Race & Culture: Ferroan / Chiss from the planet Zokoma Sekat

Ferroans are pale-blue sklinned humanoids with gold eyes. Most females had white hair but some had traditional black hair. They are originally from the core Ferro systems, members of the Galactic Republic who did not always follow Republican law They are known their independence, reclusive manner, and for not often leaving their inner Ferroan systems. A Ferroan year was equal to 3 standard years. However, at one point a splinter sect of Ferroan Force users left Ferro, discovering and settling the planet near the edges of Wild Space, in a region extremely difficult to travers, where they celebrate Uniting Day with the banished force using cult of Chiss settlers who arrived on Zonoma Sekat aproximatley a century later. Most colonists, including the later Chiss settlers believed in the ideals of the Potentium.

Chiss are a near-human sentient species that possessed blue skin, red eyes, and dark blue hair. They hailed from the planet Csilla. The Chiss were notable for the nature and structure of their families, and how Chiss families dominated many aspects of Chiss society. The Chiss Ascendancy is the governing body of the Chiss. Their domain was located in the Unknown Regions. The banished three families and followers who eventually settled upon Zonoma Sekot differed from normal Chiss as they consciously focused on improving the force abilities of all users and quickly intermingled with the Ferroan shortly after colonization.

Zonama Sekot is an astronomical object located in the Unknown Regions in grid square F-13 on the Standard Galactic Grid. It was situated in an otherwise empty and unexplored area in the neighborhood of the planets Ahch-To and Rakata Prime, westward of the desert world Jakku, which was located in the Western Reaches of the Inner Rim. Zonama Sekot was unique from other worlds. Its north polar region, a spot of pearl white was surrounded by an entire hemisphere of tropical jungles. Its southern hemisphere was covered with impenetrable silvery clouds. Along the equator there were several rivers, lakes, and small seas. The edge of the southern hemisphere was also covered by elegant wisps of wind which frequently broke free to form spinning storms. Zonama Sekot’s first settlers were black-haired humanoid Ferroan colonists and red-skinned Langhesi colonists. The Ferroans were believers in the Potentium view of the Force. The Langhesi and Ferroans settled the planet along with a small colony of a banished colony of Chiss force sensitives and users. Within a century of the banishment, the Chiss and Ferroans had intermingled, developing an extremely vibrant, force sensitive, highly polite but xenophobic society. The planet can only be easily reached via travel through a dangerous corridor of space within one of its living ships, or perhaps an exceptionally gifted pilot in a very durable small ship. Although the planet attempted to remain neutral and offer custom made ships to the wealthy elites of the galaxy, the galactic wars forced them to choose sides. A small Republic military outpost was built in orbit, but Jedi were specifically forbidden from landing upon the planet.

Family Background:

Father: Chiss – Sarien Fes ( Former Force Captain – Planetary Militia)

Mother: Ferroan – Thalorinen Makete Fes (Liason to Republic Navy – Ship Design Specialist, Pilot)

Spouse: Nadia Grell, Jedi Knight.

Children: Bhelarion, Jedi Sentinel, Dhalorian, Free Trader/Captain (twins). Kailorian M’Fes, Jedi Assassin

Siblings: Twin Brother & Sith Lord Jhaloren Fes. Younger brothers Khalor Fes (Imperial Intelligence) and Captain Mhaloren Fes, Captain in Republic Special Operations, Havoc Regiment (twins). Dharo also has four sisters who continue to reside on Zonoma Sekat, two older (twins) and two younger (twins) in between the ages of the brothers.

Personal Background:

• Early Years:
  • Early Childhood – Following standard planetary cultural norms, Dharo and Jhaloren, given their extreme sensitivity to the force, learned control exercises beginning nearly as soon as they could communicate verbally and mentally, in order to learn the ability to shield themselves from life on the planet, as well as each other as necessary, although as twins they developed an intense bond quickly between the two of them. As the children of the Fes clan, and with significant ties through their father to the planetary militia, led by trained force officers, training in various force techniques continued apace with their age, with both twins showing a proclivity for history, archaeology, bio-mechanical studies, and of course force studies, where Dharo showed a proclivity for defensive techniques.
  • Middle Childhood – At the age of 10, due to various evaluations, Dharo was selected for preliminary training as a Sekotian living ship pilot. At the age of twelve, Dharo joined his mother Thalorinen, and several other siblings and extended family on a trip to the moon of Rias-Abregado, a resort moon orbiting Abregado-Fus, a gas giant within the Abregado system aboard the new ship Nagor (Ferroan for Life). The trip was meant to be a working vacation for his mother, and onboard the vessel were also several Republic factors, interested in potentially acquiring the new class of luxury “yachts,” of which the Nagor was the first. Sharing of the exact technology was forbidden, and unique to Zekotian vessels, and required specially trained Zekotian pilots, and were extremely costly. Whether through bad luck, betrayal or Imperial intelligence gathering activities, the Nagor (Ferroan for “Life”) entered normal space to find itself surrounded by a small Imperial fleet, which immediately opened fire, damaging the vessel severely prior to boarding the ship, led by at least a dozen Sith acolytes and Imperial intelligence officers. As a “diplomatic” vessel, the ship was not designed for significant combat and stood little chance of resistance, although resist they did to protect the secrets of the semi-sentient vessel and the unique navigational system. Dharo has very few memories of this traumatic event. Severely wounded and unable to see, he regained consiousness some time later on the hyper shuttle Sun of Nagor, under fire from Imperial fighters. While could not see, through hearing and the force, he felt the remaining pilot die. With several wounded crew and his sister onboard, Dharo instinctively linked with the shuttle, entering hyper-space blindly with a single thought communicated along a tentative force bond to the semi-sentient shuttle. By the time the shuttle exited hyper-space near Tython, the dying ship and the unconscious young pilot were linked irretrievably due to lack of training. Any attempt by the Jedi Knight and the Republic troopers to remove Dharo from the controls of the ship resulted in immediate convulsions. Only the arrival of Master Dira Syndulla, a Jedi Council member specializing in the healing arts prevented the young Fes from dying, and only at the cost of severing the force bond between the pilot and the shuttle, resulting in Dharo entering a coma that lasted for months and the destruction of the shuttle systems, a coma he only survived through the patient and gentle mind healing by the Jedi Master. The jagged scars that cross his face, (Master Dira saved the eye to some extant) are the physical reminders of his ordeals. Upon awakening, he awoke to a holorecording of Salorah tearfully informed him of the Matriarch’s decision given his discovery by the Jedi. Unbeknownst to the Jedi, the severance of the link between ship and pilot created a wound that can never entirely heal, nor can a pilot violently severed from their ship ever bond with another.
  • Recent Years: Nearly a year passed before Dharo had regained enough physical and mental strength to begin any real training with the Jedi, and a few more months before the ingrained reticence of allowing Jedi to see his full power passed, with Master Dira supervising his training. Not long after that power had begun to be unleashed, advanced training began with Master Yuon Parr,, where he met the first non family friends he had ever met, Aerie’lynn met Detruza and they soon bonded tightly together during their training and exploration missions on Tython, going so far as to help each other with their trials, as much as was allowed of course, before slowly branching out into the galaxy as Jedi Knights. While Dharo had full confidence in all of his abilities, he never felt safer than when Aerie and Detruza were at his back. After they met Michol, the elite trooper from Havoc Squad, all three of them requested his support when possible on their various missions, and he was often at their side, delving through the ugliness of galactic and interplanetary war.
  • Current Years: . Although Dharo focused on diplomatic efforts to align worlds against first the empire, and then eventually to bring down Valkorian, the four braved some of the toughest tribulations of the Grand Alliance, and suffered some of the worst tragedies. Upon discovering that the Emperor Valkorian attempted to use them as his vessels, the intervening years of saving the galaxy from his tyrannical vision only drew the group together more. Even in victory over Valkorian, tragedy often stuck and they lost key friends and allies, and to date Dharo’s wife Nadia has been missing ever since the initial attack on the Forever Fleet. In spite of heartbreaking loss, and even worse betrayals by those they loved, they fought hard to bring peace to the galaxy, and when both the empire and the Republic proved unwilling to truly work for piece, they kept major portions of the alliance together under their join leadership, and formed an elite organization known as the Wardens of Light to protect the citizens of the galaxy and to allow them the peace to flourish.

Skills:

• Master Healer: Dharo is the consummate healer, full of compassion for all those injured or sick, physically or mentally. If not the greatest healer the Jedi have known, he is certainly the most complete and powerful healer from Jedi ranks in the last century, but he does not rely only upon the his abilities with the force. Instead he uses the best medical, bio-chemical and bio-analytical science combined with the guidance of the force to heal as many as possible to the greatest extant possible, making him an invaluable combat medic as well. One day, perhaps, he will be able to heal himself of the hole inside his link to the force.
• The Compassionate Diplomat: The strength of any alliance can only be measured by the health and well being of the populations allied together. Cultural understanding and awareness are just as important to any alliance as a common enemy, and Dharo focuses on finding common grown, believing that the differences are often more important, and can strengthen the alliance in more ways, than the similarities. After the galactic wars of the last decades, the only way to ensure peace for the galaxy is to heal the deep wounds of the cultural psyches of the various planets aligned under the banner of the Wardens, thus providing for stability and understanding.
• Hopeful Charisma: While perhaps not as energetically charismatic as Aerie’lynn, or the calm understanding of Detruza, or even the aura of safety from the protective nature of Micohl, Dharo offers hope to those who work with and follow the Wardens within the alliance to defend the galaxy and provide peaceful existence to the billions of citizens they protect and the Wardens they lead. Dharo projects such an aura of hope in the face of any situation that all who are near or can hear him speak have no doubt that success is within reach.

Personality Traits & Inspirations:

• Eternal Optimist/Heart: Dharo leads with compassion and understanding. Even in failure, Dharo offers the compassionate ear, the understanding leader, although in his early years that compassion may have at times been somewhat condescending. Probably the closest inspirational character from video media is Counselor Troi from Star Trek: TNG. Also a bit of a mix of “The Heart” Trope such as Agent Coulson (SHIELD) or Abby (NCIS). A little bit of a mix of the All Loving Hero, ie, Agent Simmons (Shield).
• The Ambassador: Just because Dharo believes in diplomacy first doesn’t mean there is not strength or ability to defend the cause in which he believes lying underneath. Think Bail Organa in Star Wars or Ambassador Spock from Star Trek or Miles Vorkosigan in several of the books of the Vorkosigan Saga.
• Healer/Medic: Needs to heal, whether it be the medic in combat, the psychic trauma of the war, disease from a pandemic, or just wounds of the hear, Dharo needs to help those with pain and suffering. Think the White Mage type of almost any game, but also Dr. Crusher of Star Trek: TNG and combining with a bit of the trope of “Doctor’s Orders” where the Healer makes the rules.
• The Collector: Dharo has an obsession with speeder bikes of all types. He loves piloting them, but perhaps more than that he likes working on them, finding and installing rare parts or restoring wrecked or old classics into working order, showing them off and talking about them ad nauseam. Deep inside, and after years of therapy with Master Dira, Dharo can acknowledge that it is a remnant of the force wound he suffered all those decades ago with the severance between him and the living Sun of Nagor, an ability lost forever. Although he never speaks of it, the speeder collection began as an attempt to distract himself from the wounds that could never heal.

Relationships:

• Spouse & Children: During his negotiations with the leaders of the Rift Alliance, Dharo met someone who would change his life, a galactic shift in his perception of himself and all people. Nadia Grell, the oldest daughter of Senator Grell, exploded into his life, pushing hard to win his attention, first as a student of the force. While beginning training as an adult is difficult, Nadia excelled. When it became obvious that their relationship could potentially break the code of Master / Padawan, he asked his best friend Detruza to take over her final training and to supervise her trials. Not long after Nadia passed her trials and rose to the rank of Knight, they were married. Dharo had hoped that his sisters would visit Sarkhai for the wedding, but only Detruza noticed how much pain it caused him when only his younger brother, Sergeant Mhaloren Fes attended. Dharo’s greatest joy can be derived from his family, his children, Bhelorian and Dhalorian, although he does occasionally regret that diplomacy and war consumed so much time away from his children. When he received the from Ki Syzen about Kailorien, he was truly shocked, and readily agreed to assume responsibility for the child, and adopted him along with Nadia, and as a result, a long, long buried hope has re-emerged.
• Siblings: Dharo’s closest sibling is his brother Mhaloren Fes, a Republic officer and secret member of the Wardens. While he maintains contact with his sisters, Sekotian policy prevents him from visiting more than the space station orbiting the planet, and only occasionally has he done so, and since the presentation of the twins to the Matriarch, he has not returned, maintaining communications via holo recordings only.
• Companions: Dharo’s closest companions were Felix Iresso and Theron Cedran, the latter of whom he still misses terribly, and while overjoyed at Felix’s release from prison after the defeat of Valkorien, is troubled by the obvious changes in his friend. During the war against Valkorien, Dharo worked extremely well with, Senya Tirell, the tribulations of parenthood providing a bond. In additiona Kaliyo Djnannis, Lana Beniko, and Theron Shan, were trusted companions as well. Theron’s recent betrayal has been bitter medicine.
• Guildmates: Dharo founded the Wardens of Light with his lifelong companions Aerie’lynn, Detruza and Micohl shortly after the defeat of Valkorien and Vaylin and based in large part on their experiences leading the Alliance. Dharo has tended to focus on Diplomatic and politically Strategic leadership, especially on relief and supply missions to beleaguered worlds, along with leading the medical and healing corps of the guilds. However, recently he has taken an interest in more active leadership on the ground, especially in missions focusing on anti-slavery, prisoner relief, and other relief missions. In addition, he has realized that he has been too distant of a personality, especially with younger members of the Wardens, and he seeks to rectify that over the next months, especially with Wardens whose past or present places them at especial risk.
  • Fr’ehd: Enjoys discussing speeder design, construction and customization. Is the only one he trusts to actually work on “some’, key word, “some” of his speeder collection.
  • Kikari: Secretly takes pleasure in devising ways to prevent the pilot’s attempts to “test’ his speeders, at least the less expensive ones. The elite rare models are kept beyond more than just lock and key, as the air of singed hair has occasionally indicated.