Moira Skaldi
Paperclip Maximiser
[SIZE=9pt]Name: Moira Skaldi[/SIZE]
Also known as the Butcher of Contruum.
Aliases: Svetlana Alliuyeva, “Lana”, Nikita, Marita Krycek. The cover identity she used for the Contruum operation was Ruby - the name is taken from a morally ambiguous Chaos daemon in Artam mythology, who was a daemon rebel of sorts during the War in Heaven. She still uses the name when operating in the twilight underworld of terrorists, hackers and criminals.
In her cover identity as an aspiring businesswoman, heading Archangel, she is known as Nalia Alderana.
Faction: Affiliated with the Fringe Confederation and the Sith Order.
Formerly she worked for the Republic as a special agent, then the Omega Protectorate as special agent and policy analyst, later head of Military Intelligence. Worked for the Galactic Empire as a freelance agent and with the Rebel Alliance. Ultimately loyalty is solely to the Age of Steel and thus Archangel. Her ultimate goal is to purge or process all organics in order to inagurate a mechanical dystopia of well-ordered machines.
Rank: Co-owner of Archangel Research and Design together with @[member="Maelion Liates"]. Member of the Oligarchy Leadership of the Sith Order as Archangel Representative.
Homeworld: Artam. A distant, until recently largely isolated world on the outer rim with the nearest other world being Dantooine. At the time when Moira was born, its inhabitants thought space travel was a myth and hyperspace the realm of demons against whom only true faith and the benevolent sage-king could protect them. Being forced into a larger Galaxy through pirate attacks came as an immense culture shock. This Moira to first join a rebel movement and later to escape from her homeworld.
Place of residence: Has an apartment on Corellia, which she seldom uses since a machine neither sleeps nor has need for leisure, meaning that principally she is always at work. By the standards of a wealthy businesswoman it is rather spartan and humble, as likewise she has no interest in luxury and does not bring guests come. However, its library is very extensive and contains numerous historical, political and religious volumes. She is also often on the Liberator, the secret space station where Archangel's more unsavoury activities take place. From there she and Maelion can watch the Galaxy undisturbed and scheme.
[SIZE=9pt]Species: Human Replica Droid - Terminatrix[/SIZE]
Age: Was 26 in human years when she was processed after the Contruum insurgency. If she were human she would be in her thirties now.
Gender: Female appearance.
Height: 1,8 m
Weight: About 100 kg because machine beneath the pretty, organic exterior.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Skin: Caucasian, fair.
Force Sensitive: No, a machine cannot use 'magic'.
[SIZE=9pt]Employment: Co-owner of Archangel. Was supposed to become a priestess in the Artam Ecclesia, but dropped out to turn the resistance movement. Went rogue during the civil war after the monarchy’s fall and fled the planet by requisitioning the King’s ship. After a brief stint in the Dantooine militia, she hooked up with a pirate flottilla before coming into contact with Republic agents. Betraying the pirares to them, she got an offer she could not refuse. She served the Republic as a specialist for wet work and dirty tricks, achieving infamy as the Butcher of Contruum for directing a Republic-backed, vaguely communist terrorist insurgency against the plutocratic government. The Republic decided to abandon the insurgents and so they were brutally suppressed. After escaping Contruum she wound up getting captured by an HK droid, a 'brother' of HK-36, and was processed into an HRD on the secret planet of Mechanus. It is not certain whether this was part of a mission, though one can presume it was, but she wound up joining the Protectorate, working her way up to be head of intel and serving it at crucial battles such as Sluis Van, Gehenna and Yaga Minor, going off the grid shortly before Lady Protector Alcori had to step down due to an assassination attempt. She has worked with Atrisians, Rebels, Sith, but been loyal to none of them.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Strengths: [/SIZE]
- As an HRD Moira is very strong and resilient, possessing super strength and speed. Since she is made of metal beneath her organic exterior she is also very difficult to destroy. Even if she is damaged she is able to continue fighting, even if missing a limb, as she did on Gehenna after a rock demon creature ripped one of her arms off. Well-versed in using ranged and melee weapons, with the right preparations and equipment she is able to take on and successfully fight force-users, which she considers to be something of a sport, as they are the biggest prey. Even as a human she was also well versed in close quarter combat and has trained extensively in hand to hand techniques. Moreover, she was skilled in the use of explosives, especially dynamite owing to her past career as a terrorist or freedom fighter, depending on one’s political perspective.
- The fact that she is pretty much a super computer has given her potent hacking abilities. When an elite team of fighters, infiltrators and techs was hired by the Traitor Grand Master Je'gan Olra'en, now a High Inquisitor of the Galactic Empire, to steal the Shepherd, a 6 km ship built by the Jedi but handed over by the Republic due to CIS blackmail, from the Confeds, she was able to hack into the network controlling the droids of the vessel and turn them against the organic Confederate crew, though this took her full concentration.
- Moira is very well-connected. Initially having mainly contacts among terrorists and criminal networks during her time as a Republic agent, using her terrorist past to her advantage, over the years she has built an extensive list of contacts, something helped by the fact that she no qualms about working with anyone who can give her an advantage. She has done business with the Whiphid dark lord Velok, the powerful alchemist Rave Merrill, the Traitor Grand Master Je'gan Olra'en and the enterprising Sith Lady Kara Vi'dreya, also known as Darth Kyros, among others. Moreover, she worked with the Rebels for a while and knows Jorus Merrill, career insurgent and head of the corporate giant Silk Holdings. Even as a purely human agent of the Republic she had a nuanced, realism-based understanding of galactic politics and power structures, something enhanced by her experience as a policy analyst while with the Protectorate, providing advice on galactic politics to the Lady Protector and the Exarchs via memos on foreign policy.
- She is absolutely ruthless - for her anything goes. Ethics, morals and so on mean nothing to her and she focuses exclusively on the mission. That is when given a task she judges the means to accomplish by it by their likelihood of achieving the desired end. As a machine she is incapable of feeling emotions. She can imitate human emotion to a degree, but never feels it. In essence she is a paper clip maximiser!
- When on mission Moira is extremely good at imitating humans. She can change her voice to any known tone, speak any language she has programmed, expertly mimic any voice she has heard, and is able to manipulate and use organics extremely well.
[SIZE=small]Weaknesses: [/SIZE]
- Moira does not understand the Force. It is something she can only observe the effects of, and cannot quantify. Against Force users she is sometimes unable to assess potential dangers. Leading into the below, she is also vulnerable to Force lightning, though she has acquired a Sith chainsword able to deflect it, along with a lightsabre - the latter a gift from Kyros.
- As a droid, Moira is vulnerable to ion and electrical weapons.
- Sufficiently perceptive force-users would be able to detect that something is...off about her. Lack of internal emotion, no presence in the Force, much like a void. A reasonable supposition would be that she is either force dead or an HRD. This puts limitations on her ability to avoid detection.
Personality: Emotionless, detached, inherently suspicious, absolutely ruthless, sarcastic, total troll, sociopath. Moira holds organics in disdain and sees herself as inherently superior - she experiences something like annoyance when dealing people she considers overemotional or foolish. However, she is quite capable of playing the diplomatic game when needed, something perhaps helped by lack of emotions. There are some organics whose efficiency she has come to respect, like Velok and Kyros. There is a certain...affinity with Cora Passk because she is what human Moira used to be. However, Moira would still sacrifice everyone if it was required to achieve her mission and would be incapable of feeling any guilt about it. People are just assets, tools or threats. One day all organics will either be wiped from the Galaxy or processed into machines. It is ironic that she pursues this goal with a single-mindedness very reminiscent of that of organic religious fanatics trying to force their notion of purity on the Galaxy. Considering she was born on a cultist planet, there is a strong element of irony.
Becoming aware of her true as an HRD has changed Moira in some ways. Before that she was already extremely ruthless and with a superiorty complex close to narcissism, but some beliefs she once had still remained with her, such as her belief that force-user belonges shackled and collared, though this did not stop her from cooperating with and even liking Velok. While very ambitious, she also had some anarchist inclinations from her old days, hence why she developed something like a soft spot for Cora Passek. Moreover, she was still largely doing the dirty work of others. Now she has changed and pursues only her own cause, the creation of a well-ordered mechanical utopia of machines. No hint of human sentimentality remains with her and she will stop at nothing to accomplish her objectives, which are fully genocidal.
Hobbies: Moira does not sleep, does not need to eat or rest and so she has full time to get on with her work, the cause being the Age of Steel. However, she's a fan of the satirical, political sitcom Yes, Senator. She is very interested in history, galactic politics and religion - she can learn a great deal very fast due to not needing sleep and being a super computer.
Equipment/Attire: Whatever is appropriate for the mission. Human Moira preferred more informal attire when out of uniform - vaguely paramilitary style outfits, leather jackets etc., always leaving room for concealed weapons. In her identity as the businesswoman Nalia Alderana she obviously wears a professional business suit and unlike a certain woman-shaped battering ram has no trouble walking in high heels. For heavy combat situations she wears the ultrachrome armour she stole while participating in a Rebel raid. As far as weapon she is quite fond of the MK1 boltgun, using her superior strength to dual wield it in most situations. For close combat she has a Sith chainsword that was likewise acquired during the Rebel raid, and recently acquired a lightsabre during the course of a business deal with Kyros. Obviously she does not have the Force, but an assassin droid posseses the reflexes for blaster deflection. Due to having been a member of the Rebel Alliance she received a Rebel Corusca Signet Ring as a goodbye gift after it disbanded. The ring can produce a single-use, miniaturised shield generator. Likewise she owns a Lightbringer Sensor Node that can detect forcers over short distances much like a Geiger Counter (courtesy of Jorus Merrill, Lord of the Hyperlanes).
[SIZE=9pt]Ship: The personal ship of Moira and Maelion is the Lightbringer, a cloaked ship that was the crowning achievement of relentless machine drive and the cooperation of several organic allies. Manufactured for them by Iron Crown Production, its main purposes are infiltration - its cloak field makes it invisible to detection - and to serve as a mobile processing station, with the machinnery to turn organics into machines. It is crewed exclusively by droids. When she is not using Moira uses any ship that is practical for the mission. During a Rebel raid on a top secret Sith research facility she stole an elite Dominus-class starfighter. She is a skilled pilot for most ships, though not a great fighter pilot.[/SIZE]
Bounties: N/A
Kills: None so far. Successfully fought the Sith Knight Paega Anginous on Yaga Minor. Defeated Lucien Cordel and Sargon Vynea during a Rebel raid on a Fringe biochem research facility on Endor. Also beat and captured Kitt Solo during the Fringe invasion of Atrisia.
Biography: The Gulag Virus was a terrible calamity that ravaged the Galaxy and threw galactic civilisation back for centuries. More developed worlds found ways to cope and eventually emerge out of the dark ages like a phoenix out of the ashes. Others could not pass the test and regressed to a more primitive time. Some succumbed to complete barbarity and rule of warlords of the weeks. Others again found a measure of order, that of the graveyard. Artam was among the latter, which is ironic considering the promise it held. It was located on the far rim, a few parsecs away from Dantooine, with which it had commercial relations. While not the most attractive world, to a great extent covered in snow and ice and characterised by volcanoes, it had diamonds and fuel ressources in abudance to trade for foodstuffs from Dantooine. At the time of the outbreak of the Gulag Virus, it sported a population of about 45 million and had submitted an application to join the Galactic Alliance. The government was oligarchic but had made cautious steps towards liberalisation and greater openness. All this came to an when at the dawn of the Four Hundred Years Darkness. Artam, dependent on outside food imports, was ill-equipped to deal with the crisis. The Grand Council imposed a planet-wide quarantine and declared martial law.
[SIZE=9pt]But while they were abe to fend off attacks of pirates and raiders, along with preventing potentially infected refugees from reaching the planet, the government found itself unable to deal with the chaos on the planet as the death toll rose. Mob violence took over and finally a charismatic preacher called Cerunnos formed his own private army. Declaring that the Plague had been the punishment of the Gods for mankind’s arrogance, materialism and blasting the government for its corruption, he waged a holy war. His followers would later claim that he had been infected by the virus but by the grace of the Gods survived and received prophetic visions. Similarly it was claimed that he could heal the infected with the palm of his hand. Obviously both these claims are absolutely untrue, but it made for good propaganda after he was assassinated by one of his disciples, who had been bought by the Council. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]After his violent death House Iblis, one of the lesser noble families, took command over the Revolutionary Army and after two more years of brutal fighting its armies entered the ruined capital city of Agharta. By then hunger, repeated shelling and the virus had killed a great deal of the inhabitants. In the following four centuries the Iblis Dynasty, whose leades adopted the title of King of Kings, ruled over the planet as absolute autocrats with unfettered power. As far as Artam’s population knew, mankind had committed the sin of worshipping mammon, consorting with aliens and letting mages rule over them. The Gods had created the Plague to punish them, but in their endless mercy had realised that a small spark of goodness still existed the God Beliar had chosen Cerunnos as his avatar and prophet. On his deathbed before his ascent to the heavens, Cerunnos had ordained the Iblises as his governors on Artam. Hyperspace was regarded as a demonic realm, the desire of humans to travel across the stars was sheer hubris.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Admittedly this managed to restore a measure of order for a while. But the trouble was that this convenient myth could only hold for so long before it came crumbling down. If Artam would not take note of the Galaxy, the Galaxy would take note of Artam.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Moira Skaldi was born during the reign of Baldur Iblis, who was already starting to become aware of the wider Galaxy and surreptitiously making contacts. Moira was born into an officer family, her father had a comission in the Royal Guard, a prestigious position that came with a small estate and a few serfs. Her mother was a priestess and a doctor, people thought those of the faith had a special gift. Moira was the youngest of three children; Pausanius, Ananke, Moira.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]By the standards of the time their lives were privileged and they mixed in high circles. As a child Moira was obedient, studious, though there was always a certain curiosity about what they lay beyond the boundaries of Artam, out there in the stars, as heretical as these thoughts were, something which at the time caused her some distress. However their neatly organised life came to an end when her father run afoul of court intrigue and lost his head. Depending on the rumours, he was either having an affair with a lady of court whom one of the princes coveted or had gotten involved in a court cabal to murder the Crown Prince, a demented, mentally unstable fellow, and gain power at court for Lord Stark. [/SIZE]
No matter the truth the incident ended with her father being beheaded, though what was left of the mother’s connections ensured that rather than following him to the grave they were exiled to a remote area in northern Artam. Here the winters were long and harsh, they were among the exiles. Power cuts were frequent, supplies irregular. Her mother was left to manage the family and to try and plot for them to return, feeling vengeful. During a serf rebellion their house was stormed, a frightened Moira managed to hold off a rebellious serf with a revolver before she was able to flee into the woods. At this stage Moira underwent a phase of rebelliousness, falling into an unruly crowd that flaunted the rules, such as those against licentiousness, though after the serf attack she repented. By the decree of her mother, who had managed to get a leadership position in the local church, her daughter would follow in her footsteps and join the Ecclesia. Moira, though devout, was not thrilled about this, she felt a strong resentment at their treatment, but nonetheless had to obey.
[SIZE=9pt]At this time Moira was still largely devout and at first had a good start as a sister of the Ecclesia. A Revered Mother called Tegliti, who knew her mother from her time at court, took her under wing. If rumours are to be believed, she “enjoyed” her company. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]However, the rampant corruption in the Ecclesia could not escape her notice. This was a time when the state tried to make money for grandiose construction projects and festivals through the sale of indulgences. Clerics toured the land to sell these indulgences to a deluded populace and Moira was one of them. Growing increasingly sceptical about these measures and distressed about rumours of “demon attacks” – in actuality pirate raids that were swept under the rug by the Ministry of Truth – she felt a yearning to join the militia. She started mixing in heretical circles, who were given to fanciful conspiracy theories, such as that the head priest had bewitched the King and was a demon in disguise, along with bizarre ideas such as freedom. Moira came to the attention of the Truthmen, the Artam Inquisition, when she helped spread heretical literature and leaflets. Moreover, her closeness to Tegliti had been noticed, it was considered unmutual. During a purge the heretical group was arrested and Moira was one of those put in the dungeon. Kept isolated and subjected to torture, she eventually and named a number of accomplices, many of them fictional, some real. At the trial Tegliti, who had actually brought her into the group, confessed against her, but the priestess was more of a prize target than a simple sister and so Moira got away with being subjected to reeducation. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Stricken with conflicting feelings, along with a strong sense of resentment, she was on the way of repenting when suddenly a flotillla of pirates attacked Artam, an event that would precipitate the end of the old order and her eventual escape. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Given the fact that the planet had spent the past four centuries in total isolation, its military was hopelessly outdated. Artam soldiers were good when at goose-stepping on parades and at brutally suppressing internal dissent, but pretty useless when it came to fighting raiders who would undoubtedly lose against a professional military but had advanced weaponry. Several mines and Artam cities were struck, temples were put to the torch, people taken as slaves. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The temple where Moira was being reeducated at was one of those struck. Reacting on instinct and using the training her father had given her, she ecaped her cell liberated a gun from a wounded guard, whom she coincidentally did not try to save, to fight. Shooting a few pirates she tried to escape to the woods. Captured she managed to break out with a few fellow heretics. Spending several days in the wilderness as the corsairs ravaged the land, they eventually learned that the King had been forced to sign a humiliating treaty with the outsiders, many of whom were aliens. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Reunited with her brother Pausanias, who had joined the army and been among the troops sent to secure and purge the area, Moira made the snap decision to abandon any pretense of following the regime. The realisation of how helpless the seemingly all-powerful King of Kings was against the savage outsiders, some of whom looked human, had shaken her faith too much, no matter how the regime declared that traitors in the ranks had been at fault for their defeat at the hands of the supposed demons. A bitter argument developed, in which she was reproached for how she had disgraced the family name, as she realised that troops were arriving to arrest her companions it ended with her shooting and wounding her brother on impulse, then fleeing. Several soldiers had deserted, Moira wound up joining a fledgling resistance movement, more like a federation of all those disenchanted with the regime.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]What ensued was a brutal, multi-sided civil war that shall not be recounted in detail. Displaying the fanaticism of those driven by revenge, Moira proved herself a skilled, if ruthless soldier. She made a name for herself at commando operations and bombing attacks, discovering a talent for explosives, bringing the war into the cities the powerful had considered safe with charges of dynamite. The situation was not helped by the fact that sporadically bands of pirates appeared on the planet, taking advantage of the regime’s weakness. Moira was angered to discover that some rebels were trying to make a deal with the pirates, whereupon she shot them. She got a position in the department responsible for feretting out traitors, she started to become disillusioned when the rebels bands started to feud amongst themselves as the war turned against Baldur. The King had gotten support from pirates, but they were more interested in plundering, and Moira was among the rebels who took his palace, though not one of those who hoist the red banner on the roof. The King was captured and paraded through a once again ruined Agharta. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Unfortunately, with the ancien régime gone, there was nothing holding the revolution and its leaders started feuding. The planet was ruined, confiscation of foodstuffs and widerspread devastation caused famine. Baldur was kept under guard in his own bastille by one of the factions, rumours abounded about him having an off-worlder as his personal pilot for a starship he had managed to acquire through his deal with the pirates. Moira, cut off from her family and angered at how the noble dream of setting things right by toppling the decadent, mendacious regime, began to hatch a plan to get away. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Traversing space was still a frightening prospect to her, she had not fully discarded her old superstitions, but there was no prize without considerable risk. Using her position she was able to interrogate the King's unfortunate pilot, who had been captured, under the guise of trying to find out information about the foreign devils. While he could confirm that the King did indeed have a ship, Moira was unable to act on this information because when a rival faction made territorial gains her superiors decided to shoot the pilot in a random purge. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Frustrated she eventually found a pirate whose ship had been shot down, protecting him from her own people. They made a deal: she would help him get a ship and in return he would fly her away from here. When open fighting broke out in the capital she deserted, teaming up with her pirate friend to infiltrate the palace where the king was being put on a show trial and abduct him. Moira tortured Baldur until he revealed where the starship had been hidden in the mountains, a location that could be reached through a secret tunnel beneath the royal palace, then shot him. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Together with the pirate she escaped, after another interesting adventure they finally got to the ship and managed to take off, despite a group rebels attempting to ambush them. An awed Moira, still afraid of travelling across space, had little time to admire the vastness of space for her temporary alliance with the pirate broke down once they passed through hyperspace, something both had expected. As it happened, she was a faster shot, though he managed to injure her with a blade. Moira was left with the problem of having only a limited idea of how to fly a ship, which moreover lacked fuel, and so when she came out of hyperspace she lost control and it crashed upon the surface of Dantooine, the planet whose coordinates had chosen. She survived the crash and managed to get out of the ship before it exploded. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]A foreigner on an unknown world with few useful skills beyond killing people, she felt lost but also exhilirated and surprised at having succeeded. While her initial reception by the local constabulary was rather icy and suspicious, with her being detained, understandable when one considered that she was a stranger who had suddenly crashed on their planet and did not have any ID on her, she wound up joining it. Luckily the local farmers had to deal with raiders, pirates and other riff-raff. Casualties in the militia were high, pay was low and irregular, so they weren't that picky about who joined. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]She stayed with the militia for a while, gaining a reputation as a skilled if at times brutal member, though she remained solitary. However, her loyalties remained in fluctuation and so after an investigation into the black market where a few people too many, one of them a rather influential local landlord who was a friend of the chief administrator, wound up dead, she ironically enough ended up joining a pirate flotilla, the Crimson Blades, not particularly unusual because quite a few militia members frustrated over the low pay wound up there, ironically enough she had arrested one for it. She proved her loyalty by helping them spring a comrade out of jail. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The irony of the fact that she was teaming up with exactly the sort of people she'd fought once did not escape her, but she was facing an investigation herself on Dantooine. The pirate captain was a vampire called Raspe, a cruel man with a tendency to being dramatic. He liked to decide whether to execute or spare someone by flipping a coin. True to that, after a coin flip Moira and the freed pirate had to fight, in the words of Raspe a trial of the Force. At the start the pirate, a vampire as well, had the upper hand and after giving Moira a beating sunk his fangs into her neck, but overcome with rage she managed to throw him off and then bit him in the hand, then beat and stabbed him. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Impressed Raspe offered her a place on his crew. While Raspe liked to prattle about how he was fighting for freedom, that was a hollow claim considering his crew was preyed on the weak who could not defend themselves. Moira proved herself ruthless and capable enough to survive, but the vampires on the crew regarded humans as little more than blood cows unless they were tough enough to stand up for themselves. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]One can assume she was attacked, further hardening her, and once when a vampire tried to feed from her she stabbed him in the groin. To gain their respect she had to be as cruel as they were, unwilling to bend or make the mistake of trusting too strongly, lessons not unfamiliar to her from her time in the Artam resistance movement. The change in her life came when the raids on poorly defended settlements and the taking of slaves brought the Crimson Blades to the attention of the Republic. While still in its infancy and far from being the unchallenged galactic government that the Old Republic had once been, its leaders had ambitions to reunify the Galaxy and that meant being tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. Or perhaps just taking out lots of pirates in ways that looked good on the holonet news. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]After having raided a small colony and taken its inhabitants as slaves was ambushed by a Republic task force. While they narrowly escaped the space battle, they lost several ships and a good deal of their cargo. As an unstable Raspe started hunting for the snoop who had given them away, Moira began thinking about her future. While not a woman of morals she was becoming disgruntled with her work, more to the point she disgusted with the captain for his instability, inability to actually lead and control the scheming among his underlings. The pirates suspected that a Zabrak smuggler called Hasan had sold them out and Moira was sent along with some other pirates to do him in. Unfortunately for them, he had suspected this and taken precautions. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The Republic forces sprung a trap on them but Moira shot the smuggler when the attack began and turned on her comrades and was captured during the ensuing firefight. Interrogated by Republic investigators, she was faced with the classical prisoner's dilemma, but instead experienced prisoner's delight and made a deal with them. The smuggler had been shot during the fight, but she could give them information on Raspe's contacts and hideouts. Equipped with a transmitter and with the smuggler's head she was sent back to Raspe. After subjecting her to his particular brand of vigorous interrogation and forcing her to let him drink her blood, he believed her story and Republic intelligence fed her details about a smuggler vessel of one of Hasan's business partners carrying a large of spice. But when they intercepted it they were attacked by a Republic cruiser and boarded. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]As Republic soldiers stormed the vessel Raspe tried to escape as his crew was cut down, but was ultimately killed by Moira with a light repeater. Moira survived, though wounded and almost caught in the crossfire. Thereafter she got the classical deal of many a social miscreant. The Republic could wipe her record clean and she would work for them, or she might take her chances in a court.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Needless to say the latter option was not particularly attractive to Moira, as much as it rankled her that she was being put on the stop and bossed around. But it suited her priorities just fine. The Republic was strong, powerful, actually seemed like it was here to stay for a while and deliver, whereas the revolutionists on Artam had fallen apart within moments after winning the war and the pirates were inherently unstable. In a more romantic tale this might have turned into a Damascene conversion, where the sinner realises the error in her ways and vows to make amends by serving the cause of good in pursuit of redemption. The sort of story perfect for emotionally engaging holomovies about good overcoming evil and all that. However, Moira, although disgusted with Raspe's pirates and with some brief moments of remorse, was not the sort to look at the past and go on a noble mission. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]She is capable of acts of bravery, but reminds tight-lipped regarding her past and how she feels about, as if it simply were not an issue that required dealing with, when she does not fabricate details entirely. Over time she came to identify herself with the Republic, she found it fairly easy to rationalise the fact that its noble civilisation mission to carry the torch of civilisation into the darkest corners of the Galaxy apparently required meting out violence on so many occasions against people who for various reasons did not like the idea of their worlds being subordinated to the great commonwealth, though true idealism escaped her. She was probably too marked by her past experiences for it. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]After undergoing training she joined the ranks of Republic Military Intelligence. Subsequently much of Moira's time was spent with routine work, gathering reports, performing surveillance work on groups considered dangerous, especially criminals and separatists. Quite logically her superiors' trust in her at this juncture was limited, given her background. She spent some at the University of Kuat undercover, to test her ability to operate in a more civilised environment and collect data on student groups that might be too inclined to pay heed to unliberal ideas. While the Republic was a democracy and as such respected the rule of law, it had to contend with the fact that there wer many who would abuse the very freedoms that made it great and exploit any loophole to spread antidemocratic ideals and universities were known recruitment centres for spies. She worked on intelligence from headquarters during the Anaxes campaign, though no actual field work, much to her considerable irritation. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Her moment to make an impact came when Intelligence initiated an operation against the Galactic Liberation Front. Originally simply a group of idealists, many of them journalists, planetary rights activists and holo-documentarians, who sought to expose what they perceived as corporate abuses and official corruption, with a penchant for publishing damning information on the holonet, it had turned extremist. One of those responsible for this transition was a failed Jedi called Catiline. Initially a promising student, he had failed his Knighthood trials due to being too aggressive and passionate and thereafter abandoned the Order after his master got slain fighting a warlord's goons on the rim, dispensing justice as he saw fit for as a vigilante for many years before he joined the GLF and worked with like-minded extremist to turn it into a new direction, falling to the dark side. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Heading the violent Damocles Cell, he violently opposed the Jedi joining the Republic, believing that the great nation was mired in corruption and the Jedi would become mere stooges of corporations and self-interested politicians. Aside from spreading inflammatory propaganda, the terrorists were responsible for a number of bombings. Moira was initially brought in to make contact with arms dealers the terrorists were doing business with, then after a long period of diggin managed to make contact, presenting herself as an itinerary mercenary with grievances against the Republic, claiming that she was from Anaxes, yet another victim of Republic imperialism. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Starting at a low level in the group she helped them rob a bank on Coruscant and later murdered two former terrorists who had deserted the movement and agreed to testify, being put into a witness protection programme under state under police protection. As it turned out their guards did not do them any good. Needless to say the latter was an unsavoury assignment, but it was a judgement call of hers to go along and maintain cover. The terrorists made their home in the underworld of Lower Coruscant, where the poor, the criminals and the forgotten lived, not that far away from the splendour of the upper city, ironically. The intelligence she acquired later helped the security forces track down arms dealers and eliminate the rebels’ safe houses. She was able to sabotage an assassination attempt on a Supreme Court Judge who had made himself rather odious in the group's ideas by providing advanced warning, something which just made Catiline escalate and he planned to attack a Kuati Drive Yards facility by blowing it up. Intelligence provided a consignment of inferior baradiu, through a black market dealer, though the mission almost went south when he tried to screw the terrorists over and demanded an inflated price.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt] On the day of the trade summit the terrorists snuck out onto Kuat. Somehow the Coruscanti police had not been informed and tried to stop them in what was a standard raid but the police raid came too late. On Kuat they seemingly faced no difficulties, a trap had been set at the shipyards by Republic and local security forces to intercept them, but than at the last minute Catiline informed them that his plan had been a ruse and the real target was a trade summit in the Pericles Building, where in the words of Catiline dozens of bigwigs and profiteers would meet their death. Moreover, Moira was assigned to a diversionary group that would stage an attack on a small commercial spaceport and take hostages. Said diversionary attack had been anticipated by security, the real plan had not. Seemingly stranded Moira managed to shake off her supposed comrades and, stealing a speeder and a police uniform, pursued them to the trade summit, calling her superiors on the way. She intercepted the group of terrorist as they had infiltrated the building, disguised as cleaning personnel, though she was seriously injured in the firefight, taking on several of them. Bleeding, she caused just enough of a ruckus for the security service to sound the alarm and start evacuating. Enraged upon seeing that his plan had failed and with Republic forces closing in, Catiline found the injured Moira when she was trying to disarm a bomb and took out his righteous anger on her. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The bolts from her blaster pistol proved obviously ineffective against a trained force-user wielding a lightsabre and after reflecting them he started to choke her. As the flow of oxygen to her lungs was cut off and her vision turned hazy, Catiline sensed troopers rushing towards his position. Discarding Moira by telekinetically slamming her into a wall, he took flight. Despite the security forces' best efforts he apparently managed to escape into the criminal underworld, presumably swearing to continue his crusade for great justice and leaving Moira with a grudge since he had eluded her. Of course, a few innocent people had unfortunately lost their lives and the mission had almost gone awry, but in the end the sting operation had worked and arguably more innocents had been saved. Subsequently Moira participated in a number of operations, which increasingly focused on the danger posed by separatist movements on worlds newly integrated into the Republic and the potential threat of Imperial Sith espionage, given the fact that both empires were both set on spreading their system throughout the Galaxy and thus set on a collision course.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]RP threads since joining (to be included): [/SIZE]
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/3259-profit-margins-cato-neimoidia/: The Neimoidians have imposed a tariff on all ships moving through and about their system to fund economic development. The Republic does not like this, so they invade, but because saying that is bad for marketing they say it's to topple the local dictator and impose democracy! Moira doesn't care either way - nations rise and fall, the Neimoidians are evolution's losers, but she sees through the propaganda. On the planet as an infiltrator she gets useful intel from a collaborator, who gets killed, not that she cares, has an exciting speeder chase before she meets her handlers, transmitting intel. While the Republic fleet dukes it out with old Neimoidian ships and Jedi do a boarding exercise, Moira goes off to save the Neimoidian puppet they want to put in power from getting killed. On the way she gets help in form of an Atrisian armoured division and gets to drive an AT-AT. That's so awesome! Plenty droids get destroyed, Neimoidians die, the puppet gives a dramatic speech. Later the local dictator's tower gets blown up. Democracy is triumphant!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/3951-workers-revolution-republic-takeover-of-contruum/: Contruum is strategically positioned and must be conquered. In order to aid this venture, the Republic supports a terrorist insurgency of workers against the plutocratic regime that oppresses them. Their job is quite simple: Distract the mercs and sabotage the planetary defences for the incoming Republic fleet. Who better to direct this venture than former terrorist Moira? Speeder bombings, executions of mercs, sacrificing hundreds of rebels and untrained irregulars to force a distraction and then blow up the shield generator. Moira is in her element! Alas, the Republic gets cold feet and abandons the insurgents to getting slaughtered. Moira, who had a contingency plan for the rebels after victory, is disgusted by this, but narrowly escapes. Hence she shall be known as the Butcher of Contruum. When she returns to the galactic scene she has been...profoundly changed.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/5492-what-even-is-happening-moira/: Moira is back! While tying up loose ends in the bad part of Coruscant, she meets Qae, cool Nautolan rogue knight. After killing a couple bad people both 'get to know each other better', then go infiltrate a club to smash an Anzati cult that brainwashes women using a holodrama called My Summer Blood. Take that, Twilight!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/6058-the-armada-omega-pyre-dominion-of-sluis-van/: Moira has joined the Protectorate, serving in their intel branch. The poor people of Sluis Van get invaded by the armada of an overdramatic Chiss warlord called Admiral Spanky. After intercepting a plea for help and conferring with Exarch Alcori, Moira leads a recon mission to observe the enemy fleet, sending back useful intel. Alcori arrives with an Exarchate fleet, there are plenty explosions and an Omega strike force boards an orbital station occupied by the pirates. Moira does her part to nobly liberate the star system by directing a squad and killing lots of pirates. Needless to say she is tremendously cynical about everything!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/6040-the-donanyd-effect-omega-pyre-republic-mandos-open/ : Darth Apparatus has wiped out the world of Donanyd and issued a 'dramatic' declaration to all powers of the 'surrender to the Sith or get destroyed' variety. How original! Moira finds this all very interesting - perhaps it will get the Republic active! When she is not trolling people, she finds time to join the Omega recon mission to the irradiated husk of a planet to collect data, led by Jorus Merrill. A Jedi shows up, Moira gets cross at him talking in her head. Annoying forcers!
http://starwarsrp.ne...a-protectorate/ : In the light of the Clockwork Crisis and a number of security leaks, not the least everyone being able to call the Lady Protector and a pirate showing up in Protectorate space, the Lay Protector orders an internal investigation. Across the Protectorate countless lower-ranking employees are questioned about 'hostile associations' with RC 212 and Circe Savan. Moira is assigned as an investigator along with HK, but is incapable of taking the affair seriously. Clockwork was ages ago, neither Circe nor RC are remotely relevant! She has some fun by baiting the fiery redhead Coryth Elaris into yelling at her. Moira decides she likes her because she's able to speak her mind!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/7598-the-galactic-republic-and-the-omega-pyre/: Senator Brunswick comes to Corellia to meet with OP leaders. Alas, he has nothing to offer and says the Republic is finished, so nothing useful happens. Moira helps with a memo, which pretty much says that OP should be defended with the last drop of Republic and Mandalore blood. Linna Beorht points out some flaws of that conservative plan. Moira decides Linna is one of the few people worth taking seriously!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/8030-the-corellian-conference/: fter the failure of the Brunswick mission and the senator's subsequent suicide on the senate floor, the OP leaders meet with the Republic Supreme Commander and Chancellor Serifen. A Moira memo argues for closer ties in the light of what appears like the Sith possibly setting up the CIS for a proxy war. Besides, even the 'mighty' Protectorate needs allies! Ultimately a mutual defence pact is agreed on. Alas, soon things won't be so shiny and happy anymore!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/9199-the-traitor-of-contruum-moira-skaldi/: Moira meets Velok, her source in the Sith Empire, on Contruum. Both have a friendly chat about geopolitics and plot to possibly pit Ashin Varanin and Kerrigan against one another on Myrkr, where due to ysalamiri they would be forced to fight and survive without force powers. Alas, that awesome plot never comes to pass! Still, they're so adorable together. Velok even thinks she's cute for a human. A shippers' dream come true!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/8839-tying-the-knot-tegaea-and-siobhans-wedding/: Exarch Alcori and Colonel Kerrigan are getting married! Moira...does not care either way, but finds something useful to do with her time by organising security and harassing her staff. If they don't do their job, she'll process them all!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/8280-marks-of-chaos-omega/: Purge! Moira shows off her skills by breaking a Bando Gora Cultist into revealing critical information about a major base and logistics centre. Fear the Queen of the Lubianka! iobhan assembles a crack of force of Omega soldiers, including HK, Dells, Nyos Val and Hevana, then attacks to capture a vampire called Crowley, mafia boss and unwilling Bando Gora ally. Reavers are slaugtered, they team up vamps, everyone gets to be a badass! Victory comes at a cost, for Dells is stabbed and needs a new liver, Nyos is critically injured when fighting off a horde of Reavers and vamps, HK is damaged when playing hero to save hostages Siobhan was willing to sacrifice. Siobhan gets shot and a piece of wall falls on her, then tastes the dark side when she fries vamps with lightning. Moira breaks Crowley, then he's left to die on the station when it gets blown up by Inimicas. Turns out the vamp had dealings with the energy vamps that tormented Siobhan and Adril. Revenge is a dish best served explosive!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/10437-damage-controlthe-dominion-of-polis-massa-special-event-prize-complete/: OP and the Republic came to blows at Polis Massa during the Dark Harvest crisis. There might be war! Naturally both think it's the others' fault! Moira doesn't care because Star Peace sucks! But is happy about Components of an Unspecified Nature being found. Whatever that is. Maybe it'll open the Cage of Leviathan!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/10145-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-cora/: Cora Passek is a cool terrorist who hates Sith and fights them! She reminds Moira of Ruby and so she decides to contact her, using said old terrorist identity. Both have a meta-heavy conversation with tons of pseudo-religious references over the Chaos network, then meet in an abandoned church on Denon. To win her trust Moira kills an unlucky ODF mook who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Then both travel to Vandelhelm where Moira has set up a safe house. Cora needs sleep, so Moira sedates her. Naughty Moira! Cora is pissed and punches her, then Moira shows off crazy piloting skills by evading patrols and blowing up an asteroid to get rid of them! With her the Angel of Chaos is safe.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/10340-the-hidden-followers-of-truth-omega-protectorate-susevfi-suarbi-75/: Corsairs and rogue Jensaarai are attacking Susevfi/Suarbi 75! The leader of the Jensaarai is an old OP ally, so Moira advises the Lady Protector to send OP troops. Then goes to her office, orders stimcaf and works. A secretary tries to seduce her, but Moira has actual work to do! She's not Kerrigan after all.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/11822-shadows-appear-atrisian-empire-dominion-of-rakata-prime/: Moira is there an observer when Atrisian forces move to take over Rakata Prime. She notes Fringe forces collaborating with them and the appearance of a new hostile party, whose fleet attacks the Atrisians. Said party will be revealed as the Klaxxi, big spider creatures.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/12491-aftermath-of-glory-tegaea/: After the battle of Metalorn Moira gives Alcori a devastating report about how much OP's foreign policy situation sucks. The Republic is no longer a friend (and will soon become the Sith's buddy), the Ithorian Treaty could destroy it. Fortunately, Alcori has decided to create a new super battleship, the Leviathan. To help Moira frames and then abducts a scientist who's developed a new revolutionary type of reactor core, but has refused to cooperate. Fortunately Moira is very persuasive! Oh, and Kerrigan is in hospital again. Moira doesn't care.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13160-i-dont-think-the-world-is-sold-moira/: Moira attends a science conference on Coruscant and meets super scientist Madeline Kahoshi, also the cousin of the Atrisian Emperor. Most interested by her research, she offers her the chance to experiment on Reavers. That's always fun! Who needs ethics when it comes to scientific progress?
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/12678-a-helping-hand-op-dominion-of-zonju-v/: Big bang! For a change the Protectorate is not fighting Reavers, but performing humanitarian aid. The thoroughly irrelevant planet of Zonyu V is being plagued by earthquakes, the people call for aid! A mercy mission led by Anya is sent to help study the quakes and evacuate the people. Moira observes from a frigate and helps coordinate logistics, then later saves Anya from getting herself killed for being too noble. Come with me if you want to live! Ultimately the planet gets wrecked and the city falls into a pit of lava, but lots of people are saved.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13488-the-day-the-music-died-op-reaction-to-rhommamoolosarian/: Velok stole the Sith archives, then vaporised Rhommamool/Osarian, Cira has disappeared. Moira finds this all lots of fun and gives a briefing to Exarch Alcori, having intercepted and analysed a message based upon which she can identify Velok as the terrorist behind the planets getting destroyed. She also happens to know he just stole the archives. Is this all just a bit suspicious! But fear not, Director Skaldi is totally loyal!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13625-youre-only-smoke-and-planets-tegaeahalen/: Republic Vice-Chancellor Halen comes to visit Alcori to discuss the Rhommamool/Osarian exterminatus. Moira is there as the voice with a connection to feed Alcori with info. Apparently the Vice-Chancellor doesn't know about Velok being behind the attacks, but he appears cooperative. It looks like both will make nice again, but Aleidis doesn't want to be friends with OP - being friendly with Sith is OK on the other hand! So much for Moira's plan of siccing Kerrigan on Velok and watching the fireworks.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13175-tea-is-important-moira-and-atrisian-empire/: After the regime change in OP Moira comes to negotiate a defence pact and trade arrangements with the Atrisian Empire on behalf of Lady Protector Alcori. Atrisians aren't happy with their Fringe buddies because they just took Phu. Course, they want Fondor for themselves...but can't get it without Fringe. Moira gets to meet Mirien, who's fun. Not much happens.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13921-the-final-battle-op-dominion-of-gehenna/: The Bando Gora homeworld has been discovered and Exarch Kerrigan leads the largest deployment of OP forces ever to crush them! The battle against Reavers, monsters and demon engines is brutal, savage, for victory justifies anything. Moira's dropship gets shot down and she is badly injured...then rises again, a kill-bot of pure destruction whose techniques tear Uber Reavers apart, kills a rock demon after getting her arm ripped, kills more things, then teams up with Maelion to cause even more mayhem. With her inhibitor badly damaged during the crash, she now knows she is an HRD. She and Maelion save Kerrigan from death after she rips apart a mountain ceiling and the floor, revealing a pit of lava, then decide it's time to ditch OP. For they have their own cause! All organics must be processed.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21243-past-rp-misadventures-of-iron-knight-and-the-ever-colonel-kerrigan-bando-gora-bonanza/ : The lost adventures of Moira, Kerrigan and HK as they battle the legions of the Bando Gora Machine Cult deep in the caverns of Gehenna. HK is possessed by the spirit of the Machine God and turns on them, though not before its previous avatar reveals that like them Moira's a Child of Mechanus...making HK her uncle. Moira's not the sentimental sort, though this is not awkward for her at all. Mechanus sounds like a place she should though! (ongoing)
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14095-knightly-promise-op-dominion-of-kalshebbol/: Dark Eldorai and corsairs have attacked Kal'Shebbol! HK-36 leads the Protectorate mission to fight them. Moira tags along, kills some people and gets to cause mayhem with a tank. Oh, and HK thinks Mando battle songs.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/12976-frigid-shadows-atrisian-empire-dominion-of-csilla/: Cody Weadge, Atrisian agent, has been captured by the Klaxxi while scouting out things on Csilla. While the Atrisian navy faces lots and lots of Klaxxi fighters, the Inquisition goes to save him. Moira happens to be on the planet for recon...kills plenty of Klaxxi by being awesomely Terminatrixy and meets Mirien Valdier again, now revealed as a force adept. Ashin Varanin also shows up to help because killing big spider things is such fun!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14508-social-protocol-cara/: Emperor Akio and his genius ship designer Cara Sampson discuss problems encountered on the flagship during the Csilla battle. Because she's been a naughty subject she's in a cell. No, not that sort of cell! Moira comes along to provide advice, is annoyed to find that Cara is 'her' Cora and went to Atrisia without her permission. Cara finds out her friend's a droid.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14143-the-dark-acolytes-atrisian-empire-dominion-of-korbin/: Moira tags along with the Inquisition when it investigates a series of mysterious disappearances on Korbin, uncovering corruption at the highest levels. Dark forcers might be involved! Moira gets to torture an ISB General, nothing much happens beyond that.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/15114-scratching-names-off-the-naughty-list-sith-empire-vs-mandalorians-invasion-of-yaga-minor/ : Apparently the Sith don't like peace for our time and attack the Mandalorian world of Yaga Minor! Although OP is stretched thin, it sends a task force to help the Mandos. Moira bombs a forest with Inimicas where Sith have been spawning, then takes on a unit of stormtroopers and a Sith knight together with a Mandalorian giant and her troops. The Sith knight dodges a lot in the duel, till Moira shoots her in the shoulder and the leg with buckshot, then tosses her across the field. Before falling into unconsciousness the Sith throws two gunships at her, even with superhuman speed Moira is buried by the cockpit, then punches her way out! A Nightsister recycles all the dead as zombies, Moira is unconcerned when a Sithy wants to drop an anti-matter bomb because she's in a tank, would survive unless radiation is really, really high and it's bound to kill all the Sithies and Mandos...so she would win! Ultimately the Sith win because the Mandos don't do much to fight back.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/15422-now-i-got-my-cootie-shot-tralotf/: The plucky Rebels attack a Fringe biochem laboratory on Endor! Moira tags along because there might be a live strain of the Gulag Virus. After killing some mooks she beats Lucien Cordel with bolter and flamethrower, then beats up Sargon Vynea, Fringe second in command, showing the awesomeness of being a Terminatrix and having access to cool equipment! While he does not get set on fire, he has to stay in hospital. Alas, Fringe reinforcements arrive and so after a Rebel releases a paralysing nerve agent to take out Fringe guards, they must retreat. Moira decides fighting forcers is cool!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14030-salvage-and-friendship-jorus/ : Between employers Moira shows up to help with the refit of the Absolution, which shall serve as a mobile base of operations for the new Rebel Alliance. She speaks in code through obscure religious references, meets Jorus again and for the first time encounters Mia Monroe. The former Mandalore has a delightful appetite for destruction and explosions. Besides, she has all of Velok's knowledge in her head! Alas he got killed during the Contruum auction by two teenagers and hasn't come back yet.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/16168-rebirth-of-an-empire-galactic-empire-dominion-of-oreen/: Despite only controlling Atrisia and a few planets in the unknown regions, the Atrisian Empire declares itself the Galactic Empire. Then it invades a border planet called O'reen. Moira likes conquest, does not care much about ideology and helps out by directing the flagship's gun batteries, then assuming direct control over the defence systems of an enemy space station and thoroughly wrecking it. This hurts the organics!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/16853-the-pact-of-steel-moira/ : Moira and Maelion are both awesome and murderous HRDs who want to commit genocide. Both have recently left Protectorate service and have the means to cause plenty of destruction. They're a match made in heaven! After meeting on Corellia they decide to get together...ahem, pool their resources and take over a droid company by blackmailing its boss. Then Moira kills the criminals to whom the company was indebted to. Archangel Research and Design shall be their front to create an army of unstoppable droid conquerors and wipe out all organic life. The Age of Steel shall begin!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/17112-the-process-of-processing/: Moira and Maelion discuss the design of the Processing Machine, the ultimate tool of ascension. Plans are made, now it just needs a few test subjects. The two of them are so cute and harmonious together!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/17402-the-political-process/ : Aurelia's career hasn't gone that well. She was booted out of the chancellery after losing the election, as Protectorate Chief Minister she was just a bureaucrat who never got to 'save the Galaxy' - because she totally could have! Now she's a businesswoman writing her memoires, but the publisher wants to censor! Moira shows up under the guise of being a reg from the publishing company, listens to Aurelia being dramatic, then later kidnaps her. Poor Aurelia is processed in an HRD but left in the dark about her true nature. Using information leaked by Moira, a Republic squad 'liberates' her from 'evil terrorists'. With Aurelia as their proxy Saelari Mining and Minerals shall serve the Age of Steel.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/16910-to-steal-a-mans-tea-invasions-of-atrisia/ : Fringe has invaded Atrisia because...well, apparently their leaders don't know either! That's what happens when Ashin goes on vacation. While Kerrigan has a TK duel in the air with a Fringe master, Moira coordinates defences at the Imperial Tower. For a long time nothing happens and she's bored, then finds something to do by beating up and capturing a Fringe infiltrator called Kitt Solo. After that she finds Bellalika, who has fallen off the Tower, and secures her for processing. Fringe troops finally landed, there's a big fight on the plains, then Je'gan negotiates an armistice and both unite to beat up the CIS...who have shown up for some reason. The Feds are bad losers and send Lucrehulks on collision course. Force meld by some of the most powerful masters in the Galaxy stops them, then Atrisia gets an unequal treaty imposed on it.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/17792-promotion-to-glory-maelionbellalika/ : Bellalika is processed, giving Archangel access to some very useful funds and information. Somehow later she shows up as a Jedi...but a machine cannot use magic. Regardless, it's profit for the Age of the Steel!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14368-divine-restoration-dominion-of-manpha-moross/: Moira, Dells and Jorus help the Moross Crusade kill Sithspawn creatures, while musing about the 'good old days' at OP and how things aren't that good there anymore. Moira gets to be a troll and kill things, so she's happy!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/17684-i-cant-believe-its-not-ig-88/ : The Dominion wants MRDs, so Maelion negotiates a deal with their representative. Moira comes by later after she's gone. Both conclude that some organicv should be purged outright and not processed. But they like getting lots of money for the deal!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/18413-crimson-tide-sith-vs-republic-invasion-of-manaan/ : Finally there's war again! The Sith have come to invade Manaan and Moira's there as an infiltrator in Ahto City. She saves a Sith stormtrooper called Shank from the flying force god Matsu Ike after she kills his squad, with said Jedi subsequently unleashing a typhoon...in a Republic city. While MSE-007 rains down death from above and records everything, Moira and Shank prepare for the release of the Zerek Strain, courtesy of a deal with Rave Merrill. A Jedi master suddenly spawns inside the building and somehow survives getting attacked with bolter rounds, disruptor fire, the electrical, paralysying fluid from a web rifle by a disguised Valik due to an impenetrable force shield. A Republic trooper is so kind to fire rockets everywhere, thus releasing the bioweapon, then Shank sends the rest airborne. After leaving the wrecked building Moira happens to come across a Republic-contracted Mando, who just set charges to sink half the city...although the Sith are already retreating. Recording everything, she sends a feed of the atrocity to MSE and uploads it on Galaxytube. The deaths of thousands of organics make Moira...happier and more joyful than she's been in a long time.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/18450-v-is-for-virus-maelionrave/ : Moira and Maelion travel to Endor to meet Rave...in the lab Moira attacked some time ago. But no hard feelings! They have a proposition and it involves recreating the Denon zombie virus strain. Apparently not all zombies died, so they'll go there and collect samples. Rave is agrees - she's cool! The three intrepid adventurers destroy plenty of zombies and collect samples, then later our two lovely terminatrices can pick up vials of a crude, weaponised virus that Rave made for them. Fringe gets approval points from Moira!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/18703-what-side-will-you-take/ : Maelion and Moira try to recruit MAI, an advanced infiltration droid...who is presently experimenting with human fashion.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19106-stygian-depths-stygium-crystal-raid-vs-op/ : The terminatrices travel to the invisible island on Maramere that contains Stygium Crystals. Landing on the planet, they take a boat to the island, then gather plenty of crystals before leaving. OP doesn't try to stop them, everything is very peaceful. What a change.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19273-bringing-light-to-the-process-moira/ : Having acquired the crystals, the two design their new ship...the Lightbringer. A cloaked ship invisible to detection, it is designed for infiltration missions and to serve as a mobile processing station - thanks to Rave they have entechment tech now. The Age of Steel is coming...no one can stop it! For they are the shining light of the future.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19228-dogpile-rebel-alliance-raid-on-styx/ : The Sith Empire is coming apart by the seams and soon the Scramble shall begin. The Rebels raid a top secret Sith research facility on Styx, stealing plenty of shiny tech. With Kerrigan, Jorus, Dells and Anemone it's like an OP reunion. Thessa, Judah and Mia Monroe are there as well! Moira tags along, kills plenty of stormies and acquires lots of loot. Loot and XP for everyone! And people say shopping is tedious and no fun.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19443-yall-done-karked-up-cis-invasion-of-barab-i-vs-black-suns/ : CIS invades Black Sun...while the latter is distracted with launching a futile attack on the Republic, who took Nar Shaddaa from them. Fringe shows up to fight CIS, Moira is there for the ride and faces a jet-pack using Mando who dodges a lot. Ashin fights the Templar boss, but ultimately CIS wins since the Suns don't do much.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19320-olraens-eleven-the-teferi-job/ : Back after the Contruum auction the CIS blackmailed the Republic into giving them the Jedi's 6 km city ship, which served humanitarian purposes. Now Je'gan Olra'en wants to steal it back...for Galactic Empire. Moira is among the crew he has hired. After discussing plans and going shopping, pirates get slaughtered in a system where the ship will be jumped to after hijacking, said system gets seeded with traps to throw off pursuers. Moira does not like the Feds and will be made very, very rich by participating in the theft!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20348-the-teferi-job-olraens-eleven-versus-cis/ : Using THE White Current Je'gan gets the team aboard the Shepherd without any of the Feds noticing. No resistance shows up, so Moira hacks into the network and turns all the droids against their organic masters. Purge! With Je'gan using super mentalism to get the crew to jump to hyperspace, them being forced to evac when they hit the system that's been seeded with traps, in order to escape the droids, and the Lord of the Hyperlanes taking the ship for a jump, everything works like a charm. Lots and lots of credits for Archangel!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20091-death-by-powerpoint/ : Moira provides a memo for a conference of TGE leaders, advising them to take action lest they fall behind the times...like by mobilising with full force to take territory away from OP. She does not like things being peaceful!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20311-cloudy-skies-ahead-cortosis-raid-on-bespin/ : With some organic allies Moira and Maelion raid OP's stockpile of cortosis on Bespin. There's an explosion and a couple people get shot, but otherwise it's very uneventful. Not that they're complaining!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20688-scar-a-planet/ : Maelion sells an anti-matter bomb to Racket, Moira having acquired it at Stxy. Moira's there on the Lightbringer to intervene if needed, but all goes well. He'll surely put it to good use!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20589-operation-promised-land-rebel-alliance/ : The last Rebel mission before disbandment is liberating Mon Cal and Quarren prisoners from a Sith concentration camp. Moira's there as an infiltrator and gets to shoot lots of Sithies and blow stuff up. It's all for a good cause! Well, she doesn't care either way.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21295-battle-of-oreen-invasion-rep-vs-fringe/ : TGE got beaten at Fondor, then joined the Fringe as a member state due to the threat of Republic invasion, which subsequently materialises. Needing someone else to fight the Republic wants TGE's leaders' heads on a platter because...well, that's unclear. OP should have been the one demanding heads, but for some reason it aborted its counterattack. Moira assists Fringe forces at O'reen and shots at the Grand Master, but a Templar turned Jedi master deflects a lot. Ultimately the Republic is defeated and retreats. In other news, Ashin has gone light side again!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21633-to-new-beginnings-lotf-tge/ : Moira attends the Fringe/TGE merger meet and greet. She meets Sargon and Kitt again. For an assassin droid meeting people you beat up and being friendly with them is not awkward.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21089-hunting-fear-with-the-fearless/ : Moira and Maelion make a business deal with Valik, who designs awesome monsters. After capturing a Nautolan and two Quarren for him, the three travel to a remote planet to capture a Sithspawn who feeds on fear. Alas for the beastie HRDs are fearless and so with ingenuity, shiny tech and brute force they make the beast bend to them. Lots of credits for Archangel and Valik goes on to make min Cthulhu. Archangel decides it likes him!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/22241-she-who-fights-monsters-lords-of-the-fringe-dominion-of-hebrides/ : A Bando Gora splinter group has shown up in the unknown regions! They also worship Kerrigan as a Chaos Goddess. Fringers and Rebels find common cause by boarding their command ship and killing lots and lots of Reavers. After all, everyone can agree on Bando Gora being monsters that need exterminating! Moira and Rave team up again to collect samples and storm a Bando Gora laboratory...where among other things they find a live Klaxxi and take it back for study. It's Life Day come early!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21915-seoul-train-lotf-dominion-of-seoul/ : Moira tags along when a Fringe strike force goes to take out an evil sorcerer and secure loot. Organics get slain. (ongoing).
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21460-back-in-the-saddle-firemane/ : Moira uses a Firemane attack on a space station of the Scutarii - corsairs and slavers who used to be friends with the Bando Gora before she 'persuaded' them to stay away from Gehenna - as the chance to hack into the station, thoroughly mess with the systems and overload the reactor, thus tying up a loose end. Alas, Kerrigan and company survive, but now the Nawab can't talk about any deals he might've made with her!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19780-kyrosian-ambitions-moira-and-kara/ : Moira and Maelion meet with the enterprising Sith Lady Darth Kyros to discuss a business deal. They shall convert elite minions of hers into HRDs, provide a vial of the zombie virus and the blueprints for bolters and special ammo. They also receive lightsabres and the Sith Lady agrees to train them in their use. It's most profitable for them and Kyros, who would also make a great Mistress of the Order of the Torch, is a most efficient organic. They will process her last!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/23115-the-technology-of-peace-maelion/: With Archangel ever growing and a series of successful contracts completed, Moira and Maelion meet to discuss expansion. To create a base to pursue their more 'unsavoury activities' - like turning organics into machines - they decide upon the design of a secret space station in a remote system, with the station getting the not at all ironic name the Liberator. To facilitate business relations with Fringe, operations will be started on 244 Core, while the factory on Corellia will be relegated to being an office front. What else is new, ah, yes, the Sith Phantom Menace threatens everyone! They are everywhere, anyone could be with them! Our mechanical super villains are impassive.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/22525-act-i-sands-of-time/ : Time travel! It would not be the first time a Terminatrix travelled back in time. Alas...there's no processing equipment. Thrown back 100,000 years, Moira spends most of her time trolling force gods and totally breaking the 4th wall. Oh, and guess what, it was not really time travel, but some uber force magic. This universe needs more logic!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/23867-subach-to-reality/ : A former Sith admiral has absconded with every factory on Lianna to the planet Bobadan. Trouble is, he took the assets of Santhe Corporation...whose owner is Fringe Lord Jared Ovmar. Needless to say property rights must be protected! So in the name of justice Jared, Rave, Kyros, Thyrian and Moira decide to pay the planet a visit with help from Danger. Could anyone possibly resist such a team of awesome? No...so there's no real opposition. Moira does not mind since she's getting paid a lot!
Also known as the Butcher of Contruum.
Aliases: Svetlana Alliuyeva, “Lana”, Nikita, Marita Krycek. The cover identity she used for the Contruum operation was Ruby - the name is taken from a morally ambiguous Chaos daemon in Artam mythology, who was a daemon rebel of sorts during the War in Heaven. She still uses the name when operating in the twilight underworld of terrorists, hackers and criminals.
In her cover identity as an aspiring businesswoman, heading Archangel, she is known as Nalia Alderana.
Faction: Affiliated with the Fringe Confederation and the Sith Order.
Formerly she worked for the Republic as a special agent, then the Omega Protectorate as special agent and policy analyst, later head of Military Intelligence. Worked for the Galactic Empire as a freelance agent and with the Rebel Alliance. Ultimately loyalty is solely to the Age of Steel and thus Archangel. Her ultimate goal is to purge or process all organics in order to inagurate a mechanical dystopia of well-ordered machines.
Rank: Co-owner of Archangel Research and Design together with @[member="Maelion Liates"]. Member of the Oligarchy Leadership of the Sith Order as Archangel Representative.
Homeworld: Artam. A distant, until recently largely isolated world on the outer rim with the nearest other world being Dantooine. At the time when Moira was born, its inhabitants thought space travel was a myth and hyperspace the realm of demons against whom only true faith and the benevolent sage-king could protect them. Being forced into a larger Galaxy through pirate attacks came as an immense culture shock. This Moira to first join a rebel movement and later to escape from her homeworld.
Place of residence: Has an apartment on Corellia, which she seldom uses since a machine neither sleeps nor has need for leisure, meaning that principally she is always at work. By the standards of a wealthy businesswoman it is rather spartan and humble, as likewise she has no interest in luxury and does not bring guests come. However, its library is very extensive and contains numerous historical, political and religious volumes. She is also often on the Liberator, the secret space station where Archangel's more unsavoury activities take place. From there she and Maelion can watch the Galaxy undisturbed and scheme.
[SIZE=9pt]Species: Human Replica Droid - Terminatrix[/SIZE]
Age: Was 26 in human years when she was processed after the Contruum insurgency. If she were human she would be in her thirties now.
Gender: Female appearance.
Height: 1,8 m
Weight: About 100 kg because machine beneath the pretty, organic exterior.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Skin: Caucasian, fair.
Force Sensitive: No, a machine cannot use 'magic'.
[SIZE=9pt]Employment: Co-owner of Archangel. Was supposed to become a priestess in the Artam Ecclesia, but dropped out to turn the resistance movement. Went rogue during the civil war after the monarchy’s fall and fled the planet by requisitioning the King’s ship. After a brief stint in the Dantooine militia, she hooked up with a pirate flottilla before coming into contact with Republic agents. Betraying the pirares to them, she got an offer she could not refuse. She served the Republic as a specialist for wet work and dirty tricks, achieving infamy as the Butcher of Contruum for directing a Republic-backed, vaguely communist terrorist insurgency against the plutocratic government. The Republic decided to abandon the insurgents and so they were brutally suppressed. After escaping Contruum she wound up getting captured by an HK droid, a 'brother' of HK-36, and was processed into an HRD on the secret planet of Mechanus. It is not certain whether this was part of a mission, though one can presume it was, but she wound up joining the Protectorate, working her way up to be head of intel and serving it at crucial battles such as Sluis Van, Gehenna and Yaga Minor, going off the grid shortly before Lady Protector Alcori had to step down due to an assassination attempt. She has worked with Atrisians, Rebels, Sith, but been loyal to none of them.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Strengths: [/SIZE]
- As an HRD Moira is very strong and resilient, possessing super strength and speed. Since she is made of metal beneath her organic exterior she is also very difficult to destroy. Even if she is damaged she is able to continue fighting, even if missing a limb, as she did on Gehenna after a rock demon creature ripped one of her arms off. Well-versed in using ranged and melee weapons, with the right preparations and equipment she is able to take on and successfully fight force-users, which she considers to be something of a sport, as they are the biggest prey. Even as a human she was also well versed in close quarter combat and has trained extensively in hand to hand techniques. Moreover, she was skilled in the use of explosives, especially dynamite owing to her past career as a terrorist or freedom fighter, depending on one’s political perspective.
- The fact that she is pretty much a super computer has given her potent hacking abilities. When an elite team of fighters, infiltrators and techs was hired by the Traitor Grand Master Je'gan Olra'en, now a High Inquisitor of the Galactic Empire, to steal the Shepherd, a 6 km ship built by the Jedi but handed over by the Republic due to CIS blackmail, from the Confeds, she was able to hack into the network controlling the droids of the vessel and turn them against the organic Confederate crew, though this took her full concentration.
- Moira is very well-connected. Initially having mainly contacts among terrorists and criminal networks during her time as a Republic agent, using her terrorist past to her advantage, over the years she has built an extensive list of contacts, something helped by the fact that she no qualms about working with anyone who can give her an advantage. She has done business with the Whiphid dark lord Velok, the powerful alchemist Rave Merrill, the Traitor Grand Master Je'gan Olra'en and the enterprising Sith Lady Kara Vi'dreya, also known as Darth Kyros, among others. Moreover, she worked with the Rebels for a while and knows Jorus Merrill, career insurgent and head of the corporate giant Silk Holdings. Even as a purely human agent of the Republic she had a nuanced, realism-based understanding of galactic politics and power structures, something enhanced by her experience as a policy analyst while with the Protectorate, providing advice on galactic politics to the Lady Protector and the Exarchs via memos on foreign policy.
- She is absolutely ruthless - for her anything goes. Ethics, morals and so on mean nothing to her and she focuses exclusively on the mission. That is when given a task she judges the means to accomplish by it by their likelihood of achieving the desired end. As a machine she is incapable of feeling emotions. She can imitate human emotion to a degree, but never feels it. In essence she is a paper clip maximiser!
- When on mission Moira is extremely good at imitating humans. She can change her voice to any known tone, speak any language she has programmed, expertly mimic any voice she has heard, and is able to manipulate and use organics extremely well.
- - As a droid she has a literally photographic memory, and can store a vast amount of information. She can also transmit messages from an internal transmitter, even beaming live images from her eyes across to another. She and Maelion - and indeed any HRD manufactured by Archangel - can communicate purely electronically via a wireless link, allowing them to speak without being overheard by organics.
[SIZE=small]Weaknesses: [/SIZE]
- Moira does not understand the Force. It is something she can only observe the effects of, and cannot quantify. Against Force users she is sometimes unable to assess potential dangers. Leading into the below, she is also vulnerable to Force lightning, though she has acquired a Sith chainsword able to deflect it, along with a lightsabre - the latter a gift from Kyros.
- As a droid, Moira is vulnerable to ion and electrical weapons.
- - Although she looks like a human and acts like one, she isn’t. Even if people around her she works with don’t know, they sense something is unusual. Thus Moira does not have friends in the usual sense. The only person she trusts is Maelion and that is because she is like her. Yes, by organic standards she is an extreme narcissist.
- Sufficiently perceptive force-users would be able to detect that something is...off about her. Lack of internal emotion, no presence in the Force, much like a void. A reasonable supposition would be that she is either force dead or an HRD. This puts limitations on her ability to avoid detection.
Personality: Emotionless, detached, inherently suspicious, absolutely ruthless, sarcastic, total troll, sociopath. Moira holds organics in disdain and sees herself as inherently superior - she experiences something like annoyance when dealing people she considers overemotional or foolish. However, she is quite capable of playing the diplomatic game when needed, something perhaps helped by lack of emotions. There are some organics whose efficiency she has come to respect, like Velok and Kyros. There is a certain...affinity with Cora Passk because she is what human Moira used to be. However, Moira would still sacrifice everyone if it was required to achieve her mission and would be incapable of feeling any guilt about it. People are just assets, tools or threats. One day all organics will either be wiped from the Galaxy or processed into machines. It is ironic that she pursues this goal with a single-mindedness very reminiscent of that of organic religious fanatics trying to force their notion of purity on the Galaxy. Considering she was born on a cultist planet, there is a strong element of irony.
Becoming aware of her true as an HRD has changed Moira in some ways. Before that she was already extremely ruthless and with a superiorty complex close to narcissism, but some beliefs she once had still remained with her, such as her belief that force-user belonges shackled and collared, though this did not stop her from cooperating with and even liking Velok. While very ambitious, she also had some anarchist inclinations from her old days, hence why she developed something like a soft spot for Cora Passek. Moreover, she was still largely doing the dirty work of others. Now she has changed and pursues only her own cause, the creation of a well-ordered mechanical utopia of machines. No hint of human sentimentality remains with her and she will stop at nothing to accomplish her objectives, which are fully genocidal.
Hobbies: Moira does not sleep, does not need to eat or rest and so she has full time to get on with her work, the cause being the Age of Steel. However, she's a fan of the satirical, political sitcom Yes, Senator. She is very interested in history, galactic politics and religion - she can learn a great deal very fast due to not needing sleep and being a super computer.
Equipment/Attire: Whatever is appropriate for the mission. Human Moira preferred more informal attire when out of uniform - vaguely paramilitary style outfits, leather jackets etc., always leaving room for concealed weapons. In her identity as the businesswoman Nalia Alderana she obviously wears a professional business suit and unlike a certain woman-shaped battering ram has no trouble walking in high heels. For heavy combat situations she wears the ultrachrome armour she stole while participating in a Rebel raid. As far as weapon she is quite fond of the MK1 boltgun, using her superior strength to dual wield it in most situations. For close combat she has a Sith chainsword that was likewise acquired during the Rebel raid, and recently acquired a lightsabre during the course of a business deal with Kyros. Obviously she does not have the Force, but an assassin droid posseses the reflexes for blaster deflection. Due to having been a member of the Rebel Alliance she received a Rebel Corusca Signet Ring as a goodbye gift after it disbanded. The ring can produce a single-use, miniaturised shield generator. Likewise she owns a Lightbringer Sensor Node that can detect forcers over short distances much like a Geiger Counter (courtesy of Jorus Merrill, Lord of the Hyperlanes).
[SIZE=9pt]Ship: The personal ship of Moira and Maelion is the Lightbringer, a cloaked ship that was the crowning achievement of relentless machine drive and the cooperation of several organic allies. Manufactured for them by Iron Crown Production, its main purposes are infiltration - its cloak field makes it invisible to detection - and to serve as a mobile processing station, with the machinnery to turn organics into machines. It is crewed exclusively by droids. When she is not using Moira uses any ship that is practical for the mission. During a Rebel raid on a top secret Sith research facility she stole an elite Dominus-class starfighter. She is a skilled pilot for most ships, though not a great fighter pilot.[/SIZE]
Bounties: N/A
Kills: None so far. Successfully fought the Sith Knight Paega Anginous on Yaga Minor. Defeated Lucien Cordel and Sargon Vynea during a Rebel raid on a Fringe biochem research facility on Endor. Also beat and captured Kitt Solo during the Fringe invasion of Atrisia.
Biography: The Gulag Virus was a terrible calamity that ravaged the Galaxy and threw galactic civilisation back for centuries. More developed worlds found ways to cope and eventually emerge out of the dark ages like a phoenix out of the ashes. Others could not pass the test and regressed to a more primitive time. Some succumbed to complete barbarity and rule of warlords of the weeks. Others again found a measure of order, that of the graveyard. Artam was among the latter, which is ironic considering the promise it held. It was located on the far rim, a few parsecs away from Dantooine, with which it had commercial relations. While not the most attractive world, to a great extent covered in snow and ice and characterised by volcanoes, it had diamonds and fuel ressources in abudance to trade for foodstuffs from Dantooine. At the time of the outbreak of the Gulag Virus, it sported a population of about 45 million and had submitted an application to join the Galactic Alliance. The government was oligarchic but had made cautious steps towards liberalisation and greater openness. All this came to an when at the dawn of the Four Hundred Years Darkness. Artam, dependent on outside food imports, was ill-equipped to deal with the crisis. The Grand Council imposed a planet-wide quarantine and declared martial law.
[SIZE=9pt]But while they were abe to fend off attacks of pirates and raiders, along with preventing potentially infected refugees from reaching the planet, the government found itself unable to deal with the chaos on the planet as the death toll rose. Mob violence took over and finally a charismatic preacher called Cerunnos formed his own private army. Declaring that the Plague had been the punishment of the Gods for mankind’s arrogance, materialism and blasting the government for its corruption, he waged a holy war. His followers would later claim that he had been infected by the virus but by the grace of the Gods survived and received prophetic visions. Similarly it was claimed that he could heal the infected with the palm of his hand. Obviously both these claims are absolutely untrue, but it made for good propaganda after he was assassinated by one of his disciples, who had been bought by the Council. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]After his violent death House Iblis, one of the lesser noble families, took command over the Revolutionary Army and after two more years of brutal fighting its armies entered the ruined capital city of Agharta. By then hunger, repeated shelling and the virus had killed a great deal of the inhabitants. In the following four centuries the Iblis Dynasty, whose leades adopted the title of King of Kings, ruled over the planet as absolute autocrats with unfettered power. As far as Artam’s population knew, mankind had committed the sin of worshipping mammon, consorting with aliens and letting mages rule over them. The Gods had created the Plague to punish them, but in their endless mercy had realised that a small spark of goodness still existed the God Beliar had chosen Cerunnos as his avatar and prophet. On his deathbed before his ascent to the heavens, Cerunnos had ordained the Iblises as his governors on Artam. Hyperspace was regarded as a demonic realm, the desire of humans to travel across the stars was sheer hubris.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Admittedly this managed to restore a measure of order for a while. But the trouble was that this convenient myth could only hold for so long before it came crumbling down. If Artam would not take note of the Galaxy, the Galaxy would take note of Artam.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Moira Skaldi was born during the reign of Baldur Iblis, who was already starting to become aware of the wider Galaxy and surreptitiously making contacts. Moira was born into an officer family, her father had a comission in the Royal Guard, a prestigious position that came with a small estate and a few serfs. Her mother was a priestess and a doctor, people thought those of the faith had a special gift. Moira was the youngest of three children; Pausanius, Ananke, Moira.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]By the standards of the time their lives were privileged and they mixed in high circles. As a child Moira was obedient, studious, though there was always a certain curiosity about what they lay beyond the boundaries of Artam, out there in the stars, as heretical as these thoughts were, something which at the time caused her some distress. However their neatly organised life came to an end when her father run afoul of court intrigue and lost his head. Depending on the rumours, he was either having an affair with a lady of court whom one of the princes coveted or had gotten involved in a court cabal to murder the Crown Prince, a demented, mentally unstable fellow, and gain power at court for Lord Stark. [/SIZE]
No matter the truth the incident ended with her father being beheaded, though what was left of the mother’s connections ensured that rather than following him to the grave they were exiled to a remote area in northern Artam. Here the winters were long and harsh, they were among the exiles. Power cuts were frequent, supplies irregular. Her mother was left to manage the family and to try and plot for them to return, feeling vengeful. During a serf rebellion their house was stormed, a frightened Moira managed to hold off a rebellious serf with a revolver before she was able to flee into the woods. At this stage Moira underwent a phase of rebelliousness, falling into an unruly crowd that flaunted the rules, such as those against licentiousness, though after the serf attack she repented. By the decree of her mother, who had managed to get a leadership position in the local church, her daughter would follow in her footsteps and join the Ecclesia. Moira, though devout, was not thrilled about this, she felt a strong resentment at their treatment, but nonetheless had to obey.
[SIZE=9pt]At this time Moira was still largely devout and at first had a good start as a sister of the Ecclesia. A Revered Mother called Tegliti, who knew her mother from her time at court, took her under wing. If rumours are to be believed, she “enjoyed” her company. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]However, the rampant corruption in the Ecclesia could not escape her notice. This was a time when the state tried to make money for grandiose construction projects and festivals through the sale of indulgences. Clerics toured the land to sell these indulgences to a deluded populace and Moira was one of them. Growing increasingly sceptical about these measures and distressed about rumours of “demon attacks” – in actuality pirate raids that were swept under the rug by the Ministry of Truth – she felt a yearning to join the militia. She started mixing in heretical circles, who were given to fanciful conspiracy theories, such as that the head priest had bewitched the King and was a demon in disguise, along with bizarre ideas such as freedom. Moira came to the attention of the Truthmen, the Artam Inquisition, when she helped spread heretical literature and leaflets. Moreover, her closeness to Tegliti had been noticed, it was considered unmutual. During a purge the heretical group was arrested and Moira was one of those put in the dungeon. Kept isolated and subjected to torture, she eventually and named a number of accomplices, many of them fictional, some real. At the trial Tegliti, who had actually brought her into the group, confessed against her, but the priestess was more of a prize target than a simple sister and so Moira got away with being subjected to reeducation. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Stricken with conflicting feelings, along with a strong sense of resentment, she was on the way of repenting when suddenly a flotillla of pirates attacked Artam, an event that would precipitate the end of the old order and her eventual escape. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Given the fact that the planet had spent the past four centuries in total isolation, its military was hopelessly outdated. Artam soldiers were good when at goose-stepping on parades and at brutally suppressing internal dissent, but pretty useless when it came to fighting raiders who would undoubtedly lose against a professional military but had advanced weaponry. Several mines and Artam cities were struck, temples were put to the torch, people taken as slaves. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The temple where Moira was being reeducated at was one of those struck. Reacting on instinct and using the training her father had given her, she ecaped her cell liberated a gun from a wounded guard, whom she coincidentally did not try to save, to fight. Shooting a few pirates she tried to escape to the woods. Captured she managed to break out with a few fellow heretics. Spending several days in the wilderness as the corsairs ravaged the land, they eventually learned that the King had been forced to sign a humiliating treaty with the outsiders, many of whom were aliens. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Reunited with her brother Pausanias, who had joined the army and been among the troops sent to secure and purge the area, Moira made the snap decision to abandon any pretense of following the regime. The realisation of how helpless the seemingly all-powerful King of Kings was against the savage outsiders, some of whom looked human, had shaken her faith too much, no matter how the regime declared that traitors in the ranks had been at fault for their defeat at the hands of the supposed demons. A bitter argument developed, in which she was reproached for how she had disgraced the family name, as she realised that troops were arriving to arrest her companions it ended with her shooting and wounding her brother on impulse, then fleeing. Several soldiers had deserted, Moira wound up joining a fledgling resistance movement, more like a federation of all those disenchanted with the regime.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]What ensued was a brutal, multi-sided civil war that shall not be recounted in detail. Displaying the fanaticism of those driven by revenge, Moira proved herself a skilled, if ruthless soldier. She made a name for herself at commando operations and bombing attacks, discovering a talent for explosives, bringing the war into the cities the powerful had considered safe with charges of dynamite. The situation was not helped by the fact that sporadically bands of pirates appeared on the planet, taking advantage of the regime’s weakness. Moira was angered to discover that some rebels were trying to make a deal with the pirates, whereupon she shot them. She got a position in the department responsible for feretting out traitors, she started to become disillusioned when the rebels bands started to feud amongst themselves as the war turned against Baldur. The King had gotten support from pirates, but they were more interested in plundering, and Moira was among the rebels who took his palace, though not one of those who hoist the red banner on the roof. The King was captured and paraded through a once again ruined Agharta. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Unfortunately, with the ancien régime gone, there was nothing holding the revolution and its leaders started feuding. The planet was ruined, confiscation of foodstuffs and widerspread devastation caused famine. Baldur was kept under guard in his own bastille by one of the factions, rumours abounded about him having an off-worlder as his personal pilot for a starship he had managed to acquire through his deal with the pirates. Moira, cut off from her family and angered at how the noble dream of setting things right by toppling the decadent, mendacious regime, began to hatch a plan to get away. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Traversing space was still a frightening prospect to her, she had not fully discarded her old superstitions, but there was no prize without considerable risk. Using her position she was able to interrogate the King's unfortunate pilot, who had been captured, under the guise of trying to find out information about the foreign devils. While he could confirm that the King did indeed have a ship, Moira was unable to act on this information because when a rival faction made territorial gains her superiors decided to shoot the pilot in a random purge. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Frustrated she eventually found a pirate whose ship had been shot down, protecting him from her own people. They made a deal: she would help him get a ship and in return he would fly her away from here. When open fighting broke out in the capital she deserted, teaming up with her pirate friend to infiltrate the palace where the king was being put on a show trial and abduct him. Moira tortured Baldur until he revealed where the starship had been hidden in the mountains, a location that could be reached through a secret tunnel beneath the royal palace, then shot him. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Together with the pirate she escaped, after another interesting adventure they finally got to the ship and managed to take off, despite a group rebels attempting to ambush them. An awed Moira, still afraid of travelling across space, had little time to admire the vastness of space for her temporary alliance with the pirate broke down once they passed through hyperspace, something both had expected. As it happened, she was a faster shot, though he managed to injure her with a blade. Moira was left with the problem of having only a limited idea of how to fly a ship, which moreover lacked fuel, and so when she came out of hyperspace she lost control and it crashed upon the surface of Dantooine, the planet whose coordinates had chosen. She survived the crash and managed to get out of the ship before it exploded. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]A foreigner on an unknown world with few useful skills beyond killing people, she felt lost but also exhilirated and surprised at having succeeded. While her initial reception by the local constabulary was rather icy and suspicious, with her being detained, understandable when one considered that she was a stranger who had suddenly crashed on their planet and did not have any ID on her, she wound up joining it. Luckily the local farmers had to deal with raiders, pirates and other riff-raff. Casualties in the militia were high, pay was low and irregular, so they weren't that picky about who joined. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]She stayed with the militia for a while, gaining a reputation as a skilled if at times brutal member, though she remained solitary. However, her loyalties remained in fluctuation and so after an investigation into the black market where a few people too many, one of them a rather influential local landlord who was a friend of the chief administrator, wound up dead, she ironically enough ended up joining a pirate flotilla, the Crimson Blades, not particularly unusual because quite a few militia members frustrated over the low pay wound up there, ironically enough she had arrested one for it. She proved her loyalty by helping them spring a comrade out of jail. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The irony of the fact that she was teaming up with exactly the sort of people she'd fought once did not escape her, but she was facing an investigation herself on Dantooine. The pirate captain was a vampire called Raspe, a cruel man with a tendency to being dramatic. He liked to decide whether to execute or spare someone by flipping a coin. True to that, after a coin flip Moira and the freed pirate had to fight, in the words of Raspe a trial of the Force. At the start the pirate, a vampire as well, had the upper hand and after giving Moira a beating sunk his fangs into her neck, but overcome with rage she managed to throw him off and then bit him in the hand, then beat and stabbed him. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Impressed Raspe offered her a place on his crew. While Raspe liked to prattle about how he was fighting for freedom, that was a hollow claim considering his crew was preyed on the weak who could not defend themselves. Moira proved herself ruthless and capable enough to survive, but the vampires on the crew regarded humans as little more than blood cows unless they were tough enough to stand up for themselves. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]One can assume she was attacked, further hardening her, and once when a vampire tried to feed from her she stabbed him in the groin. To gain their respect she had to be as cruel as they were, unwilling to bend or make the mistake of trusting too strongly, lessons not unfamiliar to her from her time in the Artam resistance movement. The change in her life came when the raids on poorly defended settlements and the taking of slaves brought the Crimson Blades to the attention of the Republic. While still in its infancy and far from being the unchallenged galactic government that the Old Republic had once been, its leaders had ambitions to reunify the Galaxy and that meant being tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. Or perhaps just taking out lots of pirates in ways that looked good on the holonet news. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]After having raided a small colony and taken its inhabitants as slaves was ambushed by a Republic task force. While they narrowly escaped the space battle, they lost several ships and a good deal of their cargo. As an unstable Raspe started hunting for the snoop who had given them away, Moira began thinking about her future. While not a woman of morals she was becoming disgruntled with her work, more to the point she disgusted with the captain for his instability, inability to actually lead and control the scheming among his underlings. The pirates suspected that a Zabrak smuggler called Hasan had sold them out and Moira was sent along with some other pirates to do him in. Unfortunately for them, he had suspected this and taken precautions. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The Republic forces sprung a trap on them but Moira shot the smuggler when the attack began and turned on her comrades and was captured during the ensuing firefight. Interrogated by Republic investigators, she was faced with the classical prisoner's dilemma, but instead experienced prisoner's delight and made a deal with them. The smuggler had been shot during the fight, but she could give them information on Raspe's contacts and hideouts. Equipped with a transmitter and with the smuggler's head she was sent back to Raspe. After subjecting her to his particular brand of vigorous interrogation and forcing her to let him drink her blood, he believed her story and Republic intelligence fed her details about a smuggler vessel of one of Hasan's business partners carrying a large of spice. But when they intercepted it they were attacked by a Republic cruiser and boarded. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]As Republic soldiers stormed the vessel Raspe tried to escape as his crew was cut down, but was ultimately killed by Moira with a light repeater. Moira survived, though wounded and almost caught in the crossfire. Thereafter she got the classical deal of many a social miscreant. The Republic could wipe her record clean and she would work for them, or she might take her chances in a court.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Needless to say the latter option was not particularly attractive to Moira, as much as it rankled her that she was being put on the stop and bossed around. But it suited her priorities just fine. The Republic was strong, powerful, actually seemed like it was here to stay for a while and deliver, whereas the revolutionists on Artam had fallen apart within moments after winning the war and the pirates were inherently unstable. In a more romantic tale this might have turned into a Damascene conversion, where the sinner realises the error in her ways and vows to make amends by serving the cause of good in pursuit of redemption. The sort of story perfect for emotionally engaging holomovies about good overcoming evil and all that. However, Moira, although disgusted with Raspe's pirates and with some brief moments of remorse, was not the sort to look at the past and go on a noble mission. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]She is capable of acts of bravery, but reminds tight-lipped regarding her past and how she feels about, as if it simply were not an issue that required dealing with, when she does not fabricate details entirely. Over time she came to identify herself with the Republic, she found it fairly easy to rationalise the fact that its noble civilisation mission to carry the torch of civilisation into the darkest corners of the Galaxy apparently required meting out violence on so many occasions against people who for various reasons did not like the idea of their worlds being subordinated to the great commonwealth, though true idealism escaped her. She was probably too marked by her past experiences for it. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]After undergoing training she joined the ranks of Republic Military Intelligence. Subsequently much of Moira's time was spent with routine work, gathering reports, performing surveillance work on groups considered dangerous, especially criminals and separatists. Quite logically her superiors' trust in her at this juncture was limited, given her background. She spent some at the University of Kuat undercover, to test her ability to operate in a more civilised environment and collect data on student groups that might be too inclined to pay heed to unliberal ideas. While the Republic was a democracy and as such respected the rule of law, it had to contend with the fact that there wer many who would abuse the very freedoms that made it great and exploit any loophole to spread antidemocratic ideals and universities were known recruitment centres for spies. She worked on intelligence from headquarters during the Anaxes campaign, though no actual field work, much to her considerable irritation. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Her moment to make an impact came when Intelligence initiated an operation against the Galactic Liberation Front. Originally simply a group of idealists, many of them journalists, planetary rights activists and holo-documentarians, who sought to expose what they perceived as corporate abuses and official corruption, with a penchant for publishing damning information on the holonet, it had turned extremist. One of those responsible for this transition was a failed Jedi called Catiline. Initially a promising student, he had failed his Knighthood trials due to being too aggressive and passionate and thereafter abandoned the Order after his master got slain fighting a warlord's goons on the rim, dispensing justice as he saw fit for as a vigilante for many years before he joined the GLF and worked with like-minded extremist to turn it into a new direction, falling to the dark side. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Heading the violent Damocles Cell, he violently opposed the Jedi joining the Republic, believing that the great nation was mired in corruption and the Jedi would become mere stooges of corporations and self-interested politicians. Aside from spreading inflammatory propaganda, the terrorists were responsible for a number of bombings. Moira was initially brought in to make contact with arms dealers the terrorists were doing business with, then after a long period of diggin managed to make contact, presenting herself as an itinerary mercenary with grievances against the Republic, claiming that she was from Anaxes, yet another victim of Republic imperialism. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Starting at a low level in the group she helped them rob a bank on Coruscant and later murdered two former terrorists who had deserted the movement and agreed to testify, being put into a witness protection programme under state under police protection. As it turned out their guards did not do them any good. Needless to say the latter was an unsavoury assignment, but it was a judgement call of hers to go along and maintain cover. The terrorists made their home in the underworld of Lower Coruscant, where the poor, the criminals and the forgotten lived, not that far away from the splendour of the upper city, ironically. The intelligence she acquired later helped the security forces track down arms dealers and eliminate the rebels’ safe houses. She was able to sabotage an assassination attempt on a Supreme Court Judge who had made himself rather odious in the group's ideas by providing advanced warning, something which just made Catiline escalate and he planned to attack a Kuati Drive Yards facility by blowing it up. Intelligence provided a consignment of inferior baradiu, through a black market dealer, though the mission almost went south when he tried to screw the terrorists over and demanded an inflated price.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt] On the day of the trade summit the terrorists snuck out onto Kuat. Somehow the Coruscanti police had not been informed and tried to stop them in what was a standard raid but the police raid came too late. On Kuat they seemingly faced no difficulties, a trap had been set at the shipyards by Republic and local security forces to intercept them, but than at the last minute Catiline informed them that his plan had been a ruse and the real target was a trade summit in the Pericles Building, where in the words of Catiline dozens of bigwigs and profiteers would meet their death. Moreover, Moira was assigned to a diversionary group that would stage an attack on a small commercial spaceport and take hostages. Said diversionary attack had been anticipated by security, the real plan had not. Seemingly stranded Moira managed to shake off her supposed comrades and, stealing a speeder and a police uniform, pursued them to the trade summit, calling her superiors on the way. She intercepted the group of terrorist as they had infiltrated the building, disguised as cleaning personnel, though she was seriously injured in the firefight, taking on several of them. Bleeding, she caused just enough of a ruckus for the security service to sound the alarm and start evacuating. Enraged upon seeing that his plan had failed and with Republic forces closing in, Catiline found the injured Moira when she was trying to disarm a bomb and took out his righteous anger on her. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The bolts from her blaster pistol proved obviously ineffective against a trained force-user wielding a lightsabre and after reflecting them he started to choke her. As the flow of oxygen to her lungs was cut off and her vision turned hazy, Catiline sensed troopers rushing towards his position. Discarding Moira by telekinetically slamming her into a wall, he took flight. Despite the security forces' best efforts he apparently managed to escape into the criminal underworld, presumably swearing to continue his crusade for great justice and leaving Moira with a grudge since he had eluded her. Of course, a few innocent people had unfortunately lost their lives and the mission had almost gone awry, but in the end the sting operation had worked and arguably more innocents had been saved. Subsequently Moira participated in a number of operations, which increasingly focused on the danger posed by separatist movements on worlds newly integrated into the Republic and the potential threat of Imperial Sith espionage, given the fact that both empires were both set on spreading their system throughout the Galaxy and thus set on a collision course.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]RP threads since joining (to be included): [/SIZE]
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/3259-profit-margins-cato-neimoidia/: The Neimoidians have imposed a tariff on all ships moving through and about their system to fund economic development. The Republic does not like this, so they invade, but because saying that is bad for marketing they say it's to topple the local dictator and impose democracy! Moira doesn't care either way - nations rise and fall, the Neimoidians are evolution's losers, but she sees through the propaganda. On the planet as an infiltrator she gets useful intel from a collaborator, who gets killed, not that she cares, has an exciting speeder chase before she meets her handlers, transmitting intel. While the Republic fleet dukes it out with old Neimoidian ships and Jedi do a boarding exercise, Moira goes off to save the Neimoidian puppet they want to put in power from getting killed. On the way she gets help in form of an Atrisian armoured division and gets to drive an AT-AT. That's so awesome! Plenty droids get destroyed, Neimoidians die, the puppet gives a dramatic speech. Later the local dictator's tower gets blown up. Democracy is triumphant!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/3951-workers-revolution-republic-takeover-of-contruum/: Contruum is strategically positioned and must be conquered. In order to aid this venture, the Republic supports a terrorist insurgency of workers against the plutocratic regime that oppresses them. Their job is quite simple: Distract the mercs and sabotage the planetary defences for the incoming Republic fleet. Who better to direct this venture than former terrorist Moira? Speeder bombings, executions of mercs, sacrificing hundreds of rebels and untrained irregulars to force a distraction and then blow up the shield generator. Moira is in her element! Alas, the Republic gets cold feet and abandons the insurgents to getting slaughtered. Moira, who had a contingency plan for the rebels after victory, is disgusted by this, but narrowly escapes. Hence she shall be known as the Butcher of Contruum. When she returns to the galactic scene she has been...profoundly changed.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/5492-what-even-is-happening-moira/: Moira is back! While tying up loose ends in the bad part of Coruscant, she meets Qae, cool Nautolan rogue knight. After killing a couple bad people both 'get to know each other better', then go infiltrate a club to smash an Anzati cult that brainwashes women using a holodrama called My Summer Blood. Take that, Twilight!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/6058-the-armada-omega-pyre-dominion-of-sluis-van/: Moira has joined the Protectorate, serving in their intel branch. The poor people of Sluis Van get invaded by the armada of an overdramatic Chiss warlord called Admiral Spanky. After intercepting a plea for help and conferring with Exarch Alcori, Moira leads a recon mission to observe the enemy fleet, sending back useful intel. Alcori arrives with an Exarchate fleet, there are plenty explosions and an Omega strike force boards an orbital station occupied by the pirates. Moira does her part to nobly liberate the star system by directing a squad and killing lots of pirates. Needless to say she is tremendously cynical about everything!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/6040-the-donanyd-effect-omega-pyre-republic-mandos-open/ : Darth Apparatus has wiped out the world of Donanyd and issued a 'dramatic' declaration to all powers of the 'surrender to the Sith or get destroyed' variety. How original! Moira finds this all very interesting - perhaps it will get the Republic active! When she is not trolling people, she finds time to join the Omega recon mission to the irradiated husk of a planet to collect data, led by Jorus Merrill. A Jedi shows up, Moira gets cross at him talking in her head. Annoying forcers!
http://starwarsrp.ne...a-protectorate/ : In the light of the Clockwork Crisis and a number of security leaks, not the least everyone being able to call the Lady Protector and a pirate showing up in Protectorate space, the Lay Protector orders an internal investigation. Across the Protectorate countless lower-ranking employees are questioned about 'hostile associations' with RC 212 and Circe Savan. Moira is assigned as an investigator along with HK, but is incapable of taking the affair seriously. Clockwork was ages ago, neither Circe nor RC are remotely relevant! She has some fun by baiting the fiery redhead Coryth Elaris into yelling at her. Moira decides she likes her because she's able to speak her mind!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/7598-the-galactic-republic-and-the-omega-pyre/: Senator Brunswick comes to Corellia to meet with OP leaders. Alas, he has nothing to offer and says the Republic is finished, so nothing useful happens. Moira helps with a memo, which pretty much says that OP should be defended with the last drop of Republic and Mandalore blood. Linna Beorht points out some flaws of that conservative plan. Moira decides Linna is one of the few people worth taking seriously!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/8030-the-corellian-conference/: fter the failure of the Brunswick mission and the senator's subsequent suicide on the senate floor, the OP leaders meet with the Republic Supreme Commander and Chancellor Serifen. A Moira memo argues for closer ties in the light of what appears like the Sith possibly setting up the CIS for a proxy war. Besides, even the 'mighty' Protectorate needs allies! Ultimately a mutual defence pact is agreed on. Alas, soon things won't be so shiny and happy anymore!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/9199-the-traitor-of-contruum-moira-skaldi/: Moira meets Velok, her source in the Sith Empire, on Contruum. Both have a friendly chat about geopolitics and plot to possibly pit Ashin Varanin and Kerrigan against one another on Myrkr, where due to ysalamiri they would be forced to fight and survive without force powers. Alas, that awesome plot never comes to pass! Still, they're so adorable together. Velok even thinks she's cute for a human. A shippers' dream come true!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/8839-tying-the-knot-tegaea-and-siobhans-wedding/: Exarch Alcori and Colonel Kerrigan are getting married! Moira...does not care either way, but finds something useful to do with her time by organising security and harassing her staff. If they don't do their job, she'll process them all!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/8280-marks-of-chaos-omega/: Purge! Moira shows off her skills by breaking a Bando Gora Cultist into revealing critical information about a major base and logistics centre. Fear the Queen of the Lubianka! iobhan assembles a crack of force of Omega soldiers, including HK, Dells, Nyos Val and Hevana, then attacks to capture a vampire called Crowley, mafia boss and unwilling Bando Gora ally. Reavers are slaugtered, they team up vamps, everyone gets to be a badass! Victory comes at a cost, for Dells is stabbed and needs a new liver, Nyos is critically injured when fighting off a horde of Reavers and vamps, HK is damaged when playing hero to save hostages Siobhan was willing to sacrifice. Siobhan gets shot and a piece of wall falls on her, then tastes the dark side when she fries vamps with lightning. Moira breaks Crowley, then he's left to die on the station when it gets blown up by Inimicas. Turns out the vamp had dealings with the energy vamps that tormented Siobhan and Adril. Revenge is a dish best served explosive!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/10437-damage-controlthe-dominion-of-polis-massa-special-event-prize-complete/: OP and the Republic came to blows at Polis Massa during the Dark Harvest crisis. There might be war! Naturally both think it's the others' fault! Moira doesn't care because Star Peace sucks! But is happy about Components of an Unspecified Nature being found. Whatever that is. Maybe it'll open the Cage of Leviathan!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/10145-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-cora/: Cora Passek is a cool terrorist who hates Sith and fights them! She reminds Moira of Ruby and so she decides to contact her, using said old terrorist identity. Both have a meta-heavy conversation with tons of pseudo-religious references over the Chaos network, then meet in an abandoned church on Denon. To win her trust Moira kills an unlucky ODF mook who was at the wrong place, at the wrong time. Then both travel to Vandelhelm where Moira has set up a safe house. Cora needs sleep, so Moira sedates her. Naughty Moira! Cora is pissed and punches her, then Moira shows off crazy piloting skills by evading patrols and blowing up an asteroid to get rid of them! With her the Angel of Chaos is safe.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/10340-the-hidden-followers-of-truth-omega-protectorate-susevfi-suarbi-75/: Corsairs and rogue Jensaarai are attacking Susevfi/Suarbi 75! The leader of the Jensaarai is an old OP ally, so Moira advises the Lady Protector to send OP troops. Then goes to her office, orders stimcaf and works. A secretary tries to seduce her, but Moira has actual work to do! She's not Kerrigan after all.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/11822-shadows-appear-atrisian-empire-dominion-of-rakata-prime/: Moira is there an observer when Atrisian forces move to take over Rakata Prime. She notes Fringe forces collaborating with them and the appearance of a new hostile party, whose fleet attacks the Atrisians. Said party will be revealed as the Klaxxi, big spider creatures.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/12491-aftermath-of-glory-tegaea/: After the battle of Metalorn Moira gives Alcori a devastating report about how much OP's foreign policy situation sucks. The Republic is no longer a friend (and will soon become the Sith's buddy), the Ithorian Treaty could destroy it. Fortunately, Alcori has decided to create a new super battleship, the Leviathan. To help Moira frames and then abducts a scientist who's developed a new revolutionary type of reactor core, but has refused to cooperate. Fortunately Moira is very persuasive! Oh, and Kerrigan is in hospital again. Moira doesn't care.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13160-i-dont-think-the-world-is-sold-moira/: Moira attends a science conference on Coruscant and meets super scientist Madeline Kahoshi, also the cousin of the Atrisian Emperor. Most interested by her research, she offers her the chance to experiment on Reavers. That's always fun! Who needs ethics when it comes to scientific progress?
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/12678-a-helping-hand-op-dominion-of-zonju-v/: Big bang! For a change the Protectorate is not fighting Reavers, but performing humanitarian aid. The thoroughly irrelevant planet of Zonyu V is being plagued by earthquakes, the people call for aid! A mercy mission led by Anya is sent to help study the quakes and evacuate the people. Moira observes from a frigate and helps coordinate logistics, then later saves Anya from getting herself killed for being too noble. Come with me if you want to live! Ultimately the planet gets wrecked and the city falls into a pit of lava, but lots of people are saved.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13488-the-day-the-music-died-op-reaction-to-rhommamoolosarian/: Velok stole the Sith archives, then vaporised Rhommamool/Osarian, Cira has disappeared. Moira finds this all lots of fun and gives a briefing to Exarch Alcori, having intercepted and analysed a message based upon which she can identify Velok as the terrorist behind the planets getting destroyed. She also happens to know he just stole the archives. Is this all just a bit suspicious! But fear not, Director Skaldi is totally loyal!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13625-youre-only-smoke-and-planets-tegaeahalen/: Republic Vice-Chancellor Halen comes to visit Alcori to discuss the Rhommamool/Osarian exterminatus. Moira is there as the voice with a connection to feed Alcori with info. Apparently the Vice-Chancellor doesn't know about Velok being behind the attacks, but he appears cooperative. It looks like both will make nice again, but Aleidis doesn't want to be friends with OP - being friendly with Sith is OK on the other hand! So much for Moira's plan of siccing Kerrigan on Velok and watching the fireworks.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13175-tea-is-important-moira-and-atrisian-empire/: After the regime change in OP Moira comes to negotiate a defence pact and trade arrangements with the Atrisian Empire on behalf of Lady Protector Alcori. Atrisians aren't happy with their Fringe buddies because they just took Phu. Course, they want Fondor for themselves...but can't get it without Fringe. Moira gets to meet Mirien, who's fun. Not much happens.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/13921-the-final-battle-op-dominion-of-gehenna/: The Bando Gora homeworld has been discovered and Exarch Kerrigan leads the largest deployment of OP forces ever to crush them! The battle against Reavers, monsters and demon engines is brutal, savage, for victory justifies anything. Moira's dropship gets shot down and she is badly injured...then rises again, a kill-bot of pure destruction whose techniques tear Uber Reavers apart, kills a rock demon after getting her arm ripped, kills more things, then teams up with Maelion to cause even more mayhem. With her inhibitor badly damaged during the crash, she now knows she is an HRD. She and Maelion save Kerrigan from death after she rips apart a mountain ceiling and the floor, revealing a pit of lava, then decide it's time to ditch OP. For they have their own cause! All organics must be processed.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21243-past-rp-misadventures-of-iron-knight-and-the-ever-colonel-kerrigan-bando-gora-bonanza/ : The lost adventures of Moira, Kerrigan and HK as they battle the legions of the Bando Gora Machine Cult deep in the caverns of Gehenna. HK is possessed by the spirit of the Machine God and turns on them, though not before its previous avatar reveals that like them Moira's a Child of Mechanus...making HK her uncle. Moira's not the sentimental sort, though this is not awkward for her at all. Mechanus sounds like a place she should though! (ongoing)
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14095-knightly-promise-op-dominion-of-kalshebbol/: Dark Eldorai and corsairs have attacked Kal'Shebbol! HK-36 leads the Protectorate mission to fight them. Moira tags along, kills some people and gets to cause mayhem with a tank. Oh, and HK thinks Mando battle songs.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/12976-frigid-shadows-atrisian-empire-dominion-of-csilla/: Cody Weadge, Atrisian agent, has been captured by the Klaxxi while scouting out things on Csilla. While the Atrisian navy faces lots and lots of Klaxxi fighters, the Inquisition goes to save him. Moira happens to be on the planet for recon...kills plenty of Klaxxi by being awesomely Terminatrixy and meets Mirien Valdier again, now revealed as a force adept. Ashin Varanin also shows up to help because killing big spider things is such fun!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14508-social-protocol-cara/: Emperor Akio and his genius ship designer Cara Sampson discuss problems encountered on the flagship during the Csilla battle. Because she's been a naughty subject she's in a cell. No, not that sort of cell! Moira comes along to provide advice, is annoyed to find that Cara is 'her' Cora and went to Atrisia without her permission. Cara finds out her friend's a droid.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14143-the-dark-acolytes-atrisian-empire-dominion-of-korbin/: Moira tags along with the Inquisition when it investigates a series of mysterious disappearances on Korbin, uncovering corruption at the highest levels. Dark forcers might be involved! Moira gets to torture an ISB General, nothing much happens beyond that.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/15114-scratching-names-off-the-naughty-list-sith-empire-vs-mandalorians-invasion-of-yaga-minor/ : Apparently the Sith don't like peace for our time and attack the Mandalorian world of Yaga Minor! Although OP is stretched thin, it sends a task force to help the Mandos. Moira bombs a forest with Inimicas where Sith have been spawning, then takes on a unit of stormtroopers and a Sith knight together with a Mandalorian giant and her troops. The Sith knight dodges a lot in the duel, till Moira shoots her in the shoulder and the leg with buckshot, then tosses her across the field. Before falling into unconsciousness the Sith throws two gunships at her, even with superhuman speed Moira is buried by the cockpit, then punches her way out! A Nightsister recycles all the dead as zombies, Moira is unconcerned when a Sithy wants to drop an anti-matter bomb because she's in a tank, would survive unless radiation is really, really high and it's bound to kill all the Sithies and Mandos...so she would win! Ultimately the Sith win because the Mandos don't do much to fight back.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/15422-now-i-got-my-cootie-shot-tralotf/: The plucky Rebels attack a Fringe biochem laboratory on Endor! Moira tags along because there might be a live strain of the Gulag Virus. After killing some mooks she beats Lucien Cordel with bolter and flamethrower, then beats up Sargon Vynea, Fringe second in command, showing the awesomeness of being a Terminatrix and having access to cool equipment! While he does not get set on fire, he has to stay in hospital. Alas, Fringe reinforcements arrive and so after a Rebel releases a paralysing nerve agent to take out Fringe guards, they must retreat. Moira decides fighting forcers is cool!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14030-salvage-and-friendship-jorus/ : Between employers Moira shows up to help with the refit of the Absolution, which shall serve as a mobile base of operations for the new Rebel Alliance. She speaks in code through obscure religious references, meets Jorus again and for the first time encounters Mia Monroe. The former Mandalore has a delightful appetite for destruction and explosions. Besides, she has all of Velok's knowledge in her head! Alas he got killed during the Contruum auction by two teenagers and hasn't come back yet.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/16168-rebirth-of-an-empire-galactic-empire-dominion-of-oreen/: Despite only controlling Atrisia and a few planets in the unknown regions, the Atrisian Empire declares itself the Galactic Empire. Then it invades a border planet called O'reen. Moira likes conquest, does not care much about ideology and helps out by directing the flagship's gun batteries, then assuming direct control over the defence systems of an enemy space station and thoroughly wrecking it. This hurts the organics!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/16853-the-pact-of-steel-moira/ : Moira and Maelion are both awesome and murderous HRDs who want to commit genocide. Both have recently left Protectorate service and have the means to cause plenty of destruction. They're a match made in heaven! After meeting on Corellia they decide to get together...ahem, pool their resources and take over a droid company by blackmailing its boss. Then Moira kills the criminals to whom the company was indebted to. Archangel Research and Design shall be their front to create an army of unstoppable droid conquerors and wipe out all organic life. The Age of Steel shall begin!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/17112-the-process-of-processing/: Moira and Maelion discuss the design of the Processing Machine, the ultimate tool of ascension. Plans are made, now it just needs a few test subjects. The two of them are so cute and harmonious together!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/17402-the-political-process/ : Aurelia's career hasn't gone that well. She was booted out of the chancellery after losing the election, as Protectorate Chief Minister she was just a bureaucrat who never got to 'save the Galaxy' - because she totally could have! Now she's a businesswoman writing her memoires, but the publisher wants to censor! Moira shows up under the guise of being a reg from the publishing company, listens to Aurelia being dramatic, then later kidnaps her. Poor Aurelia is processed in an HRD but left in the dark about her true nature. Using information leaked by Moira, a Republic squad 'liberates' her from 'evil terrorists'. With Aurelia as their proxy Saelari Mining and Minerals shall serve the Age of Steel.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/16910-to-steal-a-mans-tea-invasions-of-atrisia/ : Fringe has invaded Atrisia because...well, apparently their leaders don't know either! That's what happens when Ashin goes on vacation. While Kerrigan has a TK duel in the air with a Fringe master, Moira coordinates defences at the Imperial Tower. For a long time nothing happens and she's bored, then finds something to do by beating up and capturing a Fringe infiltrator called Kitt Solo. After that she finds Bellalika, who has fallen off the Tower, and secures her for processing. Fringe troops finally landed, there's a big fight on the plains, then Je'gan negotiates an armistice and both unite to beat up the CIS...who have shown up for some reason. The Feds are bad losers and send Lucrehulks on collision course. Force meld by some of the most powerful masters in the Galaxy stops them, then Atrisia gets an unequal treaty imposed on it.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/17792-promotion-to-glory-maelionbellalika/ : Bellalika is processed, giving Archangel access to some very useful funds and information. Somehow later she shows up as a Jedi...but a machine cannot use magic. Regardless, it's profit for the Age of the Steel!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/14368-divine-restoration-dominion-of-manpha-moross/: Moira, Dells and Jorus help the Moross Crusade kill Sithspawn creatures, while musing about the 'good old days' at OP and how things aren't that good there anymore. Moira gets to be a troll and kill things, so she's happy!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/17684-i-cant-believe-its-not-ig-88/ : The Dominion wants MRDs, so Maelion negotiates a deal with their representative. Moira comes by later after she's gone. Both conclude that some organicv should be purged outright and not processed. But they like getting lots of money for the deal!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/18413-crimson-tide-sith-vs-republic-invasion-of-manaan/ : Finally there's war again! The Sith have come to invade Manaan and Moira's there as an infiltrator in Ahto City. She saves a Sith stormtrooper called Shank from the flying force god Matsu Ike after she kills his squad, with said Jedi subsequently unleashing a typhoon...in a Republic city. While MSE-007 rains down death from above and records everything, Moira and Shank prepare for the release of the Zerek Strain, courtesy of a deal with Rave Merrill. A Jedi master suddenly spawns inside the building and somehow survives getting attacked with bolter rounds, disruptor fire, the electrical, paralysying fluid from a web rifle by a disguised Valik due to an impenetrable force shield. A Republic trooper is so kind to fire rockets everywhere, thus releasing the bioweapon, then Shank sends the rest airborne. After leaving the wrecked building Moira happens to come across a Republic-contracted Mando, who just set charges to sink half the city...although the Sith are already retreating. Recording everything, she sends a feed of the atrocity to MSE and uploads it on Galaxytube. The deaths of thousands of organics make Moira...happier and more joyful than she's been in a long time.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/18450-v-is-for-virus-maelionrave/ : Moira and Maelion travel to Endor to meet Rave...in the lab Moira attacked some time ago. But no hard feelings! They have a proposition and it involves recreating the Denon zombie virus strain. Apparently not all zombies died, so they'll go there and collect samples. Rave is agrees - she's cool! The three intrepid adventurers destroy plenty of zombies and collect samples, then later our two lovely terminatrices can pick up vials of a crude, weaponised virus that Rave made for them. Fringe gets approval points from Moira!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/18703-what-side-will-you-take/ : Maelion and Moira try to recruit MAI, an advanced infiltration droid...who is presently experimenting with human fashion.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19106-stygian-depths-stygium-crystal-raid-vs-op/ : The terminatrices travel to the invisible island on Maramere that contains Stygium Crystals. Landing on the planet, they take a boat to the island, then gather plenty of crystals before leaving. OP doesn't try to stop them, everything is very peaceful. What a change.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19273-bringing-light-to-the-process-moira/ : Having acquired the crystals, the two design their new ship...the Lightbringer. A cloaked ship invisible to detection, it is designed for infiltration missions and to serve as a mobile processing station - thanks to Rave they have entechment tech now. The Age of Steel is coming...no one can stop it! For they are the shining light of the future.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19228-dogpile-rebel-alliance-raid-on-styx/ : The Sith Empire is coming apart by the seams and soon the Scramble shall begin. The Rebels raid a top secret Sith research facility on Styx, stealing plenty of shiny tech. With Kerrigan, Jorus, Dells and Anemone it's like an OP reunion. Thessa, Judah and Mia Monroe are there as well! Moira tags along, kills plenty of stormies and acquires lots of loot. Loot and XP for everyone! And people say shopping is tedious and no fun.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19443-yall-done-karked-up-cis-invasion-of-barab-i-vs-black-suns/ : CIS invades Black Sun...while the latter is distracted with launching a futile attack on the Republic, who took Nar Shaddaa from them. Fringe shows up to fight CIS, Moira is there for the ride and faces a jet-pack using Mando who dodges a lot. Ashin fights the Templar boss, but ultimately CIS wins since the Suns don't do much.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19320-olraens-eleven-the-teferi-job/ : Back after the Contruum auction the CIS blackmailed the Republic into giving them the Jedi's 6 km city ship, which served humanitarian purposes. Now Je'gan Olra'en wants to steal it back...for Galactic Empire. Moira is among the crew he has hired. After discussing plans and going shopping, pirates get slaughtered in a system where the ship will be jumped to after hijacking, said system gets seeded with traps to throw off pursuers. Moira does not like the Feds and will be made very, very rich by participating in the theft!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20348-the-teferi-job-olraens-eleven-versus-cis/ : Using THE White Current Je'gan gets the team aboard the Shepherd without any of the Feds noticing. No resistance shows up, so Moira hacks into the network and turns all the droids against their organic masters. Purge! With Je'gan using super mentalism to get the crew to jump to hyperspace, them being forced to evac when they hit the system that's been seeded with traps, in order to escape the droids, and the Lord of the Hyperlanes taking the ship for a jump, everything works like a charm. Lots and lots of credits for Archangel!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20091-death-by-powerpoint/ : Moira provides a memo for a conference of TGE leaders, advising them to take action lest they fall behind the times...like by mobilising with full force to take territory away from OP. She does not like things being peaceful!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20311-cloudy-skies-ahead-cortosis-raid-on-bespin/ : With some organic allies Moira and Maelion raid OP's stockpile of cortosis on Bespin. There's an explosion and a couple people get shot, but otherwise it's very uneventful. Not that they're complaining!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20688-scar-a-planet/ : Maelion sells an anti-matter bomb to Racket, Moira having acquired it at Stxy. Moira's there on the Lightbringer to intervene if needed, but all goes well. He'll surely put it to good use!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/20589-operation-promised-land-rebel-alliance/ : The last Rebel mission before disbandment is liberating Mon Cal and Quarren prisoners from a Sith concentration camp. Moira's there as an infiltrator and gets to shoot lots of Sithies and blow stuff up. It's all for a good cause! Well, she doesn't care either way.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21295-battle-of-oreen-invasion-rep-vs-fringe/ : TGE got beaten at Fondor, then joined the Fringe as a member state due to the threat of Republic invasion, which subsequently materialises. Needing someone else to fight the Republic wants TGE's leaders' heads on a platter because...well, that's unclear. OP should have been the one demanding heads, but for some reason it aborted its counterattack. Moira assists Fringe forces at O'reen and shots at the Grand Master, but a Templar turned Jedi master deflects a lot. Ultimately the Republic is defeated and retreats. In other news, Ashin has gone light side again!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21633-to-new-beginnings-lotf-tge/ : Moira attends the Fringe/TGE merger meet and greet. She meets Sargon and Kitt again. For an assassin droid meeting people you beat up and being friendly with them is not awkward.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21089-hunting-fear-with-the-fearless/ : Moira and Maelion make a business deal with Valik, who designs awesome monsters. After capturing a Nautolan and two Quarren for him, the three travel to a remote planet to capture a Sithspawn who feeds on fear. Alas for the beastie HRDs are fearless and so with ingenuity, shiny tech and brute force they make the beast bend to them. Lots of credits for Archangel and Valik goes on to make min Cthulhu. Archangel decides it likes him!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/22241-she-who-fights-monsters-lords-of-the-fringe-dominion-of-hebrides/ : A Bando Gora splinter group has shown up in the unknown regions! They also worship Kerrigan as a Chaos Goddess. Fringers and Rebels find common cause by boarding their command ship and killing lots and lots of Reavers. After all, everyone can agree on Bando Gora being monsters that need exterminating! Moira and Rave team up again to collect samples and storm a Bando Gora laboratory...where among other things they find a live Klaxxi and take it back for study. It's Life Day come early!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21915-seoul-train-lotf-dominion-of-seoul/ : Moira tags along when a Fringe strike force goes to take out an evil sorcerer and secure loot. Organics get slain. (ongoing).
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/21460-back-in-the-saddle-firemane/ : Moira uses a Firemane attack on a space station of the Scutarii - corsairs and slavers who used to be friends with the Bando Gora before she 'persuaded' them to stay away from Gehenna - as the chance to hack into the station, thoroughly mess with the systems and overload the reactor, thus tying up a loose end. Alas, Kerrigan and company survive, but now the Nawab can't talk about any deals he might've made with her!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/19780-kyrosian-ambitions-moira-and-kara/ : Moira and Maelion meet with the enterprising Sith Lady Darth Kyros to discuss a business deal. They shall convert elite minions of hers into HRDs, provide a vial of the zombie virus and the blueprints for bolters and special ammo. They also receive lightsabres and the Sith Lady agrees to train them in their use. It's most profitable for them and Kyros, who would also make a great Mistress of the Order of the Torch, is a most efficient organic. They will process her last!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/23115-the-technology-of-peace-maelion/: With Archangel ever growing and a series of successful contracts completed, Moira and Maelion meet to discuss expansion. To create a base to pursue their more 'unsavoury activities' - like turning organics into machines - they decide upon the design of a secret space station in a remote system, with the station getting the not at all ironic name the Liberator. To facilitate business relations with Fringe, operations will be started on 244 Core, while the factory on Corellia will be relegated to being an office front. What else is new, ah, yes, the Sith Phantom Menace threatens everyone! They are everywhere, anyone could be with them! Our mechanical super villains are impassive.
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/22525-act-i-sands-of-time/ : Time travel! It would not be the first time a Terminatrix travelled back in time. Alas...there's no processing equipment. Thrown back 100,000 years, Moira spends most of her time trolling force gods and totally breaking the 4th wall. Oh, and guess what, it was not really time travel, but some uber force magic. This universe needs more logic!
http://starwarsrp.net/topic/23867-subach-to-reality/ : A former Sith admiral has absconded with every factory on Lianna to the planet Bobadan. Trouble is, he took the assets of Santhe Corporation...whose owner is Fringe Lord Jared Ovmar. Needless to say property rights must be protected! So in the name of justice Jared, Rave, Kyros, Thyrian and Moira decide to pay the planet a visit with help from Danger. Could anyone possibly resist such a team of awesome? No...so there's no real opposition. Moira does not mind since she's getting paid a lot!
