Name: Pershing
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Hair color: Dark
Eye color: Dark
Skin color: Tan
MOVE - 10

DEXTERITY: 2D
         Blaster: 3D
         Brawling Parry: 3D
         Dodge: 5D
PERCEPTION: 4D
         Command: 5D
         Investigation: 6D
         Search: 5D
KNOWLEDGE: 4D
         Alien Species: 6D
         Bureaucracy: 5D
         Cultures: 5D
         Languages: 5D
         Law Enforcement: 5D
         Scholar (Cloning): 7D
         Willpower: 5D
STRENGTH: 2D
         Brawling: 3D+1
MECHANICAL: 3D
         Communications: 5D
         Sensors: 4D
         Space Transports: 4D+1
         Repulsorlift Operation: 4D+2
TECHNICAL: 4D
         Computer Programming/Repair: 6D
         Droid Programming/Repair: 5D
         First Aid: 8D
         Medicine: 6D
         Medicine; Cloning: 10D
         Security: 5D

EQUIPMENT
         Lab Coat, Glasses, Datapad, Comlink, Concealed Blaster Pistol (4D), Medkit

FORCE SENSITIVE - N
FORCE POINTS 3
DARK SIDE POINTS 3
CHARACTER POINTS 6

Description: Pershing was a human male doctor and clone engineer affiliated with a remnant of the Galactic Empire during the New Republic Era. By 9 ABY, Pershing and "the Client" placed a bounty on Grogu in hopes of acquiring it. One of the bounty hunters who accepted the commission was Din Djarin who met with the Client and Pershing while they were under the protection of Remnant Stormtroopers.

Djarin retrieved Grogu for the Imperials, and delivered him directly to the Client and Pershing, who verified he was healthy. The doctor and the Client then argued about extracting material from the child, with Pershing ensuring that it remained alive. After having a change of heart, Djarin returned and fought his way through the facility where Pershing was working on Grogu. The bounty hunter confronted Pershing who begged for his and the child's life, causing Djarin to spare the scientist and leave with the infant.

Biography
Acquiring the child
Doctor Pershing was a human male who worked as a scientist for an Imperial remnant on Nevarro following the collapse of the Galactic Empire. In around 9 ABY, Pershing worked with an individual known as "the Client" to attempt to acquire a Force-sensitive Child. The Client placed a bounty on the infant with the Bounty Hunters' Guild, who sent many hunters to accept the contract. One of these hunters was Din Djarin who met with the Client and four stormtrooper guards face to face.

After the Client greeted Djarin, Pershing joined the meeting unannounced, causing Djarin to quickly draw his weapons. The doctor cowered and apologized for surprising the bounty hunter while the four stormtroopers kept their weapons aimed at Djarin. The Client then defused the situation and had the stormtroopers lower their weapons, after which Djarin took a seat and listened to the Client's description of the job. When the Client stated that the hunter could provide proof of termination instead of bringing the infant in alive, Pershing interrupted and complained that termination was not what they had previously agreed, but the Client dismissed the complaint and claimed he was "simply being pragmatic."

A scientist spared
Din Djarin successfully recovered the infant and delivered it directly to the Client and Pershing. Upon seeing the infant the pair rushed up, the Client first verifying its identity with a fob while Pershing scanned it to check that it was in good health. Pleased with the infant, the Client paid Djarin while Pershing escorted it from the room. Once Djarin was gone, the Client and Pershing argued about the infant, with the Client demanding he simply remove the material they needed from the Child even if it killed it. Pershing refused, reminding the Client that they had orders to deliver it alive, after which the Client warned Pershing they could no longer assure his safety and left. Pershing would harvest a small amount of blood from the Child to be used for his project.

Din Djarin later had a change of heart and returned, attacking the facility where Pershing was working on Grogu. After fighting his way through a number of stormtrooper guards, Djarin blasted open the door to the room where Pershing was working. A stormtrooper inside shot the bounty hunter, only for the bolt to rebound off his beskar armor. Din Djarin then killed the trooper and shot an IT-O Interrogation Unit while Pershing begged for his and the child's lives. After the scientist explained it was only because of him that the baby had not been killed, the bounty hunter took the baby and left, sparing Pershing.

Failed operations
Pershing continued to serve Moff Gideon and continue their experiments. In the Imperial base on Nevarro, he worked on volunteers, injecting Grogu's blood into their bodies. After seeing promising results for two weeks, the bodies rejected the blood and did not survive. Pershing was unable to continue his work because he exhausted the supply of blood. Knowing it would be difficult to obtain any more blood with such a high M-count, referring to the midi-chlorians, he recorded a hologram message for Gideon revealing his failure but promised that he would ultimately succeed. Three days later, Din Djarin returned to Nevarro, he would come across the base where he saw Pershing's recording before helping to destroy the base.

Capture
Following the abduction of Grogu by Moff Gideon, Pershing was being transported aboard Shuttle 2743 when the ship came under attack from Boba Fett in Slave I, and was disabled by Fett's ion cannon. Thinking the shuttle was under attack by pirates, Pershing suggested they fight back, but the co-pilot said he didn't have a death wish and refused. When Din Djarin and Carasynthia Dune boarded the shuttle, the co-pilot held a blaster to Pershing's head, stressing the clone engineer's importance to Gideon and the New Republic, although Pershing confirmed to Djarin that Grogu was alive aboard Gideon's light cruiser. After goading Dune about the destruction of Alderaan, she shot and killed the pilot. Pershing's ear was grazed by the blaster bolt, leaving a partial hole.

After Djarin obtained the help of the Mandalorians Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves, Pershing gave them valuable intel for their raid on Gideon's cruiser, including Grogu's location, and the presence and power-up time of a platoon of third-generation dark troopers. During the raid, Djarin used Pershing's code cylinder to access the brig, and to seal the cargo bay housing the dark troopers.