Syn

Syn

Biographical Information
Race	Anzati (formerly Falleen)
Homeworld	Qat Chrystac
Mother	Unknown
Father	Unknown
Spouse	Unknown
Siblings	Unknown
Children	None
Born	Over 200 years ago
Physical Description
Gender	Female
Height	5'8"
Coloring	Pale skin, black hair
Eye Color	Green
Political Information
Affiliation	Eidola
Rank	Second in Command Pirate Consigliere
Positions	Pirate Princess of Huruk-Rah Reputable middleman Citizen of Trade Federation
Prior Affiliation	Starsign Shipyards Order of Krath Jedi Praxium Outrider Trading Galactic Empire
Awards	Various, detailed below

An Anzati female, Syn (pronounced sin) began her career in the Imperial Navy of the Galactic Empire, where she rose to the rank of Captain and was ultimately placed on Naval High Command prior to her resignation following the removal of Emperor Charon. After covertly working with two different pirate groups and an assortment of Charon loyalists, she took advantage of the considerable wealth and reputation she had sustained as a widely-regarded middleman and founded two sister production companies within the Rachuk sector that she controlled: Starsign Shipyards and Starsign Mining. After several years of providing a variety of YT freighters to the public at low costs, she abruptly sold both companies, as well as all of her real estate within Rachuk, and returned publicly to the Eidola pirates, with whom she remains allied today.

Until being diagnosed with the Metamorphosis Plague in early Year 14, she occasionally made formal public appearances at significant galactic events as leader and representative of the royal Falleen clan Huruk-Rah. She is also known for her ownership of the heavily modified YT-510 Solitaire, the fastest starship in the galaxy.

Biography

Early Years

Young Syn resembling a Human.

Syn was raised as a Human on the neutral world of Qat Chrystac, the sole adopted child of a man and woman known as the Becketts. They chose not to reveal her adoption or its circumstances, either publicly or to Syn herself, and so she was raised without knowledge of her true parentage. Characterized by a series of misdemeanors and arrests, her youth was not a considerable source of pride. As Imperial rule had thus far failed to extend to such distant reaches of the galaxy, her homeworld was undeveloped and relatively uneducated, and thus the limited public education system failed to keep her mind occupied. She turned instead to theft and crime, but this, too, ultimately failed to provide the challenge for which she had hoped. Yet that came to an abrupt end when she tried her hand at the largest theft she had ever planned, and was subsequently discovered and apprehended.

With her adoptive parents in league with the local authorities, she was given no choice but to join the military, and so, at the assumed Human age of 18, she was shipped to the Imperial Naval Academy on Obroa-Skai, thus beginning what would soon become a lengthy and illustrious career within the Imperial Navy. It was at this time that she adjusted her surname to "Becket," in an attempt to distance herself from the parents who had sent her away. There are no reports of any subsequent encounter with the Becketts, who have seemingly since relocated to an unknown location.

The Galactic Empire

"She is a bureaucratic bitch."

— Sith Lord Vodo Bonias on Syn's work with Naval logistics

Although she resisted substantially to such a dramatic change in lifestyle at first, Syn began to discover her talents, as well as a more productive outlet for her need for challenge and constant activity, while within the Navy. She rose swiftly through the ranks, assigned as fleet fighter commander in a squadron of TIE Interceptors, then commanding a Dreadnaught Heavy Cruiser, then a trio of Carrack Cruisers, and finally a Victory-class Star Destroyer of her own as she was promoted to the command staff of the Second Assault Fleet, the Navy's famous offensive fleet. She spent much of this time managing a private ship rental service during her free hours that was renowned for targeting the poor and taking in only minimal profits while trusting her personally acquired goods to strangers. This launched her career as a respected middleman among the trading community. Following her additional work in handling all Naval personnel assignments and starship logistics over a two-year period as an officer, she ultimately received a position on Naval High Command as a highly-decorated Captain in charge of coordinating with all of the fleet commanders as Naval Chief Communications Officer, and frequently filled in for the other Naval commanders during their leaves of absence. During her time as an officer, she was also charged with overseeing the Empire-wide Tactical Essay Contests, leading Navy meetings, helping to develop Naval Academy course material, and administrating the Imperial holonet and various newsgroups and mailing lists.

It was also during her time in the Navy that she met Kosh Naranek, Falleen Lord of Black Sun, during a brief vacation. Although no records exist of significant subsequent contact between the two, much less any expressed public affection, they were married months later, leading the Imperial Security Bureau and the galaxy at large to wonder at the ulterior motives of the arrangement. The marriage did not last long, as the Galactic News Service shed light on an affair in which Kosh had been involved, and she was able to have the marriage annulled, a move which her Imperial peers seemed to fully support, likely due to the Falleen's shady reputation.

However, during the months following her promotion to Captain, an Imperial splinter group known originally as The Core and later as the Dark Empire rejoined the Galactic Empire and ultimately resulted in the removal of the popular emperor she had served throughout the majority of her career, Emperor Charon. It was also during this time that she began to notice a number of changes occurring within her own body, perhaps spurred by the significant stress she was undergoing as a result of her bureaucratic and military work as well as the new regime's questioning of her loyalties. She met with her personal medic for a diagnosis and learned that, in an advanced medical procedure, her DNA had been spliced with that of a Human at an early age to disguise her true identity, perhaps to give her the chance the biological parents she had never known had lacked in a galaxy so consumed with bias against non-Humans. She was a Falleen.

This did not bode well for her as the new leadership of the Empire took a much firmer stance against aliens in the ranks than Emperor Charon's regime had, and the breakdown of her splicing was irreversible at such a late stage and with the relatively limited knowledge of the field. She had been contemplating a resignation for some time, and this solidified matters. She turned her resignation in to Uebles, the new Emperor, along with the rest of the once-magnificent Second Assault Fleet. She then sought out Tembre Fe`ll, a half-Falleen entrepreneur and mercenary with whom she had become closely acquainted after her first marriage had ended, and accepted his proposal of marriage. The two were wed on board Tembre's modified Carrack-class Cruiser, the Hangover.

Outrider Trading and the Jedi Praxium

Syn in formal attire.

Syn spent the month following her Naval resignation holding down a temporary job in a small and unsuccessful trading company operated at the time by Mystiel Raleigh, Outrider Trading, acting as head of the transportation department, having rapidly sought out a neutral company in order to avoid being labeled a wanted traitor. She found the work dull and beneath her, and so when the company was sold to the legendary thief, Keir Santage, and enough time had passed that she deemed it safe to move on, she and Fe`ll joined the Jedi Praxium where they led the Naval and armed forces, respectively. Within the Praxium she became reacquainted with a number of former Imperials who had made similar career choices, including her old friends, Phryss and Eric Jackson, and were using the Praxium as a safehouse for Imperials fleeing the Empire due to the regime change.

Piracy

Seven months with the Jedi Praxium had taught Syn that the group had fallen into a state of stagnancy and would be unsuccessful in opposing the Empire to any great extent. And so, she again found herself submitting her resignation, and found work instead in the Order of Krath, a group of pirates founded by the former Sith Master, Thraken Solo, seemingly as disillusioned with the Empire as she. She spent several months with him, accompanying him on numerous campaigns and assassinations, and the two reportedly became close friends. However, circumstances eventually led to her departure to the Eidola pirates, founded by Teniel Djo, the teenaged daughter of Keir Santage, where Thraken soon joined her before he himself was assassinated by an Imperial Army sergeant with whom she maintained a subsequent rivalry prior to his own demise. She remained with Eidola for a few more months, operating as a covert pirate, successfully keeping her affiliation concealed in order to preserve the trading reputation with which she made the majority of her profit.

Starsign Shipyards

Syn circa Year 5.

However, her activities insufficient in allowing her to maintain her desired high levels of activity, Syn took her leave in order to found Starsign Shipyards, a neutral and independent ship production company, with a number of close allies and associates. Here she enjoyed many years of astounding success as the galaxy's sole producer of the speedy YT-510 personal freighter, providing these and other freighters at a cost so low it opened the market to a significantly wider consumer base than previously known, and ultimately opened Starsign Mining as a sister company to more efficiently acquire the raw materials required for production and further expansion throughout the Rachuk sector. It was not long before she controlled the entire sector, although the Starsign Corporation headquarters tower and the bulk of her factories and mines were located on the world known as Argolfin prior to the galactic reclassification of all known worlds and systems in Year 13.

Despite Starsign's selective and infrequent acquisition of new employees, the organization consistently experienced an unusually low rate of employee turnover and retirement, and boasted one of the highest average salaries available at the time. While some of the employees were existing associates of Syn, others, such as Olwin Froon and Stack Soto, later went on to make their own mark in the galaxy as prominent members of other organizations and governments.

Although it was for many years unknown whether connections remained between Syn and the pirate groups of past, after nearly three years heading the mining and ship production companies comprising the Starsign Corporation, she abruptly sold both companies without public remark as well as the entire Rachuk sector that she controlled, and was subsequently spotted in the company of various notable Eidola pirates in the Outer Rim. Journalists speculated that she had grown bored of her business success, had burned out, or that perhaps it had all been a scheme to accumulate considerable wealth and power in order to solidify her reputation before returning to her less respectable activities and companions. Regardless of the nature of her motivation, this period marked the first public record of her status as a billionaire.

Eidola

"I am not sure what I do. Shoot things, generally make a mess of things. Play with pirates. The usual, I suppose."

— Syn on her position with Eidola

After several months, her return to Eidola--as well as her previous affiliation with the pirates--became publicized, and word spread rapidly throughout the trading community. Her reputation as a trader was called into question from time to time by newer traders, but accusations were promptly dismissed by the rest of the community due in part to her popularity and influence, and in part to the lack of evidence of any untrustworthy behavior as far as middling and trading were concerned. The activities in which she engaged in her personal time were deemed irrelevant to her trading status. She has thus far remained with Eidola since Year 6, primarily assisting with murders, captures of notorious individuals, and the occasional rescue of allies, as well as functioning as middleman for traders with whom the pirates opt to trade honestly. The details of her association and specific activities with the pirates remain largely unpublished, but she is frequently seen in the background of Holonet images or recordings and her presence is often mentioned in articles pertaining to some of the group's more renowned activities.

However, she seems to have become somewhat less active within the trading community since her return to Eidola. Whether she is working on new plans or has elected to undertake either a premature or a temporary retirement is uncertain. Her notorious starship, the modified YT-510 Solitaire, known as the fastest ship in the galaxy, can often be spotted among the stars in the Outer Rim where the pirates are rumoured to be headquartered.

Huruk-Rah

In Year 5, Syn underwent a series of blood tests and discovered a portion of her heritage, that she was the descendant of one of the ancient kings that had ruled Falleen Prime prior to the formation of the Falleen Federation. Due to this, she formally became part of the Huruk-Rah, one of the noble clans of Falleen. As her parentage remained unknown and none others with a direct blood relationship to her had been discovered, Syn became the heir of the Third Royal Line, thereby receiving the title of Princess. When Prince Jace Meridan, the clan Nathran (or leader), met his demise at the hands of the Sith at the infamous Battle of Beta one year later, she assumed control of the Royal Clan altogether with near unanimous support from the rest of the clan. She served as the clan's mouthpiece on the Sejm, the Falleen Federation's conglomerate of clan Nathrans and government officials, before this was disbanded by the Federation under King Bisz Aldaris due to significant and recurring political drama, coupled with Bisz's fear of losing support as leader of the government. It was later reestablished by Bisz's successor, King Rick Farlander.

She led the clan until her resignation before the Sejm in Year 14, after she became a victim of the Metamorphosis Plague, citing her desire to see the royal clan remain pure of blood. Her chosen successor, Prince Jado Dur`rik, named her Yar'borouh, or honoured clan elder, despite her genetic mutations. This was an unprecedented move in permitting a non-Falleen to remain a Huruk-Rah member, justified by her legitimate clan heritage and the unusual circumstances involving genetic mutation.

Metamorphosis Plague

"I mean that rather literally, I am afraid. It will never be an option for me, regardless of my desires. Recent news. Happy Life Day to me."

— Syn on learning of her infertility

Syn was an early victim of the Metamorphosis Plague, and announced her diagnosis on Year 14 Day 27. According to her report, one of her medical suppliers contracted the plague at Derra during a routine delivery before inadvertently relaying it to her on Ylesia. Her personal medic, a Huruk-Rah clanswoman named Xylah, diagnosed her shortly after she begin to exhibit physiological symptoms, and she fell severely ill while the plague ran its course. Over a period of several weeks, it resulted in her genetic transformation from Falleen to Anzati. She also learned that the mutation had rendered her sterile and unable to ever conceive, a rare side effect found in fewer than 1% of reported cases.

Excerpted Medical Notes

Day 1: Patient arrived, concerned about severe nausea and uncharacteristic muscle aches. Suspect overexertion and/or virus. Full scans reveal no abnormalities. Unusual bloodwork. Submitted from field.

Day 2: Nausea and aches continue. Patient exhibits extreme pallor for species and reports loss of appetite and inability to keep food down. Bloodwork reveals rare strain of plague. Diagnosis: Metamorphosis Plague, early stage. Not currently contagious. Treatment unavailable.

Day 3: Follow-up bloodwork submitted from field. Patient mobility increasingly limited by muscle aches. Medication prescribed (Form S-17a).

Day 4: Patient nearly immobilized and reports severe abdominal cramping. Medications ineffective. Heartrate and blood pressure dangerously high. Patient exhibits sporadic seizures.

Day 5: Full scans and bloodwork reveal uterine abnormalities indicative of infertility. Vomiting and seizures continue, followed by brief loss of consciousness. Patient complains that her "skin aches." Scales unusually cracked and dry. Submerged patient in bacta tank to relieve pain. Follow-up bloodwork confirms earlier diagnosis.

Day 6: Patient seizure-free for 12 standard hours. Symptoms appear to be subsiding. Vomiting continues but patient regaining mobility. Full scans reveal early stages of metamorphosis.

Day 7: Patient experiencing nausea and shortness of breath. Suffered violent seizure and potential delusions; required sedation. Scales appear to be shedding.

Day 8: Patient required sedation throughout the day due to extreme skin and muscle pain. Incoherent speech. Minimal superficial bleeding treated with bacta application. Full scans reveal slowly advancing metamorphosis. Unable to stabilize.

Day 9: Genetic code modifications identified as Anzati (DNA analysis attached; genetic markers highlighted). No further seizures observed. Epidermal and muscular pain persists but manageable with medication. Patient mobility returning.

Abilities and Personality

An artist's rendition of Syn.

In addition to her aptitude for starship command resulting from her career within the Imperial Navy, Syn is reportedly extremely skilled in many forms of melee combat. Following her resignation from the Empire, she was rarely seen in public without her metal staff, but over the following years when she joined with the Eidola pirates, she seems to have begun to prefer dual-wielding vibroblades. She has also accumulated a large number of victories in both unarmed and ranged weapons combat.

Throughout her various careers, Syn has been known by all her employers as cold, dispassionate, and often uptight, and by peers and subordinates as intelligent but arrogant. This may stem from her practice in enforcing regulations and organizing logistics while assisting with fleet and Naval command within the Empire. It seems to have served her well in business while she singlehandedly managed construction and production of Starsign Shipyards as well as developing and overseeing the entire sector of Rachuk, but this blunt and controlling personality has undoubtedly garnered her a large number of enemies, from which she has thusfar remained unscathed. However, her attitude seems to have become noticeably more laid back since spending the majority of her time with the rest of the Eidola pirates, perhaps due to having abandoned so many of her prior responsibilities. She has also been known for a series of public pranks representative of her sense of humour, including the much publicized "sale" of Coruscant, in addition to numerous other planets within the galaxy. However, this was the final straw that led to an Imperial bounty placed on her head.

Whether she has genuinely cared about any of her subordinates, coworkers, or associates cannot be confirmed, but interviews reveal that she is largely regarded as competent, capable, and direct, in both the areas of business and combat. In regard to galactic politics, trading, and drama she is opinionated and speaks her mind, employing wordplay, dry humour, and cleverness to gain support for her thoughts and ideas. She seems altogether disinterested in interpersonal relationships of any manner, rarely seen in the company of friends or lovers. Even her marital status remains uncertain, as does information in regard to Fe`ll's whereabouts or over the past years, but Syn has not been seen using a surname since shortly after the wedding and the modified Carrack once belonging to her husband has since been re-registered in her name.

Awards

Galactic Empire

Award Name	Given By	Date Received
Academy Recruit Indoctrination Test	Grand Admiral Tj	Y2 D98
Navy Achievement Award	Lord Admiral IWAssassin	Y2 D183
Fleet Commanding Officer Award	Lord Admiral IWAssassin	Y2 D183
Imperial Academy Basic Graduate with Honors	Lieutenant Spoz	Y2 D298
Imperial Literacy Award	Commodore Savk	Y3 D24
3 Letters of Commendation	Director Naal Soven, Rear Admiral OVERMIND 2x	Y3 D210
Imperial Citizenship Award	Moff Correll Aintab	Y3 D210(?)
Duty Bars, 2 Years	Commodore Hack Skice	Y4 D25
Imperial Service Achievement Award	Rear Admiral Savk	Y4 D33
Navy Betterment Award	Vice Admiral Savk	Y4 D71
Battle Efficiency Award	Vice Admiral OVERMIND	Y4 D123
2 Unit Distinguished Service Awards	Vice Admiral OVERMIND 2x	Y4 D123
Battle of Alderaan Participation Ribbon	Vice Admiral OVERMIND	Y4 D123