User:Thetoastman

Bendak Davin (64 ABY&mdash;), better known by his alias thetoastman, was a Journeyman Protector, served as a Mandalorian supercommando in the Mandalorian Protectors, went through a short stint as a bounty hunter, and finally assumed the title of Mandalore in 91 ABY.

Biography
Before Bendak Davin would ever assume the now-infamous Holonet alias "thetoastman", indeed, before even he was born, it seemed only natural that he would one day join the indomitable ranks of the Mandalorian supercommandos, given his martial ancestry.

Ancestry
Bendak's great-grandfather had been one of the first clones off the production line shortly before the eruption of the Clone Wars, in the waning years of the Republic, an Advanced Recon Commando that carried that designation number Alpha-17. Over the course of the war, he quickly became one of the most accomplished soldiers the Republic had even known, proving instrumental to the success of campaigns on Kamino, Jabiim, Boz Pity, and countless others, even once escaping the clutches of a Separatist prison facility on Rattatak. Near the end of the war, on Boz Pity, Alpha was severely wounded at the durasteel hands of General Grievous himself, and loaded onto a medical transport for evacuation to Coruscant. Unfortunately, the Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress commandeered the ship and flew it away into the unknown. Some time later, Alpha reemerged, partially healed, on Coruscant. It remains unknown how he managed to escape. Despite the diversion, he was immediately and ceremoniously reenlisted back into what had become the Imperial Army, this time heading up the elite branch of the military known as the Storm Commando Corps. His career with the Commandos repressing elements of the fledgling Rebel Alliance and infiltrating organized crime syndicates was illustrious but short-lived, as rapidly accelerating age quickly forced him into retirement. He was set up with a luxurious Coruscant flat and married the daughter of a Senator, having a single son before his accelerated cells mutated to become cancerous and he died.

That son was Ular Davin. Though his father died when he was young, as he grew up, he became fascinated with learning about his father and the exploits of the Advanced Recon Commandos in the Clone Wars, as well as the history of the Mandalorians in general. His mother, Kellis Davin, a Coruscant socialite born into wealth, highly discouraged this talk of guns, blood, and battles. She wished nothing more than to see her son grow up to be a lawyer and one day buy his own expansive flat atop the Coruscant skyline. But it was not to be- he had, as a Tatooine farmer had once remarked about his own nephew, "too much of his father in him." When Ular was a teenager, he stumbled upon a stunning revelation about his family history- Mandalorian blood ran not only on his father's side. His mother's father, he was astonished to learn, had once been a Journeyman Protector who had made a fortune when he split off and became a private bounty hunter. This wealth had been inherited by Kellis and her brother Cort, who, as Ular found out after further investigation, had himself been a Journeyman Protector, training dozens of clone officers including the decorated Commander Bacara before he himself was killed by the Separatists. Ular's grandfather, he learned, had had his honor revoked when he left the Mandalorians, an honor which his uncle Cort had died trying to regain. It now fell on him to regain his family's honor. His mother, who had already had her entire family decimated by the horrors of the mercenary life and was now settled comfortably in the upper-class lifestyle, absolutely forbid it. So, in the dead of night, Ular snuck out and took a transport to Concord Dawn. His mother, having lost her entire family to war, took her own life the very next day, but Ular would never learn of it, nor see Coruscant again.

Instead, Ular settled on Concord Dawn and joined the Mandalorians, leaving the excess of his old city life behind in favor of the life of a farmer. In time, he proved his worth, being as fierce a warrior as his celebrated father was, and assumed the title of Journeyman Protector. He married a native girl named Reialla and raised two children, a son, Kivar, and a daughter, Kamisa. Unfortunately, for Kamisa, the standard at-birth inoculation against Concord Dawn's deadly Karatos Plague was a dud, and the baby girl never lived to be a standard month old.

Kivar was raised in a setting far too monotonous for the curious and explorative nature of his parentage. When he was only a child, he used scavenged scrap parts to fix up the wreck of an old T-24 airspeeder he found in the Concord Dawn countryside. It was then that he discovered his incredible dexterity with piloting. Coincidentally, at the same time, he began to get interested in politics. He would frequently discuss with his friends the injustices and atrocities of the Empire, and met a number of recruiters for the Rebel Alliance that often passed through. Soon, he was a fervent anti-Imperial, often having loud disagreements with his father, who stubbornly remained loyal to his home planet, whatever form of government it took. Though Kivar desperately wanted to join the Rebel Alliance and use his piloting skill against the Empire, Ular would hear none of it. Kivar grudgingly resigned himself to a boring life tending crops.

That would all change, though, on one fateful day. As he was in town picking up power converters for the vaporators at his homestead one day, a bloodied man flew into town on a speederbike shouting, "Stormtroopers are coming! Everyone get outta here!" Kivar recognized the man as one of the Rebel recruiters. Suddenly, dark shadows blocked out the sun as six Sentinel-class landers appeared, touching down outside of town. Stormtroopers and AT-PTs poured out of these heralds of death, and immediately began to slaughter the inhabitants of the township. Kivar was struck with mortal fear and hid himself in a broken waste incinerator outside his favorite cantina, not daring to come out for three hours. When he finally did, he was in shock. The corpses of his friends and people he had known for his entire life littered the ground. He walked to the edge of town and saw the Rebel recruiter on the ground, dead, with a round blast point in his forehead. His speeder was still thrumming a few feet away. Suddenly, Kivar had a terrible thought. He grabbed the speeder and raced back to his homestead. Even from the distance, he could see the plume of black smoke rising. It was only when he saw the smoldering skeletons of his incinerated parents that his fear turned to anger. Anger against his father, the town, but especially against the Empire. Kivar took his T-24 and flew to the nearest spaceport, and with the little money he got from selling the craft he took a transport to Sullust.

Within three weeks, Kivar was one of the foremost pilots in the Rebel Alliance. His X-Wing, having been made by Incom, the same manufacturer that produced his old T-24, came naturally to him, and he was considered by many the most agile pilot in the fleet. He would need all his skill, too, because as he learned at a briefing aboard the Home One not long afterward, the Alliance was about to make an attack against the second Death Star over Endor's forest moon. When the Rebel fleet decelerated from hyperspace and streaked toward the partially constructed behemoth, Kivar was in the lead, alongside hotshot pilots Wedge Antilles and Lando Calrissian at the helm of the legendary Millennium Falcon. During the course of the battle, Kivar personally took down two Star Destroyers and disabled the engines of another, along with countless TIE pursuers. When the call finally came through that the shield was down, Kivar became the Falcon's left wingman, accompanying the attack group into the volatile core of the Death Star, and beat the flames to its surface, just ahead of the Falcon.

This began a long career as a pilot for Kivar in the Alliance, the New Republic, and the Galactic Alliance. Against the Empire, the Yuuzhan Vong, the Killiks, and subsequent threats Kivar proved time and again why he was one of the most valuable assets the Republic Navy had. But, like all aging soldiers, Kivar was eventually forced to retire. Ironically, he fulfilled his grandmother's request a generation late and bought a luxurious Coruscant flat. He was restless, though, and never settled down with a single woman, instead opting for numerous partners over many years. One fateful night he met a beautiful woman at a Coruscant bar and he managed to seduce her. Six hours and a few dozen drinks later, he had brought her to his room and they made love. When she woke up in the night and regained her wits, however, she left, and he would never see her again.

Despite this, however, he became obsessed with finding her. Kivar hired several teams of private investigators to find to woman, and, though he never did, he did learn that her name was Ailyn Vel and that she had visited an adoption agency on Corellia ten months after the one-night stand. Kivar visited the agency personally and it was there that he first laid eyes on his son Bendak.

Early Life
To be continued...