Ghaoris Al Mairin

Pirate first mate, now captain


Stats:

Dexterity: 3D
Blaster 7D, Brawling parry 5D, Dodge 5D+1, Melee combat 5D, Melee parry 5D, Vehicle weapons 4D+1.
Knowledge: 2D
Business 4D, Intimidation 4D, Law enforcement 6+1D, Planetary systems 6D+1 Streetwise 3D+2.
Mechanical: 3D+2
Capital ship gunnery 6D, Capital ship piloting 6D+1, Capital ship shields 5D, Astrogation 7D+1, Communications 5D, Sensors 5D+1, Space transports 8D, Starfighter piloting 6D+1, Starship gunnery 7D, Starship shields 7D.
Perception: 3D+1
Bargain 6D+2, Command 6D+2, Con 8D, Forgery 4D+2, Gambling 5D, Hide 6D, Persuasion 5D+2, Search 6D, Sneak 5D.
Strength: 3D
Brawling 6D, Swimming 9D.
Technical: 3D
Capital starship repair 6D+1, Capital starship weapon repair 6D, Computer programming/repair 5D, Droid repair 4D+1, First aid 6D, Security 5D+2, Space transport repair 8D, Starfighter repair 6D+1, Starship weaponry repair 7D.

Special Abilities:
Water Breathing: The Shallitans are true amphibians. Although they spend most of their time out of the water, they can still breathe aerated water just as well as they can breathe air.
Swimming: Shallitans are powerful swimmers, gaining 2D for every dice put into that skill throughout their careers.
Force Sensitive: No.
Force Points: 2
Dark Side Points: 5
Character Points: 21
Move: 7, swimming 8

Equipment:

Personal Equipment: Modified heavy blaster pistol (5D+2 damage), Shallit machete worn under all weather oilcoat, monomolecule stiletto strapped to boot, pair of hold out blasters at left wrist.

Other Equipment: Owner and captain of the Star Slider, a heavily modified Correlian corvette. The Star Slider's outriders, 4 Y-Wings, 2 Scorpios and 2 converted YT-1300 freighters are officially owned by Ghaoris, though the pilots of those craft are working to pay off the titles of those craft. Ghaoris has acquired a 29.4% interest in StarLanes Transports, an intersector shipping company which owns several hundred light and medium transports. Ghaoris' personal craft, the modified StarJumper Star Yacht Dragon's Chance, is registered to StarLanes. If his personal craft ever get an Imperial record, he simply transfers it to the general StarJumper pool and gets a new one. In addition to his business holdings, Ghaoris has several hundred thousand credits in secure bank accounts, and nearly a million in liquid capital. In addition, Ghaoris has a concealed hoard of nearly a billion credits in gems, which is somewhat apprehensive about converting to cash.

Capsule:

Race: Shallitan
Sex: Male
Age: 42

Appearance:

Height: 6'0".
Weight: 210 lbs.
Eyes: Pale Citrine with vertical black pupils.
Skin: Tan, mottled with dark bown spots.
Hair: None.
Appearance notes: Ghaoris is a typical Shallitan, except with far more scarring than is usual even for a Shallitan, a race that often finds itself in the middle of violent situations. Most notable is the jagged scar descending from underneath his left eye down past his collar, and the anchor shaped scar on his right cheek.

Clothing:

Ghaoris tends to dress like a spaceport bum, wearing aging Corellian style trousers, a ragged white shirt, and a thick and very ugly oilskin coat that descends to his ankles. Finaly, he wears a wide brimmed slouch hat, decorated with a Liragen hide band, which is kept quite grimy.

Retainers, henchmen, and associates:

Ghaoris is a naturally sociable individual, with a close attachment to his crewmembers. However, his closest friends are Kri'Nik, a diminutive reptilian, and Shailiah Asroh, a remarkably attractive human, both of whom served with him under Malacree. In addition, Ghaoris was one of the few true friends that the legendary Skipjac Malacree had, having served with him in his younger days, and knowing Malacree's real name, and if Malacree is alive, Ghaoris is one of the people he would be tempted to contact.

Common haunts and habitues:

Since he arrived in the Yaeger Sector after listening in on New Republic secure lines, Ghaoris has set up shop on the Imperium/Yaeger border. While not the sort of territory most pirates would prefer, Ghaoris has learned a good deal of insanity for Malacree, and sees the border as a place where pursuing ships get discouraged from following to closely, and a place where nobody expects pirates to hide.

History:

Since he arrived in the Yaeger Sector after listening in on New Republic secure lines, Ghaoris has set up shop on the Imperium/Yaeger border. While not the sort of territory most pirates would prefer, Ghaoris has learned a good deal of insanity for Malacree, and sees the border as a place where pursuing ships get discouraged from following to closely, and a place where nobody expects pirates to hide.

History: Born on Shallit, Ghaoris was one of a group of Shallitans that signed up with Black Flag Dhavis, a noted pirate who was somewhat short of crew after he had to abandon a port in the face of a New Order attack. While serving under Dhavis, Ghaoris met Skipjac Malacree, a young Correlian wearing the bloodstripes, for his service in the navy, which he joined at age 14. Malacree and Ghaoris flew Z-95s, as part of Dhavis's escort fleet, and while Ghaoris was a competent pilot, Malacree was nothing short of brilliant.

The two soon became close friends, and when Malacree left Dhavis's service after Dhavis objected to his flying style, and Malacree decked him and challenged him to a duel, Ghaoris followed. Ghaoris became Jack's first mate on his first ship, the Respectable Glaze, a battered Ghtroc light freighter. The two worked their way up bigger and better ships, and became rather wealthy in the progress. When Malacree captured the corvette that he was to rechristen the Correlian Gold, he offered Ghaoris the title to the Standard Carat, the Gunship that they had been using up to that point. Ghaoris refused, preferring to remain as Skipjac's co-pilot.

Skipjac and Ghaoris finaly split in order to achieve Malacree's greatest exploit, the capture of the Imperial Medium Freighter Azram, containing well over 20 billion credits of gems and precious metals, within the atmosphere of Corruscant. It is said that Emperor Palpitane himself saw the Freighter's capture from his rooms in the Imperial palace, and as the ship was captured no more than ten kilometers from the palace, that is quite likely. In order to get into the system with an armed vessel, Skipjac introduced a soporific gas into the life support system of the Imperial Class Star Destroyer Implacable and marooned it's entire crew while still unconscious. Then, operating with a crew of no more than 10% of the listed minimum skeleton, Skipjac steamed into the Corruscant system, presented legitimate codes for clearance (perhaps not checked to carefully, as nobody would suspect that anyone but the Empire could be commanding a Star Destroyer of the new Imperial Class), and scooped the Azram out of the sky. Before the system fleet realized what had happened, the Implacable hyperspaced out of the system, and the hunt was on.

While this was going on, Ghaoris and twelve other of Skipjac's crewmen had secreted themselves aboard the Imperial Class Star Destroyer Vengeance, and began making alterations while dodging security. At the preset time Ghaoris and the men under his command ejected, and the various changes they made took effect simultaneously. The Vengeance's transponder code was overlaid with that of Implacable, it's communications array was disabled, and it's nav computer locked itself into a course to the outer rim, and could not be accessed by the crew of the Vengeance. Within a week the Imperial fleet tracked the Vengeance down and destroyed it, though not before it's commanding officer fired back, and destroyed two Victory Class Star Destroyers and heavily damaged a third. The mistake that they had made was discovered by an analysis of the ship's recorders, and the Navy set off to look for the Implacable.

Using the time that Ghaoris had won him, Malacree got his crew and the cargo off of the Implacable, and converted that ship into a giant fusion bomb. When the Imperial navy caught up with the Implacable, they fired on it and it exploded, taking out two Imperial Class Star Destroyers, seven Victory Class Star Destroyers and numerous smaller cruisers and support craft. After numerous high level executions, the Navy was willing to accept the fact that Malacree had died aboard the Implacable, but the ISB and Ubiquitorate were not so convinced.

Malacree knew that he was not safe as long as there was an Empire, as he had humiliated both the Empire and the Emperor, stole billions of their credits almost out of their vault, and cost them nearly a complete Star Destroyer fleet. He dispatched messenger droids to Ghaoris and the crewmembers that had allowed his escape, carrying the four billion credits worth of gems that was their share, and set off to unexplored regions in the Correlian Gold, and has not been heard from again.

With his billion credits in hand, Ghaoris could have retired in tremendous comfort, which would have been the Shallitan thing to do, but some of Malacree's insanity had worn off on him. Afraid to convert the gems to credits until Imperial Inteligence and the ISB give up looking for the Azram plunder, Ghaoris has concealed it somewhere on one of the uninhabited worlds that he and Malacree scouted in the Respectable Glaze. Ghaoris did change in a few of the gems on Nar Shadda, and bought himself a Correlian corvette. This Star Slider is not quite the Correlian Gold, but over the last few years Ghaoris has improved it considerably, and has made something of a success out of his pirate operations.

Now that there is a New Republic, Ghaoris has somewhere to go to trade in his hoard, but he is still worried about the ISB and Imperial Inteligence, and he also doesn't think that NR financial institutions could cover the sums that he needs. His roving piratical band has recently found a rich territory in the Yaeger Sector, and he intends to stay here for the next few years, at least until something else comes up.

While his base of operations is virtually on the Yaeger/Imperium border, Ghaoris is more inclined to strike Imperium targets and then flee into Yaeger space than the other way around, as he finds Imperial vessels to be a lot easier to avoid that Yaeger vessels, and Imperium supply cargos tend to bring a much higher value in Yaeger ports than Yaeger products in Imperial ports. For this reason the Imperium considers the Star Slider and support craft to be New Republic agents in the service of the Yaeger, and the Yaeger see him as a tolerable nuisance who matches their ideals of the free hunt and courage. In fact, Ghaoris's little private flotilla has done more to help the New Republic's image among the Yaeger than many of their diplomatic initiatives, something that the Republic officials in the area have no idea of.

Personality:

Ghaoris has lived in Malacree's shadow for a long time, and is perfectly happy with that decision. Several of the other crewmen that were not with Malacree on that last cruise have tried equally insane ventures in attempts to escape that shadow. None of those ventures came anywhere close to success, and Ghaoris has taken a lesson from that. Until he trades in his hoard he's just another pirate, with no grand overarching goals beyond his next prize.

He has learned a certain recklessness for Malacree, and will copy many of Skipjac's less sensible strategies, as well as producing ideas of his own that match that degree of suicidal behavior. Thus far, he has not had any major disasters occur as a result of this recklessness, something that encourages him to continue doing this sort of thing. In many ways, Ghaoris is a typical Shallitan, preferring to spend his time napping and drinking, but ever so often he gets an idea in his head, and he can become as energetic as Skipjac in seeing it through.

A quote:

"Cahm ahn, pull thayat freighter ihn 'fore the Stahr Desroyahs geht heyre..."
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