Barosa Warren

"He is the foremost expert in his field: our late companion Major Glidamir once commented that if Barosa were left to die in the wastes of Tatooine, in no time he would build himself a castle of seaweed. He is not to be understimated: to do so will undoubtedly cost you your life."

- Major Sisquoc on Warren

Barosa Warren was a lawman, an expert survivalist, and chancellor of the Galactic Outdoor Survival School, with a personal vendetta against those former students of his who had joined the Rebel Alliance. A long-lived Morellian, he was believed to be the last surviving member of his species.

Biography
Barosa Warren was born on Morellia, a member of a long-lived Near-Human species known as Morellians. Probably born between 169 BBY and 162 BBY, he was still active at 2 ABY.

During his youth, Warren served in the Morellian Enforcers, a police-like corps using limited technology such as the Morellian Weapons Conglomerate .48-caliber Enforcer pistol. He also used the traditional Morellian Enforcer uniform, including leather boots, blackstrap gloves and a long oilcoat made of leather.

Afterwards, Warren joined the Old Republic as a scout. He was known for reclaiming dangerous words such as Buamlon Central, Frewwil, Theal and Dra III - where he was attacked and injured by a Nashtah. This attack caused him a permanent scar on his right arm. During this time, he became a well-known galaxy-wide authority in hostile terrain survival.

Around 59 BBY or before that, Warren was still quite young for a Morellian. Anyhow, he announced his retirement as a scout, wanting to fulfill his greatest dream.

He talked with some friends trying to get financial backing, and losing their friendship while doing so, but he bought a planet in the Ollonir Boundaries. The planet, OM813 (renamed Thrantin) was then planetscaped to create a traning camp for his survival school. Warren thus created Zero-G areas, an Ammonia Ocean and the Heavy Grav Mountainous Zones. While Warren admitted he should take students to different worlds to teach them, he also believed in having a "controlled environment" to ensure that none of his students could cheat.

And thus, in some 40 years, Warren created the Galactic Outdoor Survival School, an unofficial organization training survivalist to thrive in environments hostile to their own species. Warren himself became the chancellor, dean and master instructor of the School, thou he used a specialized staff. Many of the staff was extremely loyal to Warren personally, specially Stren Grier and Casti Tholon, who is also Warren's assistant, favorite and personal friend.

He also obtained several dozens of ships he used at school, including at least seven modified Mu-class shuttles and his personal vehicle, the Cannibal.

The Galactic Outdoor Survival School, or G.O.S.S., had since become a leading center. Many of the alumni became corporative, independent or politically-alligned (Imperial- or Rebel-alligned) scouts; others have become instructors at the GOSS or at their own centers.

Warren also had multiple children, all of them half-Morellian half-Human (which led to believe that Warren was the last Morellian). His known children include Alton Lochner, Danlea Lochner (both of them changed their surname because of not being in good terms with their father), Roland Warren and Tole Warren.

Around 17 BBY, the Summit Class became the greatest class ever in the GOSS, managing to get a record in the final trek used as an exam. Warren respected the results and the performance of the Summits. Seven years later, the Twilight Class broke the Summits record in more than one day. Warren took the mine survivalist of the Twilights, Larq Thur, and offered him a job as instructor at GOSS; another of the Twilights, Kiras Torla, was a close friend of Warren and his staff when she finished the studies.

However, eleven of the twelve Twilights joined the Rebel Alliance after that. Warren, who held nothing but contaimpt for the Rebellion, considered them since his personal enemies. Some of the students believed that Warren had even sent mercenaries and bounty hunters after them. Torla, formerly a friend for Warren, was so scared of him that she disappeared from the known space.

Twilight veterans and Rebel officers Sisquoc, Ma'w'shiye and Derembus Sitnalta wrote extensive reports on Warren to warn other Rebels of the danger posed by him.

Behind the Scenes
The guide Alliance Intelligence Reports provides some trouble with Barosa Warren's age. He is said to be in his 110s when he began with the GOSS project, and he spent four decades until he could open it (thus he was in his 150s). He was in his 160s around 2 BBY ("current age" during the reports' writing). Thus, the GOSS has been open for one decade, since 8 BBY. However: The Twilight Class graduated at GOSS 12 years before the "current events", thus 10 BBY, and they broke a 7-year-old record by the Summit Class - which leads the GOSS being open at least around 17 BBY.