Five Syndicates Preef Callo

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Name:Preef Callo
Age:73 Galactic Standard Years
Faction:Five Syndicates (formerly)
Rank[Rank 4] Crymorah Boss (formerly)
Force Sensitive:No

PREEF CALLO

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BIOGRAPHY
Preef was orphaned in a home robbery when he was just eight years old. The Nar Shaddaa orphanage was a living hell and it wasn't a coincidence a lot of those kids ended up working for the Hutts. So too did Preef get an early education in pickpocketing and it almost got him killed trying to steal from a Twi'lek bounty hunter.

The hunter admired the young Rodian's reckless courage and took him under his wing. For the next five years they wandered the galaxy in search of bounties, where he taught Preef the way of the blaster and for a few credits at a time brought him along to acquisitions.

It was a rough life and not without dangers. The Twi'lek trusted more in his own skills than in the protection of a guild and that proved to be his downfall. What was supposed to be an easy acquisition turned into a hellish blasterfight between hunters. Preef found the Twi'lek two days later on the plains, his Lekku's torn off and his corpse baking in the sun.

He never really managed to recover from that loss and filled with grief, loneliness and a desire to shoot something, robbed his first homestead. Six years later and he still hasn't moved on as he travels the Outer Rim, one small robbery at a time. Unfortunately his independent spree suddenly came to an end when the Crimson Dawn proclaimed that it owned him, having bought the young rodian in absentia from the Hutt Clan he ran away from eleven years ago.

Preef had somewhat of a rocky start when he got back to Nar Shaddaa. Trying in vain to form a posse around a large slave-trading Trianni named Kholvar Varaxes, the young rodian saw himself often abandoned whenever Kholvar went offworld. Alone he didn't do so well and often got drunk on sewer-riped Nal Hutta moonshine until Marissa Hesse, a member of the Black Sun, approached him for a job as gunslinger in a casino robbery on Canto Bight.

With just the two of them, Preef and Marissa, robbed a Canto Bight casino and got away not only unscathed, but with a decent haul and a reputation boost. Not able to completely abandon his adoration for Kholvar, Preef quickly relapsed into his moonshine addiction once he realized the big cat had still not returned to him and in one of his many bad-remembered nights out got hold of a bounty fod. Trying to rebound, he decided to hunt down the two wanted men (both members of the Black Sun) with the help of the protocol droid V3PO in order to join the Bounty Hunter's Guild. The idea of becoming a bounty hunter, much like the Twi'lek that had rescued him from the Shaddaa gutters a decade ago, felt a bit like a homecoming that the rodian readily gave into.

Ofcourse, that didn't meant he was suddenly free of the Crimson Dawn. After all, they literally owned him. In order to keep paying his dues, Preef once again paired up with Marissa Hesse to break a high-up confident of the Five Syndicates out of a prison ship belonging to the Free Worlds Alliance. They were hardly done when the four of the five syndicates banded together against the Pykes and send both Preef and Marissa to Kessel. Wars in the underworld were fought differently than between worlds or government, however, and three weeks later there was once again peace. The conflict was costing all parties too much money for them to continue.

After that it was quiet for a bit. Preef had cemented a reputation in the Outer Rim and acquired a small fortune in credits. The latter he spend on a small prefab ranch (and some cattle) on the Mid Rim world of Takodana. It became his refuge and a place where he learned to reflect on the life he's lead. He was twenty-one when he was forced to join the Crimson Dawn, penniless and filled with regret and an unsatisfied desire for revenge, and now, three years later at twenty-four, he was definitely changing.

Some time later Marissa and Preef decided it was time for them to leave the umbrella of the Five Syndicates. More specifically: the growing working relationship between the syndicates and the reemerging Sith Order and "Sith Empire" made even the slightest association with the syndicates a painful risk. To fund their retirement, or rather their future business ventures, they started robbing from the Five Syndicates and did so with impunity. No one dared to go after them while Marissa's wits and Preef's blaster were together. Marissa was per chance arrested by the Sector Rangers in the Core, but before they knew who they were dealing with the Sith attacked Coruscant and Preef used the chaos to not only help Marissa escape, but also raid the Sector Ranger's evidence vault.

After the spree of armed robbery Preef retreated to the Tasthor Sector and his ranch on Takodana. He had enough credits to retire, it's just... well, he wasn't the retiring age just yet. Then the winds changed and an opportunity arose for him to become part of the Crymorah Syndicate in a place where their work could remain under the radar of the Sith and the risks they brought with them.

Eriadu was relatively close to Takodana and Preef went right to work securing the Eriadu underworld for Marissa and in the name of the Zaa Fenn Crime Family, earning himself the rank of Vanguard within the Five Syndicates and quite the bounty on his head. They also had to make a choice: Either partner up with the Sith Order to secure their powerbase on Eriadu or try to hack at it alone and consider the Sith a potential enemy... they chose the former and that's how Preef eventually ended up defending Sullust from a Jedi attack to free Trys Aran.

The Xaa Hafven did nothing to curb the Zaa Fenn's meteoric rise, so Preef pushed it even further and directly attacked the ruling family of the Crymorah Syndicate. Eventually he found his chance and personally slew the Crymorah Boss Gori Xaa Hafven, crowning himself the boss of the Crymorah Syndicate.

While it was difficult for the Rodian to adjust to being a kingpin and fulfilling a more behind-the-scenes role in the galactic underworld, he didn't exactly sit still. Under Preef's leadership the Crymorah Syndicate rose to be arguably the most influential and powerful member of the Five Syndicates. He arranged for a medical company, MorataCorp, to sell Crymorah spice inside the Core through their legal dispensaries. Attempting to prove themselves to the now legendary gunslinger, scoundrels actually took over the Lower Five Gangs of the Coruscant Underworld and arranged for a successful cover-up of a senator's misdeeds. It all eventually culminated in an attack on Nar Shaddaa, where the Crymorah Syndicate took control of the profitable Smuggler's Moon from the Hutt Cartel.

There was no one, no other syndicate, that seemed to be able or daring enough to stand in Preef's way. He had become a living legend and all but dared the other syndicates to move against him.. and if they didn't? Well, renaming it all to "Preef's Syndicates' didn't sound too bad to him.

Sure that nothing could touch him, Preef assembled a crew of mercenaries he named the Shaddaa Legends and together they assaulted the palace of Durr the Hutt. Durr was responsible for not just the cultivation of the AMS virus but also its initial spread throughout syndicate space. It was time the Hutt Cartel truly paid for the horrible crimes they inflicted on the families of the worlds that were lorded over by them and Preef was determined to see the entire species wiped out from the galaxy.

And then The Eternal died and the rodian knew things would quickly change. He invited the new leader of the Sith Order to the Zaa Fenn's penthouse on Eriadu, but before he could get to discuss actual terms with Darth Andruil, she attacked him with that awful power in the Force. Preef held his own, fighting her off in the air between the skyscrapers that made Eriadu's skyline, but after the short skirmish the conclusion was an obvious one. The Sith Order -calling itself an Empire now- had decided to wage a war against him and the Five Syndicates he represented.

Preef Callo was a gunslinger of legendary skill and status, but even he knew he couldn't win against the Sith Lords that wielded an invisible power that he didn't understand. A decision had to be made and it was simpler than he would've thought it beforehand: He faked his own death. Pretending to have died at the hands of this self-proclaimed Empress of the Sith Empire, Preef fled Eriadu and retreated to the Belching Frog Ranch on Takodana.

There he would try to live out his days in peace as a rancher of Bantha.

Almost two decades later the news of the Zaa Fenn's demise and the splintering of the Five Syndicates reached the old rodian on his Belching Frog Ranch. He had been a rancher for two decades. Had married and raised a son, Jon. Life had been spartan and the hard work of herding bantha had both worn him down and made him stronger, more focused and surprisingly also more well-read.

His son had left the ranch six years ago with Preef's peacemaker and joined the Sector Rangers to make up for his father's misdeeds. Three years later he returned. The galaxy he had found to be rotten. More rotten than he could ever believe his father to be. Jon visited to hug his mother, return the peacemaker to his father and announce that he would take over from the old Shistavanen ranger in the Takodana capital of Andui. He had grown up. Didn't want anything to do with his father's blaster and made a condition that broke his old man's heart.

He would stay on Takodana, preserve Law and Justice and visit his mother often. But only on the condition that the infamous Preef Callo, whose criminal faction had been decimated, whose syndicate was responsible for atrocious crimes that almost rivaled that of the Sith Empire, would leave Takodana and never return.

That is how the old gunslinger once again roamed the Outer Rim.


POSSESSIONS


ROLEPLAYS

As Five Syndicate Scoundrel [1]
As Five Syndicate Enforcer [2]
As Five Syndicates Vanguard [3]
As Crymorah Syndicate Boss [4]

As old gunslinger [4]
Old Friends [Finished]
Long Shadows [Finished]
The Great Clearance [Finished]
Last Minute Audiences [Finished]
Harrowing Haro [Finished]
Always Family [Finished]
The Plan Comes Together [Finished]
Handover [Finished]
Scum and Villainy [Finished]
The Hungering Prince [Finished]
The Rodian and the Mando [Finished]
Jedi Bargain Bin Sale [Finished]
The Rodian and the Padawan [Finished]
Crime Watch News VI [HoloNet Broadcast]
The P-Team [Finished]
The Gunman, The Jedi and the Credits [Finished]
Lucrative Business [Finished]
Retaking of Kessel [Invasion]
The Gontra Will Rise Again [Finished]
Dangerous Games [Finished]
The Leash [Finished]
Dona-done! [Finished]
Redemption [Finished]
Black Sun Down [Mission Pack]
Exalted Redemption [Ongoing]

 
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