Koth Baras

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Koth Baras
Biographical Information
Race	Corellian
Homeworld	Corellia
Mother	Olina Baras
Father	Luka Baras
Spouse	Iliana Baras
Siblings	Xera Baras
Children	Chora Baras
Born	Day 107 of Year -28
Died	Not Applicable
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Height	Six Feet
Coloring	Pale
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Brown
Political Information
Affiliation	Ignatius Paak
Rank	Security Manager
Positions	Security & Fitness
Prior Affiliation	CorSec Young Recruit Program
Awards	None

Birth and Death

Not every childhood is a good one

Koth Baras, the son of Olina and Luka Baras, was born on Corellia with a twin sister Xera Baras. While Olina was a regular mother, taking care of her children and looking after their wellbeing, Luka would regularly gamble away the family's earning on Pazaak, and come home drunk and abuse his family thanks to the effects of Corellian Ale and a dangerous Ryll addiction. Despite the abuse and abrasive attitude of his upbringing, Koth remained relatively warm and loving to those around him, learning to channel the anger he had for his father into a cause more worthwhile. As the twins began to grow up and attend a primary school education, their freedom became more frequent. Koth would spend as much time as he could with his sister at school to avoid the loud and abusive home they lived in. When they returned home one afternoon just after their sixth birthday, his father had lost a month's wages and was forcing the family into bankruptcy. Furious with her degenerate husband, Olina began to fight back against her husband. Outraged at her disloyalty, Luka beat his wife repeatedly. As her body lay unconscious on the floor, blood began to pour out of her many wounds and Xera did all she could for a six year old to contain the bleeding. Drunk and delusional, Luka simply laughed at his child and kicked her away. Despite the pain and anguish her father was causing, Xera continued to help her mother, keeping pressure on her wounds and trying to stop the bleeding from continuing. Her persistence, while admirable, only made her father more furious, and in a drunken, ryll-fueled rage, Luka hit his daughter across the face, propelling her into the wall at a vast rate. As her body lay motionless on the floor, Koth slowly moved over to the other side of the room to attend to his sister. Despite his efforts, he was unable to revive his twin sister, and she died. As Koth held his deceased sister in his arms and quietly wept, Luka began hurling abuse and profanity at his son, which awoke Olina, Despite her groggy nature, she was immediately able to identify what had occurred and screamed at her husband, who hit her again and again. Koth looked over at her mother who was screaming from him to run away, but he couldn't bare to leave his family. As he held his sister, he watched his father beat his mother to death. Luka kept swinging, the power in his punches made bones break and bruises form, and while he was preoccupied with executing his wife, Koth quietly kissed his sister on her forehead, before sneaking through a hole in the wall and running as fast as he could, away from his murderous father.

Despite only being six years old, he ran as fast as he could, as far as he could to escape his father. Through the rich districts and the ghetto it didn't matter, he had to get away. As rain began to fall around him, his simple clothes became heavier and made it harder for him to run. His bare feet began to scratch and cut against the rough surfaces on Corellia, and he had no where to seek refuge. As the night feel, he sought refuge in an alley on the outskirts of the city, far away from the reach of his father. He rummaged through several garbage disposals to find some food, and looked for a warm place to sleep. As he moved further down the alley, he couldn't find an appropriate place to sleep, and in his haste to find a new location, he slipped on the wet ground and fell on his back, knocking himself unconscious. As he awoke the next day, he found himself in a bed in strange surroundings. As he stood up and looked around the room, he felt the back of his head and a splitting headache returned, before a young girl walked in with some medication. A young mother Doril Wess and her daughter Iliana explained to Koth what had happened, and that he was in the centre of Corellia. Reluctant to reveal his personal situation, Koth simply thanked them for their help, and welcomed their invitation to stay with them. While he appreciated the new found friendship he was beginning to form with Iliana, he would frequently be found weeping in his room for his sister and mother. The heartache would be with him all of his lifetime, but for a six year old boy, he struggled immensely with the ordeal.

Moving Past It

As he turned fourteen, Koth was at an impasse in his life. While many of those around him where attending a high school education, including Iliana and his various other school acquaintances, this didn't interest Koth. While Dorill tried to encourage Koth that a normal life began with a solid high school education, Koth was more interested in getting out into the real world, and wanted to register with the Corellian Security Forces' Young Recruit Program. Somewhat nervous but understanding about his decision, Dorill allowed him to enlist in the program, and Koth was shipped off to the nearby world of Drall to begin his training. While it was a rough and tough program, for Koth it was a dream. Top of his class in all forms of aptitude, he couldn't be beaten in a physical fight or a strategic war. For the next four years he continued to keep up his stellar record and was admired by not only those enlisting with him, but his various instructors and aides. Upon his graduation, he was offered the position of Sergeant within the Security Forces on Corellian, and given a sizeable signup bonus and reward for his achievements. As he returned home to [{Corellia]], he began the immediate search for a place to live. Despite his foster family being on the same planet, Koth didn't want to burden them again, and he was nervous about seeing Iliana again, given their close friendship during their childhoods, he was worried something would have changed between them. Keeping things simple, Koth purchased a serviced apartment at one of the various Corellian Skyscrapers that graced the city. Given then frequency of his eventual deployments, he felt somewhere that would keep his apartment clean in his absence was essential, and it kept his living circumstances comfortable, yet simple. Installing a number of security measures, including a secret weapons hold, Koth felt his surroundings were finally coming good, and began to venture back out into society.

As he spent time learning the locals and understanding their habits in accordance with his training, he came across a familiar figure and is warm-hearted, kind persona immediately dissipated. His father was wandering the streets of Corellia as a free man. While his apparent addictions were nowhere to be seen, he still executed two people and was walking free, a thought that enraged Koth. Following him home, he realised that Luka still lived in the same rundown house on the outskirts, and Koth began to research the death of his family. Streaming through an endless line of holofeeds and droid databanks, he realised that nobody had been charged with the murders of his mother and sister. Corellian Police believed his father was the cause, but a lack of physical evidence hampered a conviction, and forced Luka to walk free without spending even a single day in prison. Trying to remain calm and collected, Koth returned to his apartment, where he collected his personal, unmarked DL-44 Blaster Pistol, and journeyed back to the old family home. Climbing in through an open window, Koth found his father sleeping in front of a holofeed. Calmly putting his blaster away, he rummaged through the house and found a small supply of Ryll. Loading all the remaining Ryll with the contents of a stimulant created a lethal cocktail, and Koth injected it in his father's arm to make it appear like an apparent suicide. He took a deep breathe and sat down on the sofa as he waited for his father to regain consciousness. As he awoke, a startled Luka tried to reach for a weapon to defend from an apparent intruder, but the drugs were already taking over his system and he sat helpless as his death began to take hold. Koth calmed stood and walked over to his father and looked him in the eyes. Exchanging some final words of hatred and anger, Koth smiled as his father took his last breathe, before leaving and returning to his apartment. As he placed his DL-44 back in its compartment, Koth became enraged and threw an ornament across the room, shattering it against the wall. Disgusted at what he had done, he lay helpless on the ground, wondering what kind of person he had just become.