NAME: Maribel Cassard Hilstar
NICKNAMES: Mary
SPECIES: Human
GENDER: Female
AGE: 19
HEIGHT: 1.75 meters (5'9")
WEIGHT: 59 kilograms (131 lb)
BUILD: Lean, Slender
SKIN COLOR: Pale/white
HAIR: Blonde
EYES: Blue
PHYSICAL DEFORMITIES: None
MENTAL DEFORMITIES: None
PHYSICAL AILMENTS: None
PARENTS:
- Felix Cassard (father, deceased)
- Laura Cassard (mother, deceased)
- FN-999/Lucas Eilo Hilstar (adoptive father, estranged)
RELIGION: None
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Good
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Straight
FORCE SENSITIVITY: True
FACTION: Galactic Alliance
SUBSET: New Jedi Order
RANK: TBD
STRENGTHS
- Fit As A Fiddle: Mary is an athletic young woman in great shape. Rigorous training has given her impressive agility and endurance as well as above-average strength.
- Trailblazer: Assertive, brave, and confident in her physical and mental abilities, Mary is an effective trailblazer who will never back down from an opportunity to improve conditions for herself or others.
NEUTRAL
- Fiery Spirit: Mary is very passionate about her beliefs and will fight tooth and nail to protect the beings and ideas she cares about. However, her passion can also lead her down the path of rage and hatred towards her enemies, causing her to act without mercy and seducing her towards the Dark Side.
WEAKNESSES
- Scared Of The Dark?: Due to childhood trauma involving being locked in and tortured within a dark room for an entire week, Mary has developed a deep and instinctive fear of dark spaces. If Mary is put in any enclosed dark space without a light, she will almost completely shut down.
- Chafing Away: Mary is a highly rebellious young woman and will often struggle to take orders from her superiors, believing that she alone knows the right way to go about something even if her assumptions are false.
BIOGRAPHY
Maribel Cassard Hilstar was born in Bastion in 881 ABY.
Maribel Cassard Hilstar was born in Bastion in 881 ABY.
Mere weeks after her birth, Maribel's parents, both Sector Defense Force officers in the Empire, were killed in the Battle of Bastion as the Fourth Imperial Civil War drew to a close. Amidst the devastation, the infant Mary was discovered and rescued by Lucas Eilo Hilstar, better known as FN-999, or simply the Baron of Borosk. Having experienced significant mental trauma in the Battle of Bastion, the Baron, desperate for an emotional connection to another living being following the deaths of so many of his close friends, took the infant offworld and adopted her as his own son.
In the months to follow, Mary and the Baron moved from system to system until finally settling down on his old dominion of Borosk, where he formed an Imperial remnant government and began to regain a sense of stability in his life.
After settling down on Borosk, the Baron began to raise Mary largely by himself, only bringing in a babysitter when he left for long meetings or offworld expeditions. At first, still desperate for emotional connections, the Baron showered Mary with attention and thoroughly spoiled her. However, by the time Mary was two, the Baron's mental state had improved and he began to adopt a stricter method of parenting.
In order to improve the young Mary's fitness, the Baron took her out on walks in the forest trails surrounding his estate while improving her intellect by reading children's books with her. Recalling how his own parents had deprived him of a proper education, the Baron sent Mary off to preschool in the rapidly growing city of Alge as soon as she turned five.
It was at preschool where Mary was first introduced to other children. She made fast friends with many of her classmates, who were drawn to her confidence and intelligence. At home, the Baron continued to seek to maximize her daughter's potential, training her with longer walks, new exercises, and more advanced Imperial literature. In line with her father's personal ideology, Mary was rewarded with gifts and affection for completing her tasks and strictly punished for failure, and above all else, disobedience. While the Baron never physically abused Mary, perhaps scarred by mistreatment from his own parents, he often mentally tormented his daughter with his punishments by locking her in her room, depriving her of the right to see him, or refusing to say anything positive to her until she corrected her mistakes. In time, Mary grew to fear being abandoned by her father more than anything else and for years to come would strive to become the perfect daughter so that she could hold onto his affection.
Ultimately, puberty would change everything. As Mary grew into a bright and healthy young woman, she also began to grow a rebellious spirit. No longer did she accept her father's words as the universal truth, instead adopting a unique set of ideas that she held as dearly as his father did his. In contrast with her sociable but emotionally guarded father, Mary formed many strong friendships from a young age and was openly passionate about her concerns. Furthermore, when many of her friends were conscripted into military academies in Alge, Mary could not find it in herself to congratulate them as her father once had his peers. Instead, she feared that she might lose her close friends in battle or a training accident. When Mary brought her concerns before her father and suggested that he at least extend their training period past their teenage years, he assured her that no one was too young to serve the Empire and that if her friends died in battle, they would be remembered as heroes.
That conversation would prove to be the turning point in the relationship between father and daughter.
Enraged at her father's willingness to turn teenagers into child soldiers against their will, Mary began to plot to ensure that graduation for the Imperial cadets at the Alge Imperial Academy was as delayed as possible. Feigning a visit to Alge to examine troop movements, Mary would use her authority as the Baron's daughter to enter the academy, bypass the security network, and commit various minor acts of sabotage, from pulling the fire alarms to stealing and destroying hard drive copies of the syllabus. Over the months, Mary would cost the drill instructors dozens of hours of time as they worked to reconstruct all she had sabotaged, significantly delaying the development of the class. The issue came to a head when, during an advanced training drill, two AT-ATx were destroyed due to pilot error caused by Mary switching the pilot's manual inside the walker with that of the AT-SB the day before. Following the debacle, the graduation date was pushed back by a year and the academy was placed under investigation by the Baron and his military staff.
In the midst of the investigation, the Baron connected the dots and began to suspect that his own daughter was sabotaging the Alge Imperial Academy in order to extend their training period as she had pleaded with him to do earlier. In order to track Mary undetected and confirm whether or not she was guilty, the Baron sent one of his shadow troopers to follow her on her next trip to Alge. Under the cover of invisibility, the trooper followed the Baron's daughter on her daily routine, catching her in the act of bending rifles with a sledgehammer and forcibly abducting her to the Baron's estate.
Angered and deeply disappointed in his daughter, the Baron brought Mary into a windowless, featureless black room on his estate and locked her in complete darkness for the next week. To add on to her punishment and make her understand the trouble her subversive acts caused the academy, the Baron regularly sabotaged the room. Among other things, he would release tear gas into the room for hours at a time, blast loud noises from hidden speakers at random intervals, and suck all oxygen out of the room, only re-opening the vents when Mary was on the verge of asphyxiation. Only after a week did the Baron let his daughter out of the black room, at which point she tearfully apologized for all her wrongdoings and desperately pleaded for the punishments to stop. Believing that his discipline had succeeded in reforming his daughter, the Baron accepted her apologies and restored her privileges.
Little did he know that from then on, Mary would be dead set on leaving Borosk for good.
In the aftermath of her punishment by the Baron, Mary realized that it would be impossible to reform the Empire from within. Instead, she plotted to leave Borosk and seek the help of the sole galactic superpower, the Galactic Alliance, to bring an end to her father's personal and political tyranny. While her view of the Alliance had been tainted by years of Imperial propaganda, she was well-aware that even they would undoubtedly welcome a high-profile Imperial defector, at the very least for the intel that she could provide them about her father. In order to keep her intentions hidden, she maintained a low profile, no longer vandalizing the Alge Imperial Academy as her focus shifted squarely towards the long-term goal of ending her father's reign. She began to take courses in the officer's academy that would assist her in her escape, learning how to pilot ships and becoming well-acquainted in a variety of signals and clearance codes.
By the time she turned eighteen, Mary was ready to escape with a few of her close friends to Galactic Alliance space.
A few days after Mary's eighteenth birthday, she took a trip to Alge to meet with her friends on a rare holiday outside the academy. Taking a taxi towards Irveric Tavlar Regional Spaceport, the group planned to take an Excursor star sloop she had rented from a local shipping company and make it to neutral Mygeeto before going down the Braxant Run and Hydian Way into Alliance space. Posing as a tradeswoman shipping finished goods to Mygeeto, Mary successfully passed ITRS customs and flew offworld without any trouble.
That was, until the group ran into Task Force Citadel.
Ever-paranoid by nature and never completely trusting his daughter after the Alge Imperial Academy incident, the Baron had arranged for a local shipping company to give Mary an excellent deal on an Excusor rental. Then, just before Mary made the purchase, he had planted a tracking beacon as well as cameras and motion detectors hidden in strategic locations throughout the vessel. The moment Mary and her friends had left ITRS, the Baron had been onto them.
Without any prior warning, the sloop was intercepted and tractor beamed by the Star Destroyer Terminator while still in orbit of Borosk. While Mary and her friends were being drawn into the Terminator, they made a vow: they would fight their way on board another ship or be captured trying.
As soon as the sloop landed in the Terminator's hangar, the group sprung into action.
Each person had a rifle that had been smuggled offworld, and after setting them to stun they began to fire upon the squad of stormtroopers that awaited them. After knocking them all out, the gang rushed towards the nearest vessel, which happened to be another, unbugged, Excursor sloop.
Then, reinforcements arrived, led by the Baron himself.
Mary and her friends were immediately bogged down in a firefight, taking cover wherever they could as they found themselves outnumbered and outgunned. Despite their best efforts, the group were picked off one by one by the veterans of the 908th Legion, who had been ordered to execute everyone but Mary for treason. Realizing that Mary was now the only one of them who had a chance of escaping, her surviving friends decided to sacrifice themselves to buy her time, urging her with their last words to find the fastest possible ship to escape in without worrying about fitting other people inside.
Yet even their sacrifice proved to be in vain. Mary had made it about five meters away from a parked TIE Meteor when the Baron caught up with her. After a brief scuffle, Mary was quickly disarmed and tossed to the ground, where the Baron prepared to choke her until she fell unconscious.
However, when Mary raised her hands in a last-ditch effort to shield herself from her father's blows, something remarkable happened.
The Baron was tossed a dozen meters away, landing unceremoniously into his troops and knocking many of them onto the ground. Knowing she could not afford to waste time processing what had just happened, Mary leapt onboard the Meteor and took off, leaving her father and Task Force Citadel in the dust before jumping to hyperspace.
In the days to come, Mary would nearly drown herself in a sea of emotions, from grief over the deaths of her friends to fear of her newly discovered Force sensitivity and anger towards not only her father but also herself for failing to save those closest to her. Yet despite it all, she found the willpower in her to continue the journey. Thanks to the provisions stored inside the Meteor, Mary was able to skip the Mygeeto pitstop, making it down the Braxant Run without incident. Only once she entered the Hydian Way, far from her father's influence, did she allow herself a break. Mary spent a day in the sands of Ordo, where she fashioned tombstones out of sandstone for her friends and laid their souls to rest.
With part of her emotional burden relieved, Mary continued on the last leg of her journey without incident, traveling down the Hydian Way until she reached the world of Eshan on the Galactic Alliance's Inner Rim frontier. There, Mary willingly surrendered herself and her Meteor to local authorities, where she promptly revealed her identity as the daughter of the Baron of Borosk and an untrained Force-sensitive. Mary was immediately taken into custody, where she was met by representatives of the Galactic Alliance Defense Force and New Jedi Order. Upon confirming that she was the Baron's daughter and a Force-sensitive respectively, the Alliance representatives had her resettled inside Alliance space and gave her the freedom to choose her future.
Wanting to learn how to control her Force powers and use them to help liberate the oppressed in Borosk and the galaxy as a whole, Mary decided to commit herself to the New Jedi Order.
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