Vardin Karzio

> "*These politcians come and go. But us? We'll be here forever.*"
> ― Vardin Karzio
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**Vardin Karzio** is an accomplished agent of Sith Intelligence who has successfully carried out a multitude of covert operations. He is counted among the agency's most capable infiltrators, having inserted himself into various enemy organizations ranging from criminal syndicates to rival governments.

## Background

### Early Life

Like most Sith Intelligence agents, the details of Karzio's younger years are unknown. He did have at least one sibling, an older brother, who was a Cipher agent in Imperial Intelligence.

He was only twenty when he joined Sith Intelligence, making him one of the youngest operatives in its history.

### Assignments during the early Galactic War

#### Makeb

Around the time of the Hutt Cartel's conquest of Makeb, Karzio was tasked with infiltrating the Cartel's forces on the planet as part of the Empire's operation to acquire the planet's isotope-5. He successfully asserted himself into the ranks of the InterStellar Regulators, the former mercenary police of Makeb whom the Hutts had paid off, under the identity of freelance contractor **Travar Torvyn**.

Near the end of his assignment, he was ordered to terminate several high-ranking Regulator officers. His prime target was Grevin, a Chagrian who had become the de facto commander of the Regulator forces after the death of the Warhound. Before Karzio could reach his target, however, Grevin was killed during a confrontation with Republic forces.

Before his extraction, Karzio managed to steal the schematics for the Hutts' isotope-5 based war droids from a Cartel facility on the Aboro Mesa.

#### Republic Navy and CZ-198

Karzio worked undercover in the Republic Navy for five months during the conflict on the Czerka Corporation-controlled moon of CZ-198, using the alias **Kal Dask**. Very little of his activities on the moon were disclosed, but it is known that Karzio discovered that Czerka's scientists had managed to recreate the volatile Blackwing virus, an outbreak of which threw the Sith academy on the planet Odacer-Faustin into chaos. He also aided the Imperial Military's Ordnance Acquisition Corps in obtaining several samples of the corrupt corporation's advanced technology.

### Dealing with the deserters

After the Eternal Empire's campaigns in the Core Worlds, Kasido undertook an assignment for Darth Nostrem, the new operations director of Sith Intelligence. He infiltrated a splinter faction of Sith and Imperials who had deserted the Empire decades before and settled in the Outer Rim. He used the identity of a former Imperial bureaucrat named **Ardran Kasido** as his cover. He remained undercover for over a year, during which he assassinated several of the faction's high-ranking members.

## Personality and traits

> "*You receive an order, you enact it. Our place is not to question. It's all ultimately for the greater good. For the benefit of the Empire.*"
> ― Karzio explains his interpretation of an intelligence officer's role in the Empire
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Karzio is outwardly sociable, and overall of a much warmer, almost friendly, disposition than most of his colleagues in Intelligence. He is no less dedicated and disciplined, however, and operates on a strong belief that his mission must always come first.

A man who values discretion, Karzio is mindful of the collateral damage he causes while pursuing a mission. He will avoid resorting to drastic measures or use of "less civilized" tactics, but that isn't to say he is a man of sentiment and morality. Karzio prefers stealth, but he is fully willing to commit acts that one might call barbaric should his directives call for it. He justifies these questionable deeds as necessary brutalities that ensures the security of the Empire.