Appearance: Standing at 5'8" with reddish-brown hair and brown eyes, Jaeriel is taller than many human females. She is well-built, with very little fat on her and just enough muscle to allow her to both look good and do her military duty. Unless required to wear a uniform, she sports a black vest, black leather pants, leather armguards for her bow, a quiver of arrows, and a gunbelt with two DL-44s attached.
Affiliation: The Rebellion
Position: To be decided
History: Born on Telos during the reign of Emperor Palpatine, Jaeriel knew little of her overlords. Telos was still a waste planet with only a few cities standing, cities that were infested with the dregs of society. Crime was rampant, no place for a normal girl to come of age. Her father was killed on the streets when she was only a few months old, but her mother managed to keep her safe for eight years.
In her eighth year, trouble arrived. A man broke into the Skynia home and attempted to assault and rape Jaeriel's mother. Enraged, Jaeriel grabbed the man's blaster and shot him four times through the head. She cried afterwards, both for herself and her mother. She did not understand what would make a person attempt something so vile. Her mother attempted to explain it, but she failed.
Still, Jaeriel was more cautious from that point on. She learned how to survive on the streets and became very good at interfacing with computers and getting through "impossible" doors. She would steal to keep her and her mother alive, since honest work was too hard to find and paid too little. In truth, the two lived in relative bliss for the next six years.
When Jaeriel was fourteen, though, her entire world came crashing down. While she was out, a gang of thugs caught her mother alone. They ravaged her and then cerimoniously ended her life. When Jaeriel found her, she was already dead. Her face hardened, and she went hunting.
Two days later, she found the criminals. She came upon them unaware and managed to down two before they restrained her. After having their way with her, they turned her loose, laughing at her tears and screams. She never forgot that day.
Something had died inside her that day. She felt like garbage, used, abused, and now discarded. But it didn't kill her resolve. She vowed not to stop until every one of the thugs that had raped her and her mother had met their maker.
It took another year, but her goal was eventually accomplished. With each member of the gang she killed, she took his weapons - both of them. The organic one she fused to his mouth, the mechanical one she kept. When it was over, she had obtained two DL-44s, a Hyper-velocity bow, a DLT-19 sniping rifle, and the satisfaction of watching each gang member posthumously suck his own dick. No one in Telos City dared touch her; they had all seen the images of the dead gang members, and none wanted to end up like them.
But Telos no longer held any appeal for Jaeriel. The sixteen-year-old's family was dead, and she had no one else to kill. So she obtained transportation off-planet, much to the relief of the men in the city, and headed for Coruscant, the hub of civilization in the galaxy. There, she applied for the New Republic Military Academy and was accepted into their infantry program.
For the next three years she studied in the academy, scoring in the top of her class in marksmanship and survival skills but low in academic areas. She worked hard, though, and graduated just as the Black Fleet Crisis began. She applied for, and was accepted to, sniper training, a two-month course that took only the best marksmen (and women) in the New Republic. When she graduated from there, she was granted the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the New Republic Infantry.
One of her very first missions was the retaking of Coruscant. She led her platoon well, personally taking out several key figures and allowing the ground forces an advantage over their enemies. Through this action and several others, she was eventually promoted to Captain in the New Republic just before it collapsed.
Jaeriel, now out of a job, was unsure what to do next. Joining the Coalition seemed like a losing prospect, as the Empire was only growing stronger. So she made her way to a small, out-of-the-way planet called Generis. There, she managed to make a respectable living as a computer technician for the few inhabitants of the planet. In time, though, Generis fell under the control of they Onyxian Commonwealth. By this time, the Coalition was a force to be reckoned with, so Jaeriel joined the Commonwealth's army. She was given the rank of 1st Lieutenant because of her training, which frustrated her because she had once been a captain.
Jaeriel was part of the force committed to the BDE War, and she quickly discovered why her rank had been lowered. Technology had advanced rapidly since the days of the New Republic, but Jaeriel was a quick learner. Her skills as a markswoman had not declined, but she had become especially good with her bow. As such, she was sent on several missions that required silent killing, undercover and scouting missions. She became quite good at what she did, and she was eventually promoted to captain once again.
The BDE war, like all other wars, ended. Or at least it ended for Jaeriel. Her unit was recalled to take part in some sort of secret action. That action was the assault on Bilbringi. To her good fortune, she was stationed on one of the defective ships that never made it to Bilbringi, so she was not killed or captured with the rest of the fleet. However, when she discovered what had happened, and the purpose of the mission, she was sick. The Onyxians weren't any better than the Empire!
When the Coalition failed to prosecute those leaders of the Commonwealth that had been involved in the attack, and when word of Regrad's visit to the Empire reached her, it devestated her last hopes in the GC. She resigned her commission and headed for what she thought would be normal life, seperate from galactic politics and wars. She was wrong.
Weapon(s) of choice: DL Heavy Blaster Series, Hyper-velocity bow
Inventory: Hyper-velocity bow with multiple arrows, two DL-44 heavy blasters, one DLT-19 blaster rifle