Silver Guardian
Zacka Lodia
Loyalties: Silver Jedi Order
Role:
- Groundskeeper at the Voss Temple, NPC for any and all SJO to use around Voss.
- A way for us to add continuity to certain areas of our board and have communal reoccurring NPCs.
- Sometimes Part of Kei’s Crew on his ship.
Age: 71
Species: Kage
Force-Sensitive: No
Appearance: Zacka is a wizen old man, often wearing a dark Nashtah leather trenchcoat and matching brimmed hat, his coat taken from one of his previous captors, and the hat a long loved friend. The Kage is usually seen with a pipe of some description in his mouth, or a flint of softened durasteel if he’s having a day off smoking.
Personality: Zacka can be grumpy, he is an exceptionally proud man, but has a big heart. He often frequents the SJO’s Dockingbay 94 bar but isn’t a big drinker, going there for the conversation. He is not a violent person but isn’t averse to kicking someone up the rear if they are being down right stupid! He doesn’t move very fast, long years of being enslaved have not dampened his spirits, but they have given him sore joints and a slower walk from having no rest. Zacka will use a cane, on the especially cold days when his joints are really acting up, but try to never do so in public because he’s too proud. The Kage will often tell you what he thinks of something or someone with no problem at all! He cares, but can as mentioned be grumpy, especially if you fuss over helping him too much.
Weapon of Choice: He doesn’t usually carry one around on him at the temple, apart from his metal cane some days. If he goes off world, it’d be a A-52 Frag Storm Scattergun
Wealth: Zacka has no wealth, slavers took it all, he lives hand to mouth working around the temple grounds.
Combat Function: The Kage wouldn’t be good in a fight. He’d not tell you that, but he’d be scared. The old guy wouldn’t run however, and would setup somewhere out of sight with his scattergun, trying to stay out of trouble and take pot shots.
Skills: Gardening, during his time spent enslaved on Nar Shaddaa they found Zacka had a green thumb, and so put him to work tending their slave boss’s garden, he did a good job because it had been his lifelong career, and so they kept him for about fifteen years doing the same thing day in day out for them, and their client's rare plants, often with little rest at all.
Notable Possessions: Thin Metal Cane for whacking young’uns! Seeming to wave it in the air quite often, but never actually doing it. A wide brimmed hat made out of Nashtah, like his long trenchcoat, don’t touch the hat!
Other Notes / History: Zacka had a well-traveled life, and often has a story to tell, if anyone will put up with him droning on! Some people love to listen to him, and learn a lot, others just get bored and leave him pottering around in the gardens. He was a slave at Nar Shaddaa’s Red Fifteen Casino for about fifteen years, since he failed to pay off his debts to the manager. He wasn’t a big gambler but they suckered him in on one of his trips there, and rigged the tables. Before that he worked as a gardener for many influential clients, often getting called out to different planets to landscape their unique ideas, or vision for their homes. He saw a lot of life, always in the background, and he watches and learns as well as anyone as he works, a background pair of eyes for the temple should anyone stop to talk to him.
