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New character sketch. Meet Dr. Nole Breibog.

He is a scientist in the Valkoran Order and a disgraced prodigy of Machinus. After a series of accidents (from his own inventions), his only organic component is his head. He's not a villain that's meant to be taken seriously. He thinks himself a genius, but is actually a bit of a buffoon.

His design is based on an older concept for Machinus, who would later be reimagined as a droid that used to be an organic being. Him being a card-carrying mad scientist is basically a throwback to my earliest drafts of the Valkoran Empire.

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Sketch for Machinus’s second redesign (the original version in the Valkoran-as-a-Sith-cult concept was a cyborg whose only organic component was his head instead of a droid).

Codename: Machinus Real Name: Cid Geero Homeworld: Glee Anselm Species: Formerly Nautolan, until he transferred his consciousness to a droid to save his own life Gender: Male Age: 3500+ years Affiliation: Old Jedi Order; Valkoran Empire Equipment: Lightsaber with hilt-guard, wrist blasters, electro-absorbers for countering EMPs and Ion weapons in his prehensile cranial tentacles, multi-jointed legs with clawed feet, dash and hover jets jets; repulsor fields Other facts: Lead tech director in the Valkoran Empire; Formerly an engineer with the Jedi Order. Due to no longer having an organic body, he's practically lost his connection to the Force. However, he's made many modifications to his body to compensate for his loss, and is just as effective a combatant as he was when he was a living being. Adopted Neur as a surrogate daughter after saving her from an abusive upbringing with the Nightsisters and created her cybernetic lekku replacements.

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Doctor Nole Breibog - Valkoran Weapon Scientist

Subject Name: Nole Breibog

Homeworld: Ockla Prime

Species: Human (cyborg)

Gender: Male

Affiliation: Valkoran Empire/Order

The son of Valkoran nobility, Dr. Nole Breibog was a former student of Machinus, the Valkoran Empire's former top engineering scientist. However, Machinus considered him to be one of his worst students (and that's not a claim he makes lightly since Machinus is over 4000 years old). Many of his inventions were often deemed impractical at best. In fact, Breibog lost most of his original body (save for his head) as a result of his own incompetence.

Near the end of the Valkoran War, Breibog remained loyal to the Valkoran Empire while his former teacher sided with the split off Seferite Order, and was the only one of Machinus's students to do so. Going into the Forceless War, he's one of the few leaders the Valkoran Order has left. While he has a reputation for mediocrity, he has somehow created a cyber-virus that can imitate Forceless possession, giving the Forceless Collective a means in which they can possess computers and droids. He continues to experiment with his virus on Aut Matok, a planet inhabited by a race of mechanical lifeforms known as the Matoki.

In spite of his incompetence, Breibog has delusions of being a genius. He also has a grudge against the Jedi Knight Zolph Vaelor, even though Zolph does not remember him at all. Befitting his ego, he seeks to take Zolph down personally to gain Emperor Valkor's approval, even if it means making serious tactical blunders.

Due to his head being his only remaining organic component, he is capable of disconnecting it from his robotic body it it's incapacitated. His head can move around on a small set of legs hidden in his neck before attaching himself to another droid's body or a powered battle suit.

Trivia: Breibog's design is based on older concepts for Machinus. Instead of being a full-body cyborg, Machinus would eventually be revised into a droid with an organic consciousness.

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Emperor Valkor - Broken Façade

This is also the cover art for Star Wars: Paranormalities: Episode II - Chapter 16: War’s End.

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Profile: Ze'emilin'asana Codename: Mortaqa Homeworld: Nar Shaddaa Species: Chiss (endangered purple-eyed sub-species) Gender: Female Age: 3500+ years Weapon: Lightsaber (formerly), Lightscythe Affiliation: Old Jedi Order, Valkoran Empire, Forceless Collective (unconsentingly) The younger sister of Ze'grein'aradi (or Grein as most call her), Emilin has been through many lifetimes' worth of pain and suffering. She was born on Nar Shaddaa after her mother and sister fled from the Chiss homeworld of Csilla to escape a series of ethnic cleansing on accusations of 'witchcraft'. Eventually both she and her sister were discovered by the Jedi Order and accepted for training (although at the time, nobody knew what species they were). Following the end of the Mandalorian Wars, she, Grein and several others followed Jedi Knight Seferin Vaelor - Grein's betrothed and later her husband - to the Unknown Regions planet Ockla Prime after he was exiled, met the enigmatic character Valkor and created an empire consisting of many people disillusioned with their own governments, whether from the Republic or the Sith Empire. Unfortunately, the Valkoran Empire wouldn't be the utopia it seemed to be on the surface. After the clinically insane outcast Sith Lord Masochus came along with his emotionally tormented apprentice, Balos Oiren (who would later be known as Armogeist), Emperor Valkor's plans for galactic conquest via a group known as the Forceless Collective started to surface. She and Grein learned of this, but Emilin was caught by Masochus and Valkor while Grein was forced to flee. She was then possessed by the Forceless Archfiend, Facadma. She was officially listed as having been killed in an accident, when truth, she spent centuries in isolation being physically and psychologically tortured by Valkor, Facadma and Masochus. In addition to being consciously aware of her possession and unable to speak out (even via telepathy), forms of torment included distorting her visual perception (by making her see the world through the perspective of a three-eyed mask), taunting her with the idea that her sister won't come back to save her and cutting her breasts off while she was still conscious. But none of these compared to Facadma combining her powers to make her harvest the living Force from creatures on a planetary scale every so often, as she was often forced to endure the torment of other beings denied the opportunity to become one with the Force. She eventually got her release more than 3,500 years later near the end of the war between the Valkoran Empire and the Galactic Alliance, liberated from Facadma by her distant nephew, Zolph Vaelor (who was almost purely human due to the Chiss genes being thinned out from generations of human breeding) and working alongside her sister Grein, who cheated death and persevered through the regret of abandoning her just to see to it that she was eventually freed and the Forceless Collective defeated. Facadma's death at the hands of both Zolph and her brother-in-law, Seferin (AKA Maesterus) then followed after hers.

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The cover art for Star Wars: Paranormalities: Episode II - Chapter 14: Facade

Admittedly, Facadma is off-model in this piece. The lower face tentacles should be on her cheeks.

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Armogeist

Real Name: Balos Oiren Homeworld: Dromund Kaas Species: Formerly Human; Now a spirit bound to a suit of armor Gender: Male Age: 3500+ years (20 when body was lost) Weapon: Lightsaber pike, phrik shield Affiliation: Sith Empire (formerly), Valkoran Empire Lacking the same ideals as any other Sith, Balos Oiren also had it worse than most other Sith. In addition to suffering the rule that all Force-sensitives born in the Empire had to undergo brutal training, he was apprenticed to Darth Masochus, one of the most clinically insane Sith Lords of his time. In addition to the physical and psychological torture (which included among other things forcing him to flay his own parents alive) he endured at Masochus's hands, he was exiled along with his master just for being his apprentice. To start his exile, Masochus flayed Oiren alive before destroying his body, but rather than let him die (and going so far to taunt him with the classic belief in there being nothing after death), he bound his life-force to an immobile wooden figurine so he wouldn't be able to escape from Masochus through fleeing or suicide. When Masochus was summoned to the Valkoran Empire on Ockla Prime, most of the previously established leadership (most of which were former Jedi) forcefully took the immobilized Balos Oiren away from his abusive master. Seferin Vaelor (AKA Maesterus) and Ze'grein'aradi (Grein) contemplated letting him become one with the Force (introducing Balos to a less fatalistic belief), but since Emperor Valkor still had some plans for Oiren, the best they could do for him was give him a more mobile body that could be considered as close to living as possible: a bulky, archaic suit of ancient Ocklanite armor, and in addition to a lightsaber pike and cortosis shield, he was given the codename Armogeist. He may have been denied the chance for revenge on his former master (as Valkor still needed him), but getting to know some former Jedi has given him renewed outlook on life, separating him from the mindset that would make a Sith. However, he still longs for a proper death and to become one with the Force.

Design and concept-wise, he was inspired by a mix of Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist and the Knight and General classes in the Fire Emblem video game series. Older concepts for him didn't give him a shield, but one had lightsabers connected to his arms and shoulders, another had him using the Force to wield multiple lightsabers at once, and a third gave him the pike saber (more of a trident actually) except it had the lightsabers attached to the prongs and could be launched off. As for weapon choice, I always try to mix up the fighting styles for the Valkoran leaders. Maesterus uses a single lightsaber but he's also got Forceless-enhanced abilities such as the projectile bone spikes and his wings. Dynn Manthis used a double-bladed saber. Arcidus has his Force incineration ability and he uses stealth and blasters. Juganak has a lightsaber club and super strength. Neur is left-handed and wields a curved-hilt saber with a spike on the butt and she's flinch-resistant if her cybernetic headtails stop functioning. Machinus has no Force powers (due to being a former Jedi in the body of a droid) and uses technology to compensate. Masochus relies almost exclusively on the Force to do everything including moving his own body since he somehow trimmed off his own muscles and reanimating corpses. I gave Armogeist a shield because a pike is kinda hard to block projectiles with when you think about it.

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The Phantom Razor is the personal starfighter of the Valkoran assassin, Arcidus. Despite bearing the basic cockpit design of some Valkoran vehicles such as the Firaxa-class starfighter, the Shyrack-class bomber and the Tuk'Ata-class hover tank, the Razor is a one-of-a-kind fighter. Designed for covert missions, the Razor is equipped with a cloaking device, technology incredibly rare for ships smaller than cruisers to have. Weapon systems include two dual-laser cannons, two proton torpedo launchers and six folding razor-sharp wings (hence the name) that can rotate to a saw-blade formation to slice apart any fighters that fly too close to it. Also of note is that the Phantom Razor is the only known starfighter in the Valkoran arsenal to take advantage of an astromech socket. However, this socket can only be interfaced by Valkoran-made astromech droids, such as Arcidus's droid and copilot, V7-L20.

If there are any regrets I have with this piece in hindsight, it’s making Veeseven’s head too big, which ended up making the ship look smaller than it should be. (Unless Valkoran astromech droids are much larger than normal)

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My first piece of concept art for Neur from 2013.

Name: Neur (no codename given) Homeworld: Dathomir Species: Human-Twi'lek hybrid (cyborg) Gender: Female (Transgender; AMAB) Age: 400+ years (biological age: 21) Weapon: Lightsaber Affiliation: Nightsisters (reject), Valkoran Empire Other information: She's normally cheerful and sociable, but due to a forced lobotomy during her incredibly abusive upbringing with the early Nightsisters, her mental integrity is nearly dependent upon her cybernetic lekku. If her lekku were to malfunction, her mind would regress to that of a violently insane child. In this state, she won't react to injuries received until minutes later, accumulating with several other injuries she received within her whole life. Sees Machinus, the lead engineer for the Valkoran military, as her surrogate father. Unlike cisgender human-Twi'lek hybrid women that are dominantly Twi'lek, she has rounded ears like a human instead of ear cones, obscured by her headband. Current advances in Twi’lek gender reaffirming surgery are unable to alter ears without potentially damaging the patient's hearing.

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A late 2012 sketch of Arcidus (in fact, it’s almost 10 years old). This is also the cover art for Star Wars: Paranormalities: Episode II - Prologue: Raid.

An additional bonus, Arcidus’s profile.

Name: Aiken Cremas (Codename: Arcidus) Homeworld: Saleucami Species: Human Gender: Male Age: 3500+ (Biological age: 25) Affiliation: Old Jedi Order (formerly), Valkoran Empire (formerly), Seferite Order Weapons of choice: Stealth lightsaber (AKA Darksaber), sniper rifle, blaster pistol, Flamusfracta (AKA Force Combustion) Vehicle: Phantom Razor Maesterus's apprentice from back when they were part of the Jedi Order and his most-trusted agent in the Valkoran Empire, exhibiting loyalty only to Maesterus. Not even Emperor Valkor can order him around. His most unusual Force power is the ability to cause anything to combust into flames, which can be incredibly dangerous to both the user and those around him if not properly tamed. This power has caused him a deal of early childhood trauma, including accidentally orphaning himself before being taken in by the Jedi and being trained in social isolation.

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Profile sketch of Emperor Valkor. Also used as the cover art for Star Wars: Paranormalities: Episode II - Chapter 8: The Enforcer

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Star Wars: Paranormalities: Episode I - Chapter 10: Crippled cover art - Maesterus’s Next Mutation

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Star Wars: Paranormalities: Episode I - Chapter 8: The Arm cover art - Dynn Manthis’s New Arm

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Star Wars: Paranormalities: Episode I - Chapter 7: Artifact cover art - Maesterus’s Evolution

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An early-2012 concept design of a Valkoran Shadow Trooper. The “mocksaber” is inspired by the beam katanas from the No More Heroes series.

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Late-2011 to early-2012 concept art for the prologue of Paranormalities: Episode II. In order:

The Charros IV Valkoran outpost, Zolph Vaelor’s Episode II redesign, and Sergeant Will “Phoenix” Helms. Also, as a bonus, an alternate fourth-wall-breaking line for Helms.

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