Name: Tolun Fi
Species: Kaminoan
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Faction: Jedi Order
Rank: Jedi Knight Consular
Captive? Captive, rather willingly
Appearance:
Representing an ideal example of his species, Tolun Fi stands at a fairly standard 2.3 meters, making him tower over most other races but not peculiar for a Kaminoan. Having yellow-on-black eyes, Tolun Fi was born to the research and science class which has coloured his mentality from a young age. His skin is a luminescent shade of white, with well-defined features including narrow nostril slits and a 4 inch heigh dark fin ridge that follows from the top-rear of his skull down to the nape of his neck. His body is unblemished by scars or markings, largely thanks to a non-combative position in the Jedi order and the extensive genetic engineering of the Kaminoan species. Like all Kaminoans, he possess a long and slender frame with elongated arms and legs with large hands and feet.
Tolun Fi’s manner of dress is practical, usually wearing the form-fitting black-on white clothing common among Kaminoans with limited composite plating to help maintain its form and house electronic components. Only the neck and the head remain exposed, as the legs extend down to the custom-fitted digitigrade boots and the sleeves extend to his wrists. Over top of this ensemble, he wears the traditional brown Jedi robes. The white parts of his clothing and armour appear as such to other races, but for Kaminoans and other species capable of seeing ultraviolet light spectrums, his clothing is quite an elaborate display of colour and designs that would be indescribable to someone who is unable to see the colours, as it would be like attempting to explain colour to a blind man.
Notable Race Traits: Kaminoans are all genetically engineered to be physically perfect, and as such they are free of any hereditary illnesses or conditions that tend to run in other species. They also are one of the few species that can see the ultraviolet light spectrum, giving them a view of the galaxy that very few others are capable of appreciating.
Flaws:
-Emotionally detached: While the Jedi Order tells its members to be mindful of their feelings, Tolun Fi simply doesn’t express any. This makes him rather cold and unapproachable by many, and he is often incapable of empathy or caring about the plights of others. He is rooted in cold, hard logic and reasoning and often views many of his compatriots as overly emotive and irrational.
-Arrogant: Like most Kaminoans, Tolun Fi is arrogant and distainful of those whom he perceives to be savages, brutes, and others who use physical force to get their way. He views many other races as inferior to his own, and he looks down on other cultures he sees as primitive and superstitious. While he primarily judges people on an individual basis on their merits, he sometimes lets his prejudices colour his judgement. Because of this, he finds it rather irritable that for thousands of years, the galaxy still relies primarily on violence to achieve victory and desirable outcomes, and that the Jedi Order still harbours those who would rather bluntly resolve disputes at the end of a lightsaber instead of diplomacy or compromise. He also dislikes the colour green, as it is associated with an undesirable genetic trait that leads to immediate culling in Kaminoan society.
-Ruthless: For Tolun Fi, the ends justify the means, although this is a quiet opinion of his, but one he feels is wholly correct. While he finds unnecessary bloodshed distasteful and a pointless waste, sometimes sacrifice is necessary to secure peace or resolve a crisis. He would not think twice to do what others do not have the stomach or heart to do, and he would not lose a moment’s sleep over it. A choice between one hundred lives against one thousand is not a decision at all, just a matter of simple arithmetic.
-Not a combat specialist: While Tolun Fi can hold his own with a lightsaber, he only knows Form VI, Niman, the moderation form and he relies more on his abilities with the force, although he is still outclassed by many other Jedi and Sith in that regard, as well. While he maintains a respectable level of fitness, not only to be effective as a Jedi and the thought of being anything less than a perfect physical specimen of his species is abhorrent to him, he does not have the physical prowess or stamina of most Jedi Knights.
-Sanitation obsessed: While not overly germaphobic, Tolun Fi isn’t much better and he despises filth and clutter to an almost zealous degree. Coming from a planet with numerous sterile environments and impressively spotless surfaces and facilities, coming to a planet like Coruscant was a shock to the senses and he will often retreat to his personal lab or quarters, which he laboriously keeps spotless.
-Secretive: There are many things that Tolun Fi knows or engages in that he keeps hidden and away from other Jedi, some of which would be seen as morally objectionable if discovered. He will permit only as much information is required and does not take well to people snooping in his laboratory or prying him for information.
Skills:
-Form VI Niman lightsaber style trained.: Keeping true to his personal philosophy of avoiding physical confrontation and emotional involvement, Tolun Fi has dedicated much of his time training in the one form that will allow him to stay on the defensive indefinitely until his bothersome opponent makes a mistake, another Jedi comes to his aid, or another resolution presents itself.
-Brilliant scientist: Having been born into a science caste with enthusiastic and brilliant parents, Tolun Fi was immediately immersed in a research-minded society and he spent the first several years of his life receiving the finest education and an impression that scientific endeavor was the most important pursuit one could undertake. Even after leaving Kamino with the Jedi Order, Tolun Fi continued a lifelong pursuit of study and research that has left him with almost an encyclopedic knowledge of genetics and biology, and the Jedi Order had been very accommodating of his pursuits by providing him with a laboratory and sending him to study the medical sciences and healing arts at H’ratth, which he has put to good use over the years.
-Skilled diplomat: Being able to look objectively at both sides of an issue and the ability to avoid becoming invested in high stake situations has made Tolun Fi one of the better mediators in the Jedi Order for resolving crises without resorting to bloodshed. While some Jedi would object to some of the compromises he’s brokered to ensure peace, few would argue that injustice for some parties is a much better outcome than a war or genocide.
Force capabilities:
Tolun Fi’s force training is primarily defensive and healing in nature without a lot of offensive options.
-Detoxifying poison: Being a healer, Tolun Fi is very skilled at using the force to remove poisons and toxins from himself or another person, a skill that has saved many lives.
-Persuasion and Mind Trick: Being a negotiator and in the interest of keeping his activities and secrets just that, Tolun Fi has become rather adept at using the Force to sway the minds of others and reach compromises that would not have been reached normally.
-Force Listening: A necessity for conflict resolution and dealing with species who cannot speak Common, Tolun Fi uses Force Listening to understand languages he is not familiar with without having to resort to protocol or translation droids.
-Telekinesis: A fairly standard Force Power, telekinesis was the first force power Tolun Fi mastered during his padawan training.
-Force Leap: Another standard power, Tolun Fi is capable of using the force to leap great heights and distances with ease.
-Force Absorption/ Tutaminis: Knowing he would almost certainly run into powerful Sith and other Force users over his life as a Jedi, Tolun Fi took to mastering Tutaminis to negate the worst of Force Powers to protect himself and others from assault. By negating abilities like Lighting, Tolun Fi ideally forces his foe to use the lightsaber, where he is confident in his ability to defend himself, while using the Force to defend himself.
Biography:
Born to a pair of respected genetic engineers in the research caste in Timira City, Kamino, some of Tolun Fi’s earliest memories were the vast cloning facilities located there and the raging, endless storm that defined Kamino and its inhabitants’ ability to defy even a planet destroying cataclysm. The Kaminoan people are quiet, orderly, and clean people, and these are traits that would go on to define Tolun Fi for the duration of his life. He also became immediately familiar with the Kamino customs of enforcing genetic perfection by culling imperfect specimen of his species and of the countless clones grown in the endless rows of tanks. Death was not something that carried weight to the Kaminoan; it was simply a fact of life that meant purifying undesirable and potentially harmful presences from a society that only survived by making the hard, cold choices to keep the isolated and largely diminished population healthy and stable. After all, a cataclysm that claimed millions of lives somewhat inoculates a populace to the weight of death after the fact. This extended to the clones Kamino was famous for growing for clients; a defective clone meant a defective product and was terminated with little fanfare.
In his early years before the Force sensitive Kaminoan was reported to the Jedi Order by his parents, who were immensely proud of their son but realized he would have difficulty finding a place amongst the ordered Kaminoan society, Tolun Fi was thrown into a life saturated with education and study, the fast maturation rates of his species and singular focus of the research caste had the young Kaminoan completing curriculum that were several years more advanced than other species’ educational programs for youth his age. By the time he was 6 years old and starting to accompany his father to work once a week, he was already at an education level comparable to university on other worlds. While this brief period of his life was one of relative solitude and hard work, the Jedi came to Kamino to take Tolun Fi to Coruscant after becoming aware of his existence from his mother, who bid her son well in his endeavors in an unemotional and formal farewell.
Adjusting to Coruscant was something of a taxing trial for the young Padawan, as it was a hugely populated eucumenopolis of unimaginable population and noise and filth that became a living nightmare for the early years of the Kaminoan, who immediately was an outsider amongst his peers due to how rare and strange his species was to the other padawans and his need for a safe, sterilized room for him to retreat to while he acclimatized to the shocking world. Free from the need others required for companionship and play, as well as his already prestigious mind, Tolun Fi was an astonishingly quick study for all of the lessons he was introduced to, and once he was taught how to turn his Force sensitivity into practical use, it became yet another subject for him to master, although with more immediately pleasing results. Learning how to cope with his germophobia, Tolun Fi began to thrive in the Jedi Temple, absorbing information of thousands of years of history and just as many authors. The library became a home for him, and he had expressed interest in continuing scientific experiments, inquiring if there were a path a Jedi could take that could find him making use of the skills he was born into. Shortly after, he was sent to H’ratth to study the healing arts and sciences at the Jedi Temple there on the temperate and beautiful world, an unbelievable place for the Kaminoan who had never seen ground before in his life, let alone vegetation, natural water sources, and geographic features like mountains.
Near the completion of his studies on H’ratth, Tolun Fi came under the notice of Jedi Consular Siloon Pakrun, a Kel Dor well known for his negotiation ability and a reputation for bringing peace throughout the galaxy. While untrue, a popular rumour about the Jedi Knight was that he had never had to draw his lightsaber in the field. Gratified to have been noticed by such an esteemed Jedi and the prestige and advancement it would bring, Tolun Fi was taken under Siloon’s wing and it was at this time in his life, reaching 18 years of his life, that Tolun Fi was properly introduced to the galaxy at large and grow a proper understanding of the Jedi’s place in the galaxy. The two Jedi would go on to develop a healthy and respectful working relationship, and Tolun Fi’s Kel Dor mentor was the closest he had ever come to considering anyone a friend. He learned the fine art of negotiation and diplomacy from his master, and that sometimes there are no peaceful solutions to a situation, or easy choices. Often, small sacrifices had to be made for the sake of the galaxy at large, and some of the situations they were sent to resolve ended on rather dark or bittersweet notes. Peace was preserved, but often at an uncomfortable cost. Not everyone could be saved, and Tolun Fi discovered that fates far worse than death existed, some of which he helped facilitate. It was just as well that Siloon seemed immune to the pressures and weight of their choices, and Tolun Fi’s already detached personality hardened during his journeys. A particularly enlightening conversation with Siloon revealed to Tolun Fi why his master seemed so at ease with the deaths they could not prevent; all living things return to the Force when they die and find peace they never knew in life, where they could live on in serenity forever, once they found themselves in the stream of the Force. It was a comforting sentiment, and one that brought a clarity and comfort to Kaminoan culling practices. After all, it was more of a mercy to return a defective person to the Force than to have them suffer from an illness or disability that would make them suffer for their entire lives. It was a beautiful sentiment, in its own way. Others would doubtless consider this way of thinking cruel and dangerously close to the Dark Side, Tolun Fi considered such opinions naïve and ignoring the ultimate nature of the force, one of peace, order, and no emotion.
After 10 years with Siloon, Tolun Fi became a full-fledged Consular in his own right, free to make his own decisions and taken assignments on his own. Now in a position to continue his studies, Tolun Fi requisitioned a lab to not only address medical concerns in the Temple, but to study the biology and genetics of various species, including a proposition that he wished to see if there was a link between a person’s genetic make-up and their ability to become attuned to the Force, since he had always found it peculiar some races seemed to be innately prone to becoming Force sensitive, while others had such rare instances of Force sensitivity, if at all. Permission granted and a lab established, Tolun Fi made the isolated workspace his own and began to make some interesting discoveries, including identifying the markers in each Force sensitive race’s genetic code, as well as any volunteer Jedi who offered a blood or tissue sample, and Tolun Fi’s greatest breakthrough was mapping a common sequence that could be identified with a simple blood test. In effect, the Jedi now had a method to identify and determine Force sensitives with a simple portable blood test, and invaluable tool in the war against the Sith where it was a constant race to recruit members to each respective order to maintain an edge over their sworn enemies. Having proven his theory sound and tangible, the Order permitted Tolun Fi to expand upon his research, including some of his more controversial ideas of seeing if there was a discernible genetic or biological marker that would indicate if someone were predisposed to be destined to the Light Side of the Force, or fall to the Dark Side. He would continue his research while searching for a padawan of his own to train up until the Sacking of Coruscant, where a test of his true character would begin.
Personality and/or Motivation:
Tolun Fi believes that fighting is the first choice of the unthinking man, whereas it is a last resort for the intelligent. He is hungry for knowledge and discovery, and despite his long separation from his homeworld, he still embodies many of the traits that are typical of Kamonians, including a calm, polite exterior and a somewhat cold and detached personality. He is slow to accept people as friends, and even then he largely keeps people at an arm’s reach, the faint vestiges of xenophobia still colouring his worldview. The main driving force for him is discovering a genetic reason for people turning to the Dark Side and extinguishing it forever so the galaxy can live in peace, with balance in the Force being achieved by removing the conflict within it. By being captured by the Sith, he searches for an opportunity to gain some samples of his own and use his own captivity against them, fully accepting it may cost him life or limb. After all, he has made the call of who should live and die before, and he understands that in the grand scheme of things he is a part of that same system of cold arithmetic. Of course, he’d prefer to survive, since he has no worthy heir to carry on his research. A mind of his caliber should not be wasted needlessly.
Player’s long term goals:
Ultimately, Tolun Fi is defined by his pursuit and dedication to science and sooner or later, provided he makes the discovery he is looking for (if there is a Dark Side genetic marker he can manipulate), he intends to capitalize on that, whatever the cost. It is worth repeating that the ends justify the means to him, and he will not hesitate to do what he thinks will bring balance and peace to the galaxy. Should he get rescued and Sith are captive, I should like to see the tables turned on them where he has access to them for his own experimentation, even if he has to steal them away from the Order to do it. I would be interested to see if any characters could change his mind over some of his opinions, or if he’s capable of forming anything resembling empathy towards others.
Relations:
Xid Terrik: A young man that Tolun Fi respects and appreciates due to the padawan’s mechanical aptitude and desire to learn and improve upon himself. The Kaminoan feels an easygoing kinship with the young human, willfully involving Xid with his work with the hopes of inspiring a scientific mind in an overly martial order.
Sela Zythor: A Jedi Master that Tolun Fi was largely indifferent to, but respected due to her choice in padawan. While they seldom crossed paths conversationally, they maintained a respectful working relationship.
Nazca Barsavi: The two had only met on a handful of occasions as Nazca had only recently been brought to the Jedi Temple. They had met for appointments and consultation about surgery to remove the rings melded to her fingers. The Sacking occurred before the surgery could happen.
