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Early years
Born in year -25, just before the clone wars started! Appan grew up on the family run Nerf farm, of which both parents ran the family venture. It was a small contributed from their Nurf herds to the galaxy wide Nurf Burgers chain. To which Appan's elder brother followed their parents into the family business. During his school years Appan's attitude to learning was rather lacking, he‘d been much more interested in sports and girls and later, partying. And once he could afford and pilot one, swoop bikes. One such girl was Ishta Marsha of Alderaan, a seasons younger than Appan. They had been at college together, Ishta had been the head cheerleader for the Shockball team, Appan had been one of the forward players for the team. But their relationship did not start until Appan had a swoop bike accident which took him out of the team for two seasons. They were an on and off couple through out their college and Aldera University, until they married in -Y7 D124, aged just 17. But their career choices took them in entirely different directions. Appan pursued his new interests of history, while Ishta entered services as a lawyer! From there on their relationship became strained, and distant due to Appan leaving Alderaan to study with the Alderaanian Cultural Exchange (ACE). Finally their relationship was all but non-existence so they split up and went their separate ways.
Wandering years
Appan last two seasons of University he turned his attention to academics, mainly history, the arts and religions. He was to be among a small group of students who studied the ruins of Dantooine, in which he became fascinated with the Jedi Order. He was to learn all that he could from the Aldera University about them, requesting on numerous occasions to the Jedi Order to be allowed to enter their archives. Been denied this he, over the years visit museums, libraries, as well as from second/third hand experiences of the Jedi around the galaxy. Seeing that not all sentient beings in the galaxy consider the Jedi as a good force! He was to store these interviews and gathered information of the Jedi history on numerous recording devices. After leaving the University he joined the Alderaanian Culture Exchange scheme, which was for University leavers. Appan travelled to many worlds studying their cultures, and history, as well as joining several archaeological digs. Two major visits, where his first to Cathar, in which he became involved with a female Cathar, who’s father challenged Appan to the ritual “Blood Hunt!” Only aged nineteen, he was thrust into a Kiltik nest with only a primitive weapon, that was curved, two handed, having a set of two blades on each side. During which he sustained several injuries and broken bones, most visible is the scare above his right eye. Most of all he was to gain the respect of the Cathar people, being one of very few outsiders to partake in the ritual. For this, and on returning home to Alderaan he was cautioned! Returning to his old Swoop bike stomping grounds and his old friends to party and generally slide back to his ’boy racer’ ways. Rekindled his vices, alcohol, cigars, Parties and women! It was then he meet Leia a exotic dancer from Courscant, who‘d travelled to Alderaan to change her life!
At the age of twenty-one he and Leia travelled to Kashyyyk to study the Wookiee culture, while under Professor Jamsha Raytor. Jamsha a fellow Alderaanian, renowned archaeologist and Wookiee specialist. Aged in her mid 50's with a short bob 'white' hair style. While there, Appan studied their social structures and their love of technology working in harmony with nature, which rubbed off on him. He and the Professor stayed with the Wookiee family of Chai'luff for a year and a half which Leia stayed with the Vrieska clan, which was a smaller unit of the same family. Appan was to enjoyed studying their language known as Shyriiwook, even though he did not completely master it! During this time he became great friends with the youngest member of the family Chai'luff (Youngest, but still older that Appan, as the Wookiee was 45). His full name was Kollartin Chai'luff, and he helped Appan to learn the complex language as best that his humanoid throat would allow. As the end of Appan, Leia and Jamsha visit came, the family elder Nosscottaa was to present Appan with a traditional Bowcaster. In each case, they are crafted with the user in mind, but this one was made for Nosscottaa’s own grandfather! Thus its energy array is encased in a carved wood body from the great Wroshyr trees of Kashyyyk. For Appan to used it, it was adapted, else the fact that it was made with a Wookiee in mind, Appan would have never be able to ‘cock’ it!
Again they returned to Alderaan, this time soon to be parents, coursing his personal studies of the Jedi waned, they needed to start working to pay their way. At the city of Nc’Taan while Appan found some work as a bouncer and helping at a speed repair shop. Later getting a well paid job at the spaceport maintaining small freighters to progress to CR-70 or CR-90’s. Leia returned to her prior career as a exotic dancer, although still married to Ishta (As their marriage didn’t produce children and they had not cohabited for more that a year and a half, it was considered, by galactic law to be a annulment), Appan married Leia in -Y5 D310. They were give the chance in Y0 to travel to Kamino through ACE, which the did with their tree year old son. While Leia and their son returned to Alderaan Appan went on to the second part of the package, to Geonosis before returning to Alderaan, and back to his spaceport job.
Taste for the Bounty
On his return during the later part of Y0 he was called upon for a new ‘job’, that needed his ‘expertise’ in Shyriiwook the Wookiee language and his weapons experience with shooting on the farm and his skills with melee weapons, plus martial arts. Been given some old body armour, and told to arm himself. He later learned that he was to be apart of a mercenary/bounty hunting team of five sentient beings. The mark was a Barabel, a extremely dangerous one at that. Who was working with a mercenary group that was run by Wookiees! The group itself was not under suspicion, but it was the Barabel’s involvement with killings and credit stealing from large factions. A year before the team was formed, two bounty hunters had gone after him alone, neither returned and were later found dead by the team! It was this that gave Appan a taste for bounty hunting!
Fitting in
Some years passed in which Appan, after cut backs at the spaceport took on several more bounties/ mercenary job’s and private investigations before seeing an advert, to join the Falleen Federation, which he did so in Y8 D278. Once becoming a Cadet in the Falleen Navel, rising quickly through the ranks to the position he is today (Lieutenant Commander). Although he still likes to frequent the local bars while on shore leave. During Y10 D7 been owed shore-leave he decided to pick up his newly acquired ship, the 'Star Curve' an YT-1300 (Note: He has since sold on) that was out in wild space. But on his return, he received an urgent distressed communiqué from his old Cathar sweet heart, Winnie Ranca. He was to aid her escape from a slave merchant Lord Slaiss. In his attempted rescue he was able to free several slaves from Lord Slaiss, getting them aboard the Star Curve. While Winnie took ten others on Slaiss's favourite vessel, the Dicksy! An Ubrikkian Luxury Space Yacht. While the Star Curve escaped, the Dicksy was not to get far, having no one with experience of using ships weapons they were sitting ducks. Slaiss's had ordered capture and return or destroy, of which his men went for the latter.
Appan returned to Falleen space, ship in desperate need of repair and morning the loss of a very close friend! It coursed his drinking habits to spiral out of control, getting him into several fights. Landing him in the cooler several times, until he was ejected from the Falleen Navy and went into civil survive, working for the Department of Engineering. Not only did it affect his working life but his family life too. Wife Leia noticed the difference in Appan during the month’s that followed after Winnie’s death, due to two further death in the family, his father and cousin. He became distant form her and the boy’s while looking for work outside of the Navy. While here he was able to clear his head and get control of his life again after nine months. During this time rehabilitate himself, he picks up some old interests, tinkering with ships, weapons, archaeology and frequenting
drinking establishments it never seemed to be enough.
The Trial
Things were to all change in Y10 D225, while still working for the DoE. Appan work and lived away from his home on Falleen, and away from his young family. Although he was on the road to recovering from his grief, he still frequented the tavern that was on board the Iktotch space station. At this tavern he found comfort in Noami Faytonni a orange Twi’lek. Noami was an old friend of Leia’s, she drifted from her about the time that Appan and Leia became an item. Noami lived and worked on Iktotch’s space station as a liaison officer. Although still keeping close with his family Appan’s career kept him in the Iktotch system, much to Leia’s annoyance. Having already threatened to divorce him soon before their third son’s birth! A threat that never saw the light of day as Leia died on D251 in Y10. At first, it was thought that Appan had killed her! As her untimely death came about during one of Appan’s shore leaves, he was accused of stabbing her by neighbours. But, after a large scale investigation, Appan was cleared, CCTV evidence showed that Appan had been chasing the assailant, who’d escaped. Finger prints on the knife were not Appan’s and that the finger prints were from a know criminal. Her knife wounds allow would not have killed her outright, unfortunately Leia had underlining heart issues, dieing from a major heart attack on route to the hospital.
With three children to look after and a engineering career in hand, Appan sort advices from not a expected source. His first wife, Ishta, who almost immediately divorced Appan claiming that she’d never filed for divorce as she had no clue to whether he was alive or dead! Unexpectedly Ishta stood as Appan’s lawyer, and defended him in court, she even brought Appan a psychiatric specialist for his well being. Seeming to be well on the road to recovery, Appan returned to duty, taking control of his and his children’s lives.
After the Trial
Taking time out from his duties for the FF Appan submerged himself in several bounties, and on a chance meeting with several contacts he was to uncover the location of Leia’s killer. He returned to duty with the FF in a sporadic way, until he decided to retire for the Falleen Navy and return to his part time bounty hunting taking on a range of job’s from private body guard, private investigator, search and rescue pilot, an law enforcer, mercenary and of course, Bounty Hunter. In time he was to locate his old friends killer through slave ringer Tig Reggen, one of Lord Slaiss’s contact. Appan imprisoned Tig at his own penitentiary in the Lexrol system, before going after Slaiss. Who now also resides in the same penitentiary.
