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| Bentre Stahoes
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Corellia planet, Corellia
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12 ABY (age 36)
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Human
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Male
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1.79 meters
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71 kilograms
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brown-black
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usually appear hazel
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prosthetic left arm
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- Daedric Turelles
- Marcus Kiriyu
- Atra Ventus
- Macron Goura
- Qyreia Arronen
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blue
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Shii-Cho
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- S5 Heavy Blaster Pistol
- lightsaber
- vibroknife
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blaster-focused, heavily complemented by lightsaber
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Slicer
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Aedile
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Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era
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- House Shar Dakhan
- Order of the Black Guard
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Daedric Turelles
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14185
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Bentre Stahoes is a self-identified warrior, and a proud member of House Shar Dakhan within Clan Naga Sadow. He also currently serves as the Battle Team Leader of Devil's Shroud. Preferring to keep his opponents at a distance, the Warrior likes to focus on softening up opponents before closing into range with his lightsaber. With his speech, and even his very walk, the man gives off an obvious sense of self importance. In his own mind, he does not believe he is better than everybody else than the others, but rather that most have got to expend a lot greater effort to compete with him. This pride manifests in the Corellian in his tendency to push someone aside rather than explain a solution. Despite his haughty attitude, there are some individuals whom manage to earn his respect- such as those who views as fellow warriors, or those who possess great strength. These are the sorts he actually wears proper robes for, calls "sir", risks his life, and things of that effect. Still, this would not prevent the man from turning his nose up to any given person who manages to earn his loathing.
Stahoes excels in the programming and manipulation of computer systems. He likes to keep a datapad nearby "just in case" and take a child-like glee in breaking into computer systems. He considers himself to be a pretty fair Slicer, looking for chances to test his skills against more challenging security systems. He does not allow these joys to get in the way of his combat training though. He firmly believes that being quick with a blaster and lightsaber will save him long before his computer talents ever will. Bentre does not typically reveal his skills off-hand unless he feels a need to step in. He takes some measure of pride in the fact that he chose to hone such a skill, bucking a preconceptions of what a warrior should be. A desire to be different than just another sword hand is further reinforced by his love of playing his quetarra in public on occasion.
Pre-Brotherhood History
Early Life
Bentre grew up on Corellia, raised by his loving mother and father. Still, the boy gave his parents no end of grief. There were few evenings that he did not come home with a black eye, a bloodied lip, blood on his shirt, or being hauled home by law enforcement. Stahoes was far from a common thug, though. He actually tried to make something of himself as he went through his school years.
Coronet City, Corellia planet
As he progressed in his education, he increasingly found himself thoroughly bored. When he wasn't getting into scraps, he was playfully trying to penetrate the network security of a local sector; just to see if he could. Over time, he developed what would be described by his educators as "an unhealthy obsession" with computer systems and manipulating them. One guidance counselor wrote of Bentre that he displayed "a cold disregard for his peers, which borders on anti-social, and may indicate some problems at home".
Not that his parents did anything but try to give their son the best home life they could. His father was a low-level banker who worked hard to be sure his family want for nothing. His mother was a homemaker, previously a network architect, who gave up her passion to raise a family. This did not stop Bentre from breaking his parent’s hearts at the age of 15. Using the terminal in his father's study, he sliced into his father's financial account and withdrew everything. Using the credits he wired to an off-planet account, he secured a ride off his homeworld. Finally, in an uncharacteristic act of concern, he scribbled a note to his mother he was going to have to disappear for a while.
His Tenure on Nar Shadda
Bentre traveled from system to system for a few months, living comfortably on the credits he had stolen from his parents. Too soon, his ease with spending credits attracted some of the wrong kind of attention. He found himself coping with hangers-on and busybodies determined to get a little taste of his wealth. To his relief, a Duros named Garan befriended him, watching his back and keeping the seedier elements away with a quiet menace.
the city of Nar Shadda, where Bentre was discovered
The Human gave little thought to the ease with which his new companion was able to wave aside such nuisances. This proved to be his downfall, however. Bentre did not realize that it was the ruthlessness of his newfound bodyguard that drove away the others. Neither did he realize that the Duros did not have his best interests at heart.
The Corellian was the target of a two man con. While Garan kept Bentre busy and feeling safe from the less pleasant elements of Nar Shadda, his partner, a man by the name of Jallo Makk had been slowly working on slicing into Bentre’s accounts aided by information that Garan provided him. Once Jallo had finished funneling the money from the account, Jallo went out for drinks using his new wealth. This caused Garan to become angry, resulting in angry words, a drawn weapon, and a dead bystander. Having already used the boy, the pair conspired to frame Bentre, calling into the local law enforcement, filing reports, and bribing several officials. Betrayed by the one person he felt he might trust on the Smuggler’s Moon, Bentre found himself destitute, with several warrants out for his arrest on the suspicions of robbery and murder.
As Stahoes was on the run from the corrupt law enforcement he met La'venna and her little band of scoundrels. The gang was quick to permit him into their ranks and treated him as though he were family. The human was dubious at first, but La'venna proved her sincerity when she saved his life during a heated conflict in the streets. Among one of his many souvenirs of his time with the small gang, the Jade Kodashi, is the blaster that Bentre carries to this day.
His time of relative peace proved too short-lived as thirteen months later, Garan and a small band of mercenaries managed to hunt down the Corellian. The Duros told him it had been the work of the Twi'lek and her rogues that had brought him to their attention again. Garan smiled, giving a mock apology, claiming he always hated when "contracts end like this." As Garan was about to pull the trigger, a fellow gang member by the name of Sian shot the Duros in the back, saving Bentre's life.
The Sullstan rogue went on to explain that he had been trailing the human for the last few hours at La'venna. Unfortunately, though, Garan's words had planted a seed of doubt in Bentre's mind. When he returned to their hideout, he promptly pulled a blaster, shooting the Twi'lek woman in the stomach, and fleeing angrily in the wake of the resulting confusion. Once again, he found himself on the run, with fewer and fewer options available. It was during the aftermath of these events that Marcus Kiriyu found the Corellian on Nar Shadda, and helped him escape the planet for good.
Early Service in the Dark Jedi Brotherhood
Training and the Red Fury Conflict
Once the Corellian found himself at the Shadow Academy, he hit the ground running, throwing himself into studies of history, practicing with the training lightsaber he was granted, and further sharpening the skills he had already picked up as he served as a member of the Jade Kodashi on Nar Shadda. He tried desperately to forget his former life, but he still experienced nightmares about the things he experienced there.
His eagerness did not go unseen, as soon after he left the Shadow Academy and joined the Clan Naga Sadow, he was paired up with Daedric Turelles. The tenacious attitude of the student was well met by his new Master's own inclination to seek knowledge and to self-improve. The Dark Jedi Knight tried to press his apprentice to excel, and was pleasantly surprised to see Stahoes step up to his challenges. Like a man possessed, Bentre continued to process information at a surprising rate. Though his Master never seemed to realize it, the drive to better himself was borne of a fear of betrayal. Bentre wanted to be sure that when he got attacked again he would be able to drive off his rivals. He continued to make a name for himself, eventually joining Sapphire Squadron. Over time, he finally dared to hope he could finally find the sense of family he had lost on Nar Shadda.
His first truly notable conflict as a member of Sapphire Squadron was the attack on the pirate moon of Atlas. Dropping in with the rest of his Battleteam, Bentre served with distinction, helping to clear and secure the hanger area. He kept himself busy clearing out soldiers with his blaster, before moving forward with Daedric, Macron and Shi Long and cutting a swathe through the battlefield. The armored forces of Scholae Palatinae followed up behind the four, ensuring victory for the joint operation by the clans.
The Rise of a Dark Jedi Knight
Later in the year, Bentre was inducted into the Order of the Black Guard and attained the rank of Dark Jedi Knight. He was given charge over Wrooshuu and tried to work closely with the Wookie in order to expand on his own knowledge and experience. He also used his position as a Blackguard to become a more finely-tuned killer. He continued to distinguish himself in repeated combat against both fellow Dark Jedi and Jedi alike. He found this increasingly difficult as madness began to overtake him. The Dark Jedi Knight began to work toward a basic mastery of Shii-Cho and began to study war as a whole. The Corellian was determined to do everything in his power to build his strength and power.
Stahoes also worked closely with the Battleteam Leader of Sapphire Squadron, Bob Sadow to further the glory of his Battleteam. He tried to work on converting the Team's resources to create a training area, but found they lacked the required area to keep such a dedicated space. Instead the slicer worked on preparing a computer program to be used in conjunction with several holographic projectors to create an easily modified training room which could literally be set up in any open area. To his knowledge, the paperwork for his request was lost in the preference or more pressing matters, but having put forward the plans Bentre chose to focus on his own training and look for other more accepted ways to further his comrades. He also began to have to contend with the real threat of his slipping grip on his own sanity as the effects of his replacement eye were becoming more and more evident as time went on. He found that he had to remain at times very isolated from the very people he had grown so close to in his new found family.
An Evolving Perspective
As his time continued on in the Dark Brotherhood, Bentre found his cavalier attitude and scoundrel-like ways made him feel ill at ease with the Brotherhood as a whole. The Corellian felt that his chosen skillset made him- while not a pariah- set apart from his comrades, and not in a way that he had to tried to affect. This feeling was further reinforced by the words of his then-Rollmaster Anima following a conflict on Nar Shadda. There the pair experienced an encounter with Garan, an echo of the Corellian's past on the moon. The Obelisk had allowed his past to define his attitude and tactics and had prevented him from growing to his full potential. Garan's death became an epiphany for the young Journeyman, and marked a slow change of focus from blaster-based combat to a more conventional lightsaber-based combat style. The Dark Jedi Knight would still carry a blaster, but he was no longer dependent upon it as he had been.
Bentre continued to gently over time. As he took on the position leading Devil's Shroud, the Shadow tried to focus on building up the team, and bettering his team and himself in equal measure. His efforts seemed to be pay off, and though slowly, Devil's Shroud began to thrive despite his innate lack of experience at the time. To his chagrin, Stahoes lost two men under his command within the first few months. With each stumble and each obstacle overcome, he urged his fellow Battleteam members too look toward the future as an opportunity to grow and improve. This new viewpoint did not serve him very well in the days to come unfortunately.
Bentre, as he appeared shortly after the events of Dentaavi
With the resurfacing of Darth Vexatus, news of a new threat to the clan spread. On one hand there was the Falleen bringing warning of an approaching doom. On the other hand, was the Consul Locke Sonjie who felt determined to hold the Clan together at all costs while discounting the Prophet-Heretic. To add to the chaos, the Rollmaster and the Corellian's friend, Marcus Kiriyu chose that time as the perfect moment to make a power play, seemingly determined to overthrow Locke. As the members of his Battleteam chose sides between the Consul and Vexatus, Bentre decided to side with Kiriyu, secretly hoping to take advantage of whomever would prove the victor in the struggle. With the Clan members making their decisions, the hunt for the Shards of Dentavii began.
the bionic arm designed and used by Bentre
The Shadow could not have known what would come of the hunt. As he and Tasha'vel Versea hunted the asteroid surface for any signs of the artifacts, fate would have it that Bentre would literally trip upon one. Though the Twi'lek realized the peril the shard represented, the Human could only see the potential that it unlocked. Attacking his comrade in arms, Stahoes was shortly thereafter ambushed by Locke-loyalist forces and the shard was taken from the pair. Great damage had been done to both mind and body but even as the Corellian lay unconscious he could feel the power of the shard calling to him, a silent, deadly siren's song. Under its influence, he would once again use the artifact, both to attack and to escape from the clutches of Sanguinius, Armad and Darkblade.
It would not be until after the events on Dentavii Prime that the effects of the shard on the already remarkably fragile psyche of the Sith would be fully realized. He would begin to hear voices more regularly and suffer irregular periods of rage, aggression, and schizophrenia. Compounded with the friction between himself and others, this served to shatter the man's feelings of relative safety and family among the others such as Atra. The feeling was replaced with a cool distrust, which he struggled to keep hidden beneath a facade of arrogant confidence. He also struggled to adjust to the presence of his new prosthetic arm, a bionic device that he had designed. Frustrated and lacking the knowledge necessary, Stahoes was forced to seek help in acquiring the proper software to make the device operate. Though the contractor got the work done, Bentre began to read up on the software and code involved in the operation of such technologies. He was determined to ensure he could do the work himself in future.
Incursion at Myrmidon
The weeks following the events on Dentavii were largely uneventful. Beyond some rather macabre experiments by the Corellian, surprisingly little seemed to change at first. Slowly, Stahoes began to spend more time in his office and quarters, acting through holos and proxies. The Sith normally preferred to work and fight alongside his team, so this began rumors and murmuring among many in the city-base.
An unrest began to echo out among the local populace around this time. A small but vocal militia arose from the common folk. Before long, they were rallying citizens to their cause. They claimed the city and land as their own as birthright, demanding the Sadowans vacate the land immediately or face dire consequence. Their claims and cries were ignored, to the point that a small army had begun to move on the city.
Realizing the people could pose a larger threat if they were not dealt with, Stahoes contacted his old comrade, Scarlet. With their combined efforts, Sapphire Squadron and Devil's Shroud were successful in repelling the forces of the revolutionary calling herself "Chelidon". Many depicted her as a Zeltron warrior, carrying tattered banners to display their allegiance against the perceived trespassers. The rebellion was short-lived thanks to the quick and fierce actions of Lexiconus and Macron Goura. The base of operations for Chelidon's people was reduced to ash. Unbeknownst to the rest of the team however, Bentre had recieved one last transmission just two days after their supposed victory.
"Chelidon's Army Will Rise Again. Beware those who serve the Yellow Sun."
Personal Data
Physical Description
Bentre is a slightly taller-than-average human. His dark hair typically covers part of his face, obscuring his left eye and the scars around it. Scars also line below his right eye, one of two souvenirs of an encounter with the Rollmaster of Naga Sadow, Anima. The other is the Tuk'atan eye that replaced his ruined left eyeball. It is not always so obvious, as Bentre has learned to alter his appearance to hide it when he deems necessary with a Force illusion. He also bears some scarring around his right wrist from an encounter with another apprentice, and a bionic prosthetic where a large portion of his left arm used to be. His clothing of choice is a white undershirt below a jacket of bantha hide, and simple pants. His skin is of a dark olive tone, and he typically carries himself with an air of obvious self-importance.