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NAME: Horatio Kystos
FACTION: N/A
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 42
GENDER: male
HEIGHT: 5'11.5" (he'll tell you 6 foot)
WEIGHT: 90kg
FORCE SENSITIVE: Insensitive
APPEARANCE:
Middle age is just starting to show in his brown hair starting to grey and his muscles losing their crisp definition of an athletic youth.
He is often seen in smart, but comfortable suits, along with a flowing overcoat which may easily hide the weapon du jour.
PERSONALITY:
Gruff and unforgiving, Kystos values loyalty above all else. In fact, his only ethical imperative is that one good turn deserves another (often at the point of a blaster).
He likes to portray himself as cold and pragmatic, but has a real soft spot for the theatrical. One day one of his flourishes will get him into trouble. However, he never makes a threat he isn't willing to carry out.
He makes a point of not telling anyone his first name - partly out of embarrassment, partly as a power play.
When not working, he is either found in a jazz club or card den in one of Naboo's seedier districts. He plays a cautious game but when he thinks he has won will attack ruthlessly.
BIOGRAPHY:
Kystos came to Naboo to find a fresh start after 12 years in the army, aged 27. Life before the army was tough in the lower echelons of Coruscant's cheaper districts. Without much formal schooling, the army was an opportunity to get off-world that Kystos took with both hands.
Of course, being off-world was in many ways just as tough as the streets had been; but that life on the streets had prepared Kystos well and he rose to the rank of sergeant - the senior NCO of his platoon.
His departure from the army, however, was precipitated by a love rivalry between him and his Company Sergeant Major. The CSM had posted Kystos' platoon to the other side of the city and told the woman that Kystos had requested it. When he found out, he had punched his superior in the local bar. Of course the woman in question was impressed by neither man's efforts and Kystos was dishonourably discharged.
Not able to stay and desperate not to go back to the world he had left behind, Kystos or himself on the first transport he could afford.
Upon arrival at Naboo, he quickly found employment in a private security firm. It was through this work that he was introduced to Anton, the patriarch of the Veruna clan. Doing a number of debt-enforcement jobs under his employer's umbrella, Kystos saw a gap in the market to squeeze out the Mr Ten Percent.
For the past 15 years, then, Kystos has been an associate of the Veruna clan, doing jobs at an arm's length that might be otherwise considered distasteful. There are rumours of blackmail, arson and even the odd homicide, but nothing has ever been substantiated.
SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES:
Despite no formal education, he has a low cunning that he learned on the streets of Coruscant, finessed in the army and put into practice in his current employment. He is good at managing and influencing people - whatever their social status and adapts his approach accordingly. He has an impeccable poker face.
He is always aware of his surroundings and takes in everything.
He is proficient with blasters and most low-tech hand to hand weapons. He has the strength of a tough life to best most non-professional fighters, though his reactions and coordination are not what they once were; nor is his endurance.
He can drive in-planet vehicles (e.g. speeders) but no inter-planetary navigation.
Can use, but doesn't understand, most technology.
He is self taught in the kazol, a native Naboo saxophone-like instrument rarely seen outside the planet.
GEAR:
Hand blaster
Stun baton
Blaster Rifle (for special occasions)
Flak jacket (also for special occasions)
ROLE-PLAYS:
Coming soon
