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NAME: Vahliath Impèrious
AFFILIATION: N/A
RANK: N/A
SPECIES: Humanoid
AGE: thirty-two+ (See history for more details)
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 5ft - 8inches
WEIGHT: 121lbs
EYES: Vahliath’s hues burn a deep shade of hazel, conflicting with his hair.
HAIR: Distinctively white, often debated to be silver which is determined by the exposure to light.
COMPLEXION: Subtly toned
FORCE SENSITIVE: Vahliath is commonly associated with the Force, having studied and exercised in it throughout his life.
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WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum):
Leg Injury: Amidst a conflict in his younger days, Vahliath endured the wrath of a Force-user who tried to ultimately crush his left leg. Fortunately for Vahliath, he killed them before they could complete their attempt; however, if he engages in combat for a long period of time, he will begin to limp and struggle to maintain weight on the leg. No amount of surgery or artificial adjustments are capable of curing the injury.
Faultered Ear: Vahliath suffered a second wound in the same battle he acquired his leg injury. A grenade exploded near his left ear; the resulting burst ruptured his ear-drum, making him half-deaf in his left ear. While this seems minimal, it can pose as an inconvenience if, to say, a Lightsaber was coming towards the left side of his face. He wouldn’t be able to hear the hum emanating from the luminous blade until it was close enough for the residule heat to begin burning his skin.
ABOUT:
Vahliath is an independently funded scientist who specialises in the arts of medicine, chemisty, bioengineering and the production of high-classed technology. He prioritises the production of chemistry and bioengineering above all, mainly for the personal benefits obtained from his designs; however, he is not above producing “illegal” produce for clientele who can fetch the right price, as the ill-gotten funds help finance his own research.
He is currently neutral in the dominating factions in conflict with one another, doing "hushed" business with either factions without favouring one above the other, regardless of his influence affecting the results. He often associates with political figures who require his services, providing poisons, chemicals — even weaponry for the use of hushed political agendas such as assassination plots and voting scandals. He has even been asked to execute some of these plots by his own hands, given his reputation in the underbelly of that field of business, which he will do for the right "compensation".
Vahliath inhabits an uninhabited world in the Outer-Rim known as Tendril-4, a dwarf planet overflowing with plant-life. Here, he deploys his continued residence within a facility he refers to as the "White Palace" forged from a type of strong marble indigenous to Tendril-4. Within the White Palace is where all of his crafting and experimentation occurs, and is also where he stores any stolen materials or items he has claimed from heists or underground trading.
Although he doesn’t openly refer to himself as one, Vahliath can be considered a Gray Jedi, as he favours neither side of the force.
APPEARANCE:
A distinctive aspect of Vahliath’s appearance is undoubtedly his white hair, debated to be silver or even grey depending on exposure to light. His eyes burn a deep shade of hazel, conflicting with the bright shade of his hair. A constant desire to maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle has provided Vahliath with a fair and naturally masculine "tone" to his muscular design; not too obnoxious, but rather subtly for someone suitable of his height: five foot - eight inches.
Vahliath typically dons formal wear on a daily basis, whether he is doing business or simply within his facility doing some kind of crafting or experimentations. Outside, he prefers to wear a particular piece of clothing: a First Order’s officer trench coat which has been dyed grey and stripped of all markings, insignias and etchings that would otherwise associate it with the First Order. Vahliath always wears a pair of rectangular black glasses which he hardly takes off unless the situation requires it.
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HISTORY:
Sometime before the opening days of the war between the Separatists and Republic, Vahliath was born and raised on Naboo by his mother and father. Vahliath's father, a long descendant of the first Jedi who sought to destroy the formation of the Sith during the hundred-year darkness, was devoted to the Jedi Order and collapse of the Sith, while his mother maintained the professions of a politician and biologist which eventually seduced Vahliath's interest around the age of five. His father having been devoted to the Jedi Order meant Vahliath spent most of his youngling days with his mother, who welcomed him into the world of biology due to his interest in the sciences. Even at such a young age, Vahliath showed high enthusiasm in regards to his mother's biological work, pleading to go with her, even when his father tried to make Vahliath show interest in the Force, something Vahliath showed very little interest in to begin with. There was often conflict between his mother and father over this, his father believing Vahliath was lucky to have a bloodline which was tied to the first Jedi and, as a result, made him naturally Force-sensitive, while Vahliath's mother believed he shouldn't have had to abandon his passion for knowledge to learn the Force, something she herself showed very little interest in. Regardless of this debate, Vahliath was often taken by his father to the Jedi Temple, who tried to show him classes involving younglings who were already on the path to becoming a Jedi at such young ages. Still, Vahliath showed no interest in partaking in the classes, which resulted in his father saying even if he didn't wish to become a Jedi, his father would train Vahliath himself. Being only five, Vahliath didn't have much of a say in what happened regarding training in the Force; as a result of his mother's passiveness in this, Vahliath was subjected to training by his father who began taking him to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during his spare time, while Vahliath's mother showed no interest in teaching him anything associated with the Force - at first. Instead, she took him to work in her laboratory on the outskirt's of Naboo which was under their family's corporation, a company which involved several fields of study in the sciences. She took Vahliath to her lab - a lab devoted to biology and biomechanics - to work alongside herself and her team. Alongside his mother, Vahliath was welcomed to not only mechanics, but bioengineering. Of course he was still young, so there was only so much he could comprehend; however, he didn't fail to show ethic to his mother's and her team's work, wanting to help and spend as much time with her as possible. His mother ensured he spent every minute he desired at her side and at work, even taking him on work expeditions alongside her team which occurred across several locations throughout the galaxy. It was around this time Vahliath felt a sudden interest in history, a result of his father taking him to the Jedi Temple. Vahliath was interested in the history of the Jedi and the Sith, but his mother tried her best to avoid the topic for reasons unknown.
Vahliath was fifteen when the Separatists and the Republic declared war upon one another. The unification of the Jedi and the Republic meant Vahliath's father had to stop training him in the arts of the Force due to having his hands full, something his mother was subtly pleased with considering he had been under such training for ten years. By fifteen, Vahliath had been welcomed into a recruitment program in the family company, allowing him to train professionally to become a biologist and study biomechanics, bioengineering, engineering and pharmaceuticals, all fields of science Vahliath wished to study. The lack of training in the Force his father could now not provide due to the war meant Vahliath had more than enough time to spend expanding his knowledge in these particular areas. While Vahliath saw the war as a blessing in disguise, it soon began to unexpectedly require the presence of his mother, especially when Naboo was overrun by the Separatist forces. His mother's team were forced to move to Coruscant where they worked in a different facility, while his mother claimed she had to tend to political matters off-world, and couldn't watch over Vahliath. Doctor Vera, a scientist partnered with Vahliath's mother, offered to become his guardian and take him to work with her while she tended to her political matters. Vahliath began living alongside Doctor Vera who became his mentor while his mother and father were away, continuing to expand his knowledge and interest in his desired fields of study, while also working under Doctor Vera herself. These circumstances lasted up until the Separatists were driven off of Naboo and the Republic restored order to the planet. Once the Republic helped to restore order on Naboo, Vahliath, his mother and her team returned home. Vahliath's father was able to find time to return home more frequently, but the training he offered Vahliath became less and less frequent as the years went on, until he eventually stopped altogether when Vahliath was appointed as a biologist in his mother's team at the age of nineteen. Come nineteen, Vahliath was not only now a knowledgeable scientist, but he was also fairly associated in the Force, capable of influencing it to certain extensions his father easily surpassed.
It wasn't until the instigation of the Clone Wars that Vahliath's father began to disappear in war once again; however, this time, his father was gone for months on end, leaving Vahliath to work alongside his mother. Now at an age of twenty-five, Vahliath's mother decided to hang up her labcoat altogether and promote Doctor Vera as the lead scientist, and Vahliath to work alongside her as her partner. She claimed the war meant more political matters required her attention, and she would need to be off-world for weeks on end and was not allowed to make contact to her family back home. Vahliath was able to accept this more easily now he was a mature and well-respected scientist (not to mention an adult). As a result of his mother's decision, Vahliath and Doctor Vera led the team and began working on a project known as "Project Eternal", which was an extension on Vahliath's mother's work to move the human consciousness into a machine and acquire immortality. For three years, Vahliath and Doctor Vera worked alongside one another to try and make their project possible. Vahliath's father was deeply associated within the conflicts at this time, to a point where he stopped coming home altogether, unlike Vahliath's mother. How his parents relationship turned out was unknown, but Vahliath didn't question his mother on the topic whatsoever. Actually, whenever she returned home to Naboo, her ideologies on the Force had changed significantly. She reflected on Vahliath's question as a youngling, asking if he would like to learn the history of the Jedi Order - and of the Sith. Befuddled, but also curious and wanting to spend time with his mother now he didn't see her as much, he accepted her offer, to which she took him off-world, to a world he had only heard about in stories, but never believed it existed: Korriban. Her attitude, appearance - even association with the Force - had changed drastically, something Vahliath easily picked up on, but didn't question. Vahliath's mother took him to the Valley of the Dark Lords, desolate and abandoned in its neglect over the thousands of years it had been standing. It was there she began to tell him the rise of the Sith. The rise of her predecessors - her family.
Vahliath began to suspect what he hoped was not true. When he turned around to face his mother, she held a Sith sword in one hand - and his father's Lightsaber in the other. Vahliath questioned her reasons for having his father's Lightsaber, but her response was almost vague. She spoke of how blind the Republic and Jedi were, that in their blindness, they lost their passion, strength and her faith in their ability to maintain perfect order. She emphasised the corruption of the Jedi Order, and this father knew what would eventually happen to him if he continued to serve a way of the Force which was broken and limited in its potential. When Vahliath saw the bloodstains on his father's Lightsaber, he knew what she had done. She confirmed herself that she had killed him, and intended to for a long, long time. It was at that time she crushed his father's Lightsaber under an intense manifestation of lightning, before then pulling out a device which projected a hologram of Chancellor Palpatine in hooded robes, confirming "Order 66" had been issued. Vahliath's mother smiled under her hood and smashed the device in her hand, while Vahliath himself questioned what was going on. It was only then that his mother spoke truths Vahliath didn't want to hear.
She confessed that she was a Sith spy. That she was born and raised a Sith - by Sith - and trained as one with the intent on implementing herself into the Republic to spy and gain access to intelligence the Sith could use to commence their grand scheme of domination. She confessed that her bloodline traced back to first members of the Dark Jedi, and that because of the Jedi Order, her ancestors were almost wiped out, forced into the dark vastness of space until they found Korriban. Her own mother and father, Vahliath’s grandparents, were raised with the intent of destruction for the Jedi in their hearts because of this, and their passion, hatred and determination was enough to be passed down onto Vahliath’s mother who was told from an age when she could begin to comprehend that she would continue to follow this path of destruction towards the Jedi. Vahliath questioned his mother about her love for his father, and if it were true. She simply awnsered “no”, and that she intended to kill him until he impregnated her with Vahliath. She told Vahliath that she had loved him, and always would, for he was her child. A descendant of the Dark Jedi themselves, with a natural flow of power which ran deep within his veins. It was then when she offered to train him. Teach him things his father couldn’t; ways of the Force he was capable of doing, his father would never let him teach. That he had a natural flow of untamed power due to his bloodline. Vahliath was almost seduced by her words. After she told him about the history of the Dark Jedi and the rise of the first Sith, he felt sorrow for how they lived. The Jedi Order had never once seemed accurate to him, and it was for that reason he always refused an offer by his father to join them. In the same breath, he didn’t believe himself to be a Sith.
Vahliath's mother turned the Sith sword in her hand, offering Vahliath it's hilt. Hesitantly, he gently reached out and took it, and a thousand thoughts washed through his mind, forcing him to jump a step back with the weapon in-hand. Thoughts of pain, agony - suffering. Screams of fear conflicted with emotions of rage, hate and anger fueled from the Dark Side of the Force. The sword itself was amazingly light - and fiercely sharp. It was ancient in its design, Sith text engraved along the blade of the sword which wrote "Passion Shall Set Us Free". Vahliath asked whose sword it was, even if he knew the answer. His mother verbally confirmed it had been passed down from her ancestors who survived the hundred-year darkness and came to Korriban. After that, she proceeded in trying to seduce him, offering her hand out to her son and begging to let him teach her the true ways of the Force. Vahliath responded by raising the weapon threateningly towards, claiming he would prove one would not have to result to evil schemes and bing suffering to attain power. His mother responded by casting a Lightsaber, burning a vibrant red shade, humming every time she waved it through the air.
Vahliath proceeded to attack her with the Sith sword. Even for a now considered to be elderly woman, his mother was agile, and well trained with a Lightsaber. He struggled to deflect her attacks, just as much as she struggled to deflect his own. Both were conflicted in their emotions, Vahliath not wanting to kill his own mother while his mother didn't want to kill her own and only son. Nevertheless, Vahliath fought with her until he finally disarmed her. He cut off her index and middle finger just as she jabbed his shoulder with the end of her Lightsaber, forcing both of them to drop their weapons. She attempted to use the Force to pull her Saber towards herself; however, it smashed under the intense straining of Vahliath trying to also pull it closer to himself. When it shattered under the intensity of the Force, he picked up the Sith sword and directed it at her. She stepped back, smiling and laughing in pride. Vahliath told her to stand down - but she refused. She reminded him not to forget his strength, and what their family had gone through to get where they were now. When Vahliath asked, she said he would see when he returned home. Vahliath charged at her with the intent on restraining her, but she conjured the Force to blanket her in cloud of sand which prevented Vahliath from getting close. When the sand subsided - she was gone. There was no trace of her. No sense of her presence - nothing. Just her digits left amputated on the ground, and the remnants of her own and father's Lightsabers left scattered across the dirt. Vahliath looked to the sword in his hands, realising it had something else written in Sith text on the other side of the blade. "Imperious", it spelled out. Their family name. Vahliath lowered the weapon to his side and returned to the ship, ensuring Korriban's coordinates were saved onto his ship's computer. After that he departed from Korriban and arrived back on Corsucant amidst a great conflict. Republican clone troopers surrounded the fiery remnants of the Jedi Temple, blasters firing in all directions at a new enemy. Vahliath immediately landed in the facility where he had been working with Doctor Vera, now under the authority of clone troopers who refused him entry when he departed from the ship. They claimed there were potential Jedi inside, and that he was to return to his ship and leave for his own safety. They issued their order by pointing their weapons at him. Vahliath, sensitive to the Force, breached their minds and encouraged them to let him in. The attempt to control them was successful, and Vahliath made an immediate arrival to his and Doctor Vera's facility, only to find her inside packing away their work. She told Vahliath about what had happened, or at least what she had been told. That the Jedi attempted to overthrow the Chancellor and Usurp the political throne, even though Vahliath knew the truth behind the sudden conflict. He told Doctor Vera to download everything onto a Holocron. After she did, they attempted to leave through the front door but were stopped by clone troopers. Vahliath’s influence over their minds had subsided, and now they wanted to to place them under "protective custody". Doctor Vera responded by disarming a clone trooper and taking Vahliath hostage, pointing a blaster at his back. Vahliath asked her what she was doing, to which she stated that they needed to keep their project a secret, slipping the Holocron down the back of his trousers. The clone troopers warned her to stand down, but she refused. Instead she whispered in Vahliath’s ear; a goodbye, she whispered, and that she hoped things could have turned out differently. She shoved Vahliath aside and opened fire on the clone troopers, but it was seven against one. Her downfall was set in stone the moment she took Vahliath as her hostage. The clone troopers killed her instantly after she received tens of bolts to her body. After that, six of them approached her corpse and opened fire once again while the seventh ensured Vahliath was okay. He claimed he was, and the clone trooper suggested she might have been a Jedi spy attempting to assassinate the doctors in the facility. Vahliath just agreed with them and asked to return to his ship. They accepted his request, and Vahliath immediately left Coruscant with the Holocron intact, making his way to a planet in the Unknown Region known as Tendril-4.
Tendril-4 was a forest world uncovered by Vahliath's mother, free of any inhabitants other than wildlife. It had an experimental facility on it which was fated to one day become Vahliath's where he could work alone, known as the "White Palace", named by Vahliath himself. Upon jumping out of light speed, Vahliath came under fire by Republican ships. He managed to evade death and blow them up, but the damage his ship sustained meant he was only capable of making a crash-landing near the facility. Death were of high percentage, but Vahliath took the chance and descended into the atmosphere of the world, crashing his ship near the facility as he predicted. The crash knocked him out for several hours; however, the ship thankfully ceased to blow. Vahliath awoke laying over the dashboard of the craft, shrapnel embedded deep into his abdomen. Needless to say, he was heavily bleeding out with every move he made. Vahliath managed to escape the wreckage of the ship intact, taking the Sith sword and Holocron intact before making his way into the gargantuan facility. If Vahliath didn't know where he was specifically heading inside, he would have surely gotten lost and bled out. He managed to make his way to the medical wing and install the Holocron into the facility's database before activating the medical droids to tend to his wound. There was only so much that they could do; his wound was fatal, and to remove the shrapnel meant he would bleed out. Vahliath looked to his right, and immediately saw a solution. It was a medical cryotank. A prototype made by his mother which preserved the subject in cryostasis while tending to their wounds. Vahliath immediately climbed inside and ordered the droids to seal him within its chamber. The machine eventually hummed to life, mechanisms activating to begin preserving and tending to Vahliath, who was uncertain of his survival. The knockout gas soon calmed him amidst his uncertainty, and Vahliath soon fell into a deep and long sleep, preserved for a duration of time he almost didn't come to believe when he awoke once again.
Long was Vahliath within cryostasis, most definitely longer than he expected. The rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, the Rebellion, the death of Darth Vader and rise of his son who rekindled the hope to the galaxy. Vahliath missed everything, waking up almost eight-hundred after the battle of Yavin. When the chamber finally released him, Vahliath climbed into a timeline where nothing he once knew existed. A headache and sickness was well within his expectations, but his stomach only curdled more when he looked at the date on the facility's database. He almost didn't believe it until he saw the outside of the White Palace dominated by plant life. The sky had vanished behind the thick vines clinging to the facility's exterior. He knew getting into the chamber that it was only a prototype machine, but he didn't expect its dates to awaken him to faulter and extend from eight hours to eight hundred years. He knew very well that there was a lot he needed to catch up. His droids were long claimed by age and neglect, rusted and ruined. They couldn't help him, but he knew what could. There was a small cargo ship inside the White Palace's hangar. After collecting his thoughts and sanity, he climbed inside the cargo ship and inputted a request to take him to the nearest trading route. It showed within the Outer Rim, so Vahliath made his way there. He arrived at a run down watering hole used by frequent traders. Once he entered, he got friendly with some Hux traders, asking them about their opinions on the galaxy's current state in the hopes of getting some kind of answers from them. The Empire, the rebellion - he knew nothing of what they spoke. The First Order, the Resistance. He was as oblivious to that as he was the Rebellion. No mention of the Republic meant they must have collapsed. Vahliath didn't ask of it. They asked Vahliath what he done, and he told them he was a mere scientist, asking if they knew any work going in his specialties. They laughed, emphasising they were only traders, but suggested if he had the knowledge he claimed, he should have worked for himself. The conflict in the Galaxy meant there were several opportunities to make money and gain items.
Vahliath took their advice and went into underground trading. Having technology considered ancient back on Tendril-4 provided him with unique buyers willing to pay hefty amounts for such relics. Eventually, Vahliath began to expand his work, building technology from old-world machinery which he could sell for generous credits. It led to him being noticed by more "infamous" associates in the underground world, who were curious on what kind of potential Vahliath had. Some asked to meet him, and Vahliath did, ensuring he kept his identity secret, concealing his face and wearing a voice muffler when he went to meet his clients. Some asked him to make weapons and items with adaptations considered illegal, but they were asking the right person. Vahliath's knowledge provided him with the ability to manufacture their requests with ease, and the credits only continued to pour in. It wasn't long before Vahliath was summoned by political bodies, asking him to provide weaponry and poisons for assassination plots. Knowing their identities and them not knowing his meant he was able to expand his prices, to which his clients accepted. While this income was all well and good, the technology Vahliath required no longer existed in great quantities. To get it meant going back to places he once knew, and he knew of one place he could potentially loot: Utapau.
Vahliath made his way to the outskirts of Utapau, specifically a location where crevices and underground systems were left abandoned as he had expected, left behind by the Separatists during the clone attack on Utapau. Vahliath descended his craft down into the old world, settling on a landing pad which strained to hold up its weight. As Vahliath stepped out of the craft, a portion of the landing pad protruding from the walls broke off, taking his ship down deep within the pit where it ultimately smashed and exploded. Vahliath proceeded onwards into the facility, using his knowledge over the old-world technology to trip the door's security and gain access to its interior. What he saw inside was considered riches to a person of his specialties and professions. Remnants of the old-world laid scattered at his feet, forgotten by the ages and men alike. Republican suits left without the organic matter of their wearers, but rather their skeletons laid dotted across what he assumed was a laboratory of some kind. As much as it was considered riches, Vahliath needed to find something better. Something in more quantity and not compromised by blasters or damage. As a result, he proceeded deeper into the structure with only the Imperious family Sith sword at his side. He descended down within an elevator, down as far as it would take him which was exactly beneath the pit's surface. It was down there where Vahliath found what he was looking for. Luck came in the form of some kind of armory or factory. Hundreds of different classed Battledroids were suspended neatly in rows along the walls which extended far into the distance of the now assumed armory or factory, while ships were deposited in the distance, a combination of wrecked and untouched alike. One ship specifically called out to Vahliath: a C-9979 Landing Craft which wasn't situated on a landing pad correctly, as if it came in with a hard landing and was left untouched since that day. As Vahliath approached the vessel, he saw it to be scorched with blaster shots only a Republican ship could have made. Amidst his curiosity, Vahliath climbed inside the craft to investigate further. Inside, its passengers came in the form of two Magnaguards and a Droid pilot laid back against the cockpit chair with a rifle still in its grasp. Curious to see if the ship still functioned, Vahliath attempted to power it back up. To his surprise its engine hummed to life. . . as well as the two Magnaguards laid out on the floor. Old-world circuitry awakened the Droids, allowing them to rise up with lethal intent towards Vahliath. Within their grasps, Electrostaffs ignited and swung at him. Vahliath countered them with his Sith sword, eventually managing to dismember one Magnaguard and bring the other to its knees via the Force. When he examined the droids, they had some kind of mechanical devices linked to the back of their necks with wiring that extended into the ship's walls. Vahliath assumed they were powered by the ship's function and awoken when he rekindled life into the ship. This was considered a rare encounter for Vahliath, for he had never really gotten close to a Magnaguard before. To take one was within his intentions, and he did exactly that.
After playing with the Magnaguard's circuitry he knocked down via the Force, he manufactured its acknowledgment potential to acknowledge him as an ally. More precisely, he convinced it he was its master. At first, it wasn't so enthusiastic on obeying him, looking as if it struggled to comprehend his first command to stand up and lower its weapon. It obeyed eventually, however, and looked to its machine brethren laying in pieces beside it. Vahliath spoke to its as if it were sentient, stating it was an enemy and tried to kill them both. To his surprise, the Magnaguard smashed its foot through the dead Magnaguard's torso, then looked at Vahliath with crimson lenses, almost as if it was trying to tell him "Now it's dead". Vahliath advised the Magnaguard that they needed to haul as much cargo as possible from the factory floor, commanding the Magnaguard to begin stocking Droids and materials alike. The Magnaguard dropped its Electrostaff and acted on Vahliath's word, awakening old-world technology around the factory to activate other factory Droids in bringing the desired essentials to the Landing Craft while Vahliath explored the rest of the ship. It was undoubtedly battered, Droidless in his armory, which told him he was going to be here a while stocking up on old-world Separatist Droids. It was then that something clicked in Vahliath's mind. Why not take the word Droid "literally"? He climbed out of the ship, noticing how the Magnaguard was working with factory droids to hault BattleDroids of different classes in vast quantities. Once it got the first batch inside, he ordered two of the factory Droids over towards him. When they arrived, he pointed further down the hangar. Untouched in their ancient forms, Droid Gunships lingered on their landing bays in the numbers. Vahliath asked the factory Droids if they were still functioning, and it confirmed they had yet to leave the facilities, but were operational. Vahliath immediately ordered them to begin hauling them on board; Droid Starfighters, HMP Predators, Droid Tri-Fighters - Vahliath ordered them to haul as much as possible. They acted on retrieving the ships and hauling them into the cargo bay of the landing craft with difficulty since it was not designed to haul as much as Vahliath desired. They managed to make it possible, however, using calculations, angles and algorithms to determine the best way to stack them. Meanwhile, Vahliath searched the rest of the factory floor, looking for anything essential to their cargo. The Magnaguard had already stacked several weapons and BattleDroids on board, as well as materials which were beneficial to Vahliath. As he came to discover more and more of the factory, Vahliath followed a narrow tunnel, too small for any ship to get through, which led him into another hangar bay. It was there he laid his eyes upon a treasure, one which captivated his hazel gaze in its pristine, untouched form: a Fury-Class Interceptor.
Of course, Vahliath entered the ship to see if it functioned. Luck - or fate - appeared to be on his side as an assuring hum of the engine filled the ship with power, pulling a gasp from Vahliath. He almost felt like it was too good to be true. It was - to some extent. When he looked back to the narrow tunnel, he remembered how small it was to fit a ship like that within it to haul onto the cargo bay of the Landing Craft. He climbed out of the ship and met with a factory Droid, asking if it was possible to get somehow get it inside the craft. It said no. Vahliath questioned it once again, and again, it said no. It claimed that if he wanted to get it out he would have to fly it manually. Vahliath gave the Droid a Holocron with Tendril-4's coordinates, asking if it could put the Landing Craft on autopilot to the White Palace. It pleasingly said yes and acted on inputting the coordinates into the Landing Craft while Vahliath returned to the 'Interceptor. For a good hour, he examined the ship and waited patiently for the Droids to send word the Landing Craft was finished with the cargo. Vahliath ordered the Magnaguard to kill the factory Droids and come to him in the second hangar. It acted on his demand without question and entered the craft, standing alongside Vahliath with its hand on the back of his seat. Vahliath played with the ship's buttons for a moment before familiarising himself with how it worked. After he was confident in flying it, he opened the hangar doors, waiting for the Landing Craft to take off before he brought the Fury-Class Interceptor into flight. Its speed was exceptional, easily speeding out of the atmosphere in less than a minute. Once he saw the Landing Craft make a jump into light speed, he followed behind until he jumped out of lightspeed in Tendril-4's orbit, flying alongside the Landing Craft as it descended into the atmosphere and made its way to the White Palace's hangar. Vahliath piloted his ship down on one of the landing pads and climbed out. At the moment, he wasn't so excited about having to haul everything off of the ship. Doing anything, he wanted to take the Magnaguard to the engineering facility within the White Palace and alter it. Before doing that, however, Vahliath decided to shut it down manually and get some sleep. He wouldn't wake for the next seventeen hours.
Over the course of a good few days, Vahliath slacked around the facility, wearing the baggiest, most comfortable clothes he could find. After dozing about for a while and gaining some rest, he went on to bring the Magnaguard to the engineering facility to provide it with some adjustments, taking the remnants of the other dead Magnaguard along with it. While it was powered down, he installed it with a voice box taken from a BattleDroid, but vastly lowered the pitch of the voice so it was deep and intimidating, not whiny and high-pitched like it was originally designed to be. He went on to clean it up, leaving its face only half fixed with a facial frame. He focused on using the other Magnaguard parts to built on its armour around its torso and limbs, as well as installing a Drodeika shield generator on the small of its back. Its Electrostaff was fitted with two refined blades on each end of the weapon which would come to prove beneficial in combat. Lastly, he painted its metalwork so it was jet black and polished. When he was content with what he had done, he powered the Magnaguard up. Life breathed through its circuitry, one eye lens illuminating brighter than the other. When he asked if it could see okay, however, it responded "Yes, master" it that deep, chilling voice. He was proud with what he done. Using the rest of the Magnaguard remains he had leftover, Vahliath constructed a mask using its facial frame and eye lenses, installing thermal vision, a respirator and a voice distorter into the mask. He used some of the cloak and fashioned a hook around the metalwork after painting it black, polishing it so it looked almost pristine. If he was looking to continue his work in the underground world, he needed a more suitable form to conceal his identity. One someone couldn't just easily peel off his face like fabric.
In the months which followed, Vahliath remained among Tendril-4, slowly but surely hauling off the BattleDroids and placing the Droid Gunships somewhere more appropriate within the hangar. It was a long and tedious process, but he managed to get the Droid Gunships synced with the Fury-Class Interceptor and recognise it as the ship of command. A HMP: Predator was placed to one side Vahliath carefully experimented with, seeing it was possible to transfer the Magnaguard's artificial intelligence to and from the ship so it could pilot the craft when he desired. After some experimenting he found this be possible and acted on ensuring the transfer was guaranteed, testing it himself and asking the Magnaguard to open fire on the hangar walls. Without trouble it followed command, bringing a smile of pride on Vahliath's face. With that done, he returned its intelligence to its original body and asked it to follow him back into the medical wing where he awoke some several months back. Vahliath decided it was time to get working on his and Doctor Vera's project. He uploaded the work onto his preferred monitor and began looking at where they left off. At the moment, he was only able to analyse the blueprints they had made before events separated them.
Vahliath spent the following weeks away from his underground line of work to work on his and Doctor Vera's project. He was within the engineering facility at his desk working at a computer when he heard a roaring crash come from outside his door. Alerted, his Magnguard immediately brought its Electrostaff to life, but by then it was too late. His office door opened, and a woman came stumbling in. A woman with ruined, purple and black robes which looked to be made up from fabric, and a hand clutching her bleeding stomach. In her other hand she held a purple Lightsaber, which concerned Vahliath the moment he saw it. Vahliath immediately reached for an armed BattleDroid rifle by the side of his chair and pointed it at her; however, the woman disarmed him via the Force, throwing the weapon from his grasp and smashing it against the wall. She quickly proceeded into the room and pointed her 'saber to his throat, causing the Magnaguard to instigate an attack. Vahliath quickly commanded his Magnaguard to stand down, slowly raising his hands in the air to show her he carried no other weapons. The Magnaguard reluctantly withdrew its Electrostaff, but kept the ingition of elecrcity around the body of the weapon. To Vahliath’s command, it stepped back. Vahliath asked the woman what she wanted rather calmly. At first, he believed her to be the bad end of a deal he had made, or someone who suffered as a result of his actions. She said she needed his help particularly, mostly due to his expertise in science and biology. Vahliath told her to calm down and lower her weapon, ensuring the Magnaguard would not attack. He asked the Droid to leave the room, and it did. The strange woman followed it with her eyes until it left. Once the door close, her weapon subsided and she dropped down on the table of a desk behind her, sighing and panting as if she’d been holding it in. She dropped her Lightsaber on the table beside her. Vahliath slowly swivelled his chair to face her, asking what had happened. From what wasn’t covered by old and ruined forms of fabric, he could tell that she was severely burned, although her tissue damaged looked old, as if it had happened a long time ago. Her eyes were distinctly bloodshot and purple, looking almost dehydrated as he managed to peer under her hood. She told him again that she needed his medical attention. Again, Vahliath asked her what happened, also demanding he should know her name. Reluctantly, she confessed her name was Vega. She told him that she was part of a former Sith alliance devoted to the collapse of the Republic, but didn’t operate under the Sith Empire. Under the authority of a Sith Lord, she and six others embarked on a journey to the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban in search of powerful relics their master claimed would benefit them in their goal. When they had thought to have found the ancient relics, a Sith Knight turned his Lightsaber on the Sith Lord before slaughtering the rest of the accompanying Sith, starting with her. Vega was plunged in her back by the Lightsaber before her Sith brethren were killed. In her moment of hatred and determination to survive, she killed the Sith Knight and fled on his ship. Her ties into the underground world led her to Vahliath, who she only knew by the alias: Magna-Rin. Vahliath asked how she had tracked him to Tendril-4. She claimed she didn’t know, but she believed it was the work of the Force whispering in her ear, telling her to make a jump into the Unknown Region.
Vahliath found her story hard to believe, but he didn’t turn her away. Convinced she meant him no harm, he asked her to lay down across the examination bed on her stomach. She did so with caution, concerned he might have drugged or stabbed her while her back was turned. Her concerned was easily sensed, so Vahliath comforted her by placing a mirror at the head of the bed so she could glance into it and see what she was doing. As long as she was comfortable in seeing all the gore, he was fine with it. Vahliath cut through her attire with a pair of surgical scissors and took a look at her back. Even on her back her skin was purple and burned, but she had a vast gash right up the spine of her back, looking to be an old scar torn open by a Lightsaber. After Vahliath applied a numbing agent, he peeled back her skin to examine the internal damage. To his surprise, she had an artificial respiratory system, her lungs replaced with machinery, as well as parts of her spine. Although curious, he didn't question how she came to have artificial organs and bone replacements. He commented on how it was damaged instead, pointing out that he now understood why she was looking for someone like him and didn't go to the first medical area within her previous range of travel. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but he was certain the mechanical parts inside her were of old-world technology. It made him suspicious, but again he held his tongue. He told her to lay still as he tended to fixing her up, and Vega did so without question. Over the course of an hour, Vahliath slowly but surely fixed her artificial insides, as well as the wound that was on her stomach. When he was done, he offered her a patient gown and told her not to move around so much. Vega turned her back to him to get changed, which was a mistake on her part. When she turned back around to face Vahliath, he had her Lightsaber in his hand, pointing right at her.
Vahliath commented on her internal machinery. He stated that she was well aware that he would find familiarity with it, and believed her coming to him was of no coincidence. Vega slowly leaned back against the bed and looked at him. She confessed their meeting was no accident. Vahliath asked who she really was, and at first, she only repeated her name: Vega. Vahliath insisted there was more to her story than that; there were not many people in the galaxy who were familiar with old-world technology, so her finding him was not just one will of the Force. Vahliath insisted she must have known someone who knew him. Reluctantly, she confessed. She said it was his mother. Vahliath scowled. He told her that would have been impossible, that she would have surely died through age and decay over eight-hundred years, even if she knew the dark arts of the Force. Vega insisted that she had achieved her own sense of immortality, and that she was the Dark Lord that Vega and her Sith accomplices worked under: Darth Viola Imperious, Vahliath's very mother. Vahliath continued to disbelieve her story. While he knew the Dark Side to be powerful, survival of over eight-hundred years was never heard of. Either there was more to Vega's story than she let on, or she was simply lying. Vega swore she spoke the truth, to which Vahliath asked how she happened to join his mother and end up with old-world machinery in her body. Vega commented that like him and his mother, she was from the old-world. A Jedi that was victim to Order 66, burned alive by her Clone Troopers who left her to die in a moon crater within the Outer Rim. As she waited for death, Viola Imperious found her and took Vega on board her ship. Vega could sense the Dark Side surrounding her, but was too weak to refuse the help of a Sith. Viola took Vega to Tendril-4 and tended to her wounds as best as possible, around the same time Vahliath had coincidentally put himself in Cryostasis, intending to wake up after eight hours. Vega asked who the man was, and Viola confessed it was her son. Vega asked what had happened to him, but Viola commented she didn't know, believing he must have been severely injured like Vega was and decided to freeze himself within the machine. Vega went on to say she did not want the help of the Sith, to which Viola commented that Dark and Light mattered not now, for the Dark had reclaimed powerful order and oppressed the Light in the galaxy, and that Vega was expendable to the Jedi Order just as the others who died were. As she spoke, she tampered with Vahliath's machine as he slept, changing the time it would have taken him to defrost from eight hours to eight-hundred years. Vega told her that was madness, but Viola insisted his time to awake was too soon, just as Vega's time to die was. Viole claimed there was potential in Vega, and refused to tend to her wounds no further; that if she wanted to really survive and thrive, she needed to sleep like Vahliath did. Vega was reluctant to freeze herself, but she knew that if she did not get the medical attention she required, she would have died like her Jedi brethren did. She climbed inside the Cryostasis chamber, and Vega asked her if she would see Viola again. Viola nodded yes, that she had big plans for Vega. After that, Viola froze Vega within the machine, setting the timer for seven-hundred and ninety-five years, five years before Vahliath would come to wake. Those hundreds of years passed for Vega like a normal sleep, and when she awoke, Viola was standing right over her, surrounded by three other Sith Acolytes uniformed in Acolyte Clothing, masks included. After a lengthy reunion with Viola after those hundreds of years of sleep, Vega was in awe regarding Viola's continuation of survival. Viola seduced Vega with this power in the Dark Side of the Force, promising she would attain unimaginable power. Viola came to take Vega on her as apprentice, and they left Vahliath where he slept to recruit the remainder of the last five Sith Viola would come to train, teaching them everything she knew about the Dark Side of the Force, as well as its history. Comprised of women, Viola's Sith clan came to be known as the "Sisters of Darkness", and Viola promised each one of them would obtain great power. It wasn't until Korriban that the Sisters of Darkness collapsed when the Sith Knight turned on Viola and killed the other apprentices, actually claimed to be a Jedi spy who sought the destruction of the Sith and any who tried to train in its arts. Fueled with anger, Vega found the strength through the Dark Side of the Force to kill the Jedi before she tried to save Viola. Viola told her that she had predicted such a betrayal, and that it was the will of the Force to die like her ancestors did on Korriban. Vega persisted on trying to save her, but Viola used the Force to push Vega away. She told Vega to go to Tendril-4 and find her son, for he would be awake now, and the only one who could save Vega and heal her wounds. So, Vega did exactly that.
Vahliath was overwhelmed by her story, enough that the Lightsaber slowly fell out of his hand. In her confidence, Vega approached him, taking her hand in his and getting uncomfortably close. Vahliath was more overwhelmed than sad, finding it hard to believe his mother had been coming and going from Tendril-4 while he just laid there asleep. Vahliath commented that Vega had been healed, and that there was no other reason to be there with him. Vega corrected his assumption, saying that she hadn't finished her story. Vahliath looked into her wounded eyes as she told him his mother had one final wish: that Vega would train him in the Dark Arts of the Force, and continue their family's legacy to bring an end to the Jedi and Republic, appointing Vega as a Dark Lord of the Sith in her dying breath. Vahliath commented how he was no Sith, but Vega argued that his bloodline naturally attuned him to the darkness. That he had potential, and Vega would train him as his apprentice and make him powerful like his mother and ancestors were. Seduction to the Dark Side came in more than one form. Vega used charm and the Force to lure Vahliath into seduction, until he eventually confirmed he would take on his mother's teachings through Vega, with the exception that he would not rush into the destruction of the Jedi and fail like other Sith had.
For over three years, Vega trained Vahliath in the Dark Side of the Force and became his master, teaching him everything his mother had taught her - and more. Throughout their relationship as Sith and Apprentice, Vahliath and Vega unified a partnership in Vahliath's underground line of work, rising as noted criminals who favored no factions until Vahliath was ready. It wasn't until a heist on Galactic Alliance territory that fate twisted what Vega had in store for her apprentice, now known to her as "Darth Imperious". During the heist, Vega and Vahliath came under fire and attack of a Jedi master who was more machine than organic matter. In his almost limitless level of stamina, the Jedi overpowered Vega and killed her, crushing her Lightsaber and stabbing her in the back with its own. Vahliath attacked the Jedi and killed them before taking Vega back to Tendril-4 to try and heal her. Unfortunately, her wounds were far more severe than Vahliath anticipated, her respiratory machinery damaged to a point beyond repair. Vahliath swore that he could save her, but history would have to repeat itself. He convinced Vega to get inside the cryostasis chamber and remain frozen until he could save her. Reluctantly, Vega was eventually forced inside, but before Vahliath could freeze her, she told him to go and find the Sith. To join them and complete his training, and begin the path to bring the Sith into domination over the galaxy. Vahliath told her he would do as she asked, and finally encased her within the frozen chamber, preserving her. Since that day, Vega has remained within the confines of the chamber, while Vahliath embarks on his family's path to bring an end to the Jedi and restore domination. to the Sith Empire.
SKILLS:
Master Technician/Scientist: Over three quarters of his life devoted to understanding science and technology has provided Vahliath with an outstanding mastery over these fields, favouring medicine above engineering. His understanding of technology and medicine is considered to be highly notable to those who tend to do common business with him. Over the years, Vahliath has created an undetermined amount of crafts in both of these fields, including modifications to alter his work to his own content. He has created and altered a high number of notable items, including his own Lightsaber and rifle. Poisons and chemicals are no exception in his line of work, either, as he benefits from these in heists and underground trading, and even combat.
Master Manipulator: Being a businessmen who often deals with people in an area where they are already considered to be distrustful given their line of work, Vahliath has accustomed to manipulating people for his own benefit. He has lured and seduced women from even political positions, encouraging them to be unprofessional and engage in "unprofessional" activities with him that he could later use for his own benefit. He is fairly sensitive to those who intend to betray or double-cross him, and acts on this by being deceitful and subtle in his actions to them.
Highly Analytical: Combat, work, business — even sex. Vahliath always thinks ten steps ahead, and is very open minded to the possibilities of any outcome in any given situation. No matter the situation, he always assumes to worse-case scenario to be hiding right around the corner, and always attends to his matters already prepared for what he believes could be possible. Vahliath observes every situation, pulling it apart in his mind and looking for the faults and possibilities of where a surprise may occur. When he meets work associates, he conceals his identity and has often paid someone to go by his work name "The White Stag" and ask them to go for him if he expects a trap. Watching from afar, he can then determine what can happen next. His predictions are almost always accurate, and he doesn’t favour any possibility above the other, considering all to be as equally possible to transpire in an event.
Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Vahliath is fairly skilled and experienced in hand-to-hand combat, regularly training and exercising himself when alone.
Skilled Weaponist: Like hand-to-hand combat, Vahliath is well experienced in using weapons such as rifles and long-range weaponry, again exercising his skills when alone. His line of work requires such an upkeep on his training, as he sometimes executes bounties requested by his clientele.
Master Swordsman: Years of training and experience with a Lightsaber has provided Vahliath with a valuable understanding and mastery of the swordsmanship. He trained to use a Lightsaber long before he ever even began using long-range weaponry. His preferred forms of combat are a combination of form IV Ataru, and form VII Juyo/Vaapad, strongly believing the latter to be beneficial in combat due to its use of attuning emotions with conflict.
Force-User: Vahliath’s mother and father trained him from young to understand and gain use of the Force; however, it would be wrong to assume him a master of the ability. His father, a former Jedi, had him train mostly in the Light side of the Force while his mother only barely welcomed him to the the Dark side. He is quite capable of telekinetically manipulating objects with the Force, but anything above two-hundred pounds requires more effort. He is not able to perform mind-manipulation with the Force, instead using his charisma to try and influence people’s opinions or intentions. Vega tried to train him in Dathomir Magic, but his training was incomplete when she was sent back into hibernation.
Animal Bond: Through the Force, Vahliath can influence the mindset of an animal, even convincing predatory species that he poses no threat to their well-being. Those which defy this attempt of influence to the mind are subjugated through a dominant act, meaning Vahliath will fight and weaken them to the point they come to accept him as the superior being. He has often abused this to capture animals and sell them, while using others for protective purposes, such as placing them within an area he wishes to protect. He is not above putting a Nexu inside his craft when leaving it to tend to other business, allowing it to roam free until returns.
ITEMS/EFFECTS:
Sharpshooter V - Sniper Rifle: Vahliath does not keep this weapon within his inventory at all times, instead choosing to take it when he feels it would be necessary.
Modified Two-Handed Battledroid Rifle: Vahliath obtained the Battledroid rifle during his scavenge on Utapau. He modified the weapon back on Tendril-4 due to its inability to fire, installing a canister container amidst fixing it. The canister container is used to propel chemicals such as smoke and radioactive poisons to immobilise targets via short or long range distance.
Radioactive Canisters: These are used in compensation for explosive grenades, and a preference to Vahliath. The canisters eject a radioactive fume after three seconds of being hurled or fired, and are highly lethal due to the cosmic radiation found inside. The canisters are fuelled by being stored outside of the HMP under Vahliath’s claim. Vahliath only has five of these canisters, and has to retrieve them after ejection if he is to use and recharge them.
Lightsaber: The hilt of the Lightsaber is comprised of a sturdy marble base shaded dark grey, fashioned with sharp protrusions around the handle to prevent others from stealing it so easily via the Force. The Saber burns a luminous, majestic white shade which extends four feet from the hilt, almost looking unstable due to how the saber generates from the hilt.
Sith Sword: Passed down from generation to generation within the Imperious family, Vahliath stands as a current owner of the Imperious family Sith Sword which was once held by his ancestors. The blade of the weapon extends to 127 inches, engraved with his family's name along one side of the blade, while the the other side reads: "The Force Shall Set Us Free". The blade itself is double-edged and refined to Vahliath's content, while the hilt remains with its spherical, original design.
IG-100: Magnaguard Mask: When Vahliath scavenged on Utapau, he found several droid parts he took back to Tendril-4, including the facial frame of an IG-100: Magnaguard. He modified the frame to pose as a mask with technological features, such as a voice distorter, infrared vision, respiratory filter and ranged lenses. The mask is suction fitted, and released from Vahliath's face by a switch on the left side of the mask near the red eye lens.
Armor/Clothing: In usual circumstances, Vahliath prefers to wear formal clothing which is usually seen on his frame when meeting fellow associates or travelling to social areas. In battle, however, Vahliath's preference in clothing changes almost entirely, most certainly depicting him as a follower of the Sith order. This armor is subject to change, but presently what his inventory consists of.
-Reborn Revan Cloak - Grey (Dyed)
-Sith Eradicator's Torso - Black (Dyed)
-Sith Acolyte Gauntlets - Grey (Dyed)
-Dark Jedi Knight Garments - Grey (Dyed
CREATIONS:
Modified IG-100 Magnaguard: The Magnaguard was among the wreckage found inside the Landing Craft on Utapau. When Vahliath returned sufficient power to the ship, the droid returned to life, but was quickly disabled before it could physically harm him. Vahliath returned to Tendril-4 with the craft and its inventory, and rewired the Magnaguard to recognise him as its master. Its Electrostaff was adjusted with retractable blades used for impaling targets if necessary. Vahliath decided to alter its metalwork and paint it black, applying more armour around its torso, legs and limbs which was taken from another Magnaguard droid he found on board the craft. While this slows the Magnaguard down, it increases its durability.
SHIP:
Modified Fury-Class Interceptor: Found within the cavern systems on Utapau during a expedition, Vahliath returned the ship to his facility on Tendril-4. The ship itself remains with all of its standard perks and features, but Vahliath altered the paintwork of the body so it is comprised of a metallic, jet black shade, even with black-tinted windows in the cock-pit window.
KILLS: N/A
BOUNTIES COLLECTED: N/A
AFFILIATION: N/A
RANK: N/A
SPECIES: Humanoid
AGE: thirty-two+ (See history for more details)
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 5ft - 8inches
WEIGHT: 121lbs
EYES: Vahliath’s hues burn a deep shade of hazel, conflicting with his hair.
HAIR: Distinctively white, often debated to be silver which is determined by the exposure to light.
COMPLEXION: Subtly toned
FORCE SENSITIVE: Vahliath is commonly associated with the Force, having studied and exercised in it throughout his life.
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WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum):
Leg Injury: Amidst a conflict in his younger days, Vahliath endured the wrath of a Force-user who tried to ultimately crush his left leg. Fortunately for Vahliath, he killed them before they could complete their attempt; however, if he engages in combat for a long period of time, he will begin to limp and struggle to maintain weight on the leg. No amount of surgery or artificial adjustments are capable of curing the injury.
Faultered Ear: Vahliath suffered a second wound in the same battle he acquired his leg injury. A grenade exploded near his left ear; the resulting burst ruptured his ear-drum, making him half-deaf in his left ear. While this seems minimal, it can pose as an inconvenience if, to say, a Lightsaber was coming towards the left side of his face. He wouldn’t be able to hear the hum emanating from the luminous blade until it was close enough for the residule heat to begin burning his skin.
ABOUT:
Vahliath is an independently funded scientist who specialises in the arts of medicine, chemisty, bioengineering and the production of high-classed technology. He prioritises the production of chemistry and bioengineering above all, mainly for the personal benefits obtained from his designs; however, he is not above producing “illegal” produce for clientele who can fetch the right price, as the ill-gotten funds help finance his own research.
He is currently neutral in the dominating factions in conflict with one another, doing "hushed" business with either factions without favouring one above the other, regardless of his influence affecting the results. He often associates with political figures who require his services, providing poisons, chemicals — even weaponry for the use of hushed political agendas such as assassination plots and voting scandals. He has even been asked to execute some of these plots by his own hands, given his reputation in the underbelly of that field of business, which he will do for the right "compensation".
Vahliath inhabits an uninhabited world in the Outer-Rim known as Tendril-4, a dwarf planet overflowing with plant-life. Here, he deploys his continued residence within a facility he refers to as the "White Palace" forged from a type of strong marble indigenous to Tendril-4. Within the White Palace is where all of his crafting and experimentation occurs, and is also where he stores any stolen materials or items he has claimed from heists or underground trading.
Although he doesn’t openly refer to himself as one, Vahliath can be considered a Gray Jedi, as he favours neither side of the force.
APPEARANCE:
A distinctive aspect of Vahliath’s appearance is undoubtedly his white hair, debated to be silver or even grey depending on exposure to light. His eyes burn a deep shade of hazel, conflicting with the bright shade of his hair. A constant desire to maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle has provided Vahliath with a fair and naturally masculine "tone" to his muscular design; not too obnoxious, but rather subtly for someone suitable of his height: five foot - eight inches.
Vahliath typically dons formal wear on a daily basis, whether he is doing business or simply within his facility doing some kind of crafting or experimentations. Outside, he prefers to wear a particular piece of clothing: a First Order’s officer trench coat which has been dyed grey and stripped of all markings, insignias and etchings that would otherwise associate it with the First Order. Vahliath always wears a pair of rectangular black glasses which he hardly takes off unless the situation requires it.
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HISTORY:
Sometime before the opening days of the war between the Separatists and Republic, Vahliath was born and raised on Naboo by his mother and father. Vahliath's father, a long descendant of the first Jedi who sought to destroy the formation of the Sith during the hundred-year darkness, was devoted to the Jedi Order and collapse of the Sith, while his mother maintained the professions of a politician and biologist which eventually seduced Vahliath's interest around the age of five. His father having been devoted to the Jedi Order meant Vahliath spent most of his youngling days with his mother, who welcomed him into the world of biology due to his interest in the sciences. Even at such a young age, Vahliath showed high enthusiasm in regards to his mother's biological work, pleading to go with her, even when his father tried to make Vahliath show interest in the Force, something Vahliath showed very little interest in to begin with. There was often conflict between his mother and father over this, his father believing Vahliath was lucky to have a bloodline which was tied to the first Jedi and, as a result, made him naturally Force-sensitive, while Vahliath's mother believed he shouldn't have had to abandon his passion for knowledge to learn the Force, something she herself showed very little interest in. Regardless of this debate, Vahliath was often taken by his father to the Jedi Temple, who tried to show him classes involving younglings who were already on the path to becoming a Jedi at such young ages. Still, Vahliath showed no interest in partaking in the classes, which resulted in his father saying even if he didn't wish to become a Jedi, his father would train Vahliath himself. Being only five, Vahliath didn't have much of a say in what happened regarding training in the Force; as a result of his mother's passiveness in this, Vahliath was subjected to training by his father who began taking him to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during his spare time, while Vahliath's mother showed no interest in teaching him anything associated with the Force - at first. Instead, she took him to work in her laboratory on the outskirt's of Naboo which was under their family's corporation, a company which involved several fields of study in the sciences. She took Vahliath to her lab - a lab devoted to biology and biomechanics - to work alongside herself and her team. Alongside his mother, Vahliath was welcomed to not only mechanics, but bioengineering. Of course he was still young, so there was only so much he could comprehend; however, he didn't fail to show ethic to his mother's and her team's work, wanting to help and spend as much time with her as possible. His mother ensured he spent every minute he desired at her side and at work, even taking him on work expeditions alongside her team which occurred across several locations throughout the galaxy. It was around this time Vahliath felt a sudden interest in history, a result of his father taking him to the Jedi Temple. Vahliath was interested in the history of the Jedi and the Sith, but his mother tried her best to avoid the topic for reasons unknown.
Vahliath was fifteen when the Separatists and the Republic declared war upon one another. The unification of the Jedi and the Republic meant Vahliath's father had to stop training him in the arts of the Force due to having his hands full, something his mother was subtly pleased with considering he had been under such training for ten years. By fifteen, Vahliath had been welcomed into a recruitment program in the family company, allowing him to train professionally to become a biologist and study biomechanics, bioengineering, engineering and pharmaceuticals, all fields of science Vahliath wished to study. The lack of training in the Force his father could now not provide due to the war meant Vahliath had more than enough time to spend expanding his knowledge in these particular areas. While Vahliath saw the war as a blessing in disguise, it soon began to unexpectedly require the presence of his mother, especially when Naboo was overrun by the Separatist forces. His mother's team were forced to move to Coruscant where they worked in a different facility, while his mother claimed she had to tend to political matters off-world, and couldn't watch over Vahliath. Doctor Vera, a scientist partnered with Vahliath's mother, offered to become his guardian and take him to work with her while she tended to her political matters. Vahliath began living alongside Doctor Vera who became his mentor while his mother and father were away, continuing to expand his knowledge and interest in his desired fields of study, while also working under Doctor Vera herself. These circumstances lasted up until the Separatists were driven off of Naboo and the Republic restored order to the planet. Once the Republic helped to restore order on Naboo, Vahliath, his mother and her team returned home. Vahliath's father was able to find time to return home more frequently, but the training he offered Vahliath became less and less frequent as the years went on, until he eventually stopped altogether when Vahliath was appointed as a biologist in his mother's team at the age of nineteen. Come nineteen, Vahliath was not only now a knowledgeable scientist, but he was also fairly associated in the Force, capable of influencing it to certain extensions his father easily surpassed.
It wasn't until the instigation of the Clone Wars that Vahliath's father began to disappear in war once again; however, this time, his father was gone for months on end, leaving Vahliath to work alongside his mother. Now at an age of twenty-five, Vahliath's mother decided to hang up her labcoat altogether and promote Doctor Vera as the lead scientist, and Vahliath to work alongside her as her partner. She claimed the war meant more political matters required her attention, and she would need to be off-world for weeks on end and was not allowed to make contact to her family back home. Vahliath was able to accept this more easily now he was a mature and well-respected scientist (not to mention an adult). As a result of his mother's decision, Vahliath and Doctor Vera led the team and began working on a project known as "Project Eternal", which was an extension on Vahliath's mother's work to move the human consciousness into a machine and acquire immortality. For three years, Vahliath and Doctor Vera worked alongside one another to try and make their project possible. Vahliath's father was deeply associated within the conflicts at this time, to a point where he stopped coming home altogether, unlike Vahliath's mother. How his parents relationship turned out was unknown, but Vahliath didn't question his mother on the topic whatsoever. Actually, whenever she returned home to Naboo, her ideologies on the Force had changed significantly. She reflected on Vahliath's question as a youngling, asking if he would like to learn the history of the Jedi Order - and of the Sith. Befuddled, but also curious and wanting to spend time with his mother now he didn't see her as much, he accepted her offer, to which she took him off-world, to a world he had only heard about in stories, but never believed it existed: Korriban. Her attitude, appearance - even association with the Force - had changed drastically, something Vahliath easily picked up on, but didn't question. Vahliath's mother took him to the Valley of the Dark Lords, desolate and abandoned in its neglect over the thousands of years it had been standing. It was there she began to tell him the rise of the Sith. The rise of her predecessors - her family.
Vahliath began to suspect what he hoped was not true. When he turned around to face his mother, she held a Sith sword in one hand - and his father's Lightsaber in the other. Vahliath questioned her reasons for having his father's Lightsaber, but her response was almost vague. She spoke of how blind the Republic and Jedi were, that in their blindness, they lost their passion, strength and her faith in their ability to maintain perfect order. She emphasised the corruption of the Jedi Order, and this father knew what would eventually happen to him if he continued to serve a way of the Force which was broken and limited in its potential. When Vahliath saw the bloodstains on his father's Lightsaber, he knew what she had done. She confirmed herself that she had killed him, and intended to for a long, long time. It was at that time she crushed his father's Lightsaber under an intense manifestation of lightning, before then pulling out a device which projected a hologram of Chancellor Palpatine in hooded robes, confirming "Order 66" had been issued. Vahliath's mother smiled under her hood and smashed the device in her hand, while Vahliath himself questioned what was going on. It was only then that his mother spoke truths Vahliath didn't want to hear.
She confessed that she was a Sith spy. That she was born and raised a Sith - by Sith - and trained as one with the intent on implementing herself into the Republic to spy and gain access to intelligence the Sith could use to commence their grand scheme of domination. She confessed that her bloodline traced back to first members of the Dark Jedi, and that because of the Jedi Order, her ancestors were almost wiped out, forced into the dark vastness of space until they found Korriban. Her own mother and father, Vahliath’s grandparents, were raised with the intent of destruction for the Jedi in their hearts because of this, and their passion, hatred and determination was enough to be passed down onto Vahliath’s mother who was told from an age when she could begin to comprehend that she would continue to follow this path of destruction towards the Jedi. Vahliath questioned his mother about her love for his father, and if it were true. She simply awnsered “no”, and that she intended to kill him until he impregnated her with Vahliath. She told Vahliath that she had loved him, and always would, for he was her child. A descendant of the Dark Jedi themselves, with a natural flow of power which ran deep within his veins. It was then when she offered to train him. Teach him things his father couldn’t; ways of the Force he was capable of doing, his father would never let him teach. That he had a natural flow of untamed power due to his bloodline. Vahliath was almost seduced by her words. After she told him about the history of the Dark Jedi and the rise of the first Sith, he felt sorrow for how they lived. The Jedi Order had never once seemed accurate to him, and it was for that reason he always refused an offer by his father to join them. In the same breath, he didn’t believe himself to be a Sith.
Vahliath's mother turned the Sith sword in her hand, offering Vahliath it's hilt. Hesitantly, he gently reached out and took it, and a thousand thoughts washed through his mind, forcing him to jump a step back with the weapon in-hand. Thoughts of pain, agony - suffering. Screams of fear conflicted with emotions of rage, hate and anger fueled from the Dark Side of the Force. The sword itself was amazingly light - and fiercely sharp. It was ancient in its design, Sith text engraved along the blade of the sword which wrote "Passion Shall Set Us Free". Vahliath asked whose sword it was, even if he knew the answer. His mother verbally confirmed it had been passed down from her ancestors who survived the hundred-year darkness and came to Korriban. After that, she proceeded in trying to seduce him, offering her hand out to her son and begging to let him teach her the true ways of the Force. Vahliath responded by raising the weapon threateningly towards, claiming he would prove one would not have to result to evil schemes and bing suffering to attain power. His mother responded by casting a Lightsaber, burning a vibrant red shade, humming every time she waved it through the air.
Vahliath proceeded to attack her with the Sith sword. Even for a now considered to be elderly woman, his mother was agile, and well trained with a Lightsaber. He struggled to deflect her attacks, just as much as she struggled to deflect his own. Both were conflicted in their emotions, Vahliath not wanting to kill his own mother while his mother didn't want to kill her own and only son. Nevertheless, Vahliath fought with her until he finally disarmed her. He cut off her index and middle finger just as she jabbed his shoulder with the end of her Lightsaber, forcing both of them to drop their weapons. She attempted to use the Force to pull her Saber towards herself; however, it smashed under the intense straining of Vahliath trying to also pull it closer to himself. When it shattered under the intensity of the Force, he picked up the Sith sword and directed it at her. She stepped back, smiling and laughing in pride. Vahliath told her to stand down - but she refused. She reminded him not to forget his strength, and what their family had gone through to get where they were now. When Vahliath asked, she said he would see when he returned home. Vahliath charged at her with the intent on restraining her, but she conjured the Force to blanket her in cloud of sand which prevented Vahliath from getting close. When the sand subsided - she was gone. There was no trace of her. No sense of her presence - nothing. Just her digits left amputated on the ground, and the remnants of her own and father's Lightsabers left scattered across the dirt. Vahliath looked to the sword in his hands, realising it had something else written in Sith text on the other side of the blade. "Imperious", it spelled out. Their family name. Vahliath lowered the weapon to his side and returned to the ship, ensuring Korriban's coordinates were saved onto his ship's computer. After that he departed from Korriban and arrived back on Corsucant amidst a great conflict. Republican clone troopers surrounded the fiery remnants of the Jedi Temple, blasters firing in all directions at a new enemy. Vahliath immediately landed in the facility where he had been working with Doctor Vera, now under the authority of clone troopers who refused him entry when he departed from the ship. They claimed there were potential Jedi inside, and that he was to return to his ship and leave for his own safety. They issued their order by pointing their weapons at him. Vahliath, sensitive to the Force, breached their minds and encouraged them to let him in. The attempt to control them was successful, and Vahliath made an immediate arrival to his and Doctor Vera's facility, only to find her inside packing away their work. She told Vahliath about what had happened, or at least what she had been told. That the Jedi attempted to overthrow the Chancellor and Usurp the political throne, even though Vahliath knew the truth behind the sudden conflict. He told Doctor Vera to download everything onto a Holocron. After she did, they attempted to leave through the front door but were stopped by clone troopers. Vahliath’s influence over their minds had subsided, and now they wanted to to place them under "protective custody". Doctor Vera responded by disarming a clone trooper and taking Vahliath hostage, pointing a blaster at his back. Vahliath asked her what she was doing, to which she stated that they needed to keep their project a secret, slipping the Holocron down the back of his trousers. The clone troopers warned her to stand down, but she refused. Instead she whispered in Vahliath’s ear; a goodbye, she whispered, and that she hoped things could have turned out differently. She shoved Vahliath aside and opened fire on the clone troopers, but it was seven against one. Her downfall was set in stone the moment she took Vahliath as her hostage. The clone troopers killed her instantly after she received tens of bolts to her body. After that, six of them approached her corpse and opened fire once again while the seventh ensured Vahliath was okay. He claimed he was, and the clone trooper suggested she might have been a Jedi spy attempting to assassinate the doctors in the facility. Vahliath just agreed with them and asked to return to his ship. They accepted his request, and Vahliath immediately left Coruscant with the Holocron intact, making his way to a planet in the Unknown Region known as Tendril-4.
Tendril-4 was a forest world uncovered by Vahliath's mother, free of any inhabitants other than wildlife. It had an experimental facility on it which was fated to one day become Vahliath's where he could work alone, known as the "White Palace", named by Vahliath himself. Upon jumping out of light speed, Vahliath came under fire by Republican ships. He managed to evade death and blow them up, but the damage his ship sustained meant he was only capable of making a crash-landing near the facility. Death were of high percentage, but Vahliath took the chance and descended into the atmosphere of the world, crashing his ship near the facility as he predicted. The crash knocked him out for several hours; however, the ship thankfully ceased to blow. Vahliath awoke laying over the dashboard of the craft, shrapnel embedded deep into his abdomen. Needless to say, he was heavily bleeding out with every move he made. Vahliath managed to escape the wreckage of the ship intact, taking the Sith sword and Holocron intact before making his way into the gargantuan facility. If Vahliath didn't know where he was specifically heading inside, he would have surely gotten lost and bled out. He managed to make his way to the medical wing and install the Holocron into the facility's database before activating the medical droids to tend to his wound. There was only so much that they could do; his wound was fatal, and to remove the shrapnel meant he would bleed out. Vahliath looked to his right, and immediately saw a solution. It was a medical cryotank. A prototype made by his mother which preserved the subject in cryostasis while tending to their wounds. Vahliath immediately climbed inside and ordered the droids to seal him within its chamber. The machine eventually hummed to life, mechanisms activating to begin preserving and tending to Vahliath, who was uncertain of his survival. The knockout gas soon calmed him amidst his uncertainty, and Vahliath soon fell into a deep and long sleep, preserved for a duration of time he almost didn't come to believe when he awoke once again.
Long was Vahliath within cryostasis, most definitely longer than he expected. The rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, the Rebellion, the death of Darth Vader and rise of his son who rekindled the hope to the galaxy. Vahliath missed everything, waking up almost eight-hundred after the battle of Yavin. When the chamber finally released him, Vahliath climbed into a timeline where nothing he once knew existed. A headache and sickness was well within his expectations, but his stomach only curdled more when he looked at the date on the facility's database. He almost didn't believe it until he saw the outside of the White Palace dominated by plant life. The sky had vanished behind the thick vines clinging to the facility's exterior. He knew getting into the chamber that it was only a prototype machine, but he didn't expect its dates to awaken him to faulter and extend from eight hours to eight hundred years. He knew very well that there was a lot he needed to catch up. His droids were long claimed by age and neglect, rusted and ruined. They couldn't help him, but he knew what could. There was a small cargo ship inside the White Palace's hangar. After collecting his thoughts and sanity, he climbed inside the cargo ship and inputted a request to take him to the nearest trading route. It showed within the Outer Rim, so Vahliath made his way there. He arrived at a run down watering hole used by frequent traders. Once he entered, he got friendly with some Hux traders, asking them about their opinions on the galaxy's current state in the hopes of getting some kind of answers from them. The Empire, the rebellion - he knew nothing of what they spoke. The First Order, the Resistance. He was as oblivious to that as he was the Rebellion. No mention of the Republic meant they must have collapsed. Vahliath didn't ask of it. They asked Vahliath what he done, and he told them he was a mere scientist, asking if they knew any work going in his specialties. They laughed, emphasising they were only traders, but suggested if he had the knowledge he claimed, he should have worked for himself. The conflict in the Galaxy meant there were several opportunities to make money and gain items.
Vahliath took their advice and went into underground trading. Having technology considered ancient back on Tendril-4 provided him with unique buyers willing to pay hefty amounts for such relics. Eventually, Vahliath began to expand his work, building technology from old-world machinery which he could sell for generous credits. It led to him being noticed by more "infamous" associates in the underground world, who were curious on what kind of potential Vahliath had. Some asked to meet him, and Vahliath did, ensuring he kept his identity secret, concealing his face and wearing a voice muffler when he went to meet his clients. Some asked him to make weapons and items with adaptations considered illegal, but they were asking the right person. Vahliath's knowledge provided him with the ability to manufacture their requests with ease, and the credits only continued to pour in. It wasn't long before Vahliath was summoned by political bodies, asking him to provide weaponry and poisons for assassination plots. Knowing their identities and them not knowing his meant he was able to expand his prices, to which his clients accepted. While this income was all well and good, the technology Vahliath required no longer existed in great quantities. To get it meant going back to places he once knew, and he knew of one place he could potentially loot: Utapau.
Vahliath made his way to the outskirts of Utapau, specifically a location where crevices and underground systems were left abandoned as he had expected, left behind by the Separatists during the clone attack on Utapau. Vahliath descended his craft down into the old world, settling on a landing pad which strained to hold up its weight. As Vahliath stepped out of the craft, a portion of the landing pad protruding from the walls broke off, taking his ship down deep within the pit where it ultimately smashed and exploded. Vahliath proceeded onwards into the facility, using his knowledge over the old-world technology to trip the door's security and gain access to its interior. What he saw inside was considered riches to a person of his specialties and professions. Remnants of the old-world laid scattered at his feet, forgotten by the ages and men alike. Republican suits left without the organic matter of their wearers, but rather their skeletons laid dotted across what he assumed was a laboratory of some kind. As much as it was considered riches, Vahliath needed to find something better. Something in more quantity and not compromised by blasters or damage. As a result, he proceeded deeper into the structure with only the Imperious family Sith sword at his side. He descended down within an elevator, down as far as it would take him which was exactly beneath the pit's surface. It was down there where Vahliath found what he was looking for. Luck came in the form of some kind of armory or factory. Hundreds of different classed Battledroids were suspended neatly in rows along the walls which extended far into the distance of the now assumed armory or factory, while ships were deposited in the distance, a combination of wrecked and untouched alike. One ship specifically called out to Vahliath: a C-9979 Landing Craft which wasn't situated on a landing pad correctly, as if it came in with a hard landing and was left untouched since that day. As Vahliath approached the vessel, he saw it to be scorched with blaster shots only a Republican ship could have made. Amidst his curiosity, Vahliath climbed inside the craft to investigate further. Inside, its passengers came in the form of two Magnaguards and a Droid pilot laid back against the cockpit chair with a rifle still in its grasp. Curious to see if the ship still functioned, Vahliath attempted to power it back up. To his surprise its engine hummed to life. . . as well as the two Magnaguards laid out on the floor. Old-world circuitry awakened the Droids, allowing them to rise up with lethal intent towards Vahliath. Within their grasps, Electrostaffs ignited and swung at him. Vahliath countered them with his Sith sword, eventually managing to dismember one Magnaguard and bring the other to its knees via the Force. When he examined the droids, they had some kind of mechanical devices linked to the back of their necks with wiring that extended into the ship's walls. Vahliath assumed they were powered by the ship's function and awoken when he rekindled life into the ship. This was considered a rare encounter for Vahliath, for he had never really gotten close to a Magnaguard before. To take one was within his intentions, and he did exactly that.
After playing with the Magnaguard's circuitry he knocked down via the Force, he manufactured its acknowledgment potential to acknowledge him as an ally. More precisely, he convinced it he was its master. At first, it wasn't so enthusiastic on obeying him, looking as if it struggled to comprehend his first command to stand up and lower its weapon. It obeyed eventually, however, and looked to its machine brethren laying in pieces beside it. Vahliath spoke to its as if it were sentient, stating it was an enemy and tried to kill them both. To his surprise, the Magnaguard smashed its foot through the dead Magnaguard's torso, then looked at Vahliath with crimson lenses, almost as if it was trying to tell him "Now it's dead". Vahliath advised the Magnaguard that they needed to haul as much cargo as possible from the factory floor, commanding the Magnaguard to begin stocking Droids and materials alike. The Magnaguard dropped its Electrostaff and acted on Vahliath's word, awakening old-world technology around the factory to activate other factory Droids in bringing the desired essentials to the Landing Craft while Vahliath explored the rest of the ship. It was undoubtedly battered, Droidless in his armory, which told him he was going to be here a while stocking up on old-world Separatist Droids. It was then that something clicked in Vahliath's mind. Why not take the word Droid "literally"? He climbed out of the ship, noticing how the Magnaguard was working with factory droids to hault BattleDroids of different classes in vast quantities. Once it got the first batch inside, he ordered two of the factory Droids over towards him. When they arrived, he pointed further down the hangar. Untouched in their ancient forms, Droid Gunships lingered on their landing bays in the numbers. Vahliath asked the factory Droids if they were still functioning, and it confirmed they had yet to leave the facilities, but were operational. Vahliath immediately ordered them to begin hauling them on board; Droid Starfighters, HMP Predators, Droid Tri-Fighters - Vahliath ordered them to haul as much as possible. They acted on retrieving the ships and hauling them into the cargo bay of the landing craft with difficulty since it was not designed to haul as much as Vahliath desired. They managed to make it possible, however, using calculations, angles and algorithms to determine the best way to stack them. Meanwhile, Vahliath searched the rest of the factory floor, looking for anything essential to their cargo. The Magnaguard had already stacked several weapons and BattleDroids on board, as well as materials which were beneficial to Vahliath. As he came to discover more and more of the factory, Vahliath followed a narrow tunnel, too small for any ship to get through, which led him into another hangar bay. It was there he laid his eyes upon a treasure, one which captivated his hazel gaze in its pristine, untouched form: a Fury-Class Interceptor.
Of course, Vahliath entered the ship to see if it functioned. Luck - or fate - appeared to be on his side as an assuring hum of the engine filled the ship with power, pulling a gasp from Vahliath. He almost felt like it was too good to be true. It was - to some extent. When he looked back to the narrow tunnel, he remembered how small it was to fit a ship like that within it to haul onto the cargo bay of the Landing Craft. He climbed out of the ship and met with a factory Droid, asking if it was possible to get somehow get it inside the craft. It said no. Vahliath questioned it once again, and again, it said no. It claimed that if he wanted to get it out he would have to fly it manually. Vahliath gave the Droid a Holocron with Tendril-4's coordinates, asking if it could put the Landing Craft on autopilot to the White Palace. It pleasingly said yes and acted on inputting the coordinates into the Landing Craft while Vahliath returned to the 'Interceptor. For a good hour, he examined the ship and waited patiently for the Droids to send word the Landing Craft was finished with the cargo. Vahliath ordered the Magnaguard to kill the factory Droids and come to him in the second hangar. It acted on his demand without question and entered the craft, standing alongside Vahliath with its hand on the back of his seat. Vahliath played with the ship's buttons for a moment before familiarising himself with how it worked. After he was confident in flying it, he opened the hangar doors, waiting for the Landing Craft to take off before he brought the Fury-Class Interceptor into flight. Its speed was exceptional, easily speeding out of the atmosphere in less than a minute. Once he saw the Landing Craft make a jump into light speed, he followed behind until he jumped out of lightspeed in Tendril-4's orbit, flying alongside the Landing Craft as it descended into the atmosphere and made its way to the White Palace's hangar. Vahliath piloted his ship down on one of the landing pads and climbed out. At the moment, he wasn't so excited about having to haul everything off of the ship. Doing anything, he wanted to take the Magnaguard to the engineering facility within the White Palace and alter it. Before doing that, however, Vahliath decided to shut it down manually and get some sleep. He wouldn't wake for the next seventeen hours.
Over the course of a good few days, Vahliath slacked around the facility, wearing the baggiest, most comfortable clothes he could find. After dozing about for a while and gaining some rest, he went on to bring the Magnaguard to the engineering facility to provide it with some adjustments, taking the remnants of the other dead Magnaguard along with it. While it was powered down, he installed it with a voice box taken from a BattleDroid, but vastly lowered the pitch of the voice so it was deep and intimidating, not whiny and high-pitched like it was originally designed to be. He went on to clean it up, leaving its face only half fixed with a facial frame. He focused on using the other Magnaguard parts to built on its armour around its torso and limbs, as well as installing a Drodeika shield generator on the small of its back. Its Electrostaff was fitted with two refined blades on each end of the weapon which would come to prove beneficial in combat. Lastly, he painted its metalwork so it was jet black and polished. When he was content with what he had done, he powered the Magnaguard up. Life breathed through its circuitry, one eye lens illuminating brighter than the other. When he asked if it could see okay, however, it responded "Yes, master" it that deep, chilling voice. He was proud with what he done. Using the rest of the Magnaguard remains he had leftover, Vahliath constructed a mask using its facial frame and eye lenses, installing thermal vision, a respirator and a voice distorter into the mask. He used some of the cloak and fashioned a hook around the metalwork after painting it black, polishing it so it looked almost pristine. If he was looking to continue his work in the underground world, he needed a more suitable form to conceal his identity. One someone couldn't just easily peel off his face like fabric.
In the months which followed, Vahliath remained among Tendril-4, slowly but surely hauling off the BattleDroids and placing the Droid Gunships somewhere more appropriate within the hangar. It was a long and tedious process, but he managed to get the Droid Gunships synced with the Fury-Class Interceptor and recognise it as the ship of command. A HMP: Predator was placed to one side Vahliath carefully experimented with, seeing it was possible to transfer the Magnaguard's artificial intelligence to and from the ship so it could pilot the craft when he desired. After some experimenting he found this be possible and acted on ensuring the transfer was guaranteed, testing it himself and asking the Magnaguard to open fire on the hangar walls. Without trouble it followed command, bringing a smile of pride on Vahliath's face. With that done, he returned its intelligence to its original body and asked it to follow him back into the medical wing where he awoke some several months back. Vahliath decided it was time to get working on his and Doctor Vera's project. He uploaded the work onto his preferred monitor and began looking at where they left off. At the moment, he was only able to analyse the blueprints they had made before events separated them.
Vahliath spent the following weeks away from his underground line of work to work on his and Doctor Vera's project. He was within the engineering facility at his desk working at a computer when he heard a roaring crash come from outside his door. Alerted, his Magnguard immediately brought its Electrostaff to life, but by then it was too late. His office door opened, and a woman came stumbling in. A woman with ruined, purple and black robes which looked to be made up from fabric, and a hand clutching her bleeding stomach. In her other hand she held a purple Lightsaber, which concerned Vahliath the moment he saw it. Vahliath immediately reached for an armed BattleDroid rifle by the side of his chair and pointed it at her; however, the woman disarmed him via the Force, throwing the weapon from his grasp and smashing it against the wall. She quickly proceeded into the room and pointed her 'saber to his throat, causing the Magnaguard to instigate an attack. Vahliath quickly commanded his Magnaguard to stand down, slowly raising his hands in the air to show her he carried no other weapons. The Magnaguard reluctantly withdrew its Electrostaff, but kept the ingition of elecrcity around the body of the weapon. To Vahliath’s command, it stepped back. Vahliath asked the woman what she wanted rather calmly. At first, he believed her to be the bad end of a deal he had made, or someone who suffered as a result of his actions. She said she needed his help particularly, mostly due to his expertise in science and biology. Vahliath told her to calm down and lower her weapon, ensuring the Magnaguard would not attack. He asked the Droid to leave the room, and it did. The strange woman followed it with her eyes until it left. Once the door close, her weapon subsided and she dropped down on the table of a desk behind her, sighing and panting as if she’d been holding it in. She dropped her Lightsaber on the table beside her. Vahliath slowly swivelled his chair to face her, asking what had happened. From what wasn’t covered by old and ruined forms of fabric, he could tell that she was severely burned, although her tissue damaged looked old, as if it had happened a long time ago. Her eyes were distinctly bloodshot and purple, looking almost dehydrated as he managed to peer under her hood. She told him again that she needed his medical attention. Again, Vahliath asked her what happened, also demanding he should know her name. Reluctantly, she confessed her name was Vega. She told him that she was part of a former Sith alliance devoted to the collapse of the Republic, but didn’t operate under the Sith Empire. Under the authority of a Sith Lord, she and six others embarked on a journey to the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban in search of powerful relics their master claimed would benefit them in their goal. When they had thought to have found the ancient relics, a Sith Knight turned his Lightsaber on the Sith Lord before slaughtering the rest of the accompanying Sith, starting with her. Vega was plunged in her back by the Lightsaber before her Sith brethren were killed. In her moment of hatred and determination to survive, she killed the Sith Knight and fled on his ship. Her ties into the underground world led her to Vahliath, who she only knew by the alias: Magna-Rin. Vahliath asked how she had tracked him to Tendril-4. She claimed she didn’t know, but she believed it was the work of the Force whispering in her ear, telling her to make a jump into the Unknown Region.
Vahliath found her story hard to believe, but he didn’t turn her away. Convinced she meant him no harm, he asked her to lay down across the examination bed on her stomach. She did so with caution, concerned he might have drugged or stabbed her while her back was turned. Her concerned was easily sensed, so Vahliath comforted her by placing a mirror at the head of the bed so she could glance into it and see what she was doing. As long as she was comfortable in seeing all the gore, he was fine with it. Vahliath cut through her attire with a pair of surgical scissors and took a look at her back. Even on her back her skin was purple and burned, but she had a vast gash right up the spine of her back, looking to be an old scar torn open by a Lightsaber. After Vahliath applied a numbing agent, he peeled back her skin to examine the internal damage. To his surprise, she had an artificial respiratory system, her lungs replaced with machinery, as well as parts of her spine. Although curious, he didn't question how she came to have artificial organs and bone replacements. He commented on how it was damaged instead, pointing out that he now understood why she was looking for someone like him and didn't go to the first medical area within her previous range of travel. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but he was certain the mechanical parts inside her were of old-world technology. It made him suspicious, but again he held his tongue. He told her to lay still as he tended to fixing her up, and Vega did so without question. Over the course of an hour, Vahliath slowly but surely fixed her artificial insides, as well as the wound that was on her stomach. When he was done, he offered her a patient gown and told her not to move around so much. Vega turned her back to him to get changed, which was a mistake on her part. When she turned back around to face Vahliath, he had her Lightsaber in his hand, pointing right at her.
Vahliath commented on her internal machinery. He stated that she was well aware that he would find familiarity with it, and believed her coming to him was of no coincidence. Vega slowly leaned back against the bed and looked at him. She confessed their meeting was no accident. Vahliath asked who she really was, and at first, she only repeated her name: Vega. Vahliath insisted there was more to her story than that; there were not many people in the galaxy who were familiar with old-world technology, so her finding him was not just one will of the Force. Vahliath insisted she must have known someone who knew him. Reluctantly, she confessed. She said it was his mother. Vahliath scowled. He told her that would have been impossible, that she would have surely died through age and decay over eight-hundred years, even if she knew the dark arts of the Force. Vega insisted that she had achieved her own sense of immortality, and that she was the Dark Lord that Vega and her Sith accomplices worked under: Darth Viola Imperious, Vahliath's very mother. Vahliath continued to disbelieve her story. While he knew the Dark Side to be powerful, survival of over eight-hundred years was never heard of. Either there was more to Vega's story than she let on, or she was simply lying. Vega swore she spoke the truth, to which Vahliath asked how she happened to join his mother and end up with old-world machinery in her body. Vega commented that like him and his mother, she was from the old-world. A Jedi that was victim to Order 66, burned alive by her Clone Troopers who left her to die in a moon crater within the Outer Rim. As she waited for death, Viola Imperious found her and took Vega on board her ship. Vega could sense the Dark Side surrounding her, but was too weak to refuse the help of a Sith. Viola took Vega to Tendril-4 and tended to her wounds as best as possible, around the same time Vahliath had coincidentally put himself in Cryostasis, intending to wake up after eight hours. Vega asked who the man was, and Viola confessed it was her son. Vega asked what had happened to him, but Viola commented she didn't know, believing he must have been severely injured like Vega was and decided to freeze himself within the machine. Vega went on to say she did not want the help of the Sith, to which Viola commented that Dark and Light mattered not now, for the Dark had reclaimed powerful order and oppressed the Light in the galaxy, and that Vega was expendable to the Jedi Order just as the others who died were. As she spoke, she tampered with Vahliath's machine as he slept, changing the time it would have taken him to defrost from eight hours to eight-hundred years. Vega told her that was madness, but Viola insisted his time to awake was too soon, just as Vega's time to die was. Viole claimed there was potential in Vega, and refused to tend to her wounds no further; that if she wanted to really survive and thrive, she needed to sleep like Vahliath did. Vega was reluctant to freeze herself, but she knew that if she did not get the medical attention she required, she would have died like her Jedi brethren did. She climbed inside the Cryostasis chamber, and Vega asked her if she would see Viola again. Viola nodded yes, that she had big plans for Vega. After that, Viola froze Vega within the machine, setting the timer for seven-hundred and ninety-five years, five years before Vahliath would come to wake. Those hundreds of years passed for Vega like a normal sleep, and when she awoke, Viola was standing right over her, surrounded by three other Sith Acolytes uniformed in Acolyte Clothing, masks included. After a lengthy reunion with Viola after those hundreds of years of sleep, Vega was in awe regarding Viola's continuation of survival. Viola seduced Vega with this power in the Dark Side of the Force, promising she would attain unimaginable power. Viola came to take Vega on her as apprentice, and they left Vahliath where he slept to recruit the remainder of the last five Sith Viola would come to train, teaching them everything she knew about the Dark Side of the Force, as well as its history. Comprised of women, Viola's Sith clan came to be known as the "Sisters of Darkness", and Viola promised each one of them would obtain great power. It wasn't until Korriban that the Sisters of Darkness collapsed when the Sith Knight turned on Viola and killed the other apprentices, actually claimed to be a Jedi spy who sought the destruction of the Sith and any who tried to train in its arts. Fueled with anger, Vega found the strength through the Dark Side of the Force to kill the Jedi before she tried to save Viola. Viola told her that she had predicted such a betrayal, and that it was the will of the Force to die like her ancestors did on Korriban. Vega persisted on trying to save her, but Viola used the Force to push Vega away. She told Vega to go to Tendril-4 and find her son, for he would be awake now, and the only one who could save Vega and heal her wounds. So, Vega did exactly that.
Vahliath was overwhelmed by her story, enough that the Lightsaber slowly fell out of his hand. In her confidence, Vega approached him, taking her hand in his and getting uncomfortably close. Vahliath was more overwhelmed than sad, finding it hard to believe his mother had been coming and going from Tendril-4 while he just laid there asleep. Vahliath commented that Vega had been healed, and that there was no other reason to be there with him. Vega corrected his assumption, saying that she hadn't finished her story. Vahliath looked into her wounded eyes as she told him his mother had one final wish: that Vega would train him in the Dark Arts of the Force, and continue their family's legacy to bring an end to the Jedi and Republic, appointing Vega as a Dark Lord of the Sith in her dying breath. Vahliath commented how he was no Sith, but Vega argued that his bloodline naturally attuned him to the darkness. That he had potential, and Vega would train him as his apprentice and make him powerful like his mother and ancestors were. Seduction to the Dark Side came in more than one form. Vega used charm and the Force to lure Vahliath into seduction, until he eventually confirmed he would take on his mother's teachings through Vega, with the exception that he would not rush into the destruction of the Jedi and fail like other Sith had.
For over three years, Vega trained Vahliath in the Dark Side of the Force and became his master, teaching him everything his mother had taught her - and more. Throughout their relationship as Sith and Apprentice, Vahliath and Vega unified a partnership in Vahliath's underground line of work, rising as noted criminals who favored no factions until Vahliath was ready. It wasn't until a heist on Galactic Alliance territory that fate twisted what Vega had in store for her apprentice, now known to her as "Darth Imperious". During the heist, Vega and Vahliath came under fire and attack of a Jedi master who was more machine than organic matter. In his almost limitless level of stamina, the Jedi overpowered Vega and killed her, crushing her Lightsaber and stabbing her in the back with its own. Vahliath attacked the Jedi and killed them before taking Vega back to Tendril-4 to try and heal her. Unfortunately, her wounds were far more severe than Vahliath anticipated, her respiratory machinery damaged to a point beyond repair. Vahliath swore that he could save her, but history would have to repeat itself. He convinced Vega to get inside the cryostasis chamber and remain frozen until he could save her. Reluctantly, Vega was eventually forced inside, but before Vahliath could freeze her, she told him to go and find the Sith. To join them and complete his training, and begin the path to bring the Sith into domination over the galaxy. Vahliath told her he would do as she asked, and finally encased her within the frozen chamber, preserving her. Since that day, Vega has remained within the confines of the chamber, while Vahliath embarks on his family's path to bring an end to the Jedi and restore domination. to the Sith Empire.
SKILLS:
Master Technician/Scientist: Over three quarters of his life devoted to understanding science and technology has provided Vahliath with an outstanding mastery over these fields, favouring medicine above engineering. His understanding of technology and medicine is considered to be highly notable to those who tend to do common business with him. Over the years, Vahliath has created an undetermined amount of crafts in both of these fields, including modifications to alter his work to his own content. He has created and altered a high number of notable items, including his own Lightsaber and rifle. Poisons and chemicals are no exception in his line of work, either, as he benefits from these in heists and underground trading, and even combat.
Master Manipulator: Being a businessmen who often deals with people in an area where they are already considered to be distrustful given their line of work, Vahliath has accustomed to manipulating people for his own benefit. He has lured and seduced women from even political positions, encouraging them to be unprofessional and engage in "unprofessional" activities with him that he could later use for his own benefit. He is fairly sensitive to those who intend to betray or double-cross him, and acts on this by being deceitful and subtle in his actions to them.
Highly Analytical: Combat, work, business — even sex. Vahliath always thinks ten steps ahead, and is very open minded to the possibilities of any outcome in any given situation. No matter the situation, he always assumes to worse-case scenario to be hiding right around the corner, and always attends to his matters already prepared for what he believes could be possible. Vahliath observes every situation, pulling it apart in his mind and looking for the faults and possibilities of where a surprise may occur. When he meets work associates, he conceals his identity and has often paid someone to go by his work name "The White Stag" and ask them to go for him if he expects a trap. Watching from afar, he can then determine what can happen next. His predictions are almost always accurate, and he doesn’t favour any possibility above the other, considering all to be as equally possible to transpire in an event.
Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Vahliath is fairly skilled and experienced in hand-to-hand combat, regularly training and exercising himself when alone.
Skilled Weaponist: Like hand-to-hand combat, Vahliath is well experienced in using weapons such as rifles and long-range weaponry, again exercising his skills when alone. His line of work requires such an upkeep on his training, as he sometimes executes bounties requested by his clientele.
Master Swordsman: Years of training and experience with a Lightsaber has provided Vahliath with a valuable understanding and mastery of the swordsmanship. He trained to use a Lightsaber long before he ever even began using long-range weaponry. His preferred forms of combat are a combination of form IV Ataru, and form VII Juyo/Vaapad, strongly believing the latter to be beneficial in combat due to its use of attuning emotions with conflict.
Force-User: Vahliath’s mother and father trained him from young to understand and gain use of the Force; however, it would be wrong to assume him a master of the ability. His father, a former Jedi, had him train mostly in the Light side of the Force while his mother only barely welcomed him to the the Dark side. He is quite capable of telekinetically manipulating objects with the Force, but anything above two-hundred pounds requires more effort. He is not able to perform mind-manipulation with the Force, instead using his charisma to try and influence people’s opinions or intentions. Vega tried to train him in Dathomir Magic, but his training was incomplete when she was sent back into hibernation.
Animal Bond: Through the Force, Vahliath can influence the mindset of an animal, even convincing predatory species that he poses no threat to their well-being. Those which defy this attempt of influence to the mind are subjugated through a dominant act, meaning Vahliath will fight and weaken them to the point they come to accept him as the superior being. He has often abused this to capture animals and sell them, while using others for protective purposes, such as placing them within an area he wishes to protect. He is not above putting a Nexu inside his craft when leaving it to tend to other business, allowing it to roam free until returns.
ITEMS/EFFECTS:
Sharpshooter V - Sniper Rifle: Vahliath does not keep this weapon within his inventory at all times, instead choosing to take it when he feels it would be necessary.
Modified Two-Handed Battledroid Rifle: Vahliath obtained the Battledroid rifle during his scavenge on Utapau. He modified the weapon back on Tendril-4 due to its inability to fire, installing a canister container amidst fixing it. The canister container is used to propel chemicals such as smoke and radioactive poisons to immobilise targets via short or long range distance.
Radioactive Canisters: These are used in compensation for explosive grenades, and a preference to Vahliath. The canisters eject a radioactive fume after three seconds of being hurled or fired, and are highly lethal due to the cosmic radiation found inside. The canisters are fuelled by being stored outside of the HMP under Vahliath’s claim. Vahliath only has five of these canisters, and has to retrieve them after ejection if he is to use and recharge them.
Lightsaber: The hilt of the Lightsaber is comprised of a sturdy marble base shaded dark grey, fashioned with sharp protrusions around the handle to prevent others from stealing it so easily via the Force. The Saber burns a luminous, majestic white shade which extends four feet from the hilt, almost looking unstable due to how the saber generates from the hilt.
Sith Sword: Passed down from generation to generation within the Imperious family, Vahliath stands as a current owner of the Imperious family Sith Sword which was once held by his ancestors. The blade of the weapon extends to 127 inches, engraved with his family's name along one side of the blade, while the the other side reads: "The Force Shall Set Us Free". The blade itself is double-edged and refined to Vahliath's content, while the hilt remains with its spherical, original design.
IG-100: Magnaguard Mask: When Vahliath scavenged on Utapau, he found several droid parts he took back to Tendril-4, including the facial frame of an IG-100: Magnaguard. He modified the frame to pose as a mask with technological features, such as a voice distorter, infrared vision, respiratory filter and ranged lenses. The mask is suction fitted, and released from Vahliath's face by a switch on the left side of the mask near the red eye lens.
Armor/Clothing: In usual circumstances, Vahliath prefers to wear formal clothing which is usually seen on his frame when meeting fellow associates or travelling to social areas. In battle, however, Vahliath's preference in clothing changes almost entirely, most certainly depicting him as a follower of the Sith order. This armor is subject to change, but presently what his inventory consists of.
-Reborn Revan Cloak - Grey (Dyed)
-Sith Eradicator's Torso - Black (Dyed)
-Sith Acolyte Gauntlets - Grey (Dyed)
-Dark Jedi Knight Garments - Grey (Dyed
CREATIONS:
Modified IG-100 Magnaguard: The Magnaguard was among the wreckage found inside the Landing Craft on Utapau. When Vahliath returned sufficient power to the ship, the droid returned to life, but was quickly disabled before it could physically harm him. Vahliath returned to Tendril-4 with the craft and its inventory, and rewired the Magnaguard to recognise him as its master. Its Electrostaff was adjusted with retractable blades used for impaling targets if necessary. Vahliath decided to alter its metalwork and paint it black, applying more armour around its torso, legs and limbs which was taken from another Magnaguard droid he found on board the craft. While this slows the Magnaguard down, it increases its durability.
SHIP:
Modified Fury-Class Interceptor: Found within the cavern systems on Utapau during a expedition, Vahliath returned the ship to his facility on Tendril-4. The ship itself remains with all of its standard perks and features, but Vahliath altered the paintwork of the body so it is comprised of a metallic, jet black shade, even with black-tinted windows in the cock-pit window.
KILLS: N/A
BOUNTIES COLLECTED: N/A