Zeronen Darkmune

 Character Information 

Name: Zeronen Darkmune

Nickname/Alias: Zero, solus'cuyan (single/one survivor)

Gender: Male

Age: 25

Species: Human

Homeworld: Mandalore

Force Sensitive: no

 Body Information 

Clothing Outline: 

Clothing: Zeronen wears pretty normal clothing that changes depending on what world he goes to. In doing so he’s able to blend in as best he can given his build. At home however, he wears his armor much of the time unless he's bathing or sleeping.

Primary armor: His armor is what some would call heavy shock trooper armor. The Beskar’gam plates that Zeronen uses are slightly thicker than average and are painted as black as the space between the stars. The only detail work that goes into his armor is the gold trim around the visor and the emblem of his clan on the chest plate and shoulder piece. The helmet is marked with four deep red slashes down the side of it, the marks signifying battle scars he obtained from his verd'goten. The Mandalorian Kama he wears is dyed blue, signifying his reliability in combat.

Seconadary Armor: His secondary armor is a Kataran-class Commando armor

Face Outline: He has several scars running down the left of his face over his eye from when he was a teen. His naturally golden-brown eyes are one of the more prominent features people tend to notice when he is not wearing his helmet or out of his armor in general. He likes to keep his dark brown hair cut short, and slight spiked in the front.

Body Outline: Pale skinned, lean and muscular, he weighs in around 230 lbs, and physically fit as any man can be without looking like a muscle-bound bodybuilder. Two notable markers are a tattoo of an Arkanian dragon on his right shoulder blade, and the traditional Mandalorian emblem, a Jaing skull, on his right bicep. Minor marks include several scars from fights and training. Physical Build: Lean and muscular. Height: 6ft 3in

 Combat Information 

Faction: Mandalorians

Rank: Verd

Class: Warrior

Spaceship: M22-T Krayt Gunship

Skills:
 * Leadership - A natural born leader, Zeronen has the charisma needed to rally allied troops. most effectively when he is in the thick of battle
 * Hand-to-Hand(melee) Training - Zeronen is moderatly trained in hand-to-hand combat, as well as general training with most bladed weapons including many of the known Vibro-weapons as well Beskads.
 * Survival training – after years of harsh training as a child, Zeronen has the skills he needs to live off the land for long periods of time if he’s trying to infiltrate enemy lines.
 * Heavy Weapons training – Like any good Mandalorian, Zeronen knows his way around many forms of ranged weapons, the bigger the better.
 * Demolitions – While not an expert, Zeronen is both adept and trained well enough to rig and use most forms of explosives up to 500-grade thermal plastoid.
 * First Aid - while not a medic, Zeronen has basic first aid training.

Inventory:

Weaponry:

Armors: Upgrades: Implant: Other Gear:
 * ACP Array Gun
 * Beskad
 * Crushcaunts
 * DC-15A Blaster rifle
 * DC-15S Sidearm (x2)
 * DC-17m ICWS(Standard Blaster, Sniper Rifle, & Pulsed Energy Projectile attachments)
 * Dur-24 Wrist Laser (Katarn-class Commando Armor)
 * Frag Genades (20)
 * Knuckle-plate Vibro-blade
 * KX-80 Repeating Blaster Rifle
 * Mandalorian Assault Rifle
 * Mandalorian Heavy Blaster (x2)
 * Mandalorian Ripper
 * Vibro-knife
 * Mandalorian Shocktrooper armor (default)
 * Katarn-class Commando Armor
 * Aiming Reticule
 * Combat Sensor
 * Datapad Statusbar
 * Helmet comlink
 * Life Support System (armor upgrade)
 * Mark V Biorestorative Underlay(Katarn-class Commando Armor)
 * Mark IV Bonded Plates Overlay(Katarn-class Commando Armor)
 * Night Vision
 * Tactical Spot-lamp
 * Thermal Vision
 * Zoom Function
 * Level-D Implant
 * Universal D Package
 * Basic Survival Pack
 * Med-Kit
 * Datapad and Datacards

 Additional Information 

Personality: In a nutshell, Zeronen is respectful, patient, intense, and very protective. He’s also pretty charismatic when he wants to be, but will normally lets his actions speak louder then his words on a battlefield. He’s also loyal to his Mand'alor.

Zeronen has many sides to his personality. In general, Zeronen is respectful to others; so long as he is shown the same level of respect in return. To those closest to him, Zero can be fairly friendly but also quiet and slightly withdrawn. He also has a slight tendency to be a bit of a ladies man when the mood strikes him. When he is around his clan, family and friends, he is like any other Mandalorian in that he is family oriented. Zeronen has several hobbies. The one he takes the most pride and gratification is when he helps to train his younger clansmen when their fathers are away on business or war. Because of this, many of the children tend to think of him as a sort of big brother figure.

If asked about how he views the Jetii, he’d say he has a great deal of respect for their combat skills, even though he has little to no real understanding of them as force users. He holds the Alliance with many respects as well. All and all, he’s as much a gentlemen as a Mandalorian can be.

This is just one side of him however. When in combat he's professional to a point of being cold, even heartless, he has no regrets about taking the lives of his enemies; he just views them as obstacles in his path to victory. When he's in a bad mood, he tends to become very serious. when he's in his worst of moods he sometimes won't hesitate to kill the first aruetii to rub him the wrong way.

He doesn’t have any really bad habits. He doesn’t over indulge himself with food or drinks, but he does like his hard drinks, namely: Coreillian Whiskey. Zero has been known to hold a grudge against someone; typically half of those people who’ve crossed him don’t live long enough to regret it.

Apart from his slightly tectonic temperament he does have one hair-pin trigger that stems from one very old, partly healed wound: the loss of his first family. To say he is overprotective of those closest to him is a large understatement. He will, and has, killed in order to keep them safe. Any loss to his clan living in Mandalore space will eat away at him for a good long while.

Two things he really hates: Trandoshans, and Confederates. If given the choice of their methods of destruction, Zero would go for the jugular. Destroying their homeworlds and systematically hunting down any others that were spread across the galaxy. The first he’d test the theory on would be Confederates, in retaliation for their unprovoked attack on Mandalore. The Trandoshans, well, wiping them off the face of the galaxy would be like taking out the galactic trash.

History: Zeronen is a native born Mandalorian, born on the Mandalorian World of Ordo. His parents died when he was just an infant, barely one year of age. They were killed when a band of raiders attacked a small village that was located several kilometers south of the planets equator. The baby was the only known survivor of the raid and would have likely died if not for a small band of Mandalorian traders. These traders were making a stop along their normal route. They expected to find a normal village on a hostile world such as Ordo, but what they found made many of them sick to stomachs. Bodies left out in the harsh desert sun, they couldn’t tell how long ago it had happened, and they didn’t want to know really. One of the trade groups Warriors in the convoy wanted to look around. His name was Hal Darkmune; he had hoped to maybe find some clue as to what had happened.

After some searching around the small village, he found little evidence as to who exactly killed the folks that lived there. The Warrior found something positive in the shattered village in the form of a crying child. The baby was covered in dirt and dried blood from the body of a woman near by, likely the child's mother. Hal determined the child was simply left for dead under the corpse and had managed to crawl out from under her. Hal could not simply leave the boy to die, so he took him back to his clan living along the northern plains of Mandalore. When he told his clan of what happened, many suggested the Warrior and his wife take the child as their own and that they needed a son. Because of the child’s name was unknown, Hal had to pick a name for his new baby boy, so he had chosen to name him Zeronen. As he grew, Zeronen, or ‘Zero’ for short, learned everything expected of Mandalorian and seemed to be happy. Many of the meaner older boys called him “solus'cuyan” or “single/one survivor.” Later in life he made those same warriors learn to respect that little nickname after a few battle royals in the Clans’ Battle Circle.

Hal felt it best to let Zero know he was adopted as soon as he could get his head around it. However, Hal didn’t fully explain what happened till Zero was 11. While nearing the end of his arctic training on the planet Hoth, Hal told him what likely happened to his real parents. Zero always assumed that his father and mother died defending their home and family. Still it didn’t change anything for Zero; he loved his father, mother and sister regardless of his origins. After all, they were his family in his eyes. By this point in Zeros life, Hal had gone into a sort of semi-retirement. A retirement Hal said was brought on by a lethal wound to his knee that left his lower right leg useless and forcefully replaced with cybernetics. This injury had greatly affected the elder Darkmune. Hal Claims he can no longer keep up with his young son and would not partake in combat any longer. In reality, Hal was just trying to blow smoke up everyone’s sheb. He was tired of fighting other peoples’ war and wanted more time with his family, before he really couldn’t keep up with them or worse.

So Zeronen has tried to follow his fathers' example of being a warrior, he is a soldier. He excelled as both a loner or in a small fire team. Never once did he pick up on what most Mandalorians did, bounty hunting.

Shortly after his 13th birthday, Hal took Zeronen back to the icy world of Hoth. When they arrived, Zero was given only a dagger and a Comm-link, then told he had to not only survive nearly a week out there but bring down the biggest beast he could find with only a dagger, and then call it in.

Three days Zero survived, on little more then the smaller verity Tauntaun. On the forth day, he found the tracks of Wampa Ice Creature; he knew that was a worthy hunt if not suicidal. He followed it for another day until the two finally meet. Zeronen was smaller by far, but he was also faster and more flexible then hulking beast he was fighting. Zeronen knew going in that he had to take the thing out with bug bites, and that’s what he did. Hacking and slicing with his dagger at the things limbs till he saw the opening he needed: a clean shot at the back of the beast. As he jumped on the creatures back it found new will and started to swat at the young Mandalorian, trying to knock him off. Needless to say Zeronen didn't walk away unscathed. The thing mostly missed but as Zero sank his dagger into its neck, the creature finally stuck Zero across his face. Zeronen just narrowly missed being blinded in his left eyes by millimeters, but he'd been forever scared as four savage claws cut through his face and cheek. Enraged and hurt, Zeronen viciously stabbed the beast over and over in the neck till it finally bled out.

After the fight, Zeronen knew he'd best call in. Less then an hour after the fight, Zero was looking up at his father while sitting on the still warm body his prize. Along with the body, Zero had the battle scars to prove he could hack it. To top it off, he kept grinning like a di'kutla for it, even as a medic started to patch him up. He beat a massive beast three times his size and four times his weight at the age of 13. Both father and son were proud, they both knew the clan would be pleased to see he was finally an Adult. They were even happier to see he was a warrior and as fearless as any to boot. To this day, that beasts head still hangs from the wall on the den of his Parents home, serving as a reminder of just what sort of son they have. The rest Zero cleaned up, and fitted for use as a comforter on his bed.

Zeronen kept himself busy for many years after his rite of passage, mainly because he was always on the front-lines. He took jobs working as a mercenary for whoever wanted a skilled Mandalorian warrior without an ounce of fear in his body. He stayed loyal to his family & Clan, and to a major extent his Mandalore too. Whenever he wasn’t fighting in far off wars, Zeronen spent time with his closest family and friends. He regularly took an active role in assisting his uncles and cousins train their own children to become mighty warriors, and he was looked at as a big brother or uncle figure.

Sadly, Zeronens' ideas of being a father himself were tarnished by a sad fact that he’s unable to reproduce. Before he installed the life support systems in his armor, he’d been exposed to moderately high levels of radiation during one of his many his stints as a mercenary, while his armor easily dealt with the effects of the radiation, he still had minor radiation poisoning, while not life threatening, it still sterilized him.

When Manda’yaim had been attacked by the Confederacy. His clan was lucky; they were far north of the major populist centers of the world, in a near tundra-like region of the planet. That was four years ago, ever since then he and his fellow clan members have been fighting with the rest of his people to defeat those who had thought it wise to make an example of the Mandalorian people.

After the attack, Zeronen made several secret trips behind Confederate lines, and went about finding his way to major spaceports held by the Confederates. When he located smaller fleets docked at a station, he would slip into as many ships as he could to set explosive charges on their main cores. As silently as he slipped in he slipped out, no one was the wiser of his presence until the ships lifted off. Zeronen typically waited till the Confederate ships were under way and forming up to depart in mass before he remotely detonated his deadly charges. The resulting explosions inside the ships were enough to overload their cores and cause secondary ones that ripped a few capital ships in two. What ships were not rigged to blow were destroyed or heavily damaged by the resulting debris field. While the number of times he managed to this was small, only three in total, the resulting psychological impact was likely much worse then the actual dent he put in their forces.

In 300 ARE, at the Assault of Bespin, Zero took a minor role as a simple gunner on one of the larger clan ships. To his credit, he’d help take down several fighters in the assault that scrambled up to meet him and his brothers and sisters in arms.

In 301 ARE, The battle of Korriban was a major victory for the Alliance. However, it was also a major let down for Zeronen. He had missed the entire confrontation due to being laid up in a Bacta tank for a week. The reason for this was he was severely injured due to an explosives accident during preparations’ training for his part of the mission a few days before the start of the operation.

In 303 ARE, Zeronen was once more over Bespin. As before he was on the larger ships, his lack of fighter expertise left him grounded. Instead of fighting ships and fighters, he remained on board to help guard against possible boarding craft. Though small in his role, he did his job and took pride in his work.