Hotbox (character)

Hotbox, aka, Inveigle, is a dark jedi knight of the Sith, formaer guildmaster of the Clan of the BLack Lotus and currently in the employ of Mecrosa Order- Elite on the Bria server.

Early History
Not much is known of Hotbox before August of 03, when she first appeared as an apprentice to then master of the Empire's Hope guild, Talan Grimm. Talan found the apprentice difficult to control and gave the young jedi novice the title 'Little assassin' often ordering Hotbox into difficult situations and on personal assignments for the EH guild. Eventually, Hotbox acheived the rank of Lieutenant, and was promoted to Special Ops position of EH. In that position, Hotbox continued her extensive research into skills and trained other members of the guild on special combat techniques.

By October of 03, with Hotbox's influence and likability growing within the guild, and the constant pressure of being put on more and more difficult assignments, Hotbox, now Major, left Talan and the EH guild to form the Clan of the Black Lotus (BLC) and relocated the guild to Dantooine, and founded the city of Lotus.

Clan of the Black Lotus- Pre-CU
Building a guild of essentially nothing but jedi proved to be a difficult task for the young Hotbox but she learned quickly. Hotbox had decided early that in order to complete such a difficult task, that secrecy and careful recruiting would be essential to long term growth. As a result, admission to the Clan was a difficult and arduous process and many washed out.

The grinding of multiple professions was an expensive process and the Clan built several crafting businesses to support their grind. Hotbox's key aides, Kinpin and Sword, travelled daily outside the city to farm areas repeatedly for exotic loot, while the bulk of the guild contributed to the building of the "Clan".

On December 17th, 2004, Hotbox 'unlocked' the secrets of the Jedi code but kept that fact from her own guild. Had such knowledge beomce public, most cetainly enemies would arrive daily in the city and it would prove dificult to complete her goal of an all jedi guild. As such, this fact was kept secret until shortly before the combat-update, when jedi were no longer perma-killed. Although there were several jedi in the Clan pre-cu, the Clan did not reach the peak of its power until the CU years.

Difficulties with the Empire
During the grinding years, Hotbox kept the Clan distanced from the bulk of the Imperial guilds thorugh a combination of psy-ops and other activities. The jedi felt that this was important to keep the Clan autonomous from the rest of the Empire (col. ID) and thereby focused on the jedi grind.