Jari Mal-Drez Clanhold Huscurl STL

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Unusually for a Forge Father of his high standing, the Helfather operates alone. He enters the field with only his modified Aesir armour and signature Xerxes heat cannon to protect himself. The business enterprises of the Forge Fathers require vast armies to operate across the Star Realm’s frontiers. The resources and manpower at the disposal of their rulers allow vast private armies in addition – and so when the members of the upper echelons of Forge Father society commit to the battlefield they are protected by an elite soldiery. Despite the buying power afforded by Shadrek Mal-Drez’s majority stake in the Furnace Valley, he is currently operating alone. His wealth is obvious from his uniquely-customised Aesir armour and his signature Xerxes Cannon – but he operates on Nexus Psi without an entourage.

The Mal-Drez dynasty had established itself through several centuries of stripping back the orebodies of the gombiky – extra-solar planets passing near their space. These rogue planets come from an earlier galactic age, and so are fantastically rich in the heavier elements and are almost- always lifeless. Regarded as giant, spherical treasures the word gombiky has also passed into Forge Father language as the name of the priceless spherical beads worn as jewellery. Some of the wealthiest Forge Father dynasties have become so by searching deep in the galaxy for these planets. Outside of solar systems their accurate detection is still beyond the bounds of the GCPS scientists.

Shadrek was dispatched to Nexus Psi to oversee the construction of a gravitational micolensing station in the rapidly developing area of Corporation space. Ostensibly a navigation station funded by the dummy corporation FurnVal, the facility was secretly intended to widen the Forge Father search for wealth, with the secondary objective of putting them one-step ahead of the GCPS.

To avoid the suspicion of a Dwarf minor noble visiting a humble relay, Shadrek and his Clanhold bodyguard prepared to travel disguised as a FurnVal tech team. Approaching their final jump, Gorsch drop-rigs communicated to the FurnVal party an unusual level of intelligence chatter on the planet. Rumours of GCPS agents active troubled Mal-Drez, and he replaced his warriors with a genuine, (and more importantly multi-racial) tech team from the FurnVal space station. Though useless in a fight, they were able to flawlessly lie that his Aesir armour was a reactor protection suit when questioned at the GCPS-controlled landing points. Paranoia got Shadrek to Nexus Psi. But now there’s a Plague outbreak, will it prove his undoing?

Shadrek Mal-Drez, better known as the Helfather, hasn't returned to his Clan since his personal mission to Nexus Psi. Whatever he found - or witnessed - there seems to be the reason why.

Now his cousin, Jari Mal-Drez, is determined to find out what happened to Shadrek. Not much of a fighter himself, he follows the traditional path of his wealthy dynasty: gathering his finest warriors and closest confidants, all equipped with extraordinary skills and the best technology that the riches of the Gombiky planets can finance. Jari doesn't lead a massive invasion force from the bridge of a Ward ship. Instead, he and his team operate from a modified Sigrúnn Dropship, infiltrating promising sites while keeping a low profile. If things go south, heavy reinforcements stand ready to descend into the hot zone and finish what the others started.

Wherever the Clanhold strike team goes, things tend to get hot - and quite literally so. Jari's Xerxes pistol, a unique technology developed by the Mal-Drez dynasty, exemplifies two things the Clan possesses: the wealth to employ the greatest minds and an unflinching faith in Dwarven traditions. Together, these qualities seem to make these elite Forge Fathers equally resistant to and proficient with fire - a blessing of Farangir, no doubt.

Whatever stands in the way of Jari and his bodyguards will be crushed beneath their boots as grudges are settled, whether against cunning foes or opponents who rely on sheer size to bully others. Adapted to the harsh, largely uninhabitable Gombiky planets, they are a force to be reckoned with, and they know it.

The question is whether they will find what they are searching for, or whether they will eventually face an enemy their limited numbers cannot overcome. So far, neither has come to pass.

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