Trask Lucan

Captain Trask Lucan was a Human male born on the planet Hyder. A son of the pilot, Lucan became a New Republic agent. On the planet Glova he was set up by the local governor Tegist Byrg and lost his ship. Unable to leave the planet, he stayed on Glova until he met a group of smugglers who were in a similar situation. With the aid of the New Republic ambassador, they attacked Byrg's headquarters in order to retrieve their ships.

Biography
Trask Lucan was born on the planet Hyder. His father had been a pilot and it was obvious from very early that Trask would follow in his father's footsteps. At a very young age, he soloed for the first time, and thereafter was always at the controls. After his father was shot down by the Empire after being suspected of smuggling, Trask swore vengeance upon them. He had been fighting ever since.

At some point in his life, he became a New Republic agent and obtained a ship called the Lucan's Nightmare. Acting as an advance scout for the Republic, he arrived on the planet Glova, where he was set up by the planetary governor Tegist Byrg, who confiscated his ship. Stranded on the planet, he kept his connections with the New Republic in secret and was often found in the local cantinas posing as a mere tramp freighter pilot. In Borke's Cantina he met a group of smugglers while they were looking for a way to get their ship out of the impound. Lucan later assisted them along with the New Republic troops under the comand of ambassador Robert Makina in the raid on Byrg's headquarters after it was revealed that the governor had connections with the Empire. The exact outcome of the battle is unknown, though Byrg was either captured or escaped on the Nightmare and was later followed by smugglers hired by Makina.

Personality and traits
Lucan was a tall man with an athletic build, brown hair in a shaggy mop, and grey eyes. He usually dressed as a tramp freighter pilot. He was a gambler, a skilled mechanic and pilot, possessed a heavy blaster pistol and a vacuum suit.

Trask was an eternal optimist. His talent for acting has allowed him to play the part of the extremely down-on-his-luck ship captain, but he was really quite happy with the way things had gone. His enthusiasm for the New Republic was matched only by his enthusiasm for strong drink.

Behind the scenes
Lucan's first and only appearance was in The Politics of Contraband, an adventure for Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game written by Bill Smith, published by West End Games in 1991 and anthologized in Classic Adventures: Volume 1. He serves as a non-player character there who assists a party of players on their quest to reclaim their ship by capturing the planetary governor and tries to get his own ship back as well. Since Byrg can either be captured or escape on Lucan's ship at the end of the adventure, Trask can either get the Lucan's Nightmare back or let the players do it by following the governor.