Merick Tel

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire
Game Status
Campaign Concluded
Player XP
1000
Ships
The Flaming Cantina Layout · Cargo · Modifications Bad Part of Town Cosmopolitan · Martini · The Shot
Owners
Bacta Max · Jarash · Jax Bauer Merick Tel · "Red" · Zael
NPC Crew
Gwynnel and Jessiel
Droids
BS7-SAMI · S1-R1 R2-R9 · 41-VEX · AC Security Cookie · W-11e · Bric & Brac
The Kids
Yote Reynard · Kerrimapia and Jowdrrl
Allies
Nell Davengatt · Wookie Engineers Walker, Sector Ranger · Tooga the Hutt
Contacts
Jabba the Hutt · Kaltho the Hutt Aris Shen · Jedi Master Elaiza Chief Ereen · Honest Cal
Enemies
Agent Los · Bounty Hunter Haj
Former Enemies
Teemo & Co · Inquisitor An'ya Fell
References
Crew Obligations · Crew Duty House Rules · Adventure Log

Merick Tel in laminate armor with a modified marksman carbine

Merick Tel is an Outer Rim rat through and through. His family has lived out beyond the reach of the Galactic Republic and its successor state, the Galactic Empire, for uncountable generations. That is, until recently. A former childhood friend and he ran afoul of the Empire some years back over a relatively trivial matter. But, a combination of a petty bureaucrat, a naive understanding of the Empire's corruption and depravity, and a stubborn Outer Rim dweller's personality led to the death of his friend and Merick Tel's arrest. He did escape shortly afterwards, but his eyes have since been open to the Empire's oppression of worlds that fall under its sway, and he has begun to see Imperial presences everywhere.

Though not part of any Rebellion cell active in the galaxy, he has done his own 'terrorist' activities when he could. At one point he was captured by Trex, a bounty hunter in Teemo the Hutt's employment. He was in a holding cell when the ship, the Krayt Fang, was stolen by another group of adventurers with no love of Teemo or his gang. With little resources, he has joined this group in opposing Teemo and their company to do legitimate hauling. While he still hopes for an eventual overthrow of the Empire, he realizes that his time can be spent usefully as a part of this crew. More intelligence, more resources, more contacts will all help to make him a better 'freedom fighter' is his line of thinking.

He is Force Sensitive, and has become aware of this due to Jax's use of the Force. He has taken well to lightsaber training, particularly in the Soresu technique, in which he excels. His command of the Force is still weak, though he has honed his Sense abilities to the point where he can avoid shots and blows by sensing where they will be a split-second before they happen. He is also learning to apply the Force to his physical abilities with traditional Jedi athletics training in the cargo bay while in hyperspace.

He has conducted a deal to clear his bounty by the Empire in exchange for owing the Bounty Hunter's guild. This amount is still outstanding.

After the Jewel of Yavin heist, Merick Tel harbours a burning sense of vengeance against Arend Shen who initiated the theft in the first place. He resents the betrayal, his attempted murder, and pinning the whole mess on him and the crew. Complicating matters is the fact that he is the father of Aris Shen, his ex-girlfriend and someone he still feels fond for. Not to mention his thorough grounding as a legitimate businessman in the eyes of the public.

Characteristics

Career/Specialization(s): Bounty Hunter (Gadgeteer), Force Sensitive Exile, Guardian (Soresu Defender)

Brawn	Intellect	Willpower	Agility	Cunning	Presence
3	4	3	3	2	2

Soak	Wounds	Strain	Defense (Melee)	Defense (Ranged)	Force Rating
6	17	19	2	2	2

• +4 strain comes from the armor
• +2 strain from Light Side
• +1 defense comes from Heavy Battle Armor
• +1 defense (ranged) comes from armor (talent)
• +1 defense (melee) from vibrosword or lightsaber
• +2 difficulty upgrades from Sense abilities
• +2 difficulty upgrades from Defensive Stance (melee attacks only)
• Rapid Recovery (Adrenal Implant): +1 Strain recovered after combat
• Rapid Recovery (Biofeedback Mod Upgrade): +1 Strain recovered after combat

Morality	Strength	Weakness
95	Justice	Hatred
Motviation
Overthrow the Empire

XP Total	XP Unspent
520	0

Skills

• Class: Athletics, Brawl, Perception, Pilot (Planetary, Space), Streetwise, Ranged (Heavy), Vigilance; Brawl, Cool, Discipline, Melee, Resilience, Vigilance
• Specialization: Brawl, Coersion, Mechanics, Ranged (Light); Discipline, Knowledge (Lore), Lightsaber, Vigilance
• ✓ denotes class/specialization skill

	Skill	Ability	Level	Roll
General Skills
	Astrogation	Intellect
✓	Athletics	Brawn	■
	Charm	Presence
✓	Coercion	Willpower	■■	, Strain (1) to downgrade/upgrade checks
	Computer	Intellect
✓	Cool	Presence	■
	Coordination	Agility
	Deceit	Cunning
✓	Discipline	Willpower	■■
	Leadership	Presence
✓	Mechanics	Intellect	■■■	(Gear)
	Medicine	Intellect
	Negotiation	Presence
✓	Perception	Cunning	■■	(Talent)
✓	Pilot (Planetary)	Agility	■■
✓	Pilot (Space)	Agility	■■
✓	Resilience	Brawn
	Skulduggery	Cunning
	Stealth	Agility
✓	Streetwise	Cunning	■	, remove one
	Survival	Cunning
✓	Vigilance	Willpower	■■	(Talent) (Talent + Armor)
Combat Skills
✓	Brawl	Brawn	■■
	Gunnery	Agility	■
✓	Lightsaber	Intellect	■■■
✓	Melee	Brawn	■
✓	Ranged (Light)	Agility	■■
✓	Ranged (Heavy)	Agility	■■■
Knowledge Skills
	Core Worlds	Intellect
	Education	Intellect
✓	Lore	Intellect
	Outer Rim	Intellect
	Under World	Intellect		, remove one
	Xenology	Intellect

Talents

Gadgeteer

• Toughened: +2 to Wound Threshold
• Intimidating (1): Suffer (1) strain to downgrade difficulty of Coercion checks, or upgrade difficulty by (1) when targeted by Coercion checks
• Defensive Stance (1): Once per round, suffer (1) strain to upgrade difficulty of all incoming melee attacks
• Jury-Rigged: Modify 1 piece of armor or weapon
• Point Blank Range: +1 Damage at Close and Engaged Range
• Armor Master: +1 Armor Soak
• Disorient: On successful attack, spend to Disorient target 1 round
• Tinkerer: Add 1 HP to a number of items equal to the number of Tinkerer upgrades
• Dedication: +1 to Intellect

Force Sensitive Exile

• Uncanny Senses: Add to Perception
• Uncanny Reaction: Add to Vigilance
• Quick Draw: Draw or holster as an Incidental Action
• Insight: Perception and Discipline become class skills
• Touch of Fate: Once per session add to any 1 check
• Street Smarts: Remove per rank from Streetwise or Knowledge (Underworld) checks
• Uncanny Reaction: Add to Vigilance
• Dedication: Brawn +1
• Force Rating +1

Soresu Defender

• Parry x 2: Spend 3 Strain to negate 2 + (Parry) Wounds from a melee attack
• Soresu Technique: Use Intellect instead of Brawn
• Reflect: Spend 3 Strain to negate 2 + (Reflect) Wounds from a ranged attack
• Toughened: Gain +2 wound threshold
• Defensive Stance (1): Once per round, suffer (1) strain to upgrade difficulty of all incoming melee attacks (second one)

Force Powers

Sense

• Sense Basic Power:
  • Spend ○ to sense living beings in Short range
  • Spend ○ to sense emotional state of someone in Engaged range
• Control: Ongoing effect: Commit . Once per round, when an attack targets the Force user, upgrade the difficulty of the pool once
• Duration: Can use the save twice
• Strength: When using Sense's ongoing effect, upgrade the pool twice instead of once

Enhance

• Enhance Basic Power:
  • When making Athletics checks, add Force Dice to the pool
  • May spend Force Points to gain or (user's choice) on the check
• Control: May leap horizontally up to short range (10 xp)

Move

• Move Basic Power:
  • Move small objects via the Force by spending ○ to move a Silhouette 0 object within Short range to within Short range
• Range 5 - Spend to increase range to Medium
• Control 10 - Hurl objects to damage targets, make Ranged Discipline check with Move Object check, causing 10 Damage per silhouette
• Control 5 - Can Force Pull objects out of secure mountings or out of opponent's grasp

Equipment

Credits	Encumbrance
	Capacity	Current
1,345	12

Cybernetics

• Adrenal Implant (2,250 credits), LoNH 106 [Rapid Recovery 1]

Armour

• Heavy Battle Armor (Soak 2, Defense 1, Encumbrance 6 (4 when worn), Hard Points 5)
  • Helmet comlink (HP 0)
  • Enhanced Optics Suite: Remove up to to Perception, Vigilance, combat checks due to darkness/fog/smoke/environment that obscure vision. Detect heat sources and motion within medium range, ultrasound pickups, millimeter wave emitters, video capture, and other common optical enhancements (HP 1); Upgrade 1 Skill (Vigilance) Mod [EotE p. 194]
  • Biofeedback system, add +4 Strain (HP 2) [F&D pp. 200-201]; Upgrade Biofeedback System upgrade (100 credits) (Innate Talent (Rapid Recovery) Mod)
  • Cortosis Weave (HP 2), immune to Breach and Pierce [EotE p. 194]
• Laminate Armor (Soak 2, Encumbrance 4 (2 when worn), Hard Points 4)
  • Vacuum Sealed (HP 1)
• Padded Armour (Soak 2, Encumbrance 2 (0 when worn), Hard Points 0)

Weapons

• Blaster Carbine (Range Long, Dam 9 (10 Engaged/Close), Crit 3, Enc 3, HP 4 (4 used), Price 850, Rarity 5)
  • Marksman Barrel (Weapon Quality +2, Talent: Sniper Shot) (HP 2)
  • Telescopic Optical Sight (HP 1)
  • Weapon Sling (HP 1)
  • Stun setting, add to shoot, Reduce difficulty of ranged combat at long or extreme range, Cumbersome 1
• Ion Carbine (Range Short, Dam 10 (11 Engaged/Close), Crit 5, Enc 3, HP 3, Price 250, Rarity 3)
  • Disorient 5, Stun (Droids)
• Ion Blaster (Range short, Dam 10 (11 Engaged/Close), Crit 5, Enc 3, HP 3, Price 250, Rarity 3)
  • Disorient 5, Stun (Droids)
• Model 44 Blaster Pistol (Range Medium, Dam 6 (7 Engaged/Close), Crit 3, Enc 1, HP 4, Price 500, Rarity 4)
  • Stun setting
  • Wrist-mounted (HP 1)
• Cornet Arms H-7 "Equalizer" Blaster Pisto (Sons of Fortune, p. 95)
  • Dmg 7, Crit 2, Rng Medium, Enc 2, HP 3, 1200 credits, Rarity 8
  • Superior, Stun
  • Add automatic to attacks
• Holdout Blaster (Range Short, Dam 5 (6 Engaged/Close), Crit 4, Enc 1, HP 1, Price 200, Rarity 4)
  • Stun setting
  • Concealable Holster
• Frag Grenade (Range Short, Dam 8 (9 Engaged/Close), Crit 4, Enc 1, HP 0, Price 50, Rarity 5) x3
  • Blast 6, Limited Ammo 1
• Vibrosword (Dam +2, Crit 1, Enc 3, HP 3 (1 used), Price 750, Rarity 5)
  • Monomolecular Edge, Pierce (+2) (HP 1)
  • Pierce 4, Vicious 1, Defensive 1
• Vibroknife (Dam +1, Crit 2, Enc 1, HP 2 (1 used), Price 250, Rarity 3)
  • Serrated Edge (HP 1)
  • Pierce 2, Vicious 2
• Training Lightsaber Blade (Dam 6, Enc 1)
  • Defensive 1, Disorient 2, Pierce 5 (if on); as vibrosword (if off)
  • Uses Lightsaber skill

• Lightsaber (Red) (Dam 6, Crit 2, Enc 1, HP 5 (3 used))
  • Breach, Sunder, Defensive 1
  • Red Synthetic Crystal (treated as Ilum Crystal)
  • Curved Hilt (Adds automatic to successful Lightsaber combat checks when engaged with a single opponent); Mod (Defensive +1)

• Lightsaber (Silver) (Dam 9, Crit 1, Enc 1, HP 5 (3 used))
  • Breach, Sunder, Defensive 1, Vicious 2
  • Curved Hilt (Adds automatic to successful Lightsaber combat checks when engaged with a single opponent); Mod (Defensive +1)
  • Silver Ilum Crystal
  • Crit -1 - 7 success, 4 advantage
  • Damage +1 - 1 success, 6 advantage
  • Damage +1 - 2 success, 5 advantage
  • Damage +1 - 4 failure, 2 advantage (FAIL)
  • Damage +1 - 1 success, 1 advantage
  • Vicious +1 - 1 success, 1 advantage, 2 light side
  • Vicious +1 - 7 success, 2 disadvantage, 1 light saber
• Lightsaber Pike (Red) (Dam 8, Crit 1, Enc 2, HP 3 (0 used))
  • Breach, Sunder, Defensive 1, Cumbersome 3
  • Crafted Hilt (2 Success, 3 Advantage), -1 Encumbrance
  • Crit -1 - FAIL
  • Crit -1 - 1 success, 4 advantage
  • Damage +1 - Triumph, 1 success, 3 disadvantage
  • Damage +1 - FAIL
  • Damage +1 - 3 success
  • Damage +1 - FAIL
  • Damage +1 - FAIL

Droids

• Marksman-H Combat Remote [Minion] (training remote) (Keeping the Peace, p. 49)
  • Brawn 1, Agility 3, Intellect 1, Cunning 1, Willpower 1, Presence 1
  • Soak 1, Wounds 3, M/R Defense 1/1
  • Skills: Perception, Ranged (Light)
  • Equipment: Micro stun blaster (Ranged [Light]; Damage 1; Critical -; Ranged [Short]; Stun Damage)
• RMD-20 "Eye in the Sky" [Minion] (Keeping the Peace, p. 50)
  • Brawn 1, Agility 3, Intellect 1, Cunning 1, Willpower 1, Presence 1
  • Soak 1, Wounds 3, M/R Defense 0/0
  • Skills: Perception, Vigilance
  • Equipment: Recording holocam

General Items

• Backpack (Encumbrance +4)
• Utility Belt (Encumbrance +1)
• Load-Bearing Harness (Encumbrance +3)
• Toolkit (Enc 4)
• Glowrods x3 (Enc 1 each)
• Emergency Medpac (Enc 1)

Seldom Used

• Short Range Commlink (Enc 0)
• Long Range Commlink (Enc 2)
• General Scanner (Enc 0)
• Data Chip (Enc 0)
• Droid Repair Kit (On ship)
• Scanning Goggles

Purchase Wish List

Weapon Modifications

• Blaster Actuating Module for Holdout Blaster (500 credits) (2 Damage +1 mods, 2 Pierce +1 mods)
• Blaster Actuating Module for Model 44 (mounted) blaster pistol) (500 credits) (2 Damage +1 mods, 2 Pierce +1 mods)
• Balanced Hilt for vibroknife (1,500 credits) (+1 Accurate Mod, +1 Encumbrance decrease mod)
• Balanced Hilt for vibrosword (1,500 credits) (+1 Accurate Mod, +1 Encumbrance decrease mod)

Cybernetics

• Cybernetic Reflexes (2,750 credits), LoNH 106 [Rapid Reaction]

Equipment

• 2-4 Recon Remotes (Dangerous Covenants, pp. 57, 59)
  • Price 250 each, Rarity 3

Blaster Pistol options

• Raider Arms Model-1 "Nova Viper" Blaster Pistol (Fly Casual p. 43)
  • Dmg 7, Crit 3, Rng Medium, Enc 2, HP 2, 4500 credits, Rarity 9
  • Accurate 2, Pierce 2, Stun

• DR-45 "Dragoon" Cavalry Blaster (Stay on Target, p. 40)
  • Dmg 8, Crit 3, Rng Medium, Enc 1, HP 3, 1900 credits, Rarity 6
  • Accurate 1, Stun

Rifle options

• Blastech DLS-12 Heavy Blaster Carbine (Keeping the Peace, p. 43)
  • Dmg 10, Crit 3, Rng Medium, Enc 4, HP 3, 1350 credits, Rarity 7
  • Auto-fire, Cumbersome 2

Armor

• Dav-Dann Power Armor (Keeping the Peace, p. 47)
  • Defense 2, Soak 2, Price (R) 13,500, Enc 4, HP 6, Rarity 7

Standard Loadouts

To save time for the inevitable question, 'what are you carrying?'

Loaded for Bear

• Heavy Battle Armor or Laminate Armor
• Model 44 Blaster Pistol (mounted on armor)
• Blaster Carbine
• 2 frag grenades
• Vibrosword or lightsaber, depending on environment
• Vibroknife
• Backpack
• Toolkit
• Emergency Medpac

'Civilized' Worlds

• Padded Armor, if permitted
• Vibrosword, laws permitting
• Vibroknife
• Concealed blaster pistol
• Short-ranged comlink

Cloud City (Jewel of Yavin)

• Clothing as appropriate; spacer clothing by default, upscale for sky-side
• Toolkit, if not skyside
• Vibroknife
• Lightsaber (silver), partially deconstructed, hidden in toolkit
• Ship armory blaster pistol
• Short-ranged comlink

Shipboard-duty

• Padded Armor
• Lightsaber
• Vibroknife
• Toolkit
• Short-ranged comlink