Au moment où la fusillade a commencé, Khel Zhar a soulevé son outil omni et a activé le programme de boost de bouclier. Bien que ses costumes construits en boucliers étaient assez puissants, être le seul Krogan dans sa chambre signifierait dessiner beaucoup de feu (malgré sa réputation d'être généralement un non combattant). Avec cela, il a repéré la sortie la plus proche et s'est introduit dans une course d'exploitation forestière. Ce n'était pas une charge de maître de bataille, mais ce n'était certainement pas quelque chose qu'aucun non-krogan voudrait être sur le chemin de... comme un tireur Turian sans pitié découvert quand il n'a pas réussi à sortir du chemin assez vite. Zhar a baissé son épaule et a expulsé l'homme du chemin. Le bruit de l'armure s'entendait alors qu'il frappait et lorsque l'homme volait à l'envers et s'éloignait latéralement du chemin, plusieurs os pouvaient être entendus se casser. Il ne se lèverait certainement pas.
Pourtant, beaucoup de feu avait eu un impact sur le bouclier de Zhar, et il savait qu'il ne pouvait pas durer beaucoup plus longtemps. La porte était proche, mais avant d'y arriver, il s'est enfui derrière le coin le plus proche assez grand pour cacher sa masse. Il est resté immobile pendant quelques secondes, prenant le temps de maudire mentalement ne restant pas principalement dans le domaine de l'information. Il n'aurait jamais marché dans ce genre de piège il y a cent ans. Mais c'est le prix que l'on a payé pour essayer d'aider la galaxie. Il a alors vérifié son outil omni, notant que ses boucliers étaient à 90 pour cent maintenant. Assez bien. Il a regardé hors de la couverture avec un œil, visant son outil omni comme il l'a fait. Le feu s'était surtout déplacé sur les autres cibles non identifiées, mais quelques rondes ont rebondi du mur à côté de lui et de son bouclier. Il a rapidement repéré le tireur et l'a frappé avec un drain d'énergie, siphonnant la puissance directement à ses propres boucliers, temporairement surchargés.
Il a ensuite commencé à se déplacer le plus rapidement possible jusqu'à la porte. De là, il se dirigeait vers l'accostage de son navire et sortait du système. Il avait l'impression que tout ça allait s'effondrer très rapidement. Cependant, il ne s'est pas complètement enfui en arrivant à la porte. En prenant sa couverture, il a déclenché sa suite minifacturing omni tools, l'ordonnant de construire une mine de reconnaissance. Une seconde plus tard, il était prêt, et il a soigneusement dirigé le lanceur d'outils pour atterrir la mine derrière un groupe de troupes ennemies. Il a fait exploser l'arme dès qu'elle était en place, la charge en forme faisant des ravages parmi les forces hostiles. Quelques instants après, il avait déclenché un scan tactique pour s'assurer qu'il n'était pas flanqué, avant de chercher un moyen de sortir de ce désordre.
Name: Khel Zhar
Species: Krogan
Age: 693
Gender: Male
Appearance: In many ways Zhar looks like a completely unremarkable everyday Krogan. He has no distinguishing marks, his eyes are a normal Krogan yellow, his skin is the tan color of a middle aged Krogan and his plates are a fairly common dull brown. However, unlike most Krogan, Zhar puts effort into maintaining the symmetry of his head plates and generally ensuring he doesn't look too rugged. He favors a black custom-made business suit of light and highly expensive material with a number of micro shield generators inconspicuously hidden beneath the fabric. He is well spoken and has a deep but smooth voice, somewhat uncharacteristic of a Krogan. The Reaper war has left him with scars he had managed to avoid before then. He has several gouges across his head plates and scar tissue on the left side of his neck and elsewhere on his body.
Weapons/Equipment:
Evolution of the Viper Sniper Rifle (Phasic Rounds/Tungsten Rounds)
Evolution of the Carnifex Heavy Pistol (Cryo Rounds)
Evolution of the Locust SMG (Cryo Rounds)
Shielded business suit
Krogan Heavy armor (on the rare occasion when he puts himself into a combat situation on purpose)
Omni Tool
Asari Frigate (custom refit)
Skills and Abilities:
Excellent business sense.
Energy Drain
Shield Boost
Recon Mine
Tactical Scan
Sticky Grenade
Background:
Khel Zhar’s history is a long and storied one. He was born on Tuchanka to clan Khel, and was raised there as a true Krogan, although rumour has it that he was never very good at being ‘true Krogan.’ Precise details of his escape from the blasted rock that is the Krogan homeworld are surprisingly hard to come by, and will not be detailed here, suffice it to say that he ended up on the Citadel at the age of seventy-two with no idea what to do with himself. He worked for thirty years as a mere janitor, unwilling to take jobs involving violence as his compatriots did, but unable to find anyone on the station willing to look past his lumbering exterior at the keen mind within.
Eventually, Zhar managed to find one of these people - a Volus named Colu Sen. Under the Volus’ tutelage, he learned of Galactic finance and economics, and while initially not as fast to learn and adapt as his Volus partner and teacher, his persistent nature quickly saw the two of them founding and operating a small Galactic Finance company. The pair continued to run this small business for sixty years, until Colu Sen, in his old age, inadvertently thrust the pair into the world of corporate espionage and the buying and selling of Information. Colu died shortly after that, though it is not public knowledge as to whether he was killed or not.
Zhar remained on the citadel maintaining the business the pair had set up for roughly one hundred years, keeping the original company alive while branching out into founding other small companies, often only to let them die once they’d recouped their costs. This period of time broadened and deepened Zhar’s understanding of the business world considerably, to the point where he has an almost innate feel for the fluctuations that normally make it so unpredictable. While no psychic, Zhar’s personal worth has skyrocketed due to well placed and well timed investments. Unfortunately, some of his investments eventually drew the attention of the wrong people, and after narrowly surviving a brazen attack on his Citadel apartment, Zhar liquidated all of his citadel holdings and moved to Illium. He planned to let his reputation on the Citadel fade for a few hundred years while his detractors died of old age.
Once on Illium, he founded the first iteration of his business in Nos Parnello, and while initially highly successful, its fortunes followed those of the city into ruin. Ever the entrepreneur, Zhar not only survived but flourished in the adversity, relocating to Nos Astra and riding the sudden wave of popularity the city received to make his company one of the foremost in its area on Illium. Altogether, his stay on Illium has lasted approximately two hundred years.
When the Reapers finally arrived, it came as a surprise to Zhar, but not for the reasons most found it surprising. He had certainly believed there was more to the Geth attack on the Citadel than met the eye, but he never anticipated the scale of the Reaper invasion. When his contacts in the Batarian Hegemony went dark, he immediately saw to preparing his own defenses, as well as coordinating Illium’s preparations.
When the Reapers finally reached the Crescent Nebula, Zhar, and Illium, were ready. Though technically an Asari colony, and under protection by the Asari fleet, Illium has always been a haven for the rich and scrupulous - people that, for all their normal inability to get along, have one thing in common - a burning sense of self preservation. When the entire upper class of Illium put its considerable financial might towards that goal, they were able to assemble a formidable resistance to the Reapers.
With this corporate might, Zhar and a number of other Illium businessmen and women were able to survive the Reaper invasion, holding out long enough for Shepard to finally defeat the Reapers.
Following the Reaper war, Zhar decided to reevaluate his business. With such significant damage done to his Illium holdings, once the heart of his current business, he chose to start anew. Rather than rebuild Illium, he chose to create a mobile center for business. Initially he started small, making his office out of a tiny room on an old light freighter that had been one of his backup escape methods. He scrounged together a small merchant fleet and immediately began using it to assist in relief efforts throughout Council space, though with a particular focus on Asari colonies and Thessia.
Rather than greedily extort colonial governments in need of aid, he instead charged only enough to keep the business running at a very small profit. Though some of his rivals and fellows questioned his sanity for such a seemingly selfless act, the more intelligent among them realized it was not selfless, simply the long game being played at its finest.
His goals at that point were to aid in the restoration of a galactic economy and ensure the Asari could retain a significant role in galactic politics in order to continue carrying out their role as diplomats and negotiators. All to ensure there would continue to be an ideal peacetime environment for him to continue his goal from before the Reaper war - living a comfortable life far from Krogan ideals.
In more recent decades, Zhar has turned to somewhat more profitable endeavors. Though he maintains the colony relief and supply business, he has gone back into Information brokering, which has allowed him to restore much of his personal wealth and keep his debt to the Shadow Broker satisfied.
He is currently involved in personally overseeing his company's efforts in the Pylos Nebula, observing primarily from his personal command ship, the refitted Asari frigate Prosperous Heart, from which he also simultaneously manages his intelligence network.