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[Approved] Jaren Jast, Courier, Free Trader & Independent Contractor

JAREN JAST, FREE TRADER, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR

Smuggler

OoC

As a player, what is your preferred writing level?
Variable. My style is a little more succinct than most, probably, but I'm flexible with my expectations of others.

Is grammar and depth of writing important to you?
Definitely important, but everyone is at different writing levels. I don't have prohibitively high expectations.

Are there any writing subjects you particularly enjoy exploring?
I'm very much into the underworld adjacent aspects of the Star Wars universe, and expect to be writing in that sphere more than others.

Is there anything you really dislike and want to avoid like the plague?
Nah.

Is there something you are uncomfortable with happening to your character?
I'd be interested in seeing him survive for a while.

Do you have any short-term or long-term goals with this character?
Not particularly. I think I'll wait until I start writing for him through the stories to feel out his future arc.

Couriers Holonet Ad

Name: Jaren Jast
Species: Human
Homeworld: Corellia
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Specialization:

• Courier Contracting
• Personal Transportation
• Professional Investigative Services

Current area of operation: Outer Rim, Galactic South

Known Skills: Jaren Jast is a talented gunslinger and a competent pilot, capable of providing safe, discreet transport of goods and/or individuals across the galaxy.
Trained Techniques: Firearms Training, Close Quarters Combat Training, Starpiloting
Known Associates: The Crew of the Raven Trespass: First Mate and Co-Pilot Glato, Chief Engineer Valera Syndulla.
Favored Equipment and Clothes: A personally commissioned WESTAR heavy blaster pistol; a deep brown leather jacket of genuine leather.
Personality Type: Jast is a cool, collected professional.
Known Flaws: Jast is charismatic, even charming, but he toes the line between roguish confidence and arrogance, often poorly.

Recommended Casting for the Holovid Adaptation: Travis Fimmel

Couriers Holonet Metadata Summary

_{Detailed appearance.}

Jaren Jast stands at a hair under six feet in height. He sports dirty blonde hair and sea green eyes, and a shadow of facial hair that often threatens classification as a messy, unkempt beard proper. He maintains a lean, athletic build.

His body has taken its fair share of punishment over the years, and he bears an extensive collection of scars cataloging an alarming number of life-threatening experiences with blaster fire and vibroblades. Only by the grace of modern medicine is he still alive and without crippling injury.

His sharp nose is slightly crooked, previously broken, a lasting relic of a punch to the face long ago.

_{Report on skills and talents, including level of skill.}

Jaren Jast is an experienced combatant, highly competent in the use of a wide range of firearms—he is especially skilled with blaster rifles and pistols—and more than proficient in close quarters combat. Jast has a very basic competence in slicing and cryptography, and a fair amount of experience with explosives. Thanks to his service with the Republic Strategic Information Service, he has developed a respectable proficiency in the field of intelligence tradecraft. Further, he is a capable starpilot, specifically at the helm of a light freighter.

_{Report on known combat experience, training and weapons training.}

Jaren has extensive training with firearms and close quarters combat by virtue of his service with the Republic military's special forces arm, as well as a basic proficiency with explosives. He adapted this skillset to his work as a field agent for the SIS in the few few years of the post-war period, refining them further.

_{Does the Courier have, or have they ever had, a bounty on them? Are they wanted?}

Jast has never had a bounty on him and is not currently wanted by any organization or body of government, though that may change in the near future. Though the Imperial Ministry of Intelligence does not know much about him, they are hot on his trail in the wake of an operation on Nar Shaddaa.

_{Detailed notes on common/favored employers and any noteworthy contacts.}

Jacen Jast, Jaren’s older brother, served with the Republic Strategic Information Service for eight years before transitioning to a well-compensated senior position with Coronet Analytica, a private intelligence firm based on Corellia that performs intelligence work on behalf of corporations, litigants, and even the Republic itself (all for impressive profits). Most recently, Jacen provided Jaren with a contract to secure an Imperial defector on Nar Shaddaa who promised a wealth of sensitive information on certain individuals within the Sith Empire’s highest echelons. This contract did not go well.

_{Detailed notes on known rivals and enemies.}

Cipher 12, a counterintelligence agent with the Sith Empire’s Ministry of Intelligence, has recently emerged as Jast’s primary foil. 12 and his associates, including the Mandalorian mercenary Deklen Ordo, spearheaded an intervention against Jast and his crew on Nar Shaddaa. Though Jaren and his team were able to escape with a datapad containing the defector’s intelligence, Cipher 12’s agents successfully assassinated the informant and killed one of Jast’s team in the ensuing firefight.

_{List and description of other known associates.}

Glato, Jaren’s second-in-command aboard the Raven Trespass, and the crew's rifle-toting muscle. Recently deceased.

Valera “Val” Syndulla, a Twi’lek engineering officer aboard the Raven Trespass. Val has a mind for mechanics that compensates for Jaren's incompetence in this field.

_{List of known belongings, including but not limited to planetary surface property, civilian and military vessels, vehicles, weapons, tools.}

The Raven Trespass, Jaren’s ship, is an XS stock light freighter. It’s an older model, but his engineering officer and associate, Val Syndulla, has kept it operational and upgraded. Jaren is able to coax surprisingly high levels of performance from the dated starship while at the helm.

Jaren’s blaster is a custom WESTAR piece which cost him a small fortune to commission. The ivory, black, and gold heavy blaster pistol’s sleek, sloping design allows for lightning quick draws that have saved his life on more than one occasion. He has never been able to settle on a name for the weapon.

_{Psychological evaluation of Courier.}

Jast, in just a few words, is uneven and unstable. He is cool and collected under pressure, and charismatic and charming at first impression. This is not, however, the full picture. Jast is insensitive, unempathetic, hot-tempered, and waffles between brooding and manic depending on the circumstances. Whether he was simply born like this or developed this personality due to a lifetime of harsh experiences and traumas, Jast is an emotional livewire under the façade of professionalism. However, that façade is exceptionally well-developed, and he seems every part the level-headed professional while on the job and in front of his clients and superiors.

_{List and description of known and suspected flaws. To be put into restricted database.}

Jast is charismatic, even charming, but only in the context of his profession. Personally, he is hot-tempered, unempathetic, and mistrustful. While he is more than effective at maintaining his professional relationships, he struggles with genuine interpersonal connections. He is further far from amenable to hierarchical structure, a weakness that has prevented him from achieving success through more conventional routes. His insubordinate and uncooperative nature led to his departure from his service to the Republic, and his personality more generally has prevented him from maintaining anything resembling a relationship or healthy, stable friendships.

Further, and more practically, he is a particularly poor engineer. Though his education and training required him to complete and demonstrate proficiency in the technical area, this has never been a strength of his. He can fly the Raven Trespass, but requires a trained engineer the maintain the ship. Fortunately, his engineer, Val Syndulla, does all the thinking for him when it comes to the ship's maintenance.

_{All known interests of the Courier.}

When asked about his hobbies on one occasion, his immediate response was “drinking.” He then struggled to follow up with any genuine interests. This bothers him.

_{Major achievements on record.}

• Graduate, Republic Defense Academy of Carida;
• Five years' service with the Republic Army during the Great Galactic War;
• Promoted to the rank of Captain one year prior to the Treaty of Coruscant;
• Transferred to the Republic Strategic Information Service, received assignment as Field Agent.

_{Major failures on record. Confidential.}

• Resigned from the Republic Strategic Information Service after two years.

Interview

_{Personal biography.}

Jaren Jast was born at the dawn of the Great Galactic War, and pursued a career in the military once he was of age. He attended an accelerated program at the Republic Defense Academy on Carida, and subsequently fought on the frontlines for five years, ascending to the rank of captain within a special forces squad by the conclusion of the war. Jast fought on myriad fronts over the course of the conflict, and his experiences in the field developed him into an exceptional soldier. Upon the conclusion of the war, his brother, who had transitioned to serve with the Republic Strategic Information Service during the war, recruited him into the Republic intelligence arm, where he served as a field agent for two years.

Jast chafed tremendously against the bureaucracy and regulatory structure that accompanied peacetime operations. Years of open warfare and service on the frontlines proved venomous to his patience and mental health, and he grew increasingly insubordinate and uncooperative within the SIS. This culminated with his departure from the Service, and he struck out on his own at the helm of an XS-class light freighter he dubbed the Raven Trespass. He re-entered the intelligence community after a short time away, as his brother, still serving with the SIS, recruited him to work as an independent contractor.

Over the past four years, Jast has continued to supplement his courier work—which is often the illegal sort for which couriers are notorious—with contracts assigned by the SIS and private firms in the intelligence business. He works the shadows as a deniable asset, executing operations ranging from exfiltration and extraction to industrial espionage to dirty wetwork a layman would more readily associate with the Sith Empire’s intelligence wing than the Republic’s.

Most recently, Jast took on a contract through his brother, who had recently begun working for private intelligence firm Coronet Analytica. His brother had cultivated an opportunity to secure a defecting Imperial citizen in possession of a wealth of sensitive, personal information on members of the Sith Empire’s highest echelons. This lucrative—and ultimately dangerous—job brought Jast and the crew of the Raven Trespass to Nar Shaddaa, where they made contact with the defector. They were subsequently ambushed by an Imperial Intelligence counterintelligence agent and his affiliates, resulting in the deaths of the defector and Glato, Jast’s second-in-command aboard the Raven. In the confused flight from Nar Shaddaa, Jast hitched a ride on a passenger liner bound for Ryloth while the remainder of the team escaped on the Raven to the remote world of Hypori.

One of the counterintelligence agents from the engagement on Nar Shaddaa managed to waylay the passenger liner over Tatooine during the events of Star Wars: Arkanis Sailer (now partially non-canon). Jast was forced to escape to the surface of the nearby planet of Tatooine in an escape pod.

@Jackdaw

Curious. How did he manage to buy his ship if he was coming out of military service?

The OOC Opening Post.

First round of character reviews kicking off.

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[Approved] Jedi Grand Master Satele Shan

OOC

As a player, what is your preferred writing level?

Long stories with heavy collaboration

Is grammar and depth of writing important to you?

Sure.

Are there any writing subjects you particularly enjoy exploring?

Things that go vroom and swoosh.

Outside of that themes of loss, sacrifice, and long term character growth.

Is there anything you really dislike and want to avoid like the plague?

Brusselsprouts.

Is there something you are uncomfortable with happening to your character?

Awkward teenagers.

Do you have any short-term or long-term goals with this character?

To be an in character point of contact for all Jedi and Republic characters. To play roles in Jedi and Republic storylines. To train Padawans to Knighthood, and assist Knights to the rank of Master. To assist in leading the Jedi in character.

Jedi Temple Public Records

Name: Satele Shan
Species: Human
Homeworld: Brentaal IV
Age: 52
Gender: Female
Rank: Jedi Master
Master: N/A
Former master(s): Ngani Zho, Kao Cen Darach, Dar'Nala

Jedi Temple Internal Records

_{Short description of the Jedi.}

A classically pretty face with brown eyes framed in dark brown hair on an athletic frame. Outside a line here and there, age hasn't seemed to touch Satele Shan in the last twenty years. She has a few scars here and there, battlefield momentos that she won't let the Jedi Healers take away from her

_{Simplified report on known Force techniques and estimated levels.}

Telekinesis, Telepathy, Tutaminis, Precognition, Battle Meditation, Shatterpoint, to name her most notable. Though she has at least passing knowledge of most techniques, and is advanced in more than befits a simplified report. Given all her experiences and so much of her life spent in open war with the Sith, Satele's estimated levels are up there with nearly any other Force user in the galaxy.

_{Simplified report on other known skills and estimated levels, including lightsaber training.}

Satele has a fondness for games and cooking. Though she is hesitant to do so in public, she's always loved dancing. Outside of that she has the skills one would expect from a Jedi Master of the Jedi Order. Earlier on that mostly focused on investigation, diplomacy, and exploration. Even before the return of the Sith Empire the Force guided Satele to focus on combat training, leading in part to her transfer to Battlemaster Darach. The war has sharpened Satele's abilities in diplomacy and negotiation, in planning and coordination, and in strategy and tactics.

She is a rare Jedi to know all forms of lightsaber combat, a battle tested and naturally skilled lightsaber duelist.

_{Quick report on political influence, associates and rivals.}

As the Jedi Grand Master Satele Shan's influence reaches the highest heights of Galactic civilization, but the career within the Jedi Order that led up to her being named Grand Master has allowed her a list of contacts and associates that spans the spectrum. Be it a mid-level fixer for a criminal syndicate, a rogue slicer, a police captain, corporate agents, and on and on.

Satele has a natural born talent for getting people talking, and remembering faces and names. Outside her talent with the Force, it's likely the natural talent she has leaned on the most in her life as a Jedi.

t's rather well known that Satele has a long standing rivalry with Darth Malgus as a result from numerous well documented battlefield confrontations. She has met him only once since she dropped a mountain on his bald head, and that stand off surprisingly ended in no physical confrontation. Satele knows this won't be the last time she sees Malgus, and took his attack on the Jedi Temple a little personally given she was off planet at the time.

She has lesser well known on and offs conflicts with other Sith, including as Darth Theya. Though Satele has managed to come out on top of most these conflicts, they each take their toll, and Satele knows the danger of growing any kind of attachment, even one such as a rivalry.

Within the Republic Satele has a few rivals as well, including a senior Senator that has taken a hard anti-Jedi stance, and a number of corporate sector interests. Communication from the Sith Empire has alerted Satele to a fanatic group that worships her ancestor Revan.

_{Psychological evaluation of Jedi Order member.}

Satele is generally considered warm and approachable, a neat trick of charm and testament to her genuine goodness of character considering she is just as strong willed, persistent, inquisitive, and quietly and intensely determined. War has taken it's own tolls on Satele Shan however well adjusted she may seem on the surface, underneath she contends with the same pain and darkness any in this generation of war must face.

_{List and description of known and suspected flaws. To be put into restricted database.}

Blood of my blood - Satele Shan's bloodline is well known. Whether Bastila or Revan, and earlier on in life her Jedi Knight mother, Satele has a hard time escaping the shadow of those who came before her. Light of Dark, Satele's blood usually means something to someone. Let alone the light and dark in means for her.

Wild Horses - Passion has a history of hurting Satele Shan and those close to her. Though known to precious few Satele both had a son and ultimately picked the Jedi Order over motherhood and a life beyond the order like her mother. Just as close as Satele came to a life of love and family, so she has come dangerously close to the dark side before and knows she will again.

Interview

_{Personal biography, as detailed by the candidate for use in Jedi archives. Acquired shortly after last achievement of note.}

A descendant of the legendary Jedi Knights Revan and Bastila Shan who had played pivotal roles in the Jedi Civil War several centuries earlier, Shan was born on the planet Brentaal IV in the year 3,699 BBY. Inheriting her family's strength in the Force, Satele's earliest memories are of the Jedi Order, and her mother. Jedi Knight Tasiele Shan was just as known for her skills as she was as a Jedi who believed attachment could be a source of strength, not a sure path to danger and the Dark Side. Satele's earliest years include a lot of time with her mother, more than a little unusual for Jedi.

During Satele's time as a youngling this gave her an extra spotlight, a spotlight already present from whispered names Revan and Bastila. A proud member of Thranta Clan during her Initiate days, a Clan she would lean on as her mother was exiled from the Jedi Order. Whether Satele has ever seen her mother or not since has remained a matter of speculation that Satele refuses to comment upon. Observers have noted the similarities in Tasiele and Satele in terms of temperment and skill. The end of her Initiate time saw Satele fully embracing the Jedi Order in a way it was felt her mother never did.

While most her fellow Initiates were preparing for the next steps in their Jedi path, Satele's took a darker turn when the Jedi Council delivered to her journals addressed to her by her mother. The Council explained the circumstances of her mother's exile. How it was the result of political pressure from powerful Senators fearful of another Darth Revan. The very name Revan made her flinch when spoken by the Jedi Masters of the Council. The Masters informed her of Tasiele Shan's disappearance. Initiate Satele Shan accepted their explanation, accepted the journals written for her by her mother, and moved on.

The journals she was allowed to keep in a part of the Archives until she found a better home for them. Moving on became a little easier when the Jedi Council took the unusual step of assigning Satele a Master in Ngani Zho. The years that followed would go a long way in making Satele into a real Jedi, and would begin to give the Jedi Council real concerns. The anxiety and worry wrapped up in the tale of Revan and Bastila were well known not just to the Jedi, but to society as a whole in the Republic. It was a mostly cautionary tale, despite the defeat of Malak.

The Shan family had always lived with it, but up until Tasiele there had never be fallout from it. There were tales and sightings of Tasiele after her exile, but none of them confirmed. It didn't matter, it was enough to spook some people who had been involved in the original exile of Tasiele. When reports started coming in of Satele Shan displaying skill and power that were extraordinary for a Jedi. Eventually the noise grew so loud the Senators intervened again, this time finding out (or outright fabricating) enough on Jedi Master Ngani Zho that the resulting attention from various parties on a single Jedi Padawan that the Council took an even more unusual step, they called in the Padawan in question.

Details of the meeting are fuzzy, but there is a story within the Order that Satele had a Force vision before meeting with the Council and shared it with the wise Masters. The following discussion resulted in Satele's request to transfer to renowned Battlemaster Kao Cen Darach at Korriban in the Esstran sector. There she focused on combat training with a fanaticism that concerned even Kao Cen Darach. The Battlemaster came to firmly believe and trust in Satele, even though there was always something Salele wouldn't tell him. He knew it, she knew he knew it.

When the Sith Empire returned the two shared a look, and finally they both understood. Kao Cen Darah knew Satele had to return to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and alert the whole galaxy. The following battle saw Satele barely escape with the help of smuggler Nico Okarr and Republic soilder Jace Malcom.

War broke out on a galactic scale as the Sith Empire invaded system after system. Satele played a larger role than even she expected, debriefing the Jedi Council several times and sat in on strategic discussions of the Council. During this early phase of the war she personally witnessed the Coruscant riots. Soon after she began brief stays with various Jedi Masters throughout the galaxy, and the war. Satele found herself in the thick of nearly every sort of military engagement possible, and found herself going toe to toe with her fair share of Sith Warriors.

Suddenly her displays of skill and success didn't scare the politicians so much, at least not most of them, although those skills and victories did still give the Jedi Council pause: war had turned Revan into what he became. What would happen to Satele Shan? The Council acted quickly (for the Council) in apprenticing Satele to the Togruta Jedi Master Dar'Nala, a well known diplomat and political strategist within the Order. The two quickly became close, and with each new mission Satele found wisdom in Dar'Nala's reminders to stay her impatience and aggression. While it may had led to short term victories, the Jedi Master explained, they would ultimately betray Satele's efforts at ultimate peace.

Dar'Nala helped Shan pass her trials and reach the rank of Jedi Knight. The two were permitted to remain assigned together and would spend most of the war serving beside each other in various theaters and in multiple capacities. Satele was present on Alderaan to investigate Sith spies when she came to the assistance of Havoc Squad fighting a much larger Sith force. The conflict would eventually lead to single combat between Satele and Darth Malgus. With a little help from Havoc's Jace Malcom, Satele ended up winning by dropping a small mountain on Malgus' head. Though she suspected Malgus survived, she was glad that most of Havoc had survived. She was glad Jace had survived, she wouldn't have made it away from Korriban without him years before.

That night under an Alderaan night sky Satele fell in love with Jace. The secret relationship that followed haunted Satele with thoughts of Tasiele, her mother, and her mothers beliefs...and her mother's fate. Satele had her mothers journals moved from Coruscant to a safe place on Alderaan where she was still stationed. It was then for the first time Satele really dove into every journal's every page. Satele knew she was pregnant days after conception, a powerful feeling in the Force like she had never felt before. She dreamed of Tasiele, she dreamed of Bastila.

When the time came to tell Jace, Satele asked him about his desire for vengeance and his hatred of the Empire. There in a battlefield camp at wartime, Satele couldn't shake the parallels. She couldn't ignore the spectre hanging in her shadow. Satele would not allow herself to become the next Revan, and in that moment realized Jace Malcom, the person she had fallen in love with...was her single greatest weakness. The dreams of motherhood, of family, it all came crashing down around her. Instead of tell Jace about her pregnancy, Satele broke off their relationship.

The next months saw Satele cement her status as a hero of the Republic time and time again. Whether feats of the Force, dueling, or just the right tactic at the right moment, her reputation began to gain a life of it's own. The truth of it was that she was starting to show, and she risked two lives every time she went into battle: her life and the life of her unborn child. Ngani Zho was the person within the entire Jedi Order that Satele trusted most. Ngani took care of Satele in the later stages of pregnancy, even going so far as to cover it up to the rest of the Jedi Order. Her son was born in secret, she named him Theron.

Satele will never forget the emotions of holding her new baby. Or the emotions of leaving him with Ngani, for the old Jedi Master to raise as his own.

When Satele returned to the battlefield it was at levels never seen before. New inspirations gave birth to new desperations, and ending the decades old conflict became the single thing on Satele's mind battle after battle, year after year. A focus that sunk in deeper still when she witnessed the riots of Coruscant that resulted from the Mandalorion Blockade. The Jedi's failure at breaking the blockade left Satele turning to act. Her target became Rhen Var.

Different reports say variations of the same thing: On Rhen Var Jedi Knight Satele Shan became an unstoppable force, cutting through a menagerie of Sith creations and Imperial troopers on her way to Darth Mehkis of the Dark Council. Though Mehkis escaped, Satele Shan had helped win the day on Rhen Var. The intelligence gathered from Mehkis' fortress would provide information still being used as actionable intelligence to the current day. Not long after Rhen Var Satele was assigned to Alderaan with old friend Dar'Nala. The pair were to attend peace talks with the Empire, itself a surprising offer. Despite Shan's best personal efforts the war was tilting in the Empire's direction. Everyone knew it but few were giving up just yet.

During the conference the Sith attacked Coruscant, and razed the Jedi Temple. Satele drew her saber and charged the Sith envoy, but Dar'Nala intervened. The Sith still wanting to talk peace, afterall, they just wanted to talk peace while they held Coruscant hostage. The terms the Republic contingent agreed to still tests Satele's self control, but at least for the first time in decades there is a break in open war. What Satele never expected was to suddenly find herself fighting beloved friends. Dar'Nala had hated the terms of the treaty more than Satele, but while Satele charged the Sith Dar'Nala hadn't. She had simply plotted to bring the war back in full. The Jedi Master killed Sith and Republic alike in her insane quest. The Sith made the whole thing worse, and in the end Satele was offered a chance to join the Sith Empire. To embrace her true destiny as the blood of Revan.

Satele stopped her old friend, and politely refused the Sith their offer. In her sadness Satele turned inward, escaping into meditation. When her eyes snapped open she knew what she had to do. Or rather, where she had to go. The Force vision she saw in meditation led her down a lost hyperspace route to the world where those who came before the Jedi and the Sith, the Je'daii, and the place where the Jedi Order formally came to be. When she returned from Tython and told the Jedi Council of what she had rediscovered using the Force, the Council voted to grant her the rank of Jedi Master.

Not long after the Council voted to make Satele the new Grand Master of the Order. Her first act as Jedi Grand Master was to orchestrate the moving of the Jedi Order back to Tython, and the reinforcement of Tython into a modern fortress world. This effort led her back into contact with Jace Malcolm, now Supreme Commander of the Republic military. Though they worked well together in establishing the Republic's presence on Tython and within the sector as guests of the Jedi, in private things were tense. Jace had learned of their son, his reaction was...unsurprising in some ways.

Despite this they were able to move as friends working closely together towards an ultimate Republic victory...one way or another, they both know that the war isn't really over yet.

So I did a thing

Hi there!

I'm Arreyis. (My handle used to be Arreis, buuut people kept saying Aries, so I changed it.) It's actually my irl name backwards. I used to be heavily involved in several roleplay forums, but I fell out of it about ten years ago... So I'm a little rusty, don't hate me. Now I'm a mom of two kids, a DnD player, and I try to write down ideas when I get them.

When I searched out a forum tonight it was kind of on a whim, and I was surprised to find one that is so prolific as just before I dropped out of roleplaying it seemed to be falling off. I'm happy to be here! Not normally active at this time (2 a.m. where I'm at), but I'm excited to get acquainted with the forum and see what I can contribute!

@Arreyis

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