this is a locked-room found family au that takes place a few years ABY (post-original trilogy, for the uninitiated), mostly because that's the era i got paid to know about. please note this is inspired by me a) loving the rebels setting and b) knowing way too much about star wars. this is a partial description of backgrounds and how everyone came to be in the same place!
blaine is a force-sensitive corellian human and the pilot of freelance cargo ship Daybreak.
skuld is a corellian chalactan and, of this cast of characters, the only one who knows blaine's backstory. they both wanted to do something other than build ships on corellia their whole lives, and managed to save up for a ship and get a business started. she claims to be both the brains and the brawn of the operation because of her position of 'having more common sense' and 'could not be blown over by a strong breeze'. she is correct on both counts.
the Daybreak is a hyperspeed-capable light freighter that is, like most light freighters, now unrecognizable from the way it was bought because of how many customizations it has. as a freelance ship, they subcontract with shipping companies, private shipping needs, and are able to regularly take better paying but less-than-scrupulous jobs. they do not transport sentients under any circumstances.
ephemera is our sweet shrimp farmer from Felucia way out in the outer rim (look up "star wars blue shrimp". yes it tastes good btw). he looks like a human and talks like a human, making him a human by all accounts. eph met blaine and skuld after he took a short job for some quick credits while he was out making his own way in the galaxy, and they grew close enough to offer him a permanent place on the crew. he's been known to turn on the outer rim charm to get the three of them a better cut of a deal.
C41-R1, or Chirithy to friends, is a C-series astromech (closer to cheep than chopper in appearance, if that means anything to you) who is besties with ephemera. strelitzia helped him mod his standard access adapter (scomp link) setup so he can more efficiently flip people off and they've been inseparable since. eph would be jealous but he's too busy being impressed.
lauriam & strelitzia are coruscanti zabraks. i may change this to make them being from nar shaddaa because i'm the #1 coruscant hater in this galaxy, but unfortunately it makes sense for the setting (and other characters bullying them for being from coruscant). regardless. like their canon, lauriam raising his sister was difficult but full of love. lauriam is a jack-of-all-trades type, but strelitzia has a knack for mechanics (and can fit in small spaces to repair them).
while traveling to the mid-rim for a reason i haven't yet decided, the transport carrying them was attacked and they ended up marooned on a minor spaceport. unable to find or purchase a way back home, lauriam negotiated that he and litzy would perform much-needed system repairs on the Daybreak in exchange for safe passage home. this was a feat in and of itself, as blaine believed this to be a violation of their 'no sentient cargo' rule. everything spiraled from there and now here they are with the rest of the crew.
strelitzia is force sensitive, and has the ability known as psychometry, which means when she touches something, she sees and feels 'echos' of it in the force. at the moment, the only way she manages this is by wearing gloves and sticking closer to her brother since her mental shields are. bad. blaine realizing litzy is also force sensitive was a significant factor in lauriam and strelitzia becoming permanent crew members.
ventus met strelitzia one time while the Daybreak was on some nowhere planet between jobs and she adopted him as a new brother on sight. no one knows anything about him and they're not going to start knowing any time soon. lauriam keeps threatening to drop him off at the nearest orphanage but the general consensus is its probably healthy for strelitzia to have a friend her own age for once, so he stays. blaine wants to know when this ship became a daycare.
