Jai Carson Rennings

18

Human (Denon)

Male

Yes. Jai leans Light as that has all he's been taught. The recent loss of his Master however has left him quite conflicted.

Tall, dark, and handsome is the general first impression one gets from the young man. He stands at a respectable six foot one and has a very toned, lithe build. More often than not his aquamarine-colored eyes are the first real details one notices. Eyes that dislike being the center of attention and will shift rather than hold a heavy stare. His hair will sometimes hide those eyes, the dark-brown usually messy strands declaring a revolution of cooperation. Within the dark-brown patches of matte-blonde can be seen underneath, giving a two-toned look in the right light or when wet. His facial features seem to fit just right to the overall structure which is finished off with an easily distinguishable jawline that completes the 'handsome' part of first impressions. The dark comes from the healthy natural tan that only gets darker when exposed to the sun for long durations. Besides the color, his skin when observed up close is well maintained and seems to glow from health, and no hair is visible on his legs or arms.

He tends to smirk slightly when excited or anxious, narrows his eyes in a playful way while leaning his head back when challenged or sees something he likes, crosses his arms almost all the time, shifts from left leg to the right and seems always ready to draw his blade. He uses a rise/fall inflection pattern with pauses, will sigh very easily, will flare nostrils and clench his jaw while shooting his eyes to the right and then down when pressed, and will always look directly at someone when talking before then shooting his eyes away. He also tends to move one arm up to let his chin rest when in deep thought, will drum his fingers on a flat surface, likes to shrug, and when he is wearing jackets, coats, or robes his hands reflexively seem to hold on to the lappels.

He has the walk of a seasoned duelist. A confident, yet quiet stride. The sort you get when you’re sure of yourself yet have no reason to flaunt it. He seems like a ready fighter and used to the action of drawing his saber. His normal stance is a straight backed, and broad stance with arms either crossed in front of him or on his hips.

Jai lost almost all of his belongings when the war front he was assigned to collapsed. Not that he had a lot then anyway, as possessions were frowned upon by the Order. His current equipment, however, is his most prized and includes the following. One curved hilt Lightsaber with a teal blade, one ornate hilted saber with a blue blade, a heavy blaster pistol, loose-fit clothing, tight-fit leather clothing pieces, a set of Jedi Robes, an Astromech droid, a datapad, and a communication device.

Jai was trained from a young age and as such has decent athleticism, stamina, and breath control. In addition, he was trained in acrobatics, Art of Movement, economy of motion, and close-quarter hand-to-hand combat. He has studied the beginning of Forms of I, III, IV and the Shien variant of V while having a better grasp on Form II. His fighting style consists of almost pure form II, with some IV mixed within while able to swap to a much less refined but competent defensive style using III for melee, and V Shien for blaster bolts.

Jai hasn't studied many Force powers, as his Master had been a swordsman but Jai picked up a few and is always looking to add to his repertoire. Currently, he is proficient in Push, Pull, Curato Salva, Tapas, Danger Sense, Mind Trick, and the very basics of tutamins. Beyond the force powers, Jai was never able to master passive meditation and instead utilized Alchaka and moving meditation to attune himself to the force.

Jai is quite full of himself and considers himself a blade master even when there's so much more he needs to learn. He lacks fundamental knowledge of force powers, only knowing combat uses for each. He's completely and totally susceptible to teaching, being very impressionable when dealing with seasoned soldiers, or Jedi. Beyond all of this, he's only 18 and while he has clear strengths even those suffer from his overall lack of focus in scenarios. He's a handful to keep still, and lessons requiring any sort of 'calm' is going to end with a lot of fidgeting.

A literal fireball of energy, Jai can't stop moving. It seems to be in his blood and he's constantly exercising, helping with something, or sparring, himself or a partner. He is a good natured young man, one who had the innocence of childhood killed at a young age but still manage dto hold onto some hope. He comes across in many different ways depending on who he's meeting for the first time, ranging from respectful and reverent to his superiors, to polite yet a tad full of himself when meeting other Padawans near his age. He has a deep respect for non-sensitive solders and clones and generally has a very good relationship with them. His affinity for the second form seems to come out in him at times, the almost aristocratic approach to life as a whole. He admires and hero worships Count Dooku and has spent LONG hours studying holo-recordings of the Count's fights.

Fellow Padawans would find it difficult to make friends with the young man, as he has been taught that friendships are to be ignored. It was never a rule Jai thought made sense but when it was ingrained into every day discussion for years it was a hard habit to break. However if one was able to take the time to get through the flimsy mask of arrogance, and aristocracy they would find a sarcastic, witty, jokster, and extremely loyal friend. It's unfortunate but soldiers and clones get that side of him without having to worry about the mask which is why the young man tends to stick close to them.

He has recently had a large emotional shock that he's still dealing with. He lost the Master that took him in when he was just twelve years old. He has been reassigned, the Enclave to which he belonged telling him that he would have a replacement sometime in the future. Until then the young man has to attempt to deal with the loss and his place in the galaxy himself.

Jai was born on Denon, to a middle-class family. He was found to be force sensitive when he was one year old, during one of the yearly tests of all children.

Instead of taking him to the Green Jedi on Corellia as would be protocol, the shuttle taking Jai and five other force-sensitive infants were stolen by a Mandalorian crew that had been privateering as pirates. Instead of Corellia, Jai was sent to one of the Enclaves within the GRM As a youngling, Jai took to the training saber extremely quickly and a note was made to watch this development closely. Other than his saber abilities the young man had a rather standard and boring childhood. It consisted of the usual Jedi activities such as meditation, studying, and training. Jai was a terrible student however in all aspects other than exercise and saber training. The boy just couldn't sit still and he had tested the serene patience of just about all of the temple Knights and Masters. Luckily for him, they couldn't remain frustrated at him for long, his ready and wide smile combined with good spirit just causing a roll of the eyes, ruffled hair, and half-hearted telling off.

The pattern of Jedi life continued until he was eleven years old where he was made the student-instructor assistant for the saber masters of the Temple. He was tasked with helping instruct the younger Jedi and it was then that Jai found himself introduced to Form II. He instantly fell in love and he became even more difficult to teach in a classroom setting as in addition to not being able to sit still, he had taken to watching every Form II holo-vid he could get his hands on. The boy practically lived in the training room, and the Masters decided that as young as he was, he needed to getaway.

Jai was made a Padawan to Master Shen Sar the day of his twelfth birthday and his true life as a Jedi began. The galaxy had been changed for some 14 years at this point and peace was never easy to find. Master Sar was a Major within a Special Forces brigade pledged to the GRM, in addition to his Jedi rank of Master. The Major used a Special Forces Brigade that had a 'history' of mercenary work and 'his' Enclave was never attached to any of the remaining Jedi orders. It gave the GRM plausible deniability and the Brigade was mostly used to assist the new Empire in their constant war with the CIS forces. The man was an innovative tactician, using Jedi in unorthodox formations or locations. His most notable victory was a complete slaughter of a CIS ground assault. The Master hid the Jedi under his command in the mud. Snipers forced the droid advance into one narrow formation and already zoned in artillery shattered said formation. As the droids were forced to advance, the Jedi sprung upwards and began what became known as the 'great scrapping'. For Jai it was perfect, his inability to stop allowing him to be used constantly as a runner, an attache, a commando, anything.

In addition to his battlefield prowess, Jai continued to study the blade both by himself and with the many other Knights that served in Sar's unit. Having so many sparring partners made his already noticeable saber talents to grow even larger. He outclassed many of his fellow Padawans and instead focused on sparring Knight's or himself rather than his peers. He adopted a sort of 'better than you' air and spent most of his free time with the troopers. This went on for years and years and Jai developed from a happy go lucky Padawan to a war-tested and battle veteran young man. It took its toll but with meditation, and constant help wherever and whenever he needs Jai only got better instead of growing passive and slowly sinking.

That is until his Master was killed. It was a freak accident by all accounts, somehow an enemy artillery shell managed to land directly on Sar's and Jai's position. His master didn't waste any time when the Force screamed at him and raised a powerful barrier around Jai and then pushed him away. In doing so, Sar wasn't able to react for himself and the next artillery shell in the creeping barrage landed behind the Master, riddling his entire back with shrapnel, which pierced the armor and killed him instantly.

The condolences were nothing, as Jai found himself alone. The man who practically raised him having sacrificed his very life to save him. It was a hard thing to swallow, but Jai promised himself that he wouldn't let that stop him. Master Sar wouldn't want him to blow that sacrifice. Now armed with his Master's lightsaber Jai was sent back to the Enclave who would decide his fate going forward... The force would certainly need to be with him.

This is an Album of Jai and his belongings!, character is willing to be Apprenticed to another PC!

Ezali Halkirn/Clan Halkirn/House Vizla

35

Miralan by birth, Mandalorian by choice

Female

Yes/Neutral

A bit shorter than average and slender, but well muscled from wearing beskar’gam. She keeps her hair short of ease of wearing under her armour, and keeps it back with an ever present golden hair band that was a present from an ex-girlfriend (whom she is still on good terms with). The first of her face tattoos, the six triangles along her cheek bones, came from her Miralan mother Setuo upon the discovery that Ezali was at least a little Force Sensitive; the rest came to mark important moments in her life, and as a way to honour her Miralan heritage.

Across her limbs and torso she bears more than a few scars from those times when her ego out paced her skill; while a good dose of bacta could have healed any of the injuries without leaving a mark, she deliberately had the scars left as a reminder to herself…not that its always worked.

After becoming a Mandalorian, she was trained extensively in marksmanship both armed and unarmed close combat. Clan Halkim even managed to convince a few Jedi to come and offer instruction to Ezali and her peers while they were training. A bonus for her was that, when one of the Jedi realized she had a bit of Force talent he taught her how to get the most out of what ability she did have.
Now after more than a decade, like any good Mandalorian, she is a supremely capable fighter.

While her connection to the Force is not strong enough for her to directly influence or affect the world around her, she can focus the connection to allow her a kind of hyper-awareness. This can be used as a kind of lie detector during questionings or to significantly increase her spatial awareness and reaction times, letting her fight with an almost Jedi like swiftness.

Even now she finds herself being too reliant on her connection to the Force, which unlike those with stronger Force connection, can ‘cut out’ if she over exerts herself. Add to that a bit of Mando ego, and she can and has found herself in a tough spot more than once.

The reputation of a Mandalorian is that of a taciturn and stoic warrior…and something that Ezali enjoys disregarding as much as possible to the frustration of more than a few older Mandos. Usually cheerful, and with a small smile, she tries to not take things too seriously without reason.
Despite what some see as rather flippant behaviour, she is still a Mandalorian and a consummate professional when needed, willing to do whatever is needed to protect her Clan, her House and her Republic.

Beneath the smiles and the duty however is still a young girl mourning the murder of one of her mothers; and while she’s come to live with the sadness, grief and anger, they’re not going away anytime soon.

Coruscant - She tries not to think too much about it. Her last memories of there are watching from the window of an evacuation shuttle as districts burned under orbital bombardments while she worried where her mother Setuo was. Any memories from before that just remind her what she lost.

Ezali never knew her birth parents as she was given up for adoption at birth, but she did know she was born on Coruscant. Adopted almost right away by her then newly married moms, Madelle and Setuo, her early life was pretty normal even though the Galactic Republic was in the middle of a war. The only real shake up in those early days was when she was found to be Force Sensitive. Her parents where afraid to loose their daughter to the Jedi, but when the Jedi’s own testing showed Ezali’s connection was at best very weak, they opted to leave her be.

After that, things went back to normal until she was about seven, when her parents divorced. There had been some tension that she’d been oblivious to as a child, but most of the split stemmed from the realization between both Madella and Setuo, that they were better as just friends, then as a couple. There was the expected sadness and such when they split, but they both made sure Ezali knew they both loved her dearly, and once the hurt had passed, things went back much to what they’d been, though with a bit more movement for Ezali as she split her time between her mom’s places.

Three years later, that peace was shattered when General Grievous launched his surprise assault on her homeworld. Woken in the middle of the night by Madelle, they fled to an evacuation shuttle with only the clothes on their backs. As the shuttle fled, she can still remember vividly the sight of whole districts on fire from enemy bombardments, and the chaos that surrounded the Jedi Temple…where Setuo worked. Setuo was one of a multitude of clerical staff the Jedi employed to keep the day-to-day affairs of the Temple in order, and while that night was one that Ezali usually spent at Setuo’s place, Setuo had been working very late the past while as everyone scrambled to deal with the, what turned out to be diversionary, surprise attacks.

Life moved forward however and while they both grieved, they were evacuated along with many others to Mandalorian space. Taken in, Madelle found comfort with a woman named Rith Halkrin, eldest daughter of Clan Halkrin. Though massively different from her life before, Ezali took to Mandalorian life with more ease than her mother at times. Though from significantly different backgrounds, Madelle and Rith fell hard for each other and were married in short order, which lead to Ezali being adopted formally by Clan Halkrin before her thirteenth birthday. She had already been training with the younger members of the Clan but had always felt, and in small ways was treated, like an outsider. Once, however, she and her mother were officially members of the Clan, she was greeted as a ‘lost’ sister and has never looked back.

Speaks Basic, Mando’a, Bocce and some Durese and can understand Huttese, Shyriiwook and Droidspeak

Gui B'oh

27

Nautolan

Female

Yes, no alignment or training.

As pictured above, of course. Worth noting: stands at five feet ten inches(about 1.8 meters) and weighs in at 180 pounds(about 82 kilograms).

Her old Wet Weather(or, “mudtrooper”) armor, though it’s been repainted and she doesn’t usually wear all of it.
A hooded poncho, olive green in color, fireproof and chemproof. Standard issue for Nautolan stormtroopers, who could not wear a normal helmet.
Nautolan Stormtrooper face mask.
Westar 55 Heavy Blaster

Defender Class Light Corvette, the Jade Minnow. A Clone War era Republic ship.
-She has the usual supplies of anyone who is traveling and living out of their ship; food, data pad and communication equipment, fully furnished bunk and common rooms.
-A weapons cabinet contains 3 E22 blaster rifles, an E11 an SX-21 scatterblaster and a DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle.
-Her personal quarters have a blacked out saltwater tank in lieu of a bed.

Amphibious,and obviously a very fast swimmer.
Cartilaginous skeletal system is very resistant to blunt force.
Multiple hearts, which can function separately if necessary.
Head-tresses are extremely sensitive to chemical changes. They work best under water, but do still function in the air.

Expert marksman.
Basic close combat training.
Capable pilot, though never in a star fighter.

Minor precognition, she believes she simply has quick reflexes.

Functions best in the water, she's a little slow on land.
Head-tresses are a double edged sword, as they are extremely sensitive to chemical attacks, or even acid rain or polluted air on industrial planets.

Mercurial and closed off, Gui does not form attachments easily(she would say "at all" if asked) and is prone to abandoning causes and jobs she has lost interest in. She can be ruthless when it suits her purpose, but is never needlessly cruel. Her allegiance is easy to buy, but hard to truly earn.
On more positive notes: she is diplomatic and easy to get along with when one is sided with her. She makes a point not to work for or with tyrannical regimes since leaving the Empire. She values freedom, and is a staunch supporter of

Glee Anselm, worked in her youth for her family's fishing export company.

The B'oh family owns a fishery on Glee Anselm. A great-uncle of hers left her his freighter when he died, and it was expected that she would join the company as a captain. With a ship under her sole ownership and control, she instead left entirely. She tried her hand as a private contractor for freight transport(often translated as "smuggler"), but quickly ran her business into the ground.
When she was no longer able to afford fuel, Gui grounded her vessel on Ord Mantell and walked basically across the street to an Imperial Academy recruiting office. She was twenty years old.
A lot of Gui's service as a Stormtrooper is a blur to her. Like many of her kind, she put in for Coastal Defence duty. And like most, she usually ended up somewhere else entirely. She was stuck in a cycle of fighting, bleeding, and killing for the Empire, receiving meaningless awards, and then being shunted to the next battleground.

Her last duty was a reasonably easy, if not entirely pleasant station on Quantxi. She was a part of the guard duty surrounding a handful of Navy engineers who were scouting scrapyards for hardware that could be put back to use. Already disenchanted and on the edge of desertion, Gui took her chance with two fellow troopers and one of the engineers when they discovered a mostly intact Defender class ship. It had been sitting for years, hidden among less interesting scrap. Under the engineer’s guidance, they got the ship running enough to ditch the planet, and flee Empire space.

The four took to mercenary work, and were quite successful for a time. It fell apart as, one by one, the crew tired of self imposed exile, and left to try to start a new life back home. Gui doesn’t know what happened to any of them, but vindictively hopes that they were arrested for desertion when they returned to Empire space.

As of now, Gui is more or less alone with the Jade Minnow. Whenever she picks up a job, she grabs some crew to help her out, fully intending for the arrangement to be temporary.

39

Human // CORUSCANTI

Male

Yes - Light Alignment

Koren stands at 5’8, his eyes a piercing green. He almost always wears his white coat and combat trousers rather than the traditional Jedi Robes, which he keeps for ceremony only. White shirt with a carbon fibre weave, jacket that lowers down to near the floor cut in the middle which allows him to have an ease of movement boots and combat trousers all with silver trim. He doesn’t cut a very imposing figure physically, however his facial features are sharp, yet kind.

Koren is a calm and confident individual. He knows his place in the Galaxy, and his role within it. His time in the Hapes Consortium has changed him, he is more confident and understanding. He is kind and compassionate, and light. While he deviates from the Jedi Code slightly he still believes wholeheartedly in the Light Side of the Force.

He is a peaceful individual with little desire to take part in combat. Preferring to spread the word of peace.

Koren isn’t entirely sure where he is from, he was born and raised at the site of the former Jedi Temple on Coruscant.

Koren was raised in the Jedi Temple in what was a pretty unspectacular growing up. Like many of the Younglings, he received tutelage by multiple masters in his den. When he became old enough to train he had a relatively unremarkable time undergoing his basic training. He underwent the Gathering on Illum to get his lightsaber crystal, joined as a Padawan under the tutelage to Jedi Knight Wrorror Unduli an Ithorian Jedi. Despite the threat and then the ensuing Clone Wars Koren and his master kept out the majority of the war, neither had the expertise that was deemed vital to the war effort. Instead, they were kept primarily as peacekeepers. They worked a variety of conflicts throughout the Clone Wars on Republic Worlds, always behind the frontline. As Koren was put through the trials and became a Jedi Knight he was moved aboard a Praxeum ship in order to help facilitate the teaching of Younglings on their crystal quests.

It was during this time that Knightfall occurred, fearing for the life of himself and the young Initiates Koren had the autopilot of the ship take them into the Hapes Cluster, a sector of space where he decided that they would be safe from any threats. The gasses and various gravitational fields making it difficult to track ships as well as for ships to travel in hyperspace. What they weren’t expecting was a ship far faster than anything they had seen of its class bearing down on them and being boarded. It was then that the Young Jedi discovered the Hapes Consortium. Initially, Prisoners, there was one who saw the potential benefit of having Jedi. The Chume’da, heir to the throne. Allana Tryl, she heard about the plight and the war going on outside the Cluster and feared if the war should ever find them. With her influence, she convinced the ruling Queen Mother to release the Younglings in exchange for Korens continued support in training a new Royal Guard, he gathered up any Force Sensitives within Hapan Space and taught them the basics of using the Force.

During the years that followed Koren and Allana became close, through her sheer power of will and insistence Koren was thrust into the complicated world of Hapan politics. Under threat as he became consort to the future Queen. He had to continue proving his worth as he fell for the Chume’da. On edge as other noble families had been grooming their own heirs to one day become consort to the Queen. Despite this the fledgeling romance between the Jedi Knight and Chume’da blossomed, eventually leading to marriage between the two individuals of incredibly different backgrounds. The controversy expanded after the marriage, with no Prince currently married to the Queen Mother Hapan Law stated that the consort of the Chume’da, if there should be one, would be the head of the military. Many within the Royal Court fought this law, as this meant that not only was the royal guard trained and maintained by this Jedi Outsider but now the entire military fell under his jurisdiction. Many within the industrial complex had no issue with it, it was their Queens will Afterall and Koren had proved himself formidable and fair through his years as the head of the Royal Guard. Koren tried to convince the Queen Mother to allow him to leave the Cluster, to establish contact with the Republic. For fear that the Jedi Order was hunted and on the run, fear that everything he knew would be gone.

She continued to refuse till the day she died, stating that he was part of the Hapes Cluster now, and that was where his loyalties should lie. Yet despite his marriage, a blatant act against the Jedi Way of Life and his position as commander in chief of the Hapan Military he had always seen himself as a Jedi First. So when the Queen Mother passed and Allana rose to the position, he convinced her that they should establish contact with the outside galaxy. Months later and he is now aboard his cruiser destined for Mandalore. Having made contact with the Republic there, he finds himself nervous for what he's about to find, for what the Jedi Council will think of him and most importantly, what the future holds for him and his union with Hapes.