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Morgan Bartholomew Sorenn is a Human female starship captain, pirate, mercenary, and crime boss currently serving as the Herald of the Dark Brotherhood and the head of a criminal organization known as the Shroud Syndicate. She is a Nar Shaddaan by birth, spacer by choice and mercenary by necessity who leads a life devoid of restrictions or bylaws. The only loyalty she holds is the one that is earned, and not many deserve that privilege.
She is a troubled individual with many dark and terrible secrets, and her past is shady at best. Her involvement with the Dark Brotherhood veers into the illicit and the dangerous, but it is a lifestyle she is accustomed to — one where she can make her own rules and regulations, and live free.
Character History
Early life {0 ABY - 15 ABY}
- "Our past is always with us."
- ―Unknown
The Sorenns' cantina
Morgan was born on Nar Shaddaa in 0 ABY to a Corellian waitress named Roslin Sorenn, who ran a cantina in the city, and a Nar Shaddaan small time criminal named Ian Arrel, who worked for the Hutts. She also had a sibling, Turel, who was three years her elder.
Her very earliest life was spent in the cantina, with her mother. As a small urchin she became the veritable mascot of the cantina and got to know all the guests, especially the long timers and the “usuals”. Morgan was an energetic little vixen, often fixated on the larger world and its stories. Her mother was poor but she provided the youngling and her brother enough, while their father conducted his business and rarely brought anything home. She slowly became accustomed to the life in the slums of the city, where criminals and cutthroats ruled.
Having many friends on the street — especially children from other households and aliens who lived a life not unlike her own — made her very open to new cultures. Nar Shaddaa had a way of bringing children closer together despite their skin color, heritage or species and it influenced young Morgan enough for her to learn the difference between a friend and an enemy, regardless of skin color. It was a virtue that would follow her later in life as well, in business deals and in leadership.
She learned the quirks of most alien species and even humans very quickly, and at a young age. Even in her early years she was a manipulator, able to persuade or dissuade others at will. As she grew older she slowly became a waitress and by her teens she was a “professional” listener, often hearing the same sob stories over and over again while refilling glasses and making a solid profit. Psychology became her source of income and her greatest weapon, and the more she used it the better she became at manipulating people to do what she wanted.
Her mother was the one that insisted the girl learn how to run the bar, and at a very early age Morgan was already independent enough to lead the bar by herself, though it was rarely like that. It was fun and games for her under her mother’s wing, that is until the day Turel went off to be a Hutt enforcer like his father.
Family ties {16 ABY - 18 ABY}
Roslin Sorenn
Even though Turel was still with her most of the time, his departure into the criminal underworld left Morgan feeling uneasy and left a feeling of emptiness in their home when he was out on business. She loved her brother — he was, after all, her best friend — and knowing he may die any given day put a lot of stress on the teenage girl. Every time her brother went out on a raid or on a job for the Hutts she would worry until the moment he returned home. It took her some time to adjust, and with time she came to trust in her brother’s abilities. Luck was on his side — something that, she would find out later, ran in the family.
Morgan grew up into a beautiful woman, with many of her customers jokingly asking her to marry them. Her beauty didn’t escape more insidious eyes, however. Most of the gangsters from her neighborhood took a liking to her and were generally unpleasant. Ironically, it was her father’s influence and reputation that kept most of the lowlifes at bay. She would find out later that her father wasn’t as good-natured as she first thought.
A Mother’s Woe {16 ABY}
- "An empty mind is like a freshly turned sod; if not sown with the seeds of love and compassion, insidious weeds will take root."
- ―Unknown
Morgan’s father has always been a heartless tyrant, always forcing his control on the family when he was around despite not providing a whole lot into it. However her mother had kept Morgan safe from his influence and meddling for most of her childhood because she knew what Ian was like, through she would later find out that she never truly ‘’knew’’ him, or how deranged he actually was. His world revolved around credits, women and wealth; his family came second.
When Morgan reached sixteen, her father turned his attention towards her more intently than before. Where before there was a meddling urchin he had little interest in, he now saw a resource to be exploited. Seeing her as a good source of profit, he made a deal with a local procurer — they’d share the profits, as long as she worked the streets. Morgan was forced to sell her body to the most grotesque dwellers in the underworld, all for her father’s greed. He kept her engaged by threatening her mother and brother, or by beating and blackmailing her in other ways, so Morgan bit her tongue and endured. She kept the truth from her mother, out of shame and fear — fear of losing her and Turel, but also of being beaten to death. And beaten she was, many times over. Many of the “customers” had a particularly deranged fun and soon Morgan’s fall to her lowest point began.
Misery {16 ABY}
File:Morgan-beaten.pngA life of misery
It was a traumatic experience for a sixteen year-old, essentially being raped over and over for someone else’s greed and lunacy. Many times she acted the cheerful and happy girl for her mother’s sake, but cracks started appearing in her mask months into the ordeal. Her mother suspected something was wrong, but whenever she brought it up Morgan would brush her off and change the subject. At first, her mother attributed this behaviour to puberty and hormones, however when it did not change even after two years — in fact it became worse, what with her working the streets every night — her mother confronted her more aggressively and the two fought so many times that Morgan stopped counting. Life became a perpetual circle of misery for the young girl.
It wasn’t until Morgan came home with a face beaten up so badly she was hardly recognizable, that her mother persuaded her to tell her the truth. The shock and grief at what was happening nearly destroyed Roslin. She had a stroke and was rushed to a medcenter. In the end she was saved but remained in hospital a full month before recovering. Once Roslin had recovered, and as soon as she was home, she packed her bags and begged her daughter to escape with her to Corellia, to find safe refuge with whatever was left of Roslin’s family there. Though fearful for her own and Turel’s life, Morgan could not endure another day in her life so she accepted.
Despite their best efforts, however, Morgan’s father found out. Keeping Morgan closed home under guard, he sent his goons to kill his own wife. With grief in her heart and no choice, Morgan’s mother fled [[starwars:Nar Shaddaa|Nar Shaddaa] with Turel’s help, leaving both her children behind.
Captivity {17 ABY}
Back on Nar Shaddaa it was business as usual for Morgan’s father, and misery as usual for Morgan. She hit the lowest point after her mother disappeared. She even considering ending her own life to escape the nightmare. She was a broken husk of her former self at that point. She didn’t know her mother had escaped until Turel found her with a blaster in her mouth, ready to pull the trigger, streams of tears flowing from her clear blue eyes. He told her the truth and made her reconsider.
Despite his job, Turel was always caring and warm toward Morgan, especially in her time of need — so Morgan had considered telling him about everything. As usual her father saw to it that she wouldn’t be able to. He closed her off from the world, keeping her imprisoned in on of his partner’s whore houses, only to be pulled out of the darkness when she was needed. Morgan’s mind comped in whatever way it could, steering ever so slowly into madness. To this day she doesn’t know what kept her alive through that ordeal.
Some measure of justice {18 ABY}
Turel taking Morgan away
Turel was oblivious to Morgan’s suffering until one faithful day when he heard her name spoken among the thugs in the Hutts’ employ. Unsure at first, and believing it was someone else they spoke of, Turel swept the thought under a rug. However, the bad feeling in his gut never went away. He pulled every connection he could to get information he feared most. And it turned out his fears were realized.
Turel searched for days, looking for his sister, but could not find her. Not in the cantina, not in their home or at any of her friends’ homes. His father noticed his quizzical behavior and made a deal with the Hutts to send him away on a mission “never to bother him again”. Blaming Morgan for Turel’s behavior, her father beat her senseless day after day. She was given to the worst scum on Nar Shaddaa and endured mental and physical torture that would have killed her had her will not been strong enough.
Morgan was eighteen years old when she considered suicide again, but with no weapons of any kind in the small room she was kept in, her agony was prolonged, that is until Turel returned. To this day Morgan is unsure what really happened, but she remembers death, blood and the smell of burning bodies from that day. Turel found her locked in the dungeon-like room and carried her in his arms to safety. Together they escaped their father’s grasp and found a temporary safe haven with some of Turel’s friends on Nar Shaddaa.
Shattered Memories {19 ABY - 20 ABY}
Morgan found a new life away from her father, but that life was fraught with fear and sleepless nights. The horrors she endured haunted her for a long time, and whenever Turel wasn’t close, she would fall into a deep depression, nightmares returning to her in the night and shadows scaring her during the day. Despite Turel’s best efforts he had a hard time reaching his sister. He blamed himself for everything and promised he’d never let her endure such a fate again. They lived like this for almost a year before Morgan realized she would have to escape Nar Shaddaa and run, run as far as she could and never look back.
A new beginning {21 ABY}
The Coronet Star
Morgan remembered her mother’s stories about her family on Corellia. With no other place to go, Morgan sought a ship to take her to Corellia, where she could live free, away from her father. Leaving a message for Turel on the small holotable she boarded a small freighter and launched off with their crew. The ship was named “Coronet Star” and her captain, Valek Starroy, gladly accepted Morgan into his crew as compensation for a ride to Corellia. His crew was a rag-tag gang of spacers and Morgan worked with them, learned from them and absorbed the life of a spacer through nearly half-a-year of travel. She even met a woman she had become romantically entangled with, a Sephi mechanic named Niena Senn. The two spent their days together, Morgan learning about the ship’s ins and outs from Niena’s experience.
It was only after several months of flirting and befriending that morgan let go and truly embraced Niena’s advances. It was then that Niena learned something of Morgan’s troubled past though Morgan left many of the crucial details out of her story. It took them a long time to become intimate, though doing so with Niena helped Morgan mend many of the wounds she had had.
By the time she had paid off her original agreement, Morgan had become part of the family of the “Star” and she had learned so much more about life in space. Eventually the ship did land on Corellia and Morgan had to bid them farewell. By that point her relationship with niena had advanced far further than anyone expected and Niena followed her and left the “Star” behind.
Grief, anger, revenge {21 ABY}
File:Morgan-Niena-death.pngNiena's death
Morgan did eventually find her mother — on a cemetery outside Coronet City. She was devastated. She had hoped beyond all hope that she would find her mother alive and well, that she would embrace her lost daughter into loving arms and take her into her home. All she found was pain, bitterness and an even deeper hatred for her father who kept her on Nar Shaddaa. She planted a kiss on the tombstone, leaving it probably for the last time.
Pretty soon Morgan and Neina had found themselves out of work and out of money. They found a place to stay in the underground levels of Coronet City. It was nothing more than a spice den at best, but it served their purposes since no one but drug addicts ever entered there. Neina comforted her friend as much as she could, and for days Morgan mourned, unable to accept the fact that her life was in complete ruins. Neina was the only person she had had to rely on at the time.
For several weeks they had lived in that hovel, doing whatever small-time jobs they could find. One day, as she returned from work, Morgan found Neina murdered in their small room. The sight of her lover dead in front of her ushered on something that morgan had felt before but never really tapped — with morgan’s scream came a psychic echo through the Force that released all her grief and anger into the void. Windows shattered, doors splintered and objects in her proximity imploded from the pressure. Morgan spent the day cradling Niena’s dead body, sobbing and seemingly losing her mind. A patrol eventually found her in the debris-filled room. She was interrogated and told that Niena had been raped and shot to death by a local gang calling themselves the ‘’Silver Skulls’’. They were known for doing whatever they wanted, mostly for fun. Charges against the perpetrators were promised but the case was shelved after a mere week. Stricken by grief, infuriated and in search for revenge, Morgan sought out any information on the ‘’Skulls’’. Eventually she had found their rivals, a swoop gang called, ‘’Red Barons’’. Their reputation for brutality equaled the ‘’Skulls’’’ but Morgan had little choice but to join them.
At the time it was dangerous for young girls to join a gang, but it was easy for Morgan to masquerade as a man. With her life as tough as it was she had lost all her femininity and attractiveness. She cut her hair, dressed up in male clothing she stole from a drug addict, changed her name to Bartholomew and ventured into the ‘’Barons’’’ hideout. She was truthful about wanting to join the gang, however she kept her true motives hidden. Her bitter need for revenge made it far too easy to manipulate the simpletons, though there was probably a much more ethereal influence there than she ever knew. The Force was with her in all her endeavors, and her Sorenn luck seemed to follow her everywhere. She learned how to ride a swoop bike and how to conduct in a gangerly manner, but most importantly she had many more contacts on Corellia thanks to the gang’s errands for the Black Sun.
Swoop knight {21 ABY - 23 ABY}
Several years after she joined, Morgan was already an expert in handling a gun, though her riding skills lacked some flair, but she was getting nearer and nearer to her goal. When their gang became large enough, Morgan influenced the ‘’Barons’’’ leader to attack the ‘’Skulls’’ and take what’s “rightfully theirs.” It was a small matter of getting him to say the right things to the rest. The order was given and the ‘’Barons’’ invaded the ‘’Skulls’’’ territory. An all out gang war broke out, involving several other gangs and CorSec, most notably, who intervened when the violence became too widespread. But the war was short lived. Morgan personally put the barrel of her pistol into the ‘’Skull’s’’ leader’s mouth and pulled the trigger, but not before torturing him to near-death and cutting each of his fingers for every member of his gang that raped Neina. Corsec put out an all points bulletin, looking for the members of the ‘’Barons’’. Many were imprisoned, most escaped and went about their work, but Morgan disappeared from Corellia.
Corsec found her years later, working for a pirate crew, though she had shed her male persona. The ‘’Torent’’, a Nebulon-B frigate used to conduct pirate raids on smaller vessels on the Hydian Way, had a crew notorious for attacking ships that carried valuable goods and contraband for the Black Sun into the Outer Rim. They had a grim reputation of cutthroats and vagabonds, as well as murderers and kidnappers, and their standing with the Black Sun was disfavorable enough to gain all of them a bounty on their heads. Bounty hunters a-plenty came around and were returned in bodybags, because the captain of the ‘’Torent’’, a human named Shado Numa, was cunning, wise and never a step behind. He took Morgan in when she came aboard, sheltering her from the rest of the crew, but soon enough she also became “one of the boys” and they stopped seeing her as a piece of meat. Her skills with a gun brought her fame in the crew and many of them often joked that she could shoot the hair off of the captain’s balding head without hurting him. She had found a better life on that ship than she ever had on Nar Shaddaa. She accepted her newfound spacer identity and enjoyed every moment of it.
Killer Queen {24 ABY - 26 ABY}
- "Never take a gamble you’re not prepared to lose."
- ―Shado Numa, to Morgan
Bartholomew on Corellia
Freedom {26 ABY - 32 ABY}
Pirate captain
Pirata Codex {26 ABY - 30 ABY}
Keelhauled {31 ABY - 32 ABY}
Airlocked
Keep flyin’ {33 ABY - Present}
Crew of the Godless Matron
A sense of self {33 ABY}
Lotus bloom {34 ABY}
Queen of the underworld {34 ABY}
File:Morgan-Chariot.pngChariot
Appearance
Physical description
Morgan is a fairly beautiful woman in her mid-thirties. She stands at an average height for a human but often seems taller due to to her habit of wearing high heels. She has a curvaceous, yet athletic build which she keeps in form with plenty of training. Her eyes are a light blue shade and, arguably, her most prominent feature.
Morgan's entire body, from the neckline down, is covered in various tattoo. Most are simple mementos of past memories she finds particularly important, like the names of the people she cares for most. However, hidden under her clothes are also gang tattoos as well as visually stunning masterpieces from different cultures. Her legs are canvased with two long, swirling, ornate dragons while her has an intricate design of unknown origin which is often the topic of rumors among her crew. She also has a barely visible Black Sun tattoo directly underneath her breasts. Her chest is inked with various designs from different cultures, including her personal symbol, a human skull in a kraken's jaws.
Apart from the tattoos, Morgan has a great many scars all over her body, mostly from stab wounds, slug shots and blaster burns. Her disfigured skin is mostly covered by tattoos, however, and many of the scars aren't even visible unless touched.
Attire
Morgan has class above all else. She knows that a good impression goes a long way, and a bit more skin can loosen tongues more easily. Morgan wears different styles of outfits for different occasions, but most of the time she can be found in black leather pants, knee high boots and a shimmersilk blouse. She likes to dress for appearances when it matters.
When she wants to blend in, however, she wears tight leather pants and soft leather jackets to accent her figure, as well as cheap, but tight shirts or corsets that don’t make her stand out too much. She wears her usual heeled, knee-high boots, which she finds equally comfortable and stylish. Most of the time, she wears a compact utility belt with holsters for her saber and pistol, including several satchels and pouches for various gadgets she uses.
Personality and traits
Personality
Morgan is an enigma to many people, even those close to her. At times she acts like the purest Jedi, other times like the darkest Sith. In reality, Morgan is a master at deception and lies. She has learned how to impersonate, act and take on any role she sees and learns. The only reason she is doing what she is doing is because there is ‘’a reason for it’’. When it comes to social interactions, Morgan rarely does or says anything without forethrought, especially if her life is at stake. Too long others have ruled her life for her, and she’s had quite enough of it.
Philosophies and beliefs
General
Morgan has one simple rule: live free or die. There is no exception, no compromise and no other alternative. She makes her own rules and cares very little for what others perceive is right, wrong, lawful and unlawful. She’ll usually play along with anyone she can interact with, but doesn't really bother following any rules they set. She’s undisciplined in the way that she recognizes no authority but the one she approves of.
That being said, there are exceptions to these rules. She fully realizes how the real world works, who holds power, who doesn’t and who is capable of doing what. She is not a delusional fool, and she most certainly doesn’t trust a whole lot of people. Her craft and art are lies and deception and she will lie and deceive whomever she has to to achieve her goals, whatever they may be. Morgan does business, first and foremost. Winning over her helping hand is merely a matter of credits; winning over her loyalty, however, is an entirely different matter.
Governments
Morgan puts very little stock in legitimate governments. Those who believe democracy is a sustainable form of government are delusional and those who believe empires are there to provide order and stability are no more than sheep following one, power-hungry megalomaniac. There is no “best way” to lead or govern; eventually, every dominion falls.
Morgan’s one and only form of government is “equal share”. She believes that what a man ‘’can’’ do, he ‘’must’’ do with his own hands, and he must get his just reward. She leads her ship in a similar fashion: everyone works, no one stops, everyone gets equal share of the bounty.
The Force
The Force is still very much a mystery to Morgan, but she does have her opinions of what it is and how it works. She doesn’t really care for the Jedi or Sith — in fact, more often than not, they annoy her with their self-righteous banter — but she does lean one way. The Force is a tool she can use to achieve her goals; eldritch magicks, ancient ruins, tomes, holocrons, temples? The religious nuts can keep them to themselves.
Powers and abilities
Morgan is heavily influenced by emotion when she draws upon the Force. More often than not, she draws her power from Bogan, being influenced mostly by darker feelings. She is human, she is flawed and she doesn’t have the self-discipline a Jedi should have to control her urges — nor does she particularly care. Revenge, anger, fear, hate: they are all within her reach.
Despite this, Morgan does have one saving grace; one detail that may inevitably become her doom or her salvation: despite her inner and outer darkness, Morgan simply cares too much for the people she loves. Someone with enough sway on her, someone she trusts completely would be able to snap her out of an angry fit or influence her to do something she usually wouldn't.
Force powers
Morgan is a psychologist by necessity. She focuses much her power on influencing a person’s mind. No trick is beyond her when her life is in peril or a job needs doing. Mind tricks, interrogations, illusions are all viable alternatives to combat.
She does have her favorites, however. Her position as a pirate captain and Herald are dependant, in part, on her ability to lead through manipulation. She endeavors to keep her enemies entertained so they don't focus their efforts on her. She uses the Force to intimidate and overpower enemies she can, and those she can’t she can suppress through other means.
She also has an uncanny ability to influence mechanical and electronic devices, a remnant of her long years in space.
Other skills
In her free time, Morgan is a pilot and a mechanic. While these skills are nowhere near the levels of professionals, she can easily find her way around a ship's cockpit or engine. Fixing it, however, is a different matter.
Relationships
Turel Sorenn
Turel Sorenn is Morgan’s brother, her best friend and her partner in mischief since they were little. He is family and she loves him immensely. However, lately they have found each other on opposite sides of the conflict between light and dark. Despite their close bond, they have found each other as adversaries, and most likely will again.
Morgan could never harm or kill her own brother, and she’d probably hunt down anyone else who tried. Despite their polar positions, she will always respect him for what he did for her so long ago. He is her white knight, but also her biggest burden, since the Inquisitorius tracks her every move in the hopes of catching the wayward Jedi.
V’yr Vorsa
V'yr Vorsa is Morgan’s former Master. The Neti trained her in the ways of the Force and is, in many ways, her mother-figure. They had spent almost two years together before Morgan ascended to the Dark Council, training, talking and meditating. Even though Morgan never truly understood the Jedi way, Vorsa made sure the young woman was trained well. Despite their different outlooks on the world, Vorsa's influence still lingers on Morgan and the pirate constantly weighs her actions against those expectations.
Few people know exactly what happened between them when Vorsa was Herald, but what is known is that Morgan betrayed her to Lord Pravus thus taking her spot as on the Council.
There are some Inquisitors that speculate the two are still in contact and that the whole betrayal episode was just a ruse, however those voices often end up silenced one way or another.
Satsi Tameike
Satsi Tameike Erinos is probably the only person in the galaxy that can make Morgan blush. They are kindred spirits, often finding understanding or acceptance in each other for the deeds they had done in the past. Morgan became very attracted and attached to Satsi at one point in their relationship and it is speculated that the two have had more than one affair. Despite rumors, however, they remain good friends and allies.
What is less known is that Morgan’s and Satsi’s relationship is much more complicated. Morgan seems to hold affectionate feeling towards the wild redhead. Reportedly, she also has a holoimage of them together somewhere in her quarters.
Celevon Edraven
Celevon Edraven’s relationship with Morgan is a mystery. Although some people know there is something between them, what that is is completely unknown. In reality, Celevon is a dear friend and confidant of Morgan’s whom she can address whenever she has trouble in private or public life. They are allies and friends and, some say, even lovers. These are all just rumors, however, as the two have never actually been seen together.
Keelan Vars
Keelan Vars is a Sentinel Network agent working undercover as an enforcer and security chief of the ’’Godless Matron’’. His relationship with Morgan is usually limited to whatever work has to be done on the ‘’Matron’’, when the captain gives out orders. Morgan is aware of his allegiance and allows his presence as long as his position is not compromised. Keelan tries to influence Morgan and veer her away from, what he perceives as a destructive path.