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[PLAYER INFO]
[CHARACTER INFO]
NAME: bluemoon
AGE: 22
JOURNAL:emeralddarkness
IM: you've got this
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RETURNING: I play the other futureistic guy with the black full-body suit of enhanced bodyarmor who has a thing for redthus proving that I have the MOST DIVERSE CHARACTER CHOICES
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Darth Vader
FANDOM: Star Wars
CHRONOLOGY: Most of the way through The Empire Strikes Back, shortly before the fight with the Big Reveal.
CLASS: Villaaain
SUPERHERO NAME: Darth Vader
ALTER EGO:Anakin SkywalkerDARTH. VADER.
BACKGROUND:Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...STAR
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So, now that I've started things off proper: as mentioned earlier, Star Wars is set long ago in a galaxy far, far away. The galaxy in question was, for a very VERY long time, governed by a body known as the Republic, which was headed by a senate and a chancellor of that senate. Also in this particular galaxy were two opposing bodies who had been at war for thousands upon THOUSANDS of years: the Sith and the Jedi, who are both groups deeply connected with something called the Force. It's sometimes called a religion in-canon and, in a way, it is.
The Force is, in a way, life itself, or the energy of it, or the energy of all living creatures and the potential energy of non-living THINGS. The Force can be felt by certain who are Force-sensitive, and can help guide their actions. It sharpens their reflexes, it helps them be in the right place at the right time, gives them good instincts, that sort of thing. Force-sensitive individuals who are trained to feel and manipulate it can also begin to bend the Force to their will. Someone who can use the force this way can do all sorts of things, anything from heal themselves to jump insane distances to spontaneously create lightning to make animals really really like them in not-very-long. Jedi are trained to be at harmony with the Force and the Universe, and to be masters of peace.
A long, long ways back before the start of our story one of the Jedi decided that the way that Jedi did things was stupid and the Sith were created. Originally a species, now just followers of an ideal, the Sith use the Force to gain power rather than promote harmony. The Dark Side of the force feeds on and helps create emotions like jealousy, anger, betrayal, rage, and the Sith use it to be strong. Passion brings them power, whereas serenity fuels the Jedi. Being direct opposites, the Sith and the Jedi are understandably mortal enemies, and though both have been almost wiped out a lot because they've been at war pretty much forever. Still, both have managed to survive, and here they are.
So much for general information.
Once upon a time on a backwater planet named Tatooine, which is one giant desert, there lived a boy named Anakin, who'd been born with no father -- by which I do not mean 'absent father,' I mean 'no father'. He was a slave but also a mechanical whiz kid, who did things like build protocol droids from scratch from junk in his spare time when he was still about seven, to help his mother. One day when he was nine he met up with some Jedi who'd ended up on Tatooine by accident, and helped them get some cash to repair their downed spaceship by flying a pod racer (that he had built himself) like a pro in a big race. One of the Jedi, Qui-gon, saw that the kid had enormous Force potential and had bet heavily on him to win. When the kid pulled through, Qui-gon won Anakin himself along with the money he needed, and had grand plans of training him to be a Jedi -- the unusual circumstances of his birth and his unusually high Force aptitude seemed to point to Anakin being the fulfillment of this old Jedi prophecy about a "chosen one" who would "bring balance to the Force." All of this necessitated Anakin coming off-planet with Qui-gon and the others, and that in turn meant leaving his mother, who was still enslaved. It was one of the harder moments of his young life when he hugged her goodbye and left his home, but he did it anyway, and off all of them went to see the Jedi Council.
The Council initially vetoed any plans to train Ani in the ways of the Force, saying that he was too old to begin. In addition, one member of the Council sensed much fear in him, which was potentially the first step on the path to the Dark Side, that being just the thing that the Council wanted to avoid. Still, eventually the decision was overturned, and Obi-wan (Qui-gon's old, now graduated, apprentice) took on Anakin to train him to be a Jedi Knight, after Anakin was an awesome little pilot and thereby helped save the day.
Time passed, and the Republic got into a big ol fight with the Trade Federation that eventually involved clones. Obi-wan and Anakin made a wonderful team, balancing each others flaws and each with powerful strengths that were the compliments of each other. They became the dream team of the Jedi, but all was not well with Anakin. His rapid rise from slave to superstar had left him with an ego the size of a small moon and a superiority complex. In addition, he had fallen in love with Padmé Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, and another of the people he'd met when he was still a slave. This isn't something that Jedi are supposed to do, as love is not typically an emotion that leads to serenity, and it can cause destruction as often as it brings joy.
Anyway.
Anakin got assigned to guard Padmé, and ended up dragging her off to Tatooine with him because he'd been having dreams of his mother dying, and this worried him. Once he got there he found out that his dreams were right, his mother had been kidnapped by a race known as the Sand People, and died in Anakin's arms. At this point he went nuts and slaughtered the entire village, and afterwards promised Padmé that one day he'd be the strongest Force-user of all time, strong enough to keep people from dying.
Then he went and fought this Sith Lord named Count Dooku, and he got his hand chopped off. WHOOPS.
Slightly after this, with a brand new mechanical hand, Anakin and Padmé were secretly married - secretly because this was breaking the Jedi code and taboos and all sorts of stuff.
After this he fought in the Clone Wars some more, hijinx were had, and he was promoted from Padawan to Jedi Knight. The title still bugged him though, he wanted to be promoted more quickly than he was being promoted, he believed that his power and his skill meant he deserved more than the Masters of the Jedi Council were giving him. Obi-wan told him to be patient, but Anakin was bad at that, and on his other side was another man, telling him the opposite. Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the evil Darth Sidious, was one of Anakin's few close friends. For years he'd been watching Anakin grow up and planning to take him as his next apprentice. He encouraged Anakin's impetuousness, fed his pride, and subtly laid a foundation to begin to tempt Anakin to the Dark Side. For example, Anakin brutally executed Count Dooku the next time that they fought, at Palpatine's urging and encouragement, despite Obi-wan's attitude.
While this was happening, Padmé told Anakin that she was pregnant, and Anakin began to have nightmares that she would die in childbirth, just as he'd had nightmares of his mother dying several years earlier. Wild and desperate to keep her from dying, Anakin had searched for anything that could keep her from doing so, and this is how Palpatine finally caught him, with Anakin's love for Padmé. He revealed himself as a Sith Lord to Anakin with the promise that the Dark Side could keep Padmé safe, keep her alive. After much internal struggle and finally accidentally helping to kill a Jedi Master (whoops) to decide him, Anakin signed on as Darth Sidious's apprentice and turned from Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader. Now that all of his ducks were in a row, Palpatine moved to exterminate the Jedi order. Vader helped lead the attack, and personally went to the Jedi Temple to slaughter Jedi there, including the younglings -- the children who were training to be Jedi Knights.
Obi-wan had managed to avoid the attempts on his life, and found out most of the situation as it was. He came and found Padmé, and begged her to help him find Anakin. Finally she agreed, and the two of them hopped on Obi-wan's spaceship and zoomed off to this volcanic planet called Mustafar, where Vader currently was. When Obi-wan approached his former apprentice, Vader saw Obi-wan as jealous of his newfound power, as an enemy to the vision and ideal of order and peace that he was attempting to bring to the galaxy (the chancellor had labeled the Jedi Order as traitors, and Vader believed him). His vision of his former master, a man with whom he'd had a father/son and brotherly relationship with, was terribly twisted. And then Padmé came down off the spaceship.
Already wild with jealousy and pride and rage, blinded by the clever lies of Palpatine, and hardened to do whatever he needed to do in order to make the galaxy safe for her, for the baby, for them, Vader saw Padmé's presence as a sort of ultimate betrayal. She had given him up, after all he was doing for her, he seems to have assumed that she was cheating on him with Obi-wan, that she no longer loved him, and even if she did, she'd led a traitor to him etc etc. He lost his mind a little, raised his hand, and began to Force-choke her. After all, if he couldn't have her, Obi-wan sure as hell wasn't going to.
Obi-wan staggered to Padmé's defense, and Vader and Obi-wan had this epic battle all across the open lava forging factory face of the bit of planet that they were on. They both fought a good fight, but Vader's lightsaber form was different, it used more energy and more emotion than Obi-wan's more centered defensive form. In the end that was all it took to give him enough of an advantage. The fight ended with Vader's good arm being cut off, as well as both of his legs. As he slid down towards the lava, cursing Obi-wan's name, he caught on fire, unable to properly drag himself up the crumbling slope of volcanic ash and gravel. And Obi-wan couldn't bring himself to kill him, and so walked away, and left Vader ranting and screaming behind him.
Sidious found him there, mostly dead, mostly burned to a crisp, now a quadruple limb amputee, and knew at once that he had to work fast to save his apprentice. He took him and the famous Vader suit was constructed for him, black and armored and mostly mechanical, it kept him alive, it gave him the ability to walk again, and it kept him useful. Upon awakening in surgery/the mechanic shop (it was sorta a cross between the two), Vader was informed that he'd killed his wife and unbornchildrenchild. He screamed no, fell down crushed, but eventually rose and took his place at Sidious's side once more. And the First Galactic Empire was born.
So time went on.
Vader continued hunting down and executing what fragments of the Jedi Order remained, and became increasingly obsessed with finding and killing Obi-wan. His fighting style evolved as he adapted to the new limitations (and the few new advantages) that the armor presented and laid upon him. Basically, the next several years at least seem to have gone like this: Find and fight a group of Jedi; come close to dying/being defeated/being in serious trouble; kill them all instead (sometimes with help from storm troopers); have his exploits made more impressive and widely published as propaganda by the Emperor; rinse and repeat. After long enough of this he began a covert search for something to increase his power or possibly an apprentice of his very own, to help him eventually overthrow the Emperor and stuff.
He tried several times to find something or someone that would work, and several times he failed. AND THEN CAME GALEN MAREK/STAAAAAARKILLEEEEEEEERRR.
Basically: in the course of hunting down all these Jedi, Vader caught wind of one hanging out on Kashyyyk, so hunted them down and shanked them. This Jedi had a kid!!!! Said kid also had a very very POWERFUL Force aura, so after murdering his only living parent like 5 feet away from him, he turned around and also shanked all the stormtroopers and stuff that had come with him (who'd been about to kill the kid) to eliminate all witnesses. After this he kidnapped this little boy and spent the next however-many years training him as a secret apprentice in what was pretty much flat out physical and psychological torture. He strung the kid along with promises that together they would overthrow the emperor, and as this was all he knew, all he remembered, Starkiller was completely loyal. Except then Vader killed him, then killed him again (only not for both occasions) and so finally Galen went "ya know what screw this screw all y'all" and went light side and almost killed Vader and Palpatine in a heroic sacrifice.
Undeterred, Vader grabbed his body and began cloning him, seeking to make a perfect replica that would have all of Galen's strengths but none of his weaknesses. After this things get very complicated, but it involves many clones being killed, at least two not, and Vader getting his perfect apprentice (cleverly named Dark Apprentice) who... seems to vanish completely afterwards.
idek.
Vader gets captured and shipped off, gets loose somehow and comes back, spends the next while running around for the empire some more. THEN THE PLANS FOR THE DEATH STAR GET STOLEN, and before capturing Princess Leia, first Vader ends up randomly fighting a clone or something of Darth Maul. They're pretty evenly matched, in the end Vader wins but is pretty badly damaged. He comes back for repairs, eyes the Emperor (who is completely unsurprised by this) with a suspicious gaze and suspects that he might have had something to do with it, then off he goes to capture Leia's ship.
THE EVENTS OF EPISODE IV HAPPEN.
Basically: he doesn't get the plans, he doesn't get the droids WITH the plans, he gets Leia for a while and tortures her and then loses her too, he finally manages to kill Obi-wan, and the Death Star, the grand ultimate weapon of the Empire that can itself blow up planets, is blown up.
Most people know this story, right? Right. Moving on.
Vader was not blown up with the Death Star, unlike pretty much every other person who'd been stationed there. When it was exploded he was out and about in a little 1 man fighter spaceship, and crash landed on a nearby planet named Vaal. He briefly accidentally became the pack leader of a group of predators called hyenax (no, seriously). He lead this pack off to a nearby imperial outpost, boarded the only shuttle and headed for Coruscant, and left the hyenax to eat most-if-not-all of the outpost and/or shuttle crew, who may have been one and the same.
After this little episode he went back to hunting down the rebel alliance to kill 'em all and almost succeeded a few times! He also had several other adventures where he almost died a few times AGAIN (and was occasionally rescued by some really unlikely folks). During this time, he also became rather obsessed with learning the identity of the pilot who had blown up the Death Star, as he'd sensed in him a Force presence that he had not felt matched by anyone but him and the Emperor, for years and years. He was untrained, but strong, and if he allied himself with the rebellion that could be all it took to turn the tide. Finding him became his first priority.
Stabbing potential backstabbers before they stabbed him was his second.
Meanwhile Vader kept on trying to find the Rebels, there was a space battle which he mostly lost (by which I mean the other guys got away), he ran down several dead ends on Luke's identity, and had to go back to face the Emperor. Because of his failure in the battle, Palpatine took his hand. Again.
I guess Vader built himself a new one or something.
Several other adventures of a similar nature were had, with Vader trying and failing to learn Luke's name, before he finally got part of what he wanted.
The Force-sensitive pilot, the disciple of Kenobi... was named Skywalker.
Gasp.
Sidious had lied to him. He was a dad!
This briefly resurrected some feelings that had been dead for a while now, but Vader quashed those, and instead began planning how to get Luke to turn to the Dark Side and join him, so that together they could overthrow Sidious.
Disguising his true intentions, he renewed the hunt with yet more determination. He tried and almost succeeded in capturing Luke on a planet named Jazbina, and came face to face with him for the first time. However, in the end the plan flopped because of one pilot, and instead the entire planet ended up converting to the rebellion, so whoops. Sidious also learned of Luke's existence, and that he was the son of Vader, so Vader had to move very fast indeed. A little while later, he tried and almost succeeded AGAIN in capturing him, but failed, and this time lost him for several years. So he set up literally hundreds of traps on planets that Luke might visit. When these failed to get Luke in a timely manner, he decided that sooner or later they'd meet up (they had to it was Destiny etc) and so started personally overseeing attacks on rebel bases. At the same time he kept on setting increasingly complex traps (including one where he trained an actor to pretend to be Obi-wan to fool Luke), some of which almost worked, some of which didn't, some of which almost got him killed.
AFTER A WHILE YOU JUST HAVE TO START ADMIRING HIS PERSISTENCE and honestly his creativity too he had a wide range of these suckers.
So like 18 dozen planets and traps later Leia and Vader have a brief lightsaber battle and then LUKE AND VADER FINALLY FIGHT. And Obi-wan's ghost apparently possesses Luke and grants him such mastery that the cuts off Vader's arm (the man has a problem with limb loss). Vader shrugs off the injury and then for no apparent reason falls down a well and is unconscious and almost dies again, but survives to put down more rebellions.
FINALLY WE ARRIVE AT EPISODE V.
Vader follows his normal pattern of the past like 3/however long years and stalks Luke to Hoth, where the rebels and Luke manage to escape again. However, Vader manages to capture Leia, Han Solo, the wookie Chewbacca, and the droid C-3PO, and uses them as bait for YET ANOTHER trap. He also tortures them for a while for apparently no reason other than just he feels like it!!! Luke takes the bait, shows up, has a lightsaber duel with Vader wherein Vader cuts off his hand and then is like "SO HEY KID GUESS WHAT I'M YOUR FATHER! COME TO DADDY LUKE!" and Luke jumps into a giant pit.
It is just before this lightsaber duel that Vader is being pulled omg that was so long I AM SORRY.
A FINAL NOTE: As long as this background is, it skims over the vast majority of things that I could go into exhaustive detail with, partially because a lot of this is kinda repetitive or doesn't really matter for major character development. Also gracious, the extended universe is canon but it is LOOOOOOONG, and not nearly all of it is needed for a proper understanding of the character.
SO.
PERSONALITY:In order to understand his personality, there is one basic fact which must first be accepted: Vader has had a really really crappy life. He started off as a slave, had a few good years as a Jedi (well, mostly good), then mostly because of his own mistakes and folly he effectively killed his wife, didn't even know he hadchildrena child for FOREVER, kept on getting his limbs cut off, is trapped in a mechanical suit of armor, is apprentice to a man he kind of despises but has to play nice for, failed and failed and failed some more, and killed lots and LOTS OF PEOPLE. I'm not saying that a lot of his sucky life isn't his fault, because a good deal of it is. But that doesn't change the fact that he's had a really really crappy life. It really all started, the final downward spiral, with the thing with Padmé. Anakin and Vader both have problems with their temper, Anakin more than Vader, and he was told that he killed the woman he loved - that he loved still, years and years after her death. It's a part of why he's so cold; he's learned to block himself off from pretty much all emotion.
The primary emotion that fuels him these days is hate. He honestly hates himself, he hates being him, he hates his life, he hates the Emperor (though not the Empire), he hates Obi-wan, he hates what he's done and he hates that he doesn't even really hate that any more. He is not a person that he really enjoys all that much. Despite this, his choices remain in his mind logical and rational, and effectively the only thing he COULD have done. He might regret the fact that he had to choose following this path, but he does not regret following it. In addition, he uses his rage and hate to fuel his attacks, lend power to whatever he does. He is pretty good at controlling and channeling his temper these days, so this is an asset rather than a detriment: having all your limbs cut off and being charbroiled alive is one of those lessons that tends to stick. Since he always has fought with his emotions, freeing them has (in his opinion) made him much more powerful - as he says to Luke, "If only you knew the power of the Dark Side."
Mostly his life has served to convince him of one simple fact: life sucks. Life is pain, in the words of Princess Bride. Life, fueled at least in part by his own actions or not, has managed to screw him over so completely that these days he's just of the opinion that this is what life does, is it screws you over, and only naive fools and idiots believe otherwise. As a result, though he's not a sadist, he really enjoys screwing other people over. He doesn't get pleasure out of it, but just making other people miserable for no other reason than because he can seems like it's kinda cathartic in this way. Life does not make sense and pain does not make sense, they just are, regardless of your wishes or desires. He enjoys demonstrating this concept for people. They inevitable answer to "Why me" is "Why not you?" He may limit the torture for his enemies, but he is utterly indiscriminate when it comes to them. You don't need to have information that he wants for him to decide to torture you for hours, he just... does it. Cause he likes watching you squirm. In his own words, "There is no justice. Only power."
The Sith way of life is literally built upon betrayal and backstabbing, and as a result, it seems that he's lost any belief he once held in the concept of loyalty. Loyalty is nonexistent, the only thing people do is go along until they can advance to the next rank via murder, betrayal, and intimidation, or keep their enemies from doing so instead, with the same methods. He is bitter and jaded and considers most of the people everywhere idiots who just aren't aware of the knife hovering just above a point somewhere between their shoulder blades. But, this being as it is, he has absolutely no problem with stabbing anyone in the back, breaking off any deals or promises that he might make, or changing his mind about said deals or promises last-second. The ultimate goal in life for this man is to murder the man who has been his master and teacher for the past 20+ years, and who prior to that was his most trusted confidant and one of his closest friends.
Obi-wan said of him that he is "more machine now than man, twisted and evil." Obi-wan is right in more way than one. First off, he is evil. His physical form is largely mechanical these days - he's a torso and a head in a walking tin can - but the suit itself has had more effect than to just give him back his mobility. For the past 20 some-odd years now he has not been a person, but rather a figure. The necessary isolation and anonymity (he's the only one with the armor but that helmet is NOT his face) that came with the armor changed how he behaved. It provided a degree of seperation that turned him colder and harder and all in all less human. The clothes make the man.
He has spent most of his adult life trapped in his armor, as in most environments he cannot survive without it, but he gets tired of it sometimes. He wishes he could return to just being him, a person, not a symbol of terror. Of course, on another level, he's glad of the security provided by it. Anakin was arrogant, he was proud, he was vain, and Vader retains all those traits. He is horrifically scarred and about as handicapped as he can be without the suit, he can't even breathe properly. A vain man would not stand for this, and Vader doesn't. You cannot see him behind his helmet, he is protected, and the black, cool lines, sleek and intimidating, are far superior to his normal self tactically as well as simply appealing to his vanity. He therefore appreciates and hates his armor simultaneously; he wishes he could function without it, but does not want to.
In almost direct contradiction to Obi-wan, Luke says that there is good left in Vader, and that he can bring it out. And clearly, as Vader does not kill his son any of the multiple occasions that he could have and has that death-bed redemption that turns him back to the Light Side and kills his old master, Luke was right. He has some finer feelings left in him, like he really would like a family. Of course he quashes these feelings because they're a pipe-dream in a fantasy world that only fools attempt to inhabit, but the dream is still there and he can't seem to kill it completely. He's still an idealist, but his ideals have been warped - whereas Anakin was out to become a Jedi and free all the slaves and bring warmth and rainbows and puppies to all, Vader's plan seems to revolve more around crushing all resistance and razing the galaxy itself, only to rebuild and remake and restructure it so that there is perfect unity and perfect order and perfect peace - all under his iron control, because you can't trust these idiots not to screw up a great system once he gets it underway. His thing is that he believes the Empire, aka spacenazicommunism, is the best means to the end. He also does not believe that being happy is a possibility. To be strong is all the joy there is, and satisfaction is to be elite, to subject others to your will and watch as they crumble under the force.
Vader is a perfectionist who is neither tolerant nor forgiving. He is a huge control freak, is jealous, cold, controlling, and possessive to the extreme. He is also extremely tenacious - his tenacity is at times one of his most useful traits, he simply does not give up. Unfortunately he's not always the best with planning. Manipulation is usually best left to the Emperor, which is something else he resents him for. Vader more just tends to choke a problem until he gets his way. He lies easily, and goes back on his word, but persuasive speaking just isn't his forte.
He appears to still carry some of that slave mentality from all those years ago, and the end result is this attitude he has where the highest member of the chain of command who brings him a problem is always directly responsible for that problem and deserves execution. See, back when he was a slave, if nobody told him to do anything he wouldn't do it, and it wasn't his fault. If he did something wrong and nobody told him he was doing it wrong, he was blamed and punished, but also corrected. So if the person above him did not tell him what to do or didn't correct him, it became their fault. Vader is high up on the chain of command, and he watches those under him, who watch those under THEM, on down this grand pyramid right to the very bottom. It seems likely to me that if someone had come to him and said '____ was a problem but I killed the one responsible' he'd be more likely to say 'Right, carry on, just don't let it happen again' than choke them and dump the body out an airlock. Of course, killing any overly-ambitious members of command is also just plain old job security.
He seems a great believer in the notion that if you want a job done right, you've gotta do it yourself. He therefore is in the front-lines a lot, certainly a lot more than most of the officers, definitely more than the Emperor. Being a very hands-on kind of leader both allows him to micromanage more effectively and can make him rather more popular, given that he's out there risking his life alongside everyone else.
He doesn't care that he's risking his life, because it seems to him as though things will just kinda continue. Hey, they have in the past. And, of course, his abilities and skill give him a head-up above most of the competition. He's as fearless now as he was when he fought for the Republic, or raced his pod as a child.
POWER:All of these are canon, or at least close enough that they should count anyway.
Force Master: As 'The Chosen One' with the highest midichlorian count ever, Anakin could have (should have) become the most powerful force-user of all time, Jedi or Sith. Uuuuuunfortunately that whole thing where he got all his limbs cut off and then was burned mostly to a crisp after fighting Obi-wan on Mustafar eliminated or locked a good deal of his force potential, and he just hasn't been able to get it back since that day. However, Vader is almost - not quite - as powerful as the Emperor, which still translates to 'really freakin powerful'. Basically, the Force is strong with this one. Perhaps of note is the fact that despite this, he cannot use Force Lightning, the stereotypical dark side power, because he'd short himself out and die. So instead he chokes everyone.
Technopathy: Anakin was a mechanical whiz kid who could do pretty much anything with technology and who was in fact fluent in binary so he could interface with machines and droids -- when, you know, he's not busy building them from scratch and improving on the designs. Vader is a mechanical whiz who can do pretty much anything with machines, and has improved on the designs for his own armor and star ships and built all his own lightsabers and all sorts of stuff. Tl;dr: he can fix like anything mechanical/technological, that which isn't there for the fixin he can build if he has the necessary tools. So naturally in the City this is becoming a full-fledged power.
Aircrafts: If it flies, Vader can fly it. Exceptions made for like birds and houseflies and stuff, but he'll be able to fly any model of plane or spaceship, hovercraft, landspeeder, jetpack, etc, and do it like a pro.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:[video]
[The message is in a deep, clipped, precise and very cold voice, accompanied by that iconic breathing, and the equally iconic image of a helmeted figure in all black.
Well, part of the figure, though WHY these funny little commlinks are unable to record full holo and why it's in 2-D....]
Do not presume to think that you will escape the wrath of the Empire over this effrontery. Though the exact method and details of my abduction and arrival in this place are intriguing, clever tricks alone will not serve you here. Perhaps, if you give yourself up and explain this process, my charity will stretch far enough to offer you an easy death.
Now, to any person, persons, droids, or beings otherwise capable of responding who are loyal to the Empire, or fearful of its wrath, I suggest quick response with any further information available about the place I currently find myself stranded. It is not a planet I recognize, though the technology alone makes it unlikely that it is within the confines of the Empire. Beyond that, there is little that I have been able to find.
Finally, a warning: If this is some trick of the Rebel Alliance, rest assured that I will find you. Your screams will be long and your deaths slow, should you attempt to further perpetuate this game.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:The City pulsed with power.
Vader could feel the thrum of it down to his bones, an odd play upon the senses that was similar to the Force, and yet somehow was completely different. Not all of the power in this place stemmed from life, it seemed that the power stemmed from everything. It was a crazy cacophony of non-noise, of presences, so constant and powerful as to almost be exhausting. It was strange, the new place he'd found himself. At another time, in another place, he doubtless would have found it intriguing. As things stood, it - along with the rest of the situation - was merely frustrating.
Skywalker had been in his grasp, at last, after years of the hunt, his son would have been his, to teach and to guide. His. It was a terrible wash of possessive, frustrated rage that swept across him as he thought (once again) of how very close he had come this time. He'd felt it, that this time he would be able to corner Luke, that at last there would be no escape - and how could one escape when surrounded by Storm Troopers and trapped in a city floating in the clouds? He accepted the rage, embraced it, and then fiercely brought it to heel. Rage was a tool, hate was a tool, but if wielded too carelessly, they brought ruin the user instead of the target. That was a bitter lesson that he had learned all too well, 20 years ago.
Vader breathed, taking the time to center himself as he let his fingers drum a staccato rhythm on the surface of the table he was seated at. Very well. He had been foiled again, his trap ruined once again. It mattered not - the son would follow the father; he had no choice. The Empire was not here, the technology was pitiful and backwards - very well. He'd dealt with such conditions in the past. He would deal with them again. Sidious was not here- and here, at least, Vader might have smiled, if he could have properly. Good. The wheel had turned, it seemed, and if not in the usual manner it was no matter. Sidious was gone, and Vader stood alone as the Dark Lord.
All that remained was to build his empire.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:He be good with da lightsabers. As Anakin, he was a master of like 5000000 lightsaber forms. The whole losing all his limbs thing sorta hampered that because his dexterity just went right down the toilet, but he totally developed a new form for himself that's a blend of about 4 others and utilizes what he does best. Because he's mostly mechanical these days (and possibly also as a combination with force powers) he is massively strong. Nowhere NEAR as strong as a lot of the other imports, but picking guys up and flinging them around seems to be no problem whatsoever.
Oh, and he's mostly mechanical. He is a head and a torso in a fancy shmancy armored walking mechanical iron lung, and outside that suit he's kinda toast.
Also this.