Jorus Q. Merrill
I'm a Vima-da-Boda, honey
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
In 902 ABY,
Darth Empyrean
erected the Blackwall, a comprehensive political and sorcerous barrier around Sith territory. Jorus, who had been retired in dusty Zoronhed for decades, running the Baobab Astrography kiosk and spending time with family, found half the local hyperroutes blocked in ways he couldn't circumvent. To verify the safety of a family member trapped inside, he prepared for a serious attempt at breaching the Blackwall.
While Jorus was exchanging resources with old friends, now refugees from the Battle of Woostri, a spree killer began a massacre. Jorus tracked and neutralized the killer at the cost of his life, protecting a house full of dead strangers. After Jorus became one with the Force, the bloodstained shreds of his clothing were bundled up and interred at the refugee settlement's burial ground with the blessing of his daughter Mara.
The place's strange and subtle effects were rarely noticed and became clear to few. (
Coren Starchaser
, for one, would have noticed immediately.) After a visit, a Warden of the Sky, one of Jorus' former students at the Levantine Astronautical Academy, managed the near-lethal round trip through the Blackwall that Jorus had aspired to. The Warden in question — out of respect, fear, standard Warden anonymity, or regret that it wasn't possible to verify Jorus' family member's survival — is unknown and the story is kept private.
There are stories, however, of broken-down refugee ships surviving thousand-to-one jumps in the vicinity of nearby worlds like Haruun Kal, Vondarc, and Alakatha. There are even folk songs about touching the grave marker for luck before a heartbreaking separation or an attempt at reunion. The best-known is called The Saint of Getting Home.
- Intent: A grave for Jorus Merrill and one last neat bit of astronavigation.
- Image Credit: None
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: Blood in the Gutter (death)
- Nexus Name: Grave of Jorus Merrill
- Nexus Alignment: Light
- Location: Vandelhelm
- Affiliation: N/A
- Size: Small
- Strength: Strong (but extremely specific)
- Accessibility: There's no security other than obscurity. Among certain spacers, the grave is thought to be lucky, but its location is largely unknown even among many of Jorus' family and friends.
- Description: Just another grave marker set in dry ground, in a burial site adjacent to a refugee camp outside a shipyard city.
- Visitors who linger at the grave may experience a sense of which way to go to get home, wherever home may be.
- Force-sensitive visitors who linger at the grave may experience glimpses of hyperspace's blue-white light in the corners of their eyes or in reflective surfaces.
- If a lingering visitor happens to be Force-sensitive with aptitude or skill at instinctive astrogation — the specialized ability that shaped Jorus' life for seventy years — their next few attempts at instinctive astrogation will be greatly enhanced whether they realize it or not.
- The grave marker is an off-white plastoid rectangle the size of two hands together, well rooted in the dry dirt. It says:
CAPTAIN JORUS MERRILL
810-902
PATHFINDER
810-902
PATHFINDER
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
In 902 ABY,
Darth Empyrean
erected the Blackwall, a comprehensive political and sorcerous barrier around Sith territory. Jorus, who had been retired in dusty Zoronhed for decades, running the Baobab Astrography kiosk and spending time with family, found half the local hyperroutes blocked in ways he couldn't circumvent. To verify the safety of a family member trapped inside, he prepared for a serious attempt at breaching the Blackwall.While Jorus was exchanging resources with old friends, now refugees from the Battle of Woostri, a spree killer began a massacre. Jorus tracked and neutralized the killer at the cost of his life, protecting a house full of dead strangers. After Jorus became one with the Force, the bloodstained shreds of his clothing were bundled up and interred at the refugee settlement's burial ground with the blessing of his daughter Mara.
The place's strange and subtle effects were rarely noticed and became clear to few. (
Coren Starchaser
, for one, would have noticed immediately.) After a visit, a Warden of the Sky, one of Jorus' former students at the Levantine Astronautical Academy, managed the near-lethal round trip through the Blackwall that Jorus had aspired to. The Warden in question — out of respect, fear, standard Warden anonymity, or regret that it wasn't possible to verify Jorus' family member's survival — is unknown and the story is kept private.There are stories, however, of broken-down refugee ships surviving thousand-to-one jumps in the vicinity of nearby worlds like Haruun Kal, Vondarc, and Alakatha. There are even folk songs about touching the grave marker for luck before a heartbreaking separation or an attempt at reunion. The best-known is called The Saint of Getting Home.
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