Zero
Bio
Princess Samusanthia Ilune became the third and last child of King Bestal and Queen Harria of the mining planet Shu-Torun. She enjoyed all the pomp and circumstance of a royal upbringing, which included formal if ceremonial combat training. Samusanthia lived in the sprawling palace for many years, oblivious to the galaxy beyond her homeworld, which always functioned as a kind of microcosm of humankind due to the planet’s scarce habitat. Still, the various “tricks” she could performed highlighted her as a Force-sensitive. But she turned out to be more than that: the talent and destiny contained in her soul drew the attention of Sith Emperor Vitiate himself. By that time in the Galactic Cold War, Vitiate rarely took any direction action, generally allowing his many minions to carry out his will. But for the young and raw Force-sensitive, he had other plans. He visited Shu-Torun with all the charm and presence the dark lord commanded, and Samusanthia’s parents, and the girl herself, felt overwhelmed by the attention. He promised to train the princess in the ways of the Force personally. She readily agreed, succumbing to his guile.
Vitiate took the princess to the barren planet of Socorro. Here, he said, would provide the optimal climate to begin training in the Force. He led her up a mountain, where even she could feel the gravity of some source of Force power hidden there. Before Samusanthia even knew what hit her, a tentacle lashed out and dragged her across the summit and into a pit camouflaged by mountain scrub. Her last image before her life would forever change was of the Sith Emperor’s heartless black eyes and the merest hint of a smile. Then she was dragged into the gaping maw of a sarlaac, where doom awaited the hapless traveler.
However, this sarlaac was unusual: it had long developed a taste for Force-sensitives only. That may have been due to what lay in the sarlaac’s primary stomach: a holocron of indigestible mineral, imbued with the soul remnants of none other than Exar Kun. The holocron acted as a beacon that lured many other Force-sensitives to their horrifying demise in that monster’s belly. Indeed, as Samusanthia was sucked into this gut, she beheld two other relatively recent victims (relatively meaning within the past century): a Sith and a Jedi. Both had been embedded in the very stomach lining, their bodies melded with the fleshy sinews of the sarlaac itself, where they were being slowly and agonizingly digested. So, too, would prove her fate. The stomach acids already began to tingle her skin. The Sith bound there screamed incoherently, having long past surrendered to the maddening despair of his long and lasting death. The Jedi penetrated Samusanthia’s panic and pain with her strangely serene surrender to the torments. The Jedi even still managed the mind to speak, or at least telepathically convey words into Samusanthia’s terrified consciousness: seize the Holocron! So, she did before the sarlaac bound her up like the others. Instantly, the dark energy in that indestructible device overwhelmed the raw Force-sensitive and threatened to consume her faster than the sarlaac would. But it did not kill her. The holocron feasted upon her gifts, drawing forth all the Force in her body. The sarlaac feasted upon that essence. Samusanthia, no longer sensitive to the Force, cut off from it entirely, was no longer the morsel that the sarlaac wanted. It vomited her forth, though to its error, Samusanthia never relinquished the holocron. The force of its projectile vomit ripped the holocron from its belly along with the human it now considered indigestible. Its hissing wails fell upon deaf ears, as Samusanthia lay in agony…and Vitiate calmly strolled over and plucked the device from her shuddering grasp. Without a word, he left her there to die. Meanwhile, desperate to regain its lure, the sarlaac knew only where Samusanthia had landed (not that Vitiate removed the holocron), and its immense body slowly shifted her direction. It would tear her apart to find the device if it had to.
Her already bizarre life took a new twist. Vitiate’s rare appearance drew the attention of another, equally rare being. Known only as Las’ton’ih – and known at all only to a select few in the entire galaxy – the Duinuogwuin visited Sarlaac’s Peak on Socorro in tracking down the rippling disturbance in the Force that was caused by Vitiate’s appearance and Samusanthia’s divestiture from the Force. The star dragon took up the princess, healing her in its claws, while breathing cosmic flames upon the sarlaac to drive it back. Las’ton’ih flew back into space, protecting Samusanthia in a bubble of Force-power, leaving the sarlaac deprived of its meal and means to hunt. That sarlaac would gradually wither and die. Las’ton’ih healed Samusanthia but could not restore her connection to the Force. So, the star dragon trained her in all kinds of other forms of combat, too, assuring her that her destiny had not been stripped away, that she was still an important player in the events of the galaxy. The star dragon’s wisdom helped her realize how petty life on her home planet was and how dangerous Vitiate and other dark masters could be. Alliances against the darkness would prove her best asset, and she could helped form and lead them, Las’ton’ih promised. The star dragon released her with a ship and arsenal and advised that she work her way up from the bottom as a space hunter. Justice became her life pursuit and she became known throughout the galaxy as Zero (zero tolerance for evil), one of the greatest warlords to have ever lived.
Likes: New weapons, artwork about dragons, efforts of justice
Dislikes: Sarlaacs, snooty nobles, callous villains