"Hates his life, does Mikhail Shorn
Wishes he had ne'er been born
Provoker of the ladies' wrath
A bitter, snarky psychopath"
-in 'Connory: Sage of the Space Lanes -
The Definitive Collection,'
A.E. Sorose and G.Q.Beorht, eds.,
University of Rudrig Press, 955 ABY
NAME: Mikhail ShornFACTION: None
RANK: Sith Master
SPECIES: Tapani Human/Garhoon
AGE: 31
GENDER: Male
HEIGHT: 6'1"
WEIGHT: 190lbs
EYES: Ice Blue
HAIR: Black
SKIN: Pale
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
PERSONALITY: Snarky and a bit sadisistic, Mikhail Shorn enjoys playing with the emotions of others. He is amoral almost to the point of sociopathy. His self-confidence and charm are often used in a seductive manner. He is passionate, often acting out of impulse. Despite all this, self-destructiveness seems to be his constant theme, perhaps due to a suppressed self-loathing and loneliness.
Mikhail Shorn wears cynicism, snark, and ego as a mask made up of all the negatives to keep others from growing close to him, like a repelling magnet. He does not want to know them, for fear that they would either turn on him, or be harder for him to kill in the future. He attempts to keep this mask on at all times, afraid of what would happen should other Sith see his true self. Beneath the vestige of the mask he is the visage of a broken man, rent by grief, remorse, and self-loathing. He believes he must be evil, or die. Anyone who tries to convince him otherwise treads a dangerous and unpredictable line, for Mikhail is prone to outbreaks of violence and targetted anger. However, he almost never kills without purpose. Occasionally, he loses control and some poor souls are reaped from the galaxy in the mindlessness of his wrath, but he despises himself for it, afterwards. He is prone to cover up his motivations for acts considered to be evil by saying he did them for fun.
A more self-destructive side of Mikhail fuels his snide comments and disregard for authority. Mikhail despises himself and his actions so much that he subconsciously wishes for his own destruction by a more powerful hand, and thus he tempts fate and flaunts authority with sarcasm and snark. The lack of any love or friendship in his life make Mikhail a lonely man. He often seeks to drown his solitude with casual flings of the flesh, alcohol, or the sadistic pleasure he derives from killing. This sadistic streak is something that terrifies his inner subconscious, as he truly does derive satisfaction from causing others pain.
All of these have formed a man who creates his own little world to escape it all, wherein he has no feelings of regret for his actions. It is an amoral little world. But it is Mikhail Shorn's little world. And he holds onto it with a stubborn grip. This stubborness makes up a whole other realm of Mikhail, which, along with his arrogance, makes him a man who bends very little. He does become angry, though it is often shielded as he pretends it to be a passing irritation and annoyance at the arrogance, or idiocy of some individual or other. His anger, however, derives from and is often caused by his own arrogance.
In terms of mannerisms, Mikhail tends to act with a flippant air of nonchalant cynicism and false charm. Due to his refined upbringing, Mikhail can certainly act with courtly etiquette when he has to, but he rarely, if ever, does and only in cases of extreme desperation, or mockery. When trying to appear intimidating or threatening, Mikhail often gives them a wide-eyed, icy blue stare, his eyes seeming to look through others, rather than at them. He has an alarming lack of personal space when confronting others in an attempt to unnerve or seduce them. He does not smile. He smirks. And he never laughs. He snorts and scoffs, but outright laughter has been squeezed from him.
Unlike other Sith, Mikhail does not wear robes. He favors leather jackets and plain, dark clothes.
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum) :
Strengths:
Aspect of Control: He is known to absorb blaster bolts and convert them into force lightning. Mikhail is also adept at moving objects with his mind. Force Pull is his particular favorite.
+Telekinesis
- Force Push/Pull: Throw, Repulse, Wave, Ballistakinesis
- Force Wound: Choke, Grip, Crush
+Force Lightning: Spark, Chain Lightning
+Makashi - 1v1 lightsaber dueling
Weaknesses:
-Highly susceptible to mental attacks.
-Arts of Sense:
- Tactus Otium - Seeing the Future
- Tai Vordrax - Psychometry
- Projected Telepathy
-Poor Pilot: Mikhail is not the most skilled pilot, often crashing whatever vessel it is that he flies.
-Self-Destructive: Compulsive, Impulsive, Irritating, Irritable.
Extraneous Abilities:
- Doppelganger
- Mind Trick
- Numerous blaster burns on both shoulders
- Two small scars on his abdomen from slug rounds
- Burn scars across his left arm.
Horizon-class Star Yacht "Pariah"
Ouch Knife
Ironskin
Leviathan Bracers
Dark Herald Armor
Terentatek Duster - Black
Beskad
BIOGRAPHY:
Childhood:
Mikhail Shorn's story begins far back in history, with the Shorn family originating from an ancient, but exiled, Tapani line of peasants. Once servants of House Melantha, the Shorn family claimed Shey Tapani as an ancestor. A claim highly improbable and unlikely. They lived in a neighborhood surrounded by fellow Tapani. All of them were forced to move during the last great uprising, which led to the collapse of the Noble Houses and the exile of many families. Since they lived in the Galactic Republic, the feudal system used in the Tapani sector did not apply. However, the families kept the culture alive. They ostracized the lower families and nearly worshipped the higher families. Lords, Barons, Knights and peasants. All titles that were ultimately meaningless. The Shorn family were third generation upriser Knights, former peasants who had done a service to a Lord earning the head of the household knighthood and making his family blood noble from that point on.
Mikhail Shorn's story begins far back in history, with the Shorn family originating from an ancient, but exiled, Tapani line of peasants. Once servants of House Melantha, the Shorn family claimed Shey Tapani as an ancestor. A claim highly improbable and unlikely. They lived in a neighborhood surrounded by fellow Tapani. All of them were forced to move during the last great uprising, which led to the collapse of the Noble Houses and the exile of many families. Since they lived in the Galactic Republic, the feudal system used in the Tapani sector did not apply. However, the families kept the culture alive. They ostracized the lower families and nearly worshipped the higher families. Lords, Barons, Knights and peasants. All titles that were ultimately meaningless. The Shorn family were third generation upriser Knights, former peasants who had done a service to a Lord earning the head of the household knighthood and making his family blood noble from that point on.
However, Mikhail's tale truly starts with that of his father, Casperli Shorn. A proud, stiff man, Casperli Shorn had to deal with the contempt of the other nobles for most of his childhood years. The other noble families despised uprisers, specifically because their blood was not truly noble. Of course, they were in the Galactic Republic now, where no one's blood was really noble, but that didn't stop them from discriminating. Casperli managed to gain the respect of the other nobles through his strict adherence to ettiquette and adept political maneuvering - something the nobles all respected, even in their enemies - by the time he was twenty. By the age of thirty, Casperli turned the Shorn name into one not to be taken lightly. As a man who adhered strictly to law and would not tolerate any foolishness, Casperli expected the same of his sons. They would turn into distinguished heirs of the family name. Proud descendants of the Shorn family. Their star would continue to rise into the heavens, propelled by adept hands, skilled at tactful manipulation and well-bred manners. In short, he expected everything that Mikhail was not.
The eldest of the Shorn brothers, Mikhail took a deviating path from the usual mannerisms of firstborns. Instead of being responsible, he was rash. Rather than quiet, introverted, and book savvy, Mikhail was a quick talking extrovert who lived a life full of action. As a young boy, he was a terror to the housemaids and a horror to be locked away at dinner parties. His father reacted with severe discipline, which only pushed Mikhail farther away and reinforced his disregard for authority. At first Mikhail acquiesced to his father's wishes. He was on the honor roll at school, the star of the sports team, and the idol of his younger brother, Seth, who he cared for deeply. And then Mikhail fell in love. Her name was Alexis. She was a peasant.
Mikhail's father would simply not have it. A peasant? In his house? Dating his son? No. Shorn tried to remind his father that they too had once been peasants, but his father would only shake his head sternly and say, "I will not hear more of this, son. We are noble now. We must behave as such." Casperli shut down the relationship and forbid them from seeing each other, which of course only made matters worse as forbidden love is that sweet nectar filling tales that make the heart weep with both sorrow and joy.
The young boy turned his hate on school, not thinking it worth his time or effort. He almost never went to class, received failing grades, and eventually had to be pulled out and given a private tutor, which didn't help matters at all. He was not an unintelligent boy. Just an unmotivated one. He continued to sneak out and see Alexis. Her auburn hair, laughing smile, and perfume - smelling faintly like strawberries - filling his heart, mind, and dreams. When Casperli found out, for it was bound to happen as these things so often do, he arranged for Alexis' family to be evicted. When Mikhail heard that Alexis had to move, away from him, away from the entire neighborhood, possibly even off planet, he grew furious. He knew his father was to blame. Somehow the old man had found out and burnt Mikhail's love boat down around his ears, even as it tried to set sail. Simple. Effective. Ruthless. A Shorn hallmark.
Mikhail fought with his father. They raged for hours. And hours turned todays. Whenever they saw each other another fight would break out. Seth eventually stepped in, reminding them of their mother, Casperli's wife, who had died of disease so many years ago, almost before Seth was born. The youngest Shorn asked if this was what she would have wanted, to see them fighting constantly. The two stubborn men eventually came around. Mikhail was seventeen. He told his father that when he was eighteen he would be leaving to join the Galactic Republic Army. Casperli pretended to be reluctant, but accepting. In secret, he was almost overjoyed that his son would be joining the Army. Perhaps that would teach the boy respect and dignity. Casperli suggested that if the boy must go into the army then at least he should attend officer training school, which Mikhail complied to.
Joining the Army:
Officer Training School was perhaps the toughest point in Mikhail's young life thus far. The days seemed never ending. The trainers were ruthless in their examination, attention to form, and punishments for failure. Mikhail's body hardened with muscle but so did his mind. Thinking muscle. This was something he wanted. True, he hated most authority, but with the right motivation even he could listen and obey. And he desperately wanted to be good at this, leading soldiers. It was what most young boys dreamed of, but Mikhail had never stopped dreaming. He didn't know if he could do it. Be that leader. Strong, but charismatic. Ruthless to the enemy, but empathetic to his troops.Motivated to succeed, Mikhail did so. He graduated OTS as a 2nd Lieutenant and received a position as a platoon officer. Six months later his platoon was deployed into combat.
His first taste of battle was horrifying. The image of the hot zone, where his platoon had to land, is forever seared into his memory. Countless bodies lay strewn across the ground. Smoke rose in pillars from wrecked vehicles. A never ending, staccato sequence of explosions created towers of exploding dirt and ripped men to pieces. He was the third man to get off the LAAT. He remembered this because the first two died, cut down by an unseen sniper in a spray of pink mist and plasma. He remembered the first blood to splash across his armor, that of the man in front of him when he stepped on a mine and had his legs blown off. And above all these he remembered the terror of his first kill, the simple raising of his blaster, lining up the sights, and pulling the trigger, leaving a man dead, scorching holes in his chest. Perhaps a man not so differrent from himself. But dead now. Dead as the others Mikhail had had to kill.
The Republic was not so old that it already had established dominion over most of the galaxy. Indeed, it was comparitively young, which meant many, many conquests lay ahead. As Shorn began to hop around the galaxy on campaigns, he socialized with the other officers. He was a man now, with a killer smile and a deadly wit. He was a hotshot in the Army who rode expensive speeders through crowded city airways on whims, loved many women, and drank himself under the table with routine pleasure to hide from the miseries of combat. Because if he didn't he might go insane. He saw Seth occasionally. The kid had joined the Starfighter Corps and wasn't doing too bad. His brother was a deeply empathetic man and it surprised him that the kid had transferred from medical to Starfighter. Seth said he'd realized the need for violence in order to achieve peace, even if he didn't like it. Mikhail just shook his head. Peace was an illusion.
His platoon was relegated to pirate mop up. It was a never ending chore, with high casualties and a low success rate, with any progress being nearly neglible. For every pirate group they killed another one would pop up just like it. There are a great deal of skirmishes that Mikhail saw. Recounting them all would take up much time and many words. Suffice it to say that he fought long and hard, until one day he found himself on the edge of large crater on some planetoid. The crater was a massive one, made by some meteor millions of years ago. Below, in the crater, were the armed defenses of the enemy pirates. The pirates knew they were coming and they were prepared.
Mikhail, now a captain, was in charge of a whole company. One hundred and fifty-two men, not including all the auxiliaries. He would be damned if he sent them all down there to their deaths. So far, he'd been a fairly good leader. Charismatic, always. Intelligent? Sometimes. But above all he tried to be empathetic. It was hard, when so many of his men saw him as the perpetrator of their misfortune. He'd had to see them suffer through so much on this campaign to end piracy. The politicians on Coruscant didn't understand the impossible task they'd assigned. All they cared about was giving the order so that they could tell the voters they had a strong anti-piracy stance. They didn't actually care about the lives of his troops. All they cared about was getting re-elected and looking good for the limelight.
He tried to get them to reconsider the orders, but it was futile. Reluctantly, he ordered the assault into the crater and he, along with a hundred and fifty two plus soldiers, charged down. Twenty survived. Mikhail was disgraced and demoted to lieutenant. He began to drink heavily. He disregarded orders and became more rebellious and arrogant. Soon, news came that his brother had died in an engagement. Mikhail snapped. He raved at the officer's bar about it being the fault of politicians and senile senior command. A superior officer laid hold of him in order to calm him down, but Mikhail lashed out. Not with hands or feet. But with his mind. The senior officer was blown back by an unseen force as Mikhail channeled his anger into the man. The man was flung through the plaster of the wall and he fell a whole story into the ground below. The room became silent. Mikhail Shorn left the planet in a hurry, deserting the Galactic Republic Army before he could be court martialed. It wasn't his fault he'd killed the man. He hadn't meant to, but he'd just been so angry.
Becoming Sith:
Once outside of Galactic Republic space, he investigated what had happened to him and came across things like the "Force" and "Jedi." Eventually, he learned of the "Sith." Since he couldn't go back to the Republic, he approached the Sith Empire. The usual interrogation followed until Mikhail was approached by an actual Sith. The one the holonet had spoke of. The Sith questioned Mikhail about what had happened and just like that Mikhail was whisked away to training on as a Sith Apprentice.The Sith were attempting to amplify their numbers in an effort to combat the growing threat of the Jedi and the aggressive Mandalorians. Mikhail was one of many initiates. But he was one of the few who survived. The initiates were a culmination of people the Sith had found who were force sensitive. The training was... severe. Mikhail did not see the outside of the facility for several months as they put his body and mind to the test.
There are many who spend years practicing martial forms. They are good, yes. But nothing can quite compare to the training instilled in an intense year of a gladitorial camp run by sadistic trainers, when learning means living and defeat death. Day in and day out the initiates trained for combat. They were given practice lightsabers, non-lethal, and for endless hours would spar against real Sith who didn't hold back punches or kicks that left a mouth bleeding or a rib bruised. Of course, were it is written "they" Mikhail would think "I." For in this camp from hell he began to think in terms of "I" and "them." No "Us." No "We." Just Mikhail Shorn. Alone. The other initiates couldn't be trusted as all had been told from the start that at the end of the year there would be an initiate-wide fight to the death. Those left standing would be given the rank of Apprentice. So, initiates of a particularly devious run would try to fix the game in their favor. Any opportunity offered to eliminate another initiate would be taken. Poisoned food, an overly rough sparring match that left compound fractures, a broken neck from a fall down a flight of stairs. And the Sith didn't really seem to care. Oh, if they were caught they were executed on the spot. As long as the initiates were clevered enough they got away with it. But the Force has a way of picking those who are neither weak nor stupid to wield its power.
The routine exercise built Mikhail into a lean muscled killer. He would wake up at seven, eat breakfast hurridly at the open cafeteria after checking for poison in his food, then follow the other initiates to the large obstacle course in the middle of the facility - which constantly changed its layout of obstacles - for aerobics and cardio from seven thirty to eleven. They would have a break to eat lunch, then back to work again for lightsaber combat from eleven thirty to four in the afternoon. This was Mikhal's favorite part of an otherwise routinely miserable day as the Sith approached it in a fairly free-form way.
Each initiate learned the basics of Form I, Shii-Cho. They would then choose which of the forms they wanted to study. As this gave them a bit of free will, Mikhail thought of his decision long and hard as it would most likely determine his fate. Soresu was too defensive for him. Against so many opponents he could not count on defense alone. He needed a strong counter-attacking style. Ataru was aggressive, but Mikhail could not be certain of the gym layout. Ataru needed space for acrobatics and Mikhail couldn't guarentee he would have that. Vaapad was too advanced. Niman was pathetic. Djem So/Shien's aggression appealed to him, but ultimately Makashi was the style of the duelist. And it was Makashi Mikhail chose. The form was elegant, precise, and deadly. Few initiates chose Makashi. It was an older style, like Shii-Cho and many preferred the acrobatics of Ataru or the aggressiveness of Shien.
With rapt attention, Mikhail would listen to and obey the Sith instructor in charge of Makashi. He never learned the Sith's name, or saw the face beneath the armor. He only heard that distorted voice issuing instructions that could make the difference between life and death. He practiced Makashi's footwork until his feet hurt. He hated the routineness of it, loathed the kata he constantly had to practice to understand the different thrusts possible, and despised the constant lectures on control and precision. But he struggled for it, motivated by the primal instinct to survive. And with time, he grew to be a formidable duelist.
In matters of the Force, Mikhail was less proficient, getting by on tricks rather than raw power and focus. The Sith trained the initiates in the ways of the Force from four to eight, their exhaustion from lightsaber combat and physical exertion making the Sith push them all the harder. If they found any initiates lacking they would were killed on the spot and a short lecture on non-toleration of weakness was given. Mikhail would have left, but he didn't really have a choice. Besides, he was starting to enjoy this power. Immersed in the presence of the Dark Side, Mikhail became addicted to it surely as if it was alcohol. The indescribable pleasure resulting from channeling that cimmerian strength which resembled nothing so much as an avalanche colliding into a flow of lava made him almost want to stay. He was not particularly skilled at the areas of healing, precognition, feeding off others' rage and anger, telepathic attacks, or enhancing his strength and speed. However, Mikhail thought of new and inventive ways to utilize the telekinesis of Force Pushes and Pulls to his advantage in a fight.
Four days before the final trial, the initiates built their lightsabers. They were given all the materials necessary and told only to build. If they did not build one in time for the final trial, they would enter it without a blade. Mikhail had never been gifted with circuitry. He was not the best pilot in the world and mechanical things seemed to despise him. He, along with many other initiates, did not finish building in time. Though he had stayed up and worked endlessly for four days and nights, with barely any food or water, Mikhail was seized along with the other initiates, thrown into the obstacle course, which now resembled an arena, and told to fight to the death. The final six left standing would be Apprentices.
Without a lightsaber, Mikhail was easy pickings. He almost died during the opening moments of the fight several times, barely managing to avoid the ruthless attacks of sabers. Finally, he got clever and pulled the body of another unarmed initiate in front of a thrust. Callously, Mikhail had used another human being as a meat shield. A year ago, he would have been shocked by his actions, but the Mikhail of the present just wanted to survive. He managed to kill the initiate wielding the lightsaber before she could recover from the thrust. He broke her neck with a violent twist of his arms and snatched up his blade. The wanton slaughter began in earnest now. Another initiate had seen Mikhail's tactic and used it on a saber armed opponent, but for the most part the unarmed initiates died swiftly.
Mikhail wasted no time in cutting down those initiate armed with lightsabers who stood busily trying to cut down the unarmed. Utilizing Makashi's precision thrusts, he squared off against another saber armed initiate. In two parries, a feint, and a thrust, Mikhail found himself staring at a corpse with his lightsaber sticking through its chest. He was surprised at how easy it had been. In a one on one duel, without any blasters involved, Mikhail would have been considered one of the foremost among the initiates.
Within the space of several minutes the blood bath was over. Severed limbs and amputated bodies littered the battlefield, but Mikhail and the five other initiates had survived the training from hell. Shorn lay in recovery for a full day after that. He built an actual lightsaber the day he woke up, working on it constantly for a whole week until it was finished. He would never go unarmed again, if he could help it. Released from the training camp, Mikhail accepted the rank of Sith Apprentice. Why put all those months spent in hell to waste? Why indeed.
In the year 837 ABY, Mikhail Shorn died under mysterious circumstances. His body was never recovered.
Six years later, a portal opened on Cularin. The planet was famed for its echoes of alternate timelines, but for unknown reasons this portal seemed more solid than at any time previously. Perhaps it had something to do with Akala's death and the sheer amount of radiant Force energy floating about, or maybe it was simply an aberration. An anomaly. Whatever the reason behind it, an echo of Mikhail Shorn found his way out of the portal.
This Mikhail Shorn was not an identical of the one who had died six years previous. He had never fathered children by Andra, never encountered Salem Norongachi. This Mikhail Shorn had never fallen out of love with Spencer Jacobs. And that Spencer Jacobs had never married Ashin Varanin. He and Spencer had been on the run from the Sith, and the Jedi, since they were padawans.
And now a simple misstep and an inter-dimensional portal have turned his life upside down.
KILLS:
[member="Prince Alshor of Centares"] - Killed during the Sith Empire's Dominion of Ossus
[member="Jared Ovmar"] - Killed in the Tournament of the Cauldron's Semifinal round
[member="Darth Ferus"] (Krest) - Killed in the Malachor Tournament of Dark Lords
DUELS - WIN/LOSS: 21-0
Jorn Mair - Win
Kal A'den Shukla - Win
Rosa Mazhar - Win
Asemir Lor'kora - Inconclusive
Avicus Dusang - Inconclusive
Darren Shaw x2 - 1- Draw, 2- Win
RC 212 - Draw
Darren Brunswick - Win
Rosa Mazhar - Win
Anaya Fen - Win
Jacen Cavill - Win
Tyrin - Win
Krag - Win
Zaiden x2 - Win, Win
Jacen Cavill - Draw
Diana Moridena - Win
Marek S'hadar - Win
Isley Verd - Inconclusive
Darth Ayra - Win
Ordo, Ermac Liath, Strider Garon, Kable Detta, Briika Tor (Mando Squad) - Win
Jared Ovmar - Win
Triam Akovin - Win
Astrian Callus - Win
Salem Norongachi - Win
Darth Ferus - Win
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
None
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ROLE-PLAYS:
Invasions:
Sith Empire - Invasion -Waking the Bear: Invasion
Sith Apprentice Mikhail managed to fight off several Mandalorian unit leaders during the Second Battle of Junction, wounding one in the knee and the other through the torso with his lightsaber. He fought side-by-side with Grand Vizier Kaine Zambrano, but was soon put out of action fighting three more Mandalorians after sustaining two gun shot wounds to the stomach, a blaster shot to the shoulder and multiple shrapnel wounds.
Sith Empire - Invasion - Flashpoint Roche
During the course of this epic engagement between all the Galactic powers, Mikhail assisted the Sith's Verpine Representative in escaping to Imperial lines and later took and held the Munitions Factory inside Nickel One until reinforcements could arrive. He duels Rosa Mazhar for the second time. The abilities of the Soulsaber drain the life from her unborn child, killing it. Rosa is grief stricken and on the verge of what Mikhail believes falling to the Dark Side, when she hears Darron Wraith's cry for help through the Force and flees, leaving Mikhail to duel another Jedi, A'donari Cinn.
Sith Empire - Invasion - Battle of Mandalore
During the Battle of Mandalore, Mikhail engaged an entire company of Mandalorian aligned Tusken Raiders. He emerged almost unscathed, but went finally succumbed to insanity from the effects of the Soulsaber. His brother Seth along with members of the Royal Guard tried to help them, but he tried to fight them. He was set on fire, cut his brother's face open with the Ouch knife, then got shot three times in the chest. He lost the Soulsaber. His subconscious somehow took control and used up all his Force powers to heal him, leaving him without any Force abilities.
Dominions:
Sith Empire - Dominion of Mon Calamari
Mikhail and a team of Sith and Dark Jedi hand picked by Ashin Varanin managed to subdue to the Amphi-Hydrus population of Dac. It was there Shorn gained his distinct dislike for rancors.
Sith Empire - Dominion of Ossus: Welcome to the Jungle
Mikhail accompanied the Sith strike force sent to subjugate Ossus. While there, one of the Sith Apprentices, Prince Alshor of Centares, became unruly and started a brawl between another apprentice. Mikhail crushed his throat and impaled him, resulting in his death. The Sith Knight Shorn later went on to defeat one of the indigenous champions in a duel, resulting in the yielding of an entire village to Sith rule.
Skirmishes:
Sith Empire - Duel - Mandalorians - Sith. Mandos. Bar. Boom.
Intent on seeing an end to the cessation of hostilities between the Mandalorians and Sith, because of his hatred for Mandalorians and capricious whims, Mikhail goes to Mandalore and walks into a bar full of Mandos. He threatens the Mandalorians, however the Mandalore is there and she tells them to stand down. Mikhail breaks Jorn Mair's jaw with the Force. One of them ignores her and falls prey to Mikhail's taunts. In the ensuing violence, Mikhail fended off the bar full of Mandos along with John Harrison, who dropped through the ceiling to join in the fight. John was knocked nearly unconscious and shot several times. Grabbing John, Mikhail flung him over his shoulder fought his way back to his ship, taking off and escaping to hyperspace before anything could be done. This reignited animosity between the Empire and the Mandalorians.
Training:
3 Chains of Your Own Making
Mikhail begins tutelage under Tirdarius, Lord of Korriban.
Sith Trek: The Next Generation
Mikhail trains under Velok, Lor Pelek.
The Training of Lucien Cordel
Mikhail trains Lucien Cordel.
Genesis: A New Son Arrives
Mikhail trains Yuri Caedus.
STORYLINE:
Sith Empire - Acceptance and Other Things
Mikhail and a team of Sith, their auras masked by two Masters, infiltrated the Jedi temple with the intent of capturing the Vice Chancellor of the Republic. Mikhail was recognized by Spencer Jacobs, who attempted to defend him, but to no avail. Mikhail was interrogated by then Jedi Master Darron Wraith. The other Sith revealed themselves and began to attack the Jedi. Mikhail escaped the interrogation room, killed several guards, and managed to grab the Vice Chancellor before Wraith caught up with him. Joined by Val'ryss, who was corrupting the younglings with the Dark Side, Mikhail issued Darron Wraith an ultimatum, let the children be consumed by the Dark Side, or let the Sith leave. With one extra condition, Darron had to cut off his sword hand. Wraith accepted and chopped off his own hand, though it was already a prosthetic. Mikhail and the others made their way to the hangar and escaped in a shuttle.
Sith Empire - Duel - Darren Shaw -Lord of the Sith: Primacy
Mikhail was present on Dromund Kaas when Ashin mounted a coup and knocked Moridin from his throne, though the former Emperor went willingly. Darren Shaw challenged Ashin to a duel, but Mikhail intervened out of irritation and spite. They fought briefly, but were soon interrupted by a Mandalorian invasion of the capital, which Ashin had planned for. Mikhail had a passive role in the rest of the proceedings.
Sith Empire - Kaine - Public Decency What's That?
Mikhail has a meeting with Grand Vizier Kaine Zambrano. He receives a commission in the elite HYDRA unit along with a set of HYDRA phrik armor.
Sith Empire - Duel - Rosa Mazhar - The Duel on Rhen Var
Newly knighted Mikhail was sent by the Empress Varanin to tail Sith Master Velok as he recovered a powerful artifact of some kind. While in the tomb of Ulic Qel-Droma, Mikhail encountered a force ghost and stumbled upon the Soulsaber. He managed to defeat the ghost with the power of the Soulsaber. He found Velok soon after. The two Sith were soon attacked by Grandmaster Darron Wraith and Jedi Rosa Mazhar. Mikhail beat Mazhar down to the point of exhaustion, but before he could kill her with a Force choke he was attacked by Darron Wraith, who had just knocked Velok unconscious.
Relationship Arc - Anaya Fen -The Miscreant and the Lunatic
Newly named one of two Champions of the Empress, Mikhail receives an unexpected visit from Anaya Fen. Drinking, dot dot doting, and Force lightning ensues, but both survive.
Wedding - Sith EmpireThe Wedding of the Ages (Red Wedding)
Along with Rach Kol-Rekali and a number of other Dark Side miscreants, Mikhail assisted in ruining Kamon Vondiranach's wedding by first mind tricking a female servitor into thinking she was a former lover of Kamon's, resulting in a large wine stain on the Groom's tuxedo. Then he blew up the wedding cake.
Sith Empire - Duel - Darren Shaw, Dark Onyx - I Have Nothing to Do
Mikhail led a Sith Strike team to capture the traitor Dark Onyx. In the process, Darren Shaw assisted the traitor, resulting in the Empress declaring him an enemy of the Empire. Mikhail proceeded to duel Darren in a climactic battle, which ended when he broke Darren's legs with a Force Crush. He then made Darren lick both his and Zaiden's boots before sending the man off to the Empress for summary judgement.
Relationship Arc - Katarine Ryiah - Tension on Tund
Sent on a diplomatic mission to Tund, Mikhail meets Jedi Master Katarine Ryiah. They entertain some polite discussion and Mikhail attempts to seduce her to little avail, when the Sith Empire suddenly invades. Mikhail more or less kidnaps Katarine and whisks her off in his shuttle, attempting to return her to Republic Space.
Relationship Arc - Tahira Solo - Haakuna Matatya: The Drunken Master
Out for a drink at the Drunken Master, Mikhail is soon made aware of the presence of several Force using individuals. A brawl erupts between a shady woman and some sycophants. An inebriated Mikhail proceeds to kill said sycophants while simultaneously hitting on the shady woman. Shady woman escapes out the back door. Mikhail follows her, but flees after seeing security arrive on the scene.
Relationship Arc - Tahira Solo - Whatever You Do Don't Press the Red Button
Mikhail goes to his former lover's house only to discover Alexis is married. She attempts to shoot him after some discussion and he reacts out of muscle memory, throwing his lightsaber at her and killing her instantly. Distraught with grief and anger, Mikhail proceeds to kill her husband and two children before later wandering out the door, getting captured by Hutt sycophants, and then killing them as well. He later runs into Tahira Solo, Jonathan Patches, and Skye Mertaal on a top secret mission. After some discussion, more Hutt sycophants attack. Mikhail assists in killing them, but is shot with a stun gun by Tahira Solo, who deemed him too unpredictable to trust. He is stowed in a closet and left behind.
Legion - So I Hear You Eat Brains
Mikhail temporarily joined a movement to overthrow the Empire's Dark Council, which called itself the Legion. Here he met the Anzati, Menoetius, and reintroduced himself to Jacen Cavill. However, the movement soon fell apart.
Vagrants - Meet and Greet at Moreau Station
Mikhail finds and joins Vagrant Fleet, but is immediately accosted by an angry Rosa Mazhar, still grieving for the loss of her child. In the ensuing chaos he manages to piss off almost every single member of the Fleet.
Vagrants - Bumpy Ride
Mikhail contacts Judah Dashiel and Thessa Kai, Vagrant Fleet pilots, and offers them a role flying air support while he runs some narcotics through Hutt space on a smuggling job.
Vagrants - Across the Universe: Station Keeping
Mikhail arrives on Moreau Station only to find it under attack from Bando Gora remnants. He meets Chloe Blake and assists her in repairing the Hyperdrive in the insanity which follows.
Return to the Galaxy:
LotF Dominion - Rakata Balls: LoTF Dominion of Rakata Beta
Mikhail Shorn comes to the celebrations of a Rakata-Fringe wedding meant to bind the two nations together. He mind tricks a waiter into poisoning his former apprentice Lucien Cordel. He attempts to frame another for it, but ultimately ends up saving Lucien after realizing that the man is actually loyal to him.
Relationship Arc - Anara Valnor - Lost
Mikhail Shorn knocks Anara Valnor unconscious and leaves her in the wilds, believing himself to be a celestial.
Relationship Arc - Spencer Jacobs - What About Now
Mikhail Shorn breaks ties with Spencer Jacobs, under the delusion that he is some god of Moross.
LoTF - Dominion - A Well Deserved Vacation: Fringe Dominion of Phu
Shorn observes a podracing contest on Phu and sabotages the Vagrant Fleet Battlemaster's podracer out of revenge for their last encounter.
Duel - Zaiden - No Second Guessing
Mikhail Shorn is challenged to a duel by Zaiden. In the ensuing fight he takes a dagger to the shoulder, but fries Zaiden's face with lightning and telekinetically hurls him through a wall. He leaves thinking Zaiden dead.
Sith Empire - Duel - Tyrin Ardik, Vilox Pazela, Zaiden, Krag - Will to Power
Backed by exiled Sith and dissidents within the Empire, Mikhail Shorn moves into the throne room and confronts Tyrin Ardik. The Sith Emperor uses a Force Cloak to conceal his presence, but with his power heightened by the Soulsaber and Dranok Lussk's Battle Meditation Shorn proves indomitable. He shatters the Obisidan Throne with a display of telekinesis. Vilox Pazela attempts to stop Shorn, but is quickly repulsed and jumps out a window. The Emperor attacked him from behind, wounding Shorn, but Mikhail grabbed him in the Force and repeatedly smashed him into the ground, before throwing his limp body across the throne room - thinking the man dead. Zaiden appeared, taking the opportunity to attack Shorn from the shadows. Balaya engaged Zaiden, while a Graug Sith Knight by the name of Krag also attacked Shorn. Mikhail dropped the ceiling on Krag, knocking him unconscious. With his enemies defeated, Mikhail made peace with Kaine Zambrano and named Dranok Lussk the new Emperor, breaking the tradition of assuming the throne and declaring himself the Lord of Chaos and god of the Empire.
Sith Empire - Invasion - Yaga Minor - Scratching Names off the Naughty List, Sith Empire vs Mandalorians
Mikhail Shorn, Jacen Cavill, and Tyrin Ardik join forces to end HK-36 after the droid's boast on the battlefield. The assassin droid fled rather than be destroyed.
Duel - Zaiden - Hoth Snowball Fight
Mikhail Shorn traveled to Hoth, where he found Zaiden. The self-proclaimed Thronebreaker tricked the man into thinking he wanted to bury the hatchet and while embracing Zaiden in a hug he activated his lightsaber in Zaiden's side. Zaiden unleashed a Force Bellow, hurling Shorn backward, but Mikhail's lightsaber whipped through Zaiden's body... cutting him in half. Shorn left, thinking Zaiden dead.
Relationship Arc - Anaya Fen - Some Things Never Change
Shorn is under an alter ego attempting to gain the favor of someone who will allow him access to the Senate. Unfortunately, the establishment at which he is trying to do so is operated by Anaya Fen.
Duel - Jacen Cavill - Thronebreaker? How about a city
Mikhail Shorn infiltrated the Senate on a quest for vengeance. He blamed them for his fall to the Dark Side and exile among the Sith. In his moment of victory, slaughtering Senators inside the Grand Convocation Room, Jacen Cavill - who had been present under his alter ego - emerged to fight Shorn. Cavill still stung from the flaying Mikhail had given him on Dromund Kaas. In their titanic clash, Mikhail and Jacen collapsed the Senate building and leveled a skyscraper causing the deaths of millions on Coruscant. They fought to a standstill, both near death, until Spencer Jacobs and Sargon arrived and rescued them from the Republic's pursuing forces.
Relationship Arc - Spencer Jacobs, Jacen Cavill - Exodus
Spencer Jacobs and Sargon tend to Jacen Cavill and Mikhail Shorn's battered bodies as they escape from Coruscant. Mikhail apologies for his harsh words to Spencer when they last met. Jacen and Mikhail appear to take a step toward friendship.
Relationship Arc - Tahira Solo - My Serendipitous Date with a Serial Killer
Mikhail encountered Tahira while she ate at a diner. The two had a casual conversation that swiftly turned serious. Enraged at Tahira's comments, Mikhail slaughtered the occupants of the diner. She attempted to save him with Force Light, but her efforts proved futile.
Sith Empire - Build Me a Temple Worthy of Worship
The Thronebreaker arrives on Dromund Kaas to oversee construction of his temples.
Relationship Arc - Kitt Solo - The Great Bambino
A bounty hunter, related to Tahira, tracks down Mikhail Shorn and attempts to capture him. Shorn plays along, but ends up leaving after he fails to capture the woman.
LoTF - Gentlemen, A Word
Shorn arrives to a meeting of VIP Dark Siders, summoned by Ashin Varanin. Fed up with what he sees as political machinations behind a facade of well-intention, as well as what he sees as a manipulation of Spencer's emotions, Mikhail Shorn tirades against his former Empress before storming out of the meeting. All ties with the Fringe broken.
Sith Empire - Invasion - The Liberation of Ossus
Mikhail Shorn shows up to Ossus to stop the Republic invasion for his own reasons. He confronts Jedi Knight Diana Moridena and the two duel. Diana hurls her sword through Shorn's side, wounding him severely. But the Sith Lord manages to eviscerate the lone Jedi with the sheer force of his telekinetic strength. The woman appears to be dying, but Shorn struggles with killing her. In his indecision, she uses Force Light on him in an attempt to purge the darkness from him. Yet in her weakened state it is does not purge him completely. The wounded Shorn limps away, leaving an unconscious Diana behind. He encounters Marek S'hadar, who craves vengeance for what Shorn did to him while he was in the Empire as a Sith Apprentice. Mikhail defeated Marek and fended off Iella E'ron and Saki. Then he went after Darc Xavior Talus and Daella Apparine, who were dueling with Kaine. Moments into the fight, Kaine fled, leaving Shorn to limp away into the rain.
Sith Empire - Invasion - Here Comes the Freedom Train: Invasion of Korriban
Unsure of his path, Mikhail sits outside his temple on Korriban amidst the Republic invasion. Not long into the battle Tefka and Darc Xavior Talus crash land near the temple. Mikhail fights them, joined by Rasho the Hutt. The coward Jedi fled.
LoTF - Election Night Party
The uninvited Shorn invites himself to the Election Party for the Fringe High Council and causes dissension and mayhem.
Relationship Arc - Amorella Mae - Without a Cause - in progress.
Confused after the destruction of the Sith Empire and the Force Light of Diana, Mikhail travels to Moross, intent on killing their gods.
Return - Dark Mirror
An alternate version of Mikhail Shorn emerges from a portal on Cularin in 844 ABY.
like lightsaer lance, shoto, regular saber? (fyi im building a lighsaber lance/pike)
