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Ra'Kaat was born on the water world of Calamari. Since birth, he knew he wanted to command starships travelling around the galaxy, and his entire early life was dedicated to this end. He graduated top of his class at the Mon Cal Fleet Academy and immediately became a rising star in the Calamari Defensive Navy. During this time he made few friends, earning the reputation as a stubborn, tenacious commander who got the job done no matter what.

Ra'Kaat was at the helm of the Calamari Defensive Craft Starwave when the Empire arrived. He was among the first Mon Cal to meet the new species, and one of the first to become distrusting when the Imperials put a "defensive fleet" of their own in orbit. Then, one of his friends warned him of an impending attack - Calamari's new "friends" were hoping to enslave it. Taking the messenger with him, Ra'Kaat managed to escape with the Starwave moments before the Empire launched a full-fledged attack that leveled the defenses of the watery world. Ra'Kaat and his crew ran to the fledgling Rebel Alliance and immediately joined, offering their ship, their services, and their lives to the cause. Ra'Kaat quickly moved up the ranks of the new navy to Captain, and was granted command of the Mon Cal cruiser Liberty after just a short time.

The new captain quickly earned a reputation as a "hard-head," and made a few other key people angry enough to send him and his vessel to the Outer Rim where he's stumbled across more trouble than expected. Ra'Kaat knows of his reputation within Alliance command, and has decided to use it to his advantage. He has chosen to make his new home the best Calamari Cruiser in the Alliance fleet, using the "rejects" from the Alliance - pilots, officers, troops, technicans, and soldiers who don't fit the usual military bill, those who are "troublemakers" to their old commands, or the ones nobody thought would live very long. He doesn't let on that he's happy about his assignment or proud of his crew, choosing to ride those who serve under him to the edge and beyond. But, if the truth were ever discovered, then his crew would know there is no where else in the galaxy he'd rather be.

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Before he knew how to walk, Trevin Evert knew how to fly. Raised by a Corellian Defense Force pilot, Evert always knew that he'd have a starship under him, no matter where he went. After gradutating with honors from the Imperial Naval Academy at Corulag, Evert found himself living his dream: a young husband (he married his home sweetheart Opheli after graduation) serving on a peacekeeping starship (the Victory-class Star Destroyer Triumphant), and seeing the galaxy.

The charm quickly wore off. As a bridge officer, Evert witnessed firsthand the brutality of the Empire, specifically when directed towards alien races. The Triumphant took part in subjugations at Kashyyyk, Calamari, and Alzoc III. The supressions sickened the young officer. He soon decided to act quickly, and during his next shore leave took his young wife and two young sons and defected to the Alliance.

Evert's natural (some say unnatural) penchant for starship tactics soon landed him in the captain's chair of the Corellian Corvette Tantive III. He earned something of a bad reputation as each of his successive commands was eventually shot out from under him, but he always seemed to carry the day. Moving from the Tantive to the escort carrier Freedom Flight, then the Nebulon-B Escort Frigate Vision, Evert eventually landed the con of the MC80 Liberty.

Evert has spent fifteen years in the Alliance, and has given more for its cause than any other individual aboard the Liberty. His sons (he eventually had a third) were all killed in action - two were fighter pilots and the youngest was a signal officer. His wife also died, during the Imperial annihilation of the Rebel safeworld New Alderraan.

Evert is a cagey old officer, who views his crew as his family. His shrewd maneuvers and gut-instinct tactics have saved the ship, and the Wing, more often than anyone can remember. His age is getting the better of him, however, and he walks with a touch more difficulty than he did in his prime. The fire in his heart keeps him going, however, and the fire in his heart keeps the Liberty intact.

Trevin's unique sidearm was a gift from one of his late sons that was taken from the body of a pirate leader in the outer rim. The weapon is a heavily modified rivet gun formerly used for reattaching hull plating to starships. Since the weapon is no longer intended to be used in the vacuum of space the oxygen supply and pump are no longer required for the weapon to function. This greatly reduces the weapon's weight and size. The magazine accepts 3 standard hull rivets. Although the weapon's effective range is limited, its armor piercing abilities cannot be surpassed.

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C'our Dentran was born on the planet Kulliver, homeworld of the humaniod-feline race known as the Kullivains. Orphaned at an early age by a terrorist attack on an Imperial garrison (his parents were participating in the attack), Dentran was adopted by a pair of Bothans. He grew up as a Bothan child would, participating in their heritage, ceremonies, and usual activities.

His physicality and his tutleage made him the perfect spy. Other Bothans he came into contact with regarded him as less than capable, and he often used this prejudice to his advantage. Soon his adoptive parents joined the majority of their race in enlisting with the Rebel Alliance, and Dentran immediately volunteered as well.

He became an Intelligence field agent, and was the second-quickest individual to become a "23-er" in Alliance history. Since he was being forceable retired from the field, he requested a transfer to a key intelligence position. Unfortunately, he was vying for the position against an individual with higher contacts, and instead was reassigned as the CIO aboard the "black sheep" starship Liberty.

Initially resentful of his new assignment, Dentran now wouldn't be transferred to be Chief of Alliance Intelligence. He fully enjoys living on the warship and interacting with the soldiers on board - besides, he's already got most of the common rooms bugged and, at any given time, knows 99.5% of the scuttlebutt onboard. Dentran is not the typical "paranoid intell agent," however, and is respectful of and respected by the rest of the crew.

While he would prefer to be a field agent, he knows the data he collects and interprets is crucial to the Liberty's operations, and he enjoys attempting to out-guess the Empire. He has displayed a remarkable penchant for correctly assimilating data, and his input into planning operations is often the difference between victory and defeat.

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Banarj was raised to cherish life on his home planet of Calamari, and it is a lesson he's taken to heart. An avowed pacifist, Banarj has nevertheless sworn to aid any wounded being he encounters to the best of his ability. Such practice and dedication quickly led him to prominance as the head doctor on the floating city of Redcoral R'geen. It was in this occupation that he was the first Mon Cal to learn of the disaster that was quickly approaching.

Shortly after the Empire arrived at Calamari, Banarj was going about his daily business when he was called into surgury. The hospital had received a badly wounded human that was in desprate need of medical attention. Banarj went to assist the the human, but the man was past saving. Shortly before the man died, he pressed a datacard into Banarj's hand. The man passed on, and Banarj, his interest piqued, read the card.

Initally, he thought it was a hoax. The card warned that the Empire was planning an immenent attack on Calamari. Unsure of what to do, Banarj took the message to an old friend - Ra'Kaat. The pair had barely read over the message again when the attack began.

Banarj fled to the Alliance that day with Ra'Kaat, and has stayed by his comrade's side since then. He is one of the few people on board the Liberty to know how and what Ra'Kaat usually thinks. Banarj himself believes totally in the cause of the Rebellion, and although he won't lift a gun to aid them, he will continue to tirelessly aid their bodies, minds, and spirits in whatever way he can in their fight for freedom.

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Was working for the Calamari White Star lines as a master engine refitter when the Empire attempted to destroy the Mon Cal fleet at Bestine and immediately join the Alliance when the Calamarians embraced the Rebel cause.

Studied quantum mechanics and flight design at the University on Roche and worked on several starship design projects before the Empire's distrust of aliens caused her security clearances to be revoked.

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Three times decorated in the army of the Old Republic, Tuttle Dundee enlisted with the Rebels during the siege of the Bliss system. A career military officer, joining the Rebel Alliance was the first political decision he had ever made in his life but the excess of the Imperial Stormtroopers on Bliss forced Tuttle to forgo a mindless devotion to duty and try to strike a blow for freedom in the galaxy.

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Like many others who joined the Rebellion after the destruction of Alderaan, Viv Pootala was an experienced freighter pilot who ran the spaceways, dealing with corrupt Imperial customs cops and the occasional pirate attack. While pirating was more strictly controlled during the Empire than any other period of history, Viv deliberately chose the highest-risk routes between his destinations - basically, daring an attack and eager for the chance to hone his skills. Uncharacteristic for his species, Pootala's daredevil nature has enabled him to best even some of the most well-organized of pirate raids. These tactics have translated well to commanding capital ships, as he joined the Rebellion as a pilot on the FRG Vision. Here, he caught the eye of the Vision's commanding officer, Trevin Evert, as a precocious newcomer to the Rebellion. Evert was later reassigned to the con of the CRS Liberty, one of the legendary ships in the Alliance fleet. When word came down from High Command that a task force was being put together to be assigned to the newly commisioned Admiral Ra'kaat, Captain Evert recommended the young Duro that had impressed him at the helm of his previous command to captain the newly acquired warship.

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When a full-fledged Imperial force led by Darth Vader ambushed the major Rebel convoy travelling from Yavin to Hoth, Samoc distinguished herself in the battle even though the convoy was destroyed. She managed to bag six TIEs before getting the abbreviated message from Narra to flee. She jumped her X-wing out of the system and managed to hook up with the remaining Rebel forces at the base on Hoth, where she had an emotional reunion with her older sister. The rest of the convoy and her squadron was destroyed at Derra IV.

She checked out quickly on the Incom snowspeeders being adapted for the Hoth environment, and took a temporary posting in Rogue Squadron, under the command of Luke Skywalker, to fill an empty slot. Farr was part of the aerial assault against the Imperial AT-AT walkers at the Battle of Hoth. She flew on the wing of Lieutenant Tycho Celchu and was able to distract the walkers long enough for the Alliance command staff to escape, but was eventually shot down, heavily burned. The transport carrying her, Toryn Farr, and several other evacuees sustained damage in the escape attempt and was left stranded in orbit around Hoth, with only the presence of wreckage from other transports disguising theirs from the Imperial Star Destroyers blockading the world. It took a change of heart by the bounty hunters Zuckuss and 4-LOM to get the Rebels back safely to their own side.

After spending some time in recuperation, Samoc requested an posting to any open slots in the combat squadrons. However, impressed with her performance at Derra IV and Hoth, another surviving officer recommended her for command duty. Soon afterward she was given command of the newly-commissioned Skull Squadron aboard the Honor Bound, commanded by Captain Viv Pootala.

Once outgoing and sociable, Samoc's recent injuries and loss of her friends at Derra IV have turned her into an introvert. In combat, however, she still remains a highly competent and confident leader and pilot.

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Born on Dantooine of a couple of middle-class workers, ( Gyrhen and Luhya Mackie) L.D. Mackie had a very dull childhood. So dull, in fact, that when reminiscing about his childhood, he points out that 'the grass on our lawn was always very long during the summer.'

To fill this void of much-needed adrenaline and excitement, he joined the Imperial Academy on Prefsbelt Four, where he trained to become a bridge sensor officer and tactical analyst. He was then nineteen years old. ( Nine years before the battle of Yavin.) He served under the command of several Imperial captains for the next eight years, eventually being posted onboard the mark-I VSD Iron Fist. It was during the posting of two years onboard this ship that made him finally see the evil that the Empire propagated.

Under the command of Captain Zsinj, several bridge officers were executed for 'gross incompetence', but in most cases made only one mistake at a very unfortunate time; when Zsinj was angry.

Every time it happened, Mackie questioned why he served the Empire at all, but it only came to him when he noticed the discrimination the Empire held for aliens. A transport with Sullustans and Eloms onboard had been intercepted by the Iron Fist, for no apparent reason.

Mackie had seen how the aliens had been brutally beaten in the brig and fully resented how they were treated.At his next opportunity for leave, he travels to the Outer Rim, where the new-founded Rebel Alliance is rumored to be and joins the Alliance.

The fact that his family was dead; his father had died of an unknown virus and his mother shortly afterwards, lifted the possibility that Empire might retaliate against him and his family, leaving him no regrets of joining the Alliance.He joins the Alliance at age twenty-seven and is posted onboard the FRG Juvaini as a sensor/tactical analyst on it's bridge.

During the next two years in his service to the Alliance, he is transferred to the Strike Cruiser Charlemagne as it's first officer and promoted to Lieutenant Commander. The Charlemagne was one of the CRS Independence's support ships during the evacuation of Yavin and was used as a convoy escort ship after Hoth. The period after Hoth was a strenuous period for the Charlemagne and it crew due to the loss of material and personnel at Hoth.

Finally, four months ago, L.D Mackie was promoted to the rank of Commander in the Alliance Naval Command and given the post of commanding officer onboard the newly captured and heavily altered Modified-Corvette NightHawk.

As a part of the CRS Vigilant's taskforce, he escorts the convoy's that will be supplying the Calamari Cruiser and it's ships and assists the Vigilant in large scale attacks when required.

(L.D. Mackie also invented a new tactic to use with his ship when dealing with Star Destroyers. The M/CRV proceeds at full speed alongside the Impstar, using it's unusually strong shields to survive the broadside blow and then places itself one kilometer ahead and under the Impstar, where few turbolasers are placed. With this technique, L.D. Mackie successfully distracted the ISD Venom, inflicting it significant damage and allowing his convoy to pass safely beside the ISD as he kept the gunner's of the Star Destroyer fully occupied in killing his ship.)