Vail Tormin was a human bounty hunter who was active during the Galactic Civil War. She was hired by the Zerek Besh criminal syndicate leader Sliro Barsha to kill the criminal Kay Vess. She was one of the best bounty hunters in the Outer Rim Territories.
Biography[]
Early History[]
Vail was born in the Outer Rim in the final years of the Old Republic. She began her Bounty Hunting career as a teenager. During one mission, an encounter with a rival assassin resulted in injures which required her right hand, and a few fingers on her left hand, to be replaced with cybernetics. Despite this setback, by the time Vail was 21 standard years of age, she had carved a respectable niche for herself as a reliable alternative for those who could not afford the services of Boba Fett or Cad Bane. A highly skilled businessperson, she managed to amass a small fortune which she kept on Niamos. Vail was also known for her refusal to accept bounties offered by the Galactic Empire, due to a mixture of an unpleasant past experience with them and her unique code of honor.
Hunting Kay Vess[]
Three years after the Battle of Yavin, Vail was hired by Sliro Barsha of the Zerek Besh to track down Kay Vess, who had broken into Sliro's personal vault and stolen a EML-850 light freighter called the Trailblazer. Figuring that Kay was a loner with little to no resources, who didn't even know how to properly fly the ship she stole, Vail anticipated this would be an easy assignment to complete.
Vail subsequently tracked Kay to Toshara, where the Trailblazer had crashed due to Kay's lack of experience in piloting starships. Kay had found a mechanic, Waka, who had agreed to repair the ship. However, in order to pay for Waka's services, and to acquire some particularly rare parts that needed to be replaced, Kay had was forced to resort to conduct numerous mission for various individuals belonging to the local criminal population. As Kay made her presence known in the planet's underworld, Vail therefore picked up the trail and eventually made contact with Waka, who ultimately sold Kay out to Vail in an attempt to acquire the Trailblazer for himself. After killing Waka when his attempt to murder the young thief risked violating compromising her bounty, which specified that Key was to be brought in alive, Vail pursued her intended target, eventually cornering her. Kay was only saved by the timely intervention of Jaylen Vrax and his droid enforcer ND-5. ND-5 easily overpowered Vail, and the three of them escaped on the Trailblazer.
Anticipating that Kay's search for allies against the Zerek Besh would eventually lead her to Jabba Desilijic Tiure, who harboured a particular hatred for Sliro, Vail subsequently made the journey to the Hutt's Palace on the planet Tatooine, and the two of them laid a trap for Kay. Kay arrived not long after and was captured, but it was then that Jabba revealed he had had no intention of allowing Vail to leave his palace with Kay as her prisoner, as doing so would be tantamount to handing over a free victory to the Zerek Besh. Instead, he dropped both woman, allowing with Hoss, into the feeding pit of his rancor. Vail and Kay agreed to work together in order to endure their mutual survive, and two of them are able to subdue the rancor and fight their way out of Jabba's palace. Parting ways peacefully with Kay, despite her contract, although Tormin warned the other that she would resume pursuit eventually, both women left Tatooine with a mutual respect for each other.
Having second thoughts about her assignment, Vail contacted Sliro via a holographic channel, declaring that she was abandoning the pursuit of Kay Vess. Sliro blackmailed her into continuing the hunt, however, threatening to seize her assets on Niamos if she walked away. Collecting knowledge that allowed her to discern that Kay and her allies, which now had ties with a cell of the Rebel Alliance working off Akiva, would be undertaking another attempt to rob her employer's vault in Westhill Palace, Vail helped Sliro and his bodyguards set a trap for them.
Kay and the rebels eventually proceeded to rob the vault as expected, which contained no money, but instead held a Codex containing of highly classified ISB files that Sliro had accumulated to blackmail his rivals and advance his career. Sliro, Vail, and Sliro's guards surprised Kay and the other infiltrators, resulting in a tense armed standoff, during which Kay informed Vail that Sliro was in reality a deep cover operative for the Imperial Security Bureau. Angered at being lied to, and by an Imperial no less, Vail betrayed her employer, shooting Sliro's guards and knocking the crime lord himself out, then escaped with Kay and the rest of her allies.
After giving the rebels a chance to copy the files on the Codex, Kay provided the original hardcopy to Vail for safekeeping, declining the bounty hunter's suggestion for a partnership, but departing with her on good terms. With the knowledge at her fingertips, Vail decided to use the information on the Codex to secure a leadership position for herself inside the Bounty Hunters' Guild.[2]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Outlaws (First appearance)
Sources[]
Star Wars Outlaws: Official Story Trailer on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link) (First mentioned)- Star Wars Outlaws: Creative Director Julian Gerighty Breaks Down the New Story Trailer on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Star Wars Day 2024 Games and Experiences Deals! on StarWars.com (backup link) (Picture only)
- Star Wars Outlaws: Behind The Scenes – Navigating the Underworld on the official Ubisoft YouTube channel (backup link)
- The Sights and Scoundrels of Star Wars Outlaws on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
- "Launchpad" — Star Wars Insider 227 (Picture only)
- Vail in the Databank (backup link)
