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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
It was never clear exactly who had won, the only thing that was certain that a man that
matched his description down to the genetic coding, left the hanger bay of the Intrepid and
launched for Taruma space. Although the original man had never been to Taruma, his contacts
in the Dark Brotherhood had kept him up to date on his former clan. He made his way back to
find that they had left a skeleton crew to guard the system and had left to engage the
Vong.
He took a fast transport from Taruma and made his way to the Shroud where the battle was
going on. From the reports he had read said, they had engaged the Vong and the Vong had
driven the brotherhood from the Capitol worlds in the Antei system. They had also driven
clan Arcona from their homes, which in the overall scheme of things was no big loss.
After that, Ric returned to his house on Taruma and took to calling himself Blade again. He
continued his training but soon grew unhappy. He decided to seek different training and was
soon in the Cocytus system, the home of Scholae Palatinae. He entered house Caliburnus in
time for the Reclamation action, reclaiming the CSP worlds from the Vong Invaders. After a
short stay in Caliburnus, he ended up in Dorimad Sol as the Aedile.
Soon, Ric stepped down to focus more on his studies of Cloning as well as other ventures.
One of these ventures was commishioned by his clan summit and it involved surevying the
system to see what had changed since the Vong had arrived.
One of his other endevours has been to develop new weapons for the legions, weapons such as
the MAAT/i. The Multi Altitude Assault Transport for Infantry was based on the design for
the LAAT/i of Clone Wars fame. The MAAT/i was designed for insertion from orbit and ship to
ship actions. This would allow the transport ships to stay above the planetary dangers
while still delivering troopers to target zones. This advancement as well as new tactics
earned Ric a spot on the Military High Command as the Marschal in Command of the Marine
forces. Ric took the job very seriously and helped to train the Marines into the elite
force that they are currently in.
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.