Name: Dharma
Loyalties: Dharma is loyal to his people, the Bendu
Role: NPC Head of State of Orax
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Age: 2100 Years Old; 400 Outside of his Colony
Species: Shard
Appearance: Dharma utilizes a tall droid body manufactured by Bankei Industries. It was one of the first models made by Bankei industries and thus many of his servos and circuits are visible, especially around his neck. A cluster of sensors are located on his forehead. When he is active they illuminate blue and when he is in danger and his droid's self defense systems activate they, along with the slits where his photoreceptors are, turn red. He wears a simple cloth robe over his mostly cream and gold colored plastoid body.
Personality: Dharma is a witty and wise Shard with a strong sense of duty and determination. Compassionate and lighthearted, Dharma leads his people with confidence and love with the hope that he and his followers can bring peace and balance back to their world. He isn't afraid to be a goofball sometimes either. Some have called him too earnest and trusting of others.
Force Sensitivity: As a Shard, his Force Sensitivity is dampened by the fact that he is mostly inorganic. Despite saying that his grasp on the core Force Powers (push/pull jump speed etc.) are about what you would expect from a Knight. Where he really focuses on though is Control of himself. Meditation, foresight and the like. This comes from a millennia of inner focus and meditation.
Weapon of Choice: Wits, His droid body
Skills: Dharma is a skilled Force healer and meditation guide. His skills do not lie in combat and in fact lie instead in calm deliberation and conversation. Despite being such a spiritual man, Dharma is still a politician and can talk for days on topics he is passionate about.
Wealth: Dharma himself is not a wealthy man. Most of the money he makes goes into poverty initiatives, grass roots organizations, the Church of the Force, the Bendu Monks and Bankei Technologies. The little he does keep for himself goes towards keeping his family.
Combat Function: None
Notable Possessions:
- Doctorate Degree in Droid Law from Coruscant University
- The Bendu Symbol above his bed
- His wedding band
History: Dharma was "born" seceral thousand years ago. A part of one of the largest Force Sensitive colonies on Orax much of his time was spent debating the semantics of different philosophical ideas. What was the Force, how did it work? Where were the others like them that could feel this great Force at work? He was one of the colonies that first made contact with humans. At first things were fine. And then humans began removing Shards and helping them achieve autonomy. At the time Dharma was vehemently against such a thing and was the final vote in denouncing and excommunicating individual Shards in the consensus.
However as the centuries past and he began to see more and more how destructive the humans could be his thoughts changed. They needed bodies to protect themselves. Even a colony as large has his could only do so much with the Force and even then, most of his colony was non-violent. These feelings set in and simmered for decades before he would finally take action. Using the Force he and several others split from their colony and formed a different colony, closer to the shore of their boiling sea. It was around this time that the Omni factories that had been relocated to Orax to aid in nearby terraforming went rogue and the Gulage Plague began to ravage the humans. Many in his colony were twisted with rage and fell to the darkside, corrupting Dharma himself. However as he saw how Omni was harvesting indiscriminately, often killing Shardin the process he re-centered himself and with the help of another Force Sensitive human, peacefully separated himself with Shatterpoint and was smuggled away from Omni's factory in the night.
It was after this that the Shard took on the name Dharma and helped lead the rebellion until suddenly the Omni factories stopped producing droids. Faced with a war torn landscape Dharma spent almost a decade in the mountains with a handful of Shard and Human followers looking in on themselves. Finding the Bendu in their meditations they returned to the war torn people of Orax and began slowly rebuilding with love, patience and understanding. The humans were still being devastated by the Gulag plague and would be for centuries still, however Dharma would not give in to despair.
He convinced one of his Followers, Bankei to help with his knowledge of droids and robotics and engineering. This would eventually lead to Bankei Technologies. Beloved by the people, both Shard and Human alike, they made him their first unified leader. After that he served on and off as their Head of State, trading seats with the human representatives over the centuries. However, since the return of the Sith Empire to prominence in order to maintain stability a provision was put into place that essentially has kept Dharma in power for over forty-five years. At some point he married to a human woman named Julia Mercy and adopted a pair of Force Sensitive Zabrak twins, Jax and Piper.
Intent: To create and keep with the GA's theme of using NPC leaders.
