Amarant
Dead Men End All Tales.
NAME: SD-X 97, then ASH (advanced specialized Hunter) 12, Now it's Just "Mr. Ash"
FACTION: Unaffiliated.
RANK: Independent.
SPECIES: SD-X Series Battle Droid, posing as a human cyborg because "people don't listen to droids"
AGE: 584, give or take. Hasn't been memory wiped for 136 years.
GENDER: Male Programming.
HEIGHT: 6'2
WEIGHT: 330 lbs/150 kg
EYES: His photoreceptors are black and embedded in glass eyes, but he has been known to turn the readouts red when angry.
HAIR: Nada.
SKIN: his armor, including the "skull" is black. His synthskin coverings form the neck down are white.
FORCE SENSITIVE: nope
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STRENGTHS :
Built to Kill: Like all SDX models, Ash is a powerful humanoid model droid with assassin and combat programming, and a vicious temperament. Years of working under various crimebosses has educated him in various methods of dealing with unwanted problems.
Tougher than I look: Despite the synthskin and false eating and drinking routine, ASH is a droid, and is immune to poison, mind-altering force-powers, the vacuum of space, and just generally able to take far more punishment than a normal human possibly could.
I'm a very bad man: Ash's ability to intimidate people through manipulation and threats, both subtle and otherwise, borders on the superhuman. Although he is not a living being, he has a more innate understanding of their fear than most, and is actually quite good at torturing his opponents and prisoners, driving them insane through a great deal of effort.
I lied, so sue me: Maybe it came from working with a Hutt for two hundred years, but Ash understand lying and politics very well. His grasp of how the underworld works stems from a long amount of history, most of it rather ugly.
I can break ya: Like most droids, Ash has well beyond human strength and endurance. Any person going toe to toe with him will quickly find that he punches through bone like a rancor through steak.
I like guns: Between working for crimebosses and his programming as an assassin droid, Mr. Ash has a knowledge of weaponry that borders on obsessive. After all, knowing which guns are being fired at you is the difference between life and death.
Embedded Commlink: Ash can remotely access any comm-link or comm-compatible device he has a frequency for. His default comm channel is encrypted, like other SD-X models.
Stealth-plating: Par of the reason people believe in Ash being a cyborg is that his stealth-coated armor fails to indicate quite a large amount of his droid components.
Can't leash this: Like most YVH-based models, he has no interface to restraining bolts.
Laminanium: His armored components re-fuse when exposed to heat, making him highly resistant to blaster fire and even surface lightsaber attacks.
Mr. Cool: Ash seems to be one of the hardest people in the world to phase. His age and jadedness make him more than a little fearless, and pretty unflappable in most situations.
WEAKNESSES:
BRZZZTTTT: Like any droid, large amounts of electrical energy screw him up. EMPs and Sith lightning to the face are good examples.
Doesn't fething compute: If you can actually mange to depower him, you can hack and reprogram him.
Brick Joke: Ash's warped, sadistic personality has made him more than a few enemies, including more than a few Black Sun members.
Weirdly Conspicuous: His...unique appearance forces him to pick his battles. After all, he's easy to spot in a line-up. And he's often one of the "usual suspects" when confronted by policing forces.
Land with a thud: Due to his weight, he can't run without making some serious noise. He also cannot float in water.
Fething magic malarkey: Ash's lack of humanity is readily apparent to Force-users, which is a nuisance to his illusions. He still has no plan for this sort of thing.
AI is a crapshoot: Mr. Ash is pretty capricious. His whimsical and homicidal tendencies make for a strangely behaving criminal mastermind.
This is my mask: Ash must be extremely cautious to maintain the illusion of being a powerful, unstable cyborg. It'd be harder to keep people in check if they knew he was just a droid.
Emotions are messy: Facades aside, Ash does tend to get atached to people and locations, and will often act out of a strange sense of duty to them.
WEAPONS:
- Coiled Slicewire, his preferred method for quick and simple killings.
- BTI-WB "Woebringer" Heavy Blaster Pistol, painted black and engraved with an elaborate pattern in red. He calls it "Cinder."
- Wrist-mounted vibrodaggers. Only to be used in the worst of emergencies, as it damages the synthetic skin on his arms and can possibly blow his cover.
- An injector pen loaded with sedatives designed to work on most humanoid species.
- A black bag filled with surgical tools, mostly used for torture as opposed to killing.
- A laserknife.
- A pair of shock gloves, also black with small chrome knuckles for electrical contact.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Originally sold by Tendrado Arms as a bodyguard drone to the crime-boss "Reekie" Cho, SD-X 97 worked as a bodyguard, being willed from one crimeboss to another. Most of them died of natural causes, as the robot performed admirably in its duties. Eventually, he was lost in a Sabacc game to a Hutt Known as Zeppa. Zeppa altered his programming for assassination, teaching him lying a social manipulation to attack and stalk targets and attack them ruthlessly.
Zeppa eventually died at the age 876, of natural causes. SD-X beganer referring to hismelf as ASH-12, Advanced Speicalized Hunter 12, as he was the twelfth member of the mercenary gang. Developing a love for killing and a skill at it, he managed to set up a rather large horde of money, which he spent on a few buldings to run small operations out of on the world of Gos Hutta. Unfortunately, after being screwed over by his "gang," he realized something. Nobody took a droid seriously, even after manumission.
So, he took what money he had left, and used it in a few rackets. mostly Ryll-running and illegal shock-boxing matches--the high-voltage stuff that was too risky for TV.
As a long-standing member in the Black Suns, Ash eventualy ascended to vigo, got left holding the bag by others, and feigned his death, leaving his assets to his "grandaughter," and HRD with his personality embedded in it by the name of Amraranth. He attempted to regain contro of the Black sun syndicate, but achieved little other than consolidating his own small militia known as the Balck Scorpions.
Now returned to hsi original identity with a few minor modifications, the lethal android has decided to return to underworld, with a death's head a grin and a strong cigar.
KILLS:
Post the names of the PC characters (characters role-played by real people) that your character has killed. If possible, include a link to the thread in which your character killed him/her.
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
Post the names of any bounties you have delivered and the amount of money you gained for it. If possible, include a link to the thread in which it happened.
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