Straus Doakes

Straus Doakes
Biographical Information
Race	Human
Homeworld	Naboo
Mother	Loa Doakes (Deceased)
Father	Xavier Hannay
Spouse	None
Siblings	Kovac Doakes (Brother)
Children	None
Born	Year -15, Day 230
Imperial Service
Branch	Imperial Navy
Positions	Army Junior Enlisted
Prior Service	None
Awards	IAHG DIS

Straus Doakes is a fairly average human on active duty within the Imperial Army. During his upbringing, almost everyone around him saw a career in politics as the only possible route through his adult life, partly due to his lineage, and partly due to the intense political environment that his home planet of Naboo fostered. After coming of age however, he proved all of those thoughts to be wrong, as he signed up with the Galactic Empires military force.

In Depth Biography

Early Life and Upbringing

Born into a relatively well off family of low level bureaucrats to parents; Xavier and Loa, there is little question as to whether Straus enjoyed a comfortable childhood. Given his parents political connections on the families home planet of Naboo, Straus was entitled to anything that credits could purchase. With this great birth advantage came a great disadvantage. Due to the constant ambition of his parents to drive their political careers further up the bureaucratic chain, he was often neglected and left to his own devices with the various items obtained for him.

This relative isolation was abolished when Straus gained a brother some five years after his own birth named Kovac. Often left to tend to his younger sibling while his parents went to attend political rallies, Straus forged a strong bond with his brother. After several years the pair became inseparable, with Straus acting as the mentor of the younger Doakes.

Despite often being left to only his own, and later, his brothers company, Straus maintained a large social network of friends and acquaintances in his hometown. Like his own family, a large number of other bloodlines in the area stretched back to political roots, and so each often found it relatively easy to identify and befriend the others.

Mothers Death and Move to Coruscant

Approximately ten years after the birth of Kovac, the family took an incredibly large emotional blow when Loa died during a political rally against occupation by a large Imperial military force. Despite the immediate assumption that she was killed by forces of the Empire, it was actually revealed that she was hit by a stray bolt of blaster fire directed at an Imperial official speaking at the event. The attempted assassination failed, and in their haste to escape the debacle, the would be assassins detonated several explosive devices, most of which were homemade. The ensuing explosions killed numerous Imperial troops, and several more civilians. The chaos practically reduced the Doakes families hometown to a ghost town, as many of its inhabitants attended the rally.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Xavier felt he could no longer cope with the strain of looking after his two sons alone. And so he decided to send the eldest brother, Straus, to live with his long estranged brother (uncle to Straus) who lived on the metropolis covered planet of Coruscant. Despite having disowned his brother years before his wife's death, Xavier felt that he would look after the now teenage Straus well, or at the very least, better than he could given the circumstances.

Understandably upset at leaving his younger brother and grieving father, Straus protested the decision. Regardless, Xavier decided to carry on with his plans, and two months after his mothers death Straus found himself lost within the cobalt skyscrapers of Courscant.

Life on Coruscant

Arriving on the political capital of the galaxy did nothing to encourage Straus' ambitions to become a bureaucrat like his parents before him. If anything, having to live under his uncles roof, who happened to be a low key member of the Imperial Senate at the time (or so he often claimed during his numerous drunken stupors), drove the prospect further and further from his mind. Instead, Straus sought enjoyment from studying the numerous military battles, and the forces that participated in them, that had occurred in the bloody history of the outer-rim systems from the comfort of his local archives.

With a wealth of knowledge at his disposal, Straus studied vigorously, so much in fact that his regular studies at school began to suffer. At the age of eighteen, Straus left one of the many city run colleges with nothing but a degree in Galactic Basic to his name. His tutors at the college summarized such a result wasn't from a lack of intelligence, but rather a lack of interest.

His uncle, furious at what he perceived to be his idiot of a nephew, threw Straus out of his household. Out on the Coruscanti streets with barley a credit in his account, Straus was left with little choice but to take on the various banal jobs available to one with little to no relevant qualifications. From week to week he survived via filling in for hotel porters, or acting as a low key celebrities personal assistant, and even once by working as a tour guide.

The thought of returning to Naboo had occurred to Straus, but he put it to the back of his mind. He had decided long ago that if his father didn't want to shoulder the burden of taking care of him, then he needn't worry about such matters ever again. However, the thought of seeing his brother again prevented such thoughts from slipping his mind completely. Despite that though, he declined to go back to his home world, and so it seemed inevitable that he'd be stuck in his self made purgatory of witless jobs till his eventual demise. That was, until he enlisted with the Galactic Empire.

Enlistment and Academy Life

After approximately five years of living in between jobs, Straus happened upon an Imperial recruitment center while on the way to his next part time post. Due to his extensive study of the military during his college years, Straus toyed with the idea of signing up with the Imperial military. And so he entered the recruitment center, and left with orders to be at the nearest shuttle port at 08:00 hours the next morning.

Arriving at the orientation center, Straus was flung headfirst into an entirely new world. The rigorous training regimes, the new people, and of course, the new knowledge; all of it invigorated him. He threw himself into his Academy studies with reckless abandon, and on the rare occasion that he was granted free time, he studied further.

One year later, Straus graduated from the Imperial Academy with a 95% overall grade. His above average score, which to the delight of the Academy's training officers wasn't a rarity in his fellow recruits of the same semester, entitled him to an Imperial Academy Honors Graduate award and an immediate posting into active duty as a Private First Class.

Within the same week as his graduation Straus was assigned to the Imperial Army, a posting which the young private was immensely happy with. Despite the multitude of good fortune, it would seem that Straus couldn't graduate completely without any ill events marring his new life. Almost exactly on the day of his assignment, an emergency situation was declared, and amidst much activity and danger, Straus settled in for his life in the Galactic Empire. Though his first month of duty was marked by the previously mentioned ill omen, the Galactic Empire managed to triumph over the emergency in question, further assuring the private that he'd made the right decision in signing up with, what he perceived to be, the winning side of the current galactic turmoil.

Promotions While in Imperial Service

• Recruit [E-1] (Year 10)
• Private First Class [E-3] (Year 10)
• Corporal [E-4] (Year 10, Day 278)
• Sergeant [E-5] (Year 10, Day 299)