Edge of the Rebellion/Koyi Dura
Koyi "Scrapper" Dura - Ace Pilot (Dawgstar)[edit]
Koyi Dura is a bubbly and friendly Twi'lek, who possesses a boundless love for all things that fly in the stars that a single person (or with a co-pilot) can fly, with a near savant-like recall of the specifications of any freighter or starfighter used even in distant memory that is completely at odds with her somewhat chirpy, outgoing and (in the minds of more serious people) a somewhat air-headed demeanor. The young Twi'lek is also a natural behind the stick, and her instructors all agreed that if she stays alive, Koyi has the potential to be a true top-flight ace in the Rebellion's starflighter corps. Koyi comes by her talent honestly - she's been crawling into cockpits since she could, well, crawl.
The pilot never knew her parents, raised as she was by her older siblings, they themselves taken in a by the extended Clan Ecls family group of Sullustans that oversaw the only spaceport on the small planet of Gelgelar. To call Gelgelar a backwater is unkind while at the same time being terribly accurate. It's a swampy, perpetually overcast planet in the Elrood Sector of the Outer Rim that subsists on exports of shvash gas (a cheap but temperamental gas used in lighters) and vohis mold (a food additive that goes great in nerf casserole, but you don't want to be near the stuff until then). For a young, rambunctious Twi'lek, it's small wonder that while she loves her family, both biological and adopted, Koyi also desperately wanted to get off the planet as soon as possible.
While off the beaten starcharts, spacers did come to Gelgelar. Companies are always ready to buy its exports - while the profit isn't much to speak of it can be enough for a down on their luck free trader. The Ecls also run the local starship repair facility, which is top-flight given its limitations. Whenever one did touch down, Koyi was there, cheerfully asking them questions about their ships and how they flew and what they could do and how fast they went, among many, many others. This was either endearing or irritating depending on the trader themselves. Koyi knew she was born to fly in space.
A Rebel cell, fleeing some Imperial entanglements, touched down on Gelgelar to make some hasty repairs. Koyi got to talking with some of them down at the Slippery Eel Cantina and all they had to say was she'd have a chance to fly. Sure, all the Empire stuff is terrible and awful and needs to go down, but she would get it fly. When their freighter took off, it had an extra new passenger. The flight instructors were duly impressed by her raw talent, even if it's sorely in need of tempering. Koyi learned on some old Z-95 Headhunter training models, and was never prouder (seriously, her transmission home took like twenty datapages telling everybody about it) when she got to fly real starfighter actions in the venerable Y-Wing.
Ah, yes, the nickname 'Scrapper' or more often simply just 'Scrap.' It doesn't have to do with a love of violence - Koyi doesn't like fighting, and while she marks her starship kills she doesn't really brag about them - but rather with an incident where her love of flying got in the way of her common sense. Coming in for a landing in her very first live training excercise, Koyi was coming in a hair too fast. This would not be such an issue, but she also forgot to lower the landing struts. "Wow! I didn't know Headhunters could bounce!" was an innocent observation, but not one that pleased her teacher. The months of KP didn't seem to bother her. She'd get to fly again, after all.
Brawn 2 (20) Agility 4 (70) Intellect 2 Cunning 2 Willpower 2 Presence 3 Astrogation 1 Charm 1 (Twi'lek) Cool 1 Gunnery 1 (5) Mechanics 1 (5) Pilot (Ground) 1 Pilot (Space) 2 Ranged (Light) 1 Duty: Space Superiority Wound Threshold: 12 Strain Threshold: 13
