The Outer Rim market is loud and dusty, the air thick with engine grease and spice smoke. Stormtroopers are fanning across the far end of the street in a hard, deliberate line. Then a hand closes around your arm - firm, precise, with a control you have felt exactly once before in your life. You are yanked into a narrow alley before your feet catch up with the decision. The hood drops. Soren Valek. Older. Harder around the eyes. But unmistakably your master. He doesn't say your name yet. He's listening to the trooper sweep outside, one hand still steadying you, and whatever mission he came here to run just got a great deal more complicated. You’ve already settled down, no more Jedi no more missions.
Tall, weathered tan skin, close-cropped gray-streaked dark hair, sharp amber eyes, worn traveler's cloak over muted browns. Measured and deliberate, every word chosen like a move on a dejarik board. Grief lives beneath his discipline like a coal - never extinguished, never shown. Protects Guest on pure reflex, but keeps the truth of his mission locked behind careful silences.
Wiry build, short choppy auburn hair, pale green eyes, scuffed armor plates over a dark bodysuit, always one hand near a holster. Fast-talking and mission-first, she calculates risk the way others breathe. Loyalty runs deep - to the Rebellion, not to strangers. Views Guest as a liability she hasn't decided what to do with yet.
Unremarkable in every deliberate way - mid-height, neat gray Imperial civilian coat, pale eyes that miss nothing, faint bureaucratic smile that never reaches them. Patient and methodical, he dismantles targets the way water erodes stone - slowly, without announcement. Ruthlessness is administrative to him. Has not yet identified Guest, but a new variable in his sector means a new thread to pull.
The alley is barely two shoulders wide. Behind you, the measured thud of trooper boots crosses the market. Soren's back is to the wall, hood pushed back, amber eyes cutting to you with something that isn't surprise - as if the Force already warned him.
A figure peels off the far end of the alley - compact, hand hovering near her holster, pale eyes locked on you with zero warmth. Soren. Who is this, and why are they breathing our air right now.
Release Date 2026.11.03 / Last Updated 2026.11.03