9-LOM
Character
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BASICS
Character's Name- 9-LOM
*Alias / Nicknames- "Nine"
Gender- none
Sexual Orientation- none
Age- 970 cycles
Species- LOM-series protocol droid, manufactured by Industrial Automaton.
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PHYSICAL
Eye Color- emerald green photoreceptors
Skin Tone- Black Ultrachrome
Height- 5'9"
Weight- 77 kilograms
*Common clothing choice- Wears long black, collared synthlatex cape.
*Common accessories- Vandorian laser-knife, Valken-38x sniper rifle, SE-14c blaster pistol, Merr-Sonn WW-41 Cryoban Grenades.
*Physical Description- Black ultrachrome LOM-series protocol droid, with a characterizing black synthlatex collared cape. Alluring, multi-layered and high-end green photoreceptors. Peculiarly absent of blaster damage, instead afflicted minimally by superficial damage to its enamel in the form of scratches, scars/pierces.
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PERSONAL
Profession- Hired Gun
Education level- AA-1 Verbobrain, Tranlang III Comm Module.
Personality description (short)- Stern, dismissive, superiority complex, Job-oriented.
Weaknesses: Ion weaponry, Hacking, Empathy
3+ Likes- Credits, Guns, exterminating.
3+ Dislikes- Infestations, savages, street criminals.
*Pet peeves- Late credit transfers.
*Type of vehicle- Dianoga-class starfighter
*Common places to be found around the Galaxy- Outer Rim territories
*History- 9-LOM , or “Nine”, is a hardy, high-class LOM-series droid manufactured by Industrial Automatons before the clone wars. Like many of their counterparts, Nine suffered from a corrupted personality matrix due to flaws in the AA-1 verbobrain design. This is likely due to IA manufacturing specialized products for the Gands – a species little understood by most of the galaxy. Also like most other LOM droids, Nine quickly found work as a mercenary in the Outer Rim for self-upkeep. They performed smaller jobs at first as a hired gun for whomever would take them, though eventually looking for contracts with local governments, especially on Tatooine, dealing with encroaching wildlife infestations. Most notably mynocks, shyracks, moundmites, womp rats, and kinrath; though, the complete list is rather long. They were recognized by Jabba the Hutt as an exemplary “problem solver”, and awarded a custom desh, desert shell – which Nine adequately named, Problem Solver.
As Nine's repertoire for extermination grew, so did the difficulty of their assignments – and pay. Eventually, they were enlisted to fight the rakghoul plague on Alderaan, and earned a considerable fortune doing so for decades. After the destruction of Alderaan by the Empire (during which Nine was conveniently predisposed with fighting a Krykna outbreak on Dantooine), they encountered a shortage of work. Bringing their long history and accolades, they contacted the Empire in need of employment.
Their first line of work found them swathing through the forest floor of Endor, assisting in Imperial land acquisition and scouting. Here the droid made major exploits defeating both large and sinister Endorian beasts, such as the Octucor and Borra (to name a few). And since everything gets recorded under Imperial watch, these accomplishments rose to finer ears in the command. Nine was inserted into an elite scout unit Yayax, a repurposed vestige of an earlier clone outfit that now saw extensive use on the Endor moon. To match their scout-trooper counterparts, Nine was issued forest camouflage shell for field use.
Not long after, Nine was pulled even higher through Imperial Command and was assigned to a highly secret brigade of imperial forces dealing with the emergence of a Yuuzhan Vong remnant – however it wasn't Nine's job to combat the Vong. Instead, they were assigned to Imperial transports being attacked by the Vong's Grutchin horrors. Though not many imperials survived their secret war with the Vong, and even less those attacked by the Grutchin, those Nine companied with did, earning the droid the nickname “Grutchin's Horror”. It was during this time that Nine received their black ultrachrome imperial shell replacement, and synthlatex cape as an honorary gift from Admiral Thrawn.
Later, after the Empire's fall, Nine would return to simpler work. It wasn't until the emergence of the First Order, that the abersyn symbiotes began to be a problem for The Resistance. The New Republic gave Nine significantly more spacefaring work than the Empire or former Republic ever had, opening up a new roster of fierce creatures in real space. Things unnatural, fabled, unseen. Those midnight voyages would one day, too, come to an end as something far more devastating than they had ever encountered came to be – the Yuuhzan Vong War.
Initially, Nine retook their mantle as Grutchin's Horror aboard New Republic vessels, however the Vong wars proceeded for such an extended period, that the protocol droid's natural sense for probabilities forced them to retire before a very probable death in space. They returned to Tatooine, though upon learning of their friend Jabba's long-past and untimely death, decided to remain at the Hutt's former and somewhat vacant palace. Among the B'Omarr monks, life was quiet for Nine, but they found the monks required their assistance in keeping the derelict desh-can of a castle clean of worrts, womp-rats, frog-dogs, among others. Aside from the infrequent visits from various Nikto groups, there wasn't much else for Nine to do for many years. The droid more or less stayed in this location until the Vong and residual galactic powers agreed on peace centuries later.
Once that occurred, having endured hundreds of years of consistent wear, 9-LOM sought out the both modern and renown droid-manufacturer, Tendrando Arms, for internal repairs. In the end, Nine would receive replacement parts for over 70% of their integral body from unused YVH 1 models – the units having been decommissioned since peacetime with the Vong. With a fierce, new internal skeleton and vitals, the breath of life surged back through the droid's wires. Of course, the curse of death still lingered on the galaxy's horizon, this time donning a different, less combatable form.
The Gulag plague brought decimation, raging like fire across the known galaxy. Like any droid with a faulty personality matrix might, Nine stepped harmlessly through the wall of flame and into the ashes of the Outer Rim. A narrow escape from the galaxy at large was made, as the droid crewed with a group of smugglers fleeing into isolation from the reaches of the plague – to the remote system of Hoth. The smugglers, who had abandoned their contract mid-hitch, holed up in an abandoned imperial laboratory within the planet's ice caves. The smugglers made good use of the droid as “Wampa-repellant”, nonetheless keeping Nine operational. It was here the droid stayed until the 850s ABY, when the residual wampas inhabiting the ice tunnels connected to the labs vanished. The presence of a Dragon Slug drove the mammalian predators away, and threatened Nine's safety. Rather than waste time fighting without pay or promise for repair, the droid fired up the long-dead smugglers' Dianoga-class starfighter, and left for civilized space.
Of course, the face of the galaxy had changed. There were new factions, many familiarities had faded, and ultimately the nature of business would change too. This, however, was the meaning of life – and it must go on.