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Nikola Valtiere

2016-02-04T15:17:23Z

Nikola Valtiere:

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{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.20m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm, left arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Nil
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Kaiburr]]
* [[Lexiconus Qor]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Valtatrestcropped.jpg|thumb|Nikola at rest in front of his K-Wing]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, the only 'mundane' to ever do so, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he worked with the Clan.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

===Soulfire===

===Erinos===
[[File:Awesome Foursome.jpg|thumb|left|580x600|[[Rayze Erinos]], [[Sashar Erinos]], Nikola Valtiere and [[Wes Biriuk]]']]

==Personality==

Nikola is loyal to the concept of loyalty. He believes every Arconan should owe fealty to the Consul. He can't stand the power-seekers of the Brotherhood, and he will scrupulously adhere to what he sees as the ideal for how an Arconan should behave. He’d rather gouge out his own eyes than show the least amount of voluntary personal respect for the individuals of the Clan, as opposed to the respect due the Clan itself. As such, many see him as a cold, humourless man to many of the members, individuals he sees as unworthy. He is a quiet man of few words, keeping a distance from the members of Arcona. His true joys are piloting and researching the histories and tactics of war, but can be drawn to a rare moment of dry humour with those he trusts and deems worthy of his time.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

After stepping down as Rollmaster, and joining Soulfire, Valtiere then underwent further elective surgery, removing his left arm to be replaced with a cybernetic of brushed durasteel.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, or, for more formal events, an anachronistic dress uniform is worn.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

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2016-02-04T15:10:51Z

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Nikola Valtiere

2016-01-06T00:13:46Z

Nikola Valtiere:

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.20m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm, left arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Nil
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Kaiburr]]
* [[Lexiconus Qor]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, the only 'mundane' to ever do so, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he worked with the Clan.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

===Soulfire===

==Personality==

Nikola is loyal to the concept of loyalty. He believes every Arconan should owe fealty to the Consul. He can't stand the power-seekers of the Brotherhood, and he will scrupulously adhere to what he sees as the ideal for how an Arconan should behave. He’d rather gouge out his own eyes than show the least amount of voluntary personal respect for the individuals of the Clan, as opposed to the respect due the Clan itself. As such, many see him as a cold, humourless man to many of the members, individuals he sees as unworthy. He is a quiet man of few words, keeping a distance from the members of Arcona. His true joys are piloting and researching the histories and tactics of war, but can be drawn to a rare moment of dry humour with those he trusts and deems worthy of his time.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

After stepping down as Rollmaster, and joining Soulfire, Valtiere then underwent further elective surgery, removing his left arm to be replaced with a cybernetic of brushed durasteel.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, or, for more formal events, an anachronistic dress uniform is worn.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2016-01-06T00:09:26Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Personality */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Rollmaster
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, the only 'mundane' to ever do so, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he worked with the Clan.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

===Soulfire===

==Personality==

Nikola is loyal to the concept of loyalty. He believes every Arconan should owe fealty to the Consul. He can't stand the power-seekers of the Brotherhood, and he will scrupulously adhere to what he sees as the ideal for how an Arconan should behave. He’d rather gouge out his own eyes than show the least amount of voluntary personal respect for the individuals of the Clan, as opposed to the respect due the Clan itself. As such, many see him as a cold, humourless man to many of the members, individuals he sees as unworthy. He is a quiet man of few words, keeping a distance from the members of Arcona. His true joys are piloting and researching the histories and tactics of war, but can be drawn to a rare moment of dry humour with those he trusts and deems worthy of his time.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

After stepping down as Rollmaster, and joining Soulfire, Valtiere then underwent further elective surgery, removing his left arm to be replaced with a cybernetic of brushed durasteel.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, or, for more formal events, an anachronistic dress uniform is worn.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Arconan Aces

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==Arconan Ace Programme==
The Ace pilot initiative is a selected group of specially trained pilots within Arcona’s armed forces who are tasked with the most dangerous missions. Each member is chosen to join the unit’s hallowed ranks based on their skills and history of excellence in space combat. This will also require sponsorship from a current Ace or Clan leader to be considered. The unit provides a dynamic of highly proficient and versatile pilots for the defense of Arcona and the Shadesworn.

==Formation==

With its prowess in space combat nullified by ever growing fleets in the Brotherhood, Wuntila created [[Void Squadron]] to consolidate his best and brightest pilots. Their example, though, would ripple throughout the Clan’s Navy as their legend grew with each successful mission. The unit, eventually, would succumb to its own success; pilots leaving for other units or higher responsibility within Clan Arcona. With the Fall of SCEPTER, Uji Tameike and Nadrin Erinos Arconae felt it was time for the Savric Flight Academy to reopen its doors and consolidate the Aces of Arcona.
Their first act was to examine the members of the Clan whom had already proven themselves in space combat. They would also take into consideration current and previous enrollees whom had passed with flying colors. This created a short list of legendary and capable pilots to reanimate Void Squadron – not as a Battleteam, but as a Legendary Unit of Clan Arcona. Amongst the initial enlistments were [[Nikola Valtiere]] and Rayze Erinos Arconae. Their first action as a unit would be the successful defence of retreating forces within the Darjorra System. The squadron fought bravely and experienced losses, but they allowed ships to flee danger from the chase of Perdition forces.

==Squadrons==
===Void Squadron===

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|-
|class="head" colspan="3" | '''Flight One'''
|-
|class="sub-head" width="50%" | '''Position'''
|class="sub-head" width="50%" | '''Name'''
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void One
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Two
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Three
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Four
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|}
</center>

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{| class="fancy" width="450" align="center" cellpadding="2"
|-
|class="head" colspan="3" | '''Flight Two'''
|-
|class="sub-head" width="50%" | '''Position'''
|class="sub-head" width="50%" | '''Name'''
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Five
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Nikola Valtiere]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Six
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Seven
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Eight
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|}
</center>

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{| class="fancy" width="450" align="center" cellpadding="2"
|-
|class="head" colspan="3" | '''Flight Three'''
|-
|class="sub-head" width="50%" | '''Position'''
|class="sub-head" width="50%" | '''Name'''
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Nine
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Rayze Erinos Arconae]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Ten
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Eleven
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | Void Twelve
|class="alt" width="33%" | Nil
|}
</center>

===Abyss Squadron (Pending Evaluation)===

===In Memoriam (Deceased)===

==Equipment==
Not only will members be able to claim status as a member of Void Squadron, they will have access to specialized equipment and Starfighters. These member-only perks are designed not for advantage, but to honour the commitment and development of these members as pilots first. These should be seen as items of prestige, not power.

===Stealth-X===
Stealth-X fighters are designed for use by Force Users of the ACE Pilot Initiative. These Starfighters have been given the ability of stealth, but at the expense of weaponry, shielding, and communications. These vessels are deadly in the right hands, but come with equal drawbacks to their strategic value. Due to the pre-requisite of being a Force User, individuals without the Force, or command of it, will not be permitted access to these ships.

===B-Wing===
B-Wing fighters serve as the heavy bombers of the ACE Pilot Initiative. They boast an exceptional payload of firepower relative to their size – lasers, ion cannons, warheads. When missions require targeted bombing runs or the destruction of heavily defended installations – to include capital ships – they B-Wings will be deployed.

===XJ X-wing===
XJ X-Wings are the most recognizable of Starfighters in the ACE Pilot Initiative. While not exceptional at any one trait, they prove serviceable in all mission profiles – making them the backbone of the Arcona Starfighter Corps due to their versatility, reliability, and availability.

===Hydra Pistol===
For personal arms, there is the .48 caliber Enforcer slugthrower pistol also known as a Hydra within the ACE Pilot Initiative. The weapon features standard rounds capable of penetrating light armor. This weapon has been customized in design to represent a member’s standing in Clan Arcona as a member of Void Squadron.

==Sample Custom Aspects.==
ACE Pilot: Need For Speed

A proud member of the ACE program, {{member}} is regarded as one of the Shadow Clan’s top pilots. {{gender:He,She}} embraces the reputation that comes with the designation, and is confident in {{gender:his,her}} skills when behind the controls of a starfighter. {[member}} is best known for being the fastest flier in the fleet. The same respect granted to an ACE pilot also brings with it the potential for jealousy from other pilots that do not bear the designation, which can sour first impressions when working with new fliers.

ACE Pilot: Can’t Touch This

A proud member of the ACE program, {{member}} is regarded as one of the Shadow Clan’s top pilots. {{gender:He,She}} embraces the reputation that comes with the designation, and is confident in {{gender:his,her}} skills when behind the controls of a starfighter. {[member}} is best known for being the best at pulling off tricky maneuvers when flying through obstacles or complications . The same respect granted to an ACE pilot also brings with it the potential for jealousy from other pilots that do not bear the designation, which can sour first impressions when working with new fliers.

ACE Pilot: Woo! / You Can Be My Wingman Anytime

A proud member of the ACE program, {{member}} is regarded as one of the Shadow Clan’s top pilots. {{gender:He,She}} embraces the reputation that comes with the designation, and is confident in {{gender:his,her}} skills when behind the controls of a starfighter. While {[member}} might not be as the best solo flier of the ACE pilots, {{gender:he,she}} is best known for being the best shot with a laser cannon and in support when covering {{gender:his,her}} fellow pilots. The same respect granted to an ACE pilot also brings with it the potential for jealousy from other pilots that do not bear the designation, which can sour first impressions when working with new fliers.

==Joining the Aces==
To join the elite Squadron as part of the ACE Pilot Initiative, an individual must possess a verifiable skill of +2 Piloting (S) for initial entry into the group. In addition, the individual must be in good standing with Clan Arcona – at the discretion of the Consul and Proconsul – and have sponsorship from a pre-existing member of the Ace Pilot Initiative. If all of these requirements are met, a member can be introduced into the ACE Program within Abyss Squadron until they complete their evaluation for Void Squadron.
To earn entrance into Void Squadron, one must complete an ACE Contract in the Antei Contract Bureau (ACB) or increase their Piloting (S) to +3. This serves as a Test of Skill to prove one’s mettle as an exceptional pilot. Successful completion of this contract will move a member from Abyss (training) to Void (active) status. To continue to serve in active status, members of Void Squadron must participate in a quarterly run-on focused on a mission. If one cannot participate in the run-on, they must complete an ACE Contract in the ACB for the quarter.

Nikola Valtiere

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Nikola Valtiere: /* Character History */

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{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Rollmaster
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, the only 'mundane' to ever do so, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he worked with the Clan.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

===Soulfire===

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

After stepping down as Rollmaster, and joining Soulfire, Valtiere then underwent further elective surgery, removing his left arm to be replaced with a cybernetic of brushed durasteel.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, or, for more formal events, an anachronistic dress uniform is worn.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2016-01-01T18:27:30Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Appearance */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Rollmaster
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, the only 'mundane' to ever do so, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he worked with the Clan.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

After stepping down as Rollmaster, and joining Soulfire, Valtiere then underwent further elective surgery, removing his left arm to be replaced with a cybernetic of brushed durasteel.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, or, for more formal events, an anachronistic dress uniform is worn.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2016-01-01T18:24:47Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Dark Crusade */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Rollmaster
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, the only 'mundane' to ever do so, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he worked with the Clan.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost. He then underwent further elective surgery, removing his left arm to be replaced with a cybernetic of brushed durasteel.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, or, for more formal events, an anachronistic dress uniform is worn.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2016-01-01T18:22:03Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Officer */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Rollmaster
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he worked with the Clan.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost. He then underwent further elective surgery, removing his left arm to be replaced with a cybernetic of brushed durasteel.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, or, for more formal events, an anachronistic dress uniform is worn.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2016-01-01T18:14:33Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Appearance */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Rollmaster
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost. He then underwent further elective surgery, removing his left arm to be replaced with a cybernetic of brushed durasteel.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, or, for more formal events, an anachronistic dress uniform is worn.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2016-01-01T18:11:31Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Captain */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Rollmaster
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Captain===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before promotion to Captain brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Soulfire

2016-01-01T16:19:09Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Capabilities */

{{Construction}}
{{AAII Article|Outdated}}
{{Eras|featured|new|njo|djb}}
{{Organization
|image=[[File:SoulfireLogo.png|250px]]
|name=Soulfire
|founder=Ethran Sayre Isradia, [[Sashar Arconae|Sashar Erinos]], [[Kieran|Kieran Erinos]], [[Zandro|Zandro Erinos]]
|leader=*[[BTL|Captain]] {{SFSTBTL}}
*Sergeant {{SFSTBTS}}
|headquarters=TBA
|founded=c. [[10 ABY to 19 ABY|18 ABY]]
|reorganized=*[[20 ABY to 25 ABY|24 ABY]]
*[[36 ABY|36 ABY]]
*[[39 ABY|Again in 39 ABY]]
|affiliation=*[[House Galeres]]
*[[Clan Arcona]]
*[[Soulfire|Soulfire]]
|era=[[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]}}

{{Quote|We are the final burning arrow in Arcona’s quiver, a roaring light that flashes for a moment before returning all to the quiet of darkness.|Celahir Erinos, Soulfire Captain}}

Soulfire Strike Team was formerly the commanding unit for all of Arcona’s Special Forces in the Army, dubbed Soulfire Strike Force. However, given the recent period of peace, Galeres’ and Arcona’s leaders decided to decommission the Soulfire of old, and reinvent the squad with a new, less formal purpose.

== The Basis of Soulfire ==

Soulfire acts as a wealth of experience. The Squad hosts several members with incredibly varied skill sets, and rarely act as a team. Instead, the squad suit the member loadouts to the mission they are given. It goes without saying that the members who’re admitted to Soulfire are thoroughly tested to make sure that when said missions to the squad are assigned, they do not fail.

==== Position in Arcona ====

Soulfire’s position in Arcona is an interesting one. The team’s loyalties lie with the Clan and their House above all else. There is little place for individual benefit. And whilst the individuals that make up the team aren’t completely selfless, as a group their purpose is very much altruistic.

Most commonly Soulfire is called upon in the direst of moments, their history and previous successes have earned them the nickname “The Last Stand” and this very much describes the team’s function within Arcona.

== History ==

Before the reform in 39 ABY Soulfire’s (then still known as Soulfire Strike Team) missions where highly controversial and therefore kept hidden from general public.
During the reform Celahir, with approval of Arconan leadership, had any and all documents pertaining to Soulfire’s past destroyed to ensure the team and Clan’s deniability of involvement in any of these missions.

Since the reform Celahir and Sashar have been working tirelessly to prepare for the team’s new purpose, establishing advantageous locations for the the team to meet up and working with the Arconan summit to establish a main base somewhere in Estle City.

== Directive ==

Soulfire’s directive has been and always will be safeguarding Arcona and its interests. Throughout its history the team has established themselves to be Arcona’s last line of defense, this does not however mean Soulfire is the sole party responsible for the Clan’s protection and instead they are mainly called upon in case everything else has already failed.

The unique composition of the team causes them to think outside of the box like no other, this has resulted in Soulfire having yet to fail to find the light at the end of the tunnel.

=== Motto ===

Further content pending competition completion.

== Headquarters ==

As a team, Soulfire needed a headquarters, following their position in the Clan, it’s aptly called “The Last Stand”.

==== The Last Stand ====

The Last Stand is the headquarters of Soulfire, the elite core of Arcona. What many think of as an exclusive and extravagant Ithorian herdship is in fact the home of hardened killers. Gutted and totally refitted in secret, the Last Stand can house all of Soulfire and their equipment in relative comfort. The envelope has been reinforced with flexisteel and potent shielding, all done under the guise of 'accommodating exclusive guests'. The welcoming deck is now a flight deck for shuttles and troop transports. A haven for the stressed elite is now a clandestine symbol of Arconan authority.

====Layout====
The Last Stand is primarily comprised of a reinforced armoured envelope filled with inert gas. This lifts the entire structure up above the Estle City Skyline as it carries out it's sedate tour. Shielding officially provides protection against airborne hazards such as flying animals, debris or storms. Unofficially, it turns the Last Stand into a floating fortress against attack.
Running below the envelope is the lower half of the command deck and the 'welcome' deck, a long gantry able to hold multiple craft in adjustable berths. Whatever is docked will hang out over empty air for quick deployment from the Last Stand. Connected to the gantry at the stern is the rear lookout and a sensor suite, along with a maintenance area for the engines. At the bow, the welcome deck connects to the command deck, formerly the hideout of the captain and his crew, now the nerve centre of Soulfire.
The deck above was formerly the resident's quarters and extends partially into the envelope itself. The viewing galleries remain intact, though an observer would notice that there aren't many guests seen looking down.
The refined dining room has become a simple cafeteria, the frippery stripped away for industrial fryers and a salad bar. The function room is now a presentation area and information centre for the planning and briefing of missions. Other rooms have been converted for the needs of Soulfire: A gym, comms centre, infirmary and a maintenance workshop.
Above all that, nestled in the envelope proper, are the bunks for Soulfire. Simple rooms with a small amount of space for personal kit to be stowed and maybe a little bit of decoration to make the Spartan bunks more 'homey'.

====Capabilities====
The Last Stand is powered by four gimbled engines, capable of moving the base in three dimensions at a reasonable pace of 100 Km/h, sedate compared to the countless speeders and spacecraft that flit about the vessel, but fast enough for a ship of its size.
The Last Stand can hold all the members of Soulfire and their equipment, with room to spare to take on extras if the mission calls. It's stores hold enough food and for 3 months in case of emergencies.
Powerful shielding protects the Last Stand from attack, under the guise of protection from environmental dangers. The nature of the Last Stand means that it has no weapons, relying on it's powerful shielding the carry the day. In the case of battle, the Last Stand needs to rely on the members of Soulfire and whatever they have docked at the time.

=== Strike Points ===

Strike Points are advantageous places throughout the Galaxy where Soulfire can mobilize.
At these places, the team has access to most of the tools and equipment they might require for their mission.

These locations have been secured by the team’s members during the reform:
Further content pending competition completion.

{{arcona}}
[[Category:Battle Team]][[Category:Arcona]]

Soulfire

2016-01-01T16:15:11Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* The Last Stand */

{{Construction}}
{{AAII Article|Outdated}}
{{Eras|featured|new|njo|djb}}
{{Organization
|image=[[File:SoulfireLogo.png|250px]]
|name=Soulfire
|founder=Ethran Sayre Isradia, [[Sashar Arconae|Sashar Erinos]], [[Kieran|Kieran Erinos]], [[Zandro|Zandro Erinos]]
|leader=*[[BTL|Captain]] {{SFSTBTL}}
*Sergeant {{SFSTBTS}}
|headquarters=TBA
|founded=c. [[10 ABY to 19 ABY|18 ABY]]
|reorganized=*[[20 ABY to 25 ABY|24 ABY]]
*[[36 ABY|36 ABY]]
*[[39 ABY|Again in 39 ABY]]
|affiliation=*[[House Galeres]]
*[[Clan Arcona]]
*[[Soulfire|Soulfire]]
|era=[[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]}}

{{Quote|We are the final burning arrow in Arcona’s quiver, a roaring light that flashes for a moment before returning all to the quiet of darkness.|Celahir Erinos, Soulfire Captain}}

Soulfire Strike Team was formerly the commanding unit for all of Arcona’s Special Forces in the Army, dubbed Soulfire Strike Force. However, given the recent period of peace, Galeres’ and Arcona’s leaders decided to decommission the Soulfire of old, and reinvent the squad with a new, less formal purpose.

== The Basis of Soulfire ==

Soulfire acts as a wealth of experience. The Squad hosts several members with incredibly varied skill sets, and rarely act as a team. Instead, the squad suit the member loadouts to the mission they are given. It goes without saying that the members who’re admitted to Soulfire are thoroughly tested to make sure that when said missions to the squad are assigned, they do not fail.

==== Position in Arcona ====

Soulfire’s position in Arcona is an interesting one. The team’s loyalties lie with the Clan and their House above all else. There is little place for individual benefit. And whilst the individuals that make up the team aren’t completely selfless, as a group their purpose is very much altruistic.

Most commonly Soulfire is called upon in the direst of moments, their history and previous successes have earned them the nickname “The Last Stand” and this very much describes the team’s function within Arcona.

== History ==

Before the reform in 39 ABY Soulfire’s (then still known as Soulfire Strike Team) missions where highly controversial and therefore kept hidden from general public.
During the reform Celahir, with approval of Arconan leadership, had any and all documents pertaining to Soulfire’s past destroyed to ensure the team and Clan’s deniability of involvement in any of these missions.

Since the reform Celahir and Sashar have been working tirelessly to prepare for the team’s new purpose, establishing advantageous locations for the the team to meet up and working with the Arconan summit to establish a main base somewhere in Estle City.

== Directive ==

Soulfire’s directive has been and always will be safeguarding Arcona and its interests. Throughout its history the team has established themselves to be Arcona’s last line of defense, this does not however mean Soulfire is the sole party responsible for the Clan’s protection and instead they are mainly called upon in case everything else has already failed.

The unique composition of the team causes them to think outside of the box like no other, this has resulted in Soulfire having yet to fail to find the light at the end of the tunnel.

=== Motto ===

Further content pending competition completion.

== Headquarters ==

As a team, Soulfire needed a headquarters, following their position in the Clan, it’s aptly called “The Last Stand”.

==== The Last Stand ====

The Last Stand is the headquarters of Soulfire, the elite core of Arcona. What many think of as an exclusive and extravagant Ithorian herdship is in fact the home of hardened killers. Gutted and totally refitted in secret, the Last Stand can house all of Soulfire and their equipment in relative comfort. The envelope has been reinforced with flexisteel and potent shielding, all done under the guise of 'accommodating exclusive guests'. The welcoming deck is now a flight deck for shuttles and troop transports. A haven for the stressed elite is now a clandestine symbol of Arconan authority.

====Layout====
The Last Stand is primarily comprised of a reinforced armoured envelope filled with inert gas. This lifts the entire structure up above the Estle City Skyline as it carries out it's sedate tour. Shielding officially provides protection against airborne hazards such as flying animals, debris or storms. Unofficially, it turns the Last Stand into a floating fortress against attack.
Running below the envelope is the lower half of the command deck and the 'welcome' deck, a long gantry able to hold multiple craft in adjustable berths. Whatever is docked will hang out over empty air for quick deployment from the Last Stand. Connected to the gantry at the stern is the rear lookout and a sensor suite, along with a maintenance area for the engines. At the bow, the welcome deck connects to the command deck, formerly the hideout of the captain and his crew, now the nerve centre of Soulfire.
The deck above was formerly the resident's quarters and extends partially into the envelope itself. The viewing galleries remain intact, though an observer would notice that there aren't many guests seen looking down.
The refined dining room has become a simple cafeteria, the frippery stripped away for industrial fryers and a salad bar. The function room is now a presentation area and information centre for the planning and briefing of missions. Other rooms have been converted for the needs of Soulfire: A gym, comms centre, infirmary and a maintenance workshop.
Above all that, nestled in the envelope proper, are the bunks for Soulfire. Simple rooms with a small amount of space for personal kit to be stowed and maybe a little bit of decoration to make the Spartan bunks more 'homey'.

====Capabilities====
The Last Stand is powered by four gimbled engines, capable of moving the base in three dimensions at a reasonable pace of 100 Km/h, sedate compared to the countless speeders and spacecraft that flit about the vessel, but fast enough for a ship of its size.
The Last Stand can hold all the members of Soulfire and their equipment, with room to spare to take on extras if the mission calls. It's stores hold enough food and for 3 months in case of emergencies.
Powerful shielding protects the Last Stand from attack, under the guise of protection from environmental dangers. Outwardly, the base has no weapons, and, in fact, has a very limited armament. A bank of laser cannons at the bow and stern are well hidden amongst sensor baffles and decoration. Along the port and starboard sit missile tubes, ready to deliver a punitive broadside against anything big or slow enough. In the case of battle, the Last Stand needs to rely on the members of Soulfire and whatever they have docked at the time.

=== Strike Points ===

Strike Points are advantageous places throughout the Galaxy where Soulfire can mobilize.
At these places, the team has access to most of the tools and equipment they might require for their mission.

These locations have been secured by the team’s members during the reform:
Further content pending competition completion.

{{arcona}}
[[Category:Battle Team]][[Category:Arcona]]

Nikola Valtiere

2015-09-20T16:26:20Z

Nikola Valtiere:

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{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Loyalist
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form=
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Rollmaster
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, K-Wing
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote||Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

===Horizons===

===Avenger II===

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his Captaincy fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Officer===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

After rising above Captain, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'']]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined the fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2015-09-15T18:30:12Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths */

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{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand-to-hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Quaestor of Qel-droma]]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined his fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Void Squadron

2015-09-04T16:43:21Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Hydra slugthrower */

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{{Organization
|image=[[File:Voidsquadlogo.jpg|250px]]
|name=Void Squadron
|founder=*[[Consul]] [[Wuntila|Wuntila Entar Arconae]]
*[[Commander]] [[Solus Gar]]
|leader=*[[Commander]] [[Nikola Valtiere]]
|members= *[[Cethgus Entar]]
*[[Raken]]
*[[Kalon Dane]]
*[[Andrelious J. Inahj]]
|headquarters=[[starwars:Cardan I-class space station|Cardan I-class space station]]
|founded=[[30 ABY to 39 ABY#35 ABY|35 ABY]]
|dissolved=37 ABY
|affiliation=* [[House]] [[Qel-Droma]]
* [[Clan]] [[Arcona]]
* [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood]]
* [[Arcona Starfighter Corps]]
|era=[[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
}}
{{quote|Mors Ex Tenebris: Death from the darkness|Void Squadron Motto}}
'''Void Squadron''' was a [[battleteam]] attached to [[House]] [[Qel-Droma]] serving [[Clan]] [[Arcona]]. Founded in [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#35 ABY|35 ABY]] , the squadron was created in order to address perceived shortcomings on the part of Arcona’s [[starwars:starfighter|starfighter]] units exposed during the [[Dark Brotherhood|Dark Brotherhood's]] [[Tenth Great Jedi War|invasion]] of [[New Tython]]. The unit was stationed aboard Arcona’s [[starwars:Cardan I-class space station|Cardan-class]] battlestation, [[Dusk Station]], and usually operated from the [[Starwars:Nebula-class Star Destroyer|''Nebula''-class]] star destroyer [[NSD Invicta|''Invicta'']] during combined fleet operations.

In 37 ABY, the Battleteam was dis-established, with the Stealth-Xs being made available to its past members and commanders.

== Role ==
[[file:void-combinedops.jpg|thumb|175px|left|Void Squardon combined training operations.]]Void Squadron is officially a [[starwars:Dark Jedi|Dark Jedi]] focused [[starwars:TIE/In interceptor|TIE Interceptor]] squadron operating fighters equipped with both [[starwars:hyperdrive|hyperdrive]] and [[starwars:Deflector shield|shield]] systems. However, this is merely to cover the true nature of the squadron as an elite group operating the [[starwars:StealthX|StealthX]] starfighter. The first operational unit within the Brotherhood to deploy the StealthX, Void Squadron is one of the primer squadrons of the [[Arcona Starfighter Corps]]. Few outside the squadron itself, the summit of Clan Arcona, or the clan’s military leadership know the true status of Void, with the deception of its Interceptor based identity maintained as a cover. This identity is strengthened by the assignment to the squadron of elite pilots chosen from other squadrons in Arcona’s military to pilot the group’s interceptors, effectively making Void two semi-autonomous units.

Operationally, the squadron is trained to carry out a variety of missions from reconnaissance to deep strikes. Unlike most other units in the Arconan military, the squadron most often operates independently without support. In some instances, however, the StealthX unit is accompanied by the TIE Interceptors piloted by their non-Jedi counterparts. In these operations, the Interceptors will make an attack as a feint to draw away defenders while the StealthX squadron then enters the area from another direction and destroys the exposed target. During combined fleet operations, both parts of Void are based aboard the ''Invicta'' with the Interceptors operating from the main hangar bay and the StealthXs assigned to a small auxiliary landing bay. This allows for Void to officially be seen during these missions as the Interceptor squadron while still operating with the fleet as a StealthX unit.

When not in combat, the unit focuses on training and the development of starfighter tactics. Often, the Dark Jedi pilots will fly the squadron’s Interceptors with and against their fellows or their non-Force using counterparts. In addition, Void Squadron will engage in joint training operations using their Interceptors with other units of the Arcona Starfighter Corps.

=== Prerequisites for Joining ===

All aspiring members of Void Squadron are required to complete both a rigorous training course, as well as a one-on-one duel, in StealthX fighters, with any existing member of the squadron. The losing member currently does not have to step down, but it has been implied that this may be required in the future if the squadron's numbers reach the full dozen.

This is not to say that aspiring members may not be considered for a role in Void. They are actively encouraged to join. However, they do so under the pretense that they acquire their qualification to move up into a full capacity pilot within the Squadron.

==History==
=== Origins ===
[[file:starfighter-newtython.jpg|thumb|175px|Starfighter combat in orbit of [[New Tython]].]]Void Squadron could trace its creation directly back to the battle against the starfighter forces of the [[Ge'tal Gaan]] in [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#35 ABY|35 ABY]]. For many years, the Arconan starfighter forces had grown complacent without having faced serious opposition. In the five years following the resolution of the [[Eighth Great Jedi War|Yuuzhan Vong crisis]] and the [[Ninth Great Jedi War|Reclamation of Antei]], there had been little to test the [[Arcona Navy Corps|Arconan Navy]] and starfighter forces. The [[Spoils of War|Invasion of Salas V]] and [[Disorder|battles]] on [[Antei]] that followed placed a greater emphasis on ground combat at the expense of aerospace operations, further degrading starfighter readiness. The Dark Jedi of Arcona found it easy to eschew space combat in favor of more traditional martial roles. The desire to personally strike down an enemy with one’s own hand was far more tempting than starfighter drills and space combat training. In addition, Clan Arcona itself had found itself awash in members of the [[Obelisk]] [[Order]], their preference for more hands-on approaches to combat serving to further direct the attention of the clan towards ground and saber combat.

During the Brotherhood’s assault on New Tython, nearly every single Dark Jedi made planetfall along with elements of the [[Arcona Army Corps]]. The few that remained behind in space were stationed aboard the various capital warships of the Clan’s fleet. Every starfighter unit deployed in the battle was made up of regular pilots lacking training with the Force. During the planning stages of the assault, this did not seem to be an issue as the [[Odan-Urr|Jedi]] defending New Tython possessed negligible space-based defenses. During the operation, however, this would change.

As the Arconan ships began to deploy their troops and Jedi to the planet below, space forces of the [[starwars:Mandalorian|Mandalorian]] Ge'tal Gaan mercenary unit exited [[starwars:hyperspace|hyperspace]] nearly on top the Brotherhood fleet. The TIE Interceptors of [[Sin Squadron]] were among the very first to fall victim to the newcomers, but they would not be the last. While the combined Brotherhood forces would eventually rout the Mandalorian mercenaries, Arcona’s starfighter forces ended up taking far higher proportional losses when compared to the starfighter squadrons of the other clans and the [[Navy of the Iron Throne]].

=== Creation ===
Upon ascending to the leadership of Arcona following the war and the death of [[Zandro Savric Erinos]], newly appointed [[Consul]] [[Wuntila|Wuntila Entar Arconae]] began to examine any shortcomings to be found in the clan’s admittedly impressive performance during the battle. The loss ratios among the starfighter corps were a glaring stain on an altogether excellent campaign, and Wuntila set about correcting it. The acquisition of a full squadron of StealthX fighters gave him the tools with which to do so, and so he formed Void Squadron around them. The StealthX’s requirements for Force trained pilots also enabled him to ensure that the vanguard of the Arcona Starfighter Corps would once again be Dark Jedi. His choice to lead the new squadron was the [[Sith]] [[Solus Gar]].

The squadron was to recruit only the best, or those that had it within them to be the best, in order to become in space what [[Soulfire Strike Team|Soulfire]] was on the ground. The training within the squadron would be second to none in the whole of the Brotherhood for the pilots assigned to it, but also for those throughout the rest of the Arcona Starfighter Corps. The clan leadership felt it was not merely enough to have one elite squadron, so they instead decreed that Void would be the exemplar for the other squadrons. In addition to their own training and operational responsibilities, Void was tasked with developing new and innovative starfighter tactics for use by all of the Clan squadrons as well as direct training with and against their fellow pilots.

=== Chiss Conflict ===

Void Squadron's first major conflict turned out to be within a few weeks of its formation. Whilst under the command of the Mandalorian [[Kalon Dane]], a routine recon mission located a [[starwars:Chiss|Chiss]] outpost on [[starwars:Ebaq 9|Ebaq 9]]. The force discovered was large enough that Void were ordered straight to the Arcona Citadel. The mission ahead was titled Operation: Rolling Thunder.

Void's role in the Operation was to lead the assault against the assembled Chiss starfighters. [[Invictus]], the [[Quaestor]] of [[Qel-Droma]], accompanied the squadron for this mission. The first task Void accomplished, however, was to use their special 'Shadow' Bombs on the Chiss' orbital defence platform. Immediately Void was set upon by the Chiss fighters when an entire wing of Clawcraft engaged the Arconan pilots. The superiority both in technology and pilot skill within the forces of Void Squadron soon proved to be enough even against such odds, and the Clawcraft wing began to lose numbers rapidly, mostly thanks to [[Andrelious J. Inahj]], who killed nearly an entire squadron (12 ships) on his own.

After the initial onslaught was defeated, other units, such as [[Soulfire]], completed their own missions. Soulfire, as was common, proved invaluable to the Arconan summit. However, Void was beginning to prove its worth.

=== Dark Crusade ===

During the [[Dark Crusade]], Void Squadron undertook a variety of assignments ranging from reconnaissance to air assaults and to acting as escorts for high priority vessels. At [[Krayiss II - Arcona|Krayiss II]] the Squadron engaged the One Sith’s fleet during most of the conflict, their efforts allowing many Arconan troops and supplies to reach the planet intact. Although [[House Taldryan]] won the rights to govern Krayiss II, Void Squadron had been instrumental for the entire [[Dark Brotherhood|Brotherhood]] victory upon the planet.
[[file:voidsquadronhelps.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Void Squadron performing bombing runs upon the surface of Rhelg.]]
When the Arconan Fleet reached their next planet, Void were briefed more extensively than usual. Now not only were they fighting in orbit, but they would also take part in strategic attacks against the One Sith’s key positions planetside. The Squadron were the first Arconan units to take part in the space battle above [[Rhelg - Arcona|Rhelg]], each pilot working in perfect unison with one another to eliminate wave after wave of hostile resistance without suffering a single casualty. They were also the first to streak into the planet’s frozen atmosphere, their assignment now switching to bombing One Sith targets, just like they were briefed beforehand. Void were quick and ruthless in their attacks, never once losing the element of surprise upon the planet’s defenders. By the time all the targets had been neutralized, Void Squadron had emerged successful in their mission once again, the efforts of the experienced pilots allowing the Arconan forces to land unhindered and begin the bloody assault on the ground.

==Tactics==
===Formation===

[[file:four_finger_formation.png|left|thumb|175px|Void's four finger formation.]]Void Squadron operates using three finger four formations, also known as the four-finger formation. This consists of a flight of four aircraft, composed of a "lead element" and a "second element", each of two aircraft. When viewing the formation from above, the positions of the starfighters resemble the tips of the four fingers of a human right hand (without the thumb), giving the formation its name.

The lead element is made up of the flight leader at the very front of the formation and one wingman to his rear left. The second element is made up of an additional two planes, the element leader and his wingman. The element leader is to the right and rear of the flight leader, followed by the element wingman to his right and rear.

Both the flight leader and element leader have offensive roles in that they are the ones to open fire on enemy craft while the flight remains intact. Their wingmen have a defensive role — the flight wingman covers the rear of the second element and the element wingman covers the rear of the lead element. Three of these flights assemble to form a squadron formation which consists of one staggered line of fighters in a line echelon arrangement.

Void Squadron operates with slightly more flexibility in their formations, and the starfighters in each flight have greater vertical and horizontal separation than the standard formations used by Arconan forces. This leaves them free to scan in all directions for enemy craft rather than focusing on maintaining a close formation. As a result, the pilots are able to maintain greater situational awareness and reduce the chance of being spotted by the enemy due to the looser formation, since even a StealthX is not one hundred percent invisible. The two flight elements can split up at any time and attack on their own. The pair leader would attack enemy craft, leaving his wingman to scan for threats and protect him while he engaged the enemy. However, greater flexibility is afforded to Void Squadron by allowing the pilot who spotted the enemy to become the leader of the pair or even the whole flight for the duration of the attack as that pilot would have the best situational awareness at that moment in time.

===Operation===

Void's specialisation evolved into the implementation of hit-and-run tactics to compliment their stealth capability. As StealthX fighters are not suited to taking and holding objectives, those roles undertaken by craft adapted for the role, the pilots of Void seek to cripple enemies as quickly as possible before moving off, undetected. This also serves to demoralise the enemy, as their defences are shattered by mystery attackers.

Such action is normally achieved by Void being deployed well ahead of engagement, moving into the battle zone on sublight engines, stealth allowing them to avoid detection. As key targets are identified, pilots begin attack runs with all the weapons Void can bring to bear, unleashing a whithering hail of fire, destroying targets, then speeding out of the engagement zone before they can be detected in the confusion. In this situation, the pairings of fighters, one as spotter, one as striker, becomes key to success.

==Equipment==
Void Squadron is assigned twenty-four starfighters, twelve StealthXs and twelve XJ X-Wings. The StealthX fighters are only operated by the Dark Jedi assigned to the unit while the standard X-Wings are assigned to regular pilots forming the second part of the squadron. Void's non-Jedi element originally used TIE Interceptors, but Arcona lost nearly all Interceptors during the [[Horizons]] incident.

===StealthX===
[[File:StealthX.jpg|175px|thumb|The StealthX starfighter]]The StealthX was smaller than the XJ-series [[starwars:T-65 X-wing starfighter|X-wing]]. It featured equipment that hid the craft both visually and tactically, though the craft's position was given away if [[starwars:proton torpedo|proton torpedo]]es were used or if the [[starwars:pilot|pilot]] broadcasted over the [[starwars:comlink|comlink]]. The StealthX was used exclusively by [[starwars:Jedi|Jedi]], as the restrictions on comm usage made it nearly impossible for anyone other than a Jedi to coordinate with other forces.

A modification of the already formidable [[starwars:T-65XJ3 X-wing starfighter|T-65XJ3 X-wing starfighter]], the StealthX had a star-flecked body of irregular, matte-black [[starwars:fiberplast|fiberplast]] that rendered it almost invisible against a background of [[starwars:star|star]]s. The third torpedo launcher had been replaced by a [[starwars:gravitic modulator|gravitic modulator]] designed to defeat [[starwars:mass-detector|mass-detector]]s, and its shields had been downgraded to make room for a suite of [[starwars:sensor|sensor]] negators. Even its fusial engines had been retooled to burn a special [[starwars:tibanna|tibanna]] isotope, designated [[starwars:Tibanna|TibannaX]], whose efflux turned dark a millisecond after fusion. The viewports utilized [[starwars:blast-tinting|blast-tinting]] technology.

Void Squadron usually replaces the standard proton torpedoes with custom-made [[starwars:Jedi shadow bomb|Jedi shadow bomb]]s. In addition, their StealthXs can also carry [[starwars:glop bomb|glop bomb]]s, which released a quick-hardening foam upon detonation, and two-stage armor-piercing [[starwars:bunker-buster bomb|bunker-buster bomb]]s. Advanced [[starwars:R9-series astromech droid|R9-series astromech droid]]s are assigned to assist the pilots with the special requirements of this unique craft.

=== XJ X-Wing ===
[[File:XJwing.jpg|175px|left|thumb|An XJ X-Wing]] The XJ series boasted increased shield capacity, better maneuverability, and a higher sublight acceleration. The starfighter's weapons carried an increased charge and better targeting computers, making the craft a formidable enemy of the foes of the New Republic. Additionally, a third proton torpedo launcher was added to up the fighter's payload to 9 torpedoes total.

The XJ model of Incom's incredibly successful X-wing series was one of the more recent versions of the venerable starfighter. When the war against the Yuuzhan Vong started, these models were rarely seen outside of the New Jedi Order and Star Destroyer squadrons.

===Hydra slugthrower===
[[File:Hydra pistol.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Hydra slugthrower pistol]]

Even the best pilots get shot down. As such, a firearm is needed for self-defence in the case of a crash. Based off a heavily modified [[starwars:SH-9 slughthrower|SH-9 Slugthrower]], the weapon features standard rounds, but has an underslung chamber for a single special round. These can be explosive, web rounds, cryoban rounds, dummy, birdshot, incendiary, a stun round, EMP round, or a devastating .50 calibre round. The bottom chamber is muzzle-loaded, and fired by flicking a mode switch. Normally, two rounds of each type are kept in the survival kit for downed pilots. Of course, each pilot is different, carrying varying amounts of ammo in their survival kits according to preference.

===Survival kit===
Upon a crash landing, a pilot needs supplies to make it through the time they are downed. It contains the Hydra, along with spare rounds and specialised rounds for the underslung launcher. There are also ration packs, along with rope and a ground sheet for a basic shelter. A small medkit is supplied for any wounds. Equipment to start fires in any weather is provided for warmth and cooking. A signal beacon can be used to call in search parties once they have been sent.

===Uniform===
[[File:KalonVoid.jpg|100px|thumb|right|Void uniform]]

The Void Pilot uniform is based off the TIE corps uniform, with a few cosmetic changes, namely the symbols of the Galactic Empire replaced with those of Void Squadron. The Pilot's call sign is shown on the chest plate. Service studs line the right brow of the helmet. The suit is fully enclosed, able to protect the wearer from the vacuum of space, in case of hull penetration, or ejection into space.

== Former Equipment ==

===TIE/In Interceptor===
[[File:TIEI.jpg|175px|left|thumb|A TIE/In interceptor.]]Like most TIEs, the TIE Interceptor shared nearly identical cockpits, drive pods, and wing brace design with the TIE Fighter. The solar collector panels were lengthened and angled, and the forward center section was removed. This new solar array design gave the Interceptor its unmistakable dagger-like appearance, while providing the [[starwars:pilot|pilot]] with increased visibility and shrinking its profile, making targeting more frustrating for enemy [[starwars:gunner|gunner]]s. This wing design gave the craft a more menacing visage, continuing the Empire's reputation of ruling through fear.

The original production model came standard with four [[starwars:L-s9.3 laser cannon|L-s9.3 laser canno]]s installed on each wingtip. New targeting software was among other advancements installed in the TIE Interceptor; the [[starwars:Sienar Fleet Systems|SFS]] [[starwars:T-s9a targeting computer|T-s9a targeting computer]] offered greater accuracy during complex flight maneuvers. The TIE Interceptor fielded [[starwars:P-s5.6 twin ion engine|P-s5.6 twin ion engine]]s. These new engines included an advanced ion-stream projector, thus allowing pilots access to more sophisticated combat maneuvers. Twin-port deflectors supported this feat by allowing the pilot individual manipulation of the deflectors, thus providing finer flight control. These advancements in engine technology made the TIE Interceptor a superior platform in space combat, achieving speeds beyond all other Alliance starfighters short of the A-wing.

The TIE Interceptor's primary role was as its title suggested. Like its predecessors, the Interceptor lacked heavier armor, deflector shields, a hyperdrive, and [[starwars:life support|life support]] systems. Interceptor pilots were forced to rely on speed, maneuverability, superior numbers, and advanced weapon systems to prevail in its primary role of space superiority. With no hyperdrive, the TIE Interceptor was reliant on a [[starwars:capital ship|capital ship]] for an operations base. [[starwars:Star Destroyer|Star Destroyer]]s and prominent [[starwars:shipyard|shipyard]]s such as [[starwars:Kuat|Kuat]] and [[starwars:Fondor|Fondor]] were common place for Interceptor squadrons; however, smaller vessels and more remote locations had to rely on aging TIE/ln fighters.

TIE Interceptors have powerful solar ionization reactors, which is exactly the same model used in the [[starwars:TIE Avenger|TIE Avenger]], that can handle the special equipment mounted in them including deflector shields, beam weapons like special beam jammers, decoy beams, hyperdrives, and extra missile racks for increased warhead payload.

==Squadron Organization==
The squadron is organized into three flights, each named after the first three letters in the [[starwars:Common Sith|Common Sith]] alphabet.

===Aleph Flight===
*Lead Element
**Flight Leader: [[Nikola Valtiere]] (Callsign: Tulwar)
**Wingman: [[Tycho Isod]] (Callsign: TBD)
*Second Element
**Element Leader: [[Wes Biriuk]] (Callsign: TBD)
**Wingman:Dalk Darklighter (Callsign: TBD)

===Bet Flight===
*Lead Element
**Flight Leader: [[Snabbie]] (Callsign: Soulfury)
**Wingman:
*Second Element
**Element Leader: [[User:Kalon| Kalon Tsucrya Entar]] {Callsign: Phoenix})
**Wingman:

===Kaph Flight===
*Lead Element
**Flight Leader: [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] (Callsign: Mask)
**Wingman: [[User:Valeriuskane|Valerius Kane]] (Callsign: TBD)
*Second Element
**Element Leader: Naradas(Callsign: TBD)
**Wingman:

==Awards==

===The Pinions===

[[File:The Wings.png|thumb|The Pinions]]

The Pinions are given for pilots who have shown great skill and valour in service to the Brotherhood. The Pinions are a sign of an elite within an elite. Only a handful of Void’s pilots wear the award, such is its status.

The Pinions are awarded to members of Void that have shown accomplishment within Void, given at the discretion of the Commander.

'''Recipients:'''
*[[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
*[[Nikola Valtiere]]
*[[Andrelious J. Inahj]]

===Service Studs===

[[File:Service stud.png|200px|thumb|Standard stud]]

On a Void Pilot’s helmet is a series of small, red studs. Each stud is a sign of a battle won, a struggle overcome. Some of Void Squadron’s older members have a full strip of studs on either side of the central crest.

Service studs are given for participation. By participating in half the competitions in an event, one stud is awarded. If all the competitions are participated in, then two studs are given. If you place in a non team DB-wide event, you have the opportunity for the stud to be ringed in the colour of your placing.

'''Number of studs'''
Nikola Valtiere: 7
Nadrin Erinos: 6
Damon Tye: 0
Valerius Kane: 2
Naradas: 0
Wes Biriuk: 1
Dalk Darklighter: 0

==Roll of Commanders==

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|class="head" colspan="3" | '''Void Squadron'''
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|class="sub-head" width="50%" | '''Commander'''
|class="sub-head" width="50%" | '''Service Dates (ABY)'''
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Solus Gar]]
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#35 ABY|35 ABY]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Teroch Erinos]]
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#35 ABY|35 ABY]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Kalon Dane]]
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#36 ABY|35 ABY]] - [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#36 ABY|36 ABY]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Cethgus Entar]]
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#36 ABY|36 ABY]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Andrelious J. Inahj]]
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#36 ABY|36 ABY]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Nikola Valtiere]]
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#36 ABY|36 ABY]] - [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#37 ABY|37 ABY]]
|-
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[Invictus]]
|class="alt" width="33%" | [[30 ABY to 39 ABY#37 ABY|37 ABY]]
|}
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Nikola Valtiere

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Nikola Valtiere: /* Rollmaster */

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand-to-hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Quaestor of Qel-droma]]

After stepping down from his role as Quaestor of Qel-Droma, Valtiere seemed to disappear, out of the eye of many of his Arconan Brethren. He spent time with members of the Arconan Armed Forces, hopping from ship to ship, more comfortable among the members of Arcona's Navy than their Force Sensitives. During the War, he begrudgingly joined his fellow Dark Jedi in battle against the foes of Grandmaster Ashen. In battle, Valtiere found himself again, be it flying a fighter, or going toe-to-toe with a competent opponent. The War was a monument to the arrogance of Dark Jedi. Valtiere realised he could work to redress that viewpoint somewhat.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Fade Initiative

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Nikola Valtiere: /* List of Fades */

{{Organization
|name=Fade Initiative
|image=[[File:Fade Design.JPG|250px]]
|founder=[[Marick Arconae]]
|leader=Consul {{ArcCON}}
|headquarters=* [[Dajorra System]]
* [[Selen]]
|founded=[[38 ABY]]
|affiliation=[[Clan Arcona]]
|era=* [[New Jedi Order Era]]
* [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
}}

The '''Fade Initiative''' is a program of [[Clan Arcona]] designed to reward mentors amongst the [[Shadesworn]] and to promote those soldiers of the [[Arconan Armed Forces]] that demonstrate key combat skills to greater prominence within the ranks of Arcona.

== Overview ==

The Fade Initiative was opened in [[38 ABY]] by then-[[Consul]] [[Marick Arconae]] as a program of merit. Those Shadesworn who demonstrate excellent leadership skills, such as those who are capable of training their fellow Arconans to the rank of [[Dark Jedi Knight]], are recommended for the Fade Initiative. In turn, those soldiers with excellent skills and notable combat records are also made available - these people will then find each other and a Fade will swear fealty to a Shadesworn.

Fades are drawn from two separate pools to be eligible, taken equally from the ranks of Arcona's [[starwars:Mandalorian|Mandalorian]] clan [[Erinos]] and the ranks of the [[starwars:Wilderness_Fighters|Wilderness Rangers]]. Most warriors from these two groups show the requisite skills to draw the eye of the Shadow Clan and drive themselves to prominence. A newly-minted Fade is branded with the mark of the Fades, a tattoo to be placed anywhere on their body. Their allegiance is then given to their assigned Shadesworn and not to Arcona as a whole, leaving the Fade free to follow the wishes of their Master.

== List of Fades ==

{| class="fancy"
! Fade !! | Assigned Shadesworn
|-
! [[Acaelus Del'aran]]
|Marick Arconae
|-
! [[Aryn 'Jade' Erinos]]
|[[Celevon Edraven]]
|-
! [[Benwarr Blatile]]
|[[Marrek Gunstinson]]
|-
! [[Elequin Erinos]]
|[[Arcia Cortel]]
|-
! [[Idwal Erinos]]
|[[Nikola Valtiere]]
|-
! [[Jax Erinos]]
|[[Atyiru Caesus Entar]]
|-
! [[Kristen Erinos]]
|Marick Arconae
|-
! [[Lilly Nortor Erinos]]
|[[Mako Henymory]]
|-
! [[Maa'ka Da'Rani Erinos]]
|[[Kanis Da'uul]]
|-
! [[Shadex Soldown]]
|Marrek Gunstinson
|-
! [[Swil Phift Erinos]]
|[[Andrelious J. Mimosa-Inahj]]
|-
! [[Tybalt Erinos]]
|[[Luna Okami]]
|-
! [[Vincent Erinos]]
|Mako Henymory
|-
! [[Xyrilia Queslyn Erinos]]
|Andrelious J. Mimosa-Inahj
|-

[[Category:Organizations]]
[[Category:Arcona]]

Idwal Erinos

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|firstname= Idwal Lleweffyn
|lastname= Erinos
|homeworld= Eriadu
|birth= 08 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Brown
|eyes= Grey
|height= 191 cm
|weight= 102 kg
|cyber= nil
|fightingstyle= Mounted combat
|profession= Mandalorian Soldier
|affiliation= [[Nikola Valtiere]]
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Idwal Erinos is the First Fade serving under [[Nikola Valtiere]] of Arcona. He's a specialist in mounted combat and small-arms. He was one of the very early members of the initiative, and an inductee into the Erinos Mandalorian Clan, rather than born into it. As such, he eschews many of their traditions, treading a line very close to dar'manda.

== Character History ==
Idwal was born on the harsh world of Eriadu, a third son of an old house. He grew up destined for the military. However, Eriadu had only recently become a begrudging member of the New Republic, and Idwal grew up surrounded by Anti-Republic sentiment. As soon as he graduated from the military academy on Eriadu, his view turned to the stars, outside the remit of the corrupt New Republic. His travels took him eventually to the Dajorra system, following whispers of an organised military outside the New Republic sphere.

Idwal quickly thrived within the Arconan Armed Forces, racing through SST and TIT before joining the small CAVCOM contingent that the army boasted as a junior officer. He excelled as a Lancer, rising to the rank of Captain before he was noticed by the Erinos. After successfully proving his combat prowess using both his Force Lance and Pistol, he was inducted into the Mandalorian Family. Controversially, he didn't wear full body Beskar like his Mando'a brethren, wearing silvered half-armour for greater maneuverability with a peaked-open faced helm.

Upon his selection to become a member of the Erinos, Idwal caught the eye of [[Nikola Valtiere]]. An individual that was skilled in mounted combat was useful to the Dark Jedi, himself a very skilled mounted combatant. Upon his induction into the Fade inititative, Valtiere told Idwal that "He could wear what armour he wanted, as long as he looked professional." As such, he settled upon keeping his silvered cuirass and plumed helm, donning a red tunic, white jodhpurs and black cavalry boots, an archaic look that matched the Equite's own.

== Physical Description ==

Idwal is tall and slim, though none would call the man slender. His expression is often neutral or severe, his eyes of slate either flicking over an individual or boring into them with intent. He keeps his brown hair at regulation length. His skin is only marred by a scar on top of his left shoulder, a relic of a 'tilt' he lost. When out of combat, he wears an archaic-looking uniform of a red tunic with white sash, white jodhpus and black cavalry boots, his peaked helmet obscuring his eyes, strap resting under his lower lip.

== Specialisation ==

* Mounted Combat - Idwal is a master of the Force Lance, especially when upon his Aratech speederbike. His years in CAVCOM have forged him into an exceptional cavalry officer.

* Pistols - As an officer, Idwal became very competent at making use of the small arms that he was expected to use as a member of the Lancers, becoming a crack shot whilst on the move at speed.

[[Category: NPC ]]
[[Category: Fades of Arcona]]

Nikola Valtiere

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Nikola Valtiere: /* Positions Held */

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|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand-to-hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Quaestor of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 38ABY

Rollmaster of [[Clan Arcona]] 38 ABY-Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2015-03-24T19:04:20Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Character History */

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{{Construction}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand-to-hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===

===Rollmaster===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Quaestor of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2014-11-12T23:58:11Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Character History */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand-to-hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

===Quaestor===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Quaestor of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to its fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nexum

2014-09-18T14:03:46Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Criteria */

==The Nexum==

The roles of the members of [[Qel-Droma]] may be diverse, but there is a single tenant held in the heart of every individual within the house: They work in the shadows.

All Qel-Dromans know this. But some are exemplars of this simple philosophy. These individuals are masters of shadow and the arts of subterfuge, those who have gone above and beyond, bled for their [[House]]. They are the best and brightest, a secret elite.

Such an award is not something to boast of. It is not something to show off, to flash to others in arrogance. It is something to be held to oneself. A support of the knowledge that they have advanced the cause of Qel-Droma. An assassin does not shout his presence, the award for an assassin should do the same. It should whisper, it's threat implied and subtle.

===The Signatum===
[[file:The_Mark.png‎|50px|thumb|left|The Signatum]]

This award is simply called ‘The Signatum’. A series of runes in an unknown language along the right forearm of the awarded are tattooed. The tattoo is in a special ink, rendering it invisible unless subjected to ultraviolet light. If the right forearm is unusable, then the sternum is used. The only way to access a meeting of the Nexum is to present yourself to your brethren, and expose the tattooed area, where it is then identified. If the Signatum is not present, then the punishment is death, the speed of which depending on the mood of your captor.

Upon receipt of The Signatum, many try to decipher their meaning, unable to place the angular characters, with no link to known text. In truth, the runes used were found in an ancient grimoire in [[Nikola Valtiere]]'s private collection of texts. None know what the runes mean but he. And, of course, none know it was Valtiere that developed the Signatum, for as much as possible about the award is kept secret, so others do not learn of Qel-Droma's elite.

Along with The Signatum, the awarded receives a weapon suited to their skills in the shadows, to be used when the Nexum are loosed by the Summit, enacting their will. The Fang.

The presentation of this award is kept as quiet as possible. Some say they take you in the night, the chosen waking with their arm burning as the ink is applied. Others say you are simply given a summons to a random room in the Phantom complex. A few even say the Nexum themselves come to you while you are on a mission, deeming you worthy. The truth is known only to those that have received the award.

===The Fang===
[[file:The_fang.jpg‎|40px|thumb|The Fang]]

The fang is not a dagger, a weapon for stabbing and piercing the foe, but a knife, a weapon made for cruel slashes, opening necks and arteries. It is hidden within a bracer on the left forearm, and can be drawn and sliced in a swift, silent movement. The blade is ceramic to avoid detection, the blade excessively sharp to whisper over the skin as it cuts.

===Role===

Those that have been blessed with The Signatum act as advisers to the leadership of Qel-Droma, a stable of elite minds bent towards the betterment of their house. The identity of these advisers is kept secret from other members, and therefore the rest of the brotherhood, ensuring they do not become targets of lesser assassins. They are known as Nexum, a title distinguishing oneself from all other Qel-Dromans. The greatest honour that only they can know. For to reveal your role to another will cost the Dark Jedi their life, hunted by their former brethren of The Nexum.

Along with acting as advisers, members of the Nexum are employed by the house Summit as their subtle hand, removing threats, causing confusion and hysteria, advancing the needs of Qel-Droma. They are the best at employing underhanded tactics, at retrieving information. To not make use of their practical skills would be madness.

===Criteria===

An individual has to not only participate in events, but also achieve well to become a member of the Nexum. Depending on the nature of the event, regarding how long it takes, ow many competitions are involved, the criteria for membership alter slightly.

===Members of the Nexum===
[[Celevon Edraven]]

[[Ernordeth Puer-Irae]]

[[Kanis Da'uul]]

[[Nikola Valtiere]]

[[Kookimarissia Mimosa-Inahj]]

[[Category:Arcona]]

[[Category:Qel-Droma]]

Nexum

2014-09-18T14:02:20Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Members of the Nexum */

==The Nexum==

The roles of the members of [[Qel-Droma]] may be diverse, but there is a single tenant held in the heart of every individual within the house: They work in the shadows.

All Qel-Dromans know this. But some are exemplars of this simple philosophy. These individuals are masters of shadow and the arts of subterfuge, those who have gone above and beyond, bled for their [[House]]. They are the best and brightest, a secret elite.

Such an award is not something to boast of. It is not something to show off, to flash to others in arrogance. It is something to be held to oneself. A support of the knowledge that they have advanced the cause of Qel-Droma. An assassin does not shout his presence, the award for an assassin should do the same. It should whisper, it's threat implied and subtle.

===The Signatum===
[[file:The_Mark.png‎|50px|thumb|left|The Signatum]]

This award is simply called ‘The Signatum’. A series of runes in an unknown language along the right forearm of the awarded are tattooed. The tattoo is in a special ink, rendering it invisible unless subjected to ultraviolet light. If the right forearm is unusable, then the sternum is used. The only way to access a meeting of the Nexum is to present yourself to your brethren, and expose the tattooed area, where it is then identified. If the Signatum is not present, then the punishment is death, the speed of which depending on the mood of your captor.

Upon receipt of The Signatum, many try to decipher their meaning, unable to place the angular characters, with no link to known text. In truth, the runes used were found in an ancient grimoire in [[Nikola Valtiere]]'s private collection of texts. None know what the runes mean but he. And, of course, none know it was Valtiere that developed the Signatum, for as much as possible about the award is kept secret, so others do not learn of Qel-Droma's elite.

Along with The Signatum, the awarded receives a weapon suited to their skills in the shadows, to be used when the Nexum are loosed by the Summit, enacting their will. The Fang.

The presentation of this award is kept as quiet as possible. Some say they take you in the night, the chosen waking with their arm burning as the ink is applied. Others say you are simply given a summons to a random room in the Phantom complex. A few even say the Nexum themselves come to you while you are on a mission, deeming you worthy. The truth is known only to those that have received the award.

===The Fang===
[[file:The_fang.jpg‎|40px|thumb|The Fang]]

The fang is not a dagger, a weapon for stabbing and piercing the foe, but a knife, a weapon made for cruel slashes, opening necks and arteries. It is hidden within a bracer on the left forearm, and can be drawn and sliced in a swift, silent movement. The blade is ceramic to avoid detection, the blade excessively sharp to whisper over the skin as it cuts.

===Role===

Those that have been blessed with The Signatum act as advisers to the leadership of Qel-Droma, a stable of elite minds bent towards the betterment of their house. The identity of these advisers is kept secret from other members, and therefore the rest of the brotherhood, ensuring they do not become targets of lesser assassins. They are known as Nexum, a title distinguishing oneself from all other Qel-Dromans. The greatest honour that only they can know. For to reveal your role to another will cost the Dark Jedi their life, hunted by their former brethren of The Nexum.

Along with acting as advisers, members of the Nexum are employed by the house Summit as their subtle hand, removing threats, causing confusion and hysteria, advancing the needs of Qel-Droma. They are the best at employing underhanded tactics, at retrieving information. To not make use of their practical skills would be madness.

===Criteria===

The criteria for induction to the Nexum take into account both participation and achievement for the betterment of your House. In a major event (Vendetta, Great Jedi War or House event), an individual must have participation ratio of over 0.66, across all of the competitions in the event. Alongside such a ratio, a ratio of achieved Novae of 0.1 is required. In calculating the novae ratio, Gold novae count as 1.5 rather than 1, meaning Gold Novae are worth more.

===Members of the Nexum===
[[Celevon Edraven]]

[[Ernordeth Puer-Irae]]

[[Kanis Da'uul]]

[[Nikola Valtiere]]

[[Kookimarissia Mimosa-Inahj]]

[[Category:Arcona]]

[[Category:Qel-Droma]]

Nikola Valtiere

2014-06-25T18:43:19Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Aedile */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Quaestor of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2014-06-25T18:42:56Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Fighting Style */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Aedile of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Aedile of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - 37 ABY

Quaestor of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2014-05-28T16:16:21Z

Nikola Valtiere:

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Quaestor
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Aedile of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Apex Brigade

2014-05-19T14:45:14Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Agent’s Equipment */

{{Organization
|name=Apex Brigade
|image=[[File:Apex.png|250px]]
|founder= [[Inarya|Inarya Tiberius Entar]]
|leaders=*Battle Team Leader:[[Inarya|Inarya Tiberius Entar]] *Executive Officer: [[Adam Bolera]]
|current members=*[[Vynn Salm]] *[[Kant Lavar]] *[[Marrek Gunstinson]] *[[Vosh Kon]]*Krant Altier
|attachments=*8 x [[starwars:IG-100 MagnaGuard|IG-100 MagnaGuard]] * Droid Mechanic: [[Artemis Naa]]
|headquarters= [[Dajorra Asteroid Field]]
|founded=[[37 ABY]]
|affiliation=*[[Qel-Droma|House Qel-Droma]]
*[[Arcona|Clan Arcona]] *[[Dark Jedi Brotherhood]]
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
}}

Apex Brigade was founded in [[37 ABY]] within [[House Qel-Droma]]. Its main purpose is to hunt down and eliminate any and all threats to [[Clan Arcona]].

==History==

===Creation===
Founded after [[Operation: Sojourn]], Apex Brigade’s primary function was to track down and eliminate any One Sith Forces that would still pose a threat to the security of the [[Dajorra System]] and [[Clan Arcona]] itself. Founded by [[Inarya|Inarya Tiberius Entar]] Apex Brigade consist of eight Agents, each of which have been specially trained in order to take out Force-Sensitive hostiles. Pair with IG-100 MagnaGuard, Apex showed their skills

Apex Brigade have since evolved into the enforcing power of Arconan Law throughout the Dajorra System, making themselves known to each of the planets.

==Base of Operations==

===Apex Base===

The Apex Base is the base of operation for Apex Brigade. Situated in the [[Dajorra Asteroid Field]] it acts as both a home and and a bunker for Apex Agents.

While originally an old mining outpost Apex Base had been unoccupied for a number of years before House Qel-Droma reclaimed it turning it into the base of operations for the newly formed Apex Brigade. The primary function of the base is to offer a refuge of Apex Agent’s and AB-Unit while not on deployment, however due to most of the Agents enforcing Arconan Rule in the Dajorra System the only full time residents of Apex Base is [[Artemis Naa]] the teams tech expert and Mechanic.

Even though Apex Base is normally empty it have a number of facilities for both Agents and any officials or digatries that may visit. Each of the Agents quarters are fitted with everything in order to meet the needs of their individual species. The base is home to a ready room and cantina for those Agents not on deployment as well as a Mission Briefing Room, Brig, Hanger, Weapons Locker, Medical Bay, Mechanical Repair Centre and Offices for both the Leader and Executive Officer.

==Equipment==

===Agent’s Equipment===

* While Apex Agents first line of attack in a combat situation would be their lightsaber, each agent carries a [[starwars:Virbroknife|Vibroknife]] in the event of being disarmed. The blade measures in at 7 inches with a thickness of 3.5mm. Forged from [[starwars:Durasteel|Durasteel]] it is able to withstand the harshest of environments as well as extreme physical stresses.

* The Armour worn by the Agents of Apex Brigade is a lightweight polyweave bodysuit, to which protective durasteel treated plates are placed on top off. Originally designed to withstand all but lightsaber and Force-Based attacks, it has proven effective against blaster fire and physical impacts as well.

* Additional equipment is available to Agents to meet their skill set and abilities.

===IG-100 MagnaGuard Armaments===

Each of the eight MagnaGuard Units assigned to Apex Brigade are fitting with Phrik alloy Electrostaffs. These blunt energy weapons emit a pink electromagnetic pulse at each end. Made of a Lightsaber resistant alloy the electrostaffs allow the MagnaGuard to deflect a Force-Sensitive’s Lightsaber with ease. In addition to this each of the AB-Units come equipped with:

*Built in Tow cable

* Magnetized Limbs

* Thermal Detonators

* Seeker Missiles located in their back Plating

Having the ability to use blaster rifles, grenades, rocket launchers, and similar devices due to their Human like hands they are deadly to face. If need the handler may also activate the Units Self-Destruct feature if engaged in a unwinnable combat situation.

==Roster==

===Apex Agents===

The agents that are currently in service in Apex Brigade are:

*Apex Commander:[[Inarya|Inarya Tiberius Entar]]
*Apex Sub-Commander: [[Adam Bolera]]
*Apex Agent: [[Vynn Salm]]
*Apex Agent: [[Graus Colvin]]
*Apex Agent: [[Kant Lavar]]
*Apex Agent: [[Marrek Gunstinson]]
*Apex Agent: [[Vosh Kon]]
*Apex Agent: Krant Altier

===Non-Rostered Team Attachments===
*Mechanic: [[Artemis Naa]]

===IG-100 Units Currently Active===
*AB-1 - Unit assigned to [[Inarya|Inarya Tiberius Entar]]
*AB-2 - Unit assigned to [[Adam Bolera]]
*AB-3 - Unit assigned to [[Vynn Salm]]
*AB-4 - Unit assigned to [[Kant Lavar]]
*AB-5 - Unit assigned to [[Marrek Gunstinson]]
*AB-6 - Unit Call Sign [[IG-117]] assigned to [[Vosh Kon]]
*AB-7 Unit assigned to Krant Altier

{{Arcona}}
[[Category:Under Construction]] [[Category:Arcona]][[Category:Battle Team]]

Nikola Valtiere

2014-03-24T13:24:13Z

Nikola Valtiere:

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.05m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= [[Dulon]], [[Hapan]], [[Jeswandi]], [[Verdanaian]]
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]]
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices=
* [[Tycho Isod]]
* [[dossier:13758|Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===
Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===
The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===
{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}
[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===
Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===
{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===
[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Aedile of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearance==
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmaneuver other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''
[[File:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==
[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===
Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nexum

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Nikola Valtiere: /* Members of the Nexum */

==The Nexum==

The roles of the members of [[Qel-Droma]] may be diverse, but there is a single tenant held in the heart of every individual within the house: They work in the shadows.

All Qel-Dromans know this. But some are exemplars of this simple philosophy. These individuals are masters of shadow and the arts of subterfuge, those who have gone above and beyond, bled for their [[House]]. They are the best and brightest, a secret elite.

Such an award is not something to boast of. It is not something to show off, to flash to others in arrogance. It is something to be held to oneself. A support of the knowledge that they have advanced the cause of Qel-Droma. An assassin does not shout his presence, the award for an assassin should do the same. It should whisper, it's threat implied and subtle.

===The Signatum===
[[file:The_Mark.png‎|50px|thumb|left|The Signatum]]

This award is simply called ‘The Signatum’. A series of runes in an unknown language along the right forearm of the awarded are tattooed. The tattoo is in a special ink, rendering it invisible unless subjected to ultraviolet light. If the right forearm is unusable, then the sternum is used. The only way to access a meeting of the Nexum is to present yourself to your brethren, and expose the tattooed area, where it is then identified. If the Signatum is not present, then the punishment is death, the speed of which depending on the mood of your captor.

Upon receipt of The Signatum, many try to decipher their meaning, unable to place the angular characters, with no link to known text. In truth, the runes used were found in an ancient grimoire in [[Nikola Valtiere]]'s private collection of texts. None know what the runes mean but he. And, of course, none know it was Valtiere that developed the Signatum, for as much as possible about the award is kept secret, so others do not learn of Qel-Droma's elite.

Along with The Signatum, the awarded receives a weapon suited to their skills in the shadows, to be used when the Nexum are loosed by the Summit, enacting their will. The Fang.

The presentation of this award is kept as quiet as possible. Some say they take you in the night, the chosen waking with their arm burning as the ink is applied. Others say you are simply given a summons to a random room in the Phantom complex. A few even say the Nexum themselves come to you while you are on a mission, deeming you worthy. The truth is known only to those that have received the award.

===The Fang===
[[file:The_fang.jpg‎|40px|thumb|The Fang]]

The fang is not a dagger, a weapon for stabbing and piercing the foe, but a knife, a weapon made for cruel slashes, opening necks and arteries. It is hidden within a bracer on the left forearm, and can be drawn and sliced in a swift, silent movement. The blade is ceramic to avoid detection, the blade excessively sharp to whisper over the skin as it cuts.

===Role===

Those that have been blessed with The Signatum act as advisers to the leadership of Qel-Droma, a stable of elite minds bent towards the betterment of their house. The identity of these advisers is kept secret from other members, and therefore the rest of the brotherhood, ensuring they do not become targets of lesser assassins. They are known as Nexum, a title distinguishing oneself from all other Qel-Dromans. The greatest honour that only they can know. For to reveal your role to another will cost the Dark Jedi their life, hunted by their former brethren of The Nexum.

Along with acting as advisers, members of the Nexum are employed by the house Summit as their subtle hand, removing threats, causing confusion and hysteria, advancing the needs of Qel-Droma. They are the best at employing underhanded tactics, at retrieving information. To not make use of their practical skills would be madness.

===Criteria===

The criteria for induction to the Nexum take into account both participation and achievement for the betterment of your House. In a major event (Vendetta, Great Jedi War or House event), an individual must have participation ratio of over 0.66, across all of the competitions in the event. Alongside such a ratio, a ratio of achieved Novae of 0.1 is required. In calculating the novae ratio, Gold novae count as 1.5 rather than 1, meaning Gold Novae are worth more.

===Members of the Nexum===
[[Andrelious J. Inahj]]

[[Nikola Valtiere]]

[[Etah d'Tana]]

[[Kanis Da'uul]]

[[Category:Arcona]]

[[Category:Qel-Droma]]

Nikola Valtiere

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Nikola Valtiere:

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|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]][[Z8-K4]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
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{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===

Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Aedile of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2014-02-11T22:38:37Z

Nikola Valtiere:

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===

Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Aedile of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

File:Valtiere Aedile Headshot.jpg

2014-02-11T22:37:27Z

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Nikola Valtiere

2014-02-11T22:33:57Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Aedile */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===

Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola aboard the BAC ''Shadow'' as Aedile of Qel-droma]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2014-02-11T22:32:36Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Character History */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===

Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

===Aedile===

[[File:Valtiere_Aedile.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

File:Valtiere Aedile.jpg

2014-02-11T22:30:06Z

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Nikola Valtiere

2014-01-08T23:52:49Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Personality */

{{Eras|djb}}
{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===

Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He hates those who attempt to rise for the sake of power, not working towards something. It has caused him to be cold to leaders and subordinated he sees as too interested in personal gain rather than having a point to the power they accrue. He sneers at any of the political subterfuge in the Dark Brotherhood, seeing it as a weakness that leads to pointless waste of resources.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===

Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He revels in breaking people through the use of their fears, striving to understand what every individual's fear is as soon as he lays his eyes on them.

One of the most prominent personality quirks displayed by Nikola, however, is is infatuation with prosthetics. He has already undergone an elective procedure for the removal of his lower legs, and sees the loss of his right eye as a blessing, along with the loss of his right arm. He is constantly seeking ways to 'improve himself', held back only by his means.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2014-01-08T23:49:04Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Rhelg */

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Dark Crusade===

Valtiere spent all of his knighthood fighting in the long war dubbed 'The Dark Crusade'. The Dark Council, suffering an embarrassing attack at the hands of the One Sith, reacted by razing their territories, taking their worlds in the heart of what was once the Sith Empire.

Early on in the campaign, Valtiere led [[Void Squadron]] in multiple victories, spearheading a new award initiative for his pilots, a motivation that pushed them to new heights of skill and drive. They fought as one cohesive unit, their signature mind-link making them act in concert more completely than any other piloting unit ever could. They would clear the space of the planet for Arcona, the silent vanguard of many assaults.

The Crusade was a long war. It ground down all those who fought, all members of the Brotherhood coming out changed in some fundamental way. Valtiere was tempered from a raging dervish to a more controlled, cold individual. He developed a hatred for pointless politicking and the manoeuvring of those that sought favour for their own sakes.

===Bhargebba===

Settled into his role as Commander of Void, Nikola and the unit worked together without extraneous thought. A well drilled fighting machine, Void dominated the space around the planet, eclipsing their non-Force sensitive brethren in the battle for the world below. In a rare moment, Void were used in atmospheric combat to demolish certain key areas in the use of the One Sith. With the new members of the squadron successfully drilled over and over to ensure that they worked together as a competent unit, streaking out of the darkness of space to decimate units before disappearing again.

When Void took to the ground, they were no less successful. Void members engaged in fierce hit and run battles with One Sith squads, using the thick jungle as camouflage, striking like their StealthX fighters. Nikola worked with his wingman Torrhen Alino to kill a whole squad of soldiers led by a Knight that were themselves trying to outflank the Brotherhood.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He revels in breaking people through the use of their fears, striving to understand what every individual's fear is as soon as he lays his eyes on them.

One of the most prominent personality quirks displayed by Nikola, however, is is infatuation with prosthetics. He has already undergone an elective procedure for the removal of his lower legs, and sees the loss of his right eye as a blessing, along with the loss of his right arm. He is constantly seeking ways to 'improve himself', held back only by his means.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2013-12-22T12:18:07Z

Nikola Valtiere:

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Aedile
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Rhelg===

Rhelg was Void's most successful battle, and so Valtiere's proudest moment. Rarely did he feel such emotions, but when he saw what Void could do following training to repent for the failure of Krayiss II. Valtiere led Void in multiple successful engagements to secure the space around Rhelg for the Brotherhood, racking up far more kills than any of the other pilots in the Brotherhood. Working as a cohesive unit, Void were an unstoppable force, staying in space only as long as fuel and Oxygen lasted.

Eventually, the Brotherhood won space around Rhelg, and so Void descended to the ground. In ground skirmishes, Nikola unleashed himself, destroying his foes through lighting fast attacks while they were slowed with supernatural fear. On the frosty plains of Rhelg, he took the head of a potent knight within the One Sith, mutilating him with countless tiny strikes before finally driving his lightsaber into his foe's chest.

Rhelg was won for Arcona, buoying the spirits of the Knight as he pushed onward. With success came new members, and so he threw himself into training the recruits of Void, showing them that simply being an expert pilot was not enough for Void. Grueling simulations and dummy-fire exercises taught the pilots the way Void fought. Live fire training thrust them into thinking like Void, a baptism of fire.

===Bhargebba===

Settled into his role as Commander of Void, Nikola and the unit worked together without extraneous thought. A well drilled fighting machine, Void dominated the space around the planet, eclipsing their non-Force sensitive brethren in the battle for the world below. In a rare moment, Void were used in atmospheric combat to demolish certain key areas in the use of the One Sith. With the new members of the squadron successfully drilled over and over to ensure that they worked together as a competent unit, streaking out of the darkness of space to decimate units before disappearing again.

When Void took to the ground, they were no less successful. Void members engaged in fierce hit and run battles with One Sith squads, using the thick jungle as camouflage, striking like their StealthX fighters. Nikola worked with his wingman Torrhen Alino to kill a whole squad of soldiers led by a Knight that were themselves trying to outflank the Brotherhood.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He revels in breaking people through the use of their fears, striving to understand what every individual's fear is as soon as he lays his eyes on them.

One of the most prominent personality quirks displayed by Nikola, however, is is infatuation with prosthetics. He has already undergone an elective procedure for the removal of his lower legs, and sees the loss of his right eye as a blessing, along with the loss of his right arm. He is constantly seeking ways to 'improve himself', held back only by his means.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2013-12-22T12:17:28Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths */

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Commander
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Rhelg===

Rhelg was Void's most successful battle, and so Valtiere's proudest moment. Rarely did he feel such emotions, but when he saw what Void could do following training to repent for the failure of Krayiss II. Valtiere led Void in multiple successful engagements to secure the space around Rhelg for the Brotherhood, racking up far more kills than any of the other pilots in the Brotherhood. Working as a cohesive unit, Void were an unstoppable force, staying in space only as long as fuel and Oxygen lasted.

Eventually, the Brotherhood won space around Rhelg, and so Void descended to the ground. In ground skirmishes, Nikola unleashed himself, destroying his foes through lighting fast attacks while they were slowed with supernatural fear. On the frosty plains of Rhelg, he took the head of a potent knight within the One Sith, mutilating him with countless tiny strikes before finally driving his lightsaber into his foe's chest.

Rhelg was won for Arcona, buoying the spirits of the Knight as he pushed onward. With success came new members, and so he threw himself into training the recruits of Void, showing them that simply being an expert pilot was not enough for Void. Grueling simulations and dummy-fire exercises taught the pilots the way Void fought. Live fire training thrust them into thinking like Void, a baptism of fire.

===Bhargebba===

Settled into his role as Commander of Void, Nikola and the unit worked together without extraneous thought. A well drilled fighting machine, Void dominated the space around the planet, eclipsing their non-Force sensitive brethren in the battle for the world below. In a rare moment, Void were used in atmospheric combat to demolish certain key areas in the use of the One Sith. With the new members of the squadron successfully drilled over and over to ensure that they worked together as a competent unit, streaking out of the darkness of space to decimate units before disappearing again.

When Void took to the ground, they were no less successful. Void members engaged in fierce hit and run battles with One Sith squads, using the thick jungle as camouflage, striking like their StealthX fighters. Nikola worked with his wingman Torrhen Alino to kill a whole squad of soldiers led by a Knight that were themselves trying to outflank the Brotherhood.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He revels in breaking people through the use of their fears, striving to understand what every individual's fear is as soon as he lays his eyes on them.

One of the most prominent personality quirks displayed by Nikola, however, is is infatuation with prosthetics. He has already undergone an elective procedure for the removal of his lower legs, and sees the loss of his right eye as a blessing, along with the loss of his right arm. He is constantly seeking ways to 'improve himself', held back only by his means.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two more potent Wraiths.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2013-12-22T12:16:38Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Stealth X */

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Commander
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Rhelg===

Rhelg was Void's most successful battle, and so Valtiere's proudest moment. Rarely did he feel such emotions, but when he saw what Void could do following training to repent for the failure of Krayiss II. Valtiere led Void in multiple successful engagements to secure the space around Rhelg for the Brotherhood, racking up far more kills than any of the other pilots in the Brotherhood. Working as a cohesive unit, Void were an unstoppable force, staying in space only as long as fuel and Oxygen lasted.

Eventually, the Brotherhood won space around Rhelg, and so Void descended to the ground. In ground skirmishes, Nikola unleashed himself, destroying his foes through lighting fast attacks while they were slowed with supernatural fear. On the frosty plains of Rhelg, he took the head of a potent knight within the One Sith, mutilating him with countless tiny strikes before finally driving his lightsaber into his foe's chest.

Rhelg was won for Arcona, buoying the spirits of the Knight as he pushed onward. With success came new members, and so he threw himself into training the recruits of Void, showing them that simply being an expert pilot was not enough for Void. Grueling simulations and dummy-fire exercises taught the pilots the way Void fought. Live fire training thrust them into thinking like Void, a baptism of fire.

===Bhargebba===

Settled into his role as Commander of Void, Nikola and the unit worked together without extraneous thought. A well drilled fighting machine, Void dominated the space around the planet, eclipsing their non-Force sensitive brethren in the battle for the world below. In a rare moment, Void were used in atmospheric combat to demolish certain key areas in the use of the One Sith. With the new members of the squadron successfully drilled over and over to ensure that they worked together as a competent unit, streaking out of the darkness of space to decimate units before disappearing again.

When Void took to the ground, they were no less successful. Void members engaged in fierce hit and run battles with One Sith squads, using the thick jungle as camouflage, striking like their StealthX fighters. Nikola worked with his wingman Torrhen Alino to kill a whole squad of soldiers led by a Knight that were themselves trying to outflank the Brotherhood.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He revels in breaking people through the use of their fears, striving to understand what every individual's fear is as soon as he lays his eyes on them.

One of the most prominent personality quirks displayed by Nikola, however, is is infatuation with prosthetics. He has already undergone an elective procedure for the removal of his lower legs, and sees the loss of his right eye as a blessing, along with the loss of his right arm. He is constantly seeking ways to 'improve himself', held back only by his means.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two that are larger than the towering commander.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as a former part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Arconan Force Wraiths

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'''Force Wraiths'''

The ability to summon Force Wraiths is a talent that is unique only to members of [[Arcona]] and the Grand Masters, theses entities are manifestations of the Force making them able to withstand melee attacks but yet cause vast amounts of damage to the target that their masters chose. Each Force Wraith is created from the mind of the user, making no two Wraiths the same. Whether they are creatures that cause almost incapacitating fear or as simple as a human form. They are completely bendable to the will of those who summon them.

A Wraith summoned by a [[Journeyman]] will be a unintelligent golem that will attack until it is destroyed. Whereas one summoned by a more experienced member will have the ability to think independently and even dodge oncoming attacks. This also affects the amount of Wraiths that a user can have in combat at once, a Knight can summon one Wraith, an [[Equite]] can summon three and a [[Elder]] can summon up to five Wraiths at one time, a most fearsome foe to face.
[[File:250px-Niles Ferrier's wraith.png|thumb|286px|right|Niles Ferriers Wraith]]

===Wraiths Strengths===

The strength and the abilities that the summoned Wraiths have rely completely on the level of those creating them. As the Wraith do not have a physical form while passive, this means they are invulnerable to melee, physical blows and blaster fire.

Once a Wraith has been summoned it will attack continuously until the target is destroyed. As they lack emotions and pain responses they know no fear and feel no pain making them a unyielding and imposing opponent to face.

===Wraiths Weaknesses===

A Force Wraith is effectively a shadow construct, the construct is weak against destructive Force Powers, Obliterate is an effective tool to counteract the Wraith. In a active state the Wraiths become solid leaving them open to a physical or melee attack. Usually blaster fire, swords and even lightsabers pass through the Force Wraith’s form. However, just before it hits its target, the arm/claws/hand solidify, allowing a swift and canny opponent to parry or deflect attacks.

A Wraith is only as strong as the Arconan’s will. If the Arconan is distracted, or knocked unconscious, the Wraiths will disappear. Thus, a wise and experienced opponent will target the Arconan, not the Wraiths. The Dark Jedi that summons the Wraith must keep their full focus on maintaining it’s form leaving them vulnerable to attacks from their opponent.

===Appearance===

The appearances of these creatures are completely up to the user but the size can be no greater than a humanoid form, unless the number of Wraiths are sacrificed to increase the size of the creature summoned. Each Wraith is a reflection of the user’s mind creating an entity forged from the dark depths of their imaginations. The summoned Wraith, once it has taken its form, cannot be changed or altered in any way by the user.

==Wraith Ranking System==

'''Journeyman -''' Wraiths can deflect melee attacks in a passive state, but are weak to Force powers and melee attack once their state becomes active. The maximum number of Wraiths that any Journeyman can summon at one time is one and then only for an hour. It takes the complete concentration of the user for the Wraiths to keep their form, leaving the user open to physical and Force attacks which could easily damage and or break the focus of the user.

The Wraith summoned by a Journeyman is incapable of independent thought and will keep on fighting till either the user has been knocked out, loses focus or the Wraith itself has been destroyed.

'''Equites -''' Wraiths can deflect physical and melee attacks, however they are still weak against destructive Force Powers. Equites can summon up to three Wraiths at one time, however Wraiths do take time to coalesce, so much effort has to be put in to create them. These Wraiths can only be controlled for a day at a time.

A Wraith that had been summoned by a Equite has a basic form of independent intelligence giving the Wraiths the ability to dodge incoming attacks, but not the ability to assault individual targets as a result of independent thought. A Wraith is thus an extension of the user's consciousness within this bracket.

'''Elders -''' The most powerful level of the shadow constructs, an Elder can create and control up to five Force Wraiths at any one time for days on end. Ranging in size and form, the largest Wraiths seen are those controlled by the current Shade Warrior, Sashar Erinos Arconae.

Though weak towards destructive Force Powers, these golems are a fearsome foe, independent in thought, actions and backed up with an irate Elder; equals one dead enemy.

==Current Arconan Wraiths==

===[[Sashar Arconae|Sashar Erinos Arconae's]] Force Wraith===

'''The Hunter'''

Sashar’s primary Wraith is about his height when raised fully with powerfully muscled, inverse-jointed legs, allowing it to run down prey. Its arms are triple jointed too and grant it considerable reach (and also the ability to run on all fours should it want to). Its nose and mouth protrude out in a defined muzzle, and its mouth is crammed full of gleaming black razor-sharp teeth. Also, the claws on its hands and feet are incredibly sharp. The Hunter is primarily used as an offensive Wraith, meant to run down its prey and harass it to exhaustion, then incapacitate it with its teeth or claws.

'''The Runt'''

Arguably the strangest of Sashar’s Wraiths, the Runt is half again as short as its creator, with legs identical to a toad’s, making it able to throw itself vast distances in one leap. Both its fingers and toes (instead of the usual claws) are tipped with suction cups and the gaps between its extremities are webbed. Its most unusual feature, though, is its tongue. Able to launch out and wrap itself around targets nearly fifty meters away, the Runt is often used to pin an opponent in place whilst the other wraiths or Sashar himself dispatches him or her. That’s not to say that the runt is defenceless, though: far from it, given that its spine is tipped with foot-long spikes and its mouth is lined with inhumanly sharp teeth. The Runt sometimes can be pressed into use as a spy or in reconnaissance, given its unconventional ability to stick to vertical or inverse surfaces.

'''The Bat'''

Perhaps the most widely recognised of the Wraiths (at least on Selen), Sashar often has the Bat patrolling the skies above Estle City at night so as to warn him of any unauthorised comings and goings to the capital. It has become a thing of myth among the local populace, many believing to be some ghostly guardian of the townsfolk, when the reality is much more sinister. Nearly half again as tall as Sashar, it is skeletally thin, emaciated and almost reedy in build. The most obvious differences between the creator and the wraith (other than its height), is its skull. The cranium isn’t shaped like a mammal’s traditional head, but instead resembles the skull of an ancient avian more than anything else. It has a tapered, pointed protrusion from the rear of the head to aid with aerodynamics, and a sharp, pointed beak lined with the trademark teeth. Between the arms and legs, attached to the torso as well as the limbs themselves are two leathery flaps of skin: wings. Rather than hands and feet, the bat utilises claws and talons, again, like an avian. The Bat is primarily used as a high-altitude reconnaissance when Sashar is travelling on foot, and can also offer ‘air support’ by performing sweeping strikes from the air, tearing at targets on the ground. The Bat can also act as a ‘wingman’ of sorts if Sashar is atop the Drexl.

'''The Ox'''

An amalgamation of two distinctly different creatures, the ‘Ox’ has the face of a bovine creature, complete with a pair of long, pointed horns and a mouth of sharp (albeit flat) teeth clearly designed for gnashing. Its shoulders are humanoid and it has a pair of strongly muscled arms and hands tipped with razor tipped claws, however from the waist down it gets ‘weird.’ From the waist, instead of legs it has eight suction-lined tentacles. The Ox is as long as The Bat is tall, however the tentacles usually bunch up a fair bit, giving it the ‘height’ of Sashar. It operates primarily as a bodyguard for Sashar, sticking close to him at all times to intercept attacks and pin opponents whilst the controller dispatches them. The Ox has also been known to provide a killer edge to Sashar’s favoured method of dispatching a foe in close combat: the lariat. How this is accomplished, however, is unclear.

'''The Drexl'''

The biggest of the Wraiths, the Drexl is a homage to Sashar’s upbringing on Dxun, where the Drexl was the biggest and meanest creature on the moon. With a wingspan approaching ten meters, claws, talons, horns and mandibles which line the beast, it is an intimidating sight to behold. The Drexl is used as a mount more than anything, where the Arconan solidifies it to such an extent to allow him to stand atop it and carry him great distances through the air. The Drexl can also operate quite well independently, and the sheer fear value it installs is a valuable asset in battle.

===[[Timeros|Timeros Entar Arconae]]'s Wraiths===

'''Timeros’ Force Wraiths'''

Timeros Force Wraiths are unsettling and strange even compared to other Arconans’ inventions. The Entar’s sense of identity is too strong for his Wraiths to deviate much from himself and take clearly monstrous forms. Instead, his spectral servants resemble him through a fractured lense and become mired in an uncanny valley of almost-humanity. While Timeros can control the Wraiths as well as any of his fellow Elders, he dislikes using them: The Adept's mind is too focused upon singular combat to bring his servants -a trio he has christened the Elements of Victory- to bear in any but the most desperate circumstances. Indeed, Timeros has grown to be something of an expert in hunting Wraiths. Those closest to the Arconae, if they could be bothered, might also offer the explanation that Timeros is deeply, fundamentally uncomfortable baring so much of his deepest soul.

'''The Mirthless Victor'''

With eyes opening and closing at random over its arms, legs, chest and bald skull, down to the tips of its fingers, each quivering with fear, the Mirthless Victor is a twitching monument to paranoia. Its moves are sudden and have an almost fearful bent to them, its vertiginous eyes tracking all around it with suspicious intensity. It wears only a loincloth for clothes. A grinding buzzsaw -itself, like all other parts of the Victor’s anatomy, bedecked in eyes - occasionally rips out of the Element’s skin in a shower of gore, spraying onlookers with ethereal (and rapidly-disappearing) blood before retreating with a slurping noise, the creature’s ‘skin’ rapidly healing. In combat, the saws, which may appear anywhere on the creature, are its main weapons.

'''The Incadescent Odium'''

This Element ripples in the air, as if distorted by the heat wave of its own abhorrence. While many Wraiths are just blurred outline, the Odium is a vivid mess of contrasting colors that exaggerate their master’s own, throwing each in a stark contrast with the other. Its outfit, mirroring whatever its creator wears, is also similar, but it is not what catches attention. Instead, the creature’s focus are the bright red letters in the air around it, as if the creature’s hatred wounded the air until it bled its invective upon the word, one insulting word after another carved into air in a dozen-odd languages. The creature’s bones protrude sickly through its skin, ending in sharp points, and its mouths opens impossibly wide, revealing row after row of pointed teeth.

'''The Martyr Triumphant'''

A face, expressionless, without fear or scorn, but most of all without pity. Ethereal blood, dripping from wounds and disappearing before it the ground. A ragged scar where a manhood should be. These are perhaps the least disturbing features of this Element of Victory, representing pain and sacrifice. Around its head runs a crown of barbed wire, artfully interwoven first with his skull and then its eyes, from whence fall crimson ghostly tears. The barbed-wire bands then swoop down, over its arms and the palms of its hands, ending in a pair of whips reaching out perhaps ten feet. It moves efficiently and deliberately, without hesitation, yet gives of a clear impression of being in great pain despite its willingness to be in such. It is, perhaps, ironic that of all his creations, this mangled, tortured creature resembles Timeros the most.

'''Other Wraiths'''

Timeros, as an Elder, is technically capable of creating more than three Force Wraiths. To the knowledge of those closest to him, however, he has not done so. This means that the Adept has either not finalized their creation, or else the final two Wraiths are so abhorrent to the him that he has never so far dared to unleash them.

===[[Cethgus Entar|Cethgus Entar's]] Wraiths===

'''Lust'''

This Force Wraith is in the form of a female, normally as if the shadows engulfed her body to a almost perfect like figure. Forming very little clothing to reveal this figure. Usually when summoned by Cethgus, this wraith tries to seduce its prey, though still a horror to behold the Wraith attacks as if rejected by a former lover, its rage and passion are second to none, it walks always as if trying to seduce, though unaware of its true image.

The Form of this Wraith is of a beautiful woman, her body wrapped in little clothing to keep her covered, though the noticeable difference is the four arms that protrude from her well formed body. Hovering from the ground, gliding instead of walking, the face covered by what appears to be a mask on the darkened figure. The outline of her body is of a perfect image of a female as it hunts its prey.

'''Wrath'''

This one is Cethgus’s most commonly seen Wraith, due to the likeliness of his emotions it is normally used as punishment and causing pain to others. It’s will is normally quickly tempered as if it was human. It will always lash out as soon as possible knowing that not much can hurt it. Remember why it is summoned, it normally strikes without thinking and is Cethgus’ most aggressive Wraith; summoned when death needs to be dealt. The Wraith looks like a male, though it has no neck, the mask floating in air, its fingers are like talons as well as spikes growing out from the arms. Thought that normally be enough this form has six ruined wings, its suffering only to take the wrath out on others, the broken wings each have spikes this figure stares at its opponent through six insect like eyes.

'''Pride'''

Relating to Cethgus this one represents his pride, it always feels that it is the best in everything, the Wraith itself is last one to fight feeling as if it has to it is because the others aren’t good enough to succeed where it can. Its attitude and posture are always of someone who needs nothing and feels that they are better than anything else, once created it will only do as instructed, yet normally protects the Zabrak and stops people breaking his concentration. This form is one like man once more, but instead of the feet it has wings that it uses to keep itself afloat. Its body once more well formed as its wings are held by spikes, its shoulders covered in what resembles armour. This form pulls itself from the ground and stands normally right beside or in front of Cethgus himself watching the fighting that takes place.

===[[Marick Arconae|Marick Arconae's]] Force Wraiths===

'''Watson'''

Shape: HawkBat

Size: ~3feet (~1 meter)

Through careful practice Marick can shape a singular shadow creature that takes after a winged HawkBat he calls, "Watson". Marick does not use his Force Wraith in the same way that most of his brethren do in combat. Instead, he uses Watson as a scout, a prying eye to help him track, follow, or monitor a target. Watson also serves as a great diversion, and Marick has no reservations using it as such. His strange sense of honor prevents him from using Watson in a conventional duel, though.

===[[Etah|Etah d'Tana's]] Force Wraiths===

'''The Mighty Staga'''

The Staga represents the strength in Etah’s fighting and is an animal Etah hunted potentially hundreds of times as a teenage monk, on the plains of Ambria. The Force wraith is much larger and meaner looking than a normal Ambrian staga and stands at six and a half feet tall. Its full body mane frames a four legged body rippling with muscles, a barrel chest and demonic looking horns.

'''The Swift Cliff Crawler'''

The Cliff Crawler represents the speed and precision of Etah’s fighting and is an animal that Etah was threatened by many times by while following the Staga herds across the plains of Ambria. The Force wraith is roughly as large as a real Cliff Crawler, if more menacing, measuring at six and a half feet long. The giant lizard moves fluidly despite its lack of limbs, and its jaws snap shut with unmatched ferocity.

'''The Terrifying Hssiss'''

The dark side dragon represents the adaption in Etah’s fighting and was an animal he was threatened and then protected by, around the shores of the hollowed Lake Natth. The Force wraith is slightly larger than its real counterpart, at six and a half feet tall and looks just as angry. Its dark boney back plates are most often seen through its deadly sharp nose horns while staring into its hate filled eyes.

===[[Xathia Vahillus|Xathia Vahillus']] Force Wraiths===
'''Death'''

Death is a hooded skeleton. The cloak shadows his face and falls to the ground, though it is sleeveless, leaving the bones exposed on his arms. He stands around the same height as Xathia, though incredibly slim due to the lack of build. His face is never seen, and is said to resemble the horrors that Xathia has wrecked upon her own family. He is usually the Wraith closest to the female when brought out and the one least likely to be used in combat.

'''Revenge'''

Revenge resembles a Corellian Sand Panther. It is normally the first to attack and shares Xathia's determination. It is a slender build, though like all large cats it carries a fair weight, and reflects the Krath's naturally fast speed, using pouncing and slashing attacks to bring down the targets. It does not hesitate to use its weight to pin down an opponent as the other Wraiths or Xathia delivers the next blow.

'''Desire'''

Desire is Revenge's fighting companion. Her figure is lithe, and resembles a younger Xathia. Her hair is long, and tied back in a braid with Xathia's old style of fringe. She moves in a provocative manner, but shows an underlying bloodlust in her fighting. Her fingers are styled in a long and sharp manner, looking more like talons than fingers.

===[[Sanguinius Tsucyra|Sanguinius Tsucyra Entar's]] Force Wraiths===

Sanguinius’ Wraiths are based on animals found within the Dajorra system, the Sergeant is an eager amateur zoologist along with being a historian.

'''The Lion'''

The Lion is a large feline form, shaped like a Selenian Lion. A large black mane, sharp teeth and massive paws. The Lion is Sanguinius' main and favourite Wraith. The Professor regularly uses it in battle as the most destructive and strongest golem.

'''The Dog'''

The Dog is smaller than The Lion, but is faster, more energetic and enjoys hounding the Anaxsi's opponents, often darting in to deliver savage bites and nipping at the poor unfortunate's heels. The Dog is often used as a distraction, allowing the third and final Force Wraith to strike.

'''The Serpent'''

The Serpent has a long python-like form, the Snake is kept till last during a fight. The Lion and the Dog used to distract and keep Sang's opponent off balance, the Serpent circles around, using cover and taking it's time. Making sure that it isn't noticed. Only then, when The Serpent is in cover and able to strike, does it attack! It often makes for the neck or arms of the opponent, wrapping around them and submitting their bones to pressure, and if not removed in time, snaps bones and suffocates their target.

===[[Inarya|Inarya's]] Force Wraiths===

Inarya’s Wraiths are known as the Three Sisters. They take on the forms of three females wearing ripped robes and long talon-like fingers. In place of their eye sockets, empty white orbs are situated that burn through their opponents. These legless apparitions float around the battlefield, their long ripped cloaks dragging across the ground.

'''Hecate'''

The smallest and most violent of the three, she is always the first to attack. Slicing through her enemies with her large claws. Her movements are faster and more erect then the rest and her violence takes on that of a wild animal as she attacks her prey. Her appearance is more frightening then the other two, her black body is bony and angular and the wisps of smoke which make up her hair flare wildly. Hecate is the representation of Inarya’s rage and anger.

'''Lilith'''

This Wraith is the most human looking of the Three Sisters and has the most clearly designed human features, even though still a shadow. Lilith does not have the same violence that Hecate has, but prefers to stalk her prey; tormenting them before delivering precise and painful blows. Lilith is used more for defence then offensive and stays close to Inarya unless commanded otherwise. Her appearance is much the same as the other two apart from her human-like face and longer pulled back hair. Lilith is the embodiment of Inarya’s sexuality and is her favorite Wraith as she feels more of a connection to her then the others.

'''Lamashtu'''

The last of the Three Sisters and the oldest by appearance. She has the longest claws out of the three and is normally seen with blood dripping from them. She stands taller than the rest and her hair looks like horns. She is the most lethal of them casting a dark shadow under her enemies before appearing below them slicing her claws vertically through their skin as she springs from her subterranean hiding place, her movements on the battle field resembles that of a spider as she either crawls inhumanly across the floor,and walls or slithers underground, releasing a high pitched scream as she does. .She is Inarya’s least favorite Wraith with the power to terrify even her. Lamashtu represents Inarya’s capability of committing evil, she is only ever used when needed.

===[[Talos Erinos|Talos Erinos']] Force Wraiths===

As an Arconan Equite, Talos has learned to summon and control three Force-Wraiths for as long as one standard day (24 hours). These are the Serpent, the Tiger, and the Uvak, and each embody a different part of Talos' personality as well as being used for various practical purposes.

'''Serpent'''

Talos' first Force-Wraith that he brought forth when he was a Knight of Arcona, the Serpent takes the form of a 2 foot long, black-as-night snake with a diamond-shaped head and a particularly nasty set of fangs that contain venoms that even the Force itself cannot heal. As a creature without legs, Talos often uses the Serpent for reconnaissance purposes as the Serpent's lithe form allows it to access many places that its Summoner cannot. On a more "emotional" level, the Serpent is the physical manifestation of Talos' cunning and guile as well as his growing mastery over the skills of interrogation, manipulation, and bribery.

'''Ralltiir Tiger'''

The second Wraith brought into the physical world, Talos created the Tiger to be the exact opposite of the Serpent; whereas the Serpent was low to the ground and able to move silently, adept at things such as reconnaissance and single-person assassinations, the Tiger is the manifestation of pure, unbridled rage. When Talos calls forth the Tiger, there is no plan, no greater goal in mind...only carnage. Appearing similar to the fearsome and bloodthirsty tigers of Ralltiir, the Wraith stands at 4 feet tall, ready to hunt down its prey on four extremely powerful legs and finish it off with either its maw of razor-sharp teeth or its muscled and barbed tail.

'''Uvak'''

An avian creature commonly associated with racing, the Uvak is Talos' newest Wraith and the only one that does not embody a "base" trait of his, like the Serpent and Tiger. Rather the Uvak, as a winged creature, represents Talos' desire to attain mastery of the Dark Side (a goal which he is starting to pick up on) and also climb the ladder of power within the Dark Brotherhood. As for the Uvak's more physical uses, the Equite mainly employs his new denizen as a scout and security, using the Uvak's inherent advantage as a winged creature to be able to gain a birds-eye view of a battlefield or to guard an important Arconan installation.

===[[Celevon Edraven|Celevon Edraven's]] Force Wraith===

As a Dark Jedi Knight, Celevon can summon and control a single Wraith for up to a few hours. It takes several minutes of concentration to summon the spirit of dark side energy.

'''Corellian Sand Panther'''

The first time Celevon succeeded in summoning his Force Wraith, with [[Talos Erinos]] coaching him on the technique, the duo was quite surprised to see not a Wolf as they had expected, but a Corellian Sand Panther. This Wraith reflects the Assassin portion of Celevon’s personality. More specifically, it shows in how Celevon stalks his victims and kills them with a short blade without being noticed until they are sent into the dark abyss. The Panthers of Corellia are solitary hunters but were seen hunting in small family units on a rare occasion. The sand panther is one of the galaxy's quietest hunters, able to approach within centimeters of prey without drawing attention. On some more primitive planets, the Panther is viewed as the ultimate land-bound predator. Even as a Wraith, it can easily be identified as Celevon’s due to the fact that it possesses the man’s unique silver eyes.

=== [[Legorii Kryotek Entar|Legorii Kryotek Entar's]] Force Wraiths ===

Legorii's Force Wraiths represent the perverted fractures and fissures in their summoner's personality, physical manifestations of shadow that serve as extensions of his Dark Side connection. As an Equite, Legorii has the power to summon up to three Wraiths, though he has only officially called two into being. The pair can often be found at his side on the battlefield, and are two of the most distinct Wraiths in the entire Clan. Whispers have circulated of a third Wraith - one more intimidating and gut-wrenching than the proceeding two - but these rumors have not yet been substantiated.

'''Vassago'''

The first of the two Force Wraiths, Vassago stands a hair taller than Legorii when fully-formed, and is much thinner. It is constantly swathed in tattered darkness, concealing the hideously decaying shadow-flesh beneath, and its facial features cannot be discerned. The Arconan sigil can be discerned if one looks closely enough at the Wraith's chest - doing so is not advised, however. Though its appearance is not as horrifying as many other Wraiths, Vassago's appearance is chilling, as it patiently observes the targets Legorii assigns it. It is not uncommon for the Wraith to be found at its master's side during non-combat situation, as well.

Vassago represents the insatiable thirst for power and knowledge that often threatens to consume its Krath summoner, sacrificing its health and vitality for ambition. It is derived from the scholarly aspects of its summoner, and is imbibed with the Entar's ruthless determination. In combat, the Wraith relies on its claws and speed, moving many times more quickly than Legorii is capable of.

'''Valefar'''

Valefar, the only other Wraith that Legorii has yet summoned, is a far cry from its brother in appearance. Much stouter, the Wraith is approximately eight inches shorter than its summoner, but is as broad as a tree in the jungles of Kashyyyk. Exposed from the waist up, the humanoid shadow creature's flesh appears to be covered in bleeding blisters and boils, with open wounds showing on its chest and arms. Valefar's back is a mess of scars and fresh gashes, apparently the result of repeated scourging, and there is not an inch to be found that is not scarred or bleeding.

Serving as more of an enforcer than its brother, Valefar springs from the dark corners of the Anzat's mind that harbor the feelings of defeat and humiliation that have popped up from time to time over his life. Each failure fuels the Wraith - memories of battles lost, promotions that went unearned, and searing rebukes from superiors. Called upon exclusively in combat settings, the Wraith is extremely aggressive and lashes back with staggering fury.

=== [[Andrelious J. Inahj|Andrelious J. Inahj's Force Wraiths]] ===
After some time, Andrelious has finally began to master the ability to create wraiths. Only one consistant form has been seen so far.

'''Buckethead'''
Basically taking the form of an Imperial Stormtrooper, Buckethead's name is a common Imperial pilot insult for the men in white. It is of the regulation height for a Stormtrooper, standing several inches taller than its Battlelord master. When ordered to do something, it nods, much like the real thing.

That is where the resemblance ends. When Buckethead attacks, it does so with the strength of a beast, its gloved hands replaced with claw adorned paws. It is also very aggressive, usually attempting to kill its prey at once. It is for this reason that Buckethead is used mostly in a tight combat situation, Inahj preferring to use other Force powers when the situation is not as desperate.

The form Buckethead takes reflects Inahj's past, and his still vague loyalty to the Galactic Empire.

=== [[Nikola Valtiere|Nikola Valtiere's]] Force Wraiths ===
Having been recently knighted, Nikola has finally been able to master the force powers that allow him to call forth a wraith.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

=== [[Morrighan Ravenscroft|Morrighan Ravenscroft's]] Force Wraiths ===
Being only a Knight Morrighan is only able to bring forth one manifestation. His wraith centers around his state of mind and memories of what he has done to get to this point in his life, the fractured past that brought him on his dark path in the first place.

'''Eliza'''

Shape: Human Child of About Six Years Old.

Eliza was Morrighan's first kill when working for Imperial Intelligence, he slaughtered her took her form as his own and used it to murder her father who was a target. The kill started him down the dark path so it was only fitting that his first Wraith be in tribute to what made him the monster he is today. She moves forward like a beast, as a Dark Jedi Knight Morrighan cannot control her but the unnerving specter of the dead child usually puts opponents off.

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'''Force Wraiths'''

The ability to summon Force Wraiths is a talent that is unique only to members of [[Arcona]] and the Grand Masters, theses entities are manifestations of the Force making them able to withstand melee attacks but yet cause vast amounts of damage to the target that their masters chose. Each Force Wraith is created from the mind of the user, making no two Wraiths the same. Whether they are creatures that cause almost incapacitating fear or as simple as a human form. They are completely bendable to the will of those who summon them.

A Wraith summoned by a [[Journeyman]] will be a unintelligent golem that will attack until it is destroyed. Whereas one summoned by a more experienced member will have the ability to think independently and even dodge oncoming attacks. This also affects the amount of Wraiths that a user can have in combat at once, a Knight can summon one Wraith, an [[Equite]] can summon three and a [[Elder]] can summon up to five Wraiths at one time, a most fearsome foe to face.
[[File:250px-Niles Ferrier's wraith.png|thumb|286px|right|Niles Ferriers Wraith]]

===Wraiths Strengths===

The strength and the abilities that the summoned Wraiths have rely completely on the level of those creating them. As the Wraith do not have a physical form while passive, this means they are invulnerable to melee, physical blows and blaster fire.

Once a Wraith has been summoned it will attack continuously until the target is destroyed. As they lack emotions and pain responses they know no fear and feel no pain making them a unyielding and imposing opponent to face.

===Wraiths Weaknesses===

A Force Wraith is effectively a shadow construct, the construct is weak against destructive Force Powers, Obliterate is an effective tool to counteract the Wraith. In a active state the Wraiths become solid leaving them open to a physical or melee attack. Usually blaster fire, swords and even lightsabers pass through the Force Wraith’s form. However, just before it hits its target, the arm/claws/hand solidify, allowing a swift and canny opponent to parry or deflect attacks.

A Wraith is only as strong as the Arconan’s will. If the Arconan is distracted, or knocked unconscious, the Wraiths will disappear. Thus, a wise and experienced opponent will target the Arconan, not the Wraiths. The Dark Jedi that summons the Wraith must keep their full focus on maintaining it’s form leaving them vulnerable to attacks from their opponent.

===Appearance===

The appearances of these creatures are completely up to the user but the size can be no greater than a humanoid form, unless the number of Wraiths are sacrificed to increase the size of the creature summoned. Each Wraith is a reflection of the user’s mind creating an entity forged from the dark depths of their imaginations. The summoned Wraith, once it has taken its form, cannot be changed or altered in any way by the user.

==Wraith Ranking System==

'''Journeyman -''' Wraiths can deflect melee attacks in a passive state, but are weak to Force powers and melee attack once their state becomes active. The maximum number of Wraiths that any Journeyman can summon at one time is one and then only for an hour. It takes the complete concentration of the user for the Wraiths to keep their form, leaving the user open to physical and Force attacks which could easily damage and or break the focus of the user.

The Wraith summoned by a Journeyman is incapable of independent thought and will keep on fighting till either the user has been knocked out, loses focus or the Wraith itself has been destroyed.

'''Equites -''' Wraiths can deflect physical and melee attacks, however they are still weak against destructive Force Powers. Equites can summon up to three Wraiths at one time, however Wraiths do take time to coalesce, so much effort has to be put in to create them. These Wraiths can only be controlled for a day at a time.

A Wraith that had been summoned by a Equite has a basic form of independent intelligence giving the Wraiths the ability to dodge incoming attacks, but not the ability to assault individual targets as a result of independent thought. A Wraith is thus an extension of the user's consciousness within this bracket.

'''Elders -''' The most powerful level of the shadow constructs, an Elder can create and control up to five Force Wraiths at any one time for days on end. Ranging in size and form, the largest Wraiths seen are those controlled by the current Shade Warrior, Sashar Erinos Arconae.

Though weak towards destructive Force Powers, these golems are a fearsome foe, independent in thought, actions and backed up with an irate Elder; equals one dead enemy.

==Current Arconan Wraiths==

===[[Sashar Arconae|Sashar Erinos Arconae's]] Force Wraith===

'''The Hunter'''

Sashar’s primary Wraith is about his height when raised fully with powerfully muscled, inverse-jointed legs, allowing it to run down prey. Its arms are triple jointed too and grant it considerable reach (and also the ability to run on all fours should it want to). Its nose and mouth protrude out in a defined muzzle, and its mouth is crammed full of gleaming black razor-sharp teeth. Also, the claws on its hands and feet are incredibly sharp. The Hunter is primarily used as an offensive Wraith, meant to run down its prey and harass it to exhaustion, then incapacitate it with its teeth or claws.

'''The Runt'''

Arguably the strangest of Sashar’s Wraiths, the Runt is half again as short as its creator, with legs identical to a toad’s, making it able to throw itself vast distances in one leap. Both its fingers and toes (instead of the usual claws) are tipped with suction cups and the gaps between its extremities are webbed. Its most unusual feature, though, is its tongue. Able to launch out and wrap itself around targets nearly fifty meters away, the Runt is often used to pin an opponent in place whilst the other wraiths or Sashar himself dispatches him or her. That’s not to say that the runt is defenceless, though: far from it, given that its spine is tipped with foot-long spikes and its mouth is lined with inhumanly sharp teeth. The Runt sometimes can be pressed into use as a spy or in reconnaissance, given its unconventional ability to stick to vertical or inverse surfaces.

'''The Bat'''

Perhaps the most widely recognised of the Wraiths (at least on Selen), Sashar often has the Bat patrolling the skies above Estle City at night so as to warn him of any unauthorised comings and goings to the capital. It has become a thing of myth among the local populace, many believing to be some ghostly guardian of the townsfolk, when the reality is much more sinister. Nearly half again as tall as Sashar, it is skeletally thin, emaciated and almost reedy in build. The most obvious differences between the creator and the wraith (other than its height), is its skull. The cranium isn’t shaped like a mammal’s traditional head, but instead resembles the skull of an ancient avian more than anything else. It has a tapered, pointed protrusion from the rear of the head to aid with aerodynamics, and a sharp, pointed beak lined with the trademark teeth. Between the arms and legs, attached to the torso as well as the limbs themselves are two leathery flaps of skin: wings. Rather than hands and feet, the bat utilises claws and talons, again, like an avian. The Bat is primarily used as a high-altitude reconnaissance when Sashar is travelling on foot, and can also offer ‘air support’ by performing sweeping strikes from the air, tearing at targets on the ground. The Bat can also act as a ‘wingman’ of sorts if Sashar is atop the Drexl.

'''The Ox'''

An amalgamation of two distinctly different creatures, the ‘Ox’ has the face of a bovine creature, complete with a pair of long, pointed horns and a mouth of sharp (albeit flat) teeth clearly designed for gnashing. Its shoulders are humanoid and it has a pair of strongly muscled arms and hands tipped with razor tipped claws, however from the waist down it gets ‘weird.’ From the waist, instead of legs it has eight suction-lined tentacles. The Ox is as long as The Bat is tall, however the tentacles usually bunch up a fair bit, giving it the ‘height’ of Sashar. It operates primarily as a bodyguard for Sashar, sticking close to him at all times to intercept attacks and pin opponents whilst the controller dispatches them. The Ox has also been known to provide a killer edge to Sashar’s favoured method of dispatching a foe in close combat: the lariat. How this is accomplished, however, is unclear.

'''The Drexl'''

The biggest of the Wraiths, the Drexl is a homage to Sashar’s upbringing on Dxun, where the Drexl was the biggest and meanest creature on the moon. With a wingspan approaching ten meters, claws, talons, horns and mandibles which line the beast, it is an intimidating sight to behold. The Drexl is used as a mount more than anything, where the Arconan solidifies it to such an extent to allow him to stand atop it and carry him great distances through the air. The Drexl can also operate quite well independently, and the sheer fear value it installs is a valuable asset in battle.

===[[Timeros|Timeros Entar Arconae]]'s Wraiths===

'''Timeros’ Force Wraiths'''

Timeros Force Wraiths are unsettling and strange even compared to other Arconans’ inventions. The Entar’s sense of identity is too strong for his Wraiths to deviate much from himself and take clearly monstrous forms. Instead, his spectral servants resemble him through a fractured lense and become mired in an uncanny valley of almost-humanity. While Timeros can control the Wraiths as well as any of his fellow Elders, he dislikes using them: The Adept's mind is too focused upon singular combat to bring his servants -a trio he has christened the Elements of Victory- to bear in any but the most desperate circumstances. Indeed, Timeros has grown to be something of an expert in hunting Wraiths. Those closest to the Arconae, if they could be bothered, might also offer the explanation that Timeros is deeply, fundamentally uncomfortable baring so much of his deepest soul.

'''The Mirthless Victor'''

With eyes opening and closing at random over its arms, legs, chest and bald skull, down to the tips of its fingers, each quivering with fear, the Mirthless Victor is a twitching monument to paranoia. Its moves are sudden and have an almost fearful bent to them, its vertiginous eyes tracking all around it with suspicious intensity. It wears only a loincloth for clothes. A grinding buzzsaw -itself, like all other parts of the Victor’s anatomy, bedecked in eyes - occasionally rips out of the Element’s skin in a shower of gore, spraying onlookers with ethereal (and rapidly-disappearing) blood before retreating with a slurping noise, the creature’s ‘skin’ rapidly healing. In combat, the saws, which may appear anywhere on the creature, are its main weapons.

'''The Incadescent Odium'''

This Element ripples in the air, as if distorted by the heat wave of its own abhorrence. While many Wraiths are just blurred outline, the Odium is a vivid mess of contrasting colors that exaggerate their master’s own, throwing each in a stark contrast with the other. Its outfit, mirroring whatever its creator wears, is also similar, but it is not what catches attention. Instead, the creature’s focus are the bright red letters in the air around it, as if the creature’s hatred wounded the air until it bled its invective upon the word, one insulting word after another carved into air in a dozen-odd languages. The creature’s bones protrude sickly through its skin, ending in sharp points, and its mouths opens impossibly wide, revealing row after row of pointed teeth.

'''The Martyr Triumphant'''

A face, expressionless, without fear or scorn, but most of all without pity. Ethereal blood, dripping from wounds and disappearing before it the ground. A ragged scar where a manhood should be. These are perhaps the least disturbing features of this Element of Victory, representing pain and sacrifice. Around its head runs a crown of barbed wire, artfully interwoven first with his skull and then its eyes, from whence fall crimson ghostly tears. The barbed-wire bands then swoop down, over its arms and the palms of its hands, ending in a pair of whips reaching out perhaps ten feet. It moves efficiently and deliberately, without hesitation, yet gives of a clear impression of being in great pain despite its willingness to be in such. It is, perhaps, ironic that of all his creations, this mangled, tortured creature resembles Timeros the most.

'''Other Wraiths'''

Timeros, as an Elder, is technically capable of creating more than three Force Wraiths. To the knowledge of those closest to him, however, he has not done so. This means that the Adept has either not finalized their creation, or else the final two Wraiths are so abhorrent to the him that he has never so far dared to unleash them.

===[[Cethgus Entar|Cethgus Entar's]] Wraiths===

'''Lust'''

This Force Wraith is in the form of a female, normally as if the shadows engulfed her body to a almost perfect like figure. Forming very little clothing to reveal this figure. Usually when summoned by Cethgus, this wraith tries to seduce its prey, though still a horror to behold the Wraith attacks as if rejected by a former lover, its rage and passion are second to none, it walks always as if trying to seduce, though unaware of its true image.

The Form of this Wraith is of a beautiful woman, her body wrapped in little clothing to keep her covered, though the noticeable difference is the four arms that protrude from her well formed body. Hovering from the ground, gliding instead of walking, the face covered by what appears to be a mask on the darkened figure. The outline of her body is of a perfect image of a female as it hunts its prey.

'''Wrath'''

This one is Cethgus’s most commonly seen Wraith, due to the likeliness of his emotions it is normally used as punishment and causing pain to others. It’s will is normally quickly tempered as if it was human. It will always lash out as soon as possible knowing that not much can hurt it. Remember why it is summoned, it normally strikes without thinking and is Cethgus’ most aggressive Wraith; summoned when death needs to be dealt. The Wraith looks like a male, though it has no neck, the mask floating in air, its fingers are like talons as well as spikes growing out from the arms. Thought that normally be enough this form has six ruined wings, its suffering only to take the wrath out on others, the broken wings each have spikes this figure stares at its opponent through six insect like eyes.

'''Pride'''

Relating to Cethgus this one represents his pride, it always feels that it is the best in everything, the Wraith itself is last one to fight feeling as if it has to it is because the others aren’t good enough to succeed where it can. Its attitude and posture are always of someone who needs nothing and feels that they are better than anything else, once created it will only do as instructed, yet normally protects the Zabrak and stops people breaking his concentration. This form is one like man once more, but instead of the feet it has wings that it uses to keep itself afloat. Its body once more well formed as its wings are held by spikes, its shoulders covered in what resembles armour. This form pulls itself from the ground and stands normally right beside or in front of Cethgus himself watching the fighting that takes place.

===[[Marick Arconae|Marick Arconae's]] Force Wraiths===

'''Watson'''

Shape: HawkBat

Size: ~3feet (~1 meter)

Through careful practice Marick can shape a singular shadow creature that takes after a winged HawkBat he calls, "Watson". Marick does not use his Force Wraith in the same way that most of his brethren do in combat. Instead, he uses Watson as a scout, a prying eye to help him track, follow, or monitor a target. Watson also serves as a great diversion, and Marick has no reservations using it as such. His strange sense of honor prevents him from using Watson in a conventional duel, though.

===[[Etah|Etah d'Tana's]] Force Wraiths===

'''The Mighty Staga'''

The Staga represents the strength in Etah’s fighting and is an animal Etah hunted potentially hundreds of times as a teenage monk, on the plains of Ambria. The Force wraith is much larger and meaner looking than a normal Ambrian staga and stands at six and a half feet tall. Its full body mane frames a four legged body rippling with muscles, a barrel chest and demonic looking horns.

'''The Swift Cliff Crawler'''

The Cliff Crawler represents the speed and precision of Etah’s fighting and is an animal that Etah was threatened by many times by while following the Staga herds across the plains of Ambria. The Force wraith is roughly as large as a real Cliff Crawler, if more menacing, measuring at six and a half feet long. The giant lizard moves fluidly despite its lack of limbs, and its jaws snap shut with unmatched ferocity.

'''The Terrifying Hssiss'''

The dark side dragon represents the adaption in Etah’s fighting and was an animal he was threatened and then protected by, around the shores of the hollowed Lake Natth. The Force wraith is slightly larger than its real counterpart, at six and a half feet tall and looks just as angry. Its dark boney back plates are most often seen through its deadly sharp nose horns while staring into its hate filled eyes.

===[[Xathia Vahillus|Xathia Vahillus']] Force Wraiths===
'''Death'''

Death is a hooded skeleton. The cloak shadows his face and falls to the ground, though it is sleeveless, leaving the bones exposed on his arms. He stands around the same height as Xathia, though incredibly slim due to the lack of build. His face is never seen, and is said to resemble the horrors that Xathia has wrecked upon her own family. He is usually the Wraith closest to the female when brought out and the one least likely to be used in combat.

'''Revenge'''

Revenge resembles a Corellian Sand Panther. It is normally the first to attack and shares Xathia's determination. It is a slender build, though like all large cats it carries a fair weight, and reflects the Krath's naturally fast speed, using pouncing and slashing attacks to bring down the targets. It does not hesitate to use its weight to pin down an opponent as the other Wraiths or Xathia delivers the next blow.

'''Desire'''

Desire is Revenge's fighting companion. Her figure is lithe, and resembles a younger Xathia. Her hair is long, and tied back in a braid with Xathia's old style of fringe. She moves in a provocative manner, but shows an underlying bloodlust in her fighting. Her fingers are styled in a long and sharp manner, looking more like talons than fingers.

===[[Sanguinius Tsucyra|Sanguinius Tsucyra Entar's]] Force Wraiths===

Sanguinius’ Wraiths are based on animals found within the Dajorra system, the Sergeant is an eager amateur zoologist along with being a historian.

'''The Lion'''

The Lion is a large feline form, shaped like a Selenian Lion. A large black mane, sharp teeth and massive paws. The Lion is Sanguinius' main and favourite Wraith. The Professor regularly uses it in battle as the most destructive and strongest golem.

'''The Dog'''

The Dog is smaller than The Lion, but is faster, more energetic and enjoys hounding the Anaxsi's opponents, often darting in to deliver savage bites and nipping at the poor unfortunate's heels. The Dog is often used as a distraction, allowing the third and final Force Wraith to strike.

'''The Serpent'''

The Serpent has a long python-like form, the Snake is kept till last during a fight. The Lion and the Dog used to distract and keep Sang's opponent off balance, the Serpent circles around, using cover and taking it's time. Making sure that it isn't noticed. Only then, when The Serpent is in cover and able to strike, does it attack! It often makes for the neck or arms of the opponent, wrapping around them and submitting their bones to pressure, and if not removed in time, snaps bones and suffocates their target.

===[[Inarya|Inarya's]] Force Wraiths===

Inarya’s Wraiths are known as the Three Sisters. They take on the forms of three females wearing ripped robes and long talon-like fingers. In place of their eye sockets, empty white orbs are situated that burn through their opponents. These legless apparitions float around the battlefield, their long ripped cloaks dragging across the ground.

'''Hecate'''

The smallest and most violent of the three, she is always the first to attack. Slicing through her enemies with her large claws. Her movements are faster and more erect then the rest and her violence takes on that of a wild animal as she attacks her prey. Her appearance is more frightening then the other two, her black body is bony and angular and the wisps of smoke which make up her hair flare wildly. Hecate is the representation of Inarya’s rage and anger.

'''Lilith'''

This Wraith is the most human looking of the Three Sisters and has the most clearly designed human features, even though still a shadow. Lilith does not have the same violence that Hecate has, but prefers to stalk her prey; tormenting them before delivering precise and painful blows. Lilith is used more for defence then offensive and stays close to Inarya unless commanded otherwise. Her appearance is much the same as the other two apart from her human-like face and longer pulled back hair. Lilith is the embodiment of Inarya’s sexuality and is her favorite Wraith as she feels more of a connection to her then the others.

'''Lamashtu'''

The last of the Three Sisters and the oldest by appearance. She has the longest claws out of the three and is normally seen with blood dripping from them. She stands taller than the rest and her hair looks like horns. She is the most lethal of them casting a dark shadow under her enemies before appearing below them slicing her claws vertically through their skin as she springs from her subterranean hiding place, her movements on the battle field resembles that of a spider as she either crawls inhumanly across the floor,and walls or slithers underground, releasing a high pitched scream as she does. .She is Inarya’s least favorite Wraith with the power to terrify even her. Lamashtu represents Inarya’s capability of committing evil, she is only ever used when needed.

===[[Talos Erinos|Talos Erinos']] Force Wraiths===

As an Arconan Equite, Talos has learned to summon and control three Force-Wraiths for as long as one standard day (24 hours). These are the Serpent, the Tiger, and the Uvak, and each embody a different part of Talos' personality as well as being used for various practical purposes.

'''Serpent'''

Talos' first Force-Wraith that he brought forth when he was a Knight of Arcona, the Serpent takes the form of a 2 foot long, black-as-night snake with a diamond-shaped head and a particularly nasty set of fangs that contain venoms that even the Force itself cannot heal. As a creature without legs, Talos often uses the Serpent for reconnaissance purposes as the Serpent's lithe form allows it to access many places that its Summoner cannot. On a more "emotional" level, the Serpent is the physical manifestation of Talos' cunning and guile as well as his growing mastery over the skills of interrogation, manipulation, and bribery.

'''Ralltiir Tiger'''

The second Wraith brought into the physical world, Talos created the Tiger to be the exact opposite of the Serpent; whereas the Serpent was low to the ground and able to move silently, adept at things such as reconnaissance and single-person assassinations, the Tiger is the manifestation of pure, unbridled rage. When Talos calls forth the Tiger, there is no plan, no greater goal in mind...only carnage. Appearing similar to the fearsome and bloodthirsty tigers of Ralltiir, the Wraith stands at 4 feet tall, ready to hunt down its prey on four extremely powerful legs and finish it off with either its maw of razor-sharp teeth or its muscled and barbed tail.

'''Uvak'''

An avian creature commonly associated with racing, the Uvak is Talos' newest Wraith and the only one that does not embody a "base" trait of his, like the Serpent and Tiger. Rather the Uvak, as a winged creature, represents Talos' desire to attain mastery of the Dark Side (a goal which he is starting to pick up on) and also climb the ladder of power within the Dark Brotherhood. As for the Uvak's more physical uses, the Equite mainly employs his new denizen as a scout and security, using the Uvak's inherent advantage as a winged creature to be able to gain a birds-eye view of a battlefield or to guard an important Arconan installation.

===[[Celevon Edraven|Celevon Edraven's]] Force Wraith===

As a Dark Jedi Knight, Celevon can summon and control a single Wraith for up to a few hours. It takes several minutes of concentration to summon the spirit of dark side energy.

'''Corellian Sand Panther'''

The first time Celevon succeeded in summoning his Force Wraith, with [[Talos Erinos]] coaching him on the technique, the duo was quite surprised to see not a Wolf as they had expected, but a Corellian Sand Panther. This Wraith reflects the Assassin portion of Celevon’s personality. More specifically, it shows in how Celevon stalks his victims and kills them with a short blade without being noticed until they are sent into the dark abyss. The Panthers of Corellia are solitary hunters but were seen hunting in small family units on a rare occasion. The sand panther is one of the galaxy's quietest hunters, able to approach within centimeters of prey without drawing attention. On some more primitive planets, the Panther is viewed as the ultimate land-bound predator. Even as a Wraith, it can easily be identified as Celevon’s due to the fact that it possesses the man’s unique silver eyes.

=== [[Legorii Kryotek Entar|Legorii Kryotek Entar's]] Force Wraiths ===

Legorii's Force Wraiths represent the perverted fractures and fissures in their summoner's personality, physical manifestations of shadow that serve as extensions of his Dark Side connection. As an Equite, Legorii has the power to summon up to three Wraiths, though he has only officially called two into being. The pair can often be found at his side on the battlefield, and are two of the most distinct Wraiths in the entire Clan. Whispers have circulated of a third Wraith - one more intimidating and gut-wrenching than the proceeding two - but these rumors have not yet been substantiated.

'''Vassago'''

The first of the two Force Wraiths, Vassago stands a hair taller than Legorii when fully-formed, and is much thinner. It is constantly swathed in tattered darkness, concealing the hideously decaying shadow-flesh beneath, and its facial features cannot be discerned. The Arconan sigil can be discerned if one looks closely enough at the Wraith's chest - doing so is not advised, however. Though its appearance is not as horrifying as many other Wraiths, Vassago's appearance is chilling, as it patiently observes the targets Legorii assigns it. It is not uncommon for the Wraith to be found at its master's side during non-combat situation, as well.

Vassago represents the insatiable thirst for power and knowledge that often threatens to consume its Krath summoner, sacrificing its health and vitality for ambition. It is derived from the scholarly aspects of its summoner, and is imbibed with the Entar's ruthless determination. In combat, the Wraith relies on its claws and speed, moving many times more quickly than Legorii is capable of.

'''Valefar'''

Valefar, the only other Wraith that Legorii has yet summoned, is a far cry from its brother in appearance. Much stouter, the Wraith is approximately eight inches shorter than its summoner, but is as broad as a tree in the jungles of Kashyyyk. Exposed from the waist up, the humanoid shadow creature's flesh appears to be covered in bleeding blisters and boils, with open wounds showing on its chest and arms. Valefar's back is a mess of scars and fresh gashes, apparently the result of repeated scourging, and there is not an inch to be found that is not scarred or bleeding.

Serving as more of an enforcer than its brother, Valefar springs from the dark corners of the Anzat's mind that harbor the feelings of defeat and humiliation that have popped up from time to time over his life. Each failure fuels the Wraith - memories of battles lost, promotions that went unearned, and searing rebukes from superiors. Called upon exclusively in combat settings, the Wraith is extremely aggressive and lashes back with staggering fury.

=== [[Andrelious J. Inahj|Andrelious J. Inahj's Force Wraiths]] ===
After some time, Andrelious has finally began to master the ability to create wraiths. Only one consistant form has been seen so far.

'''Buckethead'''
Basically taking the form of an Imperial Stormtrooper, Buckethead's name is a common Imperial pilot insult for the men in white. It is of the regulation height for a Stormtrooper, standing several inches taller than its Battlelord master. When ordered to do something, it nods, much like the real thing.

That is where the resemblance ends. When Buckethead attacks, it does so with the strength of a beast, its gloved hands replaced with claw adorned paws. It is also very aggressive, usually attempting to kill its prey at once. It is for this reason that Buckethead is used mostly in a tight combat situation, Inahj preferring to use other Force powers when the situation is not as desperate.

The form Buckethead takes reflects Inahj's past, and his still vague loyalty to the Galactic Empire.

=== [[Nikola Valtiere|Nikola Valtiere's]] Force Wraiths ===
Having been recently knighted, Nikola has finally been able to master the force powers that allow him to call forth a wraith.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''
When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

=== [[Morrighan Ravenscroft|Morrighan Ravenscroft's]] Force Wraiths ===
Being only a Knight Morrighan is only able to bring forth one manifestation. His wraith centers around his state of mind and memories of what he has done to get to this point in his life, the fractured past that brought him on his dark path in the first place.

'''Eliza'''

Shape: Human Child of About Six Years Old.

Eliza was Morrighan's first kill when working for Imperial Intelligence, he slaughtered her took her form as his own and used it to murder her father who was a target. The kill started him down the dark path so it was only fitting that his first Wraith be in tribute to what made him the monster he is today. She moves forward like a beast, as a Dark Jedi Knight Morrighan cannot control her but the unnerving specter of the dead child usually puts opponents off.

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Nikola Valtiere

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Nikola Valtiere: /* Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths */

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Commander
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Rhelg===

Rhelg was Void's most successful battle, and so Valtiere's proudest moment. Rarely did he feel such emotions, but when he saw what Void could do following training to repent for the failure of Krayiss II. Valtiere led Void in multiple successful engagements to secure the space around Rhelg for the Brotherhood, racking up far more kills than any of the other pilots in the Brotherhood. Working as a cohesive unit, Void were an unstoppable force, staying in space only as long as fuel and Oxygen lasted.

Eventually, the Brotherhood won space around Rhelg, and so Void descended to the ground. In ground skirmishes, Nikola unleashed himself, destroying his foes through lighting fast attacks while they were slowed with supernatural fear. On the frosty plains of Rhelg, he took the head of a potent knight within the One Sith, mutilating him with countless tiny strikes before finally driving his lightsaber into his foe's chest.

Rhelg was won for Arcona, buoying the spirits of the Knight as he pushed onward. With success came new members, and so he threw himself into training the recruits of Void, showing them that simply being an expert pilot was not enough for Void. Grueling simulations and dummy-fire exercises taught the pilots the way Void fought. Live fire training thrust them into thinking like Void, a baptism of fire.

===Bhargebba===

Settled into his role as Commander of Void, Nikola and the unit worked together without extraneous thought. A well drilled fighting machine, Void dominated the space around the planet, eclipsing their non-Force sensitive brethren in the battle for the world below. In a rare moment, Void were used in atmospheric combat to demolish certain key areas in the use of the One Sith. With the new members of the squadron successfully drilled over and over to ensure that they worked together as a competent unit, streaking out of the darkness of space to decimate units before disappearing again.

When Void took to the ground, they were no less successful. Void members engaged in fierce hit and run battles with One Sith squads, using the thick jungle as camouflage, striking like their StealthX fighters. Nikola worked with his wingman Torrhen Alino to kill a whole squad of soldiers led by a Knight that were themselves trying to outflank the Brotherhood.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He revels in breaking people through the use of their fears, striving to understand what every individual's fear is as soon as he lays his eyes on them.

One of the most prominent personality quirks displayed by Nikola, however, is is infatuation with prosthetics. He has already undergone an elective procedure for the removal of his lower legs, and sees the loss of his right eye as a blessing, along with the loss of his right arm. He is constantly seeking ways to 'improve himself', held back only by his means.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two that are larger than the towering commander.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

When Valtiere rose to becoming an Equite and Aedile of Qel-Droma, he began to craft a new wraith, funnelling power into a new aspect of his soul: The quiet hunter, the observer, the strategist. The Force being he crafted became known as The Raptor, a simple name describing the hunting hawk with an unnatural intelligence glittering from yellow eyes. When Valtiere is on his long hunts, it will be ranging far, scouting for the Equite. In combat, rapier-sharp claws rake flesh, while wings bat at the face, blinding and distracting opponents while he moves in for the kill. Out of combat, the hawk sits on his shoulder, staring sullenly at all about him.

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Arconan Force Wraiths

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Nikola Valtiere: /* Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths */

'''Force Wraiths'''

The ability to summon Force Wraiths is a talent that is unique only to members of [[Arcona]] and the Grand Masters, theses entities are manifestations of the Force making them able to withstand melee attacks but yet cause vast amounts of damage to the target that their masters chose. Each Force Wraith is created from the mind of the user, making no two Wraiths the same. Whether they are creatures that cause almost incapacitating fear or as simple as a human form. They are completely bendable to the will of those who summon them.

A Wraith summoned by a [[Journeyman]] will be a unintelligent golem that will attack until it is destroyed. Whereas one summoned by a more experienced member will have the ability to think independently and even dodge oncoming attacks. This also affects the amount of Wraiths that a user can have in combat at once, a Knight can summon one Wraith, an [[Equite]] can summon three and a [[Elder]] can summon up to five Wraiths at one time, a most fearsome foe to face.
[[File:250px-Niles Ferrier's wraith.png|thumb|286px|right|Niles Ferriers Wraith]]

===Wraiths Strengths===

The strength and the abilities that the summoned Wraiths have rely completely on the level of those creating them. As the Wraith do not have a physical form while passive, this means they are invulnerable to melee, physical blows and blaster fire.

Once a Wraith has been summoned it will attack continuously until the target is destroyed. As they lack emotions and pain responses they know no fear and feel no pain making them a unyielding and imposing opponent to face.

===Wraiths Weaknesses===

A Force Wraith is effectively a shadow construct, the construct is weak against destructive Force Powers, Obliterate is an effective tool to counteract the Wraith. In a active state the Wraiths become solid leaving them open to a physical or melee attack. Usually blaster fire, swords and even lightsabers pass through the Force Wraith’s form. However, just before it hits its target, the arm/claws/hand solidify, allowing a swift and canny opponent to parry or deflect attacks.

A Wraith is only as strong as the Arconan’s will. If the Arconan is distracted, or knocked unconscious, the Wraiths will disappear. Thus, a wise and experienced opponent will target the Arconan, not the Wraiths. The Dark Jedi that summons the Wraith must keep their full focus on maintaining it’s form leaving them vulnerable to attacks from their opponent.

===Appearance===

The appearances of these creatures are completely up to the user but the size can be no greater than a humanoid form, unless the number of Wraiths are sacrificed to increase the size of the creature summoned. Each Wraith is a reflection of the user’s mind creating an entity forged from the dark depths of their imaginations. The summoned Wraith, once it has taken its form, cannot be changed or altered in any way by the user.

==Wraith Ranking System==

'''Journeyman -''' Wraiths can deflect melee attacks in a passive state, but are weak to Force powers and melee attack once their state becomes active. The maximum number of Wraiths that any Journeyman can summon at one time is one and then only for an hour. It takes the complete concentration of the user for the Wraiths to keep their form, leaving the user open to physical and Force attacks which could easily damage and or break the focus of the user.

The Wraith summoned by a Journeyman is incapable of independent thought and will keep on fighting till either the user has been knocked out, loses focus or the Wraith itself has been destroyed.

'''Equites -''' Wraiths can deflect physical and melee attacks, however they are still weak against destructive Force Powers. Equites can summon up to three Wraiths at one time, however Wraiths do take time to coalesce, so much effort has to be put in to create them. These Wraiths can only be controlled for a day at a time.

A Wraith that had been summoned by a Equite has a basic form of independent intelligence giving the Wraiths the ability to dodge incoming attacks, but not the ability to assault individual targets as a result of independent thought. A Wraith is thus an extension of the user's consciousness within this bracket.

'''Elders -''' The most powerful level of the shadow constructs, an Elder can create and control up to five Force Wraiths at any one time for days on end. Ranging in size and form, the largest Wraiths seen are those controlled by the current Shade Warrior, Sashar Erinos Arconae.

Though weak towards destructive Force Powers, these golems are a fearsome foe, independent in thought, actions and backed up with an irate Elder; equals one dead enemy.

==Current Arconan Wraiths==

===[[Sashar Arconae|Sashar Erinos Arconae's]] Force Wraith===

'''The Hunter'''

Sashar’s primary Wraith is about his height when raised fully with powerfully muscled, inverse-jointed legs, allowing it to run down prey. Its arms are triple jointed too and grant it considerable reach (and also the ability to run on all fours should it want to). Its nose and mouth protrude out in a defined muzzle, and its mouth is crammed full of gleaming black razor-sharp teeth. Also, the claws on its hands and feet are incredibly sharp. The Hunter is primarily used as an offensive Wraith, meant to run down its prey and harass it to exhaustion, then incapacitate it with its teeth or claws.

'''The Runt'''

Arguably the strangest of Sashar’s Wraiths, the Runt is half again as short as its creator, with legs identical to a toad’s, making it able to throw itself vast distances in one leap. Both its fingers and toes (instead of the usual claws) are tipped with suction cups and the gaps between its extremities are webbed. Its most unusual feature, though, is its tongue. Able to launch out and wrap itself around targets nearly fifty meters away, the Runt is often used to pin an opponent in place whilst the other wraiths or Sashar himself dispatches him or her. That’s not to say that the runt is defenceless, though: far from it, given that its spine is tipped with foot-long spikes and its mouth is lined with inhumanly sharp teeth. The Runt sometimes can be pressed into use as a spy or in reconnaissance, given its unconventional ability to stick to vertical or inverse surfaces.

'''The Bat'''

Perhaps the most widely recognised of the Wraiths (at least on Selen), Sashar often has the Bat patrolling the skies above Estle City at night so as to warn him of any unauthorised comings and goings to the capital. It has become a thing of myth among the local populace, many believing to be some ghostly guardian of the townsfolk, when the reality is much more sinister. Nearly half again as tall as Sashar, it is skeletally thin, emaciated and almost reedy in build. The most obvious differences between the creator and the wraith (other than its height), is its skull. The cranium isn’t shaped like a mammal’s traditional head, but instead resembles the skull of an ancient avian more than anything else. It has a tapered, pointed protrusion from the rear of the head to aid with aerodynamics, and a sharp, pointed beak lined with the trademark teeth. Between the arms and legs, attached to the torso as well as the limbs themselves are two leathery flaps of skin: wings. Rather than hands and feet, the bat utilises claws and talons, again, like an avian. The Bat is primarily used as a high-altitude reconnaissance when Sashar is travelling on foot, and can also offer ‘air support’ by performing sweeping strikes from the air, tearing at targets on the ground. The Bat can also act as a ‘wingman’ of sorts if Sashar is atop the Drexl.

'''The Ox'''

An amalgamation of two distinctly different creatures, the ‘Ox’ has the face of a bovine creature, complete with a pair of long, pointed horns and a mouth of sharp (albeit flat) teeth clearly designed for gnashing. Its shoulders are humanoid and it has a pair of strongly muscled arms and hands tipped with razor tipped claws, however from the waist down it gets ‘weird.’ From the waist, instead of legs it has eight suction-lined tentacles. The Ox is as long as The Bat is tall, however the tentacles usually bunch up a fair bit, giving it the ‘height’ of Sashar. It operates primarily as a bodyguard for Sashar, sticking close to him at all times to intercept attacks and pin opponents whilst the controller dispatches them. The Ox has also been known to provide a killer edge to Sashar’s favoured method of dispatching a foe in close combat: the lariat. How this is accomplished, however, is unclear.

'''The Drexl'''

The biggest of the Wraiths, the Drexl is a homage to Sashar’s upbringing on Dxun, where the Drexl was the biggest and meanest creature on the moon. With a wingspan approaching ten meters, claws, talons, horns and mandibles which line the beast, it is an intimidating sight to behold. The Drexl is used as a mount more than anything, where the Arconan solidifies it to such an extent to allow him to stand atop it and carry him great distances through the air. The Drexl can also operate quite well independently, and the sheer fear value it installs is a valuable asset in battle.

===[[Timeros|Timeros Entar Arconae]]'s Wraiths===

'''Timeros’ Force Wraiths'''

Timeros Force Wraiths are unsettling and strange even compared to other Arconans’ inventions. The Entar’s sense of identity is too strong for his Wraiths to deviate much from himself and take clearly monstrous forms. Instead, his spectral servants resemble him through a fractured lense and become mired in an uncanny valley of almost-humanity. While Timeros can control the Wraiths as well as any of his fellow Elders, he dislikes using them: The Adept's mind is too focused upon singular combat to bring his servants -a trio he has christened the Elements of Victory- to bear in any but the most desperate circumstances. Indeed, Timeros has grown to be something of an expert in hunting Wraiths. Those closest to the Arconae, if they could be bothered, might also offer the explanation that Timeros is deeply, fundamentally uncomfortable baring so much of his deepest soul.

'''The Mirthless Victor'''

With eyes opening and closing at random over its arms, legs, chest and bald skull, down to the tips of its fingers, each quivering with fear, the Mirthless Victor is a twitching monument to paranoia. Its moves are sudden and have an almost fearful bent to them, its vertiginous eyes tracking all around it with suspicious intensity. It wears only a loincloth for clothes. A grinding buzzsaw -itself, like all other parts of the Victor’s anatomy, bedecked in eyes - occasionally rips out of the Element’s skin in a shower of gore, spraying onlookers with ethereal (and rapidly-disappearing) blood before retreating with a slurping noise, the creature’s ‘skin’ rapidly healing. In combat, the saws, which may appear anywhere on the creature, are its main weapons.

'''The Incadescent Odium'''

This Element ripples in the air, as if distorted by the heat wave of its own abhorrence. While many Wraiths are just blurred outline, the Odium is a vivid mess of contrasting colors that exaggerate their master’s own, throwing each in a stark contrast with the other. Its outfit, mirroring whatever its creator wears, is also similar, but it is not what catches attention. Instead, the creature’s focus are the bright red letters in the air around it, as if the creature’s hatred wounded the air until it bled its invective upon the word, one insulting word after another carved into air in a dozen-odd languages. The creature’s bones protrude sickly through its skin, ending in sharp points, and its mouths opens impossibly wide, revealing row after row of pointed teeth.

'''The Martyr Triumphant'''

A face, expressionless, without fear or scorn, but most of all without pity. Ethereal blood, dripping from wounds and disappearing before it the ground. A ragged scar where a manhood should be. These are perhaps the least disturbing features of this Element of Victory, representing pain and sacrifice. Around its head runs a crown of barbed wire, artfully interwoven first with his skull and then its eyes, from whence fall crimson ghostly tears. The barbed-wire bands then swoop down, over its arms and the palms of its hands, ending in a pair of whips reaching out perhaps ten feet. It moves efficiently and deliberately, without hesitation, yet gives of a clear impression of being in great pain despite its willingness to be in such. It is, perhaps, ironic that of all his creations, this mangled, tortured creature resembles Timeros the most.

'''Other Wraiths'''

Timeros, as an Elder, is technically capable of creating more than three Force Wraiths. To the knowledge of those closest to him, however, he has not done so. This means that the Adept has either not finalized their creation, or else the final two Wraiths are so abhorrent to the him that he has never so far dared to unleash them.

===[[Cethgus Entar|Cethgus Entar's]] Wraiths===

'''Lust'''

This Force Wraith is in the form of a female, normally as if the shadows engulfed her body to a almost perfect like figure. Forming very little clothing to reveal this figure. Usually when summoned by Cethgus, this wraith tries to seduce its prey, though still a horror to behold the Wraith attacks as if rejected by a former lover, its rage and passion are second to none, it walks always as if trying to seduce, though unaware of its true image.

The Form of this Wraith is of a beautiful woman, her body wrapped in little clothing to keep her covered, though the noticeable difference is the four arms that protrude from her well formed body. Hovering from the ground, gliding instead of walking, the face covered by what appears to be a mask on the darkened figure. The outline of her body is of a perfect image of a female as it hunts its prey.

'''Wrath'''

This one is Cethgus’s most commonly seen Wraith, due to the likeliness of his emotions it is normally used as punishment and causing pain to others. It’s will is normally quickly tempered as if it was human. It will always lash out as soon as possible knowing that not much can hurt it. Remember why it is summoned, it normally strikes without thinking and is Cethgus’ most aggressive Wraith; summoned when death needs to be dealt. The Wraith looks like a male, though it has no neck, the mask floating in air, its fingers are like talons as well as spikes growing out from the arms. Thought that normally be enough this form has six ruined wings, its suffering only to take the wrath out on others, the broken wings each have spikes this figure stares at its opponent through six insect like eyes.

'''Pride'''

Relating to Cethgus this one represents his pride, it always feels that it is the best in everything, the Wraith itself is last one to fight feeling as if it has to it is because the others aren’t good enough to succeed where it can. Its attitude and posture are always of someone who needs nothing and feels that they are better than anything else, once created it will only do as instructed, yet normally protects the Zabrak and stops people breaking his concentration. This form is one like man once more, but instead of the feet it has wings that it uses to keep itself afloat. Its body once more well formed as its wings are held by spikes, its shoulders covered in what resembles armour. This form pulls itself from the ground and stands normally right beside or in front of Cethgus himself watching the fighting that takes place.

===[[Marick Arconae|Marick Arconae's]] Force Wraiths===

'''Watson'''

Shape: HawkBat

Size: ~3feet (~1 meter)

Through careful practice Marick can shape a singular shadow creature that takes after a winged HawkBat he calls, "Watson". Marick does not use his Force Wraith in the same way that most of his brethren do in combat. Instead, he uses Watson as a scout, a prying eye to help him track, follow, or monitor a target. Watson also serves as a great diversion, and Marick has no reservations using it as such. His strange sense of honor prevents him from using Watson in a conventional duel, though.

===[[Etah|Etah d'Tana's]] Force Wraiths===

'''The Mighty Staga'''

The Staga represents the strength in Etah’s fighting and is an animal Etah hunted potentially hundreds of times as a teenage monk, on the plains of Ambria. The Force wraith is much larger and meaner looking than a normal Ambrian staga and stands at six and a half feet tall. Its full body mane frames a four legged body rippling with muscles, a barrel chest and demonic looking horns.

'''The Swift Cliff Crawler'''

The Cliff Crawler represents the speed and precision of Etah’s fighting and is an animal that Etah was threatened by many times by while following the Staga herds across the plains of Ambria. The Force wraith is roughly as large as a real Cliff Crawler, if more menacing, measuring at six and a half feet long. The giant lizard moves fluidly despite its lack of limbs, and its jaws snap shut with unmatched ferocity.

'''The Terrifying Hssiss'''

The dark side dragon represents the adaption in Etah’s fighting and was an animal he was threatened and then protected by, around the shores of the hollowed Lake Natth. The Force wraith is slightly larger than its real counterpart, at six and a half feet tall and looks just as angry. Its dark boney back plates are most often seen through its deadly sharp nose horns while staring into its hate filled eyes.

===[[Xathia Vahillus|Xathia Vahillus']] Force Wraiths===
'''Death'''

Death is a hooded skeleton. The cloak shadows his face and falls to the ground, though it is sleeveless, leaving the bones exposed on his arms. He stands around the same height as Xathia, though incredibly slim due to the lack of build. His face is never seen, and is said to resemble the horrors that Xathia has wrecked upon her own family. He is usually the Wraith closest to the female when brought out and the one least likely to be used in combat.

'''Revenge'''

Revenge resembles a Corellian Sand Panther. It is normally the first to attack and shares Xathia's determination. It is a slender build, though like all large cats it carries a fair weight, and reflects the Krath's naturally fast speed, using pouncing and slashing attacks to bring down the targets. It does not hesitate to use its weight to pin down an opponent as the other Wraiths or Xathia delivers the next blow.

'''Desire'''

Desire is Revenge's fighting companion. Her figure is lithe, and resembles a younger Xathia. Her hair is long, and tied back in a braid with Xathia's old style of fringe. She moves in a provocative manner, but shows an underlying bloodlust in her fighting. Her fingers are styled in a long and sharp manner, looking more like talons than fingers.

===[[Sanguinius Tsucyra|Sanguinius Tsucyra Entar's]] Force Wraiths===

Sanguinius’ Wraiths are based on animals found within the Dajorra system, the Sergeant is an eager amateur zoologist along with being a historian.

'''The Lion'''

The Lion is a large feline form, shaped like a Selenian Lion. A large black mane, sharp teeth and massive paws. The Lion is Sanguinius' main and favourite Wraith. The Professor regularly uses it in battle as the most destructive and strongest golem.

'''The Dog'''

The Dog is smaller than The Lion, but is faster, more energetic and enjoys hounding the Anaxsi's opponents, often darting in to deliver savage bites and nipping at the poor unfortunate's heels. The Dog is often used as a distraction, allowing the third and final Force Wraith to strike.

'''The Serpent'''

The Serpent has a long python-like form, the Snake is kept till last during a fight. The Lion and the Dog used to distract and keep Sang's opponent off balance, the Serpent circles around, using cover and taking it's time. Making sure that it isn't noticed. Only then, when The Serpent is in cover and able to strike, does it attack! It often makes for the neck or arms of the opponent, wrapping around them and submitting their bones to pressure, and if not removed in time, snaps bones and suffocates their target.

===[[Inarya|Inarya's]] Force Wraiths===

Inarya’s Wraiths are known as the Three Sisters. They take on the forms of three females wearing ripped robes and long talon-like fingers. In place of their eye sockets, empty white orbs are situated that burn through their opponents. These legless apparitions float around the battlefield, their long ripped cloaks dragging across the ground.

'''Hecate'''

The smallest and most violent of the three, she is always the first to attack. Slicing through her enemies with her large claws. Her movements are faster and more erect then the rest and her violence takes on that of a wild animal as she attacks her prey. Her appearance is more frightening then the other two, her black body is bony and angular and the wisps of smoke which make up her hair flare wildly. Hecate is the representation of Inarya’s rage and anger.

'''Lilith'''

This Wraith is the most human looking of the Three Sisters and has the most clearly designed human features, even though still a shadow. Lilith does not have the same violence that Hecate has, but prefers to stalk her prey; tormenting them before delivering precise and painful blows. Lilith is used more for defence then offensive and stays close to Inarya unless commanded otherwise. Her appearance is much the same as the other two apart from her human-like face and longer pulled back hair. Lilith is the embodiment of Inarya’s sexuality and is her favorite Wraith as she feels more of a connection to her then the others.

'''Lamashtu'''

The last of the Three Sisters and the oldest by appearance. She has the longest claws out of the three and is normally seen with blood dripping from them. She stands taller than the rest and her hair looks like horns. She is the most lethal of them casting a dark shadow under her enemies before appearing below them slicing her claws vertically through their skin as she springs from her subterranean hiding place, her movements on the battle field resembles that of a spider as she either crawls inhumanly across the floor,and walls or slithers underground, releasing a high pitched scream as she does. .She is Inarya’s least favorite Wraith with the power to terrify even her. Lamashtu represents Inarya’s capability of committing evil, she is only ever used when needed.

===[[Talos Erinos|Talos Erinos']] Force Wraiths===

As an Arconan Equite, Talos has learned to summon and control three Force-Wraiths for as long as one standard day (24 hours). These are the Serpent, the Tiger, and the Uvak, and each embody a different part of Talos' personality as well as being used for various practical purposes.

'''Serpent'''

Talos' first Force-Wraith that he brought forth when he was a Knight of Arcona, the Serpent takes the form of a 2 foot long, black-as-night snake with a diamond-shaped head and a particularly nasty set of fangs that contain venoms that even the Force itself cannot heal. As a creature without legs, Talos often uses the Serpent for reconnaissance purposes as the Serpent's lithe form allows it to access many places that its Summoner cannot. On a more "emotional" level, the Serpent is the physical manifestation of Talos' cunning and guile as well as his growing mastery over the skills of interrogation, manipulation, and bribery.

'''Ralltiir Tiger'''

The second Wraith brought into the physical world, Talos created the Tiger to be the exact opposite of the Serpent; whereas the Serpent was low to the ground and able to move silently, adept at things such as reconnaissance and single-person assassinations, the Tiger is the manifestation of pure, unbridled rage. When Talos calls forth the Tiger, there is no plan, no greater goal in mind...only carnage. Appearing similar to the fearsome and bloodthirsty tigers of Ralltiir, the Wraith stands at 4 feet tall, ready to hunt down its prey on four extremely powerful legs and finish it off with either its maw of razor-sharp teeth or its muscled and barbed tail.

'''Uvak'''

An avian creature commonly associated with racing, the Uvak is Talos' newest Wraith and the only one that does not embody a "base" trait of his, like the Serpent and Tiger. Rather the Uvak, as a winged creature, represents Talos' desire to attain mastery of the Dark Side (a goal which he is starting to pick up on) and also climb the ladder of power within the Dark Brotherhood. As for the Uvak's more physical uses, the Equite mainly employs his new denizen as a scout and security, using the Uvak's inherent advantage as a winged creature to be able to gain a birds-eye view of a battlefield or to guard an important Arconan installation.

===[[Celevon Edraven|Celevon Edraven's]] Force Wraith===

As a Dark Jedi Knight, Celevon can summon and control a single Wraith for up to a few hours. It takes several minutes of concentration to summon the spirit of dark side energy.

'''Corellian Sand Panther'''

The first time Celevon succeeded in summoning his Force Wraith, with [[Talos Erinos]] coaching him on the technique, the duo was quite surprised to see not a Wolf as they had expected, but a Corellian Sand Panther. This Wraith reflects the Assassin portion of Celevon’s personality. More specifically, it shows in how Celevon stalks his victims and kills them with a short blade without being noticed until they are sent into the dark abyss. The Panthers of Corellia are solitary hunters but were seen hunting in small family units on a rare occasion. The sand panther is one of the galaxy's quietest hunters, able to approach within centimeters of prey without drawing attention. On some more primitive planets, the Panther is viewed as the ultimate land-bound predator. Even as a Wraith, it can easily be identified as Celevon’s due to the fact that it possesses the man’s unique silver eyes.

=== [[Legorii Kryotek Entar|Legorii Kryotek Entar's]] Force Wraiths ===

Legorii's Force Wraiths represent the perverted fractures and fissures in their summoner's personality, physical manifestations of shadow that serve as extensions of his Dark Side connection. As an Equite, Legorii has the power to summon up to three Wraiths, though he has only officially called two into being. The pair can often be found at his side on the battlefield, and are two of the most distinct Wraiths in the entire Clan. Whispers have circulated of a third Wraith - one more intimidating and gut-wrenching than the proceeding two - but these rumors have not yet been substantiated.

'''Vassago'''

The first of the two Force Wraiths, Vassago stands a hair taller than Legorii when fully-formed, and is much thinner. It is constantly swathed in tattered darkness, concealing the hideously decaying shadow-flesh beneath, and its facial features cannot be discerned. The Arconan sigil can be discerned if one looks closely enough at the Wraith's chest - doing so is not advised, however. Though its appearance is not as horrifying as many other Wraiths, Vassago's appearance is chilling, as it patiently observes the targets Legorii assigns it. It is not uncommon for the Wraith to be found at its master's side during non-combat situation, as well.

Vassago represents the insatiable thirst for power and knowledge that often threatens to consume its Krath summoner, sacrificing its health and vitality for ambition. It is derived from the scholarly aspects of its summoner, and is imbibed with the Entar's ruthless determination. In combat, the Wraith relies on its claws and speed, moving many times more quickly than Legorii is capable of.

'''Valefar'''

Valefar, the only other Wraith that Legorii has yet summoned, is a far cry from its brother in appearance. Much stouter, the Wraith is approximately eight inches shorter than its summoner, but is as broad as a tree in the jungles of Kashyyyk. Exposed from the waist up, the humanoid shadow creature's flesh appears to be covered in bleeding blisters and boils, with open wounds showing on its chest and arms. Valefar's back is a mess of scars and fresh gashes, apparently the result of repeated scourging, and there is not an inch to be found that is not scarred or bleeding.

Serving as more of an enforcer than its brother, Valefar springs from the dark corners of the Anzat's mind that harbor the feelings of defeat and humiliation that have popped up from time to time over his life. Each failure fuels the Wraith - memories of battles lost, promotions that went unearned, and searing rebukes from superiors. Called upon exclusively in combat settings, the Wraith is extremely aggressive and lashes back with staggering fury.

=== [[Andrelious J. Inahj|Andrelious J. Inahj's Force Wraiths]] ===
After some time, Andrelious has finally began to master the ability to create wraiths. Only one consistant form has been seen so far.

'''Buckethead'''
Basically taking the form of an Imperial Stormtrooper, Buckethead's name is a common Imperial pilot insult for the men in white. It is of the regulation height for a Stormtrooper, standing several inches taller than its Battlelord master. When ordered to do something, it nods, much like the real thing.

That is where the resemblance ends. When Buckethead attacks, it does so with the strength of a beast, its gloved hands replaced with claw adorned paws. It is also very aggressive, usually attempting to kill its prey at once. It is for this reason that Buckethead is used mostly in a tight combat situation, Inahj preferring to use other Force powers when the situation is not as desperate.

The form Buckethead takes reflects Inahj's past, and his still vague loyalty to the Galactic Empire.

=== [[Nikola Valtiere|Nikola Valtiere's]] Force Wraiths ===
Having been recently knighted, Nikola has finally been able to master the force powers that allow him to call forth a wraith.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

=== [[Morrighan Ravenscroft|Morrighan Ravenscroft's]] Force Wraiths ===
Being only a Knight Morrighan is only able to bring forth one manifestation. His wraith centers around his state of mind and memories of what he has done to get to this point in his life, the fractured past that brought him on his dark path in the first place.

'''Eliza'''

Shape: Human Child of About Six Years Old.

Eliza was Morrighan's first kill when working for Imperial Intelligence, he slaughtered her took her form as his own and used it to murder her father who was a target. The kill started him down the dark path so it was only fitting that his first Wraith be in tribute to what made him the monster he is today. She moves forward like a beast, as a Dark Jedi Knight Morrighan cannot control her but the unnerving specter of the dead child usually puts opponents off.

[[Category:Arcona]]
[[Category:Clan and Order Force Power Schools]]
[[Category:Force Powers]]

Nikola Valtiere

2013-12-21T19:39:50Z

Nikola Valtiere:

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, right arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Commander
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Rhelg===

Rhelg was Void's most successful battle, and so Valtiere's proudest moment. Rarely did he feel such emotions, but when he saw what Void could do following training to repent for the failure of Krayiss II. Valtiere led Void in multiple successful engagements to secure the space around Rhelg for the Brotherhood, racking up far more kills than any of the other pilots in the Brotherhood. Working as a cohesive unit, Void were an unstoppable force, staying in space only as long as fuel and Oxygen lasted.

Eventually, the Brotherhood won space around Rhelg, and so Void descended to the ground. In ground skirmishes, Nikola unleashed himself, destroying his foes through lighting fast attacks while they were slowed with supernatural fear. On the frosty plains of Rhelg, he took the head of a potent knight within the One Sith, mutilating him with countless tiny strikes before finally driving his lightsaber into his foe's chest.

Rhelg was won for Arcona, buoying the spirits of the Knight as he pushed onward. With success came new members, and so he threw himself into training the recruits of Void, showing them that simply being an expert pilot was not enough for Void. Grueling simulations and dummy-fire exercises taught the pilots the way Void fought. Live fire training thrust them into thinking like Void, a baptism of fire.

===Bhargebba===

Settled into his role as Commander of Void, Nikola and the unit worked together without extraneous thought. A well drilled fighting machine, Void dominated the space around the planet, eclipsing their non-Force sensitive brethren in the battle for the world below. In a rare moment, Void were used in atmospheric combat to demolish certain key areas in the use of the One Sith. With the new members of the squadron successfully drilled over and over to ensure that they worked together as a competent unit, streaking out of the darkness of space to decimate units before disappearing again.

When Void took to the ground, they were no less successful. Void members engaged in fierce hit and run battles with One Sith squads, using the thick jungle as camouflage, striking like their StealthX fighters. Nikola worked with his wingman Torrhen Alino to kill a whole squad of soldiers led by a Knight that were themselves trying to outflank the Brotherhood.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was as a changed man, no longer obsessed with sowing fear and distress, but as a strategist with a mind that ranged steps ahead of others, quiet and distant from his fellows.

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He revels in breaking people through the use of their fears, striving to understand what every individual's fear is as soon as he lays his eyes on them.

One of the most prominent personality quirks displayed by Nikola, however, is is infatuation with prosthetics. He has already undergone an elective procedure for the removal of his lower legs, and sees the loss of his right eye as a blessing, along with the loss of his right arm. He is constantly seeking ways to 'improve himself', held back only by his means.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills. During the crusade,the rest of the right arm was lost.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two that are larger than the towering commander.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

[[Category:DJB Characters]]
[[Category:Arconans]]

Nikola Valtiere

2013-12-06T19:34:07Z

Nikola Valtiere: /* Equite */

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{{Character
|type = Sith
|image=[[File:Nikola headshot.jpg|250px]]
|name= Nikola Valtiere
|homeworld= N/A (Freighter)
|birth= 12 ABY
|death= N/A
|species= Human
|gender= Male
|hair= Dark brown, kept short.
|eyes= Pale Green
|height= 2.03m
|weight= 103kg
|cyber= Lower legs, Right eye, left lower arm
|allies= Nadrin Erinos Arconae
|enemies= N/A
|saber= N/A
|form= Makashi
|fightingstyle= Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi, Verdianian
|profession= Pilot
|position= Commander
|era= DJB
|affiliation= [[Void Squadron]],[[Qel-Droma]], [[Arcona]].
|ship= Stealth-X, XJ
|masters= [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]]
|apprentices= [[Tycho Isod]]
|dossier= [[dossier:13308|13308]]
}}

{{Quote|The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path.|Nikola Valtiere}}

== Character History ==
===Birth and Childhood===
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.

His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.

In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.

Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.

His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the Force, an untrained mind, capable in the Force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.

Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.

Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.

Valtiere split his time between the Shadow Academy and the Flight Academy, training his Force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the Force.

Nikola excelled as a pilot, throwing himself into battle and pushing himself to his limits. To improve himself, he had his legs removed just above the knee, replacing them with limbs of durasteel, meaining his body could withstand higher gee forces than normal, as blood could not rush away from his head. At that point, Nikola began an infatuation with prosthetics, stating that flesh was a weakness, an obstacle in the path to power.

===Ascendancy===

Once Valtiere was accepted into the Brotherhood after seven years of combined training and flying with the starfighter corps of the Arconan armed forces, he was moved around a few different masters for a couple of years, seeming to be unable to tame Valtiere’s fury to make it into something to be wielded and ruled over. He languished in the Shadow Academy, learning piecemeal from the impatient masters.

Finally, the son of the man who freed him took up Nikola as an apprentice. With [[Nadrin Erinos Arconae]] as his master, Nikola rose through the ranks within the Brotherhood rapidly. From his master, he learnt how to shoot, along with skills in assassination and hand to hand combat.

Nadrin, himself strongly attuned to the Force, taught Nikola important force techniques, helping him guide his power into useful applications rather than blurts of potential. Steadily, Nikola began to improve his skills, and overcome his combat fury, to some degree.

===Horizons===
In the year 36ABY, the Horizon plague swept through the Dark Brotherhood. It ravaged the Dark Jedi, stealing the Force from them, turning them into mindless savages. When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the Force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement.

Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. Due to the importance Nikola gave power, the theft was even more galling, driving him further into rage.

It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by [[Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae]] to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder on Antei.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.

===Avenger II===
Following the Horizons plague, Nikola had a new attitude about his powers, about what they meant. Having them stolen showed how much the Force could enhance an individual in all aspects.

On the Avenger II, he was able to see exactly what the Force could do. The other members of the team he was deployed with used the Force in different ways, some using it to empower themselves, while others used it to strike down their enemies without touching them. His eyes opened to the true myriad of powerful methods he could use his gift. Not just as a way to enhance himself physically.

The lesson that struck his core, however was what brutality, and the resulting fear caused by it, did. It could paralyse foes, giving one an opportunity to exploit a tiny window to end a fight. It could cause rage in others, all their tactical acumen leaving their mind. There and then, he focussed on the application of fear, and what it could do to his enemies, how it could open up the path to power.

===Krayiss II===

The first world Valtiere had fought over for the Brotherhood, Krayiss II was a host of new experience. With the guiding hand of his Master, Nikola managed to ensure Void did their work well above the planet, reaping a good tally for Arcona. However, being a new commander, used to simply being given orders and let loose, Nikola had some teething problems. More than once the Jedi Hunter forgot he had a whole unit to lead, pursuing his own attacks with minimal communication.

Following the poor results for Arcona, Nikola realised his errors, pushing to ensure he would be able to lead Void in the next campaigns in the war, to help win worlds under the banner of Arcona.

===Knight===

{{Quote|Fear. It is the most potent weapon in any man's arsenal.|Nikola Valtiere}}

[[File:Nikola Valtiere Knight.jpg|thumb|Nikola following knighthood]]

Nikola's final mission before knighthood brought him back to where he had begun: Port Ol'Val. A criminal tyrant by the name of The Accountant made the fatal error of killing members of Qel-Droma. Nikola and Nadrin were deployed to root out this criminal.

After spreading fear and discord through the gangs under the Accountant's command, Nikola finally came upon the infamous gang leader. He had found that the man was in fact a former Knight, who had fled the brotherhood because they did not agree with his imperious views. Nikola managed to fight and kill the man, but lost his arm in the process. During the mission, Valtiere learnt the power of fear. Fear could destroy foes better than a show of might or any weapon.

Nikola faced gruelling trials before he could ascend to knighthood, pushing his limits to ensure he had the mettle to rise to knighthood. He had to battle a master while suspending an orb to show his skill; place his hand in a trap to show courage; endure great pain to show he was not weak in the flesh; Overcome his inner daemons to show strength in his spirit, and overcome an illusionary puzzle to show he had insight. Valtiere showed he had what it took to become a knight, to craft his lightsaber.

Basing the weapon around the crystal he took from the lightsaber of the accountant, Valtiere constructed his weapon, the handle longer than an average saber, due to his size, with a deep orange blade. With it, he was knighted by his master, Nadrin, and a group of his peers, taking another step on the dark path.

===Rhelg===

Rhelg was Void's most successful battle, and so Valtiere's proudest moment. Rarely did he feel such emotions, but when he saw what Void could do following training to repent for the failure of Krayiss II. Valtiere led Void in multiple successful engagements to secure the space around Rhelg for the Brotherhood, racking up far more kills than any of the other pilots in the Brotherhood. Working as a cohesive unit, Void were an unstoppable force, staying in space only as long as fuel and Oxygen lasted.

Eventually, the Brotherhood won space around Rhelg, and so Void descended to the ground. In ground skirmishes, Nikola unleashed himself, destroying his foes through lighting fast attacks while they were slowed with supernatural fear. On the frosty plains of Rhelg, he took the head of a potent knight within the One Sith, mutilating him with countless tiny strikes before finally driving his lightsaber into his foe's chest.

Rhelg was won for Arcona, buoying the spirits of the Knight as he pushed onward. With success came new members, and so he threw himself into training the recruits of Void, showing them that simply being an expert pilot was not enough for Void. Grueling simulations and dummy-fire exercises taught the pilots the way Void fought. Live fire training thrust them into thinking like Void, a baptism of fire.

===Bhargebba===

Settled into his role as Commander of Void, Nikola and the unit worked together without extraneous thought. A well drilled fighting machine, Void dominated the space around the planet, eclipsing their non-Force sensitive brethren in the battle for the world below. In a rare moment, Void were used in atmospheric combat to demolish certain key areas in the use of the One Sith. With the new members of the squadron successfully drilled over and over to ensure that they worked together as a competent unit, streaking out of the darkness of space to decimate units before disappearing again.

When Void took to the ground, they were no less successful. Void members engaged in fierce hit and run battles with One Sith squads, using the thick jungle as camouflage, striking like their StealthX fighters. Nikola worked with his wingman Torrhen Alino to kill a whole squad of soldiers led by a Knight that were themselves trying to outflank the Brotherhood.

===Equite===

{{Quote|There is only one unforgivable lie. That is the lie that says, this is the end, you are conqueror, you have achieved it, and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe. All emperors are liars.|Lahek Burchi to Nikola Valtiere}}

As an Equite, Valtiere began to learn constraint. He began to spend time with his foster-parent, Lahek Burchi, in the Savric flight academy, as a calm man, not an angry boy. Something Burchi had taught the boy to focus his mind was the use of the Tulwar, a curved blade suited to mounted combat, but deadly on foot as well. It had been his callsign in Void squadron, but his knowledge in its use had dulled as he learnt the ways of the Force and lightsabre.

He spent his time with Burchi learning the art again, and hunting, far from anyone, living only off what they killed. The old man imparted his wisdom to his adopted son. He learnt about fear, that it was a tool, like pain, or ambition, or greed, that could be used, not the only thing. You could not chisel rock with an arrow, as Burchi said.

It is important to never stop, Burchi said. Once a man stopped, another would come and take what he had. As a leader, he had to move forward, to be the centre others built around. If he got complacent, he would become weak, and fall. Then those he led would be sacrificed for his mistake.

When he returned to the Brotherhood, fresh and ready for War, it was

==Personality==
Nikola is a quiet individual, not wasting time with many words, succinct and to the point. This can appear dismissive or brusque to some members of the Brotherhood. One of the things that Nikola thrills in most is combat. His joy is especially in quickly striking an opponent, crippling them. The thrill of a hunt is also almost intoxicating for the Sith. He finds true joy studying tactics and histories, working out new ways to prosecute attacks on foes. His fury of the past is still present, but it is colder, controlled. He revels in breaking people through the use of their fears, striving to understand what every individual's fear is as soon as he lays his eyes on them.

One of the most prominent personality quirks displayed by Nikola, however, is is infatuation with prosthetics. He has already undergone an elective procedure for the removal of his lower legs, and sees the loss of his right eye as a blessing, along with the loss of his left hand. He is constantly seeking ways to 'improve himself', held back only by his means.

==Appearence==

Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above most of his fellows within the Brotherhood, giving him a habit of seeming to bore down on an individual. Though tall, Nikola is slender and long limbed. He moves with the gait of one used to lower than standard gravity, stepping lightly, pushing forward more than upward with each step, making him move fluidly. He has a shock of dark brown hair atop his head, kept relatively short due to his having to wear a full face helmet when flying. His pale skin is marked by a few scars, relics of combat. One of his eyes is pale green, while the other glows icy blue, an obvious prosthetic, for while Nikola could afford a facsimile, he prefers to flaunt his augmentations. His lower legs are wrought of durasteel, a sacrifice to ensure he could withstand the Gee forces of extreme flight, allowing him to outmanoeuvre other pilots more easily. Following his battle with the accountant, Nikola lost his right arm above the elbow, having it re-crafted in metal, with hidden blades in the fingertips, to make use of his hand-to-hand skills.

His usual attire is his flightsuit, worn with pride, sometimes a sleeveless robe thrown over the top.

==Fighting Style==
Originally, Nikola fought without regard for his personal safety, throwing himself at the enemy, hammering away at their defences, using his anger to keep him going beyond the point at which others would falter.

However, with training under Nadrin and some select hand-to-hand masters, Nikola began to learn how to turn attacks against the foe, tricking foes by presenting false weaknesses, incapacitating limbs, and attacking weak points enemies present. Each strike has fury behind it, but it is cold, precise, controlled. Nikola is most proficient with Jeswandi, the Bothan style of combat, revelling in trapping and incapacitating foes as their strikes are directed away uselessly.

Along with Jeswandi, Nikola has also turned his skills to Verdanaian, the Anzat martial art, suited to it's fluid motions and redirection of strikes, turning them on the attacker.

While fighting, Nikola uses the power of the Force to instil fear in his foes, causing their focus to slip, or to create tiny openings for the Sith to exploit to deadly effect with his skills at targeting important areas with quick, direct strikes.

=== Nikola Valtiere's Force Wraiths ===
As an Equite, Valtiere has begun to develop his powers, forming a second wraith alongside the shrike. Though many Equites form three, Valtiere instead calls forth two that are larger than the towering commander.

'''The Shrike'''

[[file:The_Shrike.jpg|120px|thumb|The Shrike]]

In creating his first Wraith, Nikola worked hard to create something that could instil fear. A being born to strike fear into the hearts of the staunchest adversaries, and then tear them apart.

A creature of nightmare, The Shrike stands almost thirty centimetres taller than Nikola himself, with four arms ending in long, wicked claws. The whole creature seems to be a mass of twisted spikes and barbs, wrapped about each other to form the facsimile of a humanoid. It is wrong, moving disjointedly, limbs too long for its body. It regards the world with pits of darkness, ever expressionless, making no noise at all as it moves and kills those about it.

'''The Raptor'''

==Equipment==

[[File:Nikolaknife.jpg|thumb|Nikola's knife]]

===R9-S6===
R9-S6, 'Swift', is Nikola's astromech droid, an R9 unit. Having flown with Nikola for years without a memory wipe, Swift has picked up some behavioural quirks. Quick to launch into battle, Swift has a penchant for pulling tight manoeuvres and performing hit and run attacks.

===Knife===

Nikola uses his hands mainly for melee combat, however, in some cases, he will use his finely wrought long knife, a gift from one of his flight instructors, Lahek Burchi. It measures a foot and a half in length, and two inches wide. On the base of the pommel is a small carving of an unassuming looking bird.

===Stealth X===
The [[StealthX]] is a modified X-wing, suited for stealth operations. Nikola flies it as part of Void Squadron.

== DJB Facts ==
=== Positions Held ===
Commander of [[Void Squadron]] 36 ABY-37 ABY.

Aedile of [[House Qel-Droma]] 37 ABY - Present

=== Outstanding Achievements ===
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.

== Trivia ==
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.

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