Sith Lord-turned-Gangster
Yossun Zaishwa, a Sith Lord-turned-Gangster
"I've killed something on every planet I've been to. I've killed Silver Jedi Knights in even combat. I've killed both Imperials and Sith during the schism. I killed a krayt dragon with my bare hands. Rest assured, I can kill you too."
HOMEWORLD: Andresia
CURRENT RESIDENCE: Nar Shaddaa
FACTION: The Hutt Republic, Sith Empire (formerly), New Imperial Order (formerly)
RANK: Vigo
SPECIES: Pureblood Sith
AGE: Yossun’s appearance looks like he is in his early thirties but he is a 73 year old man.
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 183cm (6ft)
WEIGHT: 171lbs or 77kg
EYES: Yossun’s eyes were emerald green, making him distinct from the rest of the very few remaining members of the Sith species.
HAIR: His hair color is black, the hairstyle he used is slick.
SKIN: He is a red-skinned man since he is a pureblood Sith.
FORCE SENSITIVE: He is Force-sensitive. Naturally powerful due to his bloodline as a pureblood Sith.
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum):
STRENGTHS
[1] - A Typical Sith Warrior - Due to Yossun’s natural force-user abilities and his combat prowess from his lightsaber combat during his days as a Sith Lord in Nar Shaddaa’s Sith enclave. Yossun is forced to be reckoned with. He is a proficient lightsaber duelist, utilizing either a standard lightsaber or a double-bladed lightsaber in combat. Lightsaber forms he used vary between Shii-Cho (Form I), Soresu (Form III), Ataru (Form IV), Shien (Form V), Juyo (Form VII). Yossun also specializes in telekinesis, utilizing the Force choke frequently when Yossun could also guide a thrown lightsaber. Yossun also has a certain mastery in Force sense which allows the pureblood Sith to sense the thoughts of individuals. Yossun also has displayed great willpower, strong enough to resist the fear-based powers due to his intense-training when he was still affiliated to his former Sith Master.
[2] Charisma - Yossun is one charismatic individual where he shows that he is a brutal, effective and just leader in his days as a Sith Lord and currently, as a Vigo of the Hutt Republic using his confidence, critical-thinking and public-speaking skills, while he made sure that his power and supremacy was realized and respected by all, Yossun would show the near same attitude towards superiors. He made sure his influence will spread throughout the Hutt Space.
WEAKNESSES
[1] Hot-Tempered - Yossun is a hot-tempered individual mainly because he is a pureblood Sith and his upbringing was heavily influenced in the teachings of the Sith Code and his rough childhood. He might snap at any second, especially if he gets provoked.
[2] Overconfidence - Yossun is overconfident in his mastery in his lightsaber combat and his naturally-powerful Force-user abilities, to the point where he will underestimate his enemies.
APPEARANCE: Yossun is an athletically-built individual because of his history as a former Sith Lord/Warrior and himself being current Vigo of the Hutt Republic. He stands at 6 ft tall which isn't usually tall in the Pureblood Sith standards. His eye color is emerald green, making himself distinctive from the rest of the remaining few members of the Pureblood species. His hair color is black. He is a red-skinned man because he is a pureblood Sith. He has small "tentacle" beards, facial appendages and bone spurs both on his side face. He also has a cybernetic right arm that he lost from the Great Galactic War, meaning he took to wearing a leather glove to cover the replacement limb.. He also had lightsaber scars on his left cheek and stomach, both from duels with Silver Jedi Knights and Masters in the Great Galactic War, as well as scars on his chest from his fight with the Krayt dragon and various burns. After getting recruited by Broka the Hutt, Zaishwa sported a tattoo of a dragon and a star on his right upper arm. While often dressed in typical Sith robes, Yossun was also at home wearing a flight suit and jacket, which he often wore in disguise.
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BIOGRAPHY:
[EARLY LIFE]
Yossun Zaishwa was born in 794 ABY in the world of Andresia. His father, Nairan, was a mid-level bureaucrat in their home city, making him a middle-class citizen on his home planet. When Zaishwa was eleven, the government of Andresia collapsed and the world was consumed in civil war between the remaining Nationalist factions and the rebels. The House of Zaishwa tried to maintain their standard of living for the first three years, until several locally cataclysmic events occurred at once. Silian, Yossun’s eldest brother when he turned seventeen, joined the Nationalist forces and became a Guardsman. Anastasia, the youngest Zaishwa child, was born to Nagarian and Silia. For his refusal to pay double taxes to the Nationalist government, Nairan was executed in a raid, along with his wife/Yossun's mother. Silian participated in the raid and was left to dispatch his siblings. Filled with rage and the burgeoning power of the Force lurking just below the surface, Yossun took up his family’s ancestral Sith sword and cut his brother down, escaping with his sister.
For the next four years, Yossun fought with the rebellion against the government, raising his sister with the aid of other rebels. He led several successful raids against Nationalist facilities with his best friends, Kaleb and Ilyana, earning a name for himself as an uncannily good warrior and demolitions expert. When Yossun was eighteen, though, his entire world would be totally shattered. Returning from patrol one day, Yossun spotted his sister across a clearing, and she ran toward him. However, a Guardsman spotted her as well, and opened fire, mortally wounding the girl. Consumed with rage, Yossun forgot his blaster and beat the Guardsman to death with his own rifle. Holding his sister in his arms until she died, the young Sith lost his mind to bloodlust and went on a rampage, murdering a nearby garrison of forty-two Guardsmen with his bare hands, though he sustained several grievous injuries and needed a month to recover afterward.
After he healed, Yossun was a changed man, cold and bitter even to his comrades. The ambush death of Ilyana less than two months later only made him more detached, and Yossun’s comrades began to worry for his mental health. It was during this period that the young man began to unconsciously touch the dark side of the Force in his anger, setting the stage for the next period of his life.
For the next four years, Yossun fought with the rebellion against the government, raising his sister with the aid of other rebels. He led several successful raids against Nationalist facilities with his best friends, Kaleb and Ilyana, earning a name for himself as an uncannily good warrior and demolitions expert. When Yossun was eighteen, though, his entire world would be totally shattered. Returning from patrol one day, Yossun spotted his sister across a clearing, and she ran toward him. However, a Guardsman spotted her as well, and opened fire, mortally wounding the girl. Consumed with rage, Yossun forgot his blaster and beat the Guardsman to death with his own rifle. Holding his sister in his arms until she died, the young Sith lost his mind to bloodlust and went on a rampage, murdering a nearby garrison of forty-two Guardsmen with his bare hands, though he sustained several grievous injuries and needed a month to recover afterward.
After he healed, Yossun was a changed man, cold and bitter even to his comrades. The ambush death of Ilyana less than two months later only made him more detached, and Yossun’s comrades began to worry for his mental health. It was during this period that the young man began to unconsciously touch the dark side of the Force in his anger, setting the stage for the next period of his life.
[APPRENTICESHIP BY AN UNKNOWN SITH LORD]
Six months after the death of Anastasia Zaishwa, the Dark Lord of the Sith, [REDACTED], led his Massassi army to Andresia, fresh from the conquest of three planets before. Leaving most of the fleet out of sensor range, the Dark Lord went on a recon mission to the planet alone. Guided by the whisperings of the Force, [REDACTED] ventured down a dusty alley and, to the mutual surprise of both men, encountered Yossun Zaishwa. Before either man could do more than realize they were the same species, they were attacked by a group of Guardsmen. [REDACTED] quickly felled several with his lightsaber, but tossed one to Yossun when it became obvious the younger Sith, armed only with a blaster, was going to be overwhelmed. Confirming [REDACTED]’s suspicions that Yossun had the power of the Force, Zaishwa activated the lightsaber, deflected three blaster bolts, and killed the remaining soldiers.
After retreating offworld for safety, [REDACTED] explained and demonstrated the nature of the Force and informed his new companion of the history of the Sith and the Jedi Order, and also the Gulag Virus that plunged the galaxy to the four-hundred year darkness. Convinced that the death of his sister had been just the latest in a long history of crimes against the Sith, and having no real attachment to his homeworld, Yossun agreed to join [REDACTED] and became his Sith apprentice.
Filled now with knowledge of the dark side that waited only for his summons, Yossun went back to Andresia at the head of a contingent of Massassi warriors. Both rebels and Nationalists united against the invaders, but they were quickly massacred under the seasoned Massassi legions. In the midst of the battle, Yossun confronted Kaleb, offering him the chance to join the conquest. Outraged at the idea of his homeworld being subjugated by a foreigner and convinced that Yossun had betrayed them, Kaleb engaged his old friend in a fight instead. Though Kaleb was bigger and stronger than Yossun, the battle was short, and Zaishwa angrily cut his friend apart with his new lightsaber, setting himself firmly on the path of the dark side. Having literally severed his final tie to his homeworld, Yossun convinced his master to completely obliterate the world and all life on it.
Over the next ten years, the two Sith conquered a number of worlds, and made at least one voyage to the Sith worlds of Korriban and Ziost. All the while, [REDACTED] trained Yossun to use the dark side, forging him into a vicious and deadly warrior. Though not as strong in the Force as his master, Yossun was nonetheless an apt student of lightsaber combatant, and proved to be an effective ground commander and pilot with a string of repeated victories against conquered systems. Though he could never out-spar [REDACTED] with a lightsaber, Yossun was a strong and capable enough apprentice to suit the Dark Lord. Seven years into their conquests, [REDACTED] and Yossun became blood-brothers in an ancient Sith ritual. Though neither of them knew of any living family, this would later become of great importance to Yossun. Despite their close friendship, [REDACTED] was still a cold and cruelly demanding master, giving Yossun no quarter in his training. Nevertheless, the brothers had deep-seated, if seldom-voiced, affection for each other.
After retreating offworld for safety, [REDACTED] explained and demonstrated the nature of the Force and informed his new companion of the history of the Sith and the Jedi Order, and also the Gulag Virus that plunged the galaxy to the four-hundred year darkness. Convinced that the death of his sister had been just the latest in a long history of crimes against the Sith, and having no real attachment to his homeworld, Yossun agreed to join [REDACTED] and became his Sith apprentice.
Filled now with knowledge of the dark side that waited only for his summons, Yossun went back to Andresia at the head of a contingent of Massassi warriors. Both rebels and Nationalists united against the invaders, but they were quickly massacred under the seasoned Massassi legions. In the midst of the battle, Yossun confronted Kaleb, offering him the chance to join the conquest. Outraged at the idea of his homeworld being subjugated by a foreigner and convinced that Yossun had betrayed them, Kaleb engaged his old friend in a fight instead. Though Kaleb was bigger and stronger than Yossun, the battle was short, and Zaishwa angrily cut his friend apart with his new lightsaber, setting himself firmly on the path of the dark side. Having literally severed his final tie to his homeworld, Yossun convinced his master to completely obliterate the world and all life on it.
Over the next ten years, the two Sith conquered a number of worlds, and made at least one voyage to the Sith worlds of Korriban and Ziost. All the while, [REDACTED] trained Yossun to use the dark side, forging him into a vicious and deadly warrior. Though not as strong in the Force as his master, Yossun was nonetheless an apt student of lightsaber combatant, and proved to be an effective ground commander and pilot with a string of repeated victories against conquered systems. Though he could never out-spar [REDACTED] with a lightsaber, Yossun was a strong and capable enough apprentice to suit the Dark Lord. Seven years into their conquests, [REDACTED] and Yossun became blood-brothers in an ancient Sith ritual. Though neither of them knew of any living family, this would later become of great importance to Yossun. Despite their close friendship, [REDACTED] was still a cold and cruelly demanding master, giving Yossun no quarter in his training. Nevertheless, the brothers had deep-seated, if seldom-voiced, affection for each other.
[SELF-EXILE]
Ten years after the destruction of Andresia, while he was still only a Sith apprentice, the conquest fleet was ambushed at Khar Delba. Apparently, the occupants of some thirty systems had received word of the Sith conquest, and united their defense forces to make a last stand. Caught off guard, the Sith responded with an ill-fated all-out assault. In the midst of the space battle, Yossun, who was leading the fighter squadrons from his Sith Hadrago fighter, was dealt a glancing blow by a turbolaser blast from one of the defense force ships. The hit completely fried his shields and activated his hyperdrive, sending him on an unplanned detour far into the Outer Rim. Sustaining a blow to the head on the way, Yossun was given amnesia, and when his hyperdrive ran out of fuel and he reentered to realspace at Borgo Prime, he had no clue where he was or had come from.
Crashing on Borgo Prime, his lightsaber damaged beyond repair, Yossun entered into involuntary servitude to an Aqualish slaver, becoming a fighter in the Borgo Prime Death Ring, a frequent event when two opponents would fight to the death barehanded. So he remained for six years, an unprecedented winning streak attributable not only to his excellent physique and martial arts prowess, but also his latent Force talents. Despite being unable to consciously control the Force, the Sith nonetheless had guidance from his danger sense, and his rage drove him to kill mercilessly with the guidance of the dark side. In his time on Borgo Prime, Yossun killed a huge variety of enemies, including Humans, Chiss, Wookiees, Gamorreans, Twi`leks, Devaronians, Bothans, Aqualish, Kel Dor, Gotals, Trandoshans, and Tusken raiders. He also befriended and fell in love with a fellow slave, a Chiss named Kai’tisy’ara, known usually as Tisya. After six years of fighting, the Aqualish slaver offered Yossun a final fight for his freedom—against a young krayt dragon. Against all odds Yossun won, punching through one of the krayt’s eyes and maiming its brain. However, he sustained severe injuries to his ribs, arms, and legs.
After a month of healing and solitude, the renewed Zaishwa demanded his freedom from the newly-bankrupt slaver, who granted it reluctantly, but offered a parting shot; Tisya had been sold to someone else offworld. Filled with rage beyond words, Yossun used the Force to strangle the slaver to death before he even realized what he was doing. Stunned and confused, but now free, fairly wealthy, and armed, the Sith escaped Borgo Prime and began the next stage of his life.
Crashing on Borgo Prime, his lightsaber damaged beyond repair, Yossun entered into involuntary servitude to an Aqualish slaver, becoming a fighter in the Borgo Prime Death Ring, a frequent event when two opponents would fight to the death barehanded. So he remained for six years, an unprecedented winning streak attributable not only to his excellent physique and martial arts prowess, but also his latent Force talents. Despite being unable to consciously control the Force, the Sith nonetheless had guidance from his danger sense, and his rage drove him to kill mercilessly with the guidance of the dark side. In his time on Borgo Prime, Yossun killed a huge variety of enemies, including Humans, Chiss, Wookiees, Gamorreans, Twi`leks, Devaronians, Bothans, Aqualish, Kel Dor, Gotals, Trandoshans, and Tusken raiders. He also befriended and fell in love with a fellow slave, a Chiss named Kai’tisy’ara, known usually as Tisya. After six years of fighting, the Aqualish slaver offered Yossun a final fight for his freedom—against a young krayt dragon. Against all odds Yossun won, punching through one of the krayt’s eyes and maiming its brain. However, he sustained severe injuries to his ribs, arms, and legs.
After a month of healing and solitude, the renewed Zaishwa demanded his freedom from the newly-bankrupt slaver, who granted it reluctantly, but offered a parting shot; Tisya had been sold to someone else offworld. Filled with rage beyond words, Yossun used the Force to strangle the slaver to death before he even realized what he was doing. Stunned and confused, but now free, fairly wealthy, and armed, the Sith escaped Borgo Prime and began the next stage of his life.
[LIFE AS A BOUNTY HUNTER]
After escaping Borgo Prime, somewhat confused with his inexplicable power but recognizing the value of his eerie precognition, Yossun became a bounty hunter and mercenary in the Outer Rim. Working both in the Corporate Sector and Hutt Space, his reputation for barehandedly killing a krayt dragon preceding him, the Sith became an assassin feared throughout the underworld. When money was tight, he would occasionally fight in death rings in the Rim and earn hundreds or even thousands of credits, but this quickly became unnecessary, since his skill at murder kept him frequently employed.
During this time, Yossun took up residency on Nar Shaddaa, traveling in his Z-95 and living in various places elsewhere but always returning to the Smuggler’s Moon. It was around this time that he first became affiliated with Broka the Hutt, a young Hutt, at first as a servant and eventually as a respected crime partner and confidante. On several assassination missions, Yossun would also take his only close friend, the mysterious assassin Astariax Drago. When on Tatooine, Yossun would often frequent the ship garage of fellow Sith and reputed mechanic Jehren Akai, who would become another rare friend. Throughout his life in the Outer Rim, Yossun became famed as a lover nearly as much as a warrior, seducing women both for missions and for pleasure in nearly every port. However, he never found his beloved Tisya, and never fell in love again.
In his long career, Yossun tangled with some of the finest fighters outside the arm of the law, but it was a Silver Jedi Knight and his Padawan who would put Sakaros on the next road of his life. Sent to assassinate a vacationing senator, Yossun was unaware that the man had been assigned Jedi protection until he was fighting them. To the shock of all three, after taking down the Padawan with a concealed explosive, Yossun took up the fallen girl’s lightsaber and began to use it against the Silver Jedi Knight. Though he had no conscious memory of his training, the study of Juyo was so deeply ingrained in the Sith’s subconscious mind that he managed to overwhelm and kill his enemy.
Taking the Knight’s green-bladed lightsaber for his own, Zaishwa would continue to bounty hunt for another decade or so, but the mystery was deepening for him. After ascertaining the lightsaber’s capabilities, he practiced with it in all his spare time, rapidly recovering much of his forgotten talent. Though he primarily used blasters, the Sith carried the lightsaber with him, and surprised more than one target with it. Having tapped into his latent danger sense and Force-driven fighting instincts but still lacking knowledge of what he was doing, able to use a lightsaber but clueless as to why, the Sith kept up bounty hunting until 851 ABY. After the events of the Incursion, rumors of the existence of a “Sith”, the late Darth Carnifex, made their way to the northern Outer Rim, particularly in Bastion and Korriban.
During this time, Yossun took up residency on Nar Shaddaa, traveling in his Z-95 and living in various places elsewhere but always returning to the Smuggler’s Moon. It was around this time that he first became affiliated with Broka the Hutt, a young Hutt, at first as a servant and eventually as a respected crime partner and confidante. On several assassination missions, Yossun would also take his only close friend, the mysterious assassin Astariax Drago. When on Tatooine, Yossun would often frequent the ship garage of fellow Sith and reputed mechanic Jehren Akai, who would become another rare friend. Throughout his life in the Outer Rim, Yossun became famed as a lover nearly as much as a warrior, seducing women both for missions and for pleasure in nearly every port. However, he never found his beloved Tisya, and never fell in love again.
In his long career, Yossun tangled with some of the finest fighters outside the arm of the law, but it was a Silver Jedi Knight and his Padawan who would put Sakaros on the next road of his life. Sent to assassinate a vacationing senator, Yossun was unaware that the man had been assigned Jedi protection until he was fighting them. To the shock of all three, after taking down the Padawan with a concealed explosive, Yossun took up the fallen girl’s lightsaber and began to use it against the Silver Jedi Knight. Though he had no conscious memory of his training, the study of Juyo was so deeply ingrained in the Sith’s subconscious mind that he managed to overwhelm and kill his enemy.
Taking the Knight’s green-bladed lightsaber for his own, Zaishwa would continue to bounty hunt for another decade or so, but the mystery was deepening for him. After ascertaining the lightsaber’s capabilities, he practiced with it in all his spare time, rapidly recovering much of his forgotten talent. Though he primarily used blasters, the Sith carried the lightsaber with him, and surprised more than one target with it. Having tapped into his latent danger sense and Force-driven fighting instincts but still lacking knowledge of what he was doing, able to use a lightsaber but clueless as to why, the Sith kept up bounty hunting until 851 ABY. After the events of the Incursion, rumors of the existence of a “Sith”, the late Darth Carnifex, made their way to the northern Outer Rim, particularly in Bastion and Korriban.
[JOINING CARNIFEX’S SITH EMPIRE]
Convinced that the “Sith” must have some connection with his strange powers, and equally sure he was no Silver Jedi, Yossun retreated to the second moon of Bogden to meditate. There, tapping into the energies of the nearby Bando Gora and his own dark side powers, he reached into the Force until he received a vision. Tulak Hord and Marka Ragnos, former Dark Lords of the Sith, restored his memory and knowledge of his powers, charging the newly enlightened Sith with recovering his former strength and becoming a Sith Lord in his own right.
His mind at last clear and many mysteries explained, Yossun lived off his fortune for the next two years, constantly retraining himself to use his Force powers. He experimented with new things, honed old skills, and killed a variety of underworld scum with the Force and his lightsaber. Having remembered his messianic hatred of the Jedi, he discarded the Silver Jedi Knight’s lightsaber and built a new one for himself, altering the emitter so it made the sound of a krayt dragon’s cry when ignited. After he made his new weapon and achieved what he considered mastery over the powers [REDACTED] had taught him, Yossun took the title of Sith Lord as Lord Zaishwa. There, he went to Bastion to swear allegiance on Darth Carnifex’s Sith Empire by rejoining himself as a Sith, fghting against their enemies in the event called “Great Galactic War''.
His mind at last clear and many mysteries explained, Yossun lived off his fortune for the next two years, constantly retraining himself to use his Force powers. He experimented with new things, honed old skills, and killed a variety of underworld scum with the Force and his lightsaber. Having remembered his messianic hatred of the Jedi, he discarded the Silver Jedi Knight’s lightsaber and built a new one for himself, altering the emitter so it made the sound of a krayt dragon’s cry when ignited. After he made his new weapon and achieved what he considered mastery over the powers [REDACTED] had taught him, Yossun took the title of Sith Lord as Lord Zaishwa. There, he went to Bastion to swear allegiance on Darth Carnifex’s Sith Empire by rejoining himself as a Sith, fghting against their enemies in the event called “Great Galactic War''.
[GREAT GALACTIC WAR, SITH SCHISM AND HIS SECOND SELF-EXILE]
[FROM A SITH LORD TO A GANGSTER]
When he was a bounty hunter, Yossun was working for a small-time crime lord, Broka the Hutt in Nar Shaddaa. When he heard that Broka the Hutt is now considered a big-deal in the criminal underworld, he decides to visit his former employer. After getting reacquainted, Yossun was given a position as Broka the Hutt's Vigo in the newly-established Hutt Republic as a compensation of old times' sake. Even though Broka the Hutt knew Zaishwa's abilities, he needs to prove himself to the other Hutt Lordas who are skeptical of the Pureblood's sudden rise to the hierarchy. At this point, Yossun made sure that his superiors will acknowledge his place in the Hutt Republic.
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SHIP: He is using a Gladius-class light freighter. He called it the Dragon Slayer in his reference of killing a krayt dragon using his bare hands when he was still a bounty hunter.
NOTABLE POSSESSIONS & TRIVIA:
[WEAPONS]
1. Curved-hilt crimson lightsaber
2. Two WESTAR-34 blaster pistols
3. A Tekh'la blade
[TRIVIA]
1. A series of safehouse apartments on Nar Shaddaa.
2. A vast fortune in credits accumulated during his days as a bounty hunter, a Sith Lord and now a Vigo (total unknown, but estimated to be over 100,000,000 credits at peak).
3. A ring, worn on his right ring finger, a gift from his younger sister, Anastasia, worn concealed under a glove almost all the time.
4. Yossun Zaishwa's character personality is an amalgamation of Cade Skywalker's, Empire's Wrath's and Darth Maul's personality.
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