Mako (SWTOR)

Mako is a 20 year old human female bounty hunter of Nar Shaddaa, particularly skilled in cybernetics. She is bounty hunter player's first companion. Mako joins the bounty hunter just before entering Fa'athra's Palace on Hutta. She becomes the bounty hunter's dedicated healer. Her closest associated player class is Operative.

Mako has light brown skin and an Asian complexion. Mako has short, black hair. Mako is 5'7''. Mako has small/medium sized breasts, a skinny, slightly athletic body needed for bounty hunting. Mako wears a cybernetic implant on the right side of her face behind her ear, on her cheek, and under her eye. This implant lets her communicate with computers and search online just by thinking.

Growing up as an orphan on Nar Shaddaa, Mako was tougher than she appeared, savvy of the underworld, and very much aware of its dangers. Mako had an intense interest in bounty hunting, loving the code of honor some hunters used and its underworld culture.

Mako was in no way unaware of the dangers and hard truths of bounty hunting such as kidnapping and killing, but accepted them as a necessity of the job. She approved of bounty hunters having a code of honor, such as defending the weak.

Biography: Nobody on Nar Shaddaa knows quite where Mako came from but everyone agrees she was born to be a slicer. By the time she was seven it was clear she had an unnatural affinity for all things computer-related and she quickly taught herself all known programming languages.

At eight, Mako crashed the accounts of a Red Light Sector orphanage that was attempting to sell her to the highest bidder. With credits in hand and marketable skills she soon found herself running with some of the more notorious slicer gangs on Nar Shaddaa.

Seven years later Mako was found wounded in an alley by an aging bounty hunter named Braden. He needed a tech specialist for his crew and she needed to get off the moon until the Hutt Cartel job her "friends" had so spectacularly blown faded a bit from memory. With Braden and his crew, Mako discovered a love of underground bounty hunter culture, a code of honor that gave her life structure and most importantly, her first real family.

Mako was perhaps one of the most gifted and talented slicers in the galaxy during her time. Described as having an unnatural affiliation for every kind of computer as a child, she had taught herself all known forms of programming language by age 7. Mako's natural skills at slicing were further augmented by an advanced cybernetic implant which gave her a direct uplink to the holonet. Her skill was so great that she was able to slice into both Republic and Imperial databases simultaneously and edit records without leaving any traceable trail. An unprecedented feat for a team of slicers let alone one person.

Mako is proficient with blasters and wielded a vibroknife. In battle, she uses medical gear to heal her allies, and employes numerous gadgets to aid her in battle.