User:Curigh San

Curigh San - Human Jedi Knight
Curigh San is a human Jedi Knight serving with the Saints of the Old Republic.

Curigh was born on one of the many moons of Haradit on the outskirts of the Outer Rim, a dull planet, with little life, his family were among the first refugees driven towards the inner core as the Sith Empire spread towards Coruscant. As the Empire strangled the life out of the Outer Rim planets Curigh (aged four) and his parents were stranded on the desolate planet of Algol.

There, whilst being herded by native slave traders to various outposts and smuggling stations Curigh and his family were bought by a shadowy figure who claimed to have been sent by the Emperor himself to set up a base on Algol in a little known valley on the darker desert side of the planet.

When Curigh arrived at the freshly excavated and clearly ancient Sith Temple his mother and father were brutally executed in front of him and he was forced to begin over a decade of training under his new master who revealed himself to be a Sith Lord named Darth Naebyrot. Naebyrot claimed to have begun a system of training Sith apprentices at a fiercely young age and provide for them not a role model or a master to look up to, but a figure to focus their hatred upon, an enemy they would despise with such force, fear and anguish that they would eventually turn to the Dark Side in a bid to destroy them. Darth Naebyrot was mocked by the rest of his Sith brothers and regularly chastised by the Dark Brotherhood for his unsavoury methods.

When Curigh was nineteen he was dumped in the wilderness and left to die, he fended for himself for some weeks, managing to survive by eating the Festoon rats that shuffled half dead in the wastelands of Algol's deserts. Eventually Lord Naebyrot to collect his apprentice and allowed him to attack him for the first time. Feeling the power in his veins and the strength the dark side gave him Curigh attempted for the first time to murder his master, much to Naebyrot's delight and amusement. On that same day Naebyrot presented Curigh before the Dark brotherhood and forced him to display his powers with the Force. The Sith were impressed and declared that perhaps Naebyrot had discovered something in this idea of a master and apprentice not admiring but hating each other.

Days later a rogue Jedi and several members of the Jedi Guild known as the Saints of the Old Republic attacked the Sith Temple on Algol after feeling a strong disturbance in the Force that they felt needed addressing. As the other Jedi destroyed Naebyrot’s work and levelled the Temple with orbital strikes a Jedi Knight named Temson Clar made his way to the surface and rescued the dying Curigh San.

Curigh was taken before the rest of the Jedi Council and they vehemently refused to allow Temson to train him, saying he was too old, too deep in the council of the enemy and knew too much of the Dark Side to ever be controlled.

Temson ignored the Jedi and took Curigh to the planet Alderaan where he hid him up in the mountains and attempted to drain the dark side powers out of him as one would venom in a wound. As the years went on eventually Curigh became a proficient Jedi, his strength in the Force and his self control only tempered by the fact he was convinced his old master was dead, killed in the bombardment on the Algol Temple.

Some years later as he neared his thirtieth year and now a fully capable Jedi Knight Curigh became privy to information that Algol had been swallowed up in dark side powers again, that smuggling routes to the planet were being blockaded and an old enemy of the Jedi had risen again to thwart their plans to put an outpost in the capital city should the Sith Empire ever choose to invade through that region of space.

After making a request of assistance to Temson’s old friend Jedi Master Jao Thaun, (overseer of the Saints of the Old Republic) the three Jedi covertly went to Algol in search of what ancient enemy could have arisen once more in such a desolate region of space. Expecting nothing more than a lone Sith or a collective of dark side sensitives the three were horrified to discover the Sith Temple once more fully operational and several young apprentices in training under Darth Naebyrot, each one caged, obsessed and growing in the dark side every moment they breathed.

Curigh confronted his old master and the two fought in a fierce battle that ended up with the three Jedi encircling the ancient Sith Lord in the long steam vent tunnels at the base of the reactor shaft that heated the Temple. Jao Thaun was kept busy with another Sith Lord as Temson and Curigh fought the mutilated and corrupt Darth Naebyrot.

Seeing that his padawan was getting more and more enraged and beginning to show signs of vehement aggression Temson Clar allowed himself to be exposed to the greater part of Naebyrot’s violence, eventually succumbing to an underhand lightsaber thrust that eviscerated him. Curigh was thrown clear of the fighting as Jao Thaun made short work of the Sith Lords, chasing them into the core as they fled towards escape pods which took them to an unknown launch pad, where they made their escape.

Jao Thaun carried Curigh back to their ship, along with the body of his fallen master, Temson Clar and returned to Republic space. Curigh had, during his unconsciousness been pressed against one of the damaged steam vents and lost his left eye, along with all his hair and most of the skin on his face.

Growing to be a fully fledged Jedi Knight within the Saints of the Old Republic, Curigh refused synthetic treatment of the horrific scars to his face or a replacement eyeball, saying instead he wanted to always remember his master Temson Clar and wear the battle damage with pride in his honour.