It is twenty years after the Battle of Yavin. In the Outer Rim of the Galaxy, a menace is growing. It’s not anything on the scale of Grand Admiral Thrawn or Warlord Zsinj, but to common merchants and freighters, it seems even worse, because Grand Admiral Thrawn wasn’t a pirate. In the Outer Rim of the Galaxy, a pirate named Qathor is increasing his power. He is presenting other pirates with an option—to join him, or be destroyed. None could match him even at the start, and now that others have joined him, it’s even worse.

Because of the pirate threat, trade to many worlds in the Outer Rim has been almost completely stopped, smugglers and traders not daring to risk their cargo, their ships, or their lives. In response, the New Republic has sent Darklight squadron, newly commissioned, to masquerade as pirates. Their goal: to draw the attention of Qathor, and join him when he gives them the opportunity. Then, when his guard is down, a New Republic fleet will destroy him.

In the Outer Rim of the Galaxy, a New Republic starfighter squadron removes all sign of allegiance and goes by the name of the Bloodhawks.

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This is a Star Wars RPG thought up in the last few days, with creative nudges from PotR and Valera. I'd like to have up to five or six members, but less than that is fine to start with, so if only a few people join, we'll start anyway.

Available ships/positions
Darklight/Bloodhawk squadron:
TIE Defenders (2/5)
X-wings(4/7)
E-wings(0/2)

Sernpidal Pirates:
TIE Interceptors (6/6)
TIE Fighters(7/7)

[NOTE]If you are playing a Sernpidal pirate, PM me--there's something you should know.

Rules:
1. No godmodding w/o the permission of the person you’re doing it to
2. Characters can only be pirates from the Sernpidal Pirates group, or New Republic infiltrators from Darklight squadron, which is the same as the 'pirate' group Bloodhawks.
3. No short posts like ‘Not knowing what to do, he/she went back to the ship and waited.” All story posts must be a minimum of a paragraph long.
4. Don’t bring in personal starships—everyone playing is either enlisted in the military, is a pirate, or is a Jedi, and they’re all flying snubfighters.
5. Keep your characters believable.

There may be more rules later, depending on whether or not I think they’re needed, but that’s all for now.

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[NOTE]Please use the format below when making your bio

Name:
Gender:
Species:
Age:
Homeworld:
Affiliation:
Eye Colour:
Hair Colour:
Skin tone:
Weapon(s)/body armour:
Ship:
Background:

----Character Bios----

Name: Korm (Aerandir)
Gender: Male
Species: Feeorin
Age: 209
Homeworld: Lok
Affiliation: New Republic Infiltrators (Bloodhawk Pirates/Darklight Squadron)
Eye Colour: Red
Hair Colour: No hair
Skin tone: Dark blue
Weapon(s)/body armour: DL-44 Blaster pistol, BlasTech T-21 Light Repeating Blaster
Ship: TIE Defender
Background: Korm was born on Lok, but was dissatisfied with life there, so he got a job as a navigator on a freighter and traveled the galaxy for several years. Eventually, he received pilot training, which he had a natural aptitude for. By the time he was old by human standards, he was an accomplished pilot, combatant, and mercenary. When the fellow Feeorin Nym formed the Lok Revenants to combat the Trade Federation, Korm joined, finding plenty of chances to increase his reputation. After the destruction of the Trade Federation and the Rise of the Empire, however, Korm had a run-in with Imperial Stormtroopers and joined the Rebel Alliance. As the Rebel Alliance eventually became the New Republic, he transferred squadrons several times, until he was eventually placed in Darklight squadron when it was formed, shortly before they were assigned to their Infiltration mission.

Name: Jhoran Antoral (Aerandir)
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 24
Homeworld: Commenor
Affiliation: New Jedi Order, New Republic Infiltrators
Eye Colour: Grey
Hair Colour: Brown
Skin tone: Pale
Weapon(s)/body armour: Yellow lightsaber, DY-225 Blaster pistol, J4 Longblaster
Ship: E-wing
Background: From birth, Jhoran was immersed in a culture that relied heavily on interstellar trade and commerce. Doing anything not involving starships was almost out of the question, so Jhoran became a pilot. He seemed exceptionally skilled at it, which was a contrast to the rest of his family. It wasn’t until a run-in with one of Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi that he found out that he was subconsciously using the Force as he flew. Shortly afterwards, he entered the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin IV. However, even after several years of training as a Jedi, and his official Knighting, he still lacked confidence in himself, and found it difficult to serve as a Jedi should.
Through one of his sources, he heard that Darklight squadron would be going undercover as pirates, and he was given authorization to join them.

Name: Lieutenant Jasson Xereb (Valera Elenhathel)
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 24
Homeworld: It would have been Alderaan, but it was destroyed before he was born to Alderaanian refugees, who eventually settled New Alderaan.
Affiliation: New Republic Infiltrators (Bloodhawk Pirates/Darklight Squadron)
Eye Colour: Steel-blue
Hair Colour: Black
Skin tone: Pale/tannish. Tends to sunburn, so he avoids long walks on the beach.
Weapon(s)/body armour: Two blasters, standard utility knife, X-wing snubfighter, standard fire-proof pilot's jumpsuit, SoroSuub X-45 sniper rifle
Ship: X-wing snubfighter
Background: A first-rate sniper, Jasson rates flying second only to target practice. He's also a crack shot with a blaster, but his first love is the D-294 laser rifle. Since childhood, he has been a student of Gaht-Nohr, the Mentranian grappling art. He's strong-willed, innovative, intelligent, and aggressive. "Cocky" is an applicable term. Suspicious of strangers, and readier to find problems than to fix relationships. He has some lessons to learn.


Name: Valera Solusar (Valera Elenhathel)
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Age: 21
Homeworld: Coruscant
Affiliation: New Jedi Order, New Republic Infiltrators
Eye Colour: Purple
Hair Colour: Blonde
Skin tone: Pale/tannish
Weapon(s)/body armour: Light sabers and starfighters are fine, but Val's collection of hidden knives is preferable. Light saber blade: white - either colorless or all colors. Doesn't really like body armor, except for blast-proof leather surcoat, because she likes freedom of movement
Ship: E-Wing
Background: Proficient with the Force, but realizes that too many Jedi use it as crutch. Specializes in unarmed combat and Escrime (the art of the blade). Noted skill in reconnaisance.
She is highly individualistic, but understands the value of teamwork. Tenacious, determined, slightly workaholic, but tends to be cynical. Val was born on Coruscant to Lord Vectmer Solusar (only vaguely related to Kam Solusar, as his is a very distant line of the family) of Melbar, a highly influential trading world. At the age of four, she was noticed to be Force-sensitive, and brought to the Jedi Temple to train. She doesn't like to flout her heritage, but realizes that it can be used as political leverage, if needed. Hence, her friends usually call her "Lady Valera" or "Lady Val" when they wish to be irritating.

Name: Rhuarc (Elegost)
Gender: Male
Species: Corellian Human
Age: 34
Homeworld: Corellia
Affiliation: New Republic
Eye Colour: Grey
Hair Colour: Auburn
Skin tone: Tanned
Weapon(s)/body armour: DL-44 Blaster pistol, BlasTech T-21 Light Repeating Blaster, Vibroblade.
Ship: X-wing
Background: Rhuarc grew up on Corellia leading a normal life as a mechanic. When the New Republic rose to power, his Uncle persuaded him to join. Rhuarc trained extensively in a number of martial arts and stealth training prior to joining the NR, and had adopted the stealthy role of the group when they take to the ground, specialising in infiltration and hand to hand combat.

Name: 2nd Lieutenant Ram Zerimar (one rank lower than Lieutenant Xereb) (The~Doctor)
Gender: Male
Species: Human Mandalorian
Age: 22
Homeworld: Mandalore
Affiliation: Mand'alor (not revelant to this RP, but he is) and New Republic Infiltrators (Bloodhawk Pirates/Darklight Squadron)
Eye Colour: Green
Hair Colour: Very dark brown
Skin tone: Tannish as he doesn't spend all of his life inside of his armor
Weapon(s)/body armour: He always wears his Mandalorian armor on missions, unless he is forbiden from doing so, as it is his fathers. The tiny charcoal handprint on the helmet is his from when he was a baby. He carries a Verpine sniper rifle for (obviously) long range sniper work, at which he excells, and a 434 blaster pistol. To round out his arsenal, he carries a vibroshiv on his person at all times.
Ship: TIE Defender
Background: Ram was born on Mandalore and raised on his family's farm there. On Mandalore, he was trained in the arts of combat, both hand to hand and ranged. He excelled at sniping, was better than average in hand to hand, and just acceptable in mid-range blaster rifle's. He was then trained to fly, and while he was horrible at it when he started, Ram loved it and kept on trying to get better and is now an accomplished fighter pilot (although no where near on par with Jedi pilots or people with a natural appitude for it). While he loved his family as any Mandalorian would, Ram decided to go into the New Republic Navy to aide not just Mandalorians, but all people.

Once he heard about this mission to destroy the pirates, he signed up imediatly as he hated pirates with a passion for their semi-peridoic raids on Mandalorian fringe settlements.

Name: Zayne Marr (The~Doctor)
Gender: Male
Species: Miraluka
Age: 36
Homeworld: Alpheridies
Affiliation: New Jedi Order and New Republic Infiltrators
Eye Colour: None (Miraluka are born blind and 'see' using Force Sight. And yes, there is a cannon source that says they can fly starfighters well. Miraluka starfighter pilot (second paragraph)
Hair Colour: Black
Skin tone: Pale to tan, depending on how long he has spent in the sun recently
Weapon(s)/body armour: A bronze-hued, yellow-cored lightsaber and a DH-17 blaster pistol make up his arsenal except for an easily concealable vibroshiv, although he prefers to use his lightsaber rather than the vibroshiv. He wears no armor.
Ship: X-wing
Background: ((Sorry, but I'll have to get you this later as I have to go to work right now))

Name: Tiln Armsben (hobobagins09)
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 23
Homeworld: Nar Shadda
Affiliation: New Jedi Order? (lol, no beating with sticks!)
Eye Colour: Brown
Hair Colour: Black
Skin tone: Pale/tannish
Weapon(s)/body armour:Tiln is a jedi but on this mission is looking to conceal that. Wearing a green longsleeved shirt Tiln covers it partilly with a black vest. Carry two blades Tiln's are white and violet but they are now modified to look like cartrides for his Blas-Tech HZ-18 which is usually slung diagonally across his back.
Ship: TIE Defender
Background: Raised on Nar Shadda Tiln had a mother... and unlike most jedi, a childhood. Noticed by a jedi master he was taken back to Courascant.(sp?) Tiln spends his whole life to his jedi training, meditating with Yoda each day and practicing his sparring abilities with the other jedi in the temple. Not used to being around others that much he has developed a schedule. His life is orderly but when he goes on missions such as these he tends to try and keep to a schedule... unless he can lossen up.

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k, Aerandir is threatening to beat me over the head with a stick, so I shall join. This will be way cool

Name: Lieutenant Jasson Xereb
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Age: 24
Homeworld: It would have been Alderaan, but it was destroyed before he was born to Alderaanian refugees, who eventually settled New Alderaan.
Affiliation: New Republic Infiltrators (Bloodhawk Pirates/Darklight Squadron)
Eye Colour: Steel-blue
Hair Colour: Black
Skin tone: Pale/tannish. Tends to sunburn, so he avoids long walks on the beach.
Weapon(s)/body armour: Two blasters, standard utility knife, X-wing snubfighter, standard fire-proof pilot's jumpsuit, SoroSuub X-45 sniper rifle
Ship: X-wing snubfighter
Background: A first-rate sniper, Jasson rates flying second only to target practice. He's also a crack shot with a blaster, but his first love is the D-294 laser rifle. Since childhood, he has been a student of Gaht-Nohr, the Mentranian grappling art. He's strong-willed, innovative, intelligent, and aggressive. "Cocky" is an applicable term. Suspicious of strangers, and readier to find problems than to fix relationships. He has some lessons to learn, especially about resolving the bitterness that still clings after losing most of his immediate family to the Empire's violence.


Name: Valera Solusar
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Age: 21
Homeworld: Coruscant
Affiliation: New Jedi Order, New Republic Infiltrators
Eye Colour: Purple
Hair Colour: Blonde
Skin tone: Pale/tannish
Weapon(s)/body armour: Light sabers and starfighters are fine, but Val's collection of hidden knives is preferable. Light saber blade: white - either colorless or all colors. Doesn't really like body armor, except for blast-proof leather surcoat, because she likes freedom of movement
Ship: E-Wing
Background: Proficient with the Force, but realizes that too many Jedi use it as crutch. Specializes in unarmed combat and Escrime (the art of the blade). Noted skill in reconnaisance.
She is highly individualistic, but understands the value of teamwork. Tenacious, determined, slightly workaholic, but tends to be cynical. Val was born on Coruscant to Lord Vectmer Solusar (only vaguely related to Kam Solusar, as his is a very distant line of the family) of Melbar, a highly influential trading world. At the age of four, she was noticed to be Force-sensitive, but nothing could be done about it until the Jedi Praxeum was established and she entered. A newly knighted Jedi, Val is anxious to prove herself. She doesn't like to flout her heritage, but realizes that it can be used as political leverage, if needed. Hence, her friends usually call her "Lady Valera" or "Lady Val" when they wish to be irritating.

btw what's the pecking order, Aerandir?

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Um, at this point, Korm is the Captain of Darklight Squadron and is Bloodhawk Leader. After that, from Jasson's rank, he's something like second in command, and so on. The Jedi are not actual New Republic Military, so they're kind of separate, but in the Bloodhawks, they're still under Korm.

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Okay, must join this. Reserve one X-Wing and one TIE Defender for me please. I'll get bios up later.

[EDIT]
Name: 2nd Lieutenant Ram Zerimar (one rank lower than Lieutenant Xereb)
Gender: Male
Species: Human Mandalorian
Age: 22
Homeworld: Mandalore
Affiliation: Mand'alor (not revelant to this RP, but he is) and New Republic Infiltrators (Bloodhawk Pirates/Darklight Squadron)
Eye Colour: Green
Hair Colour: Very dark brown
Skin tone: Tannish as he doesn't spend all of his life inside of his armor
Weapon(s)/body armour: He always wears his Mandalorian armor on missions, unless he is forbiden from doing so, as it is his fathers. The tiny charcoal handprint on the helmet is his from when he was a baby. He carries a Verpine sniper rifle for (obviously) long range sniper work, at which he excells, and a 434 blaster pistol. To round out his arsenal, he carries a vibroshiv on his person at all times.
Ship: TIE Defender
Background: Ram was born on Mandalore and raised on his family's farm there. On Mandalore, he was trained in the arts of combat, both hand to hand and ranged. He excelled at sniping, was better than average in hand to hand, and just acceptable in mid-range blaster rifle's. He was then trained to fly, and while he was horrible at it when he started, Ram loved it and kept on trying to get better and is now an accomplished fighter pilot (although no where near on par with Jedi pilots or people with a natural appitude for it). While he loved his family as any Mandalorian would, Ram decided to go into the New Republic Navy to aide not just Mandalorians, but all people.

Once he heard about this mission to destroy the pirates, he signed up imediatly as he hated pirates with a passion for their semi-peridoic raids on Mandalorian fringe settlements.

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I'll get the other bio up tomorow and I might edit this one when I have a chance to read over what I wrote (it helps if I wait a few hours and read it again, then I find mistakes or things I didn't want to put in there). A quick question, Aerandir, can Ram bring his armor on this mission? I'll use him either way, I'd just like to know before we start the RPG so I can figure out another type of armor to give him. Thanks!

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Four Gods wait on the windowsill,
Where once eight Gods did war and will,
And if the Gods themselves may die,
What does that say for you and I?

Now, three Gods wait on the windowsill
Where one God's blood was lately spilled
While black tongues lap at the spreading pool
And build the strength they need to rule.

Yeah, he can bring his armor--it doesn't seem out of place for a pirate to use.

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lol Doc, you're really into Mandalorians

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Name: Zayne Marr
Gender: Male
Species: Miraluka
Age: 38
Homeworld: Alpheridies
Affiliation: New Jedi Order and New Republic Infiltrators
Eye Colour: None (Miraluka are born blind and 'see' using Force Sight. And yes, there is a cannon source that says they can fly starfighters well. Miraluka pilot (second paragraph)
Hair Colour: Black
Skin tone: Pale to tan, depending on how long he has spent in the sun recently
Weapon(s)/body armour: A bronze-hued, yellow-cored lightsaber and a DH-17 blaster pistol make up his arsenal except for an easily concealable vibroshiv, although he prefers to use his lightsaber rather than the vibroshiv. He wears no armor.
Ship: X-wing
Background: Zayne was not the average Miraluka, not even at a young age. From the first time he saw a starship, a smuggler’s freighter that decided to take the obscure route to Alpheridies and away from it to avoid detection and had to make a stop planet side for fuel, Zayne wanted to know what was out there, beyond Alpheridies. Called wanderlust by the Miraluka, it was frowned upon; so Zayne kept it hidden, though he always looked to the skys for signs of another starship. Finally, seven years later, at the age of 18, Zayne bartered passage off Alpheridies for most of his savings and a few spare parts that the smugglers had left behind that Zayne had claimed because no one else wanted them.

He came into a galaxy in turmoil. The Battle of Yavin IV just occurred, and those people who could use the Force (whether knowingly, such as a Jedi, or not, such as a Miraluka) were being hunted down by Imperial Inquisitors. Unfortunately for Zayne, he had only been planet side for a few days before an Imperial ship with an Inquisitor on it made landfall for repairs from a Rebel attack.

While Zayne’s use of the Force was negligible, and therefore not detectable from great distances, it didn’t matter. The reason it didn’t matter was that the Inquisitor overheard someone talking about a man who had no eyes but was walking around and looking at things like he could see perfectly. The Inquisitor poked around and eventually discovered Zayne, and feat no all that difficult in and of itself as Zayne wasn’t hiding.

The Inquisitor nearly caught the Miraluka in the ensuing chase but barely missed him when Zayne stole a starfighter and escaped. Zayne only escaped due to a lot of luck and the fact that he was unknowingly using the Force while piloting the starfighter.

For the next four years, up until the Battle of Endor and the death of Emperor Palpatine, Zayne was hunted by the Inquisitors, although they only caught up to him a few more times after the initial one. His wanderlust helped with evading the Imperials, it kept him moving to see what was beyond the next lightyear.

Once he was free of the pressure of being chased, Zayne began to truly enjoy exploring, always wondering what the next planet would be like. Eventually Luke found him on his Jedi search and the Miraluka agreed to go to the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin until he achieved Knighthood, which was the longest he had stayed in one place since his childhood.

The Miraluka was not exceptionally powerful in the Force, but his control was extremely precise. With only a tiny application of the Force, Zayne could do what others used much more energy to do. This control was helped by his Force Sight as it allowed him to see some flows and eddies in the Force as well as allowing him to see all material objects.

He actually had a lightsaber crystal in his possession before he became a Jedi. It was a trinket that he had bought from one of the planets he visited, as he always tried to buy something from each planet he visited. The crystal was unique in two ways: one, it changed the lightsaber’s core from white to yellow; and two, the properties of the blade it created could change based on which other crystals were in the lightsaber. Zayne doesn’t know about the second fact and therefore only has one crystal inside of his lightsaber at the moment.

When he learned about the mission to destroy the pirates, he asked to be signed up immediately as he knew what it was like to constantly look over your shoulder for an attack and he also knew that it was no way to live.

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Four Gods wait on the windowsill,
Where once eight Gods did war and will,
And if the Gods themselves may die,
What does that say for you and I?

Now, three Gods wait on the windowsill
Where one God's blood was lately spilled
While black tongues lap at the spreading pool
And build the strength they need to rule.

wait---aren't the Miraluka extinct? I thought what's-her-name in KotoR II was the last of her species, that Darth Nihilus had killed the rest.

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Well, Jerec was a Miraluka, so I'd assume not. Nihilus did destroy all Miraluka (except Visas Marr) on Alpheridies, but there were a few who lived elsewhere. So they're probably rare, but not fully extinct.

Actually, Darth Nihilus only destroyed the Miraluka colony world of Katarr, not their homeworld of Alpheridies and the only survivor of the Katarr colony massacre was Visas from KotR II.

Link to the info here (last paragraph).

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Four Gods wait on the windowsill,
Where once eight Gods did war and will,
And if the Gods themselves may die,
What does that say for you and I?

Now, three Gods wait on the windowsill
Where one God's blood was lately spilled
While black tongues lap at the spreading pool
And build the strength they need to rule.

Ah, right. That's never been my best time period to keep track of. But, fact remains, Miraluka are not extinct.

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Eek I just realized the timelines on my charries were not accurate, so I edited the bios. If Val trained at the Jedi Praxeum she probably knows your Jedi charrie, Aerandir, at least vaguely.

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K, from now on, NO MORE JEDI. Four Jedi is already pushing it.

Hobobaggins, your bio is fine except for two things which are kind of connected--this is after RotJ, so Yoda is dead, and Luke Skywalker has reconstructed the Jedi Order, but the original location was destroyed, so the new Jedi Temple is on the planet Ossus.

K, as soon as PotR has posted her bios, we can start.

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Awsome, I can't wait!

And I think I finally finished my character's bios. If there is anything wrong with them or out of place, just say and I'll change it.

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Four Gods wait on the windowsill,
Where once eight Gods did war and will,
And if the Gods themselves may die,
What does that say for you and I?

Now, three Gods wait on the windowsill
Where one God's blood was lately spilled
While black tongues lap at the spreading pool
And build the strength they need to rule.

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