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Commander '''Mario El "Atlante"''', [[FireClaw Squadron|FireClaw 4]], has served in the RS for many years.

== Character information ==
* RACE: Human.
* WEIGHT: 55 kg (121 lb.)
* LENGTH: 165 cm (5.4 ft).
* HOME PLANET: Tatooine
* SPECIALITY: Repairing X-Wings, Y-Wings, A-Wings, B-Wings and T-Wings, and any kind of droids.
* I'm a telecommunications-specialist, and an Electronic Engineer because I had to study in the Imperial University.
* FAMILY: Father was executed by Imperial hands at my home planet, my Mother and my unique sister are with a Imperial Flight Commander at a Start Destroyer whose location I still unknown.

== The story of how I came to the Rebels ==

The history of my life is not as that of beings' majority in the Galaxy. It is
the history of a human being that looks for constantly from their childhood, a
mission that gave a sense to their existence. To find an explanation on the
because and so that I had been born in this well-known planet as Tatooine. To
understand which the purpose of all my experiences was already lived and those
that I should live. Few beings meditate seriously on these things, they prefer
to live subjected to the circumstances of their environment and not to become
responsible for their own destination. Possibly this way to think was the
cause of my solitary life, especially in my adolescent stage. 

===My life at home===

My father designed and manufactured clothes and military accessories,
standardize, caps, helmets, gloves, shoes and other for the pilots, they were
Rebellious or members of the Empire. The war can end up being a very lucrative
business and my father detects it and he took advantage of this opportunity
before the other ones. He was a visionary man and of strong personality. My
father's adventurous and visionary spirit was its best inheritance, but the
cost of maintaining so good business it was quite high: to try to maintain the
war sacrificing the life of hundred of beings. My father said that the final
objective justifies the means to get it"; AGGHH! we agreed never on it. Good,
to avoid unpleasant discussions with my father regarding this matter, I decided
to take refuge among the abandoned remains of old ships and robots that I found
and used to pick up in the surroundings of the Beggar's Canyon on Tatooine.
Quickly I learned their basic mechanism of operation and to repair most of
ships, equipments, robots and other electronic devices. Although I didn't have
a good relationship with my father did I get him to send me to the Alderaan
University before it was destroyed. My mother was a conservative woman, she
could not imagine the Galaxy without the order and control of the Empire. 
There was the rumor that my mother attempted to become pilot of the TIE Academy
of the Empire years ago, but in one of her trainings in Sirpar did she know and
did she fall in love with my father. Both decided to escape from the empire and
to form a family in an pacify and distant planet, outside of the reach of the
war, but finally they didn't get it. My father had a prosper business until
the pirates and smugglers arrived home planet and they began to control all the
supplies, inputs and matter prevails indispensable so that my father's business
was profitable. The costs of the materials were increased and many merchants
broke. The tyranny of the pirates together with the high cost of life, toward
imminent a violent revolution. In that same moment I was passing my vacations
in the neighboring planet Delaya like guest in the house of some Alderaanians
friends who were visiting some of their relatives at the same time that
Alderaan was destroyed suddenly by the first Star Destroyer. Miraculously I had
survived of the death. Therefore I had to return of my studies at the Alderaan
University and I found a planet about to explode in war. Unfortunately my
mother is in my only sister's pregnancy, Lizeth, and the homemade expenses
increased more and more. To help with these expenses I mounted a small shop for
the repair of all type of devices and electronic teams, which became a true
Center of supply of transport, weapons, and communication teams for the
imminent revolt against the pirates and bandits that oppressed the merchants in
little time. Thanks to my technological studies I adapted an expert system in
artificial intelligence to each ship, droid, robot and computer system that I
repaired, in such a way that all were connected, allowing their users to send
and to assist petitions of help in a near range to 10 kilometers and even to
activate in a remote way a self-destruction system that it instructs the ships
and robots so that they look for propulsion systems, and engine room of the
enemy bases and then to explode near them. This technology unfolding was my
condemnation. The pirates began to lose the control of the planet and
hopelessly they requested help to the Empire. It had never participated in a
war, not even in a street case or bar fight, but I was considered an extremely
dangerous rebel. Our planet was razed by a Star Destroyer and many Imperial
fighters, and my Technical Center was confiscated with all the tools and
equipment. My father had been able to begin commercial relationships with one
of the leaders of the smugglers and it elaborated a plan so that I escaped
camouflaged as pirate inside a load transport ship. But among the members of
the Empire there was somebody that possessed that legendary characteristic gift
of the Jedi that made them sensitive to the Force, and that it facilitated them
my capture. The leader pirate that collaborated in my escape intent didn't have
fear in denouncing my father like the author of the plan to help me to escape
and as the main traitor of the Empire in all Tatooine. My father was executed
in front of all his relatives and friends...the leader pirate was also
murdered! My mother was captured and was taken inside the Start Destroyer in
spite of her pregnancy state. I could not have worse luck. When I was ready to
die, a coming order apparently given by the high command of the Star Destroyer
avoided my execution. The Flight Commander of the Star Destroyer knew my
mother for years and in exchange for forgiving my life my mother had to marry
him; Also I had to work for the Imperial forces all my life. I didn't have
alternative. If it opposed me, my mother and sister would pay the consequences
of my disobedience. Then my mother and sister moved away from Tatooine inside
the Star Destroyer and I never saw them again. The pirates finally recovered
the control of Tatooine.

===Captured by the Empire===

I passed some years like prisoner in Hoth and then I was taken to Byss by
orders of the Emperor Palpatine. The Emperor wanted me to repair his damaged
ships and to reprogram their R2 units so that they had a self-destruction
system with remote detonation, similar to the work that I made in Tatooine. 
His knowledge about the Force allowed him to influence on me, in such a way
that I could not refuse myself to his malicious desires. After carrying out
this work, I was taken to Marn Gar III to study at the Imperial University. I
graduated as Electronic Engineer and expert in Space Communications, and
therefore I could enjoy certain freedom and trust inside the Imperial forces.
However, the imperial instructors never taught me the technology used in the
Death Star and much less something on the principles of the Force. These
knowledges I could only acquire them through not authorized channels. Moved by
my curiosity, I achieved that the Empire allowed me to escort some rebellious
prisoners. Maybe they knew the things that in the Imperial University never
told me. I had to escort to an old and drunkard man to the planet Turkana. 
This character dressed extravagant clothes, and he slept a little. I don't know
reason, but the prisoner and I begin a pleasant friendship. The old man
affirmed to have more than 2000 years of age, thanks to a special elixir that a
Jedi master had taught him to prepare when he was young. He explained to me
that the Force is everywhere, all time, giving samples from their presence to
all the beings willing of heart to feel them and to follow them. The Force
maintains the perfect cosmic balance between the creation and the destruction,
between the order and the chaos, between the life and the death, among the well
and the bad. Not even the Empire with all its power, is able to avoid the
influence of the Force. The question that I made was: Why the Force allowed
that the Empire got so much power?. My friend responded the Force was not the
one responsible of giving such a power to the Empire; the beings that united to
the Empire and the beings who secretly were helped it to consolidate its
tyrannical domain, were the true ones responsible. But the Empire is destined
to be defeated. As the Empire invades new planets, it also interrupts the
natural evolutionary process of many civilizations and it breaks the cosmic
balance. The Force sooner or later will compensate this imbalance, and the
cosmic law of action and reaction will be completed again: "For every force,
there is an opposite and equal reaction force". In some place of the Galaxy,
the Force will be followed inevitably by beings able to feel it and they will
have the value to face together to the evil forces of the Empire and to stop
the Dark Side of the Force followers. Then my friend asked me a bottle of
liquor to calm his thirst. The liquor was his famous " elixir " to have
eternal life. It was a great deception for me! The admiration that I had him,
got lost. He deceived me and he made fun of me! Amid his drunkenness, the old
man murmured: "Frequently the Force is presented to the elected beings in
mysterious and not very common ways." 

===My escape===

Little before our arrival to Turkana, the old man made sick gravely and he made
me promise him that I would bury him in his homeland. A well-known place as
Atlantis, and according to his indications it was in the planet Maires. "But
this is an ocean planet in the Hapes Cluster and there are not human
inhabitants there", I restored in an angry manner. The death old man simply
repeated: "Frequently the Force is presented to the elected beings in
mysterious and not very common ways." And he gave me an Adegan Crystal. He said
that the crystal had belonged to the legendary Jedi Knight Shoareb Culu, and
that it would guide me until his deathbed. The high imperial command would
never approve the last desire of an old prisoner and less than he was buried in
his homeland. The only option was to escape with the prisoner, and to become a
traitor of the Empire. Perhaps I was crazy but I felt that my destination was
outside of the Empire and I took to my old friend inside a A-wing and we made a
no-authorized hyperspace jump toward the planet Maires.

===My arrival to Maires===

When I arrived at the planet Maires, I took a lot of time in finding a landing
place, and my old friend had already died; I was alone flying on the immense
ocean. I don't know how, but suddenly I observed a small island that emerged
slowly of the sea. I landed on it and then I buried the old man. The
vegetation that I observed in the island, seemed to be moss of different colors
and they expelled a fetid scent, as if was an old sepulcher with the discovered
cadavers in a high state of rot. But I didn't observe dead vegetation or some
rotten thing. I traveled several times the island looking for the origin of
that scent, when the floor began to tremble and apparently the island began a
rotation movement, as if the island was rotating on the sea...my A-Wing fell to
the sea and it sunk immediately! (:0) OOOHHHH I didn't know what was happening.
The island stopped to rotate and a gigantic head with flakes emerged of the
sea. It had landed on the shell from some similar animal to the turtles but
with dragon head. The animal looked at me fixedly as if it recognized me, and
without opening his mouth he spoke to me with thunder voice: "Who are you to
come to interrupt my dream of more than 3000 years?. It was frozen by my fear,
and after several intents I responded: "Nobody, please excuse me." Their
telepathic voice was listened again but now softer than before: "If you were
nobody, you would not exist and the Force would not have brought you until me. 
Very few they know about my existence, not even the Mairans that inhabit this
planet. Only some old Jedi Knights to who I allowed them to know me. I leave
to the surface once every a thousand years and in different places, and for
that reason it is very difficult to be without the help of the Force." While
the strange turtle spoke to me I pressed the Adagan Crystal that the old man
gave me, hidden among my clothes. But the strange turtle discovered me and
she said: "What do you hide? Aah! it is an Ilum Crystal! Now I understand I
eat up you found. Anything in the life happens by chance or by mere accident,
everything makes part of a cosmic plan that the Force has for each alive being
in the Universe, now you are one of the elects to follow the Force and to
maintain the cosmic balance, but your ignorance makes you a vulnerable being. 
It has arrived the moment that you receive your first lessons about the Force".
My only alternative of surviving in the immense ocean was to follow the
teachings of the turtle dragon, so I counted him all my life. This strange
teacher, taught me to control my aggressive impulses, to observe the
environment attentively to discover its immediate past, to examine my dreams to
extract useful information for my life, to reduce the fear, to avoid the
immobility that this takes place, some of clairvoyance and the importance of
persisting in my goals. After becoming trained these lessons, he said that it
was already ready to prove these knowledge in critical situations of the real
life. He asked me him to enter inside his shell so that we took a trip to the
bottom of the sea. He took me to a very illuminated city inhabited by
tentacled beings, the Mairans. "This landscape is extraordinary", I exclaimed. 
"Soon the Mairans will have a confrontation with the Vergills in this city,
located on the land that more than 3000 years ago was known as Atlantis and
that it was on the surface of the sea; Atlantis was the homeplace of a very old
human civilization who knew of the secrets of the Force but they used them to
their own self-destruction. You should avoid that the Mairans repeat the same
history", said the old and wise turtle. In my mind I thought that with the help
of the Force, the wickedness would be easily eliminated, but guessing my
thoughts, the turtle told me: "Don't made a mistake. The wickedness is the
result of the inappropriate use of the Force by ignorant minds. And as the
ignorance is a first stage of all species and all being in their long
evolutionary process, the wickedness won't be eradicated of the Universe. The
Force planned the Universe in such a way that a double polarity will always
exist in perfect balance. The beings that have learned well these things,
always act in benefit of this perfect balance. Never forget it!!", and then he
dove in the deep of the ocean and I never saw it again.

The Mairans had a strange musical language that I don't still understand. 
Fortunately I could establish a telepathic communication with one of its
leaders. She was member of the Mairan consulate in the planet Hapes. She had
known other humans previously, but most was Jedi masters who inhabited the
Atlantis land, that it's sunk now. We travel together toward Hapes, in search
of a possible cooperation treaty between Mairans and Vergills. I proposed to
the members of the Consulate that "it was necessary to limit the economic
revenues that the Vergills was getting thanks to their undersea ditanium mining
operation on the planet Hapes in order to avoid a future confrontation, by
means of some taxes imposed by exploitation and noisy works, and the
destination of a part of the earnings for the disarmament of all Hapes system
civilizations. If all of you unite, you can survive and to form a great empire,
but if you combat to each other, you will finish the same as the old human
civilization which inhabited your legendary land well-known as Atlantis: Dead!.
Choose among a powerful and unified nation or several poor and destroyed
nations". The idea was very welcomed by most of leaders and it was implemented
as law. One year later a Calamari Cruiser belonging to the PBF passed near
Hapes. The Major Jairo "El Duro" Pantoja convinced me to join to the
rebellious forces where my knowledge and abilities would be more useful than in
Hapes. After a moving farewell, my friends Mairans told me: "Good-bye Atlante,
good-bye, thanks for all!. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!.

In this way I arrived to the Rebel Squadrons Academy.

== Awards ==

 ~|Â¤|@|Â¤|~ Mst Cdt w/Honours X-Wing Academy
 ^|DCC|^ Dauntless Combat Citation (TOD 33%+) (2)
 [{-PBFA403-] } PBF Activity Medal (Fireclaw 75%+)
 [{-PBFMoA-]} PBF Medal of Activity
 [PBF-Champion- ]
 ([<|=(V)=|>]) PBF 2.11 Medal of Victory
 Excellence of Duty

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