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Graus Colvin
Biographical Information
Homeworld:	Corulag
Date of Birth:	11 ABY
Date of Death:	Unknown
Physical Description
Species:	Human
Gender:	Male
Height:	1.9 m
Weight:	87 kg
Hair:	Brown
Eyes:	Brown
Personal Information
Lightsaber Color(s):	Silver
Lightsaber Form(s):	Soresu
Fighting Style(s):	Military self-defense
Chronology & Political Information
Profession:	Smuggler, Covert Operative
Position:	Magistrate to the Deputy Grand Master
Affiliation:	Clan Arcona, House Qel Droma
Dossier:	4649
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Character History

Early Years

Graus Colvin was born to middle class parents in Curamelle City, the capital of Corulag. Born to non-Force sensitive parents, Graus had a relatively normal upbringing. Graus was unaware of his connection to the Force aside from at times when he was emotional his reflexes were just a little sharper than that of a normal teenager. While his connection to the Force didn’t aid him much physically, Graus has an eidetic memory and can recall anything he’d seen, heard, tasted, or experienced. With no idea he was able to call upon the Force, Graus and his parents just looked at his memory skills as a gift not to be abused or taken for granted.

Colvin’s world was turned upside down however when the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy. In the early days of the Yuuzhan Vong occupation his family was captured and tried as insurgents against the puppet regime and quickly executed along with many other families, more as an example of the swift retribution one could expect if any attacks or insurrections were to take place. Ironically, it was this act that prompted a now orphaned Graus into joining the insurgency, where he began to learn important skills that would serve him well later in life. He learned basic hand-to-hand combat as well as firearms and explosives training. The one skill that Graus used to the insurgency’s ultimate benefit was the ability to completely shift into alternate personas. When he creates a cover identity, Graus fully immerses himself in the persona; able to act and behave in that mindset without fail.

By posing as anything from a local delivery boy, a crippled orphan, or even a general maintenance worker, he was able to easily sneak into sensitive areas and with his memory, read and retain sensitive information important to the insurgency. He carried out numerous covert assignments and one when he was interrogated; he was able to fool even the brainwave scanners they used to verify truth from lies.

Liberation of Corulag

When the Galactic Alliance fleet jumped in system and liberated Corulag from the Yuuzhan Vong in 29 ABY, Graus joined a number of recruits at the reactivated Imperial Training Center and after a hastened training program was conscripted into a Stormtrooper squad stationed aboard the Imperial Remnant ISD Starfall. Given the designation TX-1829, Graus immersed himself fully into the stormtrooper mentality, becoming a flawless soldier without remorse and ruthless in his dedication to duty.

After a number of successful engagements, Graus was given command of his own squad of troopers and promoted to Sergeant. His first command would be his last as shortly after receiving his promotion, the Starfall received orders to assist in the most important battle of the War, the Liberation of Coruscant.

Liberation of Cosurscant

During the Liberation of Coruscant, the largest and bloodiest battle of the Yuuzhan Vong war, over 300 capital ships were destroyed in orbit over the planet. One of them was the ISD Starfall, which suffered countless plasma blasts resulting in the engine core exploding, nearly blowing the ship in half. Nearly all the crew was lost when the vessel broke apart and its superstructure crashed to the surface of Coruscant.

As the catastrophic explosions tore through the ship, TX-1829 and his squad, stationed near the hangar bay, were decimated as support girders tore free and fighter craft fell from their cradles. Knocked unconscious, TX-1829 would have died on board the shattered hulk with the rest of his squad if not for a pilot, designation SF-90-5, who found him pinned underneath wreckage.

His helmet shattered, TX-1829 was dragged from the hangar and pushed behind the pilot's chair of SF-90-5's TIE bomber. Why the pilot had rescued him, Graus never asked and SF-90-5 never volunteered. As the bomber cleared the shattered hull, SF-90-5 took the vessel out of the main battle and headed to nearby Anaxes, skillfully avoiding enemy coralskippers and Alliance military craft.

"Tix"

After recovering from the wounds he received during the destruction of the Starfall, Graus awoke to find himself in a darkened hovel surrounded by aliens of all races and types. Retrieving his armor and seeing his helmet was beyond repair, he snuck out of the hovel and made his way to a local holonet terminal where he learned that Graus Colvin, Designation: TX-1829 was officially reported KIA over Coruscant. Knowing he’d never be able to adequately explain his survival without implicating SF-90-5 for desertion, for the first time in his adult life, Graus had no idea what he was to do next. He went back and met up with SF-90-5, whose real name was Solomon, and accepted the other’s offer to join him in the exciting world of smuggling.

Deciding that his name would be flagged as either deceased or worse, a deserter, he shortened his designation and took the name of Tix. With his helmet shattered, Graus decided to cover his head with a white hood to help keep attention off his face. Solomon argued that he should abandon the armor as well, but Graus felt exposed without it and decided that he’d accept the risk of wearing it.

He partnered with Solomon and his retro-fitted TIE-Bomber on smuggling runs from one end of the galaxy to the other. Along the way he made contacts and learned the art of not only regular piloting, but combat piloting and standard evasion techniques. While he seldom did the flying, Tix was the ‘face’ of the duo on the ground. He quickly earned a reputation in the underworld circles as someone that was honest (a rarity for a smuggler!) and reliable, but also someone not to cross.

After a few years running both legitimate and illicit cargo, Solomon decided to retire and left the ship and all its contracts to Tix. With his reputation, Tix had no trouble getting work and he decided to expand his operation to not only include smuggling, but retrieving cargo as well. It was one such mission that opened up his newest chapter in his life, that of a Dark Jedi.

Dark Jedi Brotherhood

Graus under the effects of the Horizons Plague

Possessions

DJB Facts

Positions Held

Magistrate to the Deputy Grand Master

Outstanding Achievements

10th Hero of Horizons DJB Event

Trivia

Graus is allergic to Bacta and has to let his body heal naturally.
Application of Bacta to an open wound would cause over time a break down of the damaged tissue causing the wound to turn infectious.
(OOC) Graus was a Star Wars:RPG (WEG) character I had for many years. He wasn't Force Sensitive in the game, but he was a smuggler and former Imperial Trooper.

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 == Character History ==
-[[File:Ginnafae.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Ginnafae Delacor]]
-Ginnafae Delacor was born on Coruscant to a wealthy mercantile trader and his reclusive wife during the height of the rebellion against the Empire. Her father, Farros Delacor, was prosperous under the current regime and provided a very extravagant lifestyle for his wife and daughter. His wife Lucinda was a social recluse, usually taken ill or cloistered in her chambers during charity functions and gala events. When asked, Farros usually made an off-hand excuse for his wife's absence and as the rich and affluent usually do, change the subject to something unrelated. When Ginnafae was born, she always accompanied Farros to public events, always accompanied by the story of, "Oh my poor dear, too ill to care for the child tonight, so I took her with me to give her a rest."
-The truth of Lucinda was far darker than most would have ever guessed. Lucinda was once a Nightsister; a dark force wielder from the forest planet of Dathomir. She had met Farros during a scouting trip to that quarantined world while he was searching for a new type of timber to offer the market. He had received permission from the regional governor to survey a specific area, under Imperial escort, for potential harvesting and cultivation. While he was investigating a tree that scanners deemed fit for transplant, he fell under the spell of Lucinda... literally. While initially she was simply looking for a way off-world, she found that the male she had so easily ensnared offered her wealth and influence she had never dreamed of before. While at first she despised this male as all natives of Dathomir do, over time she grew to tolerate him, then eventually love him. After a couple of years, she found she no longer needed to weave her spells of compliance and was shocked to find she did not want to control him anymore, but rather simply be with him.
-Lucinda's tribal markings, plus her affinity for the force caused her to be secretive and secluded. She willingly hid herself from prying eyes, fully aware that if even one of these aristocrats recognized her as a Nightsister she would be reported to the Empire, with dire consequences to herself and her husband.
+=== Early Years ===
-Lucinda's pregnancy was a complete surprise. Sensing another presence of the force within her, Lucinda both cherished and feared the impending birth of her daughter. Nightmares of her child being born with pale skin and purple tribal markings; thin hair tied in blood red braids caused Lucinda to awaken screaming in fear. When Ginnafae was born with healthy pink skin and wispy blonde hair, her mother nearly collapsed with relief.
+Graus Colvin was born to middle class parents in Curamelle City, the capital of [[starwars:Corulag|Corulag]]. Born to non-Force sensitive parents, Graus had a relatively normal upbringing. Graus was unaware of his connection to the Force aside from at times when he was emotional his reflexes were just a little sharper than that of a normal teenager. While his connection to the Force didn’t aid him much physically, Graus has an eidetic memory and can recall anything he’d seen, heard, tasted, or experienced.  With no idea he was able to call upon the Force, Graus and his parents just looked at his memory skills as a gift not to be abused or taken for granted.
-=== Early  Life ===
+Colvin’s world was turned upside down however when the [[starwars:Yuuzhan Vong|Yuuzhan Vong]] invaded the galaxy. In the early days of the Yuuzhan Vong occupation his family was captured and tried as insurgents against the puppet regime and quickly executed along with many other families, more as an example of the swift retribution one could expect if any attacks or insurrections were to take place. Ironically, it was this act that prompted a now orphaned Graus into joining the insurgency, where he began to learn important skills that would serve him well later in life. He learned basic hand-to-hand combat as well as firearms and explosives training. The one skill that Graus used to the insurgency’s ultimate benefit was the ability to completely shift into alternate personas. When he creates a cover identity, Graus fully immerses himself in the persona; able to act and behave in that mindset without fail.
-As Ginnafae matured into a young adolescent her mother was always there, making sure that she was raised proper to her station. Ginnafae knew her mother was sickly, she knew this because of the heavy make-up her mother wore to try to hide her unhealthy pallor, but she was always there with advice on how she should act, what she should say, and when she should say it. While she loved her mother immensely, she never knew the true meaning why Lucinda was always training her daughter on how to handle intense emotional situations and how to act in the presence of others. Lucinda knew that her daughter had inherited her strong connection to the Force and the fear of her only daughter being taken into Imperial custody and re-educated as a force wielder in thrall to the Emperor caused many sleepless nights.
-Most of her teen years were undramatic. She had her flings with various socialites, nothing ever serious, and Ginnafae enjoyed the wealth her father provided. As she grew older, she noticed that Farros became more preoccupied and distant. He began to develop a haunted look about him and became short tempered and jumpy. While her mother was growing worried, Ginnafae took note, but did not concern herself with it. Ginnafae's world revolved around herself and her parents... they were adults and their problems did not relate to her.
+By posing as anything from a local delivery boy, a crippled orphan, or even a general maintenance worker, he was able to easily sneak into sensitive areas and with his memory, read and retain sensitive information important to the insurgency. He carried out numerous covert assignments and one when he was interrogated; he was able to fool even the brainwave scanners they used to verify truth from lies.
-Little did either Ginnafae or her mother know, but with the collapse of the Empire, many of the lucrative mercantile contracts her father held were usurped by agents of various criminal organizations. When Ginnafae was 14, her father was 'offered' a partnership with Vigo Spraxx to join use his shipping organization exclusively to transport his materials through the Tingel Arm. It was an offer that only allowed for one answer. As Spraxx gained more power and influence, with Black Sun behind him, Farros knew his time was limited. The loans he had taken out to help his company stay afloat through the rough times following the fall of the Empire were now in the hands of Spraxx, who had secretly bought the contracts from the bank.
+=== Liberation of Corulag ===
-=== Fall of the House of Delacor ===
+[[File:Tx1829.jpg‎|left|250px|thumb|TX-1829]]
-When Ginnafae turned sixteen, her life was at its apex. She had all she could ever want or need. Three weeks after her birthday, her entire world would implode like a black hole. She was in her room, reading some trashy romance novella when she heard a loud bang and heavy shouting. The one thing that caused her more alarm than anything was the sound of her mother's raised voice in the company of others. Her mother never came out of her chambers when anyone outside of family was present. Ginnafae ran to her door and stood on the balcony, overlooking the scene below in the main foyer. Farros was on his knees in front of a canine-looking alien, a shiny black pistol to his head. Three other aliens, all armed, stood round the furred alien, their weapons pointed at Lucinda. Even with the bizarre scene unfolding, Ginnafae's eyes never left her mother. Her normally white hair gone, replaced by crimson braids spilling down her corpse gray back. Her face, one Ginnafae knew always caked with heavy makeup, was the same gray with bright purple ovals covering her eyes. The same shade of purple coated her lips with thick lines extending from the corners of her mouth past the center of her cheeks. Lucinda looked like something out of a nightmare.
+When the [[starwars:Galactic Alliance|Galactic Alliance]] fleet jumped in system and liberated Corulag from the Yuuzhan Vong in 29 ABY, Graus joined a number of recruits at the reactivated Imperial Training Center and after a hastened training program was conscripted into a Stormtrooper squad stationed aboard the [[starwars:Imperial Remnant|Imperial Remnant]] ''ISD Starfall''. Given the designation TX-1829, Graus immersed himself fully into the stormtrooper mentality, becoming a flawless soldier without remorse and ruthless in his dedication to duty.
+After a number of successful engagements, Graus was given command of his own squad of troopers and promoted to Sergeant. His first command would be his last as shortly after receiving his promotion, the ''Starfall'' received orders to assist in the most important battle of the War, the Liberation of [[starwars:Coruscant|Coruscant]].
+=== Liberation of Cosurscant ===
+[[File:warbanner.jpg|right|200 px|thumb|Unit patch of the ISD ''Starfall'']]
+During the Liberation of Coruscant, the largest and bloodiest battle of the Yuuzhan Vong war, over 300 capital ships were destroyed in orbit over the planet. One of them was the ''ISD Starfall'', which suffered countless plasma blasts resulting in the engine core exploding, nearly blowing the ship in half. Nearly all the crew was lost when the vessel broke apart and its superstructure crashed to the surface of Coruscant.
+As the catastrophic explosions tore through the ship, TX-1829 and his squad, stationed near the hangar bay, were decimated as support girders tore free and fighter craft fell from their cradles. Knocked unconscious, TX-1829 would have died on board the shattered hulk with the rest of his squad if not for a pilot, designation SF-90-5, who found him pinned underneath wreckage.
+His helmet shattered, TX-1829 was dragged from the hangar and pushed behind the pilot's chair of SF-90-5's TIE bomber. Why the pilot had rescued him, Graus never asked and SF-90-5 never volunteered.  As the bomber cleared the shattered hull, SF-90-5 took the vessel out of the main battle and headed to nearby Anaxes, skillfully avoiding enemy coralskippers and Alliance military craft.
+=== "Tix" ===
+After recovering from the wounds he received during the destruction of the ''Starfall'', Graus awoke to find himself in a darkened hovel surrounded by aliens of all races and types. Retrieving his armor and seeing his helmet was beyond repair, he snuck out of the hovel and made his way to a local holonet terminal where he learned that Graus Colvin, Designation: TX-1829 was officially reported KIA over Coruscant. Knowing he’d never be able to adequately explain his survival without implicating SF-90-5 for desertion, for the first time in his adult life, Graus had no idea what he was to do next. He went back and met up with SF-90-5, whose real name was Solomon, and accepted the other’s offer to join him in the exciting world of smuggling.
+Deciding that his name would be flagged as either deceased or worse, a deserter, he shortened his designation and took the name of Tix. With his helmet shattered, Graus decided to cover his head with a white hood to help keep attention off his face. Solomon argued that he should abandon the armor as well, but Graus felt exposed without it and decided that he’d accept the risk of wearing it.
+He partnered with Solomon and his retro-fitted TIE-Bomber on smuggling runs from one end of the galaxy to the other. Along the way he made contacts and learned the art of not only regular piloting, but combat piloting and standard evasion techniques. While he seldom did the flying, Tix was the ‘face’ of the duo on the ground. He quickly earned a reputation in the underworld circles as someone that was honest (a rarity for a smuggler!) and reliable, but also someone not to cross.
+After a few years running both legitimate and illicit cargo, Solomon decided to retire and left the ship and all its contracts to Tix. With his reputation, Tix had no trouble getting work and he decided to expand his operation to not only include smuggling, but retrieving cargo as well. It was one such mission that opened up his newest chapter in his life, that of a [[starwars:Dark Jedi|Dark Jedi]].
+=== Dark Jedi Brotherhood ===
+[[File:grausknighthood.jpg|right|200 px|thumb|Graus as a new Dark Jedi Knight]]
+[[File:Grausvirus.jpg|left|200 px|thumb|Graus under the effects of the Horizons Plague]]
-In that instant of shock, Lucinda looked up and saw her daughter standing there over the balcony. Ginnafae could almost feel anguish burst forth from her mother. Lucinda's eyes weren't the only ones to be drawn to the balcony. Spraxx also noticed the attractive young female standing there and his ever calculating mind instantly appraised how much she would be worth on the slave market.
-Commanding his minions to bring her down, Ginnafae was grabbed by the henchmen and brought before the feral looking alien. As his clawed hand caressed her cheek, she heard Spraxx tell her father that he would let him live if he gave over his daughter. Ginnafae's reality shattered when she heard Farros say "Yes".
-As she was lifted from her feet by a foul smelling Gammorean, she heard her mother shriek in fury. Ginnafae could feel the heat of her mother's anger on her skin, felt it wash over her like a wave of warm water. As her captor ran out the door, Ginnafae heard the sounds of blaster fire and what sounded like lightning. Her bouncing vision caught flashes of bright blue light coming from inside the room. Spraxx leapt through the door, smoke trailing from his singed fur. As quickly as it started the pulses of blue light stopped; only the sound of blaster fire remained. It would be five more years before she learned the fate of her mother.
-=== Captivity &amp; Death ===
-Ginnafae's term of captivity was only three weeks, but for a girl who was used to a life of extravagance and privilege; it seemed an eternity. The abuses she suffered at the hands of Spraxx were few as he had little use (or attraction to) for the hairless Human female form. Spraxx's Human henchmen however were under no such boundaries. The physical abuses were pale compared to the psychological damage being wrought upon the young girl. Her entire existence was just one endless stream of torment punctuated by short periods of sleep.
-Approximately three standard weeks after her abduction, her new master decided to uproot from Coruscant for a short time and retreat to his private estate on some far flung world in the Outer Rim. Ginnafae never heard what planet she was being moved to, and frankly she was in no position to ask. She remembers being released from her 'quarters' (which was little more than a 3 meter square with a single door and no windows) and loaded with the rest of Spraxx's personal belongings in the cargo hold of his private yacht. She was strapped into secure crash webbing like an ordinary statue and left unguarded. As the cargo door sealed shut and the bay plunged into perfect darkness, Ginnafae came alive as abject terror seized her. The cargo bay was pressurized, but not fitted with environmental controls or inertial compensators, so she was keenly aware of the ship departing the planet, both by the ebb of normal gravity as well as the rapid decrease in temperature.
-Ginnafae, fully in the thrall of terror struggled to free herself from the crash webbing holding her to the bulkhead. As the twisted and thrashed, she managed to free her left arm and left leg. Flailing her arm about, she felt something coarse in the darkness. Recognizing it as a cargo blanket, she savagely tugged it free of whatever was holding it down and managed to cover her shivering form completely, both keeping her warm and protecting her from the icy darkness surrounding her. She huddled into the webbing, wrapping the blanket tight around her and as the terror abated slightly, she was not even aware of herself falling asleep.
-Ginnafae was awoken by a tremendous booming sound as well as the bulkhead she was strapped to vibrating and shaking madly at her back. In the darkness she could hear the whine of the engines and the thuds and crashes of cargo boxes being thrown around the room. She tried to pull her blanket closer, but gravity had returned during her sleep ad she no longer had the protective cloth in her grasp. Before she could even reach about to try and grab anything with her left arm she was thrown hard into the crash netting as the ship bucked as if kicked by a giant. Something hard edged and heavy slammed into her left shoulder, tearing the flesh badly. She could not see the wound, but almost instantly she felt warm liquid running down her arm. She reactively screamed as the ship bucked again, this time coupled with the sound of something big exploding. In an instant the bay was flooded with a light which to her eyes seemed as bright as the sun. An explosion, closer this time, turned the bulkhead opposite of her into deadly shrapnel. As the metal shards flew into the room, Ginnafae felt something hot and sharp rake across the right side of her face. She also felt four separate pieces puncture into her restrained body. Her left hand, partially covering her face, blocked a sharp piece of hull plating that would have surely decapitated her. She felt an instant of pain as the razor edged plate sheared off her ring and pinky finger.
-Suddenly, before she could even react to the maiming injury of her hand, she felt the ship turn ninety degrees and while she had never experienced this sensation first hand, she knew that the ship was in free fall. The sound of shifting crates and rushing air past the gaping hole in the hull deafened her to the fact that she could no longer hear the engines of the vessel. Little did she know that the ship had actually been blown in half, the engines having been struck by a direct hit of concussion missiles, shredding the back half of the vessel instantly. The whistle-whine of an object in free fall is unmistakable... as is the sound of impact. Ginnafae suddenly felt her entire body move forward powerfully as the ship struck the surface of the planet. As with most sudden endings, that split second felt like minutes to the young woman. She felt her left arm and leg, unrestrained by the crash webbing, thrust forward as if being pulled by wild rancors. She felt the muscles and tendons tighten, the skin stretching to its limits. She heard more than felt the pop as her leg and arm pulled free from their respective sockets. She felt the hot flash of pain as skin, muscle and sinew ripped and tore, her limbs flying forward and away from her. She felt the wreckage shift to the right as something heavy and large fell on top of her, then her entire world turned black.
-=== Resurrection &amp; Awakening ===
 == Possessions ==
-[[File:ginnafae arm.jpg|right|200 px|thumb|Ginnafae's cybernetic arm]]
+[[File:newgraussaber.jpg|right|200 px|thumb|Graus's lightsaber]]
 == DJB Facts ==
 === Positions Held ===
-None so far
+* Magistrate to the Deputy Grand Master
 === Outstanding Achievements ===
-* Completion of the ACC qualifier match on the first try.
+* 10th Hero of [[Horizons]] DJB Event
-* Passing the Sith Alchemy exam (which is going to be Ginnafae's specialty field now)
 == Trivia ==
-* Ginnafae is allergic to Bacta and has to let her body heal naturally.
+* Graus is allergic to [[starwars:Bacta|Bacta]] and has to let his body heal naturally.
 * Application of Bacta to an open wound would cause over time a break down of the damaged tissue causing the wound to turn infectious.
+* (OOC) Graus was a Star Wars:RPG (WEG) character I had for many years. He wasn't Force Sensitive in the game, but he was a smuggler and former Imperial Trooper.
+[[Category:Arcona members]]
-[[Category: DJB Characters]]
-[[Category: Rogue]]