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Born on a small farming planet in the outer rim, Knight grew up as normal as anyone else. His parents were farmers just like the other ninety percent of the population. When he was fifteen his parents bought him an old worn-out Y-wing on his birthday. He began to offer his piloting services for escort duty for the very frequent grain convoys that left the system for the core. With the possibility of pirates lurking in the shadows, he quickly earned enough to make the old fighter quite deadly. On every return he would be hired to protect another convoy.

About a year later, while on escort trip, he returned home to find the Empire punishing the populace over nothing more than an odd stare. Knight was too far out and was able to do little. By the time he did reach the battle, the star destroyer was speeding away into hyperspace. When he returned planetside, he found everything in ruins. Many of his friends and family were gone. Then he vowed, just like many others to make sure the Empire or anyone else could never do this again. And just like many others, he quickly joined the Rebel Alliance.

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Early in the year 35 BBY, Wen Mirthstone was born into the lower socioeconomic strata of a lesser visited region of Coruscant. His parents were average, hardworking laborers that were generally respected in their limited community circles. His mother, Deala, was an air speeder mechanic in a shop not far from their home. The shop was known for fixing up speeders that likely no longer had any business flying and returning them to a serviceable, though often troublesome, level of operation. His father, Marcus, worked as a technician in a nearby waste management plant. Between the two, they managed to keep food on the table in an overly expensive apartment for the size.

With their limited income, Wen's parents feared for the future of their son with the outbreak of the Clone Wars. They encouraged him to enter the workforce at the young age of 13 when he was still working to complete his primary education. His mother called in some favors with the owner of a courier service based in the area. She was able to secure Wen a position as a short-distance terrestrial courier with the hope that he would eventually be given training on flying the fast and maneuverable airspeeders the business also owned. Wen proved himself a reliable courier and before long he was offered the lessons. Lessons the family would not have been able to afford on their own.

Wen's dedication to learning served him well and he was quickly promoted to a piloting position within the courier service, though the deliveries were all intra-Coruscant. They did not yet trust him to take anything outside the atmosphere. This still allowed him the opportunity to spend hours behind the controls of an airspeeder where he developed a knack for high speed maneuvering and the situational awareness needed to keep free of other traffic in the busy skies of Coruscant. The piloting came second nature to him, and he used some of the knowledge his mother had shared with him to feel out the capabilities and weakness of the craft he was flying. As well as listening for any possible issues that often developed in such overburdened and under-maintained vehicles.

After two years, in 19 BBY, Wen had flown for countless hours making numerous deliveries all around the planet. At the culmination of the Clone Wars and at the emergence of the Galactic Empire, his parents strongly encouraged him - nearly demanding - to leave the planet in search of a greater education elsewhere. The couple had managed to work extra hours over the course of the Clone Wars and save up enough to help Wen travel away from Coruscant and pay for a portion of his first year at university in the city Theed on Naboo where he began the most formal education of his life. Wen had always been fascinated by the numerous species and cultures he encountered during his time as a courier, but he was never able to slow down and learn more about the people or their traditions. Now, away from that high-speed pace of life, he wanted to take a beat and learn about some of the cultures he had brushed past for years.

His dedication to study served him, once again, in university where he was able to achieve limited fluency in a few more commonly spoken languages. He found himself drawn to learning more about cultures on the very edge of the galaxy— those that had the most limited contact with the core planets. So it was no surprise when he was encouraged by advisors to pursue a focus in anthropology and linguistics during his initial years. Wen did not have much time for leisure activities during university, however, as he also had to continue his work as a courier in the off hours. However, now he flew for the university and was entrusted with not only a space capable craft but to make hyperjumps on his own to deliver materials, faculty, staff, and other people or items of importance to remote locations where the university was conducting research or cooperating with other educational entities around the galaxy.

In 14 BBY, Wen had excelled through his first four years at the college and was again encouraged by both his parents as well as advisors and professors to continue his education. He remained at the university for another two years where he conducted a focused study and authored a thesis titled "Impacts of the spread and use of Galactic Basic on rim and isolated cultures". In his study, he looked at the ways cultures were irreversibly changed by their contact with the core cultures and the ever-reaching grasp of the emerging Empire and the Republic before it. Having successfully defended his thesis before a panel of professors, he was granted an even greater level of certification for his abilities. His knowledge and skill in linguistic xenoanthropology was recognized in this award and title.

As a graduation gift, the professor he had worked with most often in his final two years made arrangements for him to receive one of the courier ships he had flown during his time there. It was one of the older ships, destined to be retired from the fleet or used as a source of parts for the other ships, but it was still a space-worthy ship. A Seltaya-class Fast Courier was not the largest or fastest ship in the galaxy, but it would allow Wen the ability to explore and conduct studies of his own.

Beginning in 11 BBY and over the following years, he continued to work for the university some while also taking his own contracting work or pursuing his own studies. For 11 years he would work in academic circles, studying cultures either in the process or having already undergone change from their interaction with other more vast groups within the galaxy. Through this continued academic work and study he was able to earn the equivalent of a doctorate from the university at Theed. The emphasis of this specialized study was the deciphering of ancient and unknown languages.

Then, in 0 BBY, when the planet of Alderaan was destroyed— he immediately sought out members of the Alderaanian Diaspora to offer what assistance he was able to help recover and preserve as much of their culture as possible in light of the absolute tragedy their people had suffered. He was pained to leave his study of newly discovered cultures, but this was a matter of extreme importance that required immediate action and attention.

The organization at the head of the program wished to keep their work as quiet as possible, since the Alderaanian Diaspora was not well liked in Imperial circles. This meant they needed to be creative with their work to avoid Imperial patrols and eyes. They needed to keep the ISB from being aware of the efforts to preserve the culture of a people they so despised.

During this time, he was able to impress one of his compatriots who also happened to be an informant and agent for the Rebel Alliance. The Rebel Agent was impressed with his ability to remain calm under pressure and his handling of their ship in dangerous situations. She also saw the value of his linguistic abilities if they were repurposed towards codebreaking and decryption of encoded messages. After the Battle of Hoth, she approached Wen, attempting to recruit him into the Alliance. For years now, he had been dedicated to trying to rebuild a beautiful culture that had all but vanished from the galaxy as a result of the malice of the Empire. He only had to think for a moment before accepting the invitation— it was time to take a more active role against the Empire and try to prevent another tragedy such as that suffered by Alderaan.

Wen rode a crash course through the Alliance's officer training, his level of education and recommendation from the agent gave him a step up from other fresh recruits. He was bounced through basic communication as well as ECM and ECCM programs where his skill at quickly understanding patterns and linguistic features made the process second nature. He was assigned to a position on the communication and ECCM team aboard the MC80A Independence— serving in this role at the Battle of Endor.

Post Endor, Wen sought to apply what he had learned about ECM operations in conjunction with his ability in the cockpit. He asked the captain of the ship for permission to transfer to the starfighter corp, additionally asking for their recommendation along with the transfer request. The captain was sorry to see him go, but also understood the root of the request. Wen was still seeking a more active way to affect the galaxy and prevent evils like those caused by the Empire. It was with this recommendation and request that Wen found himself as fresh Flight Officer reporting to the Renegade Wing where he had been told he might find himself behind the controls of an A-Wing flying with the members of Corsair Squadron.

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Born in the lower levels of Coruscant, life was difficult for Jack and his twin brother Connor. With their mother sent to prison in a miscarriage of justice and their father lost in the Clone Wars, they spent most of their late childhood and early teens engaging in petty crimes, driven by desperation and boredom. Jack would daydream of finding a way out, to reach the star-spanning galaxy which seemed impossibly big from where he stood. But without money or education, his life seemed unlikely to change.

One drunken bar fight too many led to the (accidental) death of an Imperial officer and suddenly the McCauley twins needed to leave Coruscant - fast. With the aid of an Alliance agent who could appreciate their resourcefulness, a plan was hatched and thanks to a lot of dumb luck the brothers found themselves successful hijackers of the small freighter Dropkick Murphy. In the process they also found themselves the kidnappers of Gemilan, a woman who would go on to influence his life deeply.

It did not get easier, however: an arranged meeting with Alliance agents ended in the loss of his brother and, deeply resentful towards the galaxy, Jack parted ways with Gremlin to disappear into the outer rim. A very determined agent deemed him still of use, so he found himself blackmailed and pressed into Alliance service, both as a shuttle pilot and an internal agent. For the rest of his life in the Rebellion he would lead a double life, with conflicting objectives pushed onto him by the ruthless Agent Zeno.

It was on an assignment to the backwater planet known only as Rainworld that he met Lock; the two formed a bond that would grow ever tighter till he grew to count on the man as a genuine friend. Circumstances also meant he was reunited with Gemilan, now known as Gremlin; his affection for her would grow beyond what he was willing to admit. Over the next two years in the Alliance he found himself transferred to Red Squadron as a fully-fledged fighter pilot, much to his dismay, putting himself directly in harm's way. In combat he became known for his cold and calculating approach, earning the callsign "Frosty", even though outside the pilot's seat he was just as famous for his drunken escapades. Life was complicated again when he found himself caretaker of a young daughter from a lover long past.

Things came to a head when the Alliance spy who had him under her thumb pushed too far; Gremlin was hurt and distressed in an incident that would haunt them both and Jack made up his mind. Without a proper goodbye he was gone, fleeing the ship that had eventually become home. He had his final showdown with Agent Zeno and it was in this moment he truly came to understand and believe in the Rebellion. He made it clear to her that their actions were a danger to the Alliance, that it needed people better than them.

He spent the next two years on the run with his daughter Derbhail, fearful of his wanted status in both Imperial and Alliance space. But with the death of the Emperor everything began to change: a New Republic agent found him and told him he was free of any debt to them. With the Empire's power diminished, the two biggest fears in his life were suddenly gone. Unsure of what to do with his new found freedom, a new and scary idea started to form, which was only strengthened when, on a private salvage mission at Endor, he found the wreckage of Gremlin's B-Wing.

He had to rejoin the Republic.

With his daughter safe with his newly released mother, he left civilian life and joined up. Little did he know ghosts from the past would soon return.