Bera Jeza

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"The dead female Aqualish is Bera Jeza, a lab assistant for some local lab."
―Bib Fortuna, to a spacer[2]

Bera Jeza was a female Aqualish biologist who lived on Tatooine during the Galactic Civil War.

Biography

"Bera Jeza was in the middle of selling us some sort of super soldier drug and Jabba is very interested in getting his hands on the chemical makeup."
―Bib Fortuna, to a spacer[3]

By the time of the Battle of Yavin, Bera Jeza resided in Mos Eisley, on the planet Tatooine, where she had a job as lab assistant at the Mos Eisley Biolab. In the meantime, she was also secretly working for the Hutt Crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure and was involved in spice manufacturing.[2]

At some point, her employer, the scientist Derg Prantis, obtained a sample of the dreadful Blackwing virus from an Imperial scientist. Prantis therefore built a secret laboratory on the remote planet Lok to conduct his own research on the virus in order to create a super soldier drug. The scientist recruited Bera Jeza to help him the project. However, Jeza soon betrayed her employer and contacted Jabba the Hutt to sell him the super soldier drug.[4] In 1 ABY,[1] Bera Jeza was about to meet Bib Fortuna, Jabba's majordomo, when she was assassinated in a street of Mos Eisley. Mos Eisley Police officer Happer was tasked to investigate the murder. In the meanwhile, Bib Fortuna hired a spacer to investigate whether Jeza's bargain with Jabba was related to the crime.[2] The spacer would then discover the assassination of Derg Prantis,[3] as well as the secret research project on Lok.[4] The investigation eventually led to the discovery of a Blackwing virus outbreak on Dathomir.[5]

Behind the scenes

Bera Jeza appeared as a dead non-player character (NPC) in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[2] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[6] Bera Jeza was added to the game with the "Game Update 13," released on September 30, 2009.[7] This NPC was part of the questline "Something is Obviously Wrong,"[2] an introduction to the "Death Troopers" update.[8]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Gather Clues" on Tatooine
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Bera Jeza's Employer" on Tatooine
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "The Plan" on Tatooine
  5. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Investigate Dathomir" on Lok
  6. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  7. ↑ Gal-icon Star Wars Galaxies: Game Update 13 -- Chronicle Master System on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)
  8. ↑ Gal-icon Game Update 14: Death Troopers on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)

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