Approved NPC Andro Kaas

[Visanj T'shkali]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To submit an NPC for future submissions and role-playing.
​Image Credit: N/A
Role: A central character for a planned thread, Andro Kaas’ success and idealism serves as a story catalyst.
Links:

• Laranis System Protectorate
• Laranis System
• Laranis City
• Laranis II
• Kaas Industries
• Kaas Mine
• Confederacy of Independent Systems

PHYSICAL INFORMATION
Age: 50-something
Force Sensitivity: Non-Force User
Species: Human
Appearance: A handsome, distinguished man in his mid-50s, Andro is well-groomed and usually impeccably dressed in tailored suits, bespoke shoes, and expensive clothing. Tall and slender, with a wiry, fit figure – a remnant from his days as an officer of the Alliance – he has a straight military bearing and speaks with a firm, eloquent tone.

SOCIAL INFORMATION
Name: Andro Kaas, Protector (Laranis System Protectorate) and CEO, Kaas Industries.
Loyalties: Laranis System Protectorate; Sympathies towards the Confederacy of Independent Systems
Wealth: The wealthiest man in the Laranis System, Kaas owns numerous business concerns, including fancy restaurants, upscale housing properties, a hotel, a small shipping fleet, several mining enterprises, a refinery, and more. His considerable – even meteoric – rise to prominence came with his discovery of a phrik mine on Laranis II.
Notable Possessions:

• Numerous holdings throughout the Laranis System, including: A hotel, several upscale rental properties, more than a half-dozen of Laranis City’s finest restaurants, numerous mining concerns and a refinery on Laranis II, a fleet of freighters, etc.
• The source of his wealth and the catalyst for his rise to power and position in the Laranis System Protectorate, a phrik mine on Laranis II.

Skills:

• A very skilled and shrew tactician and strategist, he is prudent, careful, and meticulous in his planning and execution of those plans.
• A brilliant speaker, he is adept at earning not only the interest but the enthusiasm of his listeners, and can be extraordinarily persuasive and energizing.
• A gifted politician and businessman, he has taken the Laranis System by storm, rising in just a few years to the top of the political and economic hierarchy there and garnering the attention of galactic leaders.

Personality: Andro Kaas climbed his way to become a tested and respected officer in the Galactic Alliance. For reasons known only to himself, Andro was forced to leave, arriving on Laranis II where he sought to rebuild his life. His training as an engineer served him well, and the daring man discovered a phrik mine. This grit and drive has marked Andro his entire life. He has persevered through setbacks and struggles, facing them with the resolve and calm which had earned him his reputation as military officer. However, as his status and wealth grew, so too did his interest in reform and he became a champion of the working classes, calling for reforms and an end to corruption and lopsided practices meant to ensure the vast disparity of the Laranis System. His bold vision for a more democratic and eqalitarian future, coupled with his desire to join the Protectorate to the CIS – whose ideals resonated within him – as well as his natural charm and reputation for square-dealing, earned him the love of the people and the loathing of his corporate rivals and peers.

COMBAT INFORMATION
Weapon of Choice: Andro Kaas long ago left behind the profession of war, and chooses now to do battle using his wits, character, and skill.
Combat Function: Andro is a business and political leader, and doesn’t directly engage in combat. His wars are fought in boardrooms, courtrooms, and on the dais.

STRENGTHS:

• Smart and cunning, with a clever, quick, and creative mind, Andro has shown himself to be quite adept at navigating, even mastering, the turbulent and complex world of Laranisian business and politics.
• A man of high ideals and character, gifted with charm, poise, and eloquence, he is a persuasive and potent speaker and charismatic leader.
• Incredible business acumen, as Andro has turned one significant enterprise into a system-wide empire and has risen to one of the galaxy’s wealthiest and most influential figures.
• Andro Kaas left behind a promising career as a military officer - but he retains the tactical training, combat skills, etc. he gained in those days. Kaas has morphed into a businessman, and it's been many years since he's done any soldiering, but in a pinch he could still offer up a decent fight if he had to.
• However, the tactical training and experience as a military commander has translated into a shrewd resourcefulness, and while he's no longer the fighter he once was, he's every bit the strategist that he was. Kaas could still command a starship or direct ground troops with the same cunning and ability as he now directs Kaas Industries and negotiates the cutthroat politics of Laranis City.

WEAKNESSES:

• Andro Kaas is a man with ideals and those ideals – and more importantly his ability and zeal to act on them – has made him a maverick among the Laranasian politico-economic system, earning him many enemies.
• Andro Kaas is growing desperate, knowing his enemies are hoping to derail his plans for the future of the Laranis System, he is anxious to secure an agreement with the Confederacy of Independent Systems before his work can be undone.
• Andro Kaas hasn't fired a weapon or drilled in combat skills in years, and time and age coupled with the lifestyle of a business tycoon have made him soft. He might know the techniques and maybe once had the skills to make him a formidable fighter, but those days have passed. Anymore, Kaas' skills are dull and he's grown slower and softer, no longer a match for a proficient and fit - or frankly younger - opponent.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Little is known about Andro Kaas’ early life in the Alliance, save only that he was once a respected and promising military officer. Upon arriving on Laranis II, Kaas began prospecting and eventually discovered a large vein of phrik some months later. Capitalizing on his find, he quickly built a mine, and the profits from that mine served as the foundation for what was to become the largest fortune and corporation in the entire Laranis System.

Known as a man of refinement and taste, he diversified his investments, building a luxury hotel and serving as a venture capitalist. In time, he would expand his interests to include restaurants, housing, the construction of a refinery and purchase of a small fleet of freighters, and more. Kaas Industries became a leader in materials and mining, buying up several mining facilities on Laranis II. Soon, it became eligible for a seat on the Laranis System Protectorate, and a few short years later, as Kaas Industries would dominate the system, he was installed as “Protector”.

Andro became a reformer, a champion of the working classes, and wished to usher in a new era of democracy and expanded opportunity for all, to end the corruption and heavy-handed policies of the Protectorate and its Security, and to bring the Protectorate in line with the Confederacy of Independent States, whom he believed best represented the ideals he sought to pursue.

A lifelong bachelor and considered the system’s ‘most desirable’ much speculation about the fate of his corporation and fortune abounds.

 

[Veino Garn]

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[Veino Garn]

Looks good to me.

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Visanj T'shkali"], [member="Veino Garn"]

Performing secondary review.

STRENGTHS: Smart and cunning, with a clever, quick, and creative mind, Andro has shown himself to be quite adept at navigating, even mastering, the turbulent and complex world of Laranisian business and politics. A man of high ideals and character, gifted with charm, poise, and eloquence, he is a persuasive and potent speaker and charismatic leader. Incredible business acumen, as Andro has turned one significant enterprise into a system-wide empire and has risen to one of the galaxy’s wealthiest and most influential figures. WEAKNESSES: Andro Kaas is a man with ideals and those ideals – and more importantly his ability and zeal to act on them – has made him a maverick among the Laranasian politico-economic system, earning him many enemies. Andro Kaas is growing desperate, knowing his enemies are hoping to derail his plans for the future of the Laranis System, he is anxious to secure an agreement with the Confederacy of Independent Systems before his work can be undone.

As with the other NPC submission, these are good personality traits that do a good job fleshing him out. But they're more about social interactions, politics and so on than combat. You can keep them, especially since Andro is more of a political character than a fighter.

However, I'd recommend adding something about how he'd handle himself in a fight in the event that he's forced into combat and bodyguards aren't available to protect him. Basically if there's anything he'd be good at.

Would he be a total liability or does he have some basic self-defence skills and can say use a blaster pistol? Since he used to be an officer, is he good at commanding soldiers, meaning he comes up with good battle tactics and strategies, while staying out of the heat of of combat?

For Weaknesses you could just put in that he's a civilian not a frontline fighter, and thus would not measure up to an elite soldier or Force-User if pressed into combat, as he fights his battles with a pen, not a sword etc.

 

[Visanj T'shkali]

[member="Elpsis Kerrigan-Alcori"] Thanks again! Changes made!

 

[Elpsis Kerrigan]

[member="Visanj T'shkali"]

Approved