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..."