Nom Gunnar
Character
NAME: Nom Gunnar
FACTION: Galactic Alliance
RANK: Pilot
SPECIES: Human
AGE: 17
SEX: Male
HEIGHT: 6 feet 2 inches
WEIGHT: 189 pounds
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Brown
SKIN: Tan
FORCE SENSITIVE: No
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
Strengths:
Passionate: Nom is completely invested in the success of the Alliance, and he is willing to make any sacrifice to ensure victory. He will fight to his last breath in order to bring freedom to the galaxy.
Connections: His parents being the owners of Bespin's largest tibanna exporting business, Nom can draw from a variety of connections to make ends meet for himself or the Alliance
Expert Mechanic: Besides flying, Nom's greatest passion was tinkering with mechanical objects and fixing broken starfighters. Having been trained by the best mechanic on Bespin for several years, he is able to repair almost any starfighter or small freighter.
Weaknesses:
Rookie Pilot: Although he has had informal experience piloting an old X-Wing around Cloud City, Nom has next-to-no formal training or combat experience in a starfighter.
Smells Like Teen Pilot: Because he ran off to join the Alliance at such a young age, Nom is completely mature and ready for the harshness of the galaxy, especially since he was sheltered so much as a child.
Thrill-Seeker: Nom is an adrenaline junkie, which leads him to try dangerous stunts and take unnecessary risks while flying
Spoiled: Unlike most members of the Alliance, Nom came from a wealthy background, so the sparse accommodations of Alliance ships will take getting used to
Bantha Fur Allergy: Any exposure to Bantha fur will make Nom sneeze uncontrollably and tear up for several minutes
BIOGRAPHY:
The only son of Elena and Ben Gunnar, the owners of the largest tibanna company on Bespin, Nom grew up in an extremely lavish lifestyle. Despite being offered the best education money could buy, Nom was always more of a physical and hands-on kid. Instead of reading classics or studying ancient history like most of his peers, he would tinker with starfighters and repair an old X-Wing his parents had bought him as a birthday present. From the history that he did learn, Nom fell in love with the concept of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and read voraciously about the daring exploits of the old Rebel pilots, whom he idolized. When he was 10 years old, he finally finished restoring the old X-Wing and immediately tried to fly it.
After a short 4 seconds of exhilaration, he collided with the hangar door, which he had forgot to open, and totaled the X-Wing. Not dismayed in the slightest, he rebuilt it in six months and tried again. He had practiced flying in many simulation games that his parents had given him, but he still almost crashed the craft six times during his first real flight. Extremely proud that he survived his first flight in one piece, he continued to practice his flying abilities. He completely abandoned his schoolwork, only bothering to read on the X-wing pilots that he idolized so much. While he was flying, he reenacted scenes from the Battle of Endor by creating imaginary TIE fighters, or pretended that the canals underneath Cloud City were the trenches of the Death Star. For his 16th birthday, his mother bought him an astromech droid, R2-M8, that soon became a steadfast companion.
While his mother encouraged his passion for flying and repairing starfighters, Nom's father was more concerned that he would be unfit to continue the family business. He saw Nom as an heir to the Tibanna company and wanted to groom him accordingly. Seeing his son forsaking his studies to pretend to be an X-Wing pilot was a step in the wrong direction. Wanting to do the right thing for his son, he forced him to study and locked his X-Wing in an old storage facility. Not wanting to risk his father's wrath, Nom reluctantly studied business and communications to prepare for his future in his parents' company.
Not a week after he turned 17, however, he heard of the Galactic Alliance, a new faction in the galaxy that bore a close resemblance to the Rebel Alliance that he idolized. He knew it would be the best shot he had at making his name as a pilot and joining the likes of Wedge Antilles or Luke Skywalker as a starfighter pilot. Hoping his facial hair could help him pass for someone a few years older, he made his escape to join the Alliance. Bribing the guards at the storage facility, he took his R2 unit and a suitcase full of clothes and toiletries and set his X-Wing's hyperdrive coordinates to the last known location of the Galactic Alliance fleet. Pausing to write a quick note for his parents, he steered the X-wing out of the storage facility and into interplanetary space before jumping to lightspeed.
SHIP:
An extremely ancient X-Wing modified with increased maneuverability (yaw, pitch, and roll) and more powerful thrusters
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