Meet The (Real) Staff          

Here's the place where you can meet the G.A.G. (aka, the Galactic Alliance Guard -- we just like calling ourselves THE GAG XD). Just scroll down and check out the profiles, they'll give you some facts about the people behind the characters and the sites they run!

Note: The echuNET staff is usually by invite only and are people who are really into the EU and are willing to help out/create sites and so on. Also, people we get to know. So if you'd like to be a staff member, wander on over to the board and let us get to know you! :D We're nice and we don't bite, I promise.

[ echutaNET's owners ]

Tenel Ka:
Real name: Heather
Aliases: Tenel Ka, Hexterah, Thorn, Sev, Tenna
Forum Handle: hexterah
Location: Lorton, Virginia
Birthday: 12/29
AIM: Tenel Ka XD
E-mail: @wtf.net
Websites: wtfNET, echuNET & eljay
Characters: Jacen Solo, Tenel Ka, Kyp Durron, Zekk, Sev, Kyle Katarn, Mace Windu, Carth Onasi, Ganner Rhysode, Allana, LANDO(!)
Couples: Jacen/Tenel Ka, Taryn/Zekk, Sev/Blasters, Kyle Katarn/The World
Planets: Nar Shaddaa, Coruscant, Hapes
Quote: "I'm all pirate. I pillage, therefore I am." (Jacen Solo)

Mirax:
Real name: Valerie
Aliases: Mirax, Zorn
Forum Handle: zoopiglet
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Birthday: 11/28
AIM: zoopiglet
E-mail: @wtf.net
Websites: wtfNET, echuNET & eljay
Characters: Mace Windu, Corran Horn, IG-88, Emperor Palpatine
Couples: Mirax/Corran, Mace/Awesomeness
Planets: Death Star -- wait, that's no moon, yo. That's a space station.
Quote: "Oh, switch off!" (C-3P0)
 

the STAFF(lings) XD

 

Jacen:
Real name: Nate
Aliases: Draelight, Draetheus
Forum Handle: Draetheus
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
Birthday: 12/04
AIM: Draelight
E-mail: @zhobot.net
Websites: zhobot
Characters: Jacen Solo, Kyp Durron, Ganner Rhysode
Couples: Jacen Solo/Tenel Ka, Kyp Durron/the spider from the Kessel Spice Mines
Planets: Zonoma Sekot, Coruscant
Quote: "Some things you can't control. If you fear them, then those things control you." (Jacen Solo)

Jaina:
Real name: SUMMERRRR
Aliases: kesiera
Forum Handle: kesiera
Location: San Carlos, California
Birthday: 03/02
AIM: summerdono
E-mail: @gmail.com
Websites: eljay, twitter, tumblr
Characters: Anakin Solo, Ben Skywalker, Jagged Fel, Luke Skywalker, Corran Horn
Couples: Tsavong Lah/Viqi Shesh, Corran/Mirax, Jaina/Jag, Ordo/Besany, Wedge/Iella, Ben/Vestara
Planets: Corellia, Mandalore, Hoth
Quote: "Is every third human in this galaxy named Solo?" (Tsavong Lah)

Leia:
Real name: Nicole
Aliases: Nic, CreepyJaina, Vestara, OfficerSix
Forum Handle: Nic
Location: Los Angeles, California
Birthday: 02/16
AIM: officer six
E-mail: @gmail.com
Websites: tumblr
Characters: Jaina, Mara, Anakin, Obi-Wan, Han, Leia, Wedge, Daala, Luke, Siri
Couples: Han/Leia, Luke/Mara, Anakin/Tahiri, Ben/Vestara, Jaina/Jag, Corran/Mirax, Soontir/Syal
Planets: Coruscant, Alderaan, Kesh, Korriban, Corellia
Quote: "I always play fair. Exactly as fair as my opponents." (Mara Jade Skywalker)

Lusa:
Real name: Emily
Aliases: Lusa, Lusa_Thul, VARIATIONS ON THIS THEME OF USERNAMES AND SUCH!
Forum Handle: Lusa
Location: Falls Church, Virginia
Birthday: 01/08
AIM: Little Centaur
E-mail: @gmail.com
Websites: eljay
Characters: Ton Phanan, all the Wraiths, Alema, Raynar, Zekk, Lusa
Couples: Raynar/Lusa, Alema/the entire galaxy, Raynar/girls who die, Phanan/Face, Jaina/Sharr (Save your sanity, don't ask.)
Planets: Mon Cal, Coruscant, Tatooine, Yavin 4
Quote: "Pirates to you, too. Is that a new greeting? Something Gamorrean? 'Scabrous pirates to you this morning.'" -- "And bleeding pirates to you." (Ton Phanan & Face Loran)

Mara:
Real name: Kyle Marie~
Aliases: kayzie, Inyri, Allana, Mara
Forum Handle: kayzie
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Birthday: 02/16
AIM: wires going in
E-mail: @gmail.com
Websites: eljay
Characters: Mara Jade Skywalker, Allana Djo, Inyri Forge, Wes Janson, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, Mirax Terrik, Winter and Tycho Celchu (lol pilots~)
Couples: Mara/Luke, TK/Jacen, Han/Leia, Winter/Tycho, Mara/Kyp (haha crack!!)
Planets: Coruscant, Alderaan, Nar Shaddaa
Quote: "Oooh, pirates! I wonder if it's anyone I know..." (Mara Jade)

Mira:
Real name: Ashley
Aliases: Aphy, Cee, Gordie
Forum Handle: Aphy
Location: Texarkana, Texas
Birthday: 04/12
AIM: Aphy0623
E-mail: @gmail.com
Websites: eljay
Characters: Luke, Zekk, Wedge Antilles, Kyp Durron, Mara, Tenel Ka
Couples: Han/Leia, TK/Jacen, Luke/Mara
Planets: Dantooine, Bespin, Yavin IV, Coruscant, Alderaan
Quote: "Zekk to Hardpoint Squadron. Your new squadron commander is on-site and wishes to see you immediately at your X-wings. Immediately means ninety seconds from the end of my transmission. No one will be punished for arriving in dirty robes, formal gowns, or bubbles and bathwater, but no one wants to arrive late. That is all. Out." (Zekk)

Domain Info              

Alright, so in the year of 2002, TK and Mirax decided they needed a place to put all their silly little Star Wars internet ideas. The name came from the line in Empire Strikes Back when C-3P0 is wandering around Cloud City and stumbles across another protocol droid like him. He greets it and it responds "E CHU TA!" -- to which Threepio responds, "HOW RUDE!" Of course, Mirax and TK, being the evil bitches they are, instantly believe that droid is basically saying, "Fuck you." I mean, come on, what would you say to Threepio? XD

(Oh please, we love the punk. ;D)

The first sites listed on this domain were viridity, scum & villainy, keepers of the peace and compact corellian, which is the now passed on Corran Horn fanlisting, which Mirax couldn't keep up with since life took over for her. XD

Over the years, this has been a place for many silly little projects and ideas -- and continues to expand, mostly into the realms of the Expanded Universe, which Mirax and TK seem to enjoy just as much as the movies. The EU needs it's share of insane little ideas and echuNET is here to provide them. XD

Within the past couple of years, we've added a couple staff members, who contribute their own sites and ideas and this place has become a big happy team. With the eighth layout, in May of 2008, we went a bit of a different route and instead of just being a collective with a list of sites, we sort of made it an "in-universe" HoloNet site where our favorite EU characters get together (lol, like their own facebook/myspace/whatever) and act a fool with things such as their own "pictures" and "art" and so on -- as well as a list of websites that are a part of the collective of echuta.net (as in, they found fansites that people made about them XD).

With the past couple layouts we've shifted the social network aspect of it to places like facebook (where the characters all interact with each other) and basically have it so that there are reporters running this place - like a gossip rag where they keep tabs on all the "heroes/celebrities/whatever"... we'll be coming up on a redesign soon where the basic idea will stay the same, but the look will be very different! We're excited!

We hope you enjoy your stay here!