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Sho'tal Kata was a Mandalorian warrior trained as a Doctor at the Byblos Academy of Medicine, who served with the Jabiimi military as a squad medic after being drummed out of the Merisee Grand Medical Facility for poor bedside manner and the construction of a patient-oriented chemical weapon.

She eventually became the keeper of a Mandalorian enclave on the Forge Station and Mandalore of the united Clans, known as Mandalore The Bonecarver.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Sho'tal was created as part of an eugenics project by a Black Sun affiliated syndicate operating out of the Tion Cluster that once had ties to the Mandalorian chieftain Cayce Urriah Kata. Utilizing similar genetics and familial DNA to Cayce's biological parents, they produced twenty two potential candidates for their personal assassin. The first twenty one were failures, who died in the myriad of tests and experiments that were their training. Sho'tal was barely able to walk by the time that Cayce got word of the experiment and blew her way through the compound with a Kata strikeforce, so her memories of it are minimal.

The child was given to the Doctor Kebii'tra Kata at Kata's farm homestead at Mandalore Prime, as Cayce had to return to a war she was fighting, and was taken care of by Clan Kata and their farmhands. Amongst this new warmth the girl was given the temporary name Eyayah B'Kata, as she was the echo of their clan leader, and she was raised by Kebii'tra as her own daughter. Eyayah was taught how to shoot by Hettyc, and how to fight with a force pike by Cin Kata, and learned a bevvy of skills from the remainder of Kata's veterans and friends. But most importantly, she was raised at the foot of Kebii'tra, a legendary Mandalorian doctor and surgeon, who she served as an aide and gofer as young as six years old.

Verd'goten warrior trial[]

By the age of fourteen, Eyayah was given her verd'goten trial. One of her creators, a tentacled outlaw geneticist named Doctor Lod, had been located on the derelict space station, Forge Station. She was ordered to eliminate him as part of her trial, to ensure no more orphans would be created of the Kata lineage.

The Echo took her aunt's Force Pike, and one of Hettyc's old blasters, and left Mandalore Prime aboard the Roche Seven - one of Kata's mothballed mining ore shuttles.She set down at a pirate docking bay in the ratway of The Forge Station and paid off the local smugglers to look the other way, and made her way into the marketplace. Deals were made with the local Hutt Cartel boss, who she paid off by taking a loan from a local loan shark simply known as The Banker, and she received the location of Lod's fortress of science, deep within the ratways of the station.

The girl hired on a Wookie guide to deliver her to the location of the facility, which was levels down through tunnels of arcing tables, pools of standing water and mountains of rust. The fortress was built into the ruins of an ancient water processing plant that had been long abandoned, and the Doctor's hired on mercenaries and droids had built outer walls made of shipping containers. Utilizing an ion grenade, she disabled the gate mechanism and the four Juggernaut War Droids that manned it, before ducking into cover of the walls. A small army of Lod's mercenaries came sprinting out, only for the small girl to slip behind them and slap beskar manacles on the gate, locking it closed.

While the mercenaries were confused, she fired through the gate's bars and sent them scattering. From there, only the Doctor remained. As she entered the central structure, she found tanks and tanks of bodies resembling herself in various states of decay-- and the place she was born in, before being delivered. Other long dead bodies of past projects hung in vats as well, like grisly trophies to failure. The doctor himself sat half-submerged in an open pod of salt water, on his last legs. Before he could utter a word, she drew the force pike from her back and rammed it through his fibrous outer layer of flesh and ignited it, causing him to explode in a wave of red that washed over her.

As she stepped back, two words came to her: Shonar and Tal. Wave and Blood. She took the words as her new and final name, Sho'tal Kata. For the hours afterwards she emptied the myriad tanks and torched the bodies of the failed projects. As she left the laboratory, she called up the Broker she had taken a loan from - settling up by providing him with the contents of millions of credits worth of scientific machinery to recover.

Doctorate & Expulsion[]

When Sho'tal returned to the farm at Mandalore Prime, she was greeted with great joy and named an adult as per Mandalorian tradition and law. She was presented with a set of armor that had belonged to Kiera Varless Kata, a former daughter of Cayce, who had 'sort-of-died' in a cloning/transhumanism attempt. When the Alor and her mother finally asked what she wanted to do as an adult, her only answer was: "I want to be a Doctor." Her trek through Lod's horrorshow had piqued in her what her mother's training had only begun.

She managed to gain entrance to the he Byblos Academy of Medicine after acing the entry test with a little study and tutoring. Her colleagues and professors thought having an armored Mandalorian for a student was quaint and unique, but she quickly lost popularity with her classmates because she had never lived outside of Mandalorian communities and rapidly alternated between stiff and taciturn military bearing, and violent and angry outbursts in response to gossip and jokes at her expense. By the end of her first semester, she had run out of friends in school, until a wealthy young man named Aarol Fenyl joined the school after the winter break. A noble of some wealth from Thustra, he sought out and befriended the rogue Mandalorian Doctoral Candidate. Despite their innate differences, and shared their skills.

Sho'tal taught Aarol how to create stimulants that would keep them up late into the night studying, and he taught her many of the genetic and cybernetic manipulation skills of his people.In their downtime, he taught her how to duel with a pistol in the way of the great Arkanian noble houses, and she taught him how to take down an armored opponent with a shoulder or a shield. Eventually, the both of them graduated and gained their doctorates, and began their clinicals on Merisee, at the Grand Medical Facility.

Almost immediately, Sho'tal began re-living her issues from college. She had learned better how to survive in the aruetyc world, but her cultural attitudes broke social norms often enough that she received a stack of writeups tall enough to prop up a table by the time her first quarter was out. Meanwhile, she was loaned out to the Merisee Global Security force to help contain their most violent prisoners who needed medical treatment. After being spat on, swung at, and called Schutta a number of times, she got Aarol over on a weekend to her apartment and they constructed BOB - Bio-Organic Baddie over the course of a couple of afternoons while drinking and watching holovids.

Using the base ideas of the old Imperial Riot Trooper weapon, the ABC Scrambler, they created a handheld weapon that would stun a rioting patient or prisoner of any race. The BOB used a sonic pulse to stun the target so that they would receive a ringing shock to the head and ears, a spray in the face of a unique cocktail of itching powder and pepper powder, and a tiny lanclet fired out from an attached tazer, which-- when landed successfully-- would render the victim-- patient completely unable to fight back. The BOB was used once in the hospital, on a Gammorean prisoner who was in the hospital to have gallstones removed, and who tried to make a run after punching his guard in the groin.

The BOB was successfully deployed, but Sho'tal was excused from her position at the hospital. It was fine, she yelled over her shoulder as security walked her out, because even expelled, she still fucked your mother.

Galactic Disaffective[]

After being escorted out of Merisee's medical center, and then using the BOB on the security officers who escorted her out with a box of her affects, she made it home and packed her things just in time for Merisee Security to arrive and demand she come out. She wandered out of her apartment and opened a crate containing a swarm of cyborgized custom gene-tailored Brain Worms and an ejector that launched them at anyone not matching Sho'tal's genetic sequencing. Chaos spread as she walked to the landing pad and left Merisee and the chaos behind, safely deactivating and terminating the worms once she was in orbit via signal.

For the next year or so, she traveled the galaxy as an explorer, studying a variety of species, but stayed distant to anyone who approached her, because the world hadn't shown her much affection outside of the few friends and family she had made. At the same time, she picked up a Millaflower habit, and sprinkled extracts into tea or petals inside of tobacco cigarra. The drug use disaffected her further from the common man and resulted in a depressive disconnection from humanity as a whole. She wandered alone, in a haze, landing on planets and 'studying' native species until someone would try to run her off of the world and she would BOB them or outright shoot them. This weird phase continued until she met a group of young braves traveling across the surface of Jabiim to join up with the local military to fight in a war against a Confederacy of Trandoshan Pirates that Sho'tal had been ignoring.

Jabiimi Grunt[]

The young soldiers were on route to the rally point to meet up with their new command, when a Trandoshan attack ship rose over the crest of a nearby hill and pinned them down. Sho'tal was high as a kite off of her Millaflower powder, but grew annoyed at the shooting while she was trying to study a specific mutation on a local breed of wild Ronto. She turned her weapons on the Trandoshans, and inadvertently saved the young soldiers, who exuberantly thanked her. The excitedness and cheer of the conscripts brought her out of her disaffected headspace, and she offered to escort them across the Hyber Canynon. By the time that they arrived, she had agreed to join in their war as squad medic.

The Commander of the Jabiimi Military was nonplussed about a random Doctor asking to join his army, but when she optioned to spar with his four best, and left them on the floor, he accepted. Sho'tal passed through boot camp at the head of her group, due to her Mandalorian upbringing and trials, and became the team medic of Squad Seven. Despite all of this, she had cut off contact with Kata, seeing herself as a failure due to her civilian career going wrong.

After boot, she was sent off to the frontlines with the squad, and was involved with a number of combat operations, such as invading the Trandoshan confederacy territories and assassinating targets, or freeing enslaved civilians before they could be brought off-world. During these campaigns she learned a lot about how to patch up people while in combat situations, and how to brew combat stims from fellow squad medics, and eventually became the best at creating stim cocktails that would keep you up and moving, even with the most grievous of wounds. It was near the end of the war when a green and black bomber landed at the military basecamp and out strode Cayce, offering her services.

Grandmother and granddaughter were involved in the final battle, and due to their fire support and unique skills, there were minimal Jabiimi casualties. In the smoking ruins of the Trandoshan camp, Cayce asked her former Echo to replace her, and named her Ge'Alor.

Reforging Kata[]

When Sho'tal took up the title of Ge'alor of Clan Kata, she took a handful of warriors with her to Forge Station, the place where she had become a woman. Together, Kata fighters and a group of irregulars who had been made up of local toughs, ex-Jabimi military grunts, and Mandalorians of other clans took a district outside of the marketplace from a local gang known as the Taupe Tigers. The Tigers were slavers and cannibals who had preyed on the station for years, but the combined force under Kata's commands pushed them out with fire and fury.

Once the ruins of the neighborhood were scrapped and sold to the Jawas, the Mandalorians brought in heavy materials purchased from a salvage company and built a new enclave. Several stores, a battle platform, clan homes and a large meeting chamber were all created within their new Enclave, all under Kata's organization. Sho'tal hired on the irregulars who had helped take the territory as her permanent employees to protect the enclave, and a number of them such as Goran'tal joined the clan. In this same time, Sho'tal came to the aide of Kotep Gutter, one of her Irregulars in creating a daughter for him. Kotep's upbringing had rendered him sterile, and he was queer anyways.

Taking a genetic sample from the man, she began to sequence it to his needs, and clone a little Kotep-- but a daughter. Nuhur was born in a genetic tank in Sho'tal's medical practice, much as how Sho'tal was born in a vastly different tank, but this girl would be loved and cherished. Four months later, Nuhur was removed from the tank and handed over to Kotep as an infant. A year later, however, Kotep began to lose his grip on reality. A brain injury that had happened decades before had taken effect in his short term memory, leaving him veering wildly from competence and complete loss of presence.

Sho'tal took Nuhur as her own and helped Gutter raise and protect Nuhur, while injecting her with rapid growth sequences, so the girl would mature faster, and know more of her father before he was lost for good, and be able to handle herself more. At the same time, Nuhur was adopted into Kata, and Sho'tal became her mother. Fortunately, in the next five years Kotep remained fairly stable under Sho'tal's care.

As Mandalore The Bonecarver[]

Five years after Sho'tal began to rebuild the clan, the Mandalorian homeworld of Mandalore Prime came under invasion by the Sith Empire and their Empress Rowe. Sho'tal watched the holovids of the invasion with sorrow and called a conclave of the clans on Forge Station. While the clans bickered, more died on their homeworld, and so Sho'tal declared herself Mandalore, the sole leader of the Clans, and became Mandalore The Bonecarver. However, the chieftain of clan Gra'tua saw her as a pretender, and refuted her claim. Sho'tal had seen the man brutally behead a rival and savage acts, and sent the Mandalorian Protectors to hunt him down and do the same.

That man's successor, Vulk'ta Gra'tua declared a rebellion from the clans and joined with the Sith invaders in an attempt to secure the world and help those on the surface. This eventually came to a head during the Mandalorian Invasion. Sho'tal was at the head of the invasion force when the clans gathered to run the Sith blockade around their world, and despite losing Kata's capital ship, along with the life of her aunt Cin Kata, the clans made the run and landed on the world.

The Mandalorian Clans landed on Mandalore and dug in trenches, claiming a secured landing zone that quickly expanded as allies came to them from the Republic and Jedi. Weeks of fighting lead to deaths and shortages of rations, but still the clans fought until the final push. During this time, Dralshy'a brokered a peace with clan Gra'tua, and they re-joined the clans. However, the clans would never forget the thousands of lives Gra'tua took in the space battle. By the end, Sho'tal was at the head of an advance strike team that pushed into the Sith camp and attacked their leadership.

During the battle, Sho'tal managed to down Darth Certus, the Sith behind the invasion, and two other warriors working for the Sith. However, she ended up being the only one left standing on her side and eventually fell to traitorous Mandalorians in service to the Sith. She was dragged from the battlefield by loyalist soldiers who pushed into the Sith encampment, but the world was lost when ranks broke and the loyalist Mandalorian forces fled the world under heavy fire.

In orbit over Mandalore Prime, Sho'tal stepped down from her title in a comm message to the clans, seeing herself as a failure. She would come to quietly regret this decision later, but the decision had been made in one of her darkest moments. Upon return to the Forge Station, she prepared to move the clan out since the Sith knew of the enclave, and as her clan loaded up their property into the Regulator, Sho'tal's ship, she painted her armor gray and black, in mourning of the loss.

Disapearance[]

For a time, Sho'tal was absent from the galaxy. She had fallen into a deep depression and Kata went into a period of ba'slan shev'la, even from the Clans. Six months after the clan had built up a temporary fortress on Dral to house themselves, a man landed a small shuttle outside of the camp and requested a meeting with Sho'tal. The man was the representative of the Ralltiiri Secretariat of the world of Raltiir, a world that Sho'tal's grandmother had once ruled for a time.

The man spoke at length of the genetic modification projects Sho had been involved in, and offered her a job, but she'd have to work in an off-world black site until it was done. Sho'tal took the job after a great deal of discussion, and left with the man, leaving Ram'ser Cuyan Kata to run the clan in her stead. She's never spoken about the job she was hired to do, but the clan got a credit infusion shortly after, and a few years later moved to Mos Shuuta on Tatooine.

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