Shadow arts! Yata! Anyway... Character Name: Jeres Val Profession: former Dark Jedi, Mercenary Age: 25 Background: Selected for training after the Jedi Purge, Jeres Val was trained from the beginning as a Dark Jedi to serve Emperor Palpatine and enforce the New Order. He was one of the skillful few who survived the Sith Lord's training programs, and was hardened as a powerful Dark Jedi. After several successful first missions for the Empire, Jeres became fully aware of how the Empire was built and maintained. His missions were simple assassinations of Palpatine's political enemies and others who showed discontent with the new Imperial doctrine. On his last mission as an Imperial assassin, Jeres Val was sent to find and eliminate a Jedi who had escaped the Purge. When he finally found the Jedi, he was struck by how different he was from Jeres' expectation. This Jedi was not a rebel or warmonger. He didn't even commit any crimes against the Empire. He was just hiding, trying to survive in a galaxy where he'd been betrayed. Jeres decided to learn from the Jedi instead of killing him. In the few short weeks Jeres was with the Jedi, he learned much about what it was to be a true Jedi, while keeping the Jedi's location secret. Unfortunately, an Imperial Intelligence agent discovered the Jedi's hiding place, and an assault was carried out in the dead of night. Jeres left the Empire after that, vowing to fight against the injustice and cruelty that it embodied. He became a mercenary for a short time, doing odd jobs to earn some credits to buy his own ship. Eventually, two years after the Battle of Yavin, he fell in with Borlov's "Freedom Hunters", and worked his way up to become Borlov's Lieutenant Colonel. Now he fights the Empire more actively alongside the soldiers of the Hunters...