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NAME: Tyrel Outis
FACTION: Unaligned
RANK: Jedi Lord, Rogue Knight
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 30
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 2.8 meters
WEIGHT: 85 kg
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Black
SKIN: Pale
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
STRENGTHS
- Paladin: Tyrel is a warrior of the Light. He has been training to defeat the forces of darkness ever since the Silver Jedi Order rescued him from the moons of Tion, and is no stranger to fighting in anything from a blast vest to full combat armor. While the Knight is adept in everything from martial arts to heavy repeaters, his preference is a saber and light-shield.
- Commanding Presence: With a limited offensive repertoire, most of his Jedi training lies in the influence he holds over his allies. A literal morale booster, Outis has proven adept at battlemind techniques, enhancing his abilities and those of others through his connection to the Force.
- Gone Native: The Silver Knight's last assignment was on Ossus, and when that world fell to invasion he refused to leave, instead hiding among the Ysanna populace. By the time the Silver Order had relocated to Kashyyyk, Outis had gone against the Code and declared himself Lord of a Ysanna tribe. Blending Ossan culture with ancient practices abandoned after the Ruusan Reformation, Tyrel now raises a small army in his name.
- On the Precipice: No longer a true Jedi now that he has declared himself a sovereign, he struggles every day not to slip even further into the very darkness he has sworn to combat. The grim understanding that by his own actions he may very well be transforming himself into the one thing he has come to hate, threatens to consume him.
APPEARANCE
A military physique, Knight Outis had been training to one day become a Silver Council guardsman. Often wearing Jedi plated armor, by far Tyrel's most distinctive feature is his gaze. Eyes that betray a fanatical mind.
BIOGRAPHY
Born into a life of squalor on one of the industrialized moons of Tion, Tyrel's early childhood was not a happy one. With no family name or heritage to speak of, his earliest memories are of long days of factory labor before his Force sensitivity was discovered. Locked away by his 'guardians' for weeks as they debated how best to make a profit off of this discovery, the young boy was severely malnourished by the time he was discovered and rescued by a passing Silver Jedi Knight.
Liberating not only Tyrel, but shutting down the entire indentured servitude operation, the rest of the children were delivered to more legitimate local foster systems while the Silver Knight escorted him personally to the closest Jedi Academy Network temple for evaluation. Although they soon parted ways, the memory of that rescue left an indelible mark on the boy from Tion, and although he was considered a borderline case due to the trauma he had experienced, ultimately he was accepted for training as a Jedi youngling.
Due to a clerical error involving a flight manifest that listed his last name as nobody in a provincial dialect, upon admission to the Jedi Academy he was known for the first time as Tyrel Outis. Too grateful for his change in circumstance to bother correcting anyone early enough, the moniker stuck, and eventually Tyrel chose to embrace it and take on the erroneous surname as his own. After completion of his foundational training and on the verge of becoming a young man, he requested to be relocated to Voss for further study in the hopes of attracting a teacher from among the same order that had saved him.
Eventually Tyrel found his place among the Silver Jedi, and it was during his years as a Padawan on Voss that his ability to influence those around him and command a room was first discovered. Studying lightsaber combat as well as martial arts, the most aptitude Tyrel has shown in the Force is in his ability to influence the coordination and morale of others. Hoping to use this natural talent to one day become a commander of the Silver Council honor guard, his teachers saw the same edge of darkness first detected by the Jedi Academy, and instead encouraged him to pursue more diplomatic endeavors.
Upon passing his Knighthood Trial in early adulthood, Outis spent several years as a temple guard, pursuing his dream of one day safeguarding the Council itself. But with conflict brewing once more throughout the galaxy, the young Knight was called upon to take part in the Silver's efforts during the One Sith war and eventual liberation of Coruscant. Changed by living through war at that scale, when peace came Tyrel decided instead to redirect his efforts towards diplomacy as his masters had intended.
Serving as a liaison to worlds under the Silver Order's protection throughout the galactic east, Knight Outis was living among the native Ysanna people of Ossus when the First Order came. Electing to help his tribal hosts defend their land instead of reporting to Aegis Base for orders, when the Silver Jedi were forced to evacuate the planet in full scale retreat, Tyrel remained behind, hidden from the First Imperials among the local populace.
Instead of searching for a way to return to Voss, the Silver Knight helped the Ossan natives to rebuild, even leading parties first to scavenge and then to settle the ruins of Aegis Base. By the time his Order had uprooted and relocated to Kashyyyk, Tyrel had declared himself king of a local tribe, utilizing his unique aptitude with the Force in ethically questionable ways to manipulate the Ysanna into a more amenable attitude towards direct Jedi rule.
Not interested in starting a dictatorship for the sake of power, Outis views his actions as desperate measures appropriate to the truly desperate times he finds himself in. Invoking practices abandoned since the Ruusan Reformation to rally non-sensitives under his banner as a Jedi Lord, he has established a miniature military state whose sole purpose is the destruction of the Darkside. And yet, through such extreme measures the leader of Tyrel's empire resembles more and more every day the very thing he has sworn to defeat.