Dawn of The Republic: Lords of the Sith.

[Jake]

Not if anything to say about it I have. :p

Edit: also all of these bios are killer. I think it was yours in particular Jake (Galad's too) that really made me rethink and retool some of my faceless Sith's past - it's interesting to me to see how similar warriors can be shaped by different pasts.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Jawa! Yours is actually the first serious attempt at a Jawa that I've seen and I thought it was pretty interesting. I have to go back and edit mine a bit because Marf brought up something that's pretty true (I didn't really describe her personality much). I look forward to RPing with all these l33t Sith that are pouring out of our creative fingertips though.

 

[Mordred]

I'm planning on making a Force Sensitive that has lived their entire life with their force sensitivity, but only recently came to be trained professionally. He's going to be a trained strategist running a technology design studio, that has around average combat skills, who captains his ship the Hallowed Dagger, and gives people a chance at a new life. He will be running this as a ship-based faction, with "episodes" for each roleplay in a way very similar to Star Trek episodes, but I was hoping that the character could be made more interesting by having been lured under the grasp of the dark side by a Sith Lord, perhaps, and being there as it grew. Do you guys think I could do some interesting character roleplay if I did this? He only has average combat skills, and I was hoping for the character to develop them with either a unique kind of force imbued weapon that is as close to him as a lightsaber (they have that, a band of whatevers that were Force Sensitive had these things they threw that, while not being electronic, could be force imbued and were lightsaber resistant. They were cool) or an actual lightsaber as time goes on. I was also excited to see what it did to his character, as well, since just wanting to improve combat skills would lead to lackluster roleplay.

So, do you guys think I could do some interesting roleplay if I did this, and had him join the Sith despite his age because he has immense potential or some other reason that would have the Sith recruit him?

 

[Mordred]

Oh, and my character isn't really going to be a warrior, necessarily. So... :c I can't fit in with the warrior apps.

AND OMG, JAWA!? :o

 

[Epicjester]

Most likely going to recreate Rhem since I couldn't do much in the past timeline. Except I'm going to dial up his ruthlessness a bit. A nice side effect of being raised by a band of somewhat eccentric space pirates.

Will most likely have a boner for all sorts of Force related artifacts and lore. Both Jedi and Sith. May or may not end up abandoning the Sith order in the pursuit of more knowledge. Since the light and dark dont really mean much to him. Just a means to an end.

 

[Saul]

I'm planning on making a Force Sensitive that has lived their entire life with their force sensitivity, but only recently came to be trained professionally. He's going to be a trained strategist running a technology design studio, that has around average combat skills, who captains his ship the Hallowed Dagger, and gives people a chance at a new life. He will be running this as a ship-based faction, with "episodes" for each roleplay in a way very similar to Star Trek episodes, but I was hoping that the character could be made more interesting by having been lured under the grasp of the dark side by a Sith Lord, perhaps, and being there as it grew. Do you guys think I could do some interesting character roleplay if I did this? He only has average combat skills, and I was hoping for the character to develop them with either a unique kind of force imbued weapon that is as close to him as a lightsaber (they have that, a band of whatevers that were Force Sensitive had these things they threw that, while not being electronic, could be force imbued and were lightsaber resistant. They were cool) or an actual lightsaber as time goes on. I was also excited to see what it did to his character, as well, since just wanting to improve combat skills would lead to lackluster roleplay.

So, do you guys think I could do some interesting roleplay if I did this, and had him join the Sith despite his age because he has immense potential or some other reason that would have the Sith recruit him?

You'll mostly have difficulty finding other players who want to be members of the crew. Mostly because, as crew, their plots are a bit restricted by default and also because they risk being sidelined by the captains (your) plot. You should get this concept rolling as a discussion elsewhere to see who's interested, construct a framework for the plot, etc.

 

[Vepos Surge]

@Jake I don't think Vepos would have any intention of sticking around if you turned the Sith into a matriarchy. Considering the fact he has lived his entire life (excluding a few weeks) living under and being tortured by the nightsisters due to his nightbrother status.

 

[Chosen]

My plans are to start up as a Zabrak apprentice under a currently undecided higher-ranking Sith. I'm mostly looking forward to watching how he'll transition from a force-sensitive Nightbrother who wanted to be free of Nightsister oppression to member of the Sith proper. From rebel to warlord, if I can be that lame about it. I think he'll be more focused on combat with one saber more than any prominent force-capabilities, at least initially. These things can change, depending on the person teaching him and their relationship.

That being said, if any one of you guys feels like playing a mentor in this next timeline, PM me and I'll hook you up with my skype info.

 

[Vepos Surge]

So, it seems like I'll have a fellow nightbrother in this next timeline. I've been planning mine out for a while now, if you want we could definitely include each other in our backstories. In a minor or large way would be entirely up to you.

Hell if you're interested we could try to pull of a Darth Maul and Savage Opress duo kinda thing, could be cool.

 

[Haro]

I'm still debating what to do/unsure of what I got so far. Some feedback would be great. My plan, if I keep the character, is to have him as a not-so-fresh Acolyte, and would look for a master-apprentice relationship with someone else's character.

 

[Epicjester]

I am not sure if you can have a Sith Acolyte start with Lightning.

 

[Epicjester]

Also if anyone has interesting in threading with a Sith raised by a bunch of quirky pirates who regularly engages in obfuscating stupidity. Let me know.

 

[Chosen]

So, it seems like I'll have a fellow nightbrother in this next timeline. I've been planning mine out for a while now, if you want we could definitely include each other in our backstories. In a minor or large way would be entirely up to you.

Hell if you're interested we could try to pull of a Darth Maul and Savage Opress duo kinda thing, could be cool.

I'm going to get back to you when more of the Dathomiri lore is written out, but I'm interested. Given that technically our race doesn't exist at this point in the timeline, things are sort of up in the air.

But, the admins said we can play Dathomiri, it's just a matter of how we'll be playing them.

 

[Vepos Surge]

I'm going to get back to you when more of the Dathomiri lore is written out, but I'm interested. Given that technically our race doesn't exist at this point in the timeline, things are sort of up in the air.

But, the admins said we can play Dathomiri, it's just a matter of how we'll be playing them.

Yeah, I sent a PM to @Green Ranger not that long ago about it. From what he told me about how he was changing the lore it should be fine for characters to be nightbrothers, as he wishes to keep some of the more typical elements of Dothomir intact. Should be interesting if you decide to link our characters in some way, just send me a PM if you want to brain storm or something.

 

[Sapphire Storm]

Since we're all shamelessly plugging our characters - as we rightly should be! - here's what I've got of mine so far. The current pictures are all placeholders until I can afford to commission some that I like. This is the character a friend of mine decided he'd dub "Pavlov's Sith." I think it's fitting.

Kytana Kaltrel ​

[fancybox4="http://i.imgur.com/fAt4xwa.jpg"]FULL NAME: Kytana Kaltrel
AGE: 19
SPECIES: Human

HEIGHT: 158cm
WEIGHT: 50kg

EYE COLOR: Blue
HAIR COLOR: Red
SKIN COLOR: Caucasian

FACTION: Sith
RANK: Acolyte/Apprentice
THEME: Master Passion Greed - Nightwish

Small, skittish and malleable. Those are the three words that would best describe Kytana. She is too small to hold off the determined assaults of those stronger than her, except by extreme skill that she does not possess. She is easily spooked and very unpredictable, easily able to go from one extreme to the other and back in but a few words. And most of all, she is easily controlled, manipulated and turned to the will of those with silver tongues. However, she possesses a skill that is able to cover for all of these things, most of the time. Kytana is a remarkably skilled and naturally talented actress, and as she's told herself many times before:

"It's not about what you're good at. It's about what other people think you're good at, and I'm very good at making others think I'm good at something I'm not."[/fancybox4]

PERSONALITY​

[fancybox2]

Despite being nineteen years of age and considering herself an adult in every way, deep down Kytana is nothing more than a scared little girl with no confidence in herself. There is only one thing she truly believes she is good at, and that one thing is also the thing she hates most in the galaxy. Acting. The one tool that has helped her survive out in the galaxy is also the one thing she despises more than anything. She still uses it, though. After all, it’s all she has. She can use the Force, but she doesn’t believe in her skill with it. She can wield a lightsaber, but she doesn’t believe she could handle another Force user with it, especially with how small she is. She believes acting is all she has, and so she uses it despite her hatred for it.

She has desires, though. She has aspirations and wishes for what she would like to become. One day, she tells herself, she will be so powerful no one can touch her. The words and conditioning of her parents will be meaningless drivel. All the times they called her useless and awful and blamed her for their failure to succeed will mean nothing. One day she will be so powerful that no one will dare criticise her for fear of incurring her wrath. And the only way to get there is to act the part until she achieves it. Or so she tells herself.

Kytana is not exactly a stable person. When she was young she was taught and conditioned to repress her emotions for no other reason than because they got in the way of what her parents were trying to teach her. As a result she is very emotionally stunted. She will never cry. No matter how bad a situation; no matter how much pain she is in; no matter how joyful she may feel, Kytana will never cry. Unless someone that has asserted control over her commands her to. Then, and only then, will she bawl like a baby. But it is a lie. It is a well practiced charade that she can turn on and off like a light switch. At almost every point, Kytana - or someone manipulating her - is in complete control of her emotions. On rare occasions, however, there is nothing she can do except explode. It is a rare thing, but as with all people that repress their emotions, when she finally lets it out it is like an explosion. It was this very thing that stopped a girl her own age from sleeping at night for fear of “nightmares.” It was this very thing that gave her the very brief moment of confidence she needed to flee from her parents. And it was this very thing that brought to light the inherent streak of cruelty that lay beneath the facade of calm, controlled obedience. [/fancybox2]

BIOGRAPHY​

[fancybox4="http://i.imgur.com/kgRQuWP.png"] Kytana’s parents were both heavily involved in Nar Shaddaa’s acting scene. They never achieved much fame, but they both loved performing more than life itself. They resented their lack of fame, though. They resented the people they thought had held them down and refused to give them the chances and the breaks they so desperately hungered after and truly believed they deserved. The truth was they were never anything more than mediocre actors that were good enough for small time local performances, but not even close to being good enough for the big stage. The two let their desire for fame and fortune corrupt them to their very cores. The corruption that was born within them as a result of their unfulfilled desires controlled their lives. It twisted them this way and that, wrenching them left and right and up and down until they were so turned around they had no idea which way was up. Their lust and hunger for the perceived power that came with fame and fortune utterly corrupted their beings and destroyed their moral compasses.

When Kytana was born they were not happy. Instead of viewing her as a new guiding light and as a new purpose to replace their failing acting careers with, they instead saw her as a burden. In the end, all she became was the latest reason they weren’t already rich and famous. Throughout her childhood, Kytana heard the story of how her mother had been so close to that big break she needed; that big break she’d definitely have gotten, when suddenly disaster struck and she had fallen pregnant with Kytana. The story, as her mother told it, dropped her failure on her unborn daughter’s shoulders. That is what her parents were like. Nothing was ever their fault. Everything, regardless of what it was, could always be blamed on someone else. They weren’t poor because they’d squandered their money on an expensive house befitting their “proper station”, they were poor because no one realised their true worth. They didn’t fail every big audition because they were mediocre actors; they failed because the ones holding the audition were clearly biased toward that twi’lek woman and only chose her because she had a large chest, despite how much of a talentless hack she clearly was.

Eventually Kytana did become their shining light, but not in the way a daughter should. As she grew and as she showed a clear talent for acting, they began to realise that she might have what it took to achieve what they never had. And so they pushed her. They pushed her very hard, harping on every weakness she had, trying to correct it and turn her into the perfect little actress. They home schooled her, teaching her only what they thought important and neglecting everything else. She may have been a child, but she understood what was going on, if in a very childish way. Despite being naturally talented at acting, she grew to hate it. She didn’t throw tantrums, though. She’d been taught better than that. She knew tantrums meant being yelled at, smacked and left without food until she apologised for speaking back to her mother and father like that. And so she bottled it up. She tried breaking down in tears, but it only worked once. After that she was quickly taught that crying was bad.

By the time she was ten she had been transformed into the perfect little actress. She fell into the role of the evil Sith on command; of the heroic Jedi; of the helpless slave girl. But she also did other things on command. She started and stopped crying at the sound of a single word or raised voice. She started screaming and shouting on command and then stopped immediately when told to. She ran, she jumped, she sat and she rolled over. Her parents had achieved what they’d wanted. In their eyes, she was the perfect child. Never disobeying, never speaking back and always doing exactly what her parents wanted her to. They didn’t see what they were actually doing. They were too focused on passing on their talents to her so she could give them the life the galaxy had denied them. If they’d cared to look they would have seen the signs, but they didn’t. All they cared about was conditioning her in exactly the way they wanted. All they saw was a little version of themselves that they could turn into whatever they pleased. And so they did. She tried to speak up and say no when she was young and stupid, but they very quickly trained her not to. Telling them she hated what they were doing - that they were cruel and evil - wasn’t what they wanted to hear. Even if it was said right to their faces, their twisted and corrupted minds wouldn’t let them hear it. All they saw was a bratty little child insisting on misbehaving; on making them punish her; on refusing the gifts they were giving her.

She never gathered enough courage to talk back to them and tell them what she really thought of them. She did gather enough courage to run away, though. Escaping was the only victory against them she ever achieved. In every other way imaginable, they had won. When she ran away at the age of twelve, she was the perfect little actress, just like they’d wanted her to be. She’d never admit it, but their training helped her survive. She spent two years drifting across the galaxy, bluffing and acting her way aboard ships and into beds she could use for a short time so she didn’t have to sleep on the street. Over the course of those two years, Kytana mostly interacted with criminals and other unsavoury scum. They were easier and safer to deal with than more upright citizens. Upright citizens with actual morals asked annoying questions about why someone her age was wandering around alone; why she looked homeless; why she was so skinny. The criminal underbelly had far less morals and cared far less about her story, so long as she could give them something in trade for their kindness to her.

About eighteen months into her homelessness, Kytana came to Ziost and encountered a small gang there, led by a man in his early twenties. She was entirely unaware of the true nature of every criminal on Ziost at the time. Fortunately for Kytana, this man in his early twenties took a liking to Kytana and made it very easy for her to convince him to let her stay with his group. He had a younger sister around her age and thought the two might get along well, especially since his sister didn’t really have any girls her own age to interact with. It didn’t happen the way he hoped, though. His sister hated Kytana and for the first few months tormented and ridiculed her and did her best to convince her brother to kick Kytana to the curb. And then all of a sudden her complaints stopped. She didn’t like Kytana, but she stopped trying to convince her brother to kick her out. She also developed a severe case of insomnia, often claiming she couldn’t sleep because she had horrible nightmares that woke her in a cold sweat. No one ever did discover the cause of her nightmares and insomnia.

After six months of staying with this gang, everything changed. A woman in a dark robe came to the little abandoned warehouse they stayed at and ordered the criminals to hand Kytana over. They didn’t even question her. With looks of complete and utter terror, they handed the then-fourteen year old over to the woman. Kytana left the warehouse with her, unable to bring herself to do anything else after her childhood of training and conditioning kicked in. Something about the way this woman spoke brought back the helpless, acquiescent child in her.

Kytana boarded the woman’s vessel and left Ziost. Her life was never the same again. [/fancybox4]

ᴘʀᴏғɪʟᴇ ᴄᴏᴅᴇ ʙʏ: ʙᴇᴇ​

 

[Marf]

@Sapphire Storm

I absolutely love this. I'm overjoyed to see a female Sith who isn't a glamorized, arrogant sexpot or manipulative seductress. I just love how weak and flawed she is, haha. How'd you like for Kytana to be Andromeda's apprentice? Or just taken under Andro's wing? I foresee some adorable threads in the future XD

I really wish there were more Sith who were just total losers or train-wrecks, the potential for storytelling and development from characters like that is so great.

 

[Epicjester]

Always good to see unconventional Sith around. The whole "Malicious Space Warlock" shtick gets old

 

[Dmitri]

I'm going to get back to you when more of the Dathomiri lore is written out, but I'm interested. Given that technically our race doesn't exist at this point in the timeline, things are sort of up in the air.

But, the admins said we can play Dathomiri, it's just a matter of how we'll be playing them.

I will address this the same way I have for the Mandalorians. Just because you have a member of a certain culture doe snot require you to stick to that culture and the people who have characters in that culture. Your Dathomiri could do their own thing. They don't have to obey or work with other Dathomiri. They don't have to have a conflict with the other Dathomiri. They could just be a Sith who so happens to have been a Dathomiri. Reversely, that's not to say you can't have the others impact your charater if you want. For example, a Sith Dathomiri (or any Dathomiri) could have gone their path because of hatred for the current rulers of Dathomir or to free Dathomir from the leaching Republic, etc.

 

[Chosen]

I will address this the same way I have for the Mandalorians. Just because you have a member of a certain culture doe snot require you to stick to that culture and the people who have characters in that culture. Your Dathomiri could do their own thing. They don't have to obey or work with other Dathomiri. They don't have to have a conflict with the other Dathomiri. They could just be a Sith who so happens to have been a Dathomiri. Reversely, that's not to say you can't have the others impact your charater if you want. For example, a Sith Dathomiri (or any Dathomiri) could have gone their path because of hatred for the current rulers of Dathomir or to free Dathomir from the leaching Republic, etc.

I'm more of the cultural type, Nightbrother lore is half the reason I'm even playing a Nightbrother. I appreciate the suggestion, though.

 

[Epicjester]

Always was a fan of the Nightbrother/sister stuff myself. Expect Rhem to find a great interest in your Nightbrother FOR SCIENCE!!

 

[Braden]

So I have made the decision to swap out my senator for a Sith. I am hoping Sith Pureblood's will be allowed. Have started working on him in my workshop and will post the link when i'm closer to being finished.