Hellion Keel

Hellion Keel was a force sensitive Human Male who lived on Addrix as part of the Sentinels. When Addrix fell to the Sith Invasion of the Planet in 8 BAV, Hellion Keel was the only Sentinel left alive after the Sith had slaughtered what remained of those who failed to escape with the Jedi. Although he was mortally wounded, Darth Graevaz had taken a shine to his strength in the force and ordered the Sith troopers to take him as a prisoner.

For the next 5 years, Darth Graevaz would perform numerous experiments on Keel, including lobotomising his patient and replacing his limbs with cybernetic replacements. In conjunction, he would also employ psychological torture. By the end of it all, Keel had become unrecognisable with 70% of his body replaced with cybernetic limbs and behaviour modification implants. However, before the final procedure was completed, Hellion unleashed his fury and anger against his captors and managed to escape the facility on the Celdaru outpost, destroying it in the process.

The aftermath of this psychological and physical torture had turned him hateful and bitter. His behaviour and mannerisms were dictated by a partial cybernetic programming that wasn't fully installed by the time he broke free of his captivity. This malfunction would conflict its base programming of helping Graevaz destroy his enemies with Keels own Human emotions, now amplified by the dark side. Instead, Hellions sole purpose was to hunt down and kill Darth Graevaz as the ire of his existence, killing anybody he considered to be against him or with Graevaz.

Darth Graevaz eventually learned of the laboratories destruction and initially feared it would raise unwanted attention from his peers. However, on further investigation, Graevaz, while infuriated, eventually concluded that Keel must've perished in the blast. At some point between 3 BAV and 0 BAV, Keel had reformatted and heavily modified a Loadlifter droid to become his personal assassin, outfitted with dangerous weapons. During this time, Hellion Keel had also fashioned a Lightsaber hilt using parts of his organic body to construct it.

## **The Sith Hunter in 0 BAV**

By the time of 0 BAV, Hellion Keel had hunted down several Sith apprentices, acolytes and at least one Sith Lord, torturing and/or killing them in the process all with one goal: to find and eliminate Darth Graevaz. Hellions hunt eventually lead him to discovering the abandoned ship of Darth Axis orbiting the third Planet of the Ardell system. When he arrived, he found the crew of the Mercy, who had accidentally reactivated the ships transponder when they tried to strip it for parts, Hellion attacked the scrappers and pursued them onto the Planet below when they tried to flee. The Sith had also received the beacon and had sent Darth Vikas to investigate. When the Sith Lord arrived, he swiftly abandoned pursuit of the Mercy and instead focused on trying to kill Vikas. The two fought and were evenly matched, but Vikas subdued Hellion when he pulled down a settlement on top of him. Vikas then left Ardell to track down the Mercy, who had escaped the Planet with Chaz in possession of the keystone.

Keel survived, but his cybernetics were heavily damaged during the collapse.

## **Trivia**

* Hellion Keel is not the Mans biological name, instead it is a name he adopted as part of his new identity as a Sith Hunter. While Chaz vaguely recognises him and later identifies him as a Sentinel by the marking on the back of his neck, she does not know who he is or what his name was. Consequently, anybody who knew Keels real identity was dead or absent.
* Hellion suffered from PTSD during the days after he escaped from the Celdaru outpost and would frequently be hit with flashes of his time being tortured by the Skall.
* He was proficient with modern weapons, despite being secluded from most of Galactic society all of his life. He would carry a modified blaster on his hip, which he utilised in conjunction with his Lightsaber.
* Being a constant companion, D94 Dreadbot was the closest thing Hellion Keel had that could be considered a friend or family. In many ways, the droid had been reprogrammed to behave as a reflection of Keel himself. Keel would later recount as much to Chaz.
* While his only goal is to kill Darth Graevaz, Keel is not above using or manipulating others to accomplish his goals. He will relentlessly pursue anybody he believes to be in league with the dark lord or anyone who stops him from achieving his goal.
* Hellion was powerful with the force, and would likely have bested Darth Graevaz if the dark lord had not deployed the use of force lightning on him.
* Despite this, Keel was able to ignore the majority of the damage he had suffered from Graevaz electrical attack and continued to attack him even though he was dying. Eventually, Keel succumbed to his wounds and was struck down by Graevaz. Ironically, Keels objective would eventually be completed by Darth Vikas when he learned of Graevaz' plans to overthrow Darth Malevelous. Vikas challenged him to single combat and succeeded, declaring him a traitor to the Sith.