Name- Casus Maltar
Age- 20
Sex- Male
Species- Human
Height- 6’11”
Weight- 175 lb
Hair- Jet black (spiked up)
Eyes- Bright blue
Homeworld- Courascant
Affiliation- None
Rank- None
Ship- YT-2400 Light Freighter
Weapons-
1. Carries a customized vibroblade that Casus got from his father when he was around 15 years old. Since then he has customized it for better performance and better offensive and defensive capabilities.
2. Shortly after he left he acquired an E-11 blaster rifle and had it augmented to perform better than the standard blaster, of the kind used by the empire in its earlier days.
3. Lastly carries a light blaster pistol that he always carriers around in a holster on his side.
Relatives- Loosely related to Awdin Malcost
Description- Casus is tall and broad shouldered. Although not exactly a muscle man he is strong enough to win in quite a few fights with fists alone and can deliver powerful attacks with the vibroblade he carries. His face almost always seems friendly even though the Bright blue eyes and his jet black hair contrast. Usually he wears an undershirt of energy absorbent synthetic fabric, over which he wears a suit of armor. The armor covers his chest, legs, forearms, and his left shoulder. The armor offers medium protection against laser, and blades. Lastly he always wears a black sash wrapped aorund his right arm to hide the tattoo.
Personality- Casus is a man who usually keeps to himself, most of the time preferring to be inconspicuous and stays in the shadows conducting whatever business he can and leaving. Throughout Casus’s life he has been fascinated by both Jedi and Sith.
Background- Casus was born and raised in the sprawling capital of courascant into a family of noble descent. His father a wealthy merchant and accomplished business man had a monopoly on a few different local products and had, over the years, made a massive profit from the selling of these wares. His mother was an extremely well accomplished historian. During her time she either ran the local library, or taught classes at the institute nearby. Both of them each brought in a considerable amount of money but the cost was that most of the time there were not at home. For most of his early childhood he didn’t see much of his parents, but towards his teenage years tihngs let up a little and he saw them more often.
Background- Casus was born and raised in the sprawling capital of courascant into a family of noble descent. His father a wealthy merchant and accomplished business man had a monopoly on a few different local products and had, over the years, made a massive profit from the selling of these wares. His mother was an extremely well accomplished historian. During her time she either ran the local library, or taught classes at the institute nearby. Both of them each brought in a considerable amount of money but the cost was that most of the time there were not at home. For most of his early childhood he didn’t see much of his parents.
Casus’s first school was Chrastmon’s School for early learning, and no one got in without substantial payment for tuition. Casus’s early learning here was rife with incidents that were less than appropriate for someone with his background according to most teachers. For the most part the students agreed although it was them that Casus usually committed these acts on. Casus at first thought it was just for fun but then realized that it was truly because he hated the way they acted and thought themselves better than everyone else. Casus began looking for other friends and managed to find them in some of the local poorer boys. They kids while not exactly well off had a good life and more to the point acted much better than the students in his school. In particular he made friends with a Twi’lek named Amad who taught Casus quite a few things.
Most importantly was how to use weapons, to modify and fix certain vehicles, and how to fend for himself. In a matter of months Casus went from a preppy upper class kid to a kid who could fend for himself and who didn’t care much for authority. Eventually Casus’s parents realized that something was changing substantially in him and began to grow increasingly worried at his new behavior especially since he was only around 13 at the time. His grades began to slip and he more and more frequently blew off everything to go be with Amad and a few other of his friends, neglecting the duties of his life. Casus’s parents decided he needed and change and over a month or so finally figured out how they would do it.
On Casus’s 14 birthday he and his mother went to the library on the pretence of she needed a little help with some of the filing and duties she usually performed along with those of the attendant who had gotten sick. During the day he helped her with many tasks and she introduced him to many forms or literature and books and eventually even though something told him not to he began interested in a few subjects mainly history especially the clone wars. He still doesn’t know if maybe his mom passed on a bit of her affixation for history to him. This new fixation had almost the opposite effect that his parents had wanted and he began spending even more time out not only with his new friends but now at the library browsing through books learning as much as he could in his spare time.
When Casus was 16 he dropped out of highschool in a drastic move that his parents almost disowned him for, but in reality with all the time he spent at the library reading and learning he was actually smarter than most kids who had already finished high school. Even though they hated it they weren’t as mad because of the fact that he continued using the library even more now. Around this time was when he and Amad began hanging out a lot more often too because he too had dropped out although it was because or grades rather than because he wasn’t interested. When ever Casus wasn’t at the library he was with Amad learning to fight or some other technique Amad could teach him and getting stronger everyday.
Casus first saw a Jedi on an old holo record that hadn’t been destroyed before the Jedi purge. He knew only vaguely about them other than a few tid bits that he had caught in the clone war records, but this was what really sparked off a curiosity. On the record it showed a simple Jedi knight explaining a few things about the force and Jedi, and also at one point about the Sith but Casus already knew more about them than Jedi and so continued to watch undeterred. After the video had finished Casus was determined to learn more about both Jedi and also the Sith since they were both tied in with the force. Setting aside everything else he began to study and study hard finding an entire section devoted to the Jedi and Sith although most of the better ones he had to go looking for.
For many years this went on and he learned vast amounts about the Jedi and Sith and wondering if he could be one. At this time he was around 19 years old and was reading a Sith book that explained some things about tattoos when surprisingly Amad walked in and seeing the drawing decided he wanted one of those and that Casus should get one too. So Casus not understanding what he was doing went taking the book along, which he showed to the artists that did the tattoos. Amad got a small one on his face covering most of his head, making look extremely thuggish and bad, or more than he had before. Casus also just wanted a small one on his upper arm but the artists thought he meant one a page over which depicted an intricate pattern that covered his entire right arm. Casus was stunned when the man began to put him to sleep because of how much it would hurt the way the book suggested to do it, but could do nothing especially as Amad had went to get something to eat.
Upon waking he saw that his arm now had an intricate pattern covering the greater part of his arm. He left covering it with a cloth as he walked down the street, trying to figure out what to do, seeing that his parents would probably kill him if they found out so he attempted to burn them off himself, this only resulted in a massively burnt arm and the tattoos looking as new as ever. Resigning himself to his fate he returned home to a fuming father and a disappointed mother, both not even wanting to talk to their son about the Tattoo. The next year or two he basically kept to himself not seeing anyone even Amad by choice, and keeping to the books and to weight lifting and training by himself. Finally he got to the point were he packed up and one night left taking all that he owned including the sword his father had given him and a E-11 his father kept hidden for emergencies, and a large supply of cash he had been saving along with a little he had taken from his father.
Wandering he ended up at a bar some ways from his house, that also rented out a few apartments upstairs, so wanting to conserve cash he rented a room and slept for the night and the better part of the next day.
During his stay there he once again kept to himself buying items from the local food market to survive and gambling every now and then, and it was when gambling that he realized that something was different. Sometimes he could almost always predict which way sabacc, or other card games would go. To add to that he could usually get people to do stupid things that usually meant they would loose, it was here that he realized that just possibly his dream of becoming a Jedi or Sith cold become reality. It was here that he managed to get people to bet more high stakes things, including the armor he wears to this day a few blasters and even the Skyward. Although on the occasion that he won the skyward the man immediately went hysterical at least until the bartender shot him with a stun round and dragged him out of the bar.
Over this time he also began to slightly inquire and listen to certain conversations trying to figure out how to find remaining Jedi or Sith or even temple remnants that he could earn in or from. But he didn’t learn much except for the fact that the Jedi had mostly disappeared and that whenever Sith were talked about the name Xa’fel came, other than that not much was learned, so Casus devised a way to get at the information he needed. He would have to return to his mother’s library and find a way to literally get all the books about Sith and Jedi that he had learned from out of the library, but how he did not know.
In the time he had been away from when he was 19 to the current time when he was 23 he had changed considerably and doubted that his mother would recognize him. So he returned to try and at least smuggle some books out of the library, but what awaited him would be horrible.
Casus returned to find the library in disrepair, and learned that after he had run away his mother had refused to do anything but search for him and so the library was closed and mostly forgotten about mostly because they could never replace his mother and she was the only one with the key to open the door. Casus felt mixed emotions over this especially because of the fact his mother had been so concerned when he had left and gave up her job to search for him, but also that know it was be relatively easy to get the books out.
After landing the Skyward close by he proceeded to clear out the books that he needed especially ones containing clues to Jedi or Sith temples and academies almost all of them however had been abandoned for many years. It took almost 3 nights to find and get them all out without being discovered but finally he did and managed to get them all back to the skyward where had had modified an entire compartment to house the books, and for use in the forms of meditation he had learned although not very effective they still worked.
For months he looked through the books and ordered things onto holo pads learning eaverything he could from the books and gaining knowledge that he would never forget. For easier refrence he began to put thingso onto holopads ordering them and refrencing them for easier access and for possibly sharing his knowledge. For a long time he went on like this having moved into the Skyward to avoid any akward questions abotu his books and what he did. Finally after learning almost everything he he could from the books he had he went about reviewing his records trying to find a planet that might possibly have a temple still. Finally after much reviewing and searching he found one on the Confederation planet of Almas. Contacting a relative that happened to be in the confederation he gained access and found that there was not only one but two temples on the planet.
With that thought in mind he took off with the Skyward towards Almas and confederation space.
Craft-
Manufacturer- Corellian Engineering Company
Name- The Skyward
Class- light freighter/transport
Size- 21 meter
Weaponry- 2 heavy quad laser cannons (one onto top and one on bottom of disk)
2 concussion missile launcher (magazine of 6)
2 concealed repeating anti-infantry blasters
Information/History- The skyward has served since the beginning of the Galactic civil war. Most of the information has been lost or destroyed as to it’s previous owners before it came into Casus’s possession. Mostly it was handed from shady dealer or owner to the next, its ID being changed multiple times and even being removed at a point completely to serve as a smuggling vessel. Only one legit owner can be confirmed and he was killed many years ago when pirates raided a small shipping facility taking his ship, presumably the Skyward.
Throughout its long history it has been upgraded and modified numerous times the original gun having been replaced by two heavy quad laser cannons, along with the addiction of a concussion missile launcher and anti personnel blaster. Also added to it was manual firing or auto firing of the turret as designated by the user, all done from the cockpit. Along with weaponry the hyperdrive and engines were upgraded making it incredibly fast and maneuverable for a ship of its bulk. Added to this is the extra layer of armor added that also blocks any form of scanner except more powerful ones as used on capital ships.
The ship was modified so that the main disk could rotate around the cockpit although the cockpit moved also along with it making it easier to dodge incoming fire but making it harder to use its own weapon systems. The freighter meant to be flown by a crew of 5 or so was specially modified further by the owner who Casus took it from to be flown by one or two men.
(For anyone who hasn't seen the other post this is death and this character is eventually goign to become a force user, note i said eventually.)