Kensei Rain (DEPARTED)

NAME: Kensei Rain
ALIASES: None
CAREER: Soldier
SPECIALIZATIONS: Commando, Emergent, Recruit

KENSEI RAIN DEPARTED THE PARTY AT THE ONSET OF THE KAJIDIC WAR

BACKGROUND: Kensei is a young man of 20 who stands 5'8" with an athletic build. He wears padded armor beneath a brown, nondescript robe. He has blond hair, a full beard and single braid on the right side of his head. The beard and braid are two of the four things that he has to remember his father. The third item is his weapon, while the fourth is a secret.

Despite having no living family (that he is aware of), Kensei feels a deep Responsibility to the mystery of his family's legacy, including the cryptic messages left to him by both of his parents before their deaths. His father, who vanished from his life when he was six, left him an ancient family heirloom Selonian Glaive named "Kindness." Kensei had studied the art of Melee combat with it all of his life, but it's true treasure lay carved upon the blade, in six distinct groupings. There was a series of glyphs, that his father told him was the greatest puzzle of all. It wasn't until his mother was dying that she revealed to Kensei that his father had been hunted and killed during the Great Jedi Purge. His mother's legacy, equally as puzzling, was passed to him with her dying words: "Return to your father's home." As Kensei had only been 8 when they left his father's home, he had no idea where that was. Kensei is committed to discovering the secrets of his family's past.

Kensei grew up on the bustling city-world of Nar Shaddaa, where he learned be Streetwise and even made a few Sound Investments. Growing up, Kensei was always very good at Athletics, something his mother told him he was just good at. But as she lay on her deathbed, her mother revealed to him that he was an Emergent. Nevertheless, growing up amid such overpopulation led to a heightened Resilience, Cool under pressure, Discipline and the occasional Brawl.

In his younger days, Kensei was an Entrepreneur and without realizing it, Kensei had begun Negotiating with the Niska Syndicate and the Jiramma Hutt Kajidic, led by Darga the Hutt. With each deal, he grew ever more indebted to the Syndicate and the Kajidic, but despite feeling trapped, Kensei had nowhere else to go, and as his business interests became dedicated solely to paying his overwhelming debt, he took work as a Hired Gun with the Syndicate to pay the rest. At times he was a Marauder, while at others he was simply required for his Piloting-Space skills. While performing riot control amongst some of the Jiramma Kajidic's slave colonies, Kensei used a Shield Gauntlet for the first time, coming to appreciate it's utility.

His father had left him an ancient family glaive named "Kindness," upon which was inscribed a cryptic puzzle organized into six groupings. Eventually, a lead on the first grouping came to light and Kensei decided he needed to escape the Syndicate. When he tried to get out, Kensei came to realize just how truly trapped he was. After stealing a ship operated by a small-time crime boss within the Syndicate, named Cadan Vamma, Kensei earned himself a Bounty -- and an everlasting ambition for the Freedom to live his life how he chooses. Having freed himself from the Syndicate for now, the revenues from his old businesses are begin to trickle in once again.

KENSEI DEPARTED THE GROUP IN THE ARNICA FOLLOWING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE DEMETER IN THE OUTER RIM.