Nya Halcyon

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Nya Halcyon
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Name
Nya Halcyon
Age
30
Height
1.76
Weight
60kg
Eye Color
Brown
Hair Color
Dark Brown
Home Planet
Affiliation
none
Rank
Rogue Jedi
Master
Gotab (Bardan Jusik)
Apprentice/Padawan
none
Spouse
None
Mother
Berit Selki
Father
Fionn Halcyon
Siblings
None
Ship
Barloz-class CEC Freighter
Gra'tua Ner
Droids
Astromech Droid
R1-N0 "Rino"









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The character of Nya Halcyon was created by Mara in late 2000.

Because of the reset, there are two differing versions of her character:

Post-Reset Nya Halcyon is a survivor of the Purge only through the aid of a renegade clone commando sent to her by her father upon his death. During her youth she experienced too much turmoil to stay entirely untouched by it, and so her path led her inevitably down the dark side.

Pre-Reset Nya Halcyon was a Darksider with conflicting intentions, no loyalties and a messy past - as well as an impressive amount of delusions. Originally she went by the name of Delirion, which was a name supposedly given to her in her youth. It would always stay with her, even after adopting her given name as a sign of distancing herself from her past.
For an account of the Pre-reset Nya, see Delirion

A History
"A Jedi is a Jedi, first and foremost, and only. For a Jedi to divide his attention between the will of the Force and the will of others is to invite disaster."
―Jedi Master Hoche Trit

For Jedi to marry and bear children is against the code, yet Fionn Halcyon and Berit Selki (not unlike other Corellian Jedi) defy the code, get married and conceive a child, all without the knowledge of the Jedi Council on far Coruscant. The daughter they named Nya grows up in the relatively "safe" community of Corellian Jedi of whom many have a history of defying Jedi regulations, with both her parents as her teachers.

Her father's last command
Fionn Halcyon
"Have we had any contact from the Temple?"
"Received a coded retreat message, we have."
"It requests all Jedi to return to the Temple. It says the war is over."
"Well, then we must go back. If there are any stragglers, they will fall into the trap and be killed.
"
―Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Bail Organa
Berit Selki
Nya is 5 years old when her world tumbles out of control - her parents are two of many Jedi who follow the Jedi beacon back to Coruscant, and they leave her behind in the care of the ones remaining. But her parents never return from that journey, as they are struck down mercilessly by a group of clones in disguise while penetrating the still burning ruins of the Jedi temple.

Her father's last deed as a Jedi, however, was implanting the need to rescue and keep his daughter safe into the clone commando who towered over him, readying a last strike. The commando, already terribly conflicted over his orders and trying to come to terms with what he has become, strikes him down and kills him, but Fionn Halcyon's last command gives his tortured soul the necessary fuel to overcome his initial inbred loyalty to his superiors. Taking up Fionn's lightsaber, he strikes down the rest of the clone squad and escapes.

Hours later, young Nya finds herself snatched from her comfortable bed by a creature dressed entirely in black, and to her unfiltering mind the flood of emotions coming from the murderer - for such he is, Nya is sure - is so overpowering that she can't even find the chance to alert her guardian and falls unconscious. The commando takes her on board of a ship, and then far far away.

Exile in Deep Space
Upon returning to consciousness, the little girl realises that "creature" is but a man. She finds herself strapped onto a bed, inside a small grey room that she has never seen before. To her utter terror, there is nothing but herself and this man for as far as she can sense beyond the walls of that room, and a strange vibrating sensation seems to permeate everything. Unfamiliar noise comes from below her feet. The man tells her that she must not fear, that she is on board a ship - and that her father sent him.

But there is something about the man that he is keeping from her, that deep and dark emotion that first made her sure he was someone who had killed, and she doesn't feel safe with him at first. She doesn't understand why her father is not there in his stead, and the man - Darven he tells her to call him - explains that her parents are forever gone. That she does understand, even at her young age, and then there is only emotion. Pain. Loss. But also anger. They are what she feels, and it makes what she senses from him understandable as it feels the same. Her initial fear of him forgotten, she accepts her rescuer fully.

Darven
After this shaky beginning, she strikes up a kind of friendship with the man who soon opens up to her, telling her what he is and about all that has happened in the galaxy around them (except for the deed he can not tell her). To her childish senses, the clone's story is more horrible than anything she can imagine: a life full of death. And yet... sometimes he feels just like another child to her, eager for the same things as she feels and as incapable of understanding what is happening around him as she is, but instead of a child there is a grown-up standing in front of her, and that is difficult.

The two of them travel through space for long months, daring only to stop at the most outlying spaceports. At such times they only leave the ship in disguise - an injured father, face heavily bandaged, and his small child - stocking up supplies. Darven does not dare show his face because he has explained to Nya that it is a face too widely known, belonging to any of the million and more soldiers of the Empire, and it would be too dangerous were he to be recognised as a clone dressed up in civilian clothing.

But Darven wants her to be able to lead a different life - not one where she must hide. And to achieve this, he is torn: should he let her become what he ultimately hates, and find her a Jedi tutor? or let her forget about that aspect of her life and teach her the ways of a warrior? But the Jedi Purge seems to have been horribly efficient, and no Jedi can be found to take the matter out of his hands.

And as Nya grows older, her finely attuned force senses make her realise that the bleakness at the bottom of her companion's heart comes from something deeper than the simple loss of the brothers he had; she begins to notice the subtle hints the man's conflicted soul is leaving behind for anyone but a child to read. She slowly starts to question the truths she was told by him, willing to accept that he had not known any different, either, when he told her. Unable to harbor any ill-will against her "hero", she keeps such thoughts and observations to herself, not wishing to harm him with harsh words for she senses that he's as vulnerable as she is.

After two years of travelling through space the credits he "liberated" from her parents' accounts run out and the pair is forced to settle down somewhere and earn a living. And Darven choses the only place that could ever mean home to him - in spite of his fear of being recognised for what he is - and they make their way for Mandalore.

The Ways of the Warrior
But on Mandalore a surprise awaits them. Darven, having put his training to good use in his attempt to keep his presence hidden, has sliced into some in-system communications to investigate possible dangers at their new home and not only finds that some of his original brothers have made it their base but also that a Jedi is with them. A Jedi that left the Order, but a Jedi nonetheless. This effectively forces his hand: he doesn't dare show himself to his brothers because he is convinced they will not lunderstand his murder of his squad-mates, regardless of the circumstances during Operation Knightfall. He cannot keep Nya with him - and if he can get this Jedi to look after her, then his duty is done.

So, upon landing on Mandalore, he dons a suit of Mandalorian armor he cobbled together from different parts he bought, and sets off with Nya in search for this Jedi. On the way, he admonishes the little girl to make sure not to talk to anyone of her connection to him, and repeats to her again the story of the events surrounding her parents' death: that he came too late to save them, and had to kill their killers in order to carry out their last command - something for which he made himself an outcast amongst his brothers.

She doesn't question this. The girl is facing a future she has been longing for, and a farewell she hasn't. She is overcome with strong emotions that leave no space for doubts just then. Darven has become the closest thing to a family, and to the little girl this is important. She begs him not to forget her, and wishes he would stay with her, but knows he won't. The same emotions she sensed from him the night she met him are coming back now, the closer they get to the Jedi, and they frighten her just the same.

Training to become a Warrior
The Jedi turns out to be a human man in his late twenties who goes by the name of Gotab and does not at first agree to let her stay. He is no longer a Jedi, he claims, he gave up his former life for his present one. But then Darven sends Nya outside of the Jedi's modest home, and talks with him, and finally comes out and tells her she can stay. There is a finality in his voice, and terrible pain. Something got said in there - she can feel it, but she has no way of telling what. Darven bids the girl goodbye and walks off, without another word or even a glance back. But she can feel his pain long after he vanished from her sight.

Thus begins her new life. It is unlike anything else she has ever experienced. Gotab is not like the other Jedi of the community she lived with - he is more raw, but yet more refined in some ways. He is a healer. And a proper Mandalorian warrior with a family of his own, who adopts her as one of his children. But what is more - he is not training only her in the Force: a small boy sometimes comes to him, younger than herself, who reminds her oddly of Darven. Gotab explains that it is the child of one of Darven's clone brothers, but when she expresses curiosity beyond that, he tells her that it is not for her to know.

Her jedi training makes slow progress. Gotab is no Corellian Jedi, he is a stranger to the limitations that she seems to have inherited from her parents' line. She wrestles with telekinesis until Gotab makes her stop; it is pointless to continue trying to learn a skill that it seems she is incapable of handling. Remembering what he knew of the other Halcyon Jedi master, Gotab makes her focus her skills on matters of the mind instead: she learns how to use her skills to influence other people, to shift their thoughts into avenues otherwise left undiscovered, to confuse them. This, to her, somehow feels wrong; it feels like the kind of thing a Jedi should not do. But he tells her that with the remaining Jedi being hunted like dumb beasts, these skills are going to ensure she has an edge over others.

He also teaches her healing, although she is not a natural as he seems to be at it. He teaches her how to fight with a lightsaber, and gives her the saber Darven retrieved from her father when she gets good enough with the practice blade. And above all, he teaches her the ways of the Mando'ade, and trains her in the ways of the warrior. He teaches her about her responsibility towards other creatures, and listening to her conscience and her sense of good and evil.

And every now and then, she senses Darven's presence. He is watching over her. It makes her very happy that he has not forgotten her, but also very sad that he will not come and see her. She knows that Gotab can sense it, too, and she can feel his irritation at the clone's visits. She senses with crystalline clearness that there is something left unsaid, something that she should know about, but she cannot ask Darven and Gotab will only shake his head. Still, the visits fill her with gladness.

The years pass. They travel to other planets, to study other civilisations, to meet other people; but more often Gotab leaves without her, taking the boy instead who lives with them sometimes when his other uncles are not there to look after him. At such times when she is left behind she is free to embrace the life of an ordinary child, but on Mandalore that only means embracing the life of a true warrior as children are considered adults following their verd'goten - their coming of age - at thirteen. And she had passed that trial with flying colors, earning her the right to call herself a true Mandalorian warrior.

Skills & Abilities
  • Able to absorb large amounts of Force energy, and out of necessity learned to draw even the minutest amount of this energy out of her surroundings
  • Trained as an actress, able to augment her speech with the Force and thereby gain advantage over others - she rarely used this, however, as she considered it "child's play"
  • Able to influence others' visual senses by overlaying them with her own - useful for throwing of her enemies in an attack by forcing them to act and react to her liking
  • A natural talent for languages, able to understand the meaning of conversations in foreign languages through her Force-gift, and even able to understand some birds and beasts
  • In earlier years unable to move even a pebble through the Force unless "charged" with absorbed Force Energy, she learned to overcome this by drawing on the smallest source of such energy available
  • Found she had a rare talent: the Force Scream - if used during a fight it will throw anyone nearby into a near-catatonic state, thus effectively disarming them. Unfortunately this would also affect her severely and render her unconscious for a short time, thereby negating any advantage she might have
Current Timeline of Roleplays

2 Years, 1 Month AE

  • Aay'han - The bountyhunter Nya Halcyon catches the attention of the wrong kind of people after a bounty goes bad, and the mercenary Darven spends some time thinking about his life and the galaxy at large, before accepting a new job
Out of Character

For information about the person behind the character and an overview of alternate characters, see Mara