Kendrykk and Janesca

Here is the writeup for my two Star Wars characters in our long running Clone Wars campaign.
They turned out to be a great combination and were among my favorite characters to play in recent memory.

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The Wookiee Kendrykk Bulazi grew up contentedly on Kashyykk, training from an early age to one day join the Elite Defenders, a professional group of soldier/scouts who hire out their services as bodyguards to diplomats of planets with whom they have good relations. His natural aptitude for climbing (a favorite means of escape for the defenders) and a reputation for dreadful raging were key to his acceptance in the group.

The Elite Defenders undergo rigorous physical endurance training, with the belief that most threats in their line of work will be best dispatched by through immediate initiative and decisive action. They learn to evade blasts and shake off the effects of an attack quickly if they don’t.

While Defenders are primarily melee fighters, they still train in the basic use of bowcasters, realizing the need to sometimes engage from afar. The final, crowning achievement of the Defender training, and one of its most valued, is their ability to step into harm’s way to prevent damage to their assigned charge, something Kendrykk has had to do more than once.

Kendrykk was still in training when he was assigned to The Pantor, the trade ship of Duke Alecksys Tor, along with two more experienced Wookiee Defenders. He was only two years into his service when The Pantor was attacked by an unidentified pirate ship. While defending Duke Alecksys Tor, one of the Wookiees was quickly killed and the other injured. The second was still valiantly defending the Duke when Kendrykk rushed to help. The Duke quickly dismissed him, telling Kendrykk it was more important to protect his daughter Janesca Tor, who had become Kendrykk’s friend and unofficial responsibility. He immediately complied, rushing to her room and encouraging her to leave. Kendrykk dispatched several attackers and kept Janesca from being hurt several times on the way to one of The Pantor’s starfighters. Janesca returned the favor through her adept handling of the ship, escaping the most determined of the pirate attacks.

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Early in her life, Janesca Tor realized that she would never become Duchess, being the seventh child in a family of ten. Her father, Duke Alecksys Tor of Tor Valderemo, was responsible for coordinating interplanetary trade, an important and time consuming job, as Tor Valderemo is second only to Lianna in its proximity to the Perlemian Trade Route within the Tion Sector. Not one to give up easily, Janesca, a very bright and charming girl, would often accompany her father on his sometimes lengthy journeys. Here she learned the importance of persuasiveness and the details of bureaucracy and varied galactic lore as an occasional participant in official business. Her quick mind easily picked up a number of languages, including several that are often used in trade negotiations.

Janesca lost interest in such matters, however, as her mind was always racing and her introspective nature hampered her potential career as a skilled negotiator. The operation of her father’s starship, The Pantor, provided more of a mental challenge and she soon learned its ins and outs, being a naturally gifted fighter pilot and a capable mechanic. Her insatiable curiosity for all things related to space travel and the extended trips gave her plenty of time to explore the computer systems and to gain a deep understanding of both the technology and physical scientific underpinnings of space travel.

On one of the trips with her father, however, something went terribly wrong. All she remembers of that fateful day is one of her father's personal bodyguard, the Wookiee Kendryk Bulazi, showing up at her door and telling her that he would quickly accompany her to the nearest starfighter and escape. She did so and only her amazing luck managed to keep her and the Wookiee alive as they maneuvered through a barrage of enemy fire.

The official report is that The Pantor is still missing in space, due to an astrogation malfunction and that there is still hope for finding the ship. Early on, Janesca tried to convince space officials that the attack was the reason for the disappearance, but she always ran up against the final transmissions of the ship, which described the ship system failure after successfully fending off a minor pirate attack. Janesca feels it is her destiny to find out what happened to her father and she has a hunch that it will lead to something bigger and much more serious than a simple ship malfunction to warrant such a cover-up.