Sturgis Tal'Verda
Just beyond the Twilight
NAME: Sturgis Tal'Verda
FACTION:
- Mandalorians
- Bounty Hunter's Guild
- Shriek-Hawk Mercenary Company
- Non-Military
- Lore Keeper
AGE: 31
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: Average height
WEIGHT: Slightly above average
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Dark, natural color
SKIN: Fair
FORCE SENSITIVE: No
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum) :
+Eidetic Memory: Whether he has always had this ability or if it eventually came to him sometime during his life is unclear however it is an undeniable fact that Sturgis remembers everything that he has been told and is able to access and process it on a whim.
+6th Sense: While it doesn't always make up for his largest detriment, Sturgis has incredibly heightened senses of smell, sight and taste with his sight being the strongest. However, there is another 6th sense that allows him to make split second decisions and makes him deadly in combat.
+Gunslinger: While he is skilled in a variety of weaponry due to his Mandalorian upbringing he has an uncanny ability to wield blaster pistols and often carries several of the weapons on his person.
-Deaf: Sturgis can't hear and speaks (the few times he does) in a very heavy, slow and broken way that can be unintelligible.
-Wild Cannon: Sturgis has little respect for other people's privacy or personal space. He cares even less for property damage during his chases.
-Addiction: Sturgis is addicted to the performance enhancing drug known as Red Sand and has been for many many years. While the effects of extended use such as general passivity and incredible disregard for his own body in combat seem like typical lone wolf activities, the other signs of damage such as his inability to go more than two days without a Downer made his combat effectiveness in the field almost nothing causing him to lose his status in the Mandalorian military and fall into depression.
APPEARANCE:
Of average height and lean build, Sturgis sports a mane of black hair along with modest facial hair. His skin is fairly tanned considering his considerable time spent within his armor and bears several scars including one large X-shaped scar on his back from an old lightsaber wound. Around his neck he wears Dogtags with his Bounty Hunter Guild rank and when outside his armor frequently wears wide brimmed hats. Scars from failed cybernetic implants in his ears also sit just behind his ears. There are also scars on his chest and torso from surgically introduced cybernetics into his heart and liver designed to give him a fighting chance if he ever overdosed on Red Sand or it finally just caught up with him.
BIOGRAPHY:
Born deaf into what would become the Tal'Verda clan to a father from the Dread Guard and a Mandalorian mother Sturgis would learn quickly the harsh reality of life in combat. Spending most of his time in youth with the Liberty Concord, and thus in space, he became fascinated with two things, weapons and flying. Of course, no one was ever willing to put up with his sign language or his different way of speaking. Considered more a liability than an asset, Sturgis' father took the training of the young lad very seriously, ensuring that his comrades had nothing to scoff at. Training was difficult, his father was very harsh. It was training with his mother, pistols flight, those sorts of things, that were a brief reprieve from his father's over exaggerated ego. She taught him kinetic communication and was one of the few people with the Liberty Concord that learned both Mando'a and Basic forms of sign language.
Despite the difficult training and his isolated childhood, Sturgis passed his Verd'gotten with flying colors. At seventeen he made his first trip to Mandalore. It wasn't the first time that he had been to a planet, but this was different. The vast forests, rolling plains, and harsh deserts of Mandalore were a sight for the ages as he and his mother flew into the planet. He enrolled into the United Clans Military, a joint military machine that had been proven as a force to be reckoned with.
How Sturgis first obtained Red Sand is unclear in his military service record, however it is known that at some point during his military service he succumbed to the drug, becoming addicted. At first it wasn't an issue. His combat performance was high as the Celeber Uppers he was taking enhanced his strength and speed past what was thought of as normal, even to a Mandalorian soldier. However, as battles raged longer and the fights became more and more intense, the raging after affect, or rather Sturgis' lack of self restraint would go out of control. He would randomly pick fights with others on base and would barely be able to rise on time in the mornings due to the increased level of Downer he would need to bring his system back to normal. Sturgis was discharged from the military, and so he took up the only thing he knew.
He became a bounty hunter and mercenary.
SHIP:
Stock AP-22 "Charger" Assault Freighter
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