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SW: Edge of the Empire OOC -Still Accepting

Well me and dereken are having a chat and then I think we are going to the bar to see the Tinns before we depart. We kinda need to know reem is here to do the NPC's

SW: Edge of the Empire OOC -Still Accepting

Dronas simply looked grimly at Braedug as he spoke, he had been having the same worries himself but he hadn't wanted to complain. Turning off his own comlink he replied.

"That's a lot of questions fella'. You're right none of it seems right and I'm certain they are keeping stuff from us. My first instinct was to get the job done and simply head to the seediest corner of the galaxy I can find. However I don't think this Molech guy leaves loose ends like us alive after we have done a job. We definitely can't come back to Bespin after this job. Maybe if we know what we are transporting then we would have some idea of how to go further in this situation?"

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Dronas smiled, he could at least take a joke. Walking in he followed Braedug into the ship.

"Unwanted hangers? No not really, bounty hunters outside my apartment but thats only because I don't think the credits have cleared yet. Admittedly I haven't been confronted or looking very hard for them in the past few hours."

Dronas looked at Braedug.

"Why? Did something happen?"

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Cant be arsed to wait...dereken I gotta post up. We can have a chat before Dredigan arrives. Then you can turn up, Dredigan, and its all happy days on a space trip!

SW: Edge of the Empire OOC -Still Accepting

The sounds of the comlink roused Dronas from his slumber and he rolled over to it, placed on his side table. The sound of Braedug's voice came through as he lifted it to his ear. The message was short and sweet. Dronas could deal with that this morning. Quickly climbing into his combat armour he donned his duster and slid on his weapons. The blaster was safely in his holster and his vibrosword was now packed neatly against his back. As prepared as he could ever be.

Stepping out of his room he wandered downstairs and smiled at the receptionist who hadn't seemed to have changed at all. The outside was fresh and crisp and he loved it. All his senses seemed to sharpen up and he was fully awake. Hailing another cab he headed to to the landing bay that Braedug had sent him. The journey was a short one and he paid the man with a generous tip. He was in a good mood with this new job and Braedug can't have had too much bad to say. As he arrived he looked the ship over. It looked used but serviceable, definitely a smugglers ship. Well enough that it would get out of most sticky situations but rough enough not to get bothered. As he stepped up to the ship he knocked on the hull and spoke into his communicator.

"She looks like a piece of shit, let me in." His voice was gruff but he was joking, the ship would do.

Sailing the Seven Seas

Name: Abejidé

Appearance: WIP

Nicknames/Titles: Dé

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Allegiance: Himself and other now free slaves.

Allegiance Faction: None

Role: Captain

Personality: Dé is a cold man, he has lived through it all and has seen his family and friends be killed in front of him. Despite this he is welcoming to other slaves and is always willing to listen to please of attacking plantations and slave ships. He is a realist and if he see’s something as totally impossible he is most likely to avoid it entirely. He believes all ‘White man’ are evil and that they all are power mad slave owners and so finds it very difficult to even show a white man any sort of respect. He uses his powerful and inspirational voice to good effect and this is no different even when he is not talking to a crowd. He enjoys the fact he can almost always intimidate people.

Enhanced Ability: Dé has been known to raise his entire crew from slaves he freed or have freed themselves. This means he has a way of inspiring other slaves to fight and die for him with no questions. Furthermore he has the ability to convince other slaves that escaping their fate is always worthwhile, causing many a slave revolt/mutiny.

Biography: Dé was born in a little village on the coast of Africa, modern day Ivory Coast. The village was called Humtah and it was all he knew. His people were a simple kind, content with their lot in life. Dé was a big child and a very good fighter and his father encouraged him to build up his muscles. His first job in the village was helping build home and buildings around the village. This helped build up his muscles as well as his training programme. When he was 12 he went out hunting with his father and caught himself a deer. For his first hunt it was impressive. After a few years he was a regular huntsmen and was bringing in some of the finest meats the village. When he was 16 his village was raided by a nearby warlord. Most of their cattle was killed, in a response Dé organised an attack in which they would steal back the cattle they had lost. It was a total success after Dé was able to take on a farm’s guards single handidly. He returned to his village a true man and was married too the village chiefs daughter. Life was very good for Dé. He found However all of that changed when the white man came.

His village was burnt to the ground and every strong man was taken, bound and forced to watch their families killed before they were loaded onto a large dark ship to be sold at the markets in America. The journey was long and hard and Dé experienced beatings and suffered humiliation he could never forget however it made his resolve stronger. Around 3 quarters of the way through the journey Dé had become fast friends of the slaves he did not know and had found out that there was almost 10 times the number of slaves than there was crewmen. He decided that enough was enough, there would be no slavery for himself or his fellow slaves. One night during a routine inspection the slaves were able to grab one of the guards and break his neck. Stealing the keys they began to silently move through the ship killing guards and freeing more and more slaves until almost all of them were free below the decks. Then they waited, when another guard came down to check on those below deck the slaves made their move. Rushing from below they swarmed the ship, killing captors and sailors with their bare hands as well as the few cutlass’ they had stolen of the men they had already killed. Finally , when they had taken the ship, they came to the captains cabin. Dé himself took the man’s sword and sliced his head clean off before hanging it from the mast. The final part of the journey turned Dé from a slave to a freeman and, after a vote, captain of the ship. Deciding that the large lumbering vessal was not to his liking he decided that they would make port anywhere where they would not be immediately placed under lock and key again. A small port near Tortuga called ‘Sleepy Hollow’ was the ideal destination. Once docked Dé made contact with a white man he met in the tavern. The man would go with part of his crew to Tortuga and sell the ship. He would receive 5% of the money and use the rest too buy a faster more fitting ship for the purpose he had in mind. In the morning he watched the ship and 50 of his men sail away. Only a week and a half later a new ship returned with all 50 of his men as well as the white man he had sent. The white man, Edward Galls, was an experienced navigator and had been part of the Royal British Navy however a misunderstanding had left him dishonourably discharged and stuck in Sleepy Hollow. In exchange for a fair part of the loot he offered to be their navigator. Dé was suspicious but trusted the man. They soon became fast friends. The ship he returned with was a fine one. A used Frigate Dé christened ‘The Howler Monkey’, it had been in service for a number of years to the Spanish yet after a storm it was abandoned. A group of scavengers salvaged the ship and brought it to Tortuga for repairs. Now Edward had bought it along with a set of cannons and supplies needed. Dé now sails the carrebian, freeing slaves from their bonds and raiding plantations. Sleepy Hollow is now used as hi base and has turned from a ghost town into a very profitable port due to the sugar and tobacco he has stolen. However Dé does not see himself as a criminal, he is simply freeing those imprisoned and giving them what they have worked for. When his crew is full all the slaves are freed in Sleepy Hollow along with a share of the goods stolen when they were freed

Likes: Freedom, rum, other slaves gambling and fairness.

Dislikes: Slavers, those in authority, people telling him what to do and thise who assume he is a slave.

Family: None that are left alive. They were butchered by a slavers company when they attacked his village.

Weapons:
2 Large cutlasses, one from each of the slaver captains he has killed, so far. (He wants a lot more)
A belt with 4 pistols on.
The hunting knife he was given when he turned into a man.

Miscellaneous: Very well built and tough however his seamanship needs improving and so he normally delegates jobs such as navigating to Edward.

SW: Edge of the Empire OOC -Still Accepting

looks like remm you need to get us to the morning now, I suggest just introducing us outside of dereken's ship to get this on its way

Make your very own Renaissance in the dreary Strandt Keep!

Thats great thanks and count me interested.

Make your very own Renaissance in the dreary Strandt Keep!

Okay how is this going to work? Turn Based, free for all?
Is the aim to sell some amazing new inventions to lords and ladies to better the world? Or to gain as much as we can?
If it's about being the next Leonardo Da Vinci then are we just going to decide what to build and it will just happen and everything will be better or will there be events and rivalries and contracts to fight for from evil and good lords and ladies?

The American Dream

Name: Alessandro Bianchi

Age: 26

Appearance:

Appearance

Nationality: Italian

Job: Runs a small bar, regular hangout of a local gang.

Religion: None

Background: Alessandro was born in Roma to a middleclass family, he had everything he could ever want and yet he found it wasn’t enough. His mother was a house wife whilst his father owned a shoe factory. However with the outbreak of WW1 his father was called up and tragically died in the trenches when he was young. However they kept their wealth as his mother remarried to the manager of her husbands factory who simply took it over and continued to run it. When he was 10 he had already started his first business, selling sweets to the other kids and then he would get the older kids to beat them up and take the sweets back to sell again. Others got into trouble and yet his report always said ‘Model Student’. When he was 18 he was enrolled in Roma University where he created a ring of porn and cigarette selling. Teachers and students alike were paying top dollar for their sins. Having been raised a Roman Catholic it was here at university he decided that religion had no place. Here were well educated and faithful men indulging in their sins all for pleasure. No god had struck them down and all of them had good futures to go to. When he was 21 he had finished a course in economics and decided that a change of scenery was in need. His mother was becoming increasingly short tempered with him and he felt as in any welcome or warmth was fading fast. One night he snuck into the family office and after rearranging the records and finances a large proportion of the money was ‘invested’ or ‘lost’. After this he made his way to America.
In New York Alessandro worked from the word go. He initially began by buying and selling property however he found that the returns took to long to reach him and that his money was dwindling on projects. Deciding that he should do what he does best he bought a run down old bar and began a revamp. ‘Alessandro’s’ was up and running within a few months and began quite profitably, however the money was still coming in too slowly and he was becoming bored. Soon after however Alessandro came in contact with the Stalore family. The Stalore’s needed somewhere to meet, plan and sometimes hideout and ‘Alessandro’s’ was the perfect place. For a large sum of money every month Alessandro only had to provide his backroom and storeroom whenever it was needed. As time went on Mussolini came to power and more and more Italians fled to America, some of which came from families there and were looking for similar work. Alessandro began to become the contact between those looking for work and the Stalore family and for each man that became made he got a little bonus as well as another friend within the family. He also finds well paid work for those who are looking to become made men but the families haven’t taken an interest, yet.

Talents: Master book keep and very intelligent.