John Black

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John Ezekiel Ezra Black was a force sensitive human male bounty hunter and former Jedi Knight born about 50 standard years before the Battle of Yavin. John Black was taken from his home planet at the age of eight by Galactic Criminals, The Core Collectors and Rescued by A Jedi Knight, who sent him to his former Master, Ardan Sateel. Sateel, with the help of Master Tunshi, Master Kaireel, Master Makudo and Master Ca-heto, trained and raised John as well as Darkome, Sade Darbs in the ways of the force and their idea of the Jedi Way. He with his brothers were inducted into the Jedi Order at the age of 13, with Darkome and him becoming padawans to Satele. They graduating knighthood at the age of 20.

At the age of 25, John had defied the council's orders going to the planet, Harpten and freed the slaves held their, slaughtering their captors and taping into the dark-side to do it. John became a bounty hunter at this time. About a few months later, Darkome completely turned to the darkside and killed two former teachers, several other people and their "brother" Sade and his secret wife. This made John temporarily and unofficial return to the Jedi Order, seeking Revenge. He and his other brother, Darkome fought with John seemingly killing him by shooting him in the shoulder and sending him off a cliff. After, he officially left the Order, disagreeing with their ways and seeing the corruption in the government.

Eventually John found out Darkome survived and proceeded in hunting him down with the intent on killing or arresting him. Throughout the Clone Wars, John was a bounty hunter working for both side, but more the Galactic Republic than the Confederacy of Independant System. He also spent this time hunting and occasionally fighting Darkome as well as visiting Sade's son, Brunotos Cale Darbs in the Jedi Temple.

Lightsaber Skills
John Black was highly skilled and powerful lightsaber duelist. John was a practitioner of Form 5, also known as Djem So or Shien, and Form VII, Juyo or Vaapad. He incorporates a lot of martial arts into his fighting style. He relies on his strength, speed, accuracy, agility and martial arts skills when engaged in combat. He has made his own fighting style in away. He is extremely skilled at battling multiple opponents armed with lightsabers. John was also highly skilled at deflecting incoming blaster shots with good accuracy. He has also shown skill in Form IV, Form III, Form II, Form VI and Jar'Kai.

Force Powers
John's high level of force sensitivity and ability to use both the light and the dark sides of the force, make him a powerful force user. He has been taught by the Jedi, Matukai, Jensaari and a few other force adept factions. He was proficient in various forms of telekinesis. He has been able to lift and throw a freighter ship a considerable distance. He has also been able to use his lightsaber as projectile able to throw and control it. He has been shown to use force chokes, grips, wounds and crushes with a high degree of effectiveness.

His most impressive feat through the force are physical feats as well as mental feats. He is very skilled at Force speed, showing a high degree of skill that far surpasses most force users at his time. He could move faster than the speed of sound and has even reached speeds that surpass the speed of light. He can also run for relatively long distances. He can also think, react and process things with preternatural speed. He is the only known force user who has been able to use force speed to not only sprint or think, but vibrate so fast he can cause things to explode and even phase through things. John is also capable of enhancing his physical capabilities to superhuman levels that are beyond the normal limits of a human and even beyond the average Jedi. John had also used the force to accidentally and permanently augmented his physical and mental abilities. These powers are now apart of him and don't require the force for him to use it. This granted him superhuman strength, speed, durability, agility, stamina, senses, endurance, reflexes, accelerated healing, enhanced mental and lung capacity, accelerate perception and more. He can lift and throw about 10 tons, run 100 mph, jump 30 feet and leap 60, hear a pin drop from 200 meters away with a thick wall in between, smell scents that the average person can't smell and detect someone just by their scent, and see a pin on someone from about 800 meters away and somewhat in darkness. He can withstand hard impacts, including falls from high heights, force pushes, hits from vehicles and even some weapons. He can also maneuver through obstacles, dodge blaster shots at close range and even catch projectiles. He is able to heal from many injuries within minutes to hours, including cuts, slashes, burns and even being shot. He also has a high resistance to pain, being able to resist being electrocuted, cut and burned. All of these abilities can be further enhanced by the force. John has performed force-enhanced jumps, being able to clear miles. John has also been able to increase his levels of survivability and durability He would also occasionally use force rage, increasing his strength, speed and durability.

John is also capable of using energy attacks including shooting blasts of yellow energy from his hands and even emitting electricity from his hands that can electrocute opponents and short circuit technology. He is also a talented telepath, displaying the ability to erase minds and being skilled at Jedi Mind Tricks, even some mind control. John possesses a strong precognitive abilities, being able to sense things days before they happen. He shares a force bond with Cale and can sense when he's in danger before it happens. He can also mask his force sensitivity very well.

Other Abilities
John was also one of the best martial artists in the Jedi Order. He knows many pressure points that can paralyze, stun, knock out or even kill an opponent. John was a formidable opponent with a lightsaber, but also with a blaster, preferring the latter after leaving the Order. He was a very excellent marksman. He was also a good gunslinger, being able to pull out and shoot several target in less than two seconds with near perfect accuracy. He was skilled with a blaster pistol, rifle, shotgun and more, but also slugthrowers. He was also a good sniper and archer. He was very skilled at throwing knives and throwing stars with great accuracy. He could also wield staffs and swords with amazing skill, even deflecting projectiles with each.

John was also an exceptional pilot with extraordinary reflexes and skills. He has been shown to be able to navigate through asteroid fields, invade multiple fighters, dodge attacks and go through laserfire. John was also highly intelligent, being knowledgeable in many things, include science, history and cultures. This also made him a great strategist and tactician.

He was a great mechanic and engineer. He's built his own weapons, devices and tools, and modified other. He had also fixed up and modified space crafts and other vehicles.

Weaponry
John's main weapons was a pair of PTE- 63 Blaster Pistols, holstered at his side and can easily be pulled out. He also carried a modified Quick-Sling Revolver, a slugthrower pistol with a capacity of seven slugs. The same revolver he carried as a Jedi Knight. The slugs can penetrate many materials and ricocheted off metal. He also had an AL-12 Blaster Rifle, powerful enough to penetrate lots of armour, PTE-23 Blaster shotgun, AL-67 Heavy Blaster Pistol, blaster sniper rifles, heavy repeating blasters and tiny blaster pistols. He also has a slugthrower rifle, pistols, a shotgun, a heavy pistol and a repeating slugthrower. He also has other types of "guns" and grenades that produce electric shocks, fire, darts, sonic blasts, concussive waves and grappling cables. He possesses tranquilizer darts and darts that can paralyze targets. He also has quick draw holsters.

Aside from firearms, John also carried several blades, throwing stars in the inside of his trenchcoat, a knife in his pocket, a small knife in his boot and throwing stars. He also occasionally carried a 6 foot retractable metal staff or two 2 foot batons with an electrical function.

Gauntlets
John had two thick, wrist gauntlets. His wrist gaunlets had multiple fuctions. His right gauntlet had Czerka ZX miniature flame projector, which could shoot a cone of fire five meters long and one meter in diameter, and connected through a tube to a canister at his waist. Below this, he had a Dur-24 wrist laser and another one on his other gauntlet. On his left gauntlet, he has a hidden 30 foot cable with claws and a magnet on the end. He also has a whipcord thrower and non-lethal stunners as well on his right gauntlet. Both gauntlets have three curved, retractable blades. His left gauntlet has a MM9 wrist rocket and a comlinks.

Lightsaber
John had a blue bladed lightsaber with a standard metal hilt and retractable knife blade inside.

Helmet
John occasionally wears a silver helmet with two red lens for eyes. His mask allows him to breathe in space, has an environmental filter, heads up display, comlink, night vision, thermal vision and can control sensors, weapons and more.

Boots
John's boots have repulsorlift technology and jetpack thrusters as well as a concealed knife blade.

Vehicles
John owns a heavily modified HCX-300 Light Freighter called the Tiger Hawk. The Tiger Hawk has various weapons and compartments for smuggling.

John also has a black four wheeled vehicle that he'll occasionally use and a 34-IJ speeder bike.