[b]Name:[/b] Dral Kelborn [b]Species:[/b] Human [b]Age:[/b] 23 [b]Profession:[/b] Bounty Hunter/Mercenary [b]Planet of Origin/Birth:[/b] Nar Shaddaa (born)/Manda'yaim (raised) [b]Force Sensitive:[/b] No [b]Appearance: [/b] A leanly-muscled, fit man with fairly wide shoulders that taper down into a slender waist. He has somewhat swarthy skin, but blue eyes. His hair is dark, but he shaves his head and leaves only a goattee on his chin, tapered to a point beneath his lower lip. It gives him a fairly aggressive appearance, keeping with what one might expect out of Mandalorians. [img=http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/187/4/6/Sniper_by_dywa.jpg] [b]Skills/Abilities[/b] - Surprisingly, artistic. His armor reflects that in a lot of ways, as he adds a lot of painted scrollwork to the edges. - Proficient with a variety of personal weapons, from blasters to hand to hand equipment. - Equipment maintenance - Knowledge of explosives - Jetpack operation; because Mando boys love it. - Experienced Bounty Hunter [b]Equipment: [/b] - Armor, tan, (colors -can- have significant symbolism in Mandalorian culture) with sensor suite, target assistance communications descrambler and enhanced environmental sealing and other typical HUD systems. Mounted weapons: Wrist-mounted vibroblade. Also includes a datapad and holo-unit on the opposite wrist. - Blastech A280 with extensive modifications. - DRPV-78 rocket pack, networked to his armor. - LL-30 blaster pistol w/ quick release holster - Black Market-manufactured Disruptor Pistol - highly illegal, devastating at close range - Golan Arms M-1 Grenade Launcher - break-action, single shot, very simple technology - Durasteel chain - Cortiosis-weave fighting knife with a silk-rope grip - Duraplast boot-dagger - Utility/survival belt w/ bells and whistles multi-tool - Field medical kit with painkillers, bandages, a tourniquet kit, surgical scissors and pliers and other sterile tools as needed -- the typical infantry emergency supply for battlefield casualty first aid. - Mesh Tape - Binder Cuffs - Asai Emerald stud earrings, momento of his mother (Mandalorians tend to wear token belongings of beloved dead relatives as a ritual rememberance) [b]Personality: [/b] Dral is a fair example of a Mandalorian; he is cynical about the Empire, skeptical of the Rebel Alliance and thinks that family is the only thing that tends to matter. He's fairly closemouthed about his family, but that's a no-brainer; the Alliance is infiltrated with Imperial Intelligence agents, despite all the counterintelligence. Ever since Mandalore put out the word to resist the Empire, he's been committed to the fight -- they're on Manda'yaim, trying to put his people down. He might think of the Alliance as a bunch of fainthearted fools, but he knows that the Empire is trying to grind his people to dust. [b]History: [/b] Born of a Mandalorian father and the odd black sheep Rendiliian mother that decided to leave the paradise and become a bounty hunter (and join the Mando'ade herself - there's a strong adoption culture among Mandalorians) his parents were killed in a speeder accident on Nar Shaadaa when Kelborn was only six years old. He grew up as the adopted son of another pair of Mandalorians, a couple that couldn't have children. In Mando culture, adoption was common, often to the point of couples adopting orphans from other worlds who were not part of Mando culture. As a result, he grew up in the traditional manner of Mandalorians, learning the family business of bounty hunting and skill at weapons on Manda'yaim, aka Mandalore. His aliit, or clan, was extremely diverse and multitalented, which led him to learn from a lot of highly experienced people in a variety of things. However, a strange sort of talent developed with him in playing in his aunt's garage scrapyard where he began to sculpt and paint and experiment with visual representations of different materials. Eventually, other Mando'ade started to look him up for a little embellishment on the armor or a vehicle, or for more pedestrian sorts of artwork. For a good number of years, his mother's wealthy Rendiliian family, wondering what became of the black sheep daughter, sent out hired people to track her down. However, his clan were very good at erasing traces of their existence (some of the members were wanted by the Empire) and it took considerable luck to find a trail. At the age of 17, he was contacted by one of these agents and agreed to return to Rendili to give the bad news to his aged biological grandmother. [hider=Spoiler History]By this time, as Mandalorians start their adulthood at age 13 or so, after years of training from age 8 on, he had some of his own resources and used them, with his grandmother's encouragement, to enroll in the Arch Provost's University to taste a broader spectrum of life than Mandalorian life had to offer. Despite the culture shock, he did fairly well until his second year, when his then-girlfriend, Osana Lath, and her best friend, Neyla Dallin, got involved in anti-Imperial activity; a meeting at their apartment was compromised and he had to flee along with the college kids. He wound up in the Rebel Alliance by chance, with a shipload of other political refugees, and while Mandalorians are traditionally suspicious of the aruetiise he himself was on the wanted list. He had a choice to go back home, but decided against. During his time spent cooling heels with the Alliance, his girlfriend and several other of the students, who were computer science students, were trained as Alliance Intelligence cryptanalysts and Neyla Dallin was trained as a logistics officer, owing to her background as a management and political science double major and because she was the scion of one of Rendili Stardrive's board families. Because of his background, he was assigned to the maverick command, Alliance Special Operations, because it was evident there was no way that he'd take orders from any regular officer without considerable creative interpretation-- as always, Mandalorians had a highly informalized command structure and concept of rank, and it clashed with the Imperial/Republic modeled Alliance Armed Forces. He was, at the same time, in no way suited to be an officer, despite his evident skills and experience, in a regular military unit; he was Mando'ad to the bone. His relationship with Lath suffered during this time, as she resented that he'd never quite told her the whole story about his unusual "Outer Rim" background, and when he was assigned to Alliance Intelligence, she broke off the relationship. Meanwhile, Intelligence saw the uses of Kelborn as an undercover agent in fringe areas, where a Mandalorian bounty hunter would not be considered a likely mole for the Rebel Alliance. His first assignment in the Alliance was to work in Nar Shaddaa, helping to set up networks of informants and to build up a dossier on Imperial-sympathetic groups in the area. He did enough jobs as a bounty hunter to establish himself. His assignment to the Tengaru system on behalf of Intelligence was a no brainer; the offer was on the table for him as well as a number of others on the Smuggler's Moon, and it didn't surprise him entirely when Intelligence decided to assign him there -- with the number of other fringers moving there for the money, it was inevitable that they'd want some of their own in an undercover role, to infiltrate Jys Akende's organization in order to try and smoke out double agents that might sell out to the Empire. His job then, was to work counter-intelligence while posing as simply one more merc.[/hider] Kelborn's arrival into Tengaru isn't surprising; he has worked as a bounty hunter out of Nar Shaddaa and the sort of pay the Sultana is offering has drawn a number of money-hungry or thrill seeking mercenary types into the fray. Kelborn, by all appearances, is just one more of that ilk. [b]Acquaintances[/b] Neyla Dallin - A logistics officer originally from Rendili that is assigned to Mission Group KOWAKIAN. They maintain an encrypted commlink contact with each other.