Nashiak Llalik

"My brother Nashiak is certainly the premier armor designer under contract with the Empire, aside from perhaps Dr. Nonrey, from whom we have not heard from in several years. He is not an evil mind; he has none of the cruel tendencies so often attributed to eccentric Imperial designs. He is just blind to the Empire's true evil: he believes that he is not responsible for how his inventions are used."

- Doctor Saren Llalik, Alliance to Restore the Republic.

Doctor Nashiak Llalik, a Human male scientist born in Plavin 6 and graduated on Chandrilla, was a prestigious armor designer working for the Galactic Empire. In his first days, he developed the coveted Sunder 9 power armor for his own venture business, Llalik Designs, but the new laws of the Empire forbid him to continue that line of work and he then accepted contracts for the Empire.

His younger sister, Doctor Saren Llalik, an agent of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, believed that Nashiak was a potential recruit for her side, as he had only started working for the Empire when the law stopped him from continuing on his own, and as such he did not really share the political views of his employers.

Biography
The second of three children by Dr. Nash and Dr. Loran Llalik, Nashiak Llalik was born in humid jungle world Plavin 6. During his childhood, he showed an interest on armor: He was fond of reading stories about the Death Watch and the Sun Guard, and then entertained his younger sister Saren talking about their armors.

Nash Llalik studied at the Chandrillan Academy of Sciences, and got a degree as the first of his class. He was then recruited by COMPNOR Science group, who in turn assigned him to Coalition for Progress, both of them groups associated to the Galactic Empire.

For a long time, Dr. Llalik wanted to work in his pet project, the Sunder 9 power armor. He worked on it for a year while he was on his personal business venture, Llalik Designs; Dr. Llalik was his own test pilot on Sunder 9 Project, and because he was left-handed, the prototypes included some weapons in the left arm.

However, new laws suddenly forbade most power armors. Llalik was unhappy with this, as he had spent almost one year on this project and had built two untested prototypes. Llalik decided to store the machines at his home at Plavin 6, and set up his security droids to protect them. Several scoundrels from the galaxy travelled to Plavin 6 wanting to get the Sunder 9 prototypes, but none of them managed to evade the protection.

Fortunately, when he was forced to leave his own project, the Galactic Empire hired him to work on the Zero-G assault stormtrooper armor. He had a chance to incorporate some concepts from Sunder 9 in that project, although not enough to satisfy his own interests about the Sunder project.

A great designer, Llalik would become the main responsible of the development of many Imperial and civilian armor suits such as the Radiation Zone Assault Trooper armor and the Storm Commando armor. He also collaborated with Creshaldyne Industries and Koromondain PDS, Incorporated in different designs.

Due to his work, he became a rich man and he built a manor for himself in Plavin 6, even if he did not lived there, because he hoped to return there in the future.

The Rebel Alliance Task Force noticed that his designs were used to further damage the Rebel Alliance, and considered him a threat. However, he was not a political supporter of the Empire, and his sister Saren, by then a member of the Alliance and also a genius engineer, hoped he could be recruited by the Alliance not only to use his genius for a better goal, but also because she missed his stories about Sun Guard and Death Watch armors.

Personality and traits
Llalik was a dark-skinned human with light green eyes who, following the Plavin norm, was fond of loose clothes &mdash; in opposition to his beloved armors. Llalik was qualified to test his own prototypes and did so. As he was left-handed, some of his test armors were customized for his use.

Llalik was an expert in the design and maintenance of armors, particularly power armors and certain specific designs such as the Radtrooper, the Zero-G and the Storm Commando. He was also knowledegable in other technologies, including droids and blasters. His other skills i ncluded the operation of armors and jetpacks, the use of armor weapons and scholarly knowledge of historical armors and alien species.