Garu Jord was a 24th century Tarn individual, an officer in the Tarn Imperial Fleet. He was the Admiral of the Tarn Royal Circle in 2367. He is a member of the Karuuki Circle. Jord had ordered Harna Karish to accompany the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) before it entered the Tarn Neutral Zone. Jord commanded the Tarn flagship and its accompanying flotilla and was ordered to travel to Torgu-Va at high warp by the First Circle. There Jord was to evaluate the situation with the Tarn and Human forces still fighting on the planet some 200 years after the cease-fire had been set. Jord was worried that improper handling of the Torgu-Va incident might trigger a civil war in the Tarn Empire.