Jodo Kast

Affiliate of the Black Sun
Member of the Partisans (Formerly)
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## Biography

### Rebellion Service

**Jodo Kast** was once a member of the early rebellion movements that would ultimately lead to him joining the Rebel Alliance Special Forces. Kast was less concerned with the principle foundations of the rebels like freedom or justice, than he was with tangible credits. During one of his missions for the rebels, Jodo Kast's life would be altered forever. Kast had been assigned to infiltrate Imperial Intelligence, after they had managed to acquire sensitive information regarding the Alliance's manufacturing of arms and equipment. The information was collected by a small group of criminals hired by the Imperials to perform tasks that ordinary Storm Troopers were not equipped for.

Fortunately for the rebellion, the ship containing the information had crashed onto one of the planets of the Goratak system. The rebels dispatched several squads, one of which Kast was assigned to. The Imperials sent their own forces to secure the information, including a Mandalorian mercenary and a great deal of Storm Troopers. The conflict in the Goratak system was chaotic, and in the middle of the fighting Kast managed to kill the Mandalorian. Near the end of the battle Kast had an idea, he realized with how much of a reputation the Mandalorian culture had established in the field of mercenary work over the years that he could use it as an advantage in the field.

### Bounty Hunting Career

After the battle in the Goratak system had concluded, Kast deserted the rebellion, but not before taking the armor of the Mandalorian he had killed, modified the equipment and repaired any damage done during the battle, and took up a bounty hunting profession. To begin his career Kast began to hunt low-level targets, improving his skills in tracking prey and capturing his targets, but already being skilled in the field of scouting. At one point, Kast had begun enlisting his services to Saw Gerrera's rebel group, often working alongside a Lasat mercenary named Puggles Trodd, whom would later become his partner with Trodd serving as the muscle and Kast serving as the backup. After the death of Saw Gerrera, Puggles and Jodo broke ties from the Partisans and resumed their usual careers as bounty hunters.

### Hunt on Tatooine

A few weeks following the Battle of Yavin, the newly appointed commander of the *Imperial*-class Star Destroyer *Devastator*, Jhared Montferrat, hired Kast along with Puggles to go to Tatooine and capture and bring back Clone Wars veteran Adar Tallon who had been hiding on Tatooine, alive. Though Kast at first had misgivings of working for the Empire, he wanted to earn the reputation that he felt was rightfully his, and so accepted. Jhared, had placed several forms of insurance in the event that Kast failed, such as issuing a bounty across the Arkanis sector on Tallon, bringing dozens of hunters to the planet. After arriving on Tatooine Jodo had begun planning to locate all those who had information on Tallon, extract it from them, then kill them to keep them from warning other hunters.

Wanting to keep the less competent bounty hunters in line, Kast sent Trodd to sign up the others to accompany him on a journey into the Jundland Wastes to find Tallon.[4] Kardue'sai'Malloc, a Devaronian known to the locals as "Labria," informed Kast that the Ithorian crime lord Slag Flats was seeking Tallon herself. Kast killed Flats with another dart, then left behind a squad of bounty hunters to deal with any of her associates and a datapad threatening the local Old Arno, who knew Tallon's location. Arno had vanished, though, and when Kast learned that a group of Rebels—the same ones he had encountered on Kwenn Station—had intended to meet with Flats and Arno, and were themselves looking for Tallon, he decided to eliminate them. Malloc, claiming to have arranged a meeting with Arno, drew them into an ambush at a local cantina. Kast's hunters fell upon them, their orders to kill, and Kast himself arrived in the middle of the fighting to fire a poison dart at the group, then fled.[4]

The next day, Kast and his hunters set off into the Wastes after Tallon. They came to the town of Oasis, a sanctuary of the Dim-U religious order, but upon receiving no answers to their questions became angry and were sent on their way. Kast later sent Zardra to attack the village until she got answers, but the Rebel group drove them off. Quist, concerned about the Rebels' intrusion on his plans, at last betrayed Tallon to Kast. The bounty hunter and his group came to Fort Tusken and burst in on Tallon while he was meeting with the Rebels. Kast paralyzed Tallon's mercenaries Vytor Shrike and Jungen with his darts and the fight began. But the Rebels were ultimately victorious, and Kast fled.[4] His humiliation in the Tallon hunt would become well-documented.[12]