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Justinios Drake is a Knight allied with House Ektrosis of Clan Taldryan. As a former Professor, Justinios' main focus is continuing his academic research into the true nature of The Force.
Character History
Early Life
Many generations before Justinios was born the Drake family immigrated to Coruscant from their native Aleen. The first member of the family to immigrate to the Republic capital world took on the surname Drake as an attempt to assimilate into the local culture. The Drake family also has a long tradition of attempting to give their children "high class" first names in the hopes that it will assist with their ascent from a lower middle class alien family to the ranks of politician, officers and other roles of high import. Even after decades of living on Coruscant the Drake family had not improved much in their ability to select names actually used by those of higher social status and instead mostly ended up naming their children a seemingly random mashup of a positive personality trait and a suffix that sounded fancier than it really was. This is exactly the same method that was used when Valorium and Ulis Drake had their first child, Justinios, in 1 ABY.
Vaolorium Drake held down a well-paying job within the Coruscant Public Works department as a maintenance worker. Although the elder Drake did experience some discrimination based on his non-human status, his willingness to use his small stature to access the hardest to reach and most dangerous areas of Coruscant's infrastructure kept him gainfully employed despite any prejudice. The Drake family led by Valorium did not live an extravagant lifestyle but they never wanted for basic necessities in life and even enjoyed the occasional family vacation. All in all Justinios Drake had an uneventful early childhood, one devoid of any great tragedies or major defining moments.
It was a student where Justinios stood out a bit from his peers. All throughout his early education, the Aleena was a well-behaved student who performed exceptionally in most classes, especially with regards to exams. HIs effort level quickly became the Aleena's biggest roadblock to his own success. He would ace all his tests but struggle to hand in homework and projects in on time for no reason other than procrastination. This became an issue when Justinios began to look into where he would attend university and with lingering non-human bias on Coruscant he found many doors closed to him. As the Aleena's senior year drew to a close, he had received acceptance to a handful of the school's he had applied to but without any financial aid available to him he was not able to afford to attend any of them.
Desperate to attend post-secondary school, Justinios applied for admittance at his regional public institution. The Coruscant system of regional colleges requirements were simply the ability to pay the highly subsidized tuition and pass a very simple entrance exam. Justinios attained an almost perfect score on the entrance exam (although to this day he will argue the test was wrong regarding the question he missed) and the cost was so highly subsidized that he was able to attain very low-interest loans to cover tuition. Additionally, scoring so high on the entrance exam got the attention of the President of the college who would eventually become a key player in Justinios' academic career.
Finding the Brotherhood
Using the age old tactic of making your graduate assistants do the dirty work on your research, the Aleena had set his workers out to find any references to ancient repositories relating to the Jedi or any group with the ability to manipulate the Force. In early 35 ABY, one of Justinios' graduate assistants came to his office with a hyperspace map leading to an all but forgotten backwater planet. The student explained that his brother's, best friend's, wife's, third cousin was on a freighter crew that works off of the normal trade lanes and that at a family gather his brother's best friend overheard his wife's third cousin telling unbelievable stories of what he has seen on his travels. While Justinios' student assistant and his brother were laughing at all of the likely over-exaggerated tales, one of them mentioned what sounded like an impressive library. The point that had finally gotten the grad student's attention was that he claimed that the planet was full of Jedi.
This was all that Professor Drake needed to hear, as soon as the semester was over he made arraignments to travel to this mystery planet. No one transport would take him that far off of the main routes but after contracting with over a dozen different pilots, all of varying reputation, he landed in Karufr City. Although he did not see any immediate indication the planet was inhabited by Jedi, the library itself did not prove to also be a fabrication of a bragging cousin. It took a few days but he was able to negotiate access to the first two sub-levels with the local bureaucracy. The day after he gained access, the professor excitedly entered the library and began gather up as many scrolls and holographic articles as he could carry. Professor Justinios Drake would never get the opportunity to read a single word one any of the documents because as soon as he plopped himself down at a table, fire began to rain fromt he sky.
Surviving Karufr
Physical Description
Justinios is a veritable giant among his own people but to the unfamiliar eye he would look indistinguishable from the rest of his species but someone unfamiliar with the diminutive species would have a difficult time noticing the variation. From his scaly blue skin, to a mouth far too large for such a small small head the only distinguishable features of this Aleena are height and weight.
The Aleena is usually found wearing a snug fitting, but comfortable bodysuit. Even in combat, it is rare to find Justinios wearing armor plating but he isn't often seen eating with his backpack of scientific equipment. The former professor can commonly be found with in all manner of situations with data collection tools on him, including data pads and holorecorders, in the place of military weaponry or equipment.
Partly due to his history in the academic profession, Justinios is also comfortable dressing himself up to meet the requirements of any formal occasion preferring the classical formal robes of academic society.