Post by Cliff Asori on Jul 14, 2009 0:31:11 GMT -5
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Name:Cliff Asori
Race:Human
Age:38
Gender:Male
Rank:Master of the Order - Consular
Height:5'11
Weight:175 lbs
Birth Planet:Naboo
Alignment: Light +7
Other Weapons:
-Uses a blaster (if environment calls for it - meaning he doesn't carry it but if there was one in the area dropped from a battle and it was the only possible solution at the time, he would use it
Lightsaber Type:double-bladed
Lightsaber Color:Silver
Lightsaber Crystal Type: Ankarres Sapphire (It was found in a empty cave during Cliff's Jedi Knight's Mission on Kashyyyk (deep in the shadowlands)
Lightsaber Skills:
- - When Cliff was a Padewan, his Masters strictly made sure that Cliff masters his Shii-Cho before he even began his Jedi Trails. As he became a Jedi Knight, he meditated and explored some areas of the form and style that suited him the best. After viewing holographs of Jedi Knights using the Makashi and the Juyo, he decided not to even dabble in them. Cliff felt that the Makashi form seems interesting but he didn't think it's the right one for him. Plus he is average in strength and probably could handle a different form. He also secretly fear that Juyo form is ferocious and if he attempts to learn that may result him falling to the Dark Side.
- Cliff decided to dabble on the other forms through training and meditation. After a few months training that form, he felt that Form V, Shien / Djem So, wasn't a the one he should attempt to master because Cliff felt that he doesn't have the physical strength required to perform Djem So effectively and since he was a Jedi Knight Consular the art of Shien wouldn't be suited for him.
- Cliff then turns to Ataru and Niman forms, in which he founds favor to concentrate on mastering those. He likes the Ataru because it was the form that his first master preferred and for Niman because he could cooperate some of the other forms that he like parts of and which he found learning that and Ataru go hand and hand. As Cliff trained himself through meditation and training, he's mastered not only the usage of Niman, almost perfecting the Ataru, but he also mastered the art of using a Double Bladed Lightsaber (which now, he could use a single or double hilt (but not at the same time since he felt that he wasn't suited in the Forms that are required for the usage of Jar'Kai, using two single blade lightsabers). During his missions as a Padawan, Jedi Knight and as a Jedi Master, Cliff has some experience in using a lightsaber while mounting on vehicles or animals but he is no expert.
Strong Style: Cliff almost rearely uses the strong style on the account of he thinks he wouldn't be capible in using that and prefered something either more acrobat or moderate.
Medium Style: As a Jedi of using Niman form, he usually prefers in using that if not of the agilityness the fast style nor the Ataru contains. Meaning he more like prefered than using the fast style and defentily against the strong style.
Fast Style: Cliff practice mastering his double-bladed as the fast-style form, so that he would incorporate in using Ataru and Niman forms he strongly practice as his Jedi Knight Years.
Combat Skills:
- - Being a person of average height and weight, Cliff tries to stray way of the "seemingly aggressive" combat. However, he does have some skill in combat where he uses the opponent's power or environment against them. As his years as a Jedi Consular, he also uses the Force to aid him on certain combat aspects. In retrospect: he will find a way around things to use or assist him instead of using a blaster and literally blast someone to the next galaxy.
-There are a few downsides to Cliff's Combat Skills. One of which is that he uses the Combat as a almost a last result. Or if he would really need a few seconds to retrieve his lightsaber or call on the Force to help. Also, he personally doesn't like to use blasters and feels that they are barbaric tools but if desperate times calls him to use one, he would even though his skills are weak. So you won't see him carrying a blaster around. However, he is not so hesitant when using the ship's weapons as he would on hand held (if he was defending of course).
- What all of this means, if Cliff is a position, without his lightsaber, he would use the Force to help. Or he would use unarmed combat for those quick 'buying some time' moments.
Other Skills:
- Cliff has good skills as a diplomat and historian. Some of the diplomat skills (which make him multilingual and multiliterate)were inherited by his father, as being the Queen's adviser on Onderan and Former Senator of Naboo along with the Jedi Code intertwined. Plus it was shown as Cliff used the diplomat and negotiating skills to end a Civil War on Onderan as a young Padawan. Cliff grew in the knowledge of the Jedi History during his studies as a youngling and even he temporary took up the role as the Historian until he was chosen to be Grand Master.
- Cliff has some skills towards technology. It doesn't mean that he can take everything apart and put them together but he can do some modifications on certain vehicles including his own ship, repair things, even understood the droid language (due to his time spent with T4 as a good friend of his. His current Master thought that since he understood technology well, it's appropriate he could use that to express his grief for his mother and for his former Master. Even though it was against the Counsel's wishes in handling that.
- To some who know Cliff, Cliff was known to be a good piolt. Even though he usually preferred starfighters and light freighters, he could maneuver out of intense situations with less ease. Especially, since he usually fly when he and his Master or Padawan (when he was a Knight) on missions.
Force Powers:
-During Cliff's years as a Padawan, His masters taught him some force powers that were universal, like Animal Friendship (only to calm a beast or use it to ride them), Telephathy, mind trick and persuasion, and various lightside or universal Telekinesis usages (Such as Force Push an Pull, and Lightsaber throw). He was also taught some of the Jedi Counslar type force powers as well as light side based on his personality and his outside skills. Some of them were Force Navigation, Force Harmony, Breath Control, Force Healing, Force vision and Sense and Precognition (He was warned seriously in using that but his Master felt it would aid him in a future).
- When Cliff became a Jedi Knight, He passed some of his learning to his Padawan thus increasing his knowledge of the Force Powers he already learned. Thus begins to learn several abilities through training and meditation. Some of the force abilities he learned was Force Deflection and Absorb as well as Force Cure and Protection Bubble (only as. He use those a few times during his missions as part of his training. Plus during his diplomat mission, Cliff applied the force and his interest in learning different language and learned Force Comprehension.
- During Cliff's years as a Jedi Master, he decided not only to further his training and experience on the force power that he learned but also ones that would be useful as a member of the Light Side. Cliff begins to learn, Force Light, Wall of Light, to understand his Knowledge of the Force and as a Counslar. He also meditate through the Force to learn the usage of Force Empathy as his way of to understand others and nature.
Personality:
Cliff is naturally a shy and introverted type. However, he also means well when he speaks his mind. At a young age he seems to have wisdom beyond his age, or so to the non-force sensitive ones. Though at times, he is quick to anger if there is certain injustice, but is mostly patient and "thinks before acting".
As a Jedi, Cliff usually learns on his own as well as learns with his Padawan. Such as when teaching forms to his padawan, he tends to use a Training Saber than a real Lightsaber in concern of harming his trainee in the process. Cliff tries to apply the code towards his life most of the time and would step out of bounds if necessary.
Cliff learning style is a bit unique according to his Masters. They see Cliff as a learning by seeing, which make him a quick learner. His shyness personality, however, which resulted him to be less arrogant than the typical quick learner. Plus when he tries to express his views, he usually think and listen to others and apply the Force and the Code for a accurate answer that would fall under what is right instead of what is easy. At times, Cliff's diplomat skills come into play, due to genetic inheritance from his father, and attempts to make peace between groups in a compassionate way.
Appearance:
Cliff has blonde hair and blue eyes. He figure is of average, athletic completion. He has a scar on the middle of his forehead form a accident when he was a baby. He speaks in a quiet shy tone at first based on his personality. Then usually in a normal after he gets aquainted with others.
- Cliff follows the Jedi Custom of wearing the Robes almost without question, except if it was something like undercover. He usually wear the traditional Jedi Master Robes or either a white Master Robe.
History:
Birth to Early Age
Cliff was born on the planet of Naboo to a stay at home mother and an adviser to the Queen’s Counsel. At the age of five, his family moved to Coruscant due to his father's job change from an adviser to a senator. Within a year after he moved to Coruscant, Cliff was founded by a Jedi Knight and brought him to the order to be trained as one. The Counsel accepted the Jedi request and Cliff became a Youngling.
Youngling to Padwan
Like the traditional Youngling, Cliff was taken by the order and have little connection with his parents. He was trained in the basic force usage and knowledge as the Shii-Cho Lightsaber form. Cliff, being a introverted type, he learns quickly and was patient in his training. According to the master who trained Cliff and the other younglings, he happened to have some anger even though it was reasonable. Meaning he usually gets angry when someone was harming another person, such as a youngling bullying another youngling in any way, and stuff like that. This would be the hardest thing Cliff has to overcome during his life as a Jedi. Cliff have several friends within the Order and back home on Naboo most met during his Youngling and before he was inducted to the Order.
Life as a Padawan (Pt. 1)
When Cliff was about 12 he was assigned to be the Padawan of Arewn Almeida. The relationship between Cliff and Arwen were more than just a master to student but more of like brother to sister. As Arewn’s Padawan, Cliff learned all about the different classes and the knowledge of the different lightsaber forms that would not only help accommodate certain points, but to find one that would best suit him. It was suggested by Arewn that Cliff would be better suited as a Counslor even though he seems to show qualities as a Sential and/or Guardian depending on the situation.
What it seems to Cliff that he was easily ready for his trials to be promoted to Jedi Knight, Cliff however, felt that he still has much to learn and obsticales to face in order for him to be ready for the trials. Arwen knowing about Cliff better than everyone else, including the situation with his mother’s illness and seemingly bitterness towards his father, agreed. There were times, Cliff left briefly to visit his parents, and at the age of fifteen, he found out about his mother’s reacent illness. Arwen was supportive and encourager to Cliff but it seem distant in Cliff’s view. A few months later, his mother passed away.
Pre-trials Test and Building His First Lightsaber (Life as a Padawan (pt. 2))
After his mother’s passing, the relationship between Cliff and his father began to deteriorate from something large to even something small. This was even to the point, Cliff finds little comfort in applying his training into this during his frequent visits. Roughly a year later, Cliff decided to not only reconciled with his father but also to limit the communication with him for a while; his father agreed to that suggestion. He met up with Arwen afterwards; she told him that he passed his pre-trial that she figured to set that for him to help him with his anger, ad brought him to the planet Ilum where he can build his first lightsaber.
The whole lightsaber process took about 3 years though to Cliff fells like it was thirty years due to the deep meditation. Cliff spent the first month and a half in meditation as he use that time to understand everything about the lightsaber and what that signify. The next few weeks Cliff search for a proper lightsaber crystal that would suit his possible future role as a Councelor under Arwen’s supervision. He was instructed not to use any power crystal as Arwen thought that building the lightsaber is a baby step process and requires extreme meditation. For Cliff’s last phase in constructing his first lightsaber he need to choose the handle based on several selections that Arwen brought out. After a few mins, Cliff decided to use the same handle as Arwen process. Cliff placed the crystal in between the two parts of the hilt and put the saber together. Arwen smiled at Cliff in congratulation for the completion of his first lightsaber. Afterwards, Arwen allows Cliff to add some power crystals to his lightsaber. With that completion, she told him that was his first mission.
Mission in the Outer Rim
When Cliff completed his first lightsaber, he and Master Almeida traveled to Dagobah system in the Outer Rim, for a Jedi rescue mission. Upon arrival, Master Almeida and Cliff search for the survivors from the Jedi, which was supposed to be a easy mission, but no one tread across the planet since Jedi Masters Yoda and Luke Skywalker (or so Cliff thought). Apparently, Cliff and Master Almeida were separated on their mission, to which unknown to Cliff at the time Arewn was captured as well as the survivors including Jedi Knight Ben Onasi. As Cliff searches for his master and completing his mission, he encounters a Dark Jedi Knight. Being a Padawan at the age of 19, Cliff could’ve held out on his own with his lightsaber skills against the Dark Jedi but he focus more towards using the force as a means of defense, which to him seems accordance to the Jedi code. Only advantage he had in result was stealth enough to find and rescue the captors. Before he could rescue the others, the same Dark Jedi arrived and Cliff duels with him in order for Arwen and Ben to free the other survivors in from the Jedi starfighter. The Dark Jedi proved to be too much for Cliff and Ben steps in duels in Cliff’s place. Ben removes the Dark Jedi’s head from his body in the end. They traveled back to the Jedi Temple.
The Jedi Temple and Back to Naboo
Upon arrival to the Jedi Temple, the Counsel brought Cliff along with Ben and Arwen to report on their mission at Dagobah. Ben and Arwen complimented Cliff’s performance despite of how Cliff felt towards his decisions in going against that Dark Jedi. After the meeting, Cliff decided to stay and continue to master his Shii-Cho as he thought it was something he lacked in his training. It wasn’t until roughly three years of meditation and training, and encouragement from Master Almeida, not only that he didn’t failed in his battle on Dagobah but he learned all what he needed to master Shii-Cho, Cliff finally accepted the fact not to take his failure on Dagobah, nor his success lightly. In addition, to use it as a learning experience to further his training and his knowledge on the Force.
Master Almeida and Cliff was sent back to Naboo, Cliff’s home planet, to settle a dispute between those who were loyal to the Queen and the apparently a rebel rising. Their mission was to find the leader of the supposed rebellion, find out if the accusations against the current elected Queen were true, and bring peace to Naboo with the least conflict. It was suggested by Master Almeida to have Cliff be on the side of the Queen and for her to be undercover side with the rebellion to properly find out the truth in these accusations. Cliff however, wasn’t truly shut out from his master, being they would communicate to each other through the usage of the force and also to help uncover this mystery. The undercover process took a entire year, though a full-scale civil war hasn’t broke out yet. This appeared to be Jim Payne, the Queen’s advisor relative and a hidden crime lord, was the one behind this and uses the people to rebel for his personal greed. Just before Cliff and Master Almeida confronted Jim, the civil war broke out, Cliff attempted to use his diplomatic skills from his father and persuaded the people of Naboo to end the war. Also, along with Master Almeida and the Queen’s royal guards, Cliff arrested Jim after a small duel between the crime lord and the master and her Padawan (which resulted Cliff disarming Jim), and brought him over to Corresant to await his final judgment (though he was already founded guilty by the people of Naboo). Before leaving, the Queen of Naboo thanked both Cliff and Arewn personally and awarded them the diplomatic award for bring peace back to Naboo with little war as possible.
Rising of a Jedi
Upon Cliff and Master Amelida’s arrival, Arwen, along with the counsel, thought that after Cliff’s performance on Naboo, he is ready for the Jedi Trials. The first phase of his trials was the showing of his mastery of the Shii-Cho. Normally, Cliff was to duel one of the Masters of the Order, however they thought it would be better and more effective if he duel with Master Amelida in this duel instead. They know the bond formed between Cliff and Arwen to the point that they feared that this close attachment would result with one, the other or both to fall to the Dark Side (mainly Cliff, since being so young and inexperienced compared to his master). This doesn’t fear Cliff with the fact that he has to duel Arwen, someone who was like his sister, but as that he doesn’t want to hurt her nor that he doesn’t want to seem like he is going easy or anything. The duel seemed hours, with the usage of training sabers (like the Younglings use), but Cliff prevailed in the end in showing the Counsel his mastery of his lightsaber.
Normally there used to be a second portion to the Trials, based on his battle in resiting the temptations of the Dark side, Cliff seems to pass that based on reports on his mission to Dagobah, Naboo, and his personal journey with his father resulted the Counsel to vote in favor of using that to grade his Trials status. His final Trial was the understanding and reciting the Jedi Code. With correctly reciting the Code and correctly answered the Councel’s questions, Cliff passed the code and was admitted as a Jedi. The next day, the Councel asked Cliff to kneel as he was christened as a Jedi Knight – Counslor and his Padawan braid was cut.
Life as a Jedi Knight and a New Padawan
After his promoting rank, Cliff received his congratulatory gift from his former Master, Arwen, an astro-droid. The call unit was R8-S4 but Cliff called it R8. Shortly after his promotion, he chose a Padwan learner named, Gola `nilim. The Counsel agreed with Cliff’s request and began to train her to be a Jedi Knight Sential.
Like learning from Master Amelida, Cliff applied her teachings toward Gola. From various knowledge and usage to even, the time spent in meditation. For what Gola liked about Cliff’s training, is that he usally does the segments with her, such as constructing her first lightsaber to letting her getting a jest of the other lightsaber forms but mainly focus in mastering the Shii-Cho. Not to mention, he is patient and wise and understanding (almost like a big brother in Gola’s perspective). While instructing Gola in making her first lightsaber, Cliff decided to construct a custom lightsaber of his own. He decided to use a double-blade saber with silver crystal that he found while he was on Dagabah. He also instructed himself in various different lightsaber forms through training and meditation, but eventually he master using the double blade as well as Ataru and the Niman because of what it suited him in various of the seemingly more ferocious like the Vaapad, Juyo, etc. The instructing and training took about 4 years most in deep meditation).
First Mission as a Master and Appretence
After Cliff and Gola’s meditation and training on the planet Ilum, the Counsel sent them on a mission to protect the ambassador from Nubia as he makes his journey from Coruscant to Kuat to Corella and back home to Nubia, This was due to someone is trying to assassinate the ambassador. The mission took a roughly a year as both Cliff and Gola were his personal guards and were given the highest security clearance. The mission seemed easy for the most of his trip until just before they arrived at their final destination of Nubia, a Dark Jedi appeared with a bounty hunter and attempt to assassinate the ambassador. Gola was able to prevent the assassination and stopped the bounty hunter while Cliff faced off with the Dark Jedi. With ease, Cliff defeated the Dark Jedi after a heated battle. By stopping them, the ambassador thanked the Cliff and Gola and gave Gola a astro-droid R8 series and Cliff a Jedi starfighter (from the Clone Wars ) refitted as a token of their appreciation, and they went on their way.
Padawan’s Ascension and Masterhood
With the past six years of small missions such as security guards and advisers for members of the Galactic Republic and settling border dispute, Gola was ready to ascend the role of the Jedi Knight Sentinel and Cliff personally congratulated her and told her to not to be afraid to seek wisdom from him if needed even though she was a Padwan anymore. Gola traveled on and do some missions for the Order while Cliff remained at the Jedi Temple with R8. A few weeks later, the Councel agreed based on his ability to master a double-blade lightsaber while retain the Jedi Code in resist the temptation of the typical “more kills per slash”, and successively trained a padewan to become a Jedi Knight, Cliff was to be ascended to the rank of Master. Cliff attended the ceremony like his and he kneel. Then Cliff arose as the newly ranked of Master.
Time as a Master and a Counsel Member
As Cliff was promoted as a Master, he served as a member of the High Counsel. He normally spends his time advising other members of the Order and at times including the Grand Master himself. He does enjoy time to time instructing younglings in learning to use the Force. When the former Master of the Order died of illness and of age, the other members of the Counsel felt that Master Asori would be a proper choice to fulfill that role.
"Understanding the will of the Force, battling Sith Lords, resiting the dark side and helping people. All in a days work for a Jedi."
[/b][/i][/center][/color]Name:Cliff Asori
Race:Human
Age:38
Gender:Male
Rank:Master of the Order - Consular
Height:5'11
Weight:175 lbs
Birth Planet:Naboo
Alignment: Light +7
Other Weapons:
-Uses a blaster (if environment calls for it - meaning he doesn't carry it but if there was one in the area dropped from a battle and it was the only possible solution at the time, he would use it
Lightsaber Type:double-bladed
Lightsaber Color:Silver
Lightsaber Crystal Type: Ankarres Sapphire (It was found in a empty cave during Cliff's Jedi Knight's Mission on Kashyyyk (deep in the shadowlands)
Lightsaber Skills:
- - When Cliff was a Padewan, his Masters strictly made sure that Cliff masters his Shii-Cho before he even began his Jedi Trails. As he became a Jedi Knight, he meditated and explored some areas of the form and style that suited him the best. After viewing holographs of Jedi Knights using the Makashi and the Juyo, he decided not to even dabble in them. Cliff felt that the Makashi form seems interesting but he didn't think it's the right one for him. Plus he is average in strength and probably could handle a different form. He also secretly fear that Juyo form is ferocious and if he attempts to learn that may result him falling to the Dark Side.
- Cliff decided to dabble on the other forms through training and meditation. After a few months training that form, he felt that Form V, Shien / Djem So, wasn't a the one he should attempt to master because Cliff felt that he doesn't have the physical strength required to perform Djem So effectively and since he was a Jedi Knight Consular the art of Shien wouldn't be suited for him.
- Cliff then turns to Ataru and Niman forms, in which he founds favor to concentrate on mastering those. He likes the Ataru because it was the form that his first master preferred and for Niman because he could cooperate some of the other forms that he like parts of and which he found learning that and Ataru go hand and hand. As Cliff trained himself through meditation and training, he's mastered not only the usage of Niman, almost perfecting the Ataru, but he also mastered the art of using a Double Bladed Lightsaber (which now, he could use a single or double hilt (but not at the same time since he felt that he wasn't suited in the Forms that are required for the usage of Jar'Kai, using two single blade lightsabers). During his missions as a Padawan, Jedi Knight and as a Jedi Master, Cliff has some experience in using a lightsaber while mounting on vehicles or animals but he is no expert.
Strong Style: Cliff almost rearely uses the strong style on the account of he thinks he wouldn't be capible in using that and prefered something either more acrobat or moderate.
Medium Style: As a Jedi of using Niman form, he usually prefers in using that if not of the agilityness the fast style nor the Ataru contains. Meaning he more like prefered than using the fast style and defentily against the strong style.
Fast Style: Cliff practice mastering his double-bladed as the fast-style form, so that he would incorporate in using Ataru and Niman forms he strongly practice as his Jedi Knight Years.
Combat Skills:
- - Being a person of average height and weight, Cliff tries to stray way of the "seemingly aggressive" combat. However, he does have some skill in combat where he uses the opponent's power or environment against them. As his years as a Jedi Consular, he also uses the Force to aid him on certain combat aspects. In retrospect: he will find a way around things to use or assist him instead of using a blaster and literally blast someone to the next galaxy.
-There are a few downsides to Cliff's Combat Skills. One of which is that he uses the Combat as a almost a last result. Or if he would really need a few seconds to retrieve his lightsaber or call on the Force to help. Also, he personally doesn't like to use blasters and feels that they are barbaric tools but if desperate times calls him to use one, he would even though his skills are weak. So you won't see him carrying a blaster around. However, he is not so hesitant when using the ship's weapons as he would on hand held (if he was defending of course).
- What all of this means, if Cliff is a position, without his lightsaber, he would use the Force to help. Or he would use unarmed combat for those quick 'buying some time' moments.
Other Skills:
- Cliff has good skills as a diplomat and historian. Some of the diplomat skills (which make him multilingual and multiliterate)were inherited by his father, as being the Queen's adviser on Onderan and Former Senator of Naboo along with the Jedi Code intertwined. Plus it was shown as Cliff used the diplomat and negotiating skills to end a Civil War on Onderan as a young Padawan. Cliff grew in the knowledge of the Jedi History during his studies as a youngling and even he temporary took up the role as the Historian until he was chosen to be Grand Master.
- Cliff has some skills towards technology. It doesn't mean that he can take everything apart and put them together but he can do some modifications on certain vehicles including his own ship, repair things, even understood the droid language (due to his time spent with T4 as a good friend of his. His current Master thought that since he understood technology well, it's appropriate he could use that to express his grief for his mother and for his former Master. Even though it was against the Counsel's wishes in handling that.
- To some who know Cliff, Cliff was known to be a good piolt. Even though he usually preferred starfighters and light freighters, he could maneuver out of intense situations with less ease. Especially, since he usually fly when he and his Master or Padawan (when he was a Knight) on missions.
Force Powers:
-During Cliff's years as a Padawan, His masters taught him some force powers that were universal, like Animal Friendship (only to calm a beast or use it to ride them), Telephathy, mind trick and persuasion, and various lightside or universal Telekinesis usages (Such as Force Push an Pull, and Lightsaber throw). He was also taught some of the Jedi Counslar type force powers as well as light side based on his personality and his outside skills. Some of them were Force Navigation, Force Harmony, Breath Control, Force Healing, Force vision and Sense and Precognition (He was warned seriously in using that but his Master felt it would aid him in a future).
- When Cliff became a Jedi Knight, He passed some of his learning to his Padawan thus increasing his knowledge of the Force Powers he already learned. Thus begins to learn several abilities through training and meditation. Some of the force abilities he learned was Force Deflection and Absorb as well as Force Cure and Protection Bubble (only as. He use those a few times during his missions as part of his training. Plus during his diplomat mission, Cliff applied the force and his interest in learning different language and learned Force Comprehension.
- During Cliff's years as a Jedi Master, he decided not only to further his training and experience on the force power that he learned but also ones that would be useful as a member of the Light Side. Cliff begins to learn, Force Light, Wall of Light, to understand his Knowledge of the Force and as a Counslar. He also meditate through the Force to learn the usage of Force Empathy as his way of to understand others and nature.
Personality:
Cliff is naturally a shy and introverted type. However, he also means well when he speaks his mind. At a young age he seems to have wisdom beyond his age, or so to the non-force sensitive ones. Though at times, he is quick to anger if there is certain injustice, but is mostly patient and "thinks before acting".
As a Jedi, Cliff usually learns on his own as well as learns with his Padawan. Such as when teaching forms to his padawan, he tends to use a Training Saber than a real Lightsaber in concern of harming his trainee in the process. Cliff tries to apply the code towards his life most of the time and would step out of bounds if necessary.
Cliff learning style is a bit unique according to his Masters. They see Cliff as a learning by seeing, which make him a quick learner. His shyness personality, however, which resulted him to be less arrogant than the typical quick learner. Plus when he tries to express his views, he usually think and listen to others and apply the Force and the Code for a accurate answer that would fall under what is right instead of what is easy. At times, Cliff's diplomat skills come into play, due to genetic inheritance from his father, and attempts to make peace between groups in a compassionate way.
Appearance:
Cliff has blonde hair and blue eyes. He figure is of average, athletic completion. He has a scar on the middle of his forehead form a accident when he was a baby. He speaks in a quiet shy tone at first based on his personality. Then usually in a normal after he gets aquainted with others.
- Cliff follows the Jedi Custom of wearing the Robes almost without question, except if it was something like undercover. He usually wear the traditional Jedi Master Robes or either a white Master Robe.
History:
Birth to Early Age
Cliff was born on the planet of Naboo to a stay at home mother and an adviser to the Queen’s Counsel. At the age of five, his family moved to Coruscant due to his father's job change from an adviser to a senator. Within a year after he moved to Coruscant, Cliff was founded by a Jedi Knight and brought him to the order to be trained as one. The Counsel accepted the Jedi request and Cliff became a Youngling.
Youngling to Padwan
Like the traditional Youngling, Cliff was taken by the order and have little connection with his parents. He was trained in the basic force usage and knowledge as the Shii-Cho Lightsaber form. Cliff, being a introverted type, he learns quickly and was patient in his training. According to the master who trained Cliff and the other younglings, he happened to have some anger even though it was reasonable. Meaning he usually gets angry when someone was harming another person, such as a youngling bullying another youngling in any way, and stuff like that. This would be the hardest thing Cliff has to overcome during his life as a Jedi. Cliff have several friends within the Order and back home on Naboo most met during his Youngling and before he was inducted to the Order.
Life as a Padawan (Pt. 1)
When Cliff was about 12 he was assigned to be the Padawan of Arewn Almeida. The relationship between Cliff and Arwen were more than just a master to student but more of like brother to sister. As Arewn’s Padawan, Cliff learned all about the different classes and the knowledge of the different lightsaber forms that would not only help accommodate certain points, but to find one that would best suit him. It was suggested by Arewn that Cliff would be better suited as a Counslor even though he seems to show qualities as a Sential and/or Guardian depending on the situation.
What it seems to Cliff that he was easily ready for his trials to be promoted to Jedi Knight, Cliff however, felt that he still has much to learn and obsticales to face in order for him to be ready for the trials. Arwen knowing about Cliff better than everyone else, including the situation with his mother’s illness and seemingly bitterness towards his father, agreed. There were times, Cliff left briefly to visit his parents, and at the age of fifteen, he found out about his mother’s reacent illness. Arwen was supportive and encourager to Cliff but it seem distant in Cliff’s view. A few months later, his mother passed away.
Pre-trials Test and Building His First Lightsaber (Life as a Padawan (pt. 2))
After his mother’s passing, the relationship between Cliff and his father began to deteriorate from something large to even something small. This was even to the point, Cliff finds little comfort in applying his training into this during his frequent visits. Roughly a year later, Cliff decided to not only reconciled with his father but also to limit the communication with him for a while; his father agreed to that suggestion. He met up with Arwen afterwards; she told him that he passed his pre-trial that she figured to set that for him to help him with his anger, ad brought him to the planet Ilum where he can build his first lightsaber.
The whole lightsaber process took about 3 years though to Cliff fells like it was thirty years due to the deep meditation. Cliff spent the first month and a half in meditation as he use that time to understand everything about the lightsaber and what that signify. The next few weeks Cliff search for a proper lightsaber crystal that would suit his possible future role as a Councelor under Arwen’s supervision. He was instructed not to use any power crystal as Arwen thought that building the lightsaber is a baby step process and requires extreme meditation. For Cliff’s last phase in constructing his first lightsaber he need to choose the handle based on several selections that Arwen brought out. After a few mins, Cliff decided to use the same handle as Arwen process. Cliff placed the crystal in between the two parts of the hilt and put the saber together. Arwen smiled at Cliff in congratulation for the completion of his first lightsaber. Afterwards, Arwen allows Cliff to add some power crystals to his lightsaber. With that completion, she told him that was his first mission.
Mission in the Outer Rim
When Cliff completed his first lightsaber, he and Master Almeida traveled to Dagobah system in the Outer Rim, for a Jedi rescue mission. Upon arrival, Master Almeida and Cliff search for the survivors from the Jedi, which was supposed to be a easy mission, but no one tread across the planet since Jedi Masters Yoda and Luke Skywalker (or so Cliff thought). Apparently, Cliff and Master Almeida were separated on their mission, to which unknown to Cliff at the time Arewn was captured as well as the survivors including Jedi Knight Ben Onasi. As Cliff searches for his master and completing his mission, he encounters a Dark Jedi Knight. Being a Padawan at the age of 19, Cliff could’ve held out on his own with his lightsaber skills against the Dark Jedi but he focus more towards using the force as a means of defense, which to him seems accordance to the Jedi code. Only advantage he had in result was stealth enough to find and rescue the captors. Before he could rescue the others, the same Dark Jedi arrived and Cliff duels with him in order for Arwen and Ben to free the other survivors in from the Jedi starfighter. The Dark Jedi proved to be too much for Cliff and Ben steps in duels in Cliff’s place. Ben removes the Dark Jedi’s head from his body in the end. They traveled back to the Jedi Temple.
The Jedi Temple and Back to Naboo
Upon arrival to the Jedi Temple, the Counsel brought Cliff along with Ben and Arwen to report on their mission at Dagobah. Ben and Arwen complimented Cliff’s performance despite of how Cliff felt towards his decisions in going against that Dark Jedi. After the meeting, Cliff decided to stay and continue to master his Shii-Cho as he thought it was something he lacked in his training. It wasn’t until roughly three years of meditation and training, and encouragement from Master Almeida, not only that he didn’t failed in his battle on Dagobah but he learned all what he needed to master Shii-Cho, Cliff finally accepted the fact not to take his failure on Dagobah, nor his success lightly. In addition, to use it as a learning experience to further his training and his knowledge on the Force.
Master Almeida and Cliff was sent back to Naboo, Cliff’s home planet, to settle a dispute between those who were loyal to the Queen and the apparently a rebel rising. Their mission was to find the leader of the supposed rebellion, find out if the accusations against the current elected Queen were true, and bring peace to Naboo with the least conflict. It was suggested by Master Almeida to have Cliff be on the side of the Queen and for her to be undercover side with the rebellion to properly find out the truth in these accusations. Cliff however, wasn’t truly shut out from his master, being they would communicate to each other through the usage of the force and also to help uncover this mystery. The undercover process took a entire year, though a full-scale civil war hasn’t broke out yet. This appeared to be Jim Payne, the Queen’s advisor relative and a hidden crime lord, was the one behind this and uses the people to rebel for his personal greed. Just before Cliff and Master Almeida confronted Jim, the civil war broke out, Cliff attempted to use his diplomatic skills from his father and persuaded the people of Naboo to end the war. Also, along with Master Almeida and the Queen’s royal guards, Cliff arrested Jim after a small duel between the crime lord and the master and her Padawan (which resulted Cliff disarming Jim), and brought him over to Corresant to await his final judgment (though he was already founded guilty by the people of Naboo). Before leaving, the Queen of Naboo thanked both Cliff and Arewn personally and awarded them the diplomatic award for bring peace back to Naboo with little war as possible.
Rising of a Jedi
Upon Cliff and Master Amelida’s arrival, Arwen, along with the counsel, thought that after Cliff’s performance on Naboo, he is ready for the Jedi Trials. The first phase of his trials was the showing of his mastery of the Shii-Cho. Normally, Cliff was to duel one of the Masters of the Order, however they thought it would be better and more effective if he duel with Master Amelida in this duel instead. They know the bond formed between Cliff and Arwen to the point that they feared that this close attachment would result with one, the other or both to fall to the Dark Side (mainly Cliff, since being so young and inexperienced compared to his master). This doesn’t fear Cliff with the fact that he has to duel Arwen, someone who was like his sister, but as that he doesn’t want to hurt her nor that he doesn’t want to seem like he is going easy or anything. The duel seemed hours, with the usage of training sabers (like the Younglings use), but Cliff prevailed in the end in showing the Counsel his mastery of his lightsaber.
Normally there used to be a second portion to the Trials, based on his battle in resiting the temptations of the Dark side, Cliff seems to pass that based on reports on his mission to Dagobah, Naboo, and his personal journey with his father resulted the Counsel to vote in favor of using that to grade his Trials status. His final Trial was the understanding and reciting the Jedi Code. With correctly reciting the Code and correctly answered the Councel’s questions, Cliff passed the code and was admitted as a Jedi. The next day, the Councel asked Cliff to kneel as he was christened as a Jedi Knight – Counslor and his Padawan braid was cut.
Life as a Jedi Knight and a New Padawan
After his promoting rank, Cliff received his congratulatory gift from his former Master, Arwen, an astro-droid. The call unit was R8-S4 but Cliff called it R8. Shortly after his promotion, he chose a Padwan learner named, Gola `nilim. The Counsel agreed with Cliff’s request and began to train her to be a Jedi Knight Sential.
Like learning from Master Amelida, Cliff applied her teachings toward Gola. From various knowledge and usage to even, the time spent in meditation. For what Gola liked about Cliff’s training, is that he usally does the segments with her, such as constructing her first lightsaber to letting her getting a jest of the other lightsaber forms but mainly focus in mastering the Shii-Cho. Not to mention, he is patient and wise and understanding (almost like a big brother in Gola’s perspective). While instructing Gola in making her first lightsaber, Cliff decided to construct a custom lightsaber of his own. He decided to use a double-blade saber with silver crystal that he found while he was on Dagabah. He also instructed himself in various different lightsaber forms through training and meditation, but eventually he master using the double blade as well as Ataru and the Niman because of what it suited him in various of the seemingly more ferocious like the Vaapad, Juyo, etc. The instructing and training took about 4 years most in deep meditation).
First Mission as a Master and Appretence
After Cliff and Gola’s meditation and training on the planet Ilum, the Counsel sent them on a mission to protect the ambassador from Nubia as he makes his journey from Coruscant to Kuat to Corella and back home to Nubia, This was due to someone is trying to assassinate the ambassador. The mission took a roughly a year as both Cliff and Gola were his personal guards and were given the highest security clearance. The mission seemed easy for the most of his trip until just before they arrived at their final destination of Nubia, a Dark Jedi appeared with a bounty hunter and attempt to assassinate the ambassador. Gola was able to prevent the assassination and stopped the bounty hunter while Cliff faced off with the Dark Jedi. With ease, Cliff defeated the Dark Jedi after a heated battle. By stopping them, the ambassador thanked the Cliff and Gola and gave Gola a astro-droid R8 series and Cliff a Jedi starfighter (from the Clone Wars ) refitted as a token of their appreciation, and they went on their way.
Padawan’s Ascension and Masterhood
With the past six years of small missions such as security guards and advisers for members of the Galactic Republic and settling border dispute, Gola was ready to ascend the role of the Jedi Knight Sentinel and Cliff personally congratulated her and told her to not to be afraid to seek wisdom from him if needed even though she was a Padwan anymore. Gola traveled on and do some missions for the Order while Cliff remained at the Jedi Temple with R8. A few weeks later, the Councel agreed based on his ability to master a double-blade lightsaber while retain the Jedi Code in resist the temptation of the typical “more kills per slash”, and successively trained a padewan to become a Jedi Knight, Cliff was to be ascended to the rank of Master. Cliff attended the ceremony like his and he kneel. Then Cliff arose as the newly ranked of Master.
Time as a Master and a Counsel Member
As Cliff was promoted as a Master, he served as a member of the High Counsel. He normally spends his time advising other members of the Order and at times including the Grand Master himself. He does enjoy time to time instructing younglings in learning to use the Force. When the former Master of the Order died of illness and of age, the other members of the Counsel felt that Master Asori would be a proper choice to fulfill that role.