Ryluk Shouja

"Hey, I'm a bounty hunter, not a poet."

- Ryluk Shouja to his fiancée, Lymie Chamna

Ryluk Shouja was a bounty hunter that lived during the Rise of the Empire/Galactic Civil War era. He was considered one of the most competent bounty hunters in the history of the galaxy in his prime.

His career spanned five eras, beginning late into the Rise of the Empire era, continuing into the Galactic Empire/Rebellion era, moving through the New Republic era, and finally dying in the early Legacy era after living to the age of 149, nearly half again the normal lifespan of the average Human. During that time he married Lymie Chamna, who gave birth to a son. His son's true identity was kept a close secret to protect the young boy from assassination and kidnapping attempts.

Ryluk disappeared with his wife and child into the deep Outer Rim for several years, only reappearing three times over seventeen years before emerging from the Outer Rim with Lymie and returning to live a relaxing life on Coruscant. They became good friends with many young people, creating the perfect cover to visit with their son, whose identity remained a closely guarded secret, even until their death. Ryluk died of old age three years after the death of his wife, Lymie, in 102 ABY.

Early life
Ryluk Shouja was born on J't'p'tan to Karla and Skylkan Shouja in 47 BBY. Both Karla and Skylkan were born Corellian, so it followed that Ryluk would become a Corellian citizen as well. It turned out that Skylkan was not the greatest father figure, being a smuggler and con artist and keeping his true occupation hidden behind the job of a trader, even to his family. He was killed when Ryluk was still only a toddler of two, and Ryluk was brought up under the impression that his father's death was an unfortunate accident.

Life on J't'p'tan was hard for the boy. His mother tried to teach him Corellian culture, all the way down to the Corellian Gambit version of Sabacc, which remained his preferred system of Sabacc throughout his life. He was harassed for being a human by his peers and the locals of J't'p'tan, and especially by a retired Trandoshan mercenary. The merc would beat Ryluk extensively whenever the boy was unfortunate enough to cross his path. When Ryluk was fourteen, the Trando merc pulled a vibroblade on the boy and slit him from left hip to right shoulder, leaving the boy for dead and laughing as it walked away. Ten minutes later, a visitor to the planet, Lymie Chamna, the daughter of the honest Coruscanti trader, Akak Chamna found the unfortunate boy and took him to her father. The kindly trader adopted Ryluk and took him offworld, where he healed his wounds. The only mark that remained on Ryluk was a thin, white scar from his hip to his shoulder.

Ryluk had four years of peace until Lymie's father died of a rare, untreatable heart disease. The two of them mourned her father's loss, Ryluk just as much as Lymie, as Akak had been just as much a father to him as to her in the last four years. Akak left a sizable amount of credits to the pair, who had fallen madly in love in the four years they had been together. Ryluk, a tall and strong young man decided to pursue the exciting career of bounty hunting. He bought a wreck of an old Pursuer-class enforcement ship and fixed it up, adding his own modifications as he did so. He named the ship the Lymie. He also invested his remaining credits in the Corellian Stock Market, making shrewd investments and becoming a powerful force in the economic world.

He started off as a small-time bounty hunter, and would have found it hard to survive had it not been for his business investments. But as he grew older, he grew more experienced. By the age of nineteen, he was a major force to be reckoned with. His sharp mind and lightning-quick reflexes served him well, and by twenty-one he was the most notorious bounty hunter in the galaxy. He bought a very expensive nearly one-of-a-kind, custom made fireworm-scale armor suit, able to stop a heavy blaster bolt. While still attached to the fireworm, the silicon armor plates were rumored to be able to stop a lightsaber. However, when the fireworm died, its scales lost some of their strength, so if Ryluk's armor could really stop a lightsaber was never proven.

The Bounty Hunter
"You're impossible." "I pride myself on it."

- Lymie to Ryluk

As a bounty hunter, Ryluk did very well. He scored several major bounties throughout his career, earning himself a strong name in the Hunting field. Many bounties trembled at the thought that Ryluk might be coming after them.

Aside from Hunting bounties, Ryluk also had to hunt Lymie. Being the love of his life, she was constantly threatened with kidnapping by some evil or another, and several times was captured by crimelords or exceptionally resourceful criminals in an attempt to gain some leverage with Ryluk. All they gained was death.

One attempt on Lymie's life was foiled by Ryluk's personal Tac-Spec FIII Footman droid Erudite. The droid was able to kill the invaders before their mission could be completed, thus saving Lymie's life and foiling the plan of the Cathar Honor Guard, who was ultimately behind that particular assassination attempt.

Ryluk was forced to give up large-scale bounty hunting during the Clone Wars when he took a job for the CIS to sabotage the Clone production facilities. He succeeded in planting the detonators, but he enjoyed the freedom given to him by the Republic, so he removed the detonator pins from the bombs and returned to the CIS headquarters to collect his bounty. The CIS gladly paid him, as their sources in Tipoca City had told them that Ryluk had successfully contacted him and Ryluk left. The CIS found only after he had left that the detonators would not work. The result of this act was the First Battle of Kamino, in which the CIS source was killed.

As for Ryluk, he got away scott free, except for the massive bounty put on his head by the Separatists. When he returned to Corellia, he immediately sold his house to Lord Fenron, the alternate identity that Ryluk had made in case he ever had to hide out. The Lymie went into storage in a secret vault beneath the mansion and the Pilot's Delight, Ryluk's second ship, took its place on the landing pad.

Lord Fenron was a notorious hermit, and officially, it was only him and his droids that lived in the Mansion, which remained called the Shouja Mansion long after Ryluk "left."

The Businessman
As well as a bounty hunter, Ryluk Shouja was a major businessman. He originally invested in the Corellian Stock Market, and made his first million in his early years, shortly after Akak died. This offset the grief of the death somewhat, giving both Ryluk and Lymie something to celebrate after the tragedy of Akak's death.

Ryluk owned quite a bit of stock in the Corellian Engineering Corps and several other large Corellian companies. This he bought early in his life and kept until he needed money, then sold. This contributed to his record as a shrewd businessman to go along with his record as a bounty hunter.

Ryluk was also the owner of several corporations in his later life. The first company he purchased was the Parable Corporation, once a major shipbuilding corporation. Once it was purchased, the bounty hunter started a new line of high-quality blaster weapons, although he preferred the BlasTech DP-12 himself over the sporting weapons generally produced by the company. His influence on the company led them into a new era and pulled them up from their previous status of being "average weapons producers."

Parable became a highly-successful weapons company under his leadership, producing such luxury weapons as the XS-1500 sporting blaster pistol, but the company also produced heavier blaster weapons, such as the XL-2140 heavy blaster pistol. Parable was the manufacturer that custom-built the 34x advanced blaster pistols that Ryluk gave to his son.

Aside from weapons manufacturing, Ryluk owned two small mining subsidiaries, Netronica Mining and Hybar Mining, the latter of was forced to sell out to the Corellian Mining Corporation, much to Ryluk's chagrin. Neutronica continued its operations in asteroid mining in the Outer Rim for years, and acted as a major ore supplier to Parable Weapons.

Ryluk's net worth was estimated to be 127 billion credits by HoloNet News in 96 ABY. This was factoring in his house, starships, the net worth of his companies, and his own personal fortune.

As a Lord
In 21.8 BBY, Ryluk was hired by the Confederacy of Independent Systems to sabotage the Cloning Facilities on Kamino. He placed the detonator but removed several key parts and returned to Cato Neimoidia to collect his fee from the unknowing Separatists. The CIS paid him before they found out about the sabotaged sabotage, so they placed a massive bounty on his head. To avoid being Hunted and killed, Ryluk sold the Shouja Mansion to himself under the alias of Lord Fenron and disappeared.

When Ryluk became the reclusive Lord Fenron, he adopted many habits of the fictitious lord. He did become somewhat of a hermit in his private life. No one ever saw him, as the lord, coming or leaving; in fact, he didn't come or leave for the entire first month of his life as a lord, but lived in the house with just himself, Lymie, Vakanem, Erudite, and the various maintenance and cleaning droids that worked in the house.

During that month, Ryluk, Lymie, Vakanem, and several specialized droids dug a tunnel out of the Shouja Mansion to a small warehouse just outside the grounds of the mansion. The storehouse belonged to the company Parable Weapons, which was, of course, owned by Ryluk. If the bounty hunter needed to come and go, that was generally the path he chose, unless he was leaving as Fenron.

Being as rich and reclusive as he was, Fenron was the subject of much attention from news reporters. However, the best HoloNet News shot ever taken of the lord was a shot of his hooded figure entering a private covered speeder from behind, taken from nearly three kilometers away and digitally enhanced. Fenron became quite popular, and his entire life was speculated on and a book was even written about him. Ryluk bought the book just to see what his fictitious lord had done during his lifetime.

The Mukhabarat
The Mukhabarat was a little-known but exceptionally efficient Assassin's Guild that operated out of the Happy Skies Casino and Yuhanna Arms, both owned by the leader of the guild, Justin Rettik. In 21.5 BBY, Ryluk tracked them down under the guise of Lord Fenron and asked if he could join. At first the recruiter only scoffed at him, but Ryluk knocked him flat and had the recruiter's vibroblade out in an instant. "Just to prove my skills to the unbeliever," Ryluk said.

The recruiter took him to Rettik, who recognized the bounty hunter for who he really was. Ryluk's life stopped being boring shortly after that.

The bounty hunter was quickly promoted to Captain due to his exceptional reputation that was too good to waste as a mere foot soldier, and he became the Chief of Security of both Yuhanna Arms and Happy Skies Casino putting him in a very powerful position in the organization.

Despite the influence he had over the other six Captains, Ryluk refrained from abusing his power, securing his position in the guild by making wise decisions that earned him the respect of his peers. He also took on several assassination missions, although he restricted himself to only the ones he deemed justified, whether from prior acts or voices.

Assassinations
Each assassination carried out by Ryluk had an exceptionally well-researched reason behind it, and the assassinations generally followed the wishes (unnamed, of course), of the Republic and the justice that it stood for. Each assassination was carried out in a nearly perfect fashion, with no evidence of the assassination left at the site except the body. Even though he sometimes used his disruptor, officials investigating the crime scene chose to "overlook" those minor details, as they unofficially really wanted the targets dead, or really did not care whether the target lived or died.

Ryluk’s first mission was to assassinate a male Twi’lek who had been an instigator of violent riots on the core planet of Coruscant. The riots were generally limited to the non-Human dominated sectors, but affected several large factories on the planet, generally destructively, so a very informed (and wealthy) company executive ordered the assassination of this Twi’lek from the Mukhabarat. The Mukhabarat, knowing of Ryluk’s skill but wishing to see it proven through an assassination on the busiest planet in the galaxy, ordered the bounty hunter on the job.

Ryluk passed his test with flying colors, selecting a Verpine shatter gun from the arsenals of the Mukhabarat to do the job. He pulled the job from a roof two kilometers away, shooting the target while he was turning to face the crowd. The Twi’lek’s own momentum carried him in the opposite direction of the momentum provided by the shot, throwing all pursuers completely off the scent while Ryluk made his escape to report back to Corellia. Justin Rettik was so pleased that he immediately promoted Ryluk to Captain and gave him the position of Chief of Security over both Happy Skies Casino and Yuhanna Arms.

His second assassination was an easier, but still difficult assignment. A Republic governor had received a death threat, and an interested third party decided that the current governor was more profitable for him than the one that would be elected in his place, so he hired the Mukhabarat to eliminate the offender. However, the name was not supplied, nor was the general location, so the job fell to the token bounty hunter of the guild.

Ryluk backtracked the HoloNet threat, using much of his extensive slicing knowledge to do so and was able to extract the name of the offender. After a quick consultation with his information sources, Ryluk located the planet of origination of the threat; with luck, the target was still there when Ryluk arrived, having not expected the transmission to be backtracked that easily. Ryluk pulled the assassination off with a well-thrown blade and pulled back off the planet before the authorities could discover the deed.



End of the assassin
After a line of several completely successful assassinations, Ryluk decided to take some well-earned time off in the Happy Skies Casino. However, it was not the luxurious rest and relaxation that the bounty hunter expected; instead, in the middle of the night, Ryluk was woken by an attempt on his life.

Apparently, somewhere in the line of assassinations carried out by Ryluk, a bounty hunter had caught on to who he was and tracked him back to Corellia, hoping to pull off the kill and collect the massive bounty put up by the Trade Federation. Unfortunately for him, he underestimated Ryluk’s improvisation (and knack for quickly rigging high-quality security devices), and paid dearly for it. After losing his left hand to a quickly drawn vibroblade, the would-be assassin was chased down through the halls of the Happy Skies Casino and finally killed just inside of the doors leading out into the main casino floor, where he would have been home free from vibroblade attack. After Rettik found out, he apologized several times and promised to step up security. However, Ryluk refused the offer of staying the rest of the night, saying that he preferred the security systems of his own house over the openness of the casino rooms. Rettik conceded the point and Ryluk returned home.

The next day, Ryluk returned to announce his intention to leave the Mukhabarat and return to his Hunting in the Outer Rim, after he had been approached by a representative of the Liberators Pirate Organization. He promised to return to the guild eventually, and Rettik let him go, thankful for the service that had already been provided.

Hunting as a Lord
After leaving the Mukhabarat, Ryluk did not have much to do with his time, so he decided to take up Hunting again. He cast his fireworm-scale armor aside, settling for a three million-credit suit of armor, manufactured by Parable. He also cast off his DXR-6 and DP-12s in favor of a pair of Parable Weapons XL-2200 heavy blaster pistols, tweaking them significantly enough to suit his purposes. He also carried a Parable XS-1500 sporting blaster pistol as a backup during this time period, essentially turning himself into a walking Parable Weapons advertisement.

The contracts Ryluk collected during this time period were all relatively small but always very difficult, which allowed Ryluk the thrill of the Hunt without much attention being drawn to his figure. The body armor featured an attachable full-mask helmet, which he used when negotiating with his contractors. This extra feature allowed him to remain anonymous even when dealing with beings that would probably have seen him. The contracts were almost completely limited to Outer Rim missions ordered by small-time governments or smuggling organizations with limited HoloNet access.

The end of the Lordship
During the middle of the Clone Wars, Ryluk was commissioned by the Liberators for a job in the Outer Rim. He accepted this task and sold the Shouja Mansion back to himself and arranged for a perfect dissapearance of Lord Fenron to an obscure system in the Unknown Regions. Along the way, the lord had an "accident", which destroyed the entire ship and all evidence that the lord never really existed. The fake Fenron supposedly had his entire fortune on the ship, and details of a will were never needed to be figured out.

The CIS heard of this development through several of their information channels, but after five assassination attempts were completely thwarted by Ryluk, Erudite, and even the house itself, they decided to give up on killing the Hunter themselves. The only other option for the CIS would have been to send a full task force to attack Corellia, which they were not able to spare the ships for.

Shortly before leaving for the Outer Rim, Ryluk purchased six SD-6 "Hulk" infantry droids and five JK-13s to protect his house and fiancée.

With the Liberators
Ryluk first met the Liberators on Najiba while hunting Chin Chaldak, a wealthy Coruscanti Human for a hutt named Delga the Hutt. Ryluk later realized that he was duped and that Delga was secretly working for Chin, but it took the kidnapping of Lymie to bring him around. It was around that time that Tesh Vohore contacted the Hunter and informed him of a plan to return Lymie to him. Ryluk agred, but was later arrested by Chin and charged with treason, and sentenced to fight, weaponless, against a dozen armed Najib. He won the battle and the favor of the people and was allowed to move freely around the immigration compound before he was charged again.

The second execution was even less sporting than the first. Ryluk was weaponless against an Acklay. And to top it off, Lymie was scheduled for execution in the same way at the same time, and was placed at the top of a large pole in the center of the arena. Just when things were looking completely hopeless, Tesh put Ryluk's armor in a carriage pulled by a small beast of burden native to Najiba.

With the reinforcements of the fireworm-scale armor and eight-inch vibroblade tucked into it, Ryluk killed the Acklay and rescued Lymie from her captivity on the top of the pole. Ryluk swore to kill Chin for what he had done. However, fate was not so kind to him, and it turned out that Chin was not the mastermind behind the kidnapping, a Republic admiral was.

After the liberation of Najiba, Ryluk and Lymie were married in a double wedding with a Twi'lek couple by Tesh in a semi-legal ceremony. Ryluk appeared in full battle armor, remembering the former attempts at marriage that had been thwarted by unexpected attacks or completely skipped by missions that lasted longer than expected. Shortly after the wedding, Lymie was kidnapped again, by the admiral, who had by now earned a double death mark: Ryluk's and Tesh's.

The Liberators caught up to the Republic fleet above Druckenwell and Tesh organized a rescue party to penetrate the heart of the fleet, the modified Hammerhead-class capital ship, the Guidance. After landing in the hangar and fighting his way through the clones and closing blast doors, Ryluk managed to arrive just in time to see the admiral pull a blaster on his newly wed wife. Ryluk cringed as a shot rang out, but was relieved to find the admiral in a crumpled pile on the deck and his wife safe and sound as Tesh emerged from the back of the bridge with a smoking DT-12. Tesh renamed the Guidance the Honest Pirate and added it to his fleet.

Ryluk's next mission with the Liberators was to track down and retrieve a Korun mercenary named Ethe Ertes. Ryluk found him on Clantaano III and brought him back to Kinyen, where Tesh was waiting. Ryluk found out that Ethe was the mercenary responsible for taking Tesh's wife. Along the way, Ryluk was placed in charge of the Liberators, temporarily, as Tesh traveled back to Coruscant. Tesh warned him not to blow up the only dreadnaught in his fleet, seeing as Ryluk had a "record" for it. Shortly thereafter, Ryluk journeyed with Tesh to Hjim, where he helped Tesh free his wife. Ryluk continued fighting along with Tesh until shortly after the second Xian Uprising. After that Ryluk left, with Lymie, to return to Corellia.

Post-Liberator life
After his brief period aligned with the Liberators, Ryluk decided to return to Corellia and take up his old position with the Mukhabarat. He was awarded the position of Head of Security of Yuhanna and Happy Skies, and his old lieutenants were transferred back under his command. He decided to operate out of the Shouja Mansion, where he lived with Lymie, now his wife, and their complement of droids.

In the Mukhabarat, Ryluk mostly managed security issues, as his back began showing the signs of wear he had inflicted on it during his younger years. He had a personal medical droid who was able to drastically slow the process, but little by little, both his eyesight and his physical strength began to deteriorate.

Despite this setback, however, Ryluk was still known as one of the most fearsome Hunters in the galaxy. He still pursued high-difficulty bounties and even managed to successfully complete twenty-three high-profile assassinations for the Mukhabarat over a fourteen-year period, which was a record for the guild. His last assassination was completed in retaliation to the assassination of Justin Rettik, and targeted the four secret leaders of the Genoharadan bounty hunter's guild. The successful completion of this mission resulted in the Genoharadan being set back centuries and marked a glorious end to Ryluk's career.

Lymie became pregnant with their first and only child in 76 ABY. Six months into the pregnancy, Ryluk left Corellia for the Unknown Regions in the Outer Rim, away from the society that both loved and hated him, each for their own reasons. Before he left, he sold the Shouja Mansion as a museum.

Akak Shouja was born in 77 ABY on a remote planet in the Unknown Regions, where he lived with Ryluk and Lymie for seventeen years before returning to Coruscant to live on his own. Ryluk followed him, purchasing an apartment and living near his son, but anonymous enough to protect him from attack. Ryluk kept his legacy a secret from his son even until his death.

Death of the Hunter
After returning from the Unknown Regions in 94 ABY and purchasing a home on Coruscant, Ryluk became extremely involved in youth events, hosting them, organizing them, and basically becoming extremely involved in all of the grand plans and sly schemes of the youth in that area of Coruscant. This provided him the perfect cover to interact with his son and his son's friends. Despite being well over one hundred years of age by this time, Ryluk kept up well with the times, and was in amazing physical condition, so was generally accepted by the youth.

He thoroughly enjoyed life until 99 ABY, when Lymie died of old age. He mourned the loss of his loved one for two years before realizing that wasting the short time he had left mourning was not the wisest choice he had made. So he became involved with the youth again, as much as, if not more than, he had before.

Ryluk finally died in 102 ABY at the age of 149, living nearly 150% of the normal Human lifespan. He left an anonymous will in the care of a trusted priest, who saw that Akak was silently given the large inheritance left to him by his parents. With the will, Ryluk attached a letter to his son, explaining the Shouja legacy and telling both his and Lymie's life stories, so that Akak could finally know the truth.

Ryluk was buried outside the Shouja Mansion on Corellia, next to his wife.

Ryluk's amazingly long life was attributed to a low-level Force-sensitivity, which also explained his success as a Bounty Hunter.

Personality/Traits
Ryluk was a personable Human, for the most part. He made friends where he could, and generally stayed away from those who would turn into enemies. His philosophy was that if they were nice to him, he would be nice to them. If he had no quarrel with a sentient, he would have no reason to hurt them, unless, of course, they were his bounty.

Despite his generally agreeable personality, Ryluk could be deadly when the need called for it. Need only called for it a few times during his life, which was fortunate for the others around him. The lethal personality of the Bounty Hunter was kicked in most often when a sentient threatened his fiancée, Lymie, which happened several times over the span of his career. None of the offenders survived the encounter, and most of them were killed within the day.

After returning from the Unknown Regions a father, Ryluk was completely changed. He became much more jovial and less prone to anger, controlling himself and becoming a much loved youth leader.

Equipment/Accommodation
"You're well enough equipped to take on a Republic battle army from the Great Sith War."

- Lymie Chamna

Ryluk's equipment was his pride and joy. His ship, the Lymie, named after his lovely fiancé was equipped with many upgrades not available on the open market, including prototype weapons stolen from design manufacturers. His armor was the best money could buy, and the weapons were top-notch and modified to be even better.

Armor
Ryluk has a custom-made suit of fireworm-scale armor. The fireworm scales were made of a silicon crystal, and while on the worm were strong enough to block most of the power of a lightsaber. Off the fireworm, the scales were never tested against a lightsaber, as there were only a limited amount found on the dead fireworm that were still intact enough to use for armor.

The scales fit together perfectly, creating a nearly impenetrable suit of armor, even stronger than the legendary armor of the Mandalorian warriors. His helmet was plated with the same scales, giving it a squarish look. His jetpack was the only part of his armor that was not plated with the scales, as when he had the armor made, having a jetpack had not occurred to him. The jetpack itself was made of a red durasteel with a compressed hydrogen-fuel chamber that occupied the entire rocket, giving the bounty hunter enough fuel to boost himself two hundred feet vertically or one kilometer horizontally at a maximum speed of 120 km/hr. There were small maneuvering jets on the sides of the jetpack, but the only way to slow down was for him to run into something or to turn away from the direction he was going and fire the jets until he slowed.

Ryluk also had an alternate set of black battle armor that he used when performing incognito.

Weapons
Ryluk had a large selection of weapons, both ranged and melee.

Blaster Weapons
Ryluk's main weapon of choice was his DXR-6 disruptor rifle, which was illegal on most worlds and got Ryluk into trouble more than once. It did, however, get him out of trouble more than it got him in trouble, so he kept it. He customized the disruptor to have a single-second recharge period instead of the average ten-second period, and was able to increase the power efficiency to get fifteen shots out of a clip instead of the normal ten.

His pistols were customized BlasTech DP-12 heavy blaster pistols. The pistols had 100 shots per clip by modification and were capable of penetrating durasteel armor plating at high power. The recharge rate between shots was cut down to half of a second by major modifications by Ryluk, making them effective semi-automatic weapons, even if they cost 15,000 credits a piece, plus modification costs.

As a backup, Ryluk generally carried two 22T4 holdout blasters tucked away in his armor, in case his weapons were ever confiscated or if he was ever away from his weapons and needed a blaster. When in his alternate armor, Ryluk carried a Model Q4 holdout pistol.

Vibroweapons
Ryluk owned several vibroweapons of various sizes and functions. His main vibroblade that was almost always with him was an eight-inch vibroblade made by Ryluk himself while he was a boy growing up on J't'p'tan. Ryluk later modified it and made it much more efficient and powerful.

Ryluk also often used his wrist vibroblade which was permanently attached to his armor. The blade was a mere three inches long, but it came in handy when Ryluk was unable to reach his other weapons in hand-to hand combat. The weapon extended when Ryluk closed his fist and sensors on his glove touched sensors on his hand. The blade retracted when the fist opened and the sensors lost contact.

One of Ryluk's more subtle vibroweapons was his three-inch vibrostiletto. When retracted, it was little more than a small handle tucked into a belt pocket in Ryluk's armor, worth little or no investigation. However, when activated, the blade would shoot out quickly, becoming a short but lethal weapon. The vibrostiletto was a perfectly-balanced throwing weapon, if Ryluk had misplaced or was unable to reach his blasters.

The last two vibroweapons Ryluk used regularly were gifts given to him by Hojs Ceray after Ryluk saved his life. The weapons were Krayt dragon pearlhandled and studded with Durindfire gems. Each blade was ten inches long, and the pair worked well together when used one in each hand.

Explosives
The Bounty Hunter also carried either twelve custom-made A-grade thermal detonators or 6 custom-made A-grade thermal detonators, 3 EMP grenades, and 3 EC detonators. Ryluk was also equipped with 3 Baktoid AA-33Q armor-piercing charges.

The Shouja Mansion
Ryluk's property, the Shouja Mansion, as it was unofficially named on Corellia was an ancient house built in ages past. The architecture was so archaic that the manual doors had to be modified to allow for electronic entry and passcode confirmation locks.

The house itself was three stories high and filled with works of art, a testament to Ryluk's success as a businessman. The house had an extensive kitchen/cellar area as well as over a hundred bedrooms. There was a full droid staff, but only Ryluk, Lymie, and Vakanem lived there.

The house had a security system with cameras in nearly every room, all wireless. The system had a HoloNet transmitter that Ryluk could access from anywhere in the galaxy, and it also had a radionics transmitter that sent the information to a system in the house. Because radionics could not have a limited broadcast, like the HoloNet, the outside walls of the mansion had a lead core to prevent the transmissions from escaping.

Behind the Scenes

 * "Ryluk Shouja" is an anagram of "Kurly Joshua", User:Ryluk Shouja's nickname, followed by his given name.
 * Ryluk Shouja is the main character in the book series A Hunter's Tale, which is currently being written by the author of this article.
 * Ryluk expresses the author's interest in having a neutral/slightly bad (in some eyes) character as the main character, instead of having the main characters only good/bad guys.
 * Ryluk had a cameo appearance in Season 1 of The Fanon Menace.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: A Hunter's Tale: The Legend
 * Star Wars: A Hunter's Tale: Only Man Standing
 * Star Wars: A Hunter's Tale: Clone Bounty
 * Star Wars: A Hunter's Tale: Assassins
 * Star Wars: The Pirate Wars II: Key of Deception
 * The Fanon Menace Season 1: Part II - Attack of the Franks (Non-fanonical appearance)
 * The Fanon Menace Season 1: Part III - Revenge of the Bith (Non-fanonical appearance)