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NAME: Andromeda
NICKNAME: "Andro"
FACTION: Sith Empire
RANK: Sith Acolyte
ROLE: Sith Warrior
HOMEWORLD: Khar Shian
SPECIES: CyborgGENDER: Female
ORIENTATION: Homosexual
AGE: 23
HEIGHT: 6'2"
WEIGHT: 250 lbs (Cybernetic endo-skeleton)
PERSONALITY
A biological abomination and masterpiece of cybernetic engineering, Andromeda is a living embodiment of modern warfare. Valiant and fierce, dominant and impassively masculine, she is a frightening and extremely distinctive sight to average company. Tough, cold and imposing, her demeanor is that of a hardened and ruthless soldier. She carries herself with pride and military professionalism, but underneath the slick, durasteel armour, she is as rebellious, vulnerable and adventurous as any twenty-something year old. Stubborn and defiant, Andromeda absolutely refuses to return to the state of weakness and submission which caged her before and has an almost compulsive desire to do the exact opposite of what she has been told. She takes her job seriously when she is on duty and maintains a professional image, but in truth, only uses it as an opportunity to explore the galaxy from which she has been kept for so long.
Having been severely isolated for a good portion of her early life, Andromeda's social behavior is still developing. After leaving the laboratory she was raised in, Andromeda spent her teenage years in a military academy full of aggressive and loud Warrior-class men. She is abrasive and rude, and uses a dictionary of foul language and sexual obscenities in her speech. Hot-tempered, irritable and perpetually cranky, she will easily resort to violence should she feel insulted or threatened, which is very often. Importantly however, Andromeda is absolutely not a sadist and will never take to any form of torture or excessive cruelty. She thoroughly enjoys combat, but does not kill or cause pain needlessly. She is biologically female and identifies as such, but is conspicuous by her very male behavioral and physical traits.
In her short life, Andromeda has been subject to cruelty and persecution that the average Sith could not even fathom. She is convinced that she has conquered the demons of her past and keeps them deeply buried, but in reality, is in denial about how young and how traumatized she really is. Andromeda behaves with hostility and aggression not because means to, but to keep everyone else away. She simply does not know how to appropriately communicate the words "please leave me alone". Genetically designed as a vicious frontline soldier, Andromeda is too young at this stage to fully control the violent impulses she was designed with. Despite her intimidating visage, she is very bashful and easily embarrassed, especially when receiving praise or affection. She views such things as unnecessary as she is simply unaccustomed to them. Although she finds it terribly awkward and confusing, Andromeda does quietly appreciate receiving kindness. She will often maintain a cold demeanor, then proceed to feel humiliated when she makes a mistake or says something wrong.
Arguably the most defining aspect of Andromeda's life is her disposition as a synthetically manufactured cyborg. Since her creation, Andromeda has been raised to believe that she is a monster, repulsive, unwanted by anyone and useful only for combat. As a child, she believed this, but since travelling beyond the Sith and experiencing emotions beyond simply hatred and anger, Andromeda has come to question the extent of her own humanity and place in the galaxy. She is severely androgynous and is unable to fulfill the primary function of normal humans, reproduction, but remains a highly passionate person and retains all the emotions and impulses of any natural-born human. Her intense anger is accompanied by high levels of inspiration, hope, excitement and terrible sadness. She represses her further emotions to such an extent, that only her anger seems most prevalent. A lesbian, she has a weakness for a pretty girls, but struggles to explore her sexuality due to her limited social skills and embarrassment about her physical appearance.
While Andromeda is undeniably brutal in combat, she is capable of being remarkably gentle when she feels it is necessary. She has a particularly big heart for mistreated or misplaced young women, only because she can personally identify with their situations. Furthermore, she is entirely calm, friendly and down-to-earth when interacting with people she knows have no intention to harm or deceive her. On the rare occasion that she does meet a Sith she feels unthreatened by, she'll talk to them non-stop and usually captivate them with her massive personality and boisterous sense of humor. While she may not be exactly approachable at first, a conversation will quickly reveal Andromeda to be a youthful, chilled out and a genuinely lovable person. She displays unwavering loyalty and compassion to anyone who treats her with consistent kindness, but is very hesitant to trust, particularly other Sith.
Due to her past experiences, Andromeda heavily disdains the more mystical or scholarly breed of Sith. She abhors sorcery, wholeheartedly disagrees with the preservation of Moraband and thinks that the Sorcerer-class obsession with immortality is entirely ridiculous. While she is not foolish enough to openly admit it, Andromeda latently wishes to see the Sorcerer sect overthrown and torn down. Unsurprisingly, she is a highly pragmatic, radical atheist who believes that truly progressive and free Sith should not need to rely so excessively on the Force. Furthermore, she views the Force as something natural a Sith may use as a weapon or tool, as opposed to a sentient deity that should be worshipped. Andromeda's greatest fear is being caged or imprisoned once more. Because of this, the thought of being trapped on Moraband as a spirit terrifies her. She wishes to die victoriously then have her body destroyed to avoid such a fate.
At her core, Andromeda fights to live, to make herself stronger, to give herself purpose and to preserve her dignity. Sith is but a title, a career to her, something she does to not only put food in her stomach, but because she has no other choice. From what was once a living hell, Andromeda has embraced her prison to turn it into the closest thing to a home she will ever have. While her intentions may be sometimes be good, she is still a proponent of war and conflict, as it is the only way of life she knows and the only way she is convinced she can destroy the spell-casting breed of Sith who have tortured herself and her kin. Andromeda is ultimately a courageous young misfit struggling to lead a normal life in an outright extreme and horrendous world. She is an unlikely hero forever trapped on the wrong side, who would rescue a young woman from a warzone regardless of factional differences or personal duty.
APPEARANCE
Standing at six foot two, resembling a young man with a lower jaw constructed of raw cybernetics, poor Andromeda is not attractive by conventional standards, but could be considered strangely handsome, or even cute, by those with eccentric tastes. Her physical appearance has been the cause of much torment and mockery throughout her life. She is very tall and imposing compared to most girls, but is average-sized compared to any male Sith Warrior. Profoundly butch-andro, she has broad shoulders, a straight waist, narrow hips and flat, almost non-existent breasts. She is lean and athletic, with impressive muscle tone, but is not overly large or muscular. Her gait, nuances and tone of voice are all distinctively masculine.
As Andromeda was synthetically designed and created by an alchemist, her looks are highly atypical and somewhat inhuman. She has bright red mechanical eyes which glow and spiky, platinum blonde hair which matches the colour of her milk-white skin. Her eyes are slightly larger than a normal humans and are marred with premature lines and shadows. She has defined cheekbones, strong eyebrows and a button nose. Most notably, Andromeda's lower jaw is mechanical and covered only partially with synthskin. Her original jaw was torn out by a Sith Juggernaut as a punishment for talking back when she was a child, causing her to be labeled as "damaged goods" by her creator. Andromeda also has double eyelids, which clean her mechanical eyes. Her irises can expand and detract within her sclera and differ in appearance when they light up.
Andromeda's entire skeleton and inner frame are made from cybernetics, while her skin, flesh and organs were created with alchemy. Her endo-skeleton is much heavier and sturdier than normal bones and adds a large deal to her weight. She mostly wears simple, sparring armour with a navy blue tunic on a daily basis and wears men's clothes when off-duty. During large scale battles or military presentations, she will wear her patent, black, durasteel battle armour and cape. On formal occasions she will wear ceremonial armour or a suit and lightly slick back the top of her hair. On occasion, she will wear a triangle-shaped respirator to cover her scarred jawline. Andromeda's teeth are silver in colour and made of metal, along with the rest of her bone structure.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
As to be expected, Andromeda LOVES fighting. Her melee prowess is astounding and her physical strength and endurance levels are insane. As a result of carrying her heavy cybernetic skeleton, Andromeda's organic body is in peak condition. She's pretty bad at everything else though. She is highly impulsive and tends to act before she thinks, so her skills in the area of military tactics and battle strategy are average at best. Too much talking or thinking tends to annoy her and Andromeda is far more skilled in hands-on work. As her cybernetics are incredibly heavy, she is not very agile or dexterous. As a further result of her isolated upbringing, Andromeda cannot read or write. She has never received any academic education and has trained solely to fight for her entire life.
Andromeda's connection to the Force is very weak and advanced Dark Side powers are impossible for he. Diplomacy and manipulation are also major weaknesses due to her direct nature and rudeness. While Andromeda can inspire legions of troops with her powerful personality or terrify people just by looking at them, lying, deception or charm are out of the question for her, since she yells all the time, swears and smells bad. Andromeda is also habitually honest and tends to say whatever she feels, in turn, she always keeps her promises and never lies or steals.
Andromeda is in superior physical condition to a normal human and rarely gets sick. She is intensely fit and does not tire out easily. However, she suffers from post-traumatic stress symptoms and claustrophobia. She is terrified of small spaces or having her movements restrained and will not wear a helmet or pilot a star fighter as a result. She takes her role as a Sith Warrior very seriously and will work tirelessly on military assignments, often sacrificing much needed sleep. She smokes cigarettes and is a big eater and a hard drinker, but rarely gets drunk due to her strong physical make-up. Another downside to having a synthetic skeleton is that every so often, Andromeda's cybernetic inner frame requires maintenance. The process is highly painful and a debilitating recovery period follows, but her health would severely disintegrate should she choose to neglect the needed updates.
"All the world will be your enemy, Sith with a thousand enemies. When they defeat you, they will kill you... But first they must defeat you. Soldier, fighter, warrior, Sith with the swift warning. Be strong, be defiant and your people will never be destroyed".- Adapted from Watership Down
BIOGRAPHY
Crafted to perfection by the notorious alchemist Darth Sadeon, ten soldiers were commissioned by the Assassin sect to serve as a vanguard. Manufactured as expensive and highly advanced weapons, the “children” of Sadeon were designed and built with one singular purpose, to destroy. Darth Sadeon had sculpted his masterpieces to be killing machines, and nothing more. They were Gender-ambiguous and lacking the female tools to reproduce, as love and compassion were not necessary. The project, titled Omega, was conducted in a laboratory on the moon of Khar Shian, where Naga Sadow had practiced his nefarious experiments thousands of years earlier.
The subjects were suspended inside cryogenic tanks, restrained beyond the ability to move and fed through tubes. As their organs and flesh began to form, so did their consciousness. Once their young bodies had fully developed, their cognitive functioning would come to life. The awakening stage was regarded as the most dangerous of the subjects’ creation, for the weakest would die simply from shock. Their losses were of no note, for they were not worthy of life anyway.
Only one displayed remarkably alert functioning and a penchant for back-talking. She was the ninth subject of Omega, and Darth Sadeon named her Andromeda. For every day of their cruel and sunless lives, the subjects underwent excruciating and invasive biological experimentation and enhancements. They were kept in kept in cages and glass cells between periods of testing, training and modifications, all in the progress of transforming them into hardened combatants. Sadeon wanted his pieces to be numb to all forms of pain. He would degrade them until their natural state was submission.
Darth Sadeon loved his art. What he despised more than anything else, was when that art differed beyond his original conception. When Andromeda began to develop a personality that differed from his vision, his mistreatment of her worsened further. Despite attempts to isolate her, Andromeda remained keenly astute, and observed the behaviour of her torturers. She mimicked both of the Sith Lords’ foul language and Sadeon’s contempt for those beneath him. Her body had been taken, but her mind was fueled. During her time in the laboratory, Andromeda's only stimulation was the windows which viewed the stars in Khar Shian's sky, since then the young girl would develop a love of space and the wider galaxy.
To assist with the training, a Sith Juggernaut named Lord Vemirous had been assigned to the project. Major Vemirous, as he was known to his military kin, was Sadeon’s dog. Once a great combatant, Vemirous’ body and mind had been ruined by the Sorcerer’s mental invasion. Overweight and unstable, his personality was now split in two, with one half being that of a down to earth and level-headed strategist, the other being controlled by Sadeon’s essence, causing him to regress into a violent and animalistic state whenever his superior commanded it.
Darth Sadeon never referred to his subjects by their given names when in their presence in order to degrade them. During an incident when she was ten years old, Andromeda refused to follow Sadeon’s orders until he ceased to call her by her subject number. Darth Sadeon ordered Vemirous to punish Andromeda, to make her never talk back again. The Juggernaut took his superior’s orders too literally, and ripped the young girls' jaw clean out of it's sockets. Sadeon was enraged, his masterpiece was ruined. The commission was nearing its’ deadline, and Andromeda’s life was hastily saved before she was prepared for sale. Three other cyborgs remained, each one obedient and malleable as the description had ordered. Darth Eluson paid the due price for each, but rejected Andromeda.
In order to profit from his damaged goods, Sadeon exhibited Andromeda at the Kaas City Arcanist’s fair. The event was held annually on Dromund Kaas as a public market for the wealthy and elite of Sith society to view the arts of the Sorcerer sect. It was nothing short of a freak show, a celebration of Sorcerer-class decadence and human cruelty. Andromeda was presented jawless and undernourished, her body atrophied, to a crowd of jeering Sith Lords. A kind-hearted Juggernaut named General Ekage took pity on the child and purchased her from Darth Sadeon. Andromeda was taken to live at Ekage’s academy for Sith Warriors on Ziost where she was given a new jaw and her cybernetic skeleton upgraded.
As her inner frame was not organic and did not grow along with the rest of her body, Andromeda’s entire skeleton had to be consistently upgraded and reinstalled or her body would atrophy and she would die. The process was excruciating and would have to be repeated every few months until she was fully grown. During her time at the academy, Andromeda was severely bullied by the other Acolytes because of her appearance. Her teenage life was a tirade of physical agony, repeated skeletal modification and further humiliation and cruelty. The frustrated and sad young woman did the only thing she knew how, she would immerse herself in combat training and use the pain of her daily functioning to make herself stronger.
Would the Sith with no surname find the light at the end of the galaxy, or would she become the monster her creator intended? Only time would tell.
