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 * Rokur Gepta
 * Exar Kun
 * Shmi Skywalker Lars
 * Conan Antonio Motti
 * Shimrra
 * Harrar
 * Kar Vastor
 * Lorn Pavan
 * Jax Pavan
 * Lorana Jinzler
 * Nick Rostu
 * Jorus C'baoth
 * Arwen Cohl
 * Chaf'orm'bintrano
 * Cilghal
 * Het Nkik
 * Sulamar
 * Durga

Rokur Gepta
Rokur Gepta had funny clothes.

Did he learn anything from Palpatine?

Biography
Rokur Gepta was a Croke, a shape-shifting species that hailed from the planet Crakull. Gepta was born on an unidentified planet several millennia before the Battle of Yavin. Gepta was gifted with a strong connection to the Force to go with his natuarl ability to transform. At some point, Gepta joined the Sorcerers of Tund, a reclusive group of Force-sensitives who practiced arcane forms of Sith magic. Gepta learned much from the Sorcerers, and then, once he had taken all that they had to offer, he killed them all. Using an electromagnetic torpedo, a substance of incredible power, Gepta obliterated the planet, wiping out all of the Sorcerers. At some point between 19 and 4 BBY, Gepta came in contact with Emperor Palpatine. Palpatine, ruler of the Galactic Empire, was also a Sith Lord, and had an interest in learning from the Sorcerers of Tund. In return for learning some of the order's secrets, Palpatine promised Gepta power. Gepta was given a decommissioned Republic vessel known as the Wennis, and control over the Centrality, an independent state near Hutt Space. In truth, this independent government was simply ignored by Palpatine due its lack of strategic importance. Gepta had the power to override the orders of the Centrality's other officials, and quickly made many enemies in the region, although they feared the man as well. The Croke also had the ability to call in Imperial Navy ships when necessary as well.

A New Hope section to be given a better title later
Motti was present in a meeting in the Death Star conference room in 0 BBY, arguing with General Cassio Tagge over the effectiveness of the Death Star and the threat of the Rebellion. Tagge felt that the Rebel Alliance posed a threat to the battlestation, whereas Motti was confident that the superweapon was invincible. Tagge also feared that the growing Rebel movement would gain sympathy in the Senate. However, the two were interrupted by Tarkin, who informed the officers present that the Imperial Senate had been dissolved by Emperor Palpatine. The Moffs would now have direct control over sectors, and the planets would not dare step out of line due to fear of the Death Star. However, Tagge continued to insist that the Rebellion was dangerous, especially if they had obtained a copy of the Death Star plans, as many Imperials feared following the Battle of Tatooine. Though Darth Vader admitted that the plans were in the hands of the Rebellion, he proclaimed that soon the Empire would have them.

Motti then boasted of the Death Star's power, claiming that it was the preeminent power in the galaxy. However, Vader rebuted this claim, warning Motti not to underestimate the power of the Force. Motti mocked Vader, laughing at his devotion to the Force, alleging that it had not helped him recover the stolen Death Star plans. In response, Vader simply Force-choked him, relenting only when ordered to by Tarkin.

Motti, who had previously doubted both Vader and the Force's power, was frightened and shocked by this display. The admiral feared that Vader could have killed him without touching him, a realization that shook him greatly.

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Lorn Pavan
Lorn Pavan was a Human male who worked at the Jedi Temple Coruscant during the last years of the Galactic Republic before becoming an information broker. Pavan and his wife Siena had a son, Jax in 39 BBY, who was later found by the Jedi to be Force-sensitive. When Pavan agreed to let his son be trained, the Jedi fired him. Shortly after this, his wife left him, and Pavan was forced to become an information dealer in the underlevels of Coruscant. In 37 BBY, Pavan met the droid I-5YQ, who he took into his possession. He later modified I-5 a great deal, and the droid began to think freely, even developing a sentience of sorts. Pavan considered him a friend, and treated him like an equal.

In 32 BBY, Pavan became the target of a Sith, who sought to recover a holocron with pivotal information and kill anyone who had knowledge of it. As he had attempted to buy it, Pavan found himself being hunted. The Sith chasd Pavan, I-5 and their new ally, the Jedi Padawan Darsha Assant, through the Coruscant underworld. After spending several terrifying hours trying to make it to the Jedi Temple, the group was finally caught. Assant sacrificed herself to allow Pavan and the droid to escape. Determined to get revenge for Assant&mdash;who Pavan had started to have feelings for&mdash;he went after the Sith, cornering him on a space station above the planet. He managed to stun the Sith and recover the holocron, but was then forced to flee when he awoke. Encountering Senator Palpatine and his guards in the station, Pavan at last believed that he was safe. However, the Sith found him a day later and killed him. Pavan's memory lived on in his son and I-5.

Biography
The Human male Lorn Pavan worked at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, capital of the Galactic Republic. In 39 BBY, he had a son with his wife Siena. The two named their child Jax. Pavan continued to work at the Temple until his son was two, when the Jedi realized the Force potential the young child possessed. Pavan agreed to let his son be trained by the Jedi. The Jedi then fired him, as a key component of their philosophy was that Jedi shoudl not develop attachments, particularly Younglings such as Jax. Pavan was outraged by his firing, but could do nothing about it. Feeling that this was unjust, he developed a great hatred for the Jedi, which would remain for most of his life. Shortly after his firing, his wife left him.

Pavan became an information broker, barely scraping by. In 37 BBY, he encountered a protocol droid named I-5YQ in a junk dealer's shop. After activating the droid, and hearing his story&mdash;he had been owned by a rich family, whose spoiled children frequently ordered him to jump off the roof for entertainment&mdash;Pavan purchased him. He began to make extensive modifications on the droid, allowing him to think and act more independently. It was not long before the droid even began to show characterisitics of being sentient, and Pavan considered him an equal and a friend.

By 32 BBY, Pavan was working as an information broker along with I-5 in the underlevels of Coruscant. The two were struggling to get by, and Pavan owned very few possessions. That year, the two had a meeting with the Toydarian businessman Zippa. Zippa possessed an object that he claimed to be a Jedi holocron, which he offered to sell to Pavan for 20,000 credits. However, when a skeptical Pavan replied that there was no way of telling whether it was authentic or not, as it could only be accessed by a Force-sensitive, Zippa sarcastically asked if Pavan would be to able to use the Force to open the holocron. The Human snapped at this remark, threatening Zippa and warning him to never mention the Jedi to him again. After some hassling, the two settled on a price of 12,000 for the holocron.

However, when Pavan handed over the credits, Zippa withheld the holocron, while his Gamorrean bodyguard, Bilk held the two at bay with a blaster, enabling the Toydarian to flee with both the money and the prize. Before he left, Zippa warned Pavan that anyone who threatened him would die, and left his bodyguard behind to fulfill his warning. However, I-5 let loose with a deafening scream from his vocabulator, causing the Gamorrean to drop the blaster in pain. The droid caught it, and shot Bilk, killing him and allowing the two to leave. Though he had survived, Pavan was furious for losing both the credits&mdash;most of his remaining savings&mdash;and the holocron. Determined to forget his troubles, at least temporarily, he headed for the Green Glowstone Tavern, and proceeded to get drunk on Johrian whiskey. After getting drunk, Pavan stumbled out of the bar, and was helped home to his one room apartment by I-5. He woke up the next morning with a hangover, although I-5 was able to rid Pavan of it with a screech from his vocabulator. The droid then informed Pavan that he had two holomessages. One was from Yanth, a Hutt crimelord who had planned to buy the Jedi holocron from Pavan, and who was tired of waiting for the Human. The second message was from a Neimoidian named Hath Monchar, who mentioned that he had a valuable commodity that he believed Pavan might be interested in. He also gave a time and a place for the two to meet. As Pavan now possessed a mere 17 decicreds, he decided to meet with Monchar.

Pavan and I-5 met with Monchar and his Trandoshan bodyguard, Gorth, at the Dewback Inn. Monchar informed Pavan that he had a holocron of an impending blockade of a planet. Furthermore, this blockade was to be directed by the Sith. Aware that there were many who would pay a great deal for this information, Pavan was interested in buying it. However, Monchar demanded 500,000 credits for the holocron, and refused to negotiate. He informed Pavan that he should meet him at Monchar's cubicle in an hour with the funds. Though Pavan did not have the necessary sum, he agreed to meet Monchar when the Neimoidian threatened to sell the holocron to someone else if Pavan could not come up with the required sum in the time limit. Monchar and Gorth then headed to Monchar's apartment, leaving Pavan and I-5 to determine how to come up with half a million in one hour.

The two brainstormed several possible solutions, such as winning big in sabacc, although I-5 convinced his partner that such options were not feasible. The only viable choice, he said, was bank fraud. Pavan was stunned by this suggestion, and the droid began to explain his idea. I-5 was confident that he could slice into a bank, and alter Pavan's credit tab so that, for a short while, at least, it would display him as having 500,000 credits in his account. Though he would not actually possess the money, the Neimoidian would believe that he did, and Pavan would be able to purchase the holocron, while actually leaving Monchar empty-handed. Although both knew it was extremely risky, Pavan agreed to it, seeing this plan as the only way he could "gain" half a million credits in time to buy the holocron. The two would then sell the holocron for a large sum and flee the planet, hopefully ahead of bank officials.

The two then located a dataport, and I-5 successfully made the transfer. The droid estimated that it would be an hour and 40 minutes before bank officials discovered the fraud, meaning that the two had a small window to collect the holocron and flee the planet. The two headed to Monchar's cubicle, and I-5 waited outside while Pavan went to speak to the Neimoidian and receive the holocron. As he neared Monchar's room in the building, he was struck by a sudden shockwave from an explosion in Monchar's room, knocking him unconscious for a moment. When he awoke, he noticed several corpses nearby. One of them, he realized, was Monchar's. Glancing in the Neimoidian's burnt and blackened apartment, he noticed the holocron laying in an open safe. He quickly grabbed it and then fled out of the building.

Outside, he met I-5 and explained what had happened as the two hurried away from the building. Though unsure of what exactly had caused the explosion and killed the people there&mdash;evidently Monchar and his bodyguards&mdash;he agreed that I-5's advice that they quickly sell the holocron to Yanth and get off-planet was a good idea. As the duo was walking away from the building, Pavan suddenly had a realization&mdash;the wounds had been cauterized, and there was no blood from the lacerations. He knew that the only weapon capable of doing such was a lightsaber, and that no Jedi would have violently killed in that manner. Thus, Pavan felt, a Sith had to have been responsible, even though he had learned that the Sith Order had supposedly been wiped out a millennia ago. Though I-5 attempted to convince his friend otherwise, Pavan was sure that a Sith was responsible for the brutal killings. He intended to get off-planet, and started to throw the holocron away before he was stopped by the droid. I-5 managed to persuade Pavan to keep the holocron, and sell it to Yanth, after which they could flee Coruscant. The two then met with the Hutt in his underground headquarters. There, Pavan explained that the holocron revealed details of an impending invasion to be led by the Sith. When Yanth questioned why he had not taken this to the Jedi, Pavan&mdash;reluctant to explain his personal reasons for disliking the Jedi order&mdash;simply replied that he suspected that they would use a mind trick to force him to hand over the holocron for free. Yanth then inspected the holocron, and agreed to buy it for one million credits.

Just as Yanth handed over the credits, a Zabrak in a hooded cloak with a red lightsaber stepped through the door. Pavan was instantly terrified by the man, recognizing him as a Sith. The Human narrowly avoided being decapitated, and then fled along with I-5 while the Sith slaughtered Yanth and his bodyguards. The two escaped to the club called the Tusken Oasis that was located above Yanth's basement headquarters, and fled out into the streets, Sith not far behind them. Just as he was catching, the two were saved by a duo of Jedi in an airspeeder who had sensed a disturbance in the Force when the Sith had killed the Hutt and his guards. Pavan and I-5 quickly boarded the airspeeder, although the Zabrak had damaged the craft's repulsorlifts, preventing them from ascending to safety high above. Though the two were glad to have escaped the Sith, his enthusiasm was tempered by two things&mdash;the realization that the hated Jedi had saved him, and that the Sith was now pursuing them on a speeder.

The two explained to the Jedi why they were being pursued. Realizing that the Sith was catching up, the Jedi Master, Anoon Bondara, jumped out of the speeder, landing on the Sith's speeder bike. The two then jumped to a nearby platform, and started a fast-paced duel. Meanwhile, the Jedi's Padawan, Darsha Assant, turned the speeder around, determined to rescue her master. Pavan and I-5 pleaded with her to make her master's sacrifice meaningful, but she remained resolute. Just as their speeder neared the platform, Bondara, recognizing that he was going to lose the duel, plunged his lightsaber into the Sith's speeder, causing its power core to explode. The platform collapsed, although the Sith escaped, causing the speeder to crash, and knocking the Humans unconscious. I-5 dragged Assant and Pavan out of the speeder before it exploded, and guarded them until they awoke. The three headed through a service conduit, intending to head back to the Jedi Temple. The trio traveled for a while, before they were abruptly attacked and knocked unconscious by Cthons, a group of feral, mutated beings that fed on meat&mdash;even Humans. When Pavan awoke a short time later, he found the creautres closing in on him. His screams awoke Assant. Pavan told her to activate I-5, which she was able to do through the Force. The droid then let loose a deafening screech, which caused the Cthons, who relied on their hearing rather than sight, to flee in pain. The three then quickly absconded.

As the three headed back to the Jedi Temple, traveling through the underground, Pavan thought of ways he could avoid having to meet with the hated Jedi Council. He planned to flee to a spaceport instead of going to the Temple soon, and there, him and I-5 would book passage on a ship, possibly one owned by Tuden Sal, a Black Sun operative who owed Pavan a favor. From there, he planned to head to a far-away world like Tatooine, where he figured they would be safe from the Sith. However, he did have misgivings about ditching Assant, as he found, much to his surprise, that he was beginning to like her. As he was lost in thought, the group came to a large drop-off. Fortunately for them, a bridge&mdash;made of a sticky string-like substance and planks laid on top&mdash;stretched across, and seeing no other way across, the trio began to walk over it.

As the three crossed over the bridge, Assant noticed that the Sith had caught up to them, and was at the edge of the bridge behind them. However, in front of them was a taozin&mdash;a large, carnivorous invertebrae that could not be sensed through the Force, and had evidently created the bridge with a sticky substance in produced through its mouth. The trio attacked it, but quickly realized that they could not harm it. However, they remained unable to flee, as the Sith was behind them. As they slowly retreated, I-5 and Pavan removed the planks. Assant then cut one of ropes that made up the bridge, and the three grabbed on, causing them to swing past the taozin, safe from danger. They then exited the tunnel.

Outside, the trio encountered several members of the Raptors, a gang Assant had tusseled with earlier. The gansters threatened them, only to be met with insults from Pavan, causing them to attack. The trio quickly defeated them, and then took one of the gang members, who they termed "Green Hair" with them to lead them to the upper levels. Though the thug attempted to use a mechanical turret to kill them, they thwarted him, and with the aid of a mind trick, convinced him to lead them to the Temple. He took them to a large tunnel with a ladder streching upward. The three climbed up the ladder, finally making it to the top. However, when they opened the door to leave the access pipe and finally arrive at the upper levels, they found their way blocked. The Sith was waiting for them.

Assant Force pushed I-5 and Pavan into a carbon freezing chamber next to the exit, using the Force to lock them in, while she attacked the Sith. Pavan was stunned, and tried to break out to help her. However, I-5 knew what she had intended, and refused to let Pavan exit. He convinced him to make Assant's sacrifice meaningful, and then told Pavan that he could be frozen in carbonite, allowing him to escape the Sith's wrath. Pavan was successfully frozen; meanwhile, Assant continued to duel the Sith. Aware that she could not win against a superior opponent, she sacrificed herself, detonating several barrels of explosive fuel that had been sitting nearby. The explosion vaporized Assant and her surroundings; however, the Sith escaped. The carbon freezing chamber, with I-5 and Pavan, remained intact, allowing the two to survive.

I-5 then unfroze Pavan. When the Human came to, the droid explained what had happened, and that Tuden Sal was coming to give them a ride and take them to safety on another planet. As the droid reminded Pavan of the events that had taken place mere minutes ago, the Human felt a deep sense of loss and sadness upon realizing that Assant had died. He then realized that he had harbored feelings for her, and that the two had come to mean something to each other in a short time. Shortly after this, Tuden Sal arrived in a skycar. As he took them to his ship, Pavan and I-5 noticed a figure below them&mdash;the Sith. He had survived, and remained unaware that Pavan had also lived. Pavan decided to follow the Sith, and avenge Assant. However, Pavan would not let I-5 accompany him, telling him that he should go to the Jedi Temple, so that there would be a backup plan in case the Sith won. I-5 agreed to go, giving Pavan a bit of taozin skin to make him invisible to the Force, and then the two friends parted, with Pavan telling Tuden Sal to deliver the droid to the Jedi Temple. The Human boarded the ship Sal had obtained for him&mdash;an ARE Thixian Seven&mdash;and he followed the Sith, who was in his own ship. Pavan was able to follow the Sith to a space station that was in orbit of the planet without being noticed, and then he landed his ship in the hangar. He succeeded in sneaking up on the Sith in the station, and fired two stun shots into his back. However, just as he took the holocron from the Zabrak, he awoke, and attacked, slicing off his hand. Stunned, Pavan fled, managing to make it to another corridor and lock the door before the Sith could follow him.

Nonetheless, the Sith pursued him, and used his lightsaber to cut through the hatch. Motivated by fear, Pavan ran for his life, scrambling upwards, until he found himself in large solarium with several guards, and the senator from Naboo, Palpatine. Pavan handed him the holocron, informing Palpatine that it contained information vital to the Jedi Order. Palpatine promised to deliver it to them, and summoned aid, before Pavan collapsed from exhaustion. He awoke later in a hotel, convinced that he was finally safe, and had at last won. Palpatine had given him the option of moving to a world on the Outer Rim or stay on Coruscant. Either way, the bank fraud charges would be dropped, and Pavan would be able to live in peace with I-5. The Human was ready to start a new life. Though he would miss Assant, he was determined to begin his life anew, most likely by staying on Coruscant and attempting to meet Jax. However, his dreams were shattered when he opened the door to venture outside. There, stood the Sith.

Pavan was stunned, but the feeling of amazement quickly faded, to be replaced by one of peace and acceptance. Having spent the past several days being chased by a deadly assassin, with his life on the line at every moment, he was tired of running. Furthermore, he believed that he had accomplished his objective, by delivering the holocron to the Jedi. His last thought was of Jax.

Legacy
MedStar, Palp is Sidious, Coruscant Nights

Black Sun involvement suspected for the Jedi's deaths