Jim Pehico

"You know why I'm so successful? It's because I follow one golden rule. 'Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.'"

 was a Smuggler during the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War. He was one of a few people trusted to smuggle Republic supplies to troops during the Clone Wars. After the rise of the Galactic Empire, Jim Pehico continued to serve the Empire delivering supplies safely to their forces without the imperial senate noticing. After learning what happened to Alderaan he quickly left the Empire. Furious that the scoundrel left their services, the Empire sent out a warrant for his arrest. For 4 years he kept on the run until he found out that the empire was building a second Death Star. He offered the Alliance his help. he played the pivotal role of keeping TIE-fighters off the Alliance Fleet. Afterword's he helped the Alliance to defeat the Empire at the Battle of Jakku. He retired afterwards and became one of the most resourceful men in the galaxy. He remained a powerful and wealthy man until he was hired in 50 BBY to hire a crew and find the location of Luke Skywalker. After finding out it was the First Order who hired him, he was killed by First Order storm troopers before he could warn the Resistance.

Early life
Jim Pehico was born to Jan and Republic War hero Allen Pehico on the beautiful world of Naboo. Jim Pehico grew up having a knack for scavenging and building small droids. However when he was 8, a member of Naboo royalty noticed Jim's brilliance and gave him a full scholarship to a royal Naboo institution. Jim never got to thank the man due to him dying during the Invasion of Naboo. Despite not fitting in well with the rich children of Naboo, Jim was always secretly happy about being there on a scholarship. Jim remained at the school without making any friends, but he did make plenty of trouble, regularly pulling pranks and doing some sort of shenaningans. After graduating at the age of 16 he was set to become an apprentice to the current Royal Advisor of Engineering. after 2 years of working as an apprentice he decided he didn't want to stay and become a Royal Advisor to the queen. so he stole an Astro-droid named R2-EZ or "Easy" and an N-1 Starfighter that had been scheduled for a check-up (Jim ran diagnostics before using it.) He got into the Starfighter and was intercepted by the Royal Guard he kept sweet talking them until Easy had done all the calculations for the hyper drive and when he did he went to light speed into another system.

He was now alone in the galaxy besides easy and his ship was in dire need of a fuel up. So he landed on the nearest planet, a Planet known as Tatooine and landed at the biggest spaceport he could find. Naboo technology was prized among many collectors so Jim sold his N-1 Starfighter for about 200,000 credits and looked out to find a new ship. After 3 days Jim was trying to find something to make out of his life when he thought of something that would keep him travelling among the stars... Becoming a smuggler. After days of searching he was able to buy a very used XS stock light freighter from a retiring smuggler for about 20,000 credits. Now that he had a ship Jim had to find a crew.