Zatticus, the Nosaurian Smuggler
Name: Z. Zatticus Blackbark
Occupation and Affiliation: Freighter Captain
Description: Z. Zatticus Blackbark, a nut-brown skinned Nosaurian native of New Plympto, stands at a sturdy four foot five inches (four-six on a good day). Though maybe a little paunchier than he’d prefer, Zatticus is solidly built and strong despite his stature. He doesn’t keep up appearances, to say the least, maintaining a look he’d describe as “scruffy.” Some would call it slovenly. He has a rugged face, and in his younger years may have been an attractive prospect as a mate (to a fellow Nosaurian, that is).
Zatticus keeps a blaster pistol holstered on his hip, a staple in his line of work, and he’s not a half-bad shot to boot. He's more of a pilot than a gunslinger, and although his ship, the heavily modified heavy freighter
Hotspur, isn’t much to look at, it's his most prized possession. As a heavy freighter,
Hotspur isn't built for speed, forcing Zatticus to rely on good old fashioned cleverness and smuggler’s cunning when transporting less-than-legal cargo to supplement his income from legitimate trade and salvage.
Background: Zyberio Zatticus Blackbark was hatched on New Plympto, one of a clutch of eight, and never longed for anything more than to get off-world. Opportunity came knocking with the commencement of the Corellian Conflict, the war of independence that saw the separation of many former Republic worlds from the once again reestablished New Republic and the foundation of the Independent Systems Alliance.
Zatticus enlisted with a New Plympto militia company at the tender age of twelve standard years (young even for a Nosaurian) and fought on a number of fronts throughout the Mid Rim, gaining experience as a mechanic, soldier and even chef while in the field. After several years of service, he invested his wartime earnings into a beaten up junker of a heavy freighter and took to the stars. He named the Baleen-class the
Hotspur after an old fling (not particularly flattering to her, no doubt) and quickly made a career out of both legitimate and illegitimate trade and salvage operations across the galaxy. Over the past thirty-something years plying the galaxy's hyperlanes, Zatticus has worked everywhere from Empress Teta to Tatooine, and has friends and contacts in high and low (but mostly low) places all over.
Today, Zatticus operates out of Daalang, taking advantage of the sector's complicated and confusing web of overlapping jurisdictions as an opportunity to ply his trade as a smuggler and scrapper.
