Merion Oreno
Space oddity
FACTION: Cult of the Central Isopter; Diarchy
RANK: Prince of the Royal House of Eshan; navigator for Diarchy Chancellorate of Commerce
SPECIES: Echani, part human
AGE: Born 884 ABY; young adult
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 6'
WEIGHT: 160lbs
EYES: Brown
HAIR: White (Echani)
SKIN: White (Echani)
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
- Large and strong for his age.
- Formally trained in the Force from a nondenominational perspective.
- Formally trained in Echani armed and unarmed combat.
- Skilled with a lightsaber in a 'needed to kill with it or die every minute of every day for months' kind of way, but low on formal technical skill.
- Has the Central Isopter ability to sense when a world or area will experience significant destruction; has learned to apply that power to instinctive astrogation, and is an experienced navigator.
- Was killed around one hundred thousand times by starweirds in a temporal loop; incapable of being rational about starweirds but very good at fighting them.
- Regrettably over-familiar with Celestial machinery.
- Claustrophobic, especially in zero-gravity. Has worked hard to blunt this instinct but it's not going away, ever.
- Mask restricts peripheral vision.
- Robes restrict movement.
APPEARANCE:
Merion wears the faceless mask and robes of Central Isopter, which are effectively a mobile burial shroud or casket. The mask includes video recording technology and a Dreamscape unit. At times, he wears the thirty-thousand-year-old Helm of the Hollow Spire Watch instead.
BIOGRAPHY:
- Mother: Noelle Varanin, Queen of Eshan
- Father: August Oreno
- Brother: Aldric Varanin
- Maternal Grandmother: Ashin Varanin
- Maternal Grandmother: Spencer Varanin, Queen Mother of Eshan
- Aunt: Quinn Varanin
- Aunt: Ibaris Varanin
This was not a popular decision at home. Neither was his defiant but haphazard selection of the morbid screwball itinerant disaster tourists of the Central Isopter. His robes are not, not welcome at family dinners.
After a particularly challenging formal event and a lot of contemplation over Exegol, Merion struck out on his own in his late teens. He wanted to develop experience he couldn't find with the Central Isopter or with his family heritage. He sank his funds and time into pilot training and his cultic skills into a strange approach to instinctive astrogation. This let him take occasional work with Baobab Astrography.
In 902 ABY, the so-called Planeshift and the concurrent 'Sundering Dawn' metaphysical crisis had a profound impact on Merion, who had recently turned eighteen. He logged over a hundred thousand light-years under various flags. In short order he found himself helping re-map routes to Grek and the Aing-Tii homeworld and exploring a thirty-thousand-year-old observatory on the lost world Kiev'ara under the Diarchy's banner. He was inspired and enthralled by the Diarchy's response to the crises, which included connecting many systems in urgent need and many roles for navigators like he was setting out to be. He was able to find the planet Trevel'ka and played a role in its integration into the Diarchy.
As part of the Diarchy's commitment to the Sundering Dawn crisis, Merion helped locate a region called the Silent Mirror Pocket, whose derelict ships housed a broken Celestial time-dilation artifact called the Echo Resonator. Guided by a vision, Merion set off ahead of the joint task forces and found himself plagued by temporal echoes and recursions, including his own dead futures or alternate selves; he found a way to communicate back to himself through his own deaths. He came to the Resonator vault, which had been partially breached by starweirds. When hordes of starweirds began slaughtering the task forces and converging on the vault, he took shelter in the starweird-resistant vault with the Resonator, which began folding him into one-minute time-loops. He died approximately one hundred thousand times, constituting months of sleepless zero-gravity action, iteration, and death. In the end, he was able to stabilize the Resonator, claim it for the Diarchy and the joint task forces, and end the situation in the Silent Mirror Pocket. He stopped considering himself an acolyte at this point.
Shortly afterward, Echo Resonator technology was deployed throughout the joint task forces. He was pressed into service to get his grandmother's Resonator-equipped vessel, the Lanvarok Whisper, to the final confrontations at the Celestial megastructure known as Calladene.
His months of experience with the Echo Resonator allowed him to guide the successful repair of Calladene's jammed gears in collaboration with a Nightsister, an Inquisitor, several reluctant Jedi, a horde of conjured dead, and more. He wished to destroy Calladene, but could not do so without cosmic side effects, so he left the megastructure's fate to others, come what might.
Subsequent to Calladene's repair, Merion struggled with claustrophobia and other psychological issues. He took refuge in his navigational work for the Diarchy, and trained to compete in an event of the Bastion Games that was especially difficult for his state of mind: a zero-gravity decompression challenge. Concurrently, he gained some experience with recruiting and visited a planetary disaster site with a Central Isopter Observatory.
SHIP:
Merion can often be found traveling aboard a nice shuttle, a Central Isopter Observatory, or a Diarchy Khopesh.
NOTABLE ASSETS AND TROPHIES:
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