Sida Hammer

Sida Hammer (born Sprockethammer) is a goblin mercenary and bounty hunter currently under the employ of Bladebane Industries.

Youth (~600 K.C. - 612 K.C.)
Sida Sprockethammer was born as the youngest among three children, as well as the only daughter of the Sprockethammer family. Her family lived in a seaside shack built outside of Booty Bay, on a beach that is currently occupied by the Bloodsail Buccaneers today. Vulnerable to Naga, raiders, and Bloodsail pirates, the Sprockethammer family turned to the Blackwater Raiders for protection.

Due to living so far outside of Booty Bay, the Blackwater required payment for offering the family protection, which the goblins would agree to. The agreement soured after Sida's birth, as Gaz was laid off from her job shortly afterwards. While Gaz searched for a new means of employment, Kratz was forced to bring enough income to pay for what was now a family of five. Disgruntled by his financial position, Kratz began to consider breaking off from his marriage to Gaz to secure a more profitable relationship.

Though Sida was aware of the pirates who visited to collect protection money, she had her first personal interaction with them at the age of five. Sent on behalf of the captain of The Gilded Courser, Theodore Page was sent to claim money owed to the Blackwater Raiders for protecting them, and was immediately intrigued by the young Sida. Sida was fearful of the man as he received his payment while also stealing the money that Kratz had accumulated.

As the years went by Sida grew cynical for her young age, losing trust in her family to be able to stand up for itself. At the age of ten, Theodore Page returned to the family on a Winter Veil night, bringing the family gifts. Sida was given a six-chamber revolver manufactured by Miranda Esset in Booty Bay. The purpose of the gift eluded her, and in frustration she buried the present in the sand behind the house.

For two years the gun remained in its box, buried out of sight. The marriage between Kratz and Gaz continued to deteriorate as Sida began to concoct a plan to run away from her home. Finally, just as Kratz began to act upon his plan to join his mistress at the harbor, Theodore Page arrived to confront the goblin before brutally stabbing him with a knife and leaving his fate to the Sprockethammer family.

Their reactions were telling of their relationships to the disloyal goblin, but Sida in particular saw this as the last straw and proof that the family could not protect itself. Sneaking out of the window in her room as Zadd pleaded with her to help save their father, Sida took her prepared bag of supplies and the gun she had buried to flee from her home. She began to make her way to Booty Bay, where she would start her independent life.

The Trigger Gals (612 K.C. - 618 K.C.)
Keeping her revolver close, Sida decided to seek out employment, however in her age there were many who refused to take in a twelve year old. The only experience she had with any work was from tours on Page's ship. As such, she opted to make a case to the captain of The Maiden's Fancy to convince them to hire her. After a difficult task of pitching her existing skills on a ship and her usefulness even as a child, Sida was hired with great reluctance and set to work.

Spending several years working on the ship until the age of sixteen, Sida eventually accumulated enough money to move on. She enjoyed being on the open ocean and working on a ship, but wanted to explore what felt like a more lucrative job: bodyguard duty. The Stranglethorn Vale was dangerous, with humid climate, wild predators, and hostility between the Alliance and Horde turning Stranglethorn into an extremely inhospitable region. Sida took her money to purch a rifle at the Old Port Authority, a rifle she would hold onto dearly as she began to advertise herself as a bodyguard.

As Sida's new business of escorting people through the Vale began, she would eventually find herself in a clique that would call itself the Trigger Gals. An all female group of goblins with a fondness for firearms and explosives, the group made a name for itself by often taking bodyguard jobs in pairings. Sida would be paired with Gixma Pepperbox, named for her choice in weaponry. The two would work together for months until they decided to finish one of their jobs with a night of amorous activity, establishing a romantic relationship between the two.

Over the course of their relationship, Sida would eventually take after Gixma by changing her name to "Hammer" instead of "Sprockethammer" as she had been born. She admired Gixma for taking initiative with her identity and not letting it be dictated by her blood relatives, and decided to cut off ties with the Sprockethammer family entirely. The two would continue to work together until the Trigger Gals were met with a gang of human and goblin bounty hunters known as the Jungle Troopers.

One of the members, a sapper, had a bounty on her head placed by the Kingdom of Stormwind and had come to collect. They only wanted the bounty on her, claiming that the confrontation did not need to get bloody. The Trigger Gals responded by engaging in a violent firefight in which Gixma and another were wounded almost fatally. Though Sida discovered and treated Gixma's injury after the battle had ended, the event threw her into a rage that the Trigger Gals were unable to calm down.

The result of Sida's anger caused her to neglect her own health, not sleeping and taking risky ventures to attempt to hunt down the bounty hunters responsible for Gixma's injury. Only when Gixma finally demanded Sida to rest did the angered goblin let herself sleep. As she and Gixma slept, however, the bounty hunters broke into their hideout and attempted to assault them in their sleep. Alerted to the impending assault, the Trigger Gals awoke and began to defend their station.

The skirmish that followed was a bloody one, with heavy losses on both sides that left Sida and Gixma as the only survivors, having moved to engage the bounty hunters from behind. At the end of the fight, they were left with two on two. Sida and Gixma approached from behind and demanded them to lower their weapons. One began to comply, but the other saw what was between the two, just from their body language. Both of them turned their guns on Gixma, prompting Sida to lock up as she realized that Gixma was in danger no matter who she shot.

Fearing for Gixma's life, Sida set her rifle on the ground. Gixma reluctantly followed suit. Satisfied with the surrender, the bounty hunters took the head of their quarry and left the hideout. As they left, however, they both fired, wounding Sida and Gixma. Sida's shoulder was injured but able to be treated. Gixma, on the other hand, had been fatally shot in the spine. Sida was not aware of Gixma's injury before she collapsed.

Sida was treated at the hospital in Booty Bay and survived, but was informed of Gixma's death. She became distant and unresponsive as a result, seemingly losing touch with reality and staring off into space, a state she would remain in for the rest of the day since that revelation. Even after she came out of it, she showed to be lethargic, showing minimal motivation to do anything.

Sida spent a month lamenting the loss of her partner and lover. Had she not cared so much for Gixma, they would not have exploited it to such an extent, and Sida would not have lowered her weapon when they both pointed their guns at her. Sida, in her vulnerable state, felt that romance had given her a weakness that was easily exploited and that she could not allow it to happen again, and she would bar herself from allowing any attachments going forward.

It was not until a night of drinking in the tavern that she heard gossip about the Jungle Troopers making a name for themselves ever since the battle that ended the Trigger Gals. Despite her conclusion to abandon all attachments, the rumors incensed Sida to claim revenge for Gixma's death, and to bring an end to the bounty hunters.

The Stranglethorn Shootout (618 K.C. - 620 K.C.)
The two surviving members of the Jungle Troopers had returned to their hideout, and Sida began to do her research to track both of them down. Despite this, she found nothing; the Jungle Troopers lived and breathed the jungle, and could vanish into its dense trees as they saw fit. Sida instead devised a plan to use a bounty as bait.

The goblin met with Theron Aensworth, a man allegedly keeping track of bounties across the Eastern Kingdoms on behalf of the Steamwheedle Cartel. After paying him for his services, Sida identified one target wanted by the Alliance that was supposedly in Stranglethorn Vale, currently working with the Nesingwary hunters.

Sida returned to the old Trigger Gals hideout to retrieve their explosives stockpile that their sappers had kept before their collapse, and began to sabotage a set of troll ruins north of Nesingwary's expedition, planting explosives beneath the sand. If all went according to plan, she could goad the Jungle Troopers into this very spot.

She then put the word out, bribing anyone will to spread a rumor, to provide an anonymous tip to the Jungle Troopers indicating there was a bounty for them to collect, and that the best place to collect would be the very ruins she had prepared. Making her way to Nesingwary's camp, she identified the bounty - an orc warrior assisting the expedition in their hunting escapades.

Pretending to be one of Nesingwary's hunters, she offered the orc a chance to prove themselves in Nesingwary's eyes by killing the elusive raptor, Tethis. After Sida offered payment to help bring down Tethis, the orc finally agreed to her offer and they arranged to meet up at the ruins in an hour. Using the allotted time, Sida took position in a tree overlooking the ruins, where the orc would arrive all alone.

As expected, the Jungle Troopers, down to only two members, arrived both from behind and from the front of the orc, guns drawn. The orc immediately recognized and announced the ambush as a setup, alerting the Troopers to Sida's plan moments before she detonated the explosives. The resultant explosion immediately killed one of the Troopers, incapacitated the bounty, and sent the remaining Trooper rolling down the path.

Sida promptly took the shot at the leftover Trooper, but the shot was a miss and ultimately gave away her position as he returned fire. Sida lunged out from her position to avoid being stationary, while her opponent attempted to seek cover. They engaged in a shootout that lasted for ten minutes before Sida's opponent abruptly stopped firing. Eventually, a Forsaken rogue emerged, revealing a dagger planted in the target's neck.

Confused by the sudden intrusion, the Forsaken began to remove the heads of both Jungle Troopers, stating that the Horde has had a price on the two of them for roughly a month. Sida immediately realized her situation: the wounded Orc was wanted by the Alliance, the two Troopers wanted by the Horde, she had multiple bounties she could collect just right now.

The Forsaken was the only thing standing in her way now. As he was cutting off the head of the second individual, Sida drew her revolver and fired a round into his head, promptly killing him. Taking the knife that the undead was holding, she proceeded to stab the incapacitated orc in the back of the neck to kill him, and then decapitated him to retrieve proof of her kill. Collecting all three heads, Sida began to make her way to the both the Alliance and the Horde outposts in Stranglethorn to retrieve her just reward.

Sida emerged from her work deeply satisfied with not just avenging the death of Gixma, but also the profit that came of it. In the span of a single day, Sida had earned more gold than she would in an entire month of bodyguard work. With Stranglethorn almost its own unofficial war zone, Sida knew there plenty of people, beasts, and monsters currently wanted dead, and there was plenty of money to be made from it.

Rocketshot Company (620 K.C. - 623 K.C.)
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Rocketshot Raiders (623 K.C. - 628 K.C.)
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Rekindled Love (628 K.C. - Present)
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