Name: Tanda Sal
Race: Human, Corellian
Age: 20
Homeworld: Corellia
Height: 5'5''
Weight: 121 lbs
Courageous ● Naive ● Innovative ● Loyal ● Perfectionist
Tanda Sal, despite her stature, is a brash young woman. She is fast-talking, impish, and naive to the world around her. While she is courageous and (attempts to be) heroic in reality Tanda Sal likes the emotional intelligence to understand the morally grey that exists in the world. Tanda's stubborn desire to consume as much knowledge as she can (particularly about machinery) has made her quite the perfectionist. This need to do everything correctly has made her patient, and has allowed her a tool-set necessary to make rather impressive innovations in technology (at least given her age). However with that need to do things perfectly she tends to hold herself and others to unrealistic standards.
While she doesn't fully understand the state of the galaxy she does understand the role she wants to serve in it. She desires to help those where she can, but often times fails to understand her limitations. This can cause her to act foolishly especially in an attempt to help another. Her heroics aren't completely altruistic. Subconsciously, Tanda desires more than anything to prove to her father, and perhaps herself, wrong about the fate of the galaxy.
Fears:-Empire (by extension those allied with them)
-Losing her father
-Jedi
-Being Helpless
Weapons and Equipment:-C-M Fragstorm Heavy Shotgun
-Blaster pistol
-Re-purposed R3-series astromech droid named Lira
Strengths:
- Mechanistic protege - Tanda has spent her life devoted to studying machinery and working to improve it. Nothing pleases her more than the smell of a freshly drawn set of schematics. Her perfectionist nature clearly shines through here. While her expertise are in ship engineering she is also capable in robotics and weapon modification.
- Courageous- For the innocent and her loved ones Tanda is willing to do most anything. This includes endangering her well-being. This isn't to say she fears nothing because she absolutely does. However, in the face of such fear she will stand alongside her allies.
- Durable & Nimble- For someone who isn't force sensitive Tanda has a knack for enduring punishment. Her small and lithe frame oft allow her to escape (through shafts, pipes, sewers, etc.) and she is quite the slippery catch. Her endurance has its limits of course, but she has a resiliency about her that mark her as someone with potential.
Weaknesses:
- Unlucky- Despite her desire to work efficiently she is rather clumsy, and has terrible luck.
- Only Human- At the end of the day Tanda isn't winning any awards for her skill in the force or in combat. She has a rudimentary understanding of combat that she picked up from her father, and isn't at all force sensitive. She is strong willed which might help make her resistant to temptation, but is vulnerable to abilities in the arsenal of most Sith or Jedi.
Tanda was born to Var Sal and Lira Wain who both served as Bravo Squad N1 starfighters during the Invasion of Naboo, and before that as security on the same planet. The two had grown close mostly in their mutual distaste for the constraints of bureaucracy which they felt did little to help the common people. After years of service the two fell in love, and some time after the invasion decided to settle on Corellia in hopes of having a child though they had yet to wed. Tanda would be born in the year 24 BBY.
Just two years later rising tensions regarding corruption in the Galactic Republic would lead to separatist succession from the republic. Sympathetic to the ideals espoused by Count Dooku and more radical thinkers regarding corruption in the Galactic Senate Lira found herself unable to betray her ideals in favor of a domestic life. Despite protest from her beloved Var (who argued that she was running away from motherhood out of fear), she would join the Separatists. Tormented by the idea of Lira fighting at war Var also joined the movement; though sought roles that demanded far less time field-work. Moving from system to system Tanda grew up with caretakers and her father. She relished the chances she got to see her mother who loved telling her stories of battle and grandeur.
It would be in 19 BBY that tragedy would strike. Nearing the end of the Clone Wars Lira would be killed in battle. Already disillusioned with the cause, and unable to process this grief in a healthy way Var wanted out. He saw the tides turning in favor of the Republic, and wanted to keep Tanda safe. He fled the Separatists opting to be labeled a traitor.
Var couldn't have imagined how little he knew. Order 66 completely flipped everything he had thought about the war on its head. It didn't matter to whom, the Separatists or the Empire, he was still a traitor. He needed to keep Tanda safe from harm; something he'd failed to do for Lira. The two spent years bouncing around the Outer Rim all the while Var telling cautionary tales of the Jedi and the Sith; of the world outside of wherever they called home.
