Jovan Kayser

Jovan Kayser was a Dark Side Adept and criminal who was active during the Galactic Civil War. Although that was not his real name and he used many aliases throughout his life, "Jovan" was the most common name he went by.

Being very powerful in the Force, he was discovered by Imperial Inquisitors and as a child witnessed the massacre of his town before being taken to. There, at Imperial Orphanage 511, he was one of the subjects of Vitor Runge's dark side brainwashing experiments that intended to turn him into one of Emperor Palpatine's new "" and make him completely become one with the dark side. Any connections he had to his past were taken away from him in that process, including his real name, leaving only fragments of memories of the massacre. Possessing an extraordinary level of intelligence and charisma as well as dark side power, Jovan was regarded as the most successful of the 511 alumni and was often compared to Palpatine or "" by the Emperor's other dark side servants. But unlike either of them he never developed a self-identity and remained very emotionally unstable due to never overcoming the severe mental trauma of his childhood.

As a result Jovan developed into a cruel and calculating sociopath who felt no emotion towards others and saw them as pawns to manipulate, while outwardly projecting the image of a compassionate and kind young man with his charisma. The brainwashing at the 511 orphanage broke his ability to form real bonds with people, trust anyone, or take enjoyment in anything. Fundamentally he was a broken person who struggled to find a reason to live. Jovan particularly studied fear and its usage in the dark side, how to best inflict it upon people in the most effective way, and similarly to the Emperor, he was determined to become less of a human being and more of a physical embodiment of this primal force of nature. His initial objective was to use his talents to help bring about a to reign over the universe, as Emperor Palpatine intended, with his own personal added motivation of wanting to make everyone to see and feel the same solitude as he did, but after the  he chose a different fate for himself. Jovan became involved in many schemes during those years which usually left a trail of mayhem and death, for seemingly no identifiable reason.