Post by Sith Lord 999 on Jan 4, 2013 16:09:07 GMT -5
((Still a WIP. 
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Faction: Sith Order
Rank: Initiate
Previous Faction: Jedi, Dark Jedi
Previous Rank: Jedi Padawan, Dark Jedi Master
Name: Garn Vakheer
Species: Half-Sephi, Half-Firrerreo
Age: 87 (as of 3601 BBY)
Birth Place: Aboard a ship en route to Firrerre
Height: 6' 1”
Weight: 193 lbs.
Appearance: Garn has a muscular build, pointed ears, dark skin with a hint of a gold sheen to it, and an angular face that can be seen as handsome in a cold, ruthless sort of way. His eyes are bright acid-green, while his partially two toned hair, which he prefers to keep cut short, is jet black and dull silver. He bears several scars across his body, including burn marks on his back and chest, cuts on his arms and chest, and dual scars running vertically down his face that start at his hairline, skip over his eyes, and end slightly below his jawline. Since he inherited his biological longevity from his Firrerreo mother and Sephi father, he still appears to be in his late twenties or early thirties.
He usually wears a heavy black overcloak that resembles the Jedi overcloak, though not as flowing and with pockets, a zipper front, and the like distinguishing it from the standard overcloak. He does this to conceal his armor when wearing it, and he also puts on long leather gloves to conceal his prosthetic forearms. He usually has two Tehk'la blades concealed in his boots.
His Sith Stalker-esque armor. Prosthetics are built into and comprise most of his forearms. Retractable spikes tip the top edge of each finger, which can be used to great effect in unarmed combat. Practically all of the bone and most of the muscle in each forearm have been replaced by the cybernetic devices, though with pretty much all of his flesh intact and slight amount of muscle remaining, he is able to use Force lightning safely without it backfiring on him. There aren't any distinguishing signs that his forearms are mostly prosthetics, unless someone has a good eye or are able to touch them.
His lightsabers are simple, and have a black grip running almost the full length. Three short, blunt spikes protrude from the top, which can be quite effective when stabbed into someone's eyes. As they're designed to be wielded in one hand, they are slightly shorter than the standard lightsaber hilt's length.
(Roughly what he looks like.)
Personality: Garn is detached and barely empathic to the feelings of others. He is serious most of the time, but he has developed a slight smart alek-like side since he has been free of his Dark Jedi Masters. Even though at first he was forcibly trained to obey commands from higher ups, he has developed a streak of his own independence, and will not hesitate to question any orders that he is curious about or finds flaws in.
While he isn't truly evil per say, basically all he knows is how to fight and kill. He wishes to do and learn more than just being a warrior, but those feelings are often overwhelmed by his violent nature. He is also somewhat confused and baffled by politics; while he is quite intelligent himself, he just doesn't really see the point of the power play between Sith Lords, Senators, and the like. In time, he could learn to be a master manipulator, but for the present he is more than happy to just be an agent. He does desire personal power as well, but in the form of more powerful Force abilities and better skill with the lightsaber.
Garn doesn't fear much. Once, he used to fear failure, as that used to bring excruciating pain down upon him while he was serving his Dark Jedi Master. Now, he hardly fears failing in an assignment as much as he used to, but he does feel anger when that happens. He still doesn't like failing or being beaten in something, because it means he wasn't as good as he could have been, that he was too weak. He strives to become stronger in the vain hope that he will never fail. He shies away from intimate contact, thanks to his...experiences...during his training. The one true thing he's afraid of is becoming a slave again, and he hopes becoming a Sith will give him power so that he will remain free.
Currently, he has few hobbies other than practice sparring and meditating. He does like to take trophies of particularly noteworthy adversaries--such as lightsabers from enemies who use them--which could be classified as a sort of hobby. Aside from that, he has found that he somewhat enjoys carving, usually special pieces of bone, wood, or malleable metal. He is also mildly OCD, which shows in his near spotless organization and training exercises; he will go over routines again and again again, even if he perfected the technique already. In addition to this, he has very slight schizophrenia, which sometimes manifests as him hearing the angry, berating voices of his Dark Jedi Masters while training or, very rarely, in other situations.
Lightsaber: 2 Single Blades (Single Phase, Krayt Dragon Pearl as crystals)
Color: Silvery-Blue
Practiced Lightsaber forms:
Shii-Cho: 5
Makashi: 0
Soresu: 0
Ataru: 2
Shien/Djem So: 3
>>Backhanded: 2
Niman: 5
>>Jar-kai: 5
Juyo: 5
Double Bladed Combat: 0
Force-Sensitive Abilities or Practices:
Telekinetic: 8
Telepathic: 4
Body: 5
Sense: 5
Protection: 6
Healing: 2
Destruction: 8
Specialized Skills:
Force Absorb
Force Flash
Repulse
Lightening Storm/Chain Lightening
Attributes:
Strength: 6
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 6
Leadership: 3
Unarmed: 7
Melee Weapons: 5
Ranged Weapons: 4
Bio:
Garn Vakheer was an unexpected result of a relationship--one that was virtually nonexistent anywhere else--between Kair Vakheer and Leyari, a Sephi and Firrerreo, respectively. Leyari, his mother, died giving birth to him aboard Kair's ship. The Sephi father, knowing that as a rogue living in debt, raising Garn by himself would not be a good idea, but he didn't want to put his son up for adoption just anywhere. Then, he realized. As he was slightly Force Sensitive himself, he was able to tell that Garn had far more power than he did.
So, Kair journeyed to Corusant, more specifically to the Jedi Temple. Once there, he inquired if Garn was strong enough in the Force to be accepted and trained. A Jedi Master confirmed the above average sensitivity the hybrid showed. Kair reluctantly gave Garn over to the Jedi and left, never to come back. As it turned out, he was attacked by pirates and killed a week later.
When Garn started actual training, he quickly became skilled using both the lightsaber and the Force. Garn eventually found out that he was proficient in using his lightsaber in either hand, though he slightly preferred his right. Later in life, Garn would utilize two lightsabers and master Jar-Kai. He was about average in physical abilities for his age, but he was cunning, and so was able to use tactics in order to win spars.
He had a friendly disposition, and made friends fairly quickly amongst the other Younglings. He did in fact later develop an attraction for one of his best friends, Lasria, an Echani. He was almost universally liked by his peers.
When it came time for Garn to be selected by a Jedi Knight or Master for more advanced training, he grabbed the interest of the recently promoted Master Ylira, a Zeltron. She chose him shortly after he became available for apprenticeship.
Under the tutelage of Ylira, Garn learned the basics of Niman and Jar-Kai, and was even given another training saber with which to use a couple years later. He found he liked Ylira, as she was free spirited and a lot like himself, being friendly and compassionate to others. On their first mission together a year after Garn became a Padawan, they both helped settle an argument between three rival Arkanian businesses. During said negotiations, one of the Arkanian representatives grew angry with what he perceived to be harsh insults from one of the other representatives.
The Arkanian drew a pistol and fired upon the genetically manipulated Offshoot, but the bolt was deflected back at him, destroying the weapon in the process, thanks to the quick reflexes of Ylira. After speaking for a prolonged time to the Arkanian, she calmed him down, allowing the debate to proceed normally.
En route to their second assignment on Corulag several months later, a Dark Jedi and his cohort, a bounty hunter, attempted to steal the ship in order to escape to a place like Nar Shaddaa they could hide at. Before they could jettison all of the passengers, Master Ylira stepped up to combat them. Garn ignored her orders to stay put and disarmed the soldier in a surprise attack, then ran further back into the ship and hid before the bounty hunter could respond. When he came after Garn, several of the passengers grappled him, allowing the Padawan to pull off his helmet, then knock him out by using a briefcase to hit him on the head multiple times.
In the meantime, Ylira had outmatched the Dark Jedi and killed him. Afterwords, she berated Garn for disobeying, but admitted that without his help, she probably would have been killed by the Dark Jedi and his ally. Once they reached Corulag, they chartered a prison ship to take him back to Corusant for questioning, then continued with their actual mission.
The duo's third and last mission as Jedi together occurred shortly after the Padawan turned thirteen. They were investigating a man on the planet of Null who reportedly had been dabbling in Sith Magic, along with Lasria and Master Sevrin. Once they reached the man's residence, they were assaulted by his wild Force lightning attacks. As he didn't fully understand what he was doing, the Jedi were able to push forward and incapacitate the nobleman.
However, unknown to the four of them, it was all an elaborate setup. The nobleman had been a host for a Derriphan, which took control of Ylira and forced her to murder Master Sevrin, then knock Lasria and Garn unconscious. The Derriphan-controlled Zeltron brought them aboard a hidden ship on the nobleman's property, then caused a prearranged explosion at the man's household which erased any evidence of the conspiracy.
When Jedi Master Quentas-Lir was dispatched to look at the mess, he concluded that the nobleman had gone mad and destroyed the place with uncontrollable Dark Side energy. The investigation was closed, and the four lost Jedi were given ceremonial funerals back on Corusant.
When the ship reached its destination--a small, underground bunker on an obscure Outer Rim world--the one behind the setup was revealed to be an Anzat who had convinced the Derriphan to help him. They also found that he was not the only one there, as he had been slowly building a cabal of Dark Side users for years, in the form of a few humans and near-humans, a Nautolan, Kaleesh, Feeorin, and a Khil.
Immediately, the Anzat, Lord Trhar, imprisoned the two Padawans and started to torture Master Ylira. He used mental domination in conjunction with Memory Walk and sporadic Force lightning to wear her down, and after a week of continual work, he broke the Jedi. He had an easier time of it than he had with other Masters, as Zeltrons were more susceptible to feeling negative emotions, and he virtually poured malice and hatred into her mind. She would later be consumed from the inside out by the Derriphan as payment for its cooperation with the Dark Jedi.
Once Trhar had finished, he went to work on Garn and Lasria. Being young, it merely took three days to fully break each of them. Garn was shown his greatest fears, embarrassments, anxieties, and confronted with situation after situation where such things happened and there was nothing he could do to alter the events. Soon enough, he could hardly tell reality from hallucination. The Anzat then moved on to Lasria and did the same.
The next several years consisted of brutal training that occurred day and night. They drilled lightsaber and force techniques nonstop, and if they hesitated or refused, they were assaulted with lightning or Memory Walks. Any showing of emotion for longing to go back to the Jedi Temple was punishable by starvation for days on end and Memory Walks during that time period. Oddly enough, at least to Garn, Trhar encouraged Lasria and he to love and feel compassion for each other. Only later would be discover the reason why.
It was during the “training” that Garn learned to fear failure and always strive to be better in any possible way. If he had trouble learning a routine, he was punished. If he lost in a sparring match, he was punished. If he spoke out against his superiors, he was punished. The various methods used to do so were many and very, very painful, soon making Garn into a vicious, unquestioning warrior.
Shortly after the three Jedi were captured by Trhar, he located and brought two other Force Sensitive youth in their early teens to his lair for training beside Garn, Lasria, and a third who had been recruited before them, creating a quintet of apprentices. Garn was taught how to adapt to any situation, and even learned some types of unarmed combat, the most prevalent of which were Teräs Käsi and Echani martial arts. He was also taught many languages to help him on missions, including Sith and Mando'a, the latter of which Trhar learned after ripping the information out of a dying Mandalorian's mind a century or so earlier.
At times, the trainees were subjected to various types of poisons and toxins to bolster their immune system for the future, and so they could know the effects and learn to counteract them. He became frighteningly adept with Force lightning, later using it to great effect against Rancors, Jedi, and even a Krayt Dragon. Another Force power Trhar taught him was Force Flash, which he used to great effect in combat and on stealth missions in the wider galaxy. He also became very good while wielding two lightsabers, eventually mastering Jar-Kai.
Often, their Masters would maroon them at a distant location on the planet with nothing, not even their lightsabers and clothing; they would be granted those items for use later, after they left the small planet. They had to forage for food and search for shelter, all the while heading back to the Dark Jedi base. It was on one of these many tests of survival that one of the one of the other apprentices died. None of the surviving four felt pity for him, instead focusing on becoming better so such a thing would not happen to them.
The Dark Jedi cabal relocated nine years into their training to the frozen world of Hoth. There, the apprentices continued to train in the hostile environment, learning valuable survival skills in the process. The fourth trainee died when the group was lost in a blizzard and subsequently ambushed by a small group of Wampas. Garn, Lasria, and the third apprentice managed to kill three of the creatures before escaping into a cave.
Two years after they arrived at Hoth, they relocated again to Tatooine. The abrupt, complete change in climate shocked Garn slightly, but he quickly adapted to survive on the desert planet. When they were dropped off roughly thirty kilometers away from the current base, they entered a large cavern to shelter themselves for the rapidly approaching night. Unfortunately for the apprentices, it was home to a Krayt Dragon. When it awoke to find the three smaller beings crouched near the mouth of the cavern, it roared in fury and attacked.
The trio ran out of the cavern and split up, attempting to attack the creature from multiple directions to confuse and wear it down until it was dead. Unfortunately, the third apprentice was severely injured, leaving just Garn and Lasria to combat the Krayt Dragon. Garn slipped on the side of a dune, and before he could right himself, the Krayt Dragon attempted to swallow him whole. He used the Force to protect himself from the chomping jaws, but couldn't stop himself from being forced down its throat. During the process, his lightsabers were lost in the churning sand or the Krayt Dragon's stomach.
Midway down, he drew a knife and stabbed it into the Krayt Dragon's larynx, and with the aid of the Force, prevented himself from descending fully into the monster's stomach. He electrocuted the Krayt Dragon and channeled most of the energy through his imbedded knife as he slowly crawled back up its throat. Eventually, when he reached its mouth, he tried to get out, but the stubborn creature clung to life and attempted to crush him again. In desperation, he created a sphere of kinetic force that rippled outwards from his body, forcing open its jaws. He sprang out and fell to the sand, weak and in pain but alive.
When the wounded beast tried to stumble back into its cave, Garn and Lasria chased it, eventually jumping on its back and stabbing it in the skull with their lightsabers. After several more seconds of struggle, the Krayt Dragon fell, dead. In triumph, Garn cut open its gizzard and took out the Krayt Dragon pearls there. Afterwords, they brought the third apprentice back into the cavern, but they did not help him. To do so would mean that he was too weak to survive on his own. As it was, he died during the night.
Once the two had returned to the Dark Jedi base, Garn sought to make the Krayt Dragon pearls the focusing crystals for new lightsaber pair. He cleaned and polished them for some time, then attempted to install the pearls. He failed, and had to start over. He resisted the urge to become frustrated, and instead concentrated on being patient. The second time, he assembled the lightsabers perfectly. A month after he started and coincidentally on the day of his twenty-sixth birthday, he was fully attuned to the weapons.
After he created his lightsabers based around the Krayt Dragon pearls, as a sort of rite of passage for lasting as long as he had and finally crafting his own set of lightsabers, Trhar ordered him to mark his face with the blades. He was permitted to skip over his eyes, so he wouldn't accidentally damage them. He took up his lightsabers, activated them, then took hold of them telekinetically. Garn painstakingly made the tips run down his face, burning deep wounds that would turn into his most prominent scars.
Shortly after their encounter with the Krayt Dragon and two years after they relocated to Tatooine, the cabal moved elsewhere for the last leg of the two apprentices' training. This time, they went to a remote plateau on Korriban. Lord Trhar had built a hidden base there a few centuries beforehand, and was familiar with the planet and its denizens. After they landed, Garn and Lasria fought through a pack of Tuk'ata to ensure a safe path for their Dark Jedi Masters from the landing pad to the entrance of the base. Once inside, they were confronted by a terentatek that had been kept in stasis for decades.
Garn was injured and poisoned in the battle with the rancor-like creature, but after meditating for a few days, he was able to purge the venom from his system and continue with his training. During the two years on Korriban, they would periodically be attacked by various types of creatures, even battling a Sith Wyrm once, though it was considerably smaller than the one Exar Kun faced on Yavin 4 hundreds of years previously.
As the beginning of the final Trials, Garn was put into a deep sleep, only to awake a few days later with orbalisks--brought over from Dxun--attached to him. They had covered virtually all of his body, and he could barely breathe. After calming down and controlling his breath, he telepathically asked the Dark Jedi masters how to get the parasites off. They replied that the orbalisks were susceptible to electricity, and that if he made a wrong move, they would inject him with a deadly toxin that might very well kill him.
Garn, lying motionless, slowly used Force lightning on the orbalisks covering his face. After a time, he was able to telekinetically remove them, allowing him to breathe freely. He did the same for his arms, torso, then legs. Finally, they were all off, and he was permitted to go into a healing trance to rid himself of any vestigial poison.
The second Trial involved Garn and Lasria being dropped off on Dathomir and left to stay alive for a month. During that time period, they used all the skills they had learned to hunt, forage, and survive in the harsh wilderness. They often encountered Rancors, but after a week of fleeing from the large creatures when they neared, the two apprentices developed an effective hit and run method of attack that eventually culminated in the targeted Rancor's death. They both survived, and were hardened by the experience and eager for the next challenge.
A few months after Dathomir, he learned that Lasria was pregnant with his child. Of course, he found this out the day before the third and last Trial, which is where everything went wrong. Trhar decreed that they were to combat one another for Knighthood, one that must end in the loser's death.
After a lengthy duel that neither wanted to fight, Garn overpowered Lasria, but he refused to kill her. The Anzat Dark Jedi knew the apprentice would do this, so he put his plan into motion. He infiltrated Garn's mind and, as he was not fully aware of what he was doing, Trhar coerced him. The Anzat spoke to the darkest part of Garn's mind, telling him that it would make him stronger if he had no attachments, nothing to lose. Gradually, he relented, and conceded to Trhar's order. He brutally killed Lasria by ripping their child out of her womb and cutting her throat, then watching as her life ebbed away on the floor before him.
When it was over, Trhar released his mental grasp on Garn and let him witness the horror of what he had done. Of course, he slightly edited the course of events in Garn's mind, making it seem as though he wanted Garn to kill Lasria quickly, but that the apprentice, in the throes of a rage, had murdered her in the most inhumane way as he could think of. The story was easier for Garn to accept because he wasn't completely sane at the time, and so it made sense to him in a horrific, twisted way.
Afterwords, Lord Trhar celebrated Garn's achievement of becoming a Dark Jedi Knight by giving him what the Anzat called a “present”. In reality, he strapped Garn down so he was literally unable to move, then went to work on modifying Garn's body, though it would more accurately be called ripping his arms apart.
Trhar, having studied the old Sith assassins, especially the elite Stalkers, created armor for Garn based on the Sith Stalker design. But first, the most painful experience Garn ever had, occurred. His arms were virtually shredded, with about eighty percent of the organic tissue and bone replaced with cold, hard synthetic prosthetics. Once the procedure was done, Garn was given the Stalker armor.
The Master, having a slight measure of mercy tempered with pragmatism, let Garn recoup from the traumatizing events he had experienced for a few months, after which the Knight adjusted to his new armor and forearms for several months. Finally, when Garn was twenty-nine, he was given his first true mission. He was to travel to Balosar and assassinate a man who had swindled Trhar during the Anzat's journeys abroad. Garn tracked his quarry through the polluted cities, then found him and executed him by snapping his neck.
Satisfied with the efficient kill, Trhar immediately decided to put Garn's skills to the test against a true opponent. In this case, he was to target a Jedi Investigator who was getting close to uncovering their cabal. In the subsequent Knight on Knight duel, Garn quickly overpowered his opponent and, as per his Master's instructions, made it appear as an accident. He choked the Jedi until he had passed out, then shot him several times with a blaster and took his belongings, making it look at though he had been attacked and outmatched by a bounty hunter or pirate of sorts and robbed.
Three months later, he was sent to kill a Jedi Shadow who had defeated a member of their cabal and was taking him in for questioning. When he boarded the prison transport, he brutally electrocuted the Jedi after an intense fight, then sabotaged the life support. As he passed by the Nautolan Dark Jedi prisoner, Garn beheaded him for failing their master.
After this, the Dark Jedi laid low for a year and a half, with Garn eliminating a too-inquisitive Jedi only once in that time period. When they relocated to Hypori, he was given a task of recruiting Force Sensitive youth for training under Trhar. His first stop was Ryloth. As Twi'leks were often sold as slaves there, he would not rouse any suspicion by buying or stealing Force Sensitive children. After a month there, he had recruited two young Twi'leks, and subsequently brought them back to his Master.
Garn next went to Corellia, where he watched the Jedi Force Sensitive child recruiter there take a human toddler with him for eventual training at the Temple. Acting quickly, he snuck up on the Jedi and blinded him, then rapidly overwhelmed him with a flurry of unarmed strikes and put him in a sleeper hold. When the Jedi was unconscious, he took the child and spirited him to Hypori.
His third journey lead him to Cato Nemoidia, which was the area a Jedi Knight and his Padawan were working in. Garn orchestrated an accident that made it look like both of the Jedi fell to their deaths after a mechanical malfunction occurred. However, with quick timing, he rescued the Padawan, but left the Knight to tumble to the ground kilometers below. The Padawan resisted at first, but Garn quickly subdued her.
With the last of the new apprentices recruited, the Dark Jedi cabal went into hiding for a time. Several months later, when Garn was thirty-two, he was sent to assassinate a defective member of the cabal. He chased his elusive target for a year before finally cornering him on Mon Calamari. As the Knight approached the turncoat Khil, Garn deflected or dodged all the attacks that came his way, then summoned an incredibly powerful current of Force lightning. The power lifted the Khil high into the air and sent him plummeting back down into the ocean, where he was held under and quickly drowned.
Finished with his latest task, Garn returned to Hypori to help train the recruits. He took an apprentice himself, namely the Padawan he had kidnapped on Cato Nemoidia. The Togruta, Maere Vona, reminded him of Lasria and himself at times, though he distanced himself from her in case Trhar decided he was getting to close to the trainee.
Garn did not go on any more missions for nearly thirteen years, during which he turned Maere into a lethal warrior. She went through many of the same things he did, save for falling in love with a fellow trainee. Garn was grateful for this, though he did not show it. That way, she wouldn't have to kill her loved one in a vicious duel to the death, or watch him die in one of the myriad training exercises.
It was also around this time that Garn went into a period of self-reflection. He gradually regained some of his sanity, but admittedly not much. The biggest happening was that he witnessed a hazy vision of the day he killed Lasria. Even though the events were foggy and he was unable to truly decipher them, it created a spark of doubt in his mind about Lord Trhar. He realized just how unhappy he was, being a cold, emotionless tool for the Anzat to use as he pleased. From that point on, he built up a considerably powerful mental shield, to help prevent any unwanted intrusions; that way, Trhar would not be able to see the doubt in Garn's deep thoughts.
At the age of forty-six, after slightly less than fifteen years of almost straight training with his apprentice, he was sent to observe and eventually speak with a Dark Jedi who had managed to track them to their current location. He sought to join their group, and become a servant of Trhar. Based on Garn's reports, the Anzat allowed the man to enter the base. Just before they reached the antechamber for Trhar's throne room, the man attacked Garn. As it turned out, he was a Jedi Shadow who was infiltrating the cabal.
Garn slew the Jedi after a bit, then had to deal with his two companions, who broke into the base and attacked. Apparently, another one of the Dark Jedi had defected, but this one had gone to a Jedi Shadow, who had taken two others with him to deal with the Dark Jedi. Garn fought the enemy Jedi and kept all three combatants in a stalemate for sometime, then created a flash which blinded one, allowing him to stagger the other with a quick push of telekinetic power and slip away.
When the Jedi followed him, they were met with a raging Lightning Storm, which overwhelmed the first Jedi and burned him to death. The second was injured by the attack, but he was quick enough to retreat before being killed. Garn went after him and threw both lightsabers at the wounded Jedi. He blocked one, but the second cut through his spinal chord, paralyzing him. The Nagai-Firrerreo hybrid gave his opponent a mercy killing by swiftly cutting his head off.
Garn and the other Dark Jedi Knights quickly went to work on erasing all evidence of their existence, first by disposing of the Jedi's corpses, then collapsing the area around the base so it could not be seen. After this, they took the Jedi's shuttle and sold it on the black market. They relocated to another suitable planet where the apprentices would continue their training. However, Garn's main task was to hunt down the traitor and execute him.
The former Dark Jedi was easier to find than the last one Garn had hunted, and proved to be a lesser challenge, though by that point Garn had become even deadlier with the decades of experience. He brutally ripped the traitor apart on board a transport vessel, and to eliminate any witnesses, he killed all the passengers. He jettisoned the bodies, then went to the cabal's new base.
Once he returned, he saw Maere emerge as the victorious apprentice. She was Knighted, and with her success, Garn was anointed a Dark Jedi Master.
Garn's missions after he became a Master came more sporadically, as Trhar wanted Maere to gain experience in the field. For the twenty-nine years, he only went on a single assignment about once every five years. During that time, he only went on an actual designated combat mission once every five years or so. He mainly traveled the galaxy abroad, occasionally checking on Trhar's contacts, and periodically collecting a Force Sensitive youth.
Four years after he became a Master, when he was fifty-one, Garn traveled to Yaga Minor to speak with a higher ranking official of the so-called Sith Empire. The Aristocrat desired to learn secrets of the Dark Side from Lord Trhar, and was willing to pay the Dark Jedi handsome sums of credits to do so. Unfortunately for him, the Aristocrat was too weak in the Force to learn what he desired.
Seeing an opportunity, Garn got a book containing basic Dark Side techniques and gave it to the Aristocrat for a large chunk of money. While the Aristocrat was reading the book in the night, Garn dressed himself in Jedi robes, snuck into the mansion, then assassinated the Aristocrat. He took the tome and left, though making sure the surveillance cameras got a good look at his outfit before he disabled them. He returned to Trhar with his prize, then set out again.
Seven years later, Garn was attacked by a Jedi Shadow on Sullust. Unfortunately for the Shadow, the Dark Jedi Master was not so easily killed. He lead the Jedi on a prolonged chase that ended in the other Force user's death when Garn unexpectedly came out of hiding to impale him through the heart with a Tehk'la blade. He took the Jedi's lightsaber, then dumped his body into a lava flow on the surface. After this, he immediately left the planet in case the Jedi had a partner who was following him.
Garn went to Ithor to hide for a time, so as to let his trail go cold from any other Shadows attempting to trail him. After a full year on the forest-covered planet, Garn set out again, this time to Nar Shaddaa in order to discuss matters with one of Trhar's contacts. However, something quite unexpected happened after they were talking. A seemingly random person attacked him, using the Force to great effect while using no weapons but her own hands. She belonged to a group called the Wardens of the Sky, and she had been taken notice of Garn a few years beforehand. Now that he was back on Nar Shaddaa, the Warden sought to stop him.
Unfortunately, she failed. Quite miserably, actually. Garn, knowledgeable in unarmed combat, fought her to a standstill before rebuffing her with Force lightning and Force pushing her through a wall. She tried to flee, but Garn threw a lightsaber after her. She mostly dodged it, so instead of both legs being chopped off, only one was hamstrung. The Warden summoned all her strength and hurled a powerful Force blast at Garn, distracting him before she rolled off the side of the bridge and fell onto a speeder traveling below.
Just after Garn turned sixty-three, he went to Corusant in order to speak with an informant. Twenty minutes before he was scheduled to talk with the informant, a bounty hunter team barged into the bar and declared that the man next to Garn would be coming with them. Not knowing this, he drew his lightsabers and turned to see that the man beside him was a Dark Jedi who had a fairly large bounty on his head. By that time, the Dark Jedi had his lightsaber activated, and with Garn in the line of fire as well, he pretty much had no choice but to retaliate against the bounty hunters.
Roughly one minute later, all the bounty hunters were dead. As the other Dark Jedi turned to thank Garn for his help, he impaled the man through the back, killing him instantly. After he spoke with Trhar's contact, he would gather the bounty on the dead Dark Jedi.
Three years after he went to Corusant, he joined Maere and a Kiffar Dark Jedi Knight in eliminating a small group of Grey Jedi who were planning to attack and destroy the Lord Trhar's cabal. Unfortunately for them, the Dark Jedi moved first. They came in, and before the Grey Jedi knew it, half of their number were dead. Disorganized, they tried to move together, but that only served to make one large target for Garn's Lightning Storm, Maere's Kinetite, and the Kiffar's Force blasts. Soon, the last Grey Jedi was dead, and the three Dark Jedi departed.
A few months after Garn turned seventy-one, he was sent by Trhar to Kashyyyk in order to fulfill the cabal's end of a bargain to a powerful Trandoshan. The Dark Jedi was to help the warlord in attacking a village and taking the surviving Wookies as slaves. During the raid, he fought an ex-Jedi who proved to be a skilled combatant. Near the end of the raid, he finally outmaneuvered the Wookie and bisected him.
It was in the aftermath of the raid that his doubt of Trhar grew stronger. The Jedi had had a family and two children, one of which was Force Sensitive. When some Trandoshans came to take the young Wookies away, he cut them down. He offered an explanation to the warlord that his Master would want them to train. The warlord relented, allowing Garn to take the children. In reality, he took them to another village to be raised by the Wookies there.
A similar experience occurred four years later. He traveled with another Dark Jedi Master to Phaeda, where she had found a small family with no less than four Force Sensitive children. All of them were the right age for Lord Trhar's indoctrination, and she desired Garn's aid in kidnapping them. He started to do so, but his rage rose from within him. He attacked the other Master and slaughtered her, then dumped her corpse into the lower levels of the city. Garn may not have had the strength of will to escape Trhar yet, but he would prevent anyone else from becoming like him.
For the next year, Garn became distant from Lord Trhar's cabal. He planned how best he could topple the Anzat's cabal, for he had killed a fair number of deserters. He decided to go for Trhar's biggest supporters, thereby weakening his power. The first order of business was to track down Master Noyir, a Feeorin, to Riflor. However, what he found was Noyir's corpse lying next to a Draethos and Miraluka Jedi. Both were unconscious and sorely wounded. He took a measure of pity on them and alerted the law enforcement, who came and took the Jedi to a hospital, but he was gone long before that.
Garn's second target was Master Neril Khamersu, a Twi'lek. He met the other Dark Jedi Master at the Twi'lek's estate located on Dantooine. Their subsequent duel absolutely demolished Neril's mansion and alerted local authorities. They cut down the intruders, then continued with their fight. At the end, Garn shocked Master Khamersu badly, then brought the last section of the building down on him, crushing the Twi'lek and killing him.
A year and a half past before Garn could locate a third supporter of Trhar. During that time period, he fended off several assassination attempts and kept moving, ensuring the Anzat's agents would be hard pressed to follow him. On Eriadu, he found Master Lentas, an Arkanian Offshoot. They fought briefly, but in that time they both nearly died several times. In a flurry of movement, Garn deactivated one lightsaber, putting Lentas off-balance. The rebel Dark Jedi took advantage of that to whirl around and cut the Arkanian in half, ending their fight.
With the information he gained after killing Lentas, Garn had narrowed down Lord Trhar's most likely locations, and with the Arkanian's death, the Anzat had one less major supporter. During the next several months of tracking down his former Master, he was subjected to more assassination attempts than ever before. This time, they weren't all Dark Jedi, but mercenaries and bounty hunters hired to kill him. Even with the frequent battles, he did not falter, and kept persevering.
He made a slight detour to Corusant when he heard that Kivak, a Barabel Dark Jedi Knight serving Trhar, was dispatched to assassinate Quentas-Lir, the Draethos Jedi who had been put into a coma during his fight with Lord Noyir. Garn tried to stop him, but he arrived too late. He tracked down the Dark Jedi, but by the time he reached Kivak, a Jedi was in the process of fighting him. Garn left after Kivak was impaled by his own lightsaber, then continued to follow Trhar's trail.
A mere four weeks before he confronted Trhar for the last time, he found himself fighting Maere. He tried to convince his previous apprentice to help him stop the Anzat, and after a time, she agreed to join him. In the penultimate battle Garn fought, he and Maere were separated inside one of Trhar's bases on Fondor. They were each assaulted by some of the last Dark Jedi under Trhar's command, but both outmaneuvered their opponents and slew them.
En route to Lord Trhar's true location at long last, Maere seduced Garn and coerced him into sleeping with her during the long journey. While he was soundly asleep, she attempted to kill him with one of his Tehk'la blades. He reacted in time to stop her, and in the wake of her betrayal, he stabbed her through the heart in self defense. Contrary to what the desperate Anzat hoped, the Togruta's deception had only made Garn angrier.
On Ruusan, the fierce battle between Trhar and Garn absolutely annihilated the landscape around them. When the Anzat tried to dominate Garn, he resisted, instead shocking Trhar and sending him hurtling back. After another bout of lightsaber combat, Garn finally disarmed Trhar. He had the Dark Jedi at his mercy.
Garn declared that he was free from the Anzat's hold over him. Trhar retorted that he would never be free. The Sephi-Firrerreo hybrid agreed and said he never would be as long as Trhar lived. As he moved in to kill the Anzat, Trhar exerted some of the last of his energy to stun Garn. He ran to a large speeder and tried to escape in it, but with Garn's full fury in action, he took hold of the vehicle and devastated it with Force lightning, then slammed it back into the Dark Jedi's base.
When the severely injured Trhar feebly tried to get himself unpinned, Garn summoned a fierce blast of lightning that set him on fire. In perhaps his most powerful use of the Force to date, Garn created a massive Lightning Storm that annihilated the structure, then caused a landslide to bury it deep.
Garn, thoroughly exhausted, fell to his knees, and for the first time in so long, felt a flicker of joy. The last of Trhar's men would be hunted down and killed or die in hiding, and the Anzat Dark Jedi was finally dead. He could not ruin any more lives, nor murder anyone else. With that, Garn departed.
For the next seven or so years, Garn drifted around the galaxy. Since he had access to Trhar's bank accounts, which provided him with several million credits, he could have settled down somewhere tranquil. As it was, he was restless. He became a bounty hunter on occasion and a hired guard at other times, which satisfied his need to do something active.
The most exciting times for Garn were when he hunted down Dark Jedi, sometimes alongside Jedi. When he did so, he tried to conceal his powerful use of the Force, but as it was, all except two of them attempted to arrest or attack him. He offered the explanation that he was a Grey Jedi if they inquired, and that seemed to satisfy most of the Jedi.
After his eightieth birthday, he worked in concert with a Jedi Shadow to take down the last surviving member--at least, from what Garn could find--of Lord Trhar's cabal, Master Trelis Narvon. The elusive Dark Jedi led them on an almost galaxy-wide chase, starting on Makem Te and ending inside a temple on Cilpar. There, the Shadow and Garn fought him in a lengthy duel, during which the Jedi was severely wounded when he was pinned beneath a collapsed section of the structure. After purposefully being disarmed, Garn surprised Trelis when the Dark Jedi came in to kill him. He used the Force to absorb the energy from the lightsaber, then spun around Trelis, released the claws on his fingertips, and ripped the man's throat out with them.
When Garn was midway through his eighty-third year, he mistakenly angered a Hutt by killing one of his best agents. The Sephi-Firrerreo hybrid found himself attacked on multiple fronts by bounty hunters. After carving his way through three teams of enemies, he set his sights on the Hutt. If no one was around to pay the bounty, there would be no bounty hunters. He hijacked the Hutt's personal ship while it was traveling, sabotaged the engines so they would propel the vessel into a star, then escaped on a shuttle.
He also aroused the ire of a Sith Aristocrat two years after his encounter with the Hutt. Not in the mood to negotiate with someone who hired mercenaries to kill him, Garn tracked the man down to Vjun. He fought through the security teams, even battling a Dark Jedi ally of the Aristocrat, who Garn killed after a quick, mostly one-sided duel by snapping his neck. When he finally reached the Aristocrat, he burned a hole right through his body with a concentrated bolt of Force lightning.
Slightly more than seven years after he killed Trhar, Garn started hearing rumors about something new. Not the Mandalorians or the Sith Empire, something...darker. Upon further investigation, he found out that the Sith Order itself was being resurrected. He was intrigued by the idea. The Sith could give him purpose again. They could make him stronger. He could become so much more if he joined them.
After giving it some more thought, he decided to follow up on some leads. Most of them turned out to be dead ends, but he was used to that. Finally, he found what he was looking for. A short time later, he became inducted into the Sith Order as an Initiate.
RP Sample:
Garn Vakheer, rebellious Dark Jedi Master, walked briskly beside Maere Vona, a Togruta who was his former apprentice. They crossed over a wide bridge in the relatively forgotten underlevels of a southern city, the breeze essentially nonexistent. The Sephi-Firrerreo hybrid's face was obscured by his foreboding helmet, which was modeled after the old Sith Stalkers, feared elite assassins hundreds of years ago.
When they reached the door of a spire-like structure, Garn took a moment to stop and consider it. After a couple seconds and discerning that it was locked, he gathered a powerful blast of telekinetic force in his hands, then released it. The door collapsed inward, creating an entrance large enough for the two to step in.
They cautiously stalked down a dark hallway, unlit lightsabers in hand. Garn paused when they passed by a doorway, then stepped towards it. The door slid open with a muted hiss, giving him entrance into the pitch-black room. He slowly looked around, eyes narrowed. Just as he cleared the door, it slid shut, locking him inside and separating him from Maere. When glanced back to inspect it, he heard two lightsabers hum to life in the room.
The lights flickered on, revealing the presence of a large holotank at the back of the room with two men clad in dark robes flanking it. A blue image flickered to life, and it resolved itself into a slightly smaller than life hologram of Lord Trhar.
“I sincerely wish you hadn't started this foolish quest, Garn.” The Anzat sighed, though he seemed amused more than anything else. “I have to admit, you've done a fantastic job so far. Using all the skills I taught you do strike back at me like only one other has done before... It's impressive, to say the least. Of course, I ended up squashing that other renegade like a bug, so I wouldn't be getting my hopes up if I were you. Now, kill him.”
The last sentence was directed at the two Dark Jedi, who each lifted an arm and sent two currents of bright blue lightning at Garn. He dropped to one knee from the ferocity of the combined attack, both hands up to protect himself from both streams of electricity. He grimaced under his helmet, then slowly rose to his feet. He absorbed some of the energy, and a second later, created dual Force blasts that rushed at each Dark Jedi.
They ceased their assault to dodge the powerful telekinetic waves, then rushed in to attack Garn with their lightsabers. He activated both lightsabers and dove into the action, silvery-blue blades turning into bright blurs as he spun in order to deflect and parry each attack.
At first, both came at him from the front, where he could easily see their moves and react to them. However, several seconds into the frantic melee, they went to the sides, catching Garn in the middle. He had to use his instincts and precognition to quickly block each attack, spinning at times to put them off-balance. Finally, the moment came.
In a Force-powered blow, he staggered one of the Dark Jedi back with a horizontal chop, then whirled and lifted his other lightsaber to block the overhead strike of the second one, going low at the same time. He slid forward and brought a leg around, sweeping the man off his feet. He used the momentum to come back to his feet when the first Dark Jedi came in again.
This time, Garn was on the offense. He rapidly smashed his weapons against the Dark Jedi's lightsaber, then came forward in a quick triple stab at the man's gut. The Dark Jedi stumbled back, only getting nicked once. Garn spun to face the second one, lightsabers in reverse grip so he could more easily catch the Djem-So overhead slash.
The Force allowed him to take the hit without much effort, which allowed him to quickly pushed up, left lightsaber moving the Dark Jedi's out of the way so Garn could hop and kick him in the groin, making him fall to his stomach and slide back a couple meters.
Garn turned to face the other Dark Jedi, right arm up as he channeled Force lightning through it. The bolts shot out, making the man take a few steps back from the raw power he was blocking. Garn whipped his left lightsaber at the Dark Jedi, but he jumped above it. While he was landing, Garn sprinted forward, locking lightsabers with the man.
He shifted to the right and deactivated his lightsaber, making the Dark Jedi step forward as he tried to regain his balance. Garn's thrown lightsaber came spinning back to him at that moment, allowing him to catch it in a reverse grip so he could stab the Dark Jedi in the back. He spun to the right while reactivating the lightsaber in his right hand, then beheaded the Dark Jedi in one swift cut.
The headless body thudded to the ground, but Garn was already sprinting towards the Dark Jedi who still lived. The man limped forward, lightsaber raised defensively. Garn jumped to the left and used the Force to give him inertia while running along the wall. He slashed with his right saber, knocking the Dark Jedi's askew. He spun and vaulted off the wall, left lightsaber coming in to cleave off the man's ear as he dodged.
Shrieking in agony, the Dark Jedi was an easy target for Garn. He unleashed a wave of crackling Force lightning, knocking the Dark Jedi's lightsaber out of his hand and shocking him badly. After a few seconds, Garn gathered a powerful telekinetic blast in between his hands, then launched it at the man.
The Dark Jedi was catapulted across the room, where he smashed into the wall, denting it several inches. Garn turned away from the body of the Dark Jedi which was imbedded in the wall, then activated both lightsabers again. He stabbed them into the locked door slightly above his head, then moved them to the sides and down. When he reached the floor, he kicked the door, making the large section he had cut out fly into the hallway.
When he stepped out, Garn saw Maere fighting her own opponent several meters away. In a quick move, she moved the lightsaber into a reverse grip and moved it vertically to deflect a thrust to the side, then sprang forward rapidly to stab the enemy Dark Jedi in the chest.
Garn blinked once while holstering his lightsabers, then turned back to the holotank at the back of the room. He motioned with a hand, switching it on. The hologram of a scowling Lord Trhar appeared.
“I'm going to find you, Trhar, and I will kill you.” Garn clenched one hand into a fist, telekinetically crushing the holotank and ending the transmission.
))Faction: Sith Order
Rank: Initiate
Previous Faction: Jedi, Dark Jedi
Previous Rank: Jedi Padawan, Dark Jedi Master
Name: Garn Vakheer
Species: Half-Sephi, Half-Firrerreo
Age: 87 (as of 3601 BBY)
Birth Place: Aboard a ship en route to Firrerre
Height: 6' 1”
Weight: 193 lbs.
Appearance: Garn has a muscular build, pointed ears, dark skin with a hint of a gold sheen to it, and an angular face that can be seen as handsome in a cold, ruthless sort of way. His eyes are bright acid-green, while his partially two toned hair, which he prefers to keep cut short, is jet black and dull silver. He bears several scars across his body, including burn marks on his back and chest, cuts on his arms and chest, and dual scars running vertically down his face that start at his hairline, skip over his eyes, and end slightly below his jawline. Since he inherited his biological longevity from his Firrerreo mother and Sephi father, he still appears to be in his late twenties or early thirties.
He usually wears a heavy black overcloak that resembles the Jedi overcloak, though not as flowing and with pockets, a zipper front, and the like distinguishing it from the standard overcloak. He does this to conceal his armor when wearing it, and he also puts on long leather gloves to conceal his prosthetic forearms. He usually has two Tehk'la blades concealed in his boots.
His Sith Stalker-esque armor. Prosthetics are built into and comprise most of his forearms. Retractable spikes tip the top edge of each finger, which can be used to great effect in unarmed combat. Practically all of the bone and most of the muscle in each forearm have been replaced by the cybernetic devices, though with pretty much all of his flesh intact and slight amount of muscle remaining, he is able to use Force lightning safely without it backfiring on him. There aren't any distinguishing signs that his forearms are mostly prosthetics, unless someone has a good eye or are able to touch them.
His lightsabers are simple, and have a black grip running almost the full length. Three short, blunt spikes protrude from the top, which can be quite effective when stabbed into someone's eyes. As they're designed to be wielded in one hand, they are slightly shorter than the standard lightsaber hilt's length.
(Roughly what he looks like.)
Personality: Garn is detached and barely empathic to the feelings of others. He is serious most of the time, but he has developed a slight smart alek-like side since he has been free of his Dark Jedi Masters. Even though at first he was forcibly trained to obey commands from higher ups, he has developed a streak of his own independence, and will not hesitate to question any orders that he is curious about or finds flaws in.
While he isn't truly evil per say, basically all he knows is how to fight and kill. He wishes to do and learn more than just being a warrior, but those feelings are often overwhelmed by his violent nature. He is also somewhat confused and baffled by politics; while he is quite intelligent himself, he just doesn't really see the point of the power play between Sith Lords, Senators, and the like. In time, he could learn to be a master manipulator, but for the present he is more than happy to just be an agent. He does desire personal power as well, but in the form of more powerful Force abilities and better skill with the lightsaber.
Garn doesn't fear much. Once, he used to fear failure, as that used to bring excruciating pain down upon him while he was serving his Dark Jedi Master. Now, he hardly fears failing in an assignment as much as he used to, but he does feel anger when that happens. He still doesn't like failing or being beaten in something, because it means he wasn't as good as he could have been, that he was too weak. He strives to become stronger in the vain hope that he will never fail. He shies away from intimate contact, thanks to his...experiences...during his training. The one true thing he's afraid of is becoming a slave again, and he hopes becoming a Sith will give him power so that he will remain free.
Currently, he has few hobbies other than practice sparring and meditating. He does like to take trophies of particularly noteworthy adversaries--such as lightsabers from enemies who use them--which could be classified as a sort of hobby. Aside from that, he has found that he somewhat enjoys carving, usually special pieces of bone, wood, or malleable metal. He is also mildly OCD, which shows in his near spotless organization and training exercises; he will go over routines again and again again, even if he perfected the technique already. In addition to this, he has very slight schizophrenia, which sometimes manifests as him hearing the angry, berating voices of his Dark Jedi Masters while training or, very rarely, in other situations.
Lightsaber: 2 Single Blades (Single Phase, Krayt Dragon Pearl as crystals)
Color: Silvery-Blue
Practiced Lightsaber forms:
Shii-Cho: 5
Makashi: 0
Soresu: 0
Ataru: 2
Shien/Djem So: 3
>>Backhanded: 2
Niman: 5
>>Jar-kai: 5
Juyo: 5
Double Bladed Combat: 0
Force-Sensitive Abilities or Practices:
Telekinetic: 8
Telepathic: 4
Body: 5
Sense: 5
Protection: 6
Healing: 2
Destruction: 8
Specialized Skills:
Force Absorb
Force Flash
Repulse
Lightening Storm/Chain Lightening
Attributes:
Strength: 6
Intelligence: 7
Speed: 6
Leadership: 3
Unarmed: 7
Melee Weapons: 5
Ranged Weapons: 4
Bio:
Birth and Early Life
[/size]Garn Vakheer was an unexpected result of a relationship--one that was virtually nonexistent anywhere else--between Kair Vakheer and Leyari, a Sephi and Firrerreo, respectively. Leyari, his mother, died giving birth to him aboard Kair's ship. The Sephi father, knowing that as a rogue living in debt, raising Garn by himself would not be a good idea, but he didn't want to put his son up for adoption just anywhere. Then, he realized. As he was slightly Force Sensitive himself, he was able to tell that Garn had far more power than he did.
So, Kair journeyed to Corusant, more specifically to the Jedi Temple. Once there, he inquired if Garn was strong enough in the Force to be accepted and trained. A Jedi Master confirmed the above average sensitivity the hybrid showed. Kair reluctantly gave Garn over to the Jedi and left, never to come back. As it turned out, he was attacked by pirates and killed a week later.
When Garn started actual training, he quickly became skilled using both the lightsaber and the Force. Garn eventually found out that he was proficient in using his lightsaber in either hand, though he slightly preferred his right. Later in life, Garn would utilize two lightsabers and master Jar-Kai. He was about average in physical abilities for his age, but he was cunning, and so was able to use tactics in order to win spars.
He had a friendly disposition, and made friends fairly quickly amongst the other Younglings. He did in fact later develop an attraction for one of his best friends, Lasria, an Echani. He was almost universally liked by his peers.
When it came time for Garn to be selected by a Jedi Knight or Master for more advanced training, he grabbed the interest of the recently promoted Master Ylira, a Zeltron. She chose him shortly after he became available for apprenticeship.
As a Padawan
[/size]Under the tutelage of Ylira, Garn learned the basics of Niman and Jar-Kai, and was even given another training saber with which to use a couple years later. He found he liked Ylira, as she was free spirited and a lot like himself, being friendly and compassionate to others. On their first mission together a year after Garn became a Padawan, they both helped settle an argument between three rival Arkanian businesses. During said negotiations, one of the Arkanian representatives grew angry with what he perceived to be harsh insults from one of the other representatives.
The Arkanian drew a pistol and fired upon the genetically manipulated Offshoot, but the bolt was deflected back at him, destroying the weapon in the process, thanks to the quick reflexes of Ylira. After speaking for a prolonged time to the Arkanian, she calmed him down, allowing the debate to proceed normally.
En route to their second assignment on Corulag several months later, a Dark Jedi and his cohort, a bounty hunter, attempted to steal the ship in order to escape to a place like Nar Shaddaa they could hide at. Before they could jettison all of the passengers, Master Ylira stepped up to combat them. Garn ignored her orders to stay put and disarmed the soldier in a surprise attack, then ran further back into the ship and hid before the bounty hunter could respond. When he came after Garn, several of the passengers grappled him, allowing the Padawan to pull off his helmet, then knock him out by using a briefcase to hit him on the head multiple times.
In the meantime, Ylira had outmatched the Dark Jedi and killed him. Afterwords, she berated Garn for disobeying, but admitted that without his help, she probably would have been killed by the Dark Jedi and his ally. Once they reached Corulag, they chartered a prison ship to take him back to Corusant for questioning, then continued with their actual mission.
The duo's third and last mission as Jedi together occurred shortly after the Padawan turned thirteen. They were investigating a man on the planet of Null who reportedly had been dabbling in Sith Magic, along with Lasria and Master Sevrin. Once they reached the man's residence, they were assaulted by his wild Force lightning attacks. As he didn't fully understand what he was doing, the Jedi were able to push forward and incapacitate the nobleman.
However, unknown to the four of them, it was all an elaborate setup. The nobleman had been a host for a Derriphan, which took control of Ylira and forced her to murder Master Sevrin, then knock Lasria and Garn unconscious. The Derriphan-controlled Zeltron brought them aboard a hidden ship on the nobleman's property, then caused a prearranged explosion at the man's household which erased any evidence of the conspiracy.
When Jedi Master Quentas-Lir was dispatched to look at the mess, he concluded that the nobleman had gone mad and destroyed the place with uncontrollable Dark Side energy. The investigation was closed, and the four lost Jedi were given ceremonial funerals back on Corusant.
66 Years of Hell
[/size][/u]Apprenticeship
[/size]When the ship reached its destination--a small, underground bunker on an obscure Outer Rim world--the one behind the setup was revealed to be an Anzat who had convinced the Derriphan to help him. They also found that he was not the only one there, as he had been slowly building a cabal of Dark Side users for years, in the form of a few humans and near-humans, a Nautolan, Kaleesh, Feeorin, and a Khil.
Immediately, the Anzat, Lord Trhar, imprisoned the two Padawans and started to torture Master Ylira. He used mental domination in conjunction with Memory Walk and sporadic Force lightning to wear her down, and after a week of continual work, he broke the Jedi. He had an easier time of it than he had with other Masters, as Zeltrons were more susceptible to feeling negative emotions, and he virtually poured malice and hatred into her mind. She would later be consumed from the inside out by the Derriphan as payment for its cooperation with the Dark Jedi.
Once Trhar had finished, he went to work on Garn and Lasria. Being young, it merely took three days to fully break each of them. Garn was shown his greatest fears, embarrassments, anxieties, and confronted with situation after situation where such things happened and there was nothing he could do to alter the events. Soon enough, he could hardly tell reality from hallucination. The Anzat then moved on to Lasria and did the same.
The next several years consisted of brutal training that occurred day and night. They drilled lightsaber and force techniques nonstop, and if they hesitated or refused, they were assaulted with lightning or Memory Walks. Any showing of emotion for longing to go back to the Jedi Temple was punishable by starvation for days on end and Memory Walks during that time period. Oddly enough, at least to Garn, Trhar encouraged Lasria and he to love and feel compassion for each other. Only later would be discover the reason why.
It was during the “training” that Garn learned to fear failure and always strive to be better in any possible way. If he had trouble learning a routine, he was punished. If he lost in a sparring match, he was punished. If he spoke out against his superiors, he was punished. The various methods used to do so were many and very, very painful, soon making Garn into a vicious, unquestioning warrior.
Shortly after the three Jedi were captured by Trhar, he located and brought two other Force Sensitive youth in their early teens to his lair for training beside Garn, Lasria, and a third who had been recruited before them, creating a quintet of apprentices. Garn was taught how to adapt to any situation, and even learned some types of unarmed combat, the most prevalent of which were Teräs Käsi and Echani martial arts. He was also taught many languages to help him on missions, including Sith and Mando'a, the latter of which Trhar learned after ripping the information out of a dying Mandalorian's mind a century or so earlier.
At times, the trainees were subjected to various types of poisons and toxins to bolster their immune system for the future, and so they could know the effects and learn to counteract them. He became frighteningly adept with Force lightning, later using it to great effect against Rancors, Jedi, and even a Krayt Dragon. Another Force power Trhar taught him was Force Flash, which he used to great effect in combat and on stealth missions in the wider galaxy. He also became very good while wielding two lightsabers, eventually mastering Jar-Kai.
Often, their Masters would maroon them at a distant location on the planet with nothing, not even their lightsabers and clothing; they would be granted those items for use later, after they left the small planet. They had to forage for food and search for shelter, all the while heading back to the Dark Jedi base. It was on one of these many tests of survival that one of the one of the other apprentices died. None of the surviving four felt pity for him, instead focusing on becoming better so such a thing would not happen to them.
The Dark Jedi cabal relocated nine years into their training to the frozen world of Hoth. There, the apprentices continued to train in the hostile environment, learning valuable survival skills in the process. The fourth trainee died when the group was lost in a blizzard and subsequently ambushed by a small group of Wampas. Garn, Lasria, and the third apprentice managed to kill three of the creatures before escaping into a cave.
Two years after they arrived at Hoth, they relocated again to Tatooine. The abrupt, complete change in climate shocked Garn slightly, but he quickly adapted to survive on the desert planet. When they were dropped off roughly thirty kilometers away from the current base, they entered a large cavern to shelter themselves for the rapidly approaching night. Unfortunately for the apprentices, it was home to a Krayt Dragon. When it awoke to find the three smaller beings crouched near the mouth of the cavern, it roared in fury and attacked.
The trio ran out of the cavern and split up, attempting to attack the creature from multiple directions to confuse and wear it down until it was dead. Unfortunately, the third apprentice was severely injured, leaving just Garn and Lasria to combat the Krayt Dragon. Garn slipped on the side of a dune, and before he could right himself, the Krayt Dragon attempted to swallow him whole. He used the Force to protect himself from the chomping jaws, but couldn't stop himself from being forced down its throat. During the process, his lightsabers were lost in the churning sand or the Krayt Dragon's stomach.
Midway down, he drew a knife and stabbed it into the Krayt Dragon's larynx, and with the aid of the Force, prevented himself from descending fully into the monster's stomach. He electrocuted the Krayt Dragon and channeled most of the energy through his imbedded knife as he slowly crawled back up its throat. Eventually, when he reached its mouth, he tried to get out, but the stubborn creature clung to life and attempted to crush him again. In desperation, he created a sphere of kinetic force that rippled outwards from his body, forcing open its jaws. He sprang out and fell to the sand, weak and in pain but alive.
When the wounded beast tried to stumble back into its cave, Garn and Lasria chased it, eventually jumping on its back and stabbing it in the skull with their lightsabers. After several more seconds of struggle, the Krayt Dragon fell, dead. In triumph, Garn cut open its gizzard and took out the Krayt Dragon pearls there. Afterwords, they brought the third apprentice back into the cavern, but they did not help him. To do so would mean that he was too weak to survive on his own. As it was, he died during the night.
Once the two had returned to the Dark Jedi base, Garn sought to make the Krayt Dragon pearls the focusing crystals for new lightsaber pair. He cleaned and polished them for some time, then attempted to install the pearls. He failed, and had to start over. He resisted the urge to become frustrated, and instead concentrated on being patient. The second time, he assembled the lightsabers perfectly. A month after he started and coincidentally on the day of his twenty-sixth birthday, he was fully attuned to the weapons.
After he created his lightsabers based around the Krayt Dragon pearls, as a sort of rite of passage for lasting as long as he had and finally crafting his own set of lightsabers, Trhar ordered him to mark his face with the blades. He was permitted to skip over his eyes, so he wouldn't accidentally damage them. He took up his lightsabers, activated them, then took hold of them telekinetically. Garn painstakingly made the tips run down his face, burning deep wounds that would turn into his most prominent scars.
Shortly after their encounter with the Krayt Dragon and two years after they relocated to Tatooine, the cabal moved elsewhere for the last leg of the two apprentices' training. This time, they went to a remote plateau on Korriban. Lord Trhar had built a hidden base there a few centuries beforehand, and was familiar with the planet and its denizens. After they landed, Garn and Lasria fought through a pack of Tuk'ata to ensure a safe path for their Dark Jedi Masters from the landing pad to the entrance of the base. Once inside, they were confronted by a terentatek that had been kept in stasis for decades.
Garn was injured and poisoned in the battle with the rancor-like creature, but after meditating for a few days, he was able to purge the venom from his system and continue with his training. During the two years on Korriban, they would periodically be attacked by various types of creatures, even battling a Sith Wyrm once, though it was considerably smaller than the one Exar Kun faced on Yavin 4 hundreds of years previously.
As the beginning of the final Trials, Garn was put into a deep sleep, only to awake a few days later with orbalisks--brought over from Dxun--attached to him. They had covered virtually all of his body, and he could barely breathe. After calming down and controlling his breath, he telepathically asked the Dark Jedi masters how to get the parasites off. They replied that the orbalisks were susceptible to electricity, and that if he made a wrong move, they would inject him with a deadly toxin that might very well kill him.
Garn, lying motionless, slowly used Force lightning on the orbalisks covering his face. After a time, he was able to telekinetically remove them, allowing him to breathe freely. He did the same for his arms, torso, then legs. Finally, they were all off, and he was permitted to go into a healing trance to rid himself of any vestigial poison.
The second Trial involved Garn and Lasria being dropped off on Dathomir and left to stay alive for a month. During that time period, they used all the skills they had learned to hunt, forage, and survive in the harsh wilderness. They often encountered Rancors, but after a week of fleeing from the large creatures when they neared, the two apprentices developed an effective hit and run method of attack that eventually culminated in the targeted Rancor's death. They both survived, and were hardened by the experience and eager for the next challenge.
A few months after Dathomir, he learned that Lasria was pregnant with his child. Of course, he found this out the day before the third and last Trial, which is where everything went wrong. Trhar decreed that they were to combat one another for Knighthood, one that must end in the loser's death.
After a lengthy duel that neither wanted to fight, Garn overpowered Lasria, but he refused to kill her. The Anzat Dark Jedi knew the apprentice would do this, so he put his plan into motion. He infiltrated Garn's mind and, as he was not fully aware of what he was doing, Trhar coerced him. The Anzat spoke to the darkest part of Garn's mind, telling him that it would make him stronger if he had no attachments, nothing to lose. Gradually, he relented, and conceded to Trhar's order. He brutally killed Lasria by ripping their child out of her womb and cutting her throat, then watching as her life ebbed away on the floor before him.
When it was over, Trhar released his mental grasp on Garn and let him witness the horror of what he had done. Of course, he slightly edited the course of events in Garn's mind, making it seem as though he wanted Garn to kill Lasria quickly, but that the apprentice, in the throes of a rage, had murdered her in the most inhumane way as he could think of. The story was easier for Garn to accept because he wasn't completely sane at the time, and so it made sense to him in a horrific, twisted way.
Dark Knighthood
[/size]Afterwords, Lord Trhar celebrated Garn's achievement of becoming a Dark Jedi Knight by giving him what the Anzat called a “present”. In reality, he strapped Garn down so he was literally unable to move, then went to work on modifying Garn's body, though it would more accurately be called ripping his arms apart.
Trhar, having studied the old Sith assassins, especially the elite Stalkers, created armor for Garn based on the Sith Stalker design. But first, the most painful experience Garn ever had, occurred. His arms were virtually shredded, with about eighty percent of the organic tissue and bone replaced with cold, hard synthetic prosthetics. Once the procedure was done, Garn was given the Stalker armor.
The Master, having a slight measure of mercy tempered with pragmatism, let Garn recoup from the traumatizing events he had experienced for a few months, after which the Knight adjusted to his new armor and forearms for several months. Finally, when Garn was twenty-nine, he was given his first true mission. He was to travel to Balosar and assassinate a man who had swindled Trhar during the Anzat's journeys abroad. Garn tracked his quarry through the polluted cities, then found him and executed him by snapping his neck.
Satisfied with the efficient kill, Trhar immediately decided to put Garn's skills to the test against a true opponent. In this case, he was to target a Jedi Investigator who was getting close to uncovering their cabal. In the subsequent Knight on Knight duel, Garn quickly overpowered his opponent and, as per his Master's instructions, made it appear as an accident. He choked the Jedi until he had passed out, then shot him several times with a blaster and took his belongings, making it look at though he had been attacked and outmatched by a bounty hunter or pirate of sorts and robbed.
Three months later, he was sent to kill a Jedi Shadow who had defeated a member of their cabal and was taking him in for questioning. When he boarded the prison transport, he brutally electrocuted the Jedi after an intense fight, then sabotaged the life support. As he passed by the Nautolan Dark Jedi prisoner, Garn beheaded him for failing their master.
After this, the Dark Jedi laid low for a year and a half, with Garn eliminating a too-inquisitive Jedi only once in that time period. When they relocated to Hypori, he was given a task of recruiting Force Sensitive youth for training under Trhar. His first stop was Ryloth. As Twi'leks were often sold as slaves there, he would not rouse any suspicion by buying or stealing Force Sensitive children. After a month there, he had recruited two young Twi'leks, and subsequently brought them back to his Master.
Garn next went to Corellia, where he watched the Jedi Force Sensitive child recruiter there take a human toddler with him for eventual training at the Temple. Acting quickly, he snuck up on the Jedi and blinded him, then rapidly overwhelmed him with a flurry of unarmed strikes and put him in a sleeper hold. When the Jedi was unconscious, he took the child and spirited him to Hypori.
His third journey lead him to Cato Nemoidia, which was the area a Jedi Knight and his Padawan were working in. Garn orchestrated an accident that made it look like both of the Jedi fell to their deaths after a mechanical malfunction occurred. However, with quick timing, he rescued the Padawan, but left the Knight to tumble to the ground kilometers below. The Padawan resisted at first, but Garn quickly subdued her.
With the last of the new apprentices recruited, the Dark Jedi cabal went into hiding for a time. Several months later, when Garn was thirty-two, he was sent to assassinate a defective member of the cabal. He chased his elusive target for a year before finally cornering him on Mon Calamari. As the Knight approached the turncoat Khil, Garn deflected or dodged all the attacks that came his way, then summoned an incredibly powerful current of Force lightning. The power lifted the Khil high into the air and sent him plummeting back down into the ocean, where he was held under and quickly drowned.
Finished with his latest task, Garn returned to Hypori to help train the recruits. He took an apprentice himself, namely the Padawan he had kidnapped on Cato Nemoidia. The Togruta, Maere Vona, reminded him of Lasria and himself at times, though he distanced himself from her in case Trhar decided he was getting to close to the trainee.
Garn did not go on any more missions for nearly thirteen years, during which he turned Maere into a lethal warrior. She went through many of the same things he did, save for falling in love with a fellow trainee. Garn was grateful for this, though he did not show it. That way, she wouldn't have to kill her loved one in a vicious duel to the death, or watch him die in one of the myriad training exercises.
It was also around this time that Garn went into a period of self-reflection. He gradually regained some of his sanity, but admittedly not much. The biggest happening was that he witnessed a hazy vision of the day he killed Lasria. Even though the events were foggy and he was unable to truly decipher them, it created a spark of doubt in his mind about Lord Trhar. He realized just how unhappy he was, being a cold, emotionless tool for the Anzat to use as he pleased. From that point on, he built up a considerably powerful mental shield, to help prevent any unwanted intrusions; that way, Trhar would not be able to see the doubt in Garn's deep thoughts.
At the age of forty-six, after slightly less than fifteen years of almost straight training with his apprentice, he was sent to observe and eventually speak with a Dark Jedi who had managed to track them to their current location. He sought to join their group, and become a servant of Trhar. Based on Garn's reports, the Anzat allowed the man to enter the base. Just before they reached the antechamber for Trhar's throne room, the man attacked Garn. As it turned out, he was a Jedi Shadow who was infiltrating the cabal.
Garn slew the Jedi after a bit, then had to deal with his two companions, who broke into the base and attacked. Apparently, another one of the Dark Jedi had defected, but this one had gone to a Jedi Shadow, who had taken two others with him to deal with the Dark Jedi. Garn fought the enemy Jedi and kept all three combatants in a stalemate for sometime, then created a flash which blinded one, allowing him to stagger the other with a quick push of telekinetic power and slip away.
When the Jedi followed him, they were met with a raging Lightning Storm, which overwhelmed the first Jedi and burned him to death. The second was injured by the attack, but he was quick enough to retreat before being killed. Garn went after him and threw both lightsabers at the wounded Jedi. He blocked one, but the second cut through his spinal chord, paralyzing him. The Nagai-Firrerreo hybrid gave his opponent a mercy killing by swiftly cutting his head off.
Garn and the other Dark Jedi Knights quickly went to work on erasing all evidence of their existence, first by disposing of the Jedi's corpses, then collapsing the area around the base so it could not be seen. After this, they took the Jedi's shuttle and sold it on the black market. They relocated to another suitable planet where the apprentices would continue their training. However, Garn's main task was to hunt down the traitor and execute him.
The former Dark Jedi was easier to find than the last one Garn had hunted, and proved to be a lesser challenge, though by that point Garn had become even deadlier with the decades of experience. He brutally ripped the traitor apart on board a transport vessel, and to eliminate any witnesses, he killed all the passengers. He jettisoned the bodies, then went to the cabal's new base.
Once he returned, he saw Maere emerge as the victorious apprentice. She was Knighted, and with her success, Garn was anointed a Dark Jedi Master.
Lord Vakheer
[/size]Garn's missions after he became a Master came more sporadically, as Trhar wanted Maere to gain experience in the field. For the twenty-nine years, he only went on a single assignment about once every five years. During that time, he only went on an actual designated combat mission once every five years or so. He mainly traveled the galaxy abroad, occasionally checking on Trhar's contacts, and periodically collecting a Force Sensitive youth.
Four years after he became a Master, when he was fifty-one, Garn traveled to Yaga Minor to speak with a higher ranking official of the so-called Sith Empire. The Aristocrat desired to learn secrets of the Dark Side from Lord Trhar, and was willing to pay the Dark Jedi handsome sums of credits to do so. Unfortunately for him, the Aristocrat was too weak in the Force to learn what he desired.
Seeing an opportunity, Garn got a book containing basic Dark Side techniques and gave it to the Aristocrat for a large chunk of money. While the Aristocrat was reading the book in the night, Garn dressed himself in Jedi robes, snuck into the mansion, then assassinated the Aristocrat. He took the tome and left, though making sure the surveillance cameras got a good look at his outfit before he disabled them. He returned to Trhar with his prize, then set out again.
Seven years later, Garn was attacked by a Jedi Shadow on Sullust. Unfortunately for the Shadow, the Dark Jedi Master was not so easily killed. He lead the Jedi on a prolonged chase that ended in the other Force user's death when Garn unexpectedly came out of hiding to impale him through the heart with a Tehk'la blade. He took the Jedi's lightsaber, then dumped his body into a lava flow on the surface. After this, he immediately left the planet in case the Jedi had a partner who was following him.
Garn went to Ithor to hide for a time, so as to let his trail go cold from any other Shadows attempting to trail him. After a full year on the forest-covered planet, Garn set out again, this time to Nar Shaddaa in order to discuss matters with one of Trhar's contacts. However, something quite unexpected happened after they were talking. A seemingly random person attacked him, using the Force to great effect while using no weapons but her own hands. She belonged to a group called the Wardens of the Sky, and she had been taken notice of Garn a few years beforehand. Now that he was back on Nar Shaddaa, the Warden sought to stop him.
Unfortunately, she failed. Quite miserably, actually. Garn, knowledgeable in unarmed combat, fought her to a standstill before rebuffing her with Force lightning and Force pushing her through a wall. She tried to flee, but Garn threw a lightsaber after her. She mostly dodged it, so instead of both legs being chopped off, only one was hamstrung. The Warden summoned all her strength and hurled a powerful Force blast at Garn, distracting him before she rolled off the side of the bridge and fell onto a speeder traveling below.
Just after Garn turned sixty-three, he went to Corusant in order to speak with an informant. Twenty minutes before he was scheduled to talk with the informant, a bounty hunter team barged into the bar and declared that the man next to Garn would be coming with them. Not knowing this, he drew his lightsabers and turned to see that the man beside him was a Dark Jedi who had a fairly large bounty on his head. By that time, the Dark Jedi had his lightsaber activated, and with Garn in the line of fire as well, he pretty much had no choice but to retaliate against the bounty hunters.
Roughly one minute later, all the bounty hunters were dead. As the other Dark Jedi turned to thank Garn for his help, he impaled the man through the back, killing him instantly. After he spoke with Trhar's contact, he would gather the bounty on the dead Dark Jedi.
Three years after he went to Corusant, he joined Maere and a Kiffar Dark Jedi Knight in eliminating a small group of Grey Jedi who were planning to attack and destroy the Lord Trhar's cabal. Unfortunately for them, the Dark Jedi moved first. They came in, and before the Grey Jedi knew it, half of their number were dead. Disorganized, they tried to move together, but that only served to make one large target for Garn's Lightning Storm, Maere's Kinetite, and the Kiffar's Force blasts. Soon, the last Grey Jedi was dead, and the three Dark Jedi departed.
A few months after Garn turned seventy-one, he was sent by Trhar to Kashyyyk in order to fulfill the cabal's end of a bargain to a powerful Trandoshan. The Dark Jedi was to help the warlord in attacking a village and taking the surviving Wookies as slaves. During the raid, he fought an ex-Jedi who proved to be a skilled combatant. Near the end of the raid, he finally outmaneuvered the Wookie and bisected him.
It was in the aftermath of the raid that his doubt of Trhar grew stronger. The Jedi had had a family and two children, one of which was Force Sensitive. When some Trandoshans came to take the young Wookies away, he cut them down. He offered an explanation to the warlord that his Master would want them to train. The warlord relented, allowing Garn to take the children. In reality, he took them to another village to be raised by the Wookies there.
A similar experience occurred four years later. He traveled with another Dark Jedi Master to Phaeda, where she had found a small family with no less than four Force Sensitive children. All of them were the right age for Lord Trhar's indoctrination, and she desired Garn's aid in kidnapping them. He started to do so, but his rage rose from within him. He attacked the other Master and slaughtered her, then dumped her corpse into the lower levels of the city. Garn may not have had the strength of will to escape Trhar yet, but he would prevent anyone else from becoming like him.
Rebellion
[/size]For the next year, Garn became distant from Lord Trhar's cabal. He planned how best he could topple the Anzat's cabal, for he had killed a fair number of deserters. He decided to go for Trhar's biggest supporters, thereby weakening his power. The first order of business was to track down Master Noyir, a Feeorin, to Riflor. However, what he found was Noyir's corpse lying next to a Draethos and Miraluka Jedi. Both were unconscious and sorely wounded. He took a measure of pity on them and alerted the law enforcement, who came and took the Jedi to a hospital, but he was gone long before that.
Garn's second target was Master Neril Khamersu, a Twi'lek. He met the other Dark Jedi Master at the Twi'lek's estate located on Dantooine. Their subsequent duel absolutely demolished Neril's mansion and alerted local authorities. They cut down the intruders, then continued with their fight. At the end, Garn shocked Master Khamersu badly, then brought the last section of the building down on him, crushing the Twi'lek and killing him.
A year and a half past before Garn could locate a third supporter of Trhar. During that time period, he fended off several assassination attempts and kept moving, ensuring the Anzat's agents would be hard pressed to follow him. On Eriadu, he found Master Lentas, an Arkanian Offshoot. They fought briefly, but in that time they both nearly died several times. In a flurry of movement, Garn deactivated one lightsaber, putting Lentas off-balance. The rebel Dark Jedi took advantage of that to whirl around and cut the Arkanian in half, ending their fight.
With the information he gained after killing Lentas, Garn had narrowed down Lord Trhar's most likely locations, and with the Arkanian's death, the Anzat had one less major supporter. During the next several months of tracking down his former Master, he was subjected to more assassination attempts than ever before. This time, they weren't all Dark Jedi, but mercenaries and bounty hunters hired to kill him. Even with the frequent battles, he did not falter, and kept persevering.
He made a slight detour to Corusant when he heard that Kivak, a Barabel Dark Jedi Knight serving Trhar, was dispatched to assassinate Quentas-Lir, the Draethos Jedi who had been put into a coma during his fight with Lord Noyir. Garn tried to stop him, but he arrived too late. He tracked down the Dark Jedi, but by the time he reached Kivak, a Jedi was in the process of fighting him. Garn left after Kivak was impaled by his own lightsaber, then continued to follow Trhar's trail.
A mere four weeks before he confronted Trhar for the last time, he found himself fighting Maere. He tried to convince his previous apprentice to help him stop the Anzat, and after a time, she agreed to join him. In the penultimate battle Garn fought, he and Maere were separated inside one of Trhar's bases on Fondor. They were each assaulted by some of the last Dark Jedi under Trhar's command, but both outmaneuvered their opponents and slew them.
En route to Lord Trhar's true location at long last, Maere seduced Garn and coerced him into sleeping with her during the long journey. While he was soundly asleep, she attempted to kill him with one of his Tehk'la blades. He reacted in time to stop her, and in the wake of her betrayal, he stabbed her through the heart in self defense. Contrary to what the desperate Anzat hoped, the Togruta's deception had only made Garn angrier.
On Ruusan, the fierce battle between Trhar and Garn absolutely annihilated the landscape around them. When the Anzat tried to dominate Garn, he resisted, instead shocking Trhar and sending him hurtling back. After another bout of lightsaber combat, Garn finally disarmed Trhar. He had the Dark Jedi at his mercy.
Garn declared that he was free from the Anzat's hold over him. Trhar retorted that he would never be free. The Sephi-Firrerreo hybrid agreed and said he never would be as long as Trhar lived. As he moved in to kill the Anzat, Trhar exerted some of the last of his energy to stun Garn. He ran to a large speeder and tried to escape in it, but with Garn's full fury in action, he took hold of the vehicle and devastated it with Force lightning, then slammed it back into the Dark Jedi's base.
When the severely injured Trhar feebly tried to get himself unpinned, Garn summoned a fierce blast of lightning that set him on fire. In perhaps his most powerful use of the Force to date, Garn created a massive Lightning Storm that annihilated the structure, then caused a landslide to bury it deep.
Garn, thoroughly exhausted, fell to his knees, and for the first time in so long, felt a flicker of joy. The last of Trhar's men would be hunted down and killed or die in hiding, and the Anzat Dark Jedi was finally dead. He could not ruin any more lives, nor murder anyone else. With that, Garn departed.
Freedom, At Last
[/size][/u]As a Drifter
[/size]For the next seven or so years, Garn drifted around the galaxy. Since he had access to Trhar's bank accounts, which provided him with several million credits, he could have settled down somewhere tranquil. As it was, he was restless. He became a bounty hunter on occasion and a hired guard at other times, which satisfied his need to do something active.
The most exciting times for Garn were when he hunted down Dark Jedi, sometimes alongside Jedi. When he did so, he tried to conceal his powerful use of the Force, but as it was, all except two of them attempted to arrest or attack him. He offered the explanation that he was a Grey Jedi if they inquired, and that seemed to satisfy most of the Jedi.
After his eightieth birthday, he worked in concert with a Jedi Shadow to take down the last surviving member--at least, from what Garn could find--of Lord Trhar's cabal, Master Trelis Narvon. The elusive Dark Jedi led them on an almost galaxy-wide chase, starting on Makem Te and ending inside a temple on Cilpar. There, the Shadow and Garn fought him in a lengthy duel, during which the Jedi was severely wounded when he was pinned beneath a collapsed section of the structure. After purposefully being disarmed, Garn surprised Trelis when the Dark Jedi came in to kill him. He used the Force to absorb the energy from the lightsaber, then spun around Trelis, released the claws on his fingertips, and ripped the man's throat out with them.
When Garn was midway through his eighty-third year, he mistakenly angered a Hutt by killing one of his best agents. The Sephi-Firrerreo hybrid found himself attacked on multiple fronts by bounty hunters. After carving his way through three teams of enemies, he set his sights on the Hutt. If no one was around to pay the bounty, there would be no bounty hunters. He hijacked the Hutt's personal ship while it was traveling, sabotaged the engines so they would propel the vessel into a star, then escaped on a shuttle.
He also aroused the ire of a Sith Aristocrat two years after his encounter with the Hutt. Not in the mood to negotiate with someone who hired mercenaries to kill him, Garn tracked the man down to Vjun. He fought through the security teams, even battling a Dark Jedi ally of the Aristocrat, who Garn killed after a quick, mostly one-sided duel by snapping his neck. When he finally reached the Aristocrat, he burned a hole right through his body with a concentrated bolt of Force lightning.
Whispers of the Sith
[/size]Slightly more than seven years after he killed Trhar, Garn started hearing rumors about something new. Not the Mandalorians or the Sith Empire, something...darker. Upon further investigation, he found out that the Sith Order itself was being resurrected. He was intrigued by the idea. The Sith could give him purpose again. They could make him stronger. He could become so much more if he joined them.
After giving it some more thought, he decided to follow up on some leads. Most of them turned out to be dead ends, but he was used to that. Finally, he found what he was looking for. A short time later, he became inducted into the Sith Order as an Initiate.
RP Sample:
Garn Vakheer, rebellious Dark Jedi Master, walked briskly beside Maere Vona, a Togruta who was his former apprentice. They crossed over a wide bridge in the relatively forgotten underlevels of a southern city, the breeze essentially nonexistent. The Sephi-Firrerreo hybrid's face was obscured by his foreboding helmet, which was modeled after the old Sith Stalkers, feared elite assassins hundreds of years ago.
When they reached the door of a spire-like structure, Garn took a moment to stop and consider it. After a couple seconds and discerning that it was locked, he gathered a powerful blast of telekinetic force in his hands, then released it. The door collapsed inward, creating an entrance large enough for the two to step in.
They cautiously stalked down a dark hallway, unlit lightsabers in hand. Garn paused when they passed by a doorway, then stepped towards it. The door slid open with a muted hiss, giving him entrance into the pitch-black room. He slowly looked around, eyes narrowed. Just as he cleared the door, it slid shut, locking him inside and separating him from Maere. When glanced back to inspect it, he heard two lightsabers hum to life in the room.
The lights flickered on, revealing the presence of a large holotank at the back of the room with two men clad in dark robes flanking it. A blue image flickered to life, and it resolved itself into a slightly smaller than life hologram of Lord Trhar.
“I sincerely wish you hadn't started this foolish quest, Garn.” The Anzat sighed, though he seemed amused more than anything else. “I have to admit, you've done a fantastic job so far. Using all the skills I taught you do strike back at me like only one other has done before... It's impressive, to say the least. Of course, I ended up squashing that other renegade like a bug, so I wouldn't be getting my hopes up if I were you. Now, kill him.”
The last sentence was directed at the two Dark Jedi, who each lifted an arm and sent two currents of bright blue lightning at Garn. He dropped to one knee from the ferocity of the combined attack, both hands up to protect himself from both streams of electricity. He grimaced under his helmet, then slowly rose to his feet. He absorbed some of the energy, and a second later, created dual Force blasts that rushed at each Dark Jedi.
They ceased their assault to dodge the powerful telekinetic waves, then rushed in to attack Garn with their lightsabers. He activated both lightsabers and dove into the action, silvery-blue blades turning into bright blurs as he spun in order to deflect and parry each attack.
At first, both came at him from the front, where he could easily see their moves and react to them. However, several seconds into the frantic melee, they went to the sides, catching Garn in the middle. He had to use his instincts and precognition to quickly block each attack, spinning at times to put them off-balance. Finally, the moment came.
In a Force-powered blow, he staggered one of the Dark Jedi back with a horizontal chop, then whirled and lifted his other lightsaber to block the overhead strike of the second one, going low at the same time. He slid forward and brought a leg around, sweeping the man off his feet. He used the momentum to come back to his feet when the first Dark Jedi came in again.
This time, Garn was on the offense. He rapidly smashed his weapons against the Dark Jedi's lightsaber, then came forward in a quick triple stab at the man's gut. The Dark Jedi stumbled back, only getting nicked once. Garn spun to face the second one, lightsabers in reverse grip so he could more easily catch the Djem-So overhead slash.
The Force allowed him to take the hit without much effort, which allowed him to quickly pushed up, left lightsaber moving the Dark Jedi's out of the way so Garn could hop and kick him in the groin, making him fall to his stomach and slide back a couple meters.
Garn turned to face the other Dark Jedi, right arm up as he channeled Force lightning through it. The bolts shot out, making the man take a few steps back from the raw power he was blocking. Garn whipped his left lightsaber at the Dark Jedi, but he jumped above it. While he was landing, Garn sprinted forward, locking lightsabers with the man.
He shifted to the right and deactivated his lightsaber, making the Dark Jedi step forward as he tried to regain his balance. Garn's thrown lightsaber came spinning back to him at that moment, allowing him to catch it in a reverse grip so he could stab the Dark Jedi in the back. He spun to the right while reactivating the lightsaber in his right hand, then beheaded the Dark Jedi in one swift cut.
The headless body thudded to the ground, but Garn was already sprinting towards the Dark Jedi who still lived. The man limped forward, lightsaber raised defensively. Garn jumped to the left and used the Force to give him inertia while running along the wall. He slashed with his right saber, knocking the Dark Jedi's askew. He spun and vaulted off the wall, left lightsaber coming in to cleave off the man's ear as he dodged.
Shrieking in agony, the Dark Jedi was an easy target for Garn. He unleashed a wave of crackling Force lightning, knocking the Dark Jedi's lightsaber out of his hand and shocking him badly. After a few seconds, Garn gathered a powerful telekinetic blast in between his hands, then launched it at the man.
The Dark Jedi was catapulted across the room, where he smashed into the wall, denting it several inches. Garn turned away from the body of the Dark Jedi which was imbedded in the wall, then activated both lightsabers again. He stabbed them into the locked door slightly above his head, then moved them to the sides and down. When he reached the floor, he kicked the door, making the large section he had cut out fly into the hallway.
When he stepped out, Garn saw Maere fighting her own opponent several meters away. In a quick move, she moved the lightsaber into a reverse grip and moved it vertically to deflect a thrust to the side, then sprang forward rapidly to stab the enemy Dark Jedi in the chest.
Garn blinked once while holstering his lightsabers, then turned back to the holotank at the back of the room. He motioned with a hand, switching it on. The hologram of a scowling Lord Trhar appeared.
“I'm going to find you, Trhar, and I will kill you.” Garn clenched one hand into a fist, telekinetically crushing the holotank and ending the transmission.