Post by Zarkan on Jun 3, 2018 13:56:13 GMT -5
 Arkandos Phelan Full Name • Arkandos Phelan Nickname • Ark, The Eternal Race • Human/Cyborg Birthplace • Mandalore Age • 406 Gender • male Sexuality • hetero Faction • Mando’a Clan Ordo Concept • Mandalorian Veteran Languages • Basic, Mando’a Assets • UA-84 Valor Light Blaster Cannon, Keepsake Necklace from lia, Holo tape/picture of a family, Pair of UC-111c Helix carbines, Large two-handed beskar war axe Appearance Height & Weight • 8" and 772lbs Overall Looks • Arkandos’ heavy beskar carapace is painted a charcoal grey and decorated with approximately half inch wide blue stripes running up his arms and legs as well as forming a chevron pattern on his wide chest plate. Gracing either side of ark’s cybernetic head are a pair of stylized white and blue jiag eyes. Ark nearly always wears a human-sized necklace made of leather and teeth wrapped around his left wrist and occasionally shrouds his form in a heavy hooded beige cloak. Ark's physical form consists of a large armored frame housing his life support pod within the confines of its chest. The pod consists of thick durasteel and houses both his mind, the equipment necessary to sustain his mind and allow for connection to systems like those in the combat frame as well as emergency power cells should power from the frame's pulse reactor or other source be cut off. The frame is powered by a miniature pulse reactor; that generates the power necessary to maintain life support, other frame systems, and the complex network of artificial muscles and actuators necessary to move the large machine, which is housed in the central torso above the braincase. The head of the frame contains the majority of the units sensory and communication equipment which consists largely of equipment that one would expect for a suit of heavy assault armor including thermal and light amplification as well as short and long range communications. Arks senses consist of vision and hearing largely comparable to normal humans and tactile sensors that allow for a dulled and simplified sense of touch. The one exceptional feature of the frame is a network of small ion thrusters that allow for orbital maneuvering and larger thrusters mounted on the back that function as deceleration and jump jets. The frames armor plating consists of multiple layers of durasteel and plasteel sandwiched between a thin 1-3mm thick beskar plate on the inner and outer facings of the plate. The armor ranges from up to 13mm around the torso core and head to as low as 7-8mm on the limbs and less than 4mm at the joints. Personality Profile Arkandos is typically considered a friendly and relatively jolly individual who is greatest joys are children and the young behaving almost as a fatherly figure to many of the young Mandalorians he has trained through the decades. Despite his generally kind demeanor, he is known as a calm, and implacable foe to those who would threaten his friends and family. Unfortunately, the centuries have taken their toll on both his emotional and mental faculties while still a formidable force on the battlefield his mental speed has noticeably slowed and his long-term memory can be confused and foggy. |
Overall History
At the end of his training just before the ceremonies, he met the woman who would become his wife soon after he was officially considered an adult. Telimium was a fellow member of clan ordo and twelve years Arkandos' senior a proud warrior she quickly fell in with Arkandos; though not without some speed bumps, and finally married him when he was twenty-four. To his great pleasure when he joined the Mandalorian military he was assigned to the same vessel as his beloved wife and in the next three years she would give him both a daughter and a son and while he loved both his children he came to adore his youngest Eli'demu. He trained his son and daughter together due to their close age and it was clear the three had a strong bond and despite the danger to them, Ark received permission to bring his family aboard the Dreadnought Besk'ad when the Mandalorian wars broke out.
Assigned to an assault unit Phelan was involved in many of the first battles of the Mandalorian wars including the assault on the Cathar world. In the years following he was asked what he felt of the attack of the world and all he would say is that it was an honorable battle the truth was that he felt the Mandalorians had truly attacked a world that offered a people mostly incapable of defending against them. Despite some of his reservations about the choice of some of the military's targets he was still a mostly model soldier and served with distinction throughout the first decade of the Mandalorian wars. This began to change subtly after the attack on Surroco Ark was disgusted with high command's decision to bombard the world with nuclear devices; what honor is there and attacking a enemy who could only sit and watch their world die he would ask, but worse yet he found out that his missing wife and son had been part of a recon patrol sent to Surroco, one that was left to die in the nuclear holocaust. When he learned this he flew into a week-long rage ending in an assault upon the commanding officer of his platoon and a stay in the brig.
After six months in the brig he was released and transferred to a newly formed special operations unit, though command called it an elite assault Ark and the other members of the team began to call it the execution platoon due to them all having spent time in the brigs of various ships over questioning of the command and the constant suicide missions they were tasked with. Amazingly despite a ninety-nine and a half percent casualty rate Arkandos survived six years in the unit right up until it was dissolved though not without his fair share of scars and an arm and eye down.
With the ending of the unit, he was transferred to the unit of his surviving family member his daughter Eli'demu now an honored warrior in her own right. They survived the destruction of the warship Besk'ad at the battle of Jaga's cluster and were brought with the rest of the force to the world of Althir for reinforcements and re-armament where they were caught in the devastating republic assault during which they became separated from the bulk of the unit. It was during this battle that his mortal coil was almost extinguished when he fell defending his daughter and with some of his last breaths, he watched the Republic troops grab her before the remaining members of the unit drove them back and drug the dying Ark back to the central Mandalorian base and it's remaining medical ship.
He lingered just on the verge of death while on fully artificial life support for two weeks while the doctors debated what to do with him. Behind the scenes however one of the medics had been waiting on a case to apply a new experimental procedure he had developed with scraps of information captured from and combined from multiple corporate and republic labs during the mandalorian assualt upon the republic. The tech had been lobbying command for some time for a test subject and ark was deamed acceptably useful as a test subject.Upon fully waking up from a medically induced coma Ark was more than a little displeased with his condition and despite it being his only way to stay alive he attempted to pull his own plug. Perhaps as a way to appease him, they sent him and a gaggle of other Mandalorian crusaders to raid a republic prisoner of war camp holding his daughter along with over two-thousand other Mandalorian soldiers.
The mission more than proved his capabilities as the newly minted cyborg strolled relatively easily through the withering carpets of blaster fire as the droid shields and beskar armor soaked up the plasma bolts. After crashing through the main gates with the soldiers trailing behind him the group separated and spread out around the compound as Ark and a dozen soldiers marched on the central headquarters. Ark personally found his daughter in one of the interrogation rooms of the compound. At first, he didn't recognize his beloved daughter and indeed did not meet with her until they were all safely aboard a Mandalorian cruiser on their way back to space over Mandalore. To his horror, his daughter refused to believe it was truly him for months before he finally managed to prove it to his horrified daughter who began looking at him more and more like a monster. Ark buried himself in his work as he hoped desperately that with time Eli'demu would eventually come to accept him as he was now.
Arkandos continued to serve all along the front becoming something of a legend among the Mandalorian troopers as he single-handedly blunted infantry assaults and even devastated Jedi attacks in at least two occurrences before the end as it were. He was sent back to Mandalore where he reunited with a more sympathetic and whole Eli'demu who rushed to the cyborg as he left the landing ship despite the looks of other Mandalorians many of whom likely believed he was simply a droid. He spent almost a month on Mandalore with his daughter and to his great surprise his new son-in-law and grandchild. Soon the war infringed and he was moved to Dxun mere weeks before the republics full fury fell on the moon of Onderon.
Upon Dxun the Mandalorians attempted to withstand the republic's full might and Ark himself was a bulwark holding out at the main spaceport for several hours against increasingly strong republic assaults as fast blockade runners made the harrowing run through the Republic fleets above to evacuate the injured. Finally, he and the remaining defenders fled to the runners leaving just before an orbital bombardment leveled the area. The pace quickened without him as the frigate they fled to was sent on a long-range attack even as the Mandalorian and Republic fleets converged on the Malacor system. As they arrived at their destination they received word of the Mandalorian surrender.
The crew of the Frigate spent the next three years avoiding the republic just on the edges of their space as they bided their time and slowly limped towards Mandalore. Eventually well after the war ended the ship crash landed itself on an uninhabitable world in the Mandalore system before arriving in several smaller ships to the world itself. With the republic patrols still stations on world Ark was forced to remain hidden even as he attempted to find his family, but within a few weeks, it became clear that the search was hopeless particularly in light of Ark's inability to move freely within republic space.
Over the decades and centuries that separated the Mandalorian wars and re reconquest of Mandalore and concord dawn by the Mandalorians. Arkandos spent much of his time in a form of comma between times of waking when he would send his ever-dwindling friends on forays to search for his daughter then his granddaughter and soon he gave up upon the search entirely and was moved to Dxun with many of the other Mandalorians and their equipment during the period of Mandalorian secret resurgence following the end of the Jedi civil war.
Arkandos found himself in a position he had never considered for himself a teacher. On Dxun he was drafted to be something of a Loremaster for the young Mandalorians many of whom had never rightly been trained in the ways of the true Mandalorians and much to his surprise he found his duties very satisfying becoming unconsciously something of a father figure to many of the Mandalorians there. Despite this, he was happy to sign up with the newest Mandalore when the call came to help retake concord dawn and signed up with the new command following the battle as an honorary Lieutenant Colonel though it was not uncommon for him to be addressed as if he was a much higher rank than he is.
Arkandos thought long about what he wished his new position within the new army to be humoring becoming both a trainer and an assault trooper, but a meeting with Lt. Colonel Haseful swayed him towards the special forces though he refused to make the reason for the choice clear the truth was Bane reminded him of his long-dead son and a certain fraternal need to be near him was kindled within the hulking mass of beskar and durasteel. He hoped he could be the voice of military experience in the group when it became clear the nature of their missions and was one of the first to join the newly formed unit indeed demanding a position for high command.
This decision, in the end, would prove fortunate because it was during the aftermath of his first mission that he met a young boy and girl named Itani and Italia. Whom he would come to find out where great, great-grandchildren. However, this was not the only event to quickly beset the ancient Mandalorian on his second mission Operation Reclamation the war droid framed warrior fell, his physical body once more largely being destroyed. With the aid of the Mandalorians and his grandchildren he recovered and was brought to perhaps better than new condition gone was much of his doubt and sorrow, he had a family and he was now determined to defend it, no matter the cost.
Ark served through the reclamation crusade serving as a living battering ram if the term living can still apply to him. Typically found in the hardest sectors and most dire battles he gained something of a legend for his tendency to appear out of nowhere his mighty blows crumbling infantry and his great ax biting deep into the merger vehicles that could be brought to counter the Mandalorian's sudden arrival. The great cyborg's last battle was on Onderon where he was once more on the front smashing though Iziz defenses and marching into the heart of the Onderonian palace. After the battle, however, when the great feasts and celebrations began Ark was long gone.
The last confirmed report of the cyborg for months was on the arid home of clan Ordo where Arkanados and a small cadre of Ordo warriors boarded a clanship and vanished with enough supplies to keep a hunting party fed for months. In the following weeks and months, there were scattered rumors of a party of beskar'gam warriors lead by a dark giant across the mid and outer rims. They would appear in the wake of attacks and raids scaring the hell out of the locals before typically peacefully a few days later they would vanish as quickly as they came. It took nearly a year, but eventually, they found what or rather who they were searching for.
The clanship landed for a few hours near the special operations command on the Mandalorian world of Concord Dawn. The great cyborg had returned with a battered and bruised, but still breathing Italia returning her to her mother's small farm. Surprising to many Arkanados didn't return to the military immediately seemingly content to loiter around the farm and small settlement often helping with tasks that some would consider below a warrior of his stature, but ark for his part enjoyed the quiet peaceful time helping with the tending of crops and raising of animals. In the end, though it was the presence of Italia and Kiva that kept him in the area. Slowly though ark started to return more regularly to the training grounds and even occasionally went on hunts with some of the other warriors.[/div]
