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O'reen
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Pre-Clone Wars
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2.09 cm
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156 kg
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- Professional soldier
- SpecOps
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- "A good soldier obeys without question. A good officer commands without doubt."
- ―Kintan's mantra
Experiment 001, E-1, Echo-1, or Codename: Kintan Strider, is a O'reenian who's lineage is something of a mystery. He was found, along with two others, deep in cryo-stasis on board a shipwreck in the ship graveyard by K.U.D.F. engineers and techs, during the construction of the Endor's Triumph. He is a professional soldier currently in the employ of House Odan-Urr and their military forces, more specifically their special operations branch. It has been discovered that his is indeed Force Sensitive and he has been training in the Jedi arts for almost a year, sharpening his skills more and more as he progresses. Genetically and cybernetically engineered to the point of near-perfection he is born, bred and trained for war. War is everything he knows, though he is starting to integrate himself into society at a slow pace.
Character History
Origins of War
- "Subject Echo-1 medical log number 0001. Start recording. Subject has sustained heavy damage during cryo-freeze, leading me to believe he has indeed been in stasis for years, even decades."
- ―Medical Specialist Arriana Axios' first log on Echo-1
Cryo-pods aborad the Entrance to Mannaeth
In 36 ABY during the construction of the Endor's Triumph in the ship graveyard at the edge of the galaxy, a group of engineers searching for scrap among the ships discovered a very old Kandosii-type dreadnaught named Entrance to Mannaeth. It was later discovered the Mannaeth is a derivation of hell, from Corellian mythology, in the O'reenian culture, thus the ship was flagged as O'reenian. What they discovered within the ship shocked them beyond words. It had had power and several systems were running at the time of their arrival. The source was a cryo-pod chamber deep in the ship's medical section. Only three pods out of five were active and while all of them held persons inside, only the individuals in the active pods were alive.
Several medical teams were called in to examine the pods and the individuals inside them. Much of the technology they found was very similar to their own, albeit somewhat outdated at the time. Initial scans showed superficial tissue damage on all three individuals, but it was only after the pods were safely opened and the individuals transferred to a controlled medical facility that they discovered what they had found. All three individuals - now designated Echo one through three - were clad in a highly advanced form of powered armor which, by the looks of things, provided some form of protection against long-term cryo symptoms. It took the engineers and medical staff combined two additional weeks of tests and examinations to discover how to remove the suits safely.
The suits were integrated with the Echos, much like cybernetic limbs are to their host. The suits were connected to the hosts via connection ports on their extremities, spine, neck, shoulder blades and head. In all three cases a cerebral chip, or "neural-interface device" as the experts called it, seemed to be connecting the subject's brain directly to the suit's systems. Deemed a "Classified A-Rank Project" by the K.U.D.F. much of the documentation and personnel in contact with the pods was reassigned to a special task force. Without proper equipment to carry out further experiments the task force sent the whole project, designated "Project Dejarik", back to New Tython for further analysis. As per military regulations, the three subjects were given codenames - M'onnok, Savrip and Kintan Strider.
Echos in the darkness
- "Subject Echo-1 medical log number 0036. Start recording. I have been assigned as the main MD in charge of Kintan Strider. His condition has improved during his, relatively short stay on the transport back home. Now it is my opinion that there is some kind of advanced healing factor involved. I will examine this claim more once we return to Menat Ombo."
- ―Arriana Axios examining Echo-1
Subjects Echo-1 and Echo-3 in bacta tanks
On their return to New Tython, Project Dejarik had been place into a secure facility beneath Ooroo Abbey in Menat Ombo. The subjects were kept under anesthetics the whole time during the first years of the Project. Their bodies were found to be so damaged by the prolonged cryo-stasis that waking them would result in their systems shutting down - at least that is what the experts said. It was apparent from the get-go that Echo one through three weren't normal humans. Their body, though exposed to prolonged stasis sleep were far less damaged than experts expected, their muscle tissue hadn't atrophied at all, and their brain activity was extremely high for someone under anesthetics.
Deep medical scans showed the cause. All three were subjected to extreme levels of genetic manipulation. The discovery was so profound that the project leader, senior scientist Arriana Axios, ordered geneticists be brought into the project to conduct further experiments on the subjects. Several months were required for the geneticists to actually decipher the genetic code of each of the subjects. their consensus was unanimous - these individuals were never born naturally, but rather lab-grown from embryos to adulthood. Their whole existence must have been spent in labs. With this discovery still more questions arose, the mystery of Project Dejarik had only deepened.
Experiments and examinations continued all through 36 ABY and 37 ABY. It was around new year, in 37 ABY, that the team in charge of Echo-1 deemed him ready for awakening. With project leader Arrian Axios' approval the preparations were underway. On the 15th day of the 2nd month of 37 ABY, Echo-1 was awakened. At first his reaction was tempered by the drug induced coma he had just awakened from. His reactions were sluggish and slow, but very soon his body adjusted and he walked and talked with renewed vigor. His demeanor was reserved and disciplined, never once flinching at, or disobeying any scientist's orders. Scans of his system revealed high concentrations of midi-chlorians, a fact immediately reported to the Jedi advisor assigned to the project, Nathan Deciarus.
And the world falls into Mannaeth
- "Priority message, Delta-Echo-Zero-Zero-One. The lab is under attack. Enemy forces have entered the main facility and are destroying what equipment we have left. I have scrubbed the system back-ups and sent what remained of our research in Project Dejarik to the Arthos. The subjects have escaped. May the force preserve them. I'm en route to objective gamma for extraction."
- ―Arriana Axios' last message from the laboratory
Arriana Axios, fighting Thuronian forces in the labs
The year 37 ABY was a life-changing year for much of New Tython's population. Not long after the other two subjects - Echo-2 and Echo-3 - were awakened, a rebellion broke out in Menat Ombo, Tanduran and all other major settlements on New Tython. Cy Thuron, the mad leader of the New Dawn movement had bided his time for a chance to strike, and it came sooner and with more force than anyone expected. Armed mercenaries stormed Ooroo Abbey and the labs, killing any guards and capturing any remaining scientists. During the chaos the subjects of Project Dejarik donned their armors and escaped the facility. Arriane Axios was the last living member of the team to be heralded off planet, leaving all her work -and the subjects - behind. It would take several months for her to discover Echo team's fate. It was indeed discovered that Echo-1, 2 and 3 had been in the employ of Cy Thuron and his Empire the whole time. Strike Team Ooroo's spy network on New Tython came up with video footage, documents and images of Echo-1, 2 and 3 fighting on Thuron's side against Harakoan tribesmen and what remained of K.U.D.F. forces on the planet, specifically the Melewati Bushfighters. Team Echo was extremely efficient at their jobs, from the reports Arriana had received. She had begged Ooroo's C.O. Revak Kur to allow her access to all the reports on Echo team. With clearance from the Council she could continue her research into the origins of Echo.
Initial footage and reports showed a complete lack of compassion for the enemy. Echo team was clearly engineered so well that their basic humanity was an afterthought. The mission always took precedence, and the enemy always took the short straw when facing Echo team. It was only in the 6th month since the new Empire was established that Axios began to discern shifts in behavior. By then she had gathered that Echo-1 was indeed, as she though, the commanding officer of the whole team - evidence of this was plentiful since Echo-2 and Echo-3 seemed to follow Echo-1's orders. Echo-1 seemed to exhibit emotion and empathy, even compassion for the first time. Sometime, somewhere a shift happened in Echo-1 and he began helping the Harakoans and other Colonists, even to the point of attacking Purity Rock during the escape. Echo-2 and Echo-3 started exhibiting the same reactions a short while after Echo-1. Axios, of course, reported all her findings and Echo team was deemed a possible valuable asset. Measures had been take to get into contact with the team and enlist their help against the Thuronian Empire in the upcoming liberation.
Freedom comes from burning skies
- "Fireteam Echo. That's what they call them now. A specialized unit or "super-soldiers" fighting Thuron. They think M'onnok, Savrip and Kintan are just pieces on Dejarik board, ready to serve them obediently. But they are so much more. They are the embodiment of everything a scientist like me lives for. Perfection incarnate. I just hope they stay alive long enough for me to meet them again."
- ―Arriane Axios, about Echo team in her personal journal
Fireteam Echo, Battle of Tanduran Fields
Liberation finally came to New Tython, and as the skies burned with the wreckage of Thuron's fleet, and the ground was scorched by K.U.D.F. tanks and soldiers, Fireteam Echo, so designated by the T.D.U.C. Special Forces command, undertook nearly a dozen mission into enemy controlled areas of the planet. The underpaid and under equipped mercenaries faced low morale in the face of the coming invasion and stood no chance. Many of them simply deserted and left their employer holding the short end, or gave up and surrendered to spare their own lives. The overwhelming force of the K.U.D.F. assault on all fronts exhibited showed what exactly Jedi are capable of doing when they have time and space to develop. However many of the breakthroughs were a direct result of Fireteam Echo's missions behind enemy lines.
During the initial landing at the Dac Compound, they managed to sabotage several convoys of reinforcements and supplies meant for the front lines. In the Battle of Tanduran Fields they managed to board a Warrior-class gunship, disable it's engines, weapons and thrusters and force it to crash-land. They were commended for this action by Councillor Torun and General Vorsa themselves. Their impressive track record during the campaign was brought to a sudden halt when Echo-3, M'onnok, was severely injured by one of Thuron's elite Jedi killers. Echo-1 and Echo-2 managed to extract Echo-3 in time to save his life, but by then the team was out of the battle and the war continued on without them. They were transferred off world to the safety of the Last Stand where tehy underwent medical treatment in bacta tanks while their gear was being repaired. By the time they recovered, Thuron was already dead and the war over. Nothing was left for them to do - but wait.
During the weeks after the invasion, Savrip, Kintan and the recently recovered M'onnok, underwent psychological evaluations, medical tests and training tests to see how well they truly perform in a secure environment. The results were staggering. Each of them had an anomaly in their gene pool. Kintan was Force Sensitive, giving him the ability to manipulate the Force to his own will, albeit instinctively, and he had an extremely well developed healing factor; Savrip was much stronger than either of them and could perform extreme feats of strength, like lifting an AAT of the ground without repuloslift assistance; M'onnok was a master hunter and tracker, exhibited by his extremely attuned senses. It occurred to Dr. Axios that all three of them were engineered to be like that for a very specific reason. What that reason was eluded her, as ever. What she had noticed, during the deep medical scans, was that Echo-1's cerebral chip was malfunctioning. Engineers investigating their cybernetic implants dismissed this at first but after a better scan revealed the chip had simply rebooted and restored to the default settings. What this meant for Echo-1, Dr. Axios did not know.
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