HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
CARA DUNE (Carasynthia Dune)
Role: Mercenary Ex-Soldier
Group Affiliations: The Rebel Alliance
PL 9 (131)
STRENGTH 4
STAMINA 4
AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 10
DEXTERITY 5
INTELLIGENCE 1
AWARENESS 3
PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Athletics 6 (+10)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+12)
Deception 2 (+4)
Expertise (Rebel Soldier) 10 (+13)
Insight 3 (+6)
Intimidation 5 (+7)
Investigation 6 (+9)
Perception 7 (+10)
Stealth 4 (+8)
Technology 5 (+6)
Vehicles 5 (+10)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Assessment, Equipment 8 (Cool Gear), Improved Aim, Improved Critical (Lasers), Improved Critical (Unarmed), Improved Initiative, Languages (Various), Quick Draw, Tracking, Ranged Attack 7
Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+4 Damage, DC 19)
Laser Blaster +12 (+6 Ranged Damage, DC 21)
Initiative +4
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +11 (DC 21), Toughness +4 (+6 Armor), Fortitude +6, Will +7
Complications:
Motivation (Action)- Cara Dune had ceased her career as a Rebel shock trooper, and had more or less been retired into being a bodyguard for important Republic politicians. Bored and listless without any action, she quit to become a mercenary.
Total: Abilities: 66 / Skills: 56--28 / Advantages: 24 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 13 (131)
-Oh HELL FREAKING YES to this!! Now THIS is how you make an awesome Strong Female Character for
Star Wars. Cara Dune is absolutely epic- a Rebel assassin during the events of the Original Trilogy, she retired to become a mercenary after she was done hunting down Imperial officers who'd become warlords in the Post-Empire period. This brings her into contact with the Mandalorian, and the two have an awesome melee fight before allying and backing each other up. She serves the role as a target for exposition, a partner in warfare, and someone to help humanize the other characters. Some boneheaded fake-feminists were complaining about the first episode of
The Mandaorian, which didn't feature many female characters, so it's kinda funny that Cara more or less takes care of any potential complaints by being an awesome fighter, no mere love interest, and not fanservicey at all. I mean, SHE IS, but not in the "shows skin" way. In the "could break you in half and is thicc as hell and drop-dead gorgeous, but not showy about it" sort of way.
-And also, she's played by GINA CARANO. Carano was an MMA washout who first got noticed on the
American Gladiators remake that failed, mostly notable for being a legitimate 10/10 beauty despite also clearly being a strong athlete- a rare combination. This naturally led to some attempts to push her, but her MMA career flagged out after some losses and she only had a couple of acting roles that didn't pan out that far- Hollywood kinda didn't know how to deal with her, and she was noticeably uncomfortable during interviews (honestly, I'd bet money that she has social anxiety or something, as she would vocally compain on
Conan O'Brien or something that she hated doing interviews). That she was 100 times as strong-looking as Zoe Saldana, who was being pushed as an action heroine despite weighing 110 lbs., probably didn't help, as Hollywood's kind of afraid of that sometimes. And now, ten or so years later, here's Gina as a great, bad-ass fighter who is hot as hell, despite being nowhere near a "Miss Fanservice"- she's usually wearing bulky armor, and she's thick as hell, having gotten a lot more curvaceous with time.
-Cara Dune is more or less a match for the Mandalorian, fighting him to a standstill in melee, and she's probably even stronger than he is. As such, she's one of very few PL 9 Rebel operatives.