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Phrik vambraces were Imperial Knight standard issue, part of their training, and common amongst Sith even before the coup. Astrid wasn't surprised and assumed Karys' bracers were phrik. The metal sparked and smoked, stopping her strike. As Karys stepped in to jab, Astrid rose her saber to...

Sadowbane was flung to Karys' left, powerfully propelled by Karys' swing and Astrid's force-enhanced parry. Astrid's immediate follow-up was much quicker than focusing the Force to stop the launched sword's momentum and call it back. She sprung right-footed into quick, controlled following...

As Karys closed the distance, Astrid maintained her two-handed center guard stance, left foot forward. The crossguard was horizontally on full display to protect hands and wrists. The Sith reached out with the Force to grab Astrid's left horn. As a trained Force wielder, Astrid was not easily...

THEME "Hold fast, people of the Empire!" shouted a booming contralto over the din of battle. Commanding a garrison group, Astrid al-Bahir watched the battle closely. The soldiers were nervous, even not immediately engaged at the front. But Astrid had become a symbol of solidarity between...

Astrid's tail flicked, then rose up to flick the cloak off it, right hand pulling the other side and leaving it laid neatly along the back of her bar chair. She strode to the dance floor, tail waving gracefully behind now it wasn't tied around her waist. Now was she was shown to be less stiff...

Dram spoke up again and while the half-Tiefling didn't laugh, she did smile in a dry, amused sort of way. Might as well be a laugh. "Can't have soldiers without arms," she replied. Whether it was a joke or not was up to Dram to figure out. "You're welcome, Max. Rest assured I'll continue to do...

Astrid hadn't winked back at Altair as he danced and caught her eye, possibly because Dram had been sitting in front of her gathering his thoughts, but her tail had unwound and moved in a slow wave, tip flicking toward the end before settling in her lap. And, clearly, she was paying attention as...

The woman's face sat static at Varyn's reassurance, but when he was done she spoke in turn. "How much farther could we march, if we were not forced to carry our fears on our backs?" Astrid shook her head, once, then turned to look at him. "Do not worry. I bury my regrets beneath gravestones."...

Astrid nodded and continued on her way to the bar, ordering a glass of deep red brandy. Her lips faintly curled upward and her wrapped tail's tip adjusted its position around her waist, taking the proffered sulfur and applying it to her drink. She had to look down at her champagne glass to slide...

The glass of water was slowly, deliberately placed back down on the table before she grabbed the datapad. Although her face didn't change in the slightest, there was the sudden impression that Astrid felt a great weight upon her wounded shoulders at the news of heavy casualties. Pointed ears...

Music Playlist Astrid had moved along from various greetings and congratulatory phrases of varying sincerity, striding along the floor until another officer met her introduced as Commander Habrak. The man's bow was returned before she listened to everything he had to say, amethyst eyes meeting...

THEME Somewhere in the back behind the podium, in the short time before the ceremony began, a half-Tiefling woman brushed something off her shoulder. Metal fingers rose, then fell again, replaced by living digits to make sure tied-back black hair had stayed in place. Her tail flicked somewhere...

Astrid nodded two-by-fourishly and watched the Lord Commander move into one of those hospital guest chairs with a back designed for Jawa rather than human proportions. Then she seemed to go back to the window, staring into whatever she saw. "Thank you, sir." And she kept doing that until Varyn...

After a moment's pause, Astrid laid back against the upraised back of her hospital bed, expression thoroughly neutral. With utmost composure, her tail rose and was laid neatly across her waist before she spoke. "Thank you, sir. I'm told discharge may be possible within a month." That was...

Propped up on a lifted bed when Varyn walked in, Astrid's remaining arm rested gently against her uninjured leg. A small radio played ambient music interspersed with wordless vocals and other sounds inaudible to human ears. Her degree of injury was immediately visible given her position, eyes...