Taiy Raanxa

Taiy Raanxa was a human bounty hunter from Coruscant who lived around 13,000 BBY. He was known for ending a major crime syndicate on Nubia and sending the planet into near anarchy for multiple years, the assassination of Senator Ekoorb Sdleih, and eventually working for The Republic on some major missions during the Alsakan Crisis. He is not to be confused with Apocl Raanxa, who lived nearly 10,000 years later.

Early Life
Taiy Raanxa was the only child a middle class family on Coruscant sometime in the early 18000s BBY. He was known as a quiet and artistic child with a love for music and mechanical inventions.He was generally sheltered and protected from the harsh sides of reality. However, his family fell on hard times when his dad, though he had no affiliation with crime of any type, was killed during a store robbery. Shortly after, his mother was evicted, and they were forced into the crime-ridden lower streets when he was only 15 years old. His mother died a short while later in a speeder accident. He bought his first blaster not long after this incident, and started practicing daily. He began hanging around the muggy, dirty cantinas in the lower city of coruscant, and first killed somebody at the age of sixteen when a drunken nikto charged him with a vibroblade on a desolate street outside of a local cantina. From there, his life became increasingly intense and rugged, until he found himself looking for work as a bounty hunter in the shady alleys of Coruscant.

Life as a bounty hunter
Taiy first started bounty hunting at age eighteen, and he initially saw it as another way to make enough money to stay alive for another day. However, he found a strange love for the idea of hunting another sentient being for a wad of cash, and before long it became his full time occupation. He started saving his money, buying better gear that included two self-customized pistols, a wrist mounted grappling hook, and a long range blaster rifle. Eventually, he was able to buy his own ship, a light frigate with illegal modifications that he named The Silent Fist. He left Coruscant at last, and started on much bigger and better paying bounties than ever before.

Nediam Luas
"Well, I killed a major ganglord, sent an entire planet into chaos, and got 50,000 credits from the whole ordeal. God I love this Job"

- Taiy Raanxa, accepting the bounty for Nediam Luas


 * One of Taiy's most notable bounies was the murder of Nediam Luas. Luas was a rogue officer of the recently instated Alsakan Union, and was wanted for over 50,000 credits by the military of his homeworld. He was living on the planet Nubia, and had become the head of a major gang in the criminal underbelly of the planet's urban areas. Almost as soon as the bounty was issued, uncountable numbers of bounty hunters from all across the galaxy were arriving at Nubia, eager to get the massive amount of credits available for the ex-officer's life. Most of them failed horribly, dying at the hands of gangsters before they even got close to their target. Taiy saw a different way than the head on approach that many of the inexperienced hunters had chosed, and he began to carefully orchestrate a gang war between Luas's gang (called the Rak Ti'tah) and all the other major players in organized crime on Nubia. Though the gang war made the Rak Ti'tah weak and Luas vulnerable, it quickly went out of control, and many of Nubia's cities fell into utter chaos. At the height of the madness, Raanxa broke into Luas's main quarters and shot him at point blank range, killing him instantly.
 * Not only had Raanxa received one of the most notable bounties in the galaxy, he had also sent an entire planet into near anarchy and years of civil unrest, and despite his young age (26 years old), he was already a man of great repute.

The assassination of Ekoorb Sdleih

 * A year after Raanxa started the chaos on Nubia, he was sought out by a young and egotistical man from Onderon named Flodius Cahrge. Cahrge was a rising politician whose words could sway even the stoutest of men. He was not happy with the way the current Onderonian representative, Ekoorb Sdleih, was handling things in the senate. He offered Raanxa 40,000 credits and the promise of a safe haven on Onderon if he would terminate Sdleih through any means possible. A few minutes before an official senate meeting on Coruscant, Raanxa approached the senator in an unsupervised area while disguised as a mere servant. As he passed the elderly man, he drew a vibroknife and plunged it into the senator's throat, killing him in a few moments. Cahrge, knowing that if Raanxa was exposed as the killer he risked being discovered as the perpetrator, shifted the blame to a different hunter employed by a different man for different reasons. They were both free of blame, for the time being.

Working with the Republic
As the Alsakan Crisis escalated, the Republic started looking for people besides its own soldiers to help it achieve victory. Raanxa was one such person. Now 31 years old, he had an amazing reputation as one of the best bounty hunters that money could buy. He was recruited by the republic for nearly 100,000 credits, his biggest payday yet. He was sent to Corellia when the Alsakan Union attacked the planet, and was placed at the head of an elite strike team whose job was to work around the main fighting, destroying and capturing key points as discreetly as possible. Thanks to their efforts, the Republic was able to win the battle and force back the Alsakans. He worked with the Republic during several other key battles, including the destruction of a secret Alsakan dockyard that was creating the bulk of the Alsakan fleet.

Death
His work with the republic did not last long, however, as evidence was soon discovered that uncovered his part in the murder of Koorb Sdleih. He was attacked by republic soldiers while having a drink in a cantina that was located, ironically, on Nubia. Right as he was sitting down at the bar, the soldiers burst through the doorway and shot him multiple times in the back. Taiy Raanxa was dead at age 33.

Behind the scenes

 * I drew the inspiration for this character from a character I created in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. This character is in play in the Star Wars RP.
 * This time period draws from the Star Wars RP, which is currently in the Alsakan Crisis time period. More may be added to the story of Taiy Raanxa as more is RPed.