Vor'lx Taruk

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Commander Tanuk playing it cool as class clown.

Brief Overview

Vor'lx Taruk serves as a Commander aboard the Bravado and leads a flight group known as Mynock Squadron. Although Lx intended to follow in his father's footsteps and design ships, he became a bounty hunter as a result of his father's murder. He now serves the Rebel Alliance in the hope that the Empire can be defeated and he can find his captured teammate, Binkawa.

Early Years

Vor'lx was born on one of the orbiting cities above Duro to Rhanis (father) and Ella (mother) Taruk. Rhanis Taruk was a successful ship designer, and as a result Vor'lx led a privileged life. As a child, Lx always dreamed of designing ships with his father. To prepare for this profession, Lx studied under his father and at a prestigious engineering academy on Duro. During his time at the academy, Lx excelled at his studies. He was on par for graduating at the top of his class. Lx also led an active social life and was considered by many to be a bit of a class clown. Lx never completed his education at the academy because he dropped out two years before graduation due to the death of his father.

Dark Years

Rhanis Taruk was murdered by a drunk Aqualish when Lx was 20 years old. The murder occurred as Rhanis was coming home from work. Rhanis noticed an Aqualish attempting to mug a Duros women, and he tried to interfere. The Aqualish stabbed Rhanis and ran away. Rhanis had already died by the time Lx arrived at the hospital, and this left Lx bitter for several years. The police on Duro told Lx and his mother that there wasn't enough evidence to pursue the murderer, so Lx decided to take matters into his own hand.

Because his father was a very successful ship designer, Lx and his mother were left with a great deal of money. Lx used this money to help him track down his father's killer. For the first time in his life, Lx was exposed to the seedy underbelly of the galaxy. He quickly learned that money could get you just about anything, including information. Lx learned that the Aqualish who murdered his father was part of a local gang. Instead of taking this information to the police, Lx dealt with the problem on his own.

Using more of his father's money, Lx bought a blaster pistol and tracked down the Aqualish. When the Aqualish was away from the rest of the gang members, Lx shot and killed him. The feelings of closure and relief that Lx had expected never came. Instead he was left still hollow from the death of his father and now a murderer.

Bounty Hunter

Lx soon decided to leave Duro and give up his dream of building ships. He felt that the galaxy was calling him to do something else with his life. Lx realized that the gang on Duro was just a very small part of the crime world that existed throughout the galaxy. With a little more training, perhaps he could do something about it, and get paid for it.

Lx applied to the bounty Hunter Guild at the age of 21, but it wasn't until he was 23 that he got accepted. During those two years, Lx carried out various odd-job tasks to prove to the guild that he was worthy of membership. During this time, Lx met Binkawa. Binkawa was a young Wookie who was also applying for membership into the Guild. Lx and Binkawa wnet on several missions together, and they quickly became friends. they also learned during this time that missions went a lot smoother when two people were working on them. They decided to partner up and split their bounties.

At the age of 23, Lx was officially made a Bounty Hunter. Binkawa was also granted membership to the guild at the same time. The two had managed to save up a small sum of money from the various missions, which was enough to buy them a small junker of a ship. It turned out that Binkawa had a love for ships as well, and as the two made more money, they managed to make their ship into a respectable craft.

Lx and Binkawa tried to stick to bounties posted for guilty individuals. Working together, they managed to be fairly successful. Still affected by the death of his father, Lx showed a darker side when on missions, and had no problems with killing when the situation called for it. Binkawa was sometimes troubled by this fact, but he Lx had once told him what had happened to him. Binkawa decided it was better for Lx to unleash his anger on those who deserved it then to bottle it up and one day explode.

Alliance

After 13 years of bounty hunting, Lx and Binkawa were granted access to some of the more prestigious bounties. One such bounty was placed on an Imperial officer who had crossed Jabba the Hutt. This Imperial officer was causing trouble with some of Jabba's smugglers, going so far as to cause one to dump his cargo. Jabba decided it was time to put an end to this.

Lx and Binkawa quickly took up this bounty, neither one had any love for the Empire. Besides, this bounty would give them some much needed prestige within the guild.

Became Bounty hunter at 23. Bounty hunter for 13 years, so is now 36.