Jillian Chalu'kanji

Galavant · Feb 21, 2016

Species
__Human

Gender
__Female

Age
__Early 30's

Height
__1.8 m

Build
__Slender

Hair Color
__Brown (natural)
__Blonde (dyed)

Eye Color
__Blue

Force-Sensitive
__Negative

Homeworld
__Hosnian Prime

Allegiance
__Border Alliance

Rank
__Commander

Role
__Starfighter Pilot

Starship
__Spice of Life, YG-300
__Includes heavy laser cannons

Gear
__R-8R Battle Rifle [LINK]
__Glie-9 Blaster Pistol [LINK]
__MCV Mk. IV [LINK]

Kills
__lol prolly die first

Bounty
__No idea

Jillian Chalu'kanji

THEME

"Bombs away!"

A hard drinking, hard partying, woman from Hosnian Prime, Jillian is very much the stereotypical starfighter pilot. A hot headed glory hound who's fighting for the Border Alliance for equal parts believing in the cause, and wanting something more interesting to do than flying circles in a local system patrol. She also might have gotten kicked out of said local system patrol, so there's that as well. Since joining the Border Alliance she's been on the frontlines with the conflict with the Sith, doing her own part to actively spark all out war. For her initiative and skill with space combat she was one of the people selected by Augustus Roderick to lead the Border Alliance as a Commander.

History

The Chalu'kanji family, as the name might imply, has its roots on the Hutt world of Nar Kanji. On the planet far far away from Hosnian, and a long time ago, Jillian's ancestors were enslaved by the Hutt's and in eternal servitude to them, and all that nasty stuff. Not a lot of hope of freedom, not a lot of hope of anything really as it wasn't like there were a lot of places within reach that were much better. When the Republic outlawed slavery that all changed. Suddenly there was not only hope, but a feasible (if difficult) path to freedom. Jillian doesn't know all the details, and neither does any other living member of the family, with various versions and stories of how it actually happened, and how much of it is actually true. After a bit of moving from Republic world to Republic world, the family eventually settled on Hosnian Prime, as the world's a bit closer to the where they'd entered the Republic were a lot less enthused about the stream of escapees and migrants (and in some cases the loss of "property") the new law had created.

By the time Jillian was born the family was well established on the Core World. The second of three children born to Sereia and Landis Chalu'kanji, Jillian was very much the troublemaker of the bunch. Her other two sisters were a bit more straight laced, whilst she picked fights, cheated, and did all the standard delinquent things. This didn't really get much better with age, and in her studies she tended to be a slacker to a very great degree. If there was a subject that was really difficult for her, then she usually decided that it wasn't worth pursuing in the first place, and cut class. She did however have a good love for flight as a young child however, even though she was a bit of an idiot. As proven when she broke both of her legs after attempting to make an airspeeder out of a repuslorcart and tried to launch it off of a rather high story on the building they lived in.

Her ending up as a starfighter pilot in the local system defense fleet thus relied a lot on luck, family connections, and the fact that she was actually pretty decent at flying as opposed to academic rigor and being an upstanding member of society. The general hope of those family connections was that the at least mildly military organization would straighten out her behavior somewhat. They would be incredibly disappointed when it didn't work out quite the way they hoped. Jillian managed to skate by in the group for a few years, never really getting all that far, but never getting in quite enough trouble to actually get kicked out. About the most she accomplished was to corrupt several other pilots, and discover some new (purely medicinal of course) uses for spice. Other than that, it was largely a dull affair in Jillian's opinion. There wasn't much that happened, and it was nothing like the holo's that made being a starfighter pilot look really cool.

All boring things must come to an end however, and for Jillian it came when she was supposed to be flying with an exhibition squadron for some government related holiday or another. And because she's an arrogant showoff, she of course decided to break formation and buzz the crowd. It didn't go over well, and it wasn't long after that, that she finally got the boot. With a set of skills and a record that didn't exactly make getting hired easy, Jillian didn't have a lot of options. One was the criminal world of course, but Jillian didn't think of herself as a criminal. She might not have been the best person in the world, but she saw herself as being somewhat more heroic, and so went off to join the Border Alliance. Fight for freedom and little pay? Become an ace or die trying? Well it certainly sounded more fun than sitting around doing nothing.

Attributes

Physically, Jillian is made of tough stuff, sometimes more so than people realize. Personality wise, she can be insane reckless and aggressive. Combine the two and you have someone willing and able to jump out of a moving speeder into another whilst the first one crashes into something important. She's also very, very, very, very, very bad at subtlety. If she doesn't like someone odds are they'll find out when she straight up tells them that, along with probably cursing at them, and then trying to hit them if they really piss her off. Her temper isn't exactly under control, and she has neither the time, nor the inclination to play the little social games that people in the Senate and media so adore. Society's rules are boring and were made to be broken in her opinion, which depending on the person can make her seem charismatic or crass.

Reasonably intelligent, she might not appear so on many occasions as she lacks the little voice in her head that tells that doing something stupid actually is stupid. One could say that she's smart enough to fly a starfighter into combat, and at the same time stupid enough to fly a starfighter into combat. No one's ever called her wise, and no one's ever likely to. She's the kind of person who didn't learn not to touch the stove when it was hot. She was the kind who kept her hand on it to see how long she could last. Very dexterous, this is backed up by no small amount of muscle, gained from years of flying in some of the most physically taxing vehicles ever made, and picking a large amount of fights whenever it suits her. Her hand-eye coordination in particular is very good, as one might expect, and her constitution is also very good. Keeping down terrible food whilst pulling a few G's, and staying conscious whilst pulling a few more are among the abilities she possesses.

Skills

Jillian is a skilled starfighter pilot, and not afraid to tell you that she is. She'll almost certainly exaggerate how skilled she is, but that doesn't mean she isn't somewhere close to where her mind-brain thinks. She's survived at least one encounter with Sith fighters, and in the cockpit shows a lot more judgment and careful thinking than she does on the ground. Her instincts usual tell her to be aggressive, but if she's facing down a squadron of fighters in a crappy old bomber, her instincts tell her that bravely running away and coming back with something faster to kill all of them is the better option.

On the ground she doesn't have as much experience actually fighting on a battlefield, but she's done pretty well in bar fights, stealing speeders from unsuspecting people. She's never faced a force-user, and is very much an amateur when it comes to the whole "getting down in the mud and actually trying to kill each other in an uncivilized manner" thing. She considers fighting from the cockpit of a starfighter to be more clean, even if it involves dropping bombs on potentially hundreds of people.

She's pretty good in the technical department as well, fixing up ships and the like. She doesn't like it quite as much as actually flying, but when you're an egotistical fighter jock it's one of those things you learn to do because you either don't trust some mechanic with your life, or have pissed off said mechanic and now he/she refuses to help you. If pissing people off is a skill, it's one that Jillian also possesses. The inverse of that is that she could be considered to have a few leadership skills as she's always willing to lead by example, and her unshakable self-confidence somehow does a lot to convince others that she knows what she's doing even she hasn't the slightest clue.

Other than that she's good at drinking, smoking perfectly legal substances, and not remembering people's names and just calling them Mike.

Personality

Generally affable and outgoing, Jillian loves a good fight, a good drink, and a good starship. Generally laid back, she doesn't really get worried about little problems, and really enjoys messing with the nonsense types. She's not an exceptional team player, but she understands the importance of having people on your side, and isn't going to let a wingman down on purpose. She is however very convinced of her own awesomeness, and is a major glory hound. She wants to be an ace, she wants to the be kind of pilot that gets their picture taken next to their fighter with a few dozen kills etched on the side under the cockpit. Her attitude is generally dissmissive of authority, and she can be a bit of a loose cannon. She'll do what she thinks is the right thing to do rather than what someone (who is probably a moron in her opinion) wrote in a book somewhere is the right thing to do.

As mentioned she likes a good fight, and can be very aggressive. She won't hesitate to get into a scrap where the odds are heavily stacked against her, and doesn't really have much of a code of honor when it comes to fighting. She'll use whatever dirty trick she can think of, and then brag to anyone who'll listen about how she did it. Which usually leads to more fights since very few people actually enjoy listening to someone spend a few hours bragging about their accomplishments about being a terrible person. Still, she isn't completely unbearable. Jillian's the kind of person who you can always count on to bring the questionably legal substances to the party, and have genuine fun at a social gathering. To her friends she can be a great listener, and is generally pretty good at encouragement. She might be convinced of her own greatness, but she usually doesn't achieve by degrading others. Unless she thinks their stupid, in which case it circles back into the fighting. The list of people Jillian thinks are stupid is exceptionally long, and includes just about the entire Republic Senate at the moment.

She's generally a big supporter of freedom, fighting the good fight, and all that stuff. With her family's history she's certainly not about to start fighting on behalf of slavers and other nasty people. Personally she doesn't care much for big corporations, and isn't even really all that fond of. But she's not a recruiting poster or an ideologue. Those kind of people really get on her nerves, and vice versa. She tends not to take a lot very seriously, even with the whole war thing. Generally she's out to enjoy life, not be some grim jerk who's obsesses with war and fighting. In particular art is always a big draw for her, and obviously she really likes flying. Combining the two, she might very well refuse to fly a ship that she considers to be aesthetically unpleasing unless she really has to.

All in all, Jillian is very brash, independent, and self confident. She has few problems expressing herself, although she might express herself in rather crude language and physical action when she really shouldn't. She's definitely not the military or law and order type, and is kind of an asshole, but her heart's in the right place.

Kind of.

Appearance

Jillian is pretty easy to spot in a crowd. Someone much taller than average trying to push their way out of said crowd, and shoving anyone in the way to the ground will do that. Her eyes are blue, and her hair is naturally a dark brown color. She has a tendency to dye it on a whim. Blonde, purple, whatever she feels like at the moment. Usually though it's blonde, a color much lighter than her natural hair. She's also noticeably human, having many of the identifiable traits like a head, hands, feet, skins, and so on. She has a fair bit of muscle, a lean build, and is also easily spotted picking fights with numerous poeple in bars for the hell of it. When not doing official things for the Border Alliance she can usually be seen with sunglasses on. Because A) sunglasses are cool and B) lights are just so bright after a long night of miscellaneous fun.

Roleplay Development

Almost immediately after joining with the Border Alliance, Jillian was off making friends and bombing the crap of people. On a mission to scout Serenno with two other members of the BA, she engaged suspsected Sith forces, and dropped bombs on an airfield, which she'll probably be getting in trouble for here soon enough. She also lost one of her wing mates before escaping with the sensor data they'd been sent to collect. That was her first real taste of the conflict, and losing a wing mate was the first time she'd come that close to being killed. It was a shocking experience, changing her attitude towards the conflict, but it hasn't really done much to alter how she goes about her life.

Her first real ground mission was a lot more fun as it involved disrupting communications on the planet Toprawa, during which she got to fly a septic truck in a comm tower, knocking it down. It was also a lot less action oriented. Between the two missions however the leader of the Border Alliance was assassinated by the Sith which kind of really sucked. After returning from Toprawa, Jillian was approached about stepping up in the organization to fill a part of the vacancy along with another member of the BA. Grabbing the opportunity by the horns, she's currently looking forward to kicking the Sacred Bland of Zits all the way back to Ziost in style.

Jillian Chalu'kanji

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