Socatoa Socatoa was the Wookiee captain of the Nova freighter that the team originally crewed on. I originally encountered Socatoa when I was part of a team that liberated him from an Imperial slave ship. From that moment on he began working for the Rebellion. I initially assigned him to a spec ops team known as "Midnight Cell". Unfortunately, the youth and inexperience of the team saw its downfall, with Socatoa being the only remaining member. Afterwards Socatoa crewed with Raptor Squad-until his apprehension by Captain Nock'Nord over the planet of Graymoore. Once again I was responsible for helping to liberate the Wookiee and once again assisted him in recruiting several new beings for his own spec ops team, "Nova Strike". This unit consisted of Socatoa, a New Republic Quarren named Xu, a Shistavinean named Uurl and a Rodian known as Gark the Red. The last reports were that the team picked up a Wroonian Hacker named Shella Versani, who wasn't on the team for long. After the notification of her dismissal, reports from the team ceased entirely. Some time afterwards, a package was delivered to Raptor Squad headquarters containing the Socatoas pelt. According to a debriefing given by Xu, who was found by Rebellion agents, it appears Socatoa was killed by former Raptor Squad team member Ket Adkins.
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A'sok Thurgood Hailing from the planet of Baldin, A'sok was contacted by the beginning elements of Raptor Squad to help broker a deal on the planet of Valex III. After the deal went bad he proved his usefulness when he helped Klux Martin escape the clutches of the Imperials. The team soon saw the advantages of having a near human amphibian computer specialist, and thus he began a life of infiltration and espionage with the team. A short time later, during Operation Windfall (see NR file #NROPSWIN-44), he successfully stole secret plans for a large shield projector the Empire eventually used at the Battle of Endor. A'sok's death was tragic and unnecessary, especially effecting Vornskr Pack Second-in-Command Deuce El'Kar, who Thurgood was romantically involved with. Raptor Squad has managed to put A�sok loss behind them, remembering their comrade with the warmest feelings of unity and friendship.
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Chance Mulgrew Chance Mulgrew encountered Raptor Squad while on the university planet of Mrlsst, where his sister was a student. It turns out that his sister and Balthazar were friends, and the Trianni was responding to a curious transmission she sent him shortly before her death. Planning on avenging her death, Chance fell in with the team as a "transportation specialist" utilizing his experience as a professional swoop racer to secure his spot on the team. What Raptor Squad didn't know was that Chance was running from a hefty Corporate Sector bounty for throwing an important race and that the swoop racer also turned out to be, according to Klux Martin, "Force sensitive." During events that the rest of the team is hesitant to discuss, both Chance and A'sok were both killed in the cargo hold of the teams ship, the Skullduggery. Mulgrew was a very angry young man, and he died much like he lived-fast and foolishly.
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Ket Adkins aka Lotek Skidna I first met Ket Adkins on the planet Graymoore shortly after the Wookiee, Socatoa, enlisted him in the team, which at that point didn�t even have a name. Ket was the consummate killer, with a knack for blasters and uncanny quickness. He was, put simply, one of the most deadly members of the team. Living his life on a hair trigger, Palisades informed me later that Ket worried his teammates with his nonchalant attitude towards gunning a sentient down.Unfortunately, Ket's ability was not enough to satisfy him, and he soon purchased neural implants that heightened his perception and dexterity to an impossible level. This came with a price however, as the implants also caused paranoid delusions in the young gunslinger. After relocating to Garnib, Ket left soon after, leaving a note to Palisades in which he promised he would return. This came in the way of sending the Raptor Squad a messenger pod containing the pelt of Socatoa, a former teammate and the head of Rodian bounty hunter Croto who had assisted in the capture of the gunslinger. The paranoid dementia brought on by his implants now caused the gunslinger to believe he had been set up by his former team, and he planned on extracting revenge. This took the form of turning me over to the Imperials (See NR file#JSP4507) and sending an explosive charge through the front of Jaded Ivory Enterprises, Palisades front company.
Raptor Squad, tiring of the games, eventually captured him and turned him over to the Rebellion.
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Terminus the Hunter During the earlier years of Raptor Squad, the team was joined on several missions by the famed bounty hunter, Terminus. As I�m sure the General is aware, the myth of Terminus the Hunter is long and elaborate, with many theories surrounding who or what he is and what his motivation is. According to an interview with Palisades, Terminus unloaded a blaster into a contact on Ord Mantell for no reason. Given the randomness and violence of this action, Raptor Squad felt it best to part ways with the bounty hunter, especially after the brutal attack on other team members by Ket Adkins. The team had no interest in repeating such a mistake. Some time later, when Vic thought he had heard the last of Terminus, a cryptic message was left for him at an abandoned transmission drop. It promised that Raptor Squad would indeed see the Terminus again some day. A promise that the bounty hunter wound up keeping. I would also like to point out that the theory/rumor that Vic Palisades was in fact Terminus the Hunter is still unfounded and until concrete evidence is provided to prove or disprove the rumor, I will consider this file closed.
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Lt. Jonus Kable I would like to preface this entry by establishing that when it was suggested that Lt. Jonus Kable be assigned to Raptor Squad I was imprisoned on Roardak. While I am indebted to him for risking his life to save mine, I must also point out that the Lieutenant was also known for undertaking dangerous missions to further his New Republic military career. That being said, Jonus Kable proved to be a bad fit for Raptor Squad, engaging in frequent arguments with the teams command element and making a series of disastrous decisions that led to the near death of the entire team. While one would think that his previous occupation as a decorated officer in Corsec, the Corellian Police Force, would breed him for a successful military career, such was not the case. His attitude and flagrant disregard for anyone not serving in an "official" military capacity with the New Republic proved to be his undoing.
After completing an ops mission to rescue his father, an Imperial Admiral, Kable was asked to leave the team due to differing ideologies between himself and other team members. For further information regarding former Lt. Jonus Kable please refer to NR File# NROXC801.
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