Esvald Magnaside

Esvald Magnaside was an abandoned child and he was born on Ord Mantell and was a smuggler, with his brother Clarx Magnaside. Together, they flied across the galaxy during the clone wars, giving shipments and even helping out the republic, and sometimes the seperatists.

Escaping the Planet
The ship flew past multiple ships, dodging laser bolts. Esvald was a good pilot, havign had some experience on his speeder. Clarx was on the turrets, shooting the droid ships. They managed to get out of their. They decided to go to Coruscant, as it was a big city where they could get a new fresh start. But a second before they went into hyperspeed, one of the 4 engines was hit and they went into hyperspeed and entered Coruscant air space, crashing into the planet.

Making an Entrance
They crashed into the planet, past the tall buildings, Esvald knew that the ship was gonna blow up, so he opened the doors, got Clarx out, and they jumped on a taxi, where there was a droid piloting. Esvald pushed the droid out. And flew the ship to the Old Galactic Market where they bought new gear and weapons. They went to a club and met Selven Frost, a friend who escaped Ord Mantell before the war. They explained the problem to him, and he told them that they could live with him, as long as they helped him with a few missions, as he was a smuggler.They agreed. And that's where everything changed...

The First Mission
A few days later, Clarx and Esvald had studied the maps of the above world of the planet. While on a taxi going back to base, Selven sent Esvald and Clarx a message stating they were hired by an anomynus jedi knight to find some holocrons that were stolen. Selven told them that he was already there, but needed backup. So Esvald and Clarx arrived at the area. It was guarded by droids, but not the seperatist type. Selven threw a thermal detonater on the floor, besides the droid guards,"Fingers in ears" Selven said to the brothers. Then the thermal detonater blew up the droids, and they flew in the air. Selven got his small blaster out, Esvald had his two dual blasters, and Clarx had his rifle, and they ran in, shooting the droids. They kept shooting till they arrived in a small room, where there were 3 bounty hunters, a Rodian, a Trandoshan and a Duros in a cowboy hat. Esvald took on the Duros, Selven the Rodian and Clarx the Trandoshan. Esvald kicked the Duros in the head, but it only hit his hat. The Duros then took out his dual blasters and shot Esvald, who ket dodging, then Esvald used his jetpack to fly up and punched the Duros while he flied up. And then hit him with the back of his blaster. The Duros was knocked out. Esvald took the holocron. "I got it!" He said to Selven, who was losing a battle against the Rodian. Clarx was using his jet pack to snipe the Trandoshan from above, and he shot the Trandoshan in the left leg, and ear, killing him. "Great!" Selven said. "Now help me over here!" Esvald flew over to the Rodian, took out his dual blasters and shot the Rodian first. The two then ran out. When they got to the taxi, they went to the Senate, and were greeted? by Chancellor Palpatine, who they gave the holocrons too.

Hutt Assasination-Part 1
Two years later, and Esvald, Clarx and Selven were famous in the underworld, known for doing whatever it takes to get the job done. They were then given a mission by a seperatist. They were asked to find Nem'ro the Third, a hutt who had left the capital and had gone into hiding. Nem'ro was in debt to the seperatists, and owed them credits. The team was asked to find him. They agreed, asking that they'd get 30% of the money Nem'ro owed. Selven then split the team up to find leads. Selven went to the Black Sun area, Clarx went to the Uscru Entertainment District, and Esvald went to the Old Galactic Market. Esvald decided to go to a club owned by the Hutts. He found a Hutt named Scl'ar. Scl'ar stated that Nem'ro was his brother, and most likely went to the Nal Hutta system, where he was the rightful ruler. Esvald thanked Scl'ar for the information. Scl'ar then told him he would have to move fast, as all Nem'ro had too do was assemble his troops on Nal Hutta and he could leave. Esvald understood that time was of the essence. As he left the club to pack for Nal Hutta, he contacted Selven, no response, he contacted Clarx, no response. Esvald knew something was wrong, he left for the base immedietly. When he arrived, he found Clarx and Selven, dead. He was angry, mad. He found a message: "Esvald Magnaside, you are lucky I couldn't reach you. But I'll find you.-Bane" Esvald didn't know who Bane was, but he knew Bane was someone with a grudge, and he had to have faced him before. Esvald went to his room to pack. He went to the starport, gave one last look to the building where his base was, and left for Nal Hutta.

Trouble at the Spaceport-Part 2
Esvald landed on Nal Hutta Spaceport, only to be stopped by 2 bounty hunters, one had a wolf and a strange hat, and a Zabrak. "Freeze, we know who you are." the Zabrak said. "I'm only here to visit" Esvald smirked. The second bounty hunter looked at his wolf and said something in a language Esvald did not know of. The wolf growled and jumped at Esvald, who was tooken by shock and landed on the floor.

The wolf jumped back to the bounty hunters and the Zabrak started shooting Esvald. Esvald used his jetpack to fly above them and flew out of the spaceport, but the zabrak told her comrade to take the ship, and followed Esvald on a speeder solo. Esvald flew all the way into the swamp. Esvald turned around to see the Zabrak, and shot the speeder with his blasters. The speeder crashed into a tree. Esvald then looked on his map, and found that Nem'ro's palace was not far, so he walked there. As he walked, he found people in the same armour going to the starport in speeders. "I need to hurry" he thought. "Nem'ro is already getting his army ready" And so Esvald went to the Palace of Nem'ro the Hutt.

Arrival at the Palace -Part 3
Esvald entered the palace, to find people running out, including Nem'ro himself, he was accompanied by two guards with electric staffs. Esvald stopped Nem'ro leaving. "Halt! I've heard that you owe the seppies some money." Nem'ro looked at him darkly and ordered for Esvald to die. Esvald shot the guards, killing them, and aimed his blasters at the unprotected Nem'ro. Nem'ro growled: "Fine!" He called for his droid, who gave Esvald the credits. Esvald thanked Nem'ro for his cooperation, and left. As he left for the starport, Esvald talked to the seperatist Nute Gunray through hologram. "Thank you for your cooperation, now, you can take the 30% of the credits as agreed and a medal. Arrive on Genosis soon." Esvald smiled and shut off the hologram. As he entered the starport for his ship, he found that it was gone. "Where's my ship!" He looked around, to find confused faces. Esvald knew that 30% wasn't enough for a new ship, and noone could stop him from taking ALL the credits. Esvald then bought a ship with most of the credits, he knew the seps would still hunt him down, so he'd have to go in hiding. He flew in a Whitecloak fighter, and decided the best and closest planet to go to was Bespin.

Settling in
Esvald landed in a city, and found an area where the people where peaceful. "Reteirment at 23" He thought. "Funny" Esvald used his remaining credits to buy a house. He stayed there, using his remaning credits to make a living, selling items he had aqquired on his travels. Esvald managed to dissapear from the world, just like he wanted.

The Clone Wars Begins
But then, in 22 BBY, the Clone Wars began, rumours of the Seperatists declaring a full scale war on the Republic. Esvald hoped that the droids wouldn't invade Cloud City. Sadly, he was wrong. A month after the so called Clone Wars began, the droids invaded, Esvald helped protect his area, but realized he had to leave. And left the planet and travelled in space, settled on moons, until he decided it was time to come out and get back in the smuggling business. And he knew the right place to go.

Saber Crystals
Esvald landed on Ilum, the closest planet near Bespin he could land on. Esvald knew little about the planet except that it was sacred to the Jedi Order and that it has valuable artifacts. Esvald flew above the planet to find a civilised location. For a while, all he found was snow. Until he came across a large door. Esvald landed his ship and entered. He found a large chamber of sorts and another large door, with ice halfway, slowly falling down. Two figures were watching the door. One was a small green creature with large ears and the other was tall, green and had spots on her cheeks and was in a black dress. She looked at the small creature: "Master Yoda, I sense someone here" "As well, I do" The creature replied. They both turned to Esvald, who was trying to be stealth. Esvald looked at them, they both seemed old. He had an advantage. "So long" He took out his two blasters and shot the two figures, they took out two small items. Lightsabers. Esvald realized his mistake: They where Jedi. Esvald kept shooting, the female blocked and jumped at Esvald, who dodged and shot her in the leg. She fell on the floor, Esvald ran to grab the saber and face the so-called Yoda, who was jumping at Esvald. Esvald kept blocking his attacks. Esvald then ran out to his ship, jumped in, started the engines, but the ship wouldn't move, even when he steered it up. He looked at Yoda, it looked like he was using the force to hold the ship in place. Suddenly, both of them heard a girl. "I found my crystal!" Yoda turned around, and Esvald was free. He flew away and made a jump to hyperspace, destination: Unknown.

"Can't shake them!"
Esvald arrived, straight out of hyperspace, above the planet. This was one he knew well, Hypori. Selven Frost was born there and lived there before coming to Ord Matell. Esvald landed on the planet, hoping it would be safe. But as soon as he arrived, he was attacked by vulture droids, Esvald was chased accros the landscape, unable to shake them, he then saw Republic forces who were attempting to shoot the vulture droids. Esvald then did a quick turn and landed in the Republic area, took out the green saber he stole, and had to assume the clones thought he was a Jedi. "Fire at those vultures!" The Vultures landed, and the Clones shot them down. A clone dressed in red walked up to Esvald."Sir, I am Captain Frodo, and you are?" "I'm General Magnaside" (Esvald had heard how Jedi talked when he was on Coruscant.)"I'm here to help with the battle" "The Jedi all went to face the new General." "A Grey Jedi?" "No, a seperatist general" Esvald was a bit scared, would all the jedi of this grand army go? He must be strong. "I'm going to go help the fight! Where is he located?" Frodo pointed the way. "Good!" Esvald said. And he got in his starfighter, and flew the oppisite way, no way was he going to face anyone one on one skilled in sabers. But he didn't know what was coming....

Acherin (21.2 BBY)
Co-written with Reedman211

Duel in the sky
As Esvald flew out of Hypori, he entered Acherin controlled-space. Esvald saw Republic ships attacking Seperatist frigates. "Not my buisness" he thought, and just as he was about to turn around, he was being hit! "Are you kidding me!" Esvald flipped back and shot the ship, and sent it flying around, the controller of the ship gained control. Esvald could see that the controller of the starfighter was a magnaguard. "Smart for a droid" Esvald thought. Suddenly the magnaguard fired lasers at the ships hull. "Not good!" He said out loud, to noone in particular. He turned his ship around, but the magnaguard fired a missile, right into the ships engine. His ship was on fire! Esvald needed to land, and the closest place was a...ugh, Seppie ship. Esvald groaned and steered his ship into the landing zone, crashing it into a dozen or more battle droids. The magnaguard landed his ship and got out, as did Esvald. The magnaguard ignited his staff, and Esvald activated the stolen saber. Esvald was scared, but tried his best to hid it. "Who are you?" Esvald shouted. "I am IG-211, also known as Killer, and I will kill you.'"

Esvald VS Killer
Esvald hit first, swinging his saber at Killer, Killer blocked and swung his staff over Esvald's head, who dodged, thankfully, Esvald punched Killer in the face, but hurt him instead. Esvald groaned, he should know better. Suddenly the hanger door opened and some droids, including a tactical one, entered. Esvald took out his blaster and blasted some of them, then he ran towards the other droids, and sliced them all in half, leaving the tactical droid left. Esvald cut his head off and heard Killer walking behind him. Esvald turned around, and saw Killer's staff on the floor. Esvald was confused, was he gonna slap him?"What..." Killer ignited a saber. Esvald slowly walked back. "Your no Jedi...but you have many skills..." Esvald held his saber, tall and brave. "You must be a fool. I have complete control of an army of droids. I can tear you apart with my power." Esvald smirked. "You can't hurt when you can't kill." Killer growled, Esvald swung at Killer's feet, and he responded by leaping and hitting Esvald in the chest. Esvald took his blaster out. "Your one tough droid." and shot him in the hip and the droid fell. The ship was then hit by a Republic Cruiser, Esvald took this distraction, went back in his ship and looked at Killer, "Remember Esvald Magnaside!" and flew out, but his ship was hit while flying out, and crash landed on Umbara...

Umbara (21 BBY)
Co-written with Darth Jaciuss

Meeting Bane-Part 1
Esvald landed-well crashed on Umbara, he was unconious for a whilem until he woke up. He saw a person in brown and wearing a cowboy hat. It was familiar. But who? The cowboy turned around, a Duros. "Hello, Magnaside." "You!" "It's me all right, your worst nightmare" "You're the guy I beat up all those years ago." "Oh you don't know? Now I get to tell you face to face. I killed them" As soon as he said those words, Esvald knew that this was Bane, the killer of Frost and his brother. Esvald took out his blaster and shot first, but Bane dodged. He flew out. Esvald followed him with his jetpack. Esvald kept shooting, while Bane kept dodging, until he flew towards Esvald, punched him in the face, and Esvald was falling down, crashed into a tree, fell from there, and landed on the ground, unconious. When he woke up, he saw dead clone troopers on the floor, his gun near him, and Bane using Esvald's saber to duel two jedi. One had two green sabers, the other had one green saber. Esvald got up, and shot Bane, but he dodged, and so did the jedi. Bane then kicked the female with the two sabers, and got on a speeder. Esvald approached the Jedi. The female Jedi looked at him. "I am General Brightrazor, this is my padawan Jacius Ralius, and we have to go. NOW." Esvald nodded: "Agreed, he could go on his jet pack." The padwan Jacius looked at Esvald, smiling. "I cut his jetpack." He can't get off this rock unless he goes to our-. His happy face turned dark:" base" The three of them ran to the other speeders.

Stolen Property-Part 2
The three as well as the two other clones,arrived at the landing site. They saw a dead pilot on the floor, Bane must have threw him out. Oola looked at Esvald: "If you help us, we might reconsider taking you to the council" Esvakd smiled "All in a day's work ma'm." They stopped the speeders, as the LAAT began to start, Jacius used the force to hold the ship in place, but it kept moving. Esvald smirked. Jacius shot Esvald an angry look and then force pushed the LAAT into a tree. They jogged up to it. Esvald was a bit shocked: "Couldn't you just have thrown in on the ground? I assume your Republic ships don't come cheap?" Oola shot Jacius a stern look.Esvald didn't look worried, just humored at what he saw. "I would have given five-hundred credits to watch a Jedi do that."Jacius looked at him. "Or a crystal perhaps?"Oola went wide eyed and gave Jacius a very authority filled glare. "Old grudges can be let go, let us forget the past and focus on the present. No need to start something we will have to finish." "Yes Master." "Hey pal," Esvald began. "I regret stealing that crystal somewhat, I guess. I mean, it was a pretty useful thing to have as a lightsaber weapon. But anyways, If I can give money to pay for troubles done past I would. It's not a good thing to have a Jedi following your back." Jaina nodded. "I dont think credits would be necessary. A transport of the planet would be a much appreciated payment, we dont want to have your money." "A great saint at that, Jedi are truly a thing to behold." Trigg and Shad looked all over the wreckage. Jacius helped them for a few minutes until he returned back to Jaina. "Nothing there, he's gone. He must have hit the woods and Trigg can't pick up anything on his antenna. We should find a place to get off Umbara." Esvald turned dark, the man who killed his brother and mentor was still at loose. Oola noticed. "Sorry Esvald, there isn't anything we can do now. If there is anything he had done to you to make you dislike him so we understand. In times like these we refrain from anger." "No, its fine. I just have an old bone to pick with Bane, and a very nasty bone at that. I can find him anytime I need to. Thanks for the assistance though, he would have killed me. Let alone two Jedi and clones come to aid me, your a gift of good luck in my book. I just hope we don't meet again on bad terms." Jacius looked at the wreckage and spotted something, he grabbed it with the force. "Found your saber" Esvald took it. "I just hope you didn't kill for this" Esvald felt guilty, but hid it. "I didn't, just shot someone in the foot." Jaina and Jacius seemed suprised and shocked and angry. Esvald laughed "Kidding" They sighed with relief. They travelled for a bit and found a settlement with ships. He waved goodbye to the jedi and the clones. They left for their cruiser. Esvald then used his credits to get a ship. It was an old transport that had been left by some Trandoshans. Esvald bought it and went to live, in the stars.

Skirmish above Vassek
Esvald entered a space battle, starfighters roaming around everywhere. Esvald flew past the small ships and decided he could steal some republic items in the market. He landed in a cruiser, where clones and some jedi where rushing to there stations. Esvald got out of his ship and went behind the cargo. He opened up a box, filled with republic blasters and armour. Esvald looked at his ship, still safe. Esvald saw two clone troopers coming towards him. Esvald took out is blaster and shot the two in the chest. As he attempted to smuggle his cargo in his ship, an explosion could be heard. Something from the inside of the ship had blown up. Esvald needed to hurry. He pushed the box into his ship, he then noticed something as he was about to close the door. A jedi, a padawan by the looks of it, was staring at him, lightsaber at the ready. Esvald thought she was brave. But still foolish. Esvald closed the door. And that was his mistake. He could feel the ship move, but he wasn't flying it. The ship was out of control....Suddenly the ship was thrown into the wall! Esvald looked through the window, it was the jedi padawan, using her powers. Esvald grabbed his saber and ran outside. He got out and attacked the padawan, who was skilled, blocking his attacks. The two suddenly saw a drop ship coming in, with droids coming out, the padwan ran away while Esvald was confused and blocking the lasers. Esvald ran to get cover, he saw multiple clones running in shooting the droids. Then Esvald saw a terryfing cyborg. Esvald knew who this was: It was the General from Hypori...

Duel with the General
Esvald ran to the General, who took out four lightsabers, Esvald threw his saber into it's chest, but was blocked by all 4 sabers. Esvald then grabbed it's head and jumped up, kicking it in the chest. The General backed away. Esvald took out his blaster, shooting the General, who blocked the lasers. Esvald then ran by the cargo boxes and sniped the General, who was blocking the attacks, suddenly, Esvald noticed the General jumping up and hanging to the top of the wall. Esvald kept shooting it, but also kept missing, suddenly the General jumped right on Esvald and kept punching Esvald. Suddenly the General was...chocking? Esvald turned and saw the padwan, saving him from Grevious. Esvald took this moment to run to his ship, and as he flew out, he saw the padwan. Dead

The Tusken War
Esvald landed the in the deserts, he didn't want to be noticed, so he moved it to the caves. When he landed, Esvald realized he had never looked at his ship much. He looked in the compartments and found...a droid. Esvald looked at the Registration number: MI-LO. He found a button behind him and pressed it, MI-LO activated. "Um...hi" Esvald said. MI-LO beeped. "I guess you go with the ship, can you guard it until I come back?" The droid beeped a positive response. Esvald nodded and left in hope of finding a village to trade. What Esvald found was a clone squad attacking a village. Esvald was shocked, weren't these people fighting for good? Esvald looked from a high cliff, watching the battle. The clones wiped most of the tuskens out, but the remaining ones retreted to the caves. Esvald climbed down and got on a speeder to follow them. The battle continued to a cave, Tuskens and clones dying everywhere. Esvald then heard a flame and followed the sound. He found a camp, and multiple bounty hunters. And a hologram of a Hutt. Jabba the Hutt. Jabba saw him first. Then the bounty hunters. They all paused, all armed and ready to strike. Jabba broke the silence. "You are Esvald Magnaside, are you not?" Esvald nodded. "I have a mission for you." And Esvald was given a mission that would put him back in buisness...

Taking the Outpost
Esvald was put in charge of the group of bounty hunters. Jabba was meant to choose Sugi, but had heard of Esvald's sleekness, his ability to command, and the Nem'ro mission. The mission was simple, to meet with one of Jabba's clients and obtain his cargo, then take the cargo to a small settlement in Felucia, where they'd meet a contact who had offered Jabba a large sum of money...

The squad was contained of: Esvald, Sugi, Embo, Rumi Paramita and Serpias. Esvald landed the ship in the mountains, the team got out and looked down below to see the battlefield on the ground. The Republic had taken most of the area, making one outpost and another area protecting a city. Sugi looked at her map. "The contact is down there" she said, pointing to the city. Embo observed the area. "There is no chance of getting down there withought being caught." Serpias nodded in agreement. Esvald studied the map. "It looks the droid area is over there" He said, pointing to an area not so far away. The team moved out to the force field, and climbed down the  mountains. They landed on the ground. Esvald gave a hand signal to Rumi, who nodded and threw a thermal detonater to the ship, all 5 took cover as the ship exploded. Esvald then noticed that the Republic was having trouble attacking the droids due to the shield. Esvald shot the sheild genorater and ran. As the 5 moved into the battlefield, Sugi had a plan:" We should split up, we need to take down the Republic outpost and get our cargo." Esvald was puzzled. "Why do we need to take down the outpost?" "Because, smart guy, they put us up as criminals, including you. Remember your skirmish on Ilum?" Esvald rememberd the event well, and moved his hand to his saber. "Fine, let's go with Sugi's plan, but we do it my way. The Republic could be holding info inside the base, info that the Seperatists could use for a good price. Our droids can find our client for us. Rumi, I need you to climb back up and snipe the defenders of the outpost." Rumi nodded, and used a grappling hook to climb up. Esvald turned to Serpias. "Serpias, I'll need you to get acces to the database while me, Sugi and Embo take down the clones. Serpias nodded. And the plan was put in action, Esvald, Embo and Sugi took cover as Rumi took down some clones and got the jedi's attention. The Clones started shooting Rumi. Embo then threw his hat at some jedi. And Esvald and Sugi launched, shooting clones left and right. As they distracted the Republic forces, Serpias entered, not in his armour, and entered the outpost, covered by Esvald. Serpias hacked in the database as Esvald shot the clones. Suddenly, a large explosion was heard. "What was that?" Serpias exclaimed. Sugi and Embo entered. "It's a battle zone, there's bound to be some noises." Sugi then looked at Serpias. "You done?" "Almost, just need to save it in my armour..." Embo then ran to the armour and  put it by the computers. Serpias then entered the armour core and pulled out a cable. Suddenly, a group of  5 ARC Troopers entered. Esvald shot two of them. He took out his saber, and stabbed one in the heart as Embo shot one and killed the final one by throwing his hat right into the clone's neck. Not a good sight. "Done!" Serpias shouted, he went into his armour. The 4 ran, Sugi then got onto her comm. "Rumi, we've got what we needed. I need you to locate the droids and send us the coordinates." The team then, stealing Republic speeders, left the outpost.

Abandoned
All 5 met in a large building. The droids where waiting outside. Sugi looked at Embo and Serpias. "We don't want to be caught, guard the place." They both nodded. MI-LO led the way, with Sugi, Esvald and Rumi behind. They entered the building and found the Rodian that they expected. "Here is your cargo" He said. Esvald and Sugi placed the large box on an anti-gravity table carried by MI-LO. Esvald's communicater beeped. "Go ahead." He said to Sugi and Rumi. They left without protesting. Esvald activated the hologram, it was Jabba. "My boy, I trust you have the cargo?" "Yes Jabba." "Good, be sure to take it to Felucia. I knew I could count on you" Esvald then said goodbye and went to catch up, only to hear the familiar noise of the Hutt ship. Esvald looked above to find the ship above him, flew by Serpias and Rumi. Sugi was smiling. Esvald used his grappling hook to attach him to the ship. Sugi took out her blaster and tried to shoot Esvald, who was in mid-air. Esvald dodged the large mountains. Esvald was mad "Give me at least a ride off this place!" "Not a chance!" Sugi shot the cable, and Esvald fell onto a vulture droid. The vulture tried to shake him off, Esvald felt dizzy, he looked down. He saw clones getting ready to set the rocket launcher at the Vulture. Esvald jumped off the vulture as it came closer to the ground, as he fell, the vulture was hit, and the explosion pushed him back, into a tree. He took a speeder, shooting everythin he was unsure off, into the city...

Making a Deal
Esvald arrived at the city and went to the local cantina. He sat by the bartender. "Jawa Juice." The bartender nodded and turned his back to make some jawa juice. Esvald turned around and saw a Hammerhead looking at him. Esvald turned to take his jawa juice and walked up to him. "What do you want?" Esvald said. The Hammerhead smiled, at least, that's what Esvald thought. "I have seen you on the holonet. You are Esvald Magnaside, famous for stealing saber crystals, tell me. Would you like another mission?" Esvald thought for a bit. "What would it be?" "To track down a doctor called Jaden Scar, he has made a formula to be immortal. The people I work for would like him to give them the formula." "What's my fee?" "2000 Credits now, and when you bring them Scar....Immortality." "I'm not interested in living forever, I want 2500 now and 4000 credits when I bring them the Doctor." Esvald could tell the Hammerhead was not happy. "I will talk to my superiors, wait here." The Hammerhead got up and walked out of the cantina, taking out a communicator out of his pocket. As the Hammerhead walked out, two men came in fighting. The bartender reached for his gaffi stick. "Hey! No fighting in here or I'll call the clone troopers!" The men still kept fighting, Esvald grew tired of this event and took out his blaster, shooting the two men dead. The bar was silent. "What? I saved you the trouble!" Esvald passed a coin to the bartender. "The damage is on me." The music resumed and the Hammerhead quickly walked back in. "My superiors will give you the credits you wish for, and have saved you the trouble of locating the doctor, he is on Dantooine, in a fort that you will have no trouble getting in." Esvald smiled "I'll take the credits now then." The Hammerhead passed him the credits and Esvald walked up, he had a job to do.

Entering the Fort
Esvald landed his ship in a mountain not far from the ship and walked towards the fort. The fort was hard to miss, taller then the Jedi Temple, or so he thought. Esvald took a guess that Scar was at the top of the fort. As Esvald got closer to the fort, he sniped the two Rodian guards. Esvald smirked at their dead bodies and entered. The ground floor was empty, Esvald looked up to see a large staircase. He looked around, just to make sure he was safe. He took out his grappling hook and threw it up as high as he could, up to the 6th or 7th floor. Esvald climbed up. By the time he was halway done, he noticed someone that he really did not want to see: Bane. Bane was smiling. "Why hello there." Esvald gave him a look of disgust. "Not now Bane." Esvald swooped to the floor Bane was at and kicked him in the face, his hat flowing into a window. Esvald took out his blaster and aimed it at Bane's face. "You know, for almost 4 years, I kept planning how I'd kill the killer of my only family." Bane tried to get up, but Esvald kicked him to the floor, pushing him down. "But since Umbara, I've realized, you didn't bring me down." Esvald brought his head down, a dark look on his face. "You saved me." Bane looked confused. "You made me." Esvald walked away, leaving Bane, shocked, on the floor. Esvald walked up to the elevator, smiling as he saw Bane get up. As he arrived at the top floor, he shot the panel so Bane could not come up. As he came out of the elevator, he saw the scientist with lab equipment and noticed the open roof, Esvald hid behind some boxes.

Formula of Immortality
The Doctor was at his lab equipment, He was mixing liquids into one bottle. Esvald wasn't worried, until he heard the thunder. "Right on time" he heard Scar say. Esvald saw Scar move the liquid into the bottle, he saw him grab a crystal and place it in the bottle. Scar walked away, the thunder striking the bottle. "At last...Immortality!" This was Esvald's cue. He got up, his blaster aiming at Scar's face. "You're coming with me." Scar raised his hands, suddenly, they both heard a jetpack and a laugh, with blood on his face, Cad Bane flew to the top floor. "Sorry Esvald, this is my job." Esvald dodged the blasts. Bane ran up to the crytal, oozing with a strange liquid, and got on a ship. Esvald shot the ship, but it didn't help. He turned to where Scar was, and walked up to him. "Let's go." Scar was scared. "No....Why should I?" "Because I want money." Esvald punched him in the jaw, making him unconciouss.

The Real Clients
They landed on Felucia, by a palace. Esvald grabbed the Doctor and punched him to wake up. He woke up. Esvald pointed at him. "Follow." They walked in, right to the top floor, in silence. When they arrived at the top, Esvald found something he did not excpect: Sith. A dozen of them. The Sith looked at Esvald and the Doctor, Esvald pkicked the Doctor in the back. "My money, now." One of the sith looked at another, nodded, and the sith came forward and brought the credits. Esvald counted them. 4000 as promised. Esvald smiled. "Thanks." As Esvald left, he heard one of the sith. "Not so fast." Esvald knew it. The sith wanted to be kept hidden, he ran. Esvald activated his wrist band, jumped off the building and fell right into his ship, and flew out. He knew that Felucia was not a good planet. The Republic were crazy for wanting it.

No place for a hero
Esvald walked into a bar that was popular among the people looking for a client. Esvald had heard Selven talk about it many times. Esvald walked up to the bartender. "What can I give you?" "Anything strong. I've had a rough time." The bartender turned around, but kept talking. "What's your troubles?" Esvald wasn't sure if he could talk about it, but to hell with it. "A friend of mine died. A good one." "What was he like?" "A good man. A very good man. One that saved my life." "Well, drink this if you want to forget it." Esvald took the drink that was passed to him. It tasted stronger then anything he had drank before. Esvald got up, taking the drink with him. He walked down the small space that was free, as the rest of the place was crowded with tables. He saw a pretty girl looking at him, Esvald smiled, but then ignored her. He kept walking, he turned and saw people fighting, people being thrown across tables. But Esvald kept walking, acting cool and silent.

He walked out the back door, into the freezy cold weather. Esvald's coat was good enought to keep him warm. Esvald spotted a small little area down a hill. As Esvald walked down, he heard someone scream from behind. "Hey! Hey you! Come at me!" Esvald turned around, it was a Zabrak who was obviously not in the right state of mind. Esvald turned around and kept walking down the hill. Suddenly he heard a blaster that hit the snow to his right. If Esvald walked in that direction, he would be dead. Esvald turned around. It was on.

Esvald ran to the Zabrak, dodging his lasers. Esvald grabbed the Zabrak from the horns and slammed him onto the snow. "Look bud, I'm not in the mood to be messed with. You got that?" Esvald then threw the Zabrak down the hill. When Esvald walked back in the bar to get another drink, he saw someone who sat down beside him. "I saw you fight that drunk Zabrak out there. You did a good job. What's your name son?" Esvald looked at the man, who looked rich. He didn't belong in a bar like this. "Esvald Magnaside." The man looked shocked, then happy. He then offered his hand to Esvald. Esvald shook it. "I've heard of you. You where in that nasty buisness on Ryloth." Esvald nodded. "Say, I could use you for a job. Think you could help out?" Esvald took his second drink. "What's the job?" "I heard the Seperatists are going to try and reclaim Maridun. But I have some stuff that..." He looked to his right, then his left. "I don't want taken from them. Or the republic for that matter." Esvald nodded. "and?" "I've already hired one bounty hunter to help, but it's a two man job. Think you could help out?" "The payment?" "Your record. Cleared" Esvald was now interested. Very interested. "I have the technology to hack into any system and wipe and or gain anything. So, are you in?" Esvald shook the man's hand "You bet."

The two walked into the garage, where all the ships where lined up, in a terrible way." The client guided Esvald to one of the ships. The ship was being guarded by a Trandoshan. The client gave a nod to him. "Esvald, this is Bossk. He will be your partner on this mission." Esvald nodded to Bossk, who followed suite. "We better get going." Bossk said as he walked into the ship. Esvald went in and nodded at the client, who began to walk away. Esvald needed to finish this mission. He needed to have his record cleared. With his current record, everyone saw him as a criminal. But Esvald wasn't. He was good. He needed to clear his record, because this was no place for a hero

Two against an Army
The ship landed in the far outskirts of the planet. The simple fields. The empty zone. Bossk and Esvald exited the ship. Bossk snarled. "We need to get to a small village. The boss hid his spices in there." "How close are we?" "It's a bit of a walk." The two then kept walking in silence until they reached the village. "This is it!" Bossk and Esvald ran into the houses, all empty except for silver boxes. Esvald gave a thumbs up to Bossk. "Go to the ship, while I stay here." Esvald nodded and ran to the ship. As he was running he heard a loud noise that damaged Esvald's hearing. He fell to the floor, in pain. Esvald turned around and saw 5 droid drop ships landing. The invasion had started.

Esvald used all his strength to walk to the ship as the drop ships landed around the villages. Esvald quickly entered the ship and flew towards the village. He quickly landed and noticed tons of B2 Droids attacking Bossk, who was kicking, punching, shooting and even biting the metal scraps. Esvald took out his dual blasters and shot the droids that where surronding the village. Many still remained. He and Bossk then where back to back, shooting the droids, stopping anything that was attacking them or the cargo. Then suddenly commando droids and droidekas ran into them. Surrounding them. Esvald knew that these droids where the smart ones. Well, besides the tactical droids.

And speak of the devil.

A tactical droid in pure black entered. "This planet is of the Seperatist cause. You will surrender or die." Bossk shot the droid a dark look. He jumped above Esvald, shooting all the commando droids, one by one, as he jumped on to the tactical droid. He grabbed it by one hand and threw it into a destroyer. Esvald looked at the droid, but something wasn't right. Esvald then turned his attention to Bossk, who held a black robotic hand. The tactical droid's hand. The rest of the droids where moving slowly back. They where scared of Bossk. Esvald chuckled. Bossk looked at Esvald. "Grab the cargo and run!" Esvald grabbed the boxes as Bossk kept the droids in their place. Esvald loaded the boxes into the ship as quick as possible. As he placed the final box, he ran outside to find all the droids, retreating back to their ships. And Bossk simply walked in the ship, with what Esvald thought was a grin. "Now what?" Esvald asked as Bossk stared the ship. "Now we go to Coruscant, where we give the cargo to the boss." Esvald went to his quarters. He lied on his bed and kept thinking: One more step to starting fresh....

Delivering the Cargo
Esvald and Bossk arrived at the Outlander Club, where the client was. They spotted him easily. He stuck out in the large crowd with his bright blonde hair and blue jacket. Bossk was carrying the cargo as Esvald sat down next to the client. "Ah, Esvald and Bossk! You made it alive I see!" The man smiled as Bossk placed the cargo on the floor. The man gave a small data chip to Esvald. "As promised my friend." Bossk slammed his fist on the table. "What about my pay?" The man did not look as happy, but took out some credits from his pocket. Esvald quickly counted them: 200000 credits! "And 1/4 of the cargo is for you Bossk." Bossk grinned. Esvald was disgusted. He felt cheated. "I'll be leaving now." Esvald got up and walked away. But Bossk was not amused. "You're not leaving smuggler!" He heard Bossk take out his gun, and Esvald immedinetly turned around and took out his dual pistols. The cantina was frozen. Noone moved. The two had their guns aimed at each other. The trigger could be pulled at any moment. But slowly the client got up. "Boys boys...we don't need to fight...Esvald, just give it to Bossk." Esvald was not amused. "No." Bossk was still not amused. "Look boss, we'll need to take this outside." Bossk grabbed the boss from his neck collor and walked outside. Esvald needed to go, fast, and walked out the back alley, pulling his hood up so he could not be recongized.

Duel in the Underworld
(Co-written with Reedman211)

Esvald walked past dozens of aliens, he needed to find a map to find out how far he was from his new destination. Esvald looked in the sky, he noticed dozens of ships and familiar buildings. Esvald noticed one that he had seen when he lived here, all those years ago. Esvald turned to a dark alley and made a quick shortcut. He suddenly heard a familar sound ignite. The sound of a saber. Esvald turned around, chuckling. "You trying to rob me, Jedi?" He said to the tall figure who was hidden with a Jedi cloak. The Jedi took off his cloak, throwing it onto the floor. It was the magnaguard that Esvald fought on Acherin. It was Killer. "I am no Jedi. Nor will I ever be refered to one. You will pay for what you did on my flagship..." Esvald slowly took his hood off and tried to reach for his pistol. "Hey, I can't help that I'm that good." Esvald smiled at the droid, who gave a blank expression, then swung his saber at Esvald, but Esvald ducked and rolled on the floor, firing at Killer. Killer blocked with his saber and marched towards Esvald. People ran away in fear. Esvald aimed at Killer's arm, but was punched in the face. Esvald could feel blood on his mouth. Esvald wiped it away with his hand. Esvald then kicked Killer, who was struck in the back. Two shock troopers arrived to break the fight up, but Esvald and Killer stopped the fighting to kill both of them. Esvald then activated his jetpack and flew out. He looked behind him and saw Killer chasing him. He was then slammed by Killer's speeder and fell into a building, braking glass then falling into a club. Killer and Esvald resumed fighting in the club, scaring off everyone except two DJ's who played a beat to go with the fighting enjoying the time they had. Killer went to punch Esvald but Esvald ducked and hit Killer with a chair he grabbed. Esvald took out his pistol, but Killer twisted Esvald's hand and took the gun. Esvald leaped and saw Killer's saber and swung it at him. Killer hobbled out of the way as Esvald swung it around the club. Killer blasted some bolts at him, But Esvald hid behind a table. Killer, still shooting the gun, walked over to the table but was knocked over by it when Esvald rolled it at him. Killer got up and hit Esvald on the left side of his head. Esvald then grabbed his saber and ran to Killer, who had his saber also. The two began duelling. Killer stepped on Esvald's foot and the pain rushed through his body. Esvald then punched Killer with the hilt of his saber. More police droids came in, Esvald killed them and noticed that an alien was on the roof, pointing at Killer. Esvald quickly ran out, knowing that Killer would have won the battle if the alien hadn't intervened. Esvald quickly took a speeder and ran out, his jetpack not working at the moment.

An Old Home and a New Friend
Esvald arrived in the old building that he used to live in. It was dark and rusty and it was obvious that few people lived there. He still had the key in his small bag that he carried. He opened up his old apartment to find a girl. The girl had blonde hair and blue eyes. She was standing, apparently about to leave. Esvald drew his gun. "Who are you?" The girl was hesitant. "I'm, I'm Katara." "This is my home." Katara walked back, and Esvald noticed she was going to grab what seemed to be a bow. Esvald aimed his gun. "Don't even think about it" Katara stopped and started to talk. "If this is your home, where have you been for the last 5 years?" "I've been busy" Esvald put his bag and blaster on the table, he didn't think Katara was a threat. "Doing what?" Esvald looked at her and smiled. "I'm a smuggler, with this war going on I've been much in demand." Katara was curious. "What's your name?" "Esvald. Esvald Magnaside." Katara grinned. "Never heard of you." Esvald shot her a mad look. "So, care to explain why you're here?" Katara sat down on the couch. "I came here when the Clone Wars began, thinking that I would be safe. I found this place to be empty and so, I've been living here for the past 2 or 3 years. I didn't think anyone owned it." Esvald walked over to the windows to watch the speeders past by. "So, you poor?" Katara nodded. "All I've really done with my credits is get food and supplies." Esvald turned around, facing Katara. "What have you been doing since you got here?" Katara got up and walked to a closet, opened it while saying that she had been around here and there, exploring and trying to stay out of trouble. She got out a bag. Esvald wondered why the bag was needed. "What are you going to do with that?" "Well, I don't think you want me to stay here." Esvald looked at Katara's bow. "Where did you get that?" "It was made by my parents. My mother was a Nightsister." "How come you look..human?" "It was a spell I performed to disguise myself." "hmm...How bout I make a deal with you. I'll let you stay here but you have to help me on missions with your spells and bow and all that jazz." Katara smiled. "Deal!" And that was how the team began...

Behind the Scenes

 * This is the second version of Esvald's story, the first being terrible.
 * Other people's characters who have appeared in the story: IG-211 (Reedman211), Oola Brightrazor (Boussh) Jaicus Railus (DarthJaicus), Wuher Moseisly and more are coming as the story continues!
 * From 20.3 BBY onwards, I feel as if the story gets very dark. I have planned what happens in the Great Jedi Purge, and most of you know I like to write dark. So writing dark in a dark era...it ain't gonna be pretty with death surrounding Esvald Magnaside
 * The smuggler, the witch, the senator, the mandalorian and the jedi. The 5 will become a great force in the dark ages...
 * I feel that Esvald's theme is Short Change Hero

More will come as the story progresses.