"Mel Stendan." Mel at 21, working for the New Republic	Description  Mel is a female human, approximately 1.70m (5'7") tall and weighing 58.9kg (130#), with dark blue eyes and blonde hair. Her hair is kept medium-long but usually tied back or braided in space or on a mission. When not wearing a uniform, she tends to dress in charcoal black, form-fitting clothes. She is lithe and wiry, and very acrobatic.                        .   Background and Personality Birthdate: May 1, [2004-equivalent]. She turned 21 on May 1,  2025. Mel grew up on the planet of Corellia, spending her earliest years peacefully at her parents' home on the Gold Beaches. She adored her father, and learned everything he was willing to teach (and a few things he wasn't) about the shadier aspects of his activities, and often tagged along when he visited Coronet's Blue Sector (much to her mother's dismay). She also learned slicing from her mother, though only enough to help her with her other skills. She learned to pilot at an early age (as most of the Stendans do), but again, treated it more as a useful thing to know but secondary to her true gifts. When Mel was in her early teens, Jervon departed on one of his frequent missions - but from this one, he didn't return. Initially, this was a cause for concern but not alarm, but as time passed, alarm started to set in. Mel consulted with her grandfather, Ril, whose tales had always fascinated her and with whom she was also close, and then started looking for her father. She started at home and with her mother's slicer help, but soon was spending time in Coronet's Blue Sector, tracking down leads and establishing her own talents and contacts. These led her not only to information on her father, but also to those who preferred the Empire's way of doing business; she discovered that her father had run afoul of one of those. She turned her talents to bringing down the corrupt and unjust while still looking for her father. After several years, she was finally able to contact him - once - and confirm that he was still alive but in hiding to both protect the family and to bring down those who had attacked him.  Mel loves exercising her gifts for their own sake - for her, it's not about keeping what she acquires, but the challenge of acquiring it. Normal "work" is as easy and automatic as breathing: she's very good at lifting something, examining it, and putting it back before the mark notices, gleaning a lot of potentially-useful information. Looking for her dad focused her on using those gifts for something other than just fun and challenge; she discovered that helping people was important to her and that she could use her skills for that, if not in any conventional way. She is very matter-of-fact about how good she is: "How *did* you *do* that" "I'm Mel."
Professional  Mel hasn't had a "real" job; her "alternative revenue stream" comes from any items she steals, as well as proceeds from the "jobs" she does getting justice for others. One of those "jobs" was the Eorox Agricultural and Mining Corporation (Eorox A&M for short), a Core System MegaCorp headquartered on Brentaal IV. They've been on the wrong side of one too many civil suits for environmental damage through negligence ( effectively an Erin Brockovitch sort of situation except the corporate lawyers have always won in this scenario). Mel arranged an alternate revenue stream for the victims of a couple of the larger mining disasters, and made Brentaal IV a little too hot to hold her.  She called in a favor with a slicer buddy to get her on a New Republic roster somewhere as far away from the Core as she could, but didn't provide said buddy with any of the details for his own safety. It was the perfect plan, until the buddy helpfully added her to her cousin's squadron. On an agricultural world. Where Eorox has a good-sized satellite office. (This caused her to have Obligation: Bounty.)  Mel needed transporation, so she boosted Fret to be her R2 unit on the X-Wing she acquired. He was, not surprisingly, Extremely Alarmed by this plan and will probably be complaining about it for a long time to come.  When she arrived at Farlander Base, she met the other members of OGRE Squadron: her cousin, Carine Stendan; IG-700 (Igloo), the family droid (also a surprise!); Ekko and Dral Varad, twin Mandalorian brothers; and Nus, a Bothan female who is apparently related to Greest.   Greest was a Bothan male assigned to a Republic embassy on one of the worlds where the miners got sick, and who provided some of the information needed to get started on Eorox's trail. Mel had bumped into him one or twice before that and so knew he might be able to help, but she didn't really know him well. He gave her the Eorox information easily six months ago and it was the last time Mel saw him.  Mel has a complicated relationship with law enforcement and authority. On one hand, she tries to stay under the radar and not draw their attention to her or her activities, making sure that she's never in a position where they can prove she's broken the law. on the other hand, she has posed as law enforcement, and has even tipped them off on occasion and given them "gifts" of proof of others' criminal acts. Some of them know that she's a thief but hasn't committed a crime in their jurisdiction; some just know her disguised alter ego.
Family  Mel is the grandaughter of Ril and Jewel Stendan, the daughter of their youngest child, Dominique Stendan, and her husband Jervon (Antilles) Stendan. (Yes, a descendant of Wedge Antilles.) After the events near Cularin and the birth of their oldest son, Michel, Ril and Jewel came back to the Corellion estates and spent the next few years having their four children (Michel, Sylvie, Arnaud, and Dominique). After the youngest, Dominique, was about 5 or 6, Ril and Jewel started getting back into the support of the Rebels and New Republic. As a consequence,  Dominique's life was less settled than her older siblings', and so when she met a dashing smuggler and pilot at the age of 16, she fell hard and fast. Jervon, the smuggler, was 8 years older and though not above flirting with the lovestruck girl, didn't take her seriously. Three years later, a mission gone wrong stranded him temporarily on Corellia, and he reached out to the only non-shady contact he had. By now older and a little wiser, Dominique still hadn't forgotten her earlier infatuation, and assisted Jervon. After time, their relationship deepened into true love and they married, Jervon taking the Stendan name.  He continued his activities, though now almost exclusively on behalf of the New Republic and its allies. As an expert slicer, Dominique held down the fort at home, and soon the children came - first Melisande, then Marc and Arielle.  Side note: why did Jervon take the Stendan name and give up the respected Antilles name? Or maybe he didn't, but Dominique didn't change her name, and Mel's formal name is Antilles-Stendan (or the non-hyphenated version) and she uses Stendan as a shortened version. Though, if she was really a daddy's girl, why wouldn't she use Antilles? Need to think about this a little more. Mel is familiar with all of her cousins - the families often came to the Gold Beaches for family summer vacations and holidays, but isn't close to any in particular. Her cousins probably remember her as an awkward child, not terribly social - especially since her grin and "Let's go steal something!" often drew frowns of incomprehension from the more staid of the family. She did enjoy lifting things from just about anyone, though was just as quick to give them back (though often the same way she took them). She was definitely precocious and tended to run with the older cousins (hence being familiar with Carine).  Stendan Family Tree

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Statistics

Encumbrance:	7/12
SP / WP:	12 / 12
Attack:	Weapon Type  Weapon  DMG  DMG Mod  Range  Skill  Critical  Notes Melee / Cutting Edge Melee  Combat Knife  2  +1  Engaged  Melee                     Energy Weapon / Blaster   Holdout blaster  5    Short  Ranged - Light  Stun setting  Energy Weapon / Blaster   Blaster pistol 6    Medium  Ranged - Light   Stun setting                 .  Unarmed  2    Engaged  Brawl  Disorient 1, Knockdown, Stun setting
Special Qualities:	.
Notes:	.

Skills:

Skill	Total	Char	Buy	Career	Dice Pool	Miscellaneous
Astrogation	0	Int	0
Athletics	1	Br	0	Species
Brawl	0	Br	0
Charm	0	Pr	0
Coercion	0	Wil	0
Computers	1	Int	1	Career	()
Cool	1	Pr	0	Species
Coordination	2	Ag	1	Career
Core Worlds	0	Int	0
Deception	1	Cun	1	Career
Discipline	0	Wil	0
Education	0	Int	0
Gunnery	0	Ag	0
Leadership	0	Pr	0
Lightsaber	0	Br	0
Lore	0	Int	0
Mechanics	0	Int	0
Medicine	0	Int	0
Melee	0	Br	0
Negotiation	0	Pr	0
Outer Rim	0	Int	0
Perception	1	Cun	0	Career
Piloting - Planetary	0	Ag	0
Piloting - Space	1	Ag	1	Career
Ranged - Heavy	0	Ag	0
Ranged - Light	1	Ag	1
Resilience	0	Br	0
Skulduggery	3	Cun	0	Career	()
Stealth	1	Ag	0	Career	()
Streetwise	2	Cun	1	Career
Survival	0	Cun	0
Underworld	1	Int	1	Career
Vigilance	1	Wil	0	Career
Xenology	0	Int	0
Warfare	0	Int	0

Specializations:

• Black Market Contacts x2
• Bypass Security x2
• Indistinguishable
• Master of Shadows
• Stalker
• Street Smarts

Talent	Description	Activation	Ranked
Black Market Contacts	When looking to purchase illegal, exotic, or black market goods, the character may descrease an item's rarity by one level per rank in Black Market Contacts. For each level an item's rarity is descreased, its cost increases by 50% of its base cost.	Active (Incidental)	Yes
Bypass Security	The character removes per rank of Bypass Security from his Skullduggery and Computers skill checks made to disable a security device or open a locked door.	Passive	Yes
Dedication	Each rank permanently increases a single characteristic of the player's choice by one point. This cannot bring a characteristic above six.	Passive	Yes
Dodge	When targeted by a combat check (ranged or melee) the character may choose to immediately perform a Dodge incidental to suffer a number of strain, then upgrade the difficulty of the combat check by that number.  The number of strain suffered cannot exceed his ranks in Dodge.	Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)	Yes
Grit	Each rank of Grit increases a character's strain threshold by one.	Passive	Yes
Hidden Storage	Any large equipment, vehicle, or droid that the character owns has one or more hidden compartments for smuggling appropriately sized gear. The number of compartments is up to the player, but cannot be enough to hold a total encumbrance value of items more than the character's ranks in Hidden Storage. The size of the compartments are proportional to the size of the vehicle or droid in question. Most humanoid droids can only hold items equivalent in size to a one-handed weapon, whereas a silhouette 4 starship could conceal humanoids within its compartments. Any checks to detect these compartments have a Formidable difficulty.	Passive	Yes
Indistinguishable	The character's appearance is so common that people have a hard time identifying distinguishing traits. Opposing characters upgrade the difficulty of any checks made to identify him once per rank of Indistinguishable.	Passive	Yes
Jump Up	Once per round on the character's turn, the character may stand up from prone or a seated position as an incidental.	Active (Incidental)	No
Master of Shadows	Once per round, the character may voluntarily suffer two strain to decrease the difficulty of the next Stealth or Skulduggery check by one, to a minimum of Easy.	Active (Incidental)	No
Natural Rogue	Once per game session, the character may reroll any one Skullduggery or Stealth check.	Active (Incidental)	No
Rapid Reaction	The character may suffer a number of strain to add an equal number of to any Vigilance or Cool check to determine initiative order. The number may not exceed his ranks in Rapid Reaction.	Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)	Yes
Shortcut	During a chase, the character adds equal to his ranks in Shortcut to any checks made to catch or escape an opponent.	Passive	Yes
Stalker	The character adds per rank of Stalker to his Coordination and Stealth checks.	Passive	Yes
Street Smarts	The character removes a per rank of Street Smarts from his Streetwise and Knowledge (Underworld) checks.	Passive	Yes

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