Natalia Rossi

Natalia was born to a Lorrdian slave owned by one of the more prominent Hutt lords of Nar Shaddaa. Her father was unknown. Natalia’s mother, a young woman named Melinda, had been sold into slavery by pirates. Her parents had saved up their life savings to buy them passage to Coruscant, where they hoped to find a better life, finally escaping the destitute slums of New Shallos. Before their transport could even escape the Outer Rim, they were ambushed by space pirates. Many were killed by their rampaging before their leader finally initiated order, including Melinda’s father. The rest were rounded up to be sold on Nar Shaddaa.

Melinda’s mother was quite beautiful, and attracted undue attention. Before they reached Nar Shaddaa, she had been raped multiple times and was the pirate captain’s unwilling concubine. She was separated from her thirteen year old daughter, Melinda, for most of the voyage. Upon arriving at Nar Shaddaa, Melinda’s mother snuck her way off the ship and into the general slave population, and was sold alongside Natalia to Hutt slavers on planet. By the time the pirate captain figured out she had escaped, it was too late.

But their family’s terrible fortunes would not end there. When auction time came, and the two were purchased by separate buyers, Melinda’s mother by a Nal Hutta brothel and Melinda by one of the most prominent Nar Shaddaa Hutt lords, to be a dancer, her mother fought so hard the guards were forced to put her down in front of Melinda’s eyes.

Melinda’s life improved somewhat after coming under the care of Lord Grabo the Hutt. He identified the still young Melinda as a rare gem, and relegated her to special treatment. She lived like a princess, attended to by servants, dressed in fine clothes, bathed in the finest bath salts and perfumes. She was trained throughout her teenage years as an entertainment slave, and her skills included knowledge of high class protocol, dancing, and other desirable skills. By the time she was reaching her late teens, she was performing duties for Grabo, entertaining his most prestigious guests. It was degrading, and an impossible situation. As one of Grabo’s most favored slaves, she was kept in the depths of his palace, and would have to get through layers of guards to escape.

Consigning herself to this life, she was surprised when she found out she was pregnant at age nineteen. She kept the baby a secret, aided by her sympathetic nurse who had raised her since she was a child, and kept her newborn daughter a secret for about a month. However, she was found out eventually by Grabo’s heartless lieutenant, a human named Markos. Furious that she had unintentionally “usurped” his authority by deciding for herself who would sire her children, Grabo took her away from favored status and threw her into common work alongside the common slaves, in the hellhole common brothels.

It was here that Natalia grew up. She was cared by her mother and the other slaves in the brothels, and kept away as best as possible from the terrible conditions they were forced to live in. As a toddler, she had a fairly comfortable life, running around the slave quarters. Melinda was a friendly woman, and as a result the more educated and kinder slaves would often tutor Natalia in their spare time. There were plenty of other slave children to play with as well. When Natalia was six, that small world was torn apart. Grabo’s lieutenant, Markos, on routine inspection, laid eyes on Natalia in the slave quarters. He quickly ascertained that she would grow up to be even more beautiful than her mother, and decided that her youth meant more complete indoctrination would be possible.

Whisking Natalia away, her mother returned from a late night shift to discover her daughter was gone, and powerless to get her back. Completely hopeless and torn apart, Melinda broke down and became addicted to a variety of drugs during this time.

Meanwhile, Natalia would grow into adolescence, groomed impeccably to be the ultimate pleasure slave. Markos himself tried to secure her affections for himself, which Natalia returned, without really understanding what love was. She merely saw him as the only person in her life who cared amongst the apathetic dancing instructors and servants who did her hair or makeup.

She also became educated, and was placed under the tutelage of Grabo’s best instructors. She was to be a consort, not simply a silent, submissive slave. She was also trained to administer the household, and was exercising considerable influence as the “Palace Queen” by her later teens. By night, she was entertaining Grabo’s guests, and during those encounters, learned how to smile at those men and perform her duties even though inside she was repulsed. The perfect learning environment to learn how to lie.

At around fifteen, things changed drastically for what had actually been a pretty comfortable lifestyle for Natalia. She was relatively unaware of how she was merely being shaped into the girl her masters wanted her to be; from day one she was told how lucky she was and how she should be very grateful. She had only blurry, faded memories of the long forsaken woman known as her mother.

Markos proposed marriage to Natalia, and asked her to run away from him. The wizened lieutenant was completely enamored by the young girl, and was willing to throw away his life for her. Natalia, not knowing any better, agreed. On the night of their escape, the two were caught trying to sneak into a parked starship. Markos quickly changed the story as to how he was just discovering Natalia trying to escape. He covered his tracks well, and Grabo was none the wiser.

Natalia, from this brief experience, learned Markos’ true nature and rebuffed him from that point on, as she was placed under heightened security measures and increased obedience training. Grabo was angered by her lack of obedience despite Markos’ claims she was completely indoctrinated as to her role in life. Markos was also angered by her refusal to his advances, and after several rejections, went to the next best thing: her mother.

Her mother was still pretty, although most of her beauty was wasted away by life in the brothels. Completely reliant on euphoric drugs, Markos learned it was easy to manipulate her into “loving” him. He took her out of the brothels and supplied her with all the drugs she desired to keep her on his leash. Several months into this, it backfired. Melinda overdosed and her heart stopped, and she finally freed from her hellish existence.

Natalia learned through palace stories what had happened, and decided then she would escape the palace. There was nothing for her now, and she was completely alone. In the past months, she was already conspiring to leave, and was intending to track down her mother and escape with her, as that was the last person who could care for her. Now growing into independence, she vowed never to rely on anyone else again and for a year, meticulously bided her time and plotted the perfect escape. During this time, she was able to convince Grabo’s chief pilot to teach her how to fly in his spare time, befriend several sympathetic guards who taught her to “defend” herself as well as unwittingly giver her weapons. Thus, she was able to gather a knife a blaster pistol with concealed holsters in her clothing, forged ID cards, an improvised explosive device, strong dosages of narcotic drugs, proper documentation to go offplanet, and thousands in cash credits.

A few weeks after her sixteenth birthday, she uncovered a plan that Markos was going to sell her to the highest bidder. The only way to avoid sale to some overweight, middle-aged CEO or aristocrat as a concubine would be to marry him. An ultimatum. Grabo could care less, as he was focused on training newer, more impressionable girls.

It was then that Natalia had to make her move. In the dead of night, she offered her two “bodyguards,” the men assigned to watch her to prevent escape, a syringe of drugs and then a night of fun in her bedroom. The two men were of course completely caught by her charms, and shot up as she led them into her room. The two promptly passed out from the lethally high dose she had placed inside the syringe, and Natalia dashed out the door.

At the hangar, she shot the watch officer and set her explosive charge against the hangar equipment. She then used her forged ID security card to open the hangar doors and unlock a ship. There, she took off in Grabo’s personal SoroSuub Personal Luxury Yacht 3000, her first form of revenge. With her forged documents, she got off planet in minutes and was home free. The watch officer was dead, and upon blowing up the hangar equipment, she was untrackable. Neither of the unconscious guards, if they survived their highs, had any idea where she was going.

She was free.

Once free, Natalia made her way all the way to Commenor, wanting to get far away from the Rmi and Grabo’s rage, stopping several times along the way and having to deal with seedy spaceport repairs as well as repaint the ship and give it a new registration and name. She used her saved creds and charms to get cheap mechanic labor to keep the ship running. Once at Commenor, she enrolled at university there, lying about her age and education, aspiring to be a doctor to eke out a profitable existence and help other beings. She still believed in the ideal that her life, although terrible, had made her into who she was and that she could change other beings’ lives for the better.

She took work as a waitress and slowly sold many of the luxury items on her ship. She slept and lived on the ship to save money. Although smart, she was falling behind when her funds began to ran out after two years of school. Now twenty, she was forced with a dilemma: work as a dancer again to get money, or abandon her dream of becoming a doctor.

She tried to dance again, but once she stepped on stage in her underwear she broke down and fled. Cursing the world, her faith in good will became shaken. How could a girl like her, after living in hell for so long, not get any type of help to complete a dream to help others?

But her troubles would not end there. A few days after dropping out of university, she returned home to her ship to waiting bounty hunters. Grabo had been busy. In the past two years, he had put out an increasingly sizable bounty on Natalia. Her escape, although she was not his premier slave, had severely damaged his reputation. He had to make an example of her.

The bounty hunters took her back to Nar Shaddaa, where she was subjected to days of torture at the hands of Grabo’s thugs. He planned to break down that resistance he could see in her eyes until she was nothing except a weak, quivering mess of a little girl. Natalia could barely resist the physical pain, and could feel her mental strength eroding as Grabo subjected her to unspeakable versions of torture.

Hope was not lost. One of Grabo’s elite security chiefs, a Korun named Thrash, took pity on her. He knew her story and could not bear to see her pretty form writhing on the rack for days on end. When he learned of the brutal way Grabo planned to execute her, he was horrified.

Throwing everything into the star breeze, he took a chance and freed Natalia, taking her onto his starship and blasting their way out of Nar Shaddaa. Thrash nursed her back to health, taking her to his homeworld of Haruun Kal. There, once recovered, the Korun taught her how to defend herself. It was then that Natalia learned she was Force sensitive. Thrash could sense it. And upon reflection, Natalia realized convincing people in life had always come especially easy, even despite her good looks.

Thrash treated her like a daughter, and after a few months of extremely intense training, the two embarked on a revenge mission. The two, heavily armed, traveled back to Nar Shaddaa.

Blasting their way into Grabo’s palace, the two shot their way through dozens of guards before finally breaching Grabo’s safe room. Natalia had the satisfaction of gutting the fat slug who had put her through everything. It was here that Natalia learned the pleasure of bloodlust as the slug’s guts spilled out and he let out his death rattle.

The former slave’s triumph was short lived. Markos had survived and watch this final event unfold, and shot Thrash in the back of the head, killing him instantly, depriving him of even delivering his last words to his adopted “daughter.” The man then shot Natalia as she turned, in the arm, so that she dropped the vibroblade she had been using to gut the Hutt.

Markos then punched her in the face, knocking her to the ground, where he relieved her of her sidearm as well. It was there he began to gloat over Natalia, ranting about how he had brought about her mother’s death and got her hooked on drugs. He went on about how Natalia’s continued rebuttals had hurt him, and she had no choice to submit to him now.

Cutting him off, Natalia sprang to her feet in tears and enraged at what Markos had said. Not understanding what happened next, she punched him in the face – but her punch launched the man several meters back into a wall with enough force to crack the stone – and the man’s back. Seeing red, somehow Markos was lifted into the air, and held up there as invisible forces crushed the life out of him. When his mangled body crumpled to the floor, the red dissipated and Natalia was left panting and sobbing in the bloodsoaked room.

Despite the danger from hostile Hutt forces from nearby palaces that could arrive at any moment, she took the time to drag her dead mentor’s body all the way back to their ship, and fly away just as Grabo’s rivals arrived to finish off any of his associates and loot his palace.

One again alone in the galaxy, she spent the next few days taking the Korun back to his homeworld, and seeing him properly buried. Once done, she claimed his personal effects for her own.

For the next three years, she dropped off the grid, allegedly embarking on a long meditative journey into deep space.

She has now cropped up again in cantinas here and there, though what she is up to now remains to be seen.