New Year, New Me – Day 3

Stase Trebal – Star Wars Edge of the Empire – Colonist (Marshal)/Bounty Hunter (Skip Tracer)

Stase Trebal was born on the Outer Rim on a small planet with a relatively established population. Started as a colonization effort during the Republic, it was small enough and far enough out of the way that it avoided attracting the attention of whatever government was currently in power. The citizens of the planet were largely self-sufficient with a profitable mining venture that brought most of the material wealth into the governor’s coffers.

Stase was the nephew of the sheriff of one of the larger towns on the planet and he knew from an early age that he wanted to take the job from him when he retired. The young boy grew up with a powerful sense of justice and spent as much of his time as he could at his uncle’s office watching him work and just absorbing everything that he could about the way he did the job. He eventually did take over and presided over the town for several years until the McCullen Gang decided to use the planet as a hideaway.

The McCullen Gang were ruthless gangsters and criminals wanted in several systems for a number of different crimes, chief among them being the murder of an Imperial Governor. Not wanting to bring the attention of the Empire to his planet, Stase put together a posse and went after the gang, raiding their hideout. The firefight that resulted was brutal, but Stase managed to capture or kill several members of the gang. McCullen himself escaped, but not before he put a blaster bolt in Stase’s brother-in-law.

For the next several months Stase simmered with resentment about the results of the raid. He turned over the gang members he captured to Imperial authorities, but focused on the fact that McCullen was still out there with laser focus.

He knew what he needed to do.

He promoted his deputy to the office of sheriff, cashed out his retirement accounts, and went after McCullen. He’s managed some promising leads, but the gangster always seems to be several steps ahead of him. He’s learned a lot about how the criminals think and how to track them, often taking small local contracts to keep his ship fueled and fill his coffers enough to continue his search for McCullen.

I’ve loved both of these specializations since they were both introduced in Far Horizons and No Disintegrations respectively and love the way that they synergize with each other to create a hard boiled film noir type of investigator that can still handle himself in a firefight. They feel like they were made to complement each other.