Bas Krim

Description

Call me Bas Krim, or just Krim if you like. I don't care. I'd prefer if you didn't call me anything. I'll cut you a deal - you leave me alone, and I'll forget I ever saw you. Square?

You'll find me with my rocks. That's right. Rocks. Better than people, I always say. Or Space-Roaches, or Starkies and Ether-Bugs, or what have you. I'm a fossil hunter, an archaeologist, paleontologist, smuggler. I love my rocks more than my own mother. Or at least that's what she always tells me.

I got busted a few years ago taking a load of Tracchiddites outta Osarian. Not just a few Tracchies, neither. But the load was just a decoy, and I got the real prize of the planet - a fossilized Aiglobophila sarzexdus. A perfect specimen, as we say in the business. Seventeen meters tall, encased in coelerium, teeth like razors. Could probably sell it for 75,000 credits, if I wanted to. But I cleaned it up, got it standing in my collection if you ever wanna see it.

Background

What's in a name? Shoot, I don't know. When I was ten, back on Alderaan, my dad took me into the mountains for a hike. We did some spelunking, and deep in the bowels of this cave, we came across a mass of bones. Old bones. I had no clue what kind, and it drove me mad. It became an obsession, really. Few years later, and I was studying archaeology at the university.

Since then? Well, I've been around, let's just leave it at that. I'm not a wealthy man. No sir. If I sold my collection, sure I'd be set for life. But that's not gonna happen. Its mine. Get me? Mine.

Personal

Don't try to psychoanalyze me. I don't have no woman back home waiting for me. No missing father I'm searching for. Heck, I don't even visit my parents on the Solar New Year. My mother's cooking is even worse than mine, and that's saying something.

I'll go just about anywhere there's a bone to be dug up. But I won't register with the local digging authority, and I wont pay any export fees. There's ways around that...

Shoot, I feel obliged to say something about myself. Well, I like boiled Bobosnap eggs. With cream. Ahh, get outta here. Just leave me alone with my rocks.