DUM-1110: Background

RECRUITMENT PROFILE

Name: DUM-1110
AKA: Domino
Player: Tony
Race: DUM Series Pit Droid
Height: 3'11"
Weight: 125 lbs
Age: Unknown
Sensor: Blue
Exoskeleton: Black & Bronze
Motivation: Connection - DUM-1110 has no connections, beliefs, or quests for itself. Only the imprints of his former master which drew him back to The Rebellion. For now The Rebellion is his only connection to his former master, now part of himself, as well as only connection to a group, cause, or person in the galaxy at large.
Career: Engineer
Specializations: Sapper
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Background

Domino was once simple DUM-1110, a lowly Pit Droid who served aboard a Ainik Class Scientific Survey Vessel named Stellar Horizon. Stellar Horizon had a habit of finding it's way into Deep Space and it was handy to have a droid to keep the ship in working order far away from the docking bays that Pit Droids are most typically found in. In the time of the Galactic Republic, prior to the rise of The Empire, Stellar Horizon made many standard scientific voyages that anyone outside the academic community would consider deeply uninteresting. The ship operated out of Coruscant and it's missions were most typically in support of the esteemed academies of higher education and learning based on the Galaxy's Capital. During The Clone Wars The Stellar Horizon and her crew were largely uninvolved, though some of the reconnaissance and data collection missions it ran may have served the war effort more than a simple Pit Droid ever would realize. When The Republic fell The Stellar Horizon was again mostly left to continue it's operations, other than The Jedi Order, most academies continued to operate on Coruscant and commission scientific reconnaissance missions. However, as years based and The Empire's grip on The Galaxy tightened the crew of The Stellar Horizon took notice and disapproved, especially long time Captain Thorian Renard.

Captain Thorian hated The Empire and the way it changed the galaxy, however he was an explorer and a fringer, not a solider, who didn't know how to oppose the overwhelming might of The Empire. So he started to take it upon himself to do what he did best, sure that eventually the opportunity would arise for him to be useful. He continued to perform missions for the academies of Coruscant, allowing him to collect plenty of information regarding The Core. What was more daring is that he would venture off course on his more far reaching missions, and collect data on distant Imperial outposts, ship movements, and research stations. As he continued this impromptu and rouge side quest other members of the crew became weary of the risks, and slowly started to depart The Stellar Horizon. Soon enough, Captain Thorian and his droids were the only ones left to run the missions.

With only droids to crew his vessel, Captain Thorian began to modify them to give them more uses and higher levels of skill. He also talked to them in his bouts of deep loneliness, as traveling deep space with no companions was inadvisable and began to take a mental toll. He gave the droids names, to make them feel more human, and so DUM-1110 became Domino. Domino also got a series of enhancement beyond the typical Pit Droid to keep The Stellar Horizon in top working order, and even to co-pilot the vessel when needed. More importantly, Captain Thorian installed a secret drive in Domino's processing center to allow it to store large amounts of hidden data where he could secretly store all of the reconnaissance he'd performed on The Imperials. Eventually, Captain Thorian made several connections with the earlies fledglings of The Rebellion, interested parties whom he could sell some of his Imperial Data to, and who could request other, more valuable targets. It was on one of these higher priority missions that The Stellar Horizon and Captain Thorian got in over his head, and was discovered by The Imperials he was spying on. Thorian attempted to escape his pursuers through an asteroid field, but between blasts from Tie-Fighters and space rocks The Stellar Horizon crashed and burned, presumably destroyed.

Captain Thorian was dead as were most of the other droids aboard the vessel, and The Stellar Horizon itself was wrecked beyond the point that a human mechanic would do anything other than scrap it. However, DUM-1110 survived the crash, though not without significant damage. Though some of Domino's more advanced programing and capabilities survived, there was significant data loss and he reverted to his base programing to do his best to repair the ship. More than a decade passed with DUM-1110 working in solitude on The Stellar Horizon to get it space worthy again, lucky for the droid the asteroid field would occasionally yield other ship scrap and debris that DUM could utilize to patchwork the ship repairs. In that decade DUM-1110 would often listen to the few surviving recordings that Captain Thorian had made in the Captain's Log, slowly but surely making an impression on the droid.

In 6 BBY, Domino was able to get The Stellar Horizon space worthy enough to leave the asteroid field and began to return to the only place it new to go to, back to the person who had given Captain Thorian the mission that had claimed his life. At first, forced to travel at sublight speeds only progress was slow, but Domino was resourceful and stopped a junkyards and scrap sites as he traveled. Eventually, he found the Junk Moon Quantxi, of Ord Mantell where he landed and scavenged for parts to get The Stellar Horizon closer to it's original condition. While on Quantxi, he met a Junk Maven named Rook, who appreciated the droid's skill and resourcefulness, and so gave Domino safe habor and permission to scrap on his tract, in exchange for droids work and technical skill.

Once his ship was in better working order, Domino was able to reconnect with the group that tasked Captain Thorian with his dangerous mission, and he found that The Galaxy had changed in the decade that he had been gone, and so too had Domino. He was not a droid that would find himself content to return to the mundane service of a Pit Droid, he had come to desire and require independence. Domino had a deep seated sense and desire to continue the work of his former master and companion, and his hatred of The Empire was as deeply ingrained as his base programing. So, a new connection was made that Domino would continue the work of Captain Thorian aboard The Stellar Horizon, but he would do so as an independent droid who was not sure yet what that would mean or lead to...