Leena'Shylow is an apprentice of Muz Ashen, an accomplished slicer, and techweaver.
Brief History
Born into slavery on Nal Hutta, Leena was torn from her parents and sold to a Devaronian pirate and smuggler by the name of Soklaath Dhig to balance a debt. Finding an underage slave more or less useless, Dhig trained her to slice, starting off with basic code and cyphers, before progressing to larger systems and technologies. Demonstrating a raw talent for slicing, Dhig used Leena to access systems and collect secret information for sale on the black market, turning tidy profits.
As Leena became a teenager, Dhig pushed Leena's skills, eventually encouraging her to slice into the Black Sun's computers to shift credit accounts directly. While she managed to accomplish the goal, the Black Sun was able to trace the flow of credits back to Dhig, and cornered him in the Outer rim. Faced with a severely damaged ship and a boarding party of particularly brutal Black Sun members, Dhig surrendered his ship, the cargo, and Leena in order to escape with his life.
Taken to the slave markets of Nar Shaddaa, Leena was auctioned off, commanding a premium price due to her rare violet skin tone. She was sold to a wealthy Clawdite who only saw her as a dancer for his harem.
A few terrible years later, the Clawdite had brought a shipment of rare spices and textiles to a planet in the Tingel Arm. As he brought his entire harem for the extended stay, the clawdite met with one of the nobles on the planet. Sensing something about the black-eyed noble, Leena made sure to be seen.
The noble made the clawdite an offer that he could not refuse, credits and immediate withdrawal from his world, or quick and painful death at the point of his lightsaber. Leena, for the first time in her life, was free. The Grand Master offered an apartment in the capital and training at the academy, where Leena honed her skill with slicing. Graduating with honors, Leena was given employment and additional training in the Nephilim, a group of highly specialized soldiers that supported the Grand Master and the Star Chamber.
Fighting on New Tython with the Nephilim, Leena found herself fighting a Jedi that carved through several others of her unit, his saber carving a deep wound in her left lekku. The pain unleashed a torrent of power that had laid dormant in her, and the Force uncoiled from her in self defense before falling into a coma for several weeks. When she awakened, she left the Nephilim and became an apprentice to the Dark Lord himself, learning the ways of the Krath and delving deep into the ancient secrets of Mechu-Deru.
Building a prosthetic to help compensate for the damage to her lekku, she found her calling in the fine area between technology and the mystical aspects of the Force. Choosing to keep her Force sensitivity somewhat hidden, Leena found herself able to slip under the radar and avoid much of the internal politics of the Dark Brotherhood.
Demeanor
Leena'ShylowLeena prefers the company of droids to most sentients and is a touch paranoid. She is socially awkward, and masks this with sarcasm and sometimes scathing iconoclasm. She is not a particularly trusting person, but once one has earned her trust, her loyalty knows no bounds. She keeps her circle very small, considering them as the family she never had a chance to know. As a freed slave, Leena harbors a deep resentment toward slavers, which complicates her work with droids, who she often finds as somewhat sentient.
Abilities
Leena'Shylow is a Dark Prophet and Techweaver, a master slicer and an excellent mechanic. Her skills with her blasters outpaces her skill with a lightsaber, which suits her preference to keep enemies at a distance.
She is considered a crew member of the Fallen Spear, where her skills as a mechanic and as a combat slicer has proven invaluable time and time again. She can often be found tinkering with droids in the onboard lab or in the comms room, probing the recesses of the HoloNet.
Despite her preferences to avoid close combat, her apprenticeship with Muz has afforded her some substantial skill in Sokan and with the traditional Clan Naga Sadow specialty of Telekinesis.
Droids
Members of the Fallen Spear's crew
Hekate
HK-81 Hekate is an HK model assassin droid that has been subject to Leena'Shylow's work with Mechu Deru. Over years, the droid began to consider itself a fellow apprentice to Leena's own Master, to the point of accompanying him on missions at times. Pushing the edges of what Mechu Deru can accomplish, Hekate's personality has progressed to the point where it doesn't seem to acknowledge that it is an artificial life form, which can prove confusing to those it encounters. Hekate wears old knight robes from the Krath Order, and eagerly seeks out new tidbits of knowledge about the Force. Painted black and with bits of chrome accents, Hecate has an almost skeletal appearance. A consistent glitch within the vocalization circuits causes the droid's voice to sound like three distinct female voices at once, even after repeated repairs. In combat, the droid is aggressive, somewhat risky, and uses a BlasTech DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle and a sword that has been treated using Sith Alchemy, using the excuse that it has yet to find a suitable lightsaber crystal to craft it's own saber with.
BT-R3 "Beater"
R3-N3e Renee was an R3 Astromech that has been a project for Leena'Shylow over the years, constantly tinkering with the sensor packages installed on the droid. As a result, Renee was exceedingly useful for covert slicing operations and data extraction and decryption. Tasked with assisting Leena in the field, the droid had developed a bit of a superiority complex, which lead to strained relationships with Hekate as well as any other droids it encountered.
Following a particularly harrowing mission, R3-N3e was damaged beyond the point of repair, with prize little aside from memory banks and most of it's personality matrix remaining intact. Leena, feeling bad for the droid's sacrifice, managed to install these circuits into a new BT-1 chassis, marking the registration as BT-R3. Disturbed somewhat by the lack of technical ability afforded by the new chassis, Renee started calling itself "Beater" as a dark joke referring to its new roles of security and combat. Considerably more sarcastic in tone and much more prone to irritation, 'Beater' still maintains its sense of superiority, albeit with a newfound sense of rivalry with Hekate.
KX-Y4N6 "Huyang"
'Liberated' from an imperial remnant facility, the KX-series security droid was critically damaged during the firefight that ensued. After the rebuild, multiple reformats were required to purge the original programming. Without a template file for the KX-series, Leena'shylow constructed a new intelligence matrix using backup files similarly acquired by Muz over the past few years. The backup was somewhat corrupted, causing voice artifacts and even occasional repeated dialogue, but the information gleamed from even a partial and corrupted backup of the ancient lightsaber expert was considered highly valuable to Muz. The personality developing from the interplay of a security droid hardware running ancient tutor software has proven to be fairly stoic and practical thus far, devoid of humor. Painted matte black and coated with a additional armor plating, Huyang is often left on the Fallen Spear to assist Darius Blackwind.
ZR-4ND "Rand'
Initially issued from the Aurora Collegium to assist Muz's research into the ascendant crystals of the Children of Mortis, "Rand" was eventually found himself working on various other projects with Leena. Continued exposure to the Techweaver's latent mechu-deru has imbued the droid with a particulary emotional personality, bordering on clingy toward its fellow droids and Leena. Rand's refusal to 'leave my new family behind' was initally met with resistance and a wipe order from the Aurora Collegium, but they were shortly convinced otherwise after the course of the war. Leena has since found and removed the obscured automatic uplinks to brotherhood servers and inhibitor chips, officially bringing Rand 'into the family'.