Bio:

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.

Bio:

His father was a successful trader along the corellian spine and his mother a lieutenant in Corsec. They frequently crossed paths along the trade routes and ended up married after a few years of frequent coincidences. After Malcom was born, his mother left Corsec to help her husband expand his mercantile efforts. Malcom grew up on starships and had been to every well known port in the sector by the time he was five. After they were unexpectedly killed by pirates on a trade run, Malcom was taken in by a friend of the family, His mothers commanding officer, when he was 17 he joined Corsec Academy and trained to be a pilot.

During his time in the academy, it was not uncommon for Malcom to attend underground swoop races in the nearby systems, he attended under the name "Freak" and was known to push turns a little too dangerously sometimes, but he rode that edge expertly and only ever lost a little paint, in his senior year however, his training became top priority, and had to be content just watching the races on the holonet.

After graduating and joining Corsec, Malcom spent years tracking down leads hoping to find the pirates responsible for his parents death. During this time he refined his expertise in non-lethal hand to hand combat, Whenever the opportunity came up he would take assignments patrolling the outer reaches of the system looking for criminality that might have leads on the location of the pirate group. When off duty he spent his leave shaking down the local criminality, mostly encountering dead ends. One of those dead ends led him to uncover a droid smuggling ring where he recovered more than 40 top of the line droids locked in a storage container, he logged them and Corsec took custody of them to eventually return them to their proper owners. It would turn out to be a life changing event, as one droid escaped from evidence lockup and modified the shipping manifest to report one less droid and sliced corsecs records learning Malcoms address. That evening Malcom heard his door chime go off, and there sitting on his doormat pelted by the rain was the dorid R6-F6, whom Malcom would name "Fixer."

Malcom and Fixer made easy work scouring the underbelly of the systems society to finally uncover the location of the pirates he was looking for. They were working out of an old hollowed out mining asteroid at the far reaches of the neighboring Duros system. He took this information to his commanding officer, but was unable to get support or permission to go after them, and so he handed in his badge, and resigned on the spot.

With only meager savings it took Malcom a few months to hustle his way into affording a ship. His experience on the swoop racing circuit paid off here, he returned to the racing circuit, a few tournament entries and some betting on the side would net him a fair bit of cash, combined with some contract work for a local private investigator he finally made enough to get a decent fighter, A somewhat abused T-65b X-wing that had been converted into a racer. He spent the next month sourcing parts to get the weapons installed and hyperdrive functioning again.

He located the pirates asteroid in its eccentric orbit around the Duros systems single star and observed it for a few days watching their patterns, when he was certain the crew was out, he began his plan. Malcom landed his ship on a hidden part of the asteroid and made his way inside with Fixer's help.