Sephiroth Rhapsodos

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Template:CharacterBoxSephiroth Rhapsodos is an Imperator in the Trade Federation's Ministry of Defence, serving as Admiral of the Glythe Fleet and Head Instructor at the MoDs famous Amorris Boot Camp.

Early Life

Sephiroth was born on the Mon Calamari homeworld of Dac (or Mon Calamari, as it is more commonly known). He was born to parents Galcian & Urala Rhapsodos, an extremely middle-class couple who made their money through Galcian's trading work.

The earliest years of Sephiroth's life, which he remembers very well, were spent in relative poverty, as his father invested everything he had into this business to try and make his fortune. Sephiroth would often be the one left out from games among his peers, and instead through himself whole-heartedly into his school work, which he enjoyed very much, particularly in the field of Mathematics and Physics. He would spend most of his time alone, or with his parents, which made them a very close-knit family.

Eventually, Galcian managed to strike a deal with a major Mon Calamari trader, and before long had bought a ship, and was trading around the galaxy, bringing in much more money than before. Taking advantage of this, Sephiroth's family moved to a wealthier area. However, his family income made him even more of an outcast than ever, where he was too rich for the poor Mon Calamari to associate with, but too poor for the rich. These were hard times for the entire family in that perspective, and it was when Sephiroth first developed his love for starships, wishing many times that he could escape the bullying he was subjected to. This is also when he developed his prodigious strength, in order to protect himself from attack.

Sephiroth finished school at the top of his class, and quickly decided that he wanted to study starship design, and develop the famous Mon Calamari cruisers that he had heard garnered galaxy-wide admiration, as well as other ships. However, this was far too expensive for the family to afford, so instead Sephiroth began working for his father. At this point, his mother had given birth twice more, to two twin brothers and a sister who was still only a baby. His brothers had left school before Sephiroth, deciding to work for their father as soon as the law would allow.

At this point, Sephiroth's father had bought himself a brand new BFF-1 Bulk Freighter to allow himself to trade more effectively. He converted a relatively large section of the ship to a residence for his family, and they decided that all of them would travel together and see the entire galaxy as one big, happy family.

Joining the Trade Federation

For over a year Sephiroth's family travelled the galaxy, conducting trades and living happily. However, Galcian was still only making a fairly average living for a trader, and so Sephiroth couldn't save fast enough to get to university. It was for this reason that Galcian made the biggest deal of his career. Although his family did not know it, a delivery of goods from a world in the Outer Rim which they thought was food and clothing, was actually a black market trade in weaponry that would make Galcian enough money that he could stop working for the rest of his life and still have enough left over to send Sephiroth to a top university on Naboo to study Starship Design.

Sephiroth was down in the engine bay, where he spent a lot of his time maintaining the ship, when it happened. Just as Sephiroth was about to deactivate the sublight engine to optimise the magnetic fields while they were in hyperspace, when all of a sudden he heard a bang which shook the entire ship, and knocked Sephiroth against a wall. He realised when he heard the sirens next to him and heard the noise coming from the hyperdrive generator that they had been pulled out of hyperspace. Then the power died, and he knew that the systems has failed because of an Ion weapon attack. They were being boarded.

Abandoning all of his tools except his largest wrench, Sephiroth rushed up the decks until he met his mother, who was running the opposite way, towards the escape pods. She told him to run, but he refused. Within a minute however, his father and two brothers, both with their blasters firing were retreating towards him, being forced back by waves of battle droids. The ship was lost, and they all knew it. They were buying time to try and allow themselves to escape. But just when all hope seemed lost, three of the droids were suddenly smashed against a wall in glowing pieces. Sephiroth looked up and saw what he immediately assumed was a Jedi. Quickly, the Jedi jumped down a flight of stairs and landed in front of the three Mon Calamari who were still firing at the remaining droids. However, to Sephiroth's horror, rather than aiding his family, he ignited his lightsaber and impaled Galcian through his heart. Then he laughed as he lifted up one of the two brothers, choking him and crushing his windpipe until Sephiroth heard the cracks of his neck breaking, while he threw the other brother into a wall before battering him with debris until he was bleeding and crushed beyond repair.

Then, still laughing, the Force-user, now clearly not a Jedi, turned towards Sephiroth, who had already grabbed his mother and dragged her and his baby sister towards the escape pods. The Force-user toyed with them, walking behind them throwing pieces of metal to try and trip them up while they ran, but Sephiroth and his mother reached the escape pods. It was as Sephiroth took his little sister from his mother that she was pulled away by the force. Sephiroth grabbed her hand, and managed to anchor her to the escape pod thanks to his well above average strength. But the droids then caught up with them, and loosened her grip enough that Sephiroth couldn't keep hold. His mothers last act was to press the launch button on the escape pod, allowing Sephiroth and his sister to escape.

The Force-user clearly had what he wanted however, as there was no attempt made to recover the pod. Sephiroth crash-landed on the planet Varno. He was distraught over the loss of his entire family, even his baby sister, who hadn't survived the landing. He was filled with a burning rage over the events, and after a day, swore revenge on the man who had killed his family, and pirates in general. He managed to repair the damaged communications console on the escape pod and activated the emergency beacon, when he was contacted by Tal Ercrow, who recruited him into the Trade Federation, where he signed up with the Ministry of Defence, hoping to learn the skills he would need to enact his revenge, and serve the galaxy, rather than the Techno Union, where his old passions of Starship design lay. Within a short time, Jas Nightblade of the Department of Logistics, under the command of Div Mac, had picked him up and transported him to Boot Camp, on the planet Amorris.

Military Service

To come...