Solus

Beneath the ground of Ishvara, down deep pits, behind barred doors, and under failing lights, several large droids slithered across the dingy metal floors, checking each of the vault’s rooms for trespassers or runaway specimens, eagerly awaiting their master to come relieve them or an intruder to run their rusty vibroblades through. Past them and down the dark hallway, where a stench of rotting corpses slain by the droids or mutated creatures long since dead in side rooms, was one foreboding door, unopened for so long. Not even the security droids dared to open it, in fear that their long dead master would be enraged. Past it, was the lab. Despite the rest of the place being so rancid, the lab was pristine and spotless. Lining the walls were containers with perfectly preserved but dead creatures, ranging from oversized lahn-rats, baby mynocks, hatched mud horns, premature tuk’ata, and tiny tookas. Around the room were several counters, tables and desks, lined with robotic parts. One serpentine droid, smaller than the security models outside, hummed quietly as it went about the large circular area, taking notes on all the sensors, gauges and displays with its already overloaded datapad. Whenever there became too much information on it, the droid simply gave a slight sigh, erased a few non-essential information, and continued with its work. At this point it had completely cleared its data files a hundredth time. One of the two objects that the caretaker droid seemed fixated on was the incomplete droid chassis in the center of the room. Suspended by wires and cables, the droid body was unlike any other droid nearby. Like the others, this was serpentine, modeled after the hutts who had given them to their dead master. Compared to both the caretaker as well as the security droids outside the lab, this behemoth looked like it was made for war. However, all of its weapons were set aside and replaced with human-like hands, most of its outer shell removed exposing wires and gears, and in the center of its chest was an open, incomplete hole, barely a foot wide. The gap seemed to beg for a power source or an implant, as small wires dangled uselessly inside. The caretaker droid always stopped a few moments each hour to study this droid, wondering what use its master had for it. Occasionally the chassis would get cleaned and polished, but beyond that it hung lifeless. If only the caretaker could access the files on the nearby computer. But those files were not for the caretaker’s knowledge. He was ordered to keep everything well cared for. Not to finish his master’s pet project The other object, or rather group of objects, the caretaker was fixated on was the chamber of crystals. Exposing the natural bedrock, a part of the lab opened up to what looked like a cave. Inside it was lined with hundreds of glowing rocks. Each one shined with their own color, with lines of light dancing inside. The droid looked over the crystals, trying to count how many of them existed. Behind the caretaker, the incomplete chassis continued to stare at the crystals as well, their opalescent and psychedelic lights twinkling in the cold lifeless receptor. Among the crystals, near the center of the floor, was one that was disconnected from the rest. So long ago, the other crystals had somehow severed their connection with this lone crystal, forsaking it to an eternity of loneliness. This shard, named Solus, had dwelled for over a hundred years in isolation, with nothing but its own thoughts to keep it company. The thoughts were self targeted. With no other company to enjoy, Solus could only talk to himself and try to make conversation. “I must reproduce. Yes this should do it.” “Do I really think so?” “Honestly at this point, I don’t know. How many times have I tried this?” “Tried to make more? I think this is attempt number three hundred forty sev-...no four hundred and thirty...” “Does it really matter?” “No.” “Then here it goes.” Solus' red color glowed slightly and began to emit a low heat. The dancing lines inside intensified and bounced around quicker than ever. For a few moments, Solus’s body hummed with energy, trying so hard to create another piece of a sentience near him. “No...no no no no...no No NO!!!” The lines suddenly went back to normal and the glow stopped. The heat died away quickly. “What am I missing? What is needed to be done? What is it?!?!” Solus could barely feel the slight touches of electromagnetism of his ‘family’ beyond his reach. The people that should have been his friends. His comforters. His teachers. “This is your fault! You are...this is your fault. Why won’t you help me? You just sit there mocking me. You love this dont you! You won’t help me! You won’t talk to me! TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!” A pause of silence. Then Solus screamed. The lines of light in Solus suddenly became one bold flaming ball of white light. His red color turned an abyssal black. The caretaker looked at Solus curiously. This had happened before, but not with this intensity. The droid wondered how long it would last. First time it was a few hours. The next time a day. Last time a full three days and nights. This time… the caretaker watched intently. And Solus screamed. He screamed into that abyss that surrounded him. He screamed for anything to hear him. He screamed to the visions he had of the world beyond. He screamed to the world beyond him. He screamed. His anger, his fury, his wrath, all composed into this one, non verbal, silent, but powerful scream.

Identity Real Name: Darth Aeon A.K.A: Solus (Formerly) The Golden Slave (previously), The Dragon, Disciple Emlesh Beosta (of Flesh Beyond Stars) Homeworld: Ishvara Species: Shard* Class: Lord Physical Description Without Robot Chassis Height: 9” Weight: 11 lbs Eyes: None With Robot Chassis Height: 4'0 Weight: 170 lbs Eyes: Yellow Age: 346 years old Hair: None Sex: Male Equipment Clothing or Armor: Metal Chassis (see spoiler above) Weapon: Apostae (Lightsaber) Common Inventory: short and long range thermal sensors, Life-form scanner, Vocabulator and Translator, comm link (internal), scomp link (attached to left wrist), Faction Information Force User, Force Sensitive or Non-Force User Force Sensitive Alignment: Evil Current Faction Affiliation: Sith Current Faction Rank: Lord (rank 2) Path: Assassin History Force Side: Dark Side Trained by: Lady Sirena (Formerly), Darth Akheron Trained who: N/a Known Skills: Force Sense (Beginner) Force Sight (Beginner) Force Speed (Beginner) Force Jump (Beginner) Force Concealment/concealment (Beginner) Force Push/Pull (Beginner) Lightsaber Throw (Beginner) Lightsaber Combat (Beginner) Force Flash (beginner) Background: Many years ago near the end of the New Sith Wars, an Umbaran sith known only as Darth Shuburoth created a hidden lab and vault for her own uses at Ishvara. The lab itself was hidden away for the sole fact that she was paranoid of betrayal from the other sith. She became obsessed with creating and having perfect minions and followers, ones who could never betray her and would keep her alive all the time. She used sith alchemy on numerous species, creating monsters of all kinds, but never getting what she wanted. From mutating monsters to trying to reanimate the dead, Darth Shuburoth failed in creating a perfect, sentient minion. However, she eventually discovered the Shards. Originally she took pieces of them to try to craft them into a different type of lightsaber crystals, but was shocked to discover that these small rocks were alive. Excited for this discovery, she began to design and build droids that could allow these new, potentially perfect minions, to control their own bodies. She even began to experiment with draining the life out of some crystals, and theorized she could do the same with droid bodyguards outfitted with the shards. A minion who, with possibly a restraining bolt, would give their life to save hers and unable to resist working for her. However, between fighting in the New Sith Wars and experimenting on her other creatures, she was unable to complete the droid chassis before dying by the blade of Lord Hoth. Over time, the shards began to reproduce and make more of themselves in this strange home. The droid servants, hutt security droids that were gifts, continued their commands and made sure that the shards were well cared for, protected and hidden away. They also attempted to complete the droid chassis Darth Shuburoth had started, but without her guidance, the chassis lay incomplete. One of the shards, Solus, began to act differently compared to his brethren. Solus, at a very early age, saw “a world beyond ours. A world that has senses beyond ours. One more than just jolts of electricity and touch”. However, his ravings fell on deaf ears, and his family ignored him and continued to dream up philosophies and thoughts beyond what organics knew. Solus however became obsessed and continued to rave and rant about this world he had seen only once. With his ravings, he eventually earned the other shard’s disapproval, who in turned cut Solus off from all communication. Shocked at this deed, Solus became enraged and attempted and failed to forcefully reconnect with the other shards. Like Darth Shuburoth who had brought his kind there, Solus began to obsess with life. Though where the sith wanted a minion, Solus wanted a perfect family. One that would not turn on him. However, he lacked the ability and knowledge to reproduce. Still, he tried over and over, and with each failure, he grew more angry and screamed into the void around him. ______ Eventually, a sith on Ishvara discovered the laboratory solus was housed in and realized the potential Solus had as a force sensitive. Solus was then given life by ---, and solus swore alliegence to him. Solus went even as far as considering him his adoptive 'father' In the process of escaping the planet to korriban, Solus managed to capture a Sith Hound pup, and named it Tear. During the ride to Korriban, Solus connected with the darkside for the first time, and the two bonded as the last children of Darth Shuburoth. On Korriban, Solus acquired his first taste of the force. Under Lady Sirena's instruction, Solus achieved a vision into the darkside that awakened Solus' force sense abilities. Unlike most people sensing the force through a sort of feeling, Solus was able to see the force as a mixture of colors and shapes not described by any mortal. Solus named this the realm of the Impossible Geometries. Before he could go with his master into the galaxy further, Tear became dangerously sick, and Solus remained behind to take care of the pup until they both could leave the planet. Once Tear was fully healed, Solus and his hound were called to join Clan Bragsanu to aid their attack and subjection of a planet. There, solus attracted the attention of Darth Akheron, who took the shard up as an apprentice. Using the darkside and the sorcerers of Bragsanu, akheron gifted solus a smaller, more agile and versatile chassis, in the image of the Golden slave. From there, the two went to join the attack of Naboo. Most of Solus early training was in combat. During their attack of the gungans, Akheron taught Solus how to tap into the darkside and utilize it, as well as an early lightsaber training lesson. Solus was utilized later to hunt down an underwater plasma from naboo's core, and while solus had a slight hiccup involving some of the wildlife, solus did succeed at his task. WIP *A note on this shard character. Its only mode of movement and interacting with other beings is through a specially designed droid chassis that was specific to integrating shard. If Solus' chassis is suddenly destroyed but his crystal is still intact, it would be the same as killing him. The combination of the sudden loss of all his senses, the pain of the entire body being destroyed and the loss of all interaction skills would be traumatic to say the least, and Solus would be in mental pain for a long time. Even if a new body was created (which would take a large amount of time to say the least), Solus would still need to mentally calm down before he could even use the body. Effectively, losing the body or all function of the body (losing a head, being disabled by a ionization blast, anything that would normally destroy a droid character) is a character death with a weird caveat for coming back that still requires three days. *If the crystal is destroyed, that would be the equivalent of destroying a person's brain. The droid chassis has no memory or sentience of its own. Without Solus, it is an empty shell. If someone wanted to bring him back to life, Solus would still follow the rules for bring back characters, and even then, cloning isn't an option, being non-organic. Pet Real Name: Tear Homeworld: Ishvara Species: Tuk'ata Age: 1 year old Height: 3'11" Distictions: Small for its species, front paws snapped and then healed over time