Ares Varga: Master Bounty Hunter

[T.J]

NAME: Ares Varga
FACTION: Bounty Hunters Guild
RANK: Elite Hunter, " Second in Command"
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 52
GENDER: male
HEIGHT: 5'10
WEIGHT: 167 lbs. 300 lbs. in armor
EYES: hazel
HAIR: brown, greying in areas.
SKIN: Caucasian
CREDITS: off the record
DISTINGUISHING MARKS: Couple scars and small burn marks here and there. Hole in right ear from blaster shot. Cybernetic arm. His armor is iconic.
DOMINATE HAND: Left, trained to use his right hand almost as well, which is now cybernetic.
FORCE SENSITIVE: Slightly. Enough to feel tears in the force around people who have done wrong. ((Passive))

STRENGTH: above average
DEXTERITY: excellent.
CONSTITUTION: average
INTELLIGENCE: above average
WISDOM: average
CHARISMA: above average

SKILLS:
Computer slicing, piloting, ranged combat, melee combat, is skilled in several forms of martial arts. He is a skilled mechanic and knows the ins and out of almost all technical hardware of any ship, " as long as they're models from roughly 15 years ago or so". His years as a bounty hunter have honed his combat abilities, making him a highly effective killer. Bounty hunting has made him quite good at reading people and pre-determining what they're plans may be. Although he doesnt know it, his weak connection to the force has helped in this.


STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:

Strength: Ares is an excellent shot and can use melee weapons very well. He is good at building and tinkering with things, and an excellent pilot due to the fact he was around ships almost all his young life and was actually studying to become a ship builder. Considers himself a top-notch mechanic and technician, although some of the newer ships that have been coming out confuse him to a degree. His marksman ship has become quite proficient during his near 30 years of bounty hunting, as well as his melee.

Weaknesses: He can get carried away in his zealous works, and is known to just blatantly kill someone when he knows that they have done extreme wrong in their life. If it is a small amount of wrong doing he will try to reason with them most of the time. He can get angry fairly easily, and will become somewhat reckless when completely enraged. Ares does not like to lose, and will go out of his way to prevent it from happening. His cybernetic arm can be tricky at times, and he sometimes over does it, often overpowering it without realizing it. His age is getting the better of him seemingly more and more, and he has started to tire more easily than before. As of late he has started thinking of younger people as dumb or ignorant, often under-estimating them.

GEAR:
-custom combat armor/suit: Stopping all together with maintaining his armors exterior appearance, Ares's armor is now pitted from bullets pinging off and burns from blaster shots, although it hasnt lost any durability. Several gashes adorn his chest plates where people have tried vibro blades against him. It is mostly composed of a heavy grade of duranium, but has recently been reforged to impregnate it with phrik. Which in turn icreased its weight, causing Ares to have some servos placed in some of the more important joints to aid in movement. The increase of force wielding foes has forced him to revamp his armors systems to withstand electrical charges and EMP's. It would be considered by most to be heavy armor, but having used it for so long, Ares is able to move as efficiently as if he were wearing medium grade armor. A new addition to the suit enables Ares to emit a strong electromagnetic field from a device in his chest plate. The field is meant to slow and even stop the path of slugs and other metal objects before hitting him, and can even disrupt some types of communication devices and blasers. The downside to this device is that it disables Ares' HUD and two communicator in his helmet for the duration of the electromagnets operation. Due to the increase in their use, Ares has employed the use of a personal shield system.

The suit underneath the armor is a complex system of sensors and vital scanners all built into an almost second skin. It is constructed of Rancor hide and carbon nanotube fibers, and can withstand blaster fire that happens to eat through his primary armor system. Carbon nanotubes meant to catch and stop bullets. The undersuit is entirely fire and acid resistant and has advanced flexible armor plating made from Carbon composites and lightweight metal polymers covering vital areas to absorb shock and reduce damage from explosions.

- His helmet has several different fields of vision. Including but not limited to, infared, night vision, x-ray, and telescopic. Built in comm. unit can connect to several other units at any given time, allowing the bounty hunter to speak to multiple people at one time. Scanners in the helmet allow Ares to access databanks at the BHG main servers to gain detailed information on almost anyone he happens to look at, provided they have a record on file. A built in camera allows Ares to record anything he himself is seeing at any given time. The helmet is made of much the same material as the armor, making it extremely effective at protecting his head from most types of small arms fire and blasters.

-A cybernetic arm made by fellow BHG member Xano. It is partially made of Cortosis, mixed with a dense form of duranium. The cybernetic limb out paces his aging body, and he sometimes over does it when he uses it. The strength it can put out is akin to a much more stronger species and he has been seen ripping some foes limb from limb and crushing bone to powder with it. Around the wrist of the cybernetic arm, Ares had installed a multi-dart launcher and flame thrower, which revovle around each other, making it so only on can be fired at a time. They enable him to shoot several types of darts or douse enemies in flames without ever drawing a weapon.

- Ares's slug thrower assault rifle has gone through several severe changes and swappings since his start as a bounty hunter. Originally a standard issue design from a failed dictatorship, it has become a multi-funcional, modual weapon. With the appropriate parts, the bounty hunter can swap out certain components of the weapon to make it suit an entirely different role. Including a sniper rifle and heavy weapons launcher. The standard assault rifle still has a grenade launcher attachment and bayonet, although the grenade launcher is not nearly as powerful as the heavy weapon mode, which is more akin to a rocket launcher in design.

- Also given to him by Xano, are nanites, that course through his blood and inhabit his body. They make him feel and perform like he is 30 again. Increases his healing speed significantly.

- Old style Shotgun that has a lever action to cycle shells. Ares carrys several types of shells for the gun, including taser, mercy, and solid, high explosive, corrosive, and buck shots.

- Dual Heavy Blaster pistols, each resembles a slug revolver, although it is quite different. Each chamber holds an entire power pack meant for regular blaster rifles. The entire power pack is expelled in one shot, meaning a more advanced cooling system is required. Cooling rods extend down the barrel of the pistols, increasing their performace and enabling rapid shots to be fired. The downside to that upgrade is that the blaster bolts fly through the air somewhat slower do to the cooling amd their size, although they are much more devistating due to their semi-solid nature and that they have the power of an entire power pack at once.

-Short vibro sword, roughly 18 inch long blade. Sheathes it horizontally across the back of his belt. Its blade is chipped and overly sharpened from years of service.

-8 inch combat knife in left boot, 6 inch combat knife on belt. Both are not vibro and are gun metal black to remove glint. The knife on his belt has been with him since he left Corellia after his parents died.

-Several med kits and an assortment of slicing materials, along with several types of grenades for his rifle.

-Special BHG guild card given to all all Bounty Hunter Guild members. Has a built in homing beacon to ensure at least something gets burried if a hunt goes wrong.

-Belt:

-cutting torch

-scanner

-electro shock , and normal bolos, as well as a special type that emits a bright flash upon the balls on either end of the strong braided cord colliding after wrapping around a targets legs.

-small metal disks that release a strong type of sleep gas once they are jarred or impacted against anything

-several datapads

- several yards of vibo cord

-4 lbs of explosive putty w/ timer

- micro cameras

-assortment of darts including poison, stun, sleep, and several others which vary in intensity.

-stimpacks and adrenaline shots

SHIP:

Name: Precious Pride

Type: Self built corellian-like designed freighter/troop transport

Description:

Specs: Has 4 sets of torpedo tubes, which can shoot nuclear weapons if needed to. Turrets around the exterior of the ship in key positions, such as the top, bottom, and sides. The turrets are mostly of the kinetic persuasion. It also has a very quick sublight speed, and has a hyper drive speed of 3.

PET:
A Corellian Sand Panther dubbed Rex has recently become the pet of the aging bounty hunter inner group. Ares's heritage on Corellia sparked the interest in the creature, and the use of the species on the BHG's training regiment gave him the means to obtain one. Rex is top breed due to the need for stronger animals in the training exercises. Stronger and faster than most of his species, he is unquestionably loyal to the second in command of the BHG. Often stays on the Precious Pride, which is basically Ares home. Has been seen following the bounty hunter around in public.

PERSONALITY:
Ares is a kind person, and doesn’t like to fight or kill those who don’t deserve it. He does however; have no problem killing those who do deserve it. He actually enjoys it, ridding the universe of people who don’t need to be there. He figures that, “If their going to make it harder for other people to live, they might as well not exist." He likes to build and tinker with things, and will probably be in a garage or a hanger if you where looking for him. He doesn’t drink alcohol anymore nor does he take any kind of abusive substance. Ares has begun to enjoy teaching people how to fight and protect themselves; it was another way for him to prevent unneeded violence and death in the galaxy.

In his later years, Ares's fiery temper softened when he married Stasha Evie. His wife’s slave turned daughter Ashes means the world to him. To him she’s blood related, even though it’s apparent they are not. His age has somewhat prevented him from running all over the galaxy like he used to, so he finds comfort in staying primarily on Coruscant with his family.


HISTORY:
Ares was born on Corellia. His mother and father worked in the ship building industry, he grew up around star ships and their parts most of his young life. The beginning of his life was pretty uneventful; he had a formal education and had no emotional trauma in his young life, passing his time by learning martial arts and going hunting with his father. When he was 14 he started helping his parents with star ship designs. They moved from designing the exterior of the ships when they realized Ares could do it himself, to the interior components and hyperdrives.

Ares's life started a downhill spiral shortly afterwards. In a test run with a new type of hyperdrive, his parents were not properly shielded from hyperspace and were aged to dust only seconds into the flight. Ares fell into a deep depression, loosing his entire family in one glorious moment of scientific blunder. He quit designing ships and went into a several year long drinking spree. Bumping from cantina to cantina was the only thing in his life, but when he witnessed a young woman in the process of being mugged something awoke in him. Ares felt a buzzing in the back of his head for the first time, it drove him temporarily crazy. The man who was mugging the woman was the cause of it. He was a flash of movement as he ripped the mugger off of his victim and beat him to a pulp. Not realizing what he had done until his fists were crimson.

He sobered up and started training in weapons and hand-to-hand combat again, gaining more skill than what he had before. Ares started taking bounties against wicked people and those who had broken the law, refusing to take up ones when the bounty in question had done nothing wrong to deserve to die or be captured. He used the money he got to build his own ship and to buy his own tools for administering justice," aka his weapons." The young hunter then set out on the most majorly populated worlds to cleanse them of the evil people that infested them. Ares soon after realized that simply going from planet to planet killing evil sentients was going to become a never ending task that he would not be able to finish in his natural lifetime.

His best option was to join the bounty hunters guild, where he would have maximum effect in his work. There he met the leader of the guild. His name was Kal Jericho, and he became one of the only people Ares truly trusted in his life up to that point. Ares quickly rose through the ranks and trained a number of new recruits under him. He became an elite hunter and soon accompanied Kal on hunts, as well as doing many on his own. He began training almost full time, training a Shawn Mac'neal. This recruit was stubborn, and had a mouth that would probably get him killed some day. Ares found it somewhat difficult to not try and deck the recruit every time he opened it, and so still does not trust Shawn as much as he would have normally. Either way the training was completed without much trouble and Shawn became a skilled hunter.

Shorty after Ares was again given another task, to train a particular trainee. She had an iffy file, her name was Eeicia Evie. Later discovered to actually be Stasha Evie, Eeicia's twin sister whom stole the later identity to escape punishment for a crime she didn’t commit. The guilds almost infinite resources revealed her deceit. She was still accepted, as Ares was able to tell that she was innocent. Ares was able to teach Stasha the true meaning of teamwork by jumping down into the training maze and facing the predators and beasts that he had inhabited the maze with along side the female recruit. The climax of the battle involved a Durgolosk, which took several grenades to kill. When it finally fell, its massive bulk would have crushed Stasha into the durasteel deck of the Jericho. Showing what teamwork really was, Ares pushed her out of the way and took the blow, having to shoot and cut his way out of the beast’s chest cavity. Needless to say, Stasha passed and was given the rank of skilled hunter.

Again Ares was called into action, when a plea for help over a stolen child was given to him. He couldn’t pass up saving the life of an innocent child, and immediately set out to find and rescue the youngling. Ares came in contact with BelleBlair, a twi'lek who was the aunt of the missing child. She explained her story to the bounty hunter, and immediately set of with Ares. Against Ares better judgment she persisted and followed him.

The denizens of the undercity recognized Ares and his armor and it prevented him to operate stealthily enough to save the youngling, he was forced to strip himself of his protective armor and complete the mission without it. The two found a tiw'lek that had information on the whereabouts of the youngling, it also incriminated BelleBlair's brother, him being the probably cause for their nieces capture. Ares and BelleBlair traveled to the hotel her niece was being held, they ran into Shawn, a recruit Ares had trained in the BHG. Figuring he needed all the help he could get, he let Shawn tag along.

Gaining entry to the hotel was easy enough, Ares and BelleBlair masquerading as a new couple fooled the guards and allowed them to gain access to the higher levels of the hotel. They were found out, and were forced to gun and run to the floor the child was being held on. The man responsible tricked them into an ambush, and had grabbed BelleBlair intent on using her as leverage. Ares, being almost blinded by the pain and hate he felt form the masked man, lunged and stabbed him in the throat before he could even voice his demands. The enraged bounty hunter wasn’t done with him though, with a newly cut hole in the villains neck, Ares ripped the flesh and skin open and tore the mans trachea out.

The fight down to the bottom of the hotel was fevered at first, but as the guards started to fall one by one they started to falter. Shawn had gone to sever the security systems as Ares, BelleBlair, and her niece escaped down one of the turbo lifts. The fight in the lobby didn’t last long, being that the guards stationed down there had been listening to the screams and death rattles of their colleagues above. They had little resolve, and were dispatched quickly.

Thinking the fight over, Ares followed his former recruit out of the building to help treat a wound he had sustained while assaulting the security command center. A shot rang out, and Ares fell. A lone sniper, by that name of Bad Eyes, "Unknown to Ares at the time." Shot him through his shoulder and out the front of his lower chest. The bounty hunter had become so used to his armor, that he had lost is sense of danger against long ranged enemies; it was his mistake, and his burden to carry. Shawn quickly ran off, as Ares slowly made it to cover, his lung at been punctured by the round, and his chest had been peppered with the resulting shrapnel that came form the bullet impacting the backside of his chest plate. The fellow BHG member returned with a borrowed speeder. The group quickly escaped, and was able to make it back to the Jericho before Ares succumbed to his injuries. He treated himself, taking all the necessary steps to keep himself alive. The job was done, and he requested no payment.

Another training exercise was given to Ares, this time to train a Rodain by the name of Voka Reireek. The training was somewhat normal, with the exception of the rodian's paranoia of people using his weapons. He passed, and was given the rank of skilled hunter.

Ares returned to his usual life, venturing off into the undercity of Coruscant for days at a time was something he enjoyed, considering it was the perfect place to stalk his prey. The evil in the undercity practically saturated the air every time he went down.

There was a lull in the cycle though; it concerned one of Ares's past recruits. A Stahsa Evie. She hadn’t reported in from her completed bounty at the planets capitol, Iziz. At first he blamed it on her incompetence and overall childish behavior, but something didn’t fell right with him. He set of for Onderon after the two day waiting period was up, deciding to bring along Shawn Mac'neal. Figuring that he would probably need the extra hands. They followed the trail of Stasha until they came across a village far into the Onderonian outback. They where all infected with a strange disease, and told Ares that Stasha had gone looking for the medicine. "Which had crashed along with the ship carrying it."

Ares knew that the leader of the village, later to be known as Scroll, was deceiving him. But decided to go along with the zabraks knowledge. He found the downed ship, but as he approached in the Precious Pride, the crew along with Stasha where being attacked by Drexl. The bounty hunter fired on the beasts with his ships turrets, quickly ripping many of them to shreds. He picked up Stasha and her new ward, a twi'lek youngling she referred to as, "Ashes" as well as the surviving crew of the downed ship. At that moment he realized that Stasha was more than a helpless child, she was a warrior. Able to survive in the Outback of Onderon was on easy feat, and it caused Ares to start thinking differently about the female zabrak.

The trade off went foul at the village when the village people discovered that there wasn’t enough medicine. Scroll tried to kill Ashes, the only one who had been vaccinated, so he could harvest her blood. Ares killed Scroll and escaped with everyone intact.

Several weeks later, on one of Ares off the record hunting trips. Ares came across a grey twi'lek he had met before. BelleBlair. Shawn was there also, although Ares wasn’t quite sure why until much later. BelleBlair was trying to gain information about her brother, whom had gotten into trouble. She informed the two bounty hunters that she saw a torgruta with diseased looking eyes; they investigated, and found her in the crowds surrounding the cantina that they had been talking in.

Ares immediately perused the Togruta, having the almost overwhelming feeling that she had killed several scores of people, and tortured even more. She disappeared behind a massive metal door the bounty hunter was not able to break. He was however, able to gain information from the doors guard. Learning that an illegal slave trade and gladiator style killings of a massive scale had been going on unseen.

Unknown to Ares at the time, this was the second time he crossed a crime lord known as Kartel path. The Kiffu guard told Ares that there was a slave auction at the cantina known as the Trap Door. He, Shawn, and BelleBlair set up an ambush. Using BelleBlair as a decoy slave, Ares slipped behind enemy lines. He found the Togruta known as Bad Eyes, hiding behind several slaves she had brainwashed. Ares reluctantly put them out of their misery, before moving onto the Togruta. He was merciless, tackling her down and removing his gauntlets. He strangled and then shortly after broke her neck. Later saying that he wanted to fell her neck snap with his own hands.

In his eyes she deserved much worse, but he was not able to administer the proper justice. As he and escaped, he freed the vast majority of the slaves, killing several slavers and guards along the way. He gave BelleBlair his thanks for letting him do what he had to do to the Togruta, and parted ways with her.

As the BHG's flagship, the Jericho traveled through space. It was attacked by pirates. The captain Daxter Shae had come to quell the persistent bounty hunters that kept being sent after him. None of the pirate captain’s ships matched the size or firepower of the Jericho, but he had numbers on his side.

Using several dummy ships as bait, Daxter was able to board the Jericho with a sizeable force. Making very close to the bridge of the massive ship. Ares leading a sizeable group of hunters stopped the pirates advance. The battle raged with casualties on both sides with no one gaining ground. Seeing a no win situation, Ares asked Daxter for a one on one fight. Hoping the captain was a man of honor.

Daxter indeed was a man of honor, spending the majority of his life repenting for the sins he committed during his youth. He was a special kind of pirate, the kind that didn’t kill unless totally necessary. The two fought in melee combat for what seemed like hours, landing blow for blow on one another. Being hat Daxter had started running on in years; he started to falter before Ares, but still kept up an aggressive defense and offence.

The two warriors made a final clash, Ares stabbing Daxter through the heart, and Daxter cutting Ares's arm off at the shoulder. The pirate captain's men were forced to retreat, disbanding soon after in honor of their fallen captain. The fight almost cost Ares his life, if not for Stasha he would have surely died. It was when he was in recovery that he questioned marriage, hoping he would survive to see it happen. Ares kept the armor of Daxter Shae, to honor the man and what he stood for. He has not repaired it though, and refuses to wear it.

Ares spent several years just enjoying life with his new wife and his adopted daughter Ashes. It took time away from his visits to the undercity, and became almost like a holiday thing for him. He ran into the man known as Kartel for a third time when the clawdite impersonated him, in an attempt to gain information. The imposter ran into Ares wife, who at first thought he was truly Ares. She soon realized that the man before her was not Ares, and attempted to capture the clawdite. She was severely beaten, and Kartel escaped with sensitive information. Are vowed to hunt Kartel down and kill him personally, not only for the beating of his wife, but for all the pain and death the shape shifter had caused.




KILLS:
None

DUELING RING MATCHES:
None

GRAND TOURNAMENT MATCHES:
None
ROLE-PLAYS:

Alsakan Crisis:
Stranger to the Galaxy: Voka Reireek's Training (BHG)
The Living Illusion : A Missing Child Case For The BHG.
The Antidote :Evie and Cyrus Kempra's Training[BHG]
The new Guy; Shawn Mac'neal training [BHG]
Haunting Pasts Leave for Exciting Futures
A Meeting with the Admiral
A meeting of Hunters
A Fine Hunt
Another initiate (Ash'amur's training)
BHG: Initiation ( Ares's training)
Lost in Memory (open)

Hutt War:
"Not up for display." (Alicia Dagger's BHG training)
On Broken Wings [Ask]
Coruscant Misadventures [Ask]
Hunting a Killer (Arm514VE, T.J., Mulluns, The Dragon Reborn, Samowise, and myself)
Over Head ( open )
The Big Hunt
BHG Training
The one who stands tallest, stands last [ask]