Zofia Marek
Master and Commander
NAME: Zofia Marek
FACTION: Privateer/Mercenary
RANK: Captain
SPECIES: Cathar
AGE: 26
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 1.9
WEIGHT: 72kg
EYES: Green
HAIR: Red
SKIN: Short blonde fur
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
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STRENGTHS:
- Fighting Captain - Known for her daring and bravery, Zofia favors boarding actions and sports a preference for close ranged knife-fighting between ships. During combat actions, her carrying voice easily cuts through the command deck and when not directly at the helm as combat ensues, she can easily be found in the melee itself, leading her men into the fight.
- Fire and Iron - Well trained as a duelist, Zofia prefers the use of traditional Adumari Blastswords. Versed in their use, she has learned how to project Force down the length of the weapons, allowing her to utilize them as Force weapons. In addition, when the fight falls beyond simple melee ranges, Zofia has trained to use long-arms as well. While far from a marksman, she knows her way around most blasters and rifles.
- An Extension of Herself - Sailing the Star Sea for most of her life, Zofia has risen through the ranks over the years and earned a well founded understanding of starships and their use. This, coupled with her abilities to extend her senses allows her to maneuver her ship almost as if it was simply another limb. In addition, she often requires no need of a navigator, her abilities easily allowing her to negotiate astronomical hazards with relative ease.
WEAKNESSES:
- Untrained - While a skilled duelist and capable of holding her own in the swirling melee around, Zofia's combat Force training outside of focusing on her weapons is, essentially, non-existent. This forces her to rely entirely on skill alone as even the most basically trained Padawan or Apprentice is capable of batting away any Force attacks launched by the intrepid Captain.
- Frail - Agile and quick, Zofia can easily outmaneuver her foes, but when injured her wiry frame simply cannot take the damage another, more robust individual can. While her species is known for their quick healing factor, meaning she'll usually bounce back in a relatively short time, a solid wound can often be enough to take her from the fight entirely.
- Pride of Command - Zofia is entirely used to being the last and final word in any situation, her rank as captain and the weight it holds ensuring her orders are final. While she acknowledges that she is, in fact, a mere ship captain in the grand scheme of the galaxy, when her ship is underway and she is in command, her ship is the galaxy as far as her crew is concerned. Her word is final, her will is law. Strict and rigid in her temperament, functionaries and officers of the nations she sails for often find her abrasive at times which easily causes problems in the wrong situation.
APPEARANCE:
Tall and lithe, Zofia is Cathar and sports short, blonde-colored fur over her body save the hair atop her head which is red in coloration and grows far longer. Often wearing her captain's uniform, she is easily picked out in a crowd by her height, standing almost two meters tall, as well as her Cathar origins.
BIOGRAPHY:
Born on Cathar to a minor merchant family, Zofia was quickly marked as Force sensitive at a young age. Refusing to send their daughter to any Jedi or Force user temple or enclave, they instead placed her on the path to what they felt would be a meaningful career in a tumultuous galaxy, one without zealotry and bigotry.
Zofia followed that path until her early teens when academics gave way to adventure. She itched and longed for something outside the books she read, something few others had done - or at least, few other Cathar had done. While Force sensitive, she realized that intellectually the tenets preached by Jedi and Sith alike were inherently flawed and geared not towards the average person, but towards those with an attachment to the Force itself. This pointed her away from the path of the Force and instead towards the path she could only read about. One of seeing the stars, of exploration, and of adventure.
A young teen, Zofia signed on as a cabin girl aboard a merchant hauler, leaving behind her schooling and academics, much to the annoyance of her parents. She steadily rose up through the ranks as the years went on, her skill and knowledge catching the eyes of her superiors. Life aboard ship taught her to use her senses and intuition to tip the scales when outright technical knowledge failed. This adhoc training sculpted her Force skills, letting her expand her senses as needed to see the bigger, clearer picture, often letting her complete tasks most could barely attempt. Soon enough, she reached the rank of officer on a privateer vessel, her experience and skill granting her command over one of the many sections of the ship.
It was during combat as she defended the ship from enemy boarders that she learned how to augment her weapons. She'd taken to carrying Adumari Blastswords after visiting the planet some years before, the blades and their purpose catching her eye and interest. Despite having trained with the blastsword intensively and wielding it with skill, the weapon had a major flaw: it was not designed to combat lightsabers. The enemy ship was crewed by pirates led by a would-be Sith warlord. Zofia and her men rushed to stop the assault and in the melee that ensued, the Sith's blade hacked Zofia's sword apart. Sensing her sensitivity to the Force, the Sith attempted to reach into her mind, hoping to take the young officer a captive and, eventually, as an apprentice. Zofia barely resisted and, in a fit of adrenaline fueled panic, slashed at the Sith with the remaining half of her blastsword. To her surprise and that of the Sith lord's, the lightsaber that blocked the slash failed to cut into the sword itself. Zofia focused on the ability and used her greater training in hand to hand combat to carry the day. Since then, she trained constantly to recreate the ability, something that she has gained skill in today.
As time went on, Zofia rose in rank until, after a bloody battle that saw much of the crew killed or wounded and the previous captain among the lost, the crew unanimously voted for the young Cathar to take command.
Currently, she still commands the Hellion and its sailors as they ply their trade among the stars, searching for their next contract.
SHIP:
The Hellion
KILLS:
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
EQUIPMENT:
Adumari Blastsword
Emissary Revolver
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ROLE-PLAYS:
Soldier of Fortune
Discount Bin Shopping
Wait, Who Did Curiosity Kill?
