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| Nikola Valtiere
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N/A (Freighter)
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12 ABY
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Human
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Male
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2.03m
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103kg
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Dark brown, shock of white at left temple
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Pale Green
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Lower legs, Right eye
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Nadrin Erinos Arconae
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Banlanth
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Dulon, Hapan, Jeswandi
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Pilot
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Commander
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DJB
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Qel-Droma, Arcona.
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Stealth-X
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Nadrin Erinos Arconae
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13308
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- "The Krath seek knowledge. Many say knowledge is power. The Obelisk seek to perfect themselves physically. A strong body is a physical manifestation of power. Everyone seeks power. Only the Sith follow the pure path."
- ―Nikola Valtiere
Character History
Birth and Childhood
Nikola was born to a pair of spacers that made their living undertaking long-freight work. He was born and raised on the freighter for four years, clambering about heating ducts and storage containers like his own personal playground.
His childhood died when the slaving gangs from Port Ol'Val descended on the freighter. Nikola hid in the workings of the ship that had been his playground, keeping quiet as his parents were killed for fighting back. Huddled down as he was, he did not notice the tiny probe droid working it's way through the ship. It latched to the nigh on imperceptible sounds of the child's whimpering, leading the cruel slavers right to the boy. Where his parents had fought, Nikola only went limp, defeated.
In the great hollow asteroid that held within some of the dankest dregs of society, Nikola was sold into indentured service to a salvage company, tasked with cleaning out the Kas tunnel of the wrecks of ships piloted by those without the skill to navigate such a complex entrance. Nikola was only a child, and so was tasked with attaching the lines of the tugs to the wrecks, swaddled in a space suit. After years of manual labour, Nikola was practiced at moving in the void effortlessly, enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and freedom offered in the vacuum. He could forget about the squalid living conditions of the slaves, of the beatings by the company enforcers, themselves former slaves.
Valtiere never grew to be an enforcer, his anger at being made a slave becoming more and more prominent as time grew on. More and more, he would be beaten and locked away for striking out against enforcers and employees of the company. He became harder and harder to control, pushing the limits of his owners more and more every day.
His luck changed when the Quaestor of Galeres crossed his path. Zandro Erinos was on a refuelling run, having to use the facilities of Ol'Val as the Yuuzhan Vong war raged. While there, Zandro felt a presence in the force, an untrained mind, capable in the force. Hunting down the presence in the Pride of Corellia district, Zandro came across the teenager sullenly eating the thin nutrient paste slaves were given. Motioning for the the boy to come with him, Zandro told him of the power he held, and what he could become if he joined the Dark Jedi. Nikola happily followed him, glad to leave his pathetic existence.
Enforcers tried to stop Zandro, claiming he was taking company property. Zandro was silent, not moving as he drew on the Force, crushing the enforcers against walls and the ceiling.
Being the Quaestor of Galeres meant that Zandro himself could not take on Valtiere as a student, leaving him in the capable hands of the instructors at the Savric Flight Academy, where he learnt the skills that would make him and excellent pilot.
Valtiere split his time between the shadow academy and the flight academy, training his force powers while on leave. It wasn't until he was a fully qualified pilot that Nikola began to learn the true path of the force.
Ascendancy
Nikola's master was Nadrin Erinos Arconae, the son of the man that freed him. Nikola began as little more than a raging monster, his skill as a pilot the only thing keeping him from being denied training. As Nadrin taught Valtiere, he sought to temper that rage, focus it into something that could be used. Nadrin could see the potential rather than the face value of the Acolyte.
Through Nadrin's tutelage, Nikola managed to bring his anger under control, focussing it to improve his control of the force. As Valtiere rose through the ranks of the Brotherhood, his interest in space combat kept calling to him, leading to him joining the celebrated Void Squadron, an elite group of pilots specialising in stealth.
Horizons
When the Horizon plague ravaged the Brotherhood, Valtiere was one of the first brought low. He suffered a wound at the hands of his master as the force fled him, leading to his eye requiring replacement. Valtiere regressed to a mindless animal, driven wild by his power being taken from him, destroying the medical bay he was rushed to. He had truly believed his master had somehow stolen his power to supplement himself. It took two higher level dark Jedi to subdue the beast. However, Nadrin Erinos Arconae, who also fell foul of the disease, convinced his student that it had been an Entar plot by Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae to take down the Erinos, freeing him while on a sandspeeder.
Before the two could act, the cure was found, and power restored to the journeyman. After that day, he developed a respect for his master, who had shown the ability to turn situations to his favour and gain power.
Personality
Nikola is somewhat Dour in life, responding as minimally as possible to enquiries, and sometimes being a little brusque.
He finds joy in history and tactics, comfortable as a distant viewer in command. In war, he is cold fury, a directed hatred for the enemy.
Nikola also has a fixation on prosthetics. The power offered by limbs of durasteel has an irrisistable draw for the Dark Jedi.
Appearence
Nikola is imposingly tall, towering above his contemporaries. Thin and lithe, Nikola moves with the light gait of an individual used to moving in low gravity. With a shock of dark brown hair marred only by a splash of white at the left temple. His pale skin is only marked by a twisting scar arcoss his left eye, the legacy of previous combat. His lower legs are prosthetic, a sacrifice made for space combat, reducing the effect of high G-forces on Nikola. Following the Horizon event, Nikola had a cybernetic eye implanted, due to a blow to the head from a brick hurled by his master, Nadrin Erinos Arconae.
DJB Facts
Positions Held
Commander of Void Squadron.
Outstanding Achievements
Achieved Dark Maven of flight as an Acolyte.
Trivia
Interesting or important facts that do not fall under the other two categories.