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Name:
Bando Jinkuru
Age: 23
Homeworld: Eliaen
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Before
the death of his mother, Bando Jinkuru spent his nights
as a young boy staring at the stars through his bedroom
window, dreaming about the distant places and alien
races that filled his father’s bedtime stories.
Her death,
when Bando was only six, changed everything. His grieving
father, Keb Jinkuru, by then a noted freighter pilot,
ran local shipments between the planets in the Anthium
system so he could raise his sons.
Bando would
be the first to tell you that he was an excellent father.
One day,
however, when Bando was 15, Keb received an urgent call
for him to come to Coruscant at once. He'd never had
to venture that far before, at least as far as Bando
knew, but he assured his sons he’d be back in a
couple of days, and told them not to worry.
He never
returned. Bando and Sahn never saw him again. It fell
to Bando alone to raise and protect his younger brother,
Sahn, and the realities of life replaced his dreams
with a cynicism far beyond his years. Space, once that
opal sea of hope and adventure, had withered to a dark
and empty void; the stars that had once glittered as
he slept now shattered any chance of a restful sleep.
He dropped
out of school and got a job in the shipyards repairing
droids to earn extra money. When he turned 17, he became
a licensed freighter pilot and took his father’s
old job.
Bando vowed
to succeed where his father had failed them, vowed never
to abandon Sahn or let any harm come to him, much to
his brother's chagrin.
When Sahn
turned 17, Bando took it upon himself to teach his younger
brother how to fly their father's ship, the one relic
they had left, besides each other, of a happier time.
Little did Bando know that on that day, the adventures
amongst the stars he had once dreamt of as a child would
soon become very real indeed... |
