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Graeda L'Annan
Biographical Information
Race	Human
Homeworld	Crollia
Mother	Ysilwen Eirswith
Father	Nevin L'Annan
Spouse	none
Siblings	Mraz L'Annan
Children	none
Born	Year -15 Day 36
Imperial Service
Branch	Imperial Army
Positions	Army Executive Officer, Imperial High Command, Legion Commanding Officer, Assault Force Executive Officer, Imperial Geographic Director
Prior Service	None
Awards

Biography

Graeda Eirswith L'Annan or "Grey," as she is known by many, is from the city of Sengir on Crollia, where she spent much of her early years watching the Imperial builders turn Crollia into a viable community. Later, inspired by the Imperial dedication and order, she enrolled in the Imperial Academy and is presently a Colonel serving the Galactic Empire in the Imperial Army. She currently holds the position of Army Executive Officer and is a member of Army High Command and Imperial High Command. She simultaneously retains her positions as the Commanding Officer of the Second Imperial Legion and the Assault Force Executive Officer. L'Annan also works for the Coalition of Progress as the Director of Imperial Geographic.

Physical Description

Appearance and Demeanor

Graeda is a human female in her late twenties. She is slender, graceful and athletic both from her days of being a dancer as well as her daily duties in the army. She has a dark complexion and green eyes framed by long hair that is typically worn up for military regulations. She has been known to wear her hair blonde, black or red. Her face is plain until she smiles; then she is disarmingly pretty. Aside from her uniform, Graeda usually wears an emerald green ring around her neck and a curious runed armored pauldron on her left shoulder (typically under her uniform jacket). She obtained this pauldron by engaging in mortal combat with an elder sister of the Singing Mountain clan on Dathomir.

L'Annan is a fiercely devoted GE member who is well poised and has a generally proper attitude from her formal upbringing and background in traditional dance. She is also impishly spontaneous in her personal life, free spirited and incredibly graceful. She has an easy smile and likes to laugh, but also maintains a hard take on military necessities - after all, her team must know their jobs well as lives depend on them. She speaks clearly, without much of an accent. She can seem absent minded to others at times, as she has a lot on her plate and relies on her staff to keep her on top of the less pressing matters. L'Annan makes a strong confidante and friend; people seem to instinctually know this and befriend her. Perhaps as an offshoot of this, L'Annan is a protective sort over her faction, branch, personnel, family and friends. She has a tendency to give guarded trust to people before she assumes the worst; this makes it seem like she sticks up for people when, in fact, she is merely trying to give them the benefit of the doubt before condemning them wholeheartedly.

Family

Ysilwen and Nevin, Graeda's parents.

Graeda & Mraz performing in Sengir

Graeda's immediate family consists of her father, mother and sister who all still reside on Crollia. Her mother, Ysilwen, is a successful cloth merchant with a high end shop in Sengir. Ysilwen's ethnic flair and keen eye for quality textiles put her custom made, one of a kind apparel in high demand. Graeda's father, Nevin is a career xenoarcheologist. He is credited with the discovery of the Mwanamutapas ruins in Crollia Central during the planet's early colonization efforts. Nevin moved his young family to Sengir to be closer to his groundbreaking work and aid in the Galactic Empire's colonization efforts on the planet. Graeda and her younger sister, Mraz attended the same program at the Crollian Dance Academy. However, a brutal attack left the victimized Mraz with one leg shattered. With some irreparable damage, she never danced the same again and is now an accomplished musician with an affinity for horn instruments.

L’Annan’s Early Years

Graeda at a dance performance in a costume made by her mother

Graeda in meditation with her master

L`Annan attended the Crollian Academy of Dance and Music in Sengir with her sister Mraz under the tutelage of the phenomenal matron, Cindal Harbringer. Here she studied traditional dance and participated in competitions. Upon graduation, she decided to make her way as a dancer at the cantina Sandfury in Sengir. One night the cantina was short a bouncer and she was accosted by a nautolan patron. It was odd enough to see the alien on the Imperial world, but had the menace not been killed by an Imperial officer, L'Annan may not have survived the scrap unharmed. The incident prompted L`Annan to seek skills in self defense. It took her several weeks to convince Xargon Dagos, a renowned master of Teräs Käsi, to allow her to become his honored pupil. L`Annan to this day remains a practitioner of Teräs Käsi and is extremely prejudiced against all nautolans.

An incident with Mraz found her family in a situation in which they could easily have been on the wrong side of Imperial law. The man that Mraz was dating brutalized her, shattering her leg and ruining her dancing career. Their father Nevin went after the man in a fit of rage. What transpired after is known only to the immediate family, but to avoid more serious matters and to protect her father, Graeda negotiated a deal with the boyfriend's brother, the gang leader of to the Crollian territorial gang, the Sand Demons. As a result, Graeda spent two years as an indentured servant to the gang. She learned many of her more illicit skills during that time, including stealth, theft and smuggling abilities. She is also became an experienced slicer and learned how to handle a speeder and small starfighter. . As soon as her time was up, making her family safe, L`Annan followed her personal need to use her skills for the service of the Empire that she respects immensely.

Goals

L'Annan's goal was to get a command position of her own and then reach Army High Command. Beyond that, her driving goal is to help to usher in a new Golden Era for the Imperial Army and, as a result, the Imperial Military as a whole. This is the basis for most of her motivations and far-reaching vision. She would like to see military membership swell and be a part of the strongest Army in Imperial history. Grey would also like to get some down-time traveling done and accompany her father on some of his expeditions.

Education

Taking her new graduation present out for a spin, an AV-21 Landspeeder from her proud family

• Crollian Academy of Dance in Sengir, Crollia
  

• Dagos' Dojo for Teräs Käsi on Crollia
  

• Imperial Army Training Centre on Carida
  

• Imperial School of Officer and Command Studies on Coruscant
  

Favorite Accomplishments

L`Annan attended the Crollian Academy of Dance and Music in Sengir with her sister Mraz and is happy to have been a graduating student under Cindal Harbringer. Graeda is also proud that she became the honored pupil of Master Xargon Dagos, especially as it was hard to convince him to train her - a civilian and dancer with no predilection for combat - but in the end she convinced him even today considers his instructions to be a foundation for her life. The pauldron that she earned when she bested and killed the Singing Mountain elder is a badge of honor for her. She had been adventuring with her closest friend on Dathomir specifically to test herself and her TK methods against these force users. She considers is a rite of passage of sorts and wear the bracer with mixture of pride and humility. Her friend had been injured that day from one of the witches’ electric force shocks to the head and she almost lost her strongest confidant. The rest of her favorite moments all have to do with the Galactic Empire - graduating with honors from the Imperial Academy, earning the Army Betterment Award, becoming the first graduate of the new School of Officer and Command Studies, becoming the XO of first legion, earning her first commission as CO in second legion and ultimately reaching one of her goals as AXO.

The fight that earned the pauldron

Best Qualities

L'Annan has an almost intuitive curiously and acute sense in matters, especially in dealing with people one-on-one. These qualities, along with the love of mystery give her strong deductive reasoning and an attention to details. She is self confident and reliant, but not to the exclusion of utilizing advice when needed. She is charismatic, a strong leader and would be good at diplomacy if she had any interest in it.

Dislikes and Weaknesses

Graeda does not like space, piloting or anything of that sort. The fact that she is now the commanding officer of a VSD gets under her skin and she often delegates piloting duties. L'annan experienced the loss of the love of her life, which makes her tough to approach on a romantic level, staving off advances. She has a feeling that she is serving penance for her time in a gang and fanatically follows her personal need to use her skills for the service of the Empire. She sometimes lets her passionate responses get the way of her better judgment and has had to work to repair the damage these actions have caused.

Predjudices

Graeda absolutely loathes traitors to the Empire. Contact with betrayers, even if they are former friends and compatriots, is immediately severed or returned with contempt. On more than one occasion she has taken joy in ending the life of a traitor. Grey is seems outwardly intolerant of most aliens, as is her cultural inclination, but is especially prejudiced against nautolans due to a personal experience a with member of this race. She will go out of her way to provoke them, even work to destroy one's career or kill him/her if she can get away with it. She is also unforgiving of anyone who fails to show proper respect to her officers and those who cannot follow the proper protocol or social observances.

Personal Interests

Grey loves performing tricks and high velocity speeder maneuvers. She also loves to explore and is adventurous. Caves, mountains, hunting expeditions all give her a thrill and she will jump at the chance to visit new locations. She has an interest in exploring the histories of things due to her father's influence. She still likes to dance, and her idea of a perfect vacation would be to explore ancient temples in a warm climate by day and sample ethnic fare and dance by evening.

Quarters

Grey’s stateroom reflects her preference for deep rich colors. The office portion is almost stoic; her desk is clear, save for her viewscreen and necessary equipment. Behind the desk there are rows of codices on various anthropological and travel topics, most written either by her father or one of his colleagues. Along the shelving in the stateroom, there are several treasured items from her travels and artifacts her father brought back from his expeditions. Her sleeping area is not plush, but the rich colors and fabrics she favors (supplied by her mother who knows her preferences perfectly) are used tastefully throughout. Near her bed are two holographs - one of her family and another with her close friends.

The Galactic Empire

Hellhounds

Graeda in scout trooper armor - a proud member of the Immortals

Immortals

She was not with the Hellhounds for long before the Army went through a restructure and she was moved into the First Imperial Legion, The Immortals. She served under LCO Arbellason Saalar and LXO Wolfgang Rasolam. When Rasolam went AWOL, L'Annan started filling his role, thereby demonstrating to her commanding officer and Army High Command that she was worthy of promotion to Sergeant Major and given the position of First Brigade Executive Officer. The same day she was also awarded the Army Medal of Order. She served with many fine army men and women, among them Ralkata Tyrran, who filled her position when she left The Immortals and eventually became their legion commanding officer.

Imperial Academy Tutor

On Year 9 Day 104 , L`Annan was accepted as a professor at the Imperial Academy by the Dean, Rann Van. She served as the only female professor and one of only two Imperial Army members. L`Annan retired from her post at the Academy at the start of year 10 to better focus on her additional duties in the Assault Force and as Director of Imperial Geographic.

Imperial Geographic

On Year 9 Day 249, L`Annan was made Director of Imperial Geographic by Azrahk Raleep. The program was absorbed into COMPNOR as was the rest of the Sub-Ministry of Culture under the newly named Coalition for Progress. Graeda remains the director of this enrichment program among her other current duties. On Year 10 Day 99 she was awarded the Imperial Geographic Ribbon by the founder, Lord Azrakh Raleep. She was the first recipient of this award.

Legion Commanding Officer

Graeda in Imperial Officer's uniform

Graeda was accepted in the first class of the new Imperial School of Officer and Command Studies and became its first graduating student. Soon after, she earned her fist commission when the commanding officer of the Second Legion was arrested on the grounds of treason. Graeda was back in the Hellhounds, this time as Commanding Officer. She oversaw the Legion's recovery necessary after the arrest of several traitorous soldiers: Zenchi Senkusha, Galven Corse and Alsten Jorel. Under her command the Hellhounds morale was improved and they earned the 'Legion of the Month' award in her first month of command. They repeated the performance again several times.

Assault Force

It was an exciting day in Year 10 on Day 6 when ACO Alan Steel told Graeda that her legion had been selected for the experimental Assault Force. It took a couple more weeks when the AF's commanding officer was chosen and the creation of the Assault Force was announced at an Empire-wide meeting. With Captain Rex Corwyn of the Seventh Imperial Fleet as commanding officer and Major Graeda L'Annan of the Second Imperial Legion, the two branches joined together to form a fighting force that hoped to revolutionize the Imperial military. High spirits were celebrated when the two commanding officers attended the Imperial Union Ball together.

Graeda at the Imperial Union Ball Year 10

Army High Command

Near the beginning of Year 10 the army commanding officer, Alan Steel, retired. Bacara Kex became the new ACO and selected L'Annan as his executive officer. L'Annan retained her other command posts while in this position. From Year 10 Day 66 (February 7, 2009) through Year 10 Day 78 (February 19, 2009) she temporarily held the position of Army Commanding Officer.

Army Service Record