Bounder Keidis

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Bounder Keidis
Alias	Bounder
Homeworld	Sernpidal
Age	76
Date of Birth	71-07-04 (BBY)
Date of Death
Occupation	Private Shipper: (retired) Currently: DSEC
Residence	Outmian Yakta Tatooine
Marital Status	Widowed
Family	No known surviving relatives
Physical Description
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Height
Weight
Build	slender
Skin
Scales
Fur
Hair	gray
Eyes	gray/blue
Cybernetics
Affiliations
Employer(s)
Senior Officer(s)
Faction(s)
Rank
PA	Dune Sea Desperadoes
Force Abilities
Type of Force User
Lightsaber
Master(s)
Apprentice

FAMILY HISTORY

in 77 BBY Naurma Celsati was only 24 when her family dispatched her from her ancestral home on Corellia to the distant Corporate Sector. Like all members of the Celsati clan, she was expected to do her part in the family business, which was export and shipping.

By the age of 26 Naurma had ascended to the role of Transportation Administrator of the family’s corporate concern on the planet Bretta in the Corporate Sector, where she managed the records and payment for most of the independent transports hired to import and export goods for Celsati Corporation. It was in this capacity that she met and fell in love with a pilot by the name of Wernin Keidis.

Wernin was born into a family of vagabond spacers, who had no ties to any world, and held little value in much else but their homeships and what little they could trade and barter for. Naurma’s family frowned on their romance due to Wernin’s lack of status in civilized society, but the two were in love and cared little for anything but that.

After a years courtship they two wed, and Naurma was disowned by the Celsati clan and cut off. She joined her husband on his ship, the Wayward Pride, along with his business partner and co-pilot, a Sullustan female named Jesn Deld. With Naurma’s contacts and business knowledge, the trio soon began to prosper as they worked the transport lanes of the Tingel Arm.

In a few years, Naurma learned that she was pregnant with their first child, and she began to yearn for the stability of life on the ground, what Wernin called “dirt worshipping”.

After much gentle nagging, Wernin gave in to her wishes, knowing that she wished her child to be born on Corellia, the two began the trip, but they soon found that their child wouldn’t wait. The nearest civilized planet was Sernpidal, where the couple celebrated the birth of their son, whom they gifted with the name Cecil.

HOME AMONG THE STARS (71 BBY to 64 BBY)

The young family soon took up their travels again, and life was good, and remained that way for several years as they couple raised their son among the trade lanes.

For a Sullustan female, Jesn was an oddity, lacking any of the nurturing nature and inquisitiveness that the majority of her species had become known for. She had long ago cast off thoughts of breeding, and was no longer able to bear. At any rate, she had developed quite a bond with Wernin and when he married Jesn had begrudgingly allowed Naurma into their partnership, and had in the years since become very fond of the couple. But the idea of a child…a human child no less, aboard ship was a dangerous proposition for all involved. She was traveled enough to know full well how unforgiving space could be.

She also had little love for children of any species, and attempted to keep as much distance as she could from the boy as she was able on the small ship.

Cecil was 4 years old when Naurma began to suffer from odd bouts of memory loss. She was relatively young, only 34, and healthy besides these lapses. Wernin expressed his concern, but Naurma kept putting off his desires that she seek out a medical exam at each civilized planet, claiming that there was too much else to be done.

It was two years later that she began to forget her own son’s name. Wernin refused any further delays, and diverted their travels to Talos in the hopes of finding an answer for his wife’s condition.

Attempting to shield his young son from his mothers illness, he left Cecil in the hands of his less then happy Sullustan co-pilot Jesn, while he accompanied Naurma to the medical facility.

After nearly a month of tests, it was learned that Jesn suffered from a rare strain of a disease known as “Bitter Winter” which causes a deterioration of the memories of the afflicted. Though common among Corellians (the desease was known as “Brekken Vinthern” in the old Corellian dialect) it generally affected the elderly, but a rare genetic trait can sometimes lead to early onset in certain cases, such as Naurma’s. Unfortunately “bitter winter” was highly aggressive and degenerative in these cases, and there was no known cure. Naurma was given only a few short years, and then her mind would slip away into nothing, and she would require perpetual medical care for the rest of her life.

Wernin was devastated to learn that if they had detected the disease through genetic testing earlier in her life, or even after the first symptoms appeared, they could have begun a therapy to prevent it from progressing. He cursed himself for not being more insistent with Naurma that she seek medical attention earlier. But Naurma was almost serene at the diagnosis. She began to make whatever arrangements that she could before her memories were lost completely, her time quickly became absorbed by putting her affairs in order, and it was only at Wernin’s urging that she allowed her son to be brought to visit…to say goodbye.

Young Cecil, a mere 6 years old, did not understand what was happening. He was aware that his mom and dad were gone for a while and he was happy to see them both again. He knew from the past month while they were gone away that Jesn didn’t fix ryshcate for him when he was sad the way his mom did, and she didn’t make funny faces to get him to eat his charbote root the way his mom did, and she had never made up silly words to sing along to the jizz music which his dad sometimes played over the intercom on the Wayward Pride.

But he did understand that his mom was going away, and he understood that she would be going away forever.

But Naurma didn’t tell him that. Neither did any of the adults in the cold white room where he was brought, the room that smelled like so much cleaning stuff was used in it that it hurt his nose. Instead, his mom told him that she loved him, and asked how he was behaving. Jesn, answered for him, and looking sad, she had said:

“The youngling minds what you tell him well enough, if only he’d cease with the endless bounding around.”

Naurma looked down at him from her bed, and though her eyes were teary and sad, she laughed and smiled. She gently took his chin in her hands (they felt cold, he remembered later, but soft) and she bent to kiss his forehead, and then said to him:

“You are apt to bound aren’t you?”

He looked at her, the soft light coming in from the window as dusk began to fall, and replied:

“I guess I am momma”

She pulled him up and hugged him close and whispered to him:

“Don’t ever change that my love…my little bounder.”

Soon after the doctors made Jesn take him away, and they headed back to the ship.

And young Bounder never saw his mom again.

THE WAYWARD YEARS (64 BBY to ?? BBY)

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