Post by Dire Wolf on Oct 16, 2008 14:53:12 GMT -5
Faction: Republic Military
Department: Special Forces
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Name: Korben Sarsyn
Race: Human
Age: 30
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 200lbs
Birth place: Dantooine
Appearance: Korben has one prominent scar on his face, it starts at his left cheek bone and runs a slightly curved path down all the way to the right side of his chin. He often traces the scar with his finger when he is thinking. Korben also wears his wedding ring on a necklace that hangs around his neck due to the fact that he is missing his right ring finger.
Skills:
Operating Light Republic Military Vehicles
First Aid
Airborne / Orbital Infantry Training
Explosives training
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 8
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 5
Leadership: 7
Unarmed: 5
Melee Weapons: 5
Ranged Weapons: 8
Alignment: +2
Bio:
Pre-Military
Korben was born into a big farming family on Dantooine, he learned the value of hard work early on in life when he was younger. He mostly helped his mother around the house while his older siblings went out and did the harder and more dangerous things, as Korben got older he did the more difficult chores. Like most young boys Kor idolized his older brother, Kyle, he went almost everywhere with his brother and took on a lot of his personality. His older brother was the one who first introduced him to hunting and at the young age of 8 Kor killed his first Iriaz, a mountain ram-like quadruped, he was hooked on hunting ever since.
When Korben turned 12 his father got him his first hunting blaster, it was the boy's pride and joy. Every day after school, chores, and homework he would take the old blaster out in the back and shoot at everything from used power cells to small animals. It was around this time that Kyle joined up with the Republican Navy, Kor was incredibly proud of his brother, but did not want to join the military, he was going to go to a university and make something great out of his life.
Unfortunately for Kor, his family did not have the money for him going to a university, and Sarsyn did not have the grades for a scholarship. So Korben took the only other option he had: The Grand Army of the Republic.
Early Enlisted Ranks
Like most of the other recruits, Kor found basic training extremely hard. He was far from fat, but Korben was far from as physically fit as the other recruits. The Drill Instructors often quarter-decked him because he would do little things, like call a blaster a 'gun' and not a blaster. This turned out to be good for Kor, he grew stronger with every quarter-deck and was soon at the head of the group rather then the back. (Quarter Decking - they basically made him do push-ups, sit-ups, or run until he could not do it any more, and then make him do it even more.)
Sarsyn graduated basic with full honors, in other words he got a promotion to PFC right out of basic training. He quickly found his niche in demolitions, there was just something about blowing something to smithereens with a permacrete detonator that just captured the young man's interest. He was assigned to 501st Company as a combat engineer. One of Korben's first missions with the 501st came when there was a small rebellion on an outer Rim world. The rebels took control of an armory and threatened to destroy the munitions there (and effectively level the town around the armory) if the Republic did not allow the planet to secede from the Republic.
Kor's platoon was sent in, the rebels were dug in surprisingly well, the platoon lost a full squad of men just on the approach. After seeing one to many of his friends die, Kor took the initiative and charged a heavy repeating blaster nest under the cover of smoke and killed all the men operating it. Just as the PFC was about to kill the last man in the nest, his blaster rifle's power cell ran out of a charge he was forced to go into hand-to-hand combat with the man, who pulled a knife and left the deep scar on his face that is explained in the appearance section of the bio.
After the last man was killed, Kor turned the heavy repeater on the enemy, the hail of blaster bolts suppressed the enemy enough for the rest of the platoon to get inside the building and kill the rebels off. Korben was given a medal and a promotion to Specialist for his heroism on that day.
After Kor got back his whole platoon was given leave to go wherever they wished for a few months, (due to the amount of time it took for hyperspace travel) Kor went back to his home on Dantooine. It was at a local cantina that he met the woman, Jenuh Toross, he hit it off with the woman right away. Over the next 2 years Korben would return to Dantooine when he was on leave and go out on a date with her once or twice a week, until he married her. After months of persuasion, Jenuh finally agreed to move away from Dantooine to the military base on Coruscant where the 501st was based.
As a Non-Commissioned Officer and Selection
About a year after Kor married Jenuh he was promoted to Corporal, the first of the Non-Commissioned officer ranks. With the promotion Sarsyn became a squad leader. Whether it was defending villagers from pirates or assaulting a rebel stronghold he proved to be an extremely efficient and brave squad leader. On one of those missions a rebel sniper shot his right ring finger off, he was forced to wear his wedding ring around his neck. Just before his next mission, dubbed "Operation Eternal Sweep"
Kor went into the operation confident, maybe even a little cocky, but he would leave a hard man, one who has seen some of the worst horrors in the galaxy and come out alive. The 501st was to defend a nearly defenseless villagers against the local fauna until the people could defend themselves. Early in the deployment he received a message from his wife: She was pregnant with his baby, it was the best day of his life, he could not wait to go on his next leave, but unfortunately it would have to wait.
Korben lost many of his friends to the relentless beasts, the exotic diseases, and even from the more hostile tribes over the course of 2 years. There were only two things that kept the hardened man going after all that he had been through: his wife and his unborn child. On more than a few occasions he nearly lost his life to one of the marsh suckers, a leech-like parasite that digested the victim alive, the only way to reverse the damage was bacta/kolto, and a whole lot of it.
After OP Eternal Sweep the 501st was reassigned to garrison duty on Coruscant, he would finally get to see his baby girl, who just turned 2. The 501st was assigned to garrison duty for about 2 years before they were reassigned, Sarsyn was also promoted to Sergeant at the end of the garrison duty. After a few years he joined the special forces, and has been serving there ever since.
Department: Special Forces
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Name: Korben Sarsyn
Race: Human
Age: 30
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 200lbs
Birth place: Dantooine
Appearance: Korben has one prominent scar on his face, it starts at his left cheek bone and runs a slightly curved path down all the way to the right side of his chin. He often traces the scar with his finger when he is thinking. Korben also wears his wedding ring on a necklace that hangs around his neck due to the fact that he is missing his right ring finger.
Skills:
Operating Light Republic Military Vehicles
First Aid
Airborne / Orbital Infantry Training
Explosives training
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 8
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 5
Leadership: 7
Unarmed: 5
Melee Weapons: 5
Ranged Weapons: 8
Alignment: +2
Bio:
Pre-Military
Korben was born into a big farming family on Dantooine, he learned the value of hard work early on in life when he was younger. He mostly helped his mother around the house while his older siblings went out and did the harder and more dangerous things, as Korben got older he did the more difficult chores. Like most young boys Kor idolized his older brother, Kyle, he went almost everywhere with his brother and took on a lot of his personality. His older brother was the one who first introduced him to hunting and at the young age of 8 Kor killed his first Iriaz, a mountain ram-like quadruped, he was hooked on hunting ever since.
When Korben turned 12 his father got him his first hunting blaster, it was the boy's pride and joy. Every day after school, chores, and homework he would take the old blaster out in the back and shoot at everything from used power cells to small animals. It was around this time that Kyle joined up with the Republican Navy, Kor was incredibly proud of his brother, but did not want to join the military, he was going to go to a university and make something great out of his life.
Unfortunately for Kor, his family did not have the money for him going to a university, and Sarsyn did not have the grades for a scholarship. So Korben took the only other option he had: The Grand Army of the Republic.
Early Enlisted Ranks
Like most of the other recruits, Kor found basic training extremely hard. He was far from fat, but Korben was far from as physically fit as the other recruits. The Drill Instructors often quarter-decked him because he would do little things, like call a blaster a 'gun' and not a blaster. This turned out to be good for Kor, he grew stronger with every quarter-deck and was soon at the head of the group rather then the back. (Quarter Decking - they basically made him do push-ups, sit-ups, or run until he could not do it any more, and then make him do it even more.)
Sarsyn graduated basic with full honors, in other words he got a promotion to PFC right out of basic training. He quickly found his niche in demolitions, there was just something about blowing something to smithereens with a permacrete detonator that just captured the young man's interest. He was assigned to 501st Company as a combat engineer. One of Korben's first missions with the 501st came when there was a small rebellion on an outer Rim world. The rebels took control of an armory and threatened to destroy the munitions there (and effectively level the town around the armory) if the Republic did not allow the planet to secede from the Republic.
Kor's platoon was sent in, the rebels were dug in surprisingly well, the platoon lost a full squad of men just on the approach. After seeing one to many of his friends die, Kor took the initiative and charged a heavy repeating blaster nest under the cover of smoke and killed all the men operating it. Just as the PFC was about to kill the last man in the nest, his blaster rifle's power cell ran out of a charge he was forced to go into hand-to-hand combat with the man, who pulled a knife and left the deep scar on his face that is explained in the appearance section of the bio.
After the last man was killed, Kor turned the heavy repeater on the enemy, the hail of blaster bolts suppressed the enemy enough for the rest of the platoon to get inside the building and kill the rebels off. Korben was given a medal and a promotion to Specialist for his heroism on that day.
After Kor got back his whole platoon was given leave to go wherever they wished for a few months, (due to the amount of time it took for hyperspace travel) Kor went back to his home on Dantooine. It was at a local cantina that he met the woman, Jenuh Toross, he hit it off with the woman right away. Over the next 2 years Korben would return to Dantooine when he was on leave and go out on a date with her once or twice a week, until he married her. After months of persuasion, Jenuh finally agreed to move away from Dantooine to the military base on Coruscant where the 501st was based.
As a Non-Commissioned Officer and Selection
About a year after Kor married Jenuh he was promoted to Corporal, the first of the Non-Commissioned officer ranks. With the promotion Sarsyn became a squad leader. Whether it was defending villagers from pirates or assaulting a rebel stronghold he proved to be an extremely efficient and brave squad leader. On one of those missions a rebel sniper shot his right ring finger off, he was forced to wear his wedding ring around his neck. Just before his next mission, dubbed "Operation Eternal Sweep"
Kor went into the operation confident, maybe even a little cocky, but he would leave a hard man, one who has seen some of the worst horrors in the galaxy and come out alive. The 501st was to defend a nearly defenseless villagers against the local fauna until the people could defend themselves. Early in the deployment he received a message from his wife: She was pregnant with his baby, it was the best day of his life, he could not wait to go on his next leave, but unfortunately it would have to wait.
Korben lost many of his friends to the relentless beasts, the exotic diseases, and even from the more hostile tribes over the course of 2 years. There were only two things that kept the hardened man going after all that he had been through: his wife and his unborn child. On more than a few occasions he nearly lost his life to one of the marsh suckers, a leech-like parasite that digested the victim alive, the only way to reverse the damage was bacta/kolto, and a whole lot of it.
After OP Eternal Sweep the 501st was reassigned to garrison duty on Coruscant, he would finally get to see his baby girl, who just turned 2. The 501st was assigned to garrison duty for about 2 years before they were reassigned, Sarsyn was also promoted to Sergeant at the end of the garrison duty. After a few years he joined the special forces, and has been serving there ever since.