Frost K'Amon

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"You like him? You like him? Of course you like him; I hate him. Because who wouldn't like someone who doesn't get nightmares when he punches a hole in your chest cavity and rips out your ventricles. There's a difference between warfare and slaughter."
―- Sevets, former ARC trooper, to Vhe'dn Oyre about Frost K'Amon.


Frost K'Amon was a Mandalorian Assassin active during the old republic, Clone Wars, Dark Times, Galactic Civil War, and New Republic Eras. He was known predominantly for his large, ancient talon-gauntlet, as well as his Unique paintscheme.

Frost K'Amon

Frost K'Amon
Frost K'Amon
Character Information
Species   Human
Gender   Male
Height   6'3

(2.2m)

Weight   215lbs

(97kgs)

Eye Color   Blue
Scars/Facial   Three bar tatoos on each cheek
Home Planet   Tralus
Clan(s)   Clan K'Amon, Clan Talon
Preferred Weapon   Ancient Beskar Claw-gaunt, DE-8 Blaster pistol
Era   Old Republic to New Republic

(52 BBY - 15 ABY)

Warfare Specialty   Assasination, Infiltration, Jump Infantry
Quote   "...sentients are strange, noisy creatures..."

Contents

Biography

52bby-32bby

"I don't give a gundark about how anonymous he is, no one comes from "nowhere"; find out what's important to him and bring it to me! "
―- Senator Ernioch to his aide, minutes before his mysterious death


The Death of K'Amon Clan

"And in this metal archive, this Book of Blood For all eternity shall name and deed be recorded, such that the heirs of House Amoneth should never be forgotten, and that their acts be remembered by all her progeny"
―- Ekriss'Edok'Amoneth, Inscription on the cover of the K'Amon book of Bloodlines

Frost was born, in the first half of 52bby, onboard the K'Amon Clan starship, Dour Sol. His parents, Voraan and Emile, were overjoyed at the birth of their first child, and were congratulated by the other survivng Clan Families. The Dour Sol was the second of the K'Amon Clan starships, which garrisoned the entire clan, which had suffered a dispute with a Mandalore of a century earlier resulting in the entire clan leaving Mandalorian space.

Frost grew much the same as any space-born child would, learning to repair conduits and to read warning labels when he still should have been playing with colored plasticomposite blocks. His father, as the primary metalurgist and machinist on the Starship began teaching Frost about mechanics and material sciences from an early age, just as his mother (a physician) taught him a great deal about human and alien anatomy. These first eight years of frost's life were his mosty idylic, but unfortunately, as with all good things, they came to an end.

In 44 BBY, having recently spent a few weeks in the Corellian system plying trade and selling cargo, The Dour Sol was approaching an exit-vector for a hyperspace jump out of system when she came under attack. The official record shows that the persuit craft were a gaggle of tramp starships and mercenary fighters, with out of date transponder codes, but that they flew in tight formation, and fired upon the ship with razor-sharp accuracy. They crippled the ship in seconds, blasting it enough in a single pass to send the ship on a fiery tailspin towards Trallus. The ship burnt up on re-entry only a few minutes later, before rescue crews could arrive.

Frost had been awoken by an explosion down the hall, and the screams of his Clan-Family. Within a minute, Voran was in the room, and had hurriedly grabbed his Child. Frost, tears running down his eyes, the shock, loud noise and chaos too much for him, was carried by his father to the nearest escape pod. Telling his son to be strong, he set him in the seat of the pod and buckled him in. In Frost's arms, he placed a huge metal book, weighing almost half again what Frost himself did. "This is your family now." He said to his son, and sealed the hatch. The escape pod rocketed away from the ship, and within moments it broke up into a firey debris cloud.

The escape pod was recovered on the opposite side of the planet from the wreck, a few miles from a settlement. The sole occupant was never found. Forensics determined that the pod had been damaged on ejection, and that the sonic dampers had been destroyed. The rest of the wreckage, having fallen far from any settlements, was never recovered and it was assumed that the wreckage was scavenged by the local population.

The Solace of Silence

"Get the safe kid, I'll handle this peice of aqualesh trash..."
―- Kraxus Jordekk, during a "collection"

Frost's father's words would be the last words he would hear for some time. Having been deafened by the the howl of reentry, Frost crawled from his escape pod, dazed and in shock. Before hobbling off towards the city lights in the distance, he burried his father's last gift to him under a rocky outcrop near the site of his landing. He was later to be found on the streets of the captial city of Rellidir.

The city, though nothing when compared to Coronet or even the palest of the inner-core cities, was populous enough and established enough to have a deeply entrenched criminal element. Smugglers and criminals of all breeds could be found in every cantina. Into this environment, Frost was thrust, as a deaf, homeless, penniless child. Normally, children such as himself either were scooped up by orphanages or ended up dead, but Frost's keen skills were picked up on by some of the afore mentioned criminal element, a Devaronian thug named Kraxus Jordekk.

Jordekk took the deaf child into his home, fed him, clothed him, and immediately employed him. Jordekk, being a collector for the Hettis Mob family, found himself often in need of an unassuming assistant, who could scout out locations and to keep an eye on his back should he need it. He found Frost's attentiveness, due to the child's reliance on lip reading for communication, to behavioral qeues and body-language to be quite useful. Frost, by contrast, thought of Jordekk's actions as justified, as he was simply seeking recompense for favors rendered. The partnership was fruitful and Jordekk prospered.

Jordekk was not an adequate father-figure. Often drunken bouts of violence and random acts of cruelty against uninvolved citizens disgusted Frost. As Frost grew, he became more and more disillusioned with Jordekk, who'se ego grew twice as fast as his rank. Frost found himself unwilling to continue working directly with Jordekk. At this same time, one of the Crime family's pet hitmen was scooped up during a Jedi sting in the city, and Frost sensed an opportunity. Writing a simple message to both Jordekk and several of the Mob leaders, he announced his intention to kill Jordekk in ten days.

The mob bosses were initially unimpressed with the notice, but the over the proceeding days, the psychological terrorism conducted by Frost on Jordekk impressed Bore Holden, their head of "Liquidation." By the end of the ninth day, Jordekk Colapsed from exhaustion and fell into a comma. He died on the tenth day, with the cornoner's report reading that Jordekk had died from exposure, probably from a lack of sleep and nourishment. Holden was very pleased.

Frost K'Amon, Mob Liquidator

"I'de never seen a killer like him. The Kid was deaf and hardly spoke a word, but he was able to get inside people's heads. He wasn't afraid of Blasters or blades, I'de seen him gut a Sludge Panther in a cage match, but he loved taking people's nightmares, and making them about him."
―- Bore Holden, 28 BBY

In 37 BBY, Frost was "reallocated" to the Liquidations division of the Tralus Mob. Frost loved his job. He spent his days waiting for an assignment, and once his assignment had been given, he would spend those days concocting new ways of terrifying his targets. At this time Frost manifested his obsession with sound, resulting in both his extensive use of sonic weapons and torture, but also in the restoration of his hearing by high-quality implants that replaced his ruined inner ears.

The restoration of Frost's hearing did not immediately instill change in his behavior. Frost had been capable of speech when he was deaf, but he wasn't particularly interested in pouring out his heart to anyone. This remained true during this period of his life as well, and Frost preferred to use his restored and enhanced hearing to fine tune and design unique resonant sounds. He showed a specific fascination with the sounds created by the Cathedral of Winds on Vortex. He used these sounds, magnified and modulated to create sounds which killed many through high-amplitude resonance, and tortured many more in psychological terrorism.

During the next few years, Frost would take dozens of lives, all under the guidance of Bore Holden. During this time, Frost began saving money. He was well paid for his expertise, and as he had no purpose for a lavish lifestyle, nor anything else to spend his acrued wealth on he tucked it away in unnamed accounts. He was sure that he would need the money for something, if only for an exit strategy to use in the event that Holden decided he no longer needed Frost.

This day came when Frost was assigned a mission to assassinate a minor public official who'd been stirring up trouble for the criminal element on Trallus. During his scouting of the target area, Frost found that this official, who would normally be protected only by one or two bodyguards instead had a squadron of CorSec agents at his disposal, headed by a fire team of four mandalorians. To Frost, it was fairly obvious that there was a leak, and his assignment had been leaked to the target. Frost went to ground for two weeks to avoid detection and never reported back to his bosses.

Instead, he sent them his letter of resignation. He informed them that the organization was inadequately compensating him for his efforts, that the organization wasn't secure, and that should they pursue him, that their affairs should be ordered within ten days. Holden and the organization decided that it was probably best to simply cut their losses and allow him to leave.

The Book of Blood and The Black Tempest

"...It was an interesting feeling. I've never heard of anything like it, even from other artificial life. The sensation of transitioning from simply processing information using complex digital formulae to generate a response, and suddenly realizing that it's just so much easier to just react to stimulus instead."
―- Tempest, the AI personality of The Black Tempest, in 35ABY reflecting on his achieving sentience in 28 BBY


Inspired by seeing mandalorian armor again for the first time since his childhood, Frost returned to the site of his planetfall and dug up the K'Amon Book of Blood. Within the last few written pages, Frost read of his family and their immediate history, detailing the lives of his parents, and even the events of his own birth. As he read backward, he learned more and more of his own proud clan and family histories. Progressing backwards however, he discovered that he could understand less and less of what was being written in the book. He did not recognize the writing as either Mando'a or Galactic basic, in modern or archaic forms. From the few things he could glean from areas that seemed to still be in mando'a it described "blue-hunters", from "outside" that pursued the family.

Sensing a connection between this mention of "hunters" and the deaths of his family, Frost needed to find out what was written in this book, and in order to do that, he needed to get off-world. Frost needed a ship, one tailored to his specific needs. To that end, he began buying parts from a myriad of junked ships. He bought the gutted chassis of a decades old Feethan Ottraw Scalable Assemblies Belbullab-7 Patrol Craft, and began adding single components to it. Each component was collected from the corellian impound on Trallus, which maintained a large stockpile of high-performance gear confiscated from smugglers and then sold for parts to recoup profit. Slowly, with the help of a few technicians, Frost was able to construct a ship he dubbed The Black Tempest

Assembling the ship's main computer was a more complicated endeavor. Frost's monetary supplies were dwindling, and he was unwilling to pay the thousands of credits necessary to get an unregistered ship-computer for his craft. Instead, he had several technicians assemble the intelligence core for the ship in separate components, and then assembled it on-sight. This also resulted in the normal safeguards and creativity dampners normally placed in such devices to be unintentionally omitted , a of which Frost was not immediately aware. The Shipboard AI was incredibly crude, essentially just an open-ended learning program with per-installed monitoring subroutines. Frost himself had to spend several days just coding in simple ship-wide maintenance values and standards. The AI was initially unable to even fly the ship by itself, and thus Frost installed a sensor pod on a robotic arm, so that when he was teaching the ship to fly it could effectively learn to steer from the pilot's point of view. The simplicity of his AI seriously annoyed Frost, but he knew that over time he could always teach the AI more, or add more components to enhance it's skill set. He had no idea that he had created a learning machine the kind of which had been banned more than a thousand years before.

31BBY - 23BBY

"Our mutual "friend" is extremely professional... but if you will indulge me the allowance, he is even more disturbing than most sentients I know far deeper embroiled in the workings of the syndicate. "
―Inctars the Vile, former Vigo of The Black Sun, presumed previous employer of Frost K'Amon


Killings, Bounties, and Murder for Hire.

The Charybdis Event

Felanon's Vengance

The Call of Abaddon

23BBY - 19BBY

The Clone Wars

Oyre Clan

The Black Sun

19BBy-0ABY

Heir to the Throne

Baron Hastur Pavonis of Yygg

Byss, Planet of Opportunity

S'Do K'Amon

0ABY-15ABY

Legacy</b>

Physical appearance and personality traits

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Equipment and weapons

Armor/clothing

Weapons

Starship

The Black Tempest

Behind the scenes

  • Frost was created by Eric A. West in an extremely different original iteration for a JKA roleplaying community in 2003. Other than the name and the character being a Mandalorian, the current character retains no other similarities to his original incarnation.
  • The Frost costume was begun in 2004, and finished over the summer of 2005, and was first worn at Animazement of that year. Frost has appeared at every animazement since.
  • Frost was accepted as an official member of the Mandalorian Mercs Costuming Club in august of 2007, a few months after the club was founded.
  • Frost was present at CV
  • Eric A. West is a graduating senior at NCSU in history.
  • Frost, as a costume, is now in the early stages of it's Fourth iteration, and is being constantly updated and improved.
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