Gage De'Cor

"I have born witness to the rise and fall of an Empire. I have seen the Dark consume the Light and that same Light to rise from its depths to shine anew. Yet the Dark always remains, always ready to consume that transcient Light once more."

- Gage De'Cor, musing on the rising and falling of the Dark and Light sides.

Gage De'Cor was a Crylh Force Sensitive, having served as one of Emperor Palpatine's Dark Side Elite, and founder of the Clan of the Dark Side following the Second Battle of Utapau. He was notable for his skill with an Ataru-focussed Jar'Kai style.

Background
Gage was born on the Jungle-covered world of Cry'thoria, his Force Sensitivity noted shortly after birth. He would be taken to the Jedi Temple at Coruscant and be trained as a youngling there. Gage showed great promise during his initial training, equally skilled with his Lightsaber and the Force. However, this promise was also noted by then Chancellor Palpatine and during Operation: Knightfall, he was one of a handful of Younglings who were spared from the Clone Blasters or Vaders Saber. Instead, he was quickly trained in the usage of the Dark Side, serving as one of Palpatines Dark Side Elite with distinction until the Second Battle of Utapau where the group was betrayed by one of its strongest members, Petarion Corvus who then declared himself Darth Petruv and master of the New Sith Order.

History
Under Construction

Beliefs
"Neither Jedi nor Sith were truly the masters. The Jedi were too narrow-minded to truly grasp the full mystery of the Force while the Sith allowed themselves to be too consumed with their obsession with the Dark. A true master is one who can wield the power of the Dark with the temperance of the Light."

- Gage, instructing his apprentice Coran

Gage, following his fall to the Dark Side, became a firm believer in the power granted by the Dark Side. However, he never truly forgot the lessons of focus, temperance and patience he had learned during his time with the Jedi Order. As such, during his own service as a Dark Side Elite and later during his reign over the Clan of the Dark Side, he would often temper his emotions, focussing them and harnessing the power they granted to increase his abiltities to levels beyond that of his peers, save for Darth Petruv whose near fanatical dedication to emulating the Sith Lords of Old allowed him to keep pace with Gage. He would later take this and tutor his personal apprentice, Coran Hiborn, in using Light-side qualities to temper and better control the powers of the Dark-side. In fact, it was the fact that Coran possessed a strong connection to both sides of the Force that Gage was seeking in his apprentice.

Abilities and Power
Gage was a Force Sensitive, and thus could sense and wield the force ina variety of ways, such as pushing or pulling an object. Furthermore, thanks to his Dark Side training, Gage would go on to learn much more agressive skills such as using the force to channel Lighting from his hands, willing wounds to close and temporarily heal as well as increasing his speed and strength tremendously. Gage was also a master of a the "Mind Trick" ability, using his own Dark Side varient of the skill to enslave the weak-minded almost instantly while being able to break even the strongest of minds with enough time, even other Force-Sensitives.

Gage was also a skillful Lightsaber combatant, a prodigy amongst his peers both during his time as a Youngling in the Jedi Order as well as one of Palpatines Dark Side Elite. He would go on to best several other Force Sensitives during his lifetime as well as tutor Coran Hiborn, his apprentice, in the arts of Lightsaber combat.

Equipment

 * Red-Bladed Lightsaber: Gage's signature weapon, alongside his Red-Bladed Shoto. Gage had made many modifications to this weapon over the years, improving its comfort as well as its power. By the end of his life Gage had practically rebuilt the same saber, with minor improvements, at least twenty times.
 * Red-Bladed Shoto: Gage's signature off-hand weapon. Unlike traditional Shotos, which were designed to be roughly half the length of a wielders main weapon, Gage's Shoto had an adjustible length, similar to Darth Vader's Dual-Phase Lightsaber.

Former Equipment

 * Blue Training Saber: Gage's former weapon as a Youngling. The weapon was discarded following the fall of the Jedi Order and Gage's induction into the Dark Side Elite.
 * E-11 Blaster Rifle: Gage had previously wielded an E-11 Blaster during his occasional service alongside the Stormtrooper Corps of the Empire. Following the Battle of Endor, Gage had since discarded the weapon as the Empire Remnants were more interested in his skills as a Force-wielder.

Behind the Scenes
Gage was envisioned as an "Anti/Dark Qui-Gon Jinn" insofar as he was a "deviant" amongst his peers, rejecting the "traditional" approach in favour of his own methods. Furthermore Gage was also intended to act as the antithesis of the "Gray Jedi", being a Dark Sider who uses Light Side techniques to temper the Dark Sides influence as opposed to being a Light Sider who occasionally draws upon the Dark Side.