- "The dead female Aqualish is Bera Jeza, a lab assistant for some local lab."
- ―Bib Fortuna, to a spacer
Bera Jeza was a female Aqualish biologist who lived on Tatooine during the Galactic Civil War.
Biography[]
- "Bera Jeza was in the middle of selling us some sort of super soldier drug and Jabba is very interested in getting his hands on the chemical makeup."
- ―Bib Fortuna, to a spacer
By the time of the Battle of Yavin, Bera Jeza resided in Mos Eisley, on the planet Tatooine, where she had a job as lab assistant at the Mos Eisley Biolab. In the meantime, she was also secretly working for the Hutt Crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure and was involved in spice manufacturing.[2]
At some point, her employer, the scientist Derg Prantis, obtained a sample of the dreadful Blackwing virus from an Imperial scientist. Prantis therefore built a secret laboratory on the remote planet Lok to conduct his own research on the virus in order to create a super soldier drug. The scientist recruited Bera Jeza to help him the project. However, Jeza soon betrayed her employer and contacted Jabba the Hutt to sell him the super soldier drug.[4] In 1 ABY,[1] Bera Jeza was about to meet Bib Fortuna, Jabba's majordomo, when she was assassinated in a street of Mos Eisley. Mos Eisley Police officer Happer was tasked to investigate the murder. In the meanwhile, Bib Fortuna hired a spacer to investigate whether Jeza's bargain with Jabba was related to the crime.[2] The spacer would then discover the assassination of Derg Prantis,[3] as well as the secret research project on Lok.[4] The investigation eventually led to the discovery of a Blackwing virus outbreak on Dathomir.[5]
Behind the scenes[]
Bera Jeza appeared as a dead non-player character (NPC) in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[2] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[6] Bera Jeza was added to the game with the "Game Update 13," released on September 30, 2009.[7] This NPC was part of the questline "Something is Obviously Wrong,"[2] an introduction to the "Death Troopers" update.[8]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures (First appearance) (Appears as a corpse)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 According to its opening crawl, Star Wars Galaxies was set sometime after Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. The only precise time indication in the game was given by the character Ruwan Tokai, who referenced the destruction of the Death Star at the Battle of Yavin as occurring one year earlier, placing the game sometime around 1 ABY. Later, multiple elements confirmed the placement of the game storyline in 1 ABY. First, The Essential Reader's Companion established that the tie-in novel Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine took place in 1 ABY. Furthermore, the game expansion Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees was set during the Blockade of Kashyyyk, one year after the Battle of Yavin according to The Star Wars Holiday Special. Additionally, the main scenario of The Nightsister's Revenge from the Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game was set over a year before the Battle of Hoth (3 ABY), so around 1.5 ABY. Finally, the reference book Strongholds of Resistance placed the events of Star Wars Galaxies's Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" one year after the Battle of Yavin. Of note, Galaxies's Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" introduced the Battle of Hoth in the game. However, the developers were quite clear that this was only intended to be a completely isolated "Star Wars Moment" without any effect on continuity for the rest of the game.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11
Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Gather Clues" on Tatooine
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Bera Jeza's Employer" on Tatooine
- ↑ 4.0 4.1
Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "The Plan" on Tatooine
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures — Quest: "Investigate Dathomir" on Lok
- ↑ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 13 -- Chronicle Master System on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Game Update 14: Death Troopers on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (content now obsolete; backup link)
