High Inquisitor Jerec: A Character Concept for Star Wars' Best Forgoten Villain.

With members of the inquisition now oficially part of Star Wars canon and some Legends material being used in both live action and the game, I think the time has come to remember one of the saga's original inquisitors who also happens to be one of it's most fascinating villains.

High Inquisitor Jerec, once the padawan of Jocasta Nu as well as a Jedi Master,  scholar and archeologist, willingly joined the Empire post Order 66.  A feared inquisitor, who specialised in turning Jedi to the dark side, Jerec became one of the most prominent Sith scholars in the imperial court. In truth, however, his ambition knew no end, the jedi he turned were more his own men than the Emperors. Prefering to keep an aura of Mystery and power around himself, he secured both financial and military backing behind the scenes. And was one of the only men the Emperor feared could eventually topple him and take his place.

In my opinion, Jerec is an essential character if Kyle Katarn was ever to be brought into canon. Being rumored to have been grooming the force-sensitive Katarn as his apprentice long before he defected to the rebelion or became a Jedi. The very concept behind Jerec is worthy of an end-game villain of a trilogy and with the right presentation could even make a great Galactic Legend.

I am not sure whether it would be beter to approach Jerec as a legendary character or a Galactic Legend, but I think it would be perfectly viable to build a great Era in the new era format around the inquisition and Empire around him.

His kit could have different sinergies around both Imperial Renmant, Sith, Inquisitorious or Empire. An era around him could introduce several new marquees with a lot of flexibility for different teams.

Examples Include:

• A dark side Fallen Kyle Katarn
• A Light side Mara Jade (Responsible for bring Kyle back to the light as the protagonist of Mysteries of the Sith) who could act as a lifter for Jedi Master Luke.
• Dark Jedi
• Inquisitor Bariss Offee
• Classic Manned Dark Troopers like seen in the Original SW Battlefront games
• Jerec even has his own capital ship the "Vengeance" so a new empire fleet would be an option down the line 

As seen here, there are many interesting options. You could even take some inspiration from the older raids of the game and build a future raid around the Inquisition and Empire with Vader and Jerec as bosses, if that's an area of interest. 

For his kit I won't go into specifics but there is enough material to create an interesting and unique kit.

• The most obvious ability would be his signature Force Destruction, which could have similar propperties to fracture. Or it could fuction as an area atack with different propperties. You could even split it into two different abilities based on how it is used in a cutscene and in gameplay.
• An  unique or ability should also reflect his ability to see with the force despite his blindness as a Miraluka. It could have synergy with foresight for example.
• He could have synergies with or the ability to summon Dark Jedi.
• He also uses force protection if I remember correctly so that could also be a possibility.

I also think it would be interesting to allow him to have different synergies with Sith, inquisition or Imperial Renmnant in a way that would allow players to build different teams with him with different effects. In the same way Luthen has his Curator or Axis bonus for example.

In any case I think Jerec deserves to be remembered because he's a fascinating villain and quite an unique caracter in the franchise.  I absolutely would love to see him in the game.