Seth Callat
Grumpy Old Man in Barrel
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Age: [Redacted]
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Homeworld: Naboo
Height: 86 kilos
Weight: 188 centimeters
Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Fair
Hair Color: Salt & Pepper
Force Sensitivity: [Slight]
From the Desk of a Dr. Pike Panaka: (Patient Callat's Strengths & Weaknesses)
Seth Callat was born into a middle-class family with a history of sending both sons and daughters to serve in the Naboo Royal Security Forces as well as the Royal Space Fighter Corps, and as such it was pretty much a matter of destiny that then young Seth would go into the academy to serve in the ranks of the planetary defense forces. Not much is known about his childhood, other than the fact that he seemed to be a voracious reader of the planet's history and literature. Background checks into his school years showed him to be highly capable in mathematics, logic and interstellar cartography.
He would go on to have a decorated career with the Space fighter Corps, where over the course of a decade he rose through the ranks from humble wingman to wing commander of a detail of Naboo Fighters. He would spend an entire decade attached to a frontier squadron patrolling the borders of Naboo's sovereign space. When the Omega War broke out, Callat and his wing were some of the first who saw action, and their adventures (and misadventures) throughout that horrible period in galactic history would eventually become one of the finest examples of Naboo pilotry. The war would leave him scarred however, and while scheduled for retirement following the war's conclusion, only two years later, the Great Galactic War broke out.
After initial attempts by the Queen to broker a piece failed and the Galactic Alliance collapsed, Naboo began to turn to the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and while Captain Callat never actively took part in this new war (actually, barely any Naboo servicemen did, if any at all), it killed him inside to know that Alliance soldiers and pilots were dying left and right as Naboo maintained its anti-aggressive stance. He also did know deep down, however, that the safety of his homeworld was far more important than his own ideals. It was during this time that he developed a taste for Corellian Ale and deathsticks as a way to deal with this cognitive dissonance. Combined with an unhealthy obsession with Pazaak, and his professional career's decline began to snowball as his reputation likewise deteriorated.
All seemed to be finished for Captain Callat, when a secret directive from Leeds arrived - while the whole affair was to be kept off the books and only a few choice military officials would be privy to it, Seth was tasked with commandeering a retrofit MC-85 Star Cruiser, with the objective of lending support to the shattered Alliance, and to any Republican Remnants in the Outer Rim willing to give aid to the effort to stem the dark shroud of the Dark Side that seemed to envelop the galaxy.
Although publicly thankless, the covert assignment turned out to be Callat's redemption - a chance for him to make up for the crime of standing idly by while other good men died, and a reason for him to give self-improvement a chance again, now that he'd been made captain of a starcruiser and commander of over one thousand souls.
The Mon Calamari ship, named The Glory of Leeds, was christened as a separate vessel from the Royal Navy ships that formed the brunt of Naboo's defense fleet. Refit and re-purposed in secrecy inside a great derelict at a remote corner of Naboo's control zone, it was to be Naboo's final gift to the Alliance in the battle for the Galaxy's soul.
Ship: The Glory of Theed
The Glory of Theed is a retrofit Mon Calamari 85 Star Cruiser, arguably the largest of the gentle Mon Calamari's line of ships. Callat's command has been refitted with customized hangar and support modules to better service an additional 1-2 wings of bombers, but has traded it for the the half a dozen or so Concussion Missile Launchers, conventionally used as anti-fighter point defense - the missile holds and crew pits now serving as auxiliary quarters and refitted storage areas for the hangar bay. Power once fed into the missile priming and targeting systems has also been shunted to the hangar bay, mainly the support and fabrication modules. *
Because of this, it relies heavily on the tenacity and skill of its pilots and wing commander, but also on the navigational and tactical effectiveness of its bridge officers and commander. Strategically, it serves as a mobile shipyard and carrier rather than a heavy assault cruiser, and without access to its fighter-bomber wings or proper escort, would not hold out for long against a fully operational Star Destroyer.
It also remains a perpetual work-in-progress, as its science and engineering teams are constantly analyzing and upgrading the ship's systems as it adjusts into an ever-changing set of hostile conditions that only a retrofit Mon Calamari cruiser-turned-carrier can address.
*The Glory of Theed otherwise maintains its standard loadout of 18 turbolasers, 18 ion cannons, and 12 point-defense turrets.
Captain Seth CallatAge: [Redacted]
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Homeworld: Naboo
Height: 86 kilos
Weight: 188 centimeters
Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Fair
Hair Color: Salt & Pepper
Force Sensitivity: [Slight]
From the Desk of a Dr. Pike Panaka: (Patient Callat's Strengths & Weaknesses)
Biography: (NRSFC Personnel File J541-RA2-31AB)
Seth Callat was born into a middle-class family with a history of sending both sons and daughters to serve in the Naboo Royal Security Forces as well as the Royal Space Fighter Corps, and as such it was pretty much a matter of destiny that then young Seth would go into the academy to serve in the ranks of the planetary defense forces. Not much is known about his childhood, other than the fact that he seemed to be a voracious reader of the planet's history and literature. Background checks into his school years showed him to be highly capable in mathematics, logic and interstellar cartography.
He would go on to have a decorated career with the Space fighter Corps, where over the course of a decade he rose through the ranks from humble wingman to wing commander of a detail of Naboo Fighters. He would spend an entire decade attached to a frontier squadron patrolling the borders of Naboo's sovereign space. When the Omega War broke out, Callat and his wing were some of the first who saw action, and their adventures (and misadventures) throughout that horrible period in galactic history would eventually become one of the finest examples of Naboo pilotry. The war would leave him scarred however, and while scheduled for retirement following the war's conclusion, only two years later, the Great Galactic War broke out.
After initial attempts by the Queen to broker a piece failed and the Galactic Alliance collapsed, Naboo began to turn to the Confederacy of Independent Systems, and while Captain Callat never actively took part in this new war (actually, barely any Naboo servicemen did, if any at all), it killed him inside to know that Alliance soldiers and pilots were dying left and right as Naboo maintained its anti-aggressive stance. He also did know deep down, however, that the safety of his homeworld was far more important than his own ideals. It was during this time that he developed a taste for Corellian Ale and deathsticks as a way to deal with this cognitive dissonance. Combined with an unhealthy obsession with Pazaak, and his professional career's decline began to snowball as his reputation likewise deteriorated.
All seemed to be finished for Captain Callat, when a secret directive from Leeds arrived - while the whole affair was to be kept off the books and only a few choice military officials would be privy to it, Seth was tasked with commandeering a retrofit MC-85 Star Cruiser, with the objective of lending support to the shattered Alliance, and to any Republican Remnants in the Outer Rim willing to give aid to the effort to stem the dark shroud of the Dark Side that seemed to envelop the galaxy.
Although publicly thankless, the covert assignment turned out to be Callat's redemption - a chance for him to make up for the crime of standing idly by while other good men died, and a reason for him to give self-improvement a chance again, now that he'd been made captain of a starcruiser and commander of over one thousand souls.
The Mon Calamari ship, named The Glory of Leeds, was christened as a separate vessel from the Royal Navy ships that formed the brunt of Naboo's defense fleet. Refit and re-purposed in secrecy inside a great derelict at a remote corner of Naboo's control zone, it was to be Naboo's final gift to the Alliance in the battle for the Galaxy's soul.
Ship: The Glory of Theed
The Glory of Theed is a retrofit Mon Calamari 85 Star Cruiser, arguably the largest of the gentle Mon Calamari's line of ships. Callat's command has been refitted with customized hangar and support modules to better service an additional 1-2 wings of bombers, but has traded it for the the half a dozen or so Concussion Missile Launchers, conventionally used as anti-fighter point defense - the missile holds and crew pits now serving as auxiliary quarters and refitted storage areas for the hangar bay. Power once fed into the missile priming and targeting systems has also been shunted to the hangar bay, mainly the support and fabrication modules. *
Because of this, it relies heavily on the tenacity and skill of its pilots and wing commander, but also on the navigational and tactical effectiveness of its bridge officers and commander. Strategically, it serves as a mobile shipyard and carrier rather than a heavy assault cruiser, and without access to its fighter-bomber wings or proper escort, would not hold out for long against a fully operational Star Destroyer.
It also remains a perpetual work-in-progress, as its science and engineering teams are constantly analyzing and upgrading the ship's systems as it adjusts into an ever-changing set of hostile conditions that only a retrofit Mon Calamari cruiser-turned-carrier can address.
*The Glory of Theed otherwise maintains its standard loadout of 18 turbolasers, 18 ion cannons, and 12 point-defense turrets.
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