Whit Solomon

"To most, Whit was a standard pirate - illegal, barbaric, and completely obsessed with treasure. But those of us who really knew him saw the real Whit Solomon; piracy was a hobby, a game of his that he played with the Galaxy. He was a brilliant man. Everything he touched turned to proverbial gold. But piracy was the most fun - it was adventurous and dangerous, and Whit's real obsession was never treasure... it was death."

- Rethe Frettan

Whit Solomon, or, more formally, Tien-and-Mycosia Whitacor-Solomon, was born on the planet Lorrd in 863 BBY. He became an infamous pirate by his thirtieth birthday, when he selected the planet R29871, which he called Baehorde, an Old Corellian word meaning treasure, as the world to hold the riches he would spend his life acquiring. This world would become his greatest legacy for hundreds of years after his disappearance in 806 BBY, although the rumors about it varied widely.

Early Life
Whit's parents, Maric-and-Siella Sarafen-Tien and Puor-and-Chias Meshla-Mycosia, were generally poor throughout their lives, but they were also happy. They had eleven children in all, of whom Whit was the youngest. The second youngest was Whit's favorite brother, Tien-and-Mycosia Brikas-Vett. All of his other siblings married and lived their own lives, and then, when Whit was only five, Tien and Mycosia died inexplicably. From then on, Whit became obsessed with death, and Brikas cared for him until he was old enough to fend for himself.

In his youth, Whit began to study death in as much detail as he could find. At nineteen, he began the testing process to become a mortician. When he operated on his first cadaver, though, he realized how distanced that profession was from real death. It examined things that were already dead, when Whit's real concern was the moment of death. He learned what he could from those tests before abandoning them. He sought out crimes in progress, hoping to glimpse the moment of death in another. He witnessed three murders before he came to the conclusion that one had to cause death to understand it.

Robbing from the Rich and... Keeping It
Whit began observing the citizens in the city around him. He watched the patterns of their lives until he found a man, aged and alone, whom he decided no one would miss. He followed the man to a deserted alley and killed him, choking him to death with his bare hands. But this did not sate his desire to learn. He became more and more careless, his desire for knowledge twisted by his bloodlust, until he was caught by the police - after his sixth murder at the age of twenty-seven. But a group of local pirates were impressed with his handiwork and sprung him from prison, on the condition that he work with them as a hired gun. He would get his share of the cut and all the opportunities for murder that he wanted. The only man Whit ever told about those six murders was his companion Rethe Frettan, whom he swore to secrecy. As far as the Galaxy would be concerned, Whit's first murder was after he signed on with a group of pirates.

He began to experiment with methods of murder. He executed thirty-nine sentients, each in a different manner. In six months, he had gone from being a hired gun to leading the entire gang. He robbed sixteen cruise liners, twelve private yachts, and three smuggling vessels between being broken out of prison and his twenty-ninth birthday.