Alastair Corvus (RP)

## Alastair Corvus

* Grand Army of the Republic
	+ Systems Army Alpha
		- 332nd Legion

Xesh’s Group

"*I'm not a good person, you have to understand that. Everyone else in this galaxy is just a piece of shit, except maybe you and Xesh.*"
―Alastair to Tau**Alastair Corvus** was a Jedi Padawan hailing from Lothal. His father was a senator which meant that Alastair spent most of his childhood traveling between Coruscant and Lothal with his parents and his sister, Charlotte. When he was three his latent force powers manifested and two Loth Wolf cubs appeared at his house, apparently drawn to him by the force. Both he and his sister were brought to the Jedi Temple after their father attacked them due to his declining mental state. Corvus trained at the Temple for the next twelve years before being chosen by Xesh, an ancient force hound, to become his Padawan. He joined his master in the ranks of the 332nd Company but when Xesh was kicked out of the Jedi Order due to his dark past Alastair followed. More recently he has met up with Tau, a creature of the void that has been traveling with Xesh and has formed a somewhat unsteady friendship with them. Since Tau regained her voice Alastair has gained a greater understanding of the horrors the universe is facing.

## Biography

### Childhood

Alastair was born on the planet of Lothal but spent much of his time traveling between Lothal and Coruscant with his family. The constant movement made holding onto friendships very hard to keep and he became a rather distant child. One year later his sister Charlotte was born and he brightened up considerably. The children and their mother got along well, but Alastair’s father became increasingly stressed by trying to raise his children and do his work at the same time. This led to him completely abandoning Alastair and Charlotte, leaving their mother to care for them.

A few months after Alastair noticed that he could control small animals like Loth-cats. Soon he realized that this was a sign of force potential and showed his parents. His mother smiled and encouraged him to continue to grow these powers, as she had been saved by a Jedi Knight and thus thought very highly of them. Alastair’s father greatly disapproved of his abilities and made him suppress them whenever they went to Coruscant. Some time after revealing his abilities Alastair woke up in the middle of the night to a noise in his room. After turning on the lights he saw two Loth Wolf cubs, one with black fur and one with white fur. After establishing an animal bond with them he learned that they were drawn to him through the force. He named them Dha and Nau, which translated to dark and light Mando’a.

One year later Charlotte discovered her force connection by accidentally burning their father’s face with an uncontrolled pyrokinesis blast, which caused their father to snap. He lashed out at both Alastair and Charlotte, taking out all the anger and stress he felt on the three and four-year-old children. Dha and Nau sprung to the aid of Alastair and ended up wounding the father. The commotion was heard by someone nearby and the police were summoned. However, when they entered the room it was empty, apart from the father. Dha and Nau had grabbed the children and teleported to what they believed was the safest place on Coruscant, the Jedi Temple.

### The Jedi Temple

Alastair and Charlotte were accepted as younglings and in accordance with standard Jedi procedure, they were separated. Dha and Nau stuck with Alastair and gradually learned to speak Galactic Basic. As Alastair progressed through his training as a youngling he found the weapons available to him to be boring and standard. He began experimenting with alternate designs and developed some experimental light-knife schematics he thought could work. He put them away for when he got his kyber crystal, determined to make something with more versatility than just a standard lightsaber.

Alastair spent much of his time in the Jedi archives, which was where he met the youngling that would soon become his best friend. The youngling’s name was Zandro Verasx, a Zabrak orphan who had been brought to the temple a year before Alastair. They spent much of their waking hours together training or studying. During this period Dha and Nau began to grow for real and reached full size by the time Alastair was six. As they grew Alastair began testing out the limits of their teleportation. He made frequent trips to places he was not supposed to be, inside and outside of the temple. Though he and his sister were separated that did little to change their relationship. Charlotte accompanied Alastair and Zandro on many of their trips.

Alastair went with Zandro and his youngling clan to the Crystal Cave on Ilum to retrieve his kyber crystal. In the cave, he faced a monstrous version of his father which he eventually defeated by luring him onto a lake of thin ice, which cracked under his weight and caused him to fall. During this encounter in the cave Dha and Nau were facing trials of their own. The Crystal Cave had called to them and against the wishes of the Jedi master accompanying them they entered the cave and were faced with their prior choices, and their failings. Both Alastair and the wolves made it out of the cave, Alastair being incredibly surprised when each wolf presented him with another yellow crystal.

During Alastair’s return trip from Ilum he suffered from a force vision that showed him the Aurebesh letter Yirt over and over again to the point he could not focus enough to construct his saber on the way home. When he returned to the temple had calmed down enough to build the first weapon of his unconventional arsenal, a set of twenty light knives using fragments of the first crystal. The remaining two crystals were used for two small blades to accompany his throwing knives.

### Accidents and Pre-Padawan Life

After constructing his sabers and knives Alastair's life rapidly grew into a constant cycle of training and resting. Over time he gained extreme skill in a slapdash unofficial form that worked well with his knives. As his love of combat and understanding of offensive force techniques increased his sister began to gain greater force abilities as well. Her flames burned brighter and brighter by the day, but not necessarily with more control. Alastair would regularly comfort and calm her when her fire threatened to consume her and everything around her. During one particularly bad meltdown in the training room the flames burned so quickly that Zandro was caught up in them. Alastair rushed to his friend's rescue as the flames burst out once again, leaving extreme burns across his arms and torso. This caused his sister to lose control completely for the first time since she burned her father's face with the force. The hot air trying to escape the room shattered the windows but in the end no lives were lost thanks to the unique abilities of Dha and Nau, teleporting everyone to safety before the blast. Several Jedi masters contained Charlotte and Alastair and Zandro were brought to the medical wing to rest and heal.

After a week in a bacta tank Alastair was released from the medical wing with burn scars covering his arms and chest. From that point forward his relationship with Charlotte and the Jedi philosophy as a whole became strained and he began to question why he had joined the Jedi in the first place. After significant consideration Alastair decided that the Jedi were too docile and that something would need to be done to bring back their fighting spirit from years past. But he figured that it wasn't his job to do it, and instead he dedicated himself to training so that he could survive and protect Charlotte and Zandro when conflict eventually did come.

With this training came a deeper understanding of his bond with Dha and Nau and a greater understanding of how they moved within the force. He taught them how to work together with him in combat and they taught him more about the force and how to move through it. Another facet of this training was expanding his arsenal and learning how to use it. After some extreme experimentation he developed the light-bow, and weapon that uses the concept of kyber crystal energy to launch bolts of plasma at foes. When later asked why he didn't just create a blaster using the same tech he responded "blasters are boring, I wanted to make something that required skill." Of course he didn't have a kyber crystal to construct this new weapon around, but that opportunity would soon present itself in the form of Xesh.

### Xesh and Padawan Years

Not long after the start of the Clone Wars Alastair met his soon to be mentor, the Force Hound Xesh. Upon meeting Xesh, Alastair yet again had a force vision of the letter Yirt and after discussing it with the ancient force user Xesh agreed to bring it up with the council. The council saw no reason to deny Xesh's request, and they assigned Alastair as his Padawan with the hope that they could ground each other. Xesh taught Alastair a few things that worked well with his fighting style, but left out many of the things that made him a force hounds. despite Alastair's constant asking Xesh did not teach him anything about his force hound powers and fighting style. He did not wish to expose Alastair to his past even though Alastair was intensely fascinated by it. Xesh also gifted Alastair another kyber crystal, with which he finished his arsenal.

Alastair spent much of his independent time refining his fighting style with Dha and Nau as well as learning as much as he could about Xesh, which admittedly not much. A few years into the clone wars Xesh began to work with the Chiss on the Jedi Council's orders and he took Alastair with him. During that time the senate took notice of Xesh's status as a previously Fallen Jedi and began to put pressure on the Jedi Council to do something about him. The Council decided to compromise with the Senate and excommunicated Xesh from the order. At the time he and Alastair were resting between missions on the Chiss ship Chimaera and not wanting Alastair to try and leave the order with him, Xesh left without telling him.

### Search for Xesh and the Lothal Days

Alastair, understandably, became extremely angry with Xesh for leaving him behind. Xesh had given him no reason as to why he had left and the possibility that it might have been his fault was wracking his mind with guilt. Alastair remained on the Chimaera until he was dropped off on Tython to continue his training under another master. It was on Tython he learned why Xesh had left and that cleared up some of his guilt, but he still wondered why Xesh had not taken him along and he needed answers. Instead of staying on Tython Alastair stole a ship and began his search for the Force Hound.

After three months of searching Alastair's quest led him to the one place he did not want to go, Lothal. Returning to his home planet in spectacular fashion he crashes his ship into the fields of an outlying town and then proceeds to look for clues relating to Xesh. After using his father's authority to access security cameras and finding a video of Xesh making his way through town Alastair follows his path to the outskirts of town and uses the bond established during their time as Padawan and master to narrow down his location even more.