BIOGRAPHY
NAME: Raym Go'de
Alias: Val Katarn
AGE: 33
SPECIES: Human
FACTION: Independent
JOB(S): Bounty Hunter
HEIGHT: 5'10
WEIGHT: 176 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Dark brown
FORCE SENSITIVE: No
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Raym Go'de was born the son of Vasto Go'de (a hunter/tracker) and Mari Go'de (a mechanic) in the city of Rwookrrorro. His father had made a living as a safari guide and would take Raym on trips to the forest floor when he was growing up, teaching him how to navigate and live off the land. At a young age Raym was able to track and stalk as well as some of the wookie hunters and this led to him helping his dad on his safari tours. Whenever the hunting season would end, Raym would spend some time with Mari working on all sorts of starships and meeting people from all reaches of the galaxy. After sometime he would know his way around most civilian class vessel and even picked up some languages to better communicate with travelers. At the age of nineteen, Raym would later become a guide, and on one of his tours he would meet a ranger veteran by the name of Jupo Lypso with his daughter Juna. During their trip Raym and Juna had grown close, bonding over their love of nature and developing feelings for one another. As the sun was setting the group would head back, Jupo would see him as a promising recruit for the rangers and that he could put in a good word for him. The entire trip didn't yield much in the way of game, but it gave Raym a desire to travel the stars with Juna and to join the rangers.
After taking a shuttle off world, Raym made his way to a recruiting station and was shipped off to training. After learning things such as tactics, piloting, and forms of cqc. Raym had been dead set on making it to top of his class, but had an obstacle in the form of Cale Onsa. He had managed to best Cale in marksmanship and survival, while Cale could fly circles around him and manages to pin Raym more times than he'd like in H2H. As their training was close to ending, the rivals had been assigned to the same squad in their final training exercise. They initially butted heads with one another wanting to be the leader, but as the exercise continued they ended up being able to talk to one another about their upbringings and found they had more in common than they knew. Having become fast friends they put the skills they had together and led their squad to victory. Though Cale had managed to graduate top of his class, Raym still felt a sense of pride for his friend and was happy that he'd be able to serve beside him.
After graduating, Raym was given leave and he had missed his dear Juna so much. Before enlisting they had been able to communicate via holoprojector. She would also come to Kashyyyk to visit Raym and their love for one another had continued to blossom. Months before Raym had shipped out, Jupo and Juna came to visit Raym and see him before he was off to training. In this time Raym had wanted to aak him if he would give him his blessing to marry Juna. He gave the young man a smile and said yes, but that he'd have to be a Ranger. And now a year later, he had fulfilled that promise and then he and Juna finally wed. The two lovers had their honeymoon on the beaches of Sesid, where they had enjoyed each other's company causing their love blossom in a whole new light. After they had returned to Kashyyyk, the two had broke the news to their parents that they were to be grandparents. After some months had passed their beautiful daughter, Marni Go'de, was born and the two led a good life. As Raym went off on his patrols he knew he would have his loving family waiting at the spaceport for his shuttle to land.
Fast forward six years, the young and naïve Raym had grown to become Sgt. Go'de, a ranger with multiple big arrests under his belt. He and Cale had been sent to fueling ship that had its distress signal triggered. Once they arrived to the coordinates they saw many vessels around the ship and had went closer. After some dogfighting and a less than stellar landing, they entered the ship but had been confronted by the pirate gang leader via intercom. He was making the usual demand for them to leave or the hostages get hurt. Raym and Cale had discussed their options and decided to rescue the hostages. After fighting their way through pirates and thugs, the duo finally made it to the bridge of the ship. "Ah boss its good to see you brought the one who was giving us trouble." the rodian said in Cale's direction. Before Raym could turn to ask what he meant he felt the heat of a blaster bolt in his side and dropped to the floor, blacking out. When he came to the ship was making a crash course towards a nearby asteroid. He had only a couple of minutes to think before finding a lone escape pod and had escaped. He was floating through space with only a few rations dor what seemed like ages. He had deployed the pod's distress signal for a few days and nothing else but black and stars were what Raym could see out his windows. As he made peace with the force and was prepared to die, he feels his pod being pulled in by a tractor beam. To his luck he had ran into a Ranger patrol and was taken back to a nearby station to make his report on Cale and the pirates. After giving this report he was promoted to lieutenant and given the lead on the case to bring in Cale.
An exhausted Raym was in the middle of taking a transport back to his home on Kashyyyk and see Juna. As he was closing in the tried to use the holoprojector but got no response, causing worry to grow in him. As his transport landed he took off in a sprint towards his home. Everything looked as ordinary as any other day, he opened the soor with a blaster drawn as he saw flipped over furniture upon entry. He had gone through room from room, and when he went to the main room where his daughter and wife should be, he broke down dropping to his knees at the sight he saw. He saw no sign of Marni and sees a figure lying on the other side of the bed. And there she was... laying dead on the floor... was his beloved wife. He had gone to her lifeless form and held her tightly for a moment, tears welling up in his eyes. As he looked over Juna, he notices something shining in her hand. He goes to see what it was and his sorrow turned into a blinding rage, in his hands was Cale's badge. This was the final nail in the coffin, now Raym knew what he had to do. Find his daughter at all costs. As for what to do with Cale? He wasn't bringing him in, that trash deserved justice the old fashioned way, with a blaster bolt between his eyes.
On his one man quest to find Cale, Raym had adopted more "forceful tactics." He was getting obsessive with his investigation and was hurting the public image of the sector's rangers so before he could tarnish their reputation any further he was brought before the chief. There the chief had been dishonorably discharged him and had sent him off to prison for a 4 year sentence. This would put him face to face with many criminals that he was involved with putting them in there, leaving him to fight to survive on an almost everyday basis. The only one who didn't try to take a shot at the former ranger was his cell mate, Raggo Dri. The twi'lek used his charm and connections to the outside underworld to keep him safe, in exchange for favors and some of his rations. After his release from prison, Raym had moved to Nar Shadda to look for any leads on Cale and Marni. Over the few months that had passed and found no leads, but is found by a certain twi'lek, Raggo. Raggo informed Raym of talk about a group that had found him and are planning on taking him out, a hit put out by a pirate from Black Sun. He took the warning at face value and didn't think anything of it until he was hospitalized from an explosion in his apartment. After healing from his wounds Raym asked Raggo for a favor, helping him to "die." After a few months Raym Go'de had died. In the coming months there was talk of an upstart bounty hunter that had started making a name for himself, this hunter's name was Val Katarn. Over the past 2 years Val had taken down some big names, and kept in touch with Raggo, who feeds him information needed for any acquisitions that are from the 5 syndicates in exchange for clearing out any competion for him.
PERSONALITY
PRACTICAL SKILLS
■■■■■ Slicing | ■■■■■ Survival | ■■■■■ Tracking |
■■■■■ Hunting | ■■■■■ Piloting | ■■■■■ Invest. |
COMBAT SKILLS
■■■■■ Blasters | ■■■■■ Rifles | ■■■■■ Misc. |
■■■■■ Demo. | ■■■■■ H2H | ■■■■■ Daggers |
EDUCATION
■■■■■ Languages | ■■■■■ Engineering | ■■■■■ Droidspeak |
■■■■■ Tactics | ■■■■■ Politics | ■■■■■ Espionage |
Raym is a gruff, cynical man holding an overall bleak outlook on life. This is a consequence from the downward spiral he was put into after suffering from the loss of Juna and Marni and almost dying multiple times in prison. After adopting his persona he had grown vindictive, wanting nothing other than to hunt down acquisitions and gaining resources for his ultimate goal, finding Cale, becoming self-centered and anti-social, indifferent to the suffering of others who would get in his way when he's on the hunt. After picking up his traveling companion and partner BA-10, he has learned to lower his guard a bit when not acting as Val. He had originally adopted this persona to keep himself from getting attached to others, just to have them taken from him or be ready to stab him in the back. He usually suffers from nightmares from his past, Cale's betrayal, Juna's death, and the hell he put up in prison had really damaged him. The closed helm of Val goes more than to maintain his anonymity, but to help maintain the facade to keep others away.
LEGACY
EQUIPMENT
* His Armor
* His Utility Belt
Weapon
* A twin set of DG-34 Peacemaker Heavy Blaster Pistols
* BM-792 ZOK-10 HUNTING RIFLE
* BM-548 Blaster Rifle modified with Ascension Gun Attachment
Ship
* "The Night-Rider" a YT-2400 Light Freighter
Modifications:
* Military-Grade Maneuvering Jets
* Starship Brig Modification
* Thrust De-Limiter
* Hyperdrive De-Limiter
Misc.
* Comlink (implemented into his helmet)
* Wrist Link (linked to his armor functions)
* Personav
* SB-17 Combat Fusioncutter
Droid(s)
* BA-10 Astromech Droid equipped with a S-40 Stun Pistol
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