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Damien Yates
NAME: Damien Yates
AGE: 31
SPECIES: Kiffar
HOMEWORLD: Kiffex
FACTION: Independent
RANK: Independent
HEIGHT: 1.8 m
WEIGHT: 100 kg
EYE COLOR: White
Force Sensitive: Yes, untrained
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NAME: Damien Yates
AGE: 31
SPECIES: Kiffar
HOMEWORLD: Kiffex
FACTION: Independent
RANK: Independent
HEIGHT: 1.8 m
WEIGHT: 100 kg
EYE COLOR: White
Force Sensitive: Yes, untrained
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Character Information
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I was told that I was born in the middle of a lightning storm on Kiffex, though I'm sure many children are told the same thing. My parents weren't prisoners or anything like that. No, they were Guardians or, at least, my dad was. I don't remember much about my early childhood,It turns out that using your gift for chemistry to seal your commander in the latrine is bad. I further learned that dropping a stun grenade on the commander while he's locked in the latrine is worse. So I got drummed out and returned to Kiffex, much to the relief yet chagrin of my parents. My parents weren't very easy people to please, I've found. They can be both relieved that you're not dead and angry that you got kicked out of the military and I don't understand that. I can hardly care enough to pick one emotion, let alone two.
though I remember my mom's cooking and my dad teaching me how to fight. Of course, my dad was also a good cook and my mom taught me how to fix a speeder so don't think that they were only good for one or two things apiece. Anyway, don't go thinking they're dead, either. They're perfectly alive,
if slightly angry at me. More on that to come.
Anyway, I did alright in school and everything but decided to join the military as opposed to joining the Guardians despite my gift for psychometry. I'd wanted to join the Guardians from the time I was a kid but I wanted to see more than Kiffu and Kiffex. I wanted some experience despite my parents angry pleas. So I joined the military, where I learned how to use a weapon and how to embrace the parts of life that suck. I spent a contract as your standard grunt and was, after passing Selection, became a Weapon Master with a bit of dabbling in demolitions. I guess I focused so heavily on killing and entering areas I wasn't supposed to be that I didn't learn how to cook. Oh well, I learned how to make explosions with the stuff found in a standard MRE and other fun stuff.
After I returned home, I joined the Guardians, where the same gift for psychometry had helped me stand out among my people and especially in the military made me normal. I worked for the Guardians for a while, though I never made any waves and it was boring. I ended up patrolling Kiffex and protecting politicians rather than solving crimes or killing people. That was one thing the Guardians supposedly had that the military didn't: investigations. I love a good caper in that I get to use my skills and my brain to outsmart the other person. When they realize they're dead to rights and have nowhere to go, they tend to slump and seem defeated. I like that feeling. Occasionally or, more likely, rarely, they put up a fight. I'd put a handful of bolts in their chest and watch them slump over, definitely defeated. I love that feeling. My favorite sound is the last breath a being takes as the life leaves their eyes after I've shot them. It makes me feel the victor, as if I've bested Death itself.
Oh, yeah, I was talking about myself. Ugh. Anyway, the Guardians were boring. No firefights, no capers, nothing of interest. I left them and began wandering the Galaxy. I'll generally spend a year or three at a department, helping the planetary police, before getting kicked out for breaking too many policies. Most places don't recognize psychometry, unfortunately. Even if I watch them, in my mind's eye, kill someone as I examine their pistol, it's not admissible in court. Knowing this, I tended to bend a few rules and break a few policies. I put bad guys in jail and that's what mattered. Occasionally, I'd get involved in a shootout and get that nice adrenaline rush from behind the sights of my own weapon.
Well, after a while I realized that, even if I worked overtime every day I could, I wouldn't be able to retire and live comfortably unless I died on duty. I had to start getting my own retirement fund together and that meant looking elsewhere. I could either start letting people off the hook or start doing some of the jobs they got busted doing. After all, I knew what they didn't and I had the inside knowledge. Well, despite no killing being involved, I got quite a rush as I put on that mask and threw loot into my bag after a perfectly executed heist. Nothing too big, at least not yet. I've hit a small bank or two but most of that was ruined by anti-theft devices and I had to stop. I've begun looking elsewhere for my income and, while I'd like to get into it, I need to ensure I'm good to go beforehand.
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Weapon Master: A former weapon master in his unit, Damien has experience with most common weapons and is able to more easily learn new weapons. He is also capable of more effectively maintaining, cleaning, or repairing his weapons. Regular practice with what is available, both out of his own inventory and that of local gun shops, allows him to maintain his skills.
Demolitionist Damien is able to manufacture basic explosives using ingredients found at local stores and is capable of using more powerful explosives. Due to a lack of resources and recent practice, his speed setting up these explosives has fallen as has his ability to quickly identify the best position for said explosives.
As he is out of practice and was never a trained engineer, he requires more explosives than necessary to attain the same result as a trained sapper.
Investigator: After working with the Guardians and as a police officer on a variety of worlds,
Damien is an adept investigator, able to piece information together and utilize his skills and those working alongside him to catch criminals or otherwise ensure a successful mission.
Psychometry: Having been born with this ability and having honed it during his time as a Guardian, Damien is able to read frequently used items with relative ease. Having left the Guardians to pursue a more investigation oriented career, Damien has both fallen out of practice and begun to use this ability more frequently to improve his experience.
Tactician: Experience in the military allowed Damien to calculate risks, benefits, and a plan of action quickly and on the fly. He is able to come up with contingency plans and is able to more easily see where pieces in a situation fit into place. A very risk management and mitigation oriented person, Damien does not take unnecessary risks and urges his allies to avoid risks.
Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Maybe, not sure yet. Apparently punches people good.
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