Salutris

"You can say I'm pretty...stunning..."- Salutris, before stunning an unfortunate opponent for the umpteenth time.

Salutris Striker is a Deception Sith Assassin and an Associate Director of Blood Moon Intelligence. Specializing in the arts of stealth and subterfuge, Salutris is a formidable opponent to anyone that comes into a combat with him.

Early Life
Salutris Striker was the third son of twelve children born to a working class family of starship builders in Coronet City. Growing up, Salutris dreamed of being a Starship Captain and desired to travel the galaxy to explore the farthest reaches of the known galaxy.

Slautris had a complicated and often tense relationship with siblings. He was never infatuated with The Republic growing up, which brought him into conflict with the eldest brother, Kaycazno, who was a staunch Republic nationalist and would later go on to join The Republic military as soon as he turned 18 in 3650 BBY. He wasn't as strong as the second eldest, Korsicis, and as such was often pushed around by him and had an often fiery temper. He didn't particularly get along well with his next youngest sibling, Krammore, who strived to be just like Korsicis and often played second fiddle to him. Krammore would occasionally try to extort money out of Salutris, though Salutris usually ignored his threats. Salutris did get along amicably with Andrenock, who often tried to stay out of the sibling squabbles but didn't really connect with him in any meaningful way. Salutris had an especially fraught relationship with Troxcaria and Karenix, who he called "crazy" and "unreasonable" respectively and would often clash with them when he wasn't putting up with Korsicis's or Krammore's antics. Salutris did not care for his brothers Cenericis or Consilum's moral compass and good hearted nature, and found his youngest brother Chadmeyer to be an "annoying". Salutris's parents often had a difficult time controlling their children as they were often working in The Corellian Shipyards, leaving Kaycanzo, the eldest brother, in charge.

In order to stay afloat in his chaotic family situation in which they lived, Salutris learned to lie and manipulate his siblings to either get them in trouble or to turn them against each other so they wouldn't bother him. Salutris also learned when to fade into the background to avoid unnecessary confrontation, something his Andrenock, Cenericis, Chadmeyer, Consilum and Karenix took note of.

The siblings were fascinated by the tales of The Jedi and The Sith as they grew up, and would often roleplay fights pretending they were Jedi and Sith with sticks and whatever other items they could get their hands on. Salutris, with his brother Consilum, often choose the longer sticks or poles and wielded them as if they were double-bladed lightsabers.

In 3653 BBY, as The Empire continued it's advance into The Core Worlds, supply lines to Corellia were cutoff from the rest of the galaxy. As such, Criminal Organizations began to thrive on Corellia, as many citizens turned to the black market for food and medicine. Among the more famous gangs to set up operations on Corellia were The Red Hulls and The Howling Tempest Gang. Existing Corellian gangs and smuggling rings did not take kindly to the new outsiders, and attempted to wage a turf war in an effort to de-platform and expel the new gangs. During this turf war, Salutris's parents were killed in a crossfire and their home was destroyed. The Howling Tempest gang came across the wreckage of The Striker home and attempting to loot any valuables. The siblings fought back against The Gang, and while they managed to kill a few of the gang members with their parents's blasters, they were ultimately subdued by the gang.

It was during this time that Cenericis and Consilum discovered their force powers, and used them to fight back. However, they were ultimately no match for The Howling Tempest Gang. The Howling Tempest Gang members decided that the siblings could be of some use to them and decided to load them on their to ship. Their efforts were partially halted by the sudden arrival of The Green Jedi, who had come to investigate the chaos. The Howling Tempest were forced to retreat, but they were successful in taking Korsicis, Salutris, Troxcaria and Karenix with them.

Life as a Slave
The Howling Tempest Gang ultimately decided to sell their captives on The Black Market as slaves. Salutris was purchased by The Hutt Cartel and forced to work in the mines of Nal Hutta. For ten years, Salutris toiled for long hours and in dangerous conditions mining minerals for The Hutts. Salutris was mindful of how to act arround his overseers, as they did not tolerate failure or dissention. As such, Salutris generally kept his head down and did whatever assignment was given to him. Against all odds, Salutris was able to survive, but as a result, was given increasingly dangerous assignments by his overseers.

One such task was that Salutris was assigned to explore a previously unknown cavern to scout for potential deposits. During his explortation, Salutris lost his footing and fell into a dark chasm. When he failed to return to the Hutt Overseers, he was presumed to be dead. However, Salutris managed to survive his fall, but was gravely injured. Salutris waited for at least a day for The Hutts to come rescue him, but the rescue party never came. Refusing to die at the bottom of a dark chasm forgotten, Salutris reflected on his life up to to that point. To him, life was nothing but anger, loss, pain and torment. Tapping into those emotions, Salutris discovered his own force sensitivity by electrifying his fingertips, providing him a much-needed life source. Salutris then channeled his anger and willpower to climb out from the chasm and return to camp.

The Hutt Overseers were surprised to see him. The Hutt Overseers simply scolded Salutris for being late to return, which in turn caused Salutris lash out, electrocuting several Hutt Overseers and their guards. The intensity of his electrocution was so intense that he managed to fry his targets to ash. Salutris, physically and emotionally exhausted by the whole ordeal, then collapsed unconscious. When he awoke, he was brought before Nemro The Hutt, The Hutt in charge of overseeing the Hutt Cartel's mining operations on the planet. Nemro The Hutt, angry that a slave had killed several of his men and partially disrupted his mining operations, but mindful of his power, offered Salutris the choice to be sent to The Empire, or be put to death. Salutris naturally chose the first option. Nemro The Hutt then sold Salutris to The Empire and sent him on a shuttle to Korriban.

Life as a Sith Acolyte
Upon arrival to Korriban, Salutris was assigned to Overseer Harkun, who was tasked with sorting through the arriving groups and transforming the initiates into acolytes for Sith Lords to later choose them as apprentices. When Salutris was tasked with choosing his weapon, he chose the training staff while his fellow initiates chose the singular training blade. Harkin mocked Salutris for his choice, suggesting he chose it because it was a "flashy option." Salutris then offered to show off his skill with it. Harkun decided to indulge him and forced two of Salutris's fellow initiates to fight him to the death. After initally complaining that it wasn't a fair fight and being threatned with death if he didn't participate, Salutris duled his fellow initiates and easily won the fight, much to Harkun's surprise. Salutris then challenged Harkun, who simply laughed and force choked him, saying that he would not lower himself to challenge a mere slave and told him that he couldn't beat a Sith Lord if he tried. Harkun stopped short of choking Salutris unconscious, and after belittling him some more, sent the rest of the group off to their first round of trials.

Over the course of several months, Salutris was tasked with exterminating kor'sluugs and various other predators from various tombs throughout Korriban and retrieving various artifacts. Salutris would also, on occasion, be called in to interrogate prisoners or fellow intiates of suspected wrong-doing, but generally favored playing mind-games and manipulating them into telling the truth rather than use blunt force and torture (which he did not shy away from using either if his prisoner was giving him a hard time). During these trials, Salutris gained notoriety for his proficiency with his staff, and as such was often tasked by Harkun to hunt down and kill failed or rogue initiates who were hiding out in the Korriban wilds, despite Salutris and Harkun fostering a mutual dislike of each other. Harkun would often remark that he'd hope it would be the last time he'd see Salutris, while Salutris retorted that he'd kill Harkun the next time he saw him, which would often lead to a stare down before Harkun ushering Salutris out of his chambers or a threat of an actual fight.

At some point, Salutris's work caught the attention of then-Lord Zash, who was in need of an enforcer for her powerbase. As Salutris's final test, he was tasked with hunting down the last member of his arrival group, a red Twi'lek female. She was tasked with retrieving some of the writings of Tulak Hord (which would later serve as the basis for Zash's research on Tulak Hord's ritual on essence transfer). Salutris followed closely behind her, always staying out of her sight and carefully mimicked her movements as she went through the various traps of Tulak Hord's tomb. Once she found the writings, Salutris leapt from the shadows and struck her down, collecting her training blade and the writings as proof of her death. Salutris's work impressed Harkun and Zash, and Zash subsequently took Salutris as her apprentice upon his formal graduation from The Sith Academy.

Servitude to Darth Zash
Until Darth Zash's demise at the hands of future Sith Lord, Darth Nox, Salutris served as one of Zash's top assassins. Unbeknown to Salutris, Troxcaria had also found her way into Darth Zash's service as one of her inquisitors. Zash herself was unknown of the relation between Salutris and Troxcaria, but the two never met during their service to Zash.

Salutris was often tasked with running interference with Darth Skotia and Darth Thanaton and preventing their agents from learning about Darth Zash's operations and intentions (most of which were unknown to Salutris himself). Zash trained and perfected Salutris in the arts of combat, stealth, subterfuge and Sith politics, making him into a deadly adversary.

In addition to assassinating Darths Skotia's and Thanton's agents that Zash suspected of spying on her, Zash assigned Salutris to find a suitable engineer capable of creating a cyborg disruptor. Salutris eventually tracked down an engineer named Dorotsech, who was in service to the rogue Sith Lord Grathan. Salutris then delivered Zash's request to Dorotsech, promising him freedom in exchange for the construction of the device.

Zash then assigned Salutris to investigate claims of one of Tulak Hord's artifacts being located on Balmorra. Salutris made his way to Balmorra and was able to narrow down the area where he suspected the vault was located. Using Zash's name, he made contact with Major Bessiker, who agreed to investigate the claims further and report back to Zash.

Around this time, Darth Skotia had been slain by future Sith Lord Darth Knox, and Salutris was tasked with eliminating Skotia's remaining underlings. Salutris would carry on this assignment until the death of Darth Zash.