Igneus Esh

Igneus Esh
Biographical Information
Race	Corellian
Homeworld	Kuan (birthplace), Soronia (current residence)
Mother	Sarah von Fanel
Father	Petrus Esh
Spouse	None
Siblings	Alina Esh, another brother
Children	None
Born	Year -15
Imperial Service
Branch	Imperial Navy
Positions	4th Imperial Fleet CO
Prior Service	None
Awards	- LOC 2 - DIS 2 - DB1 - 4IFC - 4IFV - NAM - FoM1 - FCP - IABG - THYFERRA - SYF

Igneus Esh is a Commander in the Imperial Navy and the Commanding Officer of the 4th Imperial Fleet. "Ig", as he is called by his friends, was born in planet Kuan, on system Taroon, 24 years ago, and together with his family moved to the Corellian system when he was a kid. Son of Petrus and Sarah Esh, also has a younger brother and sister.

Biography

Before birth

Leaving all her wealth and status, Sarah von Fanel married Petrus Esh on Coruscant two years before Igneus was born. Petrus was a simple middle class worker, but very charismatic. This conjuction of things attracted Sarah, that by no means was a common noble. Sarah finished her studies, a degree in Xenobiology, in Coruscant University and started working as a teacher in that university after some months. The Clone Wars damaged the Republic economy and the scars of war were felt also in important planets of the Inner Rim and the Core, even in Coruscant. As a consequence of the grave crisis Petrus lost his job, leaving Sarah as the only sustenance of the couple. Her family would help the couple, but Sarah rejected the help. She had left the nobility forever, and her stubborness wouldn't let her return for money. Months after Petrus became unemployed, they realized Sarah was pregnant. Knowing that her salary could be enough for the couple, but won't be enough for the incoming child, they looked for solutions. Advertisements at that time spoke about new settlements in the Outer Rim. "Come to the New World, get a New Life. Come to the Outer Rim.", said one of them. The Esh family joined one of the programs to populate the Outer Rim worlds, becoming colonists in Kuan, a remote world in the Taroon system. The Republic gave a considerable amount of dataries to the colonists, which helped them build their new home and start a new life, as the advertisments said. Petrus learned about construction and mining, knowledge he would later transfer to his son, and founded a building company with some associates. Sarah was the only person with university degree in the planet, what made her the most important professor. The couple lived happily the first six months. The barren planet Kuan was indeed a paradise for them, and made them forget the last awful times they spent on Coruscant and the horrors of the Clone Wars.

The Clone Wars eventually finished, leaving the Republic in a catastrophic state. Most worlds were devastated, and situation quickly got worse in all the galaxy. Kuan, as most of the rest of the Outer Rim planets, became a dangerous world. A world Igneus would born in.

Early Life

When Igneus was born, Kuan was a world submerged in chaos. During the Clone Wars the Confederacy of Independient Systems fulfilled the role of the "common enemy". All the Republicans joined to fight the Trade Federation and her allies, but as soon as the war ended and the situation started to normalize, conflict started again between Republic member worlds, as well as all those things that characterized the Republic at that time: corruption, crime, piracy and high taxes.

Conflict with neighbor planet Bordal was an obvious consequence of those factors, and as the conflic turned to be a bloody war the Esh family started to wonder if they made the right decision changing a bad place for living for another worse.

The Republic inability to stop the war, the misery he lived during his first years and all the suffering the conflict caused stayed latent in Igneus' memory, until the Old Republic died and the Galactic Empire was born. The resolute Empire with its superior military war machine finished in days a war that had lasted almost 10 years and lead to the anihilation of a huge amount of both Kuan and Bordal citizens. Having seen how quick and effective the Empire was pacifying the system, Igneus dream instantly became clear: he wanted to be an Imperial soldier.

But even with the planet pacified, the living conditions didn't get better. The Esh family sold all what owned, and with part of the money bought a freighter called "Leira". With the rest of the money they bought a residence in planet Soronia, in the Corellian system. Even if the planet had some resembance with Kuan, Igneus quickly forgot about the remote planet. Although he wasn't born there, Igneus considers Soronia, or even Corellia, his homeworld.

Igneus youth soon was influenced by the Corellian enviroment, and as most Corellians he got fascinated about all things related with spaceships. His father started working in the Corellian Engineering Corporation, what made Igneus' interest on spaceships increase even more. The first decade of his life his interest fell most of all in the technical side of the ships, and Igneus studied all the basics.

At the age of 12, his father thought of selling the old family personal freighter ship, the Leira, because it was not having any use, it was broken and needed complete and expensive repairs, as it couldn't even fly. His father thought it was broken beyond repair. Igneus begged his father to not to sell it and instead letting him do the repairs. Igneus worked hard day and night to afford the rare replacement pieces needed and tried to repair the ship. When his father saw this, he helped the young Igneus to repair the ship, and after a month the Leira was operational again. As a reward for his hard work Petrus promised Igneus that he would be the new owner of the ship when he has the required age.

COMPNOR's propaganda affected a young and innocent Igneus, converting him in a completely loyal Imperial citizen, often travelling to Corellia to attending Sub-Adult Group meetings, organized by COMPNOR. As years passed Igneus started to learn more and more of the galactic situation, and as a war enviroment started to reach the Corellian system and the war against the Rebellion started to be of common knowledge and reached Igneus' ears, he convinced himself his future was as a pilot in the Imperial Navy.

Imperial Service

As soon as he had the opportunity, he enlisted in the Imperial Naval Academy. His application was processed and accepted in Year 7 Day 215. He attended class "06-001" under then Lieutenant Deirdreann Moris tutorship, who would later be his Line CO, with Kato Forn as classmate, that would remain at his side later as a fleet member and now as his XO.

Even if he didn't expect training to be easy, it was way more harder than he imagined. After 21 days of intensive physical, mental and psychological training, he passed the academy with a score of 85%, becoming a crewman and being assigned to the 4th Imperial Fleet.

Two months after finishing the academy and doing constant routine patrol missions Igneus was promoted to Crewman First Class. His career continued to advance when a month later he was promoted to Flight Corporal, and then promotion after promotion, he reached officer grade only 7 months after joining the Navy, something achieved by few and highly uncommon nowadays.

With higher rank also came higher responsabilities, as in Year 7 Day 354 he took the then Beta Line XO position with Commodore Endorph Morbelis as Line CO (he was also the Fleet XO), then, in Year 8 Day 37 the Fleet XO position with then Rear Admiral Ramos Rob and after Captain Sarod Jaeger as fleet COs. Finally, after Captain Jaeger went into reserves Igneus was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and assigned as CO of the 4th Imperial Fleet on August, 12th 2007. On Year 9 Day 196 he was promoted to the rank of Commander.

Some missions in which he was involved were the defense of the Corellian system against a small NIO strike force, the more famous Thyferra Mission, where he lead the 4IF elements, the Talus/Tralus Mission, the Zelos Mission and the Polith Operation.

Personality and traits

Is loyal, enthusiast and energic. Is confident in his skills, maybe too much. He is bohemian: didn't have many friends until he joined the Imperial Navy, where knew the majority of his present friends. Has a good sense of humor, although he doesn't show it often. Delays in taking confidence with the people and is introvert with the ones he doesn't know. Likes the adventure so much, that if he was born in a planet of the Outer Rim, he'd have probably finished in the other side of the law.

Service History

Imperial Navy

• Year 7 Day 215 (August, 2nd 2006): joined the Galactic Empire.
• Year 7 Day 234 (August, 21th 2006): finished the Academy with an overall grade of 85%.
• Year 7 Day 235 (August, 22th 2006): joined the 4th Imperial Fleet with the rank of Crewman [E-2].
• Year 7 Day 287 (October, 13th 2006): promoted to Crewman First Class [E-3].
• Year 7 Day 324 (November, 19th of 2006): promoted to Flight Corporal [E-4].
• Year 7 Day 354 (December, 19th 2006): promoted to Flight Sergeant [E-5] and assigned as Beta Line Executive officer.
• Year 8 Day 37 (February, 5th 2007): promoted to Chief Master Sergeant [E-8] and assigned as 4IF XO and Beta Line CO.
• Year 8 Day 64 (March, 4th 2007): promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade [O-2].
• Year 8 Day 211 (June, 30th 2007): promoted to Lieutenant [O-3]
• Year 8 Day 254 (August, 12th 2007): promoted to Lieutenant Commander [O-4] and assigned as 4IF CO.
• Year 9 Day 196 (June, 14th 2008): promoted to Commander [O-5]

4th Imperial Fleet CO
Preceded By: CAPT Sarod Jaeger	Igneus Esh Y8 D254 - Current	Succeeded By: Incumbent

4th Imperial Fleet XO
Preceded By: CDRE Endorph Morbelis	Igneus Esh Y8 D37 - Y8D254	Succeeded By: LTCMDR Kato Forn