Sarcev Quest

Sarcev Quest,

Type: Hand of the Emperor

male Human (SWG#5, pages 48-49)
Dexterity 2D

blaster 6D
dodge 5D+2
lightsaber: short lightsaber 6D+2
pick pockets 4D+1

Knowledge 4D

intimidation 4D+2
languages 4D+1
scholar: galactic politics 6D+2
scholar: nobility 6D

Mechanical 2D+2

repulsorlift operation 4D+2

Perception 4D

con 7D+2
con: disguise 4D+2
investigation 8D
persuasion 11D+1
search 8D
sneak 6D+1

Strength 2D+1
Technical 3D

computer programming/repair 5D+2
security 5D

Control 6D+1 Sense 3D+1 Alter 4D+2
Known Force Powers: Accelerate Healing, Affect Mind, Dim Another's Senses, Emptiness, Force of Will, Hibernation Trance, Illusion, Life Detection, Life Sense, Magnify Senses, Projective Telepathy, Receptive Telepathy, Sense Force, Telekinesis, Waves of Darkness.

Force Points: 7

Dark Side Points: 10

Sarcev Quest began as a Jedi initiate. Failing to find a Master willing to make him a Padawan by his thirteenth year, he entered the Agricultural Corps, the supposed refuge for those who could never make the grade as an apprentice.It was long before the rise of the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY that Quest was rescued, as he put it, from this monotony. During his rise to power, Palpatine brought the young Quest into his service

After Palpatine died in the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Imperial Ruling Council, led by the loathsome Ars Dangor, sought to wrest power from the late Emperor's Grand Vizier, Sate Pestage. Quest opposed his fellows, sabotaging their efforts, but Pestage's own actions turned Quest against him. Seeing the proverbial writing on the wall, Pestage left Coruscant for Byss to immerse himself in his dark side experiments (and oversee the return of Palpatine), leaving a clone of himself to maintain order in his place—and to take the fall when his enemies moved against him. Quest evidently realized that the switch had taken place, yet went along with it as long as it served his purposes. But when the real Pestage failed to send word to him, and when the rapidly-gestated clone went mad, Quest abandoned it to the ambitions of the Council, and of Ysanne Isard.

Quest suspected that the real Pestage had perished in one of his dark experiments (he could not know that Pestage had actually resumed his place at the side of a resurrected Palpatine, but he soon would). With no check on his ambitions, he began to maneuver within the Council in preparation for an eventual bid for the throne himself. He struck up an alliance with an ambitious, charismatic and Force-sensitive Royal Guardsman, Carnor Jax, teaching him some Force powers in the process. Quest eloquently urging others in the Council to support Jax and won the favor of both the Council and the Royal Guards for his efforts. With these two tentpoles holding him up, he had become more powerful than he had ever been before.