Tom Follett (character)

Full Name: Thomas Christopher Follett

Faction: Alliance to Restore the Republic (Rebellion)

Rank: Lieutenant

Height: 5' 11"

Eyes: Hazel

Birthplace: Coruscant

Current Planet of Residence: Lok

Race: Unknown (Human Looks)

Age: 110

Appearence Age: 23

Weapons and Tactical Gear
Primary Rifle: ''DC-15 Clone Rifle  Primary Pistol: DL-44  'Primary Heavy Weapon:' ''PLX-M4 Rocket Launcher

'''Other Weapons: ' ACD Heavy Acid Rifle  FLZ-1 Flamethrower  FLX-2 Plasma Flamethrower  SQR-D12 Lightning Cannon'''

Vehicles and Droids
All Terrain-Recon Transport (AT-RT) - ''Stolen from Imperail Medical Base on Coruscant  RIC-920 Rickshaw - Found and Salvaged  Tsmeu-6 Personal Wheel Bike - Salvaged from Ord Mantal surface junkyard  AB-1 Landspeeder - Built from the ground-up  Z21 Speeder Bike - Purchased [color=red]Disabled[/color]  Z22-Swoop Bike - Purchased [color=red]Disabled[/color]  Mustafarian Panning Droid - Salvaged from Mustafar [color=red]Disabled[/color]  XP-38 Landspeeder - Salvaged with help from Hansolo  'DK-1 "Droideka" Destroyer Droid  IG-100 MagnaGuard' - Named: Lt: Mishap  B1 Battledroid - Named: Gunner  R3 Astromech - Named: R3-X5  'MSE-6 "Mouse" Droid  WED Treadwell Droid  DRD Dwarf Spider Droid - ''Named: Cannon

Starfighters
Y-Wing - Purchased

XJ X-Wing (Hvy X-Wing) - Mission Reward

ARC-170 - Gift from the Queen of Naboo

A-Wing - Stardust Leader - Purchased

B-Wing - Purchased

YKL Nova Cruiser - "The Republic's Revenge" - Gift from a personal friend.

Before and During the Clone Wars
Thomas Follett was born roughly 80 years before the Clone wars, he joined the Republic's senate guard and rose through the ranks to Captain. He helped protect several key diplomats for some critical votes in the senate. Including the vote to give full emergency powers to CIC Palpatine.

''"It was hot, sandy, chaotic, unlike senate security detail from Coruscant......... I'm surprised we made it through the first hour, never mind the first day..." - Thomas Follett''

At the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Captain Follett was personally asked by Jedi Master Yoda before his trip to kamino to inspect the Grand Clone Army to join him as a Captain for an elite squad of Clone ARC Trooper Squad

He fought in several key battles during the war and along side the greats, Master Windu in the liberation of ryloth, Masters Anakin Skywalker and Obi-wan Kenobi in the historic 2nd battle of Geonosis.

''"The Gearheads launched a massive assault on Coruscant, my home, all in an effort to capture palpatine. All my squadron and I had to do was clear a path and buy time for a pair of Jedi Knights to make there way on-board the providence and rescue him." - Thomas Follett''

The Battle over Coruscant was massive, a frenzy of friendly, and enemy flak and turbolaser cannons all around. Follett commanded Blue Squadron, a flight of ARC-170's assigned to small defense fleet above Coruscant. During the Engagement, Follett's 170 took some hits, one knocked out his engines then another two shot through the canopy, which injured him, lucky he was wearing a life support suit. Being severly injured Follett was taken back down to the surface by a transport ship and was put in a bacta tank for the next several days.

The Fall of the Republic
Once Follett awoke in his bacta tube he was fully healed. Once the medical droid had informed him what has happened, Follett grabed the DC-17s side arm that was with his flight suit and shot his way out of the imperail medical center, also stealing a set of clone trooper armor. On his way out of the medical center he stole an AT-RT and drove to the nearest transport landing padd. He paid a transport captain 250,000 credits to take him to Corellia, no questions asked. The transport captain accepted the offer and he was on his way.

The next 20 odd years of Follett's life are foggy at best, but after arriving on corellia he built a home in the north to stay away from the majority corellia's population, for fear of bringing the empire wrath down uppon them. He fell in love with a Jedi Knight, a blue Twi'lek named Aurora Song. Close to 20 years later Follett was captured and taken to a prison compound in-orbit of the planet Dathomir, where he himself was rescued by the smuggler duo Han Solo and Chewbacca, and the droid duo of R2-D2 and C-3PO.

Tansarii and Ord Mantal
Solo and the wookie took Follett to Tansarii Point Station where he was "instructed" in the ways of the commando by and old clone trooper gone dark trooper Sgt Snopple. He did odd jobs on Tansarii point for various people, on the station and down on the Gamma station asteroid base. compared to the clone wars this was all a piece of cake, After several days on Tansarii he ventured down to the planet of Ord Mantal, rummaging through the junk he found the chassis for a Tsmeu-6 Personal Wheel Bike, he got a transport to bring it up to the station and loaded onto the Falcon, where he proceeded from getting parts around the station to repair. Once it was working, Tom, Han, and Chewie ventured to Tatooine, Mos Eisley where him and his new friend parted ways.

Tatooine
After arriving on the dessert planet of Tatooine, Han helped Tom to repair a damaged and abandoned XP-38 Landspeeder that crashed just outside Mos Eisley. Solo told him that it was less obvious to travel around in that instead of the Tsmeu-6, which Follett tended to agree. After parting ways with Han. Follett continued to do odd jobs around Tatooine, and worked for Jabba the Hutt for a short while

Jabba's Palace
''"From a Arc Trooper Captain to a pirate, what fun....." - Tom Follett''

Tom was only under a contract with Jabba for a short time, doing easy tasks, feed the sarlac, hussle some locals, eliminate other pirates, the works. It gave Follett a good opportunity to work on his skills, since he was out of the game for about 20 years, being in hiding.

Finishing off Jabba's contract he did a few more odd jobs then was off to naboo.

Naboo
While on Naboo he was recruited by the RSF, He did many jobs on Naboo, Follett's, mind still being foggy from his injury above Coruscant, Follett did a mission for the Queen of Naboo which took him to Kashkyyk and Dathomir. As an award, she gave him an ARC-170 starfighter. Nothing much special about Naboo, He finished his missions and jobs, and left to Corellia.

Corellia
Once Follett landed on Corellia, he went straight to the Coronet bank. They had his AT-RT and Clone Armor in storage there. He picked them up and started running missions for cash. The demand for an Ex-ARC trooper was surprisingly high, Follett made a couple million on Corellia and joined the Rebellion as a pilot in Havoc Squadron. Follett spent several months on Corellia. He visited his old house, which was bombed, nothing remaining but rubble. ''"They'll pay for this, I'll make sure of it...." - Tom Follett'' Follett swore revenge on the Empire, and thats when he started going back to full out commando. Follett started doing raids on imperial bases, supply lines, and attacking convoys in his Y-Wing. Follett got the call from an Corellian security agent to head to Talus for an emergency mission.

Talus - The Bunker of Horror
Follett rushed to Talus and gone into the mountains in search of a lost team of genetic engineer's. He didn't find them but what he found was pure horror, spider like creatures running wild, Follett did the best he could with his equipment and he did destroy all the spider creatures in the cave but once he heard that there was more, he went shopping, for something with a litttle more, firepower. He went to an old friend that has helped him out for many years in terms of droids, weapons, and other specialty items. Follett bought an IG-100 Magnaguard which he named Lt Mishap, and a Plasma Flamethrower.

''"Yea...... that'll do nicely....." - Han Solo''

Fully Rearmed, Droid at the ready with an electrostaff and flamejets, Follett stormed the bunker and torched anything that moved, destroyed the computer data, the lifesupport systems, poisoned eggs, set fire to nests, and planted bombs at fuel tanks and and primary conduits. Anything that stood in his way got torched. After that was all said and done, he went down to the lower levels of the bunker, and started torching the queen, almost getting taken the Magnaguard was able to draw off some of the attacking spiders long enough for him to finish killing the queen. Follett and his droid made a hasty escape and blew the bunker skyhigh.

"Well, that blew up real good, hahaha" - Tom Follett

This, That, and the Other
''"Odd Job Jack, that should be my name..." - Tom Follett''Follett spent the next several months doing jobs for high paying clients. Particularly on Corellia, he got several gifts, a cyber arm replica of the former Jedi Anakin Skywalker. Follett stopped doing jobs after that. He started to work on his piloting, taking on escort missions and patrol missions, he quickly rose through the ranks as a pilot and started doing missions for the civilian powers on Kashkyyk where he learned a lot and made several friends in the ''Civilian Protection Force. ''Follett went on to do missions for the female commander of the Kashkyyk orbital space station. He informed his commander of what he was doing and his commander got in touch with the leader of the CPF. He was assigned to doing missions for the minor rebel outpost in the sector, one of these missions of which was disabling a captured Corellian Corvette, which had been hijacked by mercenary forces. Follett attempted the mission once, but couldn't do it, the flak from the corvette was too heavy, he enlisted the help of an Imperial fighter pilot to fly his number 2 on his wing. The Imperial didn't care to much for Follett, he did not know that he was an ex clone, but he was pleased with the amount of credits that was on the table. Follett disabled the corvette and escorted it back to the rebel base where he did not encounter the Tie pilot again. As a reward for his bravery, he was given a XJ X-Wing''"Double the allowed mass but still keeping in the same box of speed and manuverability, yep, these XJ's are the future of the Rebel Starfighter Corps." - General Jan Dodonna''

Fighters, Bombers, Gunships, Corvettes
Follett quickly became an expert again at piloting. He at this point he owned an A-Wing fighter/interceptor, a Y-Wing heavy bomber, and his XJ-X-Wing his main starfighter, aside from his ARC-170. He quickly flew through the pilot ranks and was on his last mission for Havoc Squadron. The Captured Corellian Corvette.''"Well this is it ladies and gents, this could make or break us as pilots, get in, get our vette, and get out. Lock and Load." - Flight Leader Thomas Follett''The squadron jumped to lightspeed from Dantooine on their way to the Kessel System. To get the attention of the Imperial Corvette, him and havoc squadron began to take down the Imperials top fighters that where stationed in Kessel. One by one they dropped, after a half hour of dogfighting longrange sensors detected a corellian corvette in-comming, quickly going to a resupply ship near by, Follett reloaded his counter measures and mark III Proton Torpedoes, and then the Corevette appeared. It destroyed the resupply ship just as Follett was detaching."Havoc Squadron... Lets Bring It" - Tom FollettHavoc formed up and unleashed half a dozen proton torpedoes and concussion missiles into the corvettes side, The proton torpedoes did damage to the weapons systems and the missiles knocked down the shields a bit, the majority of havoc squadron went after the fighter escort, but Follett and his wingman concentrated fire on the corvette. Disabling systems one by one, until the thing was dead in space, Follett locked two proton torpedoes onto its reactor and fired, the torpedoes flew straight and true into the side of the ship and into the reactor. He ordered his wingman to break off while he made the killing blow, one more torpedo into the reactor and one into the bridge. The torpedoes flew out of his launcher and right into the areas. Follett pulled a Split-S, closed his S-Foils and fired his booster to get out of the range of the explosion. The rest of Havoc squadron formed up and they jumped to hyperspace en-route to Corellia. Once they landed at one of the northern cities. Follett was seen as a true ace by the rebellion now. As a gift for getting to ace, a close friend of his named Mah'deb bought him a YKL Nova Cruiser, which he promptly named "The Repubic's Revenge".

1-2ABY
Follett spent most of this time re-learning the art of vibro blade fighting. He build two of his own vibro-swords which he took with him for anytimes he found the need to fight a Dark Jedi or a Sith in hand to hand combat. When his orders came in for him to be shipped to Hoth, he took them, his DC-15, his DL-44 and his PLX-M4 Rocket Launcher too.

The Battle for Echo Base
"Cold, but important, Echo Base is the main Rebel base in the outer rim....... Awww Blasted Hell, Blue Squadron get your speeders ready, Imperial walkers spotted" - Tom FollettThe Battle for Echo Base lasted hours, to every last man and woman, Follett and Blue group helped Rogue group keep the imperial walkers at bay, when the shield generator was destroyed he ordered Blue group to follow Rogue group back to the landing area, while Follett landed and started on foot, helping to get people to their designated transports and getting them out. He went to the main hanger where "The Republic's Revenge" and the Falcon where landed. The Falcon was gone but his ship was still their intact, but what replaced the Falcon was something, dark, a Sith, not any Sith, but Darth Vader, he saw Follett and drew his lightsaber for an easy-kill, to rid the empire of a traitor what he didn't know is that Follett was also experenced in the arts of Jedi sword fighting from when he was living with Aurora. Follett drew his dual vibro-blades and Vader went on the attack. Blocking most of his hits, Follett found a weakspot in his attacking stance, while holding Vader at bay with one of his swords, Follett twisted around his second blade and hit Vader in the side. In one move the tables where turned, Follett was on the attack, pushing the Dark Lord back with every move, while in a lock with Vader, Follett holstered one of his blades and pulled out a stun grenade, for a distraction. Follett kicked Vader in the chest and dropped the grenade and dived into the snow. Knowing it would only work for a few seconds, Follett got up, and ran to his ship. Him and his crew fired up the engines and took off, escorting a transport to safety.

Present Day - Lok
After escaping Hoth, Follett went and landed in a remote part of Lok and built a house in a nice city called Athens and set up his own shop, selling furnature and other things for houses, To this day, he continues his successful buissness doing so...