Looma Karwt

Looma Karwt
Biographical Information
Race	Mirialan
Homeworld	Corellia
Father	Ritchelo Karwt
Mother	Melchora Karwt
Spouse	Maryna Chan Karwt
Other Family	None
Born	Year -8 / Day 93
Languages	Basic
Religion	Searching
Motto	"Profit is a means to an end, not vice versa"
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Height	5' 11"
Weight	180 lbs
Eye Color	Hazel
Hair Color	Black
Galactic Status
Social Status	Trader and sometime Middle
Political Status	Neutral
Affiliation	Neutral
Title	Mirialan Negotiator

Looma Karwt was born the only child of lower middle class parents on Corellia. His formative years were spent in and around starships and scrapping with anyone remotely close to his size. His early experiences would serve him well when he left the planet to seek his fortune in the expanse of the galaxy.

Childhood

Looma was born in year -8 to working middle class parents. His father Ritchelo was a mechanic at the local starport and on occasion would fly short cargo runs to nearby starports. Looma's mother, Melchora, was a part time waitress at a local restaurant and part time hairdresser to the wives of Corellia's elite. With both parents working long hours, Looma's childhood was largely unsupervised. Like most children unsupervised, he quickly found ways to get into trouble. His favorite pastimes were fisticuffs and trading scrap metal for credits. His skirmishes as a child generally revolved around someone taunting him as a "green skin". Corellia was under the control of the Galactic Empire. Most Corellians were class A citizens, entitled to the full privileges under the Empire. However, as Mirialans, the Karwt's were class B citizens, unable to serve in the Imperial military or other similar areas. The privileged elites looked down at the Class B citizens and their children were wont to taunt children of races considered inferior. Looma was not of a disposition to take these jeers lightly and many a Class A citizen's son took a beating from the inferior Mirialan. Looma also made a habit of sticking up for others who could not defend themselves. While some of his friends, Pyrene Pellegrino, Davin Valara and Lirik Chume all could not defend themselves adequately from the taunts of the elite, Looma could and did defend them all on numerous occasions. When he was not stirring up trouble, Looma hung out with his dad at the starport, learning how to fix and build starfighters and capital ships. This knowledge would serve him well in future.

A young Looma

Looma's struggle to make something of himself was intensified when, at age twelve, his mother died. The restaurant she worked at was held up but the bandits botched the escape. In the ensuing Imperial siege of the building, civilian casualties were inevitable and Looma was unfortunate enough that his mother was one of them. Making matters even worse was the fact that his friend Lirik's father was one of the bandits. This caused a brief rift between Lirik and Looma. Looma took out his anger at his mother's untimely death on the Class A elite children around him, becoming more aggressive in his actions toward them, bordering on belligerent. To make matters worse, Looma's father, who had adored his wife, lost his will to live, and with it his job. Looma and his father moved into public housing, dependent on the elites Looma despised for basic necessities. It would not be until Looma reached his teenage years that his attitude began to change.

Teenage Years

One of the few benefits of being on government assistance was that Looma finally was able to get some form of schooling, a luxury his parents had never been able to afford previously. It was a public school for class B and C children who lived in the government slums. The education was poor, but it was better than the lack of education Looma had previously. Accustomed to being active as he was, Looma found school intolerable early on, missing as many days as he could in order to tinker with his most treasured possession, an old, battered Nebulon-S Racing Swoop. However, very few Class A citizens lived in the ghettos, thus there were few targets for Looma's fists. He spent most of his time instead tuning his mechanical skills and working odd jobs. He saw credits as his way out of the slums and off world. After two years of schooling, Looma opted out, taking a job as a mechanic in the starport. His father, still unable to pick up the pieces from his wife's death, began to drink heavily. Looma's future plans did not include his alcoholic father. He wanted to make a clean break with Corellia and any part of his past. However, a chance meeting changed all that.

Becoming a Man

Looma's duties at his job rarely took him inside the starport. He was focused on his work, and on his goal of getting off world. However, his goals would be changed slightly. On one of his rare trips inside the starport, he was confronted with an angel. Or at least he thought so. Maryna Chan was fifteen when Looma first met her. She was working as a stewardess for the starport, greeting passengers, checking reservations and helping with boarding. A few months older than Looma, she was as tough as an old boot when she needed to be but was pleasant and genial most of the time. Suddenly Looma found his job required him to go into the starport frequently. He fancied himself stealthy as he worked on getting to know Maryna. He managed to wait six months before he asked her out. He was shocked when she turned him down.

Maryna Chan

Looma was nothing if not persistent however. He continued to make is absolutely necessary trips into the starport for a few more months before making another try. This time she said yes, only to stand him up when she was called into work as an emergency substitute. Undaunted, Looma tried one more time. This time plans went off as scheduled. Maryna would be a calming influence on Looma. While she was tough in her own right and shared many of Looma's ideas about the elites, she also understood far better than her now boyfriend that force was not always the best method of argument. The newfound relationship changed Looma's plans for the future slightly as well. Now his plan of escape off world involved two people, not one. He began saving every credit he could, in hopes of purchasing a ship. However his plans were not to be carried out. Now sixteen, Looma heard through the grapevine that a group of elite mercenaries were recruiting. He immediately saw this as his ticket offworld. Despite Maryna's worries that he might be killed in the fighting, he applied. However, the grapevine had distorted the facts slightly. The group of mercenaries was almost exclusively Mandolorian and they were not recruiting just anyone. Their commander initially tried to laugh Looma off. Looma would not take no for an answer, offering instead to fight the leader one on one for entry. The leader's counter offer was much more difficult. In order for Looma to join them, he would have to beat the entire command staff of the mercenaries, one after the other. Looma agreed and proceeded to beat the daylights out of all of them. Looma had his ticket off world.

Mercenary

Before leaving Corellia, Looma promised Maryna he would return and take her off world elsewhere, somewhere where they could be safe. The mercenaries were bound for Ryloth, fighting for a slaver band in a gang war against another band. Upon arriving on the planet, Looma experienced the harsh reality of war. He was met with both refugees displaced by the war, and slaves. Lots of slaves. The Twi'leks were being exploited by the many bands of slavers who sensed profit. The planet was ruled by the Tenloss Syndicate, but they did little to prevent the violence, instead profiting from the slave trade.

Twi'lek refugees

Looma's sense of justice did not handle this idea well.