Name: Rye Apis
Title/Rank: Warden/Admiral
Age: 267
Race: Solari
Significant Relations: None Currently.
Faction/Division: Varden Expeditionary Fleet
Position: Second in Command of the Varden Expeditionary Fleet
Department/Specialty: Command/Communication and Intelligence-Electronic Warfare, Fortress Corps- Anti-Aerospace Artillery, Other-Aviator/Pilot

Physical Description: Solari males average at seven and a half feet tall. It is no surprise then that most humans look up at Rye. He can be extremely intimating individual and for the most part is all business. Brown hair and brown eyes soften his square facial features but his muscle and sheer size do let everyone that he is of Solari decent.

Personality: Rye is very direct in his conversations and brutally honest when dealing with others. When dealing with his friends, subordinates, and superiors he treats the guide posts as law. Like most Solari he has an aggressive approach to any conflict and his tactics are often direct but brutally effective. His aggressive methods to fleet engagement balances Warden Arlan, Haldis's more cautious style.

"Under the witness of the stars, forward I stand on the brink of anew and as knowing this, grasp do I the sword Valor. Take it do I, knowing in full well, that all things end and that I take this to slow the unyielding force of ending. I take this sword knowing the blood of my sisters and my brothers lies of its blade. I take this to bring them victory where they hath had defeat and hope where they had none. I take this and I swear never do I kill without cause. My blade defends only the innocent and weak. My blade rises only against those whom seek to bring harm to that of which I am sworn to protect. Knowing all this and being of sound heart and mind do I take this sword, Valor and swear my honor. This I swear."
- Warden's Pledge





Skills and Talents:

- Trained and practiced in the use of Varden and Solari firearms.
- Trained and practiced in the use of Varden and Solari equipment and most craft.
- Modified to jack into a ship or vehicle's systems to pilot the vessel via direct mental input.
- Fit and strong, with high endurance and fortitude.
- Trained in hand-to-hand combat, both unarmed and with bladed and blunt weapons.
- Exceptional reflexes.

Abilities:

-- Void: Solari are unaffected by most assaults of a psionic nature and many assaults of a magical nature.

-- Resistance: Solari can shut their mind off from their senses, making them extremely difficult to torture.

-- Ashes: Solari turn to a fine black dust shortly after they are killed. When this process is complete they cannot be revived.

Weapons & Equipment:

-- Nova VP8: Close range combat knife that uses hyper-vibrations and heat to easily cut through solid steel and many much harder substances. The VP8 uses capacitor cells loaded at the bottom of the grip but these seldom need to be changed out unless the knife is used excessively. The blade itself is constructed of an adamant core surrounded by vibranium, with a diamondine edge.
-- Arc VP12, Sidearm: A short-to-med ranged phaser pistol that easily bypasses most shield based defense systems and applies electromagnetic and thermal damage to armor based systems. It also has some weak atomic destabilization properties like disruptors. The beam fired by this pistol can easily cut through most conventional armor and cause massive heat damage to tougher stuff. The pistol has two settings that allow for continuous fire or pulse fire. The VP12 requires no ammo but does use up capacitor cells that are loaded at the top of the weapon above the grip. The continuous fire mode causes these capacitor cells to deplete much more swiftly and can potentially damage the weapon if done too frequently.
-- EGO (Environmental Guardian Online): A symbiotic neuro-muscular bionetic implant, EGO alters its host at the genetic level, providing encyclopedic heads-up intelligence, while simultaneously unlocking and managing corporeal-maximization, or EGO Powers. Many Varden personnel utilize EGO which provides the user with four short timed psionic like abilities that can be used on the fly and with very little concentration. Those abilities are blur, cloak, decoy, and overcharge. EGO sharpens the senses, provides easy communication between members in the same solar system, provides access to a database of knowledge, a heads up display, and an assistant AI among other small perks.