 Name: Celeste Morne {as of 137 ABY}
Homeworld: Ossus
Died: 137 ABY, Had Abbadon
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Blue, red (dark side)
Skin color: Light
Affiliation(s): Jedi Order, Jedi Covenant, Covenant Shadow, Galactic Republic
Move: 10
DEXTERITY: 3D+1
Blaster: 4D+2
Brawling Parry: 6D+1
Dodge: 6D
LightSaber: 8D+2
PERCEPTION: 3D+1
Bargain: 5D
Bureaucracy: 5D
Command: 7D
Con: 8D+1
Investigation: 6D+1
Persuasion: 5D+2
Search: 6D
Sneak: 8D
KNOWLEDGE: 2D+2
Alien Species: 5D+2
Cultures: 5D
Scholar (Jedi Lore): 7D+2
Scholar (Force Artefacts): 9D
Languages: 6D+1
Planetary Systems: 5D+1
Streetwise: 5D+2
Survival: 5D
Tactics: 6D
Willpower: 9D+1
STRENGTH: 3D+1
Brawling: 7D
Climbing/Jumping: 5D+1
MECHANICAL: 2D
Astrogation: 4D
Communications: 5D+1
Repulsorlift Operation: 4D+2
Sensors: 3D+2
Space Transports: 5D+1
Starship Gunnery: 4D
Starship Shields: 3D+2
TECHNICAL: 2D
Lightsaber Repair: 5D
Security: 4D+2
SPECIAL ABILITIES:
Control 9D+1
Sense 9D+2
Alter 9D
Force Powers: Absorb/Dissipate Energy, Accelerate Healing, Concentrate, Control Pain, Detoxify Poison, Emptiness, Enhance Attribute, Force Of Will, Hibernation Trance, Reduce Injury, Remain Conscious, Resist Stun, Short Term Memory Enhancement, Combat Sense, Danger Sense, Instinctive Astrogation, Life Detection, Life Sense, Magnify Senses, Receptive Telepathy, Sense Force, Sense Force Potential, Sense Path, Telekinesis, Farseeing, Lightsaber Combat, Projective Telepathy, Accelerate Anothers Healing, Control Anothers Pain, Enhance Anothers Attribute, Return Another To Consciousness, Affect Mind, Control Mind, Jedi Battle Meditation, Force Cloak. Dark Transfer, Force Lightning
Force Sensitive: Yes
Force Points: 12
Dark Side Points: 2
Character Points: 20
Equipment:
Credits: 1,250
Jedi Robes, Lightsaber (5D), Comlink, Muur Talisman
Description: Celeste Morne was a Human female Jedi who served the Jedi Covenant as a Covenant Shadow, an agency that consisted of Jedi whose identities were erased from the Order's records. She dedicated herself to the Covenant's cause after the loss of her home and family ties in the Great Sith War. In 3963 BBY the Covenant assigned Morne a mission to retrieve the Muur Talisman, an artifact owned generations prior by the Sith Lord Karness Muur that gave the wearer control over the mutant rakghoul creatures. Furthermore, Morne was tasked to bring fugitive Padawan Zayne Carrick to justice. Over the course of her mission, however, she came to doubt Carrick's culpability in the Padawan Massacre of Taris, for which he had been implicated by the members of the First WatchCircle of the Covenant.
As she fought through the obstructions to her mission, including the unexpected outbreak of the Rakghoul Plague on the planet Jebble and her own doubts about Carrick, Morne fell under the possession of the Muur Talisman. In order to protect the galaxy from herself, Morne allowed Carrick to seal her in Dreypa's Oubliette. She would remain there in stasis until 19 BBY, when the Sith Lord Darth Vader obtained the oubliette and released her. She emerged haunted by the spirit of Karness Muur and discovered that the Sith ruled the galaxy in the new era she found herself in. Enraged at this discovery, Morne dueled Vader, but after being defeated used the Muur Talisman to force him to retreat. For approximately nineteen years afterward she lived secluded on a desolate moon, until she was visited by a company of elite stormtroopers, all of whom she turned into rakghouls in a moment of temporary insanity. Soon after, Rebel Alliance leaders Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa conducted a mission to recover what they thought to be a secret Imperial weapon, but was in fact, Morne. She and her Sithspawn attacked Skywalker and Organa, who managed to barely escape with their lives. Morne took an abandoned transport and headed off into space to explore the galaxy.
After a hundred years—the nature of her bond with Muur and the Talisman had endowed her with long life—Morne took control of the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer Iron Sun and took it into the Deep Core, intending to hold Muur there forever. She then met bounty hunter Cade Skywalker, and after witnessing him cure himself of the rakghoul plague with the Force, joined Skywalker in his plan to assassinate the current Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Krayt. Their quest took them to the planet Had Abbadon, where Morne allowed for the knowledge of Skywalker's presence in the Deep Core to reach Krayt. He arrived and a battle ensued, ultimately resulting in his defeat to the strike team and death at the hands of his own servant Darth Wyyrlok. With the Dark Lord finally eliminated, Morne focused on her own dilemma: the fear that the Sith spirit trapped inside her would soon dominate her completely. She asked Skywalker to free her of Muur's influence, and Skywalker obliged, killing her with his lightsaber.
Personality and traits
The devastation of Morne's early life during the Old Sith Wars fostered in her a hatred of the Sith that led her to join the Jedi in order to dedicate her life to guarding against the return of the Sith. However, believing that the Jedi Order had relaxed their vigilance, Morne was convinced that the Covenant was correct in its mission to eliminate the agents of the dark side through whatever means were necessary. Even after learning of the corruption of the Covenant from Carrick, and throughout the millennia bound to the Muur Talisman, her hatred of the Sith and devotion to eradicating their existence never faded.
As a Shadow, Morne served as a sleeper agent for the Covenant, going about her daily life while waiting for the next assignment, many of which led to the nastier places in the galaxy and served to shape her rough personality. Morne had little patience once on a mission, as her energies were focused on completing the assignment given to her. During her search for the Muur Talisman, she expressed her irritation with Carrick and Hierogryph's bickering—by regularly insulting them—from the moment that she met them in the Tarisian Undercity, on their flight aboard the Mar'eyce, and in the Ice Citadel on Jebble. Even after four millennia, Morne spoke her mind, bluntly telling an indignant Cade Skywalker that his plan to draw Lord Krayt into an ambush was flawed and that it had been necessary for her to improve upon it.
Morne had a sense of justice, in addition to respect and compassion for life, and she did not kill a being unless it was necessary. In the Undercity of Taris, she was unable to kill a Rakghoul Plague–infected Constable Sowrs until the woman had transformed into the beast. Moreover, she found herself unable to follow orders and kill Zayne Carrick once she began to doubt that he was responsible for the Padawan murders on Taris after she witnessed Carrick go out of his way to protect Cassus Fett's Mandalorian fleet from the Rakghoul Plague. Upon meeting Skywalker and Azlyn Rae after they had been exposed to the plague, Morne stayed with them during the illness' progression, telling the two that she would give them a quick and merciful death. Nevertheless, Morne also had a pragmatic and calculating approach to life, realizing that certain situations and actions were unavoidable. After assuming command of the Iron Sun and transforming the crew into rakghouls, Morne allowed the creatures to cannibalize each other for nourishment once the supplies of food had run out.
The strength of her iron will, and her devotion to protecting the galaxy from the Sith, compelled Morne to sacrifice herself for the greater good. In Pulsipher's laboratory on Jebble, she had drawn the Muur Talisman away from Carrick in order to save him, for Morne sensed that she, not Carrick, was strong enough to withstand whatever the Talisman held. Furthermore, after realizing that she was a threat—by virtue of being bonded with the Talisman—Morne allowed herself to be sealed in Dreypa's Oubliette, even while knowing that it would be a torture chamber for her. Nearly four thousand years later, after being awakened by Darth Vader, she risked losing control over herself by tapping into the power of the Talisman in order to prevent Vader from claiming it for his own. Twenty years later, Morne's duel with Vader's son, Luke Skywalker, resulted in the Muur Talisman leaving her, giving her freedom from Karness Muur. Nevertheless, she realized that she was the only one who was capable of imprisoning the spirit of Muur, and retook the relic and the burden therof. When asked by Cade Skywalker a century later why she had not simply buried the Sith artifact somewhere, Morne replied that she could not take the chance that someone weaker than herself would find it and set loose an army of rakghouls upon the galaxy. Morne also explained that she had found methods of imprisoning the spirit of Muur within herself and had gone into self-exile for the protection of all.
While Morne did not make friends, she did become allies with people who made an impression on her, giving them her trust. Zayne Carrick had made an impression on her while they were on Jebble, and before she was sealed in the oubliette, Morne asked him to transport her to the Covenant's secret storehouse for Sith artifacts on Odryn, where she hoped that researchers would be able to help her. She trusted him to somehow find a way to help her affliction and gave him her key to the storehouse. Upon her awakening by Lord Vader, and learning the fate of the galaxy, Morne was despondent, believing that Carrick had failed her. Not until the death of Lord Krayt on Had Abbadon did she finally understand that Zayne had not failed her in that he had sent Cade Skywalker to help her. Morne judged Skywalker strong enough to withstand Karness Muur, and trusting him to destroy the Muur Talisman, she allowed Skywalker to kill her and end her imprisonment.
Powers and abilities
As a Shadow, Celeste Morne was trained to live her life as a sleeper agent for the Covenant, living her daily life until summoned for a mission. She was secretive and unorthodox, taking pains to avoid dressing as a Jedi, and she rarely used her lightsaber in public. In order to fulfill her duty and follow the Covenant's mandate in using all means necessary to bring about a successful conclusion to an assignment, Morne was skilled in using many forms of subterfuge, both with the Force and without. Fluent in the Bocce language, Morne also developed an ability to move quietly in many types of environments, such as the Undercity on Taris, and the ice fields of Jebble. Morne was tough enough to recover from being slammed into a wall by Darth Vader without any serious harm, beyond the loss of her saber, which she reclaimed with telekinesis. Her will was great, never fully submitting to Muur for thousands of years of bearing his Talisman, though he was able to guide and advise her.
During combat, Morne was skilled in using a lightsaber, often using the Force to gain a small height advantage over her enemies and to augment the strength of her blows. She butchered Darth Vader's stormtroopers without trouble when she had but a moment while deflecting their attacks, clove apart a box Vader Force threw at her, and contended with the Sith, though initially Vader was holding back and merely wishing to subdue her. When he chose to commit fully to fighting her, he was able to easily overpowered Celeste in combat and disarm her. Celeste Morne defeated Luke Skywalker in lightsaber combat, through her skill with a blade, then greater skill with the Force, and chaining in kicks. Morne could make very precise strikes with her blade, such as when she knocked the Muur Talisman from Organa's neck without striking the princess.
Furthermore, she was talented with the use of telekinesis, using the Force power to hurl enemies and objects away from her. She was able to Force throw Darth Vader, though it should be noted he was not intent on doing her harm at that point, and when the Dark Lord became intent on slaying her he was able to breach her defences and thrust her against a wall. She then Force slammed whole squads of stomtroopers, killing many. Morne was able to Force choke her foes at significant distances, strangling the pilot of a shuttle, causing the ship to crash at her feet--before she killed the crew by turning them into rakghouls. Morne could Force push Luke Skywalker, both in combat and when he was not prepared for battle, and used Force grip on a GAR clone.
Morne also had the ability to use the Force as protection from an opponent's attacks.
Calling upon her Force powers, Morne was proficient in persuading or confusing her enemies and opponents into following her commands; these actions could include performing a specific action, as she did with Pulsipher aboard the Mar'eyce, or clouding an individual's perception so as to be able to move about undetected, a form of Force cloak referred to as Force Haze. Likewise, Morne could communicate with individuals through the Force. Celeste Morne had a refined Force sense, able to detect Leia Organa sneaking up to her and also uncover that Luke Skywalker was of a bloodline that had a dark legacy. Moreover she stated Luke had darkness in his past and future.
More than a hundred years later, she would face Darth Krayt. During this encounter, as she pretended to be fully under Murr's control, she revealed she had learned Dark Transfer from him and began to heal Krayt. She also used Vongsense on Darth Krayt's armor without any known prior training.
Sith lightning was a power she could use.
After bonding with the Muur Talisman, Morne gained the ability to employ Sith magic in transforming certain species into rakghouls and directing the mutants according to her will, at one point transforming all stormtroopers serving with Vader into rakghouls (as well as an innocent who was caught in the wave of dark power) and this new force under her control was enough of a threat that Darth Vader fled rather than continue the battle. She later killed a whole Imperial force of three fully filled Lambda-class T-4a shuttles by turning them into rakghouls. Years later, she destroyed an Imperial-class Star Destroyer by flying the the command center of the craft, and then turning the bridge crew into rakghouls and allowing the now pilotless ship to be dragged down to crash on a moon.
Moreover, she drew upon Muur and the Talisman's dark side power in combat, unleashing Sith lightning at her enemies. Opening herself up to the power of the Talisman was a risk, as Muur always tried to claim her body as his puppet, and sometimes was able to guide her to do deeds that aided him, such at attacking Luke Skywalker.
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