Talia (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=170061)<br/><strong>Description:</strong>A Lithe Green Twilek, Talia is a little more, and less than she appears.  She dresses and acts like a professional escort, a dancer at the moment, which for a Twilek means revealing outfits and flirty ways.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Talia is sweet, kind, and compassionate to all life forms, knowing what it's like to be enslaved.  She is very protective of her friends, people she finds rarely, those who accept her as she is.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>It wasn't every day.  Booster though with a grin, that you found a nine million credit droid.<br/><br/>Booster was standing In the observation booth of his ship... The Errant Venture's main remaining med bay.  He was watching a medical Droid and one of his hired med techs, a man named Halc Grunion, examine the Twilek 'woman' recently found 'dead' in a powerless Cloakshape fighter near a smuggler's jump point.<br/><br/>Booster had taken the Errant Venture through that little known access point on his way to Eridu, as he was low on fuel and time, and a scan as they arrived had spotted the craft drifting a few thousand meters off his starboard bow.  Booster brought the ship in himself, manned the docking bay tractor beam that was used to bring in the starfighter, and so was the first person to see the lovely Twilek lass in the ship's cockpit.<br/><br/>Rushing to the ship, medkit in hand, but with little hope he would find the poor girl alive, Booster had done a life scan... and stared at his readings.<br/><br/>He'd only seen readings like this once before, on a deactivated HRD that was being smuggled by him back in his days aboard the old Pulsar Skate.  But that was a human... looked like some old senator he had surmised.  This was a Twilek... and he'd never heard of a female Twilek senator.<br/><br/>Curious, and fairly intrested now, Booster lifted the Droid out of the ship, and took her to the med bay.<br/><br/>More as a test of his new med tech than anything else, he asked the man to 'revive' the 'poor lass' and headed to the observation deck to watch the show.<br/><br/>The Droid's passive sensors must have registered something... OX levels, temperature, for the Droid awakened suddenly in the middle of Halc's examination.<br/><br/>As Booster watched, with growing delight, the Droid, calling itself Talia Nightshade, soon had the poor Halc convinced that his earlier readings, (Which Halc had not recognized) had been the result of instrument malfunction... had offered to fix the device, and had proceeded to hack the Med Scanner's data processor into thinking that her readings were a simple deviation from standard Twilek readings, then explained to the man how she had a rare metabolic condition that caused the unusual readings.<br/><br/>He shook his head ruefully as Halc proclaimed her, 'Fit and Healthy, and, yes of course you are free to go!'<br/><br/>Booster met the girl in the Turbolift headed for Blue Level.<br/><br/>"That." He said after a moments silence, "Was quite a performance."<br/><br/>Talia looked up at the Gundark of a human with some confusion.  (Or feigned confusion, Booster suspected)  "Performance? Oh, have you seen me perform?  I used to be a Dancer for Gardula the Hutt."<br/><br/>Now it was Booster's turn to look confused.  When he'd been a much younger man, before the Clone Wars even, hadn't there been a Twilek girl... she'd looked JUST like this Droid.<br/><br/>He shook his head, perturbed.  It couldn't be...<br/><br/>"You need to check your dates, dear.  Gardula's been dead for years.  Try another one."<br/><br/>Talia studied the man carefully then.  He could almost see the plan form in her mind. "Oh, I was in a ship accident, been in cold sleep for years.  Did you know Gardula?"<br/><br/>He snorted. "Know the old worm?  I shipped spice for that old slimeball." He shrugged, and offered one of his huge hands to her.  Booster Terrik."<br/><br/>She squealed in seemingly quite genuine delight.  "Booster Terrik?!  You used to give the best tips! You and that funny avian you hung out with... how is old Llollulion these days?"<br/><br/>Booster started.  "Talia?  By the Stars, girl!  Since when..." He caught himself but Talia had noted the incredulity in his voice, and guessed the reason.  She sighed.<br/><br/>Since when have I been a Droid you mean? Hmm...  when I woke I had a familiar scent hanging about me... that scent your wearing now.  You brought me in from my ship, Booster?  Maybe ran a med scan?"<br/><br/>He nodded, still half in memories of the old days aboard the Starwayman.<br/><br/>She continued. "Since always, Booster.  But look, if Gardula's really dead, nobody knows that fact but you, and me.  Couldn't you keep a secret... for old times sake?"<br/><br/>Booster suddenly snorted, his sense of the ridiculous coming to the rescue.  "Girl, do you know I used have dreams about you, lonely nights on the Starwayman?  When you left Gardula's... well let's just say the girl he got to replace you had nothing on you. Keep your secret?  How'd you like a job?"<br/><br/>Talia studied his face carefully again, judging (correctly) that he was serious. "A job?  Doing what?"<br/><br/>He frowned.  "I'm a business owner now... and I find keeping this old ship." He waved his hands about him, "In one piece hard enough without other troubles aboard.  I've got half a dozen Cantina's aboard, and lately I've noticed some odd dealings there.  I think someone's trying to muscle in.  I'd like you to keep an eye out down there for me... tell me what you see."<br/><br/>Talia was looking at him, "This must be a pretty big space station then, if you have that many joints open."<br/><br/>He laughed his big bears laugh and as the turboshaft doors opened on Blue Level, added, "Girl, you have no idea."<br/>