Codename: Nightmare. Why is the dark scary? Because you're afraid. What shall you do, when your fears become real?
: Lucian is extremely sadistic, cruel by nature, relishing in others pain and torment.
Astropath
A variant of a telepath, an astropath can read the mind of others, but also project onto them. In Lucian's case, he has perfect control of what others see, smell, hear, taste, and even feel, and usually projects their very worst nightmares for them to live out in the confines of their minds.
Rhinoskin Armor
Being a non-physical psychokinetic, he was granted the Rhinoskin armor system, a series of protective polymers that are woven together, into a slightly more heavy-weight armor than Dragonskin. Resistant to up to .75 caliber rounds, and all but impervious to energy weapons, it is a well rounded defense.
Dual Glock 18s
As per Dark Rain mandate, Lucian carries two sidearms. Fully automatic, extended clip variants of the Glock, these machine pistols spew death in a hail of metal jacketed rounds.
The organization known as Dark Rain keeps it's origins secret beyond the level of Black. However, Dark Rain does not keep secret its specialty, and that is providing individual agents to clients at a fee. These agents have one thing in common: They are all powerful psychokinetics.
Lucian wasn't recruited. He joined, after discovering the headquarters by the ambient thoughts of those within. Drawn by so many fears in one place, his powers were discovered and aimed.
Now one of the premier agents of Dark Rain, Lucian is the strongest astropaths, an Alpha level agent.
The Varden operate primarily within a galaxy they call Ayenee and in another smaller and relatively close galaxy known as Eden which are both many hundreds of thousands of light years from Terra. These two galaxies are in a state of collision. Their domain consists of three hundred solar systems near the galactic core of Eden with about sixty habitable worlds total, similar to Terra. Each major contributing government holds from one thousand to four thousand solar systems but the major population centers of each empire are within one to four hundred systems with two hundred to six hundred habitable worlds total for each empire. Most habitable celestial bodies within one of the empires have at least one settlement and solar systems that do not have a habitable world normally have a space station orbiting a celestial body. Every race but the humans that are represented within the council do have a home world and a number of core systems as do the Varden.
Ayenee and Eden both reside within the Corona Borealis Supercluster. Although it is one billion light years from Terra it is famous because it is a fairly obvious concentration of clusters of galaxies. Ayenee and Eden both reside within the cluster A2061 as identified by Terran astronomers with Ayenee actually identified as PGC 54787.
The Varden can be considered a class three civilization based on Kardashev's scale. The five empires that support the Varden would rate as class three civilizations due numerous Dyson swarm and ring projects. The most ambitious of these projects is the JDSP (Joint Dyson Sphere Project) being spearheaded by the Varden. Looking to the smaller states the Varden can be considered a Type omega-minus civilization.
On the technology being used to travel such a substantial distance in no significant time:
A cynosural field, also known colloquially as a "cyno" or "beacon", is a cosmic anomaly that acts as a pseudo-gravity well. With the correct calibration information, jump drives can lock onto the field and create what seems to an outside observer to be a portal to a destination. Jump drives actually bend space/time and the equipped unit to jump anywhere in the conceivable universe.
Remote generation of cynosural fields is not currently possible. Thus properly equipped units must rely upon other friendly units to generate a cynosural field at the target location. The only exception to that is the line of sight rule for on grid point to point locations referenced with line of sight to the target location and only when the unit is properly equipped to perform such a maneuver. When activated, cynosural fields act as beacons, allowing any unit in existence to locate and warp to the field as long as that unit is properly equipped and prepared to make the jump.