load the course for you, then purge the files from the nav computer once you are in system.
Either way, you'd be stuck in system. Shuttles and small freighters could be used to move cargo and people the ship on orbit.

[Sirkaithethird]

@Burning Kitty
My ship originally held up to 21 small ships, and I converted it to a cargo bay but small ship could dock inside given there is space

[Burning Kitty]

The ship is Dynamic-class freighter, just like the Ebon Hawk.

[Sirkaithethird]

I believe that would be too big

[TheUnknowable]

yeah, probably a bit big. We could just say that Kale came onboard, got his M2 droid to program the course, then had it purge the course once you came out of hyperspace.
We know that T3 blocked the location of the Star Forge from the Ebon Hawk's computer, so that should fit the lore.

[slayerofkings]

@slayerofkings3) The chances of the ship randomly jumping to the Cyphan system are astronomical, and they couldn't know the coordinates.

If you want him to just be waking up, we could say that he was bought from a scrap dealer along with other junk, then reassembled enough on Cyphan by Kale to finish assembling himself. Otherwise we'll have to come up with some other way to get him there. Stowaway? Pretending to be a non-sentient protocol droid and tricking Capt. White into giving him a ride? It's possible there are rumors of Cyphan from people that turned down the offer to join the colony.

@TheUnknowable

The main point is BLADE destroyed its creators and the place it was created and is currently stranded on Cyphan. I could change it so the laboratory was on Cyphan.

[TheUnknowable]

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The main point is BLADE destroyed its creators and the place it was created and is currently stranded on Cyphan. I could change it so the laboratory was on Cyphan.

@slayerofkings

The closest thing to a laboratory on Cyphan is Kale's mechanic shop. We could say that he bought your CPU from a salvager that found the derelict ship/space station, with you "dead" from the internal defenses, or maybe it self destructed and most of you got blown into pieces. You could then find semi-functional equipment in the salvage and fix it too.

Or your escape pod could have been picked up and, either because either Kale of Capt. White picked you up, your were brought here.

One of his creators might also have had contact with Kale, Jenna, or Capt. White, and he got the coordinates for their next rendezvous (on an outer rim planet near the unknown regions, say Jakku). Then he could have come to meet them after he killed his creators.

As long as your origin isn't in the system and you got their in a believable way, it doesn't matter. The backstory for the RP just specifies that the world was only recently discovered, kept a closely guarded secret, and only colonized very recently (say 6 months or less), so it wouldn't make sense for BLADE to be developed there, or for his creators to know the location of the world.

[slayerofkings]

How about during BLADE's murder of the financial backer (a Twilek), they tried to escape and when BLADE killed them at the controls of the ship it caused a hyperspace jump to Cyphan accidentally (the Twilek's body having fallen on the navigation controls) and then caused the ship to crash. Changing it so BLADE's crash landing was accidental doesn't affect the character I'm trying to play, and it explains how the ship got to an otherwise unknown part of space.

[TheUnknowable]

@slayerofkingsI guess that could work. A ship making a blind jump is usually destroyed, but if they were in a nearby system when they blind jumped, they wouldn't have come across many anomalies that could damage the ship and and could have been pulled out of hyperspace by the planet itself. Unable to slow down in time, the ship crashed. You would have survived either because you a so resilient or because you got to an escape pod and slowed down enough to survive.

Just update it and I'll approve it.