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Name: Amon Xel
Age: 31 (GALACTIC STANDARD YEARS)
Race: Human
Birth place: Aion (THE NINTH SANCTUM)
Height: 1.80 (METERS); 5'11 (INCHES)
Weight: 82.1 (KILOGRAMS); 181 (POUNDS)
Eye Color: Ruby
Hair Color: Charcoal
Appearance:
Amon Xel is a well-build man of average height for a Human male. With dusty-black Caesar-cut hair, soft red eyes, and tattoos scattered over his body, Amon is hardy and solid. Scar tissue encompasses nearly 36% of his body, including repeatedly fractured, and treated, bones, displaced and refitted joints, and other healed injuries, however, most of these have faded over time. As custom of the Templar of Aion, Amon's tattoos are pictorial descriptions of who he is on an almost poetic level. Amon has nine of these, all different depictions of battles, creatures, past events, important individuals and so forth, all with particular meaning. For instance, one of Amon's tattoos is in the image of the skaag viper, the crest of the House of Xel, from which he was born. Another tattoo on his body depicts "the Great Exodus", meaning that Amon's lineage in the House of Xel dates back to the original refugees fleeing from Naga Sadow's Sith Empire, thus a sign of pureblooded heritage. However, these are seldom seen as Amon almost always wears a full-body suit of silvery-white armor and his war-scythe.
Personality: Dedicated, callous and single-minded, Amon was inculcated to foster a true hatred of those who use and manipulate the Force. Descendant from ancestors of the Great Hyperspace War who were subjected to the horrific devestations of the tyrannical Dark Lord of the Sith, Naga Sadow, and again becoming collateral damage when caught in the crossfire between Jedi and Sith forces after escaping, Amon was raised to see anyone that utilized the Force as - not necessarily evil - but inherently chaotic, destabilizing the balance of the galaxy.
For this reason, like his brethren, Amon takes whatever opportunity he can seize to eliminate isolated Force users, whether they be Jedi, Sith, or unaffiliated with either. This is not to say that he is obsessive or impulsive in this endeavor, and like the Templar, he acts only when the situation is in his advantage. This has in turn shaped his moral compass into not distinguishing any individual that actively uses the Force from another, no matter their philosophy, ideology or actions. The only exception to his dogma are Force Sensitives that either purposefully do not use their powers, or are unaware of them.
Profession: Assassin (if dispatched on his own); Mercenary (if mobilized with brethren as a fighting force)
Previous Faction/Rank: N/A
Equipment:
- Body Armor - A sealed environmental battle suit crafted from multiple substances; tungsten, carbon, duranium, denscris, hadrium, aluminum and trace elements of ultrachrome, and decoratively plated with Aion's naturally-occurring mythra, thus giving it a silvery-white appearance.
- Magnetized "Hard-Points" - Magnetic plates located in his armor's boots, knees and gloves to allow him to scale metallic surfaces. Several also located along the back in order to "mount" weaponry.
- "HUD" - A "heads-up display" that allows visualization of surroundings in standard light, infrared and the ultraviolet spectrum. Is also fitted with standard life-sensor, motion sensor, audio pickup and truth-scan.
- Krëzah - A war-scythe polearm weapon with a blade crafted from cortosis-woven vardium steel and fitted with a vibration cell to increase cutting power, effectively making it a vibro-weapon. The pole itself is forged from another alloy; largely ultrachrome for added defense against lightsaber-wielding opponents, and lesser amounts of tungsten, carbon and aluminium, for a drastically increased melting point and superior heat dissipation, respectively.
- CryoBan Projector - A wrist-mounted carbonite-spray weapon that has an alternate temperature setting that allows it to be focused into a cutting torch, mounted atop the right wrist.
- Dart Launcher - A concealed wrist-mounted dart shooter, mounted on the opposite arm of the CryoBan projector.
- Knuckle-Plated Vibroblades - Small and retractable wrist blades ejected from the gauntlet near the knuckles on both hands.
- ORB - A small, spherical droid with various sensors and communication equipment, and a processor for gathering and filtering information from the HoloNet. The ORB could also function as a portable holorecorder, a power supply, or a jamming device, although could only perform one of the latter functions at a given time. As an ultimatum mechanism, the ORB can also self-destruct, similar to a thermal detanator. The ORB's name is an acronym designation for "Orbicular Reconnaissance Brouter".
Starship: N/A
Skills:
- Melee Weapons Specialist - Amon is an expert with a wide range of melee weaponry, ranging from small knives to long swords, with his prime talents being polearm weapons.
- Unarmed Combatant - While not as profound as his proficiency with melee weapons, Amon is a more-than-capable martial artist, having been trained in Teräs Käsi. This was due to the Templar of Aion coming into contact with the Followers of Palawa, another group with negatively geared dispositions toward the Jedi Knights.
- Marksman - Although the least finessed of Amon's combative skills, Amon is nonetheless a trained sharpshooter, specifically in long range sniping, as opposed to the medium range of rifles and carbines, or the close range of pistols.
- Polyglot - Due to the necessity of interacting with multiple cultures, Amon is well versed in several languages, able to speak Basic, High Galactic, Huttese, Bocce, Durese, Mando'a, and Naboo. While not able to speak it due to obvious limitations, Amon can passably understand Dosh, Binary, Shyriiwook, and Bith. In addition, Amon can speak his native language of "Dovah", a corrupted variant of High Galactic, the common language from the early foundations of the Tion Hegemony, which also doubles as a "battle language" due to few understanding it.
- Hypermnesia - While he lacks a natural inborn eidetic memory, Amon has been strenuously trained to develop and nurture his ability to rapidly take in details and be able to accurately recall them. This trained memorization acts similarly to a form of total recall, as he can focus and "relive" memories by shifting through them, but cannot instantly summon a specific memory or detail as one with a true photographic memory could.
- Force Scholar - In addition to Teräs Käsi, the Templar of Aion also benefited from the Followers of Palawa's studies of the Force and midi-chlorians, and Amon was no exception to such passed-down educations. Through this, Amon was taught about concepts such as the Ashla, Bogan, Living and Unifying Forces, and so forth concerning their nature and interactions, although somewhat skewered from how the Jedi and Sith taught them, due to the Templar's beliefs.
- Engineer - In order to keep his armor, gear and droids in efficient order, Amon is a well-trained technician and mechanic, able to operate on at least the basics of most tech and droids.
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 6
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 7
Leadership: 3
Unarmed: 6
Melee Weapons: 7
Ranged Weapons: 5
Bio:
The Apocalypse of Besero
c. 5000 BBY
BESERO AND ITS INHABITANTS DECIMATED BY THE ACTIONS OF NAGA SADOW
Amon's own history is strongly tied to his people, and in such ties, actually begins over one thousand years before his birth. Approximately 1,4000 years ago, Amon's ancestors were known as the natives of Besero. A mining colony world of excavators and mineral harvesters located in the galactic Deep Core regions, the population of Besero fell under the dominion of Naga Sadow's Sith Empire during their invasion of the Galactic Republic in what the galaxy knows as the Great Hyperspace War. Overwhelmed by Sith forces and unprotected by the Republic due to the surprise invasion, Sadow's Sith Empire quickly cemented its rule, bled Besero of its resources, and imposed martial law on its residences.
Naga Sadow's rule over Besero, however, was brief, as the battles in the Deep Core regions soon fell to the Republic's favor. News of the turning tide reached most of the Galactic Core, albeit in the midst of an array of frantic misinformation and diluted or exaggerated facts. In the hopes that the Sith offense was beginning to fragment as rumors would have them believe, the natives of Besero launched a rebellion, revolting against their Sith overlords. The coup's strike lasted not even the better part of the day, as by nightfall, and event occurred that would scar it's people forever. In the heat of the Battle of Primus Goluud, a massive red supergiant, the Dark Lord of the Sith, Naga Sadow, used a horrific Sith ritual, and caused Primus Goluud to go supernova. Even in a separate system, the supernova of Primus Goluud could be seen from the neighboring Besero system as surge of crimson light.
Many residents of Besero saw the light as a sign of Naga Sadow's wrath at them, causing the rebellion to almost crumble under what they perceived to be an ill omen from a seemingly omnipotent Dark Lord. Several leaders emerged from the Beseroans, reinforcing the belief that the Republic and Jedi would be victorious and that they had to continue fighting on. However, the opinion of the masses was unanimous; leave Besero, leave the fighting, return when it's safe. And in haste, the Beseroans seized the starports and made efforts to evacuate the settlements, out of Deep Core and Core World regions, where so much of the battles were raging.
By the dawning morning of the next day however, dread and death would be the only thing comprehended; as the Primus Goluud system was obliterated by the supernova of its supergiant star, the cascading radiation and energy pulsation from the supernova spread to the nearby system, and engulfed almost 70% of Besero's surface. Immense radiation and solar energies scorched Besero's surface, instantly eradicating all in its wake. Hundreds of thousands were vaporized within moments as the cascade passed over Besero, and in its wave of destruction, scarcely twenty-thousand men, women and children survived what would be forever known to them as the "Apocalypse of Besero".
The Great Exodus
c.5000 BBY
DEPARTURE OF SEVERAL OF BESERO'S EVACUATION SHUTTLES THAT ESCAPED NAGA SADOW'S SORCERY
By the time the supernova of Primus Goluud had reached Besero's surface, less than five percent of Besero's population of eight hundred thousand had managed to evacuate into the shuttles headed for deep-space. Of those that had, another fifty percent were caught in the cascade radiation, incinerating their ships instantaneously. Barely twenty-thousand had escaped with their lives, and Besero's surface was irradiated, scorched and blazed over as soil became cragged rock and molten ground. Ninety-eight percent of Besero's population was annihilated in almost a single moment, as what ships managed to jump into hyperspace in time headed for the Outer Rim regions, a departure that would be called "the Great Exodus".
Fleeing in haste and ignorance, the navigators of the ships in the Great Exodus had limited knowledge outside of the Core Worlds region, where their only dealing had ever been. Their star charts were outdated, lacking in adequate information aside from listing of world names and habitability. In retrospect, those of the Templar of Aion would consider these events to have been the work of destiny, the game of fate and providence. With outdated hyperdrive engines, ill-designed for extended travel across galactic space, the Beseroans had to make repeated stops to vent hypermatter radiation. Unbeknownst to them, the Beseroans were on a collision course for the Sith homeworld of Korriban, where civil war between Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh had broken out, and at their back was the Republic Fleet, bent on driving them to their final destruction.
Within hours, concluding at their next drop out of hyperspace, the Beseroans found themselves in the crossfire of the Republic's Koros fleet and the remnants of Naga Sadow's armada. Unable to communicate through the encrypted channels, as warships on both sides were jamming each other, the Beseroans found themselves riddled from turbolaser fire from both sides. Unable to leave into hyperspace and unable to adequately maneuver from the shooting galley, scores of Beseroan ships were destroyed by Republic and Empire alike, only breaking when Sadow himself fled to what would become the final threatre, Denarii Nova. By that time the Republic had finally taken notice of the weak starship identification signals, but only for one of the fleet's commanders, a Jedi Knight, impatiently urging the civilians away from the warzone and Korriban space, before leaving in pursuit of the Dark Lord.
Nearly half of the Beseroans perished in the disaster, leaving roughly twelve-thousand Beseroans in the wreckage. Wounded, enraged and in despair, the Beseroans salvaged what they could, consolidated their people into the least damaged ships, and continued their departure, eventually - and ultimately - arriving on the world of Aion, crash-landing in the massive desertlands. It was here that Amon's ancestors survived, thrived, and over the centuries, would become the Templar of Aion.
Life in the Ninth Sanctum
c. 3631 BBY
A YOUNG AMON, ALONG WITH OTHER SELECTED CHILDREN, BEING RAISED AMONG THE COALESCENCE
c. 5000 BBY
BESERO AND ITS INHABITANTS DECIMATED BY THE ACTIONS OF NAGA SADOW
Amon's own history is strongly tied to his people, and in such ties, actually begins over one thousand years before his birth. Approximately 1,4000 years ago, Amon's ancestors were known as the natives of Besero. A mining colony world of excavators and mineral harvesters located in the galactic Deep Core regions, the population of Besero fell under the dominion of Naga Sadow's Sith Empire during their invasion of the Galactic Republic in what the galaxy knows as the Great Hyperspace War. Overwhelmed by Sith forces and unprotected by the Republic due to the surprise invasion, Sadow's Sith Empire quickly cemented its rule, bled Besero of its resources, and imposed martial law on its residences.
Naga Sadow's rule over Besero, however, was brief, as the battles in the Deep Core regions soon fell to the Republic's favor. News of the turning tide reached most of the Galactic Core, albeit in the midst of an array of frantic misinformation and diluted or exaggerated facts. In the hopes that the Sith offense was beginning to fragment as rumors would have them believe, the natives of Besero launched a rebellion, revolting against their Sith overlords. The coup's strike lasted not even the better part of the day, as by nightfall, and event occurred that would scar it's people forever. In the heat of the Battle of Primus Goluud, a massive red supergiant, the Dark Lord of the Sith, Naga Sadow, used a horrific Sith ritual, and caused Primus Goluud to go supernova. Even in a separate system, the supernova of Primus Goluud could be seen from the neighboring Besero system as surge of crimson light.
Many residents of Besero saw the light as a sign of Naga Sadow's wrath at them, causing the rebellion to almost crumble under what they perceived to be an ill omen from a seemingly omnipotent Dark Lord. Several leaders emerged from the Beseroans, reinforcing the belief that the Republic and Jedi would be victorious and that they had to continue fighting on. However, the opinion of the masses was unanimous; leave Besero, leave the fighting, return when it's safe. And in haste, the Beseroans seized the starports and made efforts to evacuate the settlements, out of Deep Core and Core World regions, where so much of the battles were raging.
By the dawning morning of the next day however, dread and death would be the only thing comprehended; as the Primus Goluud system was obliterated by the supernova of its supergiant star, the cascading radiation and energy pulsation from the supernova spread to the nearby system, and engulfed almost 70% of Besero's surface. Immense radiation and solar energies scorched Besero's surface, instantly eradicating all in its wake. Hundreds of thousands were vaporized within moments as the cascade passed over Besero, and in its wave of destruction, scarcely twenty-thousand men, women and children survived what would be forever known to them as the "Apocalypse of Besero".
The Great Exodus
c.5000 BBY
DEPARTURE OF SEVERAL OF BESERO'S EVACUATION SHUTTLES THAT ESCAPED NAGA SADOW'S SORCERYBy the time the supernova of Primus Goluud had reached Besero's surface, less than five percent of Besero's population of eight hundred thousand had managed to evacuate into the shuttles headed for deep-space. Of those that had, another fifty percent were caught in the cascade radiation, incinerating their ships instantaneously. Barely twenty-thousand had escaped with their lives, and Besero's surface was irradiated, scorched and blazed over as soil became cragged rock and molten ground. Ninety-eight percent of Besero's population was annihilated in almost a single moment, as what ships managed to jump into hyperspace in time headed for the Outer Rim regions, a departure that would be called "the Great Exodus".
Fleeing in haste and ignorance, the navigators of the ships in the Great Exodus had limited knowledge outside of the Core Worlds region, where their only dealing had ever been. Their star charts were outdated, lacking in adequate information aside from listing of world names and habitability. In retrospect, those of the Templar of Aion would consider these events to have been the work of destiny, the game of fate and providence. With outdated hyperdrive engines, ill-designed for extended travel across galactic space, the Beseroans had to make repeated stops to vent hypermatter radiation. Unbeknownst to them, the Beseroans were on a collision course for the Sith homeworld of Korriban, where civil war between Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh had broken out, and at their back was the Republic Fleet, bent on driving them to their final destruction.
Within hours, concluding at their next drop out of hyperspace, the Beseroans found themselves in the crossfire of the Republic's Koros fleet and the remnants of Naga Sadow's armada. Unable to communicate through the encrypted channels, as warships on both sides were jamming each other, the Beseroans found themselves riddled from turbolaser fire from both sides. Unable to leave into hyperspace and unable to adequately maneuver from the shooting galley, scores of Beseroan ships were destroyed by Republic and Empire alike, only breaking when Sadow himself fled to what would become the final threatre, Denarii Nova. By that time the Republic had finally taken notice of the weak starship identification signals, but only for one of the fleet's commanders, a Jedi Knight, impatiently urging the civilians away from the warzone and Korriban space, before leaving in pursuit of the Dark Lord.
Nearly half of the Beseroans perished in the disaster, leaving roughly twelve-thousand Beseroans in the wreckage. Wounded, enraged and in despair, the Beseroans salvaged what they could, consolidated their people into the least damaged ships, and continued their departure, eventually - and ultimately - arriving on the world of Aion, crash-landing in the massive desertlands. It was here that Amon's ancestors survived, thrived, and over the centuries, would become the Templar of Aion.
Life in the Ninth Sanctum
c. 3631 BBY
A YOUNG AMON, ALONG WITH OTHER SELECTED CHILDREN, BEING RAISED AMONG THE COALESCENCE
Amon came to be nearly fifteen hundred years later, as a descendant of the original Beseroans. Born into the House of Xel, one of the most prestigious families among the Templar, Amon was considered special even from his earliest youth. As a child, Amon was said that he and his people possessed "the blessing", a great gift the galaxy and the Force had anointed the Templar with to restore what has been ravaged. Clad in the white robes of chasteness and purity after his baptism - the first phase of his Qelek ceremony - Amon had little interaction with his parents or family until his per-adolecent years, being closed off to be raised among the Coalescence, the elders and erudite of the Templar. Until he was well into his teens, Amon would live almost entirely within the Ninth Sanctum; the ninth ship of the original Great Exodus, and the only ship to have fallen entirely intact into Aion's surface, which served as their sanctuary.
Living in the Ninth Sanctum, Amon spent his earliest years in education of the body and mind alike, learning to read, write and speak multiple languages, as well as cultural education, sciences and mathematics, much like standard schooling. There was more coupled with these studies, however. From the beginning, Amon was informed of who he and the Templar were; survivors of one of many wars between the manipulators of the Force. They were they same, whether Jedi or Sith; heralds of chaos, instruments of entropy, harbingers of inevitable war, destruction and turmoil. The Force was life, for without it nothing would live, but those who would toy with the power of such life were spelling doom and grief for all those around him.
Amon learned of the wars and battles that had come in times past from Force users, Jedi and Sith alike, among other Force beings who wrought havoc from smaller-scale conflicts. And it was in these studies that Amon, along with his peers, was told that he was special, uniquely chosen by the galaxy as an agent to return the balance from the upheaval caused by the Sith and Jedi Orders. Where there was entropy, there was enthalpy. Where there was chaos, there was order. Where there was turmoil, there was serenity. And where the was the Force, there was the Void. And that was made Amon and his "blade siblings" the perfect hunters, the ideal predators, and it was through this that he would be made into a perfect weapon.
At first, it began with the training of the mind and body through the exercises of Teräs Käsi. 'During this time in his life, when he was around five standard years of age, that Amon began to forge a kinship with two others of his "blade siblings", ones said to possess the same gifts as he did. The first was Tyrion, another young man just older than Amon himself, from the House of Celt. With golden-red hair, caramel-bronze skin and the tattoo of the stellar asterism known as the Cross of the Stargate - signifying a new family line not of the originals that came from Besero - Tyrion was "blade brother" to Amon, an identifying term for neophytes that are partnered together until they become fully-fledged Templar.
The other was Sapphira, a young woman roughly Amon's age, who came from the House of Jaev. With white hair, sepia skin and silver eyes, Sapphira's mixed Korun/Echani heritage made it clear she would develop into an exotic beauty, identifiable even as child. What made Sapphira most unique, however, was her Force-sensitivity, inherited from her Korun mother, and was suppressed and deadened only through a combination of Teräs Käsi meditations and Echani thought shielding techniques. In spite of her Force-sensitivity, she was still a "blade sister" and respected from coming from a highly revered House. To be Force-sensitive was often considered to be a blessing in and of itself; only the usage of it was condemned.
Amon and the other two had known of each other from the time they were brought into the Coalescence, but becoming "blade siblings" was another matter for them. They were told it meant the other's life had to be more important to them than their own. That all "blade siblings" were as an extension of each other, in harmony and focus and clarity. And as was custom, upon their first meeting together as "blade siblings", they battled with their fists and feet, a custom adopted from Echani culture. Battle was the purest expression of the heart, unchained and revealing of the things of one's soul that could never be revealed in words. Victor and defeat meant nothing - it was the experience, one Amon would find unforgettable.
In Tyrion, he saw strength of heart, valiance and vigilance, purity and commitment. In Sapphira, he saw finesse and devotion, an unbreakable will the of mind, and unsurpassed conviction and presence. The three of them fought for what seemed to be hours. While their skills were as of novices, it was their determination and efforts that spoke to each of them. Even during his own match, Amon could hear the muffled and hushed sound of sparring among the other children in the other rooms, and while focusing on his own, could not help but wonder what the others were seeing in him. But it was not for him to know, and by the time none of them could any-longer stand, a smile rose onto Amon's face, which followed on Tyrion's and Sapphira's. For the next chapter of his life, Amon knew - for all intents and purposes - these two were going to be his only family.
"Khassar de Templari"
c. 3614 BBY - 3611 BBY
AMON PREPARING TO STAB AN EYE OF A SKAAG VIPER, AS HE, TYRION AND SAPPHIRA BATTLE IT UNDER THE OVERSIGHT OF THE EXECUTOR, AURORA
"From Order comes Justice". Iconic words in High Galactic that represented all that the Templar were, from their purpose as a people and who they strove to be as individuals. They were words that Amon had heard from his earliest days, and among the Templar, these words were sacred, 'Khassar de Templari'. It held the role and meaning of a great many things to the Templar; greeting or farewell salute, a wish of good will or fortune upon another, words of passing for the death of a loved one, or a rousing battle cry in a time of conflict. It was their maxim, their proverb, their veritas. But to Amon, it meant something even more, as such words were spoken to neophytes at the time of their ascension to full status as Templar of Aion. It meant recognition, as a "blade brother", as a Templar, as an identifying marker that he has truly endured his rite of passage.
Amon was seventeen years old by the time the words were finally, and formally, spoken to him. Prior to the rite that would mark his ascension, his life was utterly devoid of anything except study and training, even more so than typical. At the time, the Templar were in a four-year-long shadow war, as far as the greater galaxy was concerned, with an assassins' coven of Force wielders called the Scryers of Ahvulon, located on the nearby world of Trian. While the details of the ongoing conflict weren't publicly revealed to Amon or his "blade siblings", he was nonetheless aware that it had begun taking its toll on their numbers. The Silent Hall, a massive memorial of past Templar who died in the line of duty, had grown in number, with at least one hundred and twenty newly placed steles. Whether he and his "blade siblings" had excelled or the demand for able warriors was more dire than believed, such events would be the molder that would shape Amon's path for the next decade.
After his maturing to the age of seventeen galactic standard years, Amon and his blade siblings were brought before the Conclave, the highest ruling body of the Templar made up of six of the strongest and wisest members of the Coalescence. In that meeting, the three of them were told that they were to undergo the final stages of their Qelek. A Neophyte's Qelek often lasted close to two decades, with some phases taking many years to complete; near the end of the trials, after a Neophyte has accumulated the desired skills and proficiencies, they would enter the last stages of their Qelek, which was more ceremony than trial - this display of skill in action and by merit. And this was the very event Amon, Sapphira and Tyrion were told to prepare for. The following morning, the three of them were met at dawn by an Executor Templar, a honed warrior and veteran soldier of battle among the Templar, by the name of Aurora.
Leading Amon and the group to the hanger of the Ninth Sanctum, where they boarder an airspeeder, the four departed into the frigid, yet barren wastelands, not yet scorched by Aion's blistering sun. On the ride there, the relative silence was finally broken when Aurora informed the three Neophytes what their final task was to be; the slaying of a skaag viper. Near the center of the airspeeder shuttle's interior, Aurora brought up a holomap, revealing the recent location of several new underground tunnels, evidence of newfound skaag viper activity. Their orders were simple, with the information provided, devise a means and method to kill it, and within the hour, upon arriving at the location, they were to demonstrate it in proving their ability. In recognition and expectation of soon becoming Templar, Aurora led them to the air shuttle's armory; a small, closet-like compartment with three distinctive white suits of armor. Templar armor, with ORBs and war-scythes beside them. Amon gazing at the armor and weaponry made the upcoming event sink in even deeper - this was truly the hour in which he would either succeed or die.
Very soon, Amon and his group finally touchdown in a large crag in the Evjur Abyss, a part of Aion's vast desert that has the highest level of precipitation across the entire planet. While hovering, Amon, Tyrion and Sapphira followed Aurora out of the airspeeder shuttle, landing on the rock masses to avoid hitting the sand. At Aurora's signal, the shuttle departed and immediately after, she threw a sonic detonator into the sands. Seconds later, the ground shook and rippled with resonating vibrations. Amon could feel the beads of sweat rolling down his face, even with the environmental control keeping his suit at a comfortable seventy-four degrees. Tightening his grip on his 'krëzah', the archaic name for the war-scythe, he and his blade siblings were simply told to wait. Minutes passes until the ground shook again, rumbling with the pulsations of the skaag viper's roaring deep from beneath the dunes.
Amon would never forget the sight when the sands explosively erupted as a large skaag viper burst from underneath. With six eyes upon its head, multiple rows of fangs, matte scales and jagged horns down its spine, it was the first of these mighty beats Amon had ever seen, and one of the most abnormal he had ever heard of. It was said that the monsters had great mutability among their generations, with some appearing drastically different than others. Even approaching the beast was a seeming impossibility for any normal being, making the intent behind their task all the more apparent. Amon could recognize that the only way to charge the skaag viper and survive would be to vanish from its notice like a spectre, to access the Void.
As the skaag viper rampaged, Amon and the others quickly realized the plan they had formulated was highly unrealistic and wouldn't work. So they did what came naturally to them; improvise. Hearing and tactition were the skaag viper's sharpest senses; Sapphira pulled a sniping blaster rifle from the magplates on her back as Tyrion directed the group. The sonic detonator's effects would eventually dull and fade, and the beast had to be kept off-balance, which was Sapphira's job. Charging the rifle to its highest setting, Sapphira would blast areas of the sands, centralizing the blasts until the sand scorched into glass, with the resonance misguiding the skaag viper to random locations. Amon, whose talents were the sharpest in the Void, set off into the sands, focusing as best he could to conceal his presence. His job was simple, traverse to the beast's hide.
Tyrion accessed one of the ORBs and assigned its sensors to the skaag viper's bio-readings, quickly examining it and cross-referencing the data with that granted from the initial briefing. No matter how strong, every living thing had a weak point and it was his role to find out where it was. Meanwhile, Amon stood in the sands as the skaag viper was redirected by Sapphira, waiting for the most opportune moment to strike. He was confident enough in his ability to slip from the creature's notice, but he preferred assurance over risk, and in time Sapphira brought the viper so close, Amon could almost hear its beating heart and see himself reflected in its hardened scales.
And that was when he made his move; the sands vibrated so strongly around Amon he could barely keep his footing as the skaag viper charged past his left side with scarcely a meter between them. And in that moment, grasping his scythe with both hands as he swung it opposite of the skaag viper's charge, Amon's blade struck the skaag viper, with the vibroweapon carving deep into its hide. Although bracing himself best he could, the shock that came next was such that Amon couldn't believe. Grasping onto his polearm, Amon had intended to allow himself to be dragged with the skaag viper, slowly climbing onto its back, near the spinal horns, but the impact from the viper's movements knocked his grip of the right hand, forcing him to hang on by his left alone. Acting quickly, Amon ejected the gauntlet vibroblade from his right wrist and struck it into the creature's hide again, stabilizing his grip however marginally.
As he retracted his scythe and mounted it on his back again, Amon relied completely on his wrist blades as he mounted the creature from its thick scales. Though forced to move slow atop the powerful creature, progress was made until he finally stood on its back. With all haste, Amon then charged for the front of the skaag viper, making sure Sapphira did not lead it on a course too erratic, lest he fall off. Tyrion had yet to tell Amon where the vulnerability of the skaag viper was, but on such an armored behemoth, it was obvious to him that the only place a weakness could be was somewhere near the cranial area. And it was in his approach that Tyrion's analysis yielded a somewhat predictable result; the eyes.
Pulling his war-scythe from his back once more, Amon quickly gave his ORB an executive order of self detonation on his mark. At that, Amon charged the face of the skaag viper, and in one fell swoop, impaled the massive snake in one of it's six eyes. Blood and fluids sprayed outward and the viper thrashed violently in pain. And as Amon was inevitably knocked off its back, he delivered final orders for the ORB to infiltrate the viper from the eye puncture, and then detonate at upon reaching bone plating at the back of the cranial area. Amon had only just reached the sands below as a thermal discharge detonated from within the viper's skull, felling the beast where it laid. After regaining his composure, Amon joined Tyrion and Sapphira, who was evaluated as passing by Aurora, although they were informed that while the beast was harshly wounded, it only unconscious, not deceased.
Later retrieved and escorted back, Amon was brought before the Conclave where the three companions were told they had their final challenge; execution of a field mission. With the war between the Templar and the Scryers ongoing, it was clear as to where their mission would focus. The Scryers were assassins that resided in Ahvulon, a large star base hidden somewhere near the black hole of Sebaddon. Made up from many races specializing in assassinations by culture, predominantly Anzat, with others such as the Kerestian and Noghri filling ranks as well, they were unique in that they focused on premonitions to foresee dangerous individuals for their clients, and subsequently slew them. As they used the Force as their weapon, the Ahvulon Scryers stood for everything the Templar of Aion had vowed to destroy.
However, the day for such a confrontation was not in the immediate future. In preparation for Amon and his blade siblings joining the war, he was initiated into the final stages of his training. And for that to come to its completion, Amon and his blade siblings were taken under the guidance of Executor Aurora, and departed from the Ninth Sanctum, into the sacred desert grounds called Dawnsreach. For the next three galactic standard years, Amon, Tyrion and Sapphira lived their entire lives within their armor, save for basic necessities demanding otherwise. For Amon, much of this time was spent in attempting to prefect his Void abilities. The art of hiding his presence and concealing himself from the notice of others was his greatest weapon, and traversing the hazardous sands of Aion was the perfect environment to master it.
Honing his martial prowess and sharpening his technical skills, a now twenty-year-old Amon was deemed adequately readied for the final phase of his initiation. Recalled to the Ninth Sanctum and brought before the Conclave, Amon and his blade siblings were given their first mission; the assassination of a team of Ahvulon Scryers operating in the Tatoo System of the Arkanis Sector. After being briefed on the objectives and identities of the six individuals they were to slay, Amon and his team were promptly dispatched to the Edenic Crown.
Deathmatch in the Dragonsheart
c. 3611 BBY
AMON, SAPPHIRA AND TYRION IN THE DRAGONSHEART FOR THE FINAL BATTLE
c. 3611 BBY
AMON, SAPPHIRA AND TYRION IN THE DRAGONSHEART FOR THE FINAL BATTLE
tba, comp death
Void in the Force
c. 3611 BBY - 3600 BBY
ENTONUS, THE PRIMARIUS TEMPLAR AND MASTER OF THE VOID
c. 3611 BBY - 3600 BBY
ENTONUS, THE PRIMARIUS TEMPLAR AND MASTER OF THE VOID
tba, void master
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