Name: Luke Helios
Rank: none
Homeworld: Corellia
Age: 27
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Brown
Height: 1.71 meters
Weight: 62 kg’s
Favourite weapon: DL-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol
Languages: Basic
Family: Father - Serves in the Empire, location unknown
Other Family: Deceased
Early Life
Born in Coronet into a wealthy Corellian family grown rich with trade. “Helios&Co.†was a widely known and respectable trading company, founded and lead by Luke’s father, Banquo Helios. Luke grew up on Correlia during the aftermath of the Clone Wars.
Corellia had had a rough time, as did the rest of the galaxy. That his father was able to found such a successful trading company during the economical crisis of that period was nothing short of a miracle. Rumour had it that Banquo had mastered the Jedi mind trick somehow, which enabled him to get everything he needed for founding his company. Whether this rumour is true no one knows.
The pure-blooded human status of the family which had no ties with the Jedi at all ensured their relative safety from the Emperor reign of terror directed at non-humans and Jedi’s. As a result Luke grew up untroubled by anything. His parents kept him well shielded from the atrocities committed everywhere by the Empire.
Darkening Tides
Unfortunately all good things come to an end. The Stormtroopers came and made his father an offer he couldn’t refuse. He was given the choice of joining the Imperial Navy or see his entire family killed. Seeing no other alternative, Banquo joined the Navy.
The family was left to look after itself, but without Banquo to lead the company, it quickly fell into disarray and not long after it went bankrupt. Pushed into poverty, Luke’s mother, Linny, tried to make do with whatever came their way. They had lost all contact with Banquo. The Star Destroyer was his prison. One day, Linny confessed to Luke that they had once aided a small Rebel group whom they smuggled safely out of the Correlian system, and that this was their punishment for it.
It wasn’t long before the situation became so bad that Luke was forced to go out and steal food and meds for his mother, who had fallen terribly ill. On one of his outings he was caught. As punishment he received fifty lashes on his back, which would be heavily scarred forever. As if that wasn’t enough he was drafted into the military. If he refused, his family would be killed. So, following the same fate as his father he too, was forced into service. He would never see his ailing mother and three older brothers again.
Imperial Training Record
During his Imperial Training he turned out to be a superb starfighter pilot. He was highly commended and his future within the Imperial Navy looked promising. Despite his success, his heart was never with the Empire. The Empire had ruined his family and stood for all that was evil to him. On a training mission he tried to escape. He flew his TIE-fighter towards a nearby moon under the pretence he was checking out some strange readings. The moon had no atmosphere, he hid his TIE-fighter in the dark side of a large crater.
He stayed there for a day without food or water, fearing that if he left the Empire would be on top of him immediately. Forced by thirst and hunger, he powered up his systems and flew away. The Empire was nowhere to be seen. His ship didn’t have lightspeed, so in short he was stranded. That part of the escape plan he hadn’t figured out yet. He just flew into a random direction, thinking that death was better than a lifetime of service to the Empire.
A New Hope
Two days later the Rebellion Cruiser Hope found his TIE-fighter adrift. They had picked up his signal and upon wondering what a lone short range TIE-fighter was doing alone in space had peeked their interest. They tractored the TIE-fighter into their hangar bay. Inside they found Luke Helios, unconscious, dehydrated and near death. He was treated and put under guard.
He explained his situation to the Captain, who was willing to believe his story, but thought it too early to trust him. He therefore remained locked in a cell for a couple days. Luke accepted this fate. He figured they had no reason to trust him. Seeing that he wasn’t giving any trouble, the Captain, named Rye Dresden, had him relocated to guest quarters, though he wasn’t to leave the room. The Captain also told him of their mission. To seek and destroy a Star Destroyer used to train new recruits, to deprive the Empire of new recruits, making it more difficult for them to replenish their ranks. The Captain thought their target might very well be the one Luke had escaped from.
Luke told the Captain he was right, and he was more than willing to help with the mission. He hated everyone on that ship anyway. As proof that he meant it for real, he revealed the Star Destroyer’s most likely location. After careful consideration Captain Dresden sent a reconnaissance flight to verify the information. It turned out to be real. Luke then offered to help in the destruction of the vessel. He could fly back towards the Star Destroyer, get past the defence perimeter and take out its deflector towers. After which it would be an easy an easy task for the Rebellion Cruiser to drop out of hyperspace and fire everything it had at the now vulnerable vessel.
The Captain stood for a difficult decision. If he trusted this man, he risked the failure of the mission, and possibly the lives of his crew. But if he didn’t trust this man, many of his men could die fighting to disable the Star Destroyer themselves.
In the end, they would have to fight the Star Destroyer anyway, so they could best do it using Luke as saboteur.
So it happened. The Cruiser dropped out of hyperspace a few hours’ distance sublight travel. Luke took off in his TIE-fighter. When he arrived he made some excuse about engines difficulties and radio-issues. Before they realised that a TIE-fighter couldn’t have flown all the way to their current position on its own it was already too late. He flew in fast and destroyed the deflector this and disabled their engines. Because of his piloting skills he managed to avoid turbolasers and was already on his return flight when the fighters started to pour out of the hangars.
The Rebellion Cruiser dropped out of hyperspace and fired every battery on the ship and launched all its fighters. The battle was over in less than a minute.
Rebel Alliance
After Luke was brought in as a hero and was accepted into the Alliance He immediately made for arrangements to get his family out of Corellia, but he was too late. The Empire had murdered all… His mother and brothers dead, his father lost to the Empire, the Rebellion was the only home left to him. He vowed he wouldn’t rest until he had found the one who had killed his family. About his father, no one knew where he was, or what he was doing. The Rebellion was his family now.
The events concerning his escape from the Empire and joining the Rebellion took place some time before the destruction of Alderaan. Captain Dresden came to him with an offer. A group of ‘privateers’ was being assembled, and they were in need of several skilled people. Their mission was to draw the Empire’s attention away from Alliance activities while it was building up its force, giving it a better chance to consolidate itself. Luke considered this and quickly came to the conclusion that the larger freedoms he would have as a privateer would greatly increase his chances of finding his family’s killer.
Personality
Luke can be very harsh on people, but he means well. Because of this he has a reputation of an unpleasant, angry man. People who know him better know that he worries too much for his own good. More often than not this worrying has kept his Squadron alive. It is difficult for him to talk about his past for he has no idea where his father is, whether he is still alive or not. He feels guilty, for by joining the Alliance he might just as well have signed a death sentence for his mother and siblings…
