Maelion Liates
Terminatrix
NAME: Maelion Liates
FACTION: Republic
RANK: Lieutenant
SPECIES: Human Replica Droid
AGE: 11
GENDER: Female appearance
HEIGHT: 6’0”
WEIGHT: 200lb
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Black
SKIN: Pale.
FORCE SENSITIVE: No.
STRENGTHS:
WEAKNESSES:
BIOGRAPHY:
To speak of Maelion Liates is in effect to speak of two people; a now dead human woman, and the machine which took her name and at least a little bit of her personality.
The original Maelion was a rather unimportant and regular young woman living on Coruscant. Her parents were heavily in debt due to bad decisions, and this led to them being near destitute. Adding to their problems, Maelion was diagnosed with a severe, wasting disease beyond their capability to repair. However, at this time the head of a local crime organisation was on the lookout for rather specific and illegal things. His gaze focussed in on Maelion’s family. He told them that in exchange for their dying daughter he would cancel all debts and allow them to live in peace.
With Maelion dying, and growing weaker every day the family reluctantly agreed. They never saw Maelion again.
The crime boss, a man by the name of Josiah Routhe, had expanded his empire across parts of Coruscant, working with the owners of the planet to provide useful services in exchange for having a blind eye turned. However, Josiah Routhe had many enemies, and after only luck had prevented his death by his own bodyguard he sought a replacement.
Human Replica Droids were not a new invention, and had been used several times before by all sides. Routhe was adamant he should have one built for him to act as an extremely loyal and efficient bodyguard.
Therefore, Routhe contacted various groups and contracted to make such a droid. However, there was one issue. While HRDs were reliable and efficient they suffered from an overriding issue; it was almost impossible to program a replica of a human capable of blending in.
Thus Routhe was asked to provide a human subject to act as the template. He provided Maelion who was euthanized and processed.
The construction, programming and testing of Maelion took a considerable period of time, and the company responsible used her as a testing ground so as to allow production of further units.
The appearance of her human exterior was something of an odd decision. Maelion was designed to look exactly like the then Republic Chancellor Arin Ellis. The reason for this was that Routhe had a personal grudge towards her, and it also provided an excellent disguise to prevent her being easily tracked.
The construction of Maelion Liates took over a year, but in the end resulted in her being prepared for operation. Her first controller was Josiah Routhe, and his first order was surprisingly not to massacre the designers. His first mission for her was to kill the entire board of a rival company, which Maelion did with only a little difficulty.
Over the next four years Maelion performed missions and guarded Routhe faithfully. However, on one mission where she was dispatched to assassinate a rival she learned that Routhe had been killed when she was absent. This occurred when she was actually standing over her intended victim, weapon in hand.
Here Maelion showed for the first time her inherently skewed logic about her controller; she offered her intended victim the chance to be her boss! The target, a Twi’lek Black Sun Vigo, agreed, though it is clear he only did so to survive. Fearing her he sent her into a trap, not wanting her to survive. When she did, battered and damaged he made the mistake of trying to dispatch her himself and was killed.
Over the next three years she performed a range of missions for various controllers, all of which died mostly violent deaths or made the mistake of trying to turn on her.
However, at age seven Maelion found that she quite literally had no one left to be her controller. The long series of wars had killed off so many that no one would accept Maelion, or attempted to destroy her.
Now Maelion needs a new controller, and has set her sights on the Republic. They are an ordered group with clear hierarchy, and thus form the best use of her talents.
FACTION: Republic
RANK: Lieutenant
SPECIES: Human Replica Droid
AGE: 11
GENDER: Female appearance
HEIGHT: 6’0”
WEIGHT: 200lb
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Black
SKIN: Pale.
FORCE SENSITIVE: No.
STRENGTHS:
- As a HRD, Maelion is extremely strong and resilient. She has the strength of five humans, and since she is made of metal under her exterior she is extremely difficult to destroy. Even if damaged she is able to continue fighting even if she is missing a limb or has other damage.
- When on mission Maelion is extremely good at imitating humans. She can change her voice to any known tone, speak any language she has programmed, and is able to manipulate and use organics extremely well.
- As a droid she has a literally photographic memory, and can store a vast amount of information. She can also transmit messages from an internal transmitter, even beaming live images from her eyes across to another.
WEAKNESSES:
- Maelion does not understand the Force. It is something she can only observe the effects of, and cannot quantify. Against Force users she is sometimes unable to assess potential dangers. Leading into the below, she is also vulnerable to Force lightning.
- As a droid, Maelion is vulnerable to ion and electrical weapons.
- Although she looks like a human and acts like one, she isn’t. Even if people around her she works with don’t know, they sense something is unusual. Thus Maelion does not have friends in the usual sense.
- Maelion is under the control of an aptly named ‘Controller’ who can order her to do almost anything. This means she is unfree, forced to work for whoever is in control of her.
BIOGRAPHY:
To speak of Maelion Liates is in effect to speak of two people; a now dead human woman, and the machine which took her name and at least a little bit of her personality.
The original Maelion was a rather unimportant and regular young woman living on Coruscant. Her parents were heavily in debt due to bad decisions, and this led to them being near destitute. Adding to their problems, Maelion was diagnosed with a severe, wasting disease beyond their capability to repair. However, at this time the head of a local crime organisation was on the lookout for rather specific and illegal things. His gaze focussed in on Maelion’s family. He told them that in exchange for their dying daughter he would cancel all debts and allow them to live in peace.
With Maelion dying, and growing weaker every day the family reluctantly agreed. They never saw Maelion again.
The crime boss, a man by the name of Josiah Routhe, had expanded his empire across parts of Coruscant, working with the owners of the planet to provide useful services in exchange for having a blind eye turned. However, Josiah Routhe had many enemies, and after only luck had prevented his death by his own bodyguard he sought a replacement.
Human Replica Droids were not a new invention, and had been used several times before by all sides. Routhe was adamant he should have one built for him to act as an extremely loyal and efficient bodyguard.
Therefore, Routhe contacted various groups and contracted to make such a droid. However, there was one issue. While HRDs were reliable and efficient they suffered from an overriding issue; it was almost impossible to program a replica of a human capable of blending in.
Thus Routhe was asked to provide a human subject to act as the template. He provided Maelion who was euthanized and processed.
The construction, programming and testing of Maelion took a considerable period of time, and the company responsible used her as a testing ground so as to allow production of further units.
The appearance of her human exterior was something of an odd decision. Maelion was designed to look exactly like the then Republic Chancellor Arin Ellis. The reason for this was that Routhe had a personal grudge towards her, and it also provided an excellent disguise to prevent her being easily tracked.
The construction of Maelion Liates took over a year, but in the end resulted in her being prepared for operation. Her first controller was Josiah Routhe, and his first order was surprisingly not to massacre the designers. His first mission for her was to kill the entire board of a rival company, which Maelion did with only a little difficulty.
Over the next four years Maelion performed missions and guarded Routhe faithfully. However, on one mission where she was dispatched to assassinate a rival she learned that Routhe had been killed when she was absent. This occurred when she was actually standing over her intended victim, weapon in hand.
Here Maelion showed for the first time her inherently skewed logic about her controller; she offered her intended victim the chance to be her boss! The target, a Twi’lek Black Sun Vigo, agreed, though it is clear he only did so to survive. Fearing her he sent her into a trap, not wanting her to survive. When she did, battered and damaged he made the mistake of trying to dispatch her himself and was killed.
Over the next three years she performed a range of missions for various controllers, all of which died mostly violent deaths or made the mistake of trying to turn on her.
However, at age seven Maelion found that she quite literally had no one left to be her controller. The long series of wars had killed off so many that no one would accept Maelion, or attempted to destroy her.
Now Maelion needs a new controller, and has set her sights on the Republic. They are an ordered group with clear hierarchy, and thus form the best use of her talents.
