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| - Stone grew up in one of the center neighborhoods in Keldabe, Mandalore. He soon picked a hobby that dominated more than the first two decades of his life. Ayden spent most of his free time playing bolo-ball on the street, when he wasn't training with his father or accompanying him to hunting on other planets—Raglon Stone was a passionate big game hunter and adventurer. By the age of seven, Ayden became so skilled in the ball sport, he managed to beat kids twice his age. He grew arrogant and belligerent, and often during or after a game, it came to a brawl where he mostly dominated as well. He eventually left the streets to join a proper bolo-ball team, where they tried to teach him discipline. It took a lot of time and patience from the side of his trainers, but in the end, Stone realized
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| - Stone grew up in one of the center neighborhoods in Keldabe, Mandalore. He soon picked a hobby that dominated more than the first two decades of his life. Ayden spent most of his free time playing bolo-ball on the street, when he wasn't training with his father or accompanying him to hunting on other planets—Raglon Stone was a passionate big game hunter and adventurer. By the age of seven, Ayden became so skilled in the ball sport, he managed to beat kids twice his age. He grew arrogant and belligerent, and often during or after a game, it came to a brawl where he mostly dominated as well. He eventually left the streets to join a proper bolo-ball team, where they tried to teach him discipline. It took a lot of time and patience from the side of his trainers, but in the end, Stone realized that with his talent in the sport, he couldn't afford unsocial behavior if he wanted to pursue the hobby as a career. His parents knew of his exertions, after all, and they had even threatened to delay the verd'goten, his coming of age. At the age of 15, he lead the junior team of Keldabe to a series of victories as their captain, but although he trained hard, Ayden never became popular outside the Mandalore sector. But that wasn't entirely his fault, as the Mandalorians played a more brutal, non-standard variant of bolo-ball and their relations to other worlds in general wasn't the best, either. Over the time, he earned the nickname 'Rockfall', a pun on his surname and the massive force he put behind his volleys. Even in his early twenties, while bolo-ball truly marked the focus of his interests, he still accompanied his father from time to time, filling their house with numerous trophies from creatures. But the profession of a still low-profile sportsman didn't make Stone a rich man, something he had always longed for. He tried his luck on a few solitary big game hunts, but when this didn't suffice for him, either, he turned to another kind of hunt: bounty hunting. Whereas this side job didn't pay out well, either, especially with the urge from his trainers to watch his reputation, it attracted the attention of Goran Beviin, a mercenary in good contact with the Mandalore, Boba Fett. Stone was 22 when he joined the ranks of Fett's commandos, totally abandoning his sports career. After more than ten years of professionally playing the sport, he lost the fun and interest in it. He had chosen a bad timing, as the Yuuzhan Vong had only recently emerged in 25 ABY. Unlike most of his comrades, Ayden didn't bother that officially, they were now allied to the Vong, but still he went along to Raxus Prime to complete his Supercommando training. He completed earlier than most, partially thanks to his intense bolo-ball training, which was practiced far more hard and reckless by Mandalorians. He wanted to fight in the frontline, and that he did, battling alongside fellow supercommandos and Yuuzhan Vong warriors, while achieving covert goals like gathering intelligence for the New Republic. Later, Stone found out the reason why most of the others had preferred to stay on Raxus Prime, or rather experienced it himself. Most hadn't wanted to play Fett's game, they despised the idea of being allied with the Vong. Ayden only kept going because it brought money, what the training didn't. Thus, Stone was indeed glad when his people changed sides and started to fight off the invaders. He participated in the Defense of Mandalore, but he wasn't really an exceptional soldier. A supercommando he was, but he didn't excel in this line of work as he had in his sport or the street brawls. But that didn't matter to him, he was glad that for once, he could be "normal", not having to live up to any expectations.
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