Kyle Veers

Kyle Veers was born in 34 BBY in Emita on the planet of Chandrila in the Bormea Sector of the Core Worlds. His father, Tanis, was a spacecraft mechanic working at the spaceport in Emita. His mother, Hannah, kept house.  They are still alive.  Kyle keeps contact with them, but rarely since Order 66 as he realises how much of a target they would be if the Empire ever knew he still lived.

Jedi Knight Zada Beili took Kyle to Coruscant, as a 3-year-old child, in 31 BBY, to the Jedi Academy. He spent the next 9 years as a Jedi Youngling.  Mostly he was a withdrawn and indifferent student except when it came to piloting; he loved to fly!  When he was 12, in 22 BBY, he was assigned as a Padawan Learner to Master Kit Fisto, in an effort to draw him out. It was felt that Master Fisto's laid-back manner might be enough of a change from the rigours of the Academy, to draw Kyle out.  It worked, after a fashion.

Kyle started his training with Master Fisto, when the Jedi Master returned from a mission with Master Mace Windu, to Hissrich.

Kyle was able to hone his lightsaber skills, among other skills, with Master Fisto, and still feels fairly honoured to have had the chance to train under one of the, if not the, finest lightsaber masters of his age. He spent the following 3 years at Master Fisto's side, learning from him and accompanying him through various missions, battles and campaigns of the Clone wars, including being captured and tortured alongside Master Fisto, Master Skywalker, Senator Amidala and Representative Binks, during the battle of Mon Cala. It was here that he met, and befriended, the then Captain Gial Ackbar.  He also held the Grand Army of the Republic rank of Commander, and led both pilots and troops during the Battle of Lola Sayu in 20 BBY.

In 19-20 BBY, in the last year of the Clone Wars, Kyle spent more and more time stationed at the Jedi Temple in Coruscant, doing short missions for, and with, Master Fisto, as the Jedi Master spent more and more time on his Council duties. Consequently, Kyle was in Coruscant in mid-19 BBY, when Order 66 was enacted.  He was one of the last people to see Master Fisto alive, as he left Kyle in a diner favoured by the Order near the Senate Building, while he went to meet up with Masters Mace Windu, Agen Kolar & Saesee Tiin, in order to confront Chancellor Palpatine.  Kyle felt Master Fisto's death.  He knew something had gone horribly wrong.  He headed from the diner towards the Senate Building but before he got there, he saw Master Skywalker heading away from the Senate Building with elements of the 501st Legion. Something was not right; there was a very strong, very bad disturbance in the Force.  He decided to follow Master Skywalker, but as soon as the clone troopers of the 501st saw him, they opened fire. He dodged behind some containers and was able to drop a level and slip down an alley. He cut back through the alleyways and started heading towards the Academy and the Temple.  He knew, for some reason, that that was where the clone troopers and Master Skywalker were heading. He arrived at the temple and entered via a side door, to be met with carnage.  Master Skywalker and the clone troopers were slaughtering everyone in the Temple - Masters, Knights, Padawans, Younglings, even the Service Corps members.  Kyle quickly found Master Shaak Ti, who was organising a a bunch of Service Corps, Padawans and Younglings to escape covertly out the back. It was very chaotic and Kyle is not sure who got out, if anyone.  He knows that Master Skywalker killed Master Shaak Ti, and he knows that as he attempted to leave, one of the last, that there was a burning in his back, and he went flying out the door, spinning.  That is the last thing he remembers...

...until he came around in the back room of the diner's kitchen.  He found out later that he took a blaster shot to the shoulder, and two members of the Service Corps dragged him away from the Temple, to the diner. Kyle spent 3 months hiding in the diner, recovering from his wounds, and letting the heat die off.  Sooner, rather than later, he needed to get off the planet and into hiding.  Through contacts that the diner owner had, Kyle managed to get passage to Nar Shadda, via Chandrila.  He stopped for a day or two on Chandrila, visiting briefly with his parents, and the continued on to Nar Shadda, known to all as The Smuggler’s Moon. Being 15 and alone on the Smuggler’s Moon is no fun, even for someone trained as a Jedi, so Kyle quickly found work, working for Shug Ninx in the Spacebarn.  The Spacebarn is an enormous facility where smugglers could repair and modify their ships.  Kyle spent 4 years working at the Spacebarn, becoming one of Ninx’s most trusted techs, and it was here that he learned about repairing and flying transport ships.  It was also here that he met Roa, a notorious Human smuggler who often took on neophyte smugglers and taught them his unofficial doctrine, Roa’ rules:

* Never ignore a call for help.
* Never take from those who are poorer than you are.

* Never play sabacc unless you're prepared to lose.
* Always be prepared to make a quick getaway.
* Never pilot a ship under the influence.

Kyle signed aboard one of Roa’s larger ships as 3rd mate in 14 BBY.  He then spent 3 years smuggling for Roa, and when he left, he was 1st mate aboard a Corellian YT-type Light Freighter.  During his time with Roa, he managed to save up enough credits to purchase his own ship, the Windrider Unchained, a YT-2400 Light Freighter.

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