Tamrat

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> ### Aliases
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> Rat of Tams
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> ### Affiliation
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> Garm Bel Iblis' Movement (formerly)
> The Coalition (formerly)
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> ### Occupation
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> Smuggler
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> Physical description
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> ### Species
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> Kyuzo
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> ### Gender
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> Male
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> ### Height
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> 1.8 meters
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> "*This stuff is kind of volatile...*"
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> "*So am I.*"
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> *―* Imperial Cargo Pilot and Tamrat
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**Tamrat** was a Force Sensitive Kyuzo male during the **Galactic Civil War** and **the New Republic era.** Tamrat was a skilled pilot and exceptional thief, as well as a moderately trained lightsaber wielder. He flew a ZH-25 Questor Light Freighter known as the *Rat Trap* and later as the *Plausible Deniability*. Tamrat served as one of the founding members of **the Coalition**, as well as a member of Garm Bel Iblis' movement and Scalpel Squad.

### **The Guardians of the Whills**

At some point prior to the end of the Galactic Civil War, Tamrat came into contact with three Guardians of the Whills: a Nautolan **Mal Ostro**, a Lasat **Vrob Ivelos**, and a Besalisk **Kutwan Ras**. Prior to his time with them, Tamrat owned a cleanly kept ZH-25 Questor Light Freighter named *the Rat Trap*. During his time with the Guardians of the Whills, they relied on Tamrat's natural thieving ability in order to survive and maintain finances. Tamrat did this mostly unwillingly, and came to resent them. This all came to a head, and a massive fight broke out between Tamrat and the trio. Tamrat and Ostro fought, causing Tamrat to slip away, barely alive, in the *Rat Trap* with Ostro's Lightbow, while Ostro managed to force Tamrat to leave behind his Kyuzo War Shield and personalized Kyuzo Petars.

### **The Sa-Nalaor**

Having taken to the way of thievery, as it was all Tamrat knew at this point, he was hired by Reom of IsoTech as a pilot for the mission to investigate the **Sa-Nalaor** in 4 ABY. Tamrat, alongside Mael'vith'larez and Dr. Ectbel, investigated the Sa-Nalaor on the planet of Cholganna, discovering survivors of the long-lost ship, allying with the Yiyar Clan and defending them from the also-investigating Empire. Afterwards, they received payment on Raxus Prime from Reom, and they had to rename the *Rat Trap* to the *Plausible Deniability* to avoid Imperial detection, and then were contacted by a mysterious figure after the job was done.

### **Garm Bel Iblis' Movement**

Tamrat, curious about the job offer this mysterious figure had, agreed to transport Elvithla and Dr. Ectbel to Sullust, where the figure wanted to meet. The figure turned out to be Luke Skywalker, who referred them to Garm Bel Iblis' movement that planned to liberate Kashyyyk and needed additional manpower in exchange for payment. The trio accepted, and Tamrat helped in the freeing of the Force Sensitive Kage woman Kho'ara, before moving onto operating out of the *Aryx*, one of Garm Bel Iblis' six Katana fleet dreadnaughts, joining what became known as Scalpel Squad.

The trio underwent a mission on Kashyyyk's surface, where they attempted to rescue a few dozen Wookiee slaves and an Imperial cargo shuttle with ship fuel. Tamrat successfully absconded with the cargo ship, while the other Scalpel members were attacked by the Wookiee slaves, as the Imperial commander of Kashyyyk activated inhibitor chips within the slaves. Scalpel managed to recover one slave and learn of the inhibitor chips, and Garm Bel Iblis sent them to Hosnian Prime to recover a Kaminoan scientist who had recently defected from the Empire.

On Hosnian Prime, Scalpel recovered **Doa Mus**, the Kaminoan scientist, and also encountered an Echani woman, of whom Tamrat attempted to steal the purse of, and recruited her, not knowing she was actually a **Hand of the Emperor**. Nava Ra, the woman, operated alongside Scalpel Squad in a cursory capacity. While on Hosnian Prime, they also witnessed the announcement of Emperor Palpatine's death.

After Hosnian Prime, Scalpel returned to the Sa-Nalaor to crack its vault, as they needed the cybernetics for a device the scientist Mus was developing for the full-on assault on Kashyyyk. There, they met the Black Talon, and negotiated a deal to gain the assistance of him and his gang against Imperial forces on the planet. As the Black Talon and Scalpel went their separate ways, Scalpel returned to Tamrat's ship, where Tamrat was ambushed by the trio of Guardians of the Whills, and they left him for dead, with Mal Ostro reclaiming his Lightbow, and leaving Tamrat with the Kyuzo War Shield and Petars.

### **The Battle of Kashyyyk**

Returning to Garm Bel Iblis, they prepared for the assault on Ashmead's Lock, the Imperial Commander's compound on Kashyyyk. In preparation, Scalpel cleared out several Imperial anti-aircraft emplacements, and on the way back to the *Plausible Deniability* they encountered the secretive Imperial Sovereign Protectors, which prompted Scalpel to retreat, with their mission successful.

Scalpel, as well as the rest of Garm Bel Iblis' forces, attacked Ashmead's Lock, and Scalpel successfully incapacitated the Imperial commander, who was the former ARC Trooper Fordo, and the device to neutralize the Wookiee inhibitor chips successfully neutralized Fordo's as well, and they recruited him.

### **Soun IV & Capture**

With one of Garm Bel Iblis' allies missing, he sent Scalpel to investigate, on the Outer Rim planet of **Soun IV**. Upon arrival, they find the sole city on the planet abandoned. They investigated the palace, where they found the Queen held hostage by Imperial troopers, and they carried ysalamiri lizards. Tamrat felt as if one of his senses had been cut off. The Queen was executed by the Imperials, and they were ambushed by the Emperor's Hand Are'nara and the Jedi Ezra Bridger, and stunned out by stormtroopers and taken aboard the *Chimaera* to speak with Captain Pellaeon and Bridger. The two offered Scalpel the ability to join Grand Admiral Thrawn, and Tamrat nearly accepted, but decided against it. Scalpel was frozen in carbonite at the behest of Bridger, as the *Plausible Deniability* with Kho'ara and Nava escaped, and both Ectbel and Elvithla had to be kept alive according to Thrawn: one as bait, the other due to their connection to Ascendancy Intelligence.

### **Unsealing of the Hushed Casket**

While in carbonite, Tamrat suffered a vision from the Force, revealing that he was, in fact, a latent Force Sensitive. After 2 years of carbonite, he is freed, along with the rest of Scalpel, by a Jedi strike team consisting of Luke Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Min "Jacen" Zilk, as well as Sabine Wren, Nava Ra, and Kho'ara. The group escaped from the space station over Obroa-skai that Admiral Thrawn had held them in, and retreated to Ossus, the site of Luke's Jedi Academy. There, Scalpel was informed of just how long they'd been incapacitated, and Luke told them that the Jedi Order was too young and underdeveloped to involve themselves, but any of his members that wished to fight Thrawn's Empire were permitted to do so. Scalpel left Ossus with Ahsoka, Sabine, Jacen, Nava, Kho'ara, and two clone troopers: Captain Rex and Commander Cody.

### **The Coalition**

Scalpel and their newly made acquaintances headed to the backwater Outer Rim planet of Raydonia to seek out the rest of Sceptre Squad, a squad that Jacen had been a part of under Garm Bel Iblis' movement. On Raydonia, with the small former pirate gang that Sceptre controlled, and these other allies, Scalpel established **the Coalition**, a group with the sole intent of defeating the Grand Admiral Thrawn outside of New Republic purview.

The first mission Scalpel underwent as a part of the Coalition was one to Myrkr, the planet that the Black Talon had established his gang on. Having good relations with the Black Talon, they attempted to recruit him, only to find that the Black Talon Gang had been split between the Black Talon they knew, and a usurper Talon. On Myrkr, they learned, through Tamrat, that the ysalamiri lizards they saw on Soun IV and the *Chimaera* suppress the Force. After Tamrat infiltrated the hostile controlled Talon base, they determined the location of the true Black Talon, and successfully recruited him and his smugglers, along with several smugglers' ships.

After narrowly escaping Myrkr and some of Thrawn's TIE Defenders, Scalpel calculated a random jump into hyperspace to avoid their trajectory being traced, and discovered one of the Katana Fleet dreadnaughts adrift in space, alone.

After that, Scalpel, alongside Captain Rex, Ahsoka, and Speturra of Sceptre, went to Onderon to investigate and hopefully recruit the insurgents that had begun a drawn out campaign against Imperial guerilla forces on the planet. They discovered that the insurgents, fighting alongside the New Republic, belonged to New Republic Senators Lux Bonteri and Garm Bel Iblis, the latter of whom had been stranded after his fleet was destroyed months earlier in a space battle with Thrawn. Scalpel successfully defeated the Imperial commander on Onderon, allowing the New Republic to successfully liberate the planet, and the Coalition successfully recruited both Lux Bonteri and Garm Bel Iblis, alongside all their men.

During the time on Onderon, Thrawn had learned of the Coalition base on Raydonia, and the Coalition was forced to move. Scalpel went to Serenno in hopes of using the castle of the late Count Dooku, of which Sceptre had raided a few years prior while it was abandoned. However, they found that the Countess of Serenno had begun renovating it and was set on using it again. The Coalition was, however, given permission to set up a base on the Serennian moon of Mantero.

Over the next month, Scalpel would recruit An'tan from Telos IV, a self-taught Jedi, and Captain Halnae Shalla from Belsavis, a former stormtrooper captain who had defected alongside all her men. During this time, however, Admiral Thrawn's advances continued, and the Coalition felt forced to reveal themselves over Thyferra.

### **The Battle of Thyferra**

The entirety of the Coalition was mobilized for the **Battle of Thyferra**, as Thyferra was a source of bacta for the entire galaxy. Tamrat, along with the rest of the Coalition's ground forces, attempted to board the *Chimaera* during the space battle, searching for information for Elvithla to further condemn Thrawn before the Chiss Ascendancy in an attempt to turn the tide. The battle went disastrously, leaving Captain Rex near dead, the Black Talon maimed, and Ahsoka Tano missing in action, presumed dead.

### **Meeting the Chancellor**

With the Coalition revealed to the New Republic, Chancellor Mothma summoned them to Coruscant to ascertain their reason for existence and purpose. Scalpel, alongside Garm Bel Iblis and Lux Bonteri, met with the Chancellor, but their talks were interrupted by an assassination attempt by the second Black Talon and her gang members. Notably, she attempted to grapple into Mothma's office, but was stopped by Tamrat using the Force to detach her grapple hook.

### **Interlude Between Disasters**

After the attempt on Mothma's life, the Coalition doubled down on their preparation, and learned that there was a chance Thrawn had discovered their base on Mantero, and relocated to the junk planet of Raxus Prime. While on Raxus Prime, they discovered the junk Jedi Temple of former Master Kazdan Paratus, who they failed to reason with, and Tamrat dueled with a lightsaber.

In between missions, Tamrat developed his saber skills further with Nava Ra.

Scalpel Team, along with Sabine Wren, headed to the Concord Dawn system to attempt to recruit the Mandalorian Journeyman Protectors, and after a short but intense fight with Imperial forces, they captured Imperial Commander Kimmund, and recruit a large portion of the Protectors. After that, Tamrat and Scalpel headed to Jabiim, looking for one of Garm Bel Iblis' dreadnaughts.

### **The Bespin Disaster**

Scalpel headed to Bespin to recruit the Jedi General Rahm Kota, who was fighting to liberate Cloud City alongside Lando Calrissian. There, they encountered the Hand Are'nara, and they fought her in combat, before she escaped and ordered the fusion bombing of Bespin. The bombs ignited the atmosphere, destroying Bespin and its floating cities, with Scalpel, General Kota, Calrissian, and their men, barely escaping.

### **One Final Effort**

After Bespin, Scalpel went to Naboo at the behest of Fulcrum, secretly Ezra Bridger, and fought Captain Pellaeon's forces in the **Battle of Otoh Gunga**. With the Imperials defeated and Ezra Bridger defected as well as Ahsoka Tano rescued, the Gungans agreed to fight with the Coalition.

Scalpel then went to Karkaris to recruit Karkarodons, before finally journeying into the Chiss Ascendancy to enact Elvithla's plan.

Tamrat then partook in the **Battle of Nirauan**, where he rode a Hailfire droid that he had purchased into battle against Imperial armor.

### **Aftermath**

After Thrawn's capture, Tamrat returned to smuggling and thievery, now enhanced by the Force and his lightsaber.