At Firbacca’s urging, two years ago Rail spent what was intended to be his Fall vacation on Kashyyyk. While there, he discovered the rampant enslavement of Wookiees by Trandoshans (the two species’ homeworlds were in the same star system). A long-time opponent of slavery, Rail recognized that the wild, unpatrolled wilderness of Kashyyyk, which made the slavers’ work so easy, would just as effectively cover raids on the slaver camps themselves. For weeks he waged a one-man guerilla war on the slaver camps, freeing several dozen Wookiees in the process.
Returning to Mos Eisley for a drink after his “vacation,” Rail encountered a freed Twi’lek dancer named Nahael. Although Rail’s interest in Nahael was initially far from the activities of the previous weeks, the conversation turned to his work freeing slaves on Kashyyyk. Rail also alluded to his history of sporadically freeing and attempting to free individual slaves. Nahael suggested a better method, and turned Rail’s attention to Ryloth, the Twi’lek homeworld, where Twi’lek slavery was perpetuated by other Twi’leks.
After buying a new set of disposable ship beacon idents and a day’s rest, Rail piloted the Fool’s Gold to Ryloth. Previously, at Rail’s request, Firbacca had pressurized, insulated, and converted two-thirds of the Y-8’s 50,000 metric ton cargo holds to habitable containers with wash facilities. Rail’s plan had been to use the cargo holds to smuggle freed slaves. They would hold 350 people in relative comfort.
When he left Ryloth three weeks later, the holds were filled will runaway slaves; their former captors lay dead or unconscious in the Lonely Five Range in the mountains near Kala’uun. He delivered the slaves to an artists’ commune on Bothawui, a neutral planet known for its anti-slavery laws.
In addition to ground-based rescues, Rail and the independent-pilot squadron he founded, Blue Squadron, rescue slaves in space by disabling and either capturing or docking with and emptying slave-carrying transports. No matter what he does, now matter how many he frees, Rail feels his efforts to be small. He is currently seeking out alliances to run larger scale raids, and to help slaves after transport.
Blue Squadron also operates covertly in support of the Rebel Alliance, raiding Imperial supply convoys to resupply Alliance ships and bases.
[Compiled by Dr. Friz Quadrata, PhD, Imperial Investigative Services, Section Echo-Twelve]
I have been asked to analyze available data on subject Rail Magnor, and to render a brief opinion on the subject’s personality. I have also been asked to evaluate the subject based on worthiness for recruitment to various Imperial sections and services, and to identify possible openings for termination or interrogation. Toward those ends, I have reviewed Magnor’s personal and professional history, as well as read related records and surveillance reports.
Although he may appear impulsive and even impetuous on occasion—an image he apparently fosters deliberately—Magnor is an intelligent, rational thinker who evaluates a situation before acting. Once available data has been collected, Magnor is decisive and focused. Combining his intelligence and careful forethought with his obvious cogitative agility results in an effective fighter, businessman, and leader.
On that subject exists ample evidence, which I will not waste the committee’s time in restating here. Magnor easily gains the trust and respect of others, and immediately rises to, or is automatically placed into, the role of leader in every instance of which we have knowledge. Although this reviewer does not agree with his leadership strategy of encouragement and nurturing, leaving the proven technique of inspiring fear among subordinates all but totally absent from his command, Magnor has rarely failed as a leader. His compassion for other sentients is clearly a weakness, yet he somehow turns it into a strength that has enabled Magnor to conduct mixed species groups intact through untenable situations wherein Imperial commands, under similar circumstances, have consistently suffered significant losses.
A strong but untrained military strategist, one has to wonder how far Magnor could go with formal training and experience commanding larger groups of trained men or ships.
Magnor is said to be a capable combatant and a more than competent pilot, although evaluation of such skills is beyond the ability of this analyst. However, pilots who have observed Magnor in space state something that does correlate with my review: Magnor consistently exhibits a keen awareness of his surroundings, including environment, other combatants, and non-combatants; Imperial Navy pilots refer to this environmental alacrity as “situational awareness.”
Typical of traditional Corellians, Magnor believes not in a personified diety ruling the lives of sentients but in a loose concept of Karma characterized by the three aspects of Fate. In this belief system, those who act honorably, help others, and are true to their personal morals, are rewarded by Fate with favorable circumstances. Like most Corellians, Magnor does not believe Fate guides him or his choices, merely that she presents to sentient beings a choice, at which point it is then up to the individual to choose his own path. The more virtuous the individual, the better the options presented to him, and the greater likelihood of his success resulting from Fate’s favor (luck).
He has a strong and well-defined morality that is rarely truly challenged by his activities. Shaking the subject’s ethics to rebuild him to believe in Imperially-favored values would be difficult. However, if done properly, could result in a skilled asset of substantial ability and incredible tenacity.
In this evaluator’s opinion, the subject is handicapped by three distinct weaknesses that could be exploited to interrogate, attack, or even recruit Rail Magnor.
First: women. In any social setting, Magnor quickly rises to the center of attention, entertaining companions with an intriguingly sarcastic wit and polite demeanor. His attention focuses especially on any female sentients in attendance, and rarely on just one at a time. His flirtatious manner and history of successfully bedding women of various species betrays an obvious weakness for the fairer sex, and, of course, makes him susceptible to an attack by female operatives. If IIS decides to pursue capture, termination, or recruitment against subject Magnor, the first option to explore should be a simple honey trap.
Second, Magnor has long been known to associate with non-humans, with no apparent regard for their inferiority to humans. Indeed, his company, the Rail Gunners, LLP, is a partnership wherein the Wookiee Firbacca (aka Firbacca the Purple) apparently holds equal status with human partners.
Although we have no evidence to support a belief that Magnor would be more sympathetic to non-humans—all evidence suggests that he considers all sentient species equal, in fact—it is safe to assume that Magnor is aware that the Empire employs few non-human operatives. Therefore, it is a feasible leap to believe that, should Magnor come to recognize himself of interest to the Empire, he would be more suspicious of a human agent. His predilection for associating with non-humans therefore presents a greater chance of success should he be captured and interrogated. In such a case, this evaluator recommends posing a non-human operative as a fellow prisoner to gain Magnor’s trust. If other interrogation procedures fail, allow Magnor and his “ally” to escape together.
Third, as evidenced by his criminal record, numerous surveillance vids, and IIS’s suspicion that the subject routinely frees Wookiee, Twi’Lek, and other legally-indentured slaves, Magnor has a penchant for defending those he perceives to be in need—especially those being disciplined or set in their places by their betters. On numerous occasions he has placed himself directly in the path of harm to benefit others. This weakness could be exploited in numerous ways, including by abducting or threatening beings about whom Magnor cares—and there are many. To wit: Both his sister, Katiara Onmihed, and his former consort, Toshoa Oha, have criminal records and local or regional wants that could easily be converted to higher crimes and Imperial warrants. Oha even has an infant, for whose birth Magnor was present. Magnor cares about, and seems to feel some responsibility toward, the infant and its mother, although it is confirmed that Magnor is not himself the child’s father.
Oddly, while other males who woo as many women as Magnor tend toward the so-called “love ‘em and leave ‘em” variety, Magnor habitually retains his ex-lovers as friends. It is my firm belief that the endangerment of any of these past lovers would be sufficient motivation to draw out Magnor if the target himself proves elusive.
Magnor’s abilities are broad and could serve him well in numerous sections and services, but it is my opinion that, should recruitment prove successful, Magnor would be best suited for either undercover work for Imperial Investigative Services or in a command position within the Imperial Navy.
Yours in Service,
Dr. Quadrata
Imperial Investigative Services, Section Echo-Twelve