[OOC] STAR WARS: Bounty Hunters [Closed down]

[Specter189]

@The Fox Without he/she will get a long great with my widower who's also lost his young daughter

[Heat]

@NyanCaxx Gonna deny the character for now, there's a few issues I have with the CS:

• I think she should be a bit older, closer to 30 than 20 at least. Not many well known bounty hunters are as young as she is.
• What exactly are the stealth field generator's capabilities? Does she become totally invisible or is it just like an active camo thing? How long can it be used for? Does it short out from anything, maybe water?
• What about the ship's stealth generator? How long does that go for? Does it use us power in other parts of the ship?
• Her backstory could use a bit more to it. When did she train extensively in Enhani martial arts? What was she like before the cybernetics? Where did her life start? Was she a poor girl on a backwater planet? Was she a slave? How did she become so obsessed with becoming the perfect hunter? What made the Empire take notice of her as a bounty hunter?
  
  I do like the character idea, it's pretty cool. Just a few changes are needed.

@Specter189 Within realistic reason still, I know its a sci-fi universe and all. A cycler rifle is a weapon of the Tuskens who are native to Tattooine, so unless your character raided their village or something it's unlikely they'd have one.

Nothing wrong with a typical blaster. If you want your char to be a walking arsenal with multiple weapons then that's cool, as long as there's enough flaws to the character.

[The Fox Without]

@Specter189:D I can see that, already looking forward to playing this guy, he's gonna be a wise ass.

I'd make him tonight but it's almost 1am here

@NyanCaxx

One question I have, what happens to her if she ends up hit with a restraining bolt...I need to get restraining bolts >.>

For reasons

[Heat]

For anyone stumped with names here is a generator with some nice ones. Has names for multiple species as well as for males and females.

[Specter189]

@Heat Huh, odd, from the description I got Cyclers were pretty commonly found among more primitive folk. Though its whatevs, I can just lable it a "high caliber slugthrower" I prefer 'em to blasters because you can actually be rather stealthy with one, plus the special ammunition you can load and also because they're generally cool as hell. I'll pack other weapons, naturally, so a holdout blaster will probably be a thing, going for a more subversive and indirect approach with my combat style. Gives an edge against auretiise who know they've got a Mando on them and prepare for a direct engagement.

@The Fox Without If he gets told he's a di'kutla chakaar who is jare'la, its totally a sign of endearment, not negative in connotation at all, nope, no sir

[Barrett]

So I think this is done and ready for GM appraisal.

Keell Vo

Keell Vo

Species

Rodian

Gender

Male

Age

35 cycles

Appearance

Wearing the thick black robes and scarf of a well-to-do Space Trader, Keell makes every effort not to stand out. His weapons are kept well out of sight and his armour is concealed beneath his clothes, as is his stealth field generator. For a Rodian, his build is average, though he is a little shorter than the norm.

Image

Height

180cm

Weight

85kg

Apparel

• Microbe Armour - Made up of a series of compartments housing micro-organisms that feed on radiation, this vest can absorb blaster shots but not much else.

Weapons

• Heavy Blaster Pistol - A customised blaster pistol that fires a more powerful bolt than most, at the cost of power packs being expended much more quickly.
• Talon Vibro Dagger - Unlike most vibro-knives, the Talon vibrates at ultra-sonic speeds and therefore makes no noise when used.
• Monofilament Wire - Beyond razor sharp wire, usable to garrotte any opponent smart enough to have armoured their necks.

Equipment

• Stealth Field Generator - A belt that generates a sound dampening and reflective field around the wearer. Disrupted by sudden movements or loud sounds.
• DataPad - A device for recording, storing or transmitting information. Used to learn about bounty targets, send messages and record kill proofs.

Skills

• Skilled infiltrator and assassin, uses the shadows to move and his stealth field generator when there are none.
• Experienced at using crowds for cover, blending into the group until he wants to be seen.
• Good knowledge of the biology of most species, knows where to stab to kill nine times out of ten.
• Excellent shot with his blaster pistol, which is modified to hit hard and melt armour.
• Well versed in a number of languages, able to be conversational in most of the galaxy.

Flaws

• Not particularly fast on the draw or strong, Keell relies on surprise and planning to defeat his opponents.
• His armour protects only against blaster shots and offers no defences against melee weapons or solid projectiles.
• A coward who would rather run and hide than stand his ground in a fight.

Personality

Keell was trained from a young age to be neither seen nor heard, lessons he took well to heart. As a professional bounty hunter, he deliberately makes sure his victories and successes are kept secret and that he doesn't build a threatening name or reputation. It is his hope that people see nothing more than a soft looking Rodian and underestimate him, something that happens on a regular basis. And when their gaze is else where, he moves behind them and gets outs his monofilament wire.

On a personal level, Keell is much the same, never taking up too much space in a conversation or trying to contradict others. He would rather people forget that he was there than make himself the object of attention. He's not only shy but suspicious and uneasy in the company of others. He prefers to sit alone and study biology or mathematics, feeling most comfortable when not forced to talk to others. It is this that makes him so adept at fading into the background or into a crowd. Anyone who takes the time to try and get to know Keell will find him pleasant and knowledgeable but also driven to the exclusion of all else. He has a purpose and nothing will keep him from it, not enemies and not friends.

Backstory

Born to a pair of indentured servants on Tatooine, Keell was raised to serve his masters and betters in silence. His parents worked for Jabba the Hutt, who preferred servants to not be noticeable or remarked upon at all by his guests. So Keell learned to clear a table without its occupants even noticing he was there, to serve drinks before the patrons knew their glasses were empty and to move through Jabba's palace without disturbing anyone. As his parents were working off a debt rather than slaves, Keell had a little more freedom than many of the palace's staff and would occasionally go to Mos Eisley or one of the other settlements for fun. But as a small boy, he found that frustrated spacers and angry bounty hunters would snap and growl at anyone foolish enough to catch their attention. Keell soon learned to keep himself concealed and unnoticed even when outside of the palace's walls or off-duty.

His parents worked hard to pay off the debt they had incurred by borrowing from Jabba to move to Tatooine, saving every penny they could and gradually chipping away at what they owed. By the time Keell was twenty cycles old, it seemed they had enough to buy back their freedom from the Hutt. But the day before they went to pay him, another member of the staff robbed them and ran away with the money. He didn't get far, Jabba's guards dragging him back only a few hours later, but the guards said they'd found no money on him. The Vo family knew that the guards had taken it for themselves but there was nothing they could do. On Tatooine, the only law is Jabba and he would hardly intervene on the behalf of some menial servants over his very own guards. Keell's knew his parents would likely not live long enough to pay off their debts again and told them he would borrow money from Jabba to buy their bonds and then work off his own debt as quickly as possible but his parents refused his kind offer. Instead, they told him to leave Tatooine and find himself a life on a more civilised planet. He was smuggled onto a cargo freighter headed for the inner sectors of the Empire within a week. Keell swore he would return to free them both.

In the following years, Keell did many jobs. He was a waiter, a teacher, a librarian and a barman but none of these jobs made him enough money to buy off his parent's debt. When he was offered a job as lookout by a shady customer one evening at the bar, Keell decided to take a gamble and accept. He stood silent and careful in the rain as the customer and his friends broke into a weapons supplier and left with armfuls of guns. His payment was meagre compared to the other crew members but was still worth several days wages at the bar. And more importantly, now he had a contact. Keell did many more jobs that were similar and honed his already not inconsiderable skills at avoiding detection. He learned to shoot and sneak, to stab and steal. And when things got serious and the Stormtroopers came for the little gang, Keell was the only one to make it out alive, slipping away during the battle.

With his new found skills, Keell realised he could make enough to free his parents in a matter of months if he was successful in all of his jobs. So he went after Imperial approved bounties one at a time, never taking more risks than he had to. He didn't intend to die doing this job, he had people waiting. Despite a dozen or more extremely successful missions, Keell's fame spread no further than his contact at the bounty office. He would rather people knew not his name nor his face, the better to do his job and the better to leave it when the time came. When that time came, of course, things were not so easy. He found upon his return to Tatooine that his parents were both long since dead; his mother had been fed to a Rancor Jabba had purchased and his father had died trying to defend her. Briefly, Keell considered trying to kill Jabba there and then but eventually decided against it. He would rather not die like his parents had and so retreated to mourn and plot.

Since then, Keell has slowly been building a fortune of his own and is intent on one day taking revenge on the vial Hutt whose hands are stained with Vo blood. He knows it will not be easy, for Jabba is coming and his palace is like a fortress, but Keell is determined. Every job is done for a reason, to build up enough capital to pay for the job. He'll need accomplices, specialist gear, an escape vessel and a score of other expensive resources. It will take some time but Keell is methodical and patient. And when he is done and Jabba is dead, he'll find somewhere civilised to settle down, he believes. After all, it's what his parents wanted.

[Heat]

@Roosan The sheet looks good, I'm assuming he doesn't have a personal starship because he's still under control of the Hutt.

Only thing I'm not big on is the Stealth Field Generator. Those were really common during the Old Republic era and not so much during the era this is set in.

[Barrett]

@Heat
Ah, no. He doesn't have a ship because he saves all his money. But he wasn't ever under the control of the Hutt because he wasn't born a slave. Indentured servants owe a debt and can't leave their place of employment until it's paid off but they aren't owned by their employers and their children aren't owned either. So his parents had a debt, saved up enough money to pay it off, the money was stolen, he left the planet at their request, saved up money, came back, found his parents dead and then decided to save up his money for revenge instead of freeing them.

And if it's a deal breaker, I can drop the stealth field generator. I like the idea of them but it's not a big thing.

[Heat]

@Roosan Yeah, drop the stealth field generator and it is good to go. Then you can move it to the characters tab.

[Alfhedil]

Decided that since this RP doesn't have either a droid, or a party asshat/sociopath my character will be both : D

[Barrett]

@Heat
Thanks, will do.

@Alfhedil
HK-47 incoming then, meatbag?

[Alfhedil]

@Heat
Thanks, will do.

@Alfhedil
HK-47 incoming then, meatbag?

@Roosan

This one laughs at this meatbag's assumption that they will be such a hilariously outdated and inferior model, though superbly made as it may have been.

[Barrett]

@Alfhedil
That is a really good point. KotOR is my favourite era of Star Wars but I often forget how ridiculously far removed it is in time from the 'main' time period.

HK-90001 then?

[Alfhedil]

In all seriousness, essentially. Since Czerka survived well into the ET through typical Czerka methods, I am playing it off as if someone had the absolutely terrible idea of trying to redo the HK-series once again, and of course it explodes in their face. At the moment, I'm looking at the Empire as having contracted the company to make a specialist series of droids for taking down very particular targets.

[Barrett]

@Alfhedil
Sounds great to me, I look forward to robo-shenanigans. Whoever at Czerka found the blueprints for the HK series, read some old tales about them and thought "Yeah, there's nothing that could go wrong here!" should probably be fires or imprisoned though.

[Alfhedil]

@Heat I don't suppose I could get the current year and political situation of the setting? xD

[Heat]

@Alfhedil 6 BBY, Empire has full control over the galaxy. There have been murmurs of a rebellion but nothing has come out of it.

[Alfhedil]

@Alfhedil 6 BBY, Empire has full control over the galaxy. There have been murmurs of a rebellion but nothing has come out of it.

@Heat

Glorious, that actually helps quite a bit in terms of adjusting some background to fit. Thinking of having the HK project shifted back a few years to have been part of the Clone Wars since those were only 20 or so years in the past. Any opposition to anti-force user subroutines? :D

[Heat]

@Alfhedil Actually, according to the wiki the HK design was lost for some time until the Confederacy discovered it on Mustafar. They were going to mass produce them then Vader wiped out the engineers working on the project.

You could have your droid be one of the prototypes that got off the world and turned itself to a full, self aware bounty hunting droid? Or it could be one of the HK-77 units that was recovered from the world later and found its way into the criminal underworld?

[Alfhedil]

@Heat Thinking of perhaps using the HK-50/51 as a base, since it could be assumed that one or two of them could have survived in some corner of the galaxy just chilling in a scrap-yard until some enterprising soul decided it could be of use. At the moment, the back story of the HK-133 series sees them as a weapon developed by the Republic and Czerka to counter separatist movements before the Clone Wars, but then quickly distanced when not only their sadistic tendencies come to light, but also due to how it would look for the Republic to be using droids during that time. Czerka, being more than a little pissy about this move, goes to alter the contract a bit for the CIS and works on creating variants for the purpose of taking down Jedi, only to later hire them out again to the Republic under Palpatine to provide some extra muscle for Order 66. In typical Sith and Czerka fashion, once all is said and done they decide the entire program isn't worth their time anymore, and cancel it entirely.