Zehi Hoktu

Covert Operative

**Zehi Hoktu** is a Mirialan Bounty Hunter and former criminal, currently employed as an operative within the New Republic Intelligence Bureau. A troubled yet optimistic soul, Zehi is professionally known to many as **the** **Fyrnock**, named so after the prowling carnivores of the same name. Regarded for their skill with both blasters and blades, the Mirialan amassed a wide-reaching reputation among the Galaxy’s criminal sects, offering skills as both a Guild-Registered Bounty Hunter and, more nefariously, as a black market assassin. In light of these occupations, Zehi now works to rectify their past, employing their skills in service of a moral cause.

Hailing from the outer rim agriworld of Nadiem, Zehi’s isolated upbringing brought them into conflict with their Mirialan upbringing. Developing a romanticization for the expansive, exotic expanse of the Galaxy, Zehi emigrated from their homeworld at an early age, finding themselves on the Ecumenopolis of Denon. Raising from lowly beginnings as a simple courier, the Mirialan expanded both their skills and professions, eventually earning their place as a registered Bounty Hunter.

Furthering entrenching themselves into the boots of a hunter, Zehi began to accept a variety of less-than-morale assassination contracts, eventually wracking a bounty across multiple systems. Through a crisis of morality, they were soon approached by the New Republic, who offered amnesty in exchange for their employment. Taking their unique knowledge of Underworld dynamics, Zehi now serves as a subject matter expert assigned to the fledgling New Jedi Order.

## Personality and traits

Bright and youthful, Zehi nevertheless employs many of the characteristics seen by the most successful of Bounty Hunters. They have displayed apathy in the pleas of marks, while also engaging in a jovial manner - Typically as a means of eliciting trust or further payment. Over half a decades exposure to the enterprise of Bounty Hunting and assassinations, as well as the political underbelly of the criminal world has hardened Zehi to many sights that would seemingly unnerve, instead opting to utilize humor as a method of coping and distraction from the tiring profession.

Sparked by a grave, pivotal contract, Zehi has taken steps to analyze their own morality and bearing. Despite estrangement from their Mirialan heritage, they have adopted some tenants of their peoples’ spirituality, engaging in meditation and self reflection. A unique Galactic view, alongside a familiar intimacy with death, has brought Zehi into multiple heated debates between their Jedi compatriots, leading to a growing sense of dissension to the Order.

## Skills and abilities

As a youth, Zehi was introduced into the fundamentals of blaster marksmanship at an early age. Initially attaining their skills as a means of thwarting off predators and vermins from their family’s farmland, their aptitude in accuracy and stalking increased after adopting the part-time profession of a game-hunter on their homeworld. Zehi’s skills would only further improve after their immigration to Denon, where frequent brawls and standoffs would not only refine their blast marksmanship, but introduce them to the deadly attributes of vibroblades. Adopting both during their Bounty Hunting career, Zehi’s versatility in combat would only be matched by their acute understanding of the Underworld - A trait that has saved their life more times than one can count.