[hider=Pann][center][h1][color=35AD6B]Pann[/color][/h1]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/GMBGuqa.jpg[/img][/center]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Full Name} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Pann [s]Fontraz[/s] Merneeks[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Age} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Thirty[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Species} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Human[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Gender} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Female[/indent]
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[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Force Sensitive/Alignment} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Not force sensitive[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Appearance} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]One might say they've seen a ghost upon looking at Pann. Life on a starship has kept Pann pale, causing her to burn easily in sunlight. Both her short hair, trimmed messily in a bob, as well her irises are a seaweed/mossy green reminiscent of the swamps on Taris. 

She stands at a firm 5'6'', with an athletic frame to boot. Fashion isn't Pan's strong suit, nor will it ever be as she prefers the simplistic approach of soldier or operative-like attire over anything else.[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Equipment and Personal Belongings} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent][url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/DC-15A_blaster_carbine][u]DC-15A blaster carbine:[/u][/url] A common weapon during the Clone Wars, and was also one of several firearms carried on the Tarisian flotilla in case a ship had been breached. This particular carbine has been through the ringer, but it still functionally works and Pann has kept it by her side since the crash landing.

[url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/L-23_blaster_pistol][u]L-23 blaster pistol:[/u][/url] A popular pistol often found through black markets, underground dealers and other such illegal activity. Pann had managed to swipe it off a Rishi pirate who should've paid more attention to where he left his weaponry.

[url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Vibroknife][u]Vibroknife:[/u][/url] A basic blade that can cut things. Most of the time, however, Pann tends to use it as a tool to pry or open things up.

[u][url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/VCX-100_light_freighter]VCX-100 light freighter:[/url][/u] Technically Zana's, but Pann is frequently given access to it or otherwise accompanying Zana on the freighter.

[u][url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Flare-S_swoop/Legends]Flare-S swoop:[/url][/u] Pann's pride and joy. Although a common swoop post-Clone Wars, she tends to get more mileage out of it than most owing to her swoop-riding skills.

[u]Armor:[/u] Mostly plasteel/armorweave, some durasteel and a hint of beskar (shoulder piece). Pann uses what she can acquire or find, and awaits the day when she obtains more uniform armor.

[u]Bits and Bobs:[/u] Anything not covered above that you'd expect someone to carry. Basic stuff such as macrobinoculars, first aid supplies, field rations, etc. that would commonly be carried in a soldier or mercenary's kit.[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Physical Abilities} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent][u]Mandalorian Training:[/u] As part of her training, Zana has taught Pann the ways of the Mandalorian. She has honed her weapon skills, and even adheres to what it means to be Mandalorian.

[u]Stunt Driver:[/u] Growing up, Pann became a pretty decent swoop racer out on the track. With the swoop being one of the most difficult vehicles anyone could drive, Pann is pretty confident being in the driver's seat. 

[u]Spaceborn:[/u] Living in space requires a certain skillset that Pann is well used to. She doesn't have much trouble adapting to low G or places with artificial gravity, and is adept at navigating maze-like halls of starships.[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Limitations} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent][u]Rebellious Risktaker:[/u] Pann has a knack for taking risks she probably shouldn't to gain an edge. It primarily started with her addiction to swoop racing, but it has gradually begun to bleed into other elements of her life throughout her years.

[u]The Tarisian Issue:[/u] Though Pann is spaceborn, she was raised like a Tarisian patriot. In other words, Pann tends to gets touchy when people bring up Taris in a negative light. It has been a real bad sore spot for her.[/indent]
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[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Personality} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent]Pann is an exceptionally proud person.

Over the years, she has become one to believe in causes, primarily patriotic issues. As a result, it has narrowed her thinking, and it isn't unusual for her to take things to heart. She isn't afraid to say what's on her mind; a fact that has gotten Pann in trouble every now and then. Deep down inside, however, there is a kindness in Pann, who has come to realize a desire to simply make the galaxy "better". If the Mandalorians can help Taris, then she feels honor-bound to help the rest of the galaxy as well. Of course, as a Mandalorian herself, this often means diplomacy in the form of blasters and explosives instead, but, hey, if it works it works.[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Place of Origin} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent][url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Space_baby]Space baby[/url], with [url=https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Taris]Tarisian[/url] lineage[/indent]
[color=35AD6B][b]|[u] {Background} [/u]|[/b][/color]
[indent][i]I VOW TO THEE, MY PLANET:[/i][/indent]
[indent][indent]About thirty galactic years ago, Pann had been born on the [i]Lower City[/i], a Sphyrna-class Hammerhead corvette, to a family of spacers descended from a group of Tarisian refugees. The ship, alongside a few other rust buckets that had accompanied it, had long since become home to these people, which ultimately evolved into a meager faction of their own—one distinctly Tarisian and subservient to none. Now, upon her birth, it had been Pann's turn to carry the legacy of a planet she had never seen; of a place she would likely never walk upon.

And so, in the fresh wake of the Clone Wars, Pann had done just that. Her parents had raised Pann on swoop racing, where she won a great number of races on planets such as Tatooine at a young age. She had been told bedtime stories of the nightmarish rakghouls, terrible beasts that struck fear in her heart as a child. As she had begun to near her teenage years, Pann had become a Tarisian through and through, holding the planet's memory with pride in her heart.[/indent][/indent]
[indent][i]BETRAYAL FROM WITHIN:[/i][/indent]
[indent][indent]Although her loyalty was to Taris and its people, Pann had ultimately felt splintered by the onset of the Clone Wars, and so did the rest of the flotilla's crew. Some of the crew had come to believe in the Galactic Republic's cause, whilst others found truth in the CIS, echoing the corrupt republic's historical betrayals millennia ago. Part of Pann wished they would be able to solve their differences—after all these men and women had been her kin—but she had been just a kid in the end, who held no real sway to bring her family, friends and neighbors together once more.

As the rift between the group grew and tensions eventually exploded into open mutiny, Pann was forced to fend for her own safety upon the battle claiming the lives of both of her parents. It was here where she had taken her first life as well; a direct result of the infighting and self-defense.

Each side had planned on securing the ships for themselves, however, the fighting ultimately proved too much for the old, derelict ships and ripped them apart piece by piece. To avoid a cold death in space, the survivors of the battle were forced to evacuate by pod, leaving behind all they had known. Among one of these escape pods had been Pann, who had found herself strewn on the jungle planet of Rishi alongside others that had luckily survived the prior chaos. 

There, as the galaxy began to splinter following the events of Knightfall, she and the other Tarisians were forced to live among the planet's pirate havens, often needing to fend off the occasional gang or steal from said gangs for their own survival. During her time on Rishi, Pann would make a name for herself, helping out where she could and by being a general nuisance to the pirates residing there. Though she may have been just a kid, Pann hadn't wanted to sit around and twiddle her thumbs where there were still things that needed to be done.[/indent][/indent]
[indent][i]AN OPPORTUNITY STRIKES:[/i][/indent]
[indent][indent]When the Hutt call to arms reached Rishi, the Tarisians quickly realized they had quite the opportunity available to them. As more and more pirates left the jungle planet, Pann and the others proceeded to ambush those that remained, having been eager to leave the planet for a better future. Taking the pirates by surprise, Pann and her fellow brethren were able to secure a new starship for themselves, which they soon renamed the [i]Promised Land[/i] after the mythical city located deep below back on Taris.

Now off Rishi and free to do as they pleased once more, they were left with a single, unanswered question: what now? The last few years had greatly weakened their numbers, and the recent galactic events left them without a likeminded purpose. A vote was promptly held among all of the Tarisians, Pann included despite her age, to see what they should do or where to go. By the end of it, there had been only one answer; to return home to the planet they had been away from for several millennia. 

Slipping through CIS space, the Tarisians made way through the galaxy to their home world only to find it under the control of the Mandalorians. Some had been appalled or hesitant of this revelation; had the planet simply traded one master for another? Pann, on the other hand, came to see it in a different light, coming to realize all the good the Mandalorians had done for her people. Though her heart was for her planet, Pann came to feel a new calling and that she needed to repay the favor.[/indent][/indent]
[indent][i]THE MANDALORIAN:[/i][/indent]
[indent][indent]Leaving behind her Tarisian companions, Pann ran off to throw herself in with the Mandalorians, hoping to learn from them and their fledgling republic. She had already been willing to die for Taris, and now that included the Republic of Mandalore—the brave defenders of her home.

Searching for someone to aid her newfound cause, it had been chance that Pann came across a human Mandalorian by the name of [i]Zana Merneeks[/i]. Zana, having noticed a fighting spirit in the then-teenager, took Pann under her wing and began training her in the Mandalorian ways. Eventually, as the years passed, this training gave way to her formal adoption into Clan Merneeks, with Pann taking the Merneeks name as they set out to travel the known galaxy as Mandalorian envoys. Such a way of life proved to be rough and difficult, but it had become something she believed in wholeheartedly, just like Taris.[/indent][/indent][/hider]