Brok Vizsla

**Brok Vizsla** is a Mandalorian bounty hunter and mercenary working for the Galactic Republic. Raised in the infamous Death Watch, Brok left the organization as a disillusioned youth when the organization splintered in 19 BBY. Determined to make the family he never had, Brok turned to bounty hunting and mercenary for the next couple of decades. Brok would become a highly sought-after commodity in the criminal underworld for his contractual adherence, professionalism, and prowess.

After completing his last job before retiring that didn't go over well with a rival Hutt named Fetu, Brok's wife and son were both killed in a drive-by that was intended for him. Consumed by both rage and guilt, Brok would take his revenge by destroying the Hutt's criminal enterprises before killing him. Still, Fetu's death wouldn't expunge Brok's guilt or anger, and has since come out of retirement to provide for his daughter-in-law and granddaughter, Iri.

## Biography

Born in 40 BBY on the planet of Mandalore, Brok never knew his biological parents or siblings. Brok’s earliest memory was being coddled in a crib in an orphanage before being adopted by a group of Mandalorians from Clan Vizsla, and subsequently, the Death Watch. From an earliest of ages, Brok was given the identity of a traditionalist Mandalorian, one who was proud of his warrior culture and fierce independence. For the first twenty years of his life, clan and culture was all Brok knew. Brok was trained to fight at a young age and resist all those that questioned his defiance.

Ironically, for all the independence that was preached untoward Brok, Brok was being indoctrinated into the Death Watch. He was both their soldier and slave. Brok’s lack of an intimate family was used against him, which had turned him into a highly aggressive, but obedient attack dog of the Death Watch. Many of his adopted peers were similar. A lack of early intimacy had effectively turned them into wild animals directed at the political aims of the Death Watch. In part, this was how the Death Watch cultivated its army, from the ground up.

Upon the first spark of the Clone Wars, the Death Watch would begin to orchestrate terrorist attack against Mandalorian settlements. Unable to see beyond the veil of youthful dogma, Brok fought, killed, and terrorized his fellow Mandalorians in the name of tradition. The zealousness of a perceived righthood had triumphed over the young Mandalorian’s underdeveloped empathetic senses. These terrorist attacks and skirmishes would eventually lead into the Death Watch’s partnership with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, which would lead to the Death Watch performing sabotage missions against Republic targets to gain the trust of the Confederacy to support a Death Watch coup on Mandalore. Brok had become a trusted and reliable hand in the organization, having been conditioned to be such since he was an infant.

Although he didn’t voice his opinion, Brok was opposed to working with the Shadow Collective, as it he believed it impeded upon their doctrine of independence and eventual galactic conquest. Regardless, he would perform whatever task the Death Watch would have him perform. Eventually, the efforts of Brok and the Mandalorian insurgency would reach its climax in 19 BBY, when the Death Watch and Shadow Collective would proceed with the Takeover of Mandalore. Brok would take part in the event in Sundari Royal Palace. When the Death Watch splintered upon Darth Maul’s betrayal, killing Pre Vizsla, Brok joining the Death Watch Loyalists was the natural choice. The profit-driven union of overtaxed Outer Rim planets had no business on Mandalore. The same Death Watch Loyalists would end up siding with the Galactic Republic, which Brok wanted no part of. Brok wanted an independent Mandalore that was fully committed to its warrior culture and ambitions of galactic conquest.

To that end, something in Brok had died across those number of days. The burning idealism that Brok once had for galactic conquest had been replaced with a bitter aftertaste. Mandalorians couldn’t be trusted to rekindle their former glory, because too many of them wished to enslave themselves to galactic powers, and turn on each other for short-term gains that compromised their ideals. Brok left the Death Watch Loyalists and Mandalore not long after, leaving them to their own devices. With him, he took a woman named Su Wren, another Death Watch dissenter with her own reasons for departing, having grown sick of all the atrocities she had seen.

Now on their own in the greater galaxy, Brok and Su took to bounty hunting and mercenary work, as they were the most relevant fields to their skillsets. Travelling from system to system in search of work gave Brok a lot of time to think about his past and what he wanted from life. With the help of Su, Brok had begun to see his past in a different light. At first, he felt betrayed from a lack of conviction from his brothers. But, overtime, he began to realize that everything he believed in was a lie. Sure, at one point they were galactic conquerors, feared by all walks of life for their barbarity and ferociousness. Nowadays they couldn’t even conqueror their own planet, much less an entire galaxy. They weren’t conquerors – they were terrorists. He felt so foolish to believe such a blatant lie, but even more than that, he was bitter; bitter and angry. That’s where Su came in. After revealing feelings for him, Su advocated for Brok to not dwell on the past, but to instead move forward, to help her start a family, something neither of them truly had. They only had drill sergeants disguised as parental figures that directed them towards aggression and combat. Never again would Brok be so gullible. No more warriors, no more conquerors, and no more fairy tales – there was only him, his family, and work.

Brok married Su in 16 BBY, and would have their first child, Kolro, in 13 BBY. In this time, Brok would spend most of his time working independently, as Su wanted to settle down and put all the bloody conflict behind her. Brok worked for a wide variety of clients in the decades he worked as a contractor, from being contracted by Imperial agents as a member of the Bounty Hunters’ Guild, to being hired as muscle to enforce the will of ruthless Hutt crime lords. Su was never a fan of the fact that Brok had stuck to his old, violent ways, but she knew his heart was in the right place; for all the blood money, Brok would do it for family.

Fast forward nearly three decades later, in 15 ABY, Brok would be winding down on his career, now closing in on sixty. Although Brok couldn’t always be there for his son growing up with work, Kolro and Su had both lived the best lives he could provide them with. Kolro had become a promising young businessman, who had married a woman named Sha Tierun and recently fathered a child with her, Iri. Although grizzled and cynical from his travels across a ruthless galaxy, Brok couldn’t have been more proud of himself and his family. He just had one more job to do – takeout a guy that had switched sides from one Hutt, named Pengro, to another, named Fetu. The mission was rather simple – or so Brok thought. Naturally, after Brok had taken out the target out with a fairly routine assassination mission, Brok was rewarded from Pengro for a job well done. This didn’t sit well with Fetu, who was expecting the Hutt defector to deliver crucial trade espionage on Pengro, along with an exorbitant amount of credits that the defector had embezzled from Pengro. Because time was of the essence, Pengro never knew that the embezzled credits were missing, and Brok took the defector out from afar. Fetu eventually figured that the hunter was Brok, and this enraged Fetu, because Brok had done contracts for him before. Although most Hutts understood that business was business, Fetu didn’t.

Fetu knew Brok was going to be retiring soon, and that he wasn’t going to let him ride off into the sunset with such a perceived betrayal on his part, so he organized a hit on the aging bounty hunter. Fetu’s hit didn’t go as planned. Su and Kolro were out in the speeder that was being trailed by Hutt gangsters from Fetu that they assumed Brok was in. Consequently, in a brilliant flurry of blaster bolts, Su and Kolro were both killed in a drive-by from Fetu’s hitmen. After having had his life’s work undone, the full extent of Brok’s rage and sorrow couldn’t be manifested into reality; but at the very least, Brok would direct his rage and grief towards the person that perpetrated the murder, Fetu. Finding out Fetu’s involvement wasn’t hard after Brok interrogated and subsequently killed the hitmen that were involved. A spray of blaster bolts was too merciful for a slimy Hutt that had undone his life’s work. Instead, he would destroy Fetu’s business assets in lieu of what Fetu had done to Brok, and leak nerve gas into his palace to give Fetu a gruesome, but equally efficient death, because storming a Hutt’s palace by himself was out of the question.

Of course, Brok’s vengeful stunt led to him relocating his granddaughter and daughter-in-law from Hutt Space, on Nar Shaddaa, to the Core Worlds, on Brentaal IV. Now, Brok holds onto his remaining family with tooth and nail, knowing full well he didn’t have many years left in him to protect and provide for them with bounty hunting and mercenary work. As a result, Brok would come out of retirement to go after progressively larger and riskier bounties and contracts to provide for his family. Brok couldn’t stand the idea of growing too old to provide for his fractured family, and practically had a death wish from the guilt he felt for failing to protect Su and Kolro. A few years later, Brok would receive an interesting offer from the New Republic, to provide on-site security for a future Jedi Praxeum on Odessen. The pay seemed almost too good for a simple security operation, and Brok was old; he needed something more easygoing. After doing the math, Brok realized that this job could provide him with enough money to reach his financial goals for his family if he stuck with it for long enough. It was settled, Brok was in.

## Appearance

Brok's armor is almost as grey as his hair color is. Unpretentious compared to more exuberantly colored Mandalorian armor sets, Brok practically lives in his hoary suit of Beskar armor. The suit is coupled with a wrist-mounted laser, flamethrower, retractable wristband vibroblades, a missile/grapple launcher, boot spikes, and a jetpack with a missile launcher at the top. For his primary weapons, Brok favors a pair of custom WESTAR-34 blaster pistols to dispatch his targets.

As for his physical appearance, Brok stands at six foot two, with an impressively muscular build that shows an absolute disregard for his current age. Brok's grey hair is kept short, all the while he sports a goatee on his face below a blue set of weary, stony eyes. For his voice, Brok speaks with a distinctively gravelly, raspy voice that betrays a rough estimation of his age even when he's behind a suit of armor.

## Personality

Brok's down-to-earth, pragmatic personality is juxtaposed by a dry world-weariness that Brok's accumulated from his travels across the galaxy, a preexisting demeanor that has since been dilated by the death of his wife and son. Brok doesn't care for much else other than his family and the job he's hired for, which can lead someone to perceive him as aloof and uncaring in casual conversation, but gruffly professional in business. Despite finding some catharsis in destroying Fetu’s assets and Fetu, Brok still harbors feelings of guilt and rage towards himself for failing to protect his family. Brok’s choice to come out of retirement wasn’t purely just to provide for his remaining family, Brok wants redemption for his failure.

Brok's relationship with his Mandalorian heritage is rather complicated. On one hand, Brok subconsciously embodies the values of Mandalorians that he was indoctrinated with by the Death Watch, such as independence, martial pride, and tactical flexibility. However, on the other hand, Brok is quite skeptical about Mandalorians being able to collectively accomplish anything, and generally perceives them as being either 'knuckleheads', or even being 'spineless'. This belief predominantly stems from the Death Watch's failure to takeover Mandalore, which Brok was apart of. Brok coped with this failure by making a family with a woman named Su Wren, who helped him find a new purpose in life with a family.