#Mortaqa

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Profile: Ze'emilin'asana Codename: Mortaqa Homeworld: Nar Shaddaa Species: Chiss (endangered purple-eyed sub-species) Gender: Female Age: 3500+ years Weapon: Lightsaber (formerly), Lightscythe Affiliation: Old Jedi Order, Valkoran Empire, Forceless Collective (unconsentingly) The younger sister of Ze'grein'aradi (or Grein as most call her), Emilin has been through many lifetimes' worth of pain and suffering. She was born on Nar Shaddaa after her mother and sister fled from the Chiss homeworld of Csilla to escape a series of ethnic cleansing on accusations of 'witchcraft'. Eventually both she and her sister were discovered by the Jedi Order and accepted for training (although at the time, nobody knew what species they were). Following the end of the Mandalorian Wars, she, Grein and several others followed Jedi Knight Seferin Vaelor - Grein's betrothed and later her husband - to the Unknown Regions planet Ockla Prime after he was exiled, met the enigmatic character Valkor and created an empire consisting of many people disillusioned with their own governments, whether from the Republic or the Sith Empire. Unfortunately, the Valkoran Empire wouldn't be the utopia it seemed to be on the surface. After the clinically insane outcast Sith Lord Masochus came along with his emotionally tormented apprentice, Balos Oiren (who would later be known as Armogeist), Emperor Valkor's plans for galactic conquest via a group known as the Forceless Collective started to surface. She and Grein learned of this, but Emilin was caught by Masochus and Valkor while Grein was forced to flee. She was then possessed by the Forceless Archfiend, Facadma. She was officially listed as having been killed in an accident, when truth, she spent centuries in isolation being physically and psychologically tortured by Valkor, Facadma and Masochus. In addition to being consciously aware of her possession and unable to speak out (even via telepathy), forms of torment included distorting her visual perception (by making her see the world through the perspective of a three-eyed mask), taunting her with the idea that her sister won't come back to save her and cutting her breasts off while she was still conscious. But none of these compared to Facadma combining her powers to make her harvest the living Force from creatures on a planetary scale every so often, as she was often forced to endure the torment of other beings denied the opportunity to become one with the Force. She eventually got her release more than 3,500 years later near the end of the war between the Valkoran Empire and the Galactic Alliance, liberated from Facadma by her distant nephew, Zolph Vaelor (who was almost purely human due to the Chiss genes being thinned out from generations of human breeding) and working alongside her sister Grein, who cheated death and persevered through the regret of abandoning her just to see to it that she was eventually freed and the Forceless Collective defeated. Facadma's death at the hands of both Zolph and her brother-in-law, Seferin (AKA Maesterus) then followed after hers.

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The cover art for Star Wars: Paranormalities: Episode II - Chapter 14: Facade

Admittedly, Facadma is off-model in this piece. The lower face tentacles should be on her cheeks.

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General Ven Choi

Homeworld: Dorin Species: Kel Dor Gender: Male Age: 57 years (In Episode I; 58 circa Episode II) Weapon: Heavy Blaster Pistol, Vibro-Sword Affiliation: Old Jedi Order, Rebel Alliance, New Republic, Galactic Alliance Only 9 years old when Order 66 was executed, the Kel Dor named Ven Choi had very little training in the ways of the Force and had not yet constructed his own lightsaber when he was forced to flee the Jedi Temple. Years later, he applied what little Force training he had to the aid of the fledgling Rebel Alliance and used a vibro-sword in lieu of a lightsaber. Sometime after the fall of the Galactic Empire, he was promoted to General. However, even with the rebuilding of the Jedi Order, Ven declined the opportunity to join it and catch up on his training, feeling that he's a product of a time long gone and by the logic of the old Order, felt he was too old for more training. In addition to thinking that the New Republic could benefit from a Force-sensitive tactician, he also realized that the old Order he came from was slowly compromising its values (in no small part due to Palpatine's machinations) and didn't want it carrying over into the next generation of Jedi. However, he would on occasion make visits to the academy to pass on his historical knowledge to keep the future from repeating the past. Even with minimal Jedi training, that didn't stop him from self-improving some of his basic Force abilities, such as his combat prowess. And those who were born after the restoration of the Jedi Order can sometimes go years without knowing he's Force-sensitive, just thinking he's a naturally-gifted strategist. During the Valkoran War, he would frequently aid Jedi Knight Zolph Vaelor in his missions to eliminate the Force Collective's Archfiends.

He ultimately met his end during the infamous Battle of Christophsis when he engaged Emperor Valkor in combat. He put up a good fight until Valkor tore Ven Choi's respirator mask from his face. Before Valkor could devour him alive (and keep him from becoming one with the Force), Ven took a suicide pill before he could do so. Valkor then decided not to eat his corpse as he prefers to eat his victims alive. This was followed up by the annihilation of the entire planet via Mortaqa, save for the Valkoran forces on the surface, Zolph Vaelor, and Grein.

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Admon Onae - Ancient Freedom Fighter

Name: Admon Onae Homeworld: Muriga Species: Unknown Gender: Male Age: Unknown (25,050 years at the youngest) Affiliation: Paladins of the Plamora, Murigan Resistance An ancient warrior from Muriga, a planet in a distant galaxy and the capital of the true Valkoran Empire, also known as the Forceless Collective, or more accurately, the Order of Yalbdalaoth. He and Valkor Vangeli were once Paladins of the Plamora, an extinct order of warrior that defended Muriga and served the Plamora, or more commonly known as the Force. When Valkor was turned into a puppet of the Deathborne symbiote (better known as Forceless) identified as Yalbdalaoth by his religious extremist father, Hazral Vangeli, Admon Onae dedicated many lifetimes to ensuring that the Order of Yalbdalaoth was defeated and that his beloved is vindicated in the eyes of history and not seen as the monster who enslaved multiple galaxies. However, after over 25,000 years, Onae's body grows weak and frail, and has only survived this long thanks to the power of the Plamora. Likely to die at any time, he seeks a successor... and he seems to have found one in the once-dead Jedi, Dynn Manthis. The weapon he wields is known as a plasma brand, a superheated metal blade that cut through most material, powered by a kyber crystal and charged in a scabbard. It's a more archaic variant of a lightsaber. Mortaqa's lightscythe was built in a similar process to the Murigan plasma brand to provide an intimidating curved blade, but with more advanced parts.

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2010 concept art of Masochus and Psychaeus. Psychaeus would eventually be retooled into Mortaqa.