Post by kozeph on Jan 9, 2011 21:56:04 GMT -5
Faction: Sith Military
Department: Sith Navy (front) / Special Ops (intelligence department)
Rank: Captain / Colonel
Name: Madeline Gwenaelle "Madame Red"
Race: Epicanthix
Age: 60 (looks to be in her early forties)
Height: 6'4''
Weight: 146 lbs
Birth place: Empress Teta
Appearance:
Madeline Gwenaelle or Madame Red as she is known among some circles looks and carries herself like someone of nobility. She always retains an air of dignity and elegance without looking exaggeratedly arrogant, but still the air of royalty is about her.
The Madame Red is of clear Epicanthix decent and like most of her race has very silky black hair which barely reaches her shoulders. Madeline eyeshade is a very dark brown, which from a far makes it look as if they were black. Madeline Gwenaelle skin is soft and fragile looking very much what one would expect from a court lady. Very often, she powders her cheeks and face to give a little color to her naturally pale skin and beside the red lipstick; she tries not to overload her face with makeup.
The Madame while not particularly well rounded on her feminine features. Still manages to have a certain air of beauty and elegance about her, The way she carries herself and speaks, easily makes people ignore her otherwise lacking sections. Madeline has matured extremely well and remains quite the sight.
If her title as the Red Madame is not enough to make it clear, Madeline favorite color is red. Her uniform follows the patterns and regulations set by the admiralty of the sith empire, but Madeline Gwenaelle is still allowed to wear her unique red uniform. If not seen in her uniform Madeline can be seen in any kinds of elegant dresses, which more often than not are in various shades of red. She is not much for jewelry despite what people might think. The madame is rarely seen un-armed and more often than not, there is a weapon hidden below her uniform or dress.
Personality:
Madeline being a very well educated person acts exactly as such, she is well mannered and it is a rare sight to see her curse or speak rudely to someone. She was taught diplomacy and is good at keeping her feelings out of here job. While not exactly cold, the Madame is dedicated and professional. To her underlings she is kind but expects them to act as the situations requires them too and is not afraid to either award them or punish them depending on the situation and its outcome. To her enemies she is ruthless but not completely devoid of emotion, she can be merciful if orders are given and she does not like it when innocents or bystanders are involved in the crossfire, but is not above using them for tactical purposes.
The red madame is a hard worker and while she might prefer a five star dinner over canned food she will not turn it down. She is very adjustable and is a survivor at her core, willing to adjust herself to the situation at hand. Even if she does not look it, she is willing to dirty herself or do manual labor if it serves a purpose or her survival, which makes her very popular with the lower ranking members of the navy and soldiers alike, while some haughty officers and bureaucrats dislike her for that trait. Madeline is a great example of that regardless of what economical status you are born into you can still attain ranks and titles far beyond your reach. Madeline dislikes it when people of renowned status rub their positions and titles on more humble people, she more specifically dislikes when people look down on her achievements, her heritage or career. Madeline Gwenaelle is out there for herself and herself only and while she is loyal enough to the empire, she is only interested in the credits she earns from the empire.
In battle, Captain Madeline Gwenaelle is efficient and ruthless, while she prefers to avoid making needless sacrifices she is not above using her own men to make openings and she is not above using "dirty" tactics or strategies to accomplish her objectives. While not a violent or rash person by nature Madeline is quite bold at times and usually does exaggerated actions or seemingly illogical strategies that can sometimes border on suicidal to get a point across, or simply to turn the tables and make the field even. The red madame is known for not caring about "danger close" situations. Madeline has a "unique" position in the military and the empire at large. While not influential enough to rank among the "sith" aristocrats, she still manages to be a key figure in the empire, one that irritates the republic to no end.
Madeline has three separate duties in the empire; her first and most known role is that of being the captain of the Widowmaker a Deabolos class Battle cruiser, which acts as her base of operations and home. Her second most well known role is that of an ambassador and representative of the empire.
Her last and least known role is that of a Colonel in the intelligence department, few people know of this role and those that know tend to be high-ranking members of the empire. She oversees and coordinates operations such information gathering, testing of a new weapon, terror war, counter intelligence, kidnapings, assassinatios and unconventional warfare. Some times Madeline can be seen spearheading operations directly, other times she just pulls the strings and has other agents work. One thing is certain Madeline is slippery and she usually has more than three plans of escape from any given situation.
Madeline Gwenaelle is very knowledgeable on the works of the underworld having been a very well known and sought pirate queen before her joining the empire. The madame has a very large bounty in her head and she is wanted dead or alive by the heads of the exchange and the republic, but ever since she joined the sith empire the attempts on her life have subsided, but still there is the occasional attempt on her life happens every now and then, from more than one front.
Languages:
Basic (fluent)
High Galactic (fluent)
Epicant (fluent)
Bocce (fluent)
Huttese (Comprehend)
Binary (Comprehend)
Ship: The Widowmaker
Skills: (from 1 to 10)
Piloting (Starfighters, freighters, shuttles)
Diplomacy & ettiquette
Repair (ship mantainece mostly)
Tactics & strategy
Equipment:
*RMTN "Officer" Pistol
*Wrist dart launcher (explosives and poison darts) (hidden)
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 4
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 5
Leadership: 8
Unarmed: 3
Melee Weapons: 2
Ranged Weapons: 4
Alignment: -2
Bio:
A very unlikely start
Born as the daughter of the very poor Geologist Epicanthix Zun Gwenaelle. Madeline mother died during childbirth and Zun was left with his daughter alone in Empress Teta where a small and unsuccessful contract with a university had. Zun contract with that university ended a couple of months after Madeline birth and he was left in the streets with the newly born girl with no way back home. Faced with no other option Zun found work as one of the quarry workers and managed to rent a cheap student size apartment, somehow between the time consuming work and the help from a couple of kind neighborers Zun managed to raise the young Madeline in that state of poverty.
Madeline spent most of her childhood alone, being educated by her father and her occasional person willing to take care of her. She was taught how to read, write and speak both basic and Epicant in the free time of her parent. The young Epicanthix girl was not unhappy by any means, sure there where many hard patches in her youth but she managed to grow healthy and managed to turn up into a very willing and helpful child, who was soon treasured by the whole neighborhood. While her father worked his finger to the bone to sustain his girl and buy her the occasional toy and holo book, Madeline as soon as she was able helped around the house, learning how to cook and clean, as she grew older.
Madeline education was un-even to say the least. Most if not all her basic were self taught from reading broken and discarded datapads over and over again as her main form of education. From a young age, the girl showed an aptitude to memorize things and indeed each and every lesson she had been taught either from her neighborers, father and datapads she learned well.
Around the time Madeline was twelve Zun became sick and was unable to continue working in the quarry. Out of desperation Madeline asked the Quarry overseer to allow her to take her father place, Zun did not want her daughter to work there, the overseer certainly did not wanted to exploit a child and rules forbid it. However, between they managed to work out a deal, that benefited all parties. Madeline got an unofficial out of contract and regulations job, although the pay was not high, it was good enough that with the money medicine could be bought for Zun condition.
Madeline started to work as both a cook, cleaner and part of the maintenance crew of the Quarry. Madeline was certainly popular among the workers, she taking a sort of psychiatrist role among the group and very often, she was sought out for advice. Overall, it was a hard life, full of work and little time to fool around.
Once Madeline turned fifteen her father Zun died due to the mix of years of unfair and extreme labor, his decease and depression for not giving his daughter a better life. The young now orphaned Madeline was devastated the day her father died. Madeline was taken by force to an orphanage, she lived there for a couple of weeks and she quickly became the figurehead and leader of the group of orphans. Those days living there where horrible for her and after one month she escaped from the orphanage who she had come to hate. The quarry overseer took in Madeline and she lived there in secret until he arranged for her to become his stepdaughter.
Off to the corps
By the time Madeline was eighteen she left her stepfather and enlisted into the army, that being the most natural choice for someone with no formal education and money. Madeline first year in the army was in boot camp, she was not particularly good at anything besides making the unit of misfits that she had been placed in, into a very well coordinated unit of soldiers. Madeline was promoted to the rank of Sargent after she showed great promise in leading people.
Around this time, a very prestigious officer academy in Carida made a test to accept 144 students from across the galaxy. Madeline was persuaded into taking the test. She passed with flying colors, she aced both tests and did reasonably well in the optional test which was a flight simulator.
Madeline at the age of nineteen was shipped to Carida for her test records and among the 144 she managed to rank as fifth best candidate.
The change from boot camp to very prestiges officer academy that usually received only the sons and daughters of wealthy merchants or noble families was a very big change from Madeline. Her first year was a living hell, her self-taught education paled in comparison with most of the academy trainees and most of the instructors there always looked for ways to humiliate her.
Eventually and with consuming literally, every spare second Madeline managed to catch up in educational levels with his fellow students and with some teachers. She gained the reputation of being the "Ice Queen" after turning down several opportunistic and arrogant would be officers. Madeline training was focused more on leading and flying interceptors or other types of fighters, where she excelled but not enough to be the best student of her academy.
After three years in the academy, Madeline was well known for her coldness and her solitary nature in regard with her peers, but in field exercisers that involved working with regular members of the army or battle simulations, she proved to be extremely well qualified. During her final year in the academy, Madeline unconsciously stole the heart of two new students of the academy.
Anaroch Sigfer the son of a very important company CEO and Alestair V. Edward a young nobleman from Alderaan. They plagued her day and night trying to woo the "Ice queen" and she became the focus of their rivalry, yet neither of them won her heart they gained her friendship. After Madeline graduated from the academy, they remained in touch.
Flight leader
At the age of twenty-five Madeline graduated with the rank of Lieutenant and was assigned to an interceptor squad in the frigate RRSV Goodwill and under the veteran captain Restra a Devorodian and the commander of her flight squad Zer Prazi a Duros. Under Zer and Restra Madeline learned much and while the only action they saw was pursuing scattered groups of pirates.
During two years she served in the RRSV Goodwill, she at that time became familiar with droidspeak. Madeline also finally started to cave in into Alestair advances and began dating.
At the age of twenty-seven Madeline was given a medal for her courage when she and three fighters were cut off from the rest of the squadron during a particularly nasty fight with a rather large pirate group. Madeline successfully managed to lead her fellow pilots through an asteroid field and round the enemy ships, they managed to disrupt the pirate formation with their surprise attack and Madeline and her fellow pilots received a medal for their valor.
Madeline three months later was promoted to the rank of commander and given her squad of fighters. For one year, she and her squad were assigned to several ships and they finally ended in Alderaan once Madeline married with Alestiar.
Living the good life"
Alestair marriage with Madeline was highly unconventional and unwelcome by all of Alestair's family. All thoughts of her life in the academy in Carida being a living nightmare vanished and truly, living in nobility became the living hell for Madeline.
She was forced by the pushing family to an early retirement and was sent into the family private manor to learn etiquette and the ways of nobility under Alestair mother. The old hag proceeded to beat everything about the ways of nobility into Madeline head etiquette, diplomacy, manners, politics, protocol and everything a lady of high class should know. Madeline while she hated her mother in law with every fiber of her being. But the Epicanthix female did learn much and she has to admit that she wouldn't be the lady she is today if not for Alestair mother. In one year Madeline was a proper lady, in three she was one of the most known and envied lady in the family and in gatherings. Madeline also took a liking for the color red after she received a dress as a gift from her husband. After the death of Alestair mother, Madeline husband became the head of the family.
At the age of thirty-five were both the happiest and saddest days for Madeline. Her greatest joy was when she became pregnant with Alasteir child, those were the happiest days for Madeline and those nine months of pregnancy were the best for her. On the other hand Alestair relatives became unhappy with this new situation, they never did got used to Madeline and her heritage and as luck would have it. Two days before Madeline was due for childbirth Alestair died in a speeder accident.
Starting A new
With the death of Alaster the family began to plot how to regain their position has the heads of the family, because now Madeline newly born child would become the head of the house and a half breed was not tolerable by the family. However, what they really disliked was the fact that Madeline was until the day her baby grew up the undisputed head of the house and all its riches.
Therefore, they plotted.
The birth of the baby was hard for Madeline, she decided to go through regular methods rather than surgery. Madeline fell unconscious during the childbirth and the family used that opportunity to bribe the hospital staff, so they would tell the Epicanthix woman that her child died. The family took the baby and was sent to an orphanage.
Madeline was completely broken by the "death" of her baby, the death of her husband and she was easily manipulated to grant her rights of power to one of Alastair brothers. She was slowly pushed away from the family and eventually completely exiled the Epicanthix after one year.
Her old friend Anaroch Sigfer who had also retired from the military and was now leading his own branch of pharmaceutical goods, which had some moderate success, took in Madeline. Her old friend welcomed Madeline and she lived in his home for a couple of months, until she finally recovered from her depression, although the pain of the loss of her child and her husband never did fade completely.
The Epicanthix widow began looking for ways to pick herself back up, she considered for a time joining back into the military but decided against it. So Anaroch offered her a position in his company and so Madeline entered the corporate world.
Working under Anaroch, Madeline made connections and refined her negotiating skills. But most importantly she found Anaroch secret for success. One night while browsing through the data files of the company Madeline began to uncover things, such as wholes in the logs and blank pieces of information. Over the course of three weeks, Madeline discovered that Anaroch Company was being backed up by the Hutt cartel and that behind the scenes the company produced certain types of drugs for the Hutts.
This discovery was very surprising to Madeline, who confronted her friends on his dealings. They argued for a long time and Madeline was about to expose Anaroch dealings with the Hutts to the larger world, but her friend convinced her to kept quiet by a combination of credits and opportunities. So Madeline path began to stir in the direction of the underworld.
A queen is born
By the time Madeline was thirty-eight she was already deeply involve in the company secret dealings, she became Anaroch second in command and the one in charge of overseeing those shady works. Madeline made a great deal of connections and contacts those days, her negotiating skills became good enough that some of her Hutt friends respected the woman.
Two years later corporate spies from a rival group exposed Anaroch dealings with the Hutts to the Republic who proceeded to apprehend the majority of the people involve, Madeline being one of the few who managed to escape.
The Epicanthix female fled to the outer rim, where under a fake name started working as a freighter pilot while laying low from bounty hunters.
Three weeks into her new life and job was suddenly shattered in the blink of an eye. Pirates captured the freighter and the crew was taken as hostages, to make matters even worse for Madeline she was recognized by the leader of the pirates as
A very sought after person. He would have collected the bounty on Madeline had it not been for the Epicanthix womanly charms and silver tongue, that day Madeline became a pirate.
In a matter of three weeks, Madeline became the captain of that ship, after earning the trust and respect of the crew thanks to her natural charisma and her knowledge of republic protocol as well as her decent flight skills. She became the captain due to the unfortunate demise of the previous captain who was shot down during a raid.
At this point Madeline became familiar with the lenguage of the Hutts and Bocce, thanks to meeting countless races and the many encounters she had during that time.
Madeline crew grew under her influence and she gained enough notoriaty to be occacionally used by her Hutt friends, those jobs under the Hutts usually involved intercepting smugglers or smuggling illicit objects. A year into her new career Madeline gained the nickname "Red Madame" for her elegance and the blood that was spilled by her crew and prey alike.
Eventually Madeline and her crew cought the attention of a growing pirate organization named the Gamma moons, this pirate "lord" a Zeltron male of the name Rey Adriaco grew interested in Madeline particulary and extended an offer to the madame to join his growing group.
Madeline saw the profite in joining the Gamma Moons, although Madeline and her ship started moderately well, the Madame soon got enough influence and renown to be able to join that group rulling council of pirate captains.
Madeline remained in that position for years and it was rumored by some that she was even Rey's secret lover, which was far from true but Madeline and Rey allowed the rumor to remain. Five years into the Gamma Moons Madeline had enough influence to be considered the most important figure in the council of pirates, only being overshadowed by the charismatic Rey.
At the age of forty-nine Rey died of natural causes and Madeline took over the Gamma Moons. Under Rey's influence, the organization did farely well but it never got into the big leagues. This changed with the promotion of Madeline, the number of raids and loot increased, more operations began and even some Hutts began to sponsor and use the group. Income came and with it came more men and ships. Madeline made as many friends as she did enemies, the republic learned of her name and a bounty was placed on the Madame Head but they could no touch her, no one could during the golden days of the Gamma Moons.
At least until Madeline and her group stepped on the toes of the exchange, a war started to brew up between the two crime syndicates, but it did not stop Madeline group from growing.
At the pick of the Gamma Moons power, Madeline managed to gain full control of a planet in the mid rims, called Deneba. Madeline did not so much as conquered small heaven for smugglers, but simply moved in and much like the Hutts rule Nar Shaddaa, so did Madeline ruled over Deneba, that soon became the Red Madame palace and base of operations, she also gained the moniker as one of the "scourges of the Mid Rims"
Eventually Madeline bold advances turned against her, between her war with the exchange and the now sick of Madeline republic, the Gamma Moons could not last. She slowly lost influence and power.
By the time she was fifty-seven, the gamma Suns were half of their original might, she lost control of the planet she had claimed and the Republic pushed her and her forces out of the mid rims. In the outer rims, she still carved a living, but even she could tell that her organization would not last.
However, things changed two years later, an embassador approached the Red Madame. This man came with an offer from a new power in the galaxy, this messenger was from the newly risen "Sith" empire. The offer was tempting but before Madeline could join the empire, she had to prove her loyalty to the Sith Aristocrats. She was given four months to come up with a way to prove herself to them.
Madeline knew she could bring troops and information to the empire, but she needed something else. Somthing that would prove that she was capable of a high position, she would not have it otherwise.
Madeline came up with a plan, she would make her biggest raid ever. But this time she would not hit merchant ships or steal goods and spice, no this time she would strike at the heart of the Republic and take their ships.
So three months she observed Republic planets and potential targets. In the Madeline launched three raids on republic supply depos across the galaxy, with what remained of her pirate fleet. She hit those places at their most vulnurable time, just after they resoplied and the scort ships left, Madeline made her move. Out of her seventy six armed ships only forty eight survived, but the mission was a sucess. The Gamma moons both stole republic supplies and destroyed what they could not carry.
Using a carefully calculated hyperspace jumps across the galaxy, her fleet split up and avoided capture and two weeks later merged again in the space of around Bastion. With their holds full of loot, for the empire.
Now in Sith territory, Madeline pledged her alligiance to the aristocrats and was granted back a life of nobility, she was given the rank of Captain and given a ship to command over.
The Gamma Moons disbanded but most remained under Madeline command and joined various sections of the Sith military and those that didn't, mostly remained her unoficial lackies.
With the empire, one of the aristorcrates who realized the Red Madame full potential sponsored Madeline. She eventually became an embassador for the Empire and made many beneficial treaties for the empire, things looked good for the Epicanthix lady. One year into her time in the empire, an agent for the intelligance corps of the empire approached Madeline, she was given the offer to join that section of the military. She had proven loyal during her time in the empire and the heads of the army knew that the Red Madame was very good at employing unorthodox tactics, which the empire might need in the war to achieve victory.
Madeline accepted seeing it as another opportunity for profit. She was given the rank of Colonel but retained her position of captain and embassador as a public front in the empire. Ever since the Red madame as lead many successful operations for the empire, many which the local population is unaware off.
Password: Bylgia
RP Sample:
"Madame, the senator ship will jump out of hyperspace in two minutes" The message was brief and straight to the point, just the way the lady in red liked it. She smiled, but it was a smile only for her and not anyone looking would understand completely why she was smiling. She pressed the communicator and opened the comm again "Excellent captain, tell your men to move into position, over" her message was short and to the point, just the way she liked it.
"Roger" said the mercenary captain soon after. Madeline smile vanished and she returned to her seat and looked out the starboard window of the bridge of this heavy freighter. Her eyes gazed for a moment the buzzling space traffic of Corellia.
"Are we in position captain?" she asked after a couple went by. The gruff looking Duros merely nodded and went back to piloting the ship, he was not happy that he was taking orders from a former pirate queen. Every piece was set and the game would start once the senator ship came out of hyperspace. Sixteen freighters of various sizes and four large ore carries full of fighters and interceptors and finally a Corellian corvetted under the control of soon to be deserters. That was Madeline cards and her tools for this job.
She had only a window of five minutes to capture the senator, well in reality she had only five minutes to board the senator ship and sent a transmission saying that the senator was a "hostage" which should buy her mercenaries enough time to capture the senator.
"There the senator ship just jumped out of hyperspace!" the Duros captain said pointing his finger at the sleek republic yacht, no bigger than a heavy freighter and two fighter scorts.
"Start operation gizka run!" she said opening the comms to all the other ships, that began evasive maneuvers and started to surround the ambassador ship. The cargo ships unloaded their payload and six teen interceptors proceeded to take care of senator scorts ships. The Corvette moved into position and kept acting as if it was still part of the Corellian space security. Until three flights of fighters came out of nowhere but they where swiftly dispatched by the now sith aligned corvette.
One smaller modified freighter approached the senator space ship and began boarding it, loaded with a dozen veteran mercenaries the best money could buy, six commandos and a sith warrior that Madeline had managed to borrow for this operation in case of any Jedi intervention. Another freighter this one a decoy, sent out a transmission to the corvette who in turned relayed the message to the approaching horde of republic ships. The message was simply "Stand down or we kill the senator"
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The operation went smoothly, only two freighters and six interceptors were destroyed. The senator was in Madeline hand and she had a new corvette for the empire. The mission was yet another successful operation under the name of the admiral Madeline Gwenaelle the Red Madame the former pirate queen.
The door slid open and the Epicanthix lady strode in, on the other side of the room was senator, his wife and the remains of the crew sitting on the floor. She smiled and strode inside.
"Senator it is an honor to finally meet you in the flesh"
The door slid shut once more and a more direct type of negotiation began.
Department: Sith Navy (front) / Special Ops (intelligence department)
Rank: Captain / Colonel
Name: Madeline Gwenaelle "Madame Red"
Race: Epicanthix
Age: 60 (looks to be in her early forties)
Height: 6'4''
Weight: 146 lbs
Birth place: Empress Teta
Appearance:
Madeline Gwenaelle or Madame Red as she is known among some circles looks and carries herself like someone of nobility. She always retains an air of dignity and elegance without looking exaggeratedly arrogant, but still the air of royalty is about her.
The Madame Red is of clear Epicanthix decent and like most of her race has very silky black hair which barely reaches her shoulders. Madeline eyeshade is a very dark brown, which from a far makes it look as if they were black. Madeline Gwenaelle skin is soft and fragile looking very much what one would expect from a court lady. Very often, she powders her cheeks and face to give a little color to her naturally pale skin and beside the red lipstick; she tries not to overload her face with makeup.
The Madame while not particularly well rounded on her feminine features. Still manages to have a certain air of beauty and elegance about her, The way she carries herself and speaks, easily makes people ignore her otherwise lacking sections. Madeline has matured extremely well and remains quite the sight.
If her title as the Red Madame is not enough to make it clear, Madeline favorite color is red. Her uniform follows the patterns and regulations set by the admiralty of the sith empire, but Madeline Gwenaelle is still allowed to wear her unique red uniform. If not seen in her uniform Madeline can be seen in any kinds of elegant dresses, which more often than not are in various shades of red. She is not much for jewelry despite what people might think. The madame is rarely seen un-armed and more often than not, there is a weapon hidden below her uniform or dress.
Personality:
Madeline being a very well educated person acts exactly as such, she is well mannered and it is a rare sight to see her curse or speak rudely to someone. She was taught diplomacy and is good at keeping her feelings out of here job. While not exactly cold, the Madame is dedicated and professional. To her underlings she is kind but expects them to act as the situations requires them too and is not afraid to either award them or punish them depending on the situation and its outcome. To her enemies she is ruthless but not completely devoid of emotion, she can be merciful if orders are given and she does not like it when innocents or bystanders are involved in the crossfire, but is not above using them for tactical purposes.
The red madame is a hard worker and while she might prefer a five star dinner over canned food she will not turn it down. She is very adjustable and is a survivor at her core, willing to adjust herself to the situation at hand. Even if she does not look it, she is willing to dirty herself or do manual labor if it serves a purpose or her survival, which makes her very popular with the lower ranking members of the navy and soldiers alike, while some haughty officers and bureaucrats dislike her for that trait. Madeline is a great example of that regardless of what economical status you are born into you can still attain ranks and titles far beyond your reach. Madeline dislikes it when people of renowned status rub their positions and titles on more humble people, she more specifically dislikes when people look down on her achievements, her heritage or career. Madeline Gwenaelle is out there for herself and herself only and while she is loyal enough to the empire, she is only interested in the credits she earns from the empire.
In battle, Captain Madeline Gwenaelle is efficient and ruthless, while she prefers to avoid making needless sacrifices she is not above using her own men to make openings and she is not above using "dirty" tactics or strategies to accomplish her objectives. While not a violent or rash person by nature Madeline is quite bold at times and usually does exaggerated actions or seemingly illogical strategies that can sometimes border on suicidal to get a point across, or simply to turn the tables and make the field even. The red madame is known for not caring about "danger close" situations. Madeline has a "unique" position in the military and the empire at large. While not influential enough to rank among the "sith" aristocrats, she still manages to be a key figure in the empire, one that irritates the republic to no end.
Madeline has three separate duties in the empire; her first and most known role is that of being the captain of the Widowmaker a Deabolos class Battle cruiser, which acts as her base of operations and home. Her second most well known role is that of an ambassador and representative of the empire.
Her last and least known role is that of a Colonel in the intelligence department, few people know of this role and those that know tend to be high-ranking members of the empire. She oversees and coordinates operations such information gathering, testing of a new weapon, terror war, counter intelligence, kidnapings, assassinatios and unconventional warfare. Some times Madeline can be seen spearheading operations directly, other times she just pulls the strings and has other agents work. One thing is certain Madeline is slippery and she usually has more than three plans of escape from any given situation.
Madeline Gwenaelle is very knowledgeable on the works of the underworld having been a very well known and sought pirate queen before her joining the empire. The madame has a very large bounty in her head and she is wanted dead or alive by the heads of the exchange and the republic, but ever since she joined the sith empire the attempts on her life have subsided, but still there is the occasional attempt on her life happens every now and then, from more than one front.
Languages:
Basic (fluent)
High Galactic (fluent)
Epicant (fluent)
Bocce (fluent)
Huttese (Comprehend)
Binary (Comprehend)
Ship: The Widowmaker
Skills: (from 1 to 10)
Piloting (Starfighters, freighters, shuttles)
Diplomacy & ettiquette
Repair (ship mantainece mostly)
Tactics & strategy
Equipment:
*RMTN "Officer" Pistol
*Wrist dart launcher (explosives and poison darts) (hidden)
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 4
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 5
Leadership: 8
Unarmed: 3
Melee Weapons: 2
Ranged Weapons: 4
Alignment: -2
Bio:
A very unlikely start
Born as the daughter of the very poor Geologist Epicanthix Zun Gwenaelle. Madeline mother died during childbirth and Zun was left with his daughter alone in Empress Teta where a small and unsuccessful contract with a university had. Zun contract with that university ended a couple of months after Madeline birth and he was left in the streets with the newly born girl with no way back home. Faced with no other option Zun found work as one of the quarry workers and managed to rent a cheap student size apartment, somehow between the time consuming work and the help from a couple of kind neighborers Zun managed to raise the young Madeline in that state of poverty.
Madeline spent most of her childhood alone, being educated by her father and her occasional person willing to take care of her. She was taught how to read, write and speak both basic and Epicant in the free time of her parent. The young Epicanthix girl was not unhappy by any means, sure there where many hard patches in her youth but she managed to grow healthy and managed to turn up into a very willing and helpful child, who was soon treasured by the whole neighborhood. While her father worked his finger to the bone to sustain his girl and buy her the occasional toy and holo book, Madeline as soon as she was able helped around the house, learning how to cook and clean, as she grew older.
Madeline education was un-even to say the least. Most if not all her basic were self taught from reading broken and discarded datapads over and over again as her main form of education. From a young age, the girl showed an aptitude to memorize things and indeed each and every lesson she had been taught either from her neighborers, father and datapads she learned well.
Around the time Madeline was twelve Zun became sick and was unable to continue working in the quarry. Out of desperation Madeline asked the Quarry overseer to allow her to take her father place, Zun did not want her daughter to work there, the overseer certainly did not wanted to exploit a child and rules forbid it. However, between they managed to work out a deal, that benefited all parties. Madeline got an unofficial out of contract and regulations job, although the pay was not high, it was good enough that with the money medicine could be bought for Zun condition.
Madeline started to work as both a cook, cleaner and part of the maintenance crew of the Quarry. Madeline was certainly popular among the workers, she taking a sort of psychiatrist role among the group and very often, she was sought out for advice. Overall, it was a hard life, full of work and little time to fool around.
Once Madeline turned fifteen her father Zun died due to the mix of years of unfair and extreme labor, his decease and depression for not giving his daughter a better life. The young now orphaned Madeline was devastated the day her father died. Madeline was taken by force to an orphanage, she lived there for a couple of weeks and she quickly became the figurehead and leader of the group of orphans. Those days living there where horrible for her and after one month she escaped from the orphanage who she had come to hate. The quarry overseer took in Madeline and she lived there in secret until he arranged for her to become his stepdaughter.
Off to the corps
By the time Madeline was eighteen she left her stepfather and enlisted into the army, that being the most natural choice for someone with no formal education and money. Madeline first year in the army was in boot camp, she was not particularly good at anything besides making the unit of misfits that she had been placed in, into a very well coordinated unit of soldiers. Madeline was promoted to the rank of Sargent after she showed great promise in leading people.
Around this time, a very prestigious officer academy in Carida made a test to accept 144 students from across the galaxy. Madeline was persuaded into taking the test. She passed with flying colors, she aced both tests and did reasonably well in the optional test which was a flight simulator.
Madeline at the age of nineteen was shipped to Carida for her test records and among the 144 she managed to rank as fifth best candidate.
The change from boot camp to very prestiges officer academy that usually received only the sons and daughters of wealthy merchants or noble families was a very big change from Madeline. Her first year was a living hell, her self-taught education paled in comparison with most of the academy trainees and most of the instructors there always looked for ways to humiliate her.
Eventually and with consuming literally, every spare second Madeline managed to catch up in educational levels with his fellow students and with some teachers. She gained the reputation of being the "Ice Queen" after turning down several opportunistic and arrogant would be officers. Madeline training was focused more on leading and flying interceptors or other types of fighters, where she excelled but not enough to be the best student of her academy.
After three years in the academy, Madeline was well known for her coldness and her solitary nature in regard with her peers, but in field exercisers that involved working with regular members of the army or battle simulations, she proved to be extremely well qualified. During her final year in the academy, Madeline unconsciously stole the heart of two new students of the academy.
Anaroch Sigfer the son of a very important company CEO and Alestair V. Edward a young nobleman from Alderaan. They plagued her day and night trying to woo the "Ice queen" and she became the focus of their rivalry, yet neither of them won her heart they gained her friendship. After Madeline graduated from the academy, they remained in touch.
Flight leader
At the age of twenty-five Madeline graduated with the rank of Lieutenant and was assigned to an interceptor squad in the frigate RRSV Goodwill and under the veteran captain Restra a Devorodian and the commander of her flight squad Zer Prazi a Duros. Under Zer and Restra Madeline learned much and while the only action they saw was pursuing scattered groups of pirates.
During two years she served in the RRSV Goodwill, she at that time became familiar with droidspeak. Madeline also finally started to cave in into Alestair advances and began dating.
At the age of twenty-seven Madeline was given a medal for her courage when she and three fighters were cut off from the rest of the squadron during a particularly nasty fight with a rather large pirate group. Madeline successfully managed to lead her fellow pilots through an asteroid field and round the enemy ships, they managed to disrupt the pirate formation with their surprise attack and Madeline and her fellow pilots received a medal for their valor.
Madeline three months later was promoted to the rank of commander and given her squad of fighters. For one year, she and her squad were assigned to several ships and they finally ended in Alderaan once Madeline married with Alestiar.
Living the good life"
Alestair marriage with Madeline was highly unconventional and unwelcome by all of Alestair's family. All thoughts of her life in the academy in Carida being a living nightmare vanished and truly, living in nobility became the living hell for Madeline.
She was forced by the pushing family to an early retirement and was sent into the family private manor to learn etiquette and the ways of nobility under Alestair mother. The old hag proceeded to beat everything about the ways of nobility into Madeline head etiquette, diplomacy, manners, politics, protocol and everything a lady of high class should know. Madeline while she hated her mother in law with every fiber of her being. But the Epicanthix female did learn much and she has to admit that she wouldn't be the lady she is today if not for Alestair mother. In one year Madeline was a proper lady, in three she was one of the most known and envied lady in the family and in gatherings. Madeline also took a liking for the color red after she received a dress as a gift from her husband. After the death of Alestair mother, Madeline husband became the head of the family.
At the age of thirty-five were both the happiest and saddest days for Madeline. Her greatest joy was when she became pregnant with Alasteir child, those were the happiest days for Madeline and those nine months of pregnancy were the best for her. On the other hand Alestair relatives became unhappy with this new situation, they never did got used to Madeline and her heritage and as luck would have it. Two days before Madeline was due for childbirth Alestair died in a speeder accident.
Starting A new
With the death of Alaster the family began to plot how to regain their position has the heads of the family, because now Madeline newly born child would become the head of the house and a half breed was not tolerable by the family. However, what they really disliked was the fact that Madeline was until the day her baby grew up the undisputed head of the house and all its riches.
Therefore, they plotted.
The birth of the baby was hard for Madeline, she decided to go through regular methods rather than surgery. Madeline fell unconscious during the childbirth and the family used that opportunity to bribe the hospital staff, so they would tell the Epicanthix woman that her child died. The family took the baby and was sent to an orphanage.
Madeline was completely broken by the "death" of her baby, the death of her husband and she was easily manipulated to grant her rights of power to one of Alastair brothers. She was slowly pushed away from the family and eventually completely exiled the Epicanthix after one year.
Her old friend Anaroch Sigfer who had also retired from the military and was now leading his own branch of pharmaceutical goods, which had some moderate success, took in Madeline. Her old friend welcomed Madeline and she lived in his home for a couple of months, until she finally recovered from her depression, although the pain of the loss of her child and her husband never did fade completely.
The Epicanthix widow began looking for ways to pick herself back up, she considered for a time joining back into the military but decided against it. So Anaroch offered her a position in his company and so Madeline entered the corporate world.
Working under Anaroch, Madeline made connections and refined her negotiating skills. But most importantly she found Anaroch secret for success. One night while browsing through the data files of the company Madeline began to uncover things, such as wholes in the logs and blank pieces of information. Over the course of three weeks, Madeline discovered that Anaroch Company was being backed up by the Hutt cartel and that behind the scenes the company produced certain types of drugs for the Hutts.
This discovery was very surprising to Madeline, who confronted her friends on his dealings. They argued for a long time and Madeline was about to expose Anaroch dealings with the Hutts to the larger world, but her friend convinced her to kept quiet by a combination of credits and opportunities. So Madeline path began to stir in the direction of the underworld.
A queen is born
By the time Madeline was thirty-eight she was already deeply involve in the company secret dealings, she became Anaroch second in command and the one in charge of overseeing those shady works. Madeline made a great deal of connections and contacts those days, her negotiating skills became good enough that some of her Hutt friends respected the woman.
Two years later corporate spies from a rival group exposed Anaroch dealings with the Hutts to the Republic who proceeded to apprehend the majority of the people involve, Madeline being one of the few who managed to escape.
The Epicanthix female fled to the outer rim, where under a fake name started working as a freighter pilot while laying low from bounty hunters.
Three weeks into her new life and job was suddenly shattered in the blink of an eye. Pirates captured the freighter and the crew was taken as hostages, to make matters even worse for Madeline she was recognized by the leader of the pirates as
A very sought after person. He would have collected the bounty on Madeline had it not been for the Epicanthix womanly charms and silver tongue, that day Madeline became a pirate.
In a matter of three weeks, Madeline became the captain of that ship, after earning the trust and respect of the crew thanks to her natural charisma and her knowledge of republic protocol as well as her decent flight skills. She became the captain due to the unfortunate demise of the previous captain who was shot down during a raid.
At this point Madeline became familiar with the lenguage of the Hutts and Bocce, thanks to meeting countless races and the many encounters she had during that time.
Madeline crew grew under her influence and she gained enough notoriaty to be occacionally used by her Hutt friends, those jobs under the Hutts usually involved intercepting smugglers or smuggling illicit objects. A year into her new career Madeline gained the nickname "Red Madame" for her elegance and the blood that was spilled by her crew and prey alike.
Eventually Madeline and her crew cought the attention of a growing pirate organization named the Gamma moons, this pirate "lord" a Zeltron male of the name Rey Adriaco grew interested in Madeline particulary and extended an offer to the madame to join his growing group.
Madeline saw the profite in joining the Gamma Moons, although Madeline and her ship started moderately well, the Madame soon got enough influence and renown to be able to join that group rulling council of pirate captains.
Madeline remained in that position for years and it was rumored by some that she was even Rey's secret lover, which was far from true but Madeline and Rey allowed the rumor to remain. Five years into the Gamma Moons Madeline had enough influence to be considered the most important figure in the council of pirates, only being overshadowed by the charismatic Rey.
At the age of forty-nine Rey died of natural causes and Madeline took over the Gamma Moons. Under Rey's influence, the organization did farely well but it never got into the big leagues. This changed with the promotion of Madeline, the number of raids and loot increased, more operations began and even some Hutts began to sponsor and use the group. Income came and with it came more men and ships. Madeline made as many friends as she did enemies, the republic learned of her name and a bounty was placed on the Madame Head but they could no touch her, no one could during the golden days of the Gamma Moons.
At least until Madeline and her group stepped on the toes of the exchange, a war started to brew up between the two crime syndicates, but it did not stop Madeline group from growing.
At the pick of the Gamma Moons power, Madeline managed to gain full control of a planet in the mid rims, called Deneba. Madeline did not so much as conquered small heaven for smugglers, but simply moved in and much like the Hutts rule Nar Shaddaa, so did Madeline ruled over Deneba, that soon became the Red Madame palace and base of operations, she also gained the moniker as one of the "scourges of the Mid Rims"
Eventually Madeline bold advances turned against her, between her war with the exchange and the now sick of Madeline republic, the Gamma Moons could not last. She slowly lost influence and power.
By the time she was fifty-seven, the gamma Suns were half of their original might, she lost control of the planet she had claimed and the Republic pushed her and her forces out of the mid rims. In the outer rims, she still carved a living, but even she could tell that her organization would not last.
However, things changed two years later, an embassador approached the Red Madame. This man came with an offer from a new power in the galaxy, this messenger was from the newly risen "Sith" empire. The offer was tempting but before Madeline could join the empire, she had to prove her loyalty to the Sith Aristocrats. She was given four months to come up with a way to prove herself to them.
Madeline knew she could bring troops and information to the empire, but she needed something else. Somthing that would prove that she was capable of a high position, she would not have it otherwise.
Madeline came up with a plan, she would make her biggest raid ever. But this time she would not hit merchant ships or steal goods and spice, no this time she would strike at the heart of the Republic and take their ships.
So three months she observed Republic planets and potential targets. In the Madeline launched three raids on republic supply depos across the galaxy, with what remained of her pirate fleet. She hit those places at their most vulnurable time, just after they resoplied and the scort ships left, Madeline made her move. Out of her seventy six armed ships only forty eight survived, but the mission was a sucess. The Gamma moons both stole republic supplies and destroyed what they could not carry.
Using a carefully calculated hyperspace jumps across the galaxy, her fleet split up and avoided capture and two weeks later merged again in the space of around Bastion. With their holds full of loot, for the empire.
Now in Sith territory, Madeline pledged her alligiance to the aristocrats and was granted back a life of nobility, she was given the rank of Captain and given a ship to command over.
The Gamma Moons disbanded but most remained under Madeline command and joined various sections of the Sith military and those that didn't, mostly remained her unoficial lackies.
With the empire, one of the aristorcrates who realized the Red Madame full potential sponsored Madeline. She eventually became an embassador for the Empire and made many beneficial treaties for the empire, things looked good for the Epicanthix lady. One year into her time in the empire, an agent for the intelligance corps of the empire approached Madeline, she was given the offer to join that section of the military. She had proven loyal during her time in the empire and the heads of the army knew that the Red Madame was very good at employing unorthodox tactics, which the empire might need in the war to achieve victory.
Madeline accepted seeing it as another opportunity for profit. She was given the rank of Colonel but retained her position of captain and embassador as a public front in the empire. Ever since the Red madame as lead many successful operations for the empire, many which the local population is unaware off.
Password: Bylgia
RP Sample:
"Madame, the senator ship will jump out of hyperspace in two minutes" The message was brief and straight to the point, just the way the lady in red liked it. She smiled, but it was a smile only for her and not anyone looking would understand completely why she was smiling. She pressed the communicator and opened the comm again "Excellent captain, tell your men to move into position, over" her message was short and to the point, just the way she liked it.
"Roger" said the mercenary captain soon after. Madeline smile vanished and she returned to her seat and looked out the starboard window of the bridge of this heavy freighter. Her eyes gazed for a moment the buzzling space traffic of Corellia.
"Are we in position captain?" she asked after a couple went by. The gruff looking Duros merely nodded and went back to piloting the ship, he was not happy that he was taking orders from a former pirate queen. Every piece was set and the game would start once the senator ship came out of hyperspace. Sixteen freighters of various sizes and four large ore carries full of fighters and interceptors and finally a Corellian corvetted under the control of soon to be deserters. That was Madeline cards and her tools for this job.
She had only a window of five minutes to capture the senator, well in reality she had only five minutes to board the senator ship and sent a transmission saying that the senator was a "hostage" which should buy her mercenaries enough time to capture the senator.
"There the senator ship just jumped out of hyperspace!" the Duros captain said pointing his finger at the sleek republic yacht, no bigger than a heavy freighter and two fighter scorts.
"Start operation gizka run!" she said opening the comms to all the other ships, that began evasive maneuvers and started to surround the ambassador ship. The cargo ships unloaded their payload and six teen interceptors proceeded to take care of senator scorts ships. The Corvette moved into position and kept acting as if it was still part of the Corellian space security. Until three flights of fighters came out of nowhere but they where swiftly dispatched by the now sith aligned corvette.
One smaller modified freighter approached the senator space ship and began boarding it, loaded with a dozen veteran mercenaries the best money could buy, six commandos and a sith warrior that Madeline had managed to borrow for this operation in case of any Jedi intervention. Another freighter this one a decoy, sent out a transmission to the corvette who in turned relayed the message to the approaching horde of republic ships. The message was simply "Stand down or we kill the senator"
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The operation went smoothly, only two freighters and six interceptors were destroyed. The senator was in Madeline hand and she had a new corvette for the empire. The mission was yet another successful operation under the name of the admiral Madeline Gwenaelle the Red Madame the former pirate queen.
The door slid open and the Epicanthix lady strode in, on the other side of the room was senator, his wife and the remains of the crew sitting on the floor. She smiled and strode inside.
"Senator it is an honor to finally meet you in the flesh"
The door slid shut once more and a more direct type of negotiation began.
