Jovan Farstrider

Template: Failed Jedi
(As at Volume 4 - Episode 2)
DEXTERITY 2D+2
Blaster 4D, Dodge 4D, Lightsaber 5D
KNOWLEDGE 3D+1
Bureaucracy: Coruscant Library 4D+1, Language 4D, Scholar: Jedi Lore 4D, Scholar: Ancient Artefacts 4D+1, Willpower 4D
MECHANICAL 2D
Astrogation 2D+2, Space Transports 3D+1
PERCEPTION 3D+1
Bargain 4D, Persuasion 3D+2, Sneak 4D+1
STRENGTH 2D+2
Climbing/Jumping 3D
TECHNICAL 2D
First Aid 2D+2, Lightsaber Repair 3D+2
Special Abilities:

Force Skills: Control: 3D+2, Sense: 2D+1, Alter: 1D+2
Control: Absorb/Dissipate Energy, Concentration, Control Pain, Enhance Attribute, Remain Conscious
Sense: Life Detection, Life Sense, Danger Sense, Combat Sense
Alter: Telekinesis
Control + Sense: Lightsaber Combat

This character is Force Sensitive
Force Points: 2
Character Points: 5
Dark Side Points: 1
Move:10
Equipment: Lightsaber, robes, bottle of liquor, 250 credits, med-pack, and notepad with memories

Force Skills: Control: 4D, Sense: 3D+2; Alter: 2D+2
Control: Detoxify Poison
Sense: Sense Force, Receptive Telepathy
Control + Sense: Farseeing
Control + Alter: Return Another to Consciousness
Control + Sense + Alter: Affect Mind

Force Points: 5
Character Points: 8

Equipment: Lightsaber*, robes, bottle of liquor, 250 credits, med-pack, and notepad with memories
* Jovan Farstrider has constructed his own Lightsaber.

Skills: Craft (Lightsaber) +4, Diplomacy +3, Knowledge (Archaeology) +7, Knowledge (Jedi Lore) +5, Move Silently +5, Pilot +4, Read/Write Basic, Speak Basic

Feats: Exotic Weapon Proficiency (lightsaber), Expertise, Force-Sensitive, Weapon Finesse (Lightsaber), Weapon Focus (Lightsaber), Weapons Group Proficiency (blaster pistols, simple weapons)

Force Skills: Affect Mind +4, Battlemind +9, Enhance Ability +6, Enhance Senses +8, Farseeing +8, Force Push +9, Force Stealth +5, Heal Another +3, Heal Self +7, Move Object +9, See Force +4, Telepathy +8

Force Feats: Alter, Control, Deflect Blasters, Dissipate Energy, Sense

Capsule: For many years, members of Jovan’s family had worked as curators in one of the many great museums of Coruscant.  Unlike many other museums, this one was dedicated to the exploits of the Jedi over the thousands of years of recorded history.

Being located so close to the great Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Jovan’s ability with the force was identified early and he was quickly enrolled as a Padawan learner at the Temple.  During this early training, Jovan was drawn almost instinctively to the heroic and romantic stories and deeds that were stored in these libraries.  Whenever Jovan wasn’t busy with the daily training Padawan’s undertook, he could be found scouring the libraries for new stories and records to devour.

As part of that training, Jovan, at the age of 12, was apprenticed to the Jedi Master Romark Lanth.  Part of Master Lanth’s duties frequently took him to the Jedi Training centre on the planet Umbria.  It was here that Jovan spent large periods of time under the tutelage of Master Lanth, expanding his training while frequently corresponding with his family back home.

For the next few years, Jovan studied and worked hard at his task.  With few opportunities to visit his home, Jovan began to close on the goal of becoming a Jedi.  With his goal near completion, Jovan left Umbria, with only his Master's knowledge and returned to Coruscant for what he believed would be his final visit before becoming a Jedi Knight.  He was scarcely there two days, when he became stuck in the middle of the beginnings of Palpatine's Jedi Purge.

In the dead of night, and without warning, a squadron of Imperial Stormtroopers, led by a Dark Jedi Adept, Tambem Caído descended upon the museum intending to seize all it contained for Palpatine, and destroy that which he did not want.  Jovan's family naturally fought back to save their life's work.  Sensing his ability, the Dark Jedi Adept closed in upon Jovan and they became embroiled in combat.  Fighting for his own life, Jovan could only watch helplessly as the Stormtroopers opened fire and began mercilessly striking down Jovan's Father and Grandfather.  Overcome with grief at this loss, and believing that all his training was useless to save those who meant the most to him, Jovan gave into his rage, striking out at all those remaining in the room.  When the smoke and dust had cleared, Jovan could not believe what he had done.  Scattered throughout the complex along with the lifeless bodies of his family, were the bodies of 30 Imperials, and the scorched arm of his Dark Side opponent.  Suddenly, Jovan realised that his anger had contributed to their deaths.

Overcome with grief and anguish due to both his loss and the betrayal of all that he had been taught, Jovan fled in panic from the museum into the bowels of Coruscant.  Hiding from the Imperials, Jovan somehow managed to make his way off Coruscant through a combination of luck and desperation, and disappeared into the proverbial shadows of the galaxy.

Hopping from transport to transport, he roamed the galaxy; never stopping anywhere for longer than it took to gather enough credits to get away from that planet.  Two years after the incident, the transport he was travelling on was forced off course by a malfunction, and landed, by sheer luck, on the planet Umbria.  Recognising that this was the same place as where he had trained, Jovan tried to locate the training complex.  When he returned to where the sprawling campus he knew once stood, he discovered mile after mile of scorched and scared rock.  With a yearning for wanting to know what had happened to his master and friends, Jovan spoke with locals who informed him that almost two years ago, the Empire arrived in the system, and razed the facility by orbital bombardment.

With his last link to his past obliterated, Jovan staggered away from that planet to continue his endless wandering throughout the galaxy.