BENDAN ZAVOR AKA TINAN LUDO AKA HAZI CRAKE AKA ORIN WEEKS
HUMAN-FARIAN MALE
AGE 36 HEIGHT 178 CM WEIGHT 82 KG PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Bendan is a man of medium height and build, with dark skin and eyes. As a result of his hybrid nature, the trademark Farian nose ridge is less pronounced, though still present. Bendan has a tendency with a quick smile, and kind, inquisitive eyes. His black hair is a little shaggy and messy, and he has a closely-trimmed beard. Bendan is in decent shape, though he could stand to lose five pounds or so. Bendan goes to great pains not to draw too much attention to himself in most circumstances. He dresses casually in most situations, for comfort and to keep from being noticed. Bendan carries himself with a certain degree of confidence, able to look like he's comfortable in most places, even when he'd rather be anywhere else in the world. |
PERSONALITY
More than anything else, Bendan values his own principles of honor and justice, a sense that doesn't always necessarily conform to the law. Having grown up around criminals, Bendan has a flexible view of the efficacy of the law. When he starts to work on a case, Bendan can be very focused, almost to the point of single-mindedness.
Humility is a quality that Bendan only recently really learned. After he closed his agency and started picking up odd jobs, he had time to think. He wants to be a better man, kinder and more compassionate. Now he sticks rigidly to his code of honor, relying on it to help him decide the best way forward.
While Bendan is a social man, personable and seemingly easygoing, the fact of the matter is that he tends to mentally distance himself from most people. He's always been good at faking sincerity, even fooling himself sometimes. While now he tries to take great pains to connect with people in an honest way, he's not sure that he doesn't still view people in terms of how he can use them, compartmentalizing his relationships for his own benefit.
More than anything else, Bendan values his own principles of honor and justice, a sense that doesn't always necessarily conform to the law. Having grown up around criminals, Bendan has a flexible view of the efficacy of the law. When he starts to work on a case, Bendan can be very focused, almost to the point of single-mindedness.
Humility is a quality that Bendan only recently really learned. After he closed his agency and started picking up odd jobs, he had time to think. He wants to be a better man, kinder and more compassionate. Now he sticks rigidly to his code of honor, relying on it to help him decide the best way forward.
While Bendan is a social man, personable and seemingly easygoing, the fact of the matter is that he tends to mentally distance himself from most people. He's always been good at faking sincerity, even fooling himself sometimes. While now he tries to take great pains to connect with people in an honest way, he's not sure that he doesn't still view people in terms of how he can use them, compartmentalizing his relationships for his own benefit.
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Possessed of a very sharp observational and deductive mind, Bendan is a talented finder of people, things and information. He's excellent at picking out details in a number of situations. He considers himself something of a student of behavior, and his ability to figure people and things is a source of immense pride for him. As a result of his upbringing as well as his job, Bendan knows a great deal about a wide variety of black market operations, criminal contacts and information sources. Bendan made it a point to become proficient in self-defense given the occasionally hazardous nature of his job. |
Bendan used to be a very proud man, but recent events have badly bruised his ego, leaving him worried about how good he still is. He's slowed down, missed a step, no longer operating at the top of his game and second-guessing decisions he once would have had complete confidence in. Despite this, he puts up a front that he's still at his best. He's also used to being his own boss and chafes under the authority of other people, sometimes pushing back too hard, despite his attempts to be better. Has a steady gambling habit, which has gotten him into trouble in the past. There have been times when he's gambled away more than he could afford to lose.
AMBITIONS
When Bendan ran his own agency, he was very proud of his work. He was good at finding things and took a lot of pride in that. Despite the events that rattled his confidence, he'd like to be good at it again. More than anything, he wants to prove to himself that he can do the job he was always best at, and do it for the right reasons. To him, there's no better calling than recovery. He's helped people find missing loved ones, recovered artifacts that were missing for decades and brought the occasional very bad person to justice. He'd also assisted many other bad people to get richer and hurt others, something he doesn't want to go back to. His biggest fear is that he's lost the fire and skill he once possessed, and he's desperate to prove otherwise to himself. He wants to make up for the way he did things in the past and can help people who need it, not just who can pay the most.
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
Apart from his work, Bendan's great love is gambling. He loves the rush that comes with playing games of chance. He's most fond of card games, where the element of skill plays a larger part in the outcome. Thinking his ability to read people gives him an inordinate chance of success, regardless of luck, Bendan can be blindsided when the cards turn against him and he'll just keep digging himself deeper. But when he wins, he feels an enormous rush.
Bendan also spends a fair amount of time keeping up with the various news services in the quadrant. When he catches a story that falls in his wheelhouse he considers it a bit of mental exercise to see if he can figure the case out on his own from afar. He's got a decent track record so far. Lock picks of all sorts also catch his attention. He's good at programming his own data picks to bypass locks, pleased when he can crack those puzzles.
Bendan's discovered a new-found appreciation for the written word. Besides the news, he'll read most other things he can get his hands on. Now that he's become such a steady reader, he's started writing his memoirs, thinking the stories of his many cases must make for good reading. Unfortunately, he's not much of a writer and he's had to restart several times when writer's block bogs him down. For fun, he enjoys detective fiction, though if he can't guess the end he'll often go into a foul mood for a few hours.
AMBITIONS
When Bendan ran his own agency, he was very proud of his work. He was good at finding things and took a lot of pride in that. Despite the events that rattled his confidence, he'd like to be good at it again. More than anything, he wants to prove to himself that he can do the job he was always best at, and do it for the right reasons. To him, there's no better calling than recovery. He's helped people find missing loved ones, recovered artifacts that were missing for decades and brought the occasional very bad person to justice. He'd also assisted many other bad people to get richer and hurt others, something he doesn't want to go back to. His biggest fear is that he's lost the fire and skill he once possessed, and he's desperate to prove otherwise to himself. He wants to make up for the way he did things in the past and can help people who need it, not just who can pay the most.
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
Apart from his work, Bendan's great love is gambling. He loves the rush that comes with playing games of chance. He's most fond of card games, where the element of skill plays a larger part in the outcome. Thinking his ability to read people gives him an inordinate chance of success, regardless of luck, Bendan can be blindsided when the cards turn against him and he'll just keep digging himself deeper. But when he wins, he feels an enormous rush.
Bendan also spends a fair amount of time keeping up with the various news services in the quadrant. When he catches a story that falls in his wheelhouse he considers it a bit of mental exercise to see if he can figure the case out on his own from afar. He's got a decent track record so far. Lock picks of all sorts also catch his attention. He's good at programming his own data picks to bypass locks, pleased when he can crack those puzzles.
Bendan's discovered a new-found appreciation for the written word. Besides the news, he'll read most other things he can get his hands on. Now that he's become such a steady reader, he's started writing his memoirs, thinking the stories of his many cases must make for good reading. Unfortunately, he's not much of a writer and he's had to restart several times when writer's block bogs him down. For fun, he enjoys detective fiction, though if he can't guess the end he'll often go into a foul mood for a few hours.
BACKGROUND
Bendan was born in 2352 in the bustling city of Highport on Farius Prime. The biggest city on the planet, Highport contained more aliens than native Farians, and with the aliens came a high crime rate. Smuggling, organized crime, espionage and more mundane criminal activities were common in Highport. Bendan's mother Criana was a Farian and a low-level enforcer working for the Orion Syndicate. His father was an independent human smuggler named Ezekiel Braddock, who had a longtime on-again, off-again relationship with Bendan's mother. |
Despite her job and initial misgivings, Criana chose to have Bendan and take care of him herself. She left the Syndicate-owned building that she lived in, relocating to live with her mother in a small house in Highport. It still wasn't the best neighborhood, but it wasn't the worst, either. Criana worked for Raimus in Highport, responsible for enforcing internal order within the Syndicate and to make sure people who owed the Syndicate paid in a timely fashion. Her job occasionally took her off-world, and she'd leave Bendan with her mother. Between his mother and his grandmother, Bendan almost had something resembling a normal life. Every year or so, Bendan's father would return to Highport and visit his son. He'd regale Bendan with tales of his criminal exploits, the romantic adventure of space travel. On each trip, he'd bring his son a present; sometimes these presents were ridiculously expensive, other times they were absurdly cheap, depending on how Ezekiel's business was going.
Given the corrupt and unregulated government on Farius Prime, Criana felt no need to hide what she did from her son. In fact, it was almost a given that Bendan himself would likely end up working for the same organization that she did, although she tried to cultivate his intelligence to make sure he didn't end up working as an enforcer like she did. She pushed Bendan to do well at school, to study and to think and to pay attention. Bendan got to know other members of the Syndicate who were friendly with his mother, came to understand their job and how they did what they did. And when his father visited, Bendan became more and more enamored with the idea of space, with all of the endless possibilities out there, away from the rainy, mountainous world he grew up in.
Shortly after Bendan turned fourteen, his father was arrested by Starfleet in the process of smuggling Starfleet-issue weaponry that had been stolen from a starbase near the Klingon border. Tried and convicted on multiple criminal counts, Ezekiel was sentenced to a twenty-year sentence at a penal colony. The yearly visits stopped, and Bendan began to realize the cost of living a criminal lifestyle.
A year after his father was arrested, his mother was badly hurt in a turf war with some members of the Shanghai Underground trying to carve out some territory on Highport to wrest control from the Syndicate. She'd been caught in an explosion which took her left leg. While she was in the hospital, she got the requisite visits from her associates. And when her boss Raimus swept in with his bodyguards, throwing around money, Criana acted as if the man had done her a great favor just by seeing her. Raimus gave Bendan a chocolate bar, as if that made up for anything. In the man's eyes, Bendan saw nothing but a cold calculation, like looking into a reptile's eyes. The Syndicate paid for Criana to have a new cybernetic leg. Bendan was ambivalent. On the one hand, his mother was who she always had been and always would be, on the other Bendan found that the Syndicate had lost all romantic allure for him. He withdrew from that part of his mother's life and focused on his studies. When he turned eighteen, he said his goodbyes to his family and signed up to work on one of the many freighters that left Highport every day as a cargo handler.
He worked for a brief time on several freighters as they crisscrossed the quadrant. On one of his ships, some cargo went missing at port, stolen by handlers who sent it to the black market. Using his connections and knowledge of the black market, Bendan managed to relocate the cargo. He was paid a bonus for his work, and that was how he got started.
Discovering a talent for finding things, Bendan started his own business in recovery and loss prevention in 2373. Quickly gaining a reputation as a finder, Bendan tracked down people, recovered missing or stolen property, sussed out art thieves and corporate spies, and brokered information. He even occasionally took work as a bounty hunter when times were lean.
Bendan was paid well for his work, and even had his own small ship for traveling. Like his father, Bendan adopted a nomadic lifestyle, traveling wherever he had a job to do. When there wasn't any work coming his way, he spent his time at casinos and pleasure planets like Risa. Bendan wasn't particularly picky in the clients he accepted. He worked for almost anybody that would pay him for his services, from businesses to governments to criminal organizations. In one case he might track down a jewel thief, the next he'd put together blackmail material for a crooked politician to get his opposition out of the way. Bendan felt life was good. It all fell apart in late 2386 when an old friend of his mother's from the Syndicate contacted him asking him to find his son Herik. It turned out Herik was working as a weapons smuggler for the terrorist group known as The Remembrance. Bendan had worked for The Remembrance in the past himself, and when he tried to get Herik away to get in touch with his father again, The Remembrance responded violently, paranoid about Bendan's presence, thinking he'd been hired by their enemies or the authorities. Despite his best efforts to get away, The Remembrance killed Herik and captured Bendan. He was badly beaten and nearly killed as they tried to find out who sent him and what he was trying to discover, refusing to believe he was doing the job as a favor to his mother's friends. Bendan eventually managed to escape, killing several of his captors in the process.
Badly injured, Bendan spent several months in recovery. While in the hospital, he received a visit from Syndicate men. Bendan told them what happened to Herik, and Herik's father sought revenge on The Remembrance. When the Syndicate men returned, they gave Bendan a PADD that showed the bodies of The Remembrance members who were responsible for Herik's death and Bendan's captivity. They thought Bendan would appreciate knowing that retribution had been visited on the people that killed Herik and hurt Bendan. The world dropped out from under him at the carnage he'd had a part in and when he came out of the hospital he wasn't accepting anymore recovery contracts. He'd lost confidence in his work as well as his judgment. As soon as he got out, Bendan kept wandering, but this time he took odd jobs to keep him going. Watching cargo on freighters, janitor on a space station or bartender at a mining saloon. In the back of his mind, he's begun to realize that he doesn't want to do things the way he used to, that he must be answerable to more than his pride for what he does. He's got a particular set of skills that he wants to use towards a more worthy cause than his own aggrandizement.
Given the corrupt and unregulated government on Farius Prime, Criana felt no need to hide what she did from her son. In fact, it was almost a given that Bendan himself would likely end up working for the same organization that she did, although she tried to cultivate his intelligence to make sure he didn't end up working as an enforcer like she did. She pushed Bendan to do well at school, to study and to think and to pay attention. Bendan got to know other members of the Syndicate who were friendly with his mother, came to understand their job and how they did what they did. And when his father visited, Bendan became more and more enamored with the idea of space, with all of the endless possibilities out there, away from the rainy, mountainous world he grew up in.
Shortly after Bendan turned fourteen, his father was arrested by Starfleet in the process of smuggling Starfleet-issue weaponry that had been stolen from a starbase near the Klingon border. Tried and convicted on multiple criminal counts, Ezekiel was sentenced to a twenty-year sentence at a penal colony. The yearly visits stopped, and Bendan began to realize the cost of living a criminal lifestyle.
A year after his father was arrested, his mother was badly hurt in a turf war with some members of the Shanghai Underground trying to carve out some territory on Highport to wrest control from the Syndicate. She'd been caught in an explosion which took her left leg. While she was in the hospital, she got the requisite visits from her associates. And when her boss Raimus swept in with his bodyguards, throwing around money, Criana acted as if the man had done her a great favor just by seeing her. Raimus gave Bendan a chocolate bar, as if that made up for anything. In the man's eyes, Bendan saw nothing but a cold calculation, like looking into a reptile's eyes. The Syndicate paid for Criana to have a new cybernetic leg. Bendan was ambivalent. On the one hand, his mother was who she always had been and always would be, on the other Bendan found that the Syndicate had lost all romantic allure for him. He withdrew from that part of his mother's life and focused on his studies. When he turned eighteen, he said his goodbyes to his family and signed up to work on one of the many freighters that left Highport every day as a cargo handler.
He worked for a brief time on several freighters as they crisscrossed the quadrant. On one of his ships, some cargo went missing at port, stolen by handlers who sent it to the black market. Using his connections and knowledge of the black market, Bendan managed to relocate the cargo. He was paid a bonus for his work, and that was how he got started.
Discovering a talent for finding things, Bendan started his own business in recovery and loss prevention in 2373. Quickly gaining a reputation as a finder, Bendan tracked down people, recovered missing or stolen property, sussed out art thieves and corporate spies, and brokered information. He even occasionally took work as a bounty hunter when times were lean.
Bendan was paid well for his work, and even had his own small ship for traveling. Like his father, Bendan adopted a nomadic lifestyle, traveling wherever he had a job to do. When there wasn't any work coming his way, he spent his time at casinos and pleasure planets like Risa. Bendan wasn't particularly picky in the clients he accepted. He worked for almost anybody that would pay him for his services, from businesses to governments to criminal organizations. In one case he might track down a jewel thief, the next he'd put together blackmail material for a crooked politician to get his opposition out of the way. Bendan felt life was good. It all fell apart in late 2386 when an old friend of his mother's from the Syndicate contacted him asking him to find his son Herik. It turned out Herik was working as a weapons smuggler for the terrorist group known as The Remembrance. Bendan had worked for The Remembrance in the past himself, and when he tried to get Herik away to get in touch with his father again, The Remembrance responded violently, paranoid about Bendan's presence, thinking he'd been hired by their enemies or the authorities. Despite his best efforts to get away, The Remembrance killed Herik and captured Bendan. He was badly beaten and nearly killed as they tried to find out who sent him and what he was trying to discover, refusing to believe he was doing the job as a favor to his mother's friends. Bendan eventually managed to escape, killing several of his captors in the process.
Badly injured, Bendan spent several months in recovery. While in the hospital, he received a visit from Syndicate men. Bendan told them what happened to Herik, and Herik's father sought revenge on The Remembrance. When the Syndicate men returned, they gave Bendan a PADD that showed the bodies of The Remembrance members who were responsible for Herik's death and Bendan's captivity. They thought Bendan would appreciate knowing that retribution had been visited on the people that killed Herik and hurt Bendan. The world dropped out from under him at the carnage he'd had a part in and when he came out of the hospital he wasn't accepting anymore recovery contracts. He'd lost confidence in his work as well as his judgment. As soon as he got out, Bendan kept wandering, but this time he took odd jobs to keep him going. Watching cargo on freighters, janitor on a space station or bartender at a mining saloon. In the back of his mind, he's begun to realize that he doesn't want to do things the way he used to, that he must be answerable to more than his pride for what he does. He's got a particular set of skills that he wants to use towards a more worthy cause than his own aggrandizement.