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NAME: Edo "Gunrunner" Talvarin
AGE: 29
Gender: Male
HEIGHT: 6 ft 3 in
WEIGHT: 146 lb
EYES: Emerald Green
HAIR: Creamy Coffee Brown
SKIN: Warm Beige
FORCE SENSITIVE: No

STRENGTHS:
Reflexive Piloting - Edo, like many Corellians, is a great pilots, able to out maneuver and out run most obstacles. A seasoned smuggler, Edo has outrun space worms and fighters and most things in between during his little adventures across the galaxy.
Engineering Genius - Also due to his Corellian blood, Edo is a crafty and handy bastard like all smugglers. His ship is appropriately modified for his line of work and the blaster pistol he uses is his own creation.
Gunrunner - After having spent much of his early live working as a courier for underworld gangs, Edo can dash across surfaces and objects as if he could use the force, that said someone who does use the force could easily outrun him.


WEAKNESSES:
Infamous - Unfortunately, Edo has met many unsavory character and some of them are just pure salty. Although he has no bounties on his head by cartels and the like, its best for him not to make much of show of himself in public areas.
Hallucinogenic - For unknown reasons, most likely due to his clost proximity to spices and other drugs, Edo occasionally either starts hallucinating or having vision. These can range from something comical like him having a debate about politics with a street lamp, to thinking he's being attacked or that the route is clear even though he's in an astroid field.
Distrustful - Outside of people he knows personally, Edo doesn't trust strangers or others. Although loyal to friends he already knows, gaining that trust is difficult to say the least.


APPEARANCE:
Edo is a tall and devilishly handsome man by his own words. His face is round with his messy hair brushed over to his right side. Think standard prince charming smuggler looks and you're half way to Edo.



Posessions: 
Datapad
His blaster pistol "Sundance"


A combination of several different blaster parts with a custom grip all housed in a nice cubical piece of sheet metal. Accurate, concealable and durable, a reliable weapon for a smuggler.
Rebreather & Mask
500 credits
His ship, Pride's End
Twi'lik slave/copilot


SHIP: Pride's End


Officially a VSR-96b made by Corellian Engineering Corp, Pride's End has been modified for smuggling by Edo. The floors had compartments for hiding goods and there are several false walls that are actually doors. The engines and hyperdrive have been refitted for more efficient versions with personal touches from Edo. For defense, the Pride's End uses six missile pods with cluster missiles, a dual medium laser gun in the front and another dual medium laser turret in the back.

BIOGRAPHY:
Orphaned at childhood after his Corellian smuggler parents were killed in a deal gone wrong, Edo was left to face the streets of the lower levels of Nar Shaddaa, a dystopian world by every stretch of the imagination. Poverty more common than air, violence more common than clean water and food, to say life was hard on Nar Shaddaa is a great understatement. Hell, even if there was none of that, the political scene on the planet was a mess; it was impossible to tell the difference between a politician and a criminal. Many people of all ages and races flocked to the local criminal syndicates and gangs, at least they had something of a future. Edo and other children were no exception. Even if gutter running was hard and destitute, it sure beat getting scammed and exploited by people on the street which had already scarred young Edo on a physiological level.

First having joined with the Moonblade Gang, Edo was a gutter runner, a glorified delivery boy who ran packages through gang wars and dark alleys. For nearly a decade, until Edo was 14, he had run through just about every corner of Nar Shaddaa both increasing his speed and the value of his packages. Due to the way his assignments lined up, he ended up transporting enough weapons to fill an armory, giving him the alias of "Gunrunner". Although it wasn't a glorious job, and often down right dangerous, Edo's pay and respect grew within the ranks.

This was all fine and dandy until the Hutt Cartel decided to move into the area and came a-calling. Like many of the other gangs, the Moonblades where cut down by the superior troops and mercenaries of the Hutts wiped the floor with whatever resistance the Moonblades could offer. It was in this confusion and chaos that one Edo stole an unoccupied shuttle from the Hutts to try and escape. Despite never having touched the controls of a spacecraft before, his Corellian blood seemed to allow him to seamlessly pilot the craft as it he had been born in it. After giving an hour long chase to the rest of the speeders and shuttles of the Hutt Cartel, they finally caught him, talent was no match for training and experience.

Brought before the leading Hutt of the operation, Zundoro, Edo believed that either he was going to be sold into slavery or killed on the spot. However, to his surprise, Zundoro was impressed at how a young child could outrun his pilots for so long and offered him an opportunity, an offer of becoming a smuggler for him. Edo accepted the offer, half out of fear and panic, half out of hope that maybe he'd get something better than a gutter runner. And better it was.

By the time Edo had 18 years under his belt, he was already one of Zundoro the Hutt's most reliable smugglers, having risen to the level of the pilots who taught him how to fly. And when Edo completed a particularly lucrative contract of spices for his boss, he used some of the money to go by his own ship after asking Zundoro for some extra to help cover the cost as he couldn't pay for the entire thing. And thus, the Pride's End came into Edo's life, of course he needed a copilot for it. Unfortunately he could only find an astromech droid to fill the job, R7-A1. Although not particularly amazing at his job, R7 fulfilled his purpose and was a suitable companion for Edo. After another five years and a number of close calls, Edo had picked up legal trading as both personal side profits and to help cover up his more illicit goods. 

And then, he met Ural'fone, a Twi'lek slave girl who had been in a group of slaves Edo was supposed to deliver to a seedy man who dealt in spice production. Immediately having taken a liking to her, Edo bargained with the man and bought the girl for no small sum of credits. Looking back now, Edo didn't know why he took Ural'fone under his arm, officially, she was his slave but it never really felt like that sort of relationship. Perhaps since he saw a co-pilot in her, perhaps he wanted to use her in shadier ways, perhaps he just wanted someone else to talk to besides a droid (R7 was never a good conversationalist). At any rate, Edo taught the Twi'lek the same things he was when he was young and just starting to pilot and eventually, she got good at it so much to the point that R7 was no longer needed. After parting ways with the old droid, he and Ural'fone set course for Coruscant with a load of weapons; only for the Gunrunner to be caught, his prized ship impounded and his co-pilot jailed.
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