Post by Ash on Feb 21, 2012 0:00:12 GMT -5
Faction: Republic
Department: Spec. Ops.
Rank: Major
Name: Gray Rumo
Race: Human/Echani hybrid
Age: 26
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 pounds
Birth place:Eshan
Appearance: Gray is one who is able to blend in easily with a crowd. Like his father, which stands out with white hair due to him being an Echani, Gray, too has white hair, but dye's it a dark brown color to better fit in if mission dictates it. He is a man of a thicker build and is of average stature. Grey eyes and a fair, trim face round up the rest of his looks.
Gray’s clothes normally consist of a black shirt and a jacket, depending on if he is traveling or not. He never removes these, unless on a mission. Dark pants and either dark shoes or boots finish him off. The rest of his wardrobe consists of the standard republic uniform. Gray has a relatively lean build with visible muscle under his skin, as well as a prosthetic right arm and both legs.
Gray's armor, when on mission, is a rather unique mix of the Republic BDU's. He wears heavy, thick armor that can take quite a bit of abuse, as well as a personal shield generator to help as well. He normally totes around an assault cannon or heavy repeater that can toss out some heavy firepower. He has a full face visor, tinted black, and it carries an advance HUD, similar to a Mandalorian's.
Gray's right arm and both legs are prosthetic limbs, as accidents in war and battles happen. His arm has a retractable blade (lengthwise) so even if he is fighting unarmed, he can still easily kill someone. It also makes it good for escaping from restraints.
Personality:Gray Is one who doesn't care to speak very much unless it is necessary. He has a cooler, deeper voice that commands respect. Being military, he isn't use to people calling him by his first name, and though he doesn't show it, he feels awkward when someone does call him that.
Gray is knows to be a loner and a wanderer when not on some sort of mission, but when the time comes, is an exceptional teammate and leader. Despite his rank, he is on the ground in his small team, rarely taking actual command of a large formation unless there is a absolute need for it.
He loves his daughter dearly, and is continuously pushing to make her life easier. Because Kona doesn’t have a living mother, Gray is continuously working extra hard to make up for it.
Skills:Close combat (Armed and unarmed)
Heavy Weapons
Basic Piloting.
Navigation
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 7
Intelligence: 5
Speed: 5
Leadership: 6
Unarmed: 6
Melee Weapons: 5
Ranged Weapons: 7
Alignment: +5
Bio:
(((Short summery at the top. More detail lower.)))
Gray never knew his mother, as the woman died during childbirth with him. In fact, he never really knew his father before he was five. During that time, he was a drunk and gambler, wasting his money to forget about his dead wife. Gray was raised by his grandparents on his mother side where he started his first year of school under their care.
Gray was just past his fifth birthday when his father came to his senses, and decided to take back Gray, and raise him as a proper son. Of course, this meant teaching Gray their martial arts. He was already behind, being raised by humans rather than Echani, but the child was a fast learner, and caught onto the basics quickly.
This went on for some years, mornings spent sparing, days spent at school, and evenings spent training with light weaponry and blasters. Blasters were because Gray’s father wasn’t fully traditional, and believed that a blaster could save your life if it came down to it. Because Gray’s father was in the Republic, he was away from home for quite a while before he could come back, and it was then the Gray’s uncle would resume training. Before Gray got use to the difference in their movement, he would often forget that his uncle was not his father, as they looked the same.
Gray was almost to his 13th birthday when there was a massive family feud. Amiss the chaos, Gray’s father moved them off planet to Corellia, where they would be safe. Gray fell back into his usual routine on this planet, and it stayed this way for the next four years, until he was 17. The feud on Eshan lasted four years. Gray’s father was killed in the final fight, and after learning that, he decided to fallow in his father’s footsteps. At this time, Gray was out of school, and with a waiver, joined in with the Republic.
Basic was grueling, and so was his job, but after it was completed, he was trained and hardened, and in better shape that only martial arts could accomplish. Gray was in the army years, scouting out planets with possible darkside force users, pirates, or generally anyone who could or would cause harm to the republic.
Around the age of 18, Gray met his future wife: a simple café maid working on Coruscant. She didn’t make very much money, but was happy with what she did. Whenever Gray was on the planet, he would show up and idly chat with her when she had a break. This turned into dating, and their love blossomed. They were married after he turned 19, and she was 18.
At about the age of 20, Gray was sent, with his platoon, to Yavin IV to investigate the possible presence of pirate forces. After freefalling in a shuttle with a meteor shower, they hiked up the the great temple, where they found... no one. Disappointed, the team left.
They didn't get very far before their shuttle was attacked. They made note of the artillery used, and left for good.
After returning from this mission, Gray found out his wife was pregnant. Six months later, she gave birth to a healthy little girl named Kona. Unfortunately, like Gray’s own mother, his wife past away days after giving birth. Unlike his father, though, Gray, though depressed at losing his wife, didn’t end up like his father.
When unable to be around, due to a mission or the like, Kona would stay with her grandparents on her mother side. As she grew older, Kona would look almost exactly like her mother use to.
At the age of 22, Gray was brought into the Republic Special Forces, an advance force meant for infiltration and assassination as the heavy weapons specialist. He was to do what he had been, only with a few team members, no outside help, and if he was captured, he wasn’t part of the Republic.
For two years, Gray did his job in the Special Forces, and was eventually given leadership of his own team. As a captain of a team, which continuously changed with each mission, he showed true leadership capabilities, and became notorious for bringing his team back alive, no matter how far south the missions went.
At the age of 25, Gray is still with the Republic, but due to the lack of SF missions, was pushed down to the regular Army again, while being on call to rejoin SF just in case some poodoo hits the fan and they need people instantly. This wasn’t anything he couldn’t handle, and as he started to get missions, he realized that it was pretty much what he was doing before, only with more team members and support. Teams usually consisted of three to four sections of 7-8 people, and were paired up based on the mission and what skills they had. Gray was usually placed on assassination and recon missions, due to skills with blasters and close combat.
With the unveiling of the Sith order, just after he turned 26, Gray resumed his work with the Special Forces, doing whatever was needed of him, for the protection of him and his daughter.
Age 0-5
Gray Rumo was born on Eshan, the Echani homeworld, to father Ozo Rumo and mother Tanaka Rumo. Tanaka was prone to sickness easily, and developed a fever as she went into labor. For hours, she fought to give birth to Gray. Not five minutes after ken was born, Tanaka died, being able to see a blury Ken as Ozo held him up for her to see.
Ozo couldn’t handle Tanaka’s death, and went into a state of depression, leaving Grey in the care of his grandparents on his mother’s side: Ayano and Luke Hibano. They lived on Chandrila, so it was relatively peaceful and safe among the core worlds. They raised the young child as their own, and tried to get Ozo to see him as often as possible, but being on robot mode, he hardly ever got away from his post with the Republic. Somehow, Ozo managed to stay in the Republic, despite his drinking, smoking and gambling habits. Luck also had him on a rather remote outpost, where he could stay out of trouble.
As Grey grew older, his grandparents put him through his first year of school. It was soon after where his father came for him. He seemed to have snapped out of his depression, but still smoked and drank, just not as bad as when he was in his depression. After arrangements at the school Grey was in, He was taken off planet and to Eshan, where he was raised like a normal Echani child. It took Grey a while to get use to the planet, but he became acclimatized and grew use to his schedule.
Age 5-13
During this 8 year period, not much happened. Like any other Echani, Grey was raised to fight, as that was the language of his culture. Because he was late to be brought into the culture, he was behind other children, but learned quickly. Still, he was usually behind the others.
When Grey was around the age of 8, Ozo began to show his son the ways around a blaster, believing one was never too young to learn how to shoot something. This went on top of the other training, such as his light weapons and melee combat. Still, Grey had his school, which he learned to love his time there because being at home meant endless training with either his father, who was teaching him melee and range combat, or his uncle, which was teaching him how to utilize various close combat weapons.
This was the common practice for the next four years of Grey’s life: training between his father and his uncle, learning specifics of each form of combat, save for a few instances. One such instance was when Grey was 11 and decided he didn’t want to live at home anymore. This was when his father went to Coruscant, so he was with his uncle.
Grey left with only a backpack worth of clothing, and went to the nearest spaceport. It was the dead of night, so no one was around. Using this to his advantage, the child snuck onto a freighter, where he hid in the cargo hold, and fell asleep. When he woke up, Grey was still on the freighter, but it wasn’t on Chandrila.
Looking out the nearest viewing port, he found himself in the middle of hyperspace. Being in hyperspace before, Grey knew he couldn’t do anything, so we went back into the hold. He eventually fell back asleep, and was woken up to being shaken around. It was normal atmospheric entry, but it was still a scare from hell. After they landed, Grey made his way off the freighter.
He wandered around the spaceport for a while, trying to figure out a way to get home, he ran into the back of someone. It turned out to be an Echani that Grey knew. Begging for help, the man complied, and brought the child back to Eshan, where he was reunited with a very angry Ozo. After that instance, Grey never tried to run away again.
Shortly after Grey turned 12, he was in his first real fight, not the usual ones. It also happened while he was at school, which didn’t exactly play in his favor. What happened was one of the kids at the school, who was a year older than Grey was, was carrying his tray of food to an outside table when Grey slid his chair back to get out of his seat.
Grey collided with the boy, who spilled his lunch, and decided to take his anger and frustration out on Grey. He ended up losing the fight, but in order to redeem himself, took his tray, slammed it into the other boys back when he had it turned, kicked out his legs, and proceeded to pummel him until the teachers separated them. Both students were suspended for a week from school. Ozo and his brother called this hell week, as it was strait training.
Age 13-17
It was a couple of days before Grey’s 13th birthday when there was a family war on Echan. Someone within Grey's family killed another member of a powerful family, which started the blood feud. The Government opted to stay out of this simple fight. While Ozo fought the attacking splinter group, Ozo’s brother worked to get himself and Grey off the planet. Before they made it to one of the evac ships, they were caught in an explosion. He lost his right arm in that explosion.
In the end, Grey managed to make it to the Evac site, where he he and countless others were rocketed away from the planet. This shuttle was bound for the core worlds, where it landed on Alderaan. It was almost a month before Ozo came back for his son. He managed to get Grey and himself off the planet, and to Corellia, where, despite the change, they fell back into a regular routine. Grey also got a prosthetic arm, a metallic one which would only work for a year at best. Grey's uncle went back to fight in the feud, loosing his life during this time.
Grey continued his schooling, as well as combat training, which worked more towards blasters. He was pretty talented with shooting.
Being on one of the main planets of the Republic, Ozo was allowed to stay for local security, which allowed longer training periods. Grey dedicated as much time as possible so he would be able to be in the Republic like his father.
Grey remained training hard for two years, or until he was 15, up until the final, major push against the family that wanted to kill them. Ozo took leave to help his Rumo family at this time. In the end, it was their family who emerged victorious. Two days after the blitz, Grey learned his father was killed by the opposing family, who was brutally beaten down.
Without his father, Grey became very alone, and entered a depression. He didn’t train and barely went to school, and due to this, he became known as a delinquent. He didn’t care for the title. He lived by himself, getting money from his grandparents, or what they could spare him.
When Grey was 16, some of his friends worked as hard as they could to pull him from his depression, and slowly bit surly, it worked, and he became more social and happier. His grades went up, and he resumed his training in martial arts and blasters. He also used money left by his father for a new arm, because it was up to him to get them now as he needed them.
Grey graduated school when he was 17, which was fine for him. He would turn 18 in a handful of months, so it was normal. The day he graduated, he went to the recruiting station, and enlisted with the Republic. He was able to get in with a Waiver, and two days later, was brought to one of the camps on the planet and went through basic training.
Grey hated basic training. It was hot, humid, and humiliating. They trained greatly in urban warfare, and Grey was showed to be an expert being a blaster, as well as an expert in close combat. He was looked up to as a leader in the training troop he was in, though he didn’t really want people looking up to him.
Age 18-25
After Grey turned 18, he graduated boot camp, and was officially a member of the Republic stationed on Coruscant. Though he was stationed there, he had missions all over the galaxy, but they lasted only a handful of days as his unit scouted out planets for the Republic. They were continuously looking for any signs of pirate activity that could mean a war somewhere that rivaled that of Eshan. The Republic learned during that war that it was best to be solved early on.
When Grey was on Coruscant, he would continuously visit a certain café with a certain woman working there. Seki was her name, and to Grey, she was one of the most beautiful people he had ever seen. The stray talks while he was in the café turned into dates, and before they knew it, they were in love with each other.
Seki didn’t make very much money, but about a year after they started dating, she moved in with Grey, and they lived a happy life. A few months after that, they were married. Grey was just about 20 by this point.
A few months after being married, Ken was sent to Yavin IV after a tip-off that there was pirate activity there. They made their way to the planet through use of a Meteor shower. They used modified shuttles. Once the shuttles landed, everyone rallied up, and made their way to the great temple, a day’s walk.
The team used active camouflaged to sneak in, and found one man in a meditative posture. He let everyone get in before he jumped up and tried to attack with two blaster pistols. He was gunned down, which, upon his death, triggered a set of explosions. No on was injured. On their exfil, they took rocket fire from the forest, marked the area, then left the moon.
Once back on Coruscant, Grey got a nice bonus for finding the source of the activity, even if they didn't directly engage them, which made some time easier with his and Seki's lives easier. When he came home she and told him that she was three months pregnant.
During the remaining six months of pregnancy, Grey remained on Coruscant with his wife. Seki went into labor two weeks earlier than expected, and was rushed to the hospital. It was expected, though, that the baby would be born healthy, but complications arose. The baby was born safely, but the complications led to Seki passing away mere minutes after childbirth.
Grey became depressed, but his in-laws, as well as friends, kept making him put his daughter, Kona, first, and he avoided doing the same to her as what his father did to him. Thinking of nothing else, Grey sold the house he had, moved Kona in with her grandparents, and devoted all his money to making their lives easier. Grey would stay with his in-laws when visiting his baby daughter, who was growing up happily.
A year and a half after Seki died and Kona was born, and after Grey turned 22, Grey signed up for the Army Special Forces, so he could get more money for his family. Even if it was more dangerous than before, if it meant he could have a better life for his daughter and family, he would gladly do it.
After several missions with various members, Grey was assigned as a squad leader position for a four man cell. Their mission was to deal with known pirates hiding on Onderon. The hardest part would be finding them, but a few days after landing, and several jumps to different locations, and they were on the right trail. They split into two teams, a infiltration team and overwatch team, and spent two days watching the building where that supposedly housed the pirate leaders.
The overwatch team had Grey in it, and they remained on a nearby hillside, which they went to under the cover of darkness, and dug in and camouflaged themselves in. The Infiltration team worked on getting inside as apparent allies for the Pirates. Together, over two days, the waited nearly all the the dozen people were inside the building before they struck. Sniper fire, confusion, and explosions took down the building and the occupants inside. Luckily, the infiltration team extracted to safety before the building collapsed. Mission successful, the team returned to Coruscant.
There was one mission which didn't go as planned. Using false identities, Grey, along with three other members of his team, infiltrated a private military contracting company that supposedly had ties to the Mandalorians. If this was confirmed, they were to relay back to the Republic, which would send out a larger strike force to attack the PMC.
Grey was suppose to me a mercenary who had training as a mechanic, and always carried around a large fusion cutter. This fusion cutter was actually a collapsible staff, and the head would be tossed away if it was ever extended.
The team didn't get very far when one of the members, someone on his third mission, slipped up with a wrong name. Moments later, all hell broke loose as no one was able to think of a way to correct the problem.
Grey was the first to make an opening strike with a sharp stab to the stomach with a extended hand, then after wrapping his arm around the man's neck, he snapped it, and hid the body away in a unoccupied room. Their cover blown, they moved to get out of the large complex, but security camera's caught them.
The first of the real members of the PMC that rounded a corner on the teams way out took the head of the fake fusion cutter to the face when it shot off as Grey extended his staff. Before he could recover, the staff slammed into his knees, then the back of his head, knocking the man out. Someone behind Grey finished the guy off with a sword. Unfortunately, that same guy took a blaster bolt to the back, and was killed.
Grey turned around, yelled at his team to get on the ground, and fired his own blaster at the attacker, taking him twice in the chest. No one in the immediate area, Grey recovered the sword of his deceased teammate, and led his team into a unoccupied room, where he locked the door so he could pull a quick plan together.
Using a stolen blueprint, and knowing that they way they came in and the nearest route or two out would be guarded, Grey planned on rushing to a exit further away, but it led right past the control of the PMC complex. This would work for Grey, as he had a second plan forming in his head.
Two minutes later, the three man team was working their way back they way they came, dispatching mercenaries as needed. They used doorways and corners as cover, rather than just rush out like most of their enemies seemed to do. There were some smart ones, but suppressing fire was used so one could rush to that corner and surprise the attacker.
Once they made it to the control room, Grey was the first one in, but as soon as he was, the doorway closed and locked behind, him, leaving the rest of his team outside. In the control room was one simple man, who, too, carried a sword with him. Grey knew this would be a difficult fight, just by seeing how the man carried himself and his weapon.
For a minute, Grey and his opponent looked at each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. In the end, it was Grey's foe, who rushed, then kicked a chair at Grey as a distraction. He dodge the chair, but was almost taken out by the foe, who went for an overhead slash. Grey barely got his sword up in time to block the attack. The next minute was awful, as the man put Grey on the defense for a long time, wearing him out.
Thinking quickly, he put space between him and his foe, then threw his sword at the man, who blocked it. Grey never intended to have it hit him, but to use it as a distraction while he got out of staff, and rushed forward. With a greater range of attack and motion, Grey put the other on the defense, and broke threw it, knocking the mans weapon out of his hand. Grey planted his staff on the ground and spun around it, kicking the man in the face.
Him out cold, he tied him up and opened the door, letting his team, who were in a firefight, in, the locked it afterwards. Locked in the control room, Grey moved to extract the data, while another member of his team called for help from a Republic ship waiting in the system.
Reinforcements came quickly, which drew off the PMC, and allowed the team to link up with the republic forces and get the hell out of the complex. Once safely in space, Grey allowed himself to relax, and think upon the failed mission. Sure, the information he had told them that they had ties with the old Empire, but he lost a member of his team.
Over the next couple of years, missions with the Special Forces became scarce, and Ken was relived from the special forces so he could spend more time that a couple of days a week with his daughter. The young girl became known on the various ships Grey visited, and buildings. She had a bodyguard droid now when he was away, but he plans on having it replaced with something more human looking one, or a normal person, if he could ever afford to pay someone that kind of money.
Grey, when he was 25, still did some random SF missions, but he mostly keeps everyone safe, especially his family. If something big was to happen anywhere, or something dangerous needed to be taken care of, Grey knew he would be among the first to be called, and him and his assigned team would take care of the problem.
Turns out, something big did happen: a new Sith Empire sent out an invasion force upon the galaxy. Grey was on Dantooine when it was attacked. He was, in fact, one of the first to get hit, and he was hit hard. He lost both of his legs in the attack.
He got medical attention quickly, but was forced to get prosthetics and sit out much of the current going battles within the galaxy. After getting use to his new legs, he was back in the fight. He was still part of the Army Special forces command, promoted to Major, and is now sent in to fight against the Mandalorians and the Sith.
Password: Bylgia
RP Sample:
"Do you hear that?"
"Yea. We're close. Keep moving."
Grey and Vangar were getting close. They heard echoing voices before most of the doors opened up around them. The duo froze in place, dropped to a knee, and aimed at the doors. When nothing appeared, they continued down.
They continued until the sound of echoing blasterfire started up, along with the hum of lightsabers. Looks like trouble found the jedi. They rounded a corner, and indeed found two jedi in deep combat with two droids protected by shields. Grey reached around his belt until his hand claps on a ion grenade.
Ion grenade. Active energy shields before we dash past the Jedi. Toss your grenade once we pass them, then finish them off with your rifle. Three seconds. Move.[/color]
Grey and Vangar activated their personal shields, Grey's being a Echani and Vangar's being a Arkanian shield. The Barabel moved as soon as Sakura did, moving fast and low.
"Jedi! Move!"
Grey yelled as loud as he could, voice being amplified by his helmet speakers. Him and Vangar rushed past the Jedi, and he didn't catch what Vangar did. Grey dropped to his knees, sliding across the floor as he tossed his grenade, which was in his left hand, at the droid. His right had the blaster rifle, which he was firing as fast as he could into the droid's shields.
The ion grenade, along with the blaster bolts from Grey and what the jedi already deflected back at the droid took down the shield, allowing Grey to rain blue bolts into the droid, which took it down. Grey made sure it was down with extra shots, then looked at Vangar, who stood over a upturned droid, wires hanging out of open gashes. Grey imagination took over as he thought of the battle between them. He nodded at the alien before looking back at the Jedi.
"Call me Black One. That's Black Three. We are here as your back-up to arrest the leaders here."
Grey deactivated his shield with a push of a button on his left wrist, and left his helmet on. There was no reason for the Jedi to know his real name or his face right now. Maybe after the mission he would allow them
Department: Spec. Ops.
Rank: Major
Name: Gray Rumo
Race: Human/Echani hybrid
Age: 26
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 210 pounds
Birth place:Eshan
Appearance: Gray is one who is able to blend in easily with a crowd. Like his father, which stands out with white hair due to him being an Echani, Gray, too has white hair, but dye's it a dark brown color to better fit in if mission dictates it. He is a man of a thicker build and is of average stature. Grey eyes and a fair, trim face round up the rest of his looks.
Gray’s clothes normally consist of a black shirt and a jacket, depending on if he is traveling or not. He never removes these, unless on a mission. Dark pants and either dark shoes or boots finish him off. The rest of his wardrobe consists of the standard republic uniform. Gray has a relatively lean build with visible muscle under his skin, as well as a prosthetic right arm and both legs.
Gray's armor, when on mission, is a rather unique mix of the Republic BDU's. He wears heavy, thick armor that can take quite a bit of abuse, as well as a personal shield generator to help as well. He normally totes around an assault cannon or heavy repeater that can toss out some heavy firepower. He has a full face visor, tinted black, and it carries an advance HUD, similar to a Mandalorian's.
Gray's right arm and both legs are prosthetic limbs, as accidents in war and battles happen. His arm has a retractable blade (lengthwise) so even if he is fighting unarmed, he can still easily kill someone. It also makes it good for escaping from restraints.
Personality:Gray Is one who doesn't care to speak very much unless it is necessary. He has a cooler, deeper voice that commands respect. Being military, he isn't use to people calling him by his first name, and though he doesn't show it, he feels awkward when someone does call him that.
Gray is knows to be a loner and a wanderer when not on some sort of mission, but when the time comes, is an exceptional teammate and leader. Despite his rank, he is on the ground in his small team, rarely taking actual command of a large formation unless there is a absolute need for it.
He loves his daughter dearly, and is continuously pushing to make her life easier. Because Kona doesn’t have a living mother, Gray is continuously working extra hard to make up for it.
Skills:Close combat (Armed and unarmed)
Heavy Weapons
Basic Piloting.
Navigation
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 7
Intelligence: 5
Speed: 5
Leadership: 6
Unarmed: 6
Melee Weapons: 5
Ranged Weapons: 7
Alignment: +5
Bio:
(((Short summery at the top. More detail lower.)))
Gray never knew his mother, as the woman died during childbirth with him. In fact, he never really knew his father before he was five. During that time, he was a drunk and gambler, wasting his money to forget about his dead wife. Gray was raised by his grandparents on his mother side where he started his first year of school under their care.
Gray was just past his fifth birthday when his father came to his senses, and decided to take back Gray, and raise him as a proper son. Of course, this meant teaching Gray their martial arts. He was already behind, being raised by humans rather than Echani, but the child was a fast learner, and caught onto the basics quickly.
This went on for some years, mornings spent sparing, days spent at school, and evenings spent training with light weaponry and blasters. Blasters were because Gray’s father wasn’t fully traditional, and believed that a blaster could save your life if it came down to it. Because Gray’s father was in the Republic, he was away from home for quite a while before he could come back, and it was then the Gray’s uncle would resume training. Before Gray got use to the difference in their movement, he would often forget that his uncle was not his father, as they looked the same.
Gray was almost to his 13th birthday when there was a massive family feud. Amiss the chaos, Gray’s father moved them off planet to Corellia, where they would be safe. Gray fell back into his usual routine on this planet, and it stayed this way for the next four years, until he was 17. The feud on Eshan lasted four years. Gray’s father was killed in the final fight, and after learning that, he decided to fallow in his father’s footsteps. At this time, Gray was out of school, and with a waiver, joined in with the Republic.
Basic was grueling, and so was his job, but after it was completed, he was trained and hardened, and in better shape that only martial arts could accomplish. Gray was in the army years, scouting out planets with possible darkside force users, pirates, or generally anyone who could or would cause harm to the republic.
Around the age of 18, Gray met his future wife: a simple café maid working on Coruscant. She didn’t make very much money, but was happy with what she did. Whenever Gray was on the planet, he would show up and idly chat with her when she had a break. This turned into dating, and their love blossomed. They were married after he turned 19, and she was 18.
At about the age of 20, Gray was sent, with his platoon, to Yavin IV to investigate the possible presence of pirate forces. After freefalling in a shuttle with a meteor shower, they hiked up the the great temple, where they found... no one. Disappointed, the team left.
They didn't get very far before their shuttle was attacked. They made note of the artillery used, and left for good.
After returning from this mission, Gray found out his wife was pregnant. Six months later, she gave birth to a healthy little girl named Kona. Unfortunately, like Gray’s own mother, his wife past away days after giving birth. Unlike his father, though, Gray, though depressed at losing his wife, didn’t end up like his father.
When unable to be around, due to a mission or the like, Kona would stay with her grandparents on her mother side. As she grew older, Kona would look almost exactly like her mother use to.
At the age of 22, Gray was brought into the Republic Special Forces, an advance force meant for infiltration and assassination as the heavy weapons specialist. He was to do what he had been, only with a few team members, no outside help, and if he was captured, he wasn’t part of the Republic.
For two years, Gray did his job in the Special Forces, and was eventually given leadership of his own team. As a captain of a team, which continuously changed with each mission, he showed true leadership capabilities, and became notorious for bringing his team back alive, no matter how far south the missions went.
At the age of 25, Gray is still with the Republic, but due to the lack of SF missions, was pushed down to the regular Army again, while being on call to rejoin SF just in case some poodoo hits the fan and they need people instantly. This wasn’t anything he couldn’t handle, and as he started to get missions, he realized that it was pretty much what he was doing before, only with more team members and support. Teams usually consisted of three to four sections of 7-8 people, and were paired up based on the mission and what skills they had. Gray was usually placed on assassination and recon missions, due to skills with blasters and close combat.
With the unveiling of the Sith order, just after he turned 26, Gray resumed his work with the Special Forces, doing whatever was needed of him, for the protection of him and his daughter.
Age 0-5
Gray Rumo was born on Eshan, the Echani homeworld, to father Ozo Rumo and mother Tanaka Rumo. Tanaka was prone to sickness easily, and developed a fever as she went into labor. For hours, she fought to give birth to Gray. Not five minutes after ken was born, Tanaka died, being able to see a blury Ken as Ozo held him up for her to see.
Ozo couldn’t handle Tanaka’s death, and went into a state of depression, leaving Grey in the care of his grandparents on his mother’s side: Ayano and Luke Hibano. They lived on Chandrila, so it was relatively peaceful and safe among the core worlds. They raised the young child as their own, and tried to get Ozo to see him as often as possible, but being on robot mode, he hardly ever got away from his post with the Republic. Somehow, Ozo managed to stay in the Republic, despite his drinking, smoking and gambling habits. Luck also had him on a rather remote outpost, where he could stay out of trouble.
As Grey grew older, his grandparents put him through his first year of school. It was soon after where his father came for him. He seemed to have snapped out of his depression, but still smoked and drank, just not as bad as when he was in his depression. After arrangements at the school Grey was in, He was taken off planet and to Eshan, where he was raised like a normal Echani child. It took Grey a while to get use to the planet, but he became acclimatized and grew use to his schedule.
Age 5-13
During this 8 year period, not much happened. Like any other Echani, Grey was raised to fight, as that was the language of his culture. Because he was late to be brought into the culture, he was behind other children, but learned quickly. Still, he was usually behind the others.
When Grey was around the age of 8, Ozo began to show his son the ways around a blaster, believing one was never too young to learn how to shoot something. This went on top of the other training, such as his light weapons and melee combat. Still, Grey had his school, which he learned to love his time there because being at home meant endless training with either his father, who was teaching him melee and range combat, or his uncle, which was teaching him how to utilize various close combat weapons.
This was the common practice for the next four years of Grey’s life: training between his father and his uncle, learning specifics of each form of combat, save for a few instances. One such instance was when Grey was 11 and decided he didn’t want to live at home anymore. This was when his father went to Coruscant, so he was with his uncle.
Grey left with only a backpack worth of clothing, and went to the nearest spaceport. It was the dead of night, so no one was around. Using this to his advantage, the child snuck onto a freighter, where he hid in the cargo hold, and fell asleep. When he woke up, Grey was still on the freighter, but it wasn’t on Chandrila.
Looking out the nearest viewing port, he found himself in the middle of hyperspace. Being in hyperspace before, Grey knew he couldn’t do anything, so we went back into the hold. He eventually fell back asleep, and was woken up to being shaken around. It was normal atmospheric entry, but it was still a scare from hell. After they landed, Grey made his way off the freighter.
He wandered around the spaceport for a while, trying to figure out a way to get home, he ran into the back of someone. It turned out to be an Echani that Grey knew. Begging for help, the man complied, and brought the child back to Eshan, where he was reunited with a very angry Ozo. After that instance, Grey never tried to run away again.
Shortly after Grey turned 12, he was in his first real fight, not the usual ones. It also happened while he was at school, which didn’t exactly play in his favor. What happened was one of the kids at the school, who was a year older than Grey was, was carrying his tray of food to an outside table when Grey slid his chair back to get out of his seat.
Grey collided with the boy, who spilled his lunch, and decided to take his anger and frustration out on Grey. He ended up losing the fight, but in order to redeem himself, took his tray, slammed it into the other boys back when he had it turned, kicked out his legs, and proceeded to pummel him until the teachers separated them. Both students were suspended for a week from school. Ozo and his brother called this hell week, as it was strait training.
Age 13-17
It was a couple of days before Grey’s 13th birthday when there was a family war on Echan. Someone within Grey's family killed another member of a powerful family, which started the blood feud. The Government opted to stay out of this simple fight. While Ozo fought the attacking splinter group, Ozo’s brother worked to get himself and Grey off the planet. Before they made it to one of the evac ships, they were caught in an explosion. He lost his right arm in that explosion.
In the end, Grey managed to make it to the Evac site, where he he and countless others were rocketed away from the planet. This shuttle was bound for the core worlds, where it landed on Alderaan. It was almost a month before Ozo came back for his son. He managed to get Grey and himself off the planet, and to Corellia, where, despite the change, they fell back into a regular routine. Grey also got a prosthetic arm, a metallic one which would only work for a year at best. Grey's uncle went back to fight in the feud, loosing his life during this time.
Grey continued his schooling, as well as combat training, which worked more towards blasters. He was pretty talented with shooting.
Being on one of the main planets of the Republic, Ozo was allowed to stay for local security, which allowed longer training periods. Grey dedicated as much time as possible so he would be able to be in the Republic like his father.
Grey remained training hard for two years, or until he was 15, up until the final, major push against the family that wanted to kill them. Ozo took leave to help his Rumo family at this time. In the end, it was their family who emerged victorious. Two days after the blitz, Grey learned his father was killed by the opposing family, who was brutally beaten down.
Without his father, Grey became very alone, and entered a depression. He didn’t train and barely went to school, and due to this, he became known as a delinquent. He didn’t care for the title. He lived by himself, getting money from his grandparents, or what they could spare him.
When Grey was 16, some of his friends worked as hard as they could to pull him from his depression, and slowly bit surly, it worked, and he became more social and happier. His grades went up, and he resumed his training in martial arts and blasters. He also used money left by his father for a new arm, because it was up to him to get them now as he needed them.
Grey graduated school when he was 17, which was fine for him. He would turn 18 in a handful of months, so it was normal. The day he graduated, he went to the recruiting station, and enlisted with the Republic. He was able to get in with a Waiver, and two days later, was brought to one of the camps on the planet and went through basic training.
Grey hated basic training. It was hot, humid, and humiliating. They trained greatly in urban warfare, and Grey was showed to be an expert being a blaster, as well as an expert in close combat. He was looked up to as a leader in the training troop he was in, though he didn’t really want people looking up to him.
Age 18-25
After Grey turned 18, he graduated boot camp, and was officially a member of the Republic stationed on Coruscant. Though he was stationed there, he had missions all over the galaxy, but they lasted only a handful of days as his unit scouted out planets for the Republic. They were continuously looking for any signs of pirate activity that could mean a war somewhere that rivaled that of Eshan. The Republic learned during that war that it was best to be solved early on.
When Grey was on Coruscant, he would continuously visit a certain café with a certain woman working there. Seki was her name, and to Grey, she was one of the most beautiful people he had ever seen. The stray talks while he was in the café turned into dates, and before they knew it, they were in love with each other.
Seki didn’t make very much money, but about a year after they started dating, she moved in with Grey, and they lived a happy life. A few months after that, they were married. Grey was just about 20 by this point.
A few months after being married, Ken was sent to Yavin IV after a tip-off that there was pirate activity there. They made their way to the planet through use of a Meteor shower. They used modified shuttles. Once the shuttles landed, everyone rallied up, and made their way to the great temple, a day’s walk.
The team used active camouflaged to sneak in, and found one man in a meditative posture. He let everyone get in before he jumped up and tried to attack with two blaster pistols. He was gunned down, which, upon his death, triggered a set of explosions. No on was injured. On their exfil, they took rocket fire from the forest, marked the area, then left the moon.
Once back on Coruscant, Grey got a nice bonus for finding the source of the activity, even if they didn't directly engage them, which made some time easier with his and Seki's lives easier. When he came home she and told him that she was three months pregnant.
During the remaining six months of pregnancy, Grey remained on Coruscant with his wife. Seki went into labor two weeks earlier than expected, and was rushed to the hospital. It was expected, though, that the baby would be born healthy, but complications arose. The baby was born safely, but the complications led to Seki passing away mere minutes after childbirth.
Grey became depressed, but his in-laws, as well as friends, kept making him put his daughter, Kona, first, and he avoided doing the same to her as what his father did to him. Thinking of nothing else, Grey sold the house he had, moved Kona in with her grandparents, and devoted all his money to making their lives easier. Grey would stay with his in-laws when visiting his baby daughter, who was growing up happily.
A year and a half after Seki died and Kona was born, and after Grey turned 22, Grey signed up for the Army Special Forces, so he could get more money for his family. Even if it was more dangerous than before, if it meant he could have a better life for his daughter and family, he would gladly do it.
After several missions with various members, Grey was assigned as a squad leader position for a four man cell. Their mission was to deal with known pirates hiding on Onderon. The hardest part would be finding them, but a few days after landing, and several jumps to different locations, and they were on the right trail. They split into two teams, a infiltration team and overwatch team, and spent two days watching the building where that supposedly housed the pirate leaders.
The overwatch team had Grey in it, and they remained on a nearby hillside, which they went to under the cover of darkness, and dug in and camouflaged themselves in. The Infiltration team worked on getting inside as apparent allies for the Pirates. Together, over two days, the waited nearly all the the dozen people were inside the building before they struck. Sniper fire, confusion, and explosions took down the building and the occupants inside. Luckily, the infiltration team extracted to safety before the building collapsed. Mission successful, the team returned to Coruscant.
There was one mission which didn't go as planned. Using false identities, Grey, along with three other members of his team, infiltrated a private military contracting company that supposedly had ties to the Mandalorians. If this was confirmed, they were to relay back to the Republic, which would send out a larger strike force to attack the PMC.
Grey was suppose to me a mercenary who had training as a mechanic, and always carried around a large fusion cutter. This fusion cutter was actually a collapsible staff, and the head would be tossed away if it was ever extended.
The team didn't get very far when one of the members, someone on his third mission, slipped up with a wrong name. Moments later, all hell broke loose as no one was able to think of a way to correct the problem.
Grey was the first to make an opening strike with a sharp stab to the stomach with a extended hand, then after wrapping his arm around the man's neck, he snapped it, and hid the body away in a unoccupied room. Their cover blown, they moved to get out of the large complex, but security camera's caught them.
The first of the real members of the PMC that rounded a corner on the teams way out took the head of the fake fusion cutter to the face when it shot off as Grey extended his staff. Before he could recover, the staff slammed into his knees, then the back of his head, knocking the man out. Someone behind Grey finished the guy off with a sword. Unfortunately, that same guy took a blaster bolt to the back, and was killed.
Grey turned around, yelled at his team to get on the ground, and fired his own blaster at the attacker, taking him twice in the chest. No one in the immediate area, Grey recovered the sword of his deceased teammate, and led his team into a unoccupied room, where he locked the door so he could pull a quick plan together.
Using a stolen blueprint, and knowing that they way they came in and the nearest route or two out would be guarded, Grey planned on rushing to a exit further away, but it led right past the control of the PMC complex. This would work for Grey, as he had a second plan forming in his head.
Two minutes later, the three man team was working their way back they way they came, dispatching mercenaries as needed. They used doorways and corners as cover, rather than just rush out like most of their enemies seemed to do. There were some smart ones, but suppressing fire was used so one could rush to that corner and surprise the attacker.
Once they made it to the control room, Grey was the first one in, but as soon as he was, the doorway closed and locked behind, him, leaving the rest of his team outside. In the control room was one simple man, who, too, carried a sword with him. Grey knew this would be a difficult fight, just by seeing how the man carried himself and his weapon.
For a minute, Grey and his opponent looked at each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. In the end, it was Grey's foe, who rushed, then kicked a chair at Grey as a distraction. He dodge the chair, but was almost taken out by the foe, who went for an overhead slash. Grey barely got his sword up in time to block the attack. The next minute was awful, as the man put Grey on the defense for a long time, wearing him out.
Thinking quickly, he put space between him and his foe, then threw his sword at the man, who blocked it. Grey never intended to have it hit him, but to use it as a distraction while he got out of staff, and rushed forward. With a greater range of attack and motion, Grey put the other on the defense, and broke threw it, knocking the mans weapon out of his hand. Grey planted his staff on the ground and spun around it, kicking the man in the face.
Him out cold, he tied him up and opened the door, letting his team, who were in a firefight, in, the locked it afterwards. Locked in the control room, Grey moved to extract the data, while another member of his team called for help from a Republic ship waiting in the system.
Reinforcements came quickly, which drew off the PMC, and allowed the team to link up with the republic forces and get the hell out of the complex. Once safely in space, Grey allowed himself to relax, and think upon the failed mission. Sure, the information he had told them that they had ties with the old Empire, but he lost a member of his team.
Over the next couple of years, missions with the Special Forces became scarce, and Ken was relived from the special forces so he could spend more time that a couple of days a week with his daughter. The young girl became known on the various ships Grey visited, and buildings. She had a bodyguard droid now when he was away, but he plans on having it replaced with something more human looking one, or a normal person, if he could ever afford to pay someone that kind of money.
Grey, when he was 25, still did some random SF missions, but he mostly keeps everyone safe, especially his family. If something big was to happen anywhere, or something dangerous needed to be taken care of, Grey knew he would be among the first to be called, and him and his assigned team would take care of the problem.
Turns out, something big did happen: a new Sith Empire sent out an invasion force upon the galaxy. Grey was on Dantooine when it was attacked. He was, in fact, one of the first to get hit, and he was hit hard. He lost both of his legs in the attack.
He got medical attention quickly, but was forced to get prosthetics and sit out much of the current going battles within the galaxy. After getting use to his new legs, he was back in the fight. He was still part of the Army Special forces command, promoted to Major, and is now sent in to fight against the Mandalorians and the Sith.
Password: Bylgia
RP Sample:
"Do you hear that?"
"Yea. We're close. Keep moving."
Grey and Vangar were getting close. They heard echoing voices before most of the doors opened up around them. The duo froze in place, dropped to a knee, and aimed at the doors. When nothing appeared, they continued down.
They continued until the sound of echoing blasterfire started up, along with the hum of lightsabers. Looks like trouble found the jedi. They rounded a corner, and indeed found two jedi in deep combat with two droids protected by shields. Grey reached around his belt until his hand claps on a ion grenade.
Ion grenade. Active energy shields before we dash past the Jedi. Toss your grenade once we pass them, then finish them off with your rifle. Three seconds. Move.[/color]
Grey and Vangar activated their personal shields, Grey's being a Echani and Vangar's being a Arkanian shield. The Barabel moved as soon as Sakura did, moving fast and low.
"Jedi! Move!"
Grey yelled as loud as he could, voice being amplified by his helmet speakers. Him and Vangar rushed past the Jedi, and he didn't catch what Vangar did. Grey dropped to his knees, sliding across the floor as he tossed his grenade, which was in his left hand, at the droid. His right had the blaster rifle, which he was firing as fast as he could into the droid's shields.
The ion grenade, along with the blaster bolts from Grey and what the jedi already deflected back at the droid took down the shield, allowing Grey to rain blue bolts into the droid, which took it down. Grey made sure it was down with extra shots, then looked at Vangar, who stood over a upturned droid, wires hanging out of open gashes. Grey imagination took over as he thought of the battle between them. He nodded at the alien before looking back at the Jedi.
"Call me Black One. That's Black Three. We are here as your back-up to arrest the leaders here."
Grey deactivated his shield with a push of a button on his left wrist, and left his helmet on. There was no reason for the Jedi to know his real name or his face right now. Maybe after the mission he would allow them
