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Title:
The Empress Darth Hesper, Imperatrix of the Sith; Exalted High Priestess of the Final Sith Order; the Butcher of Coruscant; Hierarch of the Hesperians; The Third Eye; Immortalis; Tsis'Ari
Théa Lasena, née Cifra
Age: Appears to be approximately in her early 30s
Sex: F
Species: Human
Homeworld: Naboo
Occupation: Empress of the Sith
Height: 5'1"
Weight: 104lbs
Physical Description: Hesper is a petite human female with a slim face that sports a long diagonal scar that overlaps her left eye; her left eye has become pale and clouded as a result of the wound, and her other eye is a startling shade of bright grey. She has exceedingly long pale blonde hair, which she rarely styles. Her complexion is fair and her cheeks, chest, shoulders, and arms are generously dusted with freckles. Her expressions usually read as being pensively lonely or as grim scowls. She wears minimal cosmetics, save for the occasional dark eyeshadow or deep red lip (though never simultaneously), and keeps her nails short.
Clothing: Hesper favors simple clothes in black, emerald, or white; she has an affinity for long, shapeless kaftans, gowns, and cloaks, or for well-tailored trousers and flowing blouses or tunics. Hesper ascribes to the "modest is hottest" view of fashion, preferring to cover up than expose skin. When dressing for battle, she may don pauldrons and arm armor. Sometimes wears a sheer full-body veil over her clothing.
Weapons: One slim, long-handled lightsaber with a classic red blade.
She keeps, but does not use, her deceased husband's blue-bladed Jedi saber.
Equipment: None of note.
Vehicles: A Victory I-Class Star Destroyer called
Sibyl II: it is well-equipped for planetary defense and assault, ground troop support, and ship-to-ship combat. This particular Star Destroyer has also had its comm suite upgraded, and hosts a myriad of HoloNet transmitters and receivers, making it an excellent command and communication center.
Sibyl II sports a dark graphite-colored hull, with emerald markings. The original
Sibyl was commandeered and had to be left behind in 5 ABY.
An Executor-class Star Dreadnought called the
Auspex: The
Auspex is a fortress in the sky, equipped with extensive armaments and well-suited for planetary assault, ship-to-ship combat, space battles, and sieges. It carries a large complement, along with over 40,000 troopers. The
Auspex features customized emerald-colored exterior lighting, and a dark grey hull.
The
Auspex is one of three identical Dreadnoughts under employ by the Hesperians; the other two are the
Haruspex and the
Magus.
Languages/Alphabets: Galactic Basic, High Galactic, Sith (Ancient, High), Mando'a, Cheuhn, Naboo, Ryl, Galactic Sign Language
Combat Skills: Hesper is an extremely capable user of Telekinetic Force powers, specializing in its applications to the physical world around her, favoring skills such as Force Push, Wave, and Rend. Also possessing the ability to perceive many of the temporal aspects of the Force, Hesper has phenomenal skills in Farsight, Precognition, Shatterpoint, and Psychometry, and is a God-tier practitioner of Darksight. She is an excellent and extremely athletic hand-to-hand lightsaber combatant. Her favored lightsaber combat forms are Ataru and Niman, and she utilizes Sokan and Tràkata. She also excels in skills such as Dark Side Healing, Tutaminis, and Phase.
She is a highly capable combatant with melee weapons beyond the lightsaber, sometimes using swords and quarterstaffs; she is also an intermediate markswoman, though her skill with a blaster has diminished since she lost the sight in her left eye.
Strengths: Creative, intelligent, and adaptable. Hesper is hyper-aware of spatial relations and is wildly inventive in manipulating her physical surroundings. A quick and skilled lightsaber combatant. She is an accomplished scholar and has excellent historical, philosophical, and tactical knowledge. Knows much about art and culture across the galaxy. Very discerning and endlessly patient. As a sculptor, she has an excellent eye for art.
Weaknesses: Distant and emotionally sensitive. Hesper lacks keen Force empathy—mind tricks, probes, and control are not in her wheelhouse. Despite her reclusive and standoffish nature, she is quick to establish deep (and exploitable) loyalty and affection towards the few she deems worthy, and can be vulnerable to feelings of familial and romantic love, as well as compassion.
Her piety to the Dark Side is both a strength and weakness.
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Personality: A woman of few words, Hesper is somber and grim; she keeps a relatively even temper, though this never detracts from her pervasive intensity and the sense that there is always a glimmer of mania just below her surface. She is a master at masking her true emotions, and relies on her reclusiveness to act as an extra layer of emotional defense. She is pensive, thoughtful, articulate, and clever, with a sprinkle or sarcasm.
Fears: Hesper fears the end of all things. She fears loss, betrayal, and non-existence.
Likes: Hesper likes to create art, and greatly enjoys sketching, sculpting with clay, and creating bronzium sculptures of all types. She likes going to galleries, seeing live music and performances, and dining out. She is an avid reader. Enjoys eating sweets and pastries, particularly five-blossom bread from her native Naboo. Likes to win.
Dislikes: People who are cocky, talk loudly, or use a lot of empty words. Dislikes excessive fidgeting like knee bouncing, foot tapping, or drumming fingers. Hates to be interrupted. Strong distaste for politicians.
Habits: Rakes her fingers through her hair when irritated.
Relationships/Love Interests: None.
Masters: Emperor Darth Dreadwar
Apprentices: Aralia Drogus
Reputation: Hesper has secured a formidable reputation as the Butcher of Coruscant, the woman who slaughtered the entire Senate and the Moffs and Grand Moffs of the Federation in one bloody go. She is revered by those who know of her, and respected for her martial skill.
Biography: Hesper was born in Theed, Naboo, between 123 and 128 ABY as Théa Cifra. The gloomy and anger-prone daughter of an architect father and royal seamstress mother, Hesper lived a relatively middle-class life within the walls of the Palace; her early childhood was as calm as it possibly could have been as the Sith-Imperial war raged for the first few years of her life. Staunch supporters of the Federation and vehemently anti-Force, her parents eschewed anything having to do with Krayt's One Sith and the New Jedi Order, but remained as uninvolved as they possibly could.
After her father's death following a terminal illness in 134 ABY, Hesper's mother moved she and her younger brother to Dee'ja Peak, where they lived simply in the outskirts of town on a very small family-owned estate. Quiet, stormy young Hesper truly loved the Gallo Mountains and spent hours alone on the nearby trails, and it was where she uncovered her latent Force abilities—though she never spoke of being able to move and reshape the earth to anyone, as she was always told by her mother that the Force was not for people of their ilk. When she was not exploring the trails, she read voraciously.
When Hesper finished her schooling at a small local university at the age of 18, she left Naboo for Coruscant with the dream of becoming a sculptor; she took with her one bag of her belongings, and a recommendation from a family friend and Naboo parliament member for commission work for members of the Senate. She left behind her mother and brother at Dee'ja Peak, and that was the last time she saw or heard from them.
After her arrival on Coruscant, she began work as a sculptor—she lived alone in a modest mid-level apartment, where she collected books, datacrons, antique knickknacks, and where she sculpted. At first, she sculpted only for the lesser-known senators and military officials. A breakthrough finally came a handful of years after her arrival on Coruscant in the form of a grand bronzium statue to be installed in the library of the Jedi Temple. After its completion and during its installation in the Temple, Hesper was confronted by a young Jedi Knight who warned her of her strength in the Force, telling her— with a jovial wink and a laugh—that she could easily have been mistaken for another Jedi.
Hesper was taken aback by this, immediately disbelieving the Jedi. She did believe she possessed he Force—but to that extent seemed unreasonable to her. Carrying on, Hesper ignored the encounter for several months. But as time marched on, she thought on it more and more frequently. What if the Jedi Knight was right? What if she really was that powerful? It made her think back on her childhood and every enraged outburst she’d ever had, too. What if she was predisposed to the Dark Side of the Force? The Dark Side that Krayt’s Sith used, and that her parents hated so much...
Hesper delved deep into researching the Force on her own. She extensively studied the teachings of the Jedi with the hope that her proclivity to the Dark Side wasn’t true, but, finding that Jedi teachings did not suit her views in the slightest, turned to studying what little she could find about the ways of the Sith—and it was like slipping on a tailor-made glove. Never before had Hesper read anything that resonated so soundly with her soul. Now resolute to find the path to the Dark Side, Hesper locked away her dark ambition and began first with attempts to gather basic mastery of the Force.
She was unsure of where to begin, and so she turned back to the Jedi—she committed herself to locating the Jedi who had first confronted her about her presence in the Force. But what Hesper did not plan for was how he would sweep her off her feet.
Naren Lasena, the Jedi Knight Hesper had met a year prior, was all she ever could have wanted and more. Handsome, intelligent, gentle, and philosophical, Naren was perfection in Hesper’s eyes. At first, they became fast friends, and Naren remained unaware of Hesper’s tendencies toward the Dark; he attributed her aura in the Force to his overwhelming feelings for the beautiful and pensive young woman. The two fell faster in love than they had become friends, and Hesper's pure adoration for Naren caused a great conflict within her—were she to continue on her path to the Dark Side, what would become of the man she loved?
Yet even still, over the short years they were together, Hesper gleaned all she could from Naren. Force techniques, saber combat forms, lightsaber construction, and meditation among the most prominent things. She devoured all she learned from him, and still lusted for more.
Hesper loved Naren more than anything, and two years after she had found Naren again, they wed in secret. They lived a life full of art, philosophy, literature, and love, and for three years, they were happy. Even despite the secret nature of their relationship and the long stretches of time Naren spent away from Coruscant, Hesper could not have asked for a more perfect marriage. When Naren was not away on Jedi business, they travelled together, read together, dreamt together, came to know every intimate inch of each other... and soon, Hesper was with child—and had almost entirely forgotten her secret ambition of joining the Sith. An expecting mother, she began to consider abandoning her private quest for the Sith in order to better protect the secrets that were her husband and child from those who would seek to tear their family apart: The Jedi Order—who, according to Naren, strictly forbade marriage—and the politicians and media that so closely watched Hesper's career.
But it was not destined to last.
Much to her heartbreak and horror, Hesper lost the child at five months in a tragic and bloody airspeeder accident that left her physically broken and her unborn child dead. The grief drove Hesper to the edge—in hysterics and unwilling to cope, Hesper locked herself away for months following “the accident”, while the media pounded at her door to cover the story of the acclaimed young artist Théa Cifra and the mysterious pregnancy she had seemingly so viciously ended. Branded the “deranged mystery mother” and “infant butcher” on the HoloNet, Hesper turned to her art as a means to cope, creating disturbing, macabre sculptures as her career took an epic nosedive. During the time she spent in self-isolation, she repeatedly begged her husband to return home from the mission that had kept him away since before the child had been lost—Hesper pleaded for him to come home and help her cope, but each time, Naren refused.
Hesper then realized that her husband, whom she loved dearly, would always place the Jedi Order before her. She hadn't seen it before, as she'd been lovestruck, but after the realization dawned on her, she came back to her original desire to join the Sith. A new desire for power blossomed in her.
Nine months after their unborn child’s violent demise, Naren finally returned home from his mission; briefly hopeful they could return to life as it was, Naren made every effort to repair the damage he had done by not returning when Hesper had begged him to. But Hesper would have none of it, for she had become resolute to pursue becoming a Sith, and with her career all but decimated, there was no forgiveness in her. She attacked training herself with a ferocity she had never possessed before.
Then, one day, Hesper made a decision to get back at her flake of a husband: she would reveal her and Naren’s marriage to the Jedi Council... the marriage they had so meticulously kept secret over the years.
This backfired tremendously, for Hesper then discovered that the relationship Naren had insisted be kept so hush-hush was not unsanctioned by the Jedi, and there had been no need for secrecy. Naren had insisted the marriage be kept secret simply so Hesper would not interfere with his ability to perform his Jedi duties. Astonished and furious at Naren, Hesper demanded the Jedi Order reprimand such deceit. The Council obliged by temporarily suspending Naren from the Order, much to Hesper’s relief.
Naren was devastated. But Hesper, too, was devastated. How could the man she loved so dearly keep her secret in such a way, and for so long?
All those years! Wasted! Every kiss, every moment they spent together had been an absolute lie. Naren didn’t want to spend forever with her. He only wanted to serve a corrupt and vile order. Hesper had been right strung along. Rage and the painful desire for retribution burned in Hesper’s chest.
With her trust shattered and her connection to the Dark Side of the Force growing ever stronger by the day, Hesper took it upon herself to kill Naren several nights later in their apartment. She divulged to him her plan to pursue the Dark Side, and admitted to him that she had been learning from him all along before revealing the lightsaber she had built in secret using the knowledge he had unknowingly imparted to her. Breaking down into hysterics, Hesper drove her lightsaber into Naren's chest, killing him.
The next day, Hesper gathered only a few things she owned into a crate, took her husband's lightsaber, and fled from Coruscant. For the following year, Hesper chewed on what she had done and what had happened on Coruscant as she traveled the known galaxy. She did not meet many people, and kept herself under the radar until she arrived at Korriban, ready to find a Sith master and begin her quest for higher power.
She was apprenticed to Emperor Dreadwar, and became immediately embroiled in a short but furious battle. Over the course of a few short whirlwind days, Hesper completed her training, and was promoted to the rank of High Lord. The power she had merely tasted during her self-training on Coruscant and in her travels around the galaxy had multiplied beyond her wildest dreams. And now with a scar from the Sith's trip to Mortis, Hesper's original strength in spatial relations morphed into a different sense, one in which she could sense time, and foresee the future.
Hesper then found herself catapulted through time to 5 ABY alongside the Triumvirate and the Dark Tribunal. Shortly after, the Triumvirate self-destructed, and the War of Three began. With her position as High Lord revoked and her trust in her fellow Sith broken, Hesper found herself at immediate odds with each of the now separate Triumvirs. Needing a moment of respite, Hesper slipped into the shadows aboard her Star Destroyer
Sibyl, waiting for the right opportunity to return to the side of the one she considers to be the one true ruler. But by the start of the civil war, Hesper could no longer judge who deserved her loyalty. Once again disappearing into the shadows, Hesper searched for a way to return to her original timeline…
Class: Sorcerer
Rank: Empress of the Sith (Level 10)
Skills:
Shii-cho – 5
- Soresu (Shii-cho) – 5
- Ataru (Shii-cho) – 5
- Niman (Shii-cho) – 5
- Tràkata (Shii-cho) – 4
Augmentation – 5
- Force Jump (Augmentation) – 5
- Force Speed – 5
Force Sense – 5
- Farsight (Force Sense) – 5
- Precognition (Force Sense) – 5
- - GODLIKE - Darksight (Sith Prophet, Precognition, Battle Meditation - God-tier) – 10
- Force Sight (Force Sense) – 4
Telekinesis – 5
- Force Push (TK) – 5
- - Force Whirlwind (Force Push) – 5
- - Force Burst (Force Push) – 5
- - Force Wave (Force Push) – 5
- Force Rend (TK) – 5
- Force Wound (TK) – 5
- - Force Choke (Force Wound) – 5
- - - Telekinetic Kill (Force Choke) – 5
- - - Force Crush (Force Choke) – 5
- Levitation (TK) – 5
Telepathy – 5
- Mental Shield (Telepathy) – 5
- Mind Trick (Telepathy) – 4
- Force Illusion (Telepathy) – 5
- Mind Shard (Sorcerer class, Telepathy) – 5
Force Resistance – 5
- Adiabatic Shield (TK, Force Resistance) – 5
- Force Barrier (TK, Force Resistance) – 5
- - Protection Bubble (Force Barrier, Adiabatic Shield) – 5
- Tutaminis (Force Resistance) – 5
Dark Side Healing – 5
Force Bond – 5
- Battle Meditation (Force Bond) – 5
Feed on Dark Side – 5
Inflict Pain – 5
Force Reflex – 4
GODLIKE - Create Holocron – 10
Ballistakinesis (TK) – 5
Dimension Shift – 5
Teleport – 5
Force Light – 4
Force Scream – 5
Phase – 5
Psychometry – 5
Shatterpoint – 5
