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AIRA, GOLDEN KNIGHT OF ASHLA
"Acknowledge Ashla and Bogan, that the universe contains life and death in equal measure. That these forces shall ever exist concurrently and with disparity; the light chases away the darkness and in turn the darkness' chill causes the light to wane until it's all but swallowed save for the tiniest embers of hope. So shall the cycle continue in perpetuity as it is the unbreakable will of the force, until one day the Chosen One brings equilibrium and harmony to the cacophonous chorus of life."
[NAME/ALIAS]- Aira Raskta Sulek (Lawful Name)
Doctor (Title) - Professor (Title)
- Moon (Pet Name)
[*]Arnor of Eshan (Alias)
- Golden Knight of Ashla (Title)
[FACTION-AFFILIATIONS]
- Commenor Systems Alliance
- Eira Pechal Jedi Praxeum (Formerly)
- Galactic Republic (Formerly)
- Jedi Reformation
The Rebellion
[*]One Sith (Formerly)
[RANK]
- Doctor of Medicine
- Jedi Knight (Formerly)
- Professor (Luka Sene)
- Sith Acolyte (Formerly)
[HOMEWORLD]
- Eshan (Born)
- Alpheridies (Raised)
- Widowed
- Alpheridies
- Naboo
- Galactic Basic Standard (Miralukan-Inflection)
- Miralukese (Native-Level Speaker)
- Sith (Proficient)
- Young Adult (Ostensible Appearance)
- ~62 Years Old (Chronological)
- Female
- 207cm (6'9")
- 83 Kilograms (182 .lbs)
- Gray
- White
- Pale
- Yes (~12,000+ Midi-Chlorians/Cell)
- "Master-Level" Force Wielder
- Ashla-Aligned
Aira is a waifish albeit strong Near-Human woman of mixed Human-Echani heritage with nigh snow-white hair usually worn up in a short ponytail, her cold gray eyes are set in almond-shaped sockets and Aira often aggravates proud or inconspicuous peers with an irritating superiority outwardly exhibited in her gait and posture with the crest of her skull reaching proudly to the ceiling or stars at the top of a spear-straight spine. The translucent complexion of Aira's skin is deceptively smooth and youthful belying the wisdom that she has accumulated through just over six decades of life. Concealed usually beneath the wrist-length sleeves of Aira's attire are the tell-tale scars of violent struggle, these distinguishing marks are concealed nearly without fail out of a fear they might be used as a means of identification. Typical everyday fashion for Aira includes rather archaic albeit rugged core styles including leather coats with double-breasted, high-collar designs that compliment her favoured leather cocked hat peaked with a beautiful feather gifted to the Halfbreed Woman by her Father when she was just a girl.
[CHARACTERISTICS AND PERSONALITY]
Deeply spiritual and standing on a foundation of righteous conviction, due to her upbringing among the superstitious Miraluka. Aira rejects the traditional theological understanding of Good and Evil accepting the necessity of the darkness' existence, with an intimate understanding of the dark side although Aira, unlike so many others, managed to excise its' corrupting and insidious influence from her soul in years past. Acknowledging and accepting the dichotomy of light and shadow Aira doesn't chastise herself for permitting malicious thoughts to slip into her soul, believing it a noble, admirable quality to overcome those base temptations and desires through discipline.
Despite the parochial arrogance she can sometimes exhibit Aira strives to uphold the core values of the Jedi's code: Compassion, Knowledge and Self-Sacrifice. Often volunteering her skills as a trained medical professional with a background in surgery to aid victims of War and other Wanton acts of violence with little regard for her own safety. Aira's first dedication is to the welfare of the galaxy's inhabitants with the struggle to burn away the darkness encroaching upon the Galaxy being second, she has taken up the path of a Crusader with reluctance out of perceived necessity not for the pursuit of 'glory' or martial renown.
Aira will always strive to do what's right even if her actions are outwardly violent never does she resolve to kill her target rather disable it through any available means. Aira exclusively leverages violence only in response and in proportion to such that is offered to her or her allies only as necessary to protect herself or another from grievous bodily harm or the threat of death, such is Aira's dedication to this principle she shall shield even the wicked's dignity from cruel and unusual punishment. In a calm state of mind to Aira couldn't fathom striking down an unarmed foe who has yielded, although in a state of furious weakness she could be brought to look upon such an action as desirable.
Believing firmly in the principle of Balance between Ashla and Bogan, Aira attempts to live her spiritual life in such a way that both are acknowledged and accepted as part of the universe and herself, although firmly rejecting the wanton decadence, selfishness and limitless cruelty of the more popular Bogan-based theology and force techniques. Through most of her life Aira has closely observed and adhered atleast loosely to the theology and philosophy associated with Ashla such as that created by the Jedi, feeling it being more compatible with the Miraluka-based culture of her home on Alpheridies.
With Ashla loosely meaning 'Light' Aira has molded her training and equipment upon that etymology and uses many abilities that generate visible light and heat. Instead of wielding a Lightsaber as many force-wielders she arms herself with a fiery force-imbued longsword which she uses with a natural effectiveness thanks to the length of her limbs. Paying homage to light itself Aira wears a brass-coloured set of hermetically sealed power armour with a distinct and archaic design that gives her the countenance of some ancient warrior.
[BIOGRAPHY]
[CHILDHOOD]
"An Echani who cannot fight is no Echani at all."
-Aira's Mother in response to being asked what it meant to be Echani
Born on Eshan as the only child produced by a union between a Human Father and Echani Mother some sixty-odd years ago, the time she spent on Eshan was so early in her life that memory cannot actively recall any details regarding her Mother's homeworld. The married couple and their daughter relocated to the adopted homeworld of the enigmatic Miraluka species joining a small expatriate community of Humans on the planet's surface, it was here on Alpheridies that the infant Aira found her beginnings in life.
Through Aira's young life she faced discrimination from the Human children who surrounded her with the underdeveloped minds of the children not grasping how deeply it hurt their peer to be taunted for her physical characteristics. Since she found herself publicly scorned by one-side of her family Aira decided to befriend the local Miraluka who were blind to the physical traits of the Human-Echani Hybrid and accepted the force sensitive youngster happily.
Aira's Mother tried and failed to instil Echani cultural or religious practices into her daughter but consistently met with resistance and thus disappointment although it never deterred the Mother from her desire to be a proud reflection of those Echani martial virtues. Aira as a youth simply lacked the ferocity or temperament for violence and sought not the path of the warrior, instead, she took to ancient lore and mysticism that the Miraluka possessed in vast libraries across Alpheridies following in the footsteps of her scholarly Father.
Aira did not enjoy her life at home as a child with both parents constantly coming into conflict on the topic of how their daughter should be raised, these arguments were typically initiated by the Mother and gave Aira a disdain for her own heritage at the time struggling to see any redeeming features in the people of the Eshan sector, not the Echani themselves or their distant cousins in the Thrysians. Aira had a very egalitarian position on Culture and couldn't fathom or justify the discrimination that the Echani forced upon those under their rule, believing it to be abhorrent. These political positions in a child hinted to the keen intellect possessed by Aira that would steadily reveal itself further with age.
[EARLY ADULTHOOD]
"Fighting is the purest form of expression, you learn most about another when you're locked in a struggle with them. Echani culture and discipline leaves little space for outward emotional expression, my little moon. We find release in combat."
-Aira's Mother educating her daughter on the important role of sparring to the Echani
Adolescence and adulthood came and with it a changing Galaxy. A wanderlust began to fester within Aira's soul and she felt called to explore the wider Galaxy although she was successfully persuaded by her Father to temper her passions with patience and thus upon completion of her schooling she entered the Prestigious Luka Sene as a Student and it was there where the young Aira Sulek first started receiving lessons in how to harness her own force sensitivity into precise application under the tutelage of the Sene's wise teachers while concurrently studying history and theology.
The course materials would deeply inform the young Aira of the Universe beyond her home and fueled the desire to explore that vast universe. Aira's relationship with her Mother became deeply strained in this period with the latter encouraging firmly that the former should have left Alpharidies and sought out a Military Career with the Galactic Republic which was rebuked firmly by Aira with the support of her Father who cited his own experience as a Professional Mercenary for justification to support Aira's assertions that it was a rootless life filled with nought but "knuckle-dragging manual labour, violence and suffering". Little did the young Halfbreed Woman know at the time but the latter would go to characterize her existence in the years to come.
Aira's Mother was ever-stubborn in her relationship with both daughter and spouse seeking to mold them both into what she would make them, hoping and wishing desperately that a warrior's passion would find their heats breathing life back into their household and her marriage feeling alienated within and outside their home due to the stark cultural differences between the Echani and Miraluka of their adopted home. It was after a heated argument born of something petty that Aira first utilized her latent force-ability in a fleeting moment of anger and frustration to violently throw her own Mother into one of their home's plastoid walls with such force that it broke beneath the woman's body. Aira was shocked by her Mother's glad acceptance and even encouragement of the assault, having always feared that all the talk of Echani's love for fighting was either erroneous or exaggerated, it was from that moment Aira developed an admiration and respect for her Mother's patience and cold near loveless demeanor accepting they communicated with greater fidelity through fighting.
[DOCTOR OF MEDICINE]
"Surgery? Honestly I'm a little surprised, one of your teachers or lecturers forgive me darling I can't quite remember what he was, mentioned that you are an excellent researcher.
Do you disapprove, Father?
Nah, just surprised you've got the stomach for it moon, being adverse to violence I'd always suspected that you had a fear of blood. Guess I was wrong?
Well you're not Mother so you cannot always be right"
-Exchange between Aira and her Father on the former's enthusiasm for Surgery.
Returning to studying with the Luka Sene, Aira commenced a Doctorate course in Medicine having proven to possess the aptitude for such a field if not necessarily a warm demeanor having been cooled by a Childhood filled with familial relationship difficulties although as an adult Aira continued searching for ways to breach the Chasm between herself and Mother in a stunning display of determination. Finding a sense of purpose in the practice of medicine it finally appeared that Aira would find the relief she so desperately sought to uncover, her professors additionally aided the young woman in teasing out her force sensitivity at a greater level so that she might wield it in practical matters of life. For all intents and purposes Aira was Miralukan at heart if not necessarily in their biological composition and took to adhering to the way of Bogan for it encouraged and nurtured the more powerful and raw emotions that she so desperately craved and yet were denied expression in Aira's home life by the stoic matriarchal figure that was her Mother. Although in time Aira would find a place to release her anger by reluctantly agreeing to learning the old Echani fighting arts from her insistent Mother in an attempt at fostering a relationship with greater mutual understanding.
Upon completion of her doctorate course and new graduate placement Aira at her Mother's urging decided to journey to Eshan and spent two years on that foreign world as a Junior Physician working alongside individuals who shared her porcelain complexion but that being where the similarities ended, a lifetime of growing alongside the Miraluka had seen that she'd become one in all but name and found the Echani obsession with conflict to be obnoxious although contrary to some of the existing literature she'd read she didn't get the impression those whom she treated or worked beside were bloodthirsty. Fortunately due to her appearance Aira faced little discrimination due to her mixed lineage and found the Echani to be rather agreeable when they weren't engaged in matters of diplomacy and combat although she struggled to distinguish embarrassingly between her patients and colleagues on more than one occasion. It was on Eshan that Aira truly began training to become a Surgeon driven by her passion for hands-on medicine and invasive procedures, she was tutored for the position by a senior professor at the hospital who was impressed with Aira's enthusiasm for medicine and approved silently of the girl's subtle anti-war attitudes which contrasted deeply with Echani Society and Culture.
[ENSLAVEMENT & FEAR]
"Look unto my face while you die, Master. Look. At. Me!"
-Aira to her Slave-Master while repeatedly stabbing his thoracic region with a Dagger
[ARMOUR]
- Aira's Armoured Flightsuit
- Sulek's Galidraani Greatgarb
- Covenant of Ashla
- Black-Powder Pistol
- Cortosis Cutlass of the Darkhunter
- Enforcer Pistol (.48-Calibre)
- Fiery Greatsword of Ashla
- Melodic Songsteel Dagger
- Striker Projectile Pistol
- Illusive Dream (Ambassador-Class Shuttle)
- Quarrel (T-85 X-Wing)
[STRENGTHS]
- Force Light: As a Champion of Ashla, Aira has practiced and become proficient in utilising the Light Side of the Force as a means of forcing the darkness to recede through channeling pure Light-Side energies through her body and directing it as desired in beautiful dazzling displays. More practically, it's one of the few tools in Aira's arsenal capable of effectively countering the potent sorceries and magics darksiders or Sith employ to great effect.
- Hard-Hitting: Aira when engaging in melee combat with her fiery force-imbued greatsword uses a number of Lightsaber dueling techniques primarily from Form IV known as "Ataru" and Form VII known as "Vaapad" two styles which favour the precise application of strength in powerful strikes, although Aira favours the former more than the latter.
- Living Force: As a keen and dutiful student of the living force's ebbs and flow Aira possesses incredible situational awareness and is adept at identifying different individuals across a great distance through the twanging of its' web in the present. Granting a certain level of Pre-cognition when focused and level-headed.
- Pyrokinesis: The most primordial and primitive generation of light comes from fire, manipulating it is something that Aira has become adept in over the years. The ability is used largely as a utility on Aira's part rather than a weapon with the widespread adoption of fire-retardant textiles and her personal disdain for using the force to painfully maim any opponent.
- Scholar: Deeply educated on a broad subject matter, Aira is quite resourceful and can apply her knowledge and intuition in a manner that is beneficial in a wide variety of practical situations.
[WEAKNESSES]
- Arrogant: Having such a lofty title and purpose bestows a certain parochial arrogance onto its' holder, believing herself at times to be the sole individual possessing the necessary skills to lead a party or squad through any given situation. It also extends to social situations and the Knight of Ashla is often perceived to be 'talking down' from a position of superiority or authority to co-participants in conversations. This quality causes Aira to be met with disdain both in the Academic World and as a Champion of Light.
- Call of the Dark: The influence of the dark side uses Aira's fears as a door from which to open and tempt the Champion of Ashla towards feats of malicious cruelty and selfishness, for even the brightest most ardent candles cast shadows and they can stretch quite long indeed.
- Counter-Riposte: It's entirely possible for an opponent sufficiently skilled in both offensive and defensive melee fighting techniques to bide their time and bait Aira into attempting a Parry only to deliver an unexpected counter-riposte strike.
- Despair: Fear is Aira's Achilles heel, the fear she might fail her family, friends or others who might have placed their faith or trust in her. Interestingly, Aira has a strong fear of both Sithspawn and certain Sith Lords which is due to a level of abuse she suffered at their hands as a prisoner. That fear could be preyed upon inadvertently and the violence of conflict combined could see the usually calm and stoic Knight over the edge into Bogan's cold and furious Abyss.
- Parry: Characters that favour defensive styles can use their turtle-like technique and effectiveness to parry Aira with the correct timing should they anticipate her strikes correctly. Briefly permitting an opponent to deliver a strike in return to the Golden Knight.
- System Security: Aira isn't a trained slicer or hacker and as a result when confronted with electronic door locks or locked terminals she often finds difficulty in breaching their security without resorting to more violent or mystical methods.
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