Taltos Kothari

Taltos Kothari
Military Information
Callsign:	Taltos
Rank:	Petty Officer 2nd Class
Position:	Flight Member
Flight:	Iron
Squadron:	58th "Strill"
Wing:	101st "Blade" Wing
Ship:	ISD-II Adjudicator
Fleet:	Second Fleet
Division:	Navy
Awards:	[SoA] [*CO*] [MiD] [CC:1] [CNQST]
Affiliation:	Vast Empire
Physical Description
Gender:	Male
Skin color:	Grey-Green
Height:	5' 6" (168cm)
Weight:	142lbs (67kg)
Eyes:	Dark Red
Scar(s):	Pale scars on knuckles and left crown of head.
Tattoo:	Durese tattoos on left temple and center collarbone.
Cybernetics:	None
Biographical Information
Species:	Duros
Homeworld:	None (Born aboard a starship)
Age:	23
Languages:	Durese, Basic, Bocce, Rodese, Talz (Understood), Binary (Understood)
Occupation:	Starfighter Pilot
Residence:	An unfamiliar new bunk on the Adjudicator.
Nickname:	"T", "Redeye"
Family:	Female cousin Bechesmy on Duro.
Naval Certifications
First Certification
Top Gun - not yet achieved
Cert 1.1:	not yet achieved
Cert 1.2:	not yet achieved
Cert 1.3:	not yet achieved
Second Certification
TBD
Third Certification
TBD
Fourth Certification
TBD
Ship Captaincy Certification
Ancillary Skills
Ancillary 1:	Ground Attack

Current status

Recovering from his EVA at the second battle of the Sollamen asteroid field.

FM | PO2 Taltos | Iron 4 | S:58 Strill | W:101st Blade | ISD-II Adjudicator | TF:A | 2Flt | SC | VEN | VE [SOA] [*CO*] [MiD] [CC:1] [CNQST]

Biography

Appearance

Taltos stood shorter than the average Duros at 5' 6", but strongly built. In full Imperial flightsuit the only things to distinguish him from his human comrades were the discreetly too-long fingers of his black gloves.

He would rarely volunteer to go planetside, and wore a flightsuit even off-duty (which would help keep his skin damp in the arid, filtered air of a human vessel). When he did find himself Under the Sky, he would wear rugged chocolate-brown wool fatigue pants with a light grey tunic, a leather jerkin, and a spacer's trusty leather boots.

A cut-down DL-44 rode on his hip, strapped to a wide black belt, the scope in a pouch to its side; two pouches for power packs, one for Lung Blasters, a sheath for his knife, and pouches for assorted other excursion necessities. He could never truly feel at home Under the Sky.

Personality

Taltos was reserved and quiet; for a species with a storytelling reputation he rarely spoke more than strictly necessary - but those who earned his trust and shared a long journey with him can attest that he had an odd, irony-laced sense of humor and a taste for old stories with plenty of blood. Like many Duros, he was born aboard a spaceship, and saw space as the 'normal' environment of his kind. It would give great insight to know - if anyone did know - that in his youth he would take his ship to the most remote wilderness of planets where he would do business, spending the night in a tent beside his old Wayfarer Transport. The strange thrill never wore off. He placed great importance in respect earned and shown, often to the point of grudge-holding if he felt he had been disrespected, but never allowed himself to indulge in revenge. The surefire easy way to open him up was to discuss piloting maneuvers, performance or tactics; he had all the oldest Durese mythical cycles about starship combat memorized by adulthood, and had long aspired to be such a pilot himself.

History

Like many Duros, Taltos was born and raised aboard spaceships. By 17 he was living independently as a "Traveler", a term of respect for Duros spacers. Taltos served on the Wayfarer Transport Red Rock as helmsman, alongside his cousin Bechesmy, the Corellian captain Artoc, and a young Rodian mechanic named Kjell. Together they jumped from world to world, making a profit in both legal and illegal goods as well as a bounty here or there. The chaos - and lax customs oversight - left by the fall of the Empire had been profitable for the Travelers, but the good times wouldn't last.

T's parents were among the first to be infected when Ysanne Isard's Krytos virus hit Coruscant, both passing away not long after. As the Plague Wars raged Taltos began to lose faith in a galaxy that would kill so many with such ephemeral justification. When the Shipwright's Plague hit Eriadu in 8 ABY, they found Artoc lying in his rented room, dead like so many other humans. The now-captainless crew soon took on more and more dangerous jobs to make ends meet. When they came across a "pro-human" rally on Tralus two years later, Taltos was barely able to pull his cousin out of the mob before they carried her away, and the two were able to make the spaceport before riot control locked it down. Kjell was not so lucky; they saw his body strung up on the Holonews the next day.

His cousin left Taltos with the ship, intending to weather out the war on the relatively unaffected planet of Duro; but Taltos had no desire to withdraw from the galaxy. There was evil out there - perhaps too much to ever be fought and overcome - but he'd been raised on traditional Durese stories of heroic snubfighter pilots braving all odds to bring justice to the universe, and a galaxy of evil seemed to be a galaxy with many opportunities for heroism.

Taltos looked beyond the murderous regimes of Isard, Thrawn and Frey'la; he made his way to the one part of space that had launched no biological attacks, arranged no massacres, yet reflected the stability and power he had seen growing up under the New Order, and most of all didn't look twice at the amino acids a being was made of... The Vast Empire.

Notable Possessions

DL-44 Blaster

Taltos prefers to carry his own DL-44 rather than the new one issued to him by Naval Command. It sported an enlarged bone grip for his long fingers, had numerous sharp, snagging edges filed down, and lacked any scope or protrusion that would hinder a rapid draw on target. Ideal for carry in the cramped confines of a TIE cockpit, while still packing enough punch to blast through most standard-issue body armor.

R5-N4

A sturdy old astromech that came with Taltos' old freighter, Red Rock, N4 has been repaired and modified too many times to count; he now resembles his unfortunate production line only in his squat, uncomely exterior and his rude, abrasive personality matrix.

Among his many modifications the most significant are:

Upgraded Short-Range Sensor Suite (Including photoreceptors and sensor stalks.)

Expanded Astrogation Coordinate Buffer (14 sets.)

Gunnery Programming & Interface Module

"Silent Running" Mode (All sensors passive, exterior lights off, all non-emergency sounds disabled, basic avoidance and concealment subroutines, encrypts all memory until returned to normal operating mode.)

Zero-G Mobility Microthruster Kit (Moderate propellant capacity, low delta-v.)

Aftermarket Repair & Maintenance Toolset

Single Repulsor Coil (High power drain, 2.5 meter altitude.)

Imperial Zippo

Bought on his first day at the Naval Academy, Taltos plans to keep it for as long as he lives.

DLT-20a Light Repeating Blaster Rifle

M32 'Toothpick' Combat Knife

Syntherope

3-MAL Personal Comlink

Vehicles

YB-300 Heavy Transport

Name TBA

Service History

Ranks

Ranks
Insignia	Rank	Start	Until	Reason for Promotion
-	Crewman	04/28/2013	05/01/2013	Joined the VE Navy
	Senior Crewman	05/01/2013	05/12/2013	Academy Graduation
	Petty Officer 2nd Class	05/12/2013	-	Completion of Counterpunch: Death

Positions

Positions
Position	Start	Until	Reason
Trainee	04/28/2013	05/01/2013	Joined the VE Navy
Flight Member Iron 4	05/01/2013	-	Academy Graduation

Awards

Awards
Ribbon	Award	Award Name	Date Received	Reason
	[SoA]	Star of the Academy	05/01/2013	Academy Graduation
	[MiD]	Mentioned in Dispatches	05/12/2013	Counterpunch: Death Participation
	[CC:1]	Counterpunch: Death Campaign Ribbon	05/12/2013	Counterpunch: Death Participation
	[CNQST]	Legion of Conquest	05/12/2013	Participation in longest Naval storyline

Story Participation Log

Story Participation
Story	Start Date	End Date	Type	Post Count
Raptor: Disaster!	04/30/2013	?	Training Exercise	1
Counterpunch: Death	05/02/2013	?	VEN Story	2
Total:				3