Another important thing to note for you guys, is Talents.
Talents have fun names. There's a Talent called 'Speaks Binary', which gives you a blue dice when controlling droids.
That does not mean if you don't have Speaks Binary your character can't speak Binary (like Luke does with Artoo).
What it means is that if you do have Speaks Binary your character has a talent for it. Literally.
It's as simple as that. Talents are talents. As far as the fiction is concerned, you don't need Brace Talent to be able to brace for impact. In some ways it's alarming that any character might braced for impact so often that they've discovered they have a talent for it!
Daughter of a high echelon first order commander, talented, devoted, ruthless, buying every line of propaganda she had grown up with. Rebel Scum. Traitors. Disorder. Terrorists. Viewed as a shooting star, with the ability to almost disappear in plain sight and making some above her nervous with the combination of ambition and talent. It became quickly obvious that a regimented military career was not for her - not in her whirlwind personality. which is how she ended up in the FOSB, First order security bureau. On her first real mission she performed a real coup - only not the one she was supposed to. She found corruption and disloyalties alright. In the First Order leadership. Being the ‘loyal soldier’ she was, she took that discovery to a part of the leadership she thought pure … and for her trouble received a force pike through the face from aphasia herself and was left for dead. That force pike failed to kill her, due to a timely intervention by of all people a resistance medic, but it did shatter her beliefs. She found herself with a new home. The resistance would be the tool. She may not believe entirely, yet, in their philosophical underpinnings - but they were aimed where she wanted to be aimed. Who knows? Perhaps belief would come in time.
And that was how a hardened, scarred, often darkly sarcastic very young woman showed up as a volunteer. What was left in the First Order was no longer family. Both her and their actions had ensued that she was dead to them and they to her. She was Revenant.
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Revenant, Preach, Summer ...
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The rugged marshall of a small colony on the outer rim world of Klandathu, Amos enjoyed a good life after a rough upbringing. His town of Halvin was a haven for those who wanted to be far away from the turmoil of the inner planets, raising animals for sale and enjoying the rugged beauty of the colony world. There was plenty of fights in the local bars and the typical troubles anytime sentients live together and Amos was kept busy keeping the peace and earning the respect of the people whom he was the lawman for with a keen eye for liars and a fair application of the laws of the colony.
Home life brought him peace from the dark upbringing and he found comfort in the arms of his wife Letha and the joyful laugh of his son David. Afternoons in the sun, rough housing with David and taking long walks along the river with Letha. They were trying for a second child, perhaps a daughter, that they would never have since one black night the skies were lit up with the fury of blasters as the First Order raided his colony to fill their ranks with recruits. Amos made his stand on the porch of their home, killing several of the raiders with his scatter blaster and vibro machete before he was brought down and left on the edge of death and his family ripped apart.
Found and nursed to health by survivors, his soul was filled with the need for revenge at the death of Letha and the kidnapping of his son. Amos left his once peaceful world to find a way to strike back at the people who destroyed his happiness and eventually made his way to the Resistance where he found a place where he could make them pay and keep his eyes open for any information about David or the others from Klandathu.
Phoenix Prime. Sorted out your picture in Photoshop.
KenSeg. Tweaked your back story. Instead of Klandathu---and who doesn't love Starship Troopers---I've slotted Amos into the canon events during the Blockade of Dantooine. Dantooine is a praerie world, which makes it the perfect fit for Amos, I think.
Gypsy. Added your name. Gypsy's character is called Jix everyone.
AJ. Sent you a PM, hopefully you can oblige.
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Here's what your team of Resistance fighters looks like:
2BB-2 BB-series astromech droid, upgraded for security operations. Can provide tech assistance and piloting assistance, but primarily for slicing computers.
Amos Human Marshal. All-rounder, can provide assistance in talky scenes, or in short-range combat, or take the lead if need be. Uses a scatter blaster so don't step in front of him.
Jelly Bean Twi'lek Starfighter Ace. Expert pilot but in training with Maz Kanata since Awakening. Supernatural mechanical ability. Also carrying the long-range communicator in her backpack. She carries a repeating blaster pistol and demolitions.
Jix Verpine Medic. Skilled at first aid, trauma medicine and cybernetics maintenance. Also the support gunner for the team, carrying a full auto heavy blaster rifle.
Preach Human Soresu Defender. Old man but knowledgable in the old ways and superb with a lightsaber, which uses a broken Jeddha crystal. One with the Force. Melee range only.
Sirra Human Shadow. First Order deserter, expert at stealth and breaking and entering, and a crack shot with her hunting blaster. Can assist in slicing activities. Uses the Force to cloud people's minds.
Winta Human Niman Disciple. Resistance lieutenant and educated diplomat. Probably the team leader, with Amos second in command. She is formidable in lightsaber combat though can often avoid using it through constructive dialogue. She uses the Force to move things, and calm people's emotions, and carries a standard officer's sidearm too.
Preach was what he did, so people just called him that. Once long ago he supposed he had a name. That was before he had joined the order. He had been dumped on the Guardians because his family had little. That was so long ago, he didn't even remember it.
Since he had gone through a full apprenticeship to become a Guardian. He wished to be a Jedi, but this was as close as he could get. Though he fervently believed in the force, he had no actual ability. Some might have taken that as a sign, but to him, it meant he had to become worthy. He did the best he could.
The First Order destroyed and took. They destroyed the temple he had sworn to protect, and they took anything of value from the poor around them. In their mind, it served the people right for believing the wrong things. To Preach it meant he lost his temple and watched helpless people die.
When he heard of the Resistance, he had to join them. When the Awakening happened, his hard work had been rewarded. Late in life, he used the discipline he had learned over the years to become better with the Jedi's chosen weapon.
Now he travels where the Resistance sends him, and he lives up to his name. Help people understand the Force.
Winta had been in the Resistance since before there had been a resistance, or indeed anything to resist.
She had ended up on Chancellor Mon Mothma’s staff. Initially it was a fairly junior administrative position, organising events, ensuring the right people were on distribution lists, making enquiries on the chancellor’s behalf. Later, when she had been on the staff a while and she had become trusted as both competent and loyal, she had become one of the chancellor’s discrete couriers, that ‘officially’ had transported diplomatic bags, and unofficially had allowed the chancellor to send and receive information or items such as data disks that were too sensitive to transmit.
It was on one of such trips that she first met Leia Organa. Leia was quite taken that Winta had been born in the rebel base on Hoth.
On many of the trips – particularly the ones where she traveled incognito – she would need to negotiate her way past officialdom – such as negotiating the right to land without giving away the true reason for her visit – or defuse situations that looked like they were headed for violence.
Once Mon Mothma became ill and stepped down as Chancellor, most of her staff – Winta included – were viewed as employed by the incumbent rather than by the post and were dismissed. This was a distinction Winta could hardly argue with since New Republic officials were prohibited from engaging in undercover work, and Winta had engaged in undercover work for the Chancellor much of the time she had been there.
On Winta contacting her, Leia invited her to join her staff, once more as a some time administrator, courier, and doer of the jobs that needed to be done by someone. There, Senator Leia Organa’s personal assistant, pilot and chief of staff, taught her how to fly, as a skill that it was thought she ought to have – just in case. Leia herself encouraged her in her work with the force.
Winta became a bit of a stand in: she would deliver the things or pass messages that Leia was too busy to deliver herself, make flights Leia's pilot couldn’t make, run things in others’ absence.
Art. One word, 'Bacta'. OK, it's a made-up word but it means healing from even the most severe trauma is blinking fast and reliable in Star Wars. Hours, maybe days. Weirdly, if we go by the films, giving birth is hideously dangerous!? Poor Padme.
Sirra has probably been active in the Resistance for just over a year, maybe two.
We can assume Sirra wasn't amongst the Resistance forces fleeing the First Order in The Last Jedi. Which is fine, it would make more sense that should have been training with Maz Kanata during that time, or even the venerable old Jedi droid, Professor Huyang.
The same can be said for most of the player characters. Either with Maz Kanata or Huyang.
2BB-2 actually appeared in The Last Jedi so took part in those events. Btw, welcome to AJ who will be playing your vitally important BB-unit!
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Poor Padme.