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| ||allies= | | ||allies= [[Aura Ta'var]], [[Turel Sorenn]], [[Mar Sûl]] |
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| |fightingstyle= [[Martial_Arts_Forms#Mandalorian_Core|Mandalorian Core]] | | |fightingstyle= [[Martial_Arts_Forms#Mandalorian_Core|Mandalorian Core]] |
| |profession= Intelligence Operative | | |profession= |
| |position= [[Quaestor]] | | |position= [[Consul|High Councillor]] |
| |era= [[Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era]] | | |era= [[Imperial era]], [[New Order era]] |
| |affiliation= | | |affiliation= |
| *[[Clan]] [[Odan-Urr]] | | *[[Odan-Urr]] |
| *[[House]] [[Satele Shan]] | | *[[Fiction_Center#Brotherhood_Universe|Lotus]] |
| *[[Ooroo|Strike-Team Ooroo]]
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| |masters= [[Edgar Drachen]] | |
| |apprentices=Akaarn Tayl'cor | |
| |dossier= [[dossier:14287|14287]] | | |dossier= [[dossier:14287|14287]] |
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| <onlyinclude>'''Alethia Thul Archenksova''' is a [[starwars:Human|Human]] female Loyalist currently in the service of Clan [[Odan-Urr]]. The child of a successful Coruscanti military contractor and an Alderaanian socialite, Alethia was recruited into [[starwars:Imperial Security Bureau/Canon|Imperial Security]] directly from [[starwars:COMPNOR/Canon|COMPNOR]]’s Sub-Adult Group. After several years working in Investigations and Internal Affairs, culminating in a long assignment to Alderaan, Alethia was involuntarily placed in suspended animation for 34 years before being awakened by Jedi Knight [[Edgar Drachen]]</onlyinclude>.
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| | '''Alethia Thul Archenksova''' is the current [[Consul|High Councillor]] of Odan-Urr and one of the primary leaders of the [[Fiction_Center#Brotherhood_Universe|White Lotus]] resistance movement. Alethia came of age in the early years of the [[starwars:Galactic Empire|Galactic Empire]], which she served faithfully until being placed in stasis a few days after the [[starwars:Battle of Yavin|Battle of Yavin]]. She was, ironically, rescued from this fate by the Jedi [[Edgar Drachen]] 33 years later and joined him in Clan Odan-Urr. |
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| == Character History == | | == Character History == |
| === Youth (29 BBY - 12 BBY) === | | === Youth and the Empire (29 BBY–0 BBY) === |
| Alethia Archenksova was born on Coruscant to Coruscanti businessman Hyperion Archenksova and Alderaanian socialite and noble Theia Thul. Hyperion's business manufactured military hardware as a subcontractor, a role that made him a very comfortable living supplying the Republic Judiciary forces and numerous local and regional militias. After the outbreak of the Clone Wars, business exploded and the Archenksovas made a substantial fortune. Hyperion became a staunch supporter of Chancellor Palpatine and lobbied extensively for his ever-increasing emergency powers. Naturally, he fully embraced the New Order. | | [[image:AlethiaDress.png|left|150px]] |
| | Alethia was born on Coruscant during the waning years of the Galactic Republic, and her life before Odan-Urr was profoundly influenced by the rise of [[starwars:Darth Sidious|Sheev Palpatine]], who was already the Republic’s Supreme Chancellor by the time she was born in 29 BBY. Her early years were spent in quiet but increasing comfort and her father’s munitions business grew steadily as the rule of slow began to fray at the edges. When the [[starwars:Clone Wars|Clone Wars]] broke out, business boomed as the galaxy burned. In the pre-war period, Alethia and her younger brother spent their summers on [[starwars:Alderaan|Alderaan]] with their mother’s family, despite their disapproval of their father’s profession. But manufacuring gave way to naked war profiteering and Alethia’s mother, now completely estranged from her family, grew increasingly involved in the [[starwars:Commission for the Preservation of the Republic|Commission for the Preservation of the Republic]]. |
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| The Thuls were minor Alderaanian nobility who had fallen on hard times. Already shunned due to her husband's business, Theia and her children were in de facto exile after the Declaration of a New Order due to their unwavering support for the new regime. Alethia and her brothers were pulled out of their boarding school on Alderaan and spent the rest of their childhoods on Coruscant. Recognized as a beauty from a young age, Alethia's parents groomed her for life as a socialite in hopes that she would marry a Moff or Admiral. Fate had different plans. | | The feelings crystallized after the [[starwars:Battle of Coruscant|Battle of Coruscant]], when Separatist forces raided the capital itself and nearly made off with the Chancellor himself. Already staunch supporters of Palpatine, the attack on their home and the subsequent Jedi coup attempt pushed Archenksova’s family closer to the nascent New Order. The family were active and devoted [[starwars:Commission for the Preservation of the New Order|COMPNOR]] members and Alethia was an early member of the [[starwars:Sub-Adult Group|Sub-Adult Group]]. At 16, she was admitted to the [[starwars:Royal Imperial Academy|Royal Imperial Academy]] on Coruscant. |
| | Although she excelled in her studies, Alethia was diverted from a military career. Shortly before graduation, she stumbled onto a plot by a classmate—with whom she was romantically involved despite anti-fraternization regulations—to bomb an assembly including senior brass.<ref name="Core Memories">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KkUFSeBlM-QZHbSMnyNJ7bgbsfMy0iEz Core Memories]</ref> By disrupting the plot and killing the perpetrator, Alethia earned herself a position in the [[starwars:Imperial Security Bureau|Imperial Security Bureau]]. |
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| Alethia was active in COMPNOR’s Sub-Adult group throughout her teen years. At the age of 17, she single-handed foiled a terrorist plot by a fellow unit leader who sought to avenge his parents, who had been imprisoned and executed by the ISB on suspicion of treason. The plot involved a bomb during a COMPNOR rally in Imperial Center, and - if successful - would have claimed the lives of several high ranking Imperials. The incident drew the attention of the security apparatus, and Imperial Security had recruited her by her 18th birthday.
| | Archenskova’s ISB career began with several assignments to the Mid and Outer Rim worlds, ferreting out corruption in situations where production quotas were going unmet or valuable Imperial resources were being sold on the black market instead of making their way to the military. After three years, she was reassigned to the Core, operating under cover as a member of the [[starwars:Coalition for Progress|Coalition for Progress’]] Art Group. In this capacity, she eventually settled on [[starwars:Alderaan|Alderaan]], where she was successful in integrating herself into elite circles. As she discovered individuals who were financing the rebellion, Alethia used blackmail and threats of imprisonment or execution to pressure the disloyal into revealing information. |
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| === In the Service of Imperial Security (12 BBY - 0 ABY) ===
| | Alethia’s career came to an abrupt ending just before the [[starwars:Battle of Yavin|Battle of Yavin]]. Recalled to Coruscant to report on the Organa family’s involvement in the Rebel Alliance, Alethia was offworld when the Death Star destroyed the planet. With no immediate use for her, the ISB enlisted her in a pilot project to place agents in stasis to reserve them for future needs. Archenksova was put into a state of suspended animation aboard a specially refitted freighter, the ''Shalott,'' which was programmed to jump randomly through hyperspace until it received a recall order from Coruscant. With the chaos surrounding the collapse of the Empire, that signal never came. |
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| ==== ISB Field Agent (12 BBY - 5 BBY) ==== | | === Odan-Urr (33 ABY - Present) === |
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| Alethia’s affiliation with Security was kept secret during her early assignments. She took a minor bureaucratic post in the Esstran Sector, where she became Moff Gehrad Ritzle’s mistress. Eventually she succeeded in revealing Ritzle’s operation selling Sith and Jedi artifacts to a wealthy and mysterious “private collector”. Alethia killed him and led the local garrison to capture his contact before leaving the public eye.
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| | 33 years later, the ''Shalott'' arrived in the [[Yhi System|Yhi system]], between the orbits of Suni and [[New Tython]]. A small team of Jedi, led by [[Edgar Drachen]], boarded the vessel to investigate it. All but one of the stasis pods had fatally degraded during the voyage. Drachen had Alethia, the sole survivor, revived and taken back to the [[Arca Praxeum]]. Drachen and his superior and old friend, [[Turel Sorenn]], interrogated and debriefed the captured ISB agent. Satisfied that she would not be a threat, and sympathetic to her plight, Sorenn commissioned her into the [[Kotahitanga-Unity Defense Force]] as a lieutenant and assigned her to House [[Satele Shan]] in [[Seher]]. |
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| Another early mission for ISB saw Archenksova join a pirate gang in the Outer Rim that had been working loosely with the Rebel Alliance. After a successful coup against the gang’s leader, she led the gang to betray their rebel contacts and turn them into the local Moff for a lucrative bounty. Having set the gang on a mutually beneficial path, she faked her death and returned to Coruscant.
| | Despite her culture shock, Alethia adjusted to life in the KUDF and quickly distinguished herself. When [[Mako Henymory]], a [[Krath]] displaced by the initial phase of Darth Pravus’ purges, became Quaestor of Satele Shan, he took her on as his assistant and Aedile. Alethia, for her part, reached out to Mako’s predecessor, Mar Sûl, in hopes of better understanding Force-users and their capabilities.<ref name="The Arch Awakens">[https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/news/reports-satele-shan-aedile-report-the-arch-awakens The Arch Awakens]</ref> |
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| ==== Alderaanian Counterintelligence and Downfall (5 BBY - 0 ABY) ==== | | This training was short-lived. Mere weeks into her term as Aedile, Darth Pravus and the Iron Navy arrived at New Tython to exterminate the Jedi. Alethia and Mar barely escaped with their lives, though the Seherob were not so lucky.<ref name="Darkest Hours">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LCByfMCORzqf-9On1nXRjb_IPzAYfvcr Darkest Hours]</ref> Fleeing the ashes of New Tython, the Odanites responded to a distress call from Florrum, where members of Undesirable species and the suppressed Krath and Obelisk orders were [[Battle of Florrum|under attack]] from Clan Plagueis. Alethia coordinated Satele Shan’s logistical efforts and began the hunt for Inquisitorius agents who might have infiltrated the house’s ranks.Alethia on Florrum. <ref name="The Settling Dust">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=11inH5mLxBZ0NvcHr3ahfw_t5-7V_glcN The Settling Dust]</ref> Despite valiant effort by the Odanites, Plagueis was victorious and the Undesirables were enslaved or exterminated. Mako, in the wake of losing two of his dearest companions, gave into his grief and messily slaughtered several Plagueians. Alethia took acting command of the house while Henymory was imprisoned by the Council. |
| {{quote|Lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.|Yoda}}
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| | There was some good news, however; High Councillor [[A'lora Kituri]] was guided by the Force to the reclusive [[Vatali Empire]]. In exchange for deleting the Vatali’s home system, [[Kiast System|Kiast]], from the First Order’s star charts, Empress Kaltani Anasaye offered the Odanites shelter in their secluded nebula. Drawing on her experience with the Empire, Alethia led the mission to infiltrate the First Order.<ref name="Resistance: Prologue">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iFjU6Zt7l7pWHeJart3iF8bfKCd5Hyl6 Resistance: Prologue]</ref> In the following weeks, with Mako still in jail, Alethia represented Satele Shan in their first audience with the Empress.<ref name="Satele Shan May 2016 report fiction">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u56bIR-Mcd1GVW-N58vqbQFeWA8CFnMj Satele Shan May 2016 report fiction]</ref> As the Vatali Conclave debated whether to allow the Odanites to stay permanently, Alethia helped lobby the nobility for support,<ref name="Dirty Deeds">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O9KBZmMjW6tKTtPlGUzqpSx0JY44XNaf Dirty Deeds]</ref> and was so involved in the process that she even selected the High Councillor’s dress for the final Conclave vote.<ref name="Homecoming">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1r9NHpCsBp6n5Y_JnwghGw6DT4UnA-anY Homecoming]</ref> |
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| Alethia’s exceptional service landed her a prestigious post in the Alderaan Sector, where she was able to use her family’s contacts to document widespread rebel sympathies. Initially Archenksova operated under official cover as a member of the [[starwars:Coalition for Progress|Coalition for Progress]]. To the initial surprise and delight of the Alderaanian arts community, Archenksova fought to increase imperial funding for the arts and prevent censorship. Ultimately, however, this was an effort to ingratiate herself with a community rife with rebel financiers and sympathizers. Alethia presented numerous individuals with the evidence against them, offering to spare them if they became informants for the Empire - which led to more informants and eventually to a fairly complete map of the Alliance’s financial backing on Alderaan. By 2 BBY, Alethia was known throughout the community as an ISB asset and dropped the pretense of official cover through COMPNOR.
| | The Conclave voted to allow the Odanites to settle, and Mako and Alethia set up shop on [[Daleem]] and turned their attention to the war against the Iron Throne. After Henymory stepped down and Alethia took command as the [[Quaestor|Director]] of the newly reorganized JTF Satele Shan, she set out to destroy the Sith through any means necessary. Odan-Urr had formed an alliance, the White Lotus, with Clan Arcona, and Alethia led a combined force in a mission to destroy the Iron Navy’s starship assembly yard.<ref name="Rise of the Lotus">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fF5xoxxysj1KN_suAoj_08NkVsGhOxwd Rise of the Lotus]</ref> More controversially, she embarked on a campaign of targeted assassinations of Sith targets, even recruiting House Excidium’s quaestor, Blade Ta’var, to the cause. However, the brutality of these missions was unsettling to many Jedi.<ref name="The Same Thing You Want">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lY8VwXjAcNHtjkBkBrdGnYhyAbWZTw4A The Same Thing You Want]</ref> |
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| Unfortunately, some of the rebellion’s sympathizers were so influential as to be beyond even Alethia’s reach. When ISB determined that Princess [[starwars:Leia Organa|Leia Organa]] was bringing the plans for the [[starwars:Death Star|Death Star]] to the Rebel Alliance, Archenksova was recalled to Coruscant for a thorough debriefing. What at first seemed to be a disgraceful end to her career ultimately saved Alethia's life by taking her offworld just before Grand Moff [[starwars:Wilhuff Tarkin|Wilhuff Tarkin]] destroyed Alderaan.
| | Events came to a head in a Council meeting. Although the Council and the new High Councillor, Turel Sorenn, reluctantly supported Alethia’s activities, Councillor V’yr Vorsa was so disturbed by them that she resigned from the Council in disgust and set out to break Blade free of both the Sith and Alethia’s influence.<ref name="Choices">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1j9G_RvtoAJjcV6Y5ISDrtVwLZkhCFhPx Choices]</ref> However, the opposing parties were reunited at Paragon Colony in former Taldryan space, where Alethia made personal enemies of Grand Inquisitor Ishanta and Herald Morgan Sorenn while Vorsa dueled Pravus’ personal assassin, [[Necren]].<ref name="Token Real Girl">[https://discourse.darkjedibrotherhood.com/t/rogue-one-team-token-real-girl/1566 Token Real Girl]</ref> Although Vorsa remained estranged from the Council of Urr, Blade Ta’var completed her defection to Odan-Urr and the Jedi. |
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| | ==== The Council of Urr (35 ABY–Present) ==== |
| | [[image:AlethiaConsul.jpg|left|300px|Alethia with Len Iode, Tamashi Adaephon Delat, and Edgar Drachen]] |
| | After Satele Shan settled in on [[Daleem]], Alethia turned her considerable skills at manipulation to the war effort, producing a steady stream of propaganda to aid recruitment as boost morale. By mid-35 ABY, her skillful networking and self-promotion was beginning to pay off. Along with [[Arcia Cortel]] and [[Ihi Ariki]], Archenksova had become one of the new non-Force-users to ascend to the higher levels of power within Odan-Urr, or, for that matter, the entire Lotus. Her reputation as a hardline hawk, while troubling to the Jedi, endeared her to many in the OEF and especially to the Tythonian population who hungered for vengeance. Although many of the Jedi had their doubts about her, Alethia’s popularity among the rank and file elevated her to a seat on the Council. |
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| === Clan Odan-Urr (33 ABY - Present) ===
| | Alethia helped take the lead on expanding the Lotus, as she and High Councillor Sorenn formed a tenuous alliance with [[Rhylance]] of the battered [[Clan Taldryan]]. Despite a level of mutual distrust, the Odanites helped Taldryan steal several warships from the Iron Navy.<ref name="Desperate Measures">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-klRH79c2Mb21LNQR2zwEr2ljO3oT88H Desperate Measures]</ref> Taldryan turned those same vessel against the Iron Throne, and fought alongside Odan-Urr and Arcona against the Grand Master’s flagship, the ''Suffering.'' Unfortunately, that battle took and abrupt turn for the worse as Rath Oligard’s [[The Collective|Collective]] arrived on the scene and routed the allied forces. |
| ==== New Tython and Strike-Team Ooroo (33 ABY) ====
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| After 34 years, the sleeper ship arrived in the [[Yhi System]] where it was intercepted by the KUDF navy. A small force led by Edgar Drachen boarded the ship and liberated the contents, deciding to only awaken one of the frozen passengers. After a debriefing on the ''Fey'lya's Last Stand,'' Alethia was given a probationary commission in the KUDF and assigned to House Satele Shan in [[Seher]]. After proving her loyalty and usefulness, she was assigned by Quaestor Mar Sûl to Strike-Team Ooroo. Unfortunately, she had barely gotten settled before [[Pravus|Darth Pravus']] forces ravaged the planet.
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| ==== Florrum, Kiast, and Leadership (34 ABY - Present) ====
| | Odan-Urr was not unscathed by the Collective’s abrupt and devastating attack on the Brotherhood. Oligard’s agents had infiltrated the Sentinel Network and assassinated many reliable sources, and the Lord Superior himself managed to hijack OEF frequencies to broadcast a call to arms for all non-Force-users. Amid growing tensions between Jedi and non-Jedi, High Councillor Sorenn made the controversial decision to open a second front in Odan-Urr’s war for survival.<ref name="A House Divided">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=15dNmHKzf_fddPmMKKh78pLj6Knda5tRf A House Divided]</ref> After [[Twelfth Great Jedi War|a successful strike]] against the Collective’s homeworld, Ancora, Alethia leveraged Sorenn’s support and her own popularity among the OEF and SeNet to take the position of High Councillor.<ref name="Resolution">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1duBpewe6i6A7lpHnhKzjcB8_j03Zv4pc Resolution]</ref> |
| In the chaos after the fall of New Tython, Alethia rose to the position of [[Mako Henymory|Mako Henymory's]] right hand. She helped lead Satele Shan through the effort to protect Undesireables from Clan [[Plagueis]] on [[starwars:Florrum|Florrum]], although ultimately the Odanites were defeated.
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| | Alethia is of average height for a human female, slender, and fine-boned. She has fair, even-toned skin and deep blue eyes. She generally keeps her hair dyed a silver color, but occasionally changes the color as an easy way to make herself less recognizable. Alethia keeps her hair about shoulder-length and wears it pulled back and out of the way when in the field. It's very rare to see her even slightly disheveled. |
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| | Alethia has an extensive wardrobe. She dresses with purpose, knowing that her appearance is the first act of communication and persuasion with everyone she meets. In situations where she needs authority and immediate obedience, an [[Odanite Expeditionary Force|OEF]] uniform does the trick. She tries to keep at least one at hand, and owns the appropriate variations for army, navy, and SeNet. |
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| | However, this is increasingly rare as her place at the head of the Council of Urr has moved her into a more political role. Now her outfits tend towards the regal, evoking both authority and non-threatening femininity. Archenksova favors cool shades of blue, purple, and green; soft, light fabrics; and cuts that hint at or accentuate her figure rather than blatantly displaying it. |
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| | Between her upbringing on Coruscant and her education at the Royal Imperial Academy, Alethia’s natural accent is the crisp prestige accent of the core worlds, which was widespread throughout the Imperial military and bureaucracy. While not terribly uncommon among the Odanites and the Brotherhood, Alethia’s accent is pronounced enough to be notable. She can affect a few others passably, but rarely finds the need to do so. Regardless of the accent itself, Archenksova’s voice has a silky, mellifluous quality. She’s very conscious of this and sees it as another arrow in her persuasive quiver. |
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| Alethia's demeanor varies widely between situations based on the social context, which can be disconcerting to people who aren't used to it. A former Imperial officer, she tends to be extremely formal and businesslike with her subordinates and whenever she is in a command position. Alethia dismisses the typical handwringing over risk or casualties as useless sentimentality, which leads to many within Odan-Urr's military to think of her as overly cold and calculating. On the contrary, in situations that aren't life and death matters, Alethia is warm and affectionate. She laughs and smiles freely and is rapidly gaining a reputation for charm among the Vatali nobility.
| | Alethia’s demeanor is, in most situations, warm and inviting. Surrounded by soldiers, reformed criminals, and detached monks, Alethia has distinguished herself as the gregarious and charming councilor with a knack for etiquette. A warm smile, liberal use of compliments, and an apparently-inexhaustible desire to listen make for good first impressions and fast friends. However, this charm turns icy in situations when it is not useful. When discussing military and intelligence operations or debating with the Council, her cold, calculating Imperial nature shows through. The shifts from charismatic and friendly to steely and surgical and back again can be jarring for those unaccustomed to them. |
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| | However, Archenksova has spent the majority of her life luring others into a false sense of security until they provide the means to their own downfall. This has contributed to a certain paranoia and an obsession with understanding those around her to gain power over them. She has difficulty letting her own guard down, even among her relatively trusted friends and allies. |
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| For someone who once upheld a Dark Side magocracy, Alethia has a very low opinion of the Sith. The Sith philosophy is inherently prone to chaos and self-destruction; Alethia ultimately blames Palpatine and Vader's obsession with the Sith and the Dark Side for the Empire's defeat at Endor and subsequent collapse. After Pravus began focusing his energies on destroying a variety of non-Humans and non-Sith, and especially after the attack on New Tython, Archenksova concluded that he represents an existential threat to the galactic order and must be destroyed.
| | === Aurora Ta’var === |
| | {{quote|Have fun sitting here alone while I go flirt with the bartender.|Aura Ta’var}} |
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| | [[Aura Ta'var|Aura]], then known as Blade, initially came to the Sentinel Network’s attention as a Sith vigilante who occasionally killed other Sith. After observing her for a time, Alethia made contact with the newly minted Quaestor of [[House Excidium]]. The two quickly came to an arrangement, and Blade was eager enough to kill whichever monstrous Sith Alethia asked her to kill.<ref name="A New Chapter Begins">[https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/news/reports-house-excidium-report-1-a-new-chapter-begins A New Chapter Begins]</ref> The situation was mutually satisfying, however it grew complicated when Jedi Councillor [[V'yr Vorsa]] that Alethia and SeNet were authorizing assassinations.<ref name="Choices" /> |
| | Eventually, Vorsa tracked Ta’var down and started her training as a proper Jedi. After fighting alongside the Odanites for the first time,<ref name="Token Real Girl" /> Blade defected to Odan-Urr just in time to escape the burning of [[Judecca]]. Dropping her Sith name, the Zeltron rededicated herself to the Jedi path as Aurora Ta’var. |
| | Despite their wildly different backgrounds and worldviews, Alethia and Aura formed an easy friendship, sharing drinks<ref name="Shore Leave">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FVnK9jnnqFf93BnL5_-FqVO5KX4OfMt1 Shore Leave]</ref> and leisure time on Kiast.<ref name="Shore Leave 2">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dQH6J7PIROHiWFR-bIJHg0sXCjKvTWIs Shore Leave 2]</ref> Now reunited with her daughter Zoe, Aura tried to pull Alethia in as surrogate family.<ref name="Hugs for the Lonely">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i0L5A0nduiY7wCHoj2oOGebwTeu-IP1S Hugs for the Lonely]</ref> Despite the occasional rivalry,<ref name="BladeACC1">[https://www.darkjedibrotherhood.com/acc/acc_battles/818 Savant Blade Ta'var vs. Commander Alethia Archenksova]</ref> the two remain close for the time being. However, they now find themselves arguing for opposition parties within the Council. It’s unclear how much this will strain their relationship. |
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| | {{quote|Do you always wear perfume on stealth missions?" "Most men never get close enough to notice. Don’t worry. I won’t tell [[V'yr Vorsa|the General]].|Turel Sorenn and Alethia}} |
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| | As Clan Odan-Urr’s Proconsul, [[Turel Sorenn|Turel]] was privy to Alethia’s initial debriefing sessions and one of the few Odanites who is aware of the full extent her of career with the Empire. Despite his reservations, Sorenn recognized the woman’s potential and allowed her to climb the ranks within Satele Shan. After the [[Battle of Florrum]] left her superior officer briefly imprisoned, Alethia began to take on a more prominent role with the JTF and developed a hesitant but mutual respect for Turel. The Jedi appointed Alethia the Director of Satele Shan after Mako’s resignation, a decision that would later come back to bite him—Vorsa, his wife, left the Council and Odan-Urr entirely in protest of Alethia’s actions.<ref name="Choices" /> Nevertheless, Turel and Archenksova maintained a cordial enough working relationship throughout his tenure as High Councillor.<ref name="Token Real Girl" /> |
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| | By the time the Collective struck, Alethia had amassed enough support on the Council to be Turel’s most obvious successor as High Councillor, a situation which Sorenn accepted. After his controversial effort to save the Brotherhood’s civilian population,<ref name="GJW XII Finale">[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NK1y5DeOgSiCHXkutI1Uqkjfys5irXEv GJW XII Finale]</ref> Alethia attempted to manage the situation in a way that would preserve Turel’s seat on the Council while smoothing the way for her own ascension as High Councillor.<ref name="A House Divided" /> |
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| Alethia isn't a combat specialist, but she is smart, resourceful, and paranoid. Typically, she is accompanied by Mar Sûl or some other bodyguards who can be relied upon to protect her. Despite the hands-off approach, Alethia is competent with blades and blasters. She is adept a disarms and quick take-downs, and favors sonic blasters and contact stunners than can bypass a Sith's lightsaber or Telekinesis. | |
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| | Now that Turel has settled into a comfortable semi-retirement, the two meet for [[starwars:Dejarik|dejarik]] weekly. |
| Alethia dedicated her career to ferreting out spies and traitors and turning them against their masters. She excels at leading people into traps or compromising situations, discerning their true motivations, and investigating their links to other individuals, organizations, or financial institutions.
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| | {{quote|I assure you, Yuki, you have never seen me give anyone a longing anything.|Alethia}} |
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| | Alethia arrived on New Tython shortly after the [[Order of the Force Ascendant]] turned against the Odanites. [[Mar Sûl]], once the proud defender of [[Seher]], largely turned his back on the Seherob and the Odanites alike after the violent loss of his friends and comrades in the Force Ascendant. However, once she was selected by [[Mako Henymory]] as Aedile of House Satele Shan, Alethia contacted the former Quaestor. Still reeling from her first encounters with Force-users and the post-Imperial galaxy, Archenksova reached out to a fellow outcast to guidance and information on the Jedi and their capabilities.<ref name="The Arch Awakens" /> A few weeks later, when Pravus and his fleet came to destroy New Tython, Mar barely escaped the planet thanks to Alethia’s intervention.<ref name="Darkest Hours" /> |
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| === Mako Henymory === | | The two worked well together, although Alethia’s increasingly prominent role in Odan-Urr’s leadership make such missions infrequent. The pair made another almost impossible escape from the Rakhghoul-infested vessel ''Charon,''<ref name="The Last Voyage of the Charon">[https://discourse.darkjedibrotherhood.com/t/last-voyage-of-the-charon-marlethia/1511/2 The Last Voyage of the Charon]</ref> and Mar became one of Alethia’s favorite escorts and honor guards.<ref name="Satele Shan May 2016 report fiction" /> Despite a strong mutual attraction and Aura’s best efforts, neither of the pair has taken the plunge into a romantic relationship. However, the Zeltron meddling has led to at least one interesting Council meeting.<ref name="BladeACC1" /> |
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- "In case it escaped the notice of anyone here, we are at war. Our adversary has an advantage in men and resources that is almost insurmountable. I intend to do something about it."
- ―Alethia Archenksova
Alethia Thul Archenksova is the current High Councillor of Odan-Urr and one of the primary leaders of the White Lotus resistance movement. Alethia came of age in the early years of the Galactic Empire, which she served faithfully until being placed in stasis a few days after the Battle of Yavin. She was, ironically, rescued from this fate by the Jedi Edgar Drachen 33 years later and joined him in Clan Odan-Urr.
Character History
Youth and the Empire (29 BBY–0 BBY)
Alethia was born on Coruscant during the waning years of the Galactic Republic, and her life before Odan-Urr was profoundly influenced by the rise of Sheev Palpatine, who was already the Republic’s Supreme Chancellor by the time she was born in 29 BBY. Her early years were spent in quiet but increasing comfort and her father’s munitions business grew steadily as the rule of slow began to fray at the edges. When the Clone Wars broke out, business boomed as the galaxy burned. In the pre-war period, Alethia and her younger brother spent their summers on Alderaan with their mother’s family, despite their disapproval of their father’s profession. But manufacuring gave way to naked war profiteering and Alethia’s mother, now completely estranged from her family, grew increasingly involved in the Commission for the Preservation of the Republic.
The feelings crystallized after the Battle of Coruscant, when Separatist forces raided the capital itself and nearly made off with the Chancellor himself. Already staunch supporters of Palpatine, the attack on their home and the subsequent Jedi coup attempt pushed Archenksova’s family closer to the nascent New Order. The family were active and devoted COMPNOR members and Alethia was an early member of the Sub-Adult Group. At 16, she was admitted to the Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant.
Although she excelled in her studies, Alethia was diverted from a military career. Shortly before graduation, she stumbled onto a plot by a classmate—with whom she was romantically involved despite anti-fraternization regulations—to bomb an assembly including senior brass.[1] By disrupting the plot and killing the perpetrator, Alethia earned herself a position in the Imperial Security Bureau.
Archenskova’s ISB career began with several assignments to the Mid and Outer Rim worlds, ferreting out corruption in situations where production quotas were going unmet or valuable Imperial resources were being sold on the black market instead of making their way to the military. After three years, she was reassigned to the Core, operating under cover as a member of the Coalition for Progress’ Art Group. In this capacity, she eventually settled on Alderaan, where she was successful in integrating herself into elite circles. As she discovered individuals who were financing the rebellion, Alethia used blackmail and threats of imprisonment or execution to pressure the disloyal into revealing information.
Alethia’s career came to an abrupt ending just before the Battle of Yavin. Recalled to Coruscant to report on the Organa family’s involvement in the Rebel Alliance, Alethia was offworld when the Death Star destroyed the planet. With no immediate use for her, the ISB enlisted her in a pilot project to place agents in stasis to reserve them for future needs. Archenksova was put into a state of suspended animation aboard a specially refitted freighter, the Shalott, which was programmed to jump randomly through hyperspace until it received a recall order from Coruscant. With the chaos surrounding the collapse of the Empire, that signal never came.
Odan-Urr (33 ABY - Present)
Satele Shan (33–35 ABY)
Alethia with Aaleeshah and Turr Darvesh
33 years later, the Shalott arrived in the Yhi system, between the orbits of Suni and New Tython. A small team of Jedi, led by Edgar Drachen, boarded the vessel to investigate it. All but one of the stasis pods had fatally degraded during the voyage. Drachen had Alethia, the sole survivor, revived and taken back to the Arca Praxeum. Drachen and his superior and old friend, Turel Sorenn, interrogated and debriefed the captured ISB agent. Satisfied that she would not be a threat, and sympathetic to her plight, Sorenn commissioned her into the Kotahitanga-Unity Defense Force as a lieutenant and assigned her to House Satele Shan in Seher.
Despite her culture shock, Alethia adjusted to life in the KUDF and quickly distinguished herself. When Mako Henymory, a Krath displaced by the initial phase of Darth Pravus’ purges, became Quaestor of Satele Shan, he took her on as his assistant and Aedile. Alethia, for her part, reached out to Mako’s predecessor, Mar Sûl, in hopes of better understanding Force-users and their capabilities.[2]
This training was short-lived. Mere weeks into her term as Aedile, Darth Pravus and the Iron Navy arrived at New Tython to exterminate the Jedi. Alethia and Mar barely escaped with their lives, though the Seherob were not so lucky.[3] Fleeing the ashes of New Tython, the Odanites responded to a distress call from Florrum, where members of Undesirable species and the suppressed Krath and Obelisk orders were under attack from Clan Plagueis. Alethia coordinated Satele Shan’s logistical efforts and began the hunt for Inquisitorius agents who might have infiltrated the house’s ranks.Alethia on Florrum. [4] Despite valiant effort by the Odanites, Plagueis was victorious and the Undesirables were enslaved or exterminated. Mako, in the wake of losing two of his dearest companions, gave into his grief and messily slaughtered several Plagueians. Alethia took acting command of the house while Henymory was imprisoned by the Council.
There was some good news, however; High Councillor A'lora Kituri was guided by the Force to the reclusive Vatali Empire. In exchange for deleting the Vatali’s home system, Kiast, from the First Order’s star charts, Empress Kaltani Anasaye offered the Odanites shelter in their secluded nebula. Drawing on her experience with the Empire, Alethia led the mission to infiltrate the First Order.[5] In the following weeks, with Mako still in jail, Alethia represented Satele Shan in their first audience with the Empress.[6] As the Vatali Conclave debated whether to allow the Odanites to stay permanently, Alethia helped lobby the nobility for support,[7] and was so involved in the process that she even selected the High Councillor’s dress for the final Conclave vote.[8]
The Conclave voted to allow the Odanites to settle, and Mako and Alethia set up shop on Daleem and turned their attention to the war against the Iron Throne. After Henymory stepped down and Alethia took command as the Director of the newly reorganized JTF Satele Shan, she set out to destroy the Sith through any means necessary. Odan-Urr had formed an alliance, the White Lotus, with Clan Arcona, and Alethia led a combined force in a mission to destroy the Iron Navy’s starship assembly yard.[9] More controversially, she embarked on a campaign of targeted assassinations of Sith targets, even recruiting House Excidium’s quaestor, Blade Ta’var, to the cause. However, the brutality of these missions was unsettling to many Jedi.[10]
Events came to a head in a Council meeting. Although the Council and the new High Councillor, Turel Sorenn, reluctantly supported Alethia’s activities, Councillor V’yr Vorsa was so disturbed by them that she resigned from the Council in disgust and set out to break Blade free of both the Sith and Alethia’s influence.[11] However, the opposing parties were reunited at Paragon Colony in former Taldryan space, where Alethia made personal enemies of Grand Inquisitor Ishanta and Herald Morgan Sorenn while Vorsa dueled Pravus’ personal assassin, Necren.[12] Although Vorsa remained estranged from the Council of Urr, Blade Ta’var completed her defection to Odan-Urr and the Jedi.
The Council of Urr (35 ABY–Present)
Alethia with Len Iode, Tamashi Adaephon Delat, and Edgar Drachen
After Satele Shan settled in on Daleem, Alethia turned her considerable skills at manipulation to the war effort, producing a steady stream of propaganda to aid recruitment as boost morale. By mid-35 ABY, her skillful networking and self-promotion was beginning to pay off. Along with Arcia Cortel and Ihi Ariki, Archenksova had become one of the new non-Force-users to ascend to the higher levels of power within Odan-Urr, or, for that matter, the entire Lotus. Her reputation as a hardline hawk, while troubling to the Jedi, endeared her to many in the OEF and especially to the Tythonian population who hungered for vengeance. Although many of the Jedi had their doubts about her, Alethia’s popularity among the rank and file elevated her to a seat on the Council.
Alethia helped take the lead on expanding the Lotus, as she and High Councillor Sorenn formed a tenuous alliance with Rhylance of the battered Clan Taldryan. Despite a level of mutual distrust, the Odanites helped Taldryan steal several warships from the Iron Navy.[13] Taldryan turned those same vessel against the Iron Throne, and fought alongside Odan-Urr and Arcona against the Grand Master’s flagship, the Suffering. Unfortunately, that battle took and abrupt turn for the worse as Rath Oligard’s Collective arrived on the scene and routed the allied forces.
Odan-Urr was not unscathed by the Collective’s abrupt and devastating attack on the Brotherhood. Oligard’s agents had infiltrated the Sentinel Network and assassinated many reliable sources, and the Lord Superior himself managed to hijack OEF frequencies to broadcast a call to arms for all non-Force-users. Amid growing tensions between Jedi and non-Jedi, High Councillor Sorenn made the controversial decision to open a second front in Odan-Urr’s war for survival.[14] After a successful strike against the Collective’s homeworld, Ancora, Alethia leveraged Sorenn’s support and her own popularity among the OEF and SeNet to take the position of High Councillor.[15]
Description
Appearance and Attire
Alethia is of average height for a human female, slender, and fine-boned. She has fair, even-toned skin and deep blue eyes. She generally keeps her hair dyed a silver color, but occasionally changes the color as an easy way to make herself less recognizable. Alethia keeps her hair about shoulder-length and wears it pulled back and out of the way when in the field. It's very rare to see her even slightly disheveled.
Alethia has an extensive wardrobe. She dresses with purpose, knowing that her appearance is the first act of communication and persuasion with everyone she meets. In situations where she needs authority and immediate obedience, an OEF uniform does the trick. She tries to keep at least one at hand, and owns the appropriate variations for army, navy, and SeNet.
However, this is increasingly rare as her place at the head of the Council of Urr has moved her into a more political role. Now her outfits tend towards the regal, evoking both authority and non-threatening femininity. Archenksova favors cool shades of blue, purple, and green; soft, light fabrics; and cuts that hint at or accentuate her figure rather than blatantly displaying it.
Speech and Mannerisms
Between her upbringing on Coruscant and her education at the Royal Imperial Academy, Alethia’s natural accent is the crisp prestige accent of the core worlds, which was widespread throughout the Imperial military and bureaucracy. While not terribly uncommon among the Odanites and the Brotherhood, Alethia’s accent is pronounced enough to be notable. She can affect a few others passably, but rarely finds the need to do so. Regardless of the accent itself, Archenksova’s voice has a silky, mellifluous quality. She’s very conscious of this and sees it as another arrow in her persuasive quiver.
Her movements are graceful and deliberate, the result of a youth spent in dance classes and martial arts training.
Personality
Alethia’s demeanor is, in most situations, warm and inviting. Surrounded by soldiers, reformed criminals, and detached monks, Alethia has distinguished herself as the gregarious and charming councilor with a knack for etiquette. A warm smile, liberal use of compliments, and an apparently-inexhaustible desire to listen make for good first impressions and fast friends. However, this charm turns icy in situations when it is not useful. When discussing military and intelligence operations or debating with the Council, her cold, calculating Imperial nature shows through. The shifts from charismatic and friendly to steely and surgical and back again can be jarring for those unaccustomed to them.
However, Archenksova has spent the majority of her life luring others into a false sense of security until they provide the means to their own downfall. This has contributed to a certain paranoia and an obsession with understanding those around her to gain power over them. She has difficulty letting her own guard down, even among her relatively trusted friends and allies.
Relationships
Aurora Ta’var
- "Have fun sitting here alone while I go flirt with the bartender."
- ―Aura Ta’var
Aura, then known as Blade, initially came to the Sentinel Network’s attention as a Sith vigilante who occasionally killed other Sith. After observing her for a time, Alethia made contact with the newly minted Quaestor of House Excidium. The two quickly came to an arrangement, and Blade was eager enough to kill whichever monstrous Sith Alethia asked her to kill.[16] The situation was mutually satisfying, however it grew complicated when Jedi Councillor V'yr Vorsa that Alethia and SeNet were authorizing assassinations.[11]
Eventually, Vorsa tracked Ta’var down and started her training as a proper Jedi. After fighting alongside the Odanites for the first time,[12] Blade defected to Odan-Urr just in time to escape the burning of Judecca. Dropping her Sith name, the Zeltron rededicated herself to the Jedi path as Aurora Ta’var.
Despite their wildly different backgrounds and worldviews, Alethia and Aura formed an easy friendship, sharing drinks[17] and leisure time on Kiast.[18] Now reunited with her daughter Zoe, Aura tried to pull Alethia in as surrogate family.[19] Despite the occasional rivalry,[20] the two remain close for the time being. However, they now find themselves arguing for opposition parties within the Council. It’s unclear how much this will strain their relationship.
Turel Sorenn
- "Do you always wear perfume on stealth missions?" "Most men never get close enough to notice. Don’t worry. I won’t tell the General."
- ―Turel Sorenn and Alethia
As Clan Odan-Urr’s Proconsul, Turel was privy to Alethia’s initial debriefing sessions and one of the few Odanites who is aware of the full extent her of career with the Empire. Despite his reservations, Sorenn recognized the woman’s potential and allowed her to climb the ranks within Satele Shan. After the Battle of Florrum left her superior officer briefly imprisoned, Alethia began to take on a more prominent role with the JTF and developed a hesitant but mutual respect for Turel. The Jedi appointed Alethia the Director of Satele Shan after Mako’s resignation, a decision that would later come back to bite him—Vorsa, his wife, left the Council and Odan-Urr entirely in protest of Alethia’s actions.[11] Nevertheless, Turel and Archenksova maintained a cordial enough working relationship throughout his tenure as High Councillor.[12]
By the time the Collective struck, Alethia had amassed enough support on the Council to be Turel’s most obvious successor as High Councillor, a situation which Sorenn accepted. After his controversial effort to save the Brotherhood’s civilian population,[21] Alethia attempted to manage the situation in a way that would preserve Turel’s seat on the Council while smoothing the way for her own ascension as High Councillor.[14]
Now that Turel has settled into a comfortable semi-retirement, the two meet for dejarik weekly.
Mar Sûl
- "I assure you, Yuki, you have never seen me give anyone a longing anything."
- ―Alethia
Alethia arrived on New Tython shortly after the Order of the Force Ascendant turned against the Odanites. Mar Sûl, once the proud defender of Seher, largely turned his back on the Seherob and the Odanites alike after the violent loss of his friends and comrades in the Force Ascendant. However, once she was selected by Mako Henymory as Aedile of House Satele Shan, Alethia contacted the former Quaestor. Still reeling from her first encounters with Force-users and the post-Imperial galaxy, Archenksova reached out to a fellow outcast to guidance and information on the Jedi and their capabilities.[2] A few weeks later, when Pravus and his fleet came to destroy New Tython, Mar barely escaped the planet thanks to Alethia’s intervention.[3]
The two worked well together, although Alethia’s increasingly prominent role in Odan-Urr’s leadership make such missions infrequent. The pair made another almost impossible escape from the Rakhghoul-infested vessel Charon,[22] and Mar became one of Alethia’s favorite escorts and honor guards.[6] Despite a strong mutual attraction and Aura’s best efforts, neither of the pair has taken the plunge into a romantic relationship. However, the Zeltron meddling has led to at least one interesting Council meeting.[20]