Name: Rusha Khan Sano
Species: Humanoid
Occupation: Jedi Sentinel
Position: Investigator / Pilot
Age: 45
Era: Star Wars Book Era (Luke's Jedi Academy and later going to the alternate timeline of the Force Awakens and Last Jedi)
Height: 6’ 0”
Weight: 210 lbs
Hair: None - Bald
Eyes: Black
Skin Color & Tone: He has smooth black skin, with strong defined strong muscles; with hard-lined weathered craggy facial features.
Personality: Sano is regarded by many within the Order of the Jedi to be one of the finest men for his loyalty to the Order, his steadfastness and commitment to Peace, his patience while teaching new students at the Academy. While his life has been one devoted to the Jedi Order for most of his 45 years of living, he secretly hopes one day to find that special someone to complete his life, preferably another Jedi, but he doesn't rule out the possibility of getting involved with a non-Force user.
History: Sano was a young Force-sensitive kid growing up in the newly formed New Republic that had been created after the Battle of Endor, which lead to the fall of the Empire. Being an orphan from the many conflicts, his parents lost in the war against the Empire, Sano grew up basically as a ward of the Republic, being looked after by the adults around him, like Wedge Antilles and Han / Leia Solo. Even as a child growing up, he was always getting into one thing after another, taking it upon himself to investigate things that to him felt wrong and where usually adults weren't listening to him, he would take off and go hunting for answers on his own, learning various techniques of information gathering and investigating from queries that he made to the computer. In addition to these times, he was also becoming rather popular with the younger students at the Flight Academy as one of the most promising students, having a gift for flying, almost a natural, which drew the attention of Master Luke Skywalker to the academy to see for himself how good the kid was.
From his observations Luke recruited Sano to the Jedi Academy, having him tested first by the new council of Masters selected to sit on the council, the council agreed to have the entered into the Academy of the Jedi Order, where he studied the ways of the Force with other younglings of his age group. One of his early teachers reported to the Council a peculiar sense that she had felt from Sano during one exercise, it felt to her that he was seeing events from long ago, having not just vague knowledge of them, but extensive knowledge of what took place. When the master had questioned Sano about the feelings she was getting from him, he tried to explain to her that he "had some strange connection to time, he's had it for most of his life."
Seeing this as being an oddity, the Council called 10 year old Sano back to be questioned further on this matter as it was a strange and very much unheard of talent, but similar to the Shatterpoint talent that had recently been discovered by the new order. Having deemed him still fit to continue as a Jedi, finding no instability within him, he was placed in the care and guidance of
Master T'Sui Mei, a Jedi Investigator, which had been one of his main talents and had been the master to sense this connection to time talent.
Growing up during this time of the New Republic, he was involved in many conflicts that would test him in his dedication to the ideals and principals of the new Jedi Order, and the New Republic. When Jedi Knight Kip Duran split from the Jedi Order with a group of younger students believing that Luke was wrong for how he was running the Jedi Order, decided to form their own, had tried to recruit Sano to their Order; but he declined, opting instead to stay with the legally recognized Jedi Order. He had nothing against Kip or the other Jedi, but he wasn't about to fracture the Order and go gallivanting around on his own because he felt it was wrong how things were being ran.
At 25 years old, he found the holo-cubes containing the lessons of Master Mace Windu, to which he began training in this new style of lightsaber combat called Vaapad (Form VII), being careful of the dangers of loosing one's self within the darkness when using it, his self control and discipline training of the mind and spirit safe-guarded him during these times. Using the old expression of "being fore warned, is for armed," Sano being aware of the possible dangers, was able to keep himself from loosing himself in it's power. "I created Vaapad to answer my weakness: it channels my own darkness into a weapon of the light."
―Mace Windu to Obi-Wan Kenobi
When he was not out on one mission or another, he was at the Jedi Academy teaching the newest set of students, guiding them as he had been at that age, when he had been recruited by Luke to join the Order. While he had been approached on a number of occasions to take on students and train them as his Padawan Learner, he respectfully declines these requests from Luke, citing that this was not the right time for him to take on a permanent student. His sense of time told him that he was meant to teach someone else, teach at the Academy was one thing, it helped to perfect his teaching skills and patience, but the Force told him, this wasn't his time to take a student. Having learned to listen to the voice and guidance of the Force when it spoke to him, he chose to heed it's guidance and decline the offers from the Council, leading to some very curious and questioning council members that did not understand why he was refusing such a calling, when he was regarded as one of the best teachers at the Academy.
At various stages of his life, he felt as if things were coming into focus, becoming more clear through his meditations and even though he couldn't explain it to himself, he felt that he was drawing nearer to a time when he was going to be needed immensely. Not sure of exactly what he was going to be needing, he chose to study a wide range of topics from armed and unarmed combat, along with various forms of diplomacy, among other things.
At 45 years old, Sano was making his way through the Maw's Cluster, trying to evade pursuit of some Imperial fighters, with his ship damaged, and the fighters gaining on him, he took the only option that he saw left open to him, going into the dangerous unpredictable cluster of spatial anomalies that usually caused havoc with other ships, but one he's chartered before, though under better circumstances. The fighters were unable to continue the pursuit into the dangerous area of space and contacted their people at various points alerting them to the situation and to be on the look out for Sano's ship. With his ship damaged, he was unable to effectively navigate through the cluster as he had done so before, which drew him and his ship into one of the anomalies...the Force guiding him to not fight the pull of the anomaly, following this, he redirects his ship into the spatial / temporal distortion that brought him out of the event on the other side...there was no pursuit waiting for him, it felt different to him.
Different was an understatement as Sano piloted his damaged ship to planet nearby, it was there again, that tug from the Force, guiding him as it did off and on throughout his entire life. He landed his YT-1930 modified combat ship:
https://milosh--andrich.deviantart.com/art/YT-1930-FRP-Map-full-Deck-Plans-Miand-s-Longbow-705435456 on the outskirts of a small settlement on the desert world of Jakku, the settlement containing all kinds of goods and items for sale and trading, this had been the case even in his time period, but seemed different here and now, something he wasn't sure about immediately...
My Ship:
Sapphire Dawn, is a heavily modified YT-1930 Corellian Freighter (Combat Ship)
Specifications:
Length: 36.8 meters
Maximum atmospheric speed: 1000 km/h
Hyper-drive rating: Class 1 (backup class 2)
Both Primary and Secondary Hyper-drive is capable of working together or independently.
.2 Light Speed
Shielding: Primary and Secondary Mini-Shield Generators of Mon Calamari Design
Armor: Equipped with armor of an experimental type, light-weight so no additional weight to drag down her speed, but capable of providing extra hull support in case shields fail.
Equipped:
Navigation system: Navcomputer
Armament
Heavy Laser Cannon (1) - Forward
Medium Quad-Laser Canons Turrets (2) (1-Ventral and 1-Dorsal Sections)
Forward Torpedo Launcher (1)
Crew: 2
Passengers: 6
Cargo capacity: 200 tons
Consumables: 4 months