Junker Pugn
Droid Toyed
Name: Junker Pugn (self-title, parents called him ‘Poosza’)
Faction: Neutral
Rank: Apprentice
Species: Jawa
Age: 15 years old
Sex: Male
Height: 1 metre
Weight: 40 kilograms
Eyes: One yellow crystal, one orange crystal
Hair: Dark taupe fur
Skin: Furry
Force Sensitive: Yes
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Strengths and Weaknesses:
- As a Jawa who spent a lot of time on a bungee cord at constant risk of natural disaster, Junker Pugn recognizes life is short. If something is there to be tried for the first time, it should be tried. Right away. That’s what got him into space.
- Junker Pugn will always try to ‘improve’ on existing technology “because Darth Pugn would have”. Upgrades do not usually work but will still be attempted when time permits. One in six is upgraded, one in six is destroyed, the remainder can eventually be put back together. However combining two gadgets to create a new gadget works surprisingly often (around half the time, otherwise the original gadgets need to be reassembled). He has learned the hard way to limit any changes to L3P0 to just the three known configurations (with no risk of failure).
- Junker Pugn speaks only Jawa and Gran. He relies entirely on L3P0 to keep him informed of any conversations. He trusts L3P0, but he often prefers to draw his own conclusions about current events. L3P0 is after all only a droid.
- Like all Jawas he has exceptional night vision and a strong immune system.
- Junker Pugn has the beginnings of the Force Mind Trick ability. However this tends to be area-of-effect (up to ten metres radius), and is complicated by his lack of language skills. When the ability does work, whoever speaks and is understood next might plant a suggestion in anyone affected.
- The limitations on lightsaber combat, beyond the fact Junker Pugn has no proper training yet, are captured in the thread about L3P0. It is of little use for hurting sentients.
This lithe, young, metre-tall Jawa rocks its regular Jawa chic with three glaring exceptions. The observer’s eye is drawn immediately to the big beige leather patch stapled over its missing arm. The patch is color-coordinated with two odd pipe-like tools that displace some of the pouches from its Jawa bandolier. When finally the observer meets the Jawa’s eyes, they do not match - one orange, one yellow. But Jawa eyes are covered by gemstones. Is it the gemstones, is it the injury, or is there some darker reason for the mismatch? It is definitely a Jawa though, judging from the dark taupe fur on its remaining hand. And its feral smell.
Biography:
This baby boy Jawa was born to the female shaman of her Jawa clan in the northern desert of the Eszit Wune crater on the backwater planet of Rubac, orbiting the brown dwarf star Goroth Beta. The baby was named Poosza because he was tall and thin like a moisture-farming vaporator (called a ”Vapoosza” in Jawaese).
Poosza joined in the family chores very early, herding mosses and tweaking vaporators in the shadows of boulders while suspended on a bungee cord that bound him to the family home. Home was suspended on tarpaulins pulled taut between two vast lodestone monoliths. The monoliths supported a massive lodestone lintel. The resulting trilithon sheltered the Jawas from meteorite strikes and held them above boulder avalanches.
Once Poosza found the gift of speech he was introduced to his ‘muse’ - a Gran farm boy named Erino who lived with a very conservative Gran family on a lichen farm in the faraway land of Interi Wune. Planet-wide tradition dictated they should be radio pals for the rest of their lives, the Gran goddess Doellin willing.
Poosza grew big enough to help his clan maintain the trekker droids that passed by his home. The droids carried cargoes between the crater wall talus slopes to the north and Eastern Moss, Western Moss and Eszit Sea to the south. Swinging about on his safety bungee, he and Erino would challenge each other to craft or graft the most outrageous mechanical or lichen creations, using just the materials at hand. Poosza would raid the trekker droid cargoes for parts, being careful not to take so much that he would be discovered.
One day when Poosza was fifteen he lifted a strange device from a trekker droid that had been salvaged from the airless expanse beyond the crater wall. Poosza charged it up and it introduced itself as the droid L3PO, or simply “Ell”. It had gotten lost on the way to its creator’s home village. Now it was home. It revealed that it was also a lightsaber, constructed by Poosza’s ancestor Darth Pugn.
The droid-lightsaber told epic child-friendly tales of interstellar adventure, although it was exceedingly coy about exactly what its one-armed past master had done. It taught Poosza about how to combine L3P0’s parts as two lightsabers or as a tonfa. Lastly, it taught Poosza to assemble L3P0 as a unique cross-lightsaber.
This went as badly as it had for Darth Pugn, with Poosza promptly cutting off his own arm. While he recuperated his clan told him he could no longer service the trekker droids - he needed two arms to control his tools and the bungee cord. It left Poosza very angry. He became a little less angry when L3P0 suggested the two of them could take to the stars.
Stowing away in a spare stasis capsule aboard a trekker droid, Poosza escaped with L3P0 to the vast parallel crater of Interi Wune where Erino lived, and where Interi Spaceport could be found. Poosza said tearful goodbyes to Erino, promising to keep in touch. Poosza understood that a loss of this magnitude could potentially kill the young Gran, yet he was leaving anyway. Poosza’s last act on the planet Bonsza I was to change his name. He named himself “Junker Pugn” after L3P0 talked him out of calling himself “Darth Pugn”. It was time to explore the galaxy just like his one-armed ancestor.
Ship: Junker Pugn flies the Coyo, a TIE Fight’ceptor. For longer trips he prefers to find passage on ships, usually in the capacity of a technician, interpreter or stowaway.
Kills: No PC characters killed yet, so no links to those threads.
Bounties Collected: No bounties yet, so no money collected.
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