Alex Qipao19

Alex Qipao19 Loyal NPC --- see "Game Policies"

* "Black Ice"

### Other Attributes

He's a scrawny drokker. Thin, bony face. Stern, serious expression when he is concentrating.

## Clothing, Equipment, & Weapons

### Professional Clothing

TIE Pilot flightsuit with the usual forearm gloves, calf boots, life-support torso armour, and helmet. Black officer uniform (belted tunic and trousers. Kneeboots.

### Other Clothing

* Well, now that he can be deployed planetside, he has! Scout trooper uniform x 2 for himself, and Baille Harte (black undersuits (optional black, long-sleeved under dress for her), white boots with in-built holster, knee and elbow pads, macro-binocular helmets, white torso armour with hollow back module (extra clothing, Garlostar tent, whatever could fit), equipment belts.

* PAC20 visual comlink that adheres to clothing. Glowrods. Sun cream

### Body Armor

TIE Pilot torso armour for his day job; scout trooper armour for planetside ops.

### Secondary Weapon

Sonomax 100 sixty shot sonic rifle. Can operate like a blaster, though invisible shot, or be set to a wide cone of fire. Intended for defence if he crash-lands and multiple hostiles converge on his fighter.

### Martial Arts

Meridean Jitsu (judo) blue belt. Teräs Käsi rank beginner.

## Personality

### Traits

Bit of a snob. Friendly and helpful to people he respects, which while it can include humans and aliens, apparently does not include hick farmboys and Outer Rim-mers. Thinks and plans ahead, and acts as the quartermaster for himself and Baille.

### Habits

Compensates for Lt. Harte's faults, and plans ahead. When ordering equipment and accessories, does it for both of them. Decided that Baille needed someone looking out for her since he saved her life, stopping her from offering Darth Vader some Rafa Delights in gratitude for the Dark Nebulae placement, and regards her as a younger sister.

### Favorite Foods

Melahnese food. Practically anything, in green fire sauce

### Favorite Social Events

Pilots only shore leaves, where he will get wrecked!

### Social & Cultural Likes

Respects people more, the closer to the Core that they come from. Doesn't differentiate between human and alien.

### Social & Cultural Dislikes

Does not think much of hick farmboys and girls, and Outer Rim-mers, till they do something to impress him.

## Education & Skills

### Life Experience Skills

* Two tours aboard the famous Field Secured Container Vessel, Black Ice.

* As a teenager, worked summers at Holowan Corporation, in the admin department. His mother worked for them, and arranged it.

## Character Flaws / Limitations

### Physical Limitation

As a scrawny drokker, he has great reflexes, but in a one-on-one physical fight, he'll be beaten if his Meridean Jitsu doesn't allow him to prevail.

### Mental Limitation

* Has an over-riding fear of Rathtar. He very nearly lost his mother to them.

* If a computer cannot do it, it is impossible.

* Tends to distrust the self-proclaimed feats of hick farmboys and girls.

### Emotional Limitation

Phobia about Rathtar. Part of why he became a pilot; doesn't want to be on the ground with the drokkers.

### Character Critical Failure

Throw him to the ground and body slam him.

Alex and his siblings were born to Madeline and Sherkel Qipao, in 26BBY.

Madeline was a geneticist with the Holowan Corporation, and Sherkel mustered out of the Republic’s Judicial Forces to become a vending machine re-stocker, so obviously, Madeline was the bread winner of the family.

While Alex was still a schoolboy, his mother was involved in one of the infamous “How Could The Same Stang Hit The Same MegaCorp Twice” incidents.

The Holowan Laboratories suffered the infamous Holowan Massacre during the....well, technically, at the end of, the 'Phlutdroid Project', when IG-88 droids gained sentience, went rogue, and either killed their creators on site, or hunted them down across the galaxy.

However, Holowan had already distanced itself from an earlier, eerily similar incident with Holowan Genetics, where that unit had been attempting to make Sarlaccs and related rooted creatures mobile, for military purposes.

One of their creations, the Rathtar, escaped confinement, and went on a rampage through the five storey facility.
The creatures reproduce by fission, self-cloning when they have had too much to eat. The rathtar ate so many employees, that four other creatures had been fissioned out of it, before the site was levelled by a tactical warhead from the local security forces.

That the galaxy at large, believe the Rathtar to be a natural creature of evolution, is a testament to the Holowan cover-up, though there were dirty pants, and squeaky bottoms aplenty, when biologists found traces of sarlacc, etc’, within the rathtar DNA.

Madeline and some others had had enough warning of trouble, to get out to the landspeeder park, and as others around her were caught on tentacles, and snatched back to their doom, she broke into vehicles, discovered they wouldn’t drive, bailed out onto the ferrocrete, until she got to the nineteenth vehicle that she tried, and got the drokk out of dodge.

She declared “19” to be her lucky number, and had it added to the family name.

…Er, what do you mean, this was supposed to be about Alex?

Oh, alright then.

Lived on Ec Pand, where he had an idyllic childhood.

Sometimes his mother would be moved to other locations within the Holowan megacorp, and the family would move with her.

As a teenager, he worked some of the summer holidays at nearest Holowan facility that had an administration department, with the family vacationing nearby, or at least, on the same world.

Alex' first tours as a TIE Pilot, was working escort for the huge Imperial supply ship, *Black Ice*, which was reputed to be four times the size of an Imperial Star Destroyer.

His flight was moved cycled out, and took part in Operation Immediate Rescue, after which, he was assigned to the *Darkest Night*.