Author's note: As with many on the servers, I have to have a backstory for the characters I create to keep my interest. Maircus here is my Bounty Hunter. Giving him a backstory helps me keep his personality in mind as I play the game, as well as help me know what he'd choose in dialogue. Now, on with the tale!
As Maircus stepped off the shuttle and onto Nal Hutta, he thought about what had brought him to this point. Most would find it hard to believe that three years ago, he had been a police officer in Thani, Telos' capital city. The events that took him from cop to bounty hunter would be unbelievable to him, had he not lived them.
It all started on Telos, his homeworld. He was the son of two human farmers, and he made deliveries to Thani once a month. He would till the fields, run the tractor, harvest the crops, and defend the farm from the wild cannoks and bomas. At 18, he moved to the city, and joined the militia, and by 22, he parlayed that into a position among the city police force.
Maircus was happy being a police officer for a few years, but as time went on, he got more and more frustrated with the system. One little mistake in an arrest of a criminal, and they walked. And even if mistakes weren't made in an arrest, criminals walked because of "legal loopholes" that got the criminals acquitted of their crimes. Things were so bad that, at one point, for every one criminal that went to prison and stayed there, three were back on the streets within a week.
Maircus' frustration finally came to a boil when he was at a bar, and he saw a criminal he had arrested not only free, but still committing the crime he arrested him for. A fight ensued, and both were taken to lock up. It was in lock up where Maircus finally realized that he couldn't handle this life anymore. He could no longer enforce the law.
He thought about what he could do from that point on. He needed the freedom to kill when necessary and without question, but still intended to bring them in whenever he could. He wanted to continue to fight, but without the restrictions of the military structure. But what did that leave him?
And then he read about the Great Hunt. The Great Hunt was a competition open to all warriors and bounty hunters in the galaxy, giving him a chance to prove his strength and win glory. And with the fame he would win, he could take any bounty hunting contract he wanted, and charge any price he wanted.
So Maircus quit his job as a police officer, and spent two years on Telos building both his reputation and his arsenal. And when the next Great Hunt was called, Maircus got a message from a man named Braden; come to Nal Hutta, and we'll get you into the Great Hunt. After a few days' worth of conversation, Maircus agreed, and began the journey that would shape his life from that day forward.