Jedi Order Maarik Carthia

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MAARIK CARTHIA

AGE
► 39 standard years
SPECIES
► Human
HEIGHT
► 5'11"
WEIGHT
► 182 lbs
EYE COLOR
► Hazel Green
HAIR COLOR
► Red
HOMEWORLD
► Coruscant
GENDER
► Male
FACTION
► Jedi Order
RANK
► Jedi Knight
FORCE SENSITIVITY
► Force Sensitive

BIOGRAPHY

Maarik was the second oldest of five children born into aristocracy in the upper levels of Coruscant. His father, Malek, the progenitor of the family name and fortune, was a successful entrepreneur with political ambitions. Much of Maarik's boyhood was spent grappling with the rigorous curriculum that Malek designed for each of his children. There were expectations for the Carthia siblings, after all, so their education was second to none. Maarik excelled in the natural sciences and took a particular interest in studying medicine. By his adolescence, he was committed to training as a physician once his primary education was finished. His aspirations did not align with the destiny that his father had already predetermined for him. His dreams were dashed, and he was forcefully reminded that he was meant to be a socialite and a lobbyist, championing legislation with senators that would be advantageous for his father's opportunistic business ventures.

Maarik's relationship with his siblings suffered greatly as he began to reject his father, but he found solace in his mother, Jahel. Any romance there had been between Malek and Jahel was long dead. She encouraged her son to complete his studies under his father's supervision and then go his own way, promising to finance his medical education and living expenses in secret. At eighteen years old, Maarik left the massive, lavish Carthia penthouse, and began to study at a prestigious Coruscanti medical academy on Jahel's credits. He was totally estranged from his family aside from his secret meetings with his mother.

Six months in at the academy, the credits stopped flowing. Malek had discovered his son's arrangement with Jahel and froze her personal accounts. He was creditless, soon to be homeless, and escorted off of the medical campus within another month. There was nowhere and no one to turn to. He pooled what credits he had managed to save from his mother and left the luxury co-op that she had secured for him.

The lower levels of Coruscant were unlike anything Maarik had ever had the misfortune of experiencing. The worldview of his home planet he had constructed after a sheltered life crumbled before his eyes. It wasn't just the sights, but the smells, the sounds, the pain, and the poverty just outside the doorstep of his dilapidated one-room apartment. Desperately searching for a purpose, Maarik took a job as an assistant at a busy emergency clinic. Spice overdoses, death stick abuse, blaster burns, stabbing victims, regular primary care, he saw it all, and he helped them all. He found compassion and peace among the chaos.

The little medical center's head clinician and administrator was a Jedi Knight named Dal Delgra, a Coruscant native who had returned some years earlier to treat the underserved citizens of the lower city. He noticed Maarik's attunement to his patients and his uncanny knack for making correct diagnoses with little practical experience or equipment. Maarik was allowing the force to guide him in his work without realizing it. Dal and the benefactor behind the clinic agreed to finance an advanced medical education for Maarik on the condition that he would later accept Jedi apprenticeship and devote his life to caring for the underprivileged, wherever he was needed.

After completing his scientific education and medical training at twenty-five years old, he began his apprenticeship under Jedi Knight Delgra. The clinic was left in the hands of another capable healer, and the duo travel to Ajan Kloss. After Maarik's preliminary Jedi training, he and Dal jumped from planet to planet in the outer rim territories. Disaster relief here, primary clinics there, an adventure or two. Maarik had found peace, serenity, and purpose.

Nine years on and Maarik was knighted. Master and apprentice parted ways. "The force guides me, it amplifies the cries of the suffering, it leads me where I am needed most. Just as it will for you, my young padawan," Dal had often said to Maarik. He died shortly thereafter when he contracted a highly deadly and infectious disease he was treating patients for somewhere in the outer rim.

In the five and a half years since he became a Jedi Knight, Maarik has had little contact with the Order. He travels alone, maintaining relationships with like-minded people who can help him pull together resources for whatever mission he set out on next.

Personality

Maarik is quick-witted and can be sharp-tongued when he means to be. His sense of humor is dry, but it's been his experience that it grows on most people like a good Corellian wine. He still retains some qualities of his upbringing; a certain stiffness in his upper lip and a high Coruscanti accent that he can't seem to curb. He is empathetic, compassionate, and highly attuned to the emotions of his peers, although his mannerisms and natural professionalism can be misinterpreted as cold and callous. He is socially reserved, but he blossoms with his patients. He is a student of history and leans toward a traditionalist view of the Jedi Order's role in the galaxy, which has caused strife with some of his fellow Knights.

Skills

Maarik is able to quickly and accurately perform medical diagnostics thanks to his acuity with the force. He is skilled in seeing past deception and reading the emotions of those around him. He is an excellent clinician as he is formally trained in medicine, not just in the ways of a Jedi healer. His lightsaber skills are marginal compared to other Knights, and his command of the force in offensive situations is limited.

Equipment

+ A couple of pairs of simple light-colored tunics and trousers, a set of scuffed boots, and a traditional hooded robe.

+ No frills lightsaber hilt with an emerald crystal

+ Leather utility belt containing emergency medical supplies and other every day carry items

+ Pack containing medical instruments to be used in the field

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