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Jaylen Vrax was a human male and companion of Kay Vess during the Imperial Era. She, along with ND-5, were waiting on the ship when Jaylen Vrax offered her a job.⁽²⁾

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Early life()

Jaylen Vrax was born Jaylen Barsha on Corellia shortly before the start of the Clone Wars. Jaylen’s father was a wealthy shipping magnate, and Jaylen was the favored son – set to inherit the family business after he came of age and completed his education.

Sibling rivalry()

Jaylen’s father had another illegitimate son named Sliro. Although Jaylen did not particularly like Sliro and constantly reminded him of his “bastard” status, the family made sure he had “a place at the table.” From Sliro’s perspective, this amounted to table scraps, but the Barsha family considered this better than hunger and poverty. Sliro, however, never recovered. He had joined the Galactic Empire as a member of the ISB, and the Barsha family had controversial political sympathies during the Clone Wars. Sliro reported this to his superiors, and the Empire proceeded to seize the Barsha family’s assets, leaving Jaylen an heir to no one. But Sliro was not done yet. While most of the Trade Federation battle droids that fought for the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars were dismantled and melted down for scrap, Sliro had obtained a fully functional BX-series commando droid, JX394ND-5777, and reprogrammed it to serve as an assassin droid. Sliro sent this droid to “kill every last Barsha.” The droid killed Jaylen’s parents and siblings, but Jaylen was able to subdue it. Jaylen renamed it ND-5 and equipped the droid with a Restraining bolt to ensure that the droid would follow Jaylen’s orders, not Sliro’s. Jaylen swore revenge for the loss of his birthright and vowed to take revenge on his brother.

Tipping the balance()

With a reprogrammed assassin droid as his personal enforcer and nothing left to lose, Jaylen reinvented himself as Scoundrel Jaylen Vrax. Upon entering an underworld where the Black Sun, Hutt Clan, Pyke Syndicate, Crimson Dawn, and Droid Gotra vied for supremacy, Jaylen decided to remain a freelancer rather than formally join any of the gangs, planning robberies and setting up smuggling rings for any crime boss who would pay him enough credits. He eventually gained enough respect in the underworld that after Qi’ra stole Han Solo from Boba Fett frozen in carbonite and held an auction to sell him to the highest bidder, Jaylen was able to attend as a special guest.

Not long after the auction, a new crime syndicate known as Zerek Besh quickly rose through the ranks of the Underworld. Jaylen recognized his hated brother Sliro as its leader. Jaylen decided that the best form of revenge on Sliro would be to steal this new criminal empire from under him.

Recruitment Kay Vess()

With his revenge plan in place, Jaylen set out to find the manpower to carry out his plan. He hired Master Slicer Riko Vess for her coding skills. He then learned that Riko’s daughter, Kay, had survived a failed attempt to rob Sliro’s vault in Westhill Palace. Although she had failed, she had escaped with her life and had managed to get quite far without schematics of the palace’s security systems. After rescuing Kay from a bounty hunter hired by Sliro, Jaylen suggests that Kay work with him in a second attempt to rob the vault. Jaylen tells her that the vault contains 157 million credits worth of unmarked Beskar bars. Although Kay has a bounty on her head, her share of the loot would be enough to buy her freedom.

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