Biographic Information
Homeworld: Corellia
Born: 24 BBY
Physical Description
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Height: 1.9m (6’2”)
Mass: 135kg (297lb)
Hair Color: Dark Brown
Eye Color: Light Brown
Skin Color: Fair
Player: Stephen
Chronological and Political Information
| Affiliations: | Galactic Empire Imperial Intelligence -Oblivion’s Agents Sidewinder crew -Field Group Lady Sandhawk crew Alliance to Restore the Republic -Olto’s Small Teams Tactics Division |
| Masters: | Agent Oblivion (briefly) Raza Thorne (briefly) Ishtan Varut |
Taran Scarn was a famous Force-sensitive Human male Rebel field operative from Corellia, who would go on to become a Jedi Sentinel-Knight for the New Republic. He was a former Imperial Intelligence field agent under the command of Agent Oblivion and tasked with infiltrating an insurgency group that would be folded into the Rebel Alliance within the next year. He later defected to the Alliance after being hunted by an Inquisitor who revealed his Force sensitivity. After assuming command of the Field Group, he performed many missions on behalf of Olto Gabin and the Alliance, including the defeat of the Mad Khommite General and the Infected Legion.
Biography
Early Life
“It’s the Academy or Caldruun, Scarn I’m tired of seeing you in my courtroom!”
-Honorable Calibran Tiltor, to 17-year old Taran Scarn
Taran Scarn was born in 24 BBY to Arbin Scarn and Lorras Tennir, in Greten on the planet Corellia. Showing a sharp intellect early in life, Taran was fascinated by computer systems ‘as soon as he could reach them’ as his father often said. Two years later in 22 BBY, he would meet his little sister Lindrel, and due to his mothers’ failing health, learned how to help take care of her. When he was six years old in 18 BBY, Taran began thinking that he could move small things with mere thought, and felt justified by this when, during a visit from his uncle Torshin, he moved the cue ball merely by thinking hard about it when his father tried to win the game. Torshin took noticed of this and, after a long and heated discussion in the kitchen, informed Taran he would be helping him ‘develop his instincts’.
Within that same year, Tarans’ parents would learn that Lindrel was diagnosed as being on a mental spectrum and could not fully function on her own. Taran was put in charge of seeing to his sisters’ needs, and when she started showing the same talents as he had, he started teaching her the same way Torshin taught him.
In 12 BBY, just six years later, Lorras passed away from health complications. Lindrel tried to blame herself, believing her mother’s late-stage pregnancy had exasperated her confitionl. Taran did everything he could to reassure her that this was not the case, as she had been sick the majority of the time.
In 11 BBY, Arbin re-married, a decision that Taran did not agree with but repressed his opinions about. His step-mother, Agra Hortu, was a kindly woman and supportive of Taran and Lindrel, but the shadow of his mother hung heavy on their relationship. Her children and Taran’s step-brothers, Ross and Narr Hortu-Scarn, were resentful that Taran and Lindrel were given so much attention and were hostile to the siblings. Taran defended his sister from the two and learned the price of personal combat from his two step-brothers.
Torshin Scarn continued to teach Taran about his instinctive feelings and how to listen to them, up until 10 BBY when he was arrested. When Taran came home from school, expecting an afternoon of puzzles and guessing-games with his uncle, he saw unfamiliar men and a distinguished-looking woman walking his uncle to a dark landspeeder. When asked, he was told by CorSec had arrested him for trafficking in glitterstim, but he overheard a conversation between his father and step-mother that Torshin had been taken by a High Inquisitor for previous allegiances to the Old Republic Jedi. No matter what, however, his uncles’ arrest marked Tarans’ life forever after.
From age 14 onward, Taran sought to rebel however he could. In high school, he began using his exemplary computer skills to cause pranks within the system. Beginning with simple and harmless tricks, Taran eventually crossed the line when he hacked the schools’ holo-projection system to deliver an unflattering video explaining that their Pro-Empire propagation of the Clone Wars was an insult to the Old Republic and the Jedi Order. He was sent to Juvenile Detention for that action and would be sent twice more over the next three years for similar behavior.
In 7 BBY, at age 17, Taran was considered by many in his high school as a ‘master’ slicer and a troublemaker, though in reality he was rather quiet and kind. All of his fellow students knew that he took care of Lindrel, his little sister, who was in the same school. Unfortunately, a local school gang knew this, as well, and decided to profit from it. During the midterms, the gang offered to pay Taran to fix their grades so they would not have to repeat their school years. IT was the first time Taran was actively breaching a mid-level security system, but his skills proved well enough that he first tested it by manipulating his own scores.
Following this action, the gang took it one step further in both aspects. They demanded Taran should break into a bank and shift financial records to funnel money into their accounts, or they would reveal to the Empire that his sister, ever so quiet and aloof, was in fact a lost Jedi child. In an effort to protect his sister from the over-reactive actions of the Empire, Taran did as they asked. However, as he had with his school grades, Taran attempted to shift funds around to fill his own bank account, and that was where he found his limit on slicing. The alarms went off and Taran was soon arrested for a much larger crime than simply posting anti-Empire videos.
Taran was charge with breaking-and-entering and electronic-theft and tried as an adult. When his case was brought forward, he was standing before Judge Calibran Tiltor, who had overseen the last two judgements of the younger man. While he was sympathetic to Taran for wanting to protect his sister, and knowledgeable of the Empires’ knee-jerk reaction to such accusations, he would not let Taran walk out of the courtroom. “It’s the Imperial Academy or Caldruun, Scarn! I’m tired of seeing you in my courtroom!” he decried.
As Caldruun was a prison facility in the Ranirost district and well-known for its harshness upon inmates, Taran accepted the Academy choice. That evening, as he was packing for his shuttle, his father went to his room and explained that Judge Tiltor would see to Lintrel’s protection while Taran was away ‘as a favor to me’, his father explained. With that knowledge, Taran took the shuttle to Carida and was enrolled in the Imperial Academy.
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