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==  Character History(In Progress)  ==
==  Character History(In Progress)  ==
===  Early Years(Age 1-12)  ===
===  Early Years(Age 1-12)  ===
====  Born and Betrayed  ====
{{Quote|Tyber, forgive me.|Karina Brokkol's final words before leaving Jev to fate.}}
{{Quote|Tyber, forgive me.|Karina Brokkol's final words before leaving Jev.}}


Kal Vorrac was born as Jev Brokkol on [[starwars:Coruscant|Imperial Center]] in [[starwars:15 BBY|15 BBY]], a name he didn't keep for very long. He was the son of Karina Brokkol and her recent affair, a [[starwars:smuggler|smuggler]] named Tyber Vorrac. Jev was conceived during a time when Karina's husband, a wealthy [[starwars:Bakuran|Bakuran]] merchant named Dobin Brokkol, had been away on [[starwars:Rodia|Rodia]] signing a business deal. Dobin was away during Jev's birth, and would be for the first two weeks of his life.
Kal's history begins with his mother's infidelity. Karina Brokkol, Coruscanti wife to the [[starwars:Bakuran|Bakuran]] merchant Dobin Brokkol, lived within their penthouse apartments on [[starwars:Coruscant|Imperial Center]]. A marriage of several years, Karina's greatest source of stress was her inability to concieve; it often drove her to seek liquid comfort at [[starwars:Cantina|cantinas]] and other establishments. Dobin's pressuring didn't help - his frequent trips made him feel like his already-limited time to father a child was being cut down further - but ultimately, it was this failure that led to her meeting a [[starwars:Smuggler|smuggler]] named Tyber Vorrac.  


Unfortunately for Karina, Jev looked nothing like his supposed father. He had his biological father's oddly pale skin and striking emerald eyes, inheriting jet-black hair and a sharpness to his features from his mother. Karina immediately had Jev hidden away from her security staff, sabotaging the [[starwars:medical droid|medical droids]] that had presided over his birth to appear as if they'd broken down. Eventually, she realized the futility of her actions and ran away with the child.
The two began to see one another more and more often in secret, until finally Karina became pregnant after one of their trysts. Dobin's business trips kept him away enough that she managed to convince him the child would be his, but Karina's worst fears were realized when the boy was born. Named Jev, he looked exactly like his true father, inheriting only his mother's black hair and features. Panicked, Karina took the child from the penthouse, fleeing through the night from [[starwars:Coruscant Security Force|CSF]] [[starwars:Speeder|speeders]] before ditching her [[starwars:Airspeeder|airspeeder]] in the lower levels. There, she was startled by a [[starwars:Bothan|Bothan]] friend of hers named Durmak and shot him out of reflex; unable to help him, hide the boy, and escape the CSF, she chose her life over theirs and left the baby with only a hasty note.  


Sneaking into her personal [[starwars:airspeeder|speeder]] and flying some miles away to stash him in the lower reaches of Imperial Center, she was first pursued by the [[starwars:Coruscant Security Force|CSF]] and then startled by a [[starwars:Bothan|Bothan]] friend of hers named Dhurmak and shot him out of panic. Afterward, she left Jev there, along with a note renaming him as Kal Vorrac for any who would find him. He was discovered by a [[starwars:Twi'lek|Twi'lek]] [[starwars:prostitute|prostitute]] named Sali Beel and adopted as her son. Dobin was led to believe that the speeder in question had been stolen and that his son had been kidnapped in retribution for corporate espionage, while Tyber was never again contacted about his son.
Jev was found by a [[starwars:Twi'lek|Twi'lek]] named Sali Beel, a [[starwars:Prostitution|prostitute]] and [[starwars:Deathsticks|addict]] working the lower levels of Imperial Center to support her habit. Despite her inclinations and associates, she took the boy in, reading the note that named him Kal Vorrac. She raised the boy for a few years, teaching him to speak a good number of words in [[starwars:Huttese|Huttese]], [[starwars:Twi'leki|Twi'leki]], and [[starwars: Galactic Basic Standard|Basic]]. While she kept the boy, she couldn't support him and her habit, and thus she lost him to enforcers for her [[starwars:Drug dealer|dealer]], an [[starwars:Ithorian|Ithorian]] named Haido Kuzh. The enforcers viciously forced themselves on Sali, stole Kal from her, and mutilated her face to send a message to other deadbeat clients.


====  Three tongues  ====
Kal was initially ignored by Haido as he waited to find someone to get rid of the boy, then began to set him to doing chores and running errands. By age six, the boy was a pickpocket, thief, and drug runner, carrying shipments and credits back and forth. Haido rarely gave him anything other than the bare necessities, often less than that, and so by age eight Kal was skimming portions of Haido's credits to stash for later use. These got him clothes and food, and eventually a hold-out pistol. He practiced with this many times over the next few years, becoming a good shot with it until [[starwars:Coruscant Guard|Coruscant Guard]] troopers apprehended him with it; thanks to his lack of identity registration and his natural speed and agility, he evaded them. He wouldn't realize it until later, but his fear had sent the [[starwars:The Force|Force] through his body by instinct, letting it aid his acrobatics.  
{{Quote|Mommy, when will I grow lekku?|Kal Vorrac, age five.}}


While some children had toys, Kal was left with only his adoptive mother for entertainment. Soon after he began speaking he was able to use words of [[starwars:Huttese|Huttese]], [[starwars:Twi'leki|Twi'leki]], and [[starwars:Galactic Basic Standard|Basic]], the three languages most often used by Sali's clientelle. His use of Huttese was complete at the age of three, while four and five saw [[starwars:Language|fluency]] in the other two tongues. In these years, Kal showed the first indications of his brilliant mind, learning to read from [[starwars:Holonet|holonet]] displays.
He was later tracked to Haido's home, where the Guard's [[starwars:Stormtrooper|stormtroopers]] arrived in force to arrest everyone on the scene. Several of Haido's enforcers were killed and the Ithorian badly wounded by a stray shot to the chest, and Kal only got away because of the confusion of the crackdown and a lucky ventilation shaft. Again, in his older years, he'd comment on how the Force was guiding him. Escaping, his face now all over Coruscanti viewscreens and [[starwars:Datapad|datapads]], he did the only thing he could think to do and snuck onto a [[starwars:Light Freighter|freighter]]. There, in an amusing twist of fate, he offered his remaining credits and begged the pilot, Tyber Vorrac, to carry him to the next port. As the boy was too afraid to say his name, Tyber agreed without hesitation, believing Karina's baby had been kidnapped years ago as her official story had said. Intending to take him further to [[starwars:Dantooine|Dantooine]], Vorrac was forced to leave his unknown son onboard the freighter while he did business on [[starwars:Nar Shaddaa|Nar Shaddaa]]. Kal, his terror no less than before, decided he had waited enough.


Kal was also exposed to very harsh facets of the world. Sali was not always able to ensure privacy, showing Kal a few instances of rough treatment from clients. Later, he found the bruises and cuts left over from these encounters would be his first source of rage. Some clients would abuse him when he came too close, while others took an odd fondness of the boy, teaching him [[starwars:Unarmed Combat|fighting]] [[Hand to Hand Combat Guide|techniques]], stashing secrets, and other tools of [[starwars:Pirate|their]] [[starwars:scoundrel|various]] [[starwars:Racketeering|trades]].
He made one of the biggest mistakes and best decisions of his life and departed on the Smuggler's Moon.  
 
Sali Beel was also a picture of addiction for Kal, bringing him to dislike [[starwars:Spice|drugs]] of all forms and giving him a special hatred for [[starwars:Deathsticks|Deathsticks]]. At one point she incurred enough debt with her [[starwars:Drug dealer|dealer]], the [[starwars:Ithorian|Ithorian]] Haido Kuzh, to put her life at risk and the life of her son. When she spoke to Haido, she offered the boy into [[starwars:Slavery|servitude]] in exchange for her own survival. Haido agreed, but when the enforcers came to take Kal they left her with disfiguring scars along both cheeks.
 
====  Raised by Thieves  ====
{{Quote|Don't tuck it too far back in the sleeve. You need it to slide easily.|Weelin Tham, on [[starwars:Hold-out blaster|hold-out pistols]].}}
 
Life with Haido quickly became a gauntlet for young Kal. Schooled to be a thief and, in time, an enforcer, he was punished for crying and throwing tantrums. He cleaned up after the ithorian and ran his messages around, growing attached to the man in spite of everything. Haido would reward him for stealing from competitors and innocents alike, instilling a strong drive to take from others. Even so, Haido made sure that Kal respected business and the nature of a deal. He couldn't afford for the boy to undermine him.
 
Over the next six years, Kal would learn more languages from those Haido did business with and would learn teachings of the fighting style [[Dulon]] from a few of those that liked him. Over time he became quite capable in the art, which was useful for the boy's small size. The boy was nearly ambidextrous from birth, and would come to train both of his hands to function equally. A [[starwars:Duros|Duro]] named Weelin Tham was especially fond of the boy; he taught Kal how to conceal a hold-out blaster, and how to draw it quickly.
 
These skills would only serve him so well, however. As he grew up, Haido developed an attachment to the boy. He constantly tested him, encouraging him to steal from bigger and better targets, getting rich and growing proud of the boy as the scores became larger and larger. This ambition would be Vorrac's undoing; against Haido's instructions, he stole from a group of [[starwars:Trandoshan|Trandoshan]] slavers. Though they never caught Kal in the act, they blamed Haido and targeted him as a way to both eliminate the competition and make up for their losses. The Ithorian had no choice, offering them Kal's life to keep himself alive. Kal discovered this, hiding away before they could take him and stowing on a [[starwars:Bulk freighter|freighter]] bound for [[starwars:Nar Shaddaa|Nar Shaddaa]].


=== Teen Years(Age 13-19) ===
=== Teen Years(Age 13-19) ===
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==== To Bow and Scrape ====
==== To Bow and Scrape ====


{{Quote|Steal from a Hutt, will you?|[[starwars:Morseerian|Morseerian]] port authority on Kal's trip in the cargo hold.}}
==== Galaxy Overturned ====
==== Student ====
==== Abuse ====
==== First Blood ====
==== Natural ====
==== Freedom ====


=== Assassin (Age 20 - Age 38) ===
=== Assassin (Age 20 - Age 38) ===

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Kal di Plagia Vorrac
Biographical Information
Homeworld:

Coruscant

Date of Birth:

15 BBY

Physical Description
Species:

Human

Gender:

Male

Height:

6'0"

Weight:

130 lbs

Hair:

Black

Eyes:

Green

Cybernetics:

Both legs, left arm.

Personal Information
Allies:
Lightsaber Color(s):

Red

Lightsaber Form(s):

Makashi, Dun Moch

Fighting Style(s):

Dulon, Jeswandi, Shadow Fist, Verdanaian

Chronology & Political Information
Profession:

Assassin/Sith

Position:

Quaestor, Docent

Era(s):

Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era

Affiliation:
Dossier:

7288

[ Source ]


Kal di Plagia Vorrac, also known as Jev Brokkol by some and Old Man Plagueis by others, is currently Taskmaster of House Plagueis and Commander of Battleteam Primus Pilus. A man of manipulation, he has practice in pulling the strings of all around him. While usually preferring to fight from afar and play with lives as if on a dejarik board, his shadowy past as an assassin allows him to fight when he must. Though he ages and deals with past injury, he is rapidly ascending through the powers of the Dark Side.

Character History(In Progress)

Early Years(Age 1-12)


"Tyber, forgive me."
―Karina Brokkol's final words before leaving Jev to fate.

Kal's history begins with his mother's infidelity. Karina Brokkol, Coruscanti wife to the Bakuran merchant Dobin Brokkol, lived within their penthouse apartments on Imperial Center. A marriage of several years, Karina's greatest source of stress was her inability to concieve; it often drove her to seek liquid comfort at cantinas and other establishments. Dobin's pressuring didn't help - his frequent trips made him feel like his already-limited time to father a child was being cut down further - but ultimately, it was this failure that led to her meeting a smuggler named Tyber Vorrac.

The two began to see one another more and more often in secret, until finally Karina became pregnant after one of their trysts. Dobin's business trips kept him away enough that she managed to convince him the child would be his, but Karina's worst fears were realized when the boy was born. Named Jev, he looked exactly like his true father, inheriting only his mother's black hair and features. Panicked, Karina took the child from the penthouse, fleeing through the night from CSF speeders before ditching her airspeeder in the lower levels. There, she was startled by a Bothan friend of hers named Durmak and shot him out of reflex; unable to help him, hide the boy, and escape the CSF, she chose her life over theirs and left the baby with only a hasty note.

Jev was found by a Twi'lek named Sali Beel, a prostitute and addict working the lower levels of Imperial Center to support her habit. Despite her inclinations and associates, she took the boy in, reading the note that named him Kal Vorrac. She raised the boy for a few years, teaching him to speak a good number of words in Huttese, Twi'leki, and Basic. While she kept the boy, she couldn't support him and her habit, and thus she lost him to enforcers for her dealer, an Ithorian named Haido Kuzh. The enforcers viciously forced themselves on Sali, stole Kal from her, and mutilated her face to send a message to other deadbeat clients.

Kal was initially ignored by Haido as he waited to find someone to get rid of the boy, then began to set him to doing chores and running errands. By age six, the boy was a pickpocket, thief, and drug runner, carrying shipments and credits back and forth. Haido rarely gave him anything other than the bare necessities, often less than that, and so by age eight Kal was skimming portions of Haido's credits to stash for later use. These got him clothes and food, and eventually a hold-out pistol. He practiced with this many times over the next few years, becoming a good shot with it until Coruscant Guard troopers apprehended him with it; thanks to his lack of identity registration and his natural speed and agility, he evaded them. He wouldn't realize it until later, but his fear had sent the [[starwars:The Force|Force] through his body by instinct, letting it aid his acrobatics.

He was later tracked to Haido's home, where the Guard's stormtroopers arrived in force to arrest everyone on the scene. Several of Haido's enforcers were killed and the Ithorian badly wounded by a stray shot to the chest, and Kal only got away because of the confusion of the crackdown and a lucky ventilation shaft. Again, in his older years, he'd comment on how the Force was guiding him. Escaping, his face now all over Coruscanti viewscreens and datapads, he did the only thing he could think to do and snuck onto a freighter. There, in an amusing twist of fate, he offered his remaining credits and begged the pilot, Tyber Vorrac, to carry him to the next port. As the boy was too afraid to say his name, Tyber agreed without hesitation, believing Karina's baby had been kidnapped years ago as her official story had said. Intending to take him further to Dantooine, Vorrac was forced to leave his unknown son onboard the freighter while he did business on Nar Shaddaa. Kal, his terror no less than before, decided he had waited enough.

He made one of the biggest mistakes and best decisions of his life and departed on the Smuggler's Moon.

Teen Years(Age 13-19)

To Bow and Scrape

Assassin (Age 20 - Age 38)

Bounty Hunter

New Digs

Turf

The Job at Corulag

Dark Jedi Brotherhood (Age 39 - Present)

Apprenticeship

Knighthood

Yuuzhan Vong

The Warrior

Little Spider

War of Ascension

The Way of the Sith

Battlemaster

Cripple

The Dark Side

The Mentor and the Psychopath

One Who Has No Home

Quaestor

The Taking of Si'Tilk

Tempest Omega

Back to Shadows

Battlelord

Kal kills a fellow student while training with the GMRG.

Guardsman

Physical Description

Vorrac has black hair, emerald eyes, and skin pale as ice. While not an overbearing man, he is fairly tall at six feet and keeps his medium build well-toned and as healthy as possible. His hair is kept short enough for a soldier, and his face is kept free of facial hair. His left arm and both legs are prosthetic parts, painted a low-lustre black. Kal always wears his Brotherhood robes, both for effect and to conceal his false body parts.

Personality

One could say that Kal Vorrac is an example of life's shaping influences. Between abandonment and abuse at all levels of childhood to a career of assassination, followed by a life of subterfuge and manipulation, all at risk of betrayal, he has become both emotionally scarred and completely self-sufficient. He is known for his deep-set paranoia and his extreme patience and thoroughness, which works with his intelligence and years of experience to make him over-compensate for weaknesses.

He truly fears only complete helplessness. This fear is so prevalent that he will literally force himself through the gauntlet as his legs give out. Until he is proven useless and someone strikes him down, he will keep fighting. This makes him manipulate and destroy to secure his place of power, but ultimately means that he will likely die a lonely and unfulfilled death.

Weapons and Equipment

Having lived the life of a contract killer and having devoted most of his credits to weapons and equipment, Kal has an intimate knowledge of blasters and other guns. While he prefers pistols for their availability and ease of concealment, he's not loathe to pick up a rifle when the situation calls for it; often, he'll grab a spare off of a dead enemy when in a tight spot. Unlike some Dark Jedi, Kal treats the blaster as a ready secondary weapon in most situations; his lightsaber is fearsome, but when confronted with range, his skills as a marksman allow him to quickly end lives without putting his own in danger.

Since becoming a Dark Jedi Knight, as he was a Journeyman in the time before armory lightsabers were issued, he has carried a saber of his own at all times. In his free moment and at his place of residence, he modifies and constructs several replacement hilts; while his blade is one of the few things he truly loves, he will discard it at the first necessity, refusing to become attached. As such, many places he inhabits such as homes, offices, and even temporary headquarters will have the weapons concealed in ideal spots.

The Force is also something of weaponry and equipment to Kal; his injuries during the Second Battle of Antei left him greatly weakened, as replacement organs and the requisite surgeries worked with missing limbs and age to destroy his prior physical ability. In his rehabilitation, he came to understand the Force more deeply, and often uses it for camouflage, subterfuge, protection, self-augmentation, healing, weaponry, and even to resist the cold of Morroth during his treks with new Apprentices. His familiarity with it is so deep that he will use it by reflex for tiny tasks like opening doors, or grabbing a drinking glass; it's as familiar to him as using his hands.

The newest weapon in the entourage of Vorrac is the whip. Since becoming the Taskmaster of Plagueis, he has taken to its use, finding the sting and crack of it effective in schooling Journeymen. While not yet skilled enough with it to regularly use the exotic weapon in combat, he is learning rapidly, and will soon be capable enough to disarm, trip, or even kill with it.

Armor, robes, and clothing for Vorrac depend greatly on the situation; he is fixated on no one set. Should the event occur where it is necessary to be protected, he will don such equipment as Stormtrooper garb or even stolen durasteel variants of Beskar'gam. In other situations, he will stick to lighter armor or simple clothing, while still others see him down to underclothes to escape the heat. Clothing is just that to Vorrac's sensibilities, gear to be changed at first need and without attachment.

Only one article holds any attachment to the Sith: A Krayt dragon pearl, engraved faintly with his insignia and kept on a cord of bantha leather. Upon being asked about it in the past, he has reacted violently, even going so far as to mortally wound a questioner. It is kept securely guarded in a bank on Coruscant, inside one of the deepest-kept vaults he could afford.

Teacher

Kal seems possessed of an odd penchant to identify with certain individuals and train them, either in his ways or in ways that suit his needs. Through this he has taught Vivackus Kavon, his most successful Apprentice, to become a skillful political player. He has also shaped the haunted Mograine into a killing machine. Recently, he trained the Farghul Necal, only to have the young one fail to kill him and subsequently die. In his void, he has adopted the Weequay Unus Domus as a replacement pupil.

Notable Achievements

  • Kal is one of the few awarded the name di Plagia for service to Plagueis.
  • Kal is the recipient of a Seal of Loyalty.
  • Kal has achieved the impressive rank of Sith Battlelord.

Positions Held

Trivia

  • Kal is a master of the game Dejarik, having studied the game as it was played on six different worlds.