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SOLIMAR
AGE
► 28
SPECIES ► Human
HEIGHT ► 6' (Formerly)
► 7' post injury
WEIGHT ► 7' post injury
► 200 lbs (Formerly)
► 275 lbs post injury
EYE COLOR ► 275 lbs post injury
► Blue (Formerly)
► Yellow
HAIR COLOR ► Yellow
► Brown
HOMEWORLD ► Unknown
GENDER ► Male
FACTION ► Jedi (Formerly)
► Exiles
RANK ► Exiles
► Exile Apprentice
FORCE SENSITIVITY ► Confirmed
BIOGRAPHY
The Dark side cannot exist without the light and the smallest flame can cast the largest shadow.
A human boy was born in the Outer Rim. Where is unknown, even to him, as his family was killed at the hands of Zygerrian slavers while he was a just an infant child. Raised in Zyggeria as a slave, he continued a life of servitude until the age of four.
In a bizarre turn of events, the boy was brought off Zyggeria and sold to a core world Senator. While slavery was illegal in the Republic, it still often occurred as it was a cheap way for the rich to keep staff for their estates. The Senator, his staff and the slaves met on a neutral ship to complete the transaction, the total of which was the boy himself as well as several other, older slaves. As the exchange was being made, the boy had his first connection with the force and, in a fit of intense rage, broke free of his shackles and attacked the slavers. The Senators men fired at the boy in panic and hit the slavers, who in turn fired at the Senator.
In the chaos the other slaves broke free and began to slaughter both sides. The boy was overwhelmed by the power he felt, personally blinding the Senator by putting his thumbs though his eyes. The blood, the explosions, the screams of pain that the Senator couldn’t help but emit, it was too much for the boy who, filled with hatred and anger and disgust, screamed in defiance at all who were in the ship.
The result was a shockwave what rocked the ship. Weak though it was it damaged the ship itself and it began to tear itself apart. Although weak due to his exertion of the force, the boy dragged himself to an escape pod and shut it, keeping himself safe as the ship slowly tore itself apart, killing all those inside.
A few days later a group of Jedi were sent to investigate a distress call from the ship. It being a Senator’s ship the call was deemed important. The Jedi found the boy and, after reviewing the surviving holotapes of what happened, decided to bring the boy to the academy to review. With no known name, the only thing the boy had as an identifier was his title as “Slave” which, in the language of the slaver who had recorded him, was “Solimar”.
The Jedi Council could see the growing darkness within the boy now known as Solimar. After great discussion and debate among the masters it was decided the Jedi would train Solimar. This was done not only to hopefully utilize the natural power that the boy possessed but also to keep him away from the exiles who had been aggressively recruiting force sensitives to their cause.
Growing up, Solimar treated the order as the family he never had. He put everything he had into the order, choosing the path of a guardian. However, the boy was not without flaws. He was headstrong, aggressive and could at times feel great anger. He was emotional and loved with a passion that was not the Jedi way. He also fell in love.
He best friend growing up was a girl named Kanina, a daughter of a Senator who had displayed force sensitivity and been sent to the Jedi to be trained in its use. Kanina, with her core world flair, engaged the then somewhat shy and timid Solimar. Almost as though she willed it, Kanina and Solimar became fast friends. They did everything together, training, studying and generally spending all their time with one another. On the day of their initiations as Jedi Knights, the two professed their love for one another and began a forbidden relationship.
All this time the Great Jedi Civil War was raging in the background, millions being slaughtered by the armies of the Dark Jedi who served nothing but themselves and the Dark Side. Solimar despised the exiles for the pain they had and continued to inflict on his family and when he learned his old master, Kaul Frask, was killed during a skirmish with Exile forces, Solimar made the decision to join the sub group of the Jedi Guardians known as the Crusaders.
Solimar embraced war, seeing every dead exile as a saved Jedi. He openly encouraged others to take part, eventually gaining the trust of several younger Jedi apprentices who were assigned to young Solimar for training in the field, something that was becoming more and more common as Jedi were slaughtered across the galaxy. Soon, Kanina, now Solimar's secret wife, joined as well bringing a group of her own apprentices into the small gathering of militant Jedi. The group, now known as the “Justicars” among themselves for their devotion to bringing justice to the exiles for their crimes, slaughtered all those associated with the exiles and their army. Their motto, “Take one, save one!” reminding those who heard that leaving the exiles or their forces alive could lead to Jedi or innocent deaths. All the while, Solimar and Kanina kept their affair secret, hidden from the Jedi order where such a union was considered forbidden.
After the battle of Tython things changed once again for Solimar and his Justicars. Resembling more hitmen than Jedi, their number, though small, took to roaming space, secretly slaughtering exile, slaver and even corrupt Republicans alike. Justice was inflicted on all those who Solimar deemed needed it. At this point, although he had no idea himself, Solimar had begun to fall to the Dark Side. The Jedi, so concentrated on the war and defeating the remaining exiles were, themselves, to blind to see this fall of one of their rising stars. By this time, however, Kanina had begun to be jaded by the methods being used and began to secretly court as many of the Justicars to her side as she could, fearing what would happen if she confronted Solimar directly.
Solimar was soon summoned to Ilum to prepare for the final battle against the exiles. Him and his Justicars were to join Grandmaster Syresh Lapar in striking at the heart of the exile army in a special mission. After assembling at Ilum, Solimar was confronted by Kanina about his descent. She told him he was becoming that which he sought to destroy and begged him to leave with her, to go and find a life outside the order. To leave war and slaughter behind to become a father. It was here that Solimar discovered that Kanina had given birth secretly, Kanina being afraid that the child would be corrupted or hurt by Solimar’s obsession with the destruction of the exiles. Solimar was saved, if only for a time, in that moment. His anger left him and he agreed that after the battle Kanina, himself and the child would leave the order.
The Tragedy of Ilum, as it is now known, went as everyone knows. Accompanying Grandmaster Syresh Lapar, Solimar, Kanina and the Justicars battled the greatest of the exile forces. The slaughter was immense as Jedi and exile alike fell. The Dark Side was strong in the places where death was rampant. As Solimar killed he began to go into a frenzy, destroying without mercy or regret. Kanina watched him and, seeing his bloodlust unable to be sated, realized she could never allow him to be with their child. Kanina understood that the young man she had fell in love with was gone.
Giving the order to her faction of loyal justicars, they moved to destroy Solimar and his men. Kanina personally attacked Solimar, through tears she raised her blade to snuff out the life of her husband but her feelings gave her away. She hesitated and Solimar reacted quickly, drawing his blade to meet her.
As the Grandmaster began his dual with the Overlord of the exiles, so too did husband and wife meet each other in battle. What few understand about what happened at Ilum was that it was never about Jedi vs Exile. It was light vs dark, Kanina represented light, Solimar embraced the dark. Their battle was less a physical thing then an emotional event as they battled through tears and screams of anger and betrayal. The rest of his Justicars embraced the dark side as well and met Kanina’s rebellious group. Solimar at first had the upper hand, ferociously using everything he could to harm her. Sensing victory, he grabbed her neck savagely with the force, surprising her, and lifted Kanina into the air. Solimar didn’t hesitate as he looked into her eyes and watched the life leave. He could finish her with but a movement of his finger. She who had thought to keep his child from him.
But he couldn’t. He loved her and, despite his hatred and couldn’t kill her. He dropped her to the ground and fell to his knees. Solimar bared his neck to Kanina, offering his life. She, in turn, couldn’t kill him and the two embraced. The Justicars, whether at exile hands or at their own, had all been killed and it was only them two left. But at that moment the Grandmaster cut down Overlord Melcior and turned on his men. He cut through them like a hot knife through butter and then moved to activate the great Kyber crystal at Ilum's heart.
Solimar witnessed the Grandmaster's great betrayal and as he did the light fell away and Solimar truly fell, utterly, to the dark side, overwhelmed by betrayal and hatred.
Unleashing the great kyber crystal, the dark side wiped out much of the Jedi order and exiles along with them. Solimar was hit with part of the force and was cast aside, the pure force of the energy powerfully throwing him.
His heart stopped as he hit the ground. So much anger, betrayal, hatred and death. A life times worth of pain all filled the body of a broken man. Solimar was alive but barely, his skin cracked and charred, half of his head collapsed in on itself, his bones broken and his frame destroyed. He reached out with the force trying to find the familiar feeling that was his wife but felt nothing. In that moment Solimar wished for death, having nothing left to live for. However, almost to spite him in his weakest moment, the Dark Side leaned in to the broken body of Solimar and whispered quietly, “Not yet. You have work to do.” Channeling the twisted powers of the dark side he crawled and clutched to life. How exactly he got off Ilum is not sure. But the individual that did was no longer Solimar.
Onboard a half-destroyed ship and now being held together by a combination of cybernetics and armor, the man once known as Solimar roams the unknown regions. In his rebirth the purpose of the man once known as Solimar has become clear. He must rid the galaxy of all those who cling to the trapping of authority. Those who claim to protect, to serve, they lie. The Republic, the Jedi, his supposed family, had betrayed him. The Republic, in it’s cowardice and weakness, had to be destroyed and the Jedi, that corrupt broken shell of an order, had allowed his wife to be taken from him. Solimar had not forgotten, however, who laid the killing blow on his wife and the desire for revenge against the newly anointed exile warlord Syresh Lapar seethed inside the half human body of the former Jedi Knight. He would destroy them all. Burn them down and then, from their ashes a new order would rise. His.
And so, from the light the dark was borne and from the smallest of flames the shadow cast.
Personality and Traits
Solimar, once a headstrong, thoughtful man, dedicated to strict beliefs of justice died on the crystal fields of Ilum. He is now totally committed to the Dark Side, seeing the light as weak and restricting. Although he follows no official doctrine, his past ideals of justice and order remain intact. He sees the Republic and Jedi Order as corrupt husks that must be destroyed and, in their place, a more just and orderly government erected. Guided by the Dark Side he has set out to do just that. As well, he views the exiles as a useless husk of a group. Not a faction so much as a confederacy of fools dedicated to nothing larger or more stable.
Much of Solimar’s body has been devastated by the blast as Ilum. Although, by rights, Solimar should be dead, it seems the blast of Dark Side energy which filled him JUST at the moment he embraced the Dark Side, gave his body the power it needed to sustain itself. Using bits of armor and parts from ships he has created a makeshift life support system that will support him for a time, however something more sophisticated will be needed soon. Solimar can speak, although his voice is highly modulated, almost to the point of sounding metallic and unable to understand.
Much of Solimar’s personality is guided by the guilt he feels at the death of his wife, the Jedi Knight Kanina. He feel he is personally responsible for putting her in the situation that caused her death and his guilt burns his soul and fills him with hate. Despite this, Solimar looks at the Jedi as being the ones truly responsible, so blinded by their foolish rules and tenets that they couldn’t see the traitor lurking in their midst. Once calling them his family, Solimar now seeks to replace the Jedi with his own order that will, in turn, dominate the galaxy.
What Solimar understands is that in order to control he will need to form another group like his Justicars. A force sensitive group who will rule those who cannot hope to rule themselves. In doing so Solimar will bring peace and order to the galaxy that destroyed him and his wife. Solimar also searches for his infant child who was born in secret only months before the battle at Ilum while he was on campaign. But with enough power, no one can remain hidden for long.
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Powers and Abilities
Solimar always had a strong connection with the Dark Side, being able to summon it at a young age to fight the slavers. His anger is his weapon and of that Solimar has much to draw on. Despite that, however, the destruction of his body has caused Solimar to be unable to use some of the more common Dark Side abilities such as lightning. Solimar is always looking for ways to grow in power, however, and his strong connection to the force may lead him to discover new abilities in the dark side.
Solimar is, however, an expert with a lightsaber, a veteran of many battles of the Great Jedi Civil war. Where once he was an acrobatic warrior, he has had to adjust his style due to his injuries, now opting for a heavy, powerful attack, ferocious and without relent.
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