Ossu Ikari



"I still want revenge on that Officer who took my yard and my business off me..."

- Raynard just prior to the Battle of Endor

Raynard Quinn was around 44 years old at time of the Battle of Yavin. An engineer at the time he met Rissk but with a shady and slightly mysterious past. As time went on, it became clear that He had spent time at some points as bounty hunter, fixer, arena fighter, fighter pilot and smuggler.

Partnership with Rissk

Raynard met Rissk at about the time he lost his arm in an engineering accident. One of his arms got vapourised while working on The Crimson Blade a Firespray class owned at the time by Kregor Faltis. He helped Rissk and gave her a place to stay after fleeing Kregor and they have been great friends ever since.

Imprisonment

Shortly after the events of *Destiny Entwined Raynard had his yard siezed by the Empire. He sought revenge on the Imperial officer who was responsible, but ultimately failed and was captured. He then spent many years mining in a penal colony on an asteroid, until a daring escape (Jail Break: Old SWG Boards) took him off-world to Tatooine.

Stay of execution

After the battle to save the wookies, Raynard was going to be captured and sentenced to death. Rissk however, due to her database of future events knew this was going to happen and interceded, with the help of Kregor Faltis and saved Raynard and his Jail Break companions. On the run from the Imperial Jedi turncoat Ariane Kaxson, they visitied Nym and smuggled some supplies to the Rebellion. Now on the run from the Empire they joined the Rebellion in a backwater, vagabond attack group called Wraith Squadron.

Aftermath

While en-route to Coruscant, Raynard and Rissk stumbled upon a secret Imperial base, hidden in an Asteroid near Coruscant. They decided to setup home here, independant from governments and to start running his business again.

Jedi Origins

Raynards mysterious past has now been revealed in The Jedi Temple It turns out that Raynard Quinn was actually Arice Quinn, an acomplished Jedi Knight, on the very cusp of being made Jedi Master at the time Order 66 happened.

His padawan, a Trandoshan called Krokk was killed in Order 66 by the Jedi Hunter Kregor Faltis - though Arice doesn't know this yet. For the years between 66 and the current timeline Arice has been going as Raynard and working as a mechanic while masking himself from the force. He had become so accustomed to this way of life that after the fall of the Empire he continued to hide from the force and never rejoined the Jedi order.

This situation changed when Rissk, Raynards Trandoshan companion of over twenty years was to train as a Jedi but couldn't find a master.

The Assault on Cyraan and Rescue of Rissk

Through a complex series of events, Rissk became captured and began to be lured to the Darkside by the Dark Jedi Perem Thoje, an ancient cyborg, nearly a hundred years old who was in the servitude of an ancient Sith Lord called Darius Malakai the Seer. With Ethan and Caitlin Voss he set out to Cyraan in Rissk's modified ship 'Jadewing' having discovered her whereabouts from the Dathomir Force Witch Seer, Nandi of the Fire Valley Clan. He also discovered at this point the existance of a force wielding son called Krath, who was concieved many years ago on a previous trip to Dathomir - of which he has little memory due to being drugged by Nandi and held captive for a period of time during the old republc. Krath sought the Daer'Gunn on Onderon and after challenging him to duel to the death or return to aid Dathomir in it's plight, Krath was killed by the Daer'Gunn.

Arice's party had a hellish trip to Cyraan encountering super force clones, with greatly magnified force-powers and even genetically engineered clones able to negate the force around them. Eventually Arice duelled the Dark Lord Perem, and prevailed - then escaped the planet with Ethan, Caitlin, Rissk and Kregor Faltis. The entire party was badly injured and emotionally scarred by the experience, however due to his engineering knowledge Quinn was able to re-programme the graviton mining core to pull Cyraan's moon out of orbit destroying the base.

Unfortunately Malakai's force vision gave him a premonition of the destruction and he was able to evacuate a large volume of the force before the moon struck.

Quinn is now a marked man, Darius Malakai having sworn to end Quinn's life. Silone, Nandi's apprentice, having fled Dathomir is now on Onderon with Quinn and has informed him of Nandi's strongly suspected death and the death of his son Krath at the hands of the Daer'Gunn.

Having returned to Dathomir with Silone, Rissk, Ethan Voss and his apprentice Hood, the second trip did not go to plan. A final meeting with the force-ghost of Krath, followed by watching hte slaughter and capture of several witches was only the beginning. Captured, he ended up fighting a ferocious duel with the newly turned Vankyr Maris Eterna Eterna effectively won the duel, but Quinn was able to turn the tables with a surprise attack. Rissk captured again, and her eyes removed by the psychopath Cair Alana, Silone, had her eyes removed and was drained of blood by the Vankyr Maris Eterna

Barely escaping with their lives Quinn and Ethan Voss were the only ones to escape Dathomir. Silone killed, Rissk maimed and captured, and Hood tortured and modified to become a remote controlled Sith Assasin, now all Arice Quinn wants to do is forget about Darius Malakai, feeling that Malakai is too powerful to go against, and feeling that the Sivter threat is more important and a good distraction from his grief.

Lightsabres



As a young Jedi Arice had studied Shotan culture and swordsmanship. As a Jedi Knight, using his considerable mechanical skills and the force - he constructed a unique set of lightsabres modelled on the Shotan main sword or Korvana and the shorter companion sword or Juta. These blades have a subtle curve to them, a more slender, ovular handle and cortosis handguards. The construction of, and the alignment of the crystals took many times the usual amount of time taken to construct lightsabres.

To create the subtle curve two crystals are employed with an additional electromagnetic field modulator. Fitting all the components with room for correct alignment into a more compact handle than a standard sabre is something Arice considered one his his most impressive engineering feats.

Functionally the lightsabres are no different to a standard one, apart from a more comfortable grip, and the fact that the sabres are of different length. These differences are partly stylistic and partly to aid the use of Shotan sword technique. They would convey little or no advantage to another Jedi to use, and the main reason for their creation was as an engineering challenge and a homage to Shotan culture.

Arice has also trained an unusual style of fighting, involving sabre throws which move like a dart rather than a swirling motion as most force users. He is also known to throw a sabre past an opponent and then force-pull it back towards them in a dart-like fashion. Typically the companion sword - or Juta is thrown, and the Korvana remains in his hand.

Lightsabre Forms

Arice had dabbled in all the classic lightsabre forms up to Form 5, and including Djem So and Shien. Although fairly competant in Djem So and Shien, his real specialisation is in Makashi and Sorensu. Having mastered both of these styles early in his Jedi career he began implementing elements of Shotan sword technique to give him a unique style. He is also a Master of Jar'Kai, but not in the normal sense. His moves and tactics more closely resemble Shotan sword technique with some Jar'Kai, Makashi and Sorensu thrown in and modified to work with Shotan style, curved blade lightsabres.

Arice modifies his style of combat depending up on the opponent, and which of his blades or whether he is using both of his weapons at the same time.

When duelling Arice tends not to rely on impressive acrobatics, or high levels of agression. He fights calm and calculating, with quick, fluid precise movements, rarely showing any emotion or effort - even when on the back foot.

His calm, almost serene state of mind, and ability to detatch himself from his surroundings makes Arice Quinn not very susceptible to Dun Moch. If an opponent starts trying to taunt him or question his prowess - he typically simply ignores them without responding verbally and showing little or no evidence that he'd even heard them.

Force Powers

As a Jedi Arice Quinn was competant at most force powers, but spectacular at none. His true strength in the force was most evident in his swordsmanship and calm disposition. Having spent years hiding from the source, when he collected his weapons and robes, his force powers and ability to sense seemed to have weakened considerably, to the point of almost erroding completely. It's possible that the years of doing this may have enhanced his ability to mask himself from the force.