Pillar of Faith
The High Republic
Intent: To introduce a central intelligence figure for the High Republic who will serve as the leader of the Republic Intelligence Service (RIS), functioning as a source of interstellar intelligence, strategic insight, and narrative hooks for covert and political storylines.
Image Credit: Will Nunes
Role: Damos Rennar is the Director of the Republic Intelligence Service. He is the mastermind behind the High Republic's intelligence web, acting as spymaster, analyst, and strategist. He plays a key role in national security, covert operations, and political oversight. He may serve as a contact, obstacle, or employer to characters operating in espionage, politics, or high-stakes diplomacy.
Permissions: N/A
Links: N/A
Age: 56 Standard Years
Force Sensitivity: Non-Force User
Species: Bothan
Appearance: Damos Rennar is a lean, sharp-featured Bothan with light ash-gray fur that has begun to silver with age. His eyes are a muted violet, always narrowed with suspicion or calculation. He dresses in unadorned, high-collared civilian attire with no insignia. His authority is carried in silence, not display. His body bears the wiry tension of a predator used to being hunted.
Name: Director Damos Rennar - Aliases: "Civic Agent 42" | "The Weaver"
Loyalties: High Republic | Republic Intelligence Service (Director) | High Republic Security Council | Personal loyalty to Chancellor's Office
Wealth: Comfortable but not opulent. His wealth is drawn from government salary, legacy family holdings on Bothawui, and several untraceable bonds tied to strategic consulting. Maintains no ostentatious assets.
Notable Possessions:
- A cortosis-lined data pendant that stores blackmail materials and emergency dead-drops.
- A handcrafted Nabooian vibroknife gifted by a former Sovereign.
- A secure datapad containing direct comm-links to key agents and Republic officials.
- Strategic analysis & counterespionage
- Subtle interrogation & psychological manipulation
- Deep cover operations planning
- Galactic history & economic profiling
- Encryption and codebreaking
- Espionage doctrine & misinformation strategy
- Galactic Basic
- Bothese
- Huttese
- High Naboo (formal dialect)
- Binary (reading level only)
Damos is quiet, observant, and intensely calculating. He rarely speaks unless it is necessary, and even then, his words are chosen with surgical precision. Despite his reputation for unflinching pragmatism, those who've worked closest with him suspect he carries a hidden idealism, a belief in protecting the Republic no matter the cost. He loathes inefficiency, despises theatrical loyalty, and distrusts nearly everyone, including himself.
Weapon of Choice:
- Silenced holdout blaster
- Vibroknife
Strengths:
- Master of Espionage: Decades of service in intelligence have made him a shadow tactician of the highest caliber.
- Unshakeable Presence: Cold, calm, and unreadable, he does not panic under pressure and is nearly impossible to manipulate.
Weaknesses:
- Paranoid Instincts: His distrustful nature often leads to delayed cooperation or missed alliances.
- Physically Vulnerable: He lacks the physical prowess or stamina to survive extended combat without support.
Damos Rennar was born to a minor intelligence-linked family on Bothawui, educated with a focus on xenopolitical strategy. Recruited by Naboo's early intelligence branch as an interstellar analyst, he rose through the ranks during the formation of the Royal Intelligence Bureau. Known for engineering the exposure of multiple Sith-aligned insurgencies and defusing a dozen potential sector wars, his record of quiet wins eventually earned him the directorship of the newly-formed Republic Intelligence Service following the Republic's reorganization.
He now oversees the largest coordinated intelligence web the High Republic has ever fielded, one he quietly describes as "the only blade sharp enough to cut through peace."