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| === Early Life === | | === Early Life === |
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| Blade was born on the planet Taruma shortly after the Exodus that took the Brotherhood to freedom. He was cloned from tissue that had been carried away by the order of Lady Alanna. Blades first memories were of floating in darkness and then being thrust into the light, the first face he saw was that of his mistress, Lannie. He was given to Lannies sister, Bubbles for retraining and to help him readjust to life.
| | As a child, Ric would listen to his father talk about the exploits from his days as an |
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| Upon completion of his training, he was sent off on his trials. It was there that he became what he was destined to be. He used the genetic knowledge to enter into Emperors Hammer space and track down his prime, the person he was cloned from. It was not hard to do as he thought the same as his original. Not surprisingly, his prime was serving in the EH's poor excuse for a brotherhood as the Grandmaster. Seeing that the group was a sham and a total joke, Blade moved in for the kill. It was on the DGN Lichtor V, the Intelligence Division flagship that he made his move.
| | officer serving in the Clone Wars. He would tell tales of vast battles of huge ships in |
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| During the struggle in the dark, it has always been unclear who survived. Was it the clone or the much more powerful original. No one has ever found out... | | space, of flying a small fighter into the fray and coming out on the other side. He would |
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| | also tell of action on the ground, being a part of several of the more famous battles that |
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| | the instructors only knew of from books. These tales left an impression on the small boy |
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| | and he never forgot them. Although he would spin yarns of knights fighting the evil droid |
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| | armies of the Separatists, he would akmost never mention the Jedi who had been made into |
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| | Generals for the fledgling Grand Army of the Republic. The subject seemed to darken his |
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| | mood and he would withdraw into himself as if it was like a wound that had never healed. |
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| | Ric never understood the reasons behind why until years later, long after his father was |
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| | The mere thought of being a Hero, flying through space in a small fighter, and winning in |
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| | the end had stuck with the small boy for years and he vowed that ine day he would do such |
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| | things. For mst of hte rest of his childhood, Ric focused on the skills that would make him |
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| | a warrior, whether it was martial arts at the local gym or testing his reflexes at the |
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| | entertainment district. He had a goal and would stop at nothing to get it. |
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| | When Ric turned eighteen standard years of age, he enlisted in the Imperial Navy as a pilot |
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| | candidate. He had a lot of experience flying small craft in atmo but had never flown into |
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| | space before. As he returned home to his family after enlisting and broke the news to them, |
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| | his father closed his eyes and put his head down. Ric left the next day without his fahter |
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| | ever speaking to him. |
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| | The shuttle took him to pilot training at Prefsbelt IV Naval Academy. He arrived and began |
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| | the two year long introduction to the Imperial Navy. |
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| | Soon after Ric gradutated from the academy, he was stationed onboard the Star Destroyer, |
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| | Accuser. This Mark I Destroyer was modified to act as a fast reaction force to try and |
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| | interdict pirate and repel rebels from convoy attacks. Ric was serving on this ship when it |
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| | was ordered to Endor. During the three years that he had served as squadron executive |
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| | officer, he had learned to fly everyship in the Imperial arsenal. He had also studied |
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| | tactics of not only Imperial origin but rebel and pirate as well. His Wing Commnader |
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| | informed him that the next combat command that opened was his for the taking and he pinned |
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| | captain rank to his chest. |
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| | The days of waiting were wearing everyone down. There was no news from command about their |
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| | mission but it had to be something big. Ric would take at least one patrol a day, even if |
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| | he had to volunteer for them. Anything to kill the boredom. As his flight would circle the |
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| | fleet, he was in awe of the massive amount of firepower that floated there. To be honest, |
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| | they paled in comparison to the station that orbited the moon. |
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| | It seemed to be just another day when the alamrs began to sound. Every pilot in the fleet |
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| | scrambled to their ships. It seemed that the rebels had bought their fleet in with the |
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| | intention of destroying the new battle station. Ric leapt into his ship and lead his |
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| | squadmates into the void. Once the enemy fleet figured out hat the shield was still up and |
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| | the main gun was operational, they engaged the fleet at point blank range. It seemed to be |
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| | an almost turkey shoot for the vast Imperial fleet sitting there. Ship after ship went down |
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| | in flames and Ric saw on his tactical display that there were thousands of emergecny |
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| | beacons from both Imperial and Rebel pilots. |
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| | With a sudden shock, his ship bounced sideways. It took him just a quick second to realise |
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| | that he had been grazed by a turbolaser from the Mon Cal cruiser to his left. If he'd been |
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| | more than grazed, he'd never even known it. He limped his small craft back into the hanger |
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| | of the Accuser and jumped out. The Crew chief was trying to maintain order but the battle |
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| | had turned somehow to the enemies favor. Ric looked up as the Executer made its dive into |
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| | the surface of the Death Star. He looked around for another ship, anything to get back out |
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| | there and hit back. The visions of his youth were floating into his head and he felt as if |
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| | he could singlehandedly turn the tide back to their favor. He spotted a Assault Gunboat on |
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| | the far side of the hanger and climbed inside. This was the tricked out version with |
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| | shields and a small hyperdrive. |
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| | As he made ready to launch, a sudden shooting pain shot into his head. He doubled over in |
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| | the seat and tried not to throw up. It was if someone had stabbed him through his brain |
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| | with a vibroblade and twisted it. Almost as soon as the pain had started, it went away. He |
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| | later foun out that he had felt the Emperor die at that moment. He felt the same thing but |
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| | many times over a few moments later when he watched as the Death Star itself became one |
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| | with the universe. His mind was in a daze and he was now acting on instinct, he set a |
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| | course into the navicomp and made an almost blind jump away from the chaos behind. |
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| | After a few months, Ric made his way back home to Corellia. His family still lived in the |
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| | same small town on the outside of Coronet City and he needed to be there. When he got |
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| | there, he found the house empty of any living inhabitants. His family had just seemed to |
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| | vanish. After some investigation, he found out that his father had died and his mother had |
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| | taken his little sister and brother back to her families home on Naboo. It was such a |
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| | distance that he knew that he would never make it there in the small ship he had now. He |
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| | deicded to head towards Wildspace to hide for a while. He was now considered a desereter |
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| | and knew that he could never got back to the Empire. |
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| | Ric took on work as a bounty hunter, a mercenary as well as a pilot during his time in |
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| | Wildspace. He gained a reputation of always followng through onthe job, no matter what it |
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| | might have been. Doing this had gained him a fair share of enemies as well. One such enemy |
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| | was a Hutt named Jogan. This Hutt blamed him for a cargo his competitor had stolen and |
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| | hired Ric to fly to a small base. The cargo was onboard a small yt-1300 and the first tme |
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| | Ric saw it, he had bargained with the man that it would serve as his payment. The man |
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| | agreed and Ric and his Copilot had boarded the ship and got away with it. The Hutt sent a |
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| | small fleet of fighters up after them and they dogged their tail all the way to the Minos |
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| | Things were looking bad for Ric and his crew. The fighters were gaining on them and |
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| | pounding their shields down. The navicomp could not set a course because of the gravity |
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| | wells in the area and was next to usesless. Ric spun the ship around and planned to engage |
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| | the fighters with the concussion missiles located in the mandibles when the first craft |
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| | exploded into a fireball. It was soon followed by many others. |
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| | A small patrol of Firepsrays from the Star Destroyer Interpid had stumbled across the fight |
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| | and decided to intervene. Ric was overwhelmed with relief yet filled with dread. He hoped |
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| | that they didn't have any warrants out for him being a deserter. |
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| === The Emperor's Hammer === | | === The Emperor's Hammer === |
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| Blade prime, General Ric Taldrya, rose through the ranks as a fighter pilot in the TIECorps. He joined Cobra Squadron and rose through the ranks to the position on Commander. After a longterm tour there, he left to seek other opportunities. It was also there that he came to the notice of the Dark Brotherhood. He apprenticed to KP Bubbles in the clan of Taldryan, becoming a battleteam leader in short order. It was there that he gained bonds that would last for years.
| | The force turned out to be a part of the Emperors Hammer, a small force of Imperial |
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| | Holdouts on this side of the Galaxy. After a while, Ric signed up in their TIE Corps and |
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| | became a member of the squadron that had saved him. Ric stayed in Cobra squadron and rose |
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| | to the job of Squadron Commander. It was also here that he had recieved a message from his |
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| | mother and requested him to return home. He went and it was there that he learned that his |
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| | father had not only been a soldier in the Clone Wars, but had been a Jedi as well. This |
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| | information had finally unlocked the mystery of his fast reflexes, his ability to see |
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| | things as well as why he had almost had his brain fried at Endor. The overwhelming force |
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| | release of first the Emperor and then the crew of the station had been too much for his |
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| | With this information he was sent ot the moon of Eos to train as a Dark Jedi. He went |
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| | through the academy there and went to Ektrosis of Taldryan to further continue his studies. |
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| Not long after being elevated to the rank of Dark Jedi Knight, the Brotherhood left the EH territories for freedom. Ric was in command of Cobra Squadron when the order came down to fire on the fleeing Dark Jedi ships. Ric ignored the order and let them go. One of the members of his squadron, LCM Vessicant, also fled according to his conscience. Ric settled back and left the active service of the remnants of the the Brotherhood that stayed behind for reasons of their own.
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| Concentrating on his flying, serving another tour as a Commander, this time in the Avenger Task Force, Ric was contacted by the group known as Praetorian Squadron. He was intrigued at the chance to fly with the best pilots in the galaxy and left on the day that his 4 month tour ended. He stayed with Praetorian Squadron for years, even becoming Commander for his third time. He stayed in that position until conflict with the Flight Officer made him make a choice. He was also serving as the GrandMaster of the Splintered remnant Dark Brotherhood. He made the choice to serve the darkness and resign as Praetorian Commander. He still had powerful ties to the group and remains as a shadowy adviser to this day.
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| | After completing his training and attainin the rank of Dark Jedi Knight, Ric returned the |
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| After a few months, it became apparent that Ric had an uphill battle trying to improve the Brotherhood under the thumb of Assanine. Ric grew frustrated with the lack of leadership from the EH Command Staff and their mismanagement of the fleet. He resigned in disgust and took a vacation.
| | the Intrepid to continue his duties as Commander. Ric led many missions against the enemy |
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| Not long after, the current Commander of Praetorian Squadron sent Ric a request to rejoin the squadron on active duty. There was bad blood between Ric and the Flight Officer, who Ric saw as a a stickler to the book. After much squabbling between all parties, Ric went to the DGN Lichtor V to prepare to leave EH Space. It was there that he came into contact with the clone from Taruma...
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| === The Dark Jedi Brotherhood ===
| | pilots who were Dark Jedi were all ushered to the briefing room. On the main veiwer, a |
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| | message played from the Fleet Commander followed by an excerpt from the Dark Council. |
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| | A massive exodus of Dark Jedi were leaving territory controlled by the Emperors Hammer. |
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| | They had become dissatisfied wth the power play in the Command Staff and had decided to |
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| | depart. The Dark Jedi who left were declared traitors and had bounties placed on their |
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| | heads. There were many who made tough choices whether to stay or leave with the clans. Ric |
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| It was never clear exactly who had won, the only thing that was certain that a man that
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| matched his description down to the genetic coding, left the hanger bay of the Intrepid and
| | Not long after settling in the Taruma system, it was deicded by the summit to create clones |
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| launched for Taruma space. Although the original man had never been to Taruma, his contacts
| | to replace some of the losses during the exodus. Most of the members of Ektrosis had dna |
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| in the Dark Brotherhood had kept him up to date on his former clan. He made his way back to | | samples on file in the databses and it was a simple task to grow them. As a bonus, members |
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| find that they had left a skeleton crew to guard the system and had left to engage the
| | of the summit also had memory downloads that would be reinserted into the clones minds as |
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| | they matured bringing them the level just prior to the Exodus. One of these members was Ric |
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| He took a fast transport from Taruma and made his way to the Shroud where the battle was
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| going on. From the reports he had read said, they had engaged the Vong and the Vong had
| | As his clone grew and matured, Ric had begun serving in Praetorian Squadron, the |
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| driven the brotherhood from the Capitol worlds in the Antei system. They had also driven
| | Intelligence Divisions Elite squadron. He went on many missions there and did a two year |
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| clan Arcona from their homes, which in the overall scheme of things was no big loss.
| | stint as the Commander and gaining the rank of General. The years went by and they started |
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| After that, Ric returned to his house on Taruma and took to calling himself Blade again. He
| | to take their toll on Ric. He moved up in the new Brotherhood that the Emperors Hammer had |
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| continued his training but soon grew unhappy. He decided to seek different training and was
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| soon in the Cocytus system, the home of Scholae Palatinae. He entered house Caliburnus in
| | It was during this time that Ric grew discontent with the leadership of the EH and decided |
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| time for the Reclamation action, reclaiming the CSP worlds from the Vong Invaders. After a
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| short stay in Caliburnus, he ended up in Dorimad Sol as the Aedile.
| | New Republic thanks to his time with the Intel Division. He planned to make use of these |
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| Soon, Ric stepped down to focus more on his studies of Cloning as well as other ventures.
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| One of these ventures was commishioned by his clan summit and it involved surevying the
| | his accounts had been frozen by the petty dictator Grand Asshole Assanine. Ric made hisway |
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| One of his other endevours has been to develop new weapons for the legions, weapons such as
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| the MAAT/i. The Multi Altitude Assault Transport for Infantry was based on the design for | | Something pulled him to the mothball fleet at anchor. The Intrepid had been placed here |
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| the LAAT/i of Clone Wars fame. The MAAT/i was designed for insertion from orbit and ship to | | after a downsizing of the fleet and felt the need to end his career where it had began. He |
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| ship actions. This would allow the transport ships to stay above the planetary dangers | | did a manual landing in the hanger and entered the ship. It was a deserted ghost compared |
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| while still delivering troopers to target zones. This advancement as well as new tactics
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| earned Ric a spot on the Military High Command as the Marschal in Command of the Marine
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| forces. Ric took the job very seriously and helped to train the Marines into the elite
| | It was there, staring out of the forward veiw point that he saw him. Clothed in a black |
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| | After the battle on the Lichtor V, Blade left the EH dressed in a Praetorian Flight suit and flying a TIE Praetor. He made the jump to one of Taldryans former worlds to get supplies and to decide his next move. Should he fly to Taruma and rejoin his clan or should he try and expand his abilities? With the battle on the Lictor over, his trials had been fulfilled yet he still felt incomplete. He returned to Ektrosis and then to Archanis only to feel unsatisfied. |
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| | Leaving his clan, he ventured out into the rest of the galaxy to find his way and soon became attached to CSP. He served with distinction in the reclamation action, that saw the retaking of the home system from the Vong. After a while in Caliburnnus he served briefly as the Aedile in Dorimad Sol before pressure took its toll and he had to resign. Ric settled into a battleteam to more fully focus on his training and had become a fixture in Banshee Brigade. |
| == A New Era ==
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| Once more, Ric was asked to take a position in the house summit when he was offered the
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| Aediles office. He accepted as he felt that it would benefit the house in the upcoming war
| | Ric has been many things in the years since his youth. He has been a pilot, Intel Officer, Dark Jedi, gambler, drinker, womanizer, and even just plain mean. Over the last few years, you can add another item to that list, you can add builder. He took on a task assigned to him by his Quaestor, Thran Occassus, and help to construct the House Dorimad Sol stronghold on the equater of Caina. Since the Vong invasion and their interrupted terraforming, Cainas climate has changed. No longer is it a totally frozen ball of ice floating in the Juddecca system. The equatorial regions of the planet, a belt around the entire world, have become tropical regions. It was decided that the castle would be located there, down along the edges of a now free flowing sea. |
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| to retake Antei. He did what he could to prepare the house as well as others in the clan. | | Ric has a small set of quarters there but can usually be found training with the Clans Marine Forces or at his villa. He takes his job as Marine Corps Commander very seriously, even going as far as to train with every unit that arrives. He wants to make sure that when the time is right that they would not fail against the Vong. That day approaches... |
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| On a side note, those that know Ric swear that he is older than he looks. What they have
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| yet to realise is that he has a small cloning facility set up in the frozen wastes of
| | Upon completion of the Independence Games, Ric vowed to return to the old ways and has began to make a fresh start. He placed 7th over all and looks forward to improving his performance in the next major test of his abilities. |
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| Caina. Once his clone ages or is damaged, he actiivates a new body complete with his most
| | Severing more of his ties with his past, Ric has recently taken his old name back. Ric is once more known by his surname of Hunter and decided that its not only a name but an occupation. He is hunting for many things, not the least is more power... |
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Ric "Blade" Hunter is a Battleteam Leader of House Dorimad Sol of Clan Scholae Palatinae .
Character History
Early Life
As a child, Ric would listen to his father talk about the exploits from his days as an
officer serving in the Clone Wars. He would tell tales of vast battles of huge ships in
space, of flying a small fighter into the fray and coming out on the other side. He would
also tell of action on the ground, being a part of several of the more famous battles that
the instructors only knew of from books. These tales left an impression on the small boy
and he never forgot them. Although he would spin yarns of knights fighting the evil droid
armies of the Separatists, he would akmost never mention the Jedi who had been made into
Generals for the fledgling Grand Army of the Republic. The subject seemed to darken his
mood and he would withdraw into himself as if it was like a wound that had never healed.
Ric never understood the reasons behind why until years later, long after his father was
dead.
The mere thought of being a Hero, flying through space in a small fighter, and winning in
the end had stuck with the small boy for years and he vowed that ine day he would do such
things. For mst of hte rest of his childhood, Ric focused on the skills that would make him
a warrior, whether it was martial arts at the local gym or testing his reflexes at the
entertainment district. He had a goal and would stop at nothing to get it.
When Ric turned eighteen standard years of age, he enlisted in the Imperial Navy as a pilot
candidate. He had a lot of experience flying small craft in atmo but had never flown into
space before. As he returned home to his family after enlisting and broke the news to them,
his father closed his eyes and put his head down. Ric left the next day without his fahter
ever speaking to him.
The shuttle took him to pilot training at Prefsbelt IV Naval Academy. He arrived and began
the two year long introduction to the Imperial Navy.
Soon after Ric gradutated from the academy, he was stationed onboard the Star Destroyer,
Accuser. This Mark I Destroyer was modified to act as a fast reaction force to try and
interdict pirate and repel rebels from convoy attacks. Ric was serving on this ship when it
was ordered to Endor. During the three years that he had served as squadron executive
officer, he had learned to fly everyship in the Imperial arsenal. He had also studied
tactics of not only Imperial origin but rebel and pirate as well. His Wing Commnader
informed him that the next combat command that opened was his for the taking and he pinned
captain rank to his chest.
The days of waiting were wearing everyone down. There was no news from command about their
mission but it had to be something big. Ric would take at least one patrol a day, even if
he had to volunteer for them. Anything to kill the boredom. As his flight would circle the
fleet, he was in awe of the massive amount of firepower that floated there. To be honest,
they paled in comparison to the station that orbited the moon.
It seemed to be just another day when the alamrs began to sound. Every pilot in the fleet
scrambled to their ships. It seemed that the rebels had bought their fleet in with the
intention of destroying the new battle station. Ric leapt into his ship and lead his
squadmates into the void. Once the enemy fleet figured out hat the shield was still up and
the main gun was operational, they engaged the fleet at point blank range. It seemed to be
an almost turkey shoot for the vast Imperial fleet sitting there. Ship after ship went down
in flames and Ric saw on his tactical display that there were thousands of emergecny
beacons from both Imperial and Rebel pilots.
With a sudden shock, his ship bounced sideways. It took him just a quick second to realise
that he had been grazed by a turbolaser from the Mon Cal cruiser to his left. If he'd been
more than grazed, he'd never even known it. He limped his small craft back into the hanger
of the Accuser and jumped out. The Crew chief was trying to maintain order but the battle
had turned somehow to the enemies favor. Ric looked up as the Executer made its dive into
the surface of the Death Star. He looked around for another ship, anything to get back out
there and hit back. The visions of his youth were floating into his head and he felt as if
he could singlehandedly turn the tide back to their favor. He spotted a Assault Gunboat on
the far side of the hanger and climbed inside. This was the tricked out version with
shields and a small hyperdrive.
As he made ready to launch, a sudden shooting pain shot into his head. He doubled over in
the seat and tried not to throw up. It was if someone had stabbed him through his brain
with a vibroblade and twisted it. Almost as soon as the pain had started, it went away. He
later foun out that he had felt the Emperor die at that moment. He felt the same thing but
many times over a few moments later when he watched as the Death Star itself became one
with the universe. His mind was in a daze and he was now acting on instinct, he set a
course into the navicomp and made an almost blind jump away from the chaos behind.
After a few months, Ric made his way back home to Corellia. His family still lived in the
same small town on the outside of Coronet City and he needed to be there. When he got
there, he found the house empty of any living inhabitants. His family had just seemed to
vanish. After some investigation, he found out that his father had died and his mother had
taken his little sister and brother back to her families home on Naboo. It was such a
distance that he knew that he would never make it there in the small ship he had now. He
deicded to head towards Wildspace to hide for a while. He was now considered a desereter
and knew that he could never got back to the Empire.
Ric took on work as a bounty hunter, a mercenary as well as a pilot during his time in
Wildspace. He gained a reputation of always followng through onthe job, no matter what it
might have been. Doing this had gained him a fair share of enemies as well. One such enemy
was a Hutt named Jogan. This Hutt blamed him for a cargo his competitor had stolen and
hired Ric to fly to a small base. The cargo was onboard a small yt-1300 and the first tme
Ric saw it, he had bargained with the man that it would serve as his payment. The man
agreed and Ric and his Copilot had boarded the ship and got away with it. The Hutt sent a
small fleet of fighters up after them and they dogged their tail all the way to the Minos
Cluster.
Things were looking bad for Ric and his crew. The fighters were gaining on them and
pounding their shields down. The navicomp could not set a course because of the gravity
wells in the area and was next to usesless. Ric spun the ship around and planned to engage
the fighters with the concussion missiles located in the mandibles when the first craft
exploded into a fireball. It was soon followed by many others.
A small patrol of Firepsrays from the Star Destroyer Interpid had stumbled across the fight
and decided to intervene. Ric was overwhelmed with relief yet filled with dread. He hoped
that they didn't have any warrants out for him being a deserter.
The Emperor's Hammer
The force turned out to be a part of the Emperors Hammer, a small force of Imperial
Holdouts on this side of the Galaxy. After a while, Ric signed up in their TIE Corps and
became a member of the squadron that had saved him. Ric stayed in Cobra squadron and rose
to the job of Squadron Commander. It was also here that he had recieved a message from his
mother and requested him to return home. He went and it was there that he learned that his
father had not only been a soldier in the Clone Wars, but had been a Jedi as well. This
information had finally unlocked the mystery of his fast reflexes, his ability to see
things as well as why he had almost had his brain fried at Endor. The overwhelming force
release of first the Emperor and then the crew of the station had been too much for his
untrained mind to handle.
With this information he was sent ot the moon of Eos to train as a Dark Jedi. He went
through the academy there and went to Ektrosis of Taldryan to further continue his studies.
It was under the instruction of his master, Krath Priestess Bubbles that he learned the
ways of cloning. This was knowledge that he would have a great use for over the years.
After completing his training and attainin the rank of Dark Jedi Knight, Ric returned the
the Intrepid to continue his duties as Commander. Ric led many missions against the enemy
and on returning from a large operation, was suprised to find as ships were landing, the
pilots who were Dark Jedi were all ushered to the briefing room. On the main veiwer, a
message played from the Fleet Commander followed by an excerpt from the Dark Council.
A massive exodus of Dark Jedi were leaving territory controlled by the Emperors Hammer.
They had become dissatisfied wth the power play in the Command Staff and had decided to
depart. The Dark Jedi who left were declared traitors and had bounties placed on their
heads. There were many who made tough choices whether to stay or leave with the clans. Ric
chose to stay.
Not long after settling in the Taruma system, it was deicded by the summit to create clones
to replace some of the losses during the exodus. Most of the members of Ektrosis had dna
samples on file in the databses and it was a simple task to grow them. As a bonus, members
of the summit also had memory downloads that would be reinserted into the clones minds as
they matured bringing them the level just prior to the Exodus. One of these members was Ric
as he had been a Tetrarch and had access to the equipment.
As his clone grew and matured, Ric had begun serving in Praetorian Squadron, the
Intelligence Divisions Elite squadron. He went on many missions there and did a two year
stint as the Commander and gaining the rank of General. The years went by and they started
to take their toll on Ric. He moved up in the new Brotherhood that the Emperors Hammer had
set up to try and gain more Force Users and reached the apex of the cult as Grandmaster.
It was during this time that Ric grew discontent with the leadership of the EH and decided
to set up an exit strategy. He had already made contacts in Wildspace and had a few in the
New Republic thanks to his time with the Intel Division. He planned to make use of these
contacts and retire to some out of the way planet. He knew that he would need more funds as
his accounts had been frozen by the petty dictator Grand Asshole Assanine. Ric made hisway
to the abandoned Ektrosis base and gathered up a few items he felt he would need. He loaded
them onto the YT-1300, the Holdout, and launched for orbit.
Something pulled him to the mothball fleet at anchor. The Intrepid had been placed here
after a downsizing of the fleet and felt the need to end his career where it had began. He
did a manual landing in the hanger and entered the ship. It was a deserted ghost compared
to his memories of her. After pausing at his former quarters, he made his way to the
bridge.
It was there, staring out of the forward veiw point that he saw him. Clothed in a black
flightsuit with no insignia stood his much younger and stronger clone. After a brief
exchange, the two men to battled, a battle that only one of them would walk away from.
The Dark Jedi Brotherhood
After the battle on the Lichtor V, Blade left the EH dressed in a Praetorian Flight suit and flying a TIE Praetor. He made the jump to one of Taldryans former worlds to get supplies and to decide his next move. Should he fly to Taruma and rejoin his clan or should he try and expand his abilities? With the battle on the Lictor over, his trials had been fulfilled yet he still felt incomplete. He returned to Ektrosis and then to Archanis only to feel unsatisfied.
Leaving his clan, he ventured out into the rest of the galaxy to find his way and soon became attached to CSP. He served with distinction in the reclamation action, that saw the retaking of the home system from the Vong. After a while in Caliburnnus he served briefly as the Aedile in Dorimad Sol before pressure took its toll and he had to resign. Ric settled into a battleteam to more fully focus on his training and had become a fixture in Banshee Brigade.
Ric has been many things in the years since his youth. He has been a pilot, Intel Officer, Dark Jedi, gambler, drinker, womanizer, and even just plain mean. Over the last few years, you can add another item to that list, you can add builder. He took on a task assigned to him by his Quaestor, Thran Occassus, and help to construct the House Dorimad Sol stronghold on the equater of Caina. Since the Vong invasion and their interrupted terraforming, Cainas climate has changed. No longer is it a totally frozen ball of ice floating in the Juddecca system. The equatorial regions of the planet, a belt around the entire world, have become tropical regions. It was decided that the castle would be located there, down along the edges of a now free flowing sea.
Ric has a small set of quarters there but can usually be found training with the Clans Marine Forces or at his villa. He takes his job as Marine Corps Commander very seriously, even going as far as to train with every unit that arrives. He wants to make sure that when the time is right that they would not fail against the Vong. That day approaches...
A New Era
Upon completion of the Independence Games, Ric vowed to return to the old ways and has began to make a fresh start. He placed 7th over all and looks forward to improving his performance in the next major test of his abilities.
Severing more of his ties with his past, Ric has recently taken his old name back. Ric is once more known by his surname of Hunter and decided that its not only a name but an occupation. He is hunting for many things, not the least is more power...
Trivia
Ric leads the Clan Marine Corps, serving as a High General. He is anxious to let his marines loose on some unsuspecting Vong, if they are ever foolish enough to try and challenge CSP in their home again.
Blade was a former Tetrarch in Ektrosis, running Hex, Phoenix and Horsemen of the Apocalypse at different times. He wears the Phoenix tattoo that marks his position and wears the medallion he earned.
These days, Blade spends his time as a weapons designer, creating new ships and lightsabers.
Blade was also a former Grandmaster from the other club, the EHDB, as well as the last EHDB Sith High Warrior.
Blade is responsible for most of the images of Caina and Judecca. He has been working on that project from the time he entered the clan until now.
Blade won the CSP Oscar for Graphic Arts in 2008 with 10 votes. He also got the most votes of anyone in any category.