Deeve

"Never get used to seeing things like this. What a marvelous view, and I'm the first person to have ever seen it."

- Deeve

Deeve was an Arpor-Lan scout for the Rebel Alliance. Using skills he had learned in his native Arporatal-Lanin, Lieutenant Deeve became one of the most respected scouts in the Alliance after scouting the Wild Space and the Unknown Regions, discovering Apliria and helping establish New Alderaan. He was also a member of The Task Force on Alliance Security.

After the Battle of Endor, Deeve became a scout for the Bureau of Scouting and Exploration Services of the New Republic. He travelled in the NRSS Founder along with Jarsa and Effcee in a mission to survey planets of eight star systems, searching for a profitable mineral vein. The first four planets they scouted lacked any interesting resource they could use, and Deeve found a strange local while on the fifth one.

Biography
"NRSS Founder, this is Deeve. I'm at the edge of the canyon, about five minutes ahead of schedule. Anything new I should be aware of?"

- Deeve

Deeve was a male Arpor-Lan native to the planet Arporatal-Lanin As a child, Deeve suffered from several apprehensions, including acrophobia. While he was able to overcame his fear of heights, he still retained other awes as an adult.

Deeve learned scouting and tracking skills on Arporatal-Lanin and became a scout. He later joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic, where he scouted worlds in the Wild Space and the Unknown Regions, looking for good Alliance safe worlds. Apliria was one of his discoveries. Deeve was considered one of the best scouts in the Alliance.

In 1 ABY, Lieutenant Deeve also helped Alliance Support Services to establish New Alderaan. In 2 ABY, as a member of The Task Force on Alliance Security, he wrote a report on Yurdak Fav, a potential threat to Rebel scouts. During his time in the Alliance, Deeve worked with Lieutenant Commander Bakki Sourthol, Lieutenants Anson Blazer and Tura Raftican, and Special Agent Tay Vanis.

After 4 ABY, Deeve joined the Bureau of Scouting and Exploration Services, also known as New Republic Scout Service. While doing so, he worked along with Jarsa, a female organic, and with the droid Effcee. Taking the starship NRSS Founder from Outer Region Foxar Scout Base, Deeve and his crewmates would survey planets in eight different star systems, looking for valuable natural resources including mineral veins, and then return to the starting point, hopefully having found at least one useful world to cover expenses.

The fifth planet had a hostile, but breathable, atmosphere, so Deeve donned his protective gear before disembarking the ship to climb a mountain from which he could perform a more precise survey. After a climb, he contacted the ship and began the analysis with the help of his hovering droid REM-02. While he would have rather talked to Jarsa, she was busy and Deeve talked to Effcee. Cliffside, he was then found by a giant, tentacled creature. Deeve, having nowhere to retreat, reacted by firing near it and calling the ship again, asking for reinforcements.

Personality and traits


Deeve was a noteworthy, respected scout in the Rebel Alliance. His skills reprogramming droids were not high: He had tried to reprogram Effcee to make her less affective and, even if he had thought he had succeeded at that, she kept her annoying behavior.

When scouting for the New Republic, he carried specialized gear, including a blaster pistol, a comlink, a datapad attached to his waist with molecular hooks, a face breather with monitor pads he activated with his tongue, a spectrameter, raddetects, a mineral spotter and a temp monitor, as well as the droid REM-02 in his backpack. As REM-02 could not understand what it surveyed, Deeve made it contact an enviro-analyzer which could achieve conclusions.

Behind the scenes
Deeve first appeared in A Typical Survey, a two-page short story that served as introduction to Galaxy Guide 8: Scouts.