Name: Colin Cooper
Species: Human
Age: 18
Appearance:
Reason for Imprisonment: Alleged possession and use of drugs; Colin continues to protest innocence and medical diagnostics have shown that he is clean, but the relevant doctor did not appear at Colin's trial; another doctor who had a different, probably faked set of medical reports was at the witness stand instead. Not helping is the fact that judicial system in Armania moves really slow and the real culprit is rich and well-connected enough to keep the wheels of justice turning in his favor.
Equipment: The clothes on his back and whatever mining equipment that his overseers see fit to entrust him.
Skills: Colin is an engineering student with a minor in architecture; in practical terms, this means that he can see the weak and strong points of a structure or machine, operate basic equipment, and know some programming skills. He also knows droidspeak. Other skills are singing and sketching, the latter for both practical (blueprints and schematics) and artistic reasons. And of course, he can - theoretically - repurpose mining equipment into weapons and disable mechanical/electronic safeguards against revolt.
Weaknesses: Colin is naive, physically weak, and despite having lived through the Seperatist occupation, sheltered from the worst aspects of the world. Therefore, being imprisoned and enslaved is a shock to him, having to endure hard and brutal conditions, even more so. Not merely that, but he is naturally submissive, so it takes someone else to plant the seed of revolt in him. And finally, he is afraid of fire and high temperatures, of being burnt alive; he does not like the idea that Human flesh cooks just as well as that of animals.
History: Colin was born to an upper-middle-class family within Erion Clan. Raised in an atmosphere of optimistic privilege, the boy was meek but showed promise in his studies. Bullied in school at an early age because of his small and thin build, he had to rely on his elder sister, Lisa, to protect him; she did so using her loud voice to shout down those who used insults and teasing while reporting to the teachers those who resorted to physical violence. This had the effect of both ensuring a peaceful and happy childhood for Colin and causing him to grow 'soft'.
Nevertheless, the optimistic life continued and Colin decided to try and get into a University run by the Alaxian Clan, which still exceeded the Erion clan in the creation and use of 'practical' technology. This was hard because the Clans were in a state of cold war with each other then. However, the Clan member who controlled said University was open to intelligent and scientific minds from all Clans (some speculated that he was merely trying to poach them for his own group) and accepted Colin when the latter aced his entrance exams.
Then came the Seperatist occupation; during which the University Facilities were put to work repairing droids and basic low-priority communications technology in exchange for being left relatively untouched. Colin learned a lot about Seperatist technology from helping maintain droids and basic radios, and even learn modern droidspeak. But despite that, Colin knew that the Seperatists were an occupying force and he was only helping them for his family's sake; while he avoided being treated cruelly, he knew that that was only because he was needed. Droids were cold and unfeeling, and the slightest misstep was the difference between comfort and pain; he hated it.
And when the Empire finally came and restored things to normal, Colin was one of the first to welcome them, confident that he can go on leave from the University at last; to his parents and sister, who had grown into a great beauty. And for a while, all was happy.
Then, said sister got a boyfriend, a rich nobleman who was one of the sons of the Clan Ylarn head. This would have been a moment of joy, and their parents clearly treated it as such due to the opportunity to form an alliance with an up-and-coming power. But Colin quickly noticed that the rich noble was abusive and unfaithful and that his sister cannot just shout him down because then she would be punished by her family and even clan.
Even worse, it turned out that his sister's boyfriend wanted to cheat on her with
Colin himself, due to the latter's good looks. Colin refused, and in a moment of defiance, he threatened to use every means he could to persuade his sister to leave him; the two can just defect to Clan Alaxian if the noble tried to make life in Clan Erion unbearable. In response, the rich young man said:
"Enjoy one last
long lonely night under the stars, then," before turning to go. Sure enough, one starry night later, Campus Police arrested Colin when the latter tried to go back to the University to pursue a new course in 'Modern Galactic Tech' and ask for the Headmaster's help in his upcoming defection. A local form of Spice had been found in his toolbox, hidden in a small tube; enough grounds for an arrest. Colin protested his innocence; his Headmaster and the campus doctors stood with him but Clans Ylarn and Erion purposefully had Clan Alaxian's head exclude them from the trial.
And with that, the young man was imprisoned in one of Armania's prisons...on his eighteenth birthday, to boot.
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