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Wes Janson | Star Wars

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P L A Y E R;
NAME: Sam
AGE: 29
PLAYER JOURNAL: dekaja
TIMEZONE: MST
CONTACT: estamir
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Toshizou Hijikata (hakodate)

C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Wes Janson
CANON: Star Wars
POINT IN CANON: 9 ABY, shortly following the conclusion of the Thrawn campaign, around the time of his promotion to Major.
AGE: None given, but as his contemporaries Wedge Antilles and Tycho Celchu were born in 21 BBY, I think a similar date of birth is a reasonable assumption, putting him at around thirty years old at his canon point.
APPEARANCE: sans the eye-blinding orange flight suit
CANON HISTORY: can I tell you how nice it is to play someone with a decent wiki for once

CANON PERSONALITY: The first thing people usually notice about Janson is his sense of humor; while all of the old-guard Rogues display pretty good senses of humor in the novels and comics focused on the unit, Janson is the one who's generally regarded as the smartass, jokester type of the group. He's had a long pranking career, he's usually got a quip at the ready, and he's very much a guy who believes in having fun while you can, because you never know what's going to happen tomorrow. (Myn Donos, notably, remarks that he's "asking for career advice from a nine-year-old" when he goes to Janson to speak about his troubles and gets Janson jumping on his bed while encouraging him to do some more stupid, spontaneous bullshit and try to enjoy his life more.)

Still, despite that reputation - as well-deserved as it is - he's not immune to his moments of gravity. It's especially evident in the responsibility he feels for lives under his protection; some of Janson's most serious moments come in dealing with Kell Tainer, the son of the man who was Janson's first kill as a pilot - an ally who had a panic attack and had to be shot down before he endangered the mission and got the entire unit wiped out. Janson's regret for how things went down is obvious, and he and Kell eventually manage to reach an understanding about what occurred. His sense of responsibility is also obvious in how he handles the news that one of his training squadrons was wiped out in an ambush; the only joke he can manage is a somewhat bitter observation that he and Hobbie must be a real pair of incompetents to lose the people they trained so easily. When Myn Donos, the last survivor of that squadron, has a breakdown after a mission triggers his memories of that ambush, Janson is overheard with Wedge trying to figure out how they can cover it up to their superiors and buy Myn some time to pull out of it before his entire career gets vaped over the incident. He has some surprisingly pointed words of wisdom for Wedge when the other observes that he's leading children and getting them killed; Janson admits that that's the truth, but also points at the fact that most of the unit in question have a lot more issues they're dragging around than the average soldier, and that under Wedge's guidance many of them have made incredible progress in overcoming their problems.

(And if nothing else, the very fact that Janson's lasted through the transition from the Rebellion to the New Republic and shows no difficulty remaining settled in the rank structure shows that he knows how to cut the crap when it counts.)

He may not be terribly serious in manner, most of the time, but Janson is dead serious about his duties and protecting his comrades, and has earned commendations for bravery in action. Like most of his fellows, he doesn't have a problem throwing himself straight in in the face of danger, whether that's hopping into a bar fight (his temper is noted for being a bit on the short side) or flying a shieldless fighter straight into the middle of a heated battle. He's not the person you'd want at your side for a delicate diplomatic negotiation, but even if he can seldom resist the temptation to be a smartass, he's good at keeping his wits about him when it counts, and he has a - unique, somewhat irreverent - brand of wisdom from his decade in active duty that he's always willing to share with the next generation of starfighter pilots.

POINT OF DEPARTURE: --

ABILITIES: Most notably, Janson's an ace starfighter pilot with a solid decade of experience under his belt; while he's best known for serving with X-Wing units, we've also got canon for him flying Y-Wings and TIE fighters on combat missions, and it's quite possible he's flown similar craft as well. He's also done some time as a flight instructor for new pilots, and has served on commando missions. Janson is also a talented gunner, having earned the highest order of gunnery awarded in the Alliance's ranks.

INVENTORY; The clothes on his back, a datapad, a comlink, a blaster (with a couple of spare power packs).

ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW?

S A M P L E S;
FIRST PERSON: As the upstanding, fair-minded man I am, I figured I'd give this Virtu thing a fair shake before I started judging. Come on, who can't think of a few dozen great ways to use a simulator that can come up with anything you want on the fly?

For the record, they didn't all involve fast ships and attractive women.

For the record, ninety-five percent still isn't all.

But you know, snubfighters made out of solid Corusca gems get old faster than you'd think. That's the problem here - you get everything just by thinking of it and it stops being fun.

[A long-suffering sigh.]

And the sad part? It's still tempting to waste half the investigation screwing around with this thing, because who knows when I'll get back in the cockpit of a real X-Wing again?

THIRD PERSON:
As his landing skids hit the deck and he started to run through the power-down sequence, Janson had to admit to himself that the run could've gone a lot better.

Granted, there was a hole in the intel that they couldn't have done much about, and quite a few more TIEs than they'd been advised to expect - but even if they'd had their hands full, the Imperial transport making the jump to hyperspace had been the very thing they were out here in the first place to prevent, and in the grand scheme of things, the few extra fighter kills they'd racked up weren't really worth the failure of the mission as a whole. Of course, the fact that the defenses here were tighter than they should've been was intelligence in its own right, and the spooks would probably have a field day with that, but -

"Wes. Stop thinking like an officer." He leaned forward and banged his head once against the front of his cockpit.

General Cracken's people were going to have a field day with this, but he was quite decidedly not one of General Cracken's people. He was just a pilot who'd gone out there, flown his best, and was one post-mission briefing away from dragging the rest of his comrades out to celebrate - since after all, it could've gone a lot better, but it also could've gone a lot worse.

They'd faced stiffer opposition than they expected, but every single one of them had made it back to tell the tale, and in Rogue Squadron, that was never worth taking for granted.

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