Kalus Ahrrun was born on Nar Shaddaa, in Hutt Space, to parents who ran a droid repair business. He learned to fend for himself from a young age, as life on the Smuggler’s Moon was rough, filled with gang rivalries, crime syndicates, and, of course, Hutts. While his family kept as honest a living as they could, one could not grow up without dabbling in the seedier side of life, and Kalus was acting as a lookout for a spice dealer by the time he was 12. He was 14 when he got caught in a fight between the spice dealer and a competitor, and ended up being taken to the medical center with a serious knife wound. Finally, at age 16, fed up with his parents’ disapproval, he signed on with the crew of a pirate ship called
The Boneyard. With them, he learned how to fire a blaster and fly a ship. He had a good year, and then the Republic caught up with them. A Jedi Knight had stowed away on a ship they were targeting, and he alerted the Republic to their attack.
The Boneyard was defeated, and the crew arrested. Because he was only 17, he was sentenced to 5 years of hard labor at the penal colony of Akrit’tar. He supposed he was the lucky one – the rest of the crew was sent to Kessel.
On Akrit’tar, he wasn’t a model prisoner, getting into a few fights and sending a couple people to the infirmary. When he was released at age 22, he wound up on a transport to the spice planet Ylesia, where he signed on with the crew of another pirate ship, The Hyperstar. A month later, the Clone Wars broke out, and piracy got much simpler. The Jedi and the Republic’s member worlds could no longer devote time to curtail them, so focused on the war with the Separatists. The leader of a pirate crew known as The Black Corsairs, the Twi’lek Alaze’uun, united several ships under his banner, including The Hyperstar. Under his leadership, the pirate fleet preyed upon Separatist, Republic, and independent shipping, growing rich and profiting from the spoils of their raids. Then, the Clone Wars ended, and with it came the end of the Jedi. With the Jedi no longer a force in the galaxy, there were even more opportunities. Alaze’uun travelled to his home village on Ryloth. Then, they found out what the Empire was truly capable of.
The Empire suspected his village of hiding an anti-Imperial activist. When the village insisted there was no one there, the commander, Captain Filus Errin ordered the slaughter of the entire village. Men, women, children, none were spared, including Alaze’uun. The Black Corsairs were livid. Kalus was appalled. They may be pirates, and they may have killed a few people, but women and children? Even they wouldn’t cross that line. And besides, he only killed people who were armed and trying to kill him. Well, mostly, anyway. Alaze’uun had treated those he commanded with respect and dignity, and had brought wealth to all of them. The ship’s captains unanimously agreed that Filus had to die. They hatched a plan to attack his fleet in orbit around Cato Nemoidia, and, when the moment was right, they struck. The Corsairs eliminated half of the Imperial ships within the first 10 minutes, and vengeance would be theirs.
Unfortunately, what they didn’t know was that Filus was rendezvousing with a couple of Venator-class Star Destroyers. The Star Destroyers came out of hyperspace and, seeing the attack under way, smashed the pirate fleet. With the The Hyperstar critically damaged, Kalus ran to an escape pod and ejected. Once upon the surface of Cato Nemoidia, he tossed much of his equipment and anything that could tie him to The Black Corsairs. He bought passage on a transport to Fondor, then to Corellia, and now to Sel Zonn Station in orbit around Brentaal. Finally, confident that the Empire is no longer looking for him, he seeks to return to Nar Shaddaa and form his own pirate crew. Then, he will take revenge on the Empire for both the destruction of The Black Corsairs and for the slaughter of a Twi’lek village. He has only the clothes on his back, a basic array of equipment, and a blaster and vibroblade, but he would make the Empire pay.
