The Whacko

Star Wars: A New Batch - A Clone Squad RP [CLOSED]

Harkin couldn’t help but grin as he watched his boys setting work, readying equipment and engaging at banter like any good warrior. His fellow Mandalorians among the sergeants tended to dismiss the standard clones, seeing them as closer to the organic droids the Kaminoans preferred in their work. To their way of thinking, only the ARCs and commandos were real people. Harkin had seen all the evidence to the contrary. He was going to enjoy collecting his winning purse.

Rawl was officially a standard infantry squad, but they’d kitted themselves out like a heavy support unit. Harkin had approved of their thinking immediately. The E-WHB had raised some eyebrows among the other sergeants, but they couldn’t argue with the results. The Corellians had just laughed and drank to Rawl all night. Harkin was really staring to like the Corellians.

“Alright, people, you all know the Citadel. I want that tower taken in under four minutes!” He paused a moment then, as if he were just remembering something. “Oh, that reminds me. Seems that 99 was back-logged on data work last night. Didn’t have time to charge those power packs of yours to full. Figure you got maybe half charge. Better make those shots count!”

Star Wars: A New Batch - A Clone Squad RP [CLOSED]

Harkin Jendri was on edge, to say the least. The last few days had seen more genuine excitement Kamino in the space of a few hours than the last five years. Not since those Kyr’tsad savages had been caught trying to establish a Battle Circle among the clones. The Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, discovering the facility, the firefight on the landing pad, and now Jango was gone, Boba too. No explanation.

That had only been the beginning. Now the Kaminoans were having the armor prepped, ships fueled, and all equipment combat ready. That could only mean one thing to the Mandalorian instructor; It was finally time for the army to make the first strike against the Separatists. His boys would seeing real battle at long last. He was proud, of course; They’d been trained to be the finest infantrymen the galaxy had ever seen. Warriors that any Mandalore would have been proud to call his own. That Jaster would have gladly called his sons. With that pride came dread too. Real combat was a different beast to any training program they could dream up. No matter how many times they pitted the clones against the surplus battle droids they’d been supplied with, no matter how many times he and the rest of the Cuy’val Dar guided them in the ways of the warrior, the second that they hit the battlefield, all of that training would be put to the ultimate stress test. Even his kind weren’t invincible.

Harkin shook his head, looking back up at the squad training course. Rawl squadron were his boys. His vode, more Mandalorian than any of the cowards hiding under the skirt of Duchess Kryze, and certainly more than any of the honorless savages that had taken all he’d grown up with from him. Rawl Squad was the best in the battalion. They were Khi’mandoade indeed.

“Alright, we’re running through basic drills today! We got plenty of B1s lined up for you, even some of those new B2s! I want to see top scores today! Skirata says that his ARCs put the standard models to shame. I want him to eat those words!” He barked out, grinning as he held up the pocket chrono that served as the only reminder of his biological father. “To the starting line! Double-time!”

Star Wars: A New Batch - A Clone Squad RP [CLOSED]

Harkin Jendri

Name: Harkin Jendri

Age: 48

Species: Human

Homeworld: Gargon

Army Rank/Role: Private, auxiliary infantry

Personality/Bio: Born on Gargon, Harkin was one of many orphans taken as a foundling by the Mandalorian clans, and spent most of his childhood raised in traditional Mandalorian fashion in defiance of the New Mandalorian ways, taught the ways of battle at an early age and expected to strike out as a mercenary when he came of age. When the newly declared Mandalore, Jaster Mereel called for the reformation of the Mandalorian people into the Haat Mando'ad, the True Mandalorians, Harkin was eager to leap at the chance to bring honor and glory back to his people. After Jaster's death on Korda 6, he continued to fight with their new leader, Jango, though he was not present at the Battle of Galidraan. Afterward, when most of the surviving True Mandalorians scattered, he struck out on his own as a bounty hunter, working for both Republic Security and various Hutt kajidics. When his Mandalore once again called on him to help train the new Grand Army of the Republic, Harkin could do nothing but accept the honor, joining the Cuy’val Dar, where he would train the standard clones in the ways of war. Now with the beginning of the Clone Wars, Harkin, for love of the clones he has come to see as his own little brothers, defies Jangos command that he should no longer exist in order to enlist the GAR and fight alongside his vode.

Harkin

Beskar’gam

Weaponry: MerrSonn Scalphunter carbine, DH-17 pistol, beskad sword, jetpack with mounted missle, wrist-mounted flamethrower, fragmentation grenades.

Teen Titans: New Beginnings

Apologies for posting in the character section. Spazzed out and forgot to switch tabs.

Teen Titans: New Beginnings

KGBeast

]Name: Antaloi Knyazev
Alias: KGBeast, The Beast
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Unmasked

Age: 58
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alignment: Villain (Currently Assigned to Task Force X)
Mentor: "The Hammer"

Skills/Meta Abilities: The Beast is a classic example of the Cold War breed of super soldier created by the dozen in those days; KGB and Spetsnaz conditioning made him a monster of a combatant even before the cybernetic augmentations enhanced his strength, agility and stamina to Herculean levels. He is proficient in multiple martial arts, including Sambo, Boxing, and Systema, as well as nearly every sort of infantry-portable weaponry (and some less than portable weapon systems). One would be foolish to assume all of his strength is phsyical, however, as that same KGB training also made him nearly impossible to break mentally, as well as ensuring he was fluent in over half a dozen languages. His most iconic piece of equipment, however, is the gun that can be mounted onto his arm, which can be swapped out for various calibers of ammunition, or even grenades, and includes a retractable bayonet. All of this combined with his espionage training ensures that he is a foe that even the most skilled of non-Metahuman heroes dreads to face.

Lucky for the Titans, he's on their side this time.

Personality: Knyazev is a man that has lived up to the name given to him by both his allies and enemies. Cold, ruthless, living by a Darwinian code of the survival of the fittest. There are few prices too high for the sake of the mission in his mind. The fall of the Soviet Union only made this worse, as without the string of patriotism to keep him in check, he's been able to devote himself fully to that brutal game as a mercenary. He does at least hold friendship as something of value, and he his loyal to those that can win his respect, but none should ever make the mistake of thinking that he would sacrifice himself for them. After all, if they aren't strong enough to survive, then it is his duty to ensure that room is made for stronger people.

Likes: Guns, knives, combat, Russian and Ukranian music, strength of body and character.
Dislikes: American music, American politics, weakness, do-gooders.

Backstory: Anatoli Knyazev was an extraordinary assassin who was in the employ of the KGB, the Soviet Union's secret police and intelligence agency. Anatoli Knyazev, code-named "The Beast" and known to the C.I.A. as the "KGBeast" was trained as an assassin by "The Hammer," a top secret cell of the KGB. In the days of the Cold War, he was a boogeyman who's mere mention cowed anti-Communist fighters from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Nobody's sure exactly how many he killed during his service to the Soviets, but most put the count at over 200.

It was also during this time that he first came into conflict with Slade Wilson. Trails of bodies, Russian, American, Vietnamese, Afghani, and more served as messages between the pair as their feud escalated, even after Deathstroke went on to become a mercenary. Despite the bloodshed, however, the long-awaited battle never came to pass, and as the war ended and the Soviet Union collapsed, Knyazev would follow his rival into the sea of mercenaries flooding the world.

Since then the legend of the KGBeast has started to fade. His missions were covert and picked up only by intelligence agencies and the odd superhero, the most famous being his conflict with Batman, wherein he terrorized Gotham for ten nights,and culminating with the attempted assassination of the president of the United States, and where he would lose his left hand. His recent capture by the JLA during a failed bank robbery (and later incident with the son of Morgaine le Fey), has left him in the perfect position for a certain rotund intelligence director, and now The KGBeast has finally been presented with the chance he's been waiting for for decades.

The Beast will do battle with The Terminator.

Teen Titans: New Beginnings

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Star Wars: A New Batch - A Clone Squad RP [CLOSED]

I mean I love The Clone Wars, and I can understand most of the changes, but yeah, I am nostalgic for the old school Mando lore.

Star Wars: A New Batch - A Clone Squad RP [CLOSED]

@Jb

Eh, there’s always the option to enlist in the GAR properly. Didn’t stop Skirata or Walon Vau if I recall.

Star Wars: A New Batch - A Clone Squad RP [CLOSED]

Hmm. Might there be an opening for a Mandalorian drill sergeant?

ATLANTIS: The Lost Empire

“You wish he could be here to see this.” Thucydides nodded, that big, square-jawed face set in a stoic, if somewhat solemn expression. Yes, he’d know losing family, more than most. He returned her salute almost mechanically. “We’ll do right by old Raymond, swear that by God.”

He let his expression soften a bit again, the smile returning.

“It’s good to meet you at last. See you got that journal. Nice pictures, but I prefer a good western, myself.”