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.

<Snipped quote by Jackdaw>

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

Yep! Approved.