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Thread: What is a Smuggler to you? Choices Within!
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NickHeel
Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:49 am
#1
Really. What is a Smuggler to you? I was looking at our new icon and while exceedingly cool and kick ass, it made me think.
Some people roleplay their Smuggler in different ways, dress them differently, and just view their Smuggler as something that could be completely different from the next guy. That's perfectly cool because of the variety of Smugglers in the Star Wars Universe. Lando, Han, Talon, Sala, Roa, and the list goes on. So I'll put a few choices down and you can reply with a short answer telling what you are!
- Transporter type 1. Carrier of contraband for credits.
- Transporter type 2. Carrier of contraband for a cause (Rebel).
- Pirate. Privateering space for whatever they can.
- Gambler. Earning your living as a slick Sabacc player.
- Businessman. A keen intellectual person looking for a good deal.
- Ring Leader. Like Talon, more of a leader and business than a hands-on Smuggler.
- Criminal. An underworld con-man that's a nothin more than a criminal.
- Drug Dealer. Spice dealer and crafter of the illicit, you make your living of the addictions of others.
- Slicer. Hacker and information gatherer. You make your living cracking codes and subsystems.
I really can't think of any more. If yall do, post 'em and I'll add 'em here 
I left out the Crime Lord type even though I like Caylin's idea simply because I can think of a few Crime Lords in SW that weren't just Smugglers. The Hutts were just Hutts it was their lifestyle and Garris Shrike was actually a former Bounty Hunter.
So, who are you, Smugglers?
NickHeel
Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:55 am
#2
85% Transporter Type 1
10% Pirate
5% Criminal
I feel that as a Smuggler, that's what I should do. I roleplay myself as a Smuggler for Jabba after Han's slip-up. I don't craft spice I move it by unconventional means. I enjoy gambling a bit but not enough to consider it a profession. And I can have some roguish elements and pirate elements as well. Overall I'd say the above is accurate
SpinningCloud
Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:13 am
#3
I'm a smuggler that WANTS to smuggle goods for profit...whichever 'cause' is more profitable that's where I'll be.
Oh, and if I get some of my 'goods' for free by lifting them from some poor disabled freighter then it's just more profit for me.
NickHeel
Sat Nov 13, 2004 8:15 am
#4
SpinningCloud wrote:
I'm a smuggler that WANTS to smuggle goods for profit...whichever 'cause' is more profitable that's where I'll be.
Oh, and if I get some of my 'goods' for free by lifting them from some poor disabled freighter then it's just more profit for me.
Sounds like 80-20 or 75-25 of Transporter Type 1 (cause it's just for credits) and Pirate.
Good mix
WesBelden
Sat Nov 13, 2004 10:51 am
#6
NickHeel wrote:
Really. What is a Smuggler to you? I was looking at our new icon and while exceedingly cool and kick ass, it made me think.
Some people roleplay their Smuggler in different ways, dress them differently, and just view their Smuggler as something that could be completely different from the next guy. That's perfectly cool because of the variety of Smugglers in the Star Wars Universe. Lando, Han, Talon, Sala, Roa, and the list goes on. So I'll put a few choices down and you can reply with a short answer telling what you are!
- Transporter type 1. Carrier of contraband for credits.
- Transporter type 2. Carrier of contraband for a cause (Rebel).
- Pirate. Privateering space for whatever they can.
- Gambler. Earning your living as a slick Sabacc player.
- Businessman. A keen intellectual person looking for a good deal.
- Ring Leader. Like Talon, more of a leader and business than a hands-on Smuggler.
- Criminal. An underworld con-man that's a nothin more than a criminal.
- Drug Dealer. Spice dealer and crafter of the illicit, you make your living of the addictions of others.
- Slicer. Hacker and information gatherer. You make your living cracking codes and subsystems.
I really can't think of any more. If yall do, post 'em and I'll add 'em here
So, who are you, Smugglers?
I'm going to give an answer that you might see as somewhat of a cop out 
. I see a Smuggler as all of those things, bar the drug dealer; Many of those descriptions are methods Smugglers use to reach, or atributes that aid them in accomplishing,their goals and objectives, which in the end ismaking money by getting things that people want to them when most others/no one else can.
For other things to add, I'd say that a truley great Smuggler is also charasmatic,full of charm, a good actor and has a smile on that can either warm your heart or chill your soul .
Mirax,Talon Karrde and Lando have all that in my view and while Solo might not have had the chilly smile, he did have a Wookie to compensate
kgmkiorys
Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:08 am
#7
Totally agrre with Wes, nad if i may add, i would add another possibility :
The guy who knows an other guy that can help to solve troubles.
That's what i feel being a fixer is all about, being an imp, i see myself smoothing the way for a "friend" (ie customer) to get up the army hierarchy by "introducing" him to a relation (the recruiter).
Otherwise i don't feel we should be considered pirates, we don't assault other peolple's properties, we don't salvage houses or ships, we are on the illegal side of the fence, but we're honorable. We have nasty tricks, we can be deadly, but we shoot only if their is no other choice (and of course we shoot first). That doesn't make us pirates, we're just people transporting stuff, whether it's legal or not, from point A to point B whether paying taxes or not and so on.
Isleh
Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:28 am
#8
Yes
- Transporter type 1. Carrier of contraband for credits.
- Transporter type 2. Carrier of contraband for a cause (Rebel).
Maybe and kinda goes with the territory but isn't required.
- Pirate. Privateering space for whatever they can.
- Businessman. A keen intellectual person looking for a good deal.
- Ring Leader. Like Talon, more of a leader and business than a hands-on Smuggler.
- Criminal. An underworld con-man that's a nothin more than a criminal.
- Drug Dealer. Spice dealer and crafter of the illicit, you make your living of the addictions of others.
- Gambler. Earning your living as a slick Sabacc player.
- Slicer. Hacker and information gatherer. You make your living cracking codes and subsystems.
Isleh
Sat Nov 13, 2004 11:34 am
#9
Oh... and to answer your question, I play Transporter type 2 & Slicer for the rebellion
mrbleepbleep
Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:31 pm
#10
I'm pretty similar, I RP my character mainly as a Rebel agent, the smuggler profession for me is mainly the underworld contacts and know-how, plus slicing for code-breaking. I've done almost all of those things at one point, I've been a public slicer, a contract slicer, a spice merchant, I've even run a vendor selling smuggler tools... the only thing I've never done is faction selling, because I'm not Colonel yet.
Isleh wrote:
Oh... and to answer your question, I play Transporter type 2 & Slicer for the rebellion
fareone
Sun Nov 14, 2004 3:19 am
#11
- Transporter type 1. Carrier of contraband for credits. ( i love tier4 missions)
- Pirate. Privateering space for whatever they can. ( i love attaking passinger transportars..heheh)
- Gambler. Earning your living as a slick Sabacc player. ( my favorite eisly)
- Criminal. An underworld con-man that's a nothin more than a criminal. (ididnt do anythink why STs stoping me)
- Drug Dealer. Spice dealer and crafter of the illicit, you make your living of the addictions of others. (im working for public. im trying to do my best)
- Slicer. Hacker and information gatherer. You make your living cracking codes and subsystems.( help ur friends)
Gooney
Sun Nov 14, 2004 3:58 am
#12
You missed a couple of the most important.
-Oppertunist- If a situation arises that you can gain from, you take the oppertunity.
-Rugged Individualist- While friends and associates are a definate plus, you know that the only person that you can rely on is...numero uno!
Other than that, Id say ya Ive worn the pirate mantel in space, Ive done a fair bit of "field modification" to armors and weapons. Sold a bit of illicit pharmacuticals, and have done a fair bit of brawling and shootin. During my travels I have fought for the cause of the Alliance, not because I think thier cause is the "only way" but because its definatly better for me than Jack-Boot Imperialism.
I know where all the best Gambling halls are and have been known to give the ol Jubilee Wheel a spin or two, counting on my love affair with Lady Fortuna.
Smuggler, ya Ive done it but thats just a title.
-Gooney
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