Character Saram Kote

[Saram Kote]

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  NAME: Saram Kote.
  
  FACTION: Mandalorian, working for Strill Securities, formerly contracted to the CIS.
  
  UNIT: 'Davaab' Vuhyr'yaliyr Ramikade Squad.
  
  RANK: Al'verde (Strill Securities).
  
  SPECIES: Human.
  
  AGE: 29.
  
  SEX: Female.
  
  FORCE SENSITIVE: No.
  
  Appearance
  
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  HEIGHT: 5'10".
  
  WEIGHT: 145 lbs.
  
  EYES: Blue.
  
  HAIR: Dark brown.
  
  SKIN: Caucasian.
  
  Spoiler: Out of armor

  
  
  Strengths and Weaknesses
  
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  • Excellent Marksman: Saram is an excellent shot with many of the weapons in Breshig War Forge Consolidated's inventory, and is able to pull off shots that many people wouldn't consider making.
  • Highly Skilled in Fieldcraft: Saram has an extremely high level of competence in fieldcraft, even for a member of Strill Securities' elite Vuhyr'yalilyr commandos.
  • Quick: Saram's own natural agility has helped her to get in or out of trouble many times in her life. Her enhancement allow her to leverage that further.
  • Excellent Swordsman: A combination of natural talent, some of the best training available and years of experience have made Saram an excellent swordsman, particularly with a beskad.
  • Skilled Pilot: Saram's mother served as a flight instructor, she taught her daughter everything she knew about how to be a good pilot.
  • Jetiise, Dar'jetiise, They're All The Same: Saram like most Mandalorians is no fan of Jedi or Sith. The superiority complex that many of them have puts her off. Though she is aware that not all of them are like this.
  • Bold: Saram is not afraid to voice her opinion on anyone to anyone. In the same way, Saram's not afraid to take huge risks if it means the payoff's worth it.
  • When on Corellia, do as Mandalorians do: Saram isn't particularly aware of how things are done outside of Mandalorian culture, but doesn't care either way. She's Mandalorian, and proud, and isn't afraid to let that show.
  • Not a Combat Pilot: Though a skilled pilot, Saram is not a combat pilot and has never flown in combat conditions.
  Biography
  
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  BIOGRAPHY:
  Saram Kote was born to Ruhr and Shaela Kote on Breshig on a Netra'gal brewery not far from the capital city. The young couple were at a turning point their lives. Ruhr had been asked to join the Vuhyr'yalilyr, and Shaela had been selected to train new incoming pilots in flying the Kyr'galaar stealth multi-role fighter. Both parents made sure that one of them was there to be with Saram and her older brother, Nyles. By the time Saram was born, Nyles was already being formally trained by her parents, and so she grew up watching her parents train her brother. By the time she was five, it was after her brother's verd'goten that Saram demanded that she be taught to use a 'blasta' like her 'ori'vod', not realizing that her brother's weapon of choice was a Verpine Shatter rifle like their father.
  
  Her mother, feeling particularly indulgent, decided that she was going to teach the young girl and took out one of her spare holdout blasters. Almost all Mandalorian children, even this young, had an affinity for weapons. Saram's aim with a blaster however, was enough to impress her mother. After a short discussion with Ruhr, the couple decided that they were going to start the girl's informal training once she turned six.That said, both parents would often take time out to give her some range time with the holdout blaster. When she was six, her mother began training her to use small blaster pistols and carbines, while her father began teaching the basics of armed and unarmed hand-to-hand combat.
  
  It was at this time that her brother signed on with Strill Securities as a pilot. By the time Saram had begun her training, he was already flying a Ky'galaar with no small degree of proficiency. One of Saram's fondest early memories is her brother waking her up early one morning and taking her out on a joyride in the new fighter, showing off every moment. Nyles was taken under the wing of Nir Kyrdol, an old friend of their mother's who firmly believed that Nyles' skill extended beyond starfighters. Saram didn't see her brother around much after that. Her own training, however, was progressing along very well.
  
  By age seven, Saram could shoot well and had more hand-to-hand training than most conscripts. At age eight, when her formal training began, Saram's parents threw everything that they could at her. As the old Mandalorian saying went, "Train your sons hard, but train your daughters harder." Advanced marksmanship, fieldcraft, starfighter piloting followed that year. By the time she was nine, she was training alongside some of the other children as well, and her father happened to be late to one of their sessions. When he walked in, he saw his daughter holding another boy, easily three years older than her, at bay with a training beskad.
  
  Ruhr was finishing his discussion regarding a matter that had come up during one of their post mission debriefings with his closest friend and second in command, Vriz Spar. Saram still remembers what Vriz said as she stood victorious before her opponent, "Ru'ika, I think your tal somehow managed to give you and Shaela two stima." At age ten, she began accompanying her father on some of the more basic operations, those that didn't necessarily require the specific skills of the Vuhyr'yalilyr, and rather than operate alongside them, she served in a scout capacity.
  
  There were more than a few harrowing moments, but Saram earned her baptism by fire when she was twelve. It was a situation where they were retrieving a shipment of duranium from a group of pirates for a client. Unfortunately, one of the pirates on sentry duty noticed the slight flicker made by her camouflage system when she moved a little too quickly for the system to compensate. It wasn't long before the Saram and the pirate were in a brutal fight for their lives. She had the advantage of armor and better training, but the mercenary had the advantage of at least a decade of experience and being taller and stronger than her. The mercenary made a vital mistake when he tried to grab her by the forearm. Saram ejected her wristband blade, cutting through the man's hand, and quite possibly saving her life. Finishing him off with a Kal knife augmented uppercut that landed under the man's jaw, she raised her father immediately afterward and apologized profusely.
  
  She had been lucky, one of her earlier swipes had damaged the man's com unit, and as such he'd been unable to call for backup. Her father managed to calm her down, and get her to finish her part of the mission. She managed to recover her cool long enough to finish scouting the location and its defenses out. Under both Saram and Araen Vevuc's overwatch, the rest of the Mandalorians completed their raid, and called in transport to move the crates of duranium. Saram stayed in position till the last moment, and was the second last Mandalorian to board the transport. While her father was immensely proud of her, he knew that this time had to be her last. She was a very capable young girl, but the Vuhyr'yalilyr was no place for a child.
  
  Saram didn't go on any more operations with her father, as he saw how he'd been more than a little overzealous in his efforts. The final year before her verd'goten, Saram's parents had a good long conversation with her about what she wanted to do with her life. Given the capabilities that she'd demonstrated before, her father's immediate superior requested that he consider putting his daughter through the selection process, and that he was confident that she'd not only pass but excel. Her mother was apprehensive, but relented once Saram herself agreed, and she spent the rest of the year preparing for the selection process.
  
  A year later, when she turned thirteen, she went with her father and two of his fellow Vuhyr'yalilyr went to the woodland section of the Breshig Arms proving grounds. Saram's task was to evade the veteran commandos and reach a pre-agreed location. None of them were wearing any armor, nor were any of them as significantly armed as they would be if they were. Saram had no map, while the Vuhyr'yalilyr did, though they were definitely not putting their one hundred percent in against the young girl.
  
  The days turned into a week, and the week turned into two. Saram's own rations were running out, and she hadn't managed to catch much of the local wildlife. She decided it was time to make a desperate break for it. Thankfully for Saram, that desperate break was only over two kilometers. Unfortunately for Saram, it was over largely open terrain, and her father had brought Araen Vevuc.
  
  Saram found out that they'd left Vevuc to guard the location when a verp round missed her shoulder by mere centimeters. Saram knew that she had to approach this problem from a different angle. Matters were made worse for her when Laine Netra, the second Vuhyr'yalilyr that had accompanied her father, began combing the area for her. Unlike Araen, Saram had one of the many pistol variants of the venerable Verpine Shatter weapons, though Saram had long learned to not underestimate the large framed handgun. Only seeing as none of them were trying to kill each other, all of the weapons had been lowered to low subsonic velocities, which meant while they were still lethal they weren't likely to do as much damage with a glancing shot.
  
  Saram decided that she was going to try to turn the tables on her pursuers, or fail trying. Driven to desperation by the high regard she was held in after another day of waiting, she decided to take her chances when she saw Laine Netra coming her way. She waited until she was far closer, and then aiming for her weapon, she pulled off a fantastic shot that she likely would not have made had she not been this desperate to end this. The sudden impact served to both distract her, and loosen her grip on her weapon somewhat. This allowed her to make her move. Literally getting the drop on Laine, she and the Vuhyr'yalilyr wrestled for control of the weapon before Saram revealed it to be a ruse, drawing her Verp pistol and putting a round through the other woman's side, missing her internal organs but now necessitating medical attention.
  
  As far as the rules of engagement were concerned, Saram had neutralized Laine. Laine, realizing she was beaten, held her marksman rifle out to Saram. Moments before she could move, a round from Araen's rifle neutralized the optic system of her borrowed rifle. Araen's next shot grazed her arm. She knew that her father was likely making his way to Laine's last position, and if she could neutralize Araen then she could finish this. She and Araen both used the same weapon typically; an AMR-series 4M Verpine anti-material rifle. She knew that if he hadn't reloaded then he had seven rounds left. She also knew that Araen and Laine were closer than either would like to admit.
  
  Saram began taunting Araen, saying, "If you can't watch your cyar'ika's back against me, then how are you going to do it against the Jetii or the Dar'jetii?" She kept this up for a while, and eventually she got what she wanted, despite being shot at every once in a while with more than a few close calls. Araen relocated to begin looking for her, and in doing so, accidentally revealed himself to her. Saram didn't wait, she immediately put a round through his rifle and dropping her borrowed rifle, she made for the objective at a dead sprint. Gunfire smacked all around her, some grazing her arms and legs, and a final one grazing her side before she finally dropped down at the objective, tired, bleeding and with every muscle screaming at her in pain.
  
  It was messy, Laine was injured and Araen was almost ready to shoot her, but Saram had passed the trial. As far as Mandalorian society was concerned, Saram was now officially an adult. Saram managed to work things out with Laine, who acknowledged that she would have done things the same way, but things with Araen would never be the same again. Saram decided to do what most Mandalorian children did, and decided to work as a bounty hunter for a while before she joined up with Strill Securities. She left for Hutt space with enough credits to get her started.
  
  Saram made a name for herself as an expert tracker and a more than capable assassin. Traitorous members of the Cartel, enemies of Cartel, Saram tended not to ask too many questions about who she was asked to kill. That of course tended to cause more than a few problems, and she ended up with a fair few enemies. The most notable was a former GA spec ops commando who led a mercenary company. His distaste of Mandalorians became apparent to her after she eliminated one of his lieutenants for being intensely stupid enough to imply that he was threatening a Hutt. Said Hutt took it a little personally, as Hutts tended to do, and sent her after him. Saram killed the man with no problems, but found out very quickly that when you end up breaking the window on a floor with six mercenaries on it, no amount of stealth gear will convince them that you aren't there.
  
  Beskar alloy plate is great at stopping blaster bolts, not so great at absorbing all of the force of the impact. Saram's optical camouflage instantly flickered out, overloaded by the blaster impacts. She didn't bother reengaging it as she let loose with verpine shatter pistol and gauntlet mounted weapons. When another six mercs came rushing down the hall, Saram decided that leaping out the window may not be the worst idea. And so, like a bad action vid hero, she jumped out the window backward with both her handgun and gauntlet mounted weapon blazing. Her jetpack kicked in before she hit the ground, slowing her fall. As she hit the ground, she activated her optical camouflage systems and began attempting to leave.
  
  Of course, as luck would have it. The area was crawling with mercs, and none of her Hutt Cartel contacts were feeling particularly inclined to help her. As she was escaping, she caught their leader's reaction to what she did, and knew for a fact that she'd made an enemy out of him. Not one she should take lightly either. Deciding that know was probably the best time to make her exit, she made her exit from Hutt space and decided that she was going to go home and sign-up with Strill Securities. Saram was about eighteen when she signed a contract with Strill Securities.
  
  The training was intense to say the least, Saram's fellow trainees were some of the most naturally skilled Mandalorians, both veteran and those with less than two years of experience under their belt. Their instructors were all veteran commandos, highly accomplished with several decades of commando operations under their belt. One of them, the legendary sniper, Rusana Kyrdol. Saram absorbed everything Rusana had to teach her, during hours and after hours, not letting any moment of learning from the woman she looked up to so much go to waste.
  
  Of course, as individual training progressed, so too did learning to work as a unit. The trainees were placed into units for the purposes of training based on fit with the other members of the unit. Saram and Ran Netra, brother of rising Strill Securities star Aran Netra, ended up taking a leadership role in the unit, focusing the energy of their vode into a deadly edge. During the various exercises, Saram and Ran managed to lead their squad to victory many a time, taking the time to learn from their defeats when they didn't manage to do so.
  
  Following the training, the final test for prospective Vuhyr'yalilyr rammikade was to kill a Maalras, after being dropped on the planet Jaro'yaim, and then make it to the extraction point by dawn the next day. Jaro'yaim was a planet not unlike Dxun that the Mandalorian Crusaders of times long past used to use as a hunting preserve. It is for this reason that the planet got its name, a name that translates to 'home of those with a death wish' in basic.
  
  Saram and the trainees that she'd trained as a unit with became the newly christened Davaab squad, and they quickly became rising stars in the company. Davaab quickly became one of the company's go-to units for problem solving and many a time Davaab themselves volunteered for those operations.
  
  Roleplays
  
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  ROLE-PLAYS:
  
  • Thou Shall Not Suffer an Empire to Live | AoC invasion of CIS-held Siskeen & Ryloth (as an NPC) - Davaab squad took part in the CDF parade at the behest of Shuklaar Kyrdol. When everything went to haran, they turned back Strider Garon's Mandalorian Hussars, and watched Allya Vi'Dreya and Shuklaar attempt to put down Strider Garon.
  • Operation Caliban | CIS Dominion of Thracior - Saram and Davaab squad joined Shuklaar in assisting the CIS in an anti-slaver operation that went wrong.
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes - Saram joins Lord Commander Voph and a group of volunteers to infiltrate an ancient dreadnought. What could possibly go wrong?
  • Golden Fleece - [Open to Pirates, Mercenaries, and Bounty Hunters] - Davaab and their squad lead assist in a CIS sting operation.
  • Haru no Yakusoku | Galactic Alliance Diplomacy of CIS Atrisia and Abregado-Rae- Saram and Davaab squad set up a listening post on Atrisia during the handover process to the GA with Rayna Lockley.
  • A Step into the Light | Eshan Solstice Festival- Saram uses her vacation time to visit Eshan during the solstice festival and runs into Sergeant Omen, the clone soldier out of time.
  • The Red War: PORT NOWHERE || CIS Populate of Farboon - Saram and Davaab squad look for a stolen shipment of CIS weapons with fellow CIS commandos.
  • Ploy of the Necromancer (Civil War on Cademimu V) (Open to All) - Saram and Davaab help prevent misuse of the missiles on Cademimu from causing a shift in the galactic power scale.