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Pre-Commencement
Gorman Vandrayk grew up on the Arkanian homeworld of Arkania, a member of the Arkanian Offshoot sub-species. In the years prior to the Great Sith War, Vandrayk was recognized as an extremely promising university student who impressed with his brilliance in both biology, engineering and technology, and he was hired immediately after graduation by the Arkanian biotechnology titan Adascorp and set to work in the corporate labs. During his years at Adascorp, Vandrayk began studying the exogorths, a mysterious species of massive space slugs that had been found in many disparate locations throughout the galaxy, in a clandestine Adascorp operation known as Project Black Harvest. Vandrayk led a scientific team inside a dormant exogorth and made a study of its brain, unlocking the secrets of the species&mdash;they traveled between star systems in search of sustenance, going into a sort of hibernation while riding the solar winds to their destinations. Vandrayk eventually learned how to contact and control the minds of the exogorths, and also how to speed their reproduction, make them grow even larger, and propel them with hyperdrive implants.

After studying the exogorths, Vandrayk met with research director Artonian Dobonold and Argaloh Adasca, the Sixth Lord Adasca, the head of Adascorp. Vandrayk's findings about the destructive power and reproductive potential of the exogorths intrigued Lord Adasca, who believed that control of the beasts could greatly benefit Adascorp in the context of the ongoing Great Sith War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. When Vandrayk realized what Adasca was suggesting, he decided that he wanted no part of it, and immediately left the room&mdash;that briefing would be Vandrayk's last with Adascorp, as he broke his contract and went on the run in a junk hauler known as The Last Resort

Commencement
By 3964 BBY, Vandrayk and Jarael had taken up residence in a run-down section of the planet Taris' Lower City known as Junk Junction, a site they chose because it was large and open enough to conceal The Last Resort. The Offshoots set traps within Junk Junction's mounds of debris to deter visitors, and surrounding their ship with tents and awnings, they disguised The Last Resort as their home. "Camper" spent his days fiddling with droids and with The Last Resort itself, tinkering with the ship so much that he had lost track what he had done to which systems. Vandrayk become known in the Tarisian underworld for refitting old escape pods into shipping containers that could be used for covert transport&mdash;at one point, Vandrayk, at the behest of small-time hood Marn Hierogryph, held conceal wanted criminal Zovius Mendu within a crate of dried dreeka fish to be shipped to Corellia. In 3964 BBY, the Padawan Massacre occurred in Taris' Jedi Tower&mdash;an entire class of Jedi Padawans were slain by their Jedi Masters, with the exception of Human Zayne Carrick. Carrick was charged with the murders, and after he escaped pursuit with "accomplice" Hierogryph, he became the most wanted man on Taris. Remembering the role Vandrayk played in helping Zovius Mendu evade justice, Hierogryph brought Carrick with him to Junk Junction, seeking Vandrayk's help again. Upon their approach, however, they set off one of Vandrayk's traps and incurred the wrath of Jarael, who attacked and injured Carrick with her neural stinger. As Hierogryph unsuccessfully pleaded with Vandrayk to help them, The Last Resort was found by a law enforcement ship searching for Carrick, which contained Constable Noana Sowrs and several Jedi Masters from the Jedi Tower. Vandrayk immediately bolted up to The Last Resort cockpit and raised ship with Carrick and Hierogryph aboard, escaping into outer space.

It was a short trip. The Last Resort had not flown in years, and the vessel lost power quickly after clearing the planet's atmosphere. As patrol ships approached, Vandrayk was able to power the ship back up, evading pursuit by flying into the Taris system's asteroid belt. The whole experience was too much for Vandrayk, who collapsed from exhaustion, believing that Adascorp had again come for him. The next day, the group traveled to the rogue moon, an anomalous planetoid within the asteroid belt that was constantly bombarded by meteorites&mdash;it was the last place Carrick and friends had all been together with their Masters before the massacre occurred, and Carrick was hoping to learn more about what precipitated the killings. Vandrayk dropped Carrick and Jarael off on the rogue moon's surface, then brought the ship around to the other side of the moon, as The Last Resort did not have functioning shields and would shortly be obliterated if it stayed where it was. There, Carrick found the remnants of T1-LB, a bulk-loading droid that been with the Jedi Masters on the rogue moon, and which might have had a clue as to what had propelled the Masters to kill their students. Shortly after they found the droid, however, Carrick and Jarael were cornered by the Masters and law enforcement, who had tracked them to the moon. Vandrayk and Hierogryph were able to save the two in the nick of time, firing on the pursuers and escaping with Carrick, Jarael and T1-LB in The Last Resort.

Once The Last Resort was safely away, Vandrayk set to work repairing T1-LB, whom Carrick believed held valuable infomation in its holographic memory. The extent of the damage to the droid caused some problems accessing the memory, so Vandrayk completely upgraded and restored T1-LB&mdash;he added a higher-class processor, a vocabulator and a holographic projector to the droid, which was previously a fifth-class drone without the ability to speak. After getting T1-LB back up and running, Vandrayk was able to access a holographic recording of the droid's final moments, which revealed that the Masters had killed their students after having a Force vision that they believed depicted one of their Padawans bringing about the return of the Sith and the fall of the Jedi Order. T1-LB then relived his destruction at the hands of Master Lucien Draay, and flew into a distressed rampage that Vandrayk was forced to calm down. Only a few moments later, The Last Resort found itself caught in a tractor beam, captured by a ship that Hierogryph recognized as the Oroko, belonging to local bounty hunter Valius Ying. Once aboard, Hierogryph was able to negotiate with Ying and get himself, Vandrayk and Jarael freed, on the condition that Carrick come with them to cash in on the former Padawan's sizable bounty on Taris.

Carrick agreed to turn himself in, in order to allow Vandrayk, Jarael and Hierogryph to get away&mdash;although they could have left him to his fate and been off, instead they formulated a plan to save him. As Ying brought Carrick down to Taris' surface, Hierogryph bribed the Oroko first mate to release The Last Resort in Taris' orbit. Vandrayk modified one of The Last Resort environment suit with a trick helmet and an audio recording that would disturb the Jedi Masters, and Jarael was sent into the Jedi Tower wielding Carrick's lightsaber, which he had left behind on the Oroko, and covered by blaster fire from The Last Resort. Jarael arrived in the nick of time, and together the group escaped Taris in The Last Resort.

Flashpoint
Now carrying wanted fugitives and running low on food, Vandrayk and The Last Resort soon stopped by the Republic mining world of Vanquo, where they formulated a plan to clear a local mining camp of its staff by simulating an attack by the Mandalorians, a notorious warrior culture that had recently come into conflict with the Republic. Vandrayk hijacked the camp's distress channel, while Jarael posed as Jedi Master Q'Anilia&mdash;one of the Taris Jedi Masters hunting for Carrick&mdash;informing the miners that the Mandalorians had landed on Vanquo. Also influenced by Carrick's Force abilities and T1-LB banging on the side of their control building, the miners quickly panicked and fled, leaving the camp, and its vast stores of food, survival gear and power sources, to the crew of The Last Resort. But while the group loaded supplies into The Last Resort, the Mandalorians attacked Vanquo for real. Jarael, who still was in possession of Carrick's lightsaber, was mistaken for a Jedi and captured after a brief fight, and Carrick had to physically restrain Vandrayk from going after her. Vandrayk was overcome by shock and grief, and had to be carried to The Last Resort by T1-LB, who charged through a host of Mandalorian invaders on the way there. Once they reached the ship, they were overtaken by a Mandalorian captain, who attempted to steal the vessel and fly away&mdash; T1-LB managed to get a grip on the loading ramp as The Last Resort took off, and the group was narrowly able to climb aboard before the ramp was raised.

Vandrayk immediately charged the cockpit, attacking the Mandalorian with Jarael's shockstaff and quickly gaining the upper hand, before casting him down into the cargo hold where T1-LB immobilized him. Vandrayk took control of The Last Resort and took off into hyperspace towards Mandalorian space, tracking a homing device built into Jarael's bracelet. Once the Mandalorian heard that they were headed into Mandalorian territory, he spoke up and offered to help&mdash;introducing himself as shock infantryman Rohlan Dyre, he revealed that Jarael was being taken to the Flashpoint Stellar Research Station, where the Mandalorian biologist Demagol was experimenting on captured Jedi to determine the source of their abilities. Although Dyre believed that saving Jarael was an impossible task, Vandrayk and Carrick refused to let her go. Instead, Carrick came up with a plan. Once The Last Resort reached Flashpoint, Carrick posed as Dyre's prisoner and was brought to Demagol's bunker, while Vandrayk and Hierogryph hid from a Mandalorian search party inside one of the ship's special compartments. Once Carrick was taken back to Demagol's office, Dyre incapacitated the scientist and freed Carrick, and the former Padawan switched into Demagol's armor. Once "Demagol" and Dyre walked outside, the Mandalorian station received a holographic message from Hierogryph, who was posing as a Republic admiral. After Carrick surreptitiously used the Force to attach scavenged Vanquo mining charges to the camp's solar shield generator and a number captured Republic ships, "Admiral" Hierogryph set off explosions that rocked the camp and scared the Mandalorians into fleeing the planet. Jarael and the rest of the Jedi were saved, and reunited, Vandrayk and the crew of The Last Resort left Flashpoint behind and headed back toward Republic space.

Reunion-Nights 16
After surviving the madness at Flashpoint, the crew of The Last Resort journeyed to the banking world of Telerath, to retrieve a large sum of money held in one of Marn Hierogryph's bank accounts frozen after the Padawan Massacre. As Hierogryph could not leave the ship for fear of being recognized and arrested, Vandrayk ventured forth disguised as a "Baron Hyro Margryph," a wealthy recycling magnate whose account was mistakenly frozen owing to his name's similarity to that of the wanted criminal Hierogryph. Although Vandrayk mistakenly left the document with the 30-digit account access code on the ship, he surprised everyone by remembering the code anyway. Suddenly, however, a pair of Ithorian bounty hunters emerged from the bushes and made off with their banker, a man named Arvan. Vandrayk and Jarael gave chase along with Carrick and Hierogryph, the latter of whom recognized the description of the hunters as the Moomo Brothers, who were known in underworld circles for their incompetence and stupidity. Vandrayk had to pull out of the chase after suffering a faint spell, and while the Moomo Brothers were able to escape with the banker, Carrick was able to get close enough to recognize the Moomos' prisoner as his father.

Knowing that the banker was actually Carrick's father made the situation more dire for the group, and they formulated a plan to save Arvan Carrick from captivity aboard the Moomo's ship, the Moomo Williwaw. With Vandrayk posing as Carrick, the crew of The Last Resort was able to confuse the Moomos into fighting one another, which allowed Carrick and his father to slip away. Once they were able to safely shepherd Carrick's father onto The Last Resort, they succeeded in obtaining their money and were soon on their way. With the Telerath caper behind them, and Carrick setting off on his own mission to clear his name, the crew of The Last Resort decided that it was time to split up. To this end, the group made their way to the planet Ralltiir, where Vandrayk caught Hierogryph trying to sell some of his projects as valuable artwork&mdash;once Hierogryph promised to cut him in on the deal, Vandrayk allowed the Snivvian to proceed. Vandrayk and Jarael eventually dropped the two fugitives off on Ralltiir, where Vandrayk gifted Carrick a pair of phrikite vambraces that he had personally made before they parted. In return, Hierogryph got Vandrayk and Jarael a crate of hyperdrive parts the ship desperately needed. However, Vandrayk and Jarael got more than they bargained for with the package: an HK-24 assassin droid, sent by Vandrayk's former employers at Adascorp, had stowed away inside the crate and attacked once The Last Resort had gone into hyperspace.

Although the HK-24 succeeded in taking Vandrayk down despite resistance from Jarael and T1-LB, another stowaway emerged to save the day&mdash;Rohlan Dyre, who had been hiding on the ship since Flashpoint, revealed himself and destroyed the droid. With Vandrayk's health failing, Dyre attempted to treat the old Arkanian, but was unable to do much about Vandrayk's delirium and weak pulse. As Vandrayk laid incapacitated aboard The Last Resort, Jarael took the ship to Arkania in the hopes that someone there would be able to help him. Jarael tried to evade Arkanian discrimination against Offshoots by disguising herself as a pureblood Arkanian and bribed a doctor into helping her get a diagnosis for Vandrayk&mdash; but Adascorp recognized their former employee's genetic profile from the sample Jarael provided, and saw their opportunity to bring Vandrayk back into the fold. Lord Arkoh Adasca, Argaloh Adasca's grandson and the new head of Adascorp, brought Jarael aboard his flagship, the Arkanian Legacy, and promised to help Vandrayk if Jarael led them to him, a proposal that Jarael accepted. Vandrayk finally stirred on The Last Resort only to see a holographic message from the Arkanian Legacy with Jarael at Adasca's side&mdash;when Vandrayk realized that the company he had fled from for years had finally found him, he fainted once again.

Next section
Vandrayk was immediately ushered away by an Adascorp medical team once aboard the Arkanian Legacy, with Adasca claiming to Jarael that his weakness was caused by a pathogen called "Balinquar's Virus" that Vandrayk had contracted during his years in the Adascorp corporate labs. The existence of the virus was a lie&mdash;what was ailing Vandrayk was actually molds and allergens running through the air circulation on The Last Resort, from which he recovered quickly after coming aboard The Last Resort. Once he was healthy enough to move around, Vandrayk was informed that he was being held until he finished the exogorth project he had begun all those years ago, and that Jarael would also be kept to ensure that he complied. With Vandrayk's help, Adasca hoped to finally fulfill his grandfather's hopes to use the exogorths to benefit Adascorp. Adasca invited representatives from all sides of the still-ongoing Mandalorian Wars to the Arkanian Legacy, planning to sell control of the exogorths to the highest bidder and turn Adascorp into a galactic power. To this end, Vandrayk was forced to help a team of Adascorp scientists to affix a large number of exogorths near the star Omonoth with implants to bring them under their control, in preparations for Adasca's sales pitch and demonstration for the interested parties. Once the work was done, Vandrayk retreated to his control station's spacesuit stowage closet and contacted Jarael, still held aboard the Arkanian Legacy, over her locator bracelet. Jarael apprised Vandrayk of what was happening on the ship, including the presence of Zayne Carrick, while Vandrayk informed Jarael that Adascorp had for years been actively working to wipe out the Offshoot population. Their conversation was interrupted when Arkoh Adasca arrived on the scene, and the head of Adascorp ripped the bracelet from Jarael's wrist and threatened to make her a test subject for Adascorp plague designers if Vandrayk did not continue to comply with his plans.

However, Carrick, who was present as a prisoner of Republic Navy Admiral Saul Karath, came up with a plan to foil Adasca. Working together with Republic pilot Carth Onasi, Carrick provoked a fight between the Republic and Mandalorian contingents that served as a distraction and allowed Lucien Draay and the Jedi to advance on Adasca. After Vandrayk, still aboard the command station, received an excited message from Carrick saying that Jarael had been freed, Vandrayk put his plan to destroy Adasca's exogorth initiative into action. First, Vandrayk transferred the station's controls into one of his own computers, effectively locking the other scientists out, and then overrode the HK-24 droid guarding him and directed it to destroy the station's airlock. While Vandrayk was safely sealed in a spacesuit, he had ripped large gashes into the other suits aboard the station, dooming the Adascorp scientists. Vandrayk then remotely directed The Last Resort out of the Arkanian Legacy docking bay and to the control station, boarding the vessel and using it to send a transmission to the Arkanian Legacy. Vandrayk taunted Adasca over the Arkanian Legacy comm system, before commanding the exogorths to devour the ship whole. Vandrayk then sent a message to Jarael, explaining that this would be their final parting&mdash;Vandrayk planned to take The Last Resort and lead the exogorths away from civilization and into Wild Space, then remove their implants and allow them to be what they originally were. Remarking that he was thinking clearly for the first time in years, Vandrayk bade his last farewell to Jarael, who was able to escape the Arkanian Legacy before its destruction after Carrick's Trandoshan friend Slyssk, working at Hierogryph's behest, arrived with the Moomo Brothers on the Moomo Williwaw.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 0: Crossroads
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 3: Commencement, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 4: Commencement, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 5: Commencement, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 6: Commencement, Part 6
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Flashpoint
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Reunion
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 13: Days of Fear, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 14: Days of Fear, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Nights of Anger
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Daze of Hate
 * Adascorp Fiscal Period Financial Report and Outlook: Field Report: Project Black Harvest
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 23: Knights of Suffering, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 29: Exalted, Part 1
 * The Adjudicator Special Report: The Colonies
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 40: Dueling Ambitions, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 41: Dueling Ambitions, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 42: Masks
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 46: Destroyer, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 47: Demon, Part 1
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic
 * Star Wars: The Old Republic