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Baylan

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this man was a noted computer slicer, as well as a respected computer repair technician, working in the Core Worlds during the years surrounding the Battle of Naboo. He was connected to the computer networks of his time by a BioTech AJ^6 cyborg construct, although he used his own brain to do much of his work. His postings to the HoloNet revealed that Baylan wanted each individual being to have complete control of their own destiny, and not be forced to submit to some corporate demand. He also maintained that the Galactic Senate was full of "bloated, self-important bureaucrats who couldn't find their own planets from orbit", and that the Old Republic was fooling itself to rely on the Jedi Knights to protect it. To this end, much of his work was considered criminal in nature by those in power. Baylan developed a series of seemingly-innocent datapads, which were loaded with sophisticated software that could crack into computer security systems with relative ease. These datapads could be found throughout the galaxy, if you knew the right people, although Baylan himself managed to avoid being taken into custody. To most people working with computers, Baylan was best-known for his slicing ability. He spent much of his time trying to destroy the corporate mindset that business success should be paramount to individual achievement. To this end, all software he developed had several backdoors which Baylan could use to gain access to corporate networks and create chaos. Much of this slicing involved sabotage of financial systems, rerouting credits from corporate coffers into the hands of workers. During the height of the Clone Wars, Baylan posted a long message to Cularin's HoloNet node, imploring the citizens of the Cularin System to leave the system and find another life - one with less chance of an early death - somewhere else. He advocated only fighting if one had to fight; otherwise, you were throwing your life away for something that wasn't real. He claimed that there was no such thing as a "living hero," because heroes were simply people who tried to do a stupid thing one too many times. Baylan hoped that the "fools and dreamers" would find a way to keep fooling around and dreaming, so that the galaxy would have someone to fall back on when the faceless droids and clones finally finished killing each other.