Surizal Jakohr

Surizal Jakohr
Biographical Information
Race	Corellian
Homeworld	Corellia
Mother	Cyres Jakohr †
Father	Taemush Jakohr †
Spouse	none
Siblings	none
Children	none
Born	Year 0 Day 364
Imperial Service
Branch	Imperial Navy
Positions	2nd Fleet 2nd Fleet FSO CAG - Carrier Team Mynock
Prior Service
Awards

Surizal Jakohr is by all appearances a galactic standard Corellian male. He has fair skin and short blonde hair, and carries himself with a confidence born of surviving the streets of Corellia. He is currently a Lieutenant Junior Grade in the Imperial Navy, and the Aerospace Group Commander for Carrier Team Mynock. He is also now serving as the 2nd Imperial Fleet's Fleet Signal Officer.

Character History

Early Life

Surizal Jakohr grew up mostly on the streets of Corellia. While his parents weren't, by definition, poor, they were also not quite wealthy enough to send Surizal off for any private education. Instead, Surizal attended public school, where he excelled enough in his studies to attend University, but had insufficient funds to do so. In an effort to pay for his tuition, he took a job at the Corellian Shipyards, working on assembling capital ships. Unfortunately, he was still unable to earn enough to finish his first year of University, and was forced to drop out. Shortly thereafter, motivated by his work in the shipyards and a desire to go off-world, Surizal submitted his recruitment packet to the Galactic Empire.

Family Life

Surizal's father, Taemush Jakohr, served "in the military" before settling down on Corellia with his wife Cyres "when the war was done", and raised Surizal in a strict but not overbearing manner. Neither of his parents spoke much about their lives before Surizal was born, nor what they did during the previous galactic conflict. Taemush currently works as a security officer, and Cyres is a nurse in a medical facility.

Career

Corellian Engineering Corporation

Surizal began work at the Corellian Engineering Corporation on Year 18 Day 115, in an effort to secure tuition funds for University. Unfortunately, menial labor is not enough to pay for college, so those dreams were put on hold. Surizal enjoyed working with his hands though, and had a knack for memorizing the layouts of the various vessels that he worked on assembling. One of his promotions within the Shipyards procured him some flight training, and saw him piloting assembly craft in orbit over Corellia. This is where his love of the stars was borne, and Surizal made plans then and there to one day pilot his own ship.

Imperial Service

Contact with the Galactic Empire

After performing emergency repairs on an Imperial vessel that entered Corellian Space, Surizal managed to impress one of the officers enough to earn a letter of recommendation, which Surizal promptly took to the local Imperial Recruitment depot, and secured himself a commission into the Imperial Academy. After tying up his few affairs on Corellia, Surizal boarded his slightly-less-than-new YT-510, and left Corellia for the Academy.

Imperial Academy on Prakith

Surizal joined the Empire on Year 23 Day 214, studied at the Imperial Academy under Senior Training Officer RADM Thokul Tovcor, and graduated with honors on Y23 D222.

Imperial Navy

The day following his graduation from the Imperial Academy, Surizal was commissioned into the Imperial Navy as an Ensign and assigned to 2nd Fleet.

Operation: Silent Night

After reporting to the 2nd Imperial Fleet under Rear Admiral Shonblam Dacar, ENS Jakohr's first port of duty was to retrieve a Carrack class ship and take it to 2nd Fleet's hub of operations. Once there, Surizal was tasked with WarSim practice, to familiarize himself with the different ships and their capabilities at the Fleet's disposal. Shortly after that though, a request for volunteers came down from the new Ruby Task Force Commander. Admiral Cataldo Blackstar was looking for Officers of all ranks to take part in his debut operation, Operation: Silent Night. Leaping at the chance, Ensign Jakohr was one of the first officers in his Fleet to volunteer. Boarding a TIE/sr, Surizal received his orders en route to a pre-designated location. The group he was assigned to was tasked with performing a rather large number of deep space scans in 3 different Sectors of Imperial Space. About halfway through the first sector though, Surizal noticed that the way each sector's subsystems was laid out in the FRAGO wasn't a particularly efficient route. At the encouragement of his Commanding Officer, Ensign Jakohr took it upon himself to chart out a much more efficient scanning route, and disseminated the new route to his fellow officers. Using this new route, Ensign Jakohr was able to singlehandedly scan over half of the total number of systems in the 3 weeks of Operation: Silent Night, and for this activity, he was nominated by his Commanding Officer as 2nd Fleet's Navy Officer of the Month, at his first Navy Monthly Meeting. Immediately following the meeting, Ensign Jakohr was awarded his first Letter of Commendation, and an Imperial Activity Medal, for these actions.

REDACTED Infrastructure Project

Following a shortage of Regional Government and Ministry of Industry personnel, Admiral Blackstar was approached by Grand Moff Takla and asked for a volunteer to assist with building some mines in a developing Imperial system. Knowing that Ensign Jakohr had both the initiative and the requisite skill sets to properly assist the Grand Moff, Surizal was instructed to request a shuttle from his command, and report to the Grand Moff. What followed was a brief stint with a nationalized entity (the Imperial Mining Corporation) and a grueling month of intersystem and planetary travel, retrieving and assigning worker personnel, requesting building privileges, calculating and allocating construction materiel, and finally beginning the construction on nearly 2 dozen mining facilities. About halfway through this project (and numerous cups of Spiran Caf at his new favorite cantina), Surizal was granted a break in the project, and told to report back to his Fleet's hub of operations. Once there, Ensign Jakohr was informed that both his transfer to INSC and his application to the new Carrier Team as the Aerospace Group Commander were approved. Following this announcement though, Ensign Jakohr was awarded his second Letter of Commendation, from Grand Moff Takla, for his hard work with RGOV.

Operation: REDACTED

What should have been a routine show of force started off, quite literally, with a bang. Terrorists attacked the CEC Shipyards where Surizal once worked, killing many of his old friends and coworkers, but the fallout wasn't limited to space and near-orbit. Debris rained down on Corellia herself, drawn in by her own gravitational pull. Cities across the planet suffered damage, and civilians were crushed. Surizal's parents, who had just days before celebrated Taemush's promotion to Technician Grade IV, had just moved into their new hab complex, before it was ground into dust by a crashing capital ship. Authorized by ADM Blackstar, ENS Jakohr now wears a black armband, along with many other servicemembers of the Galactic Empire, on his left bicep, in remembrance of his lost family.

Corellian Bloodstripe, 2nd Class

"To the Imperial military members who were present as members of Joint Task Force Ruby, the Government of Corellia, in consultation with planetary military authorities, wishes to extend our heartfelt thanks for your dedication and acts of bravery in bringing to justice those who killed our citizens. Without your actions, those responsible would still be among the stars looking to harm those who desire peace, stability, and prosperity. Therefore let it be resolved: WHEREAS certain terrorist elements conducted an unprovoked attack on the civilian population of Corellia; WHEREAS members of the Galactic Empire’s Joint Task Force Ruby immediately thrust themselves into danger on behalf of Corellia and Her people, with no regard for their own personal safety; BE IT RESOLVED, that the GOVERNMENT OF CORELLIA does hereby award the JOINT TASK FORCE RUBY the award of the CORELLIAN BLOODSTRIPE, 2ND CLASS for their BRAVERY IN COMBAT. While we understand that Imperial Military Regulations prohibit the display of this award on your uniforms or in your official records, we hope you will accept this honorary gesture of goodwill and thanks from a grateful people. Our hearts are with you and you have our eternal gratitude."

With these words came a feeling of fulfillment that Surizal had never thought possible. Bloodstripes were fairly rare, even on Corellia. For the entire Task Force to be awarded them... that was no small thing. Especially considering just how many Imperials there were, even in the Task Force, that weren't from Corellia. But this was Ruby's home, and we had come to protect her in her hour of desperate need. Later that evening, Surizal spent some time reviewing the history of the Bloodstripe.

"It was awarded most typically for courage demonstrated after deliberation; it was said that Corellians believed that anyone can be brave in the heat of the moment, but true heroism came when one knew that doing the right thing would hurt but did it anyway. Though they could be awarded for many reasons, the majority of the prestigious awards were awarded for courage under fire.

In everyday dress, the stripe was a bit of colored piping worn down the side of the trousers. There were two classes of Bloodstripes. The second class was represented by yellow piping; the first class was represented by red piping, and were almost always awarded posthumously. Though not formally recognized by the Empire, the Imperial Navy allowed its servicemen recipients to don the award on their uniforms.

Some sources say that a Corellian was entitled to kill—without repercussion—any other Corellian or non-Corellian caught wearing them that hadn't earned them."

Imperial Service Record

Ranks

Rating	Insignia	Rank	Time Held	Branch
[T-1]		Recruit	Y23 D214 - Y23 D222	Imperial Academy
Grade	Insignia	Rank	Time held (Combine Time)	Branch
[O-1]		Ensign	Y23 D223 - Y23 D314	Imperial Navy - 2nd Fleet
[O-2]		Lieutenant Junior Grade	Y23 D315 - Present	Imperial Navy - 2nd Fleet

Awards

Ribbon	Name	Date Awarded	Awarded by	Citation
	Imperial Academy Honours Graduate [IABG-H]	Y23 D222	Rear Admiral Thokul Tovcor	For graduating from the Imperial Academy with honors.
	Letter of Commendation [LOC]	Y23 D 253	Admiral Cataldo Blackstar	For being designated by the 2nd Fleet Commanding Officer as the Fleet’s Imperial of the Month nominee for exceptional performance above that expected or required of his grade and position.
	Imperial Activity Medal [IAM]	Y23 D 253	Admiral Cataldo Blackstar	For his hard work, dedication, and quality activities as a member of Joint Task Force Ruby during and after Operation: Silent Night.
	Letter of Commendation - 2nd Award [LOCx2]	Y23 D 279	Grand Moff Aurren Takla	For outstanding support of Regional Government missions and activities, well outside of his normal duties in the Imperial Navy during an extended build mission.
	Medal of Support	Y23 D 318	Empress Inwe Ventidius	Awarded for financially contributing to the development costs of the Galactic Empire.
	Exercise Achievement Medal	Y23 D 344	Admiral Cataldo Blackstar	For his outstanding work during Operation [Redacted], he created the winning solution to a hostage situation that resulted in the survival of all Imperial hostages, including a captured ISB Agent. His quick thinking also allowed for the capture of a terrorist leader for additional questioning and minimized damage to Imperial equipment.

Civilian Decorations

Decoration	Name	Date Awarded	Awarded by	Citation
	Corellian Bloodstripe, 2nd Class	Y23 D344	Corellian Government	WHEREAS certain terrorist elements conducted an unprovoked attack on the civilian population of Corellia; WHEREAS members of the Galactic Empire’s Joint Task Force Ruby immediately thrust themselves into danger on behalf of Corellia and Her people, with no regard for their own personal safety; BE IT RESOLVED, that the GOVERNMENT OF CORELLIA does hereby award the JOINT TASK FORCE RUBY the award of the CORELLIAN BLOODSTRIPE, 2ND CLASS for their BRAVERY IN COMBAT.