[OOC] Star Wars: KOTOR Academy

[TheUnknowable]

The Interest Check

Following the events of KOTOR 2, the Exile and her apprentices begin rebuilding the temples on Dantooine and Coruscant. Because the Jedi order is so near to extinction, they have suspended the Jedi rules forbidding the training of adults and limiting a master to one pupil. Instead, adults and older teenagers are sent to Dantooine for training, while children are sent to Coruscant.
Briana runs the Academy on Dantooine, and teaches lightsaber techniques, with Mikal teaching the force basics and being a sort of a friend and leader for the initiates, basically being in charge of an adult or teen's instruction until they become a Padawan. Atton is in charge of finding recruits and will keep an eye on things for the Jedi in the less civilized sections of the galaxy. Bao-dur is helping to rebuild the temples. Mandalore returned to his people, as the threat has passed and he has Mandolorians to lead. Visas and Mira work with the younglings at the temple on Coruscant, and are responsible for their training, and The Exile, being the Grand Master, advises the Senate while raising money for the order. T3 helps Bao-dur, and HK helps with the combat training on either world if needed, or is sent with Atton if he's going somewhere especially dangerous.
We will all arrive on Dantooine via the Ebon Hawk, flown by Atton, as he picked us up from around the galaxy. The RP will center around our training, with our enemies mostly being locals that don't like the Jedi, Mandos who came there, and wildlife.
While it will contain combat, it is more of a character development RP, as our characters will go from being non-jedi to learning to use the force. The Jedi won't reject most people, so as long as you are basically good, they should accept you. Age also doesn't matter, though you should be an adult or teenager, as the the RP will be on Dantooine.

Character Sheet

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[Draconis Nevyn]

For your approval:

Adado Flamel

Name: Adado Flamel (Razor)

Age: 30

Species: Human

Appearance:

Occupation: Ex-Bounty Hunter and Caretaker of Lelila.

Jedi Aspect: Guardian Padawan

Skills: Adado has learned many ways of fighting, including Mandalorian fighting styles as well as Iridorian and Echani. He is a fair shot with a blaster but prefers to fight up close and personal with his Vibro-blade, giving his opponents a chance.
He has training in a great variety of weapons and is able to at least use them if not know all of the nuances of them.

Personality: Adado has keen senses due in part to his force sensitivity but honed from years of having to be alert at all times. He is clever, having studied hard and long about a variety of different subjects. When teaching, he is often strict towards Lelila but he believes she can handle it and never goes overboard on it.

History: Adado has done as much as he can to erase his past and as such, not too much is known. What is known, however, is that he was born and grew up in a middle class family in an important city on Onderon. He even lived peacefully until he was about 15 years old, but at that point things changed.

He lost his parents in the violent civil wars that had broken out over the planet's surface and was now alone and forgotten. While being pursued by soldiers and bounty hunters both, he had to learn to survive in a vicious and cruel world. Eventually being taken on by a ruthless and occasionally violent Bounty Hunter, he learned deadly skills and survival tactics. After a while, he left the Bounty Hunter's side after the man and Adado were sent to murder a child.

After the bounty hunter had murdered the girl's parents and Adado had watched, unsure of himself. Though he refused and rescued the child instead. With his skills and fighting skills, he managed to escape his previous employer's contacts with the young girl, Lelila, and conquer all fears and doubts about having done so. He eventually managed to start a new life from the bottom until he met Atton, who taught them both that they were Force sensitive. This has turned him into the man he is today.

Equipment/possessions: Blaster pistol, Blaster Rifle and a Vibro Blade with energy cell. He also carries a pendant with a cyan crystal on it, this is a family heirloom and has been with him ever since he left his home planet. He has no idea what it's importance is but he kept it safe until his meeting with Atton. Atton told him about Lightsaber crystals and how he had one around his neck. He will eventually use this in the lightsaber's construction.

Force Power(s): Adado has learned the force power of Force Repulse

Strengths: Quick thinking and reflexive, Adado has learned to trust his instincts and training.
He will always give his opponents a fair fight.
Although they have a strong bond, he is able to distance himself from Lelila emotionally.

Weaknesses: Is overprotective of Lelila at times and will do anything to rescue the child due to a vow he once made.

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Lelila Sarat

Name: Lelila Sarat

Age: 16

Species: Human

Appearance:

Occupation: Padawan

Jedi Aspect: Sentinel Padawan

Skills: Lelila has learned some fighting skills from Adado, mostly Echani. She knows how to take care of herself in the event that Adado were to die. She has slightly superior senses to Adado but he would never admit it and she is reluctant to mention that she sometimes thinks things or sees things before he does.

Personality: Lelila is hospitable, dependable, energetic and perhaps a little too quiet. She is always ready to defend her caretaker, and once she gets to know people she is happy to jump around and act a fool. In some cases she is reclusive and enjoys reading and practising to playing around. Lelila is reluctant also, to say that she might be better than Adado in any area at all, as he has drilled into her mind that practise is the only way she can be good, and she saw him as the epitome of skill in her younger days.

History: Lelila was born to a loving family on the planet Coruscant. She lived happily until she was about 8 years old, but at that point everything changed for the worse, she was a studious child and was gaining some small fame in her school as a determined and gifted student, who seemed unusually intuitive to her fellow student's feelings. A rival family with another child in the school, who was also talented yet pushed more by his parents, sent a bounty hunter to remove the threat to their ticket to the main stage of fame and high status.

The bounty hunter accepted the job and moved on Lelila's family the week following, after spending time working out their schedule down to a T. It would have been a perfect murder if his apprentice and business partner had not betrayed him, murdered him and taken the child away himself.

Her time with Adado was far from what she remembered as a younger child, she had to grow up fast as everything was dangerous and violent and wanted to harm her in Adado's opinion. With everything happening, she still managed to study a lot and even began training with her caretaker in fighting and even basic weapons training. With a great deal of determination, she has taken to Adado's training with vigor and reacts to everything with an open mind. On her 15th birthday, Adado gave her a Vibrodagger and related to her the story of why he had taken her away, the full story. She accepted it, to his surprise and did not kill him although he offered. Lelila managed to forgive him and even began seeing him as a hero and father figure no matter how often he tried to distance himself. When the pair came across Atton, she was unsure at first but practised and researched, finally understanding some things about why she saw odd things or sensed things occasionally. However her first true ability was her attempt at mimicry, copying Adado and learning force push, not Force Repulse.

Equipment/possessions: Vibrodagger

Force Power(s): Force push

Strengths: Lelila is driven and intelligent, she is fairly well trained in Echani arts and has some basic weapons training, she will defend herself if threatened and is also able to fend off opponents larger than herself by using trickery. She will throw off those older and more experienced by using her youth and smarts to bring them down.

Weaknesses: Her main flaws are in how she sees Adado. Although she knows he is powerful, she idolises him and sees him as the strongest and smartest, almost infallible. Even when she sees something that he has not, she will not mention it as she believes that he has or that it was just simply unimportant. Moreover, when using her charms to bring down a larger opponent, sometimes she only uses it to buy time as she believes that Adado will always save her life.

[TheUnknowable]

Draconis Nevyn said
For your approval:

I like them. Approved.

my CS

Name: Lokk Vao

Age: 24

Species: Twi'lek

Appearance: Blue, scrawny, and usually wearing black pants, a white shirt, and a leather jacket.

Occupation: Trader/Negotiator

Skills: Tech and medicine savy, but by no means an expert. He knows several languages, and the value of a wide variety of things.

Personality: A peaceful man, he tries to solve every situation without violence, having seen first hand many times when violence only made matters worse. Some times, however, you have to use violence. He is more neutral in his use of the force than the Jedi would have him be, as he recognizes that there are times when Fear and anger, dark side emotions, are an appropriate response, and times when light side emotions will not help. He is always careful to not let these darker emotions consume him, knowing that they will only result in violence.

History: Born to a prostitute on Nar Shadaa, he grew up fast, always trying to earn money any way he could. When he found that he had a gift for negotiation, he used it in much the same way; he made money through trading. Though he sometimes lost money, it was usually because he thought that more could be made in the long run if he sold a space captain cheap power cells, or gave the refugees food at cost. His dealings with so many sentient races taught him several languages, including Basic, Huttese, some Mandolorian, and even Sheriwook.
When he was thirteen he found out that a local starship mechanic owed a lot of money to a local Hutt, a being notorious for his underground fighting arenas. Lokk talked with the Hutt on the man's behalf and reached an agreement. In exchange for sparing his life, the man would work part time for the Hutt repairing the damage the fighters and patrons did to his arenas. Out of gratitude the man offered to teach him how to make simple repairs to many technological devices for a price, a deal that Lok took, knowing that refurbished ship parts brought quite a descent price compared to non-functioning components. He even managed to recondition an old M1 droid, though he couldn't find anyone willing to pay much for it. He kept it at home, letting it do the cleaning that he didn't like doing.
When a local rivalry between two Hutts heated up, he started studying medicine, knowing that soon their would be a huge demand for many medicines. He learned to craft many medical supplies which functioned well enough, though they weren't up to the standards of the local hospitals. Made from local chemicals and organics, he sold them to both sides, and used his skills as a negotiator to keep either side from caring that he was essentially double-dealing.
One day a ship landed at a nearby landing pad carrying a Jedi Knight, Atton Rand. The Knight saw how skillfully he manipulated the situation when he was dealing with a bar patron that had run up a substantial tab from drinking too much Juma Juice, and wondered if the boy might have been unknowingly manipulating them through the force. He tested the boy, paying him a few credits for his trouble, and found that the boy had a somewhat impressive strength in the force. He asked if the boy would accompany him back to Dantooine as a Jedi initiate. Lokk agreed, realizing that the ability to use the Force would open up whole new worlds to him and, at the very least, would aid him in his negotiations.

Equipment/possessions: Repair parts, a few Droid components, Computer spikes, Med packs, Antidote packs, over 1000 credits, Vibroblade (w/ ion cell).

Force Power(s): Mind trick: Can make people, especially the weak willed, accept simple things. The more it goes against their view and beliefs, the harder it is to manipulate them.

Strengths: He has a strong will, making his abilities stronger, and he is able to find compromise is almost every situation. He is a skilled trader, and knows a little about anything of value, letting him find things that are rare.

Weaknesses: Bad with a lightsaber and combat in general. He is often forced to runaway from dangerous situations, and doesn't return until he either has to or he believes he knows of a non-violent way out of the situation.

[Yog Sothoth]

[WIP]
Name: Almor Novik

Age: 12

Species: Togorian

Appearance:


Occupation: Jedi Youngling

Skills: great climber, skilled fighter and pick pocket

Personality: he is a tough boy, but deep down he wants to live a life away from the violence that plagues the galaxy. Unlike many kids his age, Almor never had dreams of becoming a Jedi, but he always had feelings that the force was strong with him. Growing up poor gave him a slightly cynical view of the republic and the galactic community, but he would never sympathize with the Sith because of what they did to his family. He has spent time having to steal to eat and has had to fight to survive. Upon finding out that he was a force sensitive and was to train with the remnant of the Jedi order, Almor felt that his life may be turning around and his personality became lighter. He has hopes of being to make a difference as Jedi and finding the peace that he deeply desires.

History: Almor was born on the outer rim planet of Togoria and ever since he could remember, his family has always been poor. Growing up with little money made things hard which was a harsh reality for life on the outer rim. Some nights Almor's family couldn't even afford to put food on the table and it was those times that he decided to turn to stealing to try and help his family. Eventually his family left Togoria for a mining planet on the outer rim where his father worked. The cost of living was cheaper but there were more violent people who inhabited the planet and this made it a more dangerous place for Almor.

For as long as he could remember Almor had always felt a strong power deep within him and he couldn't truly explain it. Some who he had talked to about it said that it was force and that he may have a strong connection to it, meaning that he could become a Jedi. He had heard stories of the fabled Jedi order, but he had never seen any himself and his imagination soared at the thought of doing amazing things with the force. He tested it out to see if the stories were true about the great power of the force. At first nothing happened, but he eventually tried out concentrating on doing something incredible and he started to jump at heights that were impossible for any normal Togorian.

He felt incredible when he figured out how to harness the force jump without the training for a jedi and he practiced almost everyday to get better. He also tried moving stuff with the force, but that was much harder and he barely could manage to get a small box to move. Almor's discovery of his force abilities made him have hopes of leaving the planet to make something of himself.

Equipment/possessions: basic jedi robes and a blue lightsaber.

Force Power(s): he is very skilled with the Force Jump ability and he is training to improve his Force Push skill.

Strengths: Even though he is strong in the force, Almor is more focused on his lightsaber training and he has chosen form five Shien and Jem-So as his primary combat form

Weaknesses: HIs lack of force training and his young age makes it harder for him to withstand powerful hits.

[Sep]

Will throw a CS up in the mooornning.

Been sorting out stuff for my own rps tonight, so tired.

[TheUnknowable]

Yog: I know it's a WIP, but there are a few smal issues:

1) So that I only have to do one Academy, everyone should be an older teen or adult. I don't know how fast Togorians grow up though, so maybe he is nearing adulthood.
2) Lightsabers aren't given to students until they are Padawans. You will be issued a blue, green, or yellow practice lightsaber (your choice) for use in your training, but it is the property of the Academy. If you can come up with a good reason for you to have it (a parent or other relative that died in the Sith War or something) I'll allow it, but not for use, as you won't know how to properly use it yet.

Sep said
Will throw a CS up in the mooornning. Been sorting out stuff for my own rps tonight, so tired.

ok, cya then.

[Yog Sothoth]

TheUnknowable said
Yog: I know it's a WIP, but there are a few smal issues:1) So that I only have to do one Academy, everyone should be an older teen or adult. I don't know how fast Togorians grow up though, so maybe he is nearing adulthood.2) Lightsabers aren't given to students until they are Padawans. You will be issued a blue, green, or yellow practice lightsaber (your choice) for use in your training, but it is the property of the Academy. If you can come up with a good reason for you to have it (a parent or other relative that died in the Sith War or something) I'll allow it, but not for use, as you won't know how to properly use it yet.ok, cya then.

can't we at least bend the rule about children being trained in this rp? It is a very common thing in star wars lore.

[DiamondBlizzard]

I'll go for a Yellow training lightsaber, is it okay if my character is Lawful Good but is philosophical in the sense that using Dark Side Powers is normal to Jedi and stuff like that, etc etc.

[Draconis Nevyn]

Well Adado will go with Blue as he is a Guardian in training and Lelila shall use a Yellow blade, the Sentinel.

Adado already has his crystal but needs to hone it and attune to it more. Lelila would need to search for her own, which I will probably use as a coming of age thing, learning to do things without Adado's assistance etc.

[TheUnknowable]

Yog Sothoth said
can't we at least bend the rule about children being trained in this rp? It is a very common thing in star wars lore.

I know, I just figured they'd separate the kids and the adults, as things change quite a bit when you get older. You don't need to lecture kids in not falling in love, and they tend to be less mature than adults.
It's only a few years, but in terms of your training, it makes a big difference in how the Jedi interact with you.

[TheUnknowable]

DiamondBlizzard said
I'll go for a Yellow training lightsaber, is it okay if my character is Lawful Good but is philosophical in the sense that using Dark Side Powers is normal to Jedi and stuff like that, etc etc.

My character is a lot like that. He's not evil, and won't let himself fall, but he doesn't have a philosophical problem with using the dark side. The light side can be use for evil and the dark side can be used for good, as he sees it. I'll use a yellow saber too.

[Yog Sothoth]

TheUnknowable said
I know, I just figured they'd separate the kids and the adults, as things change quite a bit when you get older. You don't need to lecture kids in not falling in love, and they tend to be less mature than adults.It's only a few years, but in terms of your training, it makes a big difference in how the Jedi interact with you.

My whole reason for having my character be his age is so that I could have a character who interacts differently. Also star wars is full of adults so it would be cool to mix things up

[DiamondBlizzard]

Alright, I will start with Shock, Force Push, Wound, and Stun Droid if that's alright?

[TheUnknowable]

DiamondBlizzard said
Alright, I will start with Shock, Force Push, Wound, and Stun Droid if that's alright?

The rest of us will be starting off as a normal person who has an affinity for the force. I've limited people to one (or in the case of one character, two) powers because they shouldn't have many powers if they are just starting off. Both the Sith and the Jedi are all but extinct (at least in this part of the galaxy), so it wouldn't make sense for you to have extensive training. If, however, you had some training, then the other side likely would have learned about you and searched for you. The fact that you weren't recruited before means that you weren't noticeable to the Sith and were either too old for the jedi or too weak for them to notice you.

Yog Sothoth said
My whole reason for having my character be his age is so that I could have a character who interacts differently. Also star wars is full of adults so it would be cool to mix things up

If you can come up with a reason for him to be at Dantooine instead of the with the other children on Coruscant then it's fine.

[DiamondBlizzard]

Ah, I'll just start with Lightning and Push

[TheUnknowable]

That will work.

[Sep]

Oh my god...

So much gammeeeee. Colours weren't defined by classes, and there weren't actual classes in the Jedi Order that's just something to make it easier for games q_Q. Sorry it's just a bit the games brought forward that annoys me.

[knighthawk]

Name:
Rar Roxron
Age:
22
Species:
Shistavanen
Appearance:

5'6 and a lean frame of 150. He always stands in a 'rocker slouch' or crouched low to rest. His fur keeps him warm enough that he rarely wears a top unless requested, he wears a utility belt holding up his billowy pants or a kilt to prevent it from messing with his body fur. When exploring, he wears a Tracker Vest loaded down with gear including most of his equipment for electronics.
Occupation:
Lead vocals of "Sithspawn" (an angry whiteboy music genre band)
Skills:
A classically trained opera singer and tech specialist in electronics that started from rigging music devices and grew from there.
Personality:
By facade, he is a dark brooding blacksouled individual. In truth he's truly an adventuring soul, traveling the planets as a bard looking for action and adventure to inspire his next song.
History:
Born on his home planet, he had nothing but plans to live and die there as a world renown singer of his people. Classically trained singer, his abnormally large lungs were trained to enhance the natural gift he has been given with lessons in pearl diving, to hold his breath longer and longer while exerting himself against a tidal pool's whim and pay for the lessons with what he found below the waves. All would have been well in his life if not for divine intervention.

Perhaps divine intervention is a misnomer, but a ship did fall from the sky to crash into the school, ending his career before it began. Those that emerged were escaping students who fled Korriban, they and their ship was too damaged to try and conquer the plant with their combined force so instead they sought to rebuild their ship, convert a few slaves and get off to a real place of galactic civility. Rar was one of them.

The singer already had some skill in electrical engineering from setting up sound systems and he was closest force sensitive to the crash site. When the local galactic force came to investigate, he ingratiated himself from soon-sith-slave to companion by lying through his fangs to explain that they were jedi who had meant to come here but got captured BY the sith and shot down in a stolen ship while trying to escape. That it was best to let them hurry up and be on their way.

When repairs were done, he wanted to go with. His presence as a singer would lend some credibility to their travels, they scavenged a few teaching droids to gift the former students with new skills to help them hide and keep on the run from sith and jedi alike during the war. They did quite well making a name for themselves until finally they were approached by the new jedi masters after a concert.

Equipment/possessions:
His microphone is custom made to be able to handle his howls and wirelessly hack all speakers in a 10 meter radius to amplify his effect.
Utility Belt
Tracker Vest
Force Power(s):
Force bellow A force power he can use to enhance his howl to lethal force or bring crowds into an enthusiastic frenzy
Strengths:
As shistavanen are afflicted by an unknown genetic engineering, in his case several generations of genetic flaws have culminated into a much larger set of lungs than any other has had in several generations. With additional training by singing and pearl diving, he can hold his breath for a full five minutes before having to come up for air and does not panic when suddenly underwater.
He has always had an ear for music and can use his heightened sense of hearing to tell if a voice is real or manipulated.
While he has no power beyond his howl, he was being taught the methods and skillset of the sith school.
Weaknesses:
His sensitive hearing, smell and night vision can leave him more susceptible to attacks from sonic weapons, gas attacks and sudden light bursts than others.

[Sep]

Gotta go up for a meeting in a couple of hours, which takes a couple of hours due to buses. Then I will go to the gym then I'll get my sheet up.

Mind if I have a dual-phase lightsaber? Cause they're coo'/

[Draconis Nevyn]

I've got work soon, won't be back until 9:30 but i will join in when I get home. I was thinking of having lelila use a reverse grip orange shoto and a regular yellow saber