Straus Doakes

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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

Straus Doakes is a 25 year old 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.