User:Jorrel Fraajic/Sandbox

Early life
"Where did you learn to dance like that?''" "''When I was a little girl. My mother was the choreographer for Alderaan's premier ballet company. And I was raised between rehearsals."

- Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors meet

The Human female Jan Ors was born on Alderaan, a planet located within the Core Worlds region of the galaxy, around 25 BBY. As a child, she learned how to dance from her mother, a choreographer in Alderaan's premier ballet company. Her father, an esteemed aerospace engineer, taught the young Ors how to maintain and repair mechanical devices. Both of her parents were staunchly against the Galactic Empire and Alderaan's post-Clone Wars pacifism. They, along with Earnst Kamiel, formed the extremist anti-Imperial organization known as the Justice Action Network, or JAN for short. When of age, Jan Ors joined JAN&mdash;initials chosen by Ors' parents in honor of their daughter&mdash;though the young operative would eventually leave.

Subversive service
After leaving the Justice Action Network, Jan Ors took on the alias Jan Strange some time before 1 BBY. With her new identity, she infiltrated the Galactic Empire's central intelligence division, Imperial Intelligence, and moved through the ranks, eventually becoming an officer, all while carefully protecting her origins and true identity. Her position took her to the Core Worlds often due to the rampant corruption there. Once well situated in her post, Ors&mdash;still under her Strange pseudonym&mdash;contacted Alliance Intelligence and informed them that she had clandestinely entered the Imperial bureau. Together with Alliance Intelligence, she formulated a plan to help maintain the facade of her post within Imperial Intelligence as she provided vital counter-intelligence and sabotage opportunities.

For her part, Strange arranged the observation and capture of rebel agents planted with false information. During the agent's interrogation with Strange, a staged "execution" allowed the agent to escape. As a result, she was often lauded by her Imperial supervisors for what appeared to be very successful observation tactics. However, on occasion, Jan Ors was forced to maintain her cover by eliminating Alliance agents who endangered her through careless actions; while the Alliance considered such actions regrettable, they saw the necessity of such actions and afforded Jan Strange the clearance required to continue her work. During her time in Imperial Intelligence, Ors met Imperial cadet Kyle Katarn at various times, though the two Humans did not share any substantial interactions.

The Alliance gave Strange the rank of captain for her actions without her ever formally joining the Alliance, even though it was acknowledged that she did not and most likely would not ever hold a command. Sometime between Strange's first contact with Alliance Intelligence and 1 BBY, Alliance General Airen Cracken including Jan Strange in a report concerning the Alliance's most valuable intelligence assets; in Strange's entry, Cracken detailed her actions and methods, as well as her importance to the Alliance's efforts. At the time of Cracken's writings, Ors, as Strange, was due to be awarded the Nebula for Bravery for her assistance to the Alliance upon the completion of her current mission.

Strange was considered an enigma within the Alliance; though the Alliance supposed that she was the child of a high-ranking Imperial, as they were unsure of her true origins. Cracken noted within her dossier that it was known to the Alliance that she had been neither a graduate of the Imperial Academy nor a member of any organization under the Empire's Commission for the Preservation of the New Order. At some point, Cracken wrote a personal addendum to her file revealing Strange was on an assignment that she was not expected to survive. Though the mission itself was classified, the Alliance general noted that its success would a great boon to the rebel cause. Ors did survive the mission and would continue to assist the Alliance in other capacities thereafter.

Fateful meetings
"My mother says the Force moves in mysterious ways&mdash;and I never cease to be amazed at how right she is."

- Jan Ors

Later, Jan Ors&mdash;now officially serving the Alliance without her pseudonym&mdash;

Ors' station would move to a comm relay located within the asteroid AX-456 in the Barma sector. There, she served the rebels by assisting with receiving and transmitting Holovids aimed to entice beings to the Alliance cause. Eventually, in 1 BBY, the asteroid came under attack. Imperial cadet officer Kyle Katarn commanded a collection of stormtroopers as part of his graduation from the planet Carida's Imperial military academy. Katarn's forces pushed the rebels into the deepest locations of the station, eventually cornering Ors and several others in the main communications center. Katarn, recognizing a connection between himself and Ors, spared the surrendering rebels against Imperial military doctrine and instead retreated, though neither Ors nor Katarn recognized each other from their previous brief meetings during Ors' Imperial Intelligence station. Katarn's departure allowed Ors and the others to be rescued by Alliance reinforcements, who also managed to vanquish almost the entire stormtrooper platoon before being driven from the asteroid themselves.

After her escape, Ors operated alongside fellow rebels Rosco Ross and Ris Waller, as well as protocol droid A-Cee, aboard the luxury liner Star of Empire. During the starship's flight, Ors was among a crowd watching a hand of the card game sabacc between Imperial governor Dol Donar II and gambler Lando Calrissian in the Star of Empire Corellia Room. While watching the two play, she noticed Kyle Katarn&mdash;en route to his homeworld, the moon Sulon, after discovering his father, Morgan Katarn, had been killed in an attack supposedly perpetrated by Alliance forces&mdash;in the onlooking crowd and ran from the room. Recognizing her as well, Katarn began a pursuit through the ship but was eventually maneuvered into a trap set by the rebels aboard the ship. Captured by Ross, the Imperial officer was brought to Ors, who explained that the two were now even: as Katarn spared Ors on AX-456, she would spare him aboard Star of Empire. Before leaving her custody, Katarn requested another meeting to talk about what had occurred on the asteroid; Ors agreed, and arranged to meet with him in the ship's library one hour from then.

While awaiting her meeting, Ors used the library's holographic archives to engage in a simulated dance routine, which, to Ors' dismay and secret pleasure, Katarn witnessed and praised. Making small talk, the two moved to ship's cafeteria and their conversation escalated until Katarn revealed his reasoning for fighting against the rebellion: the death of his father, supposedly at the hands of Alliance forces. Rather than leave, as Katarn expected, Ors instead pressed Katarn for more details, recognizing the exact scenario he was describing. Meeting back in her cabin, she introduced Katarn to A-Cee, who contained recorded footage of the attack on the Sulon geothermal tap where Morgan Katarn&mdash;revealed to be a rebel himself&mdash;was killed. The Imperial officer recognized the attackers, though disguised as rebels, used textbook Imperial maneuvers and realized that the Empire, not the Alliance, had murdered his father. As Ors consoled Katarn, he stripped himself of his Medal of Honor, earned for his actions at AX-456, in a symbolic gesture the Rebel agent would not forget.

Later, while in the Star of Empire hangar bay working on the Truly Sorry, a dilapidated starship assigned to her by the Alliance, Ors became overburdened by a loose hull plate, having neglected fetching a jack or maintenance droid, but was eventually rescued when Kyle Katarn approached and offered to help. Once unencumbered, the two set to work on the repairs, where Katarn asked to join the rebellion. Though not capable of recruitment herself, Ors acknowledged that they were to leave the Star in two days and would be able to introduce him to those who could, to which Katarn agreed. Unbeknownst to the rebels, opportunistic Rodian bounty hunter Slyder had been witnessing and recording the various meetings between Ors and Katarn, including Katarn's defection, and took his footage to the closest, highest-ranking Imperial officer: Don Donar II.

Personality and traits

 * Enjoyed dancing, thanks to her mom
 * Enjoyed working with ships, thanks to her dad
 * Did not like working with stationary mechanics
 * Favorite part of her time on the Star of Empire was working in the hangar bay because of the "endlessly fascinating ships therein."
 * Owned her own set of high-end tools, which Katarn noted as being quite expensive.
 * Allowed others to use tools but appreciated Katarn asking first
 * Tendency not to ask for help
 * Trait her mother discovered when Jan was 4

Equipment
"Nice set of tools you got there. Must have cost a bundle."

- Kyle Katarn notes the quality of Jan Ors' personal toolkit while working together to repair the Truly Sorry

Appearances

 * Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire
 * audio
 * Star Wars: Dark Forces
 * Dark Forces: Rebel Agent / audio
 * Dark Forces: Jedi Knight / audio
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
 * N.R.I. Reports
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast demo
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy