Taryn Xel

In 5 BBA Tarkin altered the course of Taryn’s home world of Omwat. At 13 she was the oldest of a small group of children from different villages taken from their families to be molded for Tarkin’s personal scientists. In classrooms orbiting above the planet they were trained, tested, studied, and cowed into submission. Only a few of them made it through the intense training camps; the children that did not watched as their families and villages were bombed from orbit for their failings, followed by their own execution.

While Taryn was not the Grand Moff’s favorite student, she showed great skill and was transferred to the Maw Instillation. Not knowing if her family was alive, her fear of failure drove her to excel at anything she was assigned. In 3BBA she was put in charge of a crudely carbonite-frozen Miraluka that had been found drifting through space. The life signs where thin and Taryn started her research on the nearly 1,000 year old space oddity and how to safely unthaw him. Tarkin had the Miraluka and herself transferred to the Death Star so that he could closely monitor his new pet project. In the precious little free-time she had Taryn learned what she of his race, managing to teach herself the language but finding no evidence that any of his people remained. She developed a habit of talking to both the carbonite prisoner and herself in the dead language, taking a small solace in the connection it seemed to carry to the man whose family were also most likely dead.

Just over a year ago she received word that all but a few of the Omwati race had been destroyed, those few scattering across the systems to escape Tarkin’s reach. Taryn realized that alive or no, her family was gone and started planning her escape. An opportunity presented itself when a band of rebels boarded and blew up the Death Star, neatly destroying any evidence that either she or the Miraluka ever existed. The past year she has been moving from place to place avoiding the Imperials, gathering the equipment she needed to melt the carbonite, and desperately (though thus far unsuccessfully) looking for any signs of her people.

On the previous A Different Hope...

Rafe and Meena were at the Jedi academy, both giving lessons and learning how to combat lightsaber combatants. During the lesson, the Millennium Falcon landed on Yavin, with Han, Chewie, and Jolee aboard, along with a Omwati passenger and her cargo--a Jedi frozen in carbonite. With the technical expertise of both Tayrn the Omwati and Quan Hu, the Jedi was dethawed and then healed with Meena's use of the force.

Zach was startled to find himself awake in a Massassi temple, and started a chain of events that led Zach, Taryn, Rafe, Meena, Jolee, and Luke to seek passage aboard the Millenium Falcon to an ancient Sith outpost, where they battled wanna-be Sith at Darth Bane's grave.

In the fight, many were badly hurt, Jolee lost her lightsaber and appropriated Darth Bane's because "at least it's the right color," Han and Chewie saved the PC's from the minor army, a Sith temple and it's droid factory were destroyed, and Luke got to do some actual combat.

Zach Ouichee

Zach Ouichee is, by about two centuries, the oldest Jedi in the galaxy. As the Ruusan Reformation took place after the New Sith War in 1,000 BBA, the Jedi order changed. The Jedi laid down their militarism, disbanded their army and navy, forsook armor, and placed themselves under the supervision of the Supreme Chancellor. All of these suited Zach splendidly; he had no taste for war. What disturbed him were the strictest controls placed on the Jedi - the training only from early childhood, the centralization and standardization, and the strict limits on exploration and learning.

Zach loved the wandering in being a Jedi Knight. He loved the exploration, the learning, the richness of life it offered. Balking at the new dogma and rigidity being forced on the Jedi, Zach took a surplus tender ship and started wandering the Galaxy with a few fellowminded Knights and their Padawan. On Ziost, a planet only mentioned in the oldest of archives, Zach and his companions stumbled across Darth Bane, the secretly surviving Sith Lord. Bane cut down some of the fleeing Jedi and pursued the rest when they took off. With a destroyed hyperdrive and shield generator, Zach set a sublight course to the nearby Alderaan system, vented the reactive tibanna gas and fuel rods, and froze the three remaining survivors in carbonite. Zach alone (to his knowledge) survived the process, but he also survived the final torpedo run that shattered his ship.

Drifting through deep and then interstellar space, Zach was picked up by an Imperial survey ship in 5BBA. The captain noticed that Zach was a Miraluka, a now-rare species. Transferred first to the sector Moff's office and then to Grand Moff Tarkin's care, Imperial scientists under the direction of an enslaved Omwati savant found dim life signs and the possibility of ressucitation. Owing to the dangerous and potent nature of the find, Tarkin had Zach and the research team relocated to the newly operation Death Star. The Omwati researcher escaped from the Death Star with Zach's carbonite prison shortly before its destruction.

Last time on Star Wars...

08/02/08 session:

The PC's...

• Had a meeting on Home 1 with Alliance intelligence, including the newly debriefed former classmate of Talia's, where they learned of the existence of force users under Imperial command. These force users included someone Rafe recognized as an Organa.
• Were smuggled into the Alderaan system by Han Solo, who had been running guns to the resistance under the pretense of shipping luxury goods to the regional moff. Solo offered Jolee a permanent spot on the Falcon.
• Broke into the Organa family home, which now houses the moff, where they learned that the dark Jedi Zerul was involved, and the force users were most likely being trained of Felucia.
  
• Broke into a former manor home turned prison. Leia, Pel, Talia, Rafe, and Egon provided distraction while Jolee hid aboard the prisoner transport vessel, where she broke into the cockpit and convinced the pilot that doing as she said was the best option. The pilot flew the prisoner transport vessel, full of prisoners and Stormtroopers, to Home 1.