Vinis Rimen
The Last Son of House Rimen
Captain Vinis Rimen of House Rimen
NAME: Vinis Rimen
FACTION: N/A (House of Rimen)
RANK: Captain of the Ulterior Motive
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 54
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 5'10", 5'11" in his full uniform.
WEIGHT: 220 lbs
EYES: A soft, almost amber brown.
HAIR: Formerly a jet black, but rapidly greying. It is short and well-maintained.
SKIN: White, with an increasing number of wrinkles and splotches from age.
FORCE SENSITIVE: No.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum) :
Strengths:
1. Noble Born: Vinis Rimen was born to the minor noble family of Rimen, a family of traders from Chandrila. Though his family has been dishonoured and driven from their home, Vinis is comfortable and confident when dealing with nobles and those of higher birth.
2. Accomplished Commander: Vinis was trained in the best naval colleges of Chandrila. While the planet is not known for its officers, he received an extensive education. Vinis can command most ships with competence and can at least stand on his own feet against other officers. His campaigns are limited to battles against pirates and mercenaries, but in return, Vinis understands better than most the asymmetric tactics of raiders.
3. Competent Delegator: Vinis is an ageing officer, and as such has learned how to delegate to make his job as easy as possible. Vinis has a keen eye for skill and knows who to direct his crew for the most efficient effort.
4. Duelist: Vinis has been trained in classical sword duelling and sporting blasters. While his experience in such combat is extremely limited, Vinis is better trained than your common pirate.
5. Charismatic: Despite his abrasive personality, Vinis is more than capable of being charismatic when the situation necessitates it. Vinis's tongue is as silver as the credits in his hold and as smooth as the velvet of his dress uniform.
6. Brave: Vinis is a leader, on both the front and back lines. He is not averse to combat and will always join a fight, even if the odds are stacked against him. He refuses to abandon his comrades, though whether that is due to kinship or merely pride is up for debate.
Weaknesses:
1. Elitist: Vinis Rimen may be a disgraced noble, but he is still of higher blood. Barring a select few, Vinis believes himself above the common citizenry of the galaxy, even if he doesn't always vocalize as much. This colours his interactions with non-noble business partners and mercenaries heavily.
2. Greedy: Vinis has a nose for profit. Unfortunately, credits also rule his mind and heart. Above regaining his familial position, Vinis wants to increase his personal wealth if only for the sake of doing it,
3. Nihilistic: Losing his familial position, along with the subsequent purge of all but a few of them, has made Vinis a bitter and nihilistic man. This manifests in a detached, uncaring mood regarding all but a few subjects.
4. Physically Unimpressive: Vinis is an ageing human, but he was never physically intimidating. He is below average height, growing in weight, and has been neglecting his physical activity in recent years.
5. Delegator: Vinis has fallen to the far end of delegation, now over-relying on others when he could get a job done easier and faster. Rarely does he get directly involved, seeing such actions as both beneath him and not worth the effort.
6. Incautious: Vinis falls to the far end of bravery, seeming almost suicidal in how he fights and commands. He has complete faith in his ability to command and the ability of his crew to follow his orders, even if both can be misplaced at times.
APPEARANCE:
For all his pomp and exquisite tastes in clothing, Vinis Rimen is an extremely average man. His face is crisscrossed with lines from both the constant stress of his position and of his increasing age. His eyes, once sharp and full of fiery purpose, have dulled with age and his declining power. Even his hair, rigorously tended to, has become thin and grey. Vinis is no longer a young man, and it shows with every wince from sudden turns and groans as he rises from his command throne.
Despite his domineering presence, Vinis barely average in height, standing at roughly 5'10" without assistance from his boots. He was never a physically intimidating man, made worse as he has neglected physical activity in recent years. Almost as if it is running parallel to his age, Vinis's habits grow less and less healthy.
Not all is depressing and ageing on Vinis, however. For while his fiery passion has escaped him, his sense of fashion has not. Life as the second son of a moderately powerful trade family has instilled in him a taste for the nicer things in the galaxy. All of his uniforms, suits, and casual clothing are made on of the finest materials he can get his hands on. From his blaster to his watch, to his gleaming boots, every inch of Vinis's attire screams wealth and power, a sad reflection of what the man once was. It is hard to miss the apathetic, almost melancholy look in his eyes, or the constant frown set into his lips. For all the pomp of how he dresses, it's clear this acts as little more than a facade.
BIOGRAPHY:
Vinis Rimen is the second son of Vinon Rimen and Elara Olen, of houses Rimen and Olen respectively. Though Elara and Vinon had been married for many years, there was little love in their relationship. It was only a marriage of convenience, the hope to connect their two families and their trade empires. This choice would come back to bite them in their asses, but that story is for later.
Vinis was never close to his elder brother, Varlo, who had already been sent off to one of the many academies set to train young heirs and heiresses in managing their family's estate. Vinis's mother had little part to play in his upbringing, and his father was either too busy to raise his son or simply apathetic to what he saw as a 'spare'. It was Vinis's nanny that raised him, bringing him up as a proper nobleman's son while installing some of her own beliefs in the young man. Where Rimen men were infamous for their apathetic and distant attitudes, Vinis became fiery and passionate, a far cry from his family's expectations. What was worse, the borderline xenophobic family was left with an ardently anti-xenophobic son, as his nanny was a Twi'lek girl. Much strife occurred between Vinis and his emotionally distant father, but the man's constant absence served to ensure there was little control over the young man.
At the age of sixteen, Vinis's father finally decided to deal with his wayward son. For though Vinis was a fiery orator and charismatic presence, he lacked discipline and the ability to control himself. Hoping to beat the fires of rebellion from his son the only way he knew how: Vinon sent Vinis to the premiere military academy on Chandrila. While it was uncommon to use the middle child as anything more than a bargaining chip, Vinon knew that Vinis would hardly be an attractive prospect to potential brides. He lacked dignity, in Vinon's eyes, and that was the most telling sign of a Rimen man.
The early days of Vinis's student life were one of strife and struggle. As the second child of a noble father surrounded by first children, he was ostracized and seen as an oddity among their number. He was not especially skilled, nor were his fiery passions much appreciated by his peers. In many ways, Vinis's overly sociable mannerisms only served to isolate him further. However, Vinis strove forward as he often did in his youth, and slowly but surely clawed his way into the good graces of his teachers and a few of his peers.
At twenty, Vinis was given command of the Tribute, an old frigate from before the house of Rimen was even founded, to escort a convoy of merchant ships into the outer rim. The reason for the convoy in unimportant, but this operation was to serve as a test for Vinis's ability to command a ship and her crew. Little did he or his teachers know that this would fast become a crucible in which Vinis would forge his nascent skill as a commander.
In the outskirts of the Kessel Sector, the small convoy of ships was ambushed by a squadron of pirate skiffs the moment they left hyperspace. It was on the positioning of the Tribute that saved it from the torrent of proton torpedoes aimed at destroying the frigate. The frigate managed to move in time and suffer only superficial damage, but it was still outnumbered and outmatched by a numerically superior foe. The battle should have been one-sided, the freighters completely lacked capital ship weaponry, and in a manner of speaking, it would. It was in this first battle that the young Vinis would display his soon to be trademark bravery as he ordered the frigate to physically block the attacks from the skiffs directed at the freighters. Its sheer mass in comparison to the smaller ships gave it the advantage it needed to dissuade the skiffs form getting to close, lest they be splattered on its hull. It was the bloodlust and greed of the pirates that would be their downfall, as most were far too focused on the freighters to pay the frigate more than cursory attention. They were little more than target practice for the Tribute's gunnery crew.
Why the pirates were there, or how they knew where the convoy would be, was a whispered but strangely silenced question.
This battle would whet Vinis's appetite for combat, which in time would grow into a burning desire to fight in nearly all forms. Though he was commended for his actions, Vinis soon felt trapped within the halls of his academy. He had tasted war, and now he wanted to taste it again. So, Vinis pursued other avenues of combat, joining clubs for duelling and blaster sports. This isn't to say Vinis would be able to fight a Jedi or some sword-crazed weirdo or be able to outshoot a Mandalorian, but he could and still can more than hold his own.
At twenty-five, Vinis finally graduated from the academy and returned a mostly unchanged, though wiser, man. It was not a moment too late, as the formerly allied houses of Rimen and Olen had fallen out of favour and were locked in a miniature cold war. Where there had been apathy when Vinis had left, a great disdain had grown between his mother and father. The two divorced, but it was too late and soon their dislike had spread across the two families. It is perhaps one of the greatest regrets, if not the greatest regret, of Vinis that he didn't involve himself in the family more at the time. Whether he would have been able to save them from their impending fates or not is up for debate, but the haunted eyes of today's Vinis speak of deep guilt and failure.
However, not all was bad for young Vinis. His father had remarried and had another son, Crix Rimen. Vinis, who had more or less been an only child and completely ignored by his family, swore to ensure his brother did not suffer the same fate. With the assistance of his own former nanny, Vinis tried to influence his younger brother from the detached lifestyle of their family. How young Crix would have turned out as an adult it a mystery lost to times and left to the torments of a broken man, however, as, at the age of 13, Crix was murdered.
It started as a normal day, Vinis set to arrive that very day from his latest mission in the mid rim. At the helm of his newest ship, the venerable Ulterior Motive, a Gladiator-class Star Destroyer.
The moment he arrived over Chandrila, Vinis was harrassed form all sides by constant demands to leave, turn himself over for arrest, or just outright threats. However, given that it was mostly customs agents and other traders, and Vinis was commanding a large cruiser, he approached the planet without harm.
It was upon arriving, and contacting old friends, that Vinis, with mounting horror, realized what had happened. The Olen family, knowing of Vinon's worsening health, decided to strike and wipe out their old rivals once and for all. For years, they had been weakening the Rimen family, even attempting to assassinate Vinis by warning pirates of where he was going to be. They struck without mercy and butchered the Rimen family to a child. Vinis did not sit idly by, however, and sent his hired mercenaries to several Rimen households and holdings to find survivors. Few were found, and fewer still wished to continue associating themselves with the Last Son of the Rimen.
The Last Son of the Rimen. Vinis, who had been trying for years to distance himself from his family, was suddenly all that remained. It was perhaps the discovery of one other survivor that kept Vinis form just turning his cruiser's guns on the Olen household; the youngest daughter of his eldest brother. Though he had never been close to his eldest brother, Vinis would not leave the child to her fate on Chandrila. He would not abandon her, as he had the rest of his family.
The Ulterior Motive left Chandrila carrying the last of the Rimen family, a man in his thirties and a girl no older than one. Nor Vinis's father, or his brothers, or his stepmother, or his former caretaker, just the black sheep and a little girl.
Anyone who knew Vinis in his youth would never recognize him now. In the years since the death of his family, Vinis has become all that he hated most. He has become a bitter, emotionally distant, elitist that was as brutal as he was profit-driven. He would never have the power of his family, limited to a single cruiser and whoever he hires at a given moment, but slowly he is building his wealth. Perhaps they are just the dreams of a delusional, broken old man, but he has grand dreams of retaking the honour and power of the Rimen family. For the last two decades, he had been raising Abessa, his niece, to become the successor to the Rimen name. It was ironic that, after years of resisting the oppressive nature of his family, Vinis has come to embody it in its entirety. Emotionally, he is distant with Abessa, treating her as his father did him. Yet, Vinis takes a far more active interest and place in her life, training her in all she needed to know to control the powerful estate he intended to reclaim.
Perhaps this is all the mad delusions of an old Captain, a fallen noble who knew only power and prestige in his youth and strives to reclaim some sliver of that old flame. Maybe it is all doomed to fail, and see Vinis fall into anonymity, one name among a trillion more to be forgotten. Or maybe, just maybe, the Last Son of the Rimen will have his revenge, and regain the Rimen family's place under the sun. The future is Chaos, undecided and constantly changed by a thousand individuals across an uncaring galaxy, and Vinis is as subject to its changing tides as they all are.
SHIP:
The Ulterior Motive.
(https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Gladiator_I-class_Star_Destroyer)
How apt a ship for what the man became. Cold, grey, lifeless, yet as dangerous as it was twenty years ago. Though it is classified as a 'Star Destroyer', the Gladiator-class is better described as a cruiser or perhaps a heavy frigate. Though it was originally created as an escort ship for larger capital ships, it can act in the place of a freighter, picket ship, or ship-of-the-line as the situation calls.
The Ulterior Motive is surprisingly similar to its original run models, though refit and rearmed for modern space combat. From bow to stern, it is 600 metres of righteous fury. Though it can rely on its suite of turbolasers, of the light and medium variety, the true strength of the cruiser falls on its eight concussion torpedo ports. With those weapons, it can easily outrange far larger opponents with ease before retreating once again.
For fighter screening, if one discounts its dozen laser cannons, the Ulterior Motive has twenty of the humble I-7 Howlrunner starfighter.
(https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/I-7_Howlrunner)
Though the fighter is horribly outdated compared to modern fighters, it is still an extremely successful interceptor. Shielded, with hyperdrive, advanced targeting computers, and powerful laser cannons, the I-7 can still contend for superiority.
Overall, the Ulterior Motive is a jack-of-all-trades, perfect for the jobs her captain often drags her through. However, the saying 'dabbler in all, master of none' could not be more apt. The cruiser is slow for its size, and overreliant on its torpedoes for defence and offence. Should a ship have affective point-defence systems, or powerful enough shields, then the Ulterior Motive will be left with few alternatives beyond retreating.
KILLS:
None.
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
None.
ROLE-PLAYS:
NAME: Vinis Rimen
FACTION: N/A (House of Rimen)
RANK: Captain of the Ulterior Motive
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 54
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 5'10", 5'11" in his full uniform.
WEIGHT: 220 lbs
EYES: A soft, almost amber brown.
HAIR: Formerly a jet black, but rapidly greying. It is short and well-maintained.
SKIN: White, with an increasing number of wrinkles and splotches from age.
FORCE SENSITIVE: No.
STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum) :
Strengths:
1. Noble Born: Vinis Rimen was born to the minor noble family of Rimen, a family of traders from Chandrila. Though his family has been dishonoured and driven from their home, Vinis is comfortable and confident when dealing with nobles and those of higher birth.
2. Accomplished Commander: Vinis was trained in the best naval colleges of Chandrila. While the planet is not known for its officers, he received an extensive education. Vinis can command most ships with competence and can at least stand on his own feet against other officers. His campaigns are limited to battles against pirates and mercenaries, but in return, Vinis understands better than most the asymmetric tactics of raiders.
3. Competent Delegator: Vinis is an ageing officer, and as such has learned how to delegate to make his job as easy as possible. Vinis has a keen eye for skill and knows who to direct his crew for the most efficient effort.
4. Duelist: Vinis has been trained in classical sword duelling and sporting blasters. While his experience in such combat is extremely limited, Vinis is better trained than your common pirate.
5. Charismatic: Despite his abrasive personality, Vinis is more than capable of being charismatic when the situation necessitates it. Vinis's tongue is as silver as the credits in his hold and as smooth as the velvet of his dress uniform.
6. Brave: Vinis is a leader, on both the front and back lines. He is not averse to combat and will always join a fight, even if the odds are stacked against him. He refuses to abandon his comrades, though whether that is due to kinship or merely pride is up for debate.
Weaknesses:
1. Elitist: Vinis Rimen may be a disgraced noble, but he is still of higher blood. Barring a select few, Vinis believes himself above the common citizenry of the galaxy, even if he doesn't always vocalize as much. This colours his interactions with non-noble business partners and mercenaries heavily.
2. Greedy: Vinis has a nose for profit. Unfortunately, credits also rule his mind and heart. Above regaining his familial position, Vinis wants to increase his personal wealth if only for the sake of doing it,
3. Nihilistic: Losing his familial position, along with the subsequent purge of all but a few of them, has made Vinis a bitter and nihilistic man. This manifests in a detached, uncaring mood regarding all but a few subjects.
4. Physically Unimpressive: Vinis is an ageing human, but he was never physically intimidating. He is below average height, growing in weight, and has been neglecting his physical activity in recent years.
5. Delegator: Vinis has fallen to the far end of delegation, now over-relying on others when he could get a job done easier and faster. Rarely does he get directly involved, seeing such actions as both beneath him and not worth the effort.
6. Incautious: Vinis falls to the far end of bravery, seeming almost suicidal in how he fights and commands. He has complete faith in his ability to command and the ability of his crew to follow his orders, even if both can be misplaced at times.
APPEARANCE:
For all his pomp and exquisite tastes in clothing, Vinis Rimen is an extremely average man. His face is crisscrossed with lines from both the constant stress of his position and of his increasing age. His eyes, once sharp and full of fiery purpose, have dulled with age and his declining power. Even his hair, rigorously tended to, has become thin and grey. Vinis is no longer a young man, and it shows with every wince from sudden turns and groans as he rises from his command throne.
Despite his domineering presence, Vinis barely average in height, standing at roughly 5'10" without assistance from his boots. He was never a physically intimidating man, made worse as he has neglected physical activity in recent years. Almost as if it is running parallel to his age, Vinis's habits grow less and less healthy.
Not all is depressing and ageing on Vinis, however. For while his fiery passion has escaped him, his sense of fashion has not. Life as the second son of a moderately powerful trade family has instilled in him a taste for the nicer things in the galaxy. All of his uniforms, suits, and casual clothing are made on of the finest materials he can get his hands on. From his blaster to his watch, to his gleaming boots, every inch of Vinis's attire screams wealth and power, a sad reflection of what the man once was. It is hard to miss the apathetic, almost melancholy look in his eyes, or the constant frown set into his lips. For all the pomp of how he dresses, it's clear this acts as little more than a facade.
BIOGRAPHY:
Vinis Rimen is the second son of Vinon Rimen and Elara Olen, of houses Rimen and Olen respectively. Though Elara and Vinon had been married for many years, there was little love in their relationship. It was only a marriage of convenience, the hope to connect their two families and their trade empires. This choice would come back to bite them in their asses, but that story is for later.
Vinis was never close to his elder brother, Varlo, who had already been sent off to one of the many academies set to train young heirs and heiresses in managing their family's estate. Vinis's mother had little part to play in his upbringing, and his father was either too busy to raise his son or simply apathetic to what he saw as a 'spare'. It was Vinis's nanny that raised him, bringing him up as a proper nobleman's son while installing some of her own beliefs in the young man. Where Rimen men were infamous for their apathetic and distant attitudes, Vinis became fiery and passionate, a far cry from his family's expectations. What was worse, the borderline xenophobic family was left with an ardently anti-xenophobic son, as his nanny was a Twi'lek girl. Much strife occurred between Vinis and his emotionally distant father, but the man's constant absence served to ensure there was little control over the young man.
At the age of sixteen, Vinis's father finally decided to deal with his wayward son. For though Vinis was a fiery orator and charismatic presence, he lacked discipline and the ability to control himself. Hoping to beat the fires of rebellion from his son the only way he knew how: Vinon sent Vinis to the premiere military academy on Chandrila. While it was uncommon to use the middle child as anything more than a bargaining chip, Vinon knew that Vinis would hardly be an attractive prospect to potential brides. He lacked dignity, in Vinon's eyes, and that was the most telling sign of a Rimen man.
The early days of Vinis's student life were one of strife and struggle. As the second child of a noble father surrounded by first children, he was ostracized and seen as an oddity among their number. He was not especially skilled, nor were his fiery passions much appreciated by his peers. In many ways, Vinis's overly sociable mannerisms only served to isolate him further. However, Vinis strove forward as he often did in his youth, and slowly but surely clawed his way into the good graces of his teachers and a few of his peers.
At twenty, Vinis was given command of the Tribute, an old frigate from before the house of Rimen was even founded, to escort a convoy of merchant ships into the outer rim. The reason for the convoy in unimportant, but this operation was to serve as a test for Vinis's ability to command a ship and her crew. Little did he or his teachers know that this would fast become a crucible in which Vinis would forge his nascent skill as a commander.
In the outskirts of the Kessel Sector, the small convoy of ships was ambushed by a squadron of pirate skiffs the moment they left hyperspace. It was on the positioning of the Tribute that saved it from the torrent of proton torpedoes aimed at destroying the frigate. The frigate managed to move in time and suffer only superficial damage, but it was still outnumbered and outmatched by a numerically superior foe. The battle should have been one-sided, the freighters completely lacked capital ship weaponry, and in a manner of speaking, it would. It was in this first battle that the young Vinis would display his soon to be trademark bravery as he ordered the frigate to physically block the attacks from the skiffs directed at the freighters. Its sheer mass in comparison to the smaller ships gave it the advantage it needed to dissuade the skiffs form getting to close, lest they be splattered on its hull. It was the bloodlust and greed of the pirates that would be their downfall, as most were far too focused on the freighters to pay the frigate more than cursory attention. They were little more than target practice for the Tribute's gunnery crew.
Why the pirates were there, or how they knew where the convoy would be, was a whispered but strangely silenced question.
This battle would whet Vinis's appetite for combat, which in time would grow into a burning desire to fight in nearly all forms. Though he was commended for his actions, Vinis soon felt trapped within the halls of his academy. He had tasted war, and now he wanted to taste it again. So, Vinis pursued other avenues of combat, joining clubs for duelling and blaster sports. This isn't to say Vinis would be able to fight a Jedi or some sword-crazed weirdo or be able to outshoot a Mandalorian, but he could and still can more than hold his own.
At twenty-five, Vinis finally graduated from the academy and returned a mostly unchanged, though wiser, man. It was not a moment too late, as the formerly allied houses of Rimen and Olen had fallen out of favour and were locked in a miniature cold war. Where there had been apathy when Vinis had left, a great disdain had grown between his mother and father. The two divorced, but it was too late and soon their dislike had spread across the two families. It is perhaps one of the greatest regrets, if not the greatest regret, of Vinis that he didn't involve himself in the family more at the time. Whether he would have been able to save them from their impending fates or not is up for debate, but the haunted eyes of today's Vinis speak of deep guilt and failure.
However, not all was bad for young Vinis. His father had remarried and had another son, Crix Rimen. Vinis, who had more or less been an only child and completely ignored by his family, swore to ensure his brother did not suffer the same fate. With the assistance of his own former nanny, Vinis tried to influence his younger brother from the detached lifestyle of their family. How young Crix would have turned out as an adult it a mystery lost to times and left to the torments of a broken man, however, as, at the age of 13, Crix was murdered.
It started as a normal day, Vinis set to arrive that very day from his latest mission in the mid rim. At the helm of his newest ship, the venerable Ulterior Motive, a Gladiator-class Star Destroyer.
The moment he arrived over Chandrila, Vinis was harrassed form all sides by constant demands to leave, turn himself over for arrest, or just outright threats. However, given that it was mostly customs agents and other traders, and Vinis was commanding a large cruiser, he approached the planet without harm.
It was upon arriving, and contacting old friends, that Vinis, with mounting horror, realized what had happened. The Olen family, knowing of Vinon's worsening health, decided to strike and wipe out their old rivals once and for all. For years, they had been weakening the Rimen family, even attempting to assassinate Vinis by warning pirates of where he was going to be. They struck without mercy and butchered the Rimen family to a child. Vinis did not sit idly by, however, and sent his hired mercenaries to several Rimen households and holdings to find survivors. Few were found, and fewer still wished to continue associating themselves with the Last Son of the Rimen.
The Last Son of the Rimen. Vinis, who had been trying for years to distance himself from his family, was suddenly all that remained. It was perhaps the discovery of one other survivor that kept Vinis form just turning his cruiser's guns on the Olen household; the youngest daughter of his eldest brother. Though he had never been close to his eldest brother, Vinis would not leave the child to her fate on Chandrila. He would not abandon her, as he had the rest of his family.
The Ulterior Motive left Chandrila carrying the last of the Rimen family, a man in his thirties and a girl no older than one. Nor Vinis's father, or his brothers, or his stepmother, or his former caretaker, just the black sheep and a little girl.
Anyone who knew Vinis in his youth would never recognize him now. In the years since the death of his family, Vinis has become all that he hated most. He has become a bitter, emotionally distant, elitist that was as brutal as he was profit-driven. He would never have the power of his family, limited to a single cruiser and whoever he hires at a given moment, but slowly he is building his wealth. Perhaps they are just the dreams of a delusional, broken old man, but he has grand dreams of retaking the honour and power of the Rimen family. For the last two decades, he had been raising Abessa, his niece, to become the successor to the Rimen name. It was ironic that, after years of resisting the oppressive nature of his family, Vinis has come to embody it in its entirety. Emotionally, he is distant with Abessa, treating her as his father did him. Yet, Vinis takes a far more active interest and place in her life, training her in all she needed to know to control the powerful estate he intended to reclaim.
Perhaps this is all the mad delusions of an old Captain, a fallen noble who knew only power and prestige in his youth and strives to reclaim some sliver of that old flame. Maybe it is all doomed to fail, and see Vinis fall into anonymity, one name among a trillion more to be forgotten. Or maybe, just maybe, the Last Son of the Rimen will have his revenge, and regain the Rimen family's place under the sun. The future is Chaos, undecided and constantly changed by a thousand individuals across an uncaring galaxy, and Vinis is as subject to its changing tides as they all are.
SHIP:
The Ulterior Motive.
(https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Gladiator_I-class_Star_Destroyer)
How apt a ship for what the man became. Cold, grey, lifeless, yet as dangerous as it was twenty years ago. Though it is classified as a 'Star Destroyer', the Gladiator-class is better described as a cruiser or perhaps a heavy frigate. Though it was originally created as an escort ship for larger capital ships, it can act in the place of a freighter, picket ship, or ship-of-the-line as the situation calls.
The Ulterior Motive is surprisingly similar to its original run models, though refit and rearmed for modern space combat. From bow to stern, it is 600 metres of righteous fury. Though it can rely on its suite of turbolasers, of the light and medium variety, the true strength of the cruiser falls on its eight concussion torpedo ports. With those weapons, it can easily outrange far larger opponents with ease before retreating once again.
For fighter screening, if one discounts its dozen laser cannons, the Ulterior Motive has twenty of the humble I-7 Howlrunner starfighter.
(https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/I-7_Howlrunner)
Though the fighter is horribly outdated compared to modern fighters, it is still an extremely successful interceptor. Shielded, with hyperdrive, advanced targeting computers, and powerful laser cannons, the I-7 can still contend for superiority.
Overall, the Ulterior Motive is a jack-of-all-trades, perfect for the jobs her captain often drags her through. However, the saying 'dabbler in all, master of none' could not be more apt. The cruiser is slow for its size, and overreliant on its torpedoes for defence and offence. Should a ship have affective point-defence systems, or powerful enough shields, then the Ulterior Motive will be left with few alternatives beyond retreating.
KILLS:
None.
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
None.
ROLE-PLAYS:
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