Maston Dane

Maston Dane is currently assigned to Rho Squadron, stationed on the Imperial-II Class Star Destroyer Warrior. He is also a Recon Office Assistant and a Training Office Assistant in the TFC Council.

Biography

Maston was born during the time of the Republic on Dorin but only lived there a short time. He had little to no interest in the political dealings of the Galaxy, so he spent his younger years circumventing it where he could. Opting instead to fly a small cargo ship he would contract out, mostly for passengers in the Outer Rim, but occasionally smuggling when passenger fares were hard to come by. He had a refurbished HWK-290 light freighter and when times were tough it was an easy haul to move some spice from one system to the next.

While making smuggling runs into the Core worlds for the Son-tuul Pride syndicate during the early months of the Clone Wars, Maston came to hate the Republic. He found the use of Clone Troopers abhorrent, feeling that they were essentially slaves with only ten years to develop into soldiers. During one smuggling run from Oba Diah to Keeara Major, Maston stopped at Harrin to refuel his freighter. He witnessed a battle between Separatist battle droids and a company of Clone Troopers led by a Togruta Jedi. The planet was blockaded by a Separatist fleet and Maston was prevented from leaving by the Clone Troopers. Eventually, he escaped from the blockade and, with some creative navigating outside normal hyperspace lanes, still managed make his spice delivery on time.

During a trip to Coruscant, Maston experienced the corruption of the Republic firsthand. He spent time in both the upper and lower levels and saw no difference between the criminals he worked for and the Republic officials trying to stop people like him, with both groups going on with their lives as if the Clone Wars were not tearing the galaxy apart over whether or not being in the Republic was voluntary. Finally giving up on the Republic, Maston made his way to Separatist space and offered his services to their cause. He ended up working for a relief program, flying food and supplies to war-torn planets.

It was during this time that Maston was sent to a small planet in the Mid Rim called Bethel Vandenberg to deliver farming equipment. There he met a Rutian Twi'lek named Carset living on her own who he began frequently visiting. Each time bringing equipment to upgrade or fix something on her farm.

After the war ended he settled down to start a family on the farm but their genetic differences made it impossible to conceive children. Several years later a pestilence ravaged the planet, causing famine and disease to run rampant and resulted in the planets quarantine for the good of the galaxy by the Galactic Empire.

Ten years later the quarantine was finally lifted but by that time Maston's wife Carset had perished. Along with most of the planet. The ground had been poisoned and as a result about eighty percent of the planets population had died.

Over time, alone in his farm, Maston began blaming the Empire more and more for their decisive action to protect the galaxy. He left Bethel Vandenberg and began making his way back to the Outer Rim.

His anger festered as he looked for a solution to his misery at the bottom of a bottle or even the tail end of some death sticks. All the times he ran spice he, knew better than to even touch it but agony brings out the apathy in beings.

It was at a local cantina that he next encountered the Empire. Their expansion had finally brought them back into his life. 2 units from a garrison that had just been stationed there were shaking down the proprietor. Seeing the Troopers laugh at the keeper begging for leniency for the sake of his family that he needed to be able to feed,focused Maston's anger and hatred. Without even thinking Maston shot them both in the back, killing them.

The bartender was terrifued and let out a scream fearing the officers of the region would assume he was the murderer. Tired of drowning in booze, and just tired, Maston got up and made sure the security cameras got a clear look at his face before taking one of the E11s from a troopers body and exiting the building. With patrons fleeing the scene, Maston sat outside the cantina and waiting for consequences to show up. Not even sure himself what he planned to do.

To his surprise, Maston sat there for hours just waiting but no one showed. Not wanting the bartenders family in jeopardy, Maston went to the base the Empire set up in the town. He expected to only get to the outside guards and to be executed on the spot but instead found a the base in chaos as a team of Rebels were fighting the garrison.

Seeing a stormtrooper with a clear shot at one of the Rebels, Maston pulled his blaster and killed the trooper. This divided the attention of the Imperials and they returned fire. Maston recklessly charged them and took out several before an explosion knocked Maston unconscious.

When he awoke he was tied up aboard the Rebels ship and already back to their base. XXXXXXXXXX

Eventually, Maston found his way to the Emperor's Hammer and enlisted in the TIE Corps as a starfighter pilot.