Freelance Interplanetary Courier
Ti'sonta, Freelance Interplanetary Courier
Name: Ti'sonta (chosen)
Aliases: Darth Kelis (only used once) Red (as in "You there, the red one")
Species: Twi'lek
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 47kg
Build: Athletic
Skin: Red
Eyes: Amber
Associates
- Boy. (Acolyte under Darth Calamon, has taken the name of Darth Infekt after Kelis's betrayal. Currently searching for Kelis in order to kill her and take the title of Sith Lord properly. Is severely furious at what Kelis did).
- Darth Calamon (former Master, deceased)
- SH1-FU (Prim and proper jedi combat training droid upgraded with piloting subroutines. Ti'sonta's friend and copilot)
Bio
Job: Interplanetary courier/smuggler
Appearance: Dresses for comfort and mobility. Usually wears black form-fitting trousers, black boots (sturdy yet flexible), a white tank top, and a black bomber jacket. Carries a simple blaster pistol in a thigh holster, a cortosis weave dagger strapped to her boot, and a compact sawn-off over-under shotgun in the small of her back in case of force users with lightsabers. Has her curve-handled lightsaber concealed in the lower hem of her jacket.
Personality: Ti'Sonta is a very laid back woman, the kind of person who has no real care of which way she's going. She's friendly in the way that only confidence can bring, Tends to keep people at arms length despite this, and getting to know her properly can take some time. Will deflect any and all questions about her past, and one would get the feeling that she's hiding something. ("And? A girls gotta have some secrets, you know! Now about that cargo...")
When it comes to her business as a
The big secret that she's hiding is that she was once a sith apprentice, and had even obtained the title of Sith lord – for about five minutes. During the ceremony to promote her from acolyte to full Apprentice, she killed her master before discarding and renouncing the way of the sith and escaping with her old master's stolen ship. She is disillusioned with the Dark Side of the force, but is not about to go "be a goody-two-shoes" and become a Jedi any time soon. She is currently trying to search for a way to fix what she did to her kyber crystal during the Bleeding, but has no idea how to do it, and is too scared to ask a Jedi about it in case she's caught and locked up or killed.
Virtue: Justice. Ti'sonta was born a slave and was a slave to the Dark Side for the vast majority of her life. She revels in her newfound ability to choose her own path trough life and dispises anything that would take that away from another. If she discovers a slaver operation or extortion racket she will take steps to stop it or at least ruin their current plans.
Vice: Overindulgence. Darth Calamon's method of training involved denying his acolytes anything beyond the most spartan of living conditions. After her escape, Ti'sonta has begun to revel in her newfound freedom a bit too much, and will spend her disposable income on all sorts of creature comforts (much to SH1-FU's chagrin). Silk sheets for your cot and constant nights out at bars is not the way for a Jedi to live, dark side or otherwise. This also means that she can possibly be tempted into sweetening deals if offered some new indulgence or luxury she can take with her.
Skills
Force skill: Mediocre. Ti'sonta is about as skilled as your average Jedi, the only force skill she has any real talent in is being able to suppress her connection to the force to that of a normal sapient. Naturally this also effectively blinds her to anything that she would have been able to notice if she wasn't using it, and whilst she wouldn't ping as a sith to other force sensitives, Jedi would still feel like something was slightly off about her.
Lightsaber combat: Exceptional. This is where Ti'sonta shines. She is particularly skilled in a modified version of form 2 duelling, where she uses a cortosis blade as a parrying dagger to deflect attacks while she uses her lightsaber like one would a rapier (think florentine fencing)
Ranged weaponry: Average. Ti'sonta is as about as skilled as your average smuggler. She isn't anything special, but she knows her way around a blaster well enough to get the job done.
Piloting: Above Average. As a smuggler, Ti'sonta has been in her fair share of scrapes and close calls to be considered a skilled pilot. This is further enhanced if she isn't actively suppressing her connection to the Force, but she can still hold her own if she has to hinder herself.
Subterfuge: Very Skilled. Ti'sonta had to learn the hard way to be deceitful and cunning during her past life. She has a lot of experience in assuming false identities, thievery, slight-of-hand, and other forms of skullduggery that may be required. Her new-found conscience does hamper this somewhat, so these days she only tends to use her skills on the deserving. Or when it suits her.
Silver Tongue: Ti'sonta is a smooth talker when she needs to be, and uses her skills regularly on the job. Able to negotiate competitive cargo prices and is more than fine to turn on the charm if it lets her get a better deal or get her out of a sticky situation.
Combat Style: Ti'sonta fights dirty. While willing to play by the rules in friendly sparring matches, all bets are off if the welfare of her or her comrades are in danger. Her shotgun is one such example: the custom "charhound breath" shells she loads firing dozens of tungsten flachetts that make it impossible for lightsaber users to block. And the expanding cloud of burning magnesium behind them dazzles and blinds combatants while igniting loose clothing, giving Ti'sonta time to maneuver or fire.
When it comes to the Force, Ti'sonta is average at best in terms of raw strength. This means she has learned to use it in more novel ways. Oppenents will find their feet slid out from under them, their weapons jerked in unfortunate directions, "sensitive areas" of their body twisted and crushed, and carried grenades primed and set off.
The Dolly Dagger
Make: HWK-290
Crew: 2 (Pilot & Copilot)
Hyperdrive Rating: Class 2
Armament: Proton torpedo Launcher, heavy laser cannon array
Capacity (GWT): 75T/ 8 Passengers
Modifications: Engine upgrade, modular cargo/passenger compartment, Numerous contraband stowage options, Pilot Droid (modified from Jedi training droid). Combat training suite (Provided by SH1-FU)
The Dolly Dagger is Ti'sonta's personal light freighter, and the ship that she has used to start her new life of freedom. Originally one of the ships her previous master had used for sending his acolytes out on their various missions, Ti'sonta stole it during her escape from the Sith and their clutches. Ti'sonta then made her way straight to Lotho Minor, the Junk planet. If she was to escape, then she would need to make a few adjustments.
The first thing she did was to sell the cloaking field generator. Whilst it came in handy numerous times when she was sent out on missions across the galaxy, any customs authorities finding that would have her in shackles for the rest of her life. Also, it was worth a lot, and she needed every credit she could scrounge to get a new life.
Secondly she had the engines replaced for the most powerful versions she could cram inside. Once the crews were done with her new ship, she Christened it the Dolly Dagger and left to explore the stars, eager to start a new life far away from Sith Space.
The Dolly Dagger can be found anywhere outside of Sith Space, delivering time sensitive goods and other valuable cargo. With a few modifications and sliding around the modular wall panels purpose built into the cargo hold, the Dolly Dagger can be outfitted with up to 6 small cabins for passengers to travel in modest comfort.
SH1-FU
Combat training droid modified with pilot subroutines.
Equipped with four arms with built-in training lightsabers, and can reconfigure to equip 4 hand blasters with training rounds.
SH1-FU is the copilot of the Dolly Dagger, and a close friend and confidant to Ti'sonta. SH1-FU was originally from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant where it spent its days training younglings in the basics of lightsaber combat as well as duelling Knights and masters alike to keep their skills sharp. Unfortunately all good things have to end, and SH1-FU found itself in the junk mountains of Lotho Minor when the Temple was destroyed during the rise of the Empire. For Centuries it wasted away until one fateful day it was discovered once more.
Whilst the junk crews were busy toiling away on her ship and giving it a new coat of paint while they were at it, she went scrounging through the mountains of trash that the Galaxy had dumped there and felt the force directing her somewhere. Following the direction she was being led, she started digging through a small hill of used parts when she discovered the most amazing thing. It was a long, four-armed humanoid droid, pitted with the rust of unused centuries but still largely intact. Surprisingly it powered on, and it introduced itself as SH1-FU, a combat training droid once stationed in the Jedi temple before the rise of the Empire. Ti'sonta asked if it would come with her around the galaxy and it readily agreed, stating that anything was better than rusting away in this junk pile. Some fresh panels, a piloting subroutine upgrade, and a full service, and SH1-FU was now part of the crew. During interplanetary jobs and long stretches of space, Ti'sonta regularly trains with SH1-FU in both lightsaber and unarmed combat, the droid offering valuable insight into the Light side of the Force.
Background:
- Found by Darth Calamon as a child slave at a slave market in Sith Space.
- Was trained as an apprentice along with 3 other potentials. All with horrible backstories before being taken in. The better to be turned to the dark side
- None of the acolytes were given names and were subtly encouraged and directed to vie against each other and especially the strongest of them all to weed out the weak. Because as the Master said: There can be only one Apprentice. If you were the most successful in your tasks, you were given the bigger portions come supper, the better sleeping quarters, and the more favourable tasks. Coming in last meant you slept on the floor and got barely more than a crust come meal time. Red quickly learned deception so as to not draw attention to herself from the other hopefuls, and a skilled hunter of the vermin that skulked outside the temple to satiate her hunger.
- Whilst her force skills were acceptable, her true skill lay in her skills as a lightsaber duellist. Her deception still played a part, as she constantly deliberately left openings for her fellow apprentices to exploit during training so as to appear weaker and less of a threat.
- Darth Calamon noticed this and used her as his thief. Often sending her on missions to obtain rare texts or artefacts to bring back to him.
- Darth Calamon eventually gave them all a final mission, which was to each obtain a kyber crystal from a Jedi by any means necessary and bring it back for bleeding.
- Encountered a Jedi and her Padawan on a backwater planet investigating a sith smuggling ring.
- Posed as a street urchin with connections to integrate herself into their group.
- Charmed the padawan and played her part by hanging off his every word, but found herself growing disillusioned with the Dark Side with every conversation.
- Stuck with the mission as her disillusionment turned into resentment, then hatred toward her master.
- Formed a new plan whilst carrying out her old one, eventually getting the padawan to show her his lightsaber and the kyber crystal within. Swapped his crystal with a synthetic training crystal when he didn't notice.
- Successfully returned after her mission and found out that only Boy had returned alive, but Girl and Whelp had not.
- Successfully bled her stolen kyber crystal by channelling all her newfound hate into it, turning the crystal a dark ruby red.
- After constructing her lightsaber – A curved hilted model – Darth Calamon summoned both Red and Boy to him. Citing her skill in the dark side, Red was named as his first apprentice and given the title Darth Kelis. Red kneeled and held out her lightsaber to her master in supplication as he performed the ceremony.
- This infuriated Boy, who claimed that he was the superior apprentice in every way.
- Darth Calamon said that Boy was welcome to take the title from Red (the plan being to goad the two apprentices into one final fight for the title), but a quick activation of Kelis's lightsaber speared the point through his throat, killing the sith Lord.
- After announcing that she was now the Sith Lord by right, she promptly discarded the title, saying Boy can have it if he wanted it. In a fit of rage Boy activated his double-bladed lightsaber and attacked, the two duelling for what felt like an age. Kelis more than held her own (finally not holding back after so long), and after cutting his lightsaber in two force-pushed the stunned Boy head-first into a pillar, knocking him out cold.
- Kelis used this breathing room to quickly gather anything useful before escaping in the HWK-290 her old master had acquired for his own personal use.
- The first stage of her plan complete, Kelis headed for a junk planet to retrofit the ship she had stolen. A few of her old master's stolen credits in the right places and she was off, the old HWK-290 - now christened the Dolly Dagger – fully customised with second-hand parts and enough hidey holes to stow lots of things that others weren't to know about.
- Now with a new identity as Ti'sonta, the now twi'lek began to ply her trade, revelling in her newfound freedom and the thrills that skirting the law entailed.
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