Name: Jodo Kast
Type: Bounty Hunter
Species: Human
Homeworld: —
Gender: Male
Born: —
Died: 5 ABY (1005 GC)
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Height: —
Weight: —
Skin: Light
DEXTERITY 4D
Armor Weapons: 6D+1
Blaster: 7D
Brawling Parry: 7D+1
Dodge: 6D+2
Flamethrower: 5D
Grenade: 5D+1
Melee Combat: 6D+2
Melee Parry: 7D
Missile Weapon: 6D+1
Vehicle Blasters: 5D
KNOWLEDGE 2D+2
Alien Species: 4D+2
Intimidation: 6D
Law Enforcement: 4D+1
Military History:
Planetary Systems:
Streetwise: 5D+2
Value: 5D
Willpower: 5D
MECHANICAL 2D+2
Astrogation: 5D+1
Beast Riding: 4D
Communications: 3D+2
Sensors: 5D
Space Transports: 4D+2
Space Transports: Lambda-class T-4a shuttle 5D
Starship Gunnery: 4D+2
Starship Shields: 4D
Swoop Operation: 4D
PERCEPTION 3D
Bargain: 6D+2
Command: 5D
Con: 7D
Gambling: 5D+2
Hide: 4D+1
Investigation: 6D+2
Persuasion: 6D+1
Search: 4D
STRENGTH 3D+2
Brawling: 6D+1
Stamina: 4D
TECHNICAL 2D
Armor Repair: 5D+1
Blaster Repair: 4D
Demolitions: 4D
Droid Programming / Repair: 5D
Encryption: 3D+2
First Aid: 3D
Special Abilities:
None
Force Sensitive: N
Force Points: 1
Dark Side Points: 1
Character Points: 14
Move: 10
Equipment: Modified Mandalorian battle armor ,Jet pack, Blastech J3-E left handed blaster rifle (5D), blaster pistol (4D), rocket darts (poison or stun toxin coated, variable damage), Thermal Charges (9D), IPKC bounty hunter license, comlink, datapad, net, syntherope, stun collar, stuff cuffs, The Foxcatch (modified Lambda-class shuttle), 1,000 credits
Kast’s Battle Armor
Model: Modified Mandalorian Battle Armor
Type: Modified personal battle armor
Cost: Not for sale
Availability: Unique
Game Effect: Kast’s battle armor has the following capabilities:
Basic Suit: +20 Strength for physical attacks, +ID for energy attacks. Covers head, torso and upper arms. No Dexterity penalties.
Wrist Lasers: 50 damage, uses armor weapons skill, ranges 3-5/ 20/35.
Flame Projector: 50 damage, uses armor weapons skill, creates cone I meter wide, variable I -5 meters long.
Sensor Pod: +20 to search
Infrared/ Motion Sensor: Integrated sensor adds +ID to Perception in darkness or with moving objects, forward and to both sides.
Macrobinoculars: Add +20 to Perception or search for objects 100-300 meters away. Scamp-linked into blaster rifle, reduces range two levels (for example: long range becomes short range).
Broad-band Antenna: Can intercept and decode most communications made on standard frequencies
Background: Jodo Kast was a member of Alliance SpecOps who became a bounty hunter in the time of the Galactic Civil War. Kast wore Mandalorian armor similar to Boba Fett’s, while he was not a Mandalorian himself. After the famed bounty hunter Boba Fett’s fall into the Sarlacc pit, Kast even re-painted his armor to look almost identical to Fett’s, in order to gain notoriety and demand larger payments. Valuing credits over ideals and loyalties, Kast worked for the Empire, Black Sun, the New Republic, or anyone who would pay him.
Kast participated in a number of hunts, some successful, some, like those of Cornelius Evazan and Adar Tallon, unsuccessful. He worked for a time with fellow hunters Puggles Trodd and Zardra, before eventually going solo. Having once modeled his career after Boba Fett, Kast later established himself as a rival to Fett, concerning himself with building his reputation. Forsaking even the rules of his profession, Kast took Fett’s name for the sake of higher-paying jobs, while setting the goal for himself of taking Fett’s place in the top echelons of bounty hunting.
Kast’s impersonation of Fett eventually caught up with him, though, when the other bounty hunter sought to reclaim his own reputation. Fett baited a trap on Nal Hutta, using an alias to offer a bounty on a nonexistent man. When Kast came to Nal Hutta, Fett attacked and defeated him, leaving Kast to be killed by his own exploding jetpack.
Even in his time during the Rebellion, Jodo Kast cared more about money than he did about ideals. Credits took precedence over ideals in his new career as well. In his years as a bounty hunter, Kast took on only the best-paying jobs, holding no loyalty to his previous customers and indeed specifically picking jobs that could allow him to use their secrets against them. He cared little for the Bounty Hunters’ Creed, either, breaking it if it helped him gain an edge on Fett.
Kast could be vengeful, wanting to inflict pain on those who caused him a great deal of trouble in a hunt or those who themselves inflicted pain indiscriminately. “Jodo Kast never forgets,” he was to known to have said, a vow to track down those bounties that escaped him at first. The bounty hunter was a perfectionist, planning out his hunts beforehand and thereby making each one take longer. He was cold and calculating, and enjoyed it when his prey squirmed, getting a feeling of power from it. He was nonetheless lacking in the skills necessary to be a top bounty hunter, like tracking targets or bringing them in without setting off a battle.
An ambitious man, Kast wanted to make a name for himself. He cared deeply about his reputation, feeling that he deserved one and taking on risky missions that would establish himself. At this, he had some degree of success; some believed Kast to be one of the best, and Grand Admiral Thrawn even used his name and reputation to establish credence with Zekka Thyne. He could overextend himself in this quest, though, becoming humiliated as he was at the loss of the Tallon bounty. Nonetheless, Kast grew increasingly arrogant the more bounties he took, though they were not the first-rate jobs. He prided himself on his skills, believing that he never missed a shot or that no one could outmaneuver him. Kast was, at least, capable in a stand-up fight.
Kast initially patterned himself after Boba Fett, dealing with situations the way he imagined Fett would deal with them. He eventually moved to taking Fett’s name, capitalizing on the bounty hunter’s own reputation, a practice that cost him his life when Fett sought to preserve his own reputation. Kast believed that no one cared who was in the armor anyway, that simply its appearance was reason enough to hire him. He came to think of Fett as a “fossil,” even thinking of himself as better than the older bounty hunter. He was not as skilled as Fett, though, a fact that Dengar pointed out to him shortly before his death at Fett’s hands.