Brawn 5 Soak Value:<\/strong> 6 Skills:<\/strong> Athletics 2, Brawl 3, Coercion 2, Cool 2, Discipline 3, Education 2, Leadership 1, Mechanics 4, Medicine 4, Melee 3, Resilience 3, Xenology 2<\/span><\/p>\n Talents:<\/strong> Adversary 2, Durable 2, Gearhead 2, Speak Binary 1, Surgeon 2, Utinni! 1<\/span><\/p>\n Abilities:<\/strong> Cybernetic Surgeon (Gruuzhnag gains a boost die on any Medicine check made to install a cybernetic on an individual and Medicine checks made to treat any character with a cybernetic already installed.)<\/span><\/p>\n Equipment:<\/strong> vibro-ax (Melee; Damage 8; Critical 2; Ranged [Engaged]; Pierce 2, Sunder, Vicious 3), heavy clothes (+1 soak value), medpac, tool kit, Mod V cybernetic arms, datapad. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLook, I\u2019ve known old Gruuzhnag for the better part of 30 years. Sure, he might <\/span><\/em>look like<\/span> the rest of those pigs, but that\u2019s where you\u2019d be wrong. You\u2019ll never meet a better doctor or mechanic this far outside of civilization. Yeah, the parts for his cybernetics are cobbled together, but what can you expect so far out in the Rim? And I can assure you he has no love for the Empire. And the last <\/span><\/em>goomba<\/span> who stuck his nose into the pig\u2019s chop shop walked away minus an arm. As long as you\u2019ve got the credits, he\u2019ll help you out. Just don\u2019t ask about his scars. Trust me on that one.\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Background<\/b>: Gruuzhnag was a brilliant Gamorrean even by the standards of species noted for their intelligence. He was taken with ideas that were so far above the primitive qualities of his kin that he quickly found himself ostracized from a very early age. He eventually stole away on a passing freighter that had stopped down for a few days to avoid an Imperial patrol. He quickly made an impression on the ship\u2019s captain when he found the young Gruuzhnag disassembling and reassembling some auxiliary components. He was almost immediately put to work under the tutelage of the ship\u2019s doctor, who was also serving as chief engineer. It wasn\u2019t long before Gruuzhnag began to pick up on the doctor\u2019s medical knowledge and started to put together some rudimentary methods to marry his mechanical and medical knowledge. <\/span><\/p>\n He was planning on using the money he earned\u00a0aboard the ship to enter into an academy in the Core Worlds, but never got the chance. Taken captive in a pirate raid, Gruuzhnag\u00a0was sold into slavery – specifically into the gladiatorial circuit. Forced to fight or die, Gruuzhnag chose to fight, learning how to survive in the arena, leveraging the natural inclinations of his species to give himself a needed edge. <\/span><\/p>\n Over the months he was there, he also started to win several of the other gladiators to his side. This proved useful when he decided it was time to break out. He staged a daring attempt, leading his few fellow gladiators in overpowering the guards and escaping into the countryside. Unfortunately, they were pursued by a larger force and caught several kilometers outside of the arena\u2019s walls. They fought valiantly but in the resulting battle, Gruuzhnag\u2019s force was utterly decimated and the Gamorrean himself left for dead, having lost both of his arms. Somehow, he managed to avoid death and dragged himself several more kilometers to the nearest settlement. He found an abandoned garage with several still functioning droids. He used them to help construct himself some rudimentary prosthetics and then managed to smuggle himself off world.<\/span><\/p>\n Gruuzhnag has since set himself up deep in the Outer Rim where he has made a small amount of notoriety for himself as a brilliant, if somewhat odd, cybernetic surgeon. His parts tend to be scavenged and secondhand, but no one can argue how durable and functional they are. He doesn\u2019t like to talk about his past, but he keeps the vibroax that took his arms on the wall in his shop, and he\u2019s not shy about using it if he needs to. Over the years he has patched himself some serviceable cybernetic replacements for the very basic prosthetics he originally constructed. He tends to conduct his actual business through his droids nowadays, very rarely speaking to the customers himself. But if you have need for his services, Gruuzhnag\u2019s Chop Shop can probably help you.<\/span><\/p>\n Suggested Use<\/b>: Gruuzhnag can be a great contact for the player characters, especially if they desperately need medical attention and are stuck far out in the Rim away from civilization. If they don\u2019t have proper payment, Gruuzhnag\u2019s stances against slavery and piracy can be leveraged as Obligation for the characters as he agrees to help them in return for helping him stamp out a particularly nasty group of slavers that is operating on the planet. Alternatively, if the PCs are the kind of group that find themselves routinely engaged in piracy and slavery, Gruuzhnag can be a very dangerous opponent on any Outer Rim world they attempt to acquire more merchandise on. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n<\/span>Agility 2
\n<\/span>Intellect 4
\n<\/span>Cunning 3
\n<\/span>Willpower 4
\n<\/span>Presence 3<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Wound Threshold:<\/strong> 20
\n<\/span>Strain Threshold:<\/strong> 18
\n<\/span>M\/R Defense:<\/strong> 1\/1<\/span><\/p>\n