EMPIRE AT WAR APPLICATION:
Name: Draim Val
Age: 44
Sex: Male
Appearance:Standing at 6’1”, Draim Val is not a very slim man. With a rotund figure spent from years in the Captain’s chair and not out in the field, running miles on miles, the man is rather out of shape. He does not run, does not lift weights, and instead diverts his time to the management of his resources, the division of his plans. His hair has balded, black-and-white as it is, and Draim sports a short beard about him. His skin is rather pale due to a severe lack of exposure, his fingers worn.
Role: Fleet Admiral
Faction: Bakura Freehold (Imperial Warlord)
Systems:Bakura, Bakura System, Bakura Sector G-16
Allied Systems: N/APalatine Station (Formerly Ring of Kafrene) In Orbit
Formerly a unique station far, far farther inside the galactic spiral, the station was converted into an Imperial Navy resupply and retrofit station following Rebel cell activity on station. This activity would result in the spacing of all denizens, as well as the addition of several long spars fitted for warship docking, massive fuel tanks, shield generators, turbolaser and point defense batteries, six gravity well projectors, and a Class 5 Hyperdrive. Relieved from it’s asteroid confines, the station would be maneuvered to Bakura following the Scarlet Fleet’s declaration of independence.
Army Assets:Bakuran 1st Army
Fleet Assets:20,000 Soldiers
Bakuran 2nd Army
100x 2-M Saber-Class Repulsor Tank20,000 Soldiers
Bakuran 3rd Army
100x 2-M Saber-Class Repulsor Tank20,000 Soldiers
404th Stormtrooper Legion
100x 2-M Saber-Class Repulsor Tank12,800 Soldiers
405th Stormtrooper Legion
200x 2-M Saber-Class Repulsor Tank
100x AT-ST
20x AT-AT
40x SPHA12,800 Soldiers
452nd Stormtrooper Legion
200x 2-M Saber-Class Repulsor Tank
100x AT-ST
20x AT-AT
40x SPHA12,800 Soldiers
200x 2-M Saber-Class Repulsor Tank
100x AT-ST
20x AT-AT
40x SPHA307 Attack Group, Designation Chaos
Biography:1x Bellator-Class Dreadnought
309 Attack Group, Designation Fall
4x Immobilizer 418 Cruiser
6x Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer
3x Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer4x Secutor-Class Star Destroyer
BSD-Steel Heaven
17x Ton-Falk-Class Escort Carrier
7x Victory I-Class Star Destroyer
2x Victory II-Class Star Destroyer
12x Imperial II-Class Frigate
20x Carrack-Class Light Cruiser
3x Lancer-Class Frigate
50x IPV-1 System Patrol Craft3x Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer
909 Reserve Attack Group, Designation Rainmaker
1x Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer2x Tector-Class Star Destroyer
5x Victory I-Class Star Destroyer
2x Victory II-Class Star Destroyer
7x Imperial II-Class Frigate
14x Carrack-Class Light Cruiser
3x Lancer-Class Frigate
28x IPV-1 System Patrol Craft6x Venator-Class Star Destroyer
910 Reserve Attack Group, Designation Trident10x Acclamator II-Class Assault Ship
3x Dreadnought-Class Heavy Cruiser
13x CR90 Corvette
12x IPV-1 System Patrol Craft6x Venator-Class Star Destroyer
1032 Reserve Attack Group, Designation Brigand10x Acclamator II-Class Assault Ship
3x Dreadnought-Class Heavy Cruiser
13x CR90 Corvette
12x IPV-1 System Patrol CraftBorn on Bakura to a pair of teachers, Val’s first experiences were most heavenly. His home bordered on the edges of the forest and as a child, he would always roam there with little in the way of cares, always running-about to make his own stories, his own adventures, the forests beautiful and the rains ever-present. He simply got used to the atmosphere after so very long and, as a young adult while going to school, would camp with his friends. Of course, they were always of the more interesting sort as friends go, pretty girls with long hair and tight pants that always just happened to be slipped-off in the tent, and of course Val had little issue with this. It was good fun and the young man held little trouble in school, finding it to be all to easy at every turn. However, the fun didn’t last forever and when the Clone War began, the CIS established a base on the planet and with that came the war.
RP Example:
Old enough to enlist and watching his planet spiral into madness, General Grievous murdering the ruling council, Val left the planet quietly to go and join the people who seemed to have a grip on things. Joining the Galactic Republic’s Navy and moving rapidly through the Academy, finding it to be merely issues for which he had to deal with, the man would be commissioned as an Ensign and assigned to the Redoubt, a Venator-Class Carrier, and would rapidly be dispatched to the Outer Rim. Participating in many of the battles that would define the static warfare of the war, mostly in independent actions against Separatist frigates and merchant raiders, the Redoubt would be recalled to the Core with the Battle of Coruscant.
During the battle, as one of the secondary bridge crew, Lieutenant Val would coordinate fighter strikes until heavy turbolaser fire from one of the present Lucrehulk-Class Battleships would knock out the vessel’s main engine systems. Despite the heavy forces about them, firepower on all sides being intensive and the Redoubt’s fighter compliments rapidly being torn to pieces, the vessel continued firing on the enemy. Unable to halt themselves due to the lack of a main drive system, the vessel continued past the Republic forces sphere of fire and became embroiled in the Separatist fleet. Taking continuous fire, the Redoubt began to transfer all available power to shield systems in an attempt to hold-off the turbolaser fire, halting her main batteries in the process. Lieutenant Val and those under him were ordered to shelter in place and ready the escape pods. However, an errant Recusant-Class Destroyer, having lost her bridge crew in the fight and being piloted only by it’s crude droid brain, failed to notice the Redoubt’s bridge and, while her engines were drifting the vessel along at a comfortable pace, rammed the Venator’s main bridge. With main leadership gone, Lieutenant Val assumed command of the vessel and rapidly ordered that weapons power be transferred from main weapons to secondary and tertiary drives, that life support power would be drawn and rerouted to those same drives, and proceeded to perform one of the largest SLAM maneuvers with a warship to that date. The Redoubt, still taking massive fire and losing air on most main decks, exited the battle as a drifting hulk, though it was saved and a good enough percentage of the crew survived due to that action.
He would be placed in ‘command’ of the Redoubt, who would go on to experience repairs at Kuat for the remainder of the war, something newly-minted Captain Val was most certainly not at all happy with. The man wanted to go to war to relieve his homeworld of the pressures of the Separatists, not babysit a warship in drydock. Discontent, the man became plaintively annoyed, beginning his career in the art of drinking, gambling, and figuring-out methods as to how to get back into the war. The easiest way, he found, was to get himself down a rank and onto command of a cruiser or something of the same size and, with that idea in mind, Captain Val went on to commit a few little heinous acts in the way of seducing Senator’s daughters and the like before thereafter bragging to others on the act, those daughters numbering around five. In order to get him to shut up on such things, those fathers wielded a little bit of influence and sent him back to the front lines on the Amusquera, an Arquitens-Class Light Cruiser serving on the Outer Rim hunting CIS remnants.
He would get his taste of combat with the encounter against a Munificent-Class on one of the many trade lanes the vessel was assigned to. Captain Val’s actions were most certainly swift; they had to be, after all. Performing a similar maneuver to the one he had done before, the ship’s weapons power was transferred to the engines and the small cruiser began to perform SLAM maneuvers in order to flank the enemy cruiser. Avoiding the vast array of firepower through some remarkably evasive maneuvers, the Amusquera closed with the enemy and proceeded to fire, point-blank, into the large exposed bridge, delivering missile strikes with moderate accuracy and causing air loss in isolated regions. Venting of the vessel’s hyperdrive fuel into the forward regions of the Munificent-Class was then performed, the Amusquera maneuvering and firing aft as she most definitely fled the scene of the crime. The hyperdrive fuel ignited, causing massive damage to the cruiser and ignited the vessel’s own fuel supplies, destroying her.
For the remainder of the war, Captain Val would perform several similar actions, each one straining his smaller warship to the breaking point and each one requiring either a tow to a friendly port-of-call or a refueling from a tanker. He most certainly wasn’t kind to the ship and gained a small reputation for the fact, though such a thing did endear his crew to him. Val’s tendency to keep them alive, after all, was valued. With the transition of power to the Galactic Empire, the man would be recommissioned as an Imperial Officer and granted, due to his service, the great honor of commanding one of the first Imperial I-Class Star Destroyers, the Crater. He would participate in the Ciutric Offensive under Admiral Screed and in the Five Veils Campaign to crush the final remnants of the Trade Federation. A staunch supporter of his homeworld, Val found it rather poor from the Empire.
That all changed when he heard the news. The Imperial Navy came to the planet with two Star Destroyers, took it with little in the way of a fight, and immediately began the subjugations. Rebellions began, each being squashed by the forces stationed there, and immediately the Captain began his planning. He told no-one of his feelings, stated nothing, feigned ignorance and continued on his job. He built a reputation as a capable commander, garnering support and, eventually, an Admiralty. He built his connections, from the Kaminoans who were forbidden to develop armies for other races to Rothana Shipbuilding, who had largely been forgotten with the phoenix’s rise of Kuat, Mon Calamari. Val built an array of business connections, profiting massively and sending a good deal of money back home, back to rebuild and back to refurbish, to help to alleviate the issues as best he could.
With the fleet came new responsibilities, Admiral Val taking-up a position with the Outer Rim Imperial Fleet and commanding his squadron against pirates and other such actors there. He was back to protecting civilians, ensuring that bastards didn’t kill on his watch, and dedicated himself to it with a good enough gusto. Helping people was something the man could get behind, the impersonality that plagued many Imperial Officers not yet touching him, and he was notable for actually lowering the piracy rates in the region instead of performing the standard ruse and paying people off. With the Rebellion’s rise, he became more embroiled in halting it’s spread, utilizing his vessels in a more cohesive manner than the simpleton tactics many colleagues attempted to adopt to counter what they viewed to be an inferior force. His fighters were viewed not as a screening force, but as legitimate weapons, his bombers being the bane of many an unsuspecting Rebel commander who thought they were going to escape undamaged.
His stationing with the 307 Attack Group, however, would lead to an exit from Bakura and, as a result, the man began to plan for the eventuality of the Empire’s fall. Val would contact multiple former Republic officers who had been sidelined from main combat, men in command of the reserve fleets. He began to accumulate a vast number of volunteers from Bakura itself, men and women willing to man the vessels, individuals willing to develop an arm of freedom that did not associate itself with the Rebellion, with the Alliance to Restore the Republic. In addition to this, Val appeased with Admiral Gera of the 309 Attack Group, an old hand who still hd reservations about the overall state of the Empire. The man feared that Vader would increase the pressure, strong-arm the galaxy, turn it all into Shu-Torun. That Admiral would come to agree, finding that the possibilities were far, far more dangerous.
A vast network, aided through ISB double agents, survived and grew, grew across Bakura to envelop the whole planet. With the Battle of Yavin, the removal of the Empire and it’s shattering, and the death of the Emperor came the perfect opportunity. The fleets, one by one, would exit their berthings, making their way to Palatine Station, readying to make all haste to Bakura. The planet itself prepared it’s rebellion, ready to strike out at the garrison units and storm the forts. The Scarlet Fleet would not be denied, nor would Val. On their arrival, what few Imperial ships that were in orbit were opened fire on and destroyed, their messages never leaving the system, and the populace below rose up against the stationed stormtroopers. Since that period, the Scarlet Fleet has overall declared independence, renaming themselves the Bakura Freehold.
