[b]Name:[/b] Flight Cadet Kerrick "Clang" Shan
[b]Species:[/b] Human
[b]Age:[/b] 19
[b]Planet of Origin/Birth:[/b] H'ratth

[b]Appearance:[/b][indent]5’9 and trim, with dark hair that tends to be thick and unruly if not combed back; he doesn’t bother and leaves it at medium length. His eyes are dark and his facial features are relatively nondescript, though his nose is narrow and somewhat pointed and his forehead is rather high; pleasing as humans go, but not particularly striking at first glance. Shan’s attire for some time has been the orange and white of a Rebel Alliance flightsuit or the khaki of a Rebel Alliance uniform, but out of uniform, he prefers a loose coat in addition to the typical attire of a spacer.[/indent]
[b]Skills/Abilities:[/b][indent]•	Piloting; Starfighters
•	Piloting; Swoop Bikes
•	Maintenance/Tech knowledge; he has an intuitive grasp of and love for technical challenges. Working with his hands puts his brain into a place where he can focus, and it's often when things come to him
•	Decent with a blaster.
•	Strong language skills, including an understanding of binary (which astromech droids speak).[/indent] 
[b]History:[/b][indent]Born on H’ratth, a mostly desert and forest planet, he lived a rather unremarkable existence as the member of a family that ran a local salvage yard for speeders of various types, which allowed him plenty of time to tinker with machinery, particularly high speed machinery like swoop bikes. His parents were involved in anti-Empire activity with a local resistance cell, one of many that existed in a myriad of systems prior to the establishment of the Rebel Alliance, and were killed while conducting an operation to try and get a Jedi to safety.

The authorities on H’ratth sensed an opportunity and used these crimes and threatened Kerrick and his grandmother in order to buy out the salvage yard business at a cheap rate, leaving Kerrick and his grandmother, Nomi, impoverished. During this time, he found himself hooking up with one of the local swoop gangs, the Nexu Riders, who were loosely involved in operations for one of the local crime lords, largely in theft and the fencing of stolen goods. 

However, the Nexu Riders quickly got ahead of themselves, and Kerrick quickly decided to skip the system rather than have things go sour for his grandmother. Through a series of mishaps, he found himself on the planet of Sluis Van, one of the bigger shipyard planets in the entire galaxy , working first as a construction welder in zero-G and then as a rescue shuttle pilot, extracting wounded construction types from mishaps in the Yards. During this time, he managed to find himself hooking up with a group of people his age that were part of a nascent cell of Rebels working in the shipyards. When this small group of resistance members got into trouble, it was Shan who used his knowledge of the shipyards to acquire and escape with a hyperdrive capable shuttle, dodging patrols in a harrowing escape through an asteroid field where everyone was sure they were going to die, and yet miraculously, Kerrick managed to pull them through even though their pursuit were hitting the rocks and pulling back.

When they finally did hook up with the Alliance, Kerrick joined along with his comrades; it was that or explain himself to the ISB. He didn't want to explain himself to the ISB. 

The Alliance’s intelligence people got him to come clean about the Nexu Riders and his record as a rescue shuttle pilot recommended him to flight training with the Alliance. Despite the occasional rookie mishap, such as when he landed a little too hard on a flight exercise and earned the callsign, “Clang," his instructors considered him more than sharp enough to drive the new starfighter just being phased in with the Alliance; the X-wing.

When he graduated flight training off the Independence, he was assigned directly to Intruder Squadron, flying X-wings off the Audacious.[/indent]
[b]Psychological Profile:[/b][indent]Kerrick isn't sure why he does some things a certain way, he just explains that they 'feel right.' The thing is, his feelings seem to be highly accurate. He is perfectly willing to swagger, crack wise and employ sarcasm as his mode of defense against the personalities of other people. To a degree, the Alliance is more tolerant of personality than the Empire, but military discipline has made him a little more tractable. [/indent]
[b]Equipment:[/b][indent]•	Alliance issue flight suit and flight helmet. Regular clothes -- he prefers a sleeveless shirt, vest, cargo pants and spacer boots, along with a tech belt to hold his tools.
•	Blastech holdout blaster.
•	Various tech tools, such as laser welders and spanners.
•	A working PDA.
•	R2Y5, his astromech counterpart in the X-Wing, who has a strong bond with the pilot. Shan has replaced a number of internal components in the droid and upgraded the processing hardware. 
•	 A holocron that is a family heirloom, though he's never managed to get it to work. It is in good repair, but he can't figure out what the activation sequence requires.[/indent]
[b]Relationships and Acquaintances:[/b]
[indent]- Shan is a 'new nugget' and so as a new arrival to the squadron, is still feeling things out. It turns out that he is hardly alone -- Alliance Personnel Command pulled a bunch of them into Intruder Squadron, in a frantic effort to fully man the Audacious.[/indent]