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Tel Ahren
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The Moff of Tion, Tel Ahren - now approaching his sixties - is a devoted member of the Sith Order, and has been so for nearly as long as he can remember. A native of the Tion Hegemony, Tel Ahren is a member of the ruling Noble House of Tion, and also carries on the militant tradition that has been held in the entire Tion Cluster for millenia - and it is through that brusque military nature, coupled with his trained facility with the Force and noble descent, that he maintains his grip on the world of Tion, and seeks to expand his rule further throughout the cluster.
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| Species | Gender | Age | Height | Weight | Hair | Eyes | Skin | Force Sensitive |
| Human | Male | 59 years | 6'2'' | 167 Pounds | Greying brown, medium length | Blue (normal), Reddish-Yellow (accessing the Force) | White | Yes |
A near-sixty year old practitioner of the Dark Side, Tel's own affinity to the Force ensures that he looks his age. His face is lined, with prominent veins popping up along his temples; his face is rather pale, with his jawline accented by a short, but still mildly scruffy grey beard. His age is also further accentuated by the alternately fierce and severe expressions he normally displays, whereas a normal human's smile is unlikely to ever be seen on his face. His eyes are blue, though they change to a sickly reddish-yellow mix when he's actively using the Force.
He is fairly tall, and appears no more or less muscular than the average man. He dresses differently than most Sith - while they oftentimes favor robes, or while the moffs oftentimes favor a military officer's uniform, Tel (despite his generally militant manner) is most often found wearing a dark-coloured business suit, cut sharp to match his frame. When on the field of battle, however, he can be seen wearing a Legion officer's uniform or the Redoubt-series armour the stormtroopers wear, depending on what role he intends to take at the time
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Physical
[/beebox3]Tel's strength is rather average for his size and apparent musculature - he's not incapable of dealing out heavy blows or carrying heavy loads, but strength training has never been his primary pursuit, leaving him no more or less strong than any other being like him. However, he is a very dextrous and precise individual, both outside of battle, able to move with speed and flexibility surprising for his age as well as possessing the fine motor control to work on the delicate circuitry of his lightsaber or blasters, and in battle, able to whirl his weapon around with tremendous celerity and accuracy. He also has the constitution to maintain such feats, with highly developed endurance and a high pain tolerance born of a lifetime of hard work and battle.
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Mental
[/beebox3]The mental fields are where Tel's strengths really shine; he is a very intelligent man, especially in battle; oftentimes he takes on the role of a field general/tactician, able to lead a force of men to victory through careful planning and positioning, assuming he is given accurate information. He has also come to be a very perceptive and wise man as he has gotten older, having trained his gut to pick up on anything his logical brain might miss, as well as having a great store of experience in battle, as well as the philosophies of both battle and the Force. Lastly, his brusque nature might make him out not to be particularly charismatic, though his skills as a general/tactician and his authoritative and disciplined manner mean that highly-people-oriented charisma is not necessary - he's perfectly capable of motivating and leading his troops, blunt, brusque, and quiet as he may be.
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Tel is a very serious man, entirely focused and dedicated on whatever task he has set for himself; unlike some other politicians in the Sith Empire, he has no love for the political games that the Moffs and others will often try to play, and finds himself exasperated and annoyed with them and many other politicians quite often. This isn't to say he isn't capable of engaging in the same sort of actions, but to him, politics is another battlefield, where misdirection, careful flattery, and diplomacy are skills used to obtain favourable positions and ultimately win some form of battle, not a frivolous, childish game to be played. This carries over into his personal life - slightly less common than his perception as a powerful general and Moff is that of him being a near-tireless workaholic, never deviating from whatever duty he has or falling astray from the task he's working on to pursue some sort of pleasure activity. He is also not known for being particularly humorous whatsoever, presenting nothing but a stone slab of a face to people who try to joke around with him.
He is also an extremely calm person, with the sheer force of will to keep himself from lapsing into the rages that seem common in other Sith; while he feels the Dark Side and its urge to give into his animalistic instincts just as powerfully as every other Sith, his focus towards tactics and leadership, as opposed to simple barbarous battle raging, gave him reason to exert such powerful self control. This is also shown in how he generally carries himself, with a quiet and dignified confidence alongside his serious and severe demanour; on the rare occasion that somebody or something manages to break down his self control, the change that comes over him is so sudden and jarring that anybody who has seen him in such a state has said they found him "nearly unrecognizable."
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The Force
[/beebox3]While the Force was never Tel's main focus, his wish to remain a well-rounded combatant meant that he devoted some extra study to it later in life, bringing himself up to par for what he felt a proper Sith should be in the Force. He has faily general ability in all the various 'forms' of Force use, though he shines the most in telekinetics and energy manipulation; the reason for this being that the most directly-offensive powers can be found in those two schools of use, and Tel's main focus on Force use was in its offensive capabilities.
Tel is capable of many telekinetic feats. Pushes, pulls, simple waves, and even violent, spherical explosive pulses of energy emanating from his body have all been used to great effect (although the last power led to a building falling on him and the person he was trying to kill); he can also choke somebody with the Force, either near to him or light years away, assuming he has a direct video feed of them to focus on. Even more violently, he can almost-instantaneously crush numerous objects (and some annoying people, though this isn't as feasible in combat, when people are directly expecting such violent acts and are more prepared to immediately disrupt him from doing so), or lift them in the air and throw them around like ragdolls. More esoterically, he is capable of slowing a fall through the Force, or even using the Force to suspend himself in the air for a few moments.
In energy manipulation, Tel's abilities shine in the most recognizable Sith technique in existence - Force Lightning. Capable of producing the highly-energetic streams of energy from his fingertips, Tel has used the lightning to chastise more than one recalcitrant subordinant in his time, reducing them to charred husks of dead flesh when they manage to overcome his iron will and self control. He has also practiced with pyrokinesis, capable of bringing forth flame in his general area, as well as tutaminis and force barriers - though lightning remains, by far, his favourite.
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The Lightsaber
[/beebox3]Focusing on dexterity more than strength in battle, as well as well-rounded capabilities within battle, Tel was naturally drawn to Forms II and III of lightsaber combat, the offensive, precise Makashi and the quick and defensive Soresu. Over his years of practice he has attained a high level of mastery in both, with his skill favouring Makashi; however, he often melds the two form together in actual combat, using each to complement the other. This leads to him having a personal style of lightsaber combat that renders him nigh-impervious to either blaster fire or enemy blades, while he strikes back every opportunity he has with surgical precision.
However, should his self-control falter and he fall into a berserker rage in combat, he unconsciously falls back on the Form he learned first and that he has only average skill with: Form I, or Shii-cho; in this state he is still a force to be reckoned with, his own speed coupled with highly Force-strengthened blows leading into a powerful onslaught of blows that can chop any unsuspecting combatant into pieces, should they be surprised by the quick change.
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The Mundane
[/beebox3]Tel's primary role on the battlefield is that of a general or tactician; while he often finds himself in the middle of his own fights, he prefers to stay back and direct his men to victory, treating the battle almost as if it were a strategy game like dejarik. This has received him criticism, at times, when he often sends a contingent of troops to certain death in an untenable position, a distraction or sacrifice to ensure he gains some other advantage he can use...but nobody can deny that his tactics are effective, especially when he helped subjugate some of the less-content worlds in the Tion cluster some decades ago for the Sith.
Outside of battle, Tel is also a capable dipomat, albeit an unorthodox one, given his brusque and blunt personality; he is also known to be a good cook and a good driver/pilot, although his mechanical skills are nearly nonexistent. He knows enough to fix basic problems and to ensure his vehicles will never be effectively trapped against him, but he often has to rely on the Imperial Legion's mechanics to fix his things for him.
[beebox3=100%]Inventory[/beebox3]
Tel has a fairly basic inventory. He has numerous sets of clothes, primarily well-cut business clothes/finery, and Imperial Legion military officer uniforms; he primarily wears the business clothes on a day to day basis, preferring to be passably well-dressed for every occasion. He also possesses multiple landspeeders, an Icarus-class Star Courier as his personal vessel, and a nice home on Tion.
Regarding armour, he has a fairly standard set of Redoubt-series shock trooper armour that he wears, the same as the stormtroopers he commands; the only difference is that, instead of having the gauntlet-mounted weaponry, is that he's replaced both vambraces with cortosis-lined plates, giving him a quick counter to a lightsaber should it prove necessary; on the left gauntlet/vambrace, he also installed an advanced communication module, that either stands alone or can tie into his helmet communications, giving him a broader range of comm channels to connect to, depending on who all he'll need to speak to; it also has a sound-recording function.
For weaponry, Tel often carries either an MST-R repeating blaster rifle into battle (with two extra fifty-round power packs, totalling 150 rounds of ammunition) or an R-8R battle rifle (with collapsible stock and shortened barrel), with an extra four power packs (totalling 100 total rounds of ammunition), for ranged capability; other than that, his main weapon is his lightsaber, with a simple hilt designed to be balanced well for either one-or-two-handed use, and a red blade.
[beebox3=100%]Biography[/beebox3]
Born as one of the lower ranking members in the noble House of Tion (in actuality, born to one of the cadet branches), in the Tion Hegemony, Tel Ahren's life would've been one of simple comfort and wealth, had the Sith not been surrepetitiously regaining territory at the time. While it would still take time for the Tion cluster to fall under the then-Sith Brotherhood's control, agents of the Sith Order recognized the Force-sensitive young Tel rather quickly as they moved about within the cluster. It did not take long before he was taken as a child, given away by his own family as some sort of power ploy; however, unwilling to leave any problematic loose ends, other treacheries of Tel's family were made known, and the family was exterminated by the proper ruling house.
Thusly did Tel's life begin - he was apprenticed to a Sith Warrior soon after being brought into the order, spending the majority of his first twenty years of life under his master's watchful eye. During this time he learned the basics of the Force, as well as started developing his overall abilities in combat, especially with a lightsaber; he was also, however, educated as to his lineage, the history of the Tion cluster, and in tactics, how to conduct a war from the ground and in space to ensure victory; his master recognized both the boy's natural intelligence and the investment he represented, as a claim to legitimacy for the Sith to take control of the Tion cluster.
His apprenticeship passed relatively well, and at the age of 23 Tel was inducted into the Sith Order as a fully-trained warrior; his next few years were spent engaging in additional training with the Brothers and Commanders of the Sacred Band of Ziost, amassing his knowledge of warfare the entire while; before long he was sent out as a leader on numerous missions, small battles, and the like, leading the forces of the Sith military machine to victory throughout their area of the outer rim as they slowly brought their former empire back under their control, while still striving to maintain it as much a secret as possible from the slumbering Republic. During this time, he gained his initial reputation as a brilliant, if ruthless and uncaring tactician, intentionally sacrificing hundreds or thousands of expendable ground troops to secure a victory that would make a return on the blood payment the Sith Brotherhood had given that would more than make up for what was lost.
As the years passed, Tel's skills in war grew ever higher, even as he began receiving extra training in the field of diplomacy. The reason why soon became apparent when the Sith began their true forays into the Tion Cluster, seeking to bring the region under their control the same as they had done to every other world nearby; Tel, then already in his fifties as true war with the Republic and the Jedi loomed on the horizon, was one of the leaders of a highly-successful campaign in the area, under the blessing of the Supreme Leader and Warlord of the time. Through careful diplomatic persuasion he swayed numerous worlds to his cause, utilizing his own heritage - easily proven through records that had been taken at his birth - and his knowledge of the cluster's history to stake his own claim of legitimate rule. It all came to a head on the world of Tion itself, where Tel's forces - greatly swelled compared to the initial numbers of troops he had come with - routed the forces of the House of Tion, the rulers of the Tion Hegemony; the living heads of the house were summarily executed, while a young puppet ruler was put upon the throne, and Tel himself installed as the military governor - soon to be called "Moff" - of the planet, with his influence felt throughout much of the rest of the Tion Hegemony. Tel's own diplomatic skills ensured that he would be met with a high level of true respect, rather than simply fear, plotting, and backstabbing; between his own noble birth and the militant traditions of the cluster (the original government of the region, of which the current rulers are the remnants, having been established by high successful pirates and privateers, who instituted such traditions), he has manged to make himself - and, by extension, the Sith Empire - be viewed as the rightful rulers of the cluster, while the decadent former rulers were rendered corrupt and no longer fit to rule - a view further exacerbated by the economic boom the cluster soon experienced under Sith control and Tel's careful management. For his efforts as both a general and a ruler, he was not only granted the position of Moff, but was also recently given the rank of Sith Immortal within the order.
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