X-Wing Pilot
Copyright Linda Whitson 2015
Lt. Lady Cinowyn
Force-sensitive Snubjock
(Knight level build)
Game: Star Wars: Age of Rebellion, Force & Destiny
Species: Human
Career/Specialization: Warrior/Starfighter Ace
Motivation: Cause – Overthrow the Empire
Morality: 50
Strength: Pride
Weakness: Arrogance
Duty: Space Superiority (10)
Characteristics
Brawn 2 Agility 3 Intellect 2 Cunning 2 Presence 3 Willpower 3
Skills
Brawl 1
Cool 1
Discipline 1
Gunnery 3
Leadership 1
Perception 1
Piloting (space) 3
Talents
Grit 1
Skilled Jockey 1
Confidence
Intuitive Evasion 1
Rapid Reaction 1
Full Throttle
Touch of Fate
Force Rating: 1
Force Powers
Foresee: Basic, Control (Combined Foresee power & Initiative check)
Sense: Basic, Control (Commit Force die to upgrade attack vs. PC)
Soak: 4 Defense: 0/0 Wound Threshold: 12 Strain Threshold: 14
Equipment:
X-wing (assigned)
R2-z11 “Razzle” (personal astromech)
Flight Suit (Padded Armor, +2 Soak)
Light Blaster Pistol (Dam 5, Crit 4, Medium Range, Stun Setting)
Load-bearing Gear
Comlink
Stimpack
Glow Rod
Extra Reload
Emergency Repair Patch
240cr
Backstory: Core Worlds nobles tend to be a greedy, shallow, arrogant lot. Not so the scions of Alderaan’s ruling House Organa and its closest allies. From an early age, most of them learn that with great priviledge comes great duty, and Lady Cinowyn is no exception. Cinowyn ‘s mother – rumored to have been a secret agent during the Clone Wars – was a distant cousin and courtier of Bail Organa’s. Cinown enjoyed gowns, balls and comely lordlings and palace guardsmen as much as the next young Lady – but she loved starships even more.
Schooled at a prestigious merchant marine academy on Alderaan, by age seventeen she was a Midshipman on the Tantive IV, working under more experienced navigators. Captain Antilles thought she had command potential. However, as Cinowyn saw more of the Alderaanian covert involvement with the Alliance, she decided she wanted a much more active role – and volunteered to train as a starfighter pilot.
This youthful idealism and bravado – or was it destiny? – saved her life, since she was on Yavin and not the consular ship when Vader captured it. The double blow of losing her former shipmates and then her homeworld and family was a horrific eighteenth birthday present. Although she had soloed in an X-wing, her superiors felt she hadn’t had enough cockpit time and refused to let her volunteer to fly against the Death Star and relegated her and her astromech to ground crew for the engagement, a decision that still rankles Cinowyn. Since then, however, she has distinguished herself in several missions.
Cinowyn gets on pretty well with her fellow pilots. Months in the Rebellion have removed any tendency to put on airs, although she can be as overconfident and arrogant as any other snubjock. And only a protocol droid would dare use her proper full style of Lieutenant Lady Cinowyn. Her friends often call her Wynn or – if they want to tease her – Lady Wynn.
Cinowyn is Force-sensitive, but has no training and only uses the Force on a subconscious level. She is only just beginning to suspect – from stories about Luke – that she might be Force-sensitive. What she doesn’t suspect is that her parents were strong Jedi – and may never find out since the few who did know died on Alderaan or the Tantive IV.
Design and play notes: Cinowyn is a character I used in several d20/SWSE games. The concept is what Luke would have been if the Will of the Force didn’t set him on a path far, far away from starfighter pilot. But Starfighter Ace is Lady Cinowyn’s destiny. Of course, she could just as easily be statted as an Age of Rebellion Ace/Pilot or Commander/Squadron Leader with Force-sensitive Emergent and the Sense and Foresee powers. But I wanted to play with F&D some more when I did the FFG SW stats.
This write-up includes the Morality, Duty and Strength/Weakness mechanics. If your GM isn’t using all of them, just drop the unneeded ones. And don’t feel constrained by my selections for these.
Credit: Technical editing by Jon Stevens.
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