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PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2023 3:45 pm    Post subject: Outlaw Astrogator NPC Reply with quote

Outlaw Astrogator

Lorsir Natol grew up on the ‘streets’ of a satellite and shipyard of Yag’dhul. She joined her first ship crew as a laborer on a bulk freighter as a young teenager, and quickly took to ship life, trying to learn from whoever would teach her. Like many Givin she was a natural mathematician and eventually saved up to go to a piloting school. She excelled at astrogation and earned her pilot’s license and her astrogator’s certification. She also picked up a ship repair certification and is qualified to work as a journeyman mechanic. She worked on bulk freighters as the astrogator and earned a minor reputation for being able to get bulk freighters to their destination fast despite their generally slower hyperdrives.

Because Natol never used standard hyperspace routes her ships were untrackable by pirates. A common method pirates used was to lay in wait along standard hyperdrives with some kind of gravity well generator, or a large mass object like an asteroid, that would trigger ships’ gravity detector and force them out of hyperspace. The pirates would prey upon the surprised ships, preferably getting in a disabling shot before the ship could raise shields. Since Natol never used standard routes, she was immune to these methods.

It was three years into her career as an astrogator that they got hit by pirates. They didn’t lay in wait along a hyperspace route, they caught Natol by accident. Her ship was coming into realspace as the pirates were leaving the star system. They disabled the bulk freighter and took the crew captive to sell them into slavery. Once their astrogator read through Natol’s astrogation logs they conscripted Natol into service.

She objected, at first, but her cut from their first raid was more than she made as an astrogator in a year. It wasn’t long before Natol was a happy member of the crew. They were famous for lightning fast raids and escaping into hyperspace. Once in hyperspace the sector rangers could never catch up to them.

The pirates grew bolder and bolder. A few years later the pirate’s ship was finally found and taken out by CorSec. Corellian Security caught them in-system and disabled the ship before they could reach hyperspace. They simply decompressed the ship and pushed it out of shipping lanes toward the edge of the star system with their tractor beam. They sent in the ship’s vector so a salvage crew could come and claim it, probably squibs. Standard operating procedure.

Natol survived the decompression. Except for life support the ship was still functioning. Natol flew the ship to a freeport, sold it for parts and lived off the profits for a while. After that she took up smuggling for a few years, moving from ship to ship as an astrogator. She wasn’t great at setting up deals, or hiding illegal cargo, but her hyperspace routes let her ships get to port faster than any other smugglers. Sorry, ‘free traders.’

After she got hired away from smuggler crews a few times, her old bosses would approach her whenever they saw her in port and offer to hire her not to do runs with them, but to calculate hyperspace routes for them.

Natol’s hyperspace routes are extremely complex. She flies ships through star systems, not around them. To do that you need to calculate where every object in the star system is, to make sure your ship doesn’t crash into them. These hyperspace routes are temporary, they last about a week. The planets are always in motion and once they move too much the hyperspace routes become lethal. No one wants to run into a planet at superluminous speeds.

Natol charges thousands for her hyperspace routes. Whether it’s a smuggler trying to shave days off a route, or pirates looking for a fast escape from the authorities, they are happy to pay Natol’s prices.

Natol is constantly traveling the galaxy. She can be found in major port star systems or on luxury cruise liners. The easiest way to meet her is in the dark recesses of the holonet.

If you meet her in person Natol is likely to have a bodyguard with her.




DEXTERITY 2D
Blaster 2D+1
Dodge 3D

KNOWLEDGE 2D+1
Value 3D

MECHANICAL 4D+2
Astrogation 6D+2
Starship Piloting 5D+2

PERCEPTION 2D
Bargain 3D

STRENGTH 2D

TECHNICAL 5D
Starship repair 6D

Special Abilities:
Mathematical Aptitude: Givin receive a bonus of +2D when using skills involving mathematics, including astrogation. They can automatically solve most “simple” equations (gamemasters option.)
Vacuum Protection: Every Givin has built-in vacuum suit which will protect it from a vacuum or harsh elements. Add +2D to a Givin’s Strength or Stamina rolls when resisting such extremes. For a Givin to survive for 24 standard hours in a complete vacuum, it must make an Easy roll, with the difficulty level increasing by one every hour thereafter.
Increased Consumption: Givin must eat at least three times the food a normal Human would consume or they lose the above protection. Roughly, a Givin must consume about nine kilograms of food over a 24 hour period to remain healthy.

Move: 8
Size: 1.8 meters tall

Notes:

These are starting stats. Lorsir Natol is currently rolling an effective 8D+2 Astrogation. If you want a more advanced character, feel free to level her up as you see fit.
I wrote this bio to work in pretty much any timeline. CorSec has been around for a very long time, nearly as long as the Republic, and more or less survived through most of the Empire.
I didn’t create a bodyguard for her, but if there’s demand I can whip something up.
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PostPosted: Fri May 12, 2023 11:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

She looks very nice.
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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2023 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks. Tried to work in a few possible plot hooks for the GMs out there in internet land.
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