Unreviewed Veyra Halcyon

[Darth Carnifex]

• Intent: Create a unique NFU protege for Darth Carnifex
• Image Credit:
  
  • Generated By Me
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
• Role: Special Operations Adjutant
• Permissions:
  • First United Astral Engineering Permission
• Links: N/A

• Age: 24
• Force Sensitivity: Non-Force User
• Species: Human
• Appearance: Veyra Halcyon carries herself with the stillness of someone who has long since mastered her impulses. Her dark, sun-warmed skin contrasts sharply against the deep crimson of her officer's uniform, giving her silhouette a striking, almost heraldic clarity. She stands tall and balanced, neither overly rigid nor relaxed - a posture born of discipline rather than ceremony. Her build is lean and athletic, defined by functional strength rather than ornamented power. Even at rest, there is a sense that she is measuring distances, exits, angles.
  
  Her face is sharp and composed, framed by dark hair pulled back beneath a black officer's cap bearing the angular Kainate insignia. High cheekbones and a steady jaw give her expression a resolute intensity. The most arresting feature, however, is her eyes - an unnatural golden glow that burns softly beneath lowered brows. Whether augmentation, prolonged exposure to dark energies, or something more symbolic, the effect is unmistakable. They do not flicker with emotion easily; they hold, assess, and endure. A faint ritual scar traces along her left shoulder and collarbone, usually hidden beneath uniform fabric - a private reminder of fire long past.
  
  Her uniform is immaculate and severe: high-collared red tunic, black armored pauldrons, reinforced gauntlets, and a wide utility belt resting at her waist. Rank plaques gleam against the crimson fabric, marking her earned authority without ostentation. There are no flowing cloaks or decorative excesses - only clean lines and hardened edges. When she moves, the armor shifts with quiet precision, metal catching the light like controlled embers.

• Name: Veyra Halcyon
• Loyalties: Directly loyal to Darth Carnifex alone. She does not belong to any organization and maintains no ideological loyalty to Sith mysticism - her loyalty is personal, philosophical, and merit-based.
• Wealth: Moderate-to-high access through position, but does not maintain personal estates or indulgent holdings. She lives within secure military quarters rather than palatial chambers. Most of her material resources are operational: equipment, command privileges, fleet access, etc.
• Notable Possessions:
  
  • Custom Taral-type Sith Trooper Armor Mk. II v1.2 for her specific use
  • Pair of FAE/M-02 Energized Forearm Vibroblade Mk. IIs balanced for anti-Force combat
  • Compact Qazûr-Pattern Soulpistol Mk. I tuned for armor penetration
  • A sealed locket containing ash recovered from her destroyed homeworld (kept privately, never displayed)
• Skills:
  
  • Advanced battlefield strategy and logistical modeling
  • Counter-Force combat doctrine (designed to disrupt, distract, and destabilize Force users without matching them directly)
  • Close-quarters combat specialist
  • Psychological operations and cultural destabilization analysis
  • Multi-theater campaign coordination
  • High pain tolerance and stress endurance conditioning
• Languages:
  
  • Galactic Basic Standard
  • ur-Kittât
  • Huttese
  • Ghor
• Personality: Veyra Halcyon is defined by restraint. Where others posture or rage, she observes. Her mind moves several steps ahead in any conversation, quietly mapping leverage, risk, and outcome. She does not waste words, and she does not indulge in theatrics. Beneath that composure lies a core of relentless will - the same will that drove an eight-year-old child to attack the man who destroyed her world. That fire never vanished; it was refined. She is disciplined not because she lacks anger, but because she has mastered it.
  
  Her loyalty is precise, not blind. She serves Carnifex with unwavering efficiency, yet her devotion is built on paradox. He annihilated her home, killed her parents, and shattered the life she once knew. He also recognized her strength, spared her, and forged her into something formidable. In her mind, he is both the architect of her suffering and the catalyst of her power. She does not forgive him, nor does she deny what she has become under his tutelage. That tension is permanent - a quiet fracture she carries without letting it show.
  
  Because of this contradiction, Veyra's allegiance is rooted in philosophy rather than affection. She believes in strength, in discipline, in the ruthless shaping of chaos into order - principles Carnifex embodies. Yet somewhere within her remains the memory of the girl who once tried to kill him. That memory prevents her from becoming fully consumed by worship or dependence. She does not seek to replace him out of vengeance, nor to protect him out of gratitude. Instead, she strives to stand as his equal in will - a living testament to both his cruelty and his creation.

• Weapon of Choice: She prefers layered tactics over direct confrontation.
  
  • Dual energized vibroblades (optimized for leverage against lightsaber users and disarm tactics)
  • Heavy-caliber sidearm
  • Environmental manipulation (terrain traps, choke-point control, suppression grids)
• Combat Function: Veyra functions on the battlefield as a strategic disruptor and precision commander rather than a frontline berserker. She excels at shaping engagements before blades ever cross - manipulating terrain, timing, and troop positioning to force opponents into disadvantageous corridors of movement. Against conventional forces, she dismantles command structures methodically, targeting communications, morale anchors, and logistical arteries to collapse resistance from within. When facing Force users, she avoids direct contests of power, instead employing layered suppression tactics, environmental traps, and coordinated crossfire to overwhelm their focus and limit their mobility. She is most dangerous not in chaotic duels, but in structured engagements where preparation, discipline, and psychological pressure allow her to turn superior strength against itself.
• Force Abilities (Force Users Only): N/A

• Exceptional strategic mind capable of long-term campaign modeling
• Extreme psychological resilience under stress and loss
• Highly disciplined and resistant to manipulation
• Earned authority respected by military personnel

• Physically limited compared to enhanced or Force-augmented opponents
• Suppresses grief rather than resolving it - emotional fracture possible under targeted psychological pressure
• Loyalty to Carnifex, while controlled, may compromise independent judgment in critical moral dilemmas
• Lacks supernatural awareness, making her vulnerable to unseen Force-based influence

Veyra Halcyon was born on a modest Outer Rim world whose name is now little more than a classified entry in Kainate archives. Her early childhood was unremarkable - a tight-knit family, practical education, and a culture built on resilience rather than wealth. That life ended in a single night of orbital fire and descending warships. When Carnifex's forces descended upon the planet, they did so with calculated finality. Veyra watched her parents die amid the chaos, and rather than flee, she seized a fallen weapon and charged the architect of her world's destruction. She was eight years old.

Carnifex did not kill her. Whether it was curiosity, recognition of her defiance, or a desire to test something rare, he spared her life and brought her into his custody. Her early years under him were not gentle. She was not comforted, nor offered false consolation. Instead, she was confronted with harsh truths: strength determines survival, hesitation invites extinction, and power is the only lasting shield. She trained relentlessly - physical conditioning, tactical simulations, psychological endurance. Without Force sensitivity, she was forced to earn every advancement through human limitation alone. Her grief became discipline; her hatred became fuel.

As she entered adolescence, Veyra's motivation evolved. Initially, she endured training for one purpose: to grow strong enough to kill Carnifex. That quiet vow sustained her through punishing regimens and ruthless evaluations. But over time, something more complicated formed. Carnifex did not shield her from hardship; he sharpened her through it. He acknowledged competence when she earned it and withheld approval when she fell short. The man who destroyed her world was also the only one who recognized her potential without condescension. The contradiction began to take root.

By sixteen, she had begun participating in minor campaign logistics and shadow operations. Her insight into conquered populations - understanding how grief curdles into rebellion - made her uniquely valuable. She had once been the conquered. She knew where resistance hides, how it breathes. Carnifex elevated her not out of sentiment, but because she proved effective. This, more than any kindness, destabilized her original hatred. He was not her savior in any moral sense - but he had transformed her from orphaned survivor into instrument of power.

In her early twenties, Veyra assumed formal command roles within strategic operations. She earned her rank through battlefield success and meticulous planning, not favoritism. Many Sith resented her presence, viewing her as an anomaly - a non-Force user rising within an empire built on supernatural dominance. Yet Carnifex never intervened on her behalf. If she faltered, she would fall. That unspoken standard hardened her further. The girl who once attacked him in blind fury now stood at his side in controlled authority.

Now, at twenty-four, Veyra exists in a state of permanent duality. Carnifex is both destroyer and catalyst, the man who ended her childhood and the one who forged her adulthood. She does not romanticize him, nor does she absolve him. Instead, she has chosen to stand within the world he built and shape it with her own will. Whether she is his greatest triumph or his most patient reckoning remains unwritten. But one truth endures: she is no longer the child in the ashes. She is what survived them.