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[b]Name:[/b] Kenth Hamner 

[b]Age:[/b] 32

[b]Race:[/b] Human


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[b] Bio:[/b] Born into a wealthy family on Corellia Kenth Hamner’s infancy was marked by the roar of the Clone Wars and spent his adolescence listening to every holorecording of every speech Senator Garm Bel Iblis ever gave, or every debate he ever participated in. As a youth, he’d spent many an hour studying the Corellian Jedi Order of old and while he never particularly believed he possessed any talent with the force Hamner spent years practicing their martial arts and embracing their philosophical ideals. As the Empire began to tighten its grip upon the Galaxy Hamner’s parents retained their staunch isolationist views and their support of Senator Iblis. Hamner felt a deeper calling, believing that isolation served a purpose up until a point, but when the galaxy burned around you ignoring it only meant you choked on the smoke. To that end at age seventeen he ran away from home and joined Senator Iblis in his rogue faction of rebels, originally as a fighter pilot and later as a logistics officer. Hamner was gifted, he had a natural aptitude for space combat as he often could see things, flashes of things an instant before they happened or could “sense” when events or people or objects were pivotal and more importantly how to “push” them or “shatter” them to achieve an end. But after a time he realized these talents were wasted in space and aerial combat, as good as he was, he was nowhere near some of the hot shot aces rising in the Rebellion. His efforts and energies turned to focusing on the supply, the strategic and the political aspect of the war and he used his skills to gain connections, form networks and amass the resources needed to fuel the engines of rebellion. Around this time, Kenth rose to the rank of Colonel and was placed in command of the forward base for Iblis rebel faction. Time alone out in the boonies, time to crunch numbers and run the administrative side of things meant time to think. Time to study, time to revisit his old hobby of collecting Corellian Jedi lore and eventually Jedi Lore in general. Over time he honed his physical skills and kept training his mind, something told him the Jedi would return as Luke Skywalker destroyed the First Deathstar Hamner had a dream of a Phoenix pulling itself out of tar. Taking this as a sign he began to procure as much of the surviving material from the old Jedi Order as he could (with the limited resources at his command, it wasn’t much) and penning his own treatise and insights on the order based on what he could find (Always being careful to note this was an amateurs insight). His studies took him to where he would practice with a sparring foil, attempting to emulate the bits and pieces of Lightsaber combat he’d picked up, fusing it with the CQC style of the old Corellian order. To his surprise, he began to feel his senses expand, his “nexus sight” (what Jedi of old called Shatterpoints), his strength and stamina as well and one day he was even able to move a cup. Hamner kept this to himself though, always questioning whether or not it was inborn skill or a byproduct of the relics around him. As Mon Mothma and Iblis joined forces and the Alliance made its march to Endor Hamner devoted more of his time to making the sacrifice of the Bothans mean something. He acquired the shuttle used to enter the sanctuary moon and made sure the Rebel strike team had all the weapons and medical equipment they needed. The eve before the famous briefing Hamner had a dream of the same tar rising to strangle the Phoenix and nearly succeeding. The hour before the shuttle carrying Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa and Han Solo departed on their fateful quest Hamner approached Luke, compelled by his dreams and the “nexus” he felt around Skywalker. Unable to explain himself, he merely told Luke not to lose hope no matter how desperate things seemed. The meeting was an odd one for both, as both men felt something potent within the other, something familiar but neither had the time to dwell on it and both parted ways with a promise to speak again. Hamner did meet Luke again a week after the final battle, asking him why Hamner wasn’t present during the festivities. “Honors like that are for ace pilots and Jedi Knights, I was one but I’m not the other, never will be. But you’re both” Luke laughed at it and when Kenth presented him with the collection he’d spent so much time amassing to “help you so you don’t have to reform an order entirely from scratch”, Luke asked him he was sure he wasn’t a Jedi. Hamner insisted he wasn’t even force sensitive, or at least he wasn’t sure if he was or not. He explained he thought it was more the artifacts and old scrolls and books and not him. Luke convinced him to come to Yavin and find out, becoming one of the founding members of the Jedi Order in the process. 

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[b]Faction:[/b] New Jedi Order. 
He came up on stories of Jedi, joined the Alliance and eventually he felt the call. Beyond that, he is of the firm belief that the Jedi Order must be restored, in order for civilization to flourish. 

[b]Personality:[/b] Hamner is a born politician, marrying optimism, humility and a strong sense of justice with a deeply cynical side that he keeps to himself and a sense of pragmatism born of someone who truly appreciated the wealth he was born into and the sacrifice it took to amass it. While he’s generous, he isn’t blindly so and his ability to haggle, wheel and deal and barter has earned him nicknames like “The giant Jawa” and “the Hutt that walks”. Kenth doesn’t share the trademark Corellian ego but he is as defiant as any of his people, albeit in his own way. He’s ferociously loyal to Luke and vows to fight the political battles the Grand Master of the Jedi Order is too naïve to fight. Machiavellian to a point, post the Onderron fiasco, Kenth leaked compromising data to the free press on both Mothma and Iblis and their respective factions when it was clear one of them pressured Luke into lying about the holocron. While he doesn’t personally believe in revenge, he understands how the game is played well enough to know the kind of message they’d understand verses simply being told not to politicize the order. His willingness to do dirty deeds to protect the Order is something Mara Jade has both supported and clashed with him over. 

[b]Physical description:[/b] Standing at an imposing six and a half feet, Hamner looks more the warrior than the diplomat and politician. He’s elegant, wearing a dark green tunic with the symbol of the New Jedi Order embroidered below his shoulders. He wears a pair of dark brown suede gloves and a dark blue set of Jedi Robes. Hamner has a scar running along the left side of his neck from an assassination attempt by an ex Storm Commando who wanted to kill as many Jedi’s as he could before the end. The tear to his throat left him speaking with a somewhat gravely voice. He has thick brown hair that's long and well groomed and his eyes are a dark shade of gray that's almost the color of charcoal. 

[b]Equipment:[/b] A dirk made out of Mandalorian iron, with an old Jedi Lightsaber’s crystal in the hilt. His lightsaber hilt is made of the same material and is curved. Like Mara Jade, his blade is purple, owing to a synth crystal. His fighting style is a bastard’s mishmash of form seven with his foundation being in the more conservative and less aggressive sixth form. What he calls “Solid style”

[b]Ship (Optional):[/b] Whatever he can requisition for a specific mission.