Post by Sir Lord Ash on Aug 3, 2011 1:18:04 GMT -5
Name: Kenichi Sakura
Species: Human/Echani hybrid
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 5’9” 185 lbs
Appearance: Sakura is one who is able to blend in easily with a crowd. Unlike his father, which stands out with white hair due to him being an Echani, Sakura has dark hair, much like his mother, and is of average stature. Dark blue eyes and a fair, trim face round up the rest of his looks.
Sakura’s clothes normally consist of a black shirt and a jacket, depending on if he is traveling or not. He never removes these, unless on a mission. Dark pants and either dark shoes or boots finish him off. The rest of his wardrobe consists of the standard republic uniform. Sakura has a relatively lean build with visible muscle under his skin.
Kenichi and Kona Sakura on the surface of Chandrila.
Personality: Kenichi Sakura doesn’t speak too much unless he has a couple of drinks in his system. Being a military man, he is used to having everyone by his last name, and he introduces himself last name first, out of sheer habit. He fallows his military values closely, and always helps out his friends.
Sakura is knows to be a loner and a wanderer when not on some sort of mission, but when the time comes, is an exceptional teammate and leader. He loves his daughter dearly, and is continuously pushing to make her life easier. Because Kona doesn’t have a living mother, Sakura is continuously working extra hard to make up for it.
Character Rank: Republic: Lieutenant in Republic Special Forces.
Special Skills:Leadership
Skilled Sniper
Quick thinking
Echani martial arts and light weapons, I.E. Staffs and Swords.
Physical Attributes
Strength: 50
Speed:60
Intelligence: 60
Alignment: +80
Bio: Short history.
Kenichi Sakura never knew his mother, as the woman died during childbirth with him. In fact, he never really knew his father before he was five. During that time, he was a drunk and gambler, wasting his money to forget about his dead wife. Sakura was raised by his grandparents on his mother side where he started his first year of school under their care.
Sakura was just past his fifth birthday when his father came to his senses, and decided to take back Kenichi, and raise him as a proper son. Of course, this meant teaching Sakura their martial arts. He was already behind, being raised by humans rather than Echani, but the child was a fast learner, and caught onto the basics quickly.
This went on for some years, mornings spent sparing, days spent at school, and evenings spent training with light weaponry and blasters. Blasters were because Sakura’s father wasn’t fully traditional, and believed that a blaster could save your life if it came down to it. Because Sakura’s father was in the Republic, he was away from home for quite a while before he could come back, and it was then the Sakura’s uncle would resume training. Before Sakura got use to the difference in their movement, he would often forget that his uncle was not his father, as they looked the same.
Sakura was almost to his 13th birthday when the Republic fell to the Sith. Amiss the chaos, Sakura’s father moved them off planet to Mon Calamari, where they would be safe with the Federation. Sakura fell back into his usual routine on this planet, and it stayed this way for the next four years, until he was 17, then the Sith were defeated and the Federation became the Republic. Sakura’s father was killed in the final battle, and after learning that, he decided to fallow in his father’s footsteps. At this time, Sakura was out of school, and with a waiver, joined in with the Republic, who was low on personal and was itching to get some.
Basic was grueling, and so was his job, but after it was completed, he was trained and hardened, and in better shape that only martial arts could accomplish. Sakura was in the army portion of the Republic for three years, scouting out planets with possible darkside force users and who use to be high up in the power chain with the sith.
Around the age of 18, Sakura met his future white: a simple café maid working on Coruscant. She didn’t make very much money, but was happy with what she did. Whenever Sakura was on the planet, he would show up and idly chat with her when she had a break. This turned into dating, and their love blossomed. They were married after he turned 19, and she was 18.
At about the age of 20, Sakura was sent, with his platoon, to Yavin IV to investigate the possible presence of sith forces. After freefalling in drop pods with a meteor shower, they hiked up the the great temple, where they found but one force user. Without waiting for any words, he was gunned down, 20 or so blaster rifles firing their deathly energy into the man. They got confirmation on his ID, then left. Sakura was the last to leave, grabbing the man’s lightsaber and taking it for himself as a souvenir, until he was forced to sell it.
After returning from this mission, Sakura found out his wife was pregnant. Six months later, she gave birth to a healthy little girl named Kona. Unfortunately, like Sakura’s own mother, his wife past away days after giving birth. Unlike his father, though, Sakura, though depressed at losing his wife, didn’t end up like his father.
When unable to be around, due to a mission or the like, Kona would stay with her grandparents on his mother side. As she grew older, Kona would look almost exactly like her mother use to.
At the age of 22, Sakura was brought into the Navy Special Forces, an advance force meant for infiltration and assassination. He was to do what he had been, only with two or three other people, no outside help, and if he was captured, he wasn’t part of the Republic.
For two years, Sakura did his job in SF, and was eventually given leadership of his own team. As a captain of a team, which continuously changed with each mission, he showed true leadership capabilities, and became notorious for bringing his team back alive, no matter how far south the missions went.
At the age of 25, Sakura is still with the Republic, but due to the lack of SF missions, is part of the Army again, with ties with the Navy SF just in case some shit hits the fan and they need people instantly. The training wasn’t anything he couldn’t handle, and as he started to get missions, he realized that it was pretty much what he was doing before, only with less people, and no outside support. Teams usually consisted of three to four men, usually four, and were paired up based on the mission and what skills they had. Sakura was usually placed on assassination and recon missions, due to skills with blasters and close combat.
Age 0-5
Kenichi Sakura was born on Eshan, the Echani homeworld, to father Ozo Sakura and mother Tanaka Sakura. Tanaka was prone to sickness easily, and developed a fever as she went into labor. For hours, she fought to give birth to Kenichi. Not five minutes after ken was born, Tanaka died, being able to see a blury Ken as Ozo held him up for her to see.
Ozo couldn’t handle Tanaka’s death, and went into a state of depression, leaving Sakura in the care of his grandparents on his mother’s side: Ayano and Luke Hibano. They lived on Chandrila, so it was relatively peaceful and safe among the core worlds. They raised the young child as their own, and tried to get Ozo to see him as often as possible, but being on robot mode, he hardly ever got away from his post with the Republic. Somehow, Ozo managed to stay in the Republic, despite his drinking, smoking and gambling habits. Luck also had him on a rather remote outpost, where he could stay out of trouble.
As Sakura grew older, his grandparents put him through his first year of school. It was soon after where his father came for him. He seemed to have snapped out of his depression, but still smoked and drank, just not as bad as when he was in his depression. After arrangements at the school Sakura was in, He was taken off planet and to Eshan, where he was raised like a normal Echani child. It took Sakura a while to get use to the planet, but he became acclimatized and grew use to his schedule.
Age 5-13
During this 8 year period, not much happened. Like any other Echani, Sakura was raised to fight, as that was the language of his culture. Because he was late to be brought into the culture, he was behind other children, but learned quickly. Still, he was usually behind the others.
When Sakura was around the age of 8, Ozo began to show his son the ways around a blaster, believing one was never too young to learn how to shoot something. This went on top of the other training, such as his light weapons and melee combat. Still, Sakura had his school, which he learned to love his time there because being at home meant endless training with either his father, who was teaching him melee and range combat, or his uncle, which was teaching him how to utilize various close combat weapons.
This was the common practice for the next four years of Sakura’s life: training between his father and his uncle, learning specifics of each form of combat, save for a few instances. One such instance was when Sakura was 11 and decided he didn’t want to live at home anymore. This was when his father went to Coruscant, so he was with his uncle.
Sakura left with only a backpack worth of clothing, and went to the nearest spaceport. It was the dead of night, so no one was around. Using this to his advantage, the child snuck onto a freighter, where he hid in the cargo hold, and fell asleep. When he woke up, Sakura was still on the freighter, but it wasn’t on Chandrila.
Looking out the nearest viewing port, he found himself in the middle of hyperspace. Being in hyperspace before, Sakura knew he couldn’t do anything, so we went back into the hold. He eventually fell back asleep, and was woken up to being shaken around. It was normal atmospheric entry, but it was still a scare from hell. After they landed, Sakura made his way off the freighter.
He wandered around the spaceport for a while, trying to figure out a way to get home, he ran into the back of someone. It turned out to be an Echani that Sakura knew. Begging for help, the man complied, and brought the child back to Eshan, where he was reunited with a very angry Ozo. After that instance, Sakura never tried to run away again.
Shortly after Sakura turned 12, he was in his first real fight, not the usual communications one. It also happened while he was at school, which didn’t exactly play in his favor. What happened was one of the kids at the school, who was a year older than Sakura was, was carrying his tray of food to an outside table when Sakura slid his chair back to get out of his seat.
Sakura collided with the boy, who spilled his lunch, and decided to take his anger and frustration out on Sakura. Sakura ended up losing the fight, but in order to redeem himself, took his tray, slammed it into the other boys back when he had it turned, kicked out his legs, and proceeded to pummel him until the teachers separated them. Both students were suspended for a week from school. Ozo and his brother called this hell week, as it was strait training.
Age 13-17
It was a couple of days after Cyn’s 13th birthday when the Sith took over the Republic. Eshan was one of the planets to be attacked. While Ozo fought the attacking Sith Empire, Ozo’s brother worked to get himself and Sakura off the planet. Before they made it to one of the evac ships, they were caught in an explosion.
In the end, Sakura managed to make it to the Evac site, where he he and countless others were rocketed away from the planet. This shuttle was bound for the core worlds, where it landed on Alderaan. It was almost a month before Ozo came back for his son. He managed to get Sakura and himself off the planet, and to Mon Calamari, where, despite the change, they fell back into a regular routine.
Sakura continued his schooling, as well as combat training, which worked more towards blasters. He was pretty talented with shooting.
Being on the main planet of the Federation, Ozo was allowed to stay for local security, which allowed longer training periods. Sakura dedicated as much time as possible so he would be able to be in the Federation like his father.
Sakura remained training hard for two years, or until he was 15, up until the final, major push against the Empire was made. All available forces, including Ozo, were sent against the Sith. In the end, it was the Federation who emerged victorious, but to Sakura, it felt like he lost the war. Two days after the blitz, Sakura learned his father was killed by a Sith.
Without his father, Sakura became very alone, and entered a depression. He didn’t train and barely went to school, and due to this, he became known as a delinquent. He didn’t care for the title. He lived by himself, getting money from his grandparents, or what they could spare him.
When Sakura was 16, some of his friends worked as hard as they could to pull him from his depression, and slowly bit surly, it worked, and he became more social and happier. His grades went up, and he resumed his training in martial arts and blasters. He also got a new eye, a yellow glowing one this time.
Sakura graduated school when he was 17, which was fine for him. He would turn 18 in a handful of months, so it was normal. The day he graduated, he went to the recruiting station, and enlisted with the Republic, which was the new Federation. He was able to get in with a Waiver, and two days later, was brought to one of the camps on the planet and went through basic training.
Sakura hated basic training. It was hot, humid, and humiliating. They trained greatly in urban warfare, and Sakura was showed to be an expert marksman, as well as an expert in hand to hand combat. He was looked up to as a leader in the training troop he was in, though he didn’t really want people looking up to him.
Age 18-25
After Sakura turned 18, he graduated boot camp, and was officially a member of the Republic stationed on Coruscant. Though he was stationed there, he had missions all over the galaxy, but they lasted only a handful of days as his unit scouted out planets for the Republic. They were continuously looking for any signs of the Empire that may have remained.
When he was on Coruscant, Sakura would continuously visit a certain café with a certain woman working there. Seki was her name, and, to Sakura, she was one of the most beautiful people he had ever seen. The stray talks while he was in the café turned into dates, and before they knew it, they were in love with each other.
Seki didn’t make very much money, but about a year after they started dating, she moved in with Sakura, and they lived a happy life. A few months after that, they were married. Sakura was just about 20 by this point.
A few months after being married, Sakura was sent to Yavin IV with his unit to ensure there was no Sith activity there. They made their way to the planet through use of a Meteor shower. They used modified shuttles. Once the shuttles landed, everyone rallied up, and made their way to the great temple, a day’s walk.
The team used active camouflaged to sneak in, and found one man in a meditative posture. Reviewing the list of confirmed Sith, they found this one to be one Cyn Rook, who was once high up with the Empire. They rushed the room, where the man became active and tried to attack back, but was gunned down from nearly 20 different angles. He never stood a chance to the team. After checking his body for anything of use, Sakura took the man’s lightsaber, and the unit called in for extraction.
Once back on Coruscant, Cyn sold the lightsaber he obtained used the money to make his and his wife lives easier. When he came home she and told him that she was three months pregnant.
During the remaining six months of pregnancy, Sakura remained on Coruscant with his wife. Seki went into labor two weeks earlier than expected, and was rushed to the hospital. It was expected, though, that the baby would be born healthy, but complications arose. The baby was born safely, but complications led to Seki passing away mere days after childbirth.
Sakura became depressed, but his in-laws, as well as friends, kept making him put his daughter, Kona, first, and he avoided doing the same to her as what his father did to him. Thinking of nothing else, Sakura sold the house he had, moved Kota in with her grandparents, and devoted all his money to making their lives easier. Sakura would stay with his in-laws when visiting his baby daughter, who was growing up happily.
A year and a half after Seki died and Kona was born, and after Sakura turned 22, Sakura signed up for the Naval Special Forces, so he could get more money for his family. Even if it was more dangerous than before, if it meant he could have a better life for his daughter and family, he would gladly do it.
After several missions with various members, Sakura was assigned as a squad leader position for a four man cell. Their mission was to deal with known Imperial Sympathizers hiding on Tatooine. The hardest part would be finding them, but a few days after landing, and several jumps to different cities, and they were on the right trail. They split into two teams, a infiltration team and overwatch team, and spent two days watching the building where that supposedly housed the sympathizers.
The overwatch team had Sakura in it, and they remained on a nearby hillside, which they went to under the cover of darkness, and dug in and camouflaged themselves in. The Infiltration team worked on getting inside as apparent allies for the Empire. Together, over two days, the waited nearly all the the dozen people were inside the building before they struck. Sniper fire, confusion, and explosions took down the building and the occupants inside. Luckily, the infiltration team extracted to safety before the building collapsed. Mission successful, the team returned to Coruscant.
There was one mission which didn't go as planned. Using false ID's and identities, Sakura, along with three other members of his team, infiltrated a private military contracting company that supposedly had ties to the old Empire. If this was confirmed, they were to relay back to the Republic, which would send out a larger strike force to attack the PMC.
Sakura was suppose to me a mercenary who had training as a mechanic, and always carried around a large fusion cutter. This fusion cutter was actually a collapsible staff, and the head would be tossed away if it was ever extended.
The team didn't get very far when one of the members, someone on his first mission, slipped up with a wrong name. Moments later, all hell broke loose as no one was able to think of a way to correct the problem.
Sakura was the first to make an opening strike with a sharp stab to the stomach with a extended hand, then after wrapping his arm around the man's neck, he snapped it, and hid the body away in a unoccupied room. Their cover blown, they moved to get out of the large complex, but security camera's caught them.
The first of the real members of the PMC that rounded a corner on the teams way out took the head of the fake fusion cutter to the face when it shot off as Sakura extended his staff. Before he could recover, the staff slammed into his knees, then the back of his head, knocking the man out. Someone behind Sakura finished the guy off with a sword. Unfortunately, that same guy took a blaster bolt to the back, and was killed.
Sakura turned around, yelled at his team to get on the ground, and fired his own blaster at the attacker, taking him twice in the chest. No one in the immediate area, Sakura recovered the sword of his deceased teammate, and led his team into a unoccupied room, where he locked the door so he could pull a quick plan together.
Using a stolen blueprint, and knowing that they way they came in and the nearest route or two out would be guarded, Sakura planned on rushing to a exit further away, but it led right past the control of the PMC complex. This would work for Sakura, as he had a second plan forming in his head.
Two minutes later, the three man team was working their way back they way they came, dispatching mercenaries as needed. They used doorways and corners as cover, rather than just rush out like most of their enemies seemed to do. There were some smart ones, but suppressing fire was used so one could rush to that corner and surprise the attacker.
Once they made it to the control room, Sakura was the first one in, but as soon as he was, the doorway closed and locked behind, him, leaving the rest of his team outside. In the control room was one simple man, who, too, carried a sword with him. Sakura knew this would be a difficult fight, just by seeing how the man carried himself and his weapon.
For a minute, Sakura and his opponent looked at each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. In the end, it was Sakura's foe, who rushed, then kicked a chair at Sakura as a distraction. Sakura dodge the chair, but was almost taken out by the foe, who went for an overhead slash. Sakura barely got his sword up in time to block the attack. The next minute was awful, as the man put Sakura on the defense for a long time, wearing him out.
Thinking quickly, he put space between him and his foe, then threw his sword at the man, who blocked it. Sakura never intended to have it hit him, but to use it as a distraction while he got out of staff, and rushed forward. With a greater range of attack and motion, Sakura put the other on the defense, and broke threw it, knocking the mans weapon out of his hand. Sakura planted his staff on the ground and spun around it, kicking the man in the face.
Him out cold, he tied him up and opened the door, letting his team, who were in a firefight, in, the locked it afterwards. Locked in the control room, Sakura moved to extract the data, while another member of his team called for help from a Republic ship waiting in the system.
Reinforcements came quickly, which drew off the PMC, and allowed the team to link up with the republic forces and get the hell out of the complex. Once safely in space, Sakura allowed himself to relax, and think upon the failed mission. Sure, the information he had told them that they had ties with the old Empire, but he lost a member of his team.
Over the next couple of years, missions with the Special Forces became scarce, and Sakura was relived from the special forces so he could spend more time that a couple of days a week with his daughter. The young girl became known on the various ships Sakura visited, and buildings. She had a bodyguard droid now when he was away, a bodyguard droid, but he plans on having it replaced with something more human looking.
Sakura, now 25, still does the random SF mission, but he mostly keeps everyone safe, especially his family. If something big was to happen anywhere, or something dangerous needed to be taken care of, Sakura knew he would be among the first to be called, and him and his assigned team would take care of the problem.
Personal Items: Collapsible staff. Echani ritual band. Two vibro-swords. Two modified blaster pistols. Modified Verpine sniper rifle. Modified Blaster Rifle. Republic military uniforms and combat armor. Personal shield generators.
Purchases: 1 Leonidas-class Assault Carrier Courage
8 Quartermaster-class Supply Carriers
5 AT-130E Dragoons
3 Manta-Ray-class Light Freighters
2 Shard-class Scouts
24 CHF-18 Legionnaires
12 Omega 13-class Starfighters
12 Aurek-class Tactical Strikefighters
12 Darkslicers
12 Y-35 Cobra Starfighters
Species: Human/Echani hybrid
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Height/Weight: 5’9” 185 lbs
Appearance: Sakura is one who is able to blend in easily with a crowd. Unlike his father, which stands out with white hair due to him being an Echani, Sakura has dark hair, much like his mother, and is of average stature. Dark blue eyes and a fair, trim face round up the rest of his looks.
Sakura’s clothes normally consist of a black shirt and a jacket, depending on if he is traveling or not. He never removes these, unless on a mission. Dark pants and either dark shoes or boots finish him off. The rest of his wardrobe consists of the standard republic uniform. Sakura has a relatively lean build with visible muscle under his skin.
Kenichi and Kona Sakura on the surface of Chandrila.
Personality: Kenichi Sakura doesn’t speak too much unless he has a couple of drinks in his system. Being a military man, he is used to having everyone by his last name, and he introduces himself last name first, out of sheer habit. He fallows his military values closely, and always helps out his friends.
Sakura is knows to be a loner and a wanderer when not on some sort of mission, but when the time comes, is an exceptional teammate and leader. He loves his daughter dearly, and is continuously pushing to make her life easier. Because Kona doesn’t have a living mother, Sakura is continuously working extra hard to make up for it.
Character Rank: Republic: Lieutenant in Republic Special Forces.
Special Skills:Leadership
Skilled Sniper
Quick thinking
Echani martial arts and light weapons, I.E. Staffs and Swords.
Physical Attributes
Strength: 50
Speed:60
Intelligence: 60
Alignment: +80
Bio: Short history.
Kenichi Sakura never knew his mother, as the woman died during childbirth with him. In fact, he never really knew his father before he was five. During that time, he was a drunk and gambler, wasting his money to forget about his dead wife. Sakura was raised by his grandparents on his mother side where he started his first year of school under their care.
Sakura was just past his fifth birthday when his father came to his senses, and decided to take back Kenichi, and raise him as a proper son. Of course, this meant teaching Sakura their martial arts. He was already behind, being raised by humans rather than Echani, but the child was a fast learner, and caught onto the basics quickly.
This went on for some years, mornings spent sparing, days spent at school, and evenings spent training with light weaponry and blasters. Blasters were because Sakura’s father wasn’t fully traditional, and believed that a blaster could save your life if it came down to it. Because Sakura’s father was in the Republic, he was away from home for quite a while before he could come back, and it was then the Sakura’s uncle would resume training. Before Sakura got use to the difference in their movement, he would often forget that his uncle was not his father, as they looked the same.
Sakura was almost to his 13th birthday when the Republic fell to the Sith. Amiss the chaos, Sakura’s father moved them off planet to Mon Calamari, where they would be safe with the Federation. Sakura fell back into his usual routine on this planet, and it stayed this way for the next four years, until he was 17, then the Sith were defeated and the Federation became the Republic. Sakura’s father was killed in the final battle, and after learning that, he decided to fallow in his father’s footsteps. At this time, Sakura was out of school, and with a waiver, joined in with the Republic, who was low on personal and was itching to get some.
Basic was grueling, and so was his job, but after it was completed, he was trained and hardened, and in better shape that only martial arts could accomplish. Sakura was in the army portion of the Republic for three years, scouting out planets with possible darkside force users and who use to be high up in the power chain with the sith.
Around the age of 18, Sakura met his future white: a simple café maid working on Coruscant. She didn’t make very much money, but was happy with what she did. Whenever Sakura was on the planet, he would show up and idly chat with her when she had a break. This turned into dating, and their love blossomed. They were married after he turned 19, and she was 18.
At about the age of 20, Sakura was sent, with his platoon, to Yavin IV to investigate the possible presence of sith forces. After freefalling in drop pods with a meteor shower, they hiked up the the great temple, where they found but one force user. Without waiting for any words, he was gunned down, 20 or so blaster rifles firing their deathly energy into the man. They got confirmation on his ID, then left. Sakura was the last to leave, grabbing the man’s lightsaber and taking it for himself as a souvenir, until he was forced to sell it.
After returning from this mission, Sakura found out his wife was pregnant. Six months later, she gave birth to a healthy little girl named Kona. Unfortunately, like Sakura’s own mother, his wife past away days after giving birth. Unlike his father, though, Sakura, though depressed at losing his wife, didn’t end up like his father.
When unable to be around, due to a mission or the like, Kona would stay with her grandparents on his mother side. As she grew older, Kona would look almost exactly like her mother use to.
At the age of 22, Sakura was brought into the Navy Special Forces, an advance force meant for infiltration and assassination. He was to do what he had been, only with two or three other people, no outside help, and if he was captured, he wasn’t part of the Republic.
For two years, Sakura did his job in SF, and was eventually given leadership of his own team. As a captain of a team, which continuously changed with each mission, he showed true leadership capabilities, and became notorious for bringing his team back alive, no matter how far south the missions went.
At the age of 25, Sakura is still with the Republic, but due to the lack of SF missions, is part of the Army again, with ties with the Navy SF just in case some shit hits the fan and they need people instantly. The training wasn’t anything he couldn’t handle, and as he started to get missions, he realized that it was pretty much what he was doing before, only with less people, and no outside support. Teams usually consisted of three to four men, usually four, and were paired up based on the mission and what skills they had. Sakura was usually placed on assassination and recon missions, due to skills with blasters and close combat.
Age 0-5
Kenichi Sakura was born on Eshan, the Echani homeworld, to father Ozo Sakura and mother Tanaka Sakura. Tanaka was prone to sickness easily, and developed a fever as she went into labor. For hours, she fought to give birth to Kenichi. Not five minutes after ken was born, Tanaka died, being able to see a blury Ken as Ozo held him up for her to see.
Ozo couldn’t handle Tanaka’s death, and went into a state of depression, leaving Sakura in the care of his grandparents on his mother’s side: Ayano and Luke Hibano. They lived on Chandrila, so it was relatively peaceful and safe among the core worlds. They raised the young child as their own, and tried to get Ozo to see him as often as possible, but being on robot mode, he hardly ever got away from his post with the Republic. Somehow, Ozo managed to stay in the Republic, despite his drinking, smoking and gambling habits. Luck also had him on a rather remote outpost, where he could stay out of trouble.
As Sakura grew older, his grandparents put him through his first year of school. It was soon after where his father came for him. He seemed to have snapped out of his depression, but still smoked and drank, just not as bad as when he was in his depression. After arrangements at the school Sakura was in, He was taken off planet and to Eshan, where he was raised like a normal Echani child. It took Sakura a while to get use to the planet, but he became acclimatized and grew use to his schedule.
Age 5-13
During this 8 year period, not much happened. Like any other Echani, Sakura was raised to fight, as that was the language of his culture. Because he was late to be brought into the culture, he was behind other children, but learned quickly. Still, he was usually behind the others.
When Sakura was around the age of 8, Ozo began to show his son the ways around a blaster, believing one was never too young to learn how to shoot something. This went on top of the other training, such as his light weapons and melee combat. Still, Sakura had his school, which he learned to love his time there because being at home meant endless training with either his father, who was teaching him melee and range combat, or his uncle, which was teaching him how to utilize various close combat weapons.
This was the common practice for the next four years of Sakura’s life: training between his father and his uncle, learning specifics of each form of combat, save for a few instances. One such instance was when Sakura was 11 and decided he didn’t want to live at home anymore. This was when his father went to Coruscant, so he was with his uncle.
Sakura left with only a backpack worth of clothing, and went to the nearest spaceport. It was the dead of night, so no one was around. Using this to his advantage, the child snuck onto a freighter, where he hid in the cargo hold, and fell asleep. When he woke up, Sakura was still on the freighter, but it wasn’t on Chandrila.
Looking out the nearest viewing port, he found himself in the middle of hyperspace. Being in hyperspace before, Sakura knew he couldn’t do anything, so we went back into the hold. He eventually fell back asleep, and was woken up to being shaken around. It was normal atmospheric entry, but it was still a scare from hell. After they landed, Sakura made his way off the freighter.
He wandered around the spaceport for a while, trying to figure out a way to get home, he ran into the back of someone. It turned out to be an Echani that Sakura knew. Begging for help, the man complied, and brought the child back to Eshan, where he was reunited with a very angry Ozo. After that instance, Sakura never tried to run away again.
Shortly after Sakura turned 12, he was in his first real fight, not the usual communications one. It also happened while he was at school, which didn’t exactly play in his favor. What happened was one of the kids at the school, who was a year older than Sakura was, was carrying his tray of food to an outside table when Sakura slid his chair back to get out of his seat.
Sakura collided with the boy, who spilled his lunch, and decided to take his anger and frustration out on Sakura. Sakura ended up losing the fight, but in order to redeem himself, took his tray, slammed it into the other boys back when he had it turned, kicked out his legs, and proceeded to pummel him until the teachers separated them. Both students were suspended for a week from school. Ozo and his brother called this hell week, as it was strait training.
Age 13-17
It was a couple of days after Cyn’s 13th birthday when the Sith took over the Republic. Eshan was one of the planets to be attacked. While Ozo fought the attacking Sith Empire, Ozo’s brother worked to get himself and Sakura off the planet. Before they made it to one of the evac ships, they were caught in an explosion.
In the end, Sakura managed to make it to the Evac site, where he he and countless others were rocketed away from the planet. This shuttle was bound for the core worlds, where it landed on Alderaan. It was almost a month before Ozo came back for his son. He managed to get Sakura and himself off the planet, and to Mon Calamari, where, despite the change, they fell back into a regular routine.
Sakura continued his schooling, as well as combat training, which worked more towards blasters. He was pretty talented with shooting.
Being on the main planet of the Federation, Ozo was allowed to stay for local security, which allowed longer training periods. Sakura dedicated as much time as possible so he would be able to be in the Federation like his father.
Sakura remained training hard for two years, or until he was 15, up until the final, major push against the Empire was made. All available forces, including Ozo, were sent against the Sith. In the end, it was the Federation who emerged victorious, but to Sakura, it felt like he lost the war. Two days after the blitz, Sakura learned his father was killed by a Sith.
Without his father, Sakura became very alone, and entered a depression. He didn’t train and barely went to school, and due to this, he became known as a delinquent. He didn’t care for the title. He lived by himself, getting money from his grandparents, or what they could spare him.
When Sakura was 16, some of his friends worked as hard as they could to pull him from his depression, and slowly bit surly, it worked, and he became more social and happier. His grades went up, and he resumed his training in martial arts and blasters. He also got a new eye, a yellow glowing one this time.
Sakura graduated school when he was 17, which was fine for him. He would turn 18 in a handful of months, so it was normal. The day he graduated, he went to the recruiting station, and enlisted with the Republic, which was the new Federation. He was able to get in with a Waiver, and two days later, was brought to one of the camps on the planet and went through basic training.
Sakura hated basic training. It was hot, humid, and humiliating. They trained greatly in urban warfare, and Sakura was showed to be an expert marksman, as well as an expert in hand to hand combat. He was looked up to as a leader in the training troop he was in, though he didn’t really want people looking up to him.
Age 18-25
After Sakura turned 18, he graduated boot camp, and was officially a member of the Republic stationed on Coruscant. Though he was stationed there, he had missions all over the galaxy, but they lasted only a handful of days as his unit scouted out planets for the Republic. They were continuously looking for any signs of the Empire that may have remained.
When he was on Coruscant, Sakura would continuously visit a certain café with a certain woman working there. Seki was her name, and, to Sakura, she was one of the most beautiful people he had ever seen. The stray talks while he was in the café turned into dates, and before they knew it, they were in love with each other.
Seki didn’t make very much money, but about a year after they started dating, she moved in with Sakura, and they lived a happy life. A few months after that, they were married. Sakura was just about 20 by this point.
A few months after being married, Sakura was sent to Yavin IV with his unit to ensure there was no Sith activity there. They made their way to the planet through use of a Meteor shower. They used modified shuttles. Once the shuttles landed, everyone rallied up, and made their way to the great temple, a day’s walk.
The team used active camouflaged to sneak in, and found one man in a meditative posture. Reviewing the list of confirmed Sith, they found this one to be one Cyn Rook, who was once high up with the Empire. They rushed the room, where the man became active and tried to attack back, but was gunned down from nearly 20 different angles. He never stood a chance to the team. After checking his body for anything of use, Sakura took the man’s lightsaber, and the unit called in for extraction.
Once back on Coruscant, Cyn sold the lightsaber he obtained used the money to make his and his wife lives easier. When he came home she and told him that she was three months pregnant.
During the remaining six months of pregnancy, Sakura remained on Coruscant with his wife. Seki went into labor two weeks earlier than expected, and was rushed to the hospital. It was expected, though, that the baby would be born healthy, but complications arose. The baby was born safely, but complications led to Seki passing away mere days after childbirth.
Sakura became depressed, but his in-laws, as well as friends, kept making him put his daughter, Kona, first, and he avoided doing the same to her as what his father did to him. Thinking of nothing else, Sakura sold the house he had, moved Kota in with her grandparents, and devoted all his money to making their lives easier. Sakura would stay with his in-laws when visiting his baby daughter, who was growing up happily.
A year and a half after Seki died and Kona was born, and after Sakura turned 22, Sakura signed up for the Naval Special Forces, so he could get more money for his family. Even if it was more dangerous than before, if it meant he could have a better life for his daughter and family, he would gladly do it.
After several missions with various members, Sakura was assigned as a squad leader position for a four man cell. Their mission was to deal with known Imperial Sympathizers hiding on Tatooine. The hardest part would be finding them, but a few days after landing, and several jumps to different cities, and they were on the right trail. They split into two teams, a infiltration team and overwatch team, and spent two days watching the building where that supposedly housed the sympathizers.
The overwatch team had Sakura in it, and they remained on a nearby hillside, which they went to under the cover of darkness, and dug in and camouflaged themselves in. The Infiltration team worked on getting inside as apparent allies for the Empire. Together, over two days, the waited nearly all the the dozen people were inside the building before they struck. Sniper fire, confusion, and explosions took down the building and the occupants inside. Luckily, the infiltration team extracted to safety before the building collapsed. Mission successful, the team returned to Coruscant.
There was one mission which didn't go as planned. Using false ID's and identities, Sakura, along with three other members of his team, infiltrated a private military contracting company that supposedly had ties to the old Empire. If this was confirmed, they were to relay back to the Republic, which would send out a larger strike force to attack the PMC.
Sakura was suppose to me a mercenary who had training as a mechanic, and always carried around a large fusion cutter. This fusion cutter was actually a collapsible staff, and the head would be tossed away if it was ever extended.
The team didn't get very far when one of the members, someone on his first mission, slipped up with a wrong name. Moments later, all hell broke loose as no one was able to think of a way to correct the problem.
Sakura was the first to make an opening strike with a sharp stab to the stomach with a extended hand, then after wrapping his arm around the man's neck, he snapped it, and hid the body away in a unoccupied room. Their cover blown, they moved to get out of the large complex, but security camera's caught them.
The first of the real members of the PMC that rounded a corner on the teams way out took the head of the fake fusion cutter to the face when it shot off as Sakura extended his staff. Before he could recover, the staff slammed into his knees, then the back of his head, knocking the man out. Someone behind Sakura finished the guy off with a sword. Unfortunately, that same guy took a blaster bolt to the back, and was killed.
Sakura turned around, yelled at his team to get on the ground, and fired his own blaster at the attacker, taking him twice in the chest. No one in the immediate area, Sakura recovered the sword of his deceased teammate, and led his team into a unoccupied room, where he locked the door so he could pull a quick plan together.
Using a stolen blueprint, and knowing that they way they came in and the nearest route or two out would be guarded, Sakura planned on rushing to a exit further away, but it led right past the control of the PMC complex. This would work for Sakura, as he had a second plan forming in his head.
Two minutes later, the three man team was working their way back they way they came, dispatching mercenaries as needed. They used doorways and corners as cover, rather than just rush out like most of their enemies seemed to do. There were some smart ones, but suppressing fire was used so one could rush to that corner and surprise the attacker.
Once they made it to the control room, Sakura was the first one in, but as soon as he was, the doorway closed and locked behind, him, leaving the rest of his team outside. In the control room was one simple man, who, too, carried a sword with him. Sakura knew this would be a difficult fight, just by seeing how the man carried himself and his weapon.
For a minute, Sakura and his opponent looked at each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. In the end, it was Sakura's foe, who rushed, then kicked a chair at Sakura as a distraction. Sakura dodge the chair, but was almost taken out by the foe, who went for an overhead slash. Sakura barely got his sword up in time to block the attack. The next minute was awful, as the man put Sakura on the defense for a long time, wearing him out.
Thinking quickly, he put space between him and his foe, then threw his sword at the man, who blocked it. Sakura never intended to have it hit him, but to use it as a distraction while he got out of staff, and rushed forward. With a greater range of attack and motion, Sakura put the other on the defense, and broke threw it, knocking the mans weapon out of his hand. Sakura planted his staff on the ground and spun around it, kicking the man in the face.
Him out cold, he tied him up and opened the door, letting his team, who were in a firefight, in, the locked it afterwards. Locked in the control room, Sakura moved to extract the data, while another member of his team called for help from a Republic ship waiting in the system.
Reinforcements came quickly, which drew off the PMC, and allowed the team to link up with the republic forces and get the hell out of the complex. Once safely in space, Sakura allowed himself to relax, and think upon the failed mission. Sure, the information he had told them that they had ties with the old Empire, but he lost a member of his team.
Over the next couple of years, missions with the Special Forces became scarce, and Sakura was relived from the special forces so he could spend more time that a couple of days a week with his daughter. The young girl became known on the various ships Sakura visited, and buildings. She had a bodyguard droid now when he was away, a bodyguard droid, but he plans on having it replaced with something more human looking.
Sakura, now 25, still does the random SF mission, but he mostly keeps everyone safe, especially his family. If something big was to happen anywhere, or something dangerous needed to be taken care of, Sakura knew he would be among the first to be called, and him and his assigned team would take care of the problem.
Personal Items: Collapsible staff. Echani ritual band. Two vibro-swords. Two modified blaster pistols. Modified Verpine sniper rifle. Modified Blaster Rifle. Republic military uniforms and combat armor. Personal shield generators.
Purchases: 1 Leonidas-class Assault Carrier Courage
8 Quartermaster-class Supply Carriers
5 AT-130E Dragoons
3 Manta-Ray-class Light Freighters
2 Shard-class Scouts
24 CHF-18 Legionnaires
12 Omega 13-class Starfighters
12 Aurek-class Tactical Strikefighters
12 Darkslicers
12 Y-35 Cobra Starfighters