Post by Adobi-Wan Kenobi on Oct 15, 2012 22:17:28 GMT -5
Name: Kyle Orvast
Age: 27
Race: Human/Corellian
Birth place: Corellia
Height: 6 feet even
Weight: 198lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Appearance:
((OOC---I do not take credit for this image.))
The first thing anyone will notice when meeting Kyle as that he is a dark skinned tall man.
Kyle is a handsome, Scruffy, tall, and built young man all in one. He normally keeps himself with a scruffy chin not shaving close, but keeping it long enough to be visible.
He generally wears a dark trench coat, Along with that button up shirt that he keeps the top buttons open and under that normally light body armor vest, a holster with a pistol on his hip. (Link at bottom of thread)
His crooked smile often even though yelling playful and dangerous, seems to put people on the ease when around him.
His hair isn't straight but not quite curly either but more along the lines of wavy, he keeps it about neck length and often runs his fingers through it when thinking or just acting goofy.
Personality:
Kyle tends to have a strong, confident personality; he never turns a challenge down, with this trade he also has a cockiness he always brags about his success' and tends to secretly challenge his friends.
He prefers to use paper cards over the more common electronic decks in order to prevent others from cheating as much (even though he cheats himself from time to time)as most people don't have there own stacks.
He has over time learned to go with his gut when making decisions normally things turn out for the best. However he still refuses to believe that it is the force that gives him this set of skills.
Along that line he refuses to believe in the force as well thinking that it is just a bunch off magic tricks which he also views as nonsense.
Due to his past and being owned by a Hutt, he very much dislikes them, however if the price is right he tends to be able to overcome his prejudices.
Profession:
Pirate captain [3 ships, and roughly 20 men on each ship running with a slave link and skeliton crew.];
He started out as a simple smuggler, but once he got the means to go into piracy he thought he'd give it a shot.
Leader [of a smuggler group roughly 30 men];
Even though he himself is a busy man and he normally only took in people of the fighting type, eventually he started getting a lot of smugglers who didn't want to be a part of the main pirates, being as he was a former smuggler he started organizing a small smuggleing ring.
Owner [of a space station]; Simply put, he has a sapce station, he lets people come and go with their own goods as long as he gets his share.
Skills:
Gambling,
Piloting,
Quick draw,
Poker face.
Previous Faction:Civilian/slave
Mastery Level:N/A Never trained.
Specialized Skills: N/A
Telekinetic: N/A
Telepathic: 1
Body: N/A
Sense: 1
Protection: N/A
Healing: N/A
Destruction: N/A
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 6
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 6
Leadership: 5
Unarmed: 5
Melee Weapons: 4
Ranged Weapons: 5
Kyle was born on Corellia as the second twin he had a father named Koran who was a former Smuggler but retired to be with a growing family and his mother Jora. For Koran and Jora Kyle and his few minutes older brother Zim Where first children.
However old debts and enemy's where haunting Kyle's father, so in a desperate attempt to protect his family Kora separated the family sending Jora and Zim to the coreworlds while taking Kyle with him to Tatooine where he would negotiate with a crime lord named Hebba the Hutt. By this time Kyle was just turning 4, once there he under took a life of secrets so that in case whoever it was that wanted his father dead wouldn't be able to find them as easy.
His father had made the deal to keep the family protected with Hebba's help but the price was Koran returning to the smuggler trade and working for Hebba.
In Kyle's 6the month in Hebba's palace he meet another boy a few years younger than he was named Zett Rem, he was one of the only children in the palace so the two of them where nearly inseparable and would continue to become good friends.
For a while Kyle would wonder the palace until he knew the hidey holes better then Hebba the Hutt did, he could often sneak around from one end of the palace to the other without anyone knowing he was even there. Kyle started to use that knowledge for his own purposes, he even though only being a 10 year old would sneak into the food areas and cargo areas and still small amounts of good and bring it to certain people in the palace and sometimes outside the palace and sell them the stolen goods.
One time however his father caught him in this process and gave stern discipline to Kyle and Kyle wouldn't do that again for a long time.
Kyle and Zett would often play together like bounty hunters and the like as they didn't know anything else. Zett would often play the bounty hunter and Kyle the Smuggler, the duo where far to close to their fathers. Each looked just like them and acted even closer. Zett was the techy of the two, and Kyle was considered the cool kid, even though there was a total of roughly 4 kids in the Hutt's palace. One of which was Sarah, a Girl that Zett had met in the kitchen of the palace, and although the young Zett denied it Kyle knew Zett had a crush on the Girl. The three Always planned to escape and each one came up with their own ideas for the escape, unfortunately they never made it away.
Zett and Kyle often worked on the Moisture farms which was one of the many ways Hebba made money, the two of them would harvest and resupply the tanks, and as Zett got older he began learning how to repair them.
Kyle's father eventually after months of asking from Kyle, let Kyle in the ship and over time taught him to fly the ship, this was Kyle's first step in escaping the Hutt, however when he was 14 years old Zett brought some news to Kyle and Sarah, he was going with his father to Kashyyyk, this was bad news to Kyle because Zett was an important part to Kyle's plan on escaping, Zett being away on Kashyyyk could easily escape on his own, but Kyle wouldn't be able to escape for another long while.
With Zett gone the only kids where just Kyle and Sarah in the palace. Both still wanted to get away from the Palace badly but the plans had to be changed and therefore postponed until Kyle could figure out a way off Tatooine and away from the clutches of Hebba. Kyle was now after roughly a year getting to fly his fathers ship on his fathers spare time for practice, he didn't count on what would come from his piloting skills that where already coming along well. Hebba; who was always looking for cheap labor in any way possible, was noticing how many hours Kyle was spending on flying, the nosy Hutt also stationed a guard to watch him while flying, and began to hear he was becoming a good pilot, so eventually Hebba offered the barely 16 year old pilot a job, a simple one at that just flying at times with his father, at other times alone. Being as Hebba was cheap the Hutt didn't offer much except temporary work in return for his future freedom. Kyle didn't turn this offer down, and it played a part in his future escape plan, a plan that would soon take a turn for the worst.
So for a few years Kyle would work along side his father on small short smuggling runs, sometimes with other smugglers from Hebba's group, and on the rare occasion he worked alone, this caused problems because he didn't have his owns ship so eventually for the sake of helping the Cargo and spice and what ever Kyle would be carrying get from point A to point B quickly, Hebba gave Kyle a pick of the ship's for him to use from time to time when he was in need of a ship. So he picked the XS light freighter, the one that was secretly being souped up in the back of the garage. This also helped his future plans, he know had a means for escape, even though he knew the ship had some type of safety in it and likely a tracking device, so for the time he had it he was determined to find and disable those safeties and tracking devices which took almost a year to do without being noticed.
When he came back from a job when he was 20 he saw Hebba gathering troops and the like for a raid on Kashyyyk, it didn't take Long to put the pieces together and realize Hebba was attacking the village Zett lived in. He had no choice but to wait for the results of the raid. It was two days later when he heard word, Zett some how survived with the help of a rouge who turned on Hebba. This didn't Sit well with the Hutt, so in a useless attempted Hebba killed Sarah and broadcast it to Zett's last known area, Kyle was next if Zett didn't turn up. So with the help of Kyle's father they managed to get the ship out of the hanger and eventually out of Hebba's clutches. His father stayed with him for a long while teaching him the tricks of the trade of smuggling and Gambling. Kyle had a strong suit for both, his father was an expert Gambler, yet Kyle still at time went with his Gut and over several years began to be able to call out his fathers bluffs, Kyle didn't know this had to do with his slight connection to the force which was something he refused to believe in.
For a while Kyle and his father would just take on small smuggling jobs together. However Hebba still knew what ship they had, and all of Hebba's men where on a constant look out for the ship. So Kyle came up with the idea to get the ship back to Hebba and get a new one that Hebba couldn't trace. So they got a hold of a Ship thief that they knew and had him steal a Ship for them, at which point they would frame their deaths and have their friend return the original XS-light freighter to Hebba, where it would latter end up in the hands of Kyle's Best friend Zett Rem. Later on their ship thief friend would return with the Republic defender and sell it to the Duo and would join the two in their adventure across the stars.
By the end of two more years they had created a fair sized crew of 7 members all wanting a share of the profits Kyle and his father where making off smuggling. Kyle had gotten fed up with the ship that was full of crew members and set up a plan to attack another small Supplie ship that he had followed to a point on the edge of the Corellian Run. The small Cargo vessel had little defenses and few crew members so when they boarded they had little trouble subduing the crew and taking the Cargo. However they also found out that the ship was heading for an old abandoned Cargo trading station just on the edge of the Corellian run where it intersected with the Smugglers run with the nearest planets being Ryloth and Wrea in the outer rim. The Cargo ship they had attacked was part of a small Pirate group that ran mostly in the outer rim and apparently had been fixing the station up and planned to resell it or use it themselves. Kyle decided to take over and use his own men to slowly over time repair the station and use it as their own base of operations.
Only Seven men working on a entire space station and manning two ships wasn't getting much done, so dispite not wanting to spend much money he hired men to assist in the repairs and other men to crew his cargo ship that he had taken from the pirates. This took most of his money and the station still wasn't near completion. So he had to quickly make a quick amount of money. So he divided his men that he had hired into two groups: the ones that would work on the station repairs, and the ones that could help man the ships. He than organized a raid on a small pirate frigate. His main play of attack was let the Cargo runner with what little weapons it had attack the frigates weak-points while Kyle took his Ship with a strike team and attacked once the shields where down and boarded at two different points then let the cargo ship board at the main docking area. This lead to several deaths on his side but an eventual victory and him getting the frigate and it's goods. He kept a majority of them sold the rest and even convinced some of the crew to join him.
This single raid gave him the money and the crew moral to actually lead them with little trouble. But he still needed a constant way of making money, over time he added different ways of making money to his arsenal: Pirating and Smuggling were just two of them. Eventually the stations repairs where completed and many of the members he had still stayed with him as he eventually got his second frigate using both frigates as defense ships for the station, The cargo ship for trades, and the former republic defender now named "Hammer Head" as his personal craft. Over time he got a hold of old Shuttles and stunt fighters that he had modified for use in his small organization.
Over time his space station became known by those who wanted to sell cargo that was now useless or on the wrong side of the law. Many of his men would tell certain people and other small time crime lords of it's location, this made it a slow growing yet well working hide out. In short people told people, and those people told people, word of mouth was the best buisness card in this case.
Kyle used the station as a safe haven for those who needed it, and a base for his now small group of Smugglers, pirates and outlaws. Over time he took in so many people with random trades that his station began taking different forms. Some people brought their own sometimes illegal business to his station, on some levels there was small time trinket shops, droid shops, repair shops, armor shops. On other levels There would be people who would buy and sell supplies that would be brought in. Eventually Kyle saw an opportunity to make a bit of money out of this, he designated certain levels for shops and let would "Rent" space to different people letting them sell what ever they wanted as long as they payed him a portion of the goods or profit.
By the end of four years the station was moving along fast and working well. He was now turning 26 and between him and his father the station had decent leaders. He would generally leave his father as the station commander and he would lead with the smugglers and pirates during jobs or raids. The space station had now become a working organized group that pirates and smugglers alike used.
Over time he designated two lower levels of the station as hotel like areas and would let the more permanent workers stay in some of the upper levels. He now had several ships and captains that he would have for cargo runners and smugglers, he had two light frigates that stayed at the station to protect it from small threat but never anything big. He also added a Restaurant/Cantina area to the level above the docking/welcome area, and a gambling area above that.
((OOC---This co-insides with the events of "Day two: departures with Zett Rem.Link"))
He scooped the pile towards him, the other two at the table where frustrated that they had lost to Kyle again. He leaned back in the chair as he collected the cards from the table, Well, another round anyone? he got a shake of the head from both men, "Nope! I still need to have some money to stay two more nights, I'm out!" the second man shook his head as well, "You'll loose someday Kyle, but I've stayed longer then i needed to anyway." Both men stood and left the table, he was happy he didn't have to pull a blaster, last time someone had gotten upset he had one the game and attempted to kill Kyle.
Kyle got a tap on the shoulder as he was putting the money in a pocket. It was his friend the ship thief named Galnic, whom he had basically appointed as a first mate. "Kyle you're needed at the command center, Hebba somehow found us." At the word Hebba, Kyle cringed, he had two extremal light frigates and Hebba had who knows what. Kyle wouldn't be able to defend against half of anything Hebba might have. But he was already on his way to the bridge. This station was his baby and he wasn't about to let it fall into the slimy hands of Hebba.
Once he got to the Command area he sat down and looked at the report, he had less then 20 men on this station and the bare minimum on the frigates, his chances of fending off Hebba where not looking good. He was reading the report, they had been contacted long range by another Pirate frigate that worked along side Hebba. They where looking for a bounty hunter who had been avoiding Hebba's clutches for several years and had only two days ago disabled another frigate that the pirates owned. Surprisingly all Hebba wanted was that bounty hunter who had stowed away on Kyle's space station, Kyle stopped reading when he noticed the name of the bounty hunter's name "Zett Rem". Kyle couldn't believe it he read the logs and found the ship that belonged to Zett was docked on the 3rd landing pad.
He pulled the picture of Zett onto the main screen on all his men, Go get him! Bring him to me, i got an idea. With little delay his men started scrabbling, they where new fresh untrained men, But what few battles they've been through he wouldn't want any other men at his side fallowing his lead.
It didn't take long before the alarms where blaring and not long after that before Zett Rem was in the room and his weapons on Kyles desk. Kyle was going to work on a gamble and toy with his old friend. Mister Rem, How does one get a bounty on his head of 80,000 credits and still not been caught? Kyle put on a quizzical look that surprised his men they knew as he did that Kyle and Zett where at one time good buds, so they didn't know why he was putting on the act, what else they didn't know was that Zett and Kyle hadn't seen each other sense they where kids and looked a lot different. You're about to give me over to the Hutt and you don't know why? Zett responded smugly.
Zett Rem, we give you over because we have no other choice, those pirates seem to hate you almost as much as Hebba does, with out you as a bargaining chip, the station won't live, you see this is for the greater good.
Hebba will leave this place in ruins any way, i happen to know the Hutt quite well,Hebba's rather good at stabbing you in the back, sure if you turn me over you'll save the station for all of about tin minutes, then you're space dust.
But i think the pirate only have one ship left after my Droid took care of one make on Utapau, if you fallow my lead with your frigates out there, and the other light freighters in the docking port, you stand a chance. Zett said trying to change Kyle's mind which wasn't even made, now that he knew there was only one ship he knew he could hold a better chance. But oddly one of his men began complaining that they should still turn Zett and his crew over, Kyle dismissed the thought and waved his hand basically telling him to shut up.
What do you have in mind mister Rem? Kyle asked still keeping an odd professional posture.
I wonder how the pirates found me here? Zett said almost on a different subject, and pointed to the other man who had just thrown a fit, in the same amount of time Kyle remembered that the man had just arrived yesterday. Never mind i know, please escort check his cuff links.
Kyle waved the guards; or what passed as guards in his group, on to apprehend the man who they found communication cuff-links on the man who had somehow followed Zett to the station.
Looks like i was right, inside scorce. Kyle nodded agreeing, Well when they come out of hyper space they won't be expecting a counter attack, so we turn the station about 50 degrees that will point three of the heavy defense guns toward the enemy not just the two, then i assume you can lower power from the aft shields and guns?
Kyle nodded, Yes?! he wasn't acting he really didn't know what Zett was planning now.
Good, do it and add the power to the front ones, launch all fighters and tell all other freighter captains about payment for helping protect the station. I Guarantee some of them will help, the ones that wont will fly away, Set up all fighters, and freighters, on the port side of where the pirates will come out, the frigates on the starboard. give me my weapons and my ship access and I'll help too.
All right, I'll personally take care of things here and order the ships around from here, You however will be needed more, he tossed Zett's guns to him and continued, First how can i tell you're telling the truth?
I'm a man of my word, what was the other thing? Zett's replied and Kyle was having trouble keeping a straight face, it had been ten minutes and Zett still didn't know who Kyle was.
Your ship will serve as the command ship for the fighters, and freighters, but note this is a one time deal, after this I will be adding many space defenses. This was only partly a lie, he knew after Zett found out who he was he would return.
One time deal good i was about to say the same thing. Zett said as he was attaching his belt with pistols on it, and leaving the room.
It wasn't long before the battle begun, and ended and Kyle Sent his ships out to tow the disabled pirate ship back in.
Kyle waited in the Bar area for Zett where he would reveal who he really was. When Zett came jogging in he already had his order set, Thanks! Zett said, No problem. Zett took a drink and asked a question trying to size Kyle up a bit and figure out how he knew him no doubt. I doubt you can spare any repair crews? My ship could use a little bit a repairing.
Kyle shook his head, All our crew's are busy. Sorry.
Do i get paid then?
Kyle gave a smile, Equal pay as every one else, plus a little extra to help you stay out of ruts with Hebba.
He got a questioning look from Zett,
Whats your name any way?
Kyle gave a smile, You mean you haven't guessed yet? and i thought i had hinted at it enough. Zett tensed up a bit trying to think what he might have missed. I guess it has been a while since We've seen each other, I'll tell you, It's me Kyle. Kyle got a brotherly hug, from Zett and returned with his own. Kyle now had to bring on the bad news. You heard about your mother? Zett nodded and Kyle saw the look of pain, I even saw her body. What about Sarah? Kyle now felt a bit of pain, When you went missing Hebba Killed her in an attempt to get your attention, but i guess you didn't get the message.
Kyle saw Zett clench his fist,
Listen bud, I've been slowing Hebba down for a while now I'll help you if you ever need it but for now all i can do is get you outta here safely so if you ever need a hiding place then here. Kyle gave Zett a landing pass that would give him automatic Clarence for any of the landing pads on the station, This will get you a landing here no matter what in just a few minutes.
OK but i have something to give you too.
Zett took out some sort of Data chip, Plug that into your main computer, and I will kill that Hutt soon, when I do? Kyle knew Zett was asking him to help, and from the looks Zett would need it, I'll help.
Before anything else could be said Zett left the table for his ship, Kyle had his own things to attend to, but it was good to know Zett was out there still alive.
His Ships
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The Hammer-Head
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((Owned Via Npc Character {Ship thief named Galnic}))
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Kyle's Gambit
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His space station
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His blaster
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Age: 27
Race: Human/Corellian
Birth place: Corellia
Height: 6 feet even
Weight: 198lbs
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Appearance:
((OOC---I do not take credit for this image.))
The first thing anyone will notice when meeting Kyle as that he is a dark skinned tall man.
Kyle is a handsome, Scruffy, tall, and built young man all in one. He normally keeps himself with a scruffy chin not shaving close, but keeping it long enough to be visible.
He generally wears a dark trench coat, Along with that button up shirt that he keeps the top buttons open and under that normally light body armor vest, a holster with a pistol on his hip. (Link at bottom of thread)
His crooked smile often even though yelling playful and dangerous, seems to put people on the ease when around him.
His hair isn't straight but not quite curly either but more along the lines of wavy, he keeps it about neck length and often runs his fingers through it when thinking or just acting goofy.
Personality:
Kyle tends to have a strong, confident personality; he never turns a challenge down, with this trade he also has a cockiness he always brags about his success' and tends to secretly challenge his friends.
He prefers to use paper cards over the more common electronic decks in order to prevent others from cheating as much (even though he cheats himself from time to time)as most people don't have there own stacks.
He has over time learned to go with his gut when making decisions normally things turn out for the best. However he still refuses to believe that it is the force that gives him this set of skills.
Along that line he refuses to believe in the force as well thinking that it is just a bunch off magic tricks which he also views as nonsense.
Due to his past and being owned by a Hutt, he very much dislikes them, however if the price is right he tends to be able to overcome his prejudices.
Profession:
Pirate captain [3 ships, and roughly 20 men on each ship running with a slave link and skeliton crew.];
He started out as a simple smuggler, but once he got the means to go into piracy he thought he'd give it a shot.
Leader [of a smuggler group roughly 30 men];
Even though he himself is a busy man and he normally only took in people of the fighting type, eventually he started getting a lot of smugglers who didn't want to be a part of the main pirates, being as he was a former smuggler he started organizing a small smuggleing ring.
Owner [of a space station]; Simply put, he has a sapce station, he lets people come and go with their own goods as long as he gets his share.
Skills:
Gambling,
Piloting,
Quick draw,
Poker face.
Previous Faction:Civilian/slave
Mastery Level:N/A Never trained.
Specialized Skills: N/A
Telekinetic: N/A
Telepathic: 1
Body: N/A
Sense: 1
Protection: N/A
Healing: N/A
Destruction: N/A
Attributes:
Physical Strength: 6
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 6
Leadership: 5
Unarmed: 5
Melee Weapons: 4
Ranged Weapons: 5
Bio:
Birth – 10 years old
Families apart/runaways
Families apart/runaways
Kyle was born on Corellia as the second twin he had a father named Koran who was a former Smuggler but retired to be with a growing family and his mother Jora. For Koran and Jora Kyle and his few minutes older brother Zim Where first children.
However old debts and enemy's where haunting Kyle's father, so in a desperate attempt to protect his family Kora separated the family sending Jora and Zim to the coreworlds while taking Kyle with him to Tatooine where he would negotiate with a crime lord named Hebba the Hutt. By this time Kyle was just turning 4, once there he under took a life of secrets so that in case whoever it was that wanted his father dead wouldn't be able to find them as easy.
His father had made the deal to keep the family protected with Hebba's help but the price was Koran returning to the smuggler trade and working for Hebba.
In Kyle's 6the month in Hebba's palace he meet another boy a few years younger than he was named Zett Rem, he was one of the only children in the palace so the two of them where nearly inseparable and would continue to become good friends.
For a while Kyle would wonder the palace until he knew the hidey holes better then Hebba the Hutt did, he could often sneak around from one end of the palace to the other without anyone knowing he was even there. Kyle started to use that knowledge for his own purposes, he even though only being a 10 year old would sneak into the food areas and cargo areas and still small amounts of good and bring it to certain people in the palace and sometimes outside the palace and sell them the stolen goods.
One time however his father caught him in this process and gave stern discipline to Kyle and Kyle wouldn't do that again for a long time.
11 – 20
A new found skill set
A new found skill set
Kyle and Zett would often play together like bounty hunters and the like as they didn't know anything else. Zett would often play the bounty hunter and Kyle the Smuggler, the duo where far to close to their fathers. Each looked just like them and acted even closer. Zett was the techy of the two, and Kyle was considered the cool kid, even though there was a total of roughly 4 kids in the Hutt's palace. One of which was Sarah, a Girl that Zett had met in the kitchen of the palace, and although the young Zett denied it Kyle knew Zett had a crush on the Girl. The three Always planned to escape and each one came up with their own ideas for the escape, unfortunately they never made it away.
Zett and Kyle often worked on the Moisture farms which was one of the many ways Hebba made money, the two of them would harvest and resupply the tanks, and as Zett got older he began learning how to repair them.
Kyle's father eventually after months of asking from Kyle, let Kyle in the ship and over time taught him to fly the ship, this was Kyle's first step in escaping the Hutt, however when he was 14 years old Zett brought some news to Kyle and Sarah, he was going with his father to Kashyyyk, this was bad news to Kyle because Zett was an important part to Kyle's plan on escaping, Zett being away on Kashyyyk could easily escape on his own, but Kyle wouldn't be able to escape for another long while.
With Zett gone the only kids where just Kyle and Sarah in the palace. Both still wanted to get away from the Palace badly but the plans had to be changed and therefore postponed until Kyle could figure out a way off Tatooine and away from the clutches of Hebba. Kyle was now after roughly a year getting to fly his fathers ship on his fathers spare time for practice, he didn't count on what would come from his piloting skills that where already coming along well. Hebba; who was always looking for cheap labor in any way possible, was noticing how many hours Kyle was spending on flying, the nosy Hutt also stationed a guard to watch him while flying, and began to hear he was becoming a good pilot, so eventually Hebba offered the barely 16 year old pilot a job, a simple one at that just flying at times with his father, at other times alone. Being as Hebba was cheap the Hutt didn't offer much except temporary work in return for his future freedom. Kyle didn't turn this offer down, and it played a part in his future escape plan, a plan that would soon take a turn for the worst.
So for a few years Kyle would work along side his father on small short smuggling runs, sometimes with other smugglers from Hebba's group, and on the rare occasion he worked alone, this caused problems because he didn't have his owns ship so eventually for the sake of helping the Cargo and spice and what ever Kyle would be carrying get from point A to point B quickly, Hebba gave Kyle a pick of the ship's for him to use from time to time when he was in need of a ship. So he picked the XS light freighter, the one that was secretly being souped up in the back of the garage. This also helped his future plans, he know had a means for escape, even though he knew the ship had some type of safety in it and likely a tracking device, so for the time he had it he was determined to find and disable those safeties and tracking devices which took almost a year to do without being noticed.
When he came back from a job when he was 20 he saw Hebba gathering troops and the like for a raid on Kashyyyk, it didn't take Long to put the pieces together and realize Hebba was attacking the village Zett lived in. He had no choice but to wait for the results of the raid. It was two days later when he heard word, Zett some how survived with the help of a rouge who turned on Hebba. This didn't Sit well with the Hutt, so in a useless attempted Hebba killed Sarah and broadcast it to Zett's last known area, Kyle was next if Zett didn't turn up. So with the help of Kyle's father they managed to get the ship out of the hanger and eventually out of Hebba's clutches. His father stayed with him for a long while teaching him the tricks of the trade of smuggling and Gambling. Kyle had a strong suit for both, his father was an expert Gambler, yet Kyle still at time went with his Gut and over several years began to be able to call out his fathers bluffs, Kyle didn't know this had to do with his slight connection to the force which was something he refused to believe in.
21 – 26
A view of the stars
A view of the stars
For a while Kyle and his father would just take on small smuggling jobs together. However Hebba still knew what ship they had, and all of Hebba's men where on a constant look out for the ship. So Kyle came up with the idea to get the ship back to Hebba and get a new one that Hebba couldn't trace. So they got a hold of a Ship thief that they knew and had him steal a Ship for them, at which point they would frame their deaths and have their friend return the original XS-light freighter to Hebba, where it would latter end up in the hands of Kyle's Best friend Zett Rem. Later on their ship thief friend would return with the Republic defender and sell it to the Duo and would join the two in their adventure across the stars.
By the end of two more years they had created a fair sized crew of 7 members all wanting a share of the profits Kyle and his father where making off smuggling. Kyle had gotten fed up with the ship that was full of crew members and set up a plan to attack another small Supplie ship that he had followed to a point on the edge of the Corellian Run. The small Cargo vessel had little defenses and few crew members so when they boarded they had little trouble subduing the crew and taking the Cargo. However they also found out that the ship was heading for an old abandoned Cargo trading station just on the edge of the Corellian run where it intersected with the Smugglers run with the nearest planets being Ryloth and Wrea in the outer rim. The Cargo ship they had attacked was part of a small Pirate group that ran mostly in the outer rim and apparently had been fixing the station up and planned to resell it or use it themselves. Kyle decided to take over and use his own men to slowly over time repair the station and use it as their own base of operations.
Only Seven men working on a entire space station and manning two ships wasn't getting much done, so dispite not wanting to spend much money he hired men to assist in the repairs and other men to crew his cargo ship that he had taken from the pirates. This took most of his money and the station still wasn't near completion. So he had to quickly make a quick amount of money. So he divided his men that he had hired into two groups: the ones that would work on the station repairs, and the ones that could help man the ships. He than organized a raid on a small pirate frigate. His main play of attack was let the Cargo runner with what little weapons it had attack the frigates weak-points while Kyle took his Ship with a strike team and attacked once the shields where down and boarded at two different points then let the cargo ship board at the main docking area. This lead to several deaths on his side but an eventual victory and him getting the frigate and it's goods. He kept a majority of them sold the rest and even convinced some of the crew to join him.
This single raid gave him the money and the crew moral to actually lead them with little trouble. But he still needed a constant way of making money, over time he added different ways of making money to his arsenal: Pirating and Smuggling were just two of them. Eventually the stations repairs where completed and many of the members he had still stayed with him as he eventually got his second frigate using both frigates as defense ships for the station, The cargo ship for trades, and the former republic defender now named "Hammer Head" as his personal craft. Over time he got a hold of old Shuttles and stunt fighters that he had modified for use in his small organization.
Over time his space station became known by those who wanted to sell cargo that was now useless or on the wrong side of the law. Many of his men would tell certain people and other small time crime lords of it's location, this made it a slow growing yet well working hide out. In short people told people, and those people told people, word of mouth was the best buisness card in this case.
Kyle used the station as a safe haven for those who needed it, and a base for his now small group of Smugglers, pirates and outlaws. Over time he took in so many people with random trades that his station began taking different forms. Some people brought their own sometimes illegal business to his station, on some levels there was small time trinket shops, droid shops, repair shops, armor shops. On other levels There would be people who would buy and sell supplies that would be brought in. Eventually Kyle saw an opportunity to make a bit of money out of this, he designated certain levels for shops and let would "Rent" space to different people letting them sell what ever they wanted as long as they payed him a portion of the goods or profit.
By the end of four years the station was moving along fast and working well. He was now turning 26 and between him and his father the station had decent leaders. He would generally leave his father as the station commander and he would lead with the smugglers and pirates during jobs or raids. The space station had now become a working organized group that pirates and smugglers alike used.
Over time he designated two lower levels of the station as hotel like areas and would let the more permanent workers stay in some of the upper levels. He now had several ships and captains that he would have for cargo runners and smugglers, he had two light frigates that stayed at the station to protect it from small threat but never anything big. He also added a Restaurant/Cantina area to the level above the docking/welcome area, and a gambling area above that.
RP Sample:
((OOC---This co-insides with the events of "Day two: departures with Zett Rem.Link"))
He scooped the pile towards him, the other two at the table where frustrated that they had lost to Kyle again. He leaned back in the chair as he collected the cards from the table, Well, another round anyone? he got a shake of the head from both men, "Nope! I still need to have some money to stay two more nights, I'm out!" the second man shook his head as well, "You'll loose someday Kyle, but I've stayed longer then i needed to anyway." Both men stood and left the table, he was happy he didn't have to pull a blaster, last time someone had gotten upset he had one the game and attempted to kill Kyle.
Kyle got a tap on the shoulder as he was putting the money in a pocket. It was his friend the ship thief named Galnic, whom he had basically appointed as a first mate. "Kyle you're needed at the command center, Hebba somehow found us." At the word Hebba, Kyle cringed, he had two extremal light frigates and Hebba had who knows what. Kyle wouldn't be able to defend against half of anything Hebba might have. But he was already on his way to the bridge. This station was his baby and he wasn't about to let it fall into the slimy hands of Hebba.
Once he got to the Command area he sat down and looked at the report, he had less then 20 men on this station and the bare minimum on the frigates, his chances of fending off Hebba where not looking good. He was reading the report, they had been contacted long range by another Pirate frigate that worked along side Hebba. They where looking for a bounty hunter who had been avoiding Hebba's clutches for several years and had only two days ago disabled another frigate that the pirates owned. Surprisingly all Hebba wanted was that bounty hunter who had stowed away on Kyle's space station, Kyle stopped reading when he noticed the name of the bounty hunter's name "Zett Rem". Kyle couldn't believe it he read the logs and found the ship that belonged to Zett was docked on the 3rd landing pad.
He pulled the picture of Zett onto the main screen on all his men, Go get him! Bring him to me, i got an idea. With little delay his men started scrabbling, they where new fresh untrained men, But what few battles they've been through he wouldn't want any other men at his side fallowing his lead.
It didn't take long before the alarms where blaring and not long after that before Zett Rem was in the room and his weapons on Kyles desk. Kyle was going to work on a gamble and toy with his old friend. Mister Rem, How does one get a bounty on his head of 80,000 credits and still not been caught? Kyle put on a quizzical look that surprised his men they knew as he did that Kyle and Zett where at one time good buds, so they didn't know why he was putting on the act, what else they didn't know was that Zett and Kyle hadn't seen each other sense they where kids and looked a lot different. You're about to give me over to the Hutt and you don't know why? Zett responded smugly.
Zett Rem, we give you over because we have no other choice, those pirates seem to hate you almost as much as Hebba does, with out you as a bargaining chip, the station won't live, you see this is for the greater good.
Hebba will leave this place in ruins any way, i happen to know the Hutt quite well,Hebba's rather good at stabbing you in the back, sure if you turn me over you'll save the station for all of about tin minutes, then you're space dust.
But i think the pirate only have one ship left after my Droid took care of one make on Utapau, if you fallow my lead with your frigates out there, and the other light freighters in the docking port, you stand a chance. Zett said trying to change Kyle's mind which wasn't even made, now that he knew there was only one ship he knew he could hold a better chance. But oddly one of his men began complaining that they should still turn Zett and his crew over, Kyle dismissed the thought and waved his hand basically telling him to shut up.
What do you have in mind mister Rem? Kyle asked still keeping an odd professional posture.
I wonder how the pirates found me here? Zett said almost on a different subject, and pointed to the other man who had just thrown a fit, in the same amount of time Kyle remembered that the man had just arrived yesterday. Never mind i know, please escort check his cuff links.
Kyle waved the guards; or what passed as guards in his group, on to apprehend the man who they found communication cuff-links on the man who had somehow followed Zett to the station.
Looks like i was right, inside scorce. Kyle nodded agreeing, Well when they come out of hyper space they won't be expecting a counter attack, so we turn the station about 50 degrees that will point three of the heavy defense guns toward the enemy not just the two, then i assume you can lower power from the aft shields and guns?
Kyle nodded, Yes?! he wasn't acting he really didn't know what Zett was planning now.
Good, do it and add the power to the front ones, launch all fighters and tell all other freighter captains about payment for helping protect the station. I Guarantee some of them will help, the ones that wont will fly away, Set up all fighters, and freighters, on the port side of where the pirates will come out, the frigates on the starboard. give me my weapons and my ship access and I'll help too.
All right, I'll personally take care of things here and order the ships around from here, You however will be needed more, he tossed Zett's guns to him and continued, First how can i tell you're telling the truth?
I'm a man of my word, what was the other thing? Zett's replied and Kyle was having trouble keeping a straight face, it had been ten minutes and Zett still didn't know who Kyle was.
Your ship will serve as the command ship for the fighters, and freighters, but note this is a one time deal, after this I will be adding many space defenses. This was only partly a lie, he knew after Zett found out who he was he would return.
One time deal good i was about to say the same thing. Zett said as he was attaching his belt with pistols on it, and leaving the room.
It wasn't long before the battle begun, and ended and Kyle Sent his ships out to tow the disabled pirate ship back in.
Kyle waited in the Bar area for Zett where he would reveal who he really was. When Zett came jogging in he already had his order set, Thanks! Zett said, No problem. Zett took a drink and asked a question trying to size Kyle up a bit and figure out how he knew him no doubt. I doubt you can spare any repair crews? My ship could use a little bit a repairing.
Kyle shook his head, All our crew's are busy. Sorry.
Do i get paid then?
Kyle gave a smile, Equal pay as every one else, plus a little extra to help you stay out of ruts with Hebba.
He got a questioning look from Zett,
Whats your name any way?
Kyle gave a smile, You mean you haven't guessed yet? and i thought i had hinted at it enough. Zett tensed up a bit trying to think what he might have missed. I guess it has been a while since We've seen each other, I'll tell you, It's me Kyle. Kyle got a brotherly hug, from Zett and returned with his own. Kyle now had to bring on the bad news. You heard about your mother? Zett nodded and Kyle saw the look of pain, I even saw her body. What about Sarah? Kyle now felt a bit of pain, When you went missing Hebba Killed her in an attempt to get your attention, but i guess you didn't get the message.
Kyle saw Zett clench his fist,
Listen bud, I've been slowing Hebba down for a while now I'll help you if you ever need it but for now all i can do is get you outta here safely so if you ever need a hiding place then here. Kyle gave Zett a landing pass that would give him automatic Clarence for any of the landing pads on the station, This will get you a landing here no matter what in just a few minutes.
OK but i have something to give you too.
Zett took out some sort of Data chip, Plug that into your main computer, and I will kill that Hutt soon, when I do? Kyle knew Zett was asking him to help, and from the looks Zett would need it, I'll help.
Before anything else could be said Zett left the table for his ship, Kyle had his own things to attend to, but it was good to know Zett was out there still alive.
His Ships
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The Hammer-Head
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((Owned Via Npc Character {Ship thief named Galnic}))
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Kyle's Gambit
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swrponline2.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=imv&action=display&thread=3371 (1 of these)
His space station
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His blaster
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