- "A true victory is to make your enemy see they were wrong to oppose you in the first place. To force them to acknowledge your greatness."
- ―Teylas Ramar, 47 BBY
Teylas Ramar is an Anzat Sith who currently serves as the Dread Lord of Clan Plagueis within the Dark Jedi Brotherhood. Throughout his long life he developed a formal education as an engineer, later developed skills as a trained pilot and eventually returned to his homeworld to experiment in the realm of politics.
Teylas would quickly describe himself as a self-centered, narcissistic and sarcastic insufferable genius. His wit has been described as deceptively cunning, with a sense of humor to match. In any combat situation, his nature as a strategist becomes apparent as he prefers to allow his opponent to make the first move. This allows him to both judge the combat effectiveness and tactics of his enemy while also allowing his opponent to become the aggressor. Ramar is an adherent of the recorded teachings of Darth Tyranus particularly his mastery in the art of dueling.
History
Reclusive Anzat
Teylas was born on Anzat into an upper-class family with parents whom were both political diplomats. Being one of the few Anzat born every year and the communal feeling of Anzat culture allowed Teylas to take in a wide berth of experiences in his youth giving him a unique personality in his adult life. Despite his wide berth of experiences early in his life, he showed difficulty fitting in with others, but was offset with an almost ironic curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
After he began feeding, his connection to the Force began early on. This connection was quickly boosted once Teylas joined his parents, both Anzat representatives to the Sublight Products Corporation, off the homeworld and was able to have a much larger feeding area. Although they didn't leave the confines of an orbital station, it was yet another unique experience for Teylas.
During his youth, Teylas showed quite an adept attunement to the Force given his young age and lack of training. However it was the lack of training that both made him dangerous and nervous of his own abilities. Keeping this knowledge to himself, he was reluctant to focus in on using the Force other than his species natural abilities to lure others in for feeding.
Teylas' thirst for knowledge in his younger years also directed him into a keen interest in the sciences, particularly engineering and it's surrounding fields; likely due to the fact that his parents were working so closely with his species' relationship with a shipbuilding manufacturer. Although like many Anzat, his long life enabled him to master the field and then quickly grow bored of it without new challenges, settings and the sometimes overwhelming drive to feed.
Revenge
Nar Shaddaa, the first alien world Teylas traveled to.
While traveling out into the galaxy on his own for the first time, the young Teylas happened to venture to the crime ridden world of Nar Shaddaa. It didn't take long for him to gravitate towards the nightspot of Club Vertica in order to find a victim to satiate his thirst from a long travel. While maintaining a solid stance in the corner of the club he was approached by a middle-aged, ruggedly dressed, yet beautifully kept woman. After a long conversation with the woman, Captain Brivi Dobal, she offered to bring young Teylas on board her ship as a member of her crew, unaware of his heritage. With that she promised to teach the young Anzat all the ways of the galaxy, the methods of pirating, and sometimes privateering, and how to handle himself as a member of her crew. It was the first promise of many that she would keep.
It was during his time as a crew member of the Revenge that he was able to hone in and master his interest in engineering and similar fields. For his first few years on board the Revenge, Teylas served first as a technician, and later the ships primary engineer. Eventually Captain Dobal earned his trust, making her the first non-Anzat since leaving his homeworld that he revealed his true nature to.
His Own Revenge
Teylas served on the crew of the Revenge for nearly ten years. On a layover on the Outer Rim world of Arkuda Captain Dobal left on her own in order to attempt to secure an upgraded navigation computer for the Revenge. Without an of the other members of the crew as support, she was ambushed by Hutt Cartel mercenaries seeking to collect bounty that the Hutt's had put out for past indiscretions by the Revenge against them. Barely able to escape the mercenaries themselves, the rest of the crew agreed to elevate Teylas to captain as the next longest serving, and surviving, crew member at that point. Taking up the mantle as captain, the Anzat promised to exercise the namesake of their ship for their former captain on the Hutt who put out the bounty.
File:Dejarthehutt.jpgDejar the Hutt.
After three years of searching through information and misinformation Teylas finally discovered that it was a relatively weak and unintimidating Hutt known as Dejar who controlled a small section of the Hutt Cartel from the planet Diyu. After careful intelligence gathering and specific planning, the Revenge was finally able to make a first strike against Dejar and destroy his ship while he was traveling to Nar Shaddaa. In response the rest of the Hutt Cartel put a priority bounty against the Revenge, its crew, and Teylas himself as captain.
The crew were able to remain on the run for two months until it was clear they were about to be cornered. Seeing no other option, Teylas decided to allow the Revenge to be destroyed with many of the crew. Escaping with a few of the ship's crew, he was able to fake their deaths and restart their lives. However the sacrifice of the ship and a majority of the crew were too much for the others who survived causing them to leave the Anzat's side.
Soldier of Self
Teylas spent a few years trying to obtain a new ship, recruit a crew and set back out in the galaxy to no avail. After giving up on that aspiration he quickly fell into a depression, drifting, learning, listening and allowing the years to pass on without any passion that had drove his life previously. Decades of this went on until he finally decided to get himself together and return to Nar Shaddaa. Under a pseudonym he returned to the Hutt Cartel, this time as a bounty hunter for hire. While Teylas didn't have the killer instincts and tactics of many of his competition he had gained a ruthless attitude in dealing with his enemies and also his secret heritage, and all the perks that came with it.
Only serving a short stint with the Hutt Cartel, the disgust of working for those who had done so much to ruin his life previously was too much. He decided, after nearly a century, to finally return home.
Returning Home
Finally giving up on the galaxy, or even the galaxy giving up on him, Teylas returned to Anzat. He restarted his life by joining the internal planetary security force, which only patrolled the orbit of the planet itself, indicative of the reclusive nature of the Anzat. As a pilot for the security force he often tended to orbital patrols for ships that may pass by the system to ensure they don't come near the homeworld without authorization.
Finding himself to be disinterested with the position as a pilot, and it's reminder of grander times on the Revenge, he eventually decided to use his interpersonal and meticulously cunning skills gained while out in the galaxy to carve out a position for himself in the government of his people. Putting down his blaster and fighter cockpit in favor of a desk, he obtained governorship of a small chain of islands in the southern hemisphere of Anzat. Beginning his push into the political world, he was able to help influence and shape his people's future. Throughout the next 40 years, Teylas was able to slither his way up through the political life of the planet using his personal attributes, and a touch of Machiavellian-like plotting.
Turning to the Dark Side
- "Wolves do not concern themselves with the opinion of sheep."
- ―Teylas Ramar, 35 ABY
In the year 34 ABY, while tending to a small matter on Tatooine regarding trade between Anzat and his former enemy, the Hutts, Teylas found himself on a short layover at Port Ol'val. The previous flight he was able to charter from Tatooine only took him to the port, and while waiting for a transport from his homeworld to pick him up, he had an encounter with the Dark Jedi Solus Gar. Sensing the largely untapped Force sensitivity within Teylas, Solus took the time to get to know the man during his stay at Port Ol'val. Eventually he propositioned Teylas to take him under his wing as an apprentice to teach him the dark side of the Force. The Anzat was intrigued enough to attempt what was being proposed. Already attuned to his own telepathic powers, and only slightly scratching the surface of others, it was to be a grueling process.
Intending to bring Teylas into the fold quickly, an arduous regiment began for Teylas' training. Immediately showing his competitive nature, Teylas was able to master things quickly, and became quite the duelist with a lightsaber just like his master. Although his mastery of telepathy was above par for most others, mostly due to his own species mastery of the ability, his attunement to the other Force abilities was untrained. Even after months of attempting to master his abilities, he was only able to become sufficiently proficient in many skills, except for telekinesis which he showed similar skills in as with his telepathy. However, his seemingly natural flow with a lightsaber was more than enough to compensate for his lack of mastery of the higher Force abilities that could be worked on in time.
The first major campaign that Teylas took part in was the conquering of the Outer Rim world of Nfolgai during the war against the One Sith. During the assault and pillaging of Nfolgai was also when House Plagueis revealed itself to the galaxy again after the remainder of the galaxy believed it to be destroyed. The Ascendant Fleet wasted no time moving onto their next target, Khar Delba, in order to claim the ancient Temple of Naga Sadow from right under the Sadowans. Teylas was a member of the strike team which was assigned to explore the decoy fortress on Khar Delba's icy surface. During the landing attempt, the strike team's shuttle was sabotaged and they were eventually incapacitated and captured. Finding that the culprit behind it was Xander Drax, the entire group was tortured for information and, in some cases, the sheer joy of it. During their escape and attempt to reunite with the rest of the team, Teylas and Arden Karn were forced to combat Drax's apprentice, Fuuka Ashasti. Although the two inexperienced Sith were no match for Ashasti one-on-one, they were able to use their numbers to outsmart the Sith apprentice, giving Teylas the opportunity to deliver the crushing blows which defeated Ashasti.
During the campaign to win the spoils of the desert planet Ch'hodos Teylas was assigned by Alaris Jinn to oversee Sith assault operations from orbit on the BAC Terminus. Fighting the assault on the ground would have been preferable for the Anzat, but the experience of commanding from behind the front line was just as rewarding.
Appearance
Physical Characteristics
Teylas is easily distinguished by a strong, chiseled face to naturally match his very lightly tanned skin tone. Very professional and business looking he is very kept. He typically keeps his thick, dark black hair slicked back and clean shaven on the face to match this kept style. The two tentacle-like proboscises used by his species to feed upon other humanoid species are completely unnoticeable when retracted into their proper seams along the ridge of his nose.
A DC-15s blaster pistol, just as Teylas uses.
Attire
Teylas, loathing the inability to maneuver that comes with more armored clothing, prefers lighter robes. He can typically be found with a basic black tunic underneath a deep Russian violet colored v-neck vest, slit down to his thick belt and two separate ends of the long vest draping below his thick, clasped-belt. The vest, coming up to his neck with a thick collar, is accented with solid black robe with two silver cloak pins at his chest to hold it fast. The cloak matches in color with elbow-length gloves with gauntlet-like diagonal end cuts, and knee high boots with metal clasps up and down their sides.
The robes are more than just for maneuverability, however, as they also have practicability. The gloves gauntlet-like ends allow for storage of small items, as does the clasped-belt. Most importantly though is the vest, which allows for hidden storage of some items of importance within them, including a small DC-15s blaster pistol which is usually on Teylas' person.
Positions Held