Post by Crazy O on Mar 6, 2010 22:22:28 GMT -5
Name: Kitana
Dark Lord Name: Lady Nachta
Species: Zeltron
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Height/Weight: Five feet nine inches and hundred and thirty eight pounds
Appearance: Kitana looks like your average Zeltron standing five nine and normally weighting in around 138 pounds. She has red hair, green eyes and her skin tone falls into the regular red section. Depending wither she is Lady Nachta; Dark Lord of the Empire, or Empress Kitana of Zeltros dictates what she appears to be wearing. When she is Lady Nachta, almost always the Cloak of Nyx covers her entire body. When she is just relaxing, she often wears simple clothing, much the same that a smuggler would wear. Her favorite outfit is a black undershirt with a red short sleeve jacket and long pants. The one thing you never see her without is her favorite set of rube lens sunglasses. As Empress of Zeltros she also must be able to dress up, often wearing a dress jewary and high held shoes.
Kitana in Casual Clothing
Kitana In Formal Wear
The Cloak of Nyx
Kitana and the cloak are bound in a symbiotic relationship which runs deep. The cloak feeds off the Kitana’s life energy while protects her. This means that if Kitana does not draw life energy for others, she well be consumed by her armor and both will die. The cloak itself lives within Kitana, having grafted itself to her spine. On her command through the Force, the Armor painfully push out her back and wraps around her body. This take both a lot of Kitana life energy away and at the same time take nearly all her effort to control the growth of the armor. When Kitana wishes for some or all of the armor to be removed; that section of coral releases a toxin that combines with oxygen, killing that section of coral. The dead coral is extremely weak and brittle and simple falls away.
The armor itself was once a Yuuzhan Vong cloak of nuun and a sample of yorik coral. Using Sith Alchemy Kitana fused the ability of the cloak of Nuun to bond with its host and understand its commands to the yorik coral. The yorik coral is extremely strong, and she found out it was someone what lightsaber resistant and blaster fire, although repeated strikes would kill that coral hit along with any sections which were separated from the coral at her spine. Also like most coral, it is extremely sharp, making any edges and barbs which seemed to grow from her armor extremely dangerous.
She attached the altered piece of coral herself by allowing it to painfully push into her back grow on her spine. The coral and her became a partners and have such become to interdependent it is impossible to separate them.
Cloak of Nachta deployed without the mask
Cloak of Nachta mask
Personality: There are really two personalities sharing Kitana’s body. The first one is Kitana’s original personality. Kitana embraces positive emotions such as happiness, joy, and love; trying to bring them out in people. She cares deeply for others, often putting the needs of others over her own needs. She also tries not to control people even though her species has the ability to control emotions. She enjoys drinking, partying, gambling and simple having fun. Kitana builds long term relationships; wither it be with someone like her husband, her companion Elizabeth Sweetwater or just friends like Jor Halcryn or Akari Rumo.
The second personality is that of the Dark Lady Nachta. This is a supplementary personality which formed when in a state of depression, Kitana turned to the dark side of the Force. Nachta is a creature of lust, passion, and self-centered. While she may appear to share the same qualities as the Kitana personality, Nachta’s focus is always to serve her and is not above letting others suffer because of it. Nachta also gets great pleasure out of draining the knowledge and life out of people, to the point that it is nearly orgasmic. When it comes to relationships, Nachta is all about the pleasure of the moment before discarding her playthings soon as they bore her.
The Dark persona of Lady Nachta has becoming more and more dominate, pushing the original Kitana personality deeper into her own mind. Should she remain the road that she has been following she well soon have her old personality suppressed by Lady Nachta.
Strength: 45
Reflexes: 85
Speed: 75
Intelligence: 70
Unarmed Combat: 80
Ranged Weapons: 28
Melee Weapons: 40
Mechanical Skill: 50
Tech Skill: 60
Telekinesis: 50
Telepathy: 50
Body: 65
Sense: 50
Channel: 80
Alignment: -35
Bio:
Early Life on Zeltros
Kitana was born on Zeltros to Jerrod and Trinity. Jerrod was the planets the planets Senator to the Republic and well on his way to be elected to the position of King. Her mother was a scientist, having pioneered several advancements in hyperspace communication and a cheaper HoloNet system. Her parents were conservative for most Zetlrons, choosing monogamy after ten years of marriage. They would often state it that as they got older it just got easier to always go to bed with eachother.
The problem was that her parents wanted to have children, but were having trouble conceiving. They tried for nearly four years, giving most natural methods to boost fertility a try. They were about to resort to artificial conception when it finally happened, Trinity became pageant with a baby girl. The two could not be happier. They quickly choice to name the little girl Kitana and planned to spoil the child. However soon after she was born but disaster struck.
It turned out that Kitana was extremely Force sensitive and the Jedi Order wanted to take her away. They tried to explain that with her gift, Kitana could become a great Jedi Master on day, serve the Republic like her father and exceed anything either of her parents could imagine. Jerrod would not stand for the Jedi to steal his child. So he used every ounce of his political leeway he had. He threaten the Jedi by pushing that they banned from Zeltros, started to make noise in the senate about the Republic being associated and sponsoring baby snatchers, and created mountains of bureaucratic paperwork that would take a person a lifetime to sort through. In the end, the Jedi Order was slammed with so much paperwork and bad press they could not pursue Kitana.
Kitana’s childhood was one with few in the galaxy ever got to experience. When Kitana was young her parents spoiled the girl, having a room dedicated just for all her toys. However Kitana did not like playing with the toys as much as she loved playing outside with other children. Kitana was very popular; most of the privileged children of Zeltros would come over. But life was not all play, he parents wanted to make sure she was prepared for the galaxy. At the age of six Kitana got three different private tutors; an Echani that taught Self Defense, a Bith that taught her science and mathematics, and a Zeltron that taught her art and literature. Kitana also favored them in this order.
Her Echani tutor was Valarie Kabal. She was pushing fifty years old when she took Kitana as her student. The old woman was a former battle master, having fought in the war against Revan. She took the job to teach Kitana for a massive check which easily supported her extended family. Kitana loved Valarie, idealizing her strong nature and her quick reactions. Valarie instruction in combat started with teaching Kitana to control her own body. She would have Kitana walk on her hands, run wet stepping stones on a lake, balance on a rope and other tasks which focused on Kitana control of over her own body. This training lasted a year and when she was done, Kitana could flip and run around better then a gymnast.
Then Valarie moved on to teach Kitana how to fight sense she no longer fought herself. Valarie knew that Kitana would always lack the physical strength to fight stronger people; but she recognized the speed and grace which she had already instilled in Kitana would match this. Valarie started to instruct Kitana in the Echani battle arts. She taught Kitana things such as that is was easier to step aside to avoid a hit then try and stop it. She showed Kitana how to use the fact that if some was charging her that she could take the forward movement and effortlessly redirect it into flipping her opponent on his back. She even taught her some antomy to point out the weak parts of a person like the throw or the groin. For all ten years that she taught Kitana she drove home the saying “Avoid, redirect and strike were they are the weakest. He may be strong but you are like water. Fluid and always adapting.” She also taught Kitana how to disarm opponents that were using weapons. On Kitana’s sixteenth birthday she gave her a set of Cortosis gauntlets. She told her that she considered her as an Echani and a daughter. This meant a lot to Elisa; more than the speeder her parent gave her or the date with Billy Solaris that her friends had arranged.
Kitana second tutor was an eighty year old Bith professor named Mordin Solus. Mordin method of teaching science and math was to channel the very nature of a youthful mind. Mordin posed questions to Kitana and talked with her about what the answer should be. He showed her the galaxy when pictures showed more than a simple math equation. He even allowed her simple sit around and daydream during his listen as long as she shared the daydreams with him. This was because he could help point out greater insight. Kitana became to call Mordin simple Professor and still holds him in great respect.
Kitana final tutor was her greatest adversary growing up. Mellor was a Zeltros and he thought he was the galaxy greatest gift. A ten year at Zeltros University of Fine Art, he was teaching Kitana to repay Kitana's mother for helping him in the past. Kitana opinions often were opposite of Mellor and she had no problem speaking them. The greatest moment of defiance was when she had to choice an instrument to learn. He suggested she learn something elegant like the piano, but Kitana had her parent get her an electric guitar. Even though she did constantly butt heads with Mellor, he did expanded her knowledge and creativity.
Leaving Home to Experience the Galaxy
A few weeks after Kitana's sixteenth birthday, her father was elected to the position on King for his five year term as ruler of Zeltros. Jerrod little princess became a real princess. Kitana however did not desire the life of parties and state events that she would be expected to go to if she remained on Zeltros. When she brought this up to her parents she said she planned to get a job working on a transport in order to see the galaxy. Her parents did not like the idea of such a young girl getting a job on a transport, but understood her feelings.
Kitana’s parents therefore bought their daughter a light transport so that she could explore the galaxy safely. Kitana named her ship Virtue and left Zeltros a week later after a few basic piloting and mechanic lessons. She had always planned to return to Zeltros after a few months, but she quickly realized this was just was not a possibility.
At sixteen years and five months old, Kitana became a cargo transport captain. This was a problem that Kitana had to overcome. At first no one would hire Kitana because of her age, so she survived off her savings account which she had been putting in her allowance for the last ten years. Kitana got her first break moving cargo for the Echani with Valarie’s recommendation. She quickly impressed the Echani and their clients with both her speed and no question asked. This would lead to more jobs for Kitana, which would start to skirt the bounds of the laws.
Kitana quickly rose as one of the top of the elite class of smugglers that dealt in high risk and high value smuggling jobs. At the age of eighteen her starting fee was one hundred thousand credits or job that she said held a special challenge. Kitana had taken several of these jobs which she became famous for. Often they were told in local cantinas as the stuff legends were made of. Three of these stories were called The Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship, Phantom of the Warbird, and The Family Jewels.
The Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship
The tale of Kitana’s sneaking a Mandalorian Dungeon from Mandalore to Coruscant without being caught. The story goes that the Fett Clan wished to raid Coruscant as revenge for the Mandalorian Wars nearly fifty years prior. The problem us they could not amass a fighting force under the watchful eye of the Republic. So they contacted Kitana with a challenge. Get one hundred Mandalorians undetected onto the planet for the price of five hundred and fifty thousand credits. It was said that seventeen year old Kitana haggled with Cassus Fett about price of such a service. The terms of the agreement were said to eventually be after two days of arguments: a set of Cassus Shocktrooper, fifty pounds of beskar, and a set of Mandalorian crushgaunts in exchange Kitana would sneak an entire Mandalorian Dungeon Ship anywhere on the Coruscant’s surface.
Kitana knew this really would be a one way trip, and she expected that Fett also knew this. It was for this reason she did not want to place any valuable stealth system on Dungeon ship. So instead she would do older tricks to hide it. She started by stripping out all the outgoing communication signals. She also fitted the bottom of the ship with thick heat plates and solid fuel rockets. She then coated sections of the ship with a RAM material which reduced the cross section. The last trick was removing all the safeties on the hyperdrive. It took her two week to do all the modification and when she finished she was ready to sneak the ship onto Coruscant.
Kitana told Fett she needed a location. He did not want to give it to her until they entered hyperspace, but she told him that she needed the location for the jump. Fett argued against it, giving all sort of military bull while Kitana explained the importance of the location because they jump needed to be precise so that she knew where her jump would need to be so they could jump to the right side of the planet. Cassus eventually relented and told her that the target was the Senate Building. Kitana took this data and returned to the Virtue and used its computer to calculate the jump details.
It took five days to calculate the jump series, as the galactic movement was plotted for galaxy of the seventy two hour trip. She also included errors for possible drift corrections, but she would have to do them by feel as she always did with difficult jumps.
The mission started as scheduled, and was going as planned. She made first four jumps within several meters of the intended target. The final jump was the most difficult. The final jump was deep into the gravity well of Coruscant at upper end of the atmosphere. The jump was beyond dangerous, at the speed they would be travelling with the hyperdrive safeties deactivated, if it exited hyperspace nanoseconds late, would be completely destroyed.
A minutes before the Flying Dutchman exited hyperspace above Coruscant a bomb threat was radioed into the ATF for the senate district, causing them to need to evacuate the building. When they came out of hyperspace they began to fall straight down into the atmosphere just as planned, all the power and they fell blindly. As they fell, the bottom of the ship started to glow red hot and the temporary ceramic shielding she installed slowly burned away. Then just a few thousand feet above the Senate building Kitana fired the solid fuel rockets and the ship decelerated. She kicked on all the system, activated the Repulsor, and bringing it down softly on the roof Senate Building.
As Fett’s soldiers stormed the Senate Building, Kitana slid down the slid of the dome and used a repulsor pack to clear the area where she caught a ride on the first smuggling vessel heading to Mandalore to pick up her ship. When the Fett’s took the building they found that the valuable hostages were not there. It appeared that the Senate Building also received a bomb threat and the Senate meeting was cancelled. The Fett and his men were soon captured by the Military which came in to retake the building. It is unclear wither Kitana had the bomb threats to the Senate Building or not. The people that tell the story seem to be split fifty fifty and Kitana is not telling.
Phantom of the Warbird
Another of the widely told tales of the young smuggler was the infamous stealing of the first Warbird-class Republic Cruiser, the Warbird. It was unclear who hired Kitana for this job, however two most commonly named people are droid leader of the Exchange G0-T0 or the leader of the Hutt Cartel at the time; Farbo the Hutt. The employer is not as important as what the rewards was said to be. It was said the reward for the job was a rundown abandon repair yard in orbit around Ryloth. That station is now called Firefly Station and one of the most profitable repair yard in orbit around Ryloth.
The act of stealing the ship was masterful to say the least. To steal the ship Kitana first became part of the ship’s crew but she never did join the Republic Navy. Kitana made a Republic Uniform, forged transfer documents and arrived on the ship as a member of the crew. The plan however was more complex than sneaking on the ship. She spent two weeks on board the Warbird under Ensign Liliza Lozan. She severed on third watch as a bridge come officer as a weapons officer. It was a position that normally was gone unnoticed, but also a position which allowed access to the computer system.
On day 19 the Warbird was attack by a blockade runner. It did a quick pass firing both several torpedoes. The Warbird shields took minor damage but before they could return fire the corvette jumped to hyperspace. The Captain, as Kitana predicted, ordered a pursuit course. It was the start of an elaborate trap which Kitana had been laying out sense she arrived. When the captain went to Action Stations he initiated cascade virus which each successive virus would build on the pervious. It was a grand illusion created by Kitana that the crew fell into.
The first thing that occurred was the ship dropped out of hyperspace, as if they hit an interdiction field. The virus had activated the ships hyperdrives safety protocols and ships sensors stated that the ship was in the middle of a highly dense mine field which was made up of Ion mines and Hapan pulse-mass mines. This illusion of the sensor did not have to hold up to much scrutiny however, sense the next virus shut down the entire ship systems. Appearing as if the ship was colliding with the ion mines, the ships systems dropped off one by one. First shields, then sensors, engines, even life support failed after a few seconds. The Warbird was adrift in space in less than thirty seconds.
The captain had little choice; he gave the order to abandon ship. It was not an order that he wanted to give but it as the Warbird drifted it appeared to be sweeping a path through the minefield. That meant that the escape pods and shuttles should be able to make out of the interdiction field. The captain thought that the pirates must plan to strip the ship for parts, seeing as the large number of ion mine that struck the ship; any electronic system would need to be replaced.
As the ship was being evacuated the Captain insisted on being the last off the ship. Kitana remained hidden with a portable scanner had the range to scan the entire ship for biosigns. As the last of the crew were heading the final dragoon shuttle Kitana headed up to the bridge. When she got there she noticed the shuttle had not left yet, they must have been waiting for her she thought. Therefore Kitana figured she would simple hasten their departure. She punched in the command sequence and all the ships functions returned. She sealed hanger bay and began the decompression sequence. Once they sealed up the Dragoon she shot it out of the open the hanger doors and used the tracker beam to pull the ship out of the hanger bay.
Once it was clear she jumped to hyperspace. She had to go considerable lower speed then the maximum speed of the Warbird because even though she had the repair droids to assets her, she was operating the ship normally crewed by two hundred alone. She could not risk damaging the systems by overworking them; she already was force to spend eighteen hours a day keeping the ship flying on her way back towards the outer rim. She dropped the ship of at Firefly Station. The exchange was made and Kitana spent the next three months turning her new station into a goldmine, providing cheap repairs at just above cost. This is because she has determined to make her money from volume, moving ships through the shipyards quickly with quality repairs at just above cost.
Family Jewels
The final of the three stories which is told of Kitana’s adventure at the age of nineteen is that of the theft of the Naboo Crown Jewels. The contract was simple to steal the crown jewels and in return Kitana would receive a piece of land in the Naboo Lake Country which was considered the most desired location on all Naboo but was never for sale. It is said that the person that desired the crown jewels was a descendent of King Narmlé and wanted what he believed was rightfully his after his a distant relieve put an end to the Narmlé dynasty took the throne. It is unclear however who Kitana was really dealing with, as he always used several go-betweens to isolate himself from the crime.
Kitana started the mission by the scoping out the crown jewels when they were on display. She purchased every book on the jewels and searched the HoloNet for any information or images about them. She then constructed the crown jewels in a computer program, using layers of images to make what was a perfect recreation of them. Then it is said she hired the finish artisan in the galaxy to reconstruct the crown jewels using synthetic crystals. It took months and during this time she spent her time testing the security of the vault that they were stored in.
It is said that she tempted coercion the blue prints of the vault from a high level architect that had them after dating him for several weeks. It was from these the grand plan of staging a robbery to gain as to rob the place. She got a job as palace security as a technician using a false identity provide by her employer. During her days she worked and began to build relationships with other security officers. At nights she tunneled underground to the vault. It she hired several assistance recommended by her contact including a young girl by the name of Akira Rumo. She liked Rumo and used her; after concealing her identity, to rob the vault.
Then one quiet evening the alarms started to scream in the National Treasury Building. As it progressed several security personnel were dispatched to Vault. When they arrived they found a tunnel blown into the floor, but the only thing that was missing was a considerable amount of nova crystals. After the initial investigation was over, Kitana and her work crew went about repairing the damage to the Vault. While it was being repaired, Kitana performed several slight of hands switching the originals with her copies. Once the last copy was placed, the next day a massive EMP pulse occurred in the treasury district, wiping out all the records of Kitana’s employment along with most of the original data about the crown jewels. Kitana delivered the crown jewel collection to her employer and was given the piece of land in the Lake Country. Kitana would go on to build a retreat on this property, with the funds of several other jobs, which was said to rival even the Palace in architecture beauty.
Reconnection to the Force
Soon after Kitana turned twenty she was hulling an illegal shipment of weapons from Sullust to Coruscant. The shipment was of two hundred disruptor rifles and three hundred disruptor pistols which were illegal in every way. Along the hyperspace route she took included several turns to avoid heavily populated areas. One of these turns was in a star system with no inhabitable planets but a rather large asteroid field should she need to hide. However as she came out of hyperspace and prepared for the next jump she was ambushed.
It turned out that her buyer did not want to pay her for the transportation fee. A pirate vessel engaged Kitana’s transport. The pirates had the element of surprise and got her with a tractor beam. Unfortunately the pirates were prepared, the corvette they used had been specifically modified to capture smugglers, but Kitana was not going to go down without a fight.
The pirates boarded the small transport by blowing the docking hatch and entered firing. As the smoke cleared there was no one near the docking hatch. Five pirates walked onto the transport carrying blaster rifles while a six man wearing dark robes with a sheathed sword. As the pirates slowly progressed through the transport, they were forced to split up in order to search for Kitana and her cargo. They did not realize however they were playing on Kitana’s turf.
Kitana used her knowledge of her transport to move through the different crawl spaces, air vents, and secret compartments to out maneuver the pirates. Kitana slowly picked them off in small groups, shooting them with her blaster. It was fairly easier for her to get rid of the first five, but the last one seemed to be hunting her, always just one step behind her and yet also forcing her into a trap.
Eventually she had dealt with all but pirate which was using his own men to trap her. Kitana realized that trying to sneak by this man was pointless, he had been manipulating her movements the entire time. This led her to believe that he had the similar abilities to a Jedi even though a Jedi would never become a pirate. She simply stood outside the airlock he was trying to force her into. When he arrived the two of them stared each other down. He was fairly handsome, in a rugged badass way. Not the type of guy you took home to your parents, but one you would have a fling with. Kitana did not rush it, and when the man pulled out a blade weapon she did not even flinch.
"If you wise it I will make it quick and painless. If you resist I can not make any guarantees."
“Fear, especial fear of death, is one of those negative emotions that make me sick. I had conquered such feelings long ago.”
Kitana smiled and blew him a kiss. The man pushed off from the floor and lunged at Kitana. Time seemed to slow down for Kitana when the man attacked. She all the sudden felt connected to the universe around her. Normally she would just a feeling of what was about to happen when she was in danger. This was different; she felt empowered, she felt like a god. As they pirate lunged at her she stepped sideways and jabbed him in the side. Before she could make a snippy remark she received a swift kick in the gut.
Kitana was slammed against a wall from the power of the kick. She noticed a console next to her and hit it with her fist. The ships anti-gravity deactivated and both Kitana and the invader floated upwards. She thought she would have an advantage until her dropped his coat and reviled his wings.
“Wings, groovy.”
She never seen a species with wings before and few humans could pull it off like her did. He used his wings he stabilized himself and prepared to launch an attack to cripple her with the force. As he summoned force a force push, Kitana however was unknowingly connected to his mind thanks to her natural empathic abilities amplified by the reconnection to the Force. With a near telepathic ability she subconsciously did the same thing as Diablo. She extended her hand as the assailant did and a powerful energy burst launched from her. The blast was extremely powerful, but uncontrolled. The pirate was thrown backwards into the airlock by the blast, but the ship also suffered structural damage from the uncontrolled abilities.
Kitana Creating an Uncontrolled Blast in the Force
Kitana looked shocked at what had transpired, but even more shocking the pirate slowly rose again, with a smile on his face. She was going to try the same thing again, but before she could act he stopped her. The pirate was told that the transport pirate was not a trained Force user and should have been an easy job. However, the amount of power she projected while uncontrolled was impressive for an untrained Force-sensitive. The man stood down and looked at the young women standing before him almost as shocked as he was. He stopped and thought about the contract. He could try and finish it, but her uncontrolled nature would mostilikely kill them both or he could simple walk away.
He looked at Kitana and slowly sheathed the sword. He said he would leave the ship peacefully if she would let him. Kitana looked at the damage already done to her ship and did not even now if she could repair it. Kitana could sense his sincerity about leaving peacefully and accepted his terms. The pirate had the supplies transferred to assist in the repairs of the transport. Before leaving he asked her how long she been studying the Force in order to create such a large Force Blast. Kitana smiled and simple responded,
“I never studied the ways of the Force. I don’t even know how I did that.”
He was shocked by her response. He assumed she was at least a Jedi Youngling that never was assigned a master, but to never even have used the Force before was almost mind blowing. He realized she had a special gift, even though he was not sure what it was at the time, and vowed to keep an eye on her.
Kitana continued on her way to Coruscant under minimum power. She did not get mad at her employer, she simple planned to get even. She had a reputation to uphold and she was planning to make her employer an example. When she arrived at Coruscant she did not head to the meeting place with her original employer; but instead headed directly to his number one rival where she just gave them the disruptors. She knew that with the weapons her employer would be overwhelmed and his criminal empire would crumble. Of course this prediction came true and also earned Kitana an ally among the Coruscant crime lords.
Learning the ways of Love and the Force
It was not more than three months after Kitana’s first encounter with pirate named Diablo that Kitana had fought off her ship that Diablo once again approached Kitana, this time to hire her. He needed a force user or someone he could quickly instruct in the basics of the Force to retrieve several artifacts from Jedi tomb. He was unable to hire an already Force user he could trust and knew that Kitana’s reputation along with her natural affinity for the Force would prove to be the best course of action to acquire what he desired.
Kitana was offered several Jedi Artifact and limited Force training as compensation by Diablo in exchange for three months of training and two weeks on Tython. Kitana quickly accepted knowing the value of Jedi Artifacts on the black market. The limited Force training did not seem that important to Kitana as she not really understand the value of the Force. Kitana insisted that they trained at her estate on Naboo and Diabo agreed to this condition.
Kitana’s Estate in the Naboo Lake Country
Diablo arrived at Kitana’s estate right on time. He noted that it was not in the standard Naboo architecture, but appeared to be Zeltros in design. When he entered he found Kitana waiting for him in a small room with a fire. He walked in a looked at her young women simple reading a book; printed on paper. She did not look like the smuggler he ran into her on the freighter. She was beautiful and elegant, a much softer appearance then the harden smuggler he had faced before. He started too worried that he made a mistake.
Kitana quickly provide his worries unfounded. He discovered as the Jedi did twenty years earlier that Kitana had a strong connection to the Force. They pushed the furniture against the wall and sat down on the floor in front of the fire. Diablo initiated the training by linking with Kitana’s mind. This allowed them to share experiences of training and thought. It was much deeper then Kitana had ever been connected to someone; as the connection transcended mere empathic understanding.
The two just sat there for hours looking into each other’s eyes. Diablo was having her try to manipulate his mind, while she was not able to manipulate his mind, she did have the right methodology. It came fairly second nature as the Zeltron species as a whole as the ability to manipulate emotions. She could reach into peoples’ minds and pluck the strings like emotions, but with the Force she could look deeper and affect their thoughts .Other times they would sit across from eachother outside by the lake. A calming breeze would blow around them and they would pick up stones using the force.
While they trained every day to prefect Kitana’s abilities in order to achieve the challenges of Tython; she and Diablo had many hours of free time on their hands . This time was used to allow Kitana recuperate from a hard training which allowed pushed Kitana to learn something she had no idea existed mere months earily. They often spoke one all manner of topics from philosophy to combat. They would also would spare, Kitana unarmed again Diablo with his sword. The fights did not use the Force as Diablo would simple overpower her, but when unarmed she could dodge D’s attacks, wrapping up his arms, often stripping him of his weapon before taking him to the ground. They even fooled around a little at right. Their relationship quickly grew into a close friendly during the three months they shared on Naboo teaching Kitana telekinesis, mind control and refining her precognition. After the three months of training, Diablo had to head Tython even if he felt Kitana was not ready. The tomb’s vault was only accessible on the anniversary of the Jedi Master’s death.
They arrived on Tython with only six days before the anniversary of the Jedi death. They spent the next five days searching for the entrance of the tomb; both Kitana and Diablo started to believe they may miss their window. However this turned out that the last day of they stumbled across the cliff side entrance. The two Force users entered the tomb together and came to a section of the tomb. They were hoping to stick together but a short distance from the entrance of the tomb Kitana triggered a bobby trap. This was trap sent large stone walks dropping around the room, forcing Kitana and Diablo down two separate passages. Kitana was sent down a passage alone where she faced several trials of her abilities.
The trails would start simple must pull levers out of reached. Elisa found this easy to reach out with the Force and create a push which converted the Force base energy into kinetic energy that could move the simple levers. However as she advanced deeper into the tomb she came across trails were harder. She was forced to use the Force to sense which symbols were bound with Force energy and test of her wisdom. These trials however were really just obstacles to grave robbers not the real test. She also had to jump a gap which no human could have made. Unable to exit the way she came, Kitana realized that she had to jump the gap and realized if she used the force to push off the ground at the last moment she would be able to get enough distance to clear the jump. After a deep breath Kitana took off running towards the gap and leap into the air using the Force to push her farther through the air. She landed on the other side of the gap and headed into the a room which had the final trail, one which showed the constructers of the tombs mastery of the Force.
The final the test was of one’s heart; only those who were good would be permitted entrance to the main chamber of the ancient Jedi Tomb. Diablo did not realize this test would have to be faced. When Kitana arrived she seen a man lying on the floor about a fourth of the way in the room. She had never seen him before, but it was easy to see he was still alive if unconscious. As she ran up to him the ceiling started to come down quickly. She only had enough time to either make it to the entrance to the tomb or drag the man out the way she came. Kitana did not even have to think about it. She grabbed the man and firmly sunk her feet into the ground. The man seemed to weigh a ton as she slowly tried to pull him across the room. The closer she got to the door; the more she realized she was not going to make it with him. She continued to drag him however until she was forced to her hands and knees. It was to late however; the ceiling was pushing against her and it would only be a second before they both were crushed.
Then a flash of light happen and Kitana found herself simply lying on the ground next to Diablo. In front of her was a stone obelisk with a strange crystal in it. She quickly rolled over and placed to fingers on Diablo's neck. He had a strong pulse and he was still breathing so she looked up at the obelisk. It had some writing under the crystal. It read, Master Tzu, one of the first master of the Jedi Order. Only those pure of heart may stand before her. All others are crust to sleep as the followers of Bogar that had faced her in battle do.
Kitana realized that Diablo must not have passed the pure of heart challenge; he was goal oriented after all. She stood up and headed to the burial chambers; planning to grab what they came for and then drag Diablo away from the tomb. She walked pass the obelisk and headed into the burial chamber. Inside was several status of the Jedi Master wearing some sort of armor and a holding a scroll. In the center of the room was an elegant carved sarcophagus. She walked up to it and placing her hands on the top pushed the led open. Inside there was the mummified remains of the Jedi Master in full battle armor. She looked at the armor and was memorized, and a voice in her head told her to put it on. So Kitana gently removed the armor before resealing the sarcophagus. She strapped the armor on and then moved on to several chest which contained documents which Diablo had been sent to collect. She headed out of the burial chamber, grabbed Diablo and slowly started to pull him away from the obelisk.
Kitana in Jedi Master Erika Tzu Battle Armor
As soon as Diablo was about a hundred meters from the obelisk he woke up. He looked up to see Kitana standing over him wearing the battle armor of Jedi Master Tzu. At first he was confused; he was told Tzu as a male, but it was clear the armor was to be worn by a female. After the adjustment he asked if she completed the mission, Kitana replied that she always completed the mission. Kitana handed him the documents. She however did not hand over the armor; claiming it was her reward for being pure of heart where he was not.
Diablo may not liked it but when he looked into Kitana's eyes he just could not say no. He not only was getting overdose of positive emotions, he could not get passed the fact that she did save his ass from eternal sleep. The two of them went their separate ways, Diablo turning the documents over to his client while Kitana head back to Naboo to practice her knew abilities.
Jedi Order
As the months went on Diablo would swing in to see Kitana every few weeks between different jobs which he was taken; however it was becoming clear to him and Kitana that she was in need of a full time instructor and he was not ready for that level of commitment. So Kitana chose to head to Coruscant and seek out acceptance to the Jedi Order. This however was not normal times for the Jedi Order, they were still recovering for the Jedi Civil war and Sith incursions meaning they could not really take fully mature students what would have problems taking to the Jedi ways. Even though Kitana’s potential appeared extraordinary to the Council knowing they tried to take her twenty years ago, know she had been corrupted by the views of Zeltros people and the rest of the galaxy. A single Jedi Master on the council however seen into Kitana’s heart and the purity it possessed. This Jedi Master petitions the rest of the Council to all him to take Kitana as his Palawan Learner. The Council agreed and the old Jedi Master started to instruct Kitana in the ways of the Force and the Jedi Order. This Jedi Master was a 128 year old human whose name was Arkari Romius.
Jedi Master Arkari Romius
Master Romius did not realize the trouble he was taking on in this student. While Kitana had a great potential in the Force and was truly goodhearted, she was not one for following all the rules which were designed to help keep someone from falling to the Darkside. She refused to give up the Virtue or her home on Naboo and to top off her defiance of the code; she continued to see Diablo in secrete.
Over the course of her five years as Arkani's apprentice, she would sneak out of the Jedi Temple nearly a hundred times to meet up with Diablo when his business brought him to Coruscant. Master Romius noticed Kitana absence and at first hounded her about it. Kitana simple rolled with the ass chewing, never denying nor confirming his suspections. Eventually Romius overlooked these however as he seen his beloved Jedi Order be taken apart by forces in the shadows. He felt that Kitana with such a good spirit would help lead the order into the future.
Kitana's life in the Jedi order started where all younglings began; being taught the Jedi Code, history of the Jedi Order and their philosophy. It was a step back from what she had learned from Diablo but she accepted this as Master Romius wanted to provide context. Kitana was able to recite the Jedi Code and what Romius thought it meant. One day Romius wised up to this and would regret asking her what she thought the code meant. Kitana rambled on for nearily an hour, citing different text that she had been reading as suggested by Arkani. She proposed that the Jedi Code had been changed in meaning after Odan-Urr got hold of it. She noted that the old code did not excluded the 'human' nature. The code accepted that there would be things one did not know, situations were emotions would come into play; but a Jedi should still be able to find peace, seek what he does not know and so on. This would be but the first of many philosophical disagreements that did not conform to the Jedi Order.
While Master Romius and Kitana argued over the Jedi philosophy, she also fought over other aspects of her training; most notably the use of a lightsaber. Kitana despised the lightsaber, and her dislike extended beyond the fact she was constantly burning herself with her training saber. Her arguement was that a lightsaber; while a symbol that most could recognize a Jedi or Sith still was a weapon first; one that left the wielder with one option in the end, lethal force. She could not believe it if they would even glorify such an item. The first time she was told she would have to learn the lightsaber or be dropped from the order she argued for nearly five hours.
"You may not like it, but a lightsaber is integral to being a Jedi, you will learn to use it, even it is only like the younglings. "
"This is complete bullshit. You glorify a weapon and teach all your students to wield it with lethal efficiency. No wonder so many fall to the darkside."
"Kick and scream all you want, I am not going to loss a Padawan to laziness."
"It is not laziness. You are just clinging to your flawed views without listening to my point. Show me a little respect me. Argue the point, don't just call me names."
Kitana may have been head strong but she did learn to use the Shii-Cho form over the course of five years as Master Romius' apprentice. Kitana in protest to having to do this to the point she would only activate her lightsaber during training sessions which Master Romius personally attended. When they were on a mission she would often 'forget' her lightsaber back at the Temple and more then once 'lost' her saber.
About the only thing Kitana and Arkani could seem not to argue about was her force training. Kitana always enjoyed expanding her knowledge of the Force and never passed up an opportunity to practice with them. In the course of five years she was able to get a grasp of telekinesis, force speed, deflect and absorb; and implemented them into her unarmed style flawlessly. She also had learned several other abilities that included was able to heal herself and others in the force, plant surge, Jedi mind trick, and force weapons. He dedication to her force training however would prove to be critical on her last mission with Master Romius.
Death of Arkani Romius
Kitana had been at the Jedi Temple for nearly five years when Master Romius former student going by the name Mathew Lorace ran off from the temple. Jedi Knight Lorance had ran away from the Coruscant Temple, taking with him a Sith Holocron. The few remaining Master that made up the Jedi Council sent Master Romius to go and bring his former student back. Arkani and Kitana left the Jedi Temple and started after Mathew in Kitana's transport Virtue.
The two of them followed up leads for nearly a month, chasing him from planet to planet he finally stop running on the Forest Moon Yavin IV. They landed at a large stone structure which was pyramid in shape. Master Romius could sense his old students apprentice inside and the darkness that had consumed him. The old Jedi Master had dealt with more then his share of darksider and told Kitana to remain in the Virtue as he managed his own failure.
Kitana normally would have protested, but something had changed in her masters tone to echo his sadness. He did not want to have to kill his former student, but he knew the nature of the darkside was nearly impossible pull students back when they felt as negatively as he did. So Arkani processed into the temple alone, leaving Kitana to set on the Virtue alone. She state just off the loading ramp with her legs, watching Master Romius through the Force. It was the first time she ever was worried about Romius and the future.
Kitana's worries were not unfounded. Arkani Romius once was the best lightsaber duelist in the Jedi Order; having personally defeated over twelve full fledged Sith Lords and countless other darkside users. But that was eighty years ago; his old body was failing him. Arkani arrived in the central chamber to find the Dark Jedi standing in the middle of the room with his blue lightsaber ignited. Arkani begged him to turn away from the Darkside, but Mathew only argued how the Jedi had lied and held him back. Knowing that Mathew would not turn back, Arkani ignited his lightsaber and charged forward. He used the force to allow his body to move like before; but it was still over a hundred years old. With deadly precision, his previous apprentice flipped over his former master and sliced Arkani across the back.
Kitana screamed inside the Virtue as master Arkani feel to the floor paralyzed from the neck down. Kitana launched forward at blinding speed. The Force flowed through her body as she used it to push her muscles beyond normal stress levels. She sprinted to the center chamber and slide to a stop and Mathew slammed the blade into her Master chest. Mathew looked at the women and smiled.
"You made a mistake coming her, you should have ran away back to the Jedi Temple. Arn't you going to draw your saber and attack me also. I am evil you know."
"No. I do not carry a saber, I walk a different path."
"Then you will die quickly"
Mathew leap high into the air and using downward moment planned to cut Kitana into two. Kitana crossed her wrist above her head and braced herself for the blow. Mathew did not change his plan off attack, thinking she was just an idiot. The blade slammed into Kitana's forearm and just stopped. Mathew landed with the saber still above his head pushing against the gauntlets which Kitana was wearing under her robes.
"Shock. I don't carry a weapon but I do wear armor."
Kitana brought her other arm down and increasing her strength through the force uppercut the Dark Jedi sending he flying into the air. Mathew flipped around and landed on his feet about five meters away. Kitana just stood as if taunting Mathew with the cortosis gauntlets showing through the burn in her robes. Furious at the women Mathew charge again, this time attack with viscous slashes and thrust. Kitana held her own, using everything that both Valari, Diablo, and Master Romius taught her to avoid or deflect or blocking the lightsaber strikes with her gauntlets. She retialiated with punching and kicking him in every opening. All Mathew could seem to do was destroy Kitana's robes, but she had gotten several blows in that hit Mathew's gut, chest, groin and head.
Eventually Kitana leap up, pushing off from Mathew's chest and face before flipping backwards. As soon as she landed, she was slammed with a bolt of force lightning. It turned out that Mathew had been using the Sith Holocron to progress his abilities in the Force during the month that he lead them across the outer rim; preparing for the battle to kill his former master. Kitana took the full blow of the blast in her chest and slide across the grown smoking.
Kitana did not get up right away, while her clothing was still smoking she was letting the force flow through her. She accelerated the rate of cell production and healed the damage the force lightning did. Mathew simple walked up laughing, bragging that she would die by his lightsaber blade. cockily and flipped his blade around several times. Just as he was about to thrust it into Kitana's back her hand shot up and flew across the room slamming into the stone wall on the otherside.
Kitana flipped up with a smile and looked at Mathew as he pulled himself up. He spit out a small amount of blood and smiled as he extended his hand. Blue bolts of Force energy shot across room right at Kitana. She extended out her hands and caught the lightning in them. She slide backwards and focusing as hard as she could she converted the dark energy back into raw Force energy which dispersed around her. Mathew walked towards Kitana putting more hatred into the bolts. Kitana struggled to hold her ground but as he inched closer she realized she had to act or get fired. She lowered her head and pulling in all the access Force energy she was absorbing let out a wave of telekinetic energy which threw Mathew backwards once again.
In the moment he was still in the air she launched herself forward using the force to once again increase her speed. She let out a fearsome attack against the fallen Jedi Knight, striking him with both physical punches and used the Force to continually pull him back towards her as he stumbled backwards. She finished it off by extending both of her hands forward and letting out a telekinesis blast which slammed him into the stone wall, cracking it.
Mathew slid down the wall; broken, beaten and unconscious. Kitana summon his lightsaber to her hand and clipped it to her belt as she sprinted over to her Master. She picked up her master, but he had expired during the fight. She lowered her head and said a silent prier for him before picking up his lightsaber and clipping it to her belt next to Mathew's.
Kitana then headed back over to Mathew Lorace who was still unconscious on the ground and grabbed on of his arms. She drug the heavy bastard back to the Virtue and the ships infirmary. There she hooked up an I.V. and started pumping him full of enough tranquilizer to keep a full grown Wookie sedated. She then return and collected her masters body, placing it in on one of the bed in the passenger cabin. She then left the godforsaken planet and plotted a course back to Coruscant.
Jedi Knight
Kitana returned to Coruscant and presented Master Romius body and saber, and Mathew Lorace, the stolen holocron, and his saber to the four remaining Jedi Council. The four Masters were extremely proud of what she had accomplished. Defeating a fallen Jedi Knight was a feet onto itself for a Padawan but she had brought him back alive, even if every bone in his body seemed to be broken. The Jedi Council passed judgment on the broken former Jedi; he was to be severed from the Force; to exist without the power he so disparately craved.
The Jedi Council recognized Kitana for here skill in defeating an opponent that appeared stronger then her by promoting her to the rank of Jedi Knight. Kitana almost broke out into laughter at the thought of this. She had been at the level of using the abilities for nearly two months but it was only after that she engaged in combat that they approve of them. Just like with the lightsaber, they were glorifying and rewarding something the seemed to directly contradict the Jedi Code and Jedi Ways.
Kitana however accepted the promotion and was told she would be given a few days meditation to think about what had transpired and come to grips with her masters death. Kitana nodded and headed back to the Virtue, if she had time to simply mediate on the events that transpired, she would do it in the tranquil environment of Naboo.
When she arrived at Naboo she found a shocker; Diablo, a man that for lack of a better work was retarded when it came to a relationship, was standing just inside the door to her estate in a nice jacket and a tie. And even more of a shocker he had set reservations at a nice restaurant for just the two and a romantic evening the the two of them. Kitana could tell he was up to something; most of the time the just laid around and talked, maybe played a game or spared if they did not use up all their energy. To go through so much effort was just so uncharacteristic of their relationship.
So, forgoing meditating on Arkani's death or the fight with Mathew, Kitana went to her room and changed into an elegant dress, put on some make-up, and did something with her hair. When she walked out of her bedroom, Diablo's jaw dropped and he let out a whistle.
"Owe my god. You look... You look..."
"D, you may want to do something about your tongue, we don't want people mistaking you for a Gungan."
"Why don't you dress like that more often?"
"Because I am not usually in my cloth long enough to merit the work when I am with you and the Jedi cut me off from the Force if I wore something like this around the Temple."
Diablo simple smiled at the reason and holdout his arm to escort her to the speeder which was waiting outside. The speeder took them to a on two hour ride to Theed where it dropped them off outside the famous Cuore Della Pace which was situate near the Royal Palace next to the cliffs. It was at this moment that she realize just how much work Diablo had truly went through to set up the evening. To get reservations one had to either be royality, a senator, or make reservations eight months in advance. Kitana was unsure how Diable was able to pull it off, wither it was using to Force to know she would be on Naboo at this exact day or blackmailing the owner; it did not matter.
The two of them sat at the table, D had a steak of some kind while Kitana chose to have some sort of bird. They were both masterfully prepared and complemented the Necr'ygor Omic wine; vintage '31 which they had with the meal. After the meal and the wine Kitana dragged D out onto the dancing floor. Diablo danced with her for a few songs before they left the restaurant and headed back towards the Lake Country. The did not land at the house however; they landed at a small dock with a boat tied up to it.
Diablo helped Kitana into the boat before climbing aboard himself and rowing the towards a waterfall which filled the lake. He stopped the water with the force as they rowed back behind it and into a small cavern. Here he extended his hand outwards and pulled a small box over to him. He open the box up towards her and asked her to marry him. Inside was a golden bracelet with a rather large Ankarres Sapphire in the middle flanked by two smaller Rainbow Gems It was at this moment Kitana broke out in laughter.
"What is so funny."
"This has got to be a dream. You in a suit, me in a dress, you then taking me out to a nice dinner, dancing, finding a romantic cave behind a waterfall, a gorgeous bracelet which would cost more the a battleship and asking me to marry you. This is not our relationship and this is curtain not you. When we first met we tried to kill eachother."
"But isn't this how relationship develop? Isn't what you want."
"D, I am Zeltron and you are... Well I still don't know what you are exactly. Marriage is not important. I love you and I well take you anyway I can get you. "
"But I want this..."
"Then yes. Yes, I well marry you."
Kitana leaned over and kissed Diablo. He then removed a put it onto her wrist. She jumped over and wrapped her arms around Diablo causing the boat to become unbalanced and capsize. Both Kitana and Diablo ended up in the water with Kitana laughing again shouting that was more like their relationship. The two of them spent the night in the cave, planning the wedding. They agreed on a small ceremony at her home even though it would most likely leave out people back on Zeltros that politics would merit inviting.
The wedding was a week after Diablo proposed to Kitana; seeing as she would be returning to Coruscant to undertake her responsibilities as a Jedi Knight. Kitana parents, Valarie Kabal and her family were the only guest at the wedding as Diablo did not invite any of his own relatives. It was a very quiet ceremony were Diablo and Kitana exchange vows where bless by a priest. The two then spent their last night together before going back to there regular lives.
Diablo went back to being the pirate, Kitana return to the Jedi Order. Had only been a week sense she had been promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight and Master Romius had died yet another Master had been killed. This only left Master Ilizar, Master Odan Thos and Master Mathew Wayne. Kitana could not stand Master Wayne or Master Ilizar, they were old school Jedi and if you did not follow the code as they seen it you were wrong. However in contradiction to Master Ilizar and Master Wayne was the elder of the Jedi Council; Grand Master Odan Thos. Master Thos was respected by all Jedi, from the youngling that called him Grampa Thos to the Senior Jedi Master that consulted him on understanding the Force. Odan Thos had over eleven hundred years of experience; of a thousand years he had be a student of the Force. He also was much more open then the other Jedi Master; having learned that nothing in the universe was an absolute.
Dark Lord Name: Lady Nachta
Species: Zeltron
Age: 28
Sex: Female
Height/Weight: Five feet nine inches and hundred and thirty eight pounds
Appearance: Kitana looks like your average Zeltron standing five nine and normally weighting in around 138 pounds. She has red hair, green eyes and her skin tone falls into the regular red section. Depending wither she is Lady Nachta; Dark Lord of the Empire, or Empress Kitana of Zeltros dictates what she appears to be wearing. When she is Lady Nachta, almost always the Cloak of Nyx covers her entire body. When she is just relaxing, she often wears simple clothing, much the same that a smuggler would wear. Her favorite outfit is a black undershirt with a red short sleeve jacket and long pants. The one thing you never see her without is her favorite set of rube lens sunglasses. As Empress of Zeltros she also must be able to dress up, often wearing a dress jewary and high held shoes.
Kitana in Casual Clothing
Kitana In Formal Wear
The Cloak of Nyx
Kitana and the cloak are bound in a symbiotic relationship which runs deep. The cloak feeds off the Kitana’s life energy while protects her. This means that if Kitana does not draw life energy for others, she well be consumed by her armor and both will die. The cloak itself lives within Kitana, having grafted itself to her spine. On her command through the Force, the Armor painfully push out her back and wraps around her body. This take both a lot of Kitana life energy away and at the same time take nearly all her effort to control the growth of the armor. When Kitana wishes for some or all of the armor to be removed; that section of coral releases a toxin that combines with oxygen, killing that section of coral. The dead coral is extremely weak and brittle and simple falls away.
The armor itself was once a Yuuzhan Vong cloak of nuun and a sample of yorik coral. Using Sith Alchemy Kitana fused the ability of the cloak of Nuun to bond with its host and understand its commands to the yorik coral. The yorik coral is extremely strong, and she found out it was someone what lightsaber resistant and blaster fire, although repeated strikes would kill that coral hit along with any sections which were separated from the coral at her spine. Also like most coral, it is extremely sharp, making any edges and barbs which seemed to grow from her armor extremely dangerous.
She attached the altered piece of coral herself by allowing it to painfully push into her back grow on her spine. The coral and her became a partners and have such become to interdependent it is impossible to separate them.
Cloak of Nachta deployed without the mask
Cloak of Nachta mask
Personality: There are really two personalities sharing Kitana’s body. The first one is Kitana’s original personality. Kitana embraces positive emotions such as happiness, joy, and love; trying to bring them out in people. She cares deeply for others, often putting the needs of others over her own needs. She also tries not to control people even though her species has the ability to control emotions. She enjoys drinking, partying, gambling and simple having fun. Kitana builds long term relationships; wither it be with someone like her husband, her companion Elizabeth Sweetwater or just friends like Jor Halcryn or Akari Rumo.
The second personality is that of the Dark Lady Nachta. This is a supplementary personality which formed when in a state of depression, Kitana turned to the dark side of the Force. Nachta is a creature of lust, passion, and self-centered. While she may appear to share the same qualities as the Kitana personality, Nachta’s focus is always to serve her and is not above letting others suffer because of it. Nachta also gets great pleasure out of draining the knowledge and life out of people, to the point that it is nearly orgasmic. When it comes to relationships, Nachta is all about the pleasure of the moment before discarding her playthings soon as they bore her.
The Dark persona of Lady Nachta has becoming more and more dominate, pushing the original Kitana personality deeper into her own mind. Should she remain the road that she has been following she well soon have her old personality suppressed by Lady Nachta.
Strength: 45
Reflexes: 85
Speed: 75
Intelligence: 70
Unarmed Combat: 80
Ranged Weapons: 28
Melee Weapons: 40
Mechanical Skill: 50
Tech Skill: 60
Telekinesis: 50
Telepathy: 50
Body: 65
Sense: 50
Channel: 80
Alignment: -35
Bio:
Early Life on Zeltros
Kitana was born on Zeltros to Jerrod and Trinity. Jerrod was the planets the planets Senator to the Republic and well on his way to be elected to the position of King. Her mother was a scientist, having pioneered several advancements in hyperspace communication and a cheaper HoloNet system. Her parents were conservative for most Zetlrons, choosing monogamy after ten years of marriage. They would often state it that as they got older it just got easier to always go to bed with eachother.
The problem was that her parents wanted to have children, but were having trouble conceiving. They tried for nearly four years, giving most natural methods to boost fertility a try. They were about to resort to artificial conception when it finally happened, Trinity became pageant with a baby girl. The two could not be happier. They quickly choice to name the little girl Kitana and planned to spoil the child. However soon after she was born but disaster struck.
It turned out that Kitana was extremely Force sensitive and the Jedi Order wanted to take her away. They tried to explain that with her gift, Kitana could become a great Jedi Master on day, serve the Republic like her father and exceed anything either of her parents could imagine. Jerrod would not stand for the Jedi to steal his child. So he used every ounce of his political leeway he had. He threaten the Jedi by pushing that they banned from Zeltros, started to make noise in the senate about the Republic being associated and sponsoring baby snatchers, and created mountains of bureaucratic paperwork that would take a person a lifetime to sort through. In the end, the Jedi Order was slammed with so much paperwork and bad press they could not pursue Kitana.
Kitana’s childhood was one with few in the galaxy ever got to experience. When Kitana was young her parents spoiled the girl, having a room dedicated just for all her toys. However Kitana did not like playing with the toys as much as she loved playing outside with other children. Kitana was very popular; most of the privileged children of Zeltros would come over. But life was not all play, he parents wanted to make sure she was prepared for the galaxy. At the age of six Kitana got three different private tutors; an Echani that taught Self Defense, a Bith that taught her science and mathematics, and a Zeltron that taught her art and literature. Kitana also favored them in this order.
Her Echani tutor was Valarie Kabal. She was pushing fifty years old when she took Kitana as her student. The old woman was a former battle master, having fought in the war against Revan. She took the job to teach Kitana for a massive check which easily supported her extended family. Kitana loved Valarie, idealizing her strong nature and her quick reactions. Valarie instruction in combat started with teaching Kitana to control her own body. She would have Kitana walk on her hands, run wet stepping stones on a lake, balance on a rope and other tasks which focused on Kitana control of over her own body. This training lasted a year and when she was done, Kitana could flip and run around better then a gymnast.
Then Valarie moved on to teach Kitana how to fight sense she no longer fought herself. Valarie knew that Kitana would always lack the physical strength to fight stronger people; but she recognized the speed and grace which she had already instilled in Kitana would match this. Valarie started to instruct Kitana in the Echani battle arts. She taught Kitana things such as that is was easier to step aside to avoid a hit then try and stop it. She showed Kitana how to use the fact that if some was charging her that she could take the forward movement and effortlessly redirect it into flipping her opponent on his back. She even taught her some antomy to point out the weak parts of a person like the throw or the groin. For all ten years that she taught Kitana she drove home the saying “Avoid, redirect and strike were they are the weakest. He may be strong but you are like water. Fluid and always adapting.” She also taught Kitana how to disarm opponents that were using weapons. On Kitana’s sixteenth birthday she gave her a set of Cortosis gauntlets. She told her that she considered her as an Echani and a daughter. This meant a lot to Elisa; more than the speeder her parent gave her or the date with Billy Solaris that her friends had arranged.
Kitana second tutor was an eighty year old Bith professor named Mordin Solus. Mordin method of teaching science and math was to channel the very nature of a youthful mind. Mordin posed questions to Kitana and talked with her about what the answer should be. He showed her the galaxy when pictures showed more than a simple math equation. He even allowed her simple sit around and daydream during his listen as long as she shared the daydreams with him. This was because he could help point out greater insight. Kitana became to call Mordin simple Professor and still holds him in great respect.
Kitana final tutor was her greatest adversary growing up. Mellor was a Zeltros and he thought he was the galaxy greatest gift. A ten year at Zeltros University of Fine Art, he was teaching Kitana to repay Kitana's mother for helping him in the past. Kitana opinions often were opposite of Mellor and she had no problem speaking them. The greatest moment of defiance was when she had to choice an instrument to learn. He suggested she learn something elegant like the piano, but Kitana had her parent get her an electric guitar. Even though she did constantly butt heads with Mellor, he did expanded her knowledge and creativity.
Leaving Home to Experience the Galaxy
A few weeks after Kitana's sixteenth birthday, her father was elected to the position on King for his five year term as ruler of Zeltros. Jerrod little princess became a real princess. Kitana however did not desire the life of parties and state events that she would be expected to go to if she remained on Zeltros. When she brought this up to her parents she said she planned to get a job working on a transport in order to see the galaxy. Her parents did not like the idea of such a young girl getting a job on a transport, but understood her feelings.
Kitana’s parents therefore bought their daughter a light transport so that she could explore the galaxy safely. Kitana named her ship Virtue and left Zeltros a week later after a few basic piloting and mechanic lessons. She had always planned to return to Zeltros after a few months, but she quickly realized this was just was not a possibility.
At sixteen years and five months old, Kitana became a cargo transport captain. This was a problem that Kitana had to overcome. At first no one would hire Kitana because of her age, so she survived off her savings account which she had been putting in her allowance for the last ten years. Kitana got her first break moving cargo for the Echani with Valarie’s recommendation. She quickly impressed the Echani and their clients with both her speed and no question asked. This would lead to more jobs for Kitana, which would start to skirt the bounds of the laws.
Kitana quickly rose as one of the top of the elite class of smugglers that dealt in high risk and high value smuggling jobs. At the age of eighteen her starting fee was one hundred thousand credits or job that she said held a special challenge. Kitana had taken several of these jobs which she became famous for. Often they were told in local cantinas as the stuff legends were made of. Three of these stories were called The Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship, Phantom of the Warbird, and The Family Jewels.
The Flying Dutchman Ghost Ship
The tale of Kitana’s sneaking a Mandalorian Dungeon from Mandalore to Coruscant without being caught. The story goes that the Fett Clan wished to raid Coruscant as revenge for the Mandalorian Wars nearly fifty years prior. The problem us they could not amass a fighting force under the watchful eye of the Republic. So they contacted Kitana with a challenge. Get one hundred Mandalorians undetected onto the planet for the price of five hundred and fifty thousand credits. It was said that seventeen year old Kitana haggled with Cassus Fett about price of such a service. The terms of the agreement were said to eventually be after two days of arguments: a set of Cassus Shocktrooper, fifty pounds of beskar, and a set of Mandalorian crushgaunts in exchange Kitana would sneak an entire Mandalorian Dungeon Ship anywhere on the Coruscant’s surface.
Kitana knew this really would be a one way trip, and she expected that Fett also knew this. It was for this reason she did not want to place any valuable stealth system on Dungeon ship. So instead she would do older tricks to hide it. She started by stripping out all the outgoing communication signals. She also fitted the bottom of the ship with thick heat plates and solid fuel rockets. She then coated sections of the ship with a RAM material which reduced the cross section. The last trick was removing all the safeties on the hyperdrive. It took her two week to do all the modification and when she finished she was ready to sneak the ship onto Coruscant.
Kitana told Fett she needed a location. He did not want to give it to her until they entered hyperspace, but she told him that she needed the location for the jump. Fett argued against it, giving all sort of military bull while Kitana explained the importance of the location because they jump needed to be precise so that she knew where her jump would need to be so they could jump to the right side of the planet. Cassus eventually relented and told her that the target was the Senate Building. Kitana took this data and returned to the Virtue and used its computer to calculate the jump details.
It took five days to calculate the jump series, as the galactic movement was plotted for galaxy of the seventy two hour trip. She also included errors for possible drift corrections, but she would have to do them by feel as she always did with difficult jumps.
The mission started as scheduled, and was going as planned. She made first four jumps within several meters of the intended target. The final jump was the most difficult. The final jump was deep into the gravity well of Coruscant at upper end of the atmosphere. The jump was beyond dangerous, at the speed they would be travelling with the hyperdrive safeties deactivated, if it exited hyperspace nanoseconds late, would be completely destroyed.
A minutes before the Flying Dutchman exited hyperspace above Coruscant a bomb threat was radioed into the ATF for the senate district, causing them to need to evacuate the building. When they came out of hyperspace they began to fall straight down into the atmosphere just as planned, all the power and they fell blindly. As they fell, the bottom of the ship started to glow red hot and the temporary ceramic shielding she installed slowly burned away. Then just a few thousand feet above the Senate building Kitana fired the solid fuel rockets and the ship decelerated. She kicked on all the system, activated the Repulsor, and bringing it down softly on the roof Senate Building.
As Fett’s soldiers stormed the Senate Building, Kitana slid down the slid of the dome and used a repulsor pack to clear the area where she caught a ride on the first smuggling vessel heading to Mandalore to pick up her ship. When the Fett’s took the building they found that the valuable hostages were not there. It appeared that the Senate Building also received a bomb threat and the Senate meeting was cancelled. The Fett and his men were soon captured by the Military which came in to retake the building. It is unclear wither Kitana had the bomb threats to the Senate Building or not. The people that tell the story seem to be split fifty fifty and Kitana is not telling.
Phantom of the Warbird
Another of the widely told tales of the young smuggler was the infamous stealing of the first Warbird-class Republic Cruiser, the Warbird. It was unclear who hired Kitana for this job, however two most commonly named people are droid leader of the Exchange G0-T0 or the leader of the Hutt Cartel at the time; Farbo the Hutt. The employer is not as important as what the rewards was said to be. It was said the reward for the job was a rundown abandon repair yard in orbit around Ryloth. That station is now called Firefly Station and one of the most profitable repair yard in orbit around Ryloth.
The act of stealing the ship was masterful to say the least. To steal the ship Kitana first became part of the ship’s crew but she never did join the Republic Navy. Kitana made a Republic Uniform, forged transfer documents and arrived on the ship as a member of the crew. The plan however was more complex than sneaking on the ship. She spent two weeks on board the Warbird under Ensign Liliza Lozan. She severed on third watch as a bridge come officer as a weapons officer. It was a position that normally was gone unnoticed, but also a position which allowed access to the computer system.
On day 19 the Warbird was attack by a blockade runner. It did a quick pass firing both several torpedoes. The Warbird shields took minor damage but before they could return fire the corvette jumped to hyperspace. The Captain, as Kitana predicted, ordered a pursuit course. It was the start of an elaborate trap which Kitana had been laying out sense she arrived. When the captain went to Action Stations he initiated cascade virus which each successive virus would build on the pervious. It was a grand illusion created by Kitana that the crew fell into.
The first thing that occurred was the ship dropped out of hyperspace, as if they hit an interdiction field. The virus had activated the ships hyperdrives safety protocols and ships sensors stated that the ship was in the middle of a highly dense mine field which was made up of Ion mines and Hapan pulse-mass mines. This illusion of the sensor did not have to hold up to much scrutiny however, sense the next virus shut down the entire ship systems. Appearing as if the ship was colliding with the ion mines, the ships systems dropped off one by one. First shields, then sensors, engines, even life support failed after a few seconds. The Warbird was adrift in space in less than thirty seconds.
The captain had little choice; he gave the order to abandon ship. It was not an order that he wanted to give but it as the Warbird drifted it appeared to be sweeping a path through the minefield. That meant that the escape pods and shuttles should be able to make out of the interdiction field. The captain thought that the pirates must plan to strip the ship for parts, seeing as the large number of ion mine that struck the ship; any electronic system would need to be replaced.
As the ship was being evacuated the Captain insisted on being the last off the ship. Kitana remained hidden with a portable scanner had the range to scan the entire ship for biosigns. As the last of the crew were heading the final dragoon shuttle Kitana headed up to the bridge. When she got there she noticed the shuttle had not left yet, they must have been waiting for her she thought. Therefore Kitana figured she would simple hasten their departure. She punched in the command sequence and all the ships functions returned. She sealed hanger bay and began the decompression sequence. Once they sealed up the Dragoon she shot it out of the open the hanger doors and used the tracker beam to pull the ship out of the hanger bay.
Once it was clear she jumped to hyperspace. She had to go considerable lower speed then the maximum speed of the Warbird because even though she had the repair droids to assets her, she was operating the ship normally crewed by two hundred alone. She could not risk damaging the systems by overworking them; she already was force to spend eighteen hours a day keeping the ship flying on her way back towards the outer rim. She dropped the ship of at Firefly Station. The exchange was made and Kitana spent the next three months turning her new station into a goldmine, providing cheap repairs at just above cost. This is because she has determined to make her money from volume, moving ships through the shipyards quickly with quality repairs at just above cost.
Family Jewels
The final of the three stories which is told of Kitana’s adventure at the age of nineteen is that of the theft of the Naboo Crown Jewels. The contract was simple to steal the crown jewels and in return Kitana would receive a piece of land in the Naboo Lake Country which was considered the most desired location on all Naboo but was never for sale. It is said that the person that desired the crown jewels was a descendent of King Narmlé and wanted what he believed was rightfully his after his a distant relieve put an end to the Narmlé dynasty took the throne. It is unclear however who Kitana was really dealing with, as he always used several go-betweens to isolate himself from the crime.
Kitana started the mission by the scoping out the crown jewels when they were on display. She purchased every book on the jewels and searched the HoloNet for any information or images about them. She then constructed the crown jewels in a computer program, using layers of images to make what was a perfect recreation of them. Then it is said she hired the finish artisan in the galaxy to reconstruct the crown jewels using synthetic crystals. It took months and during this time she spent her time testing the security of the vault that they were stored in.
It is said that she tempted coercion the blue prints of the vault from a high level architect that had them after dating him for several weeks. It was from these the grand plan of staging a robbery to gain as to rob the place. She got a job as palace security as a technician using a false identity provide by her employer. During her days she worked and began to build relationships with other security officers. At nights she tunneled underground to the vault. It she hired several assistance recommended by her contact including a young girl by the name of Akira Rumo. She liked Rumo and used her; after concealing her identity, to rob the vault.
Then one quiet evening the alarms started to scream in the National Treasury Building. As it progressed several security personnel were dispatched to Vault. When they arrived they found a tunnel blown into the floor, but the only thing that was missing was a considerable amount of nova crystals. After the initial investigation was over, Kitana and her work crew went about repairing the damage to the Vault. While it was being repaired, Kitana performed several slight of hands switching the originals with her copies. Once the last copy was placed, the next day a massive EMP pulse occurred in the treasury district, wiping out all the records of Kitana’s employment along with most of the original data about the crown jewels. Kitana delivered the crown jewel collection to her employer and was given the piece of land in the Lake Country. Kitana would go on to build a retreat on this property, with the funds of several other jobs, which was said to rival even the Palace in architecture beauty.
Reconnection to the Force
Soon after Kitana turned twenty she was hulling an illegal shipment of weapons from Sullust to Coruscant. The shipment was of two hundred disruptor rifles and three hundred disruptor pistols which were illegal in every way. Along the hyperspace route she took included several turns to avoid heavily populated areas. One of these turns was in a star system with no inhabitable planets but a rather large asteroid field should she need to hide. However as she came out of hyperspace and prepared for the next jump she was ambushed.
It turned out that her buyer did not want to pay her for the transportation fee. A pirate vessel engaged Kitana’s transport. The pirates had the element of surprise and got her with a tractor beam. Unfortunately the pirates were prepared, the corvette they used had been specifically modified to capture smugglers, but Kitana was not going to go down without a fight.
The pirates boarded the small transport by blowing the docking hatch and entered firing. As the smoke cleared there was no one near the docking hatch. Five pirates walked onto the transport carrying blaster rifles while a six man wearing dark robes with a sheathed sword. As the pirates slowly progressed through the transport, they were forced to split up in order to search for Kitana and her cargo. They did not realize however they were playing on Kitana’s turf.
Kitana used her knowledge of her transport to move through the different crawl spaces, air vents, and secret compartments to out maneuver the pirates. Kitana slowly picked them off in small groups, shooting them with her blaster. It was fairly easier for her to get rid of the first five, but the last one seemed to be hunting her, always just one step behind her and yet also forcing her into a trap.
Eventually she had dealt with all but pirate which was using his own men to trap her. Kitana realized that trying to sneak by this man was pointless, he had been manipulating her movements the entire time. This led her to believe that he had the similar abilities to a Jedi even though a Jedi would never become a pirate. She simply stood outside the airlock he was trying to force her into. When he arrived the two of them stared each other down. He was fairly handsome, in a rugged badass way. Not the type of guy you took home to your parents, but one you would have a fling with. Kitana did not rush it, and when the man pulled out a blade weapon she did not even flinch.
"If you wise it I will make it quick and painless. If you resist I can not make any guarantees."
“Fear, especial fear of death, is one of those negative emotions that make me sick. I had conquered such feelings long ago.”
Kitana smiled and blew him a kiss. The man pushed off from the floor and lunged at Kitana. Time seemed to slow down for Kitana when the man attacked. She all the sudden felt connected to the universe around her. Normally she would just a feeling of what was about to happen when she was in danger. This was different; she felt empowered, she felt like a god. As they pirate lunged at her she stepped sideways and jabbed him in the side. Before she could make a snippy remark she received a swift kick in the gut.
Kitana was slammed against a wall from the power of the kick. She noticed a console next to her and hit it with her fist. The ships anti-gravity deactivated and both Kitana and the invader floated upwards. She thought she would have an advantage until her dropped his coat and reviled his wings.
“Wings, groovy.”
She never seen a species with wings before and few humans could pull it off like her did. He used his wings he stabilized himself and prepared to launch an attack to cripple her with the force. As he summoned force a force push, Kitana however was unknowingly connected to his mind thanks to her natural empathic abilities amplified by the reconnection to the Force. With a near telepathic ability she subconsciously did the same thing as Diablo. She extended her hand as the assailant did and a powerful energy burst launched from her. The blast was extremely powerful, but uncontrolled. The pirate was thrown backwards into the airlock by the blast, but the ship also suffered structural damage from the uncontrolled abilities.
Kitana Creating an Uncontrolled Blast in the Force
Kitana looked shocked at what had transpired, but even more shocking the pirate slowly rose again, with a smile on his face. She was going to try the same thing again, but before she could act he stopped her. The pirate was told that the transport pirate was not a trained Force user and should have been an easy job. However, the amount of power she projected while uncontrolled was impressive for an untrained Force-sensitive. The man stood down and looked at the young women standing before him almost as shocked as he was. He stopped and thought about the contract. He could try and finish it, but her uncontrolled nature would mostilikely kill them both or he could simple walk away.
He looked at Kitana and slowly sheathed the sword. He said he would leave the ship peacefully if she would let him. Kitana looked at the damage already done to her ship and did not even now if she could repair it. Kitana could sense his sincerity about leaving peacefully and accepted his terms. The pirate had the supplies transferred to assist in the repairs of the transport. Before leaving he asked her how long she been studying the Force in order to create such a large Force Blast. Kitana smiled and simple responded,
“I never studied the ways of the Force. I don’t even know how I did that.”
He was shocked by her response. He assumed she was at least a Jedi Youngling that never was assigned a master, but to never even have used the Force before was almost mind blowing. He realized she had a special gift, even though he was not sure what it was at the time, and vowed to keep an eye on her.
Kitana continued on her way to Coruscant under minimum power. She did not get mad at her employer, she simple planned to get even. She had a reputation to uphold and she was planning to make her employer an example. When she arrived at Coruscant she did not head to the meeting place with her original employer; but instead headed directly to his number one rival where she just gave them the disruptors. She knew that with the weapons her employer would be overwhelmed and his criminal empire would crumble. Of course this prediction came true and also earned Kitana an ally among the Coruscant crime lords.
Learning the ways of Love and the Force
It was not more than three months after Kitana’s first encounter with pirate named Diablo that Kitana had fought off her ship that Diablo once again approached Kitana, this time to hire her. He needed a force user or someone he could quickly instruct in the basics of the Force to retrieve several artifacts from Jedi tomb. He was unable to hire an already Force user he could trust and knew that Kitana’s reputation along with her natural affinity for the Force would prove to be the best course of action to acquire what he desired.
Kitana was offered several Jedi Artifact and limited Force training as compensation by Diablo in exchange for three months of training and two weeks on Tython. Kitana quickly accepted knowing the value of Jedi Artifacts on the black market. The limited Force training did not seem that important to Kitana as she not really understand the value of the Force. Kitana insisted that they trained at her estate on Naboo and Diabo agreed to this condition.
Kitana’s Estate in the Naboo Lake Country
Diablo arrived at Kitana’s estate right on time. He noted that it was not in the standard Naboo architecture, but appeared to be Zeltros in design. When he entered he found Kitana waiting for him in a small room with a fire. He walked in a looked at her young women simple reading a book; printed on paper. She did not look like the smuggler he ran into her on the freighter. She was beautiful and elegant, a much softer appearance then the harden smuggler he had faced before. He started too worried that he made a mistake.
Kitana quickly provide his worries unfounded. He discovered as the Jedi did twenty years earlier that Kitana had a strong connection to the Force. They pushed the furniture against the wall and sat down on the floor in front of the fire. Diablo initiated the training by linking with Kitana’s mind. This allowed them to share experiences of training and thought. It was much deeper then Kitana had ever been connected to someone; as the connection transcended mere empathic understanding.
The two just sat there for hours looking into each other’s eyes. Diablo was having her try to manipulate his mind, while she was not able to manipulate his mind, she did have the right methodology. It came fairly second nature as the Zeltron species as a whole as the ability to manipulate emotions. She could reach into peoples’ minds and pluck the strings like emotions, but with the Force she could look deeper and affect their thoughts .Other times they would sit across from eachother outside by the lake. A calming breeze would blow around them and they would pick up stones using the force.
While they trained every day to prefect Kitana’s abilities in order to achieve the challenges of Tython; she and Diablo had many hours of free time on their hands . This time was used to allow Kitana recuperate from a hard training which allowed pushed Kitana to learn something she had no idea existed mere months earily. They often spoke one all manner of topics from philosophy to combat. They would also would spare, Kitana unarmed again Diablo with his sword. The fights did not use the Force as Diablo would simple overpower her, but when unarmed she could dodge D’s attacks, wrapping up his arms, often stripping him of his weapon before taking him to the ground. They even fooled around a little at right. Their relationship quickly grew into a close friendly during the three months they shared on Naboo teaching Kitana telekinesis, mind control and refining her precognition. After the three months of training, Diablo had to head Tython even if he felt Kitana was not ready. The tomb’s vault was only accessible on the anniversary of the Jedi Master’s death.
They arrived on Tython with only six days before the anniversary of the Jedi death. They spent the next five days searching for the entrance of the tomb; both Kitana and Diablo started to believe they may miss their window. However this turned out that the last day of they stumbled across the cliff side entrance. The two Force users entered the tomb together and came to a section of the tomb. They were hoping to stick together but a short distance from the entrance of the tomb Kitana triggered a bobby trap. This was trap sent large stone walks dropping around the room, forcing Kitana and Diablo down two separate passages. Kitana was sent down a passage alone where she faced several trials of her abilities.
The trails would start simple must pull levers out of reached. Elisa found this easy to reach out with the Force and create a push which converted the Force base energy into kinetic energy that could move the simple levers. However as she advanced deeper into the tomb she came across trails were harder. She was forced to use the Force to sense which symbols were bound with Force energy and test of her wisdom. These trials however were really just obstacles to grave robbers not the real test. She also had to jump a gap which no human could have made. Unable to exit the way she came, Kitana realized that she had to jump the gap and realized if she used the force to push off the ground at the last moment she would be able to get enough distance to clear the jump. After a deep breath Kitana took off running towards the gap and leap into the air using the Force to push her farther through the air. She landed on the other side of the gap and headed into the a room which had the final trail, one which showed the constructers of the tombs mastery of the Force.
The final the test was of one’s heart; only those who were good would be permitted entrance to the main chamber of the ancient Jedi Tomb. Diablo did not realize this test would have to be faced. When Kitana arrived she seen a man lying on the floor about a fourth of the way in the room. She had never seen him before, but it was easy to see he was still alive if unconscious. As she ran up to him the ceiling started to come down quickly. She only had enough time to either make it to the entrance to the tomb or drag the man out the way she came. Kitana did not even have to think about it. She grabbed the man and firmly sunk her feet into the ground. The man seemed to weigh a ton as she slowly tried to pull him across the room. The closer she got to the door; the more she realized she was not going to make it with him. She continued to drag him however until she was forced to her hands and knees. It was to late however; the ceiling was pushing against her and it would only be a second before they both were crushed.
Then a flash of light happen and Kitana found herself simply lying on the ground next to Diablo. In front of her was a stone obelisk with a strange crystal in it. She quickly rolled over and placed to fingers on Diablo's neck. He had a strong pulse and he was still breathing so she looked up at the obelisk. It had some writing under the crystal. It read, Master Tzu, one of the first master of the Jedi Order. Only those pure of heart may stand before her. All others are crust to sleep as the followers of Bogar that had faced her in battle do.
Kitana realized that Diablo must not have passed the pure of heart challenge; he was goal oriented after all. She stood up and headed to the burial chambers; planning to grab what they came for and then drag Diablo away from the tomb. She walked pass the obelisk and headed into the burial chamber. Inside was several status of the Jedi Master wearing some sort of armor and a holding a scroll. In the center of the room was an elegant carved sarcophagus. She walked up to it and placing her hands on the top pushed the led open. Inside there was the mummified remains of the Jedi Master in full battle armor. She looked at the armor and was memorized, and a voice in her head told her to put it on. So Kitana gently removed the armor before resealing the sarcophagus. She strapped the armor on and then moved on to several chest which contained documents which Diablo had been sent to collect. She headed out of the burial chamber, grabbed Diablo and slowly started to pull him away from the obelisk.
Kitana in Jedi Master Erika Tzu Battle Armor
As soon as Diablo was about a hundred meters from the obelisk he woke up. He looked up to see Kitana standing over him wearing the battle armor of Jedi Master Tzu. At first he was confused; he was told Tzu as a male, but it was clear the armor was to be worn by a female. After the adjustment he asked if she completed the mission, Kitana replied that she always completed the mission. Kitana handed him the documents. She however did not hand over the armor; claiming it was her reward for being pure of heart where he was not.
Diablo may not liked it but when he looked into Kitana's eyes he just could not say no. He not only was getting overdose of positive emotions, he could not get passed the fact that she did save his ass from eternal sleep. The two of them went their separate ways, Diablo turning the documents over to his client while Kitana head back to Naboo to practice her knew abilities.
Jedi Order
As the months went on Diablo would swing in to see Kitana every few weeks between different jobs which he was taken; however it was becoming clear to him and Kitana that she was in need of a full time instructor and he was not ready for that level of commitment. So Kitana chose to head to Coruscant and seek out acceptance to the Jedi Order. This however was not normal times for the Jedi Order, they were still recovering for the Jedi Civil war and Sith incursions meaning they could not really take fully mature students what would have problems taking to the Jedi ways. Even though Kitana’s potential appeared extraordinary to the Council knowing they tried to take her twenty years ago, know she had been corrupted by the views of Zeltros people and the rest of the galaxy. A single Jedi Master on the council however seen into Kitana’s heart and the purity it possessed. This Jedi Master petitions the rest of the Council to all him to take Kitana as his Palawan Learner. The Council agreed and the old Jedi Master started to instruct Kitana in the ways of the Force and the Jedi Order. This Jedi Master was a 128 year old human whose name was Arkari Romius.
Jedi Master Arkari Romius
Master Romius did not realize the trouble he was taking on in this student. While Kitana had a great potential in the Force and was truly goodhearted, she was not one for following all the rules which were designed to help keep someone from falling to the Darkside. She refused to give up the Virtue or her home on Naboo and to top off her defiance of the code; she continued to see Diablo in secrete.
Over the course of her five years as Arkani's apprentice, she would sneak out of the Jedi Temple nearly a hundred times to meet up with Diablo when his business brought him to Coruscant. Master Romius noticed Kitana absence and at first hounded her about it. Kitana simple rolled with the ass chewing, never denying nor confirming his suspections. Eventually Romius overlooked these however as he seen his beloved Jedi Order be taken apart by forces in the shadows. He felt that Kitana with such a good spirit would help lead the order into the future.
Kitana's life in the Jedi order started where all younglings began; being taught the Jedi Code, history of the Jedi Order and their philosophy. It was a step back from what she had learned from Diablo but she accepted this as Master Romius wanted to provide context. Kitana was able to recite the Jedi Code and what Romius thought it meant. One day Romius wised up to this and would regret asking her what she thought the code meant. Kitana rambled on for nearily an hour, citing different text that she had been reading as suggested by Arkani. She proposed that the Jedi Code had been changed in meaning after Odan-Urr got hold of it. She noted that the old code did not excluded the 'human' nature. The code accepted that there would be things one did not know, situations were emotions would come into play; but a Jedi should still be able to find peace, seek what he does not know and so on. This would be but the first of many philosophical disagreements that did not conform to the Jedi Order.
While Master Romius and Kitana argued over the Jedi philosophy, she also fought over other aspects of her training; most notably the use of a lightsaber. Kitana despised the lightsaber, and her dislike extended beyond the fact she was constantly burning herself with her training saber. Her arguement was that a lightsaber; while a symbol that most could recognize a Jedi or Sith still was a weapon first; one that left the wielder with one option in the end, lethal force. She could not believe it if they would even glorify such an item. The first time she was told she would have to learn the lightsaber or be dropped from the order she argued for nearly five hours.
"You may not like it, but a lightsaber is integral to being a Jedi, you will learn to use it, even it is only like the younglings. "
"This is complete bullshit. You glorify a weapon and teach all your students to wield it with lethal efficiency. No wonder so many fall to the darkside."
"Kick and scream all you want, I am not going to loss a Padawan to laziness."
"It is not laziness. You are just clinging to your flawed views without listening to my point. Show me a little respect me. Argue the point, don't just call me names."
Kitana may have been head strong but she did learn to use the Shii-Cho form over the course of five years as Master Romius' apprentice. Kitana in protest to having to do this to the point she would only activate her lightsaber during training sessions which Master Romius personally attended. When they were on a mission she would often 'forget' her lightsaber back at the Temple and more then once 'lost' her saber.
About the only thing Kitana and Arkani could seem not to argue about was her force training. Kitana always enjoyed expanding her knowledge of the Force and never passed up an opportunity to practice with them. In the course of five years she was able to get a grasp of telekinesis, force speed, deflect and absorb; and implemented them into her unarmed style flawlessly. She also had learned several other abilities that included was able to heal herself and others in the force, plant surge, Jedi mind trick, and force weapons. He dedication to her force training however would prove to be critical on her last mission with Master Romius.
Death of Arkani Romius
Kitana had been at the Jedi Temple for nearly five years when Master Romius former student going by the name Mathew Lorace ran off from the temple. Jedi Knight Lorance had ran away from the Coruscant Temple, taking with him a Sith Holocron. The few remaining Master that made up the Jedi Council sent Master Romius to go and bring his former student back. Arkani and Kitana left the Jedi Temple and started after Mathew in Kitana's transport Virtue.
The two of them followed up leads for nearly a month, chasing him from planet to planet he finally stop running on the Forest Moon Yavin IV. They landed at a large stone structure which was pyramid in shape. Master Romius could sense his old students apprentice inside and the darkness that had consumed him. The old Jedi Master had dealt with more then his share of darksider and told Kitana to remain in the Virtue as he managed his own failure.
Kitana normally would have protested, but something had changed in her masters tone to echo his sadness. He did not want to have to kill his former student, but he knew the nature of the darkside was nearly impossible pull students back when they felt as negatively as he did. So Arkani processed into the temple alone, leaving Kitana to set on the Virtue alone. She state just off the loading ramp with her legs, watching Master Romius through the Force. It was the first time she ever was worried about Romius and the future.
Kitana's worries were not unfounded. Arkani Romius once was the best lightsaber duelist in the Jedi Order; having personally defeated over twelve full fledged Sith Lords and countless other darkside users. But that was eighty years ago; his old body was failing him. Arkani arrived in the central chamber to find the Dark Jedi standing in the middle of the room with his blue lightsaber ignited. Arkani begged him to turn away from the Darkside, but Mathew only argued how the Jedi had lied and held him back. Knowing that Mathew would not turn back, Arkani ignited his lightsaber and charged forward. He used the force to allow his body to move like before; but it was still over a hundred years old. With deadly precision, his previous apprentice flipped over his former master and sliced Arkani across the back.
Kitana screamed inside the Virtue as master Arkani feel to the floor paralyzed from the neck down. Kitana launched forward at blinding speed. The Force flowed through her body as she used it to push her muscles beyond normal stress levels. She sprinted to the center chamber and slide to a stop and Mathew slammed the blade into her Master chest. Mathew looked at the women and smiled.
"You made a mistake coming her, you should have ran away back to the Jedi Temple. Arn't you going to draw your saber and attack me also. I am evil you know."
"No. I do not carry a saber, I walk a different path."
"Then you will die quickly"
Mathew leap high into the air and using downward moment planned to cut Kitana into two. Kitana crossed her wrist above her head and braced herself for the blow. Mathew did not change his plan off attack, thinking she was just an idiot. The blade slammed into Kitana's forearm and just stopped. Mathew landed with the saber still above his head pushing against the gauntlets which Kitana was wearing under her robes.
"Shock. I don't carry a weapon but I do wear armor."
Kitana brought her other arm down and increasing her strength through the force uppercut the Dark Jedi sending he flying into the air. Mathew flipped around and landed on his feet about five meters away. Kitana just stood as if taunting Mathew with the cortosis gauntlets showing through the burn in her robes. Furious at the women Mathew charge again, this time attack with viscous slashes and thrust. Kitana held her own, using everything that both Valari, Diablo, and Master Romius taught her to avoid or deflect or blocking the lightsaber strikes with her gauntlets. She retialiated with punching and kicking him in every opening. All Mathew could seem to do was destroy Kitana's robes, but she had gotten several blows in that hit Mathew's gut, chest, groin and head.
Eventually Kitana leap up, pushing off from Mathew's chest and face before flipping backwards. As soon as she landed, she was slammed with a bolt of force lightning. It turned out that Mathew had been using the Sith Holocron to progress his abilities in the Force during the month that he lead them across the outer rim; preparing for the battle to kill his former master. Kitana took the full blow of the blast in her chest and slide across the grown smoking.
Kitana did not get up right away, while her clothing was still smoking she was letting the force flow through her. She accelerated the rate of cell production and healed the damage the force lightning did. Mathew simple walked up laughing, bragging that she would die by his lightsaber blade. cockily and flipped his blade around several times. Just as he was about to thrust it into Kitana's back her hand shot up and flew across the room slamming into the stone wall on the otherside.
Kitana flipped up with a smile and looked at Mathew as he pulled himself up. He spit out a small amount of blood and smiled as he extended his hand. Blue bolts of Force energy shot across room right at Kitana. She extended out her hands and caught the lightning in them. She slide backwards and focusing as hard as she could she converted the dark energy back into raw Force energy which dispersed around her. Mathew walked towards Kitana putting more hatred into the bolts. Kitana struggled to hold her ground but as he inched closer she realized she had to act or get fired. She lowered her head and pulling in all the access Force energy she was absorbing let out a wave of telekinetic energy which threw Mathew backwards once again.
In the moment he was still in the air she launched herself forward using the force to once again increase her speed. She let out a fearsome attack against the fallen Jedi Knight, striking him with both physical punches and used the Force to continually pull him back towards her as he stumbled backwards. She finished it off by extending both of her hands forward and letting out a telekinesis blast which slammed him into the stone wall, cracking it.
Mathew slid down the wall; broken, beaten and unconscious. Kitana summon his lightsaber to her hand and clipped it to her belt as she sprinted over to her Master. She picked up her master, but he had expired during the fight. She lowered her head and said a silent prier for him before picking up his lightsaber and clipping it to her belt next to Mathew's.
Kitana then headed back over to Mathew Lorace who was still unconscious on the ground and grabbed on of his arms. She drug the heavy bastard back to the Virtue and the ships infirmary. There she hooked up an I.V. and started pumping him full of enough tranquilizer to keep a full grown Wookie sedated. She then return and collected her masters body, placing it in on one of the bed in the passenger cabin. She then left the godforsaken planet and plotted a course back to Coruscant.
Jedi Knight
Kitana returned to Coruscant and presented Master Romius body and saber, and Mathew Lorace, the stolen holocron, and his saber to the four remaining Jedi Council. The four Masters were extremely proud of what she had accomplished. Defeating a fallen Jedi Knight was a feet onto itself for a Padawan but she had brought him back alive, even if every bone in his body seemed to be broken. The Jedi Council passed judgment on the broken former Jedi; he was to be severed from the Force; to exist without the power he so disparately craved.
The Jedi Council recognized Kitana for here skill in defeating an opponent that appeared stronger then her by promoting her to the rank of Jedi Knight. Kitana almost broke out into laughter at the thought of this. She had been at the level of using the abilities for nearly two months but it was only after that she engaged in combat that they approve of them. Just like with the lightsaber, they were glorifying and rewarding something the seemed to directly contradict the Jedi Code and Jedi Ways.
Kitana however accepted the promotion and was told she would be given a few days meditation to think about what had transpired and come to grips with her masters death. Kitana nodded and headed back to the Virtue, if she had time to simply mediate on the events that transpired, she would do it in the tranquil environment of Naboo.
When she arrived at Naboo she found a shocker; Diablo, a man that for lack of a better work was retarded when it came to a relationship, was standing just inside the door to her estate in a nice jacket and a tie. And even more of a shocker he had set reservations at a nice restaurant for just the two and a romantic evening the the two of them. Kitana could tell he was up to something; most of the time the just laid around and talked, maybe played a game or spared if they did not use up all their energy. To go through so much effort was just so uncharacteristic of their relationship.
So, forgoing meditating on Arkani's death or the fight with Mathew, Kitana went to her room and changed into an elegant dress, put on some make-up, and did something with her hair. When she walked out of her bedroom, Diablo's jaw dropped and he let out a whistle.
"Owe my god. You look... You look..."
"D, you may want to do something about your tongue, we don't want people mistaking you for a Gungan."
"Why don't you dress like that more often?"
"Because I am not usually in my cloth long enough to merit the work when I am with you and the Jedi cut me off from the Force if I wore something like this around the Temple."
Diablo simple smiled at the reason and holdout his arm to escort her to the speeder which was waiting outside. The speeder took them to a on two hour ride to Theed where it dropped them off outside the famous Cuore Della Pace which was situate near the Royal Palace next to the cliffs. It was at this moment that she realize just how much work Diablo had truly went through to set up the evening. To get reservations one had to either be royality, a senator, or make reservations eight months in advance. Kitana was unsure how Diable was able to pull it off, wither it was using to Force to know she would be on Naboo at this exact day or blackmailing the owner; it did not matter.
The two of them sat at the table, D had a steak of some kind while Kitana chose to have some sort of bird. They were both masterfully prepared and complemented the Necr'ygor Omic wine; vintage '31 which they had with the meal. After the meal and the wine Kitana dragged D out onto the dancing floor. Diablo danced with her for a few songs before they left the restaurant and headed back towards the Lake Country. The did not land at the house however; they landed at a small dock with a boat tied up to it.
Diablo helped Kitana into the boat before climbing aboard himself and rowing the towards a waterfall which filled the lake. He stopped the water with the force as they rowed back behind it and into a small cavern. Here he extended his hand outwards and pulled a small box over to him. He open the box up towards her and asked her to marry him. Inside was a golden bracelet with a rather large Ankarres Sapphire in the middle flanked by two smaller Rainbow Gems It was at this moment Kitana broke out in laughter.
"What is so funny."
"This has got to be a dream. You in a suit, me in a dress, you then taking me out to a nice dinner, dancing, finding a romantic cave behind a waterfall, a gorgeous bracelet which would cost more the a battleship and asking me to marry you. This is not our relationship and this is curtain not you. When we first met we tried to kill eachother."
"But isn't this how relationship develop? Isn't what you want."
"D, I am Zeltron and you are... Well I still don't know what you are exactly. Marriage is not important. I love you and I well take you anyway I can get you. "
"But I want this..."
"Then yes. Yes, I well marry you."
Kitana leaned over and kissed Diablo. He then removed a put it onto her wrist. She jumped over and wrapped her arms around Diablo causing the boat to become unbalanced and capsize. Both Kitana and Diablo ended up in the water with Kitana laughing again shouting that was more like their relationship. The two of them spent the night in the cave, planning the wedding. They agreed on a small ceremony at her home even though it would most likely leave out people back on Zeltros that politics would merit inviting.
The wedding was a week after Diablo proposed to Kitana; seeing as she would be returning to Coruscant to undertake her responsibilities as a Jedi Knight. Kitana parents, Valarie Kabal and her family were the only guest at the wedding as Diablo did not invite any of his own relatives. It was a very quiet ceremony were Diablo and Kitana exchange vows where bless by a priest. The two then spent their last night together before going back to there regular lives.
Diablo went back to being the pirate, Kitana return to the Jedi Order. Had only been a week sense she had been promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight and Master Romius had died yet another Master had been killed. This only left Master Ilizar, Master Odan Thos and Master Mathew Wayne. Kitana could not stand Master Wayne or Master Ilizar, they were old school Jedi and if you did not follow the code as they seen it you were wrong. However in contradiction to Master Ilizar and Master Wayne was the elder of the Jedi Council; Grand Master Odan Thos. Master Thos was respected by all Jedi, from the youngling that called him Grampa Thos to the Senior Jedi Master that consulted him on understanding the Force. Odan Thos had over eleven hundred years of experience; of a thousand years he had be a student of the Force. He also was much more open then the other Jedi Master; having learned that nothing in the universe was an absolute.