Runa Blask

Runa Blask is a Togruta from Taris who built her career as a financial analyst for major galactic corporations, including the Banking Clan. She later became aligned with the Separatist cause and retained those political convictions even after leaving that world behind. By the latter years of the Clone Wars, Runa had joined Zero Company, taking control of its finances and day-to-day operations from the Den while the company pursued covert contracts and military investigations.

When Zero Company became involved in the campaign against Kundri Fathom and the Infinite Coil, Runa remained at the center of the organization’s support structure. She kept the company supplied, funded, and operational while its field teams pursued the cult across the galaxy, continuing the work even though she regarded Zero Company as a considerable step down from her former career and did not always agree with its direction.

Appearance: Runa has warm golden-yellow skin and a tall, athletic, curvaceous build with a full bust, narrow waist, rounded hips, and long strong legs. Her eyes are gray-green with dark pupils, framed by dark lashes and sharply defined liner. Pale cream facial markings spread across her brow, temples, upper cheeks, and chin in angular symmetrical bands, accompanied by darker golden markings above the eyes. Two enormous fleshy head-tails descend from either side of her skull past her chest, thick at the base and gradually tapering toward pointed ends. They are cream-white with broad golden-yellow stripes wrapping irregularly across their length. A dark brown fitted headpiece covers the crown between the head-tails and frames the upper forehead. She wears a burnt-orange fitted undersuit across the torso beneath a weathered brown leather jacket with reinforced shoulders, stitched seams, rolled sleeves, and a rectangular chest pocket containing a dark electronic panel. A small cluster of cylindrical metal components is mounted along one shoulder.

Her waist is wrapped in a broad utility belt with a heavy rectangular metal buckle, layered straps, hanging cables, and multiple brown equipment pouches. A long blue fabric panel hangs from the front of the belt, decorated with faded tan geometric markings and a pointed lower edge. Her orange-brown trousers fit closely through the hips and thighs, with darker reinforced panels over the outer thighs and large scuffed protective plates covering the knees. One forearm is enclosed in a dark leather bracer, while her hands wear fingerless dark brown gloves reinforced across the palms and backs. Several metallic tools and narrow cylindrical devices hang from the belt at one hip, connected by loops and cords. Her lower legs are protected by tall dark brown armored boots with heavy shin plates, thick straps, buckles, reinforced toes, and extensive surface wear.

Personality: Runa is sharp, sardonic, self-assured, and intensely practical. She takes pride in her intelligence and professional competence and makes little effort to hide her contempt when she considers an operation inefficient or beneath her standards. Her Separatist sympathies remain genuine, leaving her openly critical of the Republic and frequently at odds with Republic-aligned members of Zero Company. Despite her complaints, she takes her responsibilities seriously and is exceptionally effective at keeping the organization functioning.

Hawks relies on Runa as a right-hand adviser even though the two frequently disagree over politics, priorities, and the direction of Zero Company. Bennic Halloren, as a Republic Intelligence officer advising the company, represents much of the political establishment Runa distrusts, naturally placing tension between their perspectives. She also works alongside Neesh Renark, who manages the armory and black-market procurement, and M-3VO, who handles transport and medical support, with all three contributing to the Den’s daily operation. Runa’s relationship with Zero Company as a whole is reluctant but committed: she may consider the work beneath her, yet she continues using her skills to keep its members alive and its campaign against the Infinite Coil moving.

Runa specializes in financial management, logistics, strategic planning, and operational administration. Her background handling corporate finances gives her the expertise to manage Zero Company’s credits, contracts, resources, procurement needs, and mission support while coordinating activities from the Den.

She serves primarily as a strategic and logistical specialist rather than a frontline operator, using the Den’s communications and operational systems to manage the company’s affairs and support field deployments. Her value comes from keeping Zero Company solvent, organized, supplied, and capable of continuing its campaign regardless of the political disagreements within its ranks.