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Jim has been working the celebrity circuit for quite some time. Jim started out like most Scout Walkers of his time - bought in military school, put through national service, fought in a few local war-simulations and eventually found himself working for one of the many mercenary units operating from the AT-ST production plant homeworld. But Jim had always had the showbiz spark in him. Jim first went professional in the Acrabian war of 1656 when he found himself doing song-and-dance routines with an army troupe of entertainers for frontline troops in the more drawn out battles - and his exhibitionist tendencies could not be suppressed thereafter. |
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Jim - before the refits necessary to keep Scout Walkers at the forefront of technological warfare - was a Mark 3 AT-ST unit when he rolled of the production line (see early image of Jim below), the model most often pointed to as the classic of AT-ST design. In those early days Scout Walkers had no side turrets and less naturalistic feet and legs (ill suited to some terrain) but had all the classic styling and grace of movement of those early models - the "spiderbot" model as it was often referred to at the time due to their unsettling gait when striding across flatter surfaces en masse. Known for their speed of locomotion and swift head/turret movements, the Mark 3's were often used for first-wing stealth attacks ahead of the main troops while other AT-STs were being upgraded to the Mark 5's and even the Mark 6's. |
Jim often bemoaned the loss of his classic good looks as he was amongst the first to be refitted to Mark 4 standards. But although he may have gone through a period of rejection by the entertainment circuit, this gave him the chance not only to get some more battle-experience but also to establish himself amongst the new-look Scout Walkers on the entertainment circuit. But the time Jim was upgraded to Mark 7 he was firmly ensconced in the public mind - almost a household name in some quadrants. But then the bloody 100 years war starting 1821 divided the Scout Walker communities far and wide across various fronts and battlefields as mercenary units exploded in size, all old hands leading the fresh-from-the-factory new recruits.By the time this expansion period settled down Jim - although maintaining his troupe of entertainers in the quieter periods - no longer had the exposure he once craved. Upgraded to the now universally recognised Mark 7 AT-ST model, Jim went AWOL from the ScoutWalker mercenary groups altogether and sought his fame and fortune through more mainstream media channels with reach across the galaxy. Enjoying a long career in print, movies, TV comedies (the hit 1940's serial "Jim and Phelps") and a brief singing career later, Jim held back for more background parts, shunning leading-man status in order to cultivate a respectable reputation as a good character actor. By the 1990s Jim was branching out again into modelling work for publications and projects that caught his interest and attention, leading him to the Scout Walker Kama Sutra project. |
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