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Name: Sylva Knight
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 115 lbs.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green/brown
Skin: Bronzed
Age: 26 standard years
Homeworld: Coruscant
Family: Parents: Devin and Jeslyn Knight of Coruscant (both deceased), no siblings.
Marital Status: Single
Job description: Freighter pilot, smuggler. She tries to take only legit business, but sometimes you just have to make ends meet.
Physical: Slender and agile. Right arm is mechanical up to the shoulder because of a childhood accident. Long scar on the right leg (half around, from hip to knee) from same accident.
Special Training: Good pilot, especially when it comes to asteroid fields and tight spaces. Fairly good at space combat, though she prefers to get out safely as soon as possible. Also a good street fighter.
Weapons: Blaster, Vibroblade
Ship: The Starwind, a YT-2000 light freighter
Other Possessions: Wears a silvery star-shaped pendant on necklace. (Family heirloom). Also has a sort of bird as a pet...someone needs to help me out on the species here...suggestions welcome obviously. (named Jylas)

Personality: Sylva Knight is generally a happy person, despite her unhappy background. She has experienced loss, pain, depression, and hatred, but has managed to come out of all stronger than before. She does, however, relapse into depression if something happens to trigger certain memories. Emotionally she is lonely, not having ever found someone to be her "other half." She travels the galaxy with only a pet for company. At new encounters she is wary and reserved, but if she knows a being long enough she becomes at ease with them. She laughs often, though her own sense of humor is lacking. She is not a coward, but would rather escape dangerous situations if she could rather than getting caught in them as well as the their risk. She helps beings if they're in a tight spot, and she's sure they won't steal her ship or kill her. She is especially pitying of disabled beings, a consequence of her own pain. However she is leery of severe wounds. She hates the Black Sun with a passion, glance at her history to see why.

History: Sylva Knight was born on Coruscant into a middle class family. Her father worked for a prosperous shipping corporation that--unknown at the time--was under the control of Black Sun. When he witnessed something that he should not have, he suddenly found that there were beings out to kill him. Hired assassins, that is. Moving quickly, he got his family (his wife and eight year old daughter) of the planet, but did not escape himself. The cruiser carrying Jeslyn and Sylva was attacked en route by pirates, who killed Jeslyn. She had left Sylva with an older couple when she left the cabin to get something to eat just before the raid, so the girl was saved. However, as they were escaping, her leg was cut by a vibro knife and her arm was caught in a blast door. She was taken back to Coruscant by the couple her mother had entrusted her to. For a long while they thought she would die, but somehow they afforded the medical fees. Until she was 16, she lived with a metal cap on the severed arm. Soon after her arm was replaced by a mechanical one, the both of her foster parents died, one several months after the other. Left on her own, she pursued the only job she knew of: trade.

It was not easy to get work at such a young age, and she started on the loading dock of a large corporation. Her organic arm was strong from being used on its own over the years, and the mechanical arm gave her just enough of an edge to compete with the rougher hands. One of the larger (yet apparently more compassionate ones) taught her how to fight with her hands, and thus survive the dock. She worked her way up with long hours and finally learned how to fly the smaller freighters. By then she had made friends with the pilot of one of the larger freighters, and it was he who taught her mechanics and flying of almost anything.

While she had been moving up in the business, she seemed to be stuck in a sort of rut. No matter what she did, she stayed in the same position. Saving her wages, she bought a ship and left the organization, casting herself as an independant shipper. At first she made a decent living, but then she noticed that her old workplace was empty. The company had gone under. It didn't take long to figure out why. Black Sun was moving in. Not only was it strangling the larger shipping companies, it was making life difficult for the independant shippers as well. Sylva Knight left Coruscant, moving ever outwards towards the Outer Rim in search of a job. At last she found one, running spice. It was all she could get, so she took it and was shocked to discover the abundance of credits that flowed as payment.

Now she is working to make ends meet on the outer fringes of the Galaxy. But if she ever found the pirates that killed her mother...and if she ever stumbled on the resources to annoy Black Sun...she has motivation.

Other: I'll post more with some detailed stories that actually go into the key points, at least the most exciting ones. Like exactly how her arm went...I know you want to hear all the gory details. Not. I don't. That's really digusting. So anywho, I shall stop talking now.

This is Sylva Knight. If you think you can deal with her, right on.

Like my plenis, I'd say this is just too dang small.

Statisical info is fine, but you'd do better off with an expanded biography/history/background/whatever-you-wanna-dub-it.

EDIT: Awaitin' we be. Best o' luck.

Catherine Zeta Jones with a mechanical arm... that's definitely unique.

Its okay Beff. There are ways to fix that sort of thing.


And what is it with all these damn smugglers. They're taking away from Coalition recruitment.

Smugglers rule.

Look forward to the rest of the bio when it's up.

what he said.

Yup, I should be able to get it up today. My dad was saying get off the computer or get grounded, so I wasn't able to finish it then, but it should be done soon. If you want to see a bio I did previously for a SW rp character just hit the link: http://www.starwarsepics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=362

Oh and hey Sam! This be Jelt.

Your Epics Starship is a Star Trek design, but nice none the less.

Pardon my razor sharp wit. I look forward to reading the rest of your... stuff.

down beff.

(edited out) Go somewhere else to read this. Shoo.

Your bio is fine. Your story you can put in the Battlegrounds.

Ok, I'm guessing I should just use one thread in the Battlegrounds, even though it will be several different stories in different time blocks?

I guess it depends on how long each story will be. If each time block story is 10 posts long, you can post separately. If they are all one post long, keep together... your call tho.

Ok, thanks.