Personal Equipment: At his heavy duty grey utility
belt, Lyon wears an Attrael Hand blaster,
and an archaic style lightsaber (the Brand Argent). He carries a
hold out blaster at each wrist, and another at the back of his
neck. Lyon has a small vibro-blade concealed in the sole of one of
his boots, and another at the knot of his headband. When he can,
he carries a X-5 blaster rifle.
Other Equipment: Lyon's ship, the Arcburner is where he holds most of
his other equipment. However, when he will be spending time away
from his ship, he tends to carry a large backpack, containing a
fair amount of survival tools, trade goods, and credits.
Capsule:
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 31 (apparent), 81 (actual)
Appearance:
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 215 lbs
Eyes: One blue, one covered with a milky white film
Skin: Pale complexion, harsh features
Hair: Flowing, shoulder length white
Appearance notes: Lyon is clean shaven, with a scar
passing across his right eye (the white one). Lyon will often wear
his hair in two loosely tied braids running over his shoulders,
with the mass hanging free behind a white headband.
Clothing:
Lyon wears a military style white shirt, grey gloves, loose
white trousers tied with drawstrings over heavy grey boots, and a
hooded grey cloak.
Retainers, henchmen, and associates:
Lyon has three retainers, his apprentice, Irion Bane, and a
pair of Uthar Forest Dragons, Urak and
Glom. In addition, he is a part time member of a New Republic
operative group that includes Aiera Ap
Lyffed, Regin D'Arc, Lugruf CiKoba, and
Manson Briggs, though he is far closer to
Aiera than to the others. Finally, Lyon is a friend of Eric Lance, a young New Republic Commodore,
who was once a rebel privateer.
Common haunts and habitues:
Lyon has done his best to avoid Kaldron and all other core
worlds since his first disciple, Caradon
Daneth, turned to the dark side. He has now moved out to the
Yaeger Sector, and has been wandering through the sector, spending
much of his time on abandoned or uninhabited worlds, but not
hesitating to visit the centers of power when he feels it
nessesary.
History:
Lyon was a young Jedi trainee at the time of the Emperor's
ascension to the throne. When the Imperial navy bombed the Jedi
Academy, Lyon was in one of the sub-basements, undergoing an
exercise know as the "Internal Journey". This exercise involved
spending time in a sensory deprivation tank that was hooked up to
a stasis chamber. The stasis chamber was modified, so that the
subject remained conscious while his body did not age. The
exercise was supposed to last for one day, with the stasis tank
there merely to remove all bodily needs during the Journey. Lyon
spent fifty years in the chamber, until the power for the stasis
field ran down.
During his long internment, Lyon became more and more attuned
to the power of the force, constantly fighting duels with his
internal demons that seemed far more real than hallucinations.
During one of these duels, Lyon had his eye slashed out by an
opponent's saber. When he left the chamber, the scar of the
opponent's swipe remained, and his eye was covered with a milky
film. When Lyon looks through that eye he sees things through
their manifestation of the force, rather than through their
physical forms. The film that covers his eye will swirl and glow
whenever he calls upon the force. When Lyon attempts a
particularly difficult manipulation, sparks have been known to fly
from that eye, and the illumination given off rose to equal that of
a full powered glowrod.
After he dug his way out of the body filled basement (taking
two lightsabers, his own having a green blade, and the Brand
Argent, a Jedi artifact that hadn't functioned for generations),
Lyon found himself hunted by large numbers of Stormtroopers, who
had been notified that a rebel spy was loose in the Imperial core.
Lyon managed to steal a VIP shuttle, and after getting the
passengers into the escape pods (but not firing them off), he
returned to the Jedi Academy's old fighter base on a large asteroid
in Coruscant's system. There, he jettisoned the escape pods, and
crashed the shuttle. The Imperial guards were convinced that he
lost control of the craft and died in the impact. After spending
around a week in hiding on the asteroid, Lyon powered up the
Academy Commandant's prototype SETH fighter, the Arcburner.
Using his highly developed force powers Lyon piloted the
Arcburner through the main body of the Imperial fleet, and
headed out of the system.
The Emperor was informed of these developments, and had the
chief of the Internal Security and the chief of the Core System
Fleet killed, but he did not consider Lyon a threat. The
Imperials had excavated the ruins of the academy after Lyon
escaped, and had pieced his whole story together. The Emperor
assumed that any imprisoned that long must have been driven insane,
and he was not concerned about an insane apprentice Jedi. Lord
Vader was not that easily convinced, having encountered the young
Lyon while still Anakin Skywalker, and placed a fairly large bounty
on Lyon's head.
Forced to dodge bounty hunters for several years (Lord Vader's
contract called for Lyon being returned alive, which is all that
saved him several times.), Lyon learned how to manipulate the force
well enough to pass invisible among his enemies. He returned to
his home system, Kaldron, and began training a pair of apprentices,
Roger Heartsblood and Caradon Daneth. Caradon turned to the Dark
Side, and Lyon struck him down, reacting automaticaly to an attack.
Feeling inadequate to the challenges of teaching, and highly
disturbed by what happened in that duel, Lyon left Kaldron and
headed out to the Outer Rim. Vader had grown frustrated with the
bounty hunter's lack of success, and hired Boba Fett to kill Lyon.
Fett found him and attacked him on the surface of Biel Duran,
a swamp world. Lyon was quickly defeated by the bounty hunter. He
fell backward into a deep sinkhole after being mortally wounded.
Fett flew in to the sinkhole, but could not find the body. He
brought Lyon's lightsaber back to Lord Vader as proof of Lyon's
death. Vader accepted the weapon, and was satisfied that Lyon
Destrier was dead.
But he wasn't. Biel Duran's reclusive subterranean natives,
the Denshiarai, had found Lyon as he was dying, and healed his
wounds. Then they enslaved him in their mines, along with many
other spacefarers that spent one night to many on the surface of
Biel Duran. Lyon did not know enough about the fine manipulation
of the force required to escape his chains (which were rigged to
explode under less subtle methods of tampering), and was forced to
work in the mines for two full years. Then Aiera Ap Lyffed, a
rebel operative, fell prey to the Denshiarai.
Working together, Lyon and Aiera escaped the Denshiarai. The
Arcburner was where Lyon had hidden it, but it's long
exposure to the hostile environment of the swamp had rendered it
inoperative. Aiera's ship had been destroyed by her forced landing
on Biel Duran, but some of her systems were still usable. A superb
technician, Aiera was able to repair the damage to the
Arcburner, and transfer almost all surviving material from
her ship to the Arcburner, improving several systems,
particularly the faulty heatpump interface.
Lyon returned Aiera to a Rebel outpost, as he had agreed, and
then signed on with her next mission, something that he had not
agreed on. Lyon did not fully trust the rebellion, and adopted his
force created "False persona" whenever dealing with Rebel
operatives. Lyon formed a deep attachment to only one other rebel,
Eric Lance. The son of one of Lyon's closest friends during his
early years of the Academy, Eric was almost an exact replica of his
father, Cornilius. The only exception to that uncanny similarity
was that while Cornilius was so strong in the force that it almost
consumed him, Eric is about as force sensitive as a labor droid.
Lyon finally revealed his true identity to Eric, and the two have
always remained close friends. After running a few missions with
the Aiera's Rebel cell, Lyon retired to Uthar, a frontier world on
the edge of the Mid-Rim region. Lyon remained as something of a
hermit in Uthar's cloud forests for several years. During this
time, he repaired the damaged Light Saber that he had taken from
the academy. (The Brand Argent has a silvery white blade).
While repairing the Saber, Lyon's force induced nightmares
grew more and more real. Lyon left Uthar, and headed back to the
core worlds, when the Empire was defeated at Endor. Lyon's found
Aiera on Coruscant, and agreed to seek employment with the New
Republic, but he refused to meet with Skywalker, or admit to his
training as a Jedi. Lyon said, regarding Skywalker's new academy;
"It is doomed. Utterly and completely doomed. Skywalker knows
nothing, and his students less. They will be turned to the Dark
Side. All of them in their turn. A knight should never try to
teach, only a master. And there are no more Jedi masters."
Lyon was assigned to the Yaeger Sector. There, he spent some
time on Yaeger prime, where he met a
Irion Bane, a young Ien Yaeger who was trying to master the force
on his own. Lyon realized that while his teaching Irion was
dangerous, allowing him to seek the force on his own was more so.
Lyon took Irion on as an apprentice, and has acknowledged his
identity as a Jedi to the New Republic officials there. Luke has
sent him an offer to teach at the new Academy, and he has declined,
preferring to see how he does with one student before attempting
more. Lyon is currently investigating a series of ancient ruins on
a planet in the heart of the Spectre Nebula, which he has seen many
times in his force induced nightmares.
Personality:
Lyon's time in the Voyage has left him with very enhanced Jedi
powers, but has caused equally deep scars. Lyon's hallucinations
and force induced nightmares are reflections of the real universe,
as perceived by the force, and he has gained a good deal of
information about the true nature of many of those things in the
physical universe that most affect the force. Lyon's other skills
were also honed by his experience, as reflected in his scores.
Lyon's method of acquiring these skills was by self-education, and
he can now improve his skills or learn new ones with minimal
penalties for learning without a teacher.
However, these benefits did not come without their penalties.
First of all, the internal demons that he battled for all those
years were strengthened by that struggle. A hostile jedi could
easily release these demons, and force Lyon into an internal
struggle with them. In game terms, Lyon will no longer be aware of
the real universe, and will be forced into a familiar and hostile
world, where he will battle various force using creatures. These
creatures will cause real damage, and will also take damage from
Lyon's weapons. The battle will last until all those creatures are
killed.
Damage to Lyon will not wake him from that state. Rather, he
will transfer his imaginary world onto the real one. He will
attack those that attacked him with his usual skill, and will only
take damage when they hit him. This state can be evoked once a
week, or until Lyon realizes that the only way that he can defeat
the monsters is to accept them, and make them a part of himself.
In addition, the long internment has not left Lyon entirely
sane. He is uncomfortable with prolonged contact with people, and
is extremely uncomfortable with emotional attachments. This
orientation causes him to slowly distance himself from those around
him, withdrawing into hermitude when nothing is done to reverse
that trend.
Lyon has a death wish, perhaps inspired by the deaths of all
his comrades. Lyon is remarkably violent in combat situations, and
often highly successful in such conflicts. He keeps seeking them
out, hoping to find his match and rest with his friends. He
sublimates this wish into formulating ingenious plans that place
him square in the middle of a shoot out. These plans are almost
always successful, as Lyon is quite intelligent, but they exist to
provide a venue for his violence, rather than the other way around.
Lyon's connection to the force has also been warped by the
damage to his psyche. The saber that destroyed his eye was not
real. It could not hurt him. But subconsciously he new it could,
and used the force to change his vision. Time had stopped for his
body in that chamber, so there was no way that his hair could
change from black to white during that time. But it had in his
visions, so again, he subconsciously manipulated the force to
change his body. This manipulation has continued, shaping his body
to meet his self image. If someone could convince him that he was
wounded, he would be. If someone could convince him that he was
dead, very possibly, he would be.
A quote:
"The truest implications of the power of the Force are those
evoked by not exerting one's powers."