Varzo Vas

**Varzo Vas** was the male Human captain of the *Lunar Tempest* and the leader of the ship's crew. He was from the planet Neobatra and was the adopted son of Scaphian bankers. Vas was one of the many people who had fought in the Faceless Wars, having formed his crew during the start of the conflict in order to fight the Faceless. He considered himself the rival of Seiya Akatsuki, the captain of the *Berdema Nova*.

## Biography

### Early Life

In 5902 ASA, Varzo Vas was born on the planet Neobatra in Frog Space, located within the Gold Standard Sector. Orphaned at a young age, Vas was adopted by a family of Scaphian bankers who treated Vas as their own. Under their care, Vas learned much about the world of economics and amassed quite the amount of wealth for himself growing up (despite already belonging to a rather wealthy family). He used his funds to further his education in multiple fields; spacecraft piloting, self defense, sharpshooting, and even gourmet cooking were just a few of the skills he picked up in his young adulthood. He was proud and almost overly prideful in his skills while in his early 20s.

### The Faceless Wars

At the age of 29, Varzo Vas saw the beginning of the Faceless Wars, in which an infamous terrorist group that called themselves the Faceless began to wreck havoc onto the Cassiopeia Galaxy. The United Cassiopeian Republic needed all the help they could gather in order to stop the galactic threat, which meant hiring privateers. Varzo Vas became a privateer, working alongside the UCR to protect the galaxy from occult anarchists. Near the beginning of the war, Vas purchased a state-of-the-art Scaphian battle cruiser, which he named the *Lunar Tempest*. The ship was ridiculously and excessively big for only one person to use, and Vas recognized this. This was a partial reason as to why Vas decided to form a proper privateer crew.

#### Meeting Seiya

At some point during the war, Varzo and his crew traveled somewhere in the Holiday Worlds, presumably to visit a casino. Here, he first met Seiya Akatsuki, who worked alongside her partner Yugure Usagi and her friends and crewmates Beobarado and Io Trotz. When playing a game of cards with Seiya, Varzo lost. Varzo continued to lose every rematch he demanded from captain Akatsuki, and thus began a decades-long one-sided rivalry between the two.

As time went on, however, Varzo's one-sided rivalry eventually became a front for his want for friendship with Seiya, which she did not turn down. As the years went by, Seiya generally accepted Varzo's antics and was actually rather amused by him, which Varzo rather appreciated.

### Life as a Privateer

Varzo spent much of his life continuing to work as a privateer captain. He went on many adventures with the *Lunar Tempest* crew, and ended up gaining some additional members as the many years went by. Such additions from after the Faceless Wars included the magic-wielding Symmerian twins Moche and Mañana Ocell, along with the Kasikoan Protectorate Cabal agent Hoa Mahi.

#### Mission to Zivra

In the latter half of the 5957 ASA, captain Varzo Vas of the *Lunar Tempest* crew took on a mission to the planet Zivra, an abandoned ocean colony of the old Cassiopeian Republic, in order to retrieve what remained of supposedly revolutionary hyperdrive technology. In doing this, the *Lunar Tempest* crew would hand over the technology and its plans to United Cassiopeian Republic, and as a result, be compensated greatly (and financially) for their efforts.

What ensued was a contest against captain Seiya Akatsuki of the *Berdema Nova*, along with the rest of her crew of Novas, to see who could retrieve the hyperdrive first as both crews took on the same job unknowingly. If Seiya and her crew were to lose, she would have to admit defeat and admit that Varzo had won (which wasn't much of a request in Seiya's eyes, but she wanted to satisfy the wants of her old friend). If Varzo and his crew were to lose, they would have to treat the Novas to a full course meal aboard the *Lunar Tempest*.

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## Personality and Traits

Varzo was a Human man with a light complexion, brown hair, and vibrant, indigo-colored eyes. In his old age, his hair turned grey and eventually white.

A bombastic and stubborn man, Varzo took his role as captain and leader of the *Lunar Tempest* with great pride, considering every crewmate valuable members of his team. Some were turned off by his loud, theatrical, and extremely extroverted demeanor, while those closest to him learned to deal with his whacky antics. Varzo's vibrant exterior granted him a multitude of different experiences that gave him many odd yet thrilling stories to tell. He had somewhat of an ego, considering himself to be one of the best chefs in the galaxy. Varzo was highly competitive, always having strived to one-up captain Seiya Akatsuki of the *Berdema Nova* any chance he got. Unfortunately for him, Seiya did not take this one-sided rivalry nearly as seriously, which never gave Varzo satisfaction when he *did* manage to outdo Seiya.

Nevertheless, this 'rivalry' was truly a cover for a rather old friendship between the two privateer captains. He genuinely appreciated Seiya's company and wished that the two of them could hang out more, which Seiya greatly appreciated. Despite his exaggerated and often melodramatic personality, Varzo truly appreciated those that he came to know throughout life and was happy to please and repay them. He often communicated this love and gratitude through cooking food, but also through money as he had a lot of it thanks to his wealthy family.

## Skills and Abilities

As a privateer, Varzo was well-equipped with the skills necessary to take on dangerous tasks all throughout the galaxy. He could easily wield long-ranged weaponry like sidearms and knew a degree of self-defense. But outside of these survival skills, Varzo was also a rather skilled cook, even having appeared on a famous culinary gameshow called the Great Epsilopeian Bake Off.