Aeven Rynn (The Hero of Tython)

Aeven at the Alliance base on Odessen

Aeven Rynn is a Jedi Knight and former Jedi Battlemaster who participated in the Galactic Cold War, following galactic war and later commanded the Eternal Alliance in order to defeat the Eternal Empire. Some time after the war, the Star Wars galaxy was attacked by a **mysterious species** hellbent on destroying all life. After defeating the creatures Aeven was badly wounded and was captured by bounty hunters, who froze the jedi in carbonite.

Aeven is one of, if not the greatest, jedi in galactic history, able to take down dark jedi as a mere padawan. Aeven's skill exceeded even that of Satele Shan, making him the perfect candidate to finally defeat the Sith Emperor Vitiate. Although he succeeded for a time, the Emperor soon returned and the knight was forced to face them once again.

## History

### Sacrifice

#### First contact

A short while after the Eternal Alliance defeated Arcaan a mysterious species arrived in the unknown regions, exterminating anything that stood in their way. Aeven personally lead a taskforce to go meet the aliens, hoping to establish a ceasefire. Predictably, the creatures attacked the team on site and they were forced to defend themselves, losing a couple of jedi apprentices during the skirmish.

Fearing the worst after the initial conflict, Aeven used the Alliance's power to convince the Republic and Empire to enter a ceasefire until the invaders were defeated and the three factions launched a counter-offensive.

#### Fighting the invaders

The Republic, Empire and Alliance's initial push was able to keep the invaders out of the Outer Rim, but the invaders quickly retaliated with superior weapons. Fearing the worst, the factions began to rebuild several super-weapons designed during the Cold War in the hopes of repelling the Invader's attacks. Their fears were quickly confirmed when the Invaders attacked Droumund Kaas and Coruscant, dealing heavy blows to two of the three factions.

With the Republic and Empire recovering from attacks on their homeworlds, Aeven lead a strike team into the mothership of the Invaders. The team fought their way through the ship, eventually getting it to turn it's weapons onto it's allies. As time ran out, the strike team successfully sabotaged the ship's generator and caused it to crash into the planet below. As the team tried to escape, Aeven stayed behind to hold off the last off the enemies forces, sacrificing himself in the process

#### Captured

After defeating the last of the invaders on the ship, Aeven resigned himself to his fate, safe in the knowledge that the galaxy was safe. However, with the help from the Sith Emperor Valkorion who had been residing in the jedi's mind, Aeven was able to survived the crash. Eventually, a group of bounty hunters and scavengers sought out the crashed ship hoping to find some technology they could sell to the major factions, only to find a badly wounded Aeven. The group froze the jedi in carbonite before they could retaliate and sold them to the Sith for a large amount of credits.

### Time spent in carbonite

Aeven was kept in one of the Sith Temples On Korriban as a trophy. As time went on a few local legends formed around him, predicting the doom of the Sith Order if he was to awaken. Eventually, the temple was abandoned alongside Aeven's carbonite tomb, seemingly sealing his fate. Fortunately for the jedi, his trusty companion droid **T7-01** sought him out and activated a short-range distress signal, hoping that when the time came someone would come and release their old friend.

At some point within the last few years, **Darth Revan's** Sith Empire discovered Aeven's tomb and placed sensors to make sure the jedi could escape, fearing they could be a major threat if they were woken.

### Fighting in another war

#### Awakening

Thousands of years later, Jedi Master **Mace Windu** discovered T7's distress signal and quickly travelled to the temple to recover the hero and his droid. Windu unfroze the hero and quickly took him to their flagship, *The Endurance.* During the following few months Windu and Aeven discussed what had happened in the past three thousand years and got him caught up on the time and reintroducing the Jedi to the Jedi Order, giving him the rank of Jedi Knight despite his previous status as a Jedi Master. Some time later Aeven was able to walk and fight again, allowing him to leave the medbay and return to Coruscant. However, before the Endurance could leave, Windu's fleet was attacked by Revan's Sith Empire in the hopes of recapturing the hero before they could do any damage to their order.

#### The battle above Korriban

Knowing that Aeven was in a weakened state, Windu gave Aeven his lightsaber before the battle began and left before Rynn could object. Not wanting to abandon ship like Windu wanted, Aeven repaired T7 and went into battle, fiercely defending the Endurance's hangars from boarders and trying to keep the clone troopers on board safe. Upon the death of Mace Windu, Aeven pushed the last of the Dark Jedi out of the hangar.

## Abilities

### Skills

* **Lightsaber/melee combat:** Aeven is a skilled melee combatant, possibly the best in the history of the jedi order. Aeven was able to take on dark jedi as a padawan and eventually Emperor Arcann himself
* **Leadership:** Despite the fact that he dislikes public speaking, Aeven is an exceptional leader, bringing even the most divided groups together. Aeven was also the commander of the Eternal Alliance and was the primary reason for the group’s success.
* **Blaster proficiency:** Aeven has been shown to be very skilled with a blaster, being able to take down a knight of Zakuul with one
* **Skilled Pilot:** Aeven has participated in several space battles on behalf of the Republic
* **Skilled Mechanic:** Aeven has demonstrated to be a skilled mechanic, helping repair the Gravestone with limited resources and frequently needing to repair, disable or reprogram devices during his adventures
* **Skilled Negotiator**

### Powers:

* **The Force:**
	+ **Force Telekinesis:** Probably the easiest force technique there is. Rynn can use the force to lift objects
		- **Deflection, Repulse, Crush and Leap.** All variations of Force Telekinesis. Deflection effortlessly deflects objects such as bullets, Repulse unleashes a massive blast of force energy in all directions (even capable of disintegrating hunter rank opponents, though he chooses not to do this) Crush is self explanatory and Leap justs boosts his jump with the force.
	+ **Force Persuasion:** Aeven can use the force to influence people into doing what he wants. He has also demonstrated this ability on powerful force users, so you’re going to want indomitable will. The higher the rank, the less the effect
	+ **Shatterpoint:** A force ability where people can see “faults” in objects. By pouring force energy into these faults they can completely shatter most objects, including near-indestructible ones such as Beskar
	+ **Rebuke:** Rebuke allows Aeven to break most movement incapacitating effects (physical or magical) and grants him a durability boost, allowing him to even reflect lightsaber strikes for a short amount of time.
	+ **Force Heal:** Aeven can use the force to heal most non-fatal wounds. However, this takes a lot of time, energy and focus. Rynn can also suffer from blood loss in this time, so it’s mostly just to help him recover after a severe injury and help him heal minor wounds.
	+ **Force Valor:** An ability that increases the resolve, accuracy and speed of the user and their allies. This ability works best during charges or team battles.
	+ **Force Lightning and Drain:** Although these are dark side abilities, Aeven can use them without training, since he was already taught them. Each ability corrupts the user so it’ll take a lot to make him do this
	+ **Dangersense:** Aeven can sense danger and where it’s coming from before he gets into it, allowing him to avoid traps and counter enemy attacks more easily
	+ **Enhanced Endurance and Agility:** Aeven’s endurance is greatly enhanced by the force, able to survive being impaled by a lightsaber. He was also able to fight several Knights of Zakuul, skytroopers and make it back to his ship before falling unconscious from said wound. Aeven has near-limitless stamina, able to fight for hours on end without faltering
	+ **Valkorions Power:** Upon his “Death” Valkorion transferred part of himself into Aeven. Being much more experienced and skilled (and of course having the advantage of dark side powers) Valkorion is much more powerful than the young jedi, waiting for the moment that Aeven will let him take control for a brief moment. It’s very fortunate that he currently doesn’t want to completely take control… Yet.
		- **Force Drain:** Valkorion is capable of draining the force from entire planets, wiping out every lifeform on the planet and making him more powerful, even granting him immortality. With enough time this ability could drain an entire sector of a galaxy, raising this apps rank to god.
		- **Essence Transfer:** The reason we’re here in the first place. Valkorion can transfer his (and Aevens since their fates are currently intertwined) force essence into another body, taking it over and also transferring his force abilities. He can do this to willing and unwilling people, so if you intend on killing Aeven while Valkorion is active you better have indomitable will or be a higher rank than him or you’re at risk of having your body yoinked.
		- **Force Lightning:** Although Aeven already possesses this ability, Valkorion’s lightning is MUCH more powerful, able to take down entire fleets of ships in a matter of seconds.
	+ **Force Ghost:** Upon death, instead of entering one of the afterlife's Aeven becomes one with the force. During this state Aeven can appear to force sensitives through the force on planets with an average connection to it, communicate to areas lacking in the force through voice, though this takes a lot of energy to do. In force nexuses Aeven can interact with the world and use LIMITED force abilities, though again this takes energy. If Aeven exhausts too much energy in this state he can’t appear again for some time as his spirit recovers.
* **Indomitable Will:** Aeven has one of the strongest wills in the galaxy, able to break free of Valkorion’s control with a slight nudge and counter even the most corruptive forces. Corruption magic, mind control and mind breaking isn’t going to work on him

### Weaknesses

* **Human Weaknesses:** Aeven can be harmed in the same ways the average human can, though for once I advise not using a gun
* **Friendships:** The best way to harm Aeven is by isolating him, so his friends, more specifically the current group of companions he surrounds himself with, are pretty good targets. Especially if you want to manipulate him
* **Force Nullifying creatures:** There are few creatures in the Star Wars universe that can repel the force, creating an area where force abilities cannot be used. Although this can be circumvented with training, Aeven hasn’t had to learn that ability yet

## Equipment

* **Mace Windu's Lightsaber**
* **Holocommunicator**
* **Comlink**
* **Mechanic’s equipment**

## Personality

Aeven is, at heart, a hero. He frequently puts himself at risk to save others and refuses to break his moral code under any circumstances. He's also very exhausted by all the war, having been fighting for about a few years straight from his point of view. In a life or death scenario Aeven is very stoic, refusing to show his emotions unless the situation calls for it. This has led several of his allies to see him as "dull" despite a more friendly, comedic and emotional person when lives aren't on the line, though as time goes on Aeven has become better at balancing the two sides of him, mostly thanks to the people in the Eternal Alliance,

Rynn is much more comfortable in settings like the alliance, feeling that his status in the Jedi Order forces him to suppress part of what makes him, him. He is much more prone to attachments than the average jedi and sees the jedi code as more of a coping mechanism than an actual code to live by

### Relationships

#### Mace Windu

Windu was Aeven's first friend in the multiverse. Despite Windu's usual cautiousness the two were able to become friends in the few months that they had spent on the Endurance before his death.

#### T7-01

Aeven's oldest friend that he has been able to stick around with. Rynn and T7 make a formidable team and have a close friendship. Aeven sees T7 as an ally, not as a servant like others might consider the droid.