Scott Shriner

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 * name=Scott Shriner
 * homeworld=Earth
 * birth=c. 3,728 BBY
 * death=Unknown
 * species= Human
 * gender= Male
 * height= 6ft
 * hair= Brown
 * eyes= Blue
 * skin= White (Caucasian)
 * era= The Old Republic
 * affiliation= Jedi Order, United Earth Exploratory Directorate, United Earth Marines, United Earth Starfleet
 * masters= The Jedi Exile (Informal Master}
 * apprentices= None}}

"Who are you? What are you doing here? You speak English?"

- Scott Shriner, upon meeting the Jedi Exile, Atton Rand and Bao-Dur for the first time

Scott Shriner was a Jedi, soldier and star ship commander, part of organisation of humans who discovered the Galactic Republic by accident

Early life
Born in the city of Baltimore, United States of America, Scott was an inquisitive young boy, obsessed with the military from a young age. His father served in the US Navy (Not to be confused with the UEED star fleet), while his mother was a doctor in a Baltimore hospital. Scott grew up idolising his father, wanting one day to join the military. He is the oldest of two, a younger sister being born three years after him. Various nations on Earth had their own space ships for about eighty years before Scott's birth, but the planet had no unified interstellar military

Military Career
At age fourteen, World War III broke out on Planet Earth, and since Scott was of a high physical standard, even by his teenage years, he was conscripted into the United States Marine Corps fighting against the Russians, with whom animosity had reached a peak over the course of the last twenty years. Whilst participating in the Battle of Alaska, Scott (who was a young private) and his team had received word that the Russians had attacked a flotilla of US ships of the coast of the Aleutian Islands. Scott's team was then sent under the cover of darkness to find the air base from which these fighters had been launched, and upon discovering it, they found a pile of bodies. One of which was Scott's Navy Commander father. He and the rest of the team captured the rest of the base personnel and executed them in cold blood.

Life Aboard Voyager
Two years into the war, Earth was unexpectedly attacked by an alien fleet. The war on the ground was immediately halted, and the Americans along with their long term allies the British and the Germans and their former enemies the Russians launched a defensive of their planet. Fortunately, they were saved by an allied alien race, the Asha'Tar, who offered to help the newly formed UEED, an international consortium of each nation's space ships, construct a fleet capable of defending their planet and exploring new worlds with the aim of acquiring new technology. Because of his suppressed guilt at murdering the Russian Air Force personnel in cold blood, Scott quickly signed up, blitzing through the academy and being posted immediately aboard one of the new exploration vessels, the HMS Voyager as the a security officer at the age of eighteen.

Scott served aboard Voyager for five years years, quickly rising from the rank of Ensign to Lieutenant Junior Grade. When the sudden death of the previous chief of security, Scott was chosen over his older, more experienced colleagues due to his fitness, academic prowess and youth. With this appointment came the task of protecting the Captain on away missions, and enlistment into the Captain's senior staff. As well as now being head of security, Scott was also tasked with manning Voyager's weapons, shields and comm systems. He proved popular with many members of the crew, due to his relaxed personality and his quick response times to calls.

When Voyager was in the fifth year of her cruise to explore the galaxy, the crew found themselves lightyears away from the nearest friendly system, and even more light years away from their home planet of Earth. All of the other ships in the fleet had since returned to earth and been fitted with better weapons, better shields and better hyperspace drives, making the equipment on Voyager seem outdated and useless. Nevertheless, the crew discovered the planet of Degobah, which they called 'Amazonia'. This was their first, albeit unknown venture into the Galactic Republic.

As Voyager broke orbit of the swamp planet they headed further in, following a Duros freighter towards the Core. They never made it much further, as a Sith warship attacked them, killing many of the crew, including the Captain and First Officer. The survivors tried their best to fight back against the Sith Assassins, with Scott being their leader during their defense of their ship. The ship, down on power, drifted through space for a further three weeks, before being sucked into the gravity of a small desert planet: Tatooine

Meeting The Exile
Scott awoke a day later, his head pounding and not having any idea where he was, or how he survived. A man was standing over him, telling him he Had the ability and dropped off some components and a datapad. Scott passed out again due to his injuries and the next morning, was able to pick himself up and follow the pictures on the datapad to build a contraption. Only one other survivor survived the crash, and the two of them set about trying to survive, although the other survivor was found dead two weeks later. The ship was attacked daily for a further ten days by Tusken Raiders who were trying to salvage parts and supplies from the doomed vessel. Scott and his new device, a Lightsaber, made short work of them, as well as using what weapons he had left.

On the eleventh day, the Ebon Hawk arrived on Tatooine, having tracked Voyager's distress signal. Alana Dal (The Jedi Exile), Atton Rand and Bao-Dur boarded the ship and looked for survivors. Scott discovered them on the ship and ordered their surrender. Alana was quick to play diplomat and suggested that Scott go with them back to the Ebon Hawk to get medical treatment. Scott agreed and asked to tag along with them since he was going to be trapped in this new galaxy and as they used the same weapon as him he felt they were the only people he could trust. He quickly forged a relationship with Atton, and although he wouldn't know it until later, they had more in common than he first thought. After a day of finding clues as to the whereabouts of Revan in Anchorhead where Scott met HK47 for the first time, they left the small settlement of Anchorhead for the planet of Rishi

Jedi Training and The Republic
Like Atton, Bao-Dur, Mira, and Mical before him, Scott took to the Jedi Arts very quickly, and was quick to learn the basic Force powers of pull, push, mind trick and sense. It took a while for him to adapt to life aboard the Ebon Hawk due to the fact that he was the only survivor where others had died. Alana was impressed with how well he was coming along, claiming that one day he would rival Bastila Shan in lightsaber combat.

When they landed on Rishi, Alana gave Scott some credits so that he may purchase some new clothes so he may blend in with the general population better. While at the clothes stand in the main market, he met Abrona Kar for the first time. He purchased a black tunic and a teal robe from her, which fit the colours of his starfleet uniform, which he had been wearing since the crash. He later explored the city, learned the Aurebesh alphabet and managed to procure a couple more lightsaber crystals from a mysterious salesman in the city of Navera, Rishi's capital city. In the courtyard of the Rishian Royal Palace, he noticed a gang of men take some money from Abrona, as well as extorting money from several others in the park. Upon confronting the men, he was attacked, and forced to use his lightsaber again. He cut the gang down and fought their leader, decapitating him in one fell swoop whilst flipping over him. Alana quickly assigned Atton and Scott to protect the young girl, after discovering that her father is the Republic Senator for the planet. Whilst at Abrona's house in the middle of the mountains. Scott told Atton his past, something Abrona unintentionally overheard; and she couldn't help but feel sorry for him. Rishi reminded Scott too much of Earth, especially Canada, where he spent many holidays in his youth, and Alaska, where he fought the Russians nearly ten years before.

The group, minus Abrona, left Rishi for Nar Shaddar where they tried to find someone who could crack the enigma of the navigational computer within the Ebon Hawk. Eventually, a talented slicer got in, and discovered the last place the Hawk went to before Peragus. A large planet of Sump.

Straight away, they headed for the planet, where they conducted scans to see if anyone was down there. However, the mines on the planet had been closed for centuries, and the atmosphere could not support any life due to the high carbon monoxide, chlorine and phosphorus content. But, as they passed round the rear of the planet, they discovered one of the UEED's ships also in orbit. It was the USS Lexington one of the UEED's flagships. The Ebon Hawk was pulled in by a tractor beam, and they attempted to explore. Atton, Alana and Bao-Dur were knocked out, leaving HK47 and Scott to explore the ship. Despite the fact something was clearly wrong with the crew, since they never attack unless provoked, Scott ordered 47 to not attack them, much to 47's disappointment. Scott headed for the Captain's quarters, to see if he was okay, but found him dead. As he tried to leave, he tripped over a body in the dark. The unconscious man woke up, and revealed his name to be Revan, the man they had been searching for all this time. Since Scott was one of the UEED officers, but not present when the ship was taken over, they hatched a plan to take it back, and headed for the bridge. There, a Sith Lord called Darth Tiberius attacked them, giving Scott his first taste of lightsaber combat. The battle took them down to engineering, where after an intense fight Revan was able to use the force to throw their enemy into a power conduit, which Scott shot with his handgun to electrocute their foe. Using the Sith Lord's own weapon since his had been destroyed, Scott made the killing blow. Both Sith Lord and lightsaber were sent into space in an unceremonious burial.

With the ship back under their control, they knew that soon that the Sith would come to avenge the death of one of their leaders. The Lexington asked for some reinforcements and due to their new engines, the UEED fleet would arrive in just under a week. They converged around the planet of Rishi, where the senator had been receiving threats from the Sith.

The Battle of Rishi
Scott had taken control of the Lexington due to the fact he 'knew' the Republic. Reinforcements arrived in the form of ground troops from many of the planets the crew of the Ebon Hawk had visited in the last couple of years: Onderon, Dantooine and Telos. The UEED Navy would defend the space around the planet. When the Sith arrived, Scott captained the Lexington and kept her alive while other ships around her were crippled or destroyed. After the battle had raged for a good two hours and becoming a stalemate. The first officer of the Lexington saw a shuttle leave the lead Sith ship. Scott and Revan left the bridge and followed it, tracking it down to the city of Navera.

Scott, heavily armed, led Revan through the war torn streets. He met up with couple of other soldiers and helped them take out a pair of HK51 assassin droids. They finally reached the Royal Palace where it turned out many of the allied soldiers had run to for safety. Scott commanded that the injured be taken downstairs to safety, while he and a group of elite soldiers from British Special Forces (the SAS) liberated the building.

On the third floor, Scott heard banging from a room, and upon opening it he saw Abrona killing a Sith soldier, and she promptly attacked a member of the SAS. Overjoyed to see Scott, she quickly hugged him and Scott has her moved to safety. With new information regarding the location and layout of the main political chambers, Scott's small team of himself, Revan, three SAS members and two UEED Marines stormed the main chamber, catching everybody by surprise. A quick duel ensued as Scott and Revan engaged another Sith Lord who had the main cabinet captive. Scott was able to shoot the Sith Lord with his handgun, and with destruction of two major Sith vessels above them, and the Sith Troops on the outskirts of the city pushed towards the beaches, the battle looked won.

Scott and Revan returned to the Lexington just in time to see the Ebon Hawk collide with the lead Sith warship, leading many to believe that Lexington had done the damage since she had just fired everything at it. The Sith warship burned up in Rishi's atmosphere, destroying it and ending the battle, since the other ships retreated.

After the battle, Scott was present at the celebrations with his Jedi comrades and UEED colleagues. Abrona was also present, holding his hand all the time and clearly enjoying his company. At the celebrations, Scott was promoted to captain and awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery and courage in battle, as well as being offered the captaincy of the UEED's most prized vessel, the USS Enterprise. After much deliberation, it is unclear whether or not Scott took the post as captain, or whether he stayed in the Republic to be with Abrona and serve under the Jedi Order

Personality and traits
Being from a military family, Scott was very streetwise and always knew how to handle himself. He loved his mother and his sister more than anything and was mortally hurt when he found out his father had been murdered. Needless to say, he was reported to be a fantastic soldier and to be so physically and mentally adept at the age of fourteen scared many of his fellow soldiers. When asked whether or not he wanted the Enterprise job, the Admiral present said "You got 1600 on the SAT Lieutenant... You're an Admiral, not a damn security officer."

When it came to the job at hand, Scott knew exactly what to do. He did things by the book, and never questioned orders- even if it meant him getting hurt. He also possesses a strong moral compass, and felt the guilt of slaughtering the Russian personnel on that airbase at the age of fifteen. As a result of his guilt, he felt that joining the UEED would give him time to start his life again, become a new person. Even if he did want to jump ship first away mission he got.

Powers and abilities
Like Atton, Bao-Dur and the rest of Alana Dal's companions, Scott trained and excelled in the Jedi Arts very quickly. As all humans on Earth are Force-Sensitive, he just needed an experienced Jedi to unlock all of the potential. It is possible with his strengths with both the Force and with a lightsaber, he served on the Jedi Council with all the other Lost Jedi