the_jawa posted: Lt. Barrow Oicunn As the Empire’s military transformed itself after the end of the Clone Wars, many young officers found exciting opportunities for promotion in the growing Imperial Navy. Barrow Oicunn was such an ambitious junior officer. Born in the spaceport town of Nayli on Chandrila, and starting his military career in the Chandrila Defense Fleet, he transferred to the Republic Navy after the passage of Emergency Amendment 121b. With a recommendation from a fellow Chandrilan, Jedi Master Avan Post, he was accepted into the Navy’s command training program. Oicunn specialized in orbital fleet coordination, and was given a commission on the dreadnaught Subjugator. As the war grew on, Oicunn saw that though the Jedi were great individual warriors, that many Jedi generals were poorly trained in naval operations and tactics. After the Subjugator was badly damaged in the Battle of Boz Pity, he accepted a promotion to a bridge position on the Ro-ti-Mundi, one of the Republic’s new Venator-class cruisers, and saw service in the defense of Coruscant. Though the Jedi heroes had rescued Chancellor Palpatine, Oicunn knew the tremendous cost in lost ships and crew. After the treachery of the Jedi was revealed, Oicunn attempted to remove the recommendation from Avan Post from his service record. He was caught in the act, but rather than being punished, his commander praised him for his initiative to show his loyalty to the Empire by erasing a blot on his record. After Darth Vader began purging the Imperial Navy of traitors like Jace Dallin and Segoro Autem, Oicunn saw the opportunity to move up in rank. Now a lieutenant, Oicunn proudly served as a fleet operations bridge chief on Tarkin’s flagship, the Harbinger. While coordinating the defense of the Death Star project, Oicunn felt a slight sense of dread as the Emperor and Lord Vader came personally to inspect the project. After their departure, Oicunn exhaled a relieved sigh – and resolved to apply for a transfer to Vader’s command ship.
Tam_Elgrin posted:And I bet they have red lights on for anyone who tries to slip something like "Melee's personal Super Star Destroyer was 5km long" or "the Ewok discovered conclusive records that Anakin Skywalker in fact was a byproduct of Sith experimentation".
Valin posted:Rylet Oicunn was a cadet at the Raithal Academy when Palpatine was elected Chancellor, and he soon came to agree with the bold direction the man was leading the Republic. Oicunn hailed from Wukkar: a bustling Core World that had been a Republic stalwart for dozens of millennia. Before the Clone Wars he was a Judicial, but weeks after Geonosis he was transferred to the Acclamator assault ship Nimbar and sent off to fight in "the Great Clone War", as it was dubbed at first. On Raithal he’d found his niche calculating ballistics trajectories for capital ship combat. His surgical bombardment calculations secured the Nimbar’s victory against Commander Trenox’s squadrons in the Battle of Ansinal, 7.5 months A.B.G. And while the diversionary starship battle raged in orbit, a dozen clone commandos led by Sergeant Reppep were able to sabotage a droid factory on Ansinal's surface, destroying or incapacitating over five and a half million battle droids in various stages of production. Although it turned out to be only a temporary setback for the Dark Jedi, Oicunn was promoted to Lieutenant for his role. 23 months A.B.G. the Nimbar was downed in battle and Oicunn became Gunnery Chief on the Moliminous, a grand Venator-class Star Destroyer fresh out of the shipyards. She joined an armada under Brigadier General Gideon Tarkin that repulsed CIS incursions into the Seswenna Sector over the next year. After the Jedi Rebellion was foiled, Gideon briefly lent his brother--newly installed Regional Governor Wilhuff Tarkin--the Moliminous and other Venators to give the Emperor and Lord Vader an inspection tour of Wilhuff’s latest pet project. Soon the Moliminous was redeployed to a task force under Vice Admiral Screed that reconquered lingering Separatist bastions like Hakassi and Sif-Uwana. Oicunn, now Second Mate, was key in driving Commerce Guild remnants from the magma smelting plants on Golrath, which lay abandoned until occupied by the Rebel Alliance two decades later.
Valin posted:Diva Eo Shaliqua rarely talks about her near-human parents, but it is known that both were slaves of Inagadda the Hutt and conceived a child in secret. Eo’s talents made themselves known; clanmember Jabba bought her and made her a backup vocalist for his house band on Tatooine. Her vocal prowess and alluring dance earned the Hutt Lord’s favor and the honorific "Diva", conferred by her status as a minor Mos Espa celebrity. Accompanying Jabba to the Podraces, Shaliqua made acquaintances with gamblers like Watto, Nic Whoma, and Romeo Treblanc, retired actor and new owner of the Galaxies Opera House. A huge Podracing fan, Romeo was attending as Gardulla’s guest his first Boonta Eve Classic, using the pseudonym Dineas Denoot--one of his ancestors who’d been a renowned Jedi Master. Unfortunately he bet on Gasgano and lost big when Anakin Skywalker took the trophy. Seeing through his simple disguise and using her feminine wiles to draw out his identity, Shaliqua saw an opportunity and feigned a schoolgirl crush. Treblanc recognized her genuine potential but did become smitten with her during his brief stay, and promised to see her again the following Boonta Eve. And he did, bringing enough hard cash to buy her from Jabba. He freed her and brought her to Coruscant to live with him while she got on her feet, hoping that the relationship might develop into something more. But hours after their arrival Shaliqua vanished, taking only her emancipation papers and a few items stolen from Treblanc’s home. Tragically, he’d planned to offer her a small role in the Galaxies’ next musical and was going to surprise her with the news the next day. Devastated, he had to return to his work with a heavy heart and a much lighter bank account. Shaliqua adopted a stage name and took up a legitimate if unremarkable entertainment career in the cookie-cutter nightclubs and casinos of Coruscant’s midlevels. She never realized how close she had come to breaking through to the big time.
T2Q posted:He then starts to look for it, in the hopes of getting control of the project, and they find it near the end (or at the end) of the war.