Background Info for Mattlock Starfighter
'The Ballard of a Hero'

The limey Rebels actually did it, they beat the Empire! Most normal people didn't think they could but I knew all along...

Well they certainly paid well, unfortunately the damn Gun kept breaking down and all the money went into repairs. Shame that. Still there are other things in life, now that the Rebellion is over I better start looking for a new job.

So the legendary Mattlock Starfighter didth go to Correllia and there didth find work as a shuttle pilot and was dismissed for insubordination on his first day...as is his wont?

Three months in this shitty piloting job, tourists hate 'em! Pilot do this, pilot do that, if I had my way I'd dump all the gits in hyperspace! Then I went to the Space Race 2000 at Spaceport South East II, man you call that flying?..I could lick those nobs with my eyes closed.

So for the next 12 months Starfighter didth saveth lots of money and he didth buy a clapped out 200 ton space racer and then entered the Space Race 2000.....

"Well I didn't think anyone else could have done it Harry, my engines were burning up and I had minimal control of the ship at that stage..'

"Yes Mattlock that was indeed a totally stupendous piece of finishing, I thought that this tub of shit would have no chance of catching Foley's ship in the home straight..but you proved all the commentators wrong. Could you tell us how you got pass Foley and why his ship suddenly lost power to both drive engines?..."

"Errrrm..well Harry, it could have been his unreliable foreign Mon Calamari drive engines..maybe he should have stuck with good old fashioned Correllian-made ships!"

"Foley's complained that his ship was sabotaged...do you think it was?"

"I just think he's a bad loser Harry, you know what I mean?"

"Well thank you for your time Mattlock"

"Thank you Harry"

My name's not Harry..."

"Oh"

And Mattlock didth win many riches for his victory and was surrounded by busty beautiful females and had money for his every whim. As the days passed it didth occur to our hero that he had no offspring and it saddened him. But no matter how hard he tried (and boy didth he try! ) and how manyth docters and specialists he visited he had no luck.

So in despair our hero sought to adopt children who were orphans like himself...and he didth suceed were he has failed sexually and adopted three children of gentle nature and being. The eldest was 57 summers of age and was a Wookie by race, his name was Papilla, the smallest was Heron, a Trianii of 24 summers and the smartest was Kaven, a Correllian born and bred. Then Mattlock didth liveth in peace with his children...for a time

But it didth cometh to light that Krej "Fingers" Jeerer was apprended by the Correllian police and didth confess to "cutting a few wires on Foley's ship". So Mattlock and his children had to flee their homeworld and seek safety on the frontier world of Tattotine..where pilots could earn a living and law and order was regarded with distaste.

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