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- "Only after great pain, do you see life as a whole."
- ―Revak Kur
Revak V. Kur is a Zabrak male from the planet Dromund Kaas. Believing it was his "destiny," he traveled to New Tython at the age of 24 and was quickly accepted into House Odan-Urr. It was there he began to study under a Hapan female, Guinevere Deschain and ascended the ranks quickly. Having grown up around warriors and sorcerers, Revak found the Sentinel Jedi path fitting as he learned to use stealth as his ally. Later he began to favor more face-to-face combat. After a long time serving on the front lines as a Guardian and with the settlement of the Jedi's new home in the Kiast System, he has stepped back to serve on more of an Ambassador capacity. He has served as Battleteam Leader of Strike-Team Ooroo and as Aedile of House Hoth.
Physical Appearance
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Revak has a short and stocky build. His muscles are well defined due to his physical training and well managed diet. His reddish-beige skin is covered with intricate tattoos and atop his head protrudes 13 horns. He has no head or facial hair. His eyes are mostly green with only a thin band of red at the edges due to his strong dark side influences during his youth.
Generally, Revak favors the Archivist robes both for their simplicity and comfort, and their ability to cast a very diplomatic feel to his presence. While often working to prevent conflict, Revak still maintains a set of Jedi Armor to satisfy his desire to resolve conflicts that require immediate action and forgoing drudging through bureaucratic processes.
Personality
Revak fears the darkness and has vowed to fight it at all costs. Not only the Dark side of the Force, but the self-serving and morally corrupt depths of a being’s psychology. Armed with a ridged moral compass, empathetic and compassionate nature and his drive to better those around him, Revak strives to keep both himself and others from falling from the Light. This also means that he has an absolute distain for criminals and other unfavorables, causing him to come off as arrogant and intolerable to those he feels are “lesser” than him. Revak will offer redemption but once the decision is made that someone is no longer worth saving, he can kill without mercy as it is a means to a better end.
Revak is determined, capable and strives for perfection in everything that he does. Whether its formulating large scale battle plans or folding his shirts, everything he does is thoroughly planned before being executed. This extends to those around him as well but instead of just demanding success, he helps others achieve it, teaching them that failure is a learning experience. Though after repeated failures, the self-reliant Zabrak will lose patience and finish the task himself. When faced with insurmountable odds, Revak will struggle with backing down, as he sees this as failure even though logically or tactically it’s better to do so.
Revak likes to keep things lighthearted and humorous. Drawing from the darkness he sees in the world; his humor can be somewhat risqué and down-right offensive to those who don’t see the world the way he does. In tense situations its not uncommon for Revak to insert a quip or outright mock an opponent. In his dealings with his superiors, he often resorts to teasing and toying with them in order to get a rise from them, more often when he is bored. He does this both to better morale and for the sheer enjoyment of it.
Revak is learning to be more patient and passive, adapting a focus more of learning what makes the world work and finding ways to make it work better. In his talks with everyone from local townsfolk to government officials and even those within his ranks, his Empathy and Intellect allows him to quickly find common ground between parties and come to peaceful resolutions that are beneficial to both sides.
That is until he’s triggered. When he is pushed to his limit, Revak cuts off all emotion, adapts an “it’s my way or the highway” mindset and will take over the situation. On the battlefield this translates to a focused mindset on victory. During negotiations, he will decide what’s best in the situation despite the objections of those involved.
Having been trained by his father in the lightsaber form Makashi, Revak has become an accomplished duelist. Though through his time in Odan-Urr as a diplomat, he began to study the more adaptable Niman. Seeing the lightsaber as just one tool in his arsenal for dealing with situations, he only deploys his lightsaber when it’s logical to do so. With non-force users and common thugs, the sight of a lightsaber may instill fear and cause them to flee so combat won’t be necessary. When dealing with Force users, he draws his lightsaber expecting to use it. Though not the most athletic, when faced with a more capable opponent, he can fall back to a defensive stance and his Makashi training to conserve energy. This allows him to better focus on finding and capitalizing on flaws in his opponent’s technique rather than overpowering them.
Being able to adapt in combat has kept Revak alive many times. Whether using Precognition to help anticipate attacks or Amplification to help gain the edge, he will use everything he knows to achieve victory. Though combat is a last resort for him, he prefers using diplomacy or his Mind Trick ability to prevent a conflict. When in battle Revak prefers using ranged Force powers until the need to draw his lightsaber. This means using Battle Meditation to augment his troops abilities, Telekinesis to disarm or send his lightsaber to precise targets or, when he loses himself to the battle, Force Lightning.
History
The Brutal Couple
The story begins with Lou Kur and Aris Itoth on the battlefields of the Galaxy. Lou was a Zabrak male, born on the planet Dathomir, who served as an Imperial General and an Emperor's Hand agent during the later years of the Galactic Empire. He was a ruthless and brutal Warrior who often liked to be in the middle of a conflict instead of watching from a distance. Instead of fear, men under his command looked up to him. They had a sense of pride being assigned to his unit, as it was a prestigious position and one that almost always meant certain death.
Aris was a powerful Sorceress born on Dathomir. Born into the Nightsisters, she favored the use of either Mind Tricks or lightning to unleash brutal attacks on her enemies.
It was this brutality that drew Lou and Aris together. Upon the death of the Emperor in 4 ABY, Lou returned to Dathomir. Aris was looking for a mate and had heard of Lou's ferocity on the battlefield. A strong desire for adventure and never having been off-world, Aris left with Lou to the terrestrial world of Dromund Kaas. It was in Kaas city that they birthed and raised their first and only child, Revak Kur.
The Early Years (5 ABY – 23 ABY)
Revak had a childhood much like any other born to Sith parents. He would wake up, eat then train. From the moment he could walk, Lou began training him in the “martial combat of his people,” Teras Kasi. Any outsider would view this as simple “roughhousing” but to Lou, these moves would be an invaluable tool to Revak if he was to somehow become disarmed. However, Revak's small stature prevented him from effectively attacking but he adapted a more defensive approach to divert his father's strength and turn it against him. Lou wanted Revak to be a better tactician than he was. He would often make puzzles for Revak to solve and explained that, whether in combat or not, the importance of knowing your opponent and finding weaknesses would be the difference between victory and defeat.
As his coordination and strength improved, Lou began to introduce weapons. Lou, an accomplished duelist, starting his son out using simple sticks. Once he had established a good foundation, bladed and eventually energy weapons were introduced. Revak looked forward to the days that he and his father would run through drill after drill, conditioning both his mind and body. He often dreamed of being in battle and fighting to the death, using his superior skill, strategy and strength to win over his enemies.
Another aspect of Lou’s training was to not use the Force. As it is common to amplify your physical abilities with the Force, Lou though it better to be in top physical condition during battle and to use what Force energy you had for other things. Revak’s physical training consisted of cardiovascular conditioning and heavy weight training. Although, as ruthless and brutal was Lou had been in battle, he had a side most though rather odd; his eating habits. Lou believed that nutrition had an indirect bearing on how strong someone was with the Force.
“The better the food: the better the body. The better the body: the better the Force.”
Nutrition and strict dieting was introduced from a very early age. Each meal was carefully planned and rationed. Meals usually consisted of high quality meat and vegetables. Things like fruit, bread and cakes were to be consumed sparingly. When Revak was 12, he would go out on his own and hunt the various beasts of the planet.
Aris on the other hand worked more with the Force and the ancient teachings of the Nightsisters. She taught him from an early age how to manipulate his world. Advancing to the manipulating of others.
Revak was a quick learner when it came to using the Force. He was very capable of channeling his emotions into devastating attacks. But that was not all his mother taught him. Aris had a strong mind.
For telekinesis, Aris would draw three different boxes on the ground. Each box had a corresponding block. Revak had to pick up a block and drop place it in the box, lining it up perfectly. Revak quickly mastered the initial stages but as his skill increased, so did the difficulty. The blocks would be placed further away and eventually, with much practice, Revak could do it with his eyes closed.
The training he received on mind tricks was much more brutal. Only a small portion of his training was about how to manipulate others. Mostly she focused on how he can protect himsel. Aris would unleash horrible mind attacks on her son. She would infect his mind with bad thoughts, fear and sorrow. She would put images into his head from things that she had seen from her battles. She would even convince him that everyone he knew was dead and that he was next. The effects of this training kept him awake all night as his mind tried to organize and rationalized the images. When he did sleep, the images would terrify him, waking him up immediately. In time, his mind would begin to fight off the attacks. As his resolve developed, ,the images that once scared him he learned to drive back to their source. As his proficiency increased the more he could withstand.
Leaving Home (23 ABY)
- "... go anyplace but here."
- ―Aris Kur
Around Ravak’s 18th birthday, the tension between Loa and Aris was far too great. Lou wanted Revak to follow his path by joining the New Order and serve what was left of the Imperial military. Aris on the other-hand though Revak would be better to return to Dathomir to continue the bloodline. Much of the hostility of both his headstrong parents was taken out on him. He wanted to do neither of those things. He wanted to pursue his own destiny. Sneaking away to work for various smuggles loading and unloading loot, he saved up enough money to leave the planet and his parents behind.
Revak and Di'an (23 ABY - 26 ABY)
- "It's your life. Live it the way YOU want to. Don't let anyone tell you how to live YOUR life."
- ―Di'an
Di'an wielding her lightsaber
Revak eventually found himself on Dantooine with money running low. He took the measly credits from his last job and decided it was time for a drink. We entered the nearest cantina to the shipping ports. The bartender droid poured him a drink. As he sipped he cleared his mind. He often practiced "feeling" the environment to get a general sense of the atmosphere. Then something caught his attention. He felt the presence of another Force user. He made out that is was a Human female with wavy brown hair and smooth light skin. He felt her mood shift and focus. Then he felt her approach from his right side. Dropping his hand to his side, he focused enough to generate a bolt of lighting if he needed to. She sat on the bench next to him and introduced herself as Di'an, a smuggler looking for someone to accompany her on her next run. They started talking.
Ravak and Di'an would grow to because close friends. She was a traditionally trained Jedi Guardian who survived the Purge. She ran and hid far from the reaches of the Empire. Needing credits, she became a smuggler, transporting goods mainly between the Outer Rim worlds. Concealing her Force alignment kept her alive. Her Force sense enabled her to avoid the Vader's Jedi Hunters. These skills she would go on to teach Revak. She taught him the Jedi Code and although she had to break him from a lot of what his parents had drilled into his head, she found he had an insatiable love of learning the workings of the galaxy and other cultures. Later on, he would learn to pilot her YT-2000 light freighter, the "Mystic" and often do runs on his own, with little help from Di'an.
On Revak's 21st birthday, Di’an burst into the crew bay holding a decorative box. She placed the box on his lap. Revak removed the decorative paper covering the box. He opened it, revealing a Late-Republic style battle helmet. She explained that she had acquired it from an organization they ran supplies for many times, the Cuy'var Dar. In Mando meant "Those who no longer exist" and were a clan of warriors and priests. Di'an told him that if anything was to happen to her, he must seek them out on the dessert world Jakku and show them the mask. She made him promise that he would. When he questioned about the helmet, she said it was an offering from their Chief to join them. She had kept it hidden until Revak was of age and ready to take on a new challenge.
The Death of a Jedi
- "Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is."
- ―Jedi Master Yoda
It was on Kashyyyk, around 26 ABY, that his life would change forever. While Revak was refueling the Mystic, Di’an walked down to a lower platform full of food and clothing merchants to restock their rations. As she paid for the items, a loud explosion was heard overhead. A large cruiser had clipped one of the tall trees and came crashing through the thick forest canopy. Large tree branches, engulfed in flames, rained down on the landing platform. Revak was hit and knocked back by the falling debris. The impact knocked the wind out of him and sent him to the ground. He jumped to his feet. His head bled from the impact but amongst the screaming and chaos, he heard a familiar voice scream. Revak ran to the edge of the platform and looked down to see Di'an dodging falling debris. He looked up to see a large chunk of the ship heading towards the platform. He reached out with the Force and slowed the flaming twisted metal in the air. Channeling his fear, he pushed the debris safely out of the way but didn't see a large tree branch also falling. It hit the platform with enough force to tear it off of the tree that help it in place. He couldn't react in time. He felt her fear suddenly vanish. Large red-hot embers slowly drifted through the air in a sort of serene peacefulness. A stark contrast to the chaos that had just ensued. Revak collapsed as grief replaced fear.
Aerial view of the crash
Revak sat near the edge and leaded over. A faint orange glow quickly burned out into blackness. Time seemed to stop. Revak sat numb to all the noise and commotion around him. He placed his hand on the platform to push himself up. Knowing nothing could be done and that he had to move on, he walked to the Mystic and left the planet.
As he walked though the empty ship, he thought back to all the time they spent laughing, joking, and training together. He felt lost now. Her guidance he knew he would never receive again. He walked to her quarters and looked in. It still smelt like her. He walked to his and laid on the bed. Emotions began to rush over him. He slammed his fist against the bunk, knocking a stage box to the floor. Out rolled the helmet she had given him. He picked it up and pressed it against his forehead. Once again channeling his emotions into strength his stood up and made his way to the cockpit. He input the coordinates Di'an had given him to help him find the Cuy'va Dar. After a few moments of calculations the Mystic made the jump to hyperspace. When the engines revved down, a right red planet shined in the distance. He had made it to the world he thought had been lost forever. A planet radiating Dark Side energy. That planet was Korriban.
Cuy'va Dar
Mando for "Those who no longer exist," the Cuy'va Dar are an organization of warriors and priests who came together roughly around the beginning of the Republic. Members are often distinguished by an intricate design depicting the head of a dragon. Though one would have to look hard to see it.
This group had lived on many systems before coming to rest of the inhospitable planet of Korriban. They viewed their struggle to survive as a test of strength. Those who weren't strong, died. This benefited the group as a whole for it weeded out the week and those that they found to e undesirable to continue the bloodlines. They were scoundrels for hire. Working throughout the galaxy as mercenaries, smugglers and assassins. They're priests designed strict laws based on an ancient religion they had discovered that played off of the ancient Sith that once made the planet their home. It is here that Revak learned many of the stealth tactics he often deploys on missions.
The Shadow Warrior (26 ABY – 29 ABY)
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The Dark Jedi Brotherhood (29 ABY – Present)
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Possessions
Ships
Alliance
A Lambda-class T-4a Shuttle that is used to transport Revak and other diplomats to various locations throughout the Galaxy and is outfitted as such. The Alliance has had its interior completely reworked to better suit Revak's living style. Though the increase of creature comforts and luxury has severely reduced the cargo and passenger capacity. The Alliance contains extensive stealth technology that can render it nearly invisible to all but the naked eye. A combination of a specialized coating on the hull and special hardened electronics make it incredibly hard to detect with standard starship sensors. Due to the sensitive nature of the electronics involved, when the stealth system is enabled, all non-essential systems other than maneuvering thrusters and life support must be fully shut off, rendering the ship vulnerable to attack, and unable to defend itself. The exterior of the ship has had every external component painted black as night, with attempts to minimize the brightness of external lights and features. This allows this Lambda-class T-4a Shuttle to more easily blend into the darkness of space.
Mystic (destroyed)
File:Mystic.pngThe Mystic leaving Korriban
He had made several improvements to the ship including a newer hyperdrive, armor and shield generator, two automated laser turrets that can be controlled by his astromech droid.
Equipment
Mask of the Dragon
Mask of the Cuy'va Dar
The mask is one of his most valuable pieces of equipment. The outer shell is composed of Cortosis shielding. The designs were all chiseled by hand. The eyes are enhanced for low light viewing as well as high light shielding and an air filtration system built into the mouth and nose of the unit. This mask is one of the Cuy'va Dar artifacts Revak still keeps with him.
Lightsabers
Ravak is proficient in two forms of lightsaber combat, Niman and Makashi. He always carries two lightsabers that he either can use together or either one on its own.
Upon being knighted, Revak constructed his first lightsaber. It closely resembled Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber, in that it had a thin neck, round emitter and green blade.
The second lightsaber he constructed had a bit more freedom to personalize. He chose a black hilt with a vented emitter and brown leather wrapped hand-grip. It emits a green blade representing his current quest for knowledge.
His secondary saber has a dark grey curved hilt and black leather hand-grip. He chose the curved hilt for his proficiency in Makashi. The curved hilt allows him to strike with more controlled accuracy and finesse. It emits a red blade so he always remembers to control his emotions and his Dark Side inclinations.
Droids
"Kay"
Revak keeps an HK-series assassin droid, or “Kay,” to help him with tasks that he would have to otherwise hire a human for. In addition to normal protocol droid functions, Kay is a proficient bodyguard and is fully capable of eliminating any threat to Revak's life. He found Kay while on a mission for the Cuy'va Dar. Kay had once been programmed to kill any of the remaining members of the secretive clan but Revak, seeing the droids usefulness, disabled and later reprogrammed the droid. He wiped all of the droid's memory and directives yet kept the corrupted personality programming. This allowed the droid to maintain its somewhat sadistic and misanthropic remarks. Kay's new directives are for service to Revak only and will not respond to directions from others unless agreed upon by its owner. However, it should be noted that while in service to Revak, its assassin functions allow for independent though and learning allowing it to analyse and execute its bodyguard or combat functions with the highest percentage of success. It has received advanced automated repair programming based on the original HK-series Assassin Droid schematics, giving it an ability to perform or assist in the performance of self-diagnosis and self-repair of its mechanical systems. This system engages automatically upon damage, and can render the droid temporarily unavailable while it assesses any necessary repairs before further action can be taken. The droid's sensors give off an orange hue and the outer shell of the droid has been painted black to conceal the droid when in low light conditions and to intimidate when in public. Kay is proficient with a variety or different weapon systems but mostly prefers to use the BlasTech EL-16HFE Blaster Rifle.
Hobbies
Revak likes to sit and think from time to time. This allows him to center himself to focus better on tasks. He'll often take off in the *Alliance* and relax to really loud music.