Synnove Azar Koval face detail
"A religious inclination towards ideological purity blinds them; it doesn't count for much when we stared down the guns of the Core Imperials or the Sith Empire who followed them, we've been broken time and time again and selling ourselves out as bounty hunters and mercenaries. There has to be another path for the children of Mandalore and I'll walk it alone if necessary and gather those who think similarly to my side. If that makes me 'Dar'manda' to you than a Dar'manda, I be. But I'll never let someone else tell me who and what I am or am not, I know what I am." -Synnove Koval on being considered "Dar'manda" by an "Old Mandalorian".
[SOCIAL INFORMATION]
Synnove's stylised Koval-pattern Mandalorian Armour
Name: Synnove Azar Koval
Alias(es):
- Current:
- Azar
- Az
- Zar
- Dar'manda (Pejorative)
- Darma
- Darman
- Mandalorian
- Mando
- Syn
- Synnove the Iconoclast
- Synnove the Scarred
- Azar
- Former:
- Synnove the Armourer
- Synnove the Protector
Title(s):
- Current:
- Machinist
- Metalsmith
- Armoursmith
- Bladesmith
- Coinsmith
- Gunsmith
- Lieutenant
- Sapper
- Former:
- Guardsman
- Protector
Affiliation(s):
- Current:
- Galactic Alliance
- House Kryze
- Clan Koval
- Former:
Rank:
- Current:
- Lieutenant (Alliance Marine Corps Reserve)
- Former:
- Guardsman (Mandalorian Guard)
- Protector (Mandalorian Protectors)
Profession:
- Current:
- Metalsmith
- Armoursmith
- Bladesmith
- Coinsmith
- Gunsmith
- Machinist
- Professional Military Commissioned Officer
- Assault Engineer Platoon Commander
- Metalsmith
- Former:
- Law Enforcement Officer
- Mandalorian Guard
- Guardsman (General Duty)
- Mandalorian Protector
- Protector
- Mandalorian Guard
- Law Enforcement Officer
Citizenship:
- Galactic Alliance
- Mandalorian
- House Kryze
Birthworld: Mandalore
Homeworld: MandaloreResidential Addresses:
- Current:
- Former:
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Marital Status: Single, unmarried
Languages Known:
- Galactic Basic: Broken - Semi-Fluent - Fluent - Native
- Galactic Sign Language: Broken - Semi-Fluent - Fluent - Native
- Huttese: Broken - Semi-Fluent - Fluent - Native
- Mando'a: Broken - Semi-Broken - Fluent - Native
Immediate Family:
- Arkad Koval
- Relation: Father
- Venn Koval
- Relation: Mother
Associates:
- Ardasz Verd - Shield Brother
- Aleyria Shriekhawk (NPC) - Vocational Mentor
Beast Companion(s):
- N/A
Force(s):
- N/A
[PHYSICAL INFORMATION]
"Patient's DNA sequencing displays significant evidence of stand-casting and surgical-chemical augmentation, their detailed statements do not indicate any memory of invasive procedures, suspected engineering and relevant procedures likely occurred in-utero or infancy prior to the adequate development of short-term and long-term memory. My personal conjecture is that the patient was stand-cast and surgical and chemical augmentation was made to correct congenital defects which have resulted in greater physiological capabilities." -GADF Physician after examining Synnove Koval.
Culture: Mandalorian Sub-Culture: New Mandalorian (Current), Old Mandalorian (Former)
Age: Young Adult (18-35)
Born: Indeterminate
Died: Indeterminate
Gender: FemaleSex: Female
Height:
- 188cm/74 In/6'2" (Unarmoured)
Weight:
- 85 Kilograms/187 .lbs (Unarmoured)
Eye Colour: Blue
Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Skin Colour: Pale
Scars:
- Facial Scarring:
- ~7cm anterior laceration scar vertical above the supraorbital aspect of the left eye.
- ~5cm anterior laceration scar beneath the right eye that moves over the posterior aspect of the zygoma at an angle.
- ~3.5cm posterior laceration vertical scar over the anterior aspect of the right-side temporal lobe.
Medical Conditions:
- Current:
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Former:
[THE FORCE & ALIGNMENT]
D&D Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Force Rank: Non-Force User
Force Sensitive: No
Force Alignment: Grey
[PERSONALITY & TRAITS]
"How long is this going to continue!? Where we reenact ancient crusades and cling to anachronistic grudges centuries-old that millions of our people have died for, in vain with no resolution!? There are no Gods! They're dead and our ancestors, our clansmen, cannot protect or help us buried in the soil of Mandalore! You speak of glory but only a madman would find any when clutching the broken body of a toddler! I will not swallow these lies we tell ourselves any longer, I cannot!" -Synnove Koval breaking down at a Clanhouse meeting in the wake of the Sith's Purge and the founding of the Mandalorian Union.
Synnove Koval wearing her stylised Koval-pattern Mandalorian Exoskeleton
- Big Five Personality Traits:
- Inventive
- Organized
- Energetic
- Callous
- Resilient
- Social Traits:
- Lawful
- Chaste
- Vindictive
- Altruistic
- Truthful
- Gentle
- Rational
- Personal Traits:
- Empathetic
- Survivor
- Cautious
- Ascetic
- Valourous
- Triad Traits:
- Dark Triad:
- Narcissism
- Light Triad:
- Humanism
- Dark Triad:
Personality:
"You've lost your soul, sold cheaply what it means to be one with the Mando'ade! You're disgusting.
Is there an argument you're going to make in all that zealous rhetoric or not, brother?
You're no sister of mine, you are no Mandalorian!
Of course, of course! My mistake." -Synnove Koval arguing with an "Old Mandalorian".
Synnove is a brilliant, athletic, personable and principled young woman with a robust ethical code that she defines as Honourable derived from the Mandalorian cultural and political group known historically as the "New Mandalorians". Synnove shares the idealism of the New Mandalorians but is also sufficiently pragmatic to realize that unfortunately sometimes war and violence are necessary as a means of self-defence and preserving one's own existence, furthermore, Synnove believes one need not wait to be struck that an immediate fear or apprehension of unlawful violence is enough to justify the pacifist striking out. The young woman possesses a strong desire to affect societal change on a broad spectrum. She is all too wary of what can occur when lofty ideals become more important than the rights, freedoms and liberties than individuals. Aa a trained Metalsmith and Machinist, Synnove will gladly assist in efforts to aid the less fortunate communities of the galaxy to become more self-reliant and independent. This is why Synnove is drawn to Governments such as the Galactic Alliance who she will concede share similar ideals though is quietly concerned that their diplomatic strategies and tactics are distressingly corollary to those of the "Fascist" New Imperial Order or Core Imperial Confederation.Is there an argument you're going to make in all that zealous rhetoric or not, brother?
You're no sister of mine, you are no Mandalorian!
Of course, of course! My mistake." -Synnove Koval arguing with an "Old Mandalorian".
While Synnove is broadly personable and friendly with strangers they are quite hostile in matters of theology due to their iconoclastic atheism. Synnove's hostility to the supernatural is particularly channelled towards those known broadly as "Old Mandalorians" and those groups affiliated with the "Children of the Watch". Their spirituality and dogma reviles Synnove and for her lack of faith and mysticism is likewise by those same groups perceived or labelled as a "Dar'manda" one who is without a soul and not adhering to the Resolnare. Being an iconoclast such accusations and statements mean nothing to Synnove, it would anger her were it not for this absolute lack of faith in the supernatural, to Synnove the kinds of Mandalorians who would use such a pejorative are theocrats who have replaced the old gods with some pernicious form of ancestor worship. Synnove's spirituality and "death of god" moment occurred with the Sith Purge of Mandalore in the 850s, which caused severe damage to Synnove's ethics and beliefs, burning a hole into her cultural identity. Now Synnove believes that the old way as lived by the "Old Mandalorians" is antiquated, anachronistic and must be replaced by a new synthesis one that she will try to represent. For all of her passion, Synnove isn't blind and does not lose sight of an individual's character or value, but she may still be repulsed and hostile towards the ideology or belief system they profess to believe.
Motivations:
- Short Term:
- Kill as many Sith-Imperial loyalists as possible.
- Serve with the Galactic Alliance's Marine Corps with distinction.
- Mid-Term:
- Spread their political ideology that encourages an iconoclastic cultural revolution that synthesizes the ideas of the New Mandalorians and Old Mandalorians that encourages Equality, Fraternity, Liberty, Secularism and Republicanism.
- Long Term:
- Spread the idea of an iconoclastic Mandalorian to bring about a government on Mandalore that is a secular constitutional federal republic governed by an elected representative who claims not the title of "Mand'alor".
- Suppress and/or destroy Mandalorian fundamentalist terrorist organizations and ideologies associated with the "Death Watch" and "Children of the Watch".
STRENGTHS:
- Body Language: There are subtle body language and posture techniques Synnove utilises to maintain an edge over her opponents and potential opponents in a calm setting, when speaking to another party face-to-face she tends to form one hand into a fist and cup the other palm over it and hold them up at about chest-height and brace a supporting foot back against the ground. To those who lack adequate perception from study or experience, this is a fighting stance that leaves Synnove capable of rapidly striking or grappling the other party. A keen advantage learned from a long history of disarmed fighting. The second advantage tied to this is Synnove's stature, where her holding her hands at chest height in such a fashion is equivalent to head-height for most Humans giving the woman an incredible amount of control.
- Mandalorian Fighting Youth: "They who haven't trained on a rifle before ten years of age is no Koval" As a member of the Mandalorian clan of Koval, Synnove was formally instructed in a variety of survival and combat skills from a young age. At twelve standard years old, they formally entered a cadet academy aimed at moulding aspirant children into members of one of the many Protector and Guard Corps of Mandalorian society. There, Synnove received a formal paramilitary education that included the following military skills: Drill, Marksmanship, Radio Communication and Security, Tactical Movement, Fieldcraft and Camouflage and Concealment.
- Metalworker: Synnove is an extensively trained metalworker and has been honing their trade since they were an adolescent while they are by no means capable of all forms of metal-smithing they are particularly trained in skilled in armoursmithing, bladesmithing, gunsmithing and metalsmithing. Synnove can work complex industrial equipment to create high-quality and complex products, furthermore, as someone trained in the Mandalorian tradition Synnove has the necessary knowledge about the material properties of Beskar to work it into marketable products. For Synnove, finding the necessary industrial equipment to work Beskar is more difficult than shaping the material itself.
- Strand-cast: Synnove is a clone but she isn't a precise genetic copy of her template host, in-fact she has been modified in such a way that they are physically distinct. Their DNA has been extensively modified, and she is superior to baseline humans featuring: Heightened intellect, elevated speed and agility, sharpened vision and adapted night-vision, immunity to most illnesses, inability to become intoxicated by consuming alcohol, reduced requirement for sleep, enhanced hearing of greater fidelity, greater pulmonary volume capacity, superior muscle mass and density, a keener sense of balance, accelerated cellular regeneration and dramatically reduced reaction time.
WEAKNESSES:
- Chemical weapons: Synnove's resistance to bacterial, viral and fungal organisms doesn't extend to chemical weapons such as riot control agents that are designed to irritate the airways and exposed mucous membranes. This also extends to drugs that are toxic to cellular reproduction such as cytotoxic drugs which are typically seen in chemical weapons designed with fatality in mind such as the real-world Sulfur mustard "Mustard Gas".
- Gene Drift: Having been strand-casted from donor DNA and receiving extensive genetic modification and improvement Synnove's physiology is susceptible to a phenomenon known as "Gene Drift" where their cells are much more likely to mutate and or stop responding to signals from Synnove's immune system that dictate normal and healthy cell behaviour. As a result, Synnove is at an extremely elevated risk of developing haematological-type cancers which mean that she is unable to live in remote communities without access to sophisticated medical equipment.
- Glare: With heightened sensory perceptions and night-vision comes to a price in the increased cost that glare effects have on Synnove's eyes. Synnove finds the experience of flashlights and light sources being shone into her eyes so sharp focus is impossible to maintain. To compensate Synnove must generally wear polarized sunglasses to be comfortable. Alternatively, Synnove will wear her Shocktrooper helmet and as a result, seldom removes it in daytime terrestrial conditions.
- Nerve agents: For all the resistance that science offers through strand-casting and relevant gene forging, Synnove is still affected by nerve agents which attack the nervous system that can be absorbed through the air or via skin contact.
- Post-traumatic stress-disorder: Synnove didn't become who they are today overnight, despite being a young woman they have suffered and endured much particularly at the hands of the Sith Empire, a hatred for them smoulders deep within the breast, many nights are sleepless and filled with the screams of those who she failed. Those who continue to believe in the protection of their ancestors, sacred rites and cultural purity are fools all. For faith and culture will not protect them from turbolaser fire, Synnove is in great pain their presence in the force tortured. In an interpersonal context, when topics of stress are engaging, and Synnove is forced to confront their own experiences, they're liable to experience wild and aggressive mood swings.
[APPEARANCE]
Synnove appears to be an attractive, tall and robust young woman standing a little under 1.9 meters tall and weighing a little south of 90 kilograms. She has pitch-coloured dark brown hair growing from her head and a pair of deep blue iris in almond-shaped sockets. Typically Synnove keeps her hair cut short copped to military regulation for operational and practical reasons, that an in a workshop environment the last thing you want is long hair which might be a grapple point. Synnove's lean limbs are long, slender with a disproportionate wiry strength in them that only becomes glaringly apparent when she makes any kind of exertion. There are a few identifying marks on Synnove’s body with evidence of laceration scarring on her face which on keen examination by a medical professional could be concluded to have been inflicted by a bladed edge. Synnove's face is sharp and characterized by its' distinct angles and near-flawless symmetry; she could be considered by many to be a great feminine beauty were it not for her rugged profession and military bearing, at first glances some individuals have struggled to identify Synnove as a Human woman due to their imposing stature and short haircut.
[POSSESSIONS]
Armour & Clothing:
- REC/STA-02 Advanced Shocktrooper Armour; Series Two
- Titanium Koval-Pattern Mandalorian Armour
- Armourweave vacuum-sealed environmentally-controlled bodysuit
- Crushgaunts.
- Durasteel-toed boots
- Exoskeleton-system.
- Mandalorian vambraces
- Whipcord thrower
- Whistling bird (R vambrace)
- ZX miniature flame projector (L vambrace)
- JT-12 Jetpack
- Stealth Field Generator
Weaponry:
- Melee:
- Ranged:
- Thrown:
Transport:
- Interstellar:
- Terrestrial:
Miscellaneous:
[BIOGRAPHY]
Synnove Koval wearing their Alliance Shocktrooper Armour
Born on Mandalore to Arkad Koval and Venn Koval, Synnove lived with their parents on the rugged outskirts of the sprawling metropolis called "Kiyeva" within the titular "Kiyevan Basin" the historic homeland of the Koval clan. It is a geographic basin flanked by hilly highlands and mountains. Synnove lived high above sea level in the hilly highlands that surrounded the basin in a beautiful city characterised by its' ancient stone structures called "Dekanos". Synnove attended a local primary-level education school called "Rau Military School" where the pupils were first and foremost given civil education and progressively became more paramilitary as the years and time passed. Synnove was extremely gregarious and competitive as a child and thoroughly enjoyed swimming developing proficiency for the activity.
At the age of twelve Synnove officially entered the Protector Youth Corps at the Rau Military School for secondary education, she passed a battery of tests to gain admittance into the Protector Youth Corps and undertook a school curriculum that possessed the standard academic units that all children would need to become functional and productive adults within Mandalorian Society, the distinction came in the form of a dual paramilitary curriculum where Synnove and her fellow students were provided with education in current military methodology, tactics and equipment that was being used by the House and clans all across Mandalore. Synnove's 44th Protector Cadet Unit was sponsored by and taken under the wing of the "1/11th Sundari Assault Sappers" A unit of Protectors who were trained as Combat Engineers.
It was here from the ages of twelve to fifteen at the Rau Military School that Synnove learnt advanced military schools such as how to recharge depleted blaster cells, reload ballistic ammunition, create improvised explosives devices, arm and disarm anti-personnel and anti-tank mines. Learning these skills quickly, Synnove attracted the attention of the company's Warsmith who fulfilled the role of its' Sergeant-Major its' foremost technical expert and the Mandalorian warrior responsible for discipline and making judgements when the Protector's common law was breached. The Warsmith's name was "Aleyria Shriekhawk" of Clan Shriekhawk, a wise and noble woman who had forged much equipment for the Clans in her life of service to their people.
Synnove apprenticed dutifully under Aleyria though it wasn't without misstep as an adolescent she exhibited typical challenging behaviours, rising to classes later than they commenced and occasionally cavorting inappropriately with spirits on the school's grounds. It was a desperate cry of help to her parents for attention that went unheeded for their attention was focused almost exclusively on their very lucrative family Engineering business. Though Aleyria proved to be a stalwart disciplinarian and teacher, she steadily built up a rapport with her disgruntled Apprentice and slowly coaxed out the truth. At the same time, Aleyria couldn't immediately improve the child's home life she put in the effort to encourage Synnove even as her first steps in the trade of the armourer were unsteady.
Harsh though fair was Aleyria's teaching, she made sure to impress upon Synnove that being a Mandalorian Smith meant being responsible for the arms and armour of one's subordinates, peers and masters and that this work could mean the difference between an unceremonious death or glorious victory. Synnove took this lesson to heart after being shown holostills of poorly produced firearms which had split along the barrel-like rose petals and how such malfunctions could be fatal to the wielder. Three long-years Synnove undertook her apprenticeship while completing the normal curriculum simultaneously and with Aleyria's guidance by the time the girl's secondary paramilitary schooling as a Protector Cadet was coming to an end, before graduation and being certified as a Mandalorian Armourer Aleyria had one final task for her Apprentice; obtain Beskar ore and fabricate a product from it.
Synnove, after years of drills and tactical training, was prepared for such a thing and enlisted the aid of a mutual friend Ardasz Verd in obtaining the Beskar on the agreement that Synnove would forge a Beskar Cuirass for the bounty hunter so that he might be protected. At the same time, he carved out his own Saga among the Stars. Using Intelligence on Echani slaver activities provided by the Rau Military School, Synnove and Ardasz interdicted a small Echani Compact freighter near Thyrsus. Staffed by Echani warriors, its' cargo was Thyrsian men to be sold as chattels and Beskar Ore. Wearing their Heavy Mandalorian Plate, Ardasz and Synnove boarded the freighter and engaged in a brief and savage firefight. Killing eight of the ashen-skinned women, six to Ardasz and two to Synnove. It was the first time she'd ever fired a weapon in anger.
Aboard the freighter, Ardasz and Synnove secured crates full of Beskar Ore and within the cargo were confronted with the reality the Echani women held slaves, both Ardasz and Synnove took deep moral issue with treating sentients as chattel and so freed the Thyrsian captives from their bonds. The pair of Mandalorian warriors disabled the freighters weaponry and forced the surviving Echani slavers into an escape pod and jettisoned them onto a course into a nearby trade route and permitted the Thyrsians to take the freighters and its' remaining consumables. With their prize seized, Ardasz and Synnove returned to Mandalore and there, Ardasz watched as the Armourer's Apprentice in Synnove become a true Mandalorian Smith, completing her rite of passage successfully and furnishing Ardasz a Beskar iron cuirass. Aleyria was the first to congratulate her apprentice and proudly proclaim that Synnove would henceforth be a "Journeyman Armourer" and was presented with a certification by the Rau Military School for her achievement as well as a certificate verifying completion of her schooling.
Synnove worked for a charitable organisation that sought to provide goods and services to the most vulnerable of Mandalore's citizens, she becomes an accomplished machinist producing tools and machine parts. Ever brilliant Synnove began a criminal justice undergraduate course with the University of Coruscant via correspondence exposing the young woman to foreign culture and media through the holonet, a technology the Rau Military Academy denied their students. A few years pass, and Synnove's relationship with her parents improved considerably, with Arkad and Venn proactively spending time with their daughter and attempting to sway the young woman to a career with the family business. However, Synnove was attracted to serving the clans and state more broadly, pursued a successful career as a Mandalorian Guard officer before seeking to join the Mandalorian Protectors those men and women who were responsible for upholding and enforcing the law and serving the Mand'alor or leader of their people where one existed, for interregnums among the belligerent Mandalorians were distressingly frequent and lengthy.
What pushed Synnove from a dutiful and loyal Mandalorian Protector to a vicious misotheist and iconoclast, in the end, was the Sith's campaign of genocide and occupation of Mandalore proper in the wake of the Mandalorian Empire's fall. The brutality of the subsequent slaughters, and the feeble resistance offered to such a juggernaut scarred Synnove psychologically, fighting a hopeless and often considered a pointless war against the Sith Empire. The despair swallowed Synnove's faith in the truth and validity of the path of the Mand'alor, of the Resolnare of everything she had ever known. What was the point of life on the path? Even if the Sith were beaten another morally bankrupt, bloodthirsty thug would rise where the last Mand'alor fell if not today then in a few years. They would go on the same vicious cycle of aggressive crusades, sectarian violence and feudal conflicts.
After the Sith's rout from Mandalore Synnove's mind finally broke at the Koval clans' meeting in the ruins of the local legislature's blasted and scorched ruins of Kiyeva. Synnove flew into a tireless rage with the mouth of an apostate railed against the clans, declaring she could no longer support or believe in the way of the Mand'alor or Resolnare which served only to elevate the most talented killers above those with greater wisdom, those same killers would go on to spawn aggressive crusades, internecine conflict and provoke superpowers with obviously stronger cultures and civilisations proceeded to crush the Mandalorians. Synnove entered a self-imposed exile and with wariness settled within the borders of the Resurgent Galactic Alliance, seeking to learn of it and from it in the sincere hope she might be able to use it as a model for a Mandalorian state in the future as she steadily allows her own irreligious and iconoclastic ideology to mature.
Seeking to contribute to the core's citizenry as recompense for her own people's volatile history Synnove approached the Galactic Alliance Defence Force's recruiters, the accomplished Mandalorian Armourer and former Law Enforcement Officer was vetted extensively by the Alliance's intelligence apparatus for any links to Clans and organisations which might have targeted the Galactic Alliance in the past. Interestingly enough, after examining the woman's employment and educational history Synnove's case manager had her shipped off to basic recruit training before her vetting was successfully finalised. Synnove breezed through the Galactic Alliance Defence Force's "training" for Synnove a woman from a culture where even education for children was of a militant nature, it wasn't anything less than easy. Another year passes and Synnove finds herself obtaining Citizenship by virtue of her service and attends officer candidate school as part of her initial contract of employment.
Completing officer school, Synnove found herself as a platoon commander in an Alliance Marine Corps Combat Engineering unit. The prospect of leading a platoon of Galactic Alliance Marines filled the Mandalorian expatriate with no end of pride and she remained quiet in her eagerness to be given an opportunity to exact some measure of justice and retribution upon the Sith Empire for the victims who fell on Mandalore. Synnove continues to remain an enigma amongst her company's staff as she refuses or dodges personal questions about her life prior to commissioning into the Marines with none but her company commander being aware that Synnove was once an enlisted marine but later attended officer candidate school. Ever proud of her heritage it is notable that sometimes Synnove opts to wear her Koval-pattern Mandalorian Armour with her shock trooper armour's IFF transponder.
[ROLEPLAYS]
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