So Long Space Cowboy [Venator Q&A]

[Venator Praedae]

Just throwing this up quick. I'll check out other people's Q+As later.

[Petrus Karath]

What was the inspiration for Venator? Where did he come from to get his accent?

[Jenna Karath]

I very much always enjoyed reading after the cowboy Mandalorian! Running the job together was neat!

I never managed to follow totally just hints and pieces, did he collect any of the bounties? How many?

[Xanna Teevou]

Yeah I was impressed that you stuck the accent and kept it going right through What made you decide to go with that?

[Venator Praedae]

Petrus

For inspiration for Venator the main one is Colt from Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, English dub of the anime Bismark [1987]. I'll link the theme song later but it was the battle theme that I threw up in Theme Song thread. Other influences include the animes of Trigun [1998], Cowboy Bebop [1998], and Outlaw Star [1998] which popularized the Space Western genre for anime in the late 90s. In the same year [1998] there was also StarCraft. I mentioned it before but the Terrans are all pretty much red necks. More recent influences from the Star Wars universe are the Solo movie and Mandalorian tv series. These moved a little bit away from the Sci Fi / Adventure genre of Star Wars and went into the Space Western category.

OCC: With all this talk about Westerns... you just gotta do the Southern drawl and be a cowboy right? For IC reason, see further below in my SPOILERS section. Correction, I'll do it in a follow up post a little later in this thread after I get home.

Easter Egg: Venator Praedae = bounty hunter in Latin. Give or take. I know that Google Translate has some problems with the nuances in language.


Jenna
Yeah, I really had a lot of fun doing the heist threads. I would have liked to have done more and had separate threads interacting with the other members but it seems like most people were pretty busy running around doing the Resistance stuff.

Sadly Venator didn't end up claiming any of the bounties. I think some of the easier ones, other people beat him to it. Other bounties needed to be more than solo and it was a logistics problem trying to meet up with other PCs and sometimes doing speeder rentals and such. In one thread a couple of other PCs crashed it and made a deal with the target. Then I was waiting around for people to clear out so that I wouldn't start a shoot out with other PCs when it is uncertain who is on which side. At least it seems that he was pretty good at tracking people down.

As a small Easter Egg, all of Venator's bounty thread names are lyrics from songs. I assigned each target a different song.


Xanna

Thanks! It was a bit of challenge to remember when to change the words, phrases, and mannerisms to more be true to being a cowboy.

Refer to Petrus' answer about the Space Western theme and going full on cowboy. Plus with the recent Mandalorian series, I really wanted to do a bounty hunter.

As a side note, I thought it be fun to try talking like a cowboy/Southerner the entire time. The way Venator talks comes from watching Westerns, King of the Hill and also my own personal experience visiting Georgia and Texas.

A small tidbit. I once asked my Texan friend if I spoke with an accent.
They said yes.
I asked how so.
They said in the way I overly enunciate everything. You don't need Ts, Ds are just fine.

In case anyone was wondering where I got Venator's drawl from.

[Venator Praedae]

So this is the main inspiration Colt. I really should have said that Venator's helmet looks like a cross between a normal Mandalorian helmet and a cowboy hat.

As an added bonus here is the English dub intro for Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs. Incidentally, in the original Japanese anime the Japanese race car driver is the main character.




SPOILER ALERT

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So the IC reason for Venator's Souther drawl accent is that it is one of the unintentional quirks that came out from his programming.

The story starts off with the Clonars being very ecstatic about the treasure trove of DNA they gained from a request. This gave them access to the DNA of the galaxy's greatest warrior, Jango Fett. So they decided to work on a little side project of their own in secret, which was to see if they can improve upon and create someone superior to the original. Unfortunately, planet Kamino was attacked and the cloning facilities were destroyed. The clonars managed to move a batch of their experiments onto a science research ship which escaped but the ship is damaged. Long story short, the Mandalorians find the ship years after the Clone Wars. There is only one incomplete experiment left alive, the others had their life support damage. The Mandos figured out quickly what the dealio here was.

It is unknown if the experiment is successful or not but Venator has a bunch of quirks about him that may not have been intentional. Who knows for sure.

Talking in a Southern drawl accent and being really chatty [for a Mandalorian] are a couple of them.

[Bowze Coppa]

How bothersome was it that the CIS recruited many of your bounties?

[Venator Praedae]

Not going to lie, it was a bit frustrating to be on the job only to find out that someone beat me to it. There was one thread where people walked right in when we were going to capture someone. So couldn't really just start shooting at other PCs in the fray. Plus a lot of the time I ended up having to do stuff on my own due to other people having no time available or interests elsewhere.