Balthazar Kunzite

Balthazar Kunzite
Biographical Information
Race	Kiffar
Homeworld	Kiffex
Mother	Ryoko
Father	Armanth Kunzite (Dead)
Spouse	None
Siblings	None
Children	None
Born	Year: -11 Day: 336
Imperial Service
Branch	Imperial Academy
Positions	Student
Prior Service	N/A
Awards	N/A

Balthazar Kunzite is a male Kiffar born into the Kunzite clan on the planet Kiffex. Though few may not trust him due to his checkered past, Balthazar would need to prove to the Kiffars that he is not like his father and prove his loyalty to the members of the new faction that he is willing to do what it takes to get things done.

Early Life

Even though Balthazar was born on Kiffex he experiences the life of smuggling and space exploration. Both of his parents love to live life to its fullest them which meant smuggling stolen property from certain citizens. Ryoko was the carrying one out of the two wanting to help innocent citizens if she could tough she could be hardheaded at times while Armanth tends to make enemies wherever he went by disregarding what would happen to the citizens on either side of the galactic war just as long he was paid. From time to time Armanth action would cause a rift amongst the two seeing that when he did this they would be targeted by bounty hunters and other shadowy organizations who were contracted to take out the smug smuggler.

Despite this, the two try to make life normal for their young son or as normal as they could. Balthazar was able to explore parts of the known galaxy with his parents seeing interesting people and different races. At the age of 9, Armanth bought his son a blaster thinking that it was about time to teach the boy how to defend himself. They spent any moment they could between jobs hunting on various planets encountering different creatures, Balthazar became quite adept at this that it was rarer for a creature to know what hit them until it was too late. While Ryoko thought it would be best to teach Balthazar how to speak Bocce & Huttese seeing that from time to time Hutt's would hire them to do some off the book smuggling, while Bocce was used from time to time between some pilot and spacers which from her experience help in certain situations.

Young Balthazar & his grandfather exploring some ruins found in the woods.

At the age of 12, the family found out that Ryoko was losing her eyesight and that eventually, she would go blind. Despite this Ryoko refuse to go down without a fight she bought a red and black R3 Series Astromech that would help her plot a course to their new job location. During this time Balthazar found himself helping Ryoko as well seeing that it was the perfect time for him to start working in the family business of smuggling and he could earn some credits with the family. Balthazar preferred helping his ailing mother seeing that the past few years Armanth and him have been growing apart, it seems to the young man that his father seems to become more and more aggressive as of late. Thanks to Armanth aggressive behavior the rift between Ryoko and him had finally took effect and the two decided to separate and go on to their own ways. For the next few months, the three of them continue to work as a smuggling group Ryoko begin to show signs that flying around and continuing this line of work may not be the best choice though, as usual, she was too hardheaded to admit it during this time Balthazar slowly began to learn Binary.

During a particular smuggling job, Ryoko and Balthazar found out how dangerous it was to be associated with the Kunzite clan. During the job, everything seems to be going well until their employer notices the red claw qukuuf marking that was at Balthazar's left eye. Things quickly became hostile when their employer and his guards drew their blasters and pointed them at Ryoko's son demanding for the boy to tell them the location of Armanth and of the missing cargo. Balthazar inheriting his mother's hotheadedness refuse to tell them anything they wanted to know, the result of this was a life or death blaster fight where mother and son had to escape while they did they lost the R3 droid and Ryoko was shot with nowhere else to go, Balthazar, plot a course to Kiffex. Arriving at Kiffex they made their way too deep into the woods arriving at a temple that was run by Balthazar's grandfather Zolvus Kunzite. Balthazar didn't know much about his grandfather the young boy only saw him from time to time and he heard rumors that the elderly man may have some sort of strange power though no one knows what that was or if this was true. Without question, Zolvus quickly took the two in and being to take care of Ryoko with herbal medicines that he had.

It was a couple of months later before Ryoko was able to walk around without hurting, though sadly with her eyesight fully gone she had to retire from smuggling. Despite the fact that Ryoko and his son weren't together anymore Zolvus was kind enough to allow the two to stay at the temple with him, seeing that his son never bothered in visiting and never took claim to the clan it was the safe place to live. Ryoko was willing to take the offer but Balthazar was disappointed he like the fast potential danger of the smuggler's life and didn't want to stay on Kiffex though the young boy was soon to learn that the life his grandfather live anything but that. Zolvus begin to teach Balthazar how to use plants for their medical use, even though he board the young boy did learn a few things thought few years he eventually become interested. One day while they were out gathering plants they could hear blaster fire when the two arrive they could see a bandit group attacking the village, Zolvus and Balthazar begin to take potshot at the bandit group eventually taking them out. After they made sure that everyone was all right Balthazar decided that he wanted to help those in need.