Name: Tasaia Straka
Age: 38
Race: Farghul
Brief Bio: Tasaia remembers very little from her childhood and early teens as it was all a haze of sedative induced docileness. Slavers stole her from the Farrfin city of Jahhnu after her parents stung the slavers with a sabacc scam. The slavers were penniless and took their daughter to repay the losses. Her parents, being unarmed and unable to compete with blasters, had to let them go. Tasaia was kept sedated as she grew to prevent any sort of attacks on anyone owning her. Until she turned fourteen, owners of her used her for two things: house duties and eye candy. She was cute and soft, so she would be on a couch by her owner at events to put visitors at ease and give her owner something to pet.
She was not a slave long enough to become involved in dancing or prostitution. Her owner, a human of Susevfi, attracted the attention of the Jensaarai after a small incident of Tasaia inadvertently Force Pushing a visitor that was petting her too hard. The Jensaarai, a human woman named Kiara Straka, found the sedated slave and decided to take her in for training. As expected, her owner was frothing, but attempting to combat Kiara led to him bisected from her lightsaber. Tasaia's first memories were of three days after that, waking up in a Jensaarai medical bed with Kiara asleep across her lap.
The two grew close, Kiara treating the young Farghul much like her daughter, even going so far as to name her and share a surname. Tasaia took to the training well, her predatory nature and independant mindset leading her to learn and perfect techniques easily. By the age of sixteen, she had reached her first milestone of mastering the basics. By eighteen, she made her lightsaber, an unusual combination of dual phase and saberstaff. The saber, when only using one side, could be extended up to three meters in length, functioning much as a two-handed sword. Unlike her peers, she did not gather her own crystal due to the short time of her training. Instead, she intentionally made four compressed synth crystals that made her saber midnight blue with an indigo core. The compressed crystals made the blade thinner and small energy oscillations run up the blade every three seconds. This afforded greater precision and control, thus making the extremely long blade of the dual phase much easier to control. Following her creation, Tasaia resumed her training, taking it at an accelerated pace.
She managed to fully catch up to her peers and began crafting her armor within one year. While she was busy crafting and imbuing her armor, the isolation of her meditation and forging insulated her from the sudden partial purge of her people. Her mother was one of the casualties. Following the mediation and crafting in the isolated base, she was informed of her loss and the events as she was elevated to the status of defender. Feeling alone for the first time in her life, Tasaia went into self-imposed seclusion, training and working alone as she grieved Kiara's death at the hands of Palpatine. After a year, she decided to leave the planet and the Jensaarai behind. She felt no more kinship with them nor did she continue sharing their isolationist ideas. Tasaia, through a combination of her Force powers to mask her appearance and the help of a smuggler, managed to get offworld without incident.
Once offworld, she discovered that the smuggler was also Force sensitive and was actually a part of a lesser known tradition. The Disciples of Twilight, as the man explained, worked quietly from within a society to protect and help the citizens. They particularly opposed tyranny and abuse of power. The smuller, actually a Disciple, let the young ex-Jensaarai know that he sensed her power and sought to potentially bring her into the fold. Luckily, Tasaia was drawn naturally to the Disciple mindset and decided to join him. From there, she traveled to Dyspeth and trained. Her already considerable ability with Force Illusion made her learn the unique powers of the Disciples within short order. Her mastery of the new powers came a year later. In 2 BBY, she finally left Dyspeth and began travelling the galaxy, protecting people as she went. This was a direct continuation of her training.
She observed the infancy and development of the rebellion into a full-feldged military power. She saw the Empire cracking down on civilians. The war was not overly interesting to her as she had her hands full preventing the corruption and mistreatment of citizens, especially non-humans, among Empire territories. Her travels ended temporarily when she had to make a crash landing on Yavin IV following a pirate attack. On Yavin, she found the remnants of the Rebel base and some leftover ship parts and items. Using her technical ability and trial and error, Tasaia developed enough expertise in her ship model to repair and modify it using the parts she could find and salvage. She found a servant droid and astromech droid powered down but still intact. Upon reactivation, the droids became mainstays in her life for the 3 years she was alone, affording her some proficiency in binary.
Once the modification and settling was finished, it was a scant few days before Luke arrived on the moon. Seeing them on some long range scanners that she managed to mostly reactivate, Tasaia managed to hide herself and ship in a nearby jungle. The Jedi landed and began whatever he had intended. Thus, since then, Tasaia has kept herself and her ship cloaked, making ventures to observe Luke's plans and actions while sensing no Dark Side in the group.
Faction:Disciples of Twilight: Defected from Jensaarai after Disciples helped her learn of the galaxy, and she agreed with their worldview.
Personality: Possessed of a highly independant streak and focus, Tasaia is an autodidact more often than a student. She will find materials or processes and learn them on her own rather than relying upon a group. However, she is very used to directed learning as she spent years under the guidance of Kiara. These traits make her highly knowledgeable and well-rounded in a variety of topics as well as granting her at least a passable skill in many procedures. Her self-education focused primarily upon medical and mechanical fields. Her mechanical expertise is mostly restricted to blasters, weapons, and armor for sentients.
Outside of her education, she tends towards being witty and gregarious, often accidentally invading someone's personal space. What transpires next is very much feline. If she has been enjoying the company or meets a friend, she will then generally rub up against them a little. If not, she will normally not even get close. She holds her head high and is far from meek, though her small size and relatively high chance to simply first observe makes her prone to being forgotten. She finds the sudden surprise of when she speaks up quite amusing.
She is virtually aromantic, though it is more a facade than an actual aversion to romance. It is partially a fear of loss and partially a matter of not yet finding someone she could like in that way. In addition, she has absolutely no interest in marriage or children and finds very small children annoying. Adults that tend to act childlike also tend to grate on her nerves.
Tasaia is not prone to conning people, but she uses her innate conning ability to outsmart or con those harmful to the citizens around her. She usually uses this cunning in day to day life to play some pranks or games with friends or interested parties. She is not afraid to use the Force when playing games to increase her chances of winning. Her favorite games are Chatta-ragul and Dejarik, with her preferring the latter.
Despite not being a mechanic, she has developed enough talent to maintain and modify her own ship. She could do some basic repairs and maintenance on other models of ship, but she is only particularly familiar with XS freighters and the modifications she made to her own. She does have a technical aptitude for crafting items and can function as an armorer and weaponsmith as well as being able to craft and modify blasters.
She is multilingual, being fluent in Basic, Huttese, and Farghul. She, while not completely fluent in it, is able to understand droidspeak enough to communicate with her astromech droid. Both droids are precious to her and maintained meticulously. She intentionally will not memory wipe them and allowed them to develop their own personalities, finding it comforting to have almost biological company. She learned Farghul during her Disciple training as a way to reclaim at least a little bit of her ethnic heritage.
Physical description: Straka stands at an impressively short, for a Farghul, 5'1". Her short height is made up for with her enhanced strength and speed, courtesy of her species and her felinoid status giving her leaner muscle for the same strength. Her seemingly curvy and soft exterior is quickly shattered for anyone touching her. Each movement felt betrays her densely packed muscles. Her fur is of an uncommonly dark variant and is kept well groomed. For some reason, much to her own comfort and the delight of others, she never lost the softness of her kitten fur, essentially staying adorably soft and warm to the touch. Her hair shares this softness, though it is much thicker than her body fur. Her golden eyes are obviously feline in nature and even have the tapem lucidum, granting her strong night vision and the trademark glowing eyes at night shared by many mammals. Her claws are kept clean and sharp, always ready to bite into a foe that manages to catch her unarmored. This overall grants her an attractive and seemingly inoffensive look with only her claws and sharp canines granting any hint of her predatory ability.
Ship (Optional): Modified XS Freighter called
Kitten's IreModifications:1. Addition of 1 Astromech Droid and 1 Servant Droid after crash. It had 4 astromechs and 2 servant droids already. (They are models that have inherent limitations and thus cannot develop personalities)
2. 6 sets of passenger sleeping rooms, able to house two passengers per room. (12 total passengers)
3. Conversion of excess space into fuel storage and power production (reducing it to 50 tons of cargo space from its original 300)
4. Hyperdrives upgraded to Class 1
5. Part of the inside is converted to a captain living quarters, another part has a crafting area, and there is a small medbay. A full sized galley sits by the captain quarters.The central area of the ship is a large living area.
6. Hull has been updated with lighter, stronger materials, allowing for the same strength with reduced weight and bulk on the inside. (20% reduced internal bulk for the same RU)
7. Deflector shields have been modernized and rebuilt for both ray and particle shields.
8. Addition of two ion cannons, one on the bottom of each wing tip.
9. Addition of additional "wing" to produce symmetry and allow one more laser cannon hardpoint.
10. Replacement of laser cannons with stronger, 1000 terrawatt versions and making all three turreted.
