Name: Syril Karn
Type: Civil Servant / Law Enforcement Officer
Species: Human
Homeworld: Coruscant
Gender: Male
Born: 43 BBY (957 GC)
Died: 2 BBY (998 GC)
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 1.78m
Weight:70kg
Skin: Light
DEXTERITY 2D+1
Blaster: 4D+2
Brawling Parry: 5D
Dodge: 4D
Grenade: 3D
Melee Combat: 4D+2
Melee Parry: 4D
KNOWLEDGE 3D
Alien Species: 4D
Bureaucracy: 3D+2
Intimidation: 4D
Languages: 3D+2
Law Enforcement: 5D
Planetary Systems: 5D
Streetwise: 4D
Tactics: 3D+2
Willpower: 7D
MECHANICAL 2D
Communications: 3D
Repulsorlift Operation: 3D
PERCEPTION 3D
Command: 4D
Con: 3D+2
Forgery: 4D
Investigation: 5D
Persuasion: 4D
Search: 4D+2
Sneak: 3D+1
STRENGTH 2D
Brawling: 3D
Stamina: 3D
TECHNICAL 2D
Blaster Repair: 3D
Encryption: 4D
First Aid: 3D
Security: 5D
Special Abilities:
None
Force Sensitive: N
Force Points: 2
Dark Side Points: 0
Character Points: 10
Move: 10
Equipment: Blaster Pistol (3D), utility belt, holocam
Background: Syril Karn was a human male civil servant employed by the Imperial Bureau of Standards of the Galactic Empire. He had previously been a senior law enforcement officer for the Preox-Morlana as a Deputy Inspector during the Imperial Era. Due to an incident on Ferrix, Karn was stripped of his duties and left utterly disgraced by his superiors. He returned home to his mother, Eedy Karn, on Coruscant.
Syril Karn was a human male born to a strict mother, Eedy Karn. He also had an uncle named Harlo, who had great influence in the politics of the Core Worlds planet Coruscant, where Karn grew up. From 22 BBY to 19 BBY, while Karn was in his late teens and early twenties, the galaxy faced the Clone Wars, during which the Galactic Republic fielded an army of clone troopers and was transformed into the Galactic Empire. Karn owned several clone trooper action figures in his childhood bedroom when he left his house to join the Pre-Mor Enforcement, the tactical forces of the corporate conglomerate Preox-Morlana in the Morlani system. After being hired, Karn moved to Morlana One, where the Corporate Security Headquarters was located.
He never invited his mother to see him, instead vaguely letting her know that she could visit any time, an open invitation she considered no invitation at all. She never visited him, and they did not see each other again until 5 BBY. Karn took his duties more seriously than most of his fellow Pre-Mor employees, eventually rising to Deputy Inspector. At that point, he tailored his uniform to fit tighter and added pockets and piping for a more decorative outfit.
As Deputy Inspector, the thirty-five-year-old Karn took charge of a case where two Pre-Mor security officers had been killed outside the Leisure Zone on the planet Morlana One. Karn prepared an extensive report for his immediate superior, including the fact that an employee at the brothel where the two officers were last seen alive had seen a man arguing with them.
Chief Inspector Hyne, who was about to leave for an Imperial Regional Command security meeting, was dismissive of Karn’s eagerness to investigate the case, explaining that one of the deceased was a known troublemaker and both were in a restricted area, violating multiple Enforcement rules. Instead, he instructed Karn to prepare an accident report stating the officers had died heroically. After Hyne’s departure, however, Karn continued to investigate the murders. He first identified a rogue vessel departing Morlana One, ordering the comms officer to filter the entire night to find where the vessel traveled. He also called all witnesses to the incident to report on the Security headquarters, with one of the hostesses coming in and informing him that the man the corpos were arguing with was asking about a woman from Kenari.
After discovering that the suspect’s vessel had traveled to Ferrix, Karn had his officers attempt to identify anyone from Kenari. He was frustrated to learn the last Imperial census was six years prior, and ordered his officers to flood the communications channels to Ferrix with an alert requesting information on a suspect from Kenari. After his officers received a tip from a local named Timm Karlo naming the suspect as Cassian Jeron Andor, Karn’s officers could find a picture of Andor and identify him in their records. Karn then had the girl at the brothel come in to confirm the man’s identity, finally confirming that Andor was indeed most likely the perpetrator of the crime.
Having identified Andor as his target, Karn summoned Sergeant Linus Mosk, who commanded a Pre-Mor security Inspection team. Karn was impressed by Mosk’s enthusiasm to capture Andor, finally finding a kindred spirit in someone who took their duties as seriously as he did. Mosk recommended that they lead a twelve-man team to capture Andor on Ferrix promptly. Karn agreed, and the two later departed on a Preox-Morlana personnel carrier with twelve men to Ferrix to arrest Andor.
During the trip to Ferrix, Mosk briefed his team on the situation, warning that Andor was likely armed and dangerous. He then allowed Karn a moment to speak to the men, and Karn delivered an awkward and uninspired speech to the team. Upon arrival at Ferrix, Mosk and Karn attempted to deliver the arrest warrant to Andor’s adoptive mother, Maarva Andor, but upon discovering Andor was not present, the Pre-Mor soldiers ransacked Maarva’s home in an attempt to coerce her into giving up Andor’s location. This, however, upset many locals, some of whom were friends of Maarva and others who were upset to see security officers mistreating an old woman. Initially unbothered by the Pre-Mor corpos, the town quickly began to turn on them, sabotaging them by ringing alarms to warn of their location and taking down street signs to prevent the soldiers from knowing where they were.
Eventually, Andor and his new compatriot Luthen Rael were found. Still, the pair were able to escape as Rael had rigged the warehouse they met in with explosive charges, injuring numerous Pre-Mor soldiers in the process. When Karn and Mosk heard reports that Andor and Rael were headed their way, they and the remaining Pre-Mor security officers attempted to set an ambush for the two, setting up positions along the street from which they expected them to come.
As Karn got into position, however, he was instead ambushed and disarmed by Andor and Rael, who emerged from a hidden tunnel, and when threatened, quickly gave up the number of corpos in the Pre-Mor security team. Despite Rael’s urging to kill Karn, Andor instead gagged and hogtied him, taking his weapon and leaving him in a nearby home. Karn was soon discovered by another Pre-Mor security officer and released. As he headed outside, Karn saw a speeder departing and, assuming it was Andor and Rael, called all Pre-Mor soldiers to begin firing on the speeder. After disabling the speeder, Karn was shocked to see a second speeder carrying Rael and Andor to safety, while the first speeder, rigged with explosives, detonated, killing and injuring more Pre-Mor security officers. Stunned by the loss of so many men and in shock at the situation, Karn stared blankly as Sergeant Mosk attempted to gather his men for evacuation. Mosk urged Karn to evacuate with him, and with Karn unresponsive, Mosk screamed into his face to wake him up. Even though this did not work, Mosk was forced to grab Karn and physically drag him to the evacuation craft.
Karn, Mosk, and Hyne were summoned to a meeting with ISB Supervisor Lieutenant Blevin, the Imperial Security Bureau officer tasked with overseeing the Morlani system’s sector. Blevin heavily berated the three for their incompetence, stating that corporate security involved in this incident was by far the worst out of all the disastrous fiascos he’d seen. He specifically singled out Karn, stating that Karn should at least take comfort that he would not be replaced because all corporate security in the Morlani system was being dissolved. The Empire would now assume direct control over the system. Karn was then fired and returned home to his mother in disgrace. His mother at first slapped him before embracing him, crying, and inviting him back into her home.
Traumatized by the Ferrix disaster, Karn returned to living in his childhood bedroom, with no hope for the future and no desire for a new start. He refused his mother’s offers to ask his uncle Harlo for help in finding him a new job, and instead spent his time staring at a hologram of the fugitive Cassian Andor. Despite his reluctance, his mother still spoke to Harlo, who was able to offer Karn a job in the Imperial Bureau of Standards. Three days after returning to Coruscant, Karn visited the bureau and accepted an opening for a mediocre office job in the Fuel Purity department.
During his first week in the Fuel Purity department, Karn submitted six reports regarding Cassian Andor, naming him a missing fuel specialist, an unresponsive energy engineer, and a fuel purity field officer suspected of forging Imperial reports. The false reports caught the attention of ISB Supervisor Dedra Meero, who called in Karn for interrogation regarding the reports. Karn explained that he was attempting to use his limited power to track down the man responsible for the disaster on Ferrix and clear his name. This revelation led the ISB to also identify Andor as a member of the heist on Aldhani and an accomplice of the “Axis,” a suspected connection to multiple rebel cells across the galaxy. Karn was allowed to read former supervisor Blevin’s full report and submit his corrections.
Karn found many inconsistencies in the signed Blevin’s report, later trying to identify the “Axis more accurately.” In the end, Karn offered Meero cooperation rather than her suggestion to stop sending false reports about Andor, finding his usefulness to the Empire in the search for a criminal and a murderer, but Meero rejected this offer, suggesting that he forget about their meeting.
Soon after the interrogation, Karn returned to the Bureau of Standards, where he received a promotion from his boss for “a service rendered to the Empire.” During a conversation with his mother, he was outraged that she had secretly begun to spy on him, although she was unhappy with Karn’s reproach, and framed it as him being ungrateful for all she’d done for him. Karn was not deterred in his attraction to Meero, and sometimes he stopped near the ISB Central Office, hoping to see her and continue their conversation.
Upon finally meeting Meero, he expressed his sincere gratitude, as well as the revival of his dream of the possibility of justice and beauty in the galaxy, inspired by her. Even though Meero categorically replied that she was not responsible for his promotion and indicated only an attempt to clear his name, Karn was filled with her and saw in her a person capable of reviving his life. Meero warned Karn that he was creating problems for himself by meeting with the ISB supervisor, and threatened him with arrest when he tried to continue their conversation and tried to stop her by grabbing her arm. Karn stopped thoughtfully and slightly smiled after Meero left their place of conversation on her way to the ISB meeting.
Karn was awakened one night by a vidcall from Mosk, who had received a lead on Andor from an old friend with solid connections—Andor’s mother had passed away from natural causes. Karn and Mosk concluded that Andor would likely return to Ferrix for the funeral service, and Karn secretly decided to head there in hopes of finally arresting him. Waiting for his mother to leave their apartment, Karn took some credits from his strongbox and prepared to leave Coruscant.
After chartering a flight off-world, Karn met back up with Mosk, and the two headed to Ferrix disguised as salvagers. After taking a shuttle ferry to the hotel, they arrived just in time to witness the funeral procession on Rix Road. Karn recognized Meero, who was also present on the planet, as the Empire had set its trap for Andor. Tensions between the Imperials and the townspeople eventually came to a head, and Karn noticed Wilmon Paak arming a bomb and throwing it towards the Imperials. Before the bomb had even reached its targets, Karn had already rushed past the Imperial checkpoint and towards Meero, hoping to save her from the blast, but instead found himself in the epicenter with N-20 Baradium-core thermal detonators exploding all around him. With all his would-be pursuers fighting to survive in the riot, Andor successfully infiltrated the interior of the Imperial base to rescue Bix Caleen, encountering minimal resistance.
With the escort providing security for Meero, who Andor killed during the rescue mentioned above, Meero was nearly overwhelmed by the rioters, dragged to the ground, and hit on the head with a brick. Karn immediately sprang into action, grabbing her weapon and posing as a protester, dragging her to a nearby warehouse, and rescuing her. Rattled by the incident, as soon as he closed the door Meero grabbed a tool from a nearby rack and attempted to slit his throat with it, realizing in the last second who he was. Shocked, she asked him where he had come from, with Karn merely saying that he had seen her in trouble. Still shocked, Meero finally thanked him. Karn responded that there was no need to.
Appearances: Andor
