TESS VALNORA
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SPECIES: Human
AGE: 31
GENDER: Female
HEIGHT: 5'5"
WEIGHT: 120 lbs
EYES: Golden
HAIR: Light Brown
HOMEWORLD: Druckenwell [map]
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
Slender faced, athletically build, with shoulder-length hair shaved on the left side. Some could consider Tess beautiful if they could look past her highly tomboyish personality and actions. Tess is rarely found in a dress and never wears any type of beauty product due to her love of fighting, running, and non-feminine activities. -
- Being her mother's only daughter Tess was doted on constantly. Being homeschooled like her brothers, she never had to miss any of the gatherings and parties that her mother was allowed to bring her to. She was taught all kinds of manners from a very young age, everything from how to curtsy to traditional greetings from other systems. She was very talkative and could hold proper conversations surprisingly well for someone her age. As this was the only childhood she ever knew she wasn't opposed to it, in fact, she loved the attention she received from the different businessmen and women that attended the parties and gatherings. Tess loved dressing up with her mother for all the events, but she disliked all the rules and instructions her mother gave her when she was "in training".
- Similar to how her older brother Jorik was always being groomed to take over the family business, Tess was constantly being trained by her mother to be the pretty-faced ambassador for the company. But one day, that all changed. When Tess was sixteen her mother fell deathly ill, and nothing the doctors did helped. Her mother continued to train her as best she could with what little energy she had, but a few months later the death of Alara Valnora de Kor'tas abruptly halted her training. The year to follow kept Tess busy as she continued sitting in on meetings, going to company parties, and all-around being the pretty face of Valnora Enterprise. In fact, she was at one such gathering when news reached her that her father, Jorik Valnora II, had taken his own life. In shock and grief and not knowing what else to do the seventeen-year-old Tess ran. Away from the party, away from the company, away from her brothers. She ran from her home planet of Druckenwall and didn't look back.
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Running away from home was both the worst and the best thing to happen to the young Valnora. The worst because she lost contact with her brothers for many years, she was never sure if they ever looked for her or not. Or was it the ship she was traveling on being attacked by pirates and she being kidnapped and held for a ransom that would never arrive? She had been able into talking the pirates into letting the other captives go, but she requested to stay with them, to learn the ways of the less fortunate. She knew the upper class and business protocol but she wanted to know how to defend herself, to be able to fight back, and control her own destiny. The pirates agreed and she spent many years with the group, until a fateful day about a year later when their ship was ambushed during what should have been an easy grab. Being less pirate-looking the opposing forces mistook her for a captive and "rescued" her, she was the only one of her pirate gang to survive that attack.
That was when she found out the pirates she had been with had been monitored by a spy network for some time now but had never noticed her until her "rescue". Using her slightly rusty yet still effective honeyed words, Tess was able to join the enforcement's espionage division's training. After about three years of training, Tess joined up as a spy, assassin, and all-around espionage specialist. She no longer was the pretty girl who went to business meetings or parties, she was a completely new person, but her past always whispered in her ear, wanting her to return to it, begging her to return to her old ways. And that was when she knew she had to find her brothers. -
Tess worked diligently to help protect the tight-knit family she had become a part of with the MoS. She worked on various missions ranging from attending parties to collect information; to eliminating heads of state; to recon missions into unknown sectors of the galaxy to protect CIS humanitarian and military missions from potential threats. Unfortunately for Tess, what she thought was an unbreakable brood of Crows, Ravens, and Rooks turned out to be as vulnerable and destructible as the nest they protected. Whether by selfish ambition, spite for CIS leadership, or unchecked loyalties, the MoS fell apart form the inside, and Tess was left stranded not knowing where to turn next.
::Aliases::
Thea Sraah
Codename: 'Stormcrow' -
The Ministry of Secrets had changed its leadership due to corruption in the higher echelon. Unfortunately, this regime did not last very long due to the inevitable collapse of the CIS and the disbanding of all its allies to become what they had been fighting for: Independent Systems.
::New Aliases::
unknown - With the Acenancy rising from the ashes of the CIS the newly formed Vulpes Division of the RSL began new missions of reconnaissance, intelligence, and espionage to protect what they could from the shadows.
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Training:
Not Learned III III III III III Mastered
Hand-Hand:
Echani Art - III III III III III
Broken Gate - III III III
Teräs Käsi - III III III III
Lightsaber:
Form I: Shii-Cho - III II
Form II: Makashi - III
Form III: Soresu - Not Learned
Form IV: Ataru - Not Learned
Form V: Shein/Djem So - Not Learned
Form VI: Niman - Not Learned
Form VII: Juyo/Vaapad - Not Learned
Rifles:
CQC - III III III
Battle rifles - III III III III
Sniper Rifles - Mastered -
Strengths and Weaknesses
+"Is that all you got?" - No matter how hard Tess gets hit she will always try to rise and fight until her goal is reached or she is ultimately stopped.
+"Only I can hit my family." - Tess is fiercely protective of select friends, her family, and family name and won't stand anyone slandering or hurting them.
+"Now hear me out." - Tess can sometimes talk her way out of sticky situations.
-"I'm just as good as you!" - Tess has a constant desire to prove she's not a helpless girl.
-"This conversation is boring." - Tess hates long-winded talks, especially when it comes to politics or the family business.
-"I have to know." - Tess has a bad habit of trying to find out every little detail of something, even if she shouldn't know it. -
Weapons:
Length: 5 feet
(20 round magazine)- Dividable Electrostaff (Pain & Suffering)
- Compact SMG
- AMR-211'Longbow'
- B2 rifle 'Oathkeeper'
- SGP-12
- Shadow's Sting (gauntlets)
- "Silence" shotosaber
- "Viper's Bite" assassin's knife
Gear:
- Utility belt
- Suppressor for SMG
- SOAR - Slicing Operation Assistance Routine
- Smoke grenades (2)
- 2x-4x Scope (1) - When not attached to B2 rifle
- Medi-kit (1)
Norris root dyed leatheris trench coat
PD-00 "Second Skin" Light Armor -
[Invasion]
Thou Shall Not Suffer an Empire to Live closed - Tess helps run security for a parade on Ryloth. Things quickly go south when the AoC attack along with the help of local terrorists.
[Dominion]
Rave Rezort: CIS Dominion of Thyferra closed - Tess tries to help her brother find a cure for an accidental zombification breakout.
Little Base of Horrors closed - Tess helps Holt collect samples of sentient plants that have gained the taste for blood.
Salt And Souls closed - Tess goes hunting for Vulptex on Crait.
City of Flesh and Bone closed - Tess attempts to stop a hive-mind enemy by killing the queen with some new friends.
Pirate Base closed - Tess helps a friend gather intel on some pirates.
Bloodlines closed - Tess searches for the heir of Eiattu VI.
[Faction]
Valley of Death closed - Tess joins a ragtag team to reacquire stolen goods for the Dauntless Legion.
[Ministry of Secrets]
Weaving the Nest closed- Holt calls a meeting for the Ministry of Secrets and Tess answers.
Spy Games closed - Tess takes part in a training exercise for the birds.
Break In Your Stride closed - Tess teams up with other birds to find a missing squad on a mysterious station.
A New Time, A New Threat closed - Tess accompanies fellow MoS agents on a mission to understand the mysterious happenings on Gaulus.
[Private]
Awakening closed - Tess joins the rebranded MoS "Shadowfeed" Agency to infiltrate a potentially dangerous cult.
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