Montegue: Origins

Montegue: Origins is a multi-story series that establishes some of the backstory for the Montegue Family. There are currently six planned installments, charting the transition of Hugo Montegue from a family man and Imperial loyalist to a lawless bounty hunter on a quest for revenge. So far, Genesis, Exodus, and Chronicles: Kings have been completed.

Chapters

Montegue: Origins - Genesis

A year after the end of the Clone Wars, Senate Commando Hugo Montegue returns home from a mission assisting with the Jedi Purge, to find his wife performing some ritual or experiment on his infant son. Exposed as a secret Force Sensitive, Emaryn attacks; Hugo is forced to defend himself, apparently ending her life. She somehow survives however, and after Hugo flees to her homeworld of Cularin, Emaryn follows to finish whatever schemes she started.

Montegue: Origins - Exodus

Two years after the death of his wife, Hugo Montegue finds himself working as a mechanic and pilot with an import/export firm on Junction. His obsession with the supernatural has continued to grow, and after he hears rumours of unexplained murders on Ord Anor - the next destination on his flight plan - he drags his brother Victor along to begin waging his private war against the paranormal.

Montegue: Origins - Chronicles

A series within a series; Chronicles consists of a number of stories charting the career of Hugo Montegue as a Bounty Hunter:

• Numbers -
• Judges -
• Kings - Rather than being dead, Emaryn finds herself trapped on L'Khost - a planet blanketed by the Dark Side. Unable to leave on her own, she uses her steadily developing Force powers to lure in one of the Jedi living in hiding since the Purge. Mandan Hidatsa and Inyos Aamoran are unsuspectingly lured to her domain, and become embroiled in her schemes for escape.
• Proverbs -
• Wisdom -
• Song -

Montegue: Origins - Lamentations

Twenty years after Emaryn's death, Hugo sets out on a journey of reconsiliation. Along the way a number of shocking truths are revealed, and Hugo's world is once again turned upsidedown. However, as he searches for the answers to questions that those truths inevitably raised, the Hunter finds himself hunted: prey to one of the galaxy's most insatiable Bounty Hunters.

Montegue: Origins - Revelations

Released from Imperial captivity, Hugo is reunited with his sons, but his memory is a twisted husk of what it used to be. A shocking dream of the events that led up to his capture reminds him of the mission that he began: but this time he will not attempt it on his own. Together, Hugo and his sons head towards the thrilling conclusion of the Origins saga!

Characters

Main Characters

In order of appearence:

• Hugo Montegue - A Senate Commando during the Jedi Purge, Hugo uncovered that his wife was Force Sensitive. After she attacked Hugo and their family, Hugo went partially into hiding, creating a new life for himself on Junction. He has developed a displaced deep-seated anger aimed at any being that he percieves as being "supernatural", and has made it his mission to hunt down and kill such creatures and people wherever and whenever possible.

• Emaryn Montegue - A young woman from Cularin that Hugo met and married on their travels, she moved to Coruscant to live with Hugo after her planet ceeded from the Republic during the Clone Wars. Revealed to have been hiding her Force Sensitivity - during the height of the Jedi Purge and related paranoia - Emaryn attacked her family and was forced to flee to the planet of L'Khost, though not before injecting her son with a sample of her blood in the hopes of awaking his own latent Force powers.

• Inyos Aamoran - A Jedi, Inyos went into exile after the Jedi Purge. However, when fellow Jedi Mandan Hidatsa - an old friend and often partner on missions for the Order - sensed Emaryn Montegue's presence on Ord Ithil, Inyos agreed to travel with him to the planet. Mandan was killed by Emaryn; trapped and alone, Inyos began his own fall towards the Dark Side, and though he eventually defeated Emaryn, he went on to take her place as the dark ruler of the planet.

Supporting Characters

In order of appearence:

• Vittore Montegue - The eldest of Hugo and Emaryn's two sons, Vittore idolises his father, and views his bounty hunter lifestyle with a sort of mystical awe. Only three years old when his mother died, Vittore remembers very little about her.

• Cambrio Montegue - The younger of Hugo's children, Cambrio was six months old when his mother attempted a transfusion of Midichlorians, to catalyse his latent Force Sensitivity. Because of this, Hugo - unknowingly - views him with a certain suspicion, and that has hampered the development of their relationship.

• Victor Montegue - The brother of Hugo Montegue, and also a Sector Ranger for a time, he eventually left his job to become Hugo's partner. During one of their missions, Victor was mortally wounded and left for dead by his brother. He is the namesake of Vittore Montegue.

• Elroy Kripke - A former Supervisor of Hugo's from the Senate Commandos, he was Hugo's employer for a time when they worked at Kripke Transit on Junction. After selling the company's transport ship (the Coromon) to Hugo, he set up business buying and selling military surplus.

• Mandan Hidatsa - A Jedi in hiding following Order 66, and a lifelong friend of Inyos Aamoran. He was corrupted on Ord Ithil by Emaryn Montegue; he was forced to fight to the death against Inyos, with Inyos eventually emerging the victor.

• Alex Tressa - The babysitter for the infant Montegue boys, she later went on to become a smuggler and black market trader. At one time, she enlisted the assistance of Hugo Montegue in procuring a number of rare and exotic items for a client.

• Chir'daki - A Bounty Hunter hired by R.S. Esalis to capture Hugo Montegue.

Additional Characters

In order of appearence:

• Cambria Kansas - Emaryn's elder sister. After Hugo's escape from Coruscant, she briefly harboured the family. When Emaryn arrived to try and take back her children, Cambria saccrificed herself to ensure that the rest of the Montegues could get to safety. She is the namesake of Cambrio Montegue.

• Jorran Nichol - The co-pilot of the Coromon during its affiliation with Kripke Transit. Joe served as the pilot during Hugo's first (unofficial) hunting mission, but was killed when a shapeshifter attempted to steal the ship.

• Nora Nichol - Wife of Jorran, and another employee at Kripke Transit. After her husband's death she left her job, and started a new life as manager of a cantina. She doesn't blame Hugo for Jorran's death, but is angered that he continued as a Hunter, rather than learning from his 'mistake'.

• Atton Kira - An information broker on Nar Shaddaa. He aided Mandan Hidatsa and Inyos Aamoran in their search for the location of Ord Ithil.

• Amaros Koine - A Mandalorian in hiding on Naboo since the Clone Wars. As Amos Iakona, he was a partner to Hugo Montegue for a time.

• Jo Nichol - The daughter of Jorran and Nora Nichol, named for her father; she is an employee in her mother's cantina. After hearing Hugo's story of how her father died, she wants to follow in his footsteps so that she can get 'revenge' against the exotic creatures of the galaxy as well.