Tawny Millan

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Tawny Millan
Biographical information
Homeworld Hapes
Date of birth 28:9:20 (22 Years Old)
Family Arani (Mother), REDACTED (Father)
Physical description
Species Human
Gender Female
Height 1.73 Meters
Weight 54 Kilograms
Hair color Blonde, shoulder length
Eye colorBlue
Distinguishing features Hapan characteristic of above average physical attractiveness
Chronological and political information
Affiliation New Republic
Associations Assembly of Force/Allegiance Battle Group
Ranks Knight, Captain (freighter ship owner, not military)
Titles Battlemaster


Background:

Born on Hapes, in the isolated Hapes Cluster, Tawny Millan was raised entirely by her mother, a rising star in the Hapan Royal Navy, and never knew her father. As such, Tawny was more or less raised by her mother's crewmates more than anything, which did give her some good early hands on training in weapons handling and mechanical work on the various Battle Dragon and Nova warships employed by the Hapans. By the time she was 16, her mother was made Captain and placed in command of a Nova-class Battlecruiser, the Warspite. Tawny was already planning to enter the Naval Academy and follow her mother's example, but she harbored a secret that would soon change everything.

Tawny's Force Sensitivity began to manifest itself by being able to communicate telepathically, but she had next to no control over it. As more and more personnel aboard the Warspite began to hear her in their heads, it became harder to cover up the truth. Tawny's mother became worried for her daughter's well-being, as Hapan society has a deep seated hatred towards any Force users, so she began to work out a plan. In short, the Warspite was, by request, transferred to the Cluster's border with the New Republic, where Arani would quietly attempt to make contact with the Republic and have her daughter taken to safety. In fact, much of the plan came together, especially after her ship had a chance encounter with an NRAF Major who was on a personal mission.

The pilot of the lone Y-Wing identified himself as Nicolai Ginovef, and after Arani Millan explained her daughter's situation, he proposed to have arrangements made to bring her to where he normally operated, the Temple of Adhe Zion on Bethlamore, where she could be trained safely. The two reached an agreement, setting up a predetermined location for the exchange and a secure line to transmit on when the time was right. So with that, Major Ginovef returned to his mission, and Tawny's future was safe. But as the saying goes, even the best laid of plans go by the wayside. Arani had not known about a plan among most of her crew to forcefully capture Tawny and mutiny against her mother for shielding her...

When the mutiny struck, Arani found only a handful of the crew,mostly junior officers and a few members of the Warspite's Marine detachment, were still loyal to her or unwilling to support a mutiny. In the span of an hour, Tawny's life had completely changed. Her family had turned on her, she was now a fugitive and an exile, and worst of all, her mother was killed covering her shuttle's escape.

Tawny's arrival at the Temple of Adhe Zion did nothing to normalize her life, as she found it extremely difficult to adapt, both to the dangerous life the personnel living there lived, but also she conflicted with nearly every personality there. This made the task of training her exceptionally difficult for anyone who tried, and her own emotional turmoil made dealing with her at all a challenge. It would be, of course, no surprise that her lack of control spiraled her towards the Dark Side relatively quickly, and Tawny's difficulty at connecting with anyone left her with few friends and a death wish. But as she began to discover herself more, that's when she started to change her ways some.

Tawny soon found that she disagreed with the ways of the Jedi just as much as she disagreed with the Sith ideals. To her, good and evil was not innate, but rather a choice, and that the Force did not dictate actions, it was a tool that was defined by the intentions of those who wielded it. This did put her into conflict with almost anyone who would train her, except one; the enigmatic Michael Raven. This marked the beginning of her rather unorthodox approach to nearly every aspect of her life, as they did not have a traditional student/teacher relationship, and yet she began to look up to him and fought against her own turmoil to rise to his challenges to become a better person. To this day, she continues to admire him, and even finds herself struck with inspiration drawn from him.

Naturally, this unorthodox training approach also meant she wasn't very orthodox when it came to being a Force Sensitive in combat. For a while, she eschewed using the Force in combat entirely, focusing on conventional combat skills, which left her developing her marksmanship with blasters to an impressive level, and then later began to use the Force to augment her combat skills. It was not until she constructed her first lightsaber that she began to regularly use one, but even that was treated as a situational weapon. Along the way, Tawny developed a fascination with blaster weapon designs, and in time, even began building her own custom blasters.

In time, Tawny slowly began to overcome her personal demons, and find her place amongst the group she fought and bled alongside, diversifying her skills to include having an above average familiarity with slicing into computer networks, good piloting and gunnery skills, and became extremely well rounded in the use of blasters and lightsabers. In time, her mastery of the Force began to grow as well, and because of her views, she was willing to learn abilities normally associated with the Dark Side, much to the annoyance and concern of those with more Jedi-inclined tendencies. She also devoted herself to following the path that Jedi would called Guardians, and has since showed such a strong affinity towards this path that she has become more skilled than most Guardians at her level of proficiency.

Recently, she has accepted the title of Battlemaster for the Temple of Adhe Zion, although quietly she admits the role seems a bit nebulous, but regardless, Tawny has vowed to do whatever it is Battlemasters do to the best of her ability.

Knight Trials:

The Temple of Adhe Zion does adhere to the tradition that any Force User that is to be elevated to the "rank" of Knight must undergo a trial, much as the Jedi Order required. Typically, this is performed at an undisclosed location on Bethlamore, due to it's proliferation of ruin sites that have ties to the Force, but Tawny's was not conducted as such.

Under mysterious circumstances, the denizens of the Temple received virtual reality headsets, which were originally seen as harmless gaming devices until their more sinister purpose was revealed, and trapped those who used it, Tawny included, in a virtual hell of sorts, pitting the group in dangerous situations that were potentially fatal. It was revealed that the initial level that everyone was seeing, a series of Imperial simulations, was only one layer. The layer above that was a horrible nightmare version of the Temple, corrupted by the Dark Side and filled with dangerous puzzles.

Waiting at the top of the Temple was a physical manifestation of the group's collective greed, who was gaining power from those who undertook the Imperial simulations in hopes of gaining something. The being was exceptionally powerful, but was willing to allow the group to leave after a pitched battle. However, Tawny and one other of the group were unwilling to leave until everyone was accounted for, and one person was missing. Greed then attempted to present them with a choice; accept him as their master or die. The team member with Tawny attempted to accept the offer, but Tawny refused and renegotiated the deal; let everyone else go, and she'd accept her fate here. Greed accepted, and entered into a duel with her.

It was one of the most difficult fights she had ever undertaken, but the tables turned on Greed when Headmaster (at the time) Zak Ciredik re-entered the program to help her. Even with their combined strength, it was a pitched battle, but the two prevailed. Greed's dying breath was to curse the "Jedi Knight" that had felled him, before Tawny and Zak were returned to reality. Despite being exhausted and laid up in the Temple's medical bay, Tawny was officially named a Knight.

Damned Rise:

Tawny and her compatriots were put into one of their most perilous situations when a mysterious Dark Side entity attacked them through the Force, infecting them all with an affliction that was slowing wearing down their skills and well being. The entity planned to unleash the Dark Side itself on the entire galaxy, plunging it into a thousand years of darkness and hell, by way of the Armor of the Damned. This required completion of a series of steps in a prophecy.

The group's first attempt to head off the entity's efforts failed entirely, as it merely allowed the being to obtain two parts of what was needed to complete the procedure. And all that had otherwise happened was that Tawny, fed up with his impulsive nature and unwillingness to listen to anything, refused to train Jay Forerunner any further, as he was so difficult that even her own past paled in comparison.

In pursuit to stop the entity, the group returned to a world known as Terra Firma, which Tawny knew nothing about as she had not participated in the operation previously to this world. What they found was a world devastated and quarantined by automated defenses, and an ongoing conflict among the survivors to gain control of what was left and flee from the ruined world. Tawny's contributions were relatively minor, not entirely understanding the situation. The path also took them to the Temple of Light, protected by a clan of Sith, but while they were able to learn more about what the prophecy meant, they couldn't stop the entity's attack.

As a final act of desperation, the group decided to go straight to the source; the Dark Side itself. What they found was quite literally Hell, a place of torment, anguish, hellfire and brimstone. On a whim, the group decided to head to the Temple's self here, and managed to gain access. From there, the group was able to make themselves able to defend themselves in this realm, and Tawny obtained an ability that only one other person she knew of had. At the suggestion of Master Sienn Sconn, the group moved on to investigate a situation, the inner demons of a past member of the Temple.

More information will be added as it is made available.


List of Custom Blasters:

  • SP-229 "Spectre" Pistol - One of her first designs, the "Spectre" pistol is not a ground breaking design, but it is fairly hardy as a combat pistol. It's power output is roughly the same as the DH-17 or DL-18 series pistols, but it does boast a 120 meter range, and the ability to fire both stun and ion bolts.
  • AR-715 "Avenger" Assault Rifle - Another one of Tawny's first designs, this rifle lags slightly behind the E-11 in terms of power, but it is still fairly robust and multipurpose. It is select-fire, and supports stuncoils and ion bolts on top of the standard kill bolt mode, an integrated grenade launcher and a scope.
  • CSP-6 "Ghost" Pistol - Tawny's first attempt to build a covert pistol, the CSP-6 is fairly straightforward. It is more or less on par with the DL-44 heavy blaster pistol, but with the bonus of being silenced. It does not feature any other modes or attachments otherwise.
  • SP-57 "Paladin" Pistol - Now acting as Tawny's sidearm, this pistol is quite robust and meets most every need she has for it. The power is only slightly better than a DH-17 or DL-18, and has an effective range of 60 meters. However, on top of being selectable between stun and ion bolt modes, it is also silent when fired. Tawny typically wields two SP-57s as part of her standard loadout.
  • AR-715 "Avenger Mk. II" Assault Rifle - Designed as an evolution to her AR-714, the "Avenger Mk. II" is more powerful, edging out over an E-11 but just short of the A280, but sacrifices the autofire mode (since Tawny saw no need for it). It still uses kill, stun and ion bolt modes and has the integrated underslung grenade launcher, but is also silenced.
  • ARX-01 "Archer" Expiremental Rifle - Tawny built the "Archer" to explore a new possibility, using the firing mechanism from the BlasTech DL-23 pistol, which fires a kill and stun bolt in rapid succession. She simply took it up to the rifle level, and fitted it with a basic scope and silencer, while also increasing the damage output to rival the A280. Because of how successful this design became, Tawny regularly carries it on missions.
  • SP-01 "Stiletto" Pistol - Designed as part of an infantry combat package, the SP-01 is a robust pistol suitable for covert situations. It's output is roughly the same as a DH-17, on top of being able to fire stun and ion bolts, features a silencer and has a 75-shot powerpack and 100 meter range. Only one person, an arms dealer/manufactuer who is a friend of the ABG's, is authorized to build these.
  • AR-01 "Hellfire" Assault Rifle - A compact but robust carbine designed for an infantry combat package, the AR-01 is one of Tawny's better designs. It is as powerful as an E-11, while making use of the kill/stun firing mechanism tested in the ARX-01, as well as a separate stun bolt and ion bolt mode. On top of that, it is silenced. It's operational range is 200 meters, and is only available through the arms dealer/manufactuerer that Tawny entered into an agreement with.
  • HAR-01 "Harbinger" Repeating Blaster - Adding to the infantry package, the HAR-01 is Tawny's answer to the T-21. It feeds from 200 shot powerpacks, and is select fire between semi and full automatic modes. The "Harbinger" is fitted with a scope, and boasts kill/stun, stun and ion modes, a 400 meter range, and damage comperable to it's competitor, the T-21.
  • SR-01 "Wraith" Sniper Rifle - Rounding out the infantry package is a powerful sniper rifle that Tawny designed. The rifle has a 950 meter range, and while not as powerful as the SX-541 anti-materiel rifle, it is close enough. It is fitted with a sturdy tripod mount to stabilize the rifle, a powerful scope, and uses the kill/stun bolt mechanism as it's only firing mode. It is also silenced, but does not have the same heat generation of most sniper rifles, so it's rate of fire is not negatively affected.