Roget Jiriss was a Human female and one of the most successful smugglers in the early years of the New Republic. Brash and confident by nature, Jiriss had an intense hatred of all pirates. She always delivered cargo on time when agreeing to a job, and her high delivery rate came with correspondingly high fees. During the prime of the First War, Jiriss's underworld contacts within several large criminal syndicates proved an excellent source of information for the Coalition of Independent States
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