Kyram Beviin

"Don't be so negative. Joking keeps the fun in war, it's not all about fighting, I mean if it was I would have died a long time ago, a painfully humorless death, that much I'm sure of."

- Kyram Beviin, to Meila Caliss

Kyram Beviin, was a male Human/Miraluka hybrid and leader of the reformed Mandalorian Knights, a sect of Force-wielding Mandalorians. Born Ayjae Bindo, he was the son of a female Miraluka Jedi Knight and a male Human Jedi Knight. During his early childhood with the swoop gang, the Black Riders he was nicknamed as Tenen, under the assumption that he was Aerena's, the leader of the gang, son. He would later be adopted into Clan Beviin by Mandalorian  Kara Beviin under his chosen name Kyram, he then took up residence on  with his new mother and her friends, Degar Isaad and P'Taen Damuhn at the former  military outpost, on the outskirts of the capital city. after the end of the, Beviin had a run in with a Zabrak Jedi who he described had a "cybernetic arm synced with energy," he lost the fight and was put in some. Three hundred years later, Beviin would be awakened by a Sith research team who captured him, after a year of being in prison, he, a fellow prisoner, a Twi'lek by the name Nilim Firith, and two other Mandalorians escaped, killing many of their captors in the process. The pair became successful bounty hunters and mercenaries, often using the Force to locate their targets. Eventually they wound up on Dantooine, after being paid for the bounty on the Twi'lek Ponda Lacharga, Kyram and Nilim were ambushed by a Sith strike team consisting of Sith apprentices&mdash;Meila Caliss, Midwan Graush, and Lain Glie. After a short duel with Glie, Meila offered Kyram a job to work for the, to he gladly accepted. Months later, Beviin was discovered to Force-sensitive by Caliss and instructed to report for Sith training at the Korriban academy.

Early life (3,970-3,959 BBY)
"Welcome to the Black Riders, little one."

- Aerena, to an infant Ayjae

Born to two Jedi Knights on the ecumenopolis planet Coruscant during the early years of the, Ayjae Bindo was cared for by his mother's Twi'lek friend Daesha Komad after his parents left to participate in a prototype weapon experiment ran by Republic scientists in the at. After learning about the deaths of her fellow Jedi, Komad decided to take two year old Ayjae to the on  as promised to his mother before she left. After landing on the planet, and taking a private shuttle the Twi'lek approached the Temple's landing platform, the transport she was on was attacked by swoop gang members&mdash;Daesha attempted to fight off the attackers, she managed to kill three of the gangsters before being overwhelmed. A white-haired Human female&mdash;the other gangsters called Aerena&mdash;took a crying Ayjae from Daesha's arms and the gang left the vehicle and a badly beaten Daesha.

Escape from the Black Riders and adoption
During the first months of the, eleven year old Ayjae Bindo and several other children including "Blade" were ready to escape the Black Riders. The other children turned to "Blade," hoping she could convince her best friend Ayjae to use his status as Aerena, the leader of the Black Riders' son to help them escape. Unbeknownst to anyone other than "Blade," Ayjae had figured he wasn't Aerena's son and already contacted a Republic officer named Jerric Carmine via hologram to help them, Carmine declined, but promised he would send someone.

Two months later Ayjae was contacted was contacted by a Human female and two Human males, all clad in.

A new galaxy and prisoner
Three hundred years later Kyram Beviin was awakened from his by a Sith research team of the "new" Empire on the unidentified planet, the team of scientists and soldiers helped him immediately arrested him seeing he was wearing similar colors to the  whom rebelled against the Empire. Beviin transported to the Vokuta on  in the, where he was incarcerated for almost two years.

As Beviin was brought into the prison, he was struck by a guard, he quickly reacted and took down five guards&mdash;killing three and sending the other two to the infirmary&mdash;with his bare hands, this impressed a fellow Mandalorian, Ruusaan Ordo who was nearby watching.

Bounty hunter
"I don't make threats, I make promises. So are you coming peacefully or do I have to drag you by your lekku, lady?"

- Kyram Beviin, to Ponda Lacharga

Sometime after escaping their lab experiment lives, Beviin and Firith became bounty hunters, eventually becoming successful enough for the to extend an invitation for the pair to join. Beviin and Firith declined, but kept in contact.

After a successful bounty on the singer Jeib Nistu, Beviin and Firith ran into their old friends from Vokuta, Ruusaan Ordo and her brother Dedric at the Dealer's Den Cantina. After Nilim passed out and Dedric went to bed, Kyram and Ruusaan stayed up drinking and catching up, he hired her to 'step in' for Nilim and poise as his 'lady friend' for a Senator Thalin Renas' party at his suite, Ruusaan accepted and Kyram offered her half the bounty. The next day Kyram asked his friend Jil to take Ordo out to get a dress while Beviin got their fake IDs.

Later the pair wound up back on Coruscant, and were present when the resurgent Sith Empire. They met a young named Sari Laim and her Human companion he named, Atin and group of street urchins, who were about to be executed by Imperial soldiers in the streets of. Beviin and Firith made quick work of the soldiers and Kyram adopted the orphans as his brother and sister.

Outbreak on the Imperious
"I'm not ready to die. I can't die, I can't die. I'm invincible!" "Oh, Kad, will someone shut him up. We got undead Imps to worry about. I need quiet."

- Silus Elbron and Kyram Beviin

Beviin immediately accepted the offer to investigate the Imperious.

Sith acolyte and Sith Warrior
After being forced to join the, Beviin was subjected to rigorous training, he was trained at the on Korriban four up to three weeks by   before being transferred to Lady Kissai's estate back on. During his first day on, he was partnered up with fellow Meila Caliss who was supposed to show him the basics of , he commented "if she tries to kill me with her 'saber, I just hope she aims for my neck." By his twenty-third day as a Sith acolyte, he mastered he mastered three of the of the seven forms as he "took out thirteen mark I Sith war droids in less than two minutes without using the Force."

On his ninetieth day, during another Beviin was surrounded and assaulted from all sides by nearly twenty, , and heavily armored , Beviin released a massive Force pulse against his droid and Imperial attackers, eliminating all of them&mdash;disintegrating all s&mdash; and knocking apprentice Meila Caliss and  Kissai aside.

After the incident, Beviin was given an assignment to accompany Meila Caliss to Nar Shaddaa to "silence" a former by the name of Holden Feric. After successfully tracking him and eliminating him, Kyram was wound in the process and taken to an experienced nurse named Allina, whom Meila met a year earlier. After healing in, the team made their way back to Beviin's ship, the Forunner, but before boarding Beviin sensed a something and in a split-second he saved Caliss from the exploding , an act that was in retaliation for killing Arvona the Hutt a year earlier.

After several months Kissai deemed Beviin ready to bring down an elusive Jedi named Tholme Kane.

Battle of Dromund Kaas and desertion
"We are the Mandalorian Knights reformed! We must fight the Sith just as Canderous did before us. We must fight&mdash;to victory, or death&mdash;for the Republic!"

- Kyram Beviin during the Declaration of Rebellion

Two years after Kyram joined the Sith Empire, Beviin, Meila Caliss and former Sith planned to desert the Empire and tried to take the Devastator. Darth Balac managed to intercept Beviin and Caliss, and steered the battle to the engine room where he knocked Meila unconscious by her into the wall, enraging Kyram. Balac dodged Beviin's savage attacks and using the Force, Balac leaped over the Mandalorian. The Sith Lord landed after a mid-air turn, and blindingly fast horizontal slash that cut the back of Beviin's unguarded neck, causing him great pain&mdash;in retaliation, Beviin quickly severed Balac's right arm and managed to hit a explosive tank with wrist-mounted blaster that burned part of Balac's face. Balac swore at him and made his escape before the ship took off.

Rematch with Balac
"Come alone or I slaughter everyone here." "I have to go." "It's obviously a trap." "I know, but I still have to go." "Kyr... *kisses* Come back safe, okay? "Okay."

- A holo of Darth Balac, Kyram Beviin, and Meila Caliss

Later life
In 3,629 BBY, Kyram was among the attendees at his children's&mdash;Demar and Kyra twenty-second birthday, he stood with his wife during the bar fight that ensued after Kyra assaulted a after he touched her arm. He and most of the party goers, including his wife sat back and watched the "fun," while sipping some ale.

At some point after the Kyram Beviin passed away and was buried on  near the Beviin homestead.

Personality and traits
"The next person that that calls me a Jedi will lying in a pool of their own blood."

- Kyram Beviin

While he was living among the swoop gang Black Riders and the Mandalorians, Ayjae was known for his humor, cockiness and mechanical skills, though he was serious when the time. After he completed the  with Kara and Degar, and changed his name, he cut his shoulder-length black hair down and had his clan's mark tattooed on his right shoulder, just above his Black Riders tattoo. Though he was raised by a gang of violent criminals, Ayjae was a kind child; caring about the people around him albeit he wouldn't hesitate to fight anyone who teased him for being a "soft little wuss," as his younger adoptive sister Zula put it. After he discovered he wasn't Aerena's son, Ayjae became a colder and distant person albeit he still cared for the other children gang members around him especially Edessa whom he was very close with and the only person he confided in.

After the massacre of his fellow clan members and his adoptive parents Kara and Tiolle at the hands of P'Taen Damuhn and his mercenaries, a man they all trusted. Kyram went on a homocidal rampage looking for the fallen and when he finally caught up to him he killed him, though the pain of loss, contempt, and regret lead him down a dark path that eventually lead to an encounter with a of the   since the  and being put into a. Even after nearly three centuries Kyram was still distraught over the abrupt massacre of his family, though he eventually managed to cope with it after learning of his baby sister Kace Beviin's survival of the massacre.

Physical appearance
Ayjae Bindo was an "average looking guy, but has a certain mystique about him that makes him almost irresistable," as his friend Edessa explicitly put it. As Bindo, he had short braids, fairly dark skin, and dark brown eyes. After passing his , and becoming a full Mandalorian, Ayjae cut his hair and changed his name to Kyram Beviin. By 3,650 BBY, he grew a goatee and would keep it groomed as far as 3,629 BBY. Beviin would wear his helmet almost all the time, though during his brief he wore a cloak and hood over his  to cover his face, but when Lady Semreh arrived on Kaas to congradulate him, she award him the mask of the late.

Edessa "Blade" Lorso
His first relationship occurred during his time as a slave member of the Black Riders. Known to him only by her nickname "Blade," Edessa Lorso immediately attracted Ayjae's attention (due to her features and her "sweet and soft voice"), even when her face was dirty with oil or other grease fluids from daily mechanical chores.

Ruusaan "Ruu" Ordo
"Hey, Ruu."

- Kyram, to Ruusaan after not seeing her for five years

Kyram met Ruusaan and her brother in the Sith prison, Vokuta, on the Sith world, in the, who were arrested for revolting against the resurgent Sith Empire and joining 's schism. The three Mandalorians quickly became friends. Ruusaan was immediately attracted to Kyram when she first saw him entering the prison in chains, even with his hands binded he managed to take down five Imperial guards&mdash;killing three and putting the other two in the infirmary&mdash;this act caused her to be enticed to young Mandalorian. Due to Ruusaan's roommate being killed by the guards during a past riot, Kyram was assigned as her new roommate, the two hit it off and eventually began sleeping together. Some months later another revolt] took place under Kyram's leadership; a number of P.O.W.'s escaped as well as a Twi'lek ex-Jedi Master named Nilim Firith, and the Ordo siblings. Soon after escaping, Ruusaan broke it off with Kyram and the left to find her clan with her brother, with whom they lost touch. Heartbroken and in need of credits, Kyram became a bounty hunter and partnered up with Firith.

A year later, Kyram and Nilim ran into Ruusaan and Dedric on Coruscant while hunting a singer named Jeib Nistu. After Nistu's capture, the old got a room at a nearby cantina owned a 'old friend' of Kyram's. After Dedric and Nilim went to bed, Kyram hired Ruusaan to the "lady on my arm" at gathering of high-ranking officers, senators, aristocrats, and other nobility. Ruusaan agreed and two shared several drinks, Ruusaan having Kyram thinking she's drunk confessed she was sorry for ending their relationship and she still loved him and two shared a passionate kiss, before Kyram&mdash;still thinking she's drunk&mdash;pulls away, saying "it wouldn't be right," and takes her to her to sleep it off. The next day Kyram went to Ruusaan's room to find her gone already, he went ahead to meet his employer, a senator named. After the meeting and being instructed on what to do, Ruusaan contacted him only saying, "I'll meet you at the penthouse." When she finally arrived, Kyram was stunned by her beauty.

Meila Caliss
"Death comes for us all eventually, so I think we should enjoy each other's company while we can."

- Kyram, to Meila after the destruction of the Forunner

Other abilities
Kyram was a competent singer and even better song writer as stated by professional singer Ayy'me Li, with whom he sung his first song Cali's Gone. His favorite form of music was and was able to skillfully play a.

Weaponry
"Do I really look like a guy who would go anywhere unarmed?"

- Kyram Beviin

Beviin was known to occasionally carry with him several lightsabers that been given to him by his biological mother and father, his adoptive father's and later his own. Despite having no formal training with a lightsaber until his apprenticeship under Darth Kissai, Beviin was one of the few non-Jedi/Sith capable of using a lightsaber, this likely came from his Jedi heritage as both his parents were highly-skilled duelists. When his heirloom lightsabers weren't with him they hidden in a box made of, a material he had plenty of access to.

Behind the scenes
Statement Aaron Bryant made while Ayjae Bindo/Kyram Beviin was in development: "Originally I couldn't make up my mind for a name so I went on Xbox Live and asked a friend for help, he suggested Kyram Beviin due to my nature, then a few weeks later I thought of KotOR's Jolee Bindo and Ayjae Bindo was born. Also the name Ayjae originally came from the my nickname A.J.."

- Aaron Bryant .

"Tenen is contraction of the phrase Honorem tenentur'' backwards meaning 'honor bound' in, a reference to him being an honorable.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Mandalorian Wars
 * Star Wars: Bindo's Legacy
 * Mandalore
 * A Friend In Need
 * Draygo's Pleasure
 * The Mandalorian Crusade
 * Fatal Deception
 * Star Wars: Trials by Fire
 * Mayhem
 * Star Wars: Revelations
 * Underworld
 * Star Wars: Cay's Tale