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Koltan 'Kol' Seraph
2nd Lieutenant Kol Seraph Brigade Executive Officer 1st Brigade, 1st Imperial Legion Imperial Army
Biographical Information
Race	Coruscanti
Homeworld	Coruscant
Mother	Lasha Seraph †
Father	Garran Seraph †
Spouse	N/A
Siblings	N/A
Children	N/A
Born	Year -7, Day 234
Imperial Service
Branch	Imperial Army
Positions	Current: 1BDE Executive Officer 1IL Signals Officer 1st RECON BN Commander Scout Trooper Archivist
Prior Service	Imperial Academy
Awards

Koltan 'Kol' Seraph is a 19-year-old Coruscanti male, currently serving as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Imperial Army. He also serves as the Executive Officer of the 1st Assault Brigade, and as the 1st Imperial Legion's Signals Officer.

"Primus Introire, Ultimus Exire : First In, Last Out"

— The motto of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, of which Seraph is Battalion Commander

Biography

Painful Memories

Not much is certain about the precise details surrounding Koltan Seraph’s early life. What is known for sure is that he was born on Day 234, Year -7, to Garran and Lasha Seraph, Human expatriates of the Outer Rim who had made their way to the galactic capital planet of Coruscant sometime before their son was born. The Seraphs lived in a small family home in the modest, middle-class district of Sah’c Town, and owned an equally small, but for the most part prosperous, business enterprise, involved in hauling freight from Imperial Center’s orbit to the surface, and vice-versa. Their new life in the Core Worlds seemed to be a story of success, at least until the troubles that came to the galactic capital in Year -4, which saw Coruscant plagued by ever-increasing taxes, power outages, food shortages, and the subsequent periods of civil unrest that lasted for weeks on end. The situation only deteriorated further when, shortly before Kol’s third birthday, his mother fell victim to the disastrous outbreak of the virulent Grey Plague, which claimed countless thousands of lives of those not native to the spires of the city-planet.

Kol’s father Garran spent much of his family’s fortune, and sold off much of his business’ interests and his family’s home, in a vain attempt to purchase vaccines and medicines with which to save the life of the mother of his child, first from the authorities, and then from less reputable sources, even moving to the infamously ramshackle tenement habs of Coruscant’s Undercity to cut his expenses. When the strong-willed Lasha Seraph finally succumbed to the ravages of the Plague, her heartbroken widower lost the will to keep the doors of his business open any longer, and had nowhere near the sum of credits with which to pay back his unscrupulous debtors. He refused to even gaze upon the face of his adolescent son, as the features of Kol’s maternal bloodline bore themselves prominently on his visage, painfully reminding Garran of the lover he had lost.

When he was 8, Kol had had enough of servitude, murdering his Master and paving his way to his freedom in blood

Intent on collecting on the debts owed to him, the notorious man known only as ‘The Boss’, the leader of ‘the Syndicate’, the criminal organization which Garran had taken out his loan from, soon sent his agents to force Seraph to pay up. When Garran refused to pay (indeed, he did not possess the means nor the will to do so in the first place), The Boss made up his mind to make an example of him. When the gangster’s thugs stormed into Garran’s run-down apartment, they had discovered their target had committed suicide, having been driven mad with grief and despair (unknowingly having done so while his son watched on in horror under his bed, driven to that sanctuary by the terrible madness in his father’s eyes hours earlier). After The Boss’ men ransacked the dilapidated apartment in a vain search for the credits Garran had owed, the thugs instead found the boy, still in the embrace of shock inspired by the emotional trauma he had witnessed. They easily abducted the 3 year old, despite his struggles, bringing him before their employer as ‘collateral’. Forced into slavery to pay off his father’s debts, Kol suffered The Boss’ abuses until he was 8 years old, when he immediately seized the chance to kill his hated master in his sleep with a paring knife. After escaping the prison which had ensnared him for more than half of his young life, Kol, a bright lad with a razor-sharp wit, quickly learned to survive on his own on the unforgiving, ruthless streets of Coruscant's decaying, neglected Undercity, while the Syndicate's operations on Coruscant reeled from The Boss’ death for months to come, allowing his adolescent murderer to vanish into the shadows. On the merciless streets, Kol eventually joined a relatively unknown juvie gang, known as the 'Undercity Shades', as a petty thief and pick-pocket. With his ambitious nature and his affiliation with violence, however, it only took a couple of years for Kol to become the gang’s leader. His ruthless leadership eventually brought the Shades notoriety and recognition from rival gangs, not to mention the wary eye of the Syndicate itself.

From an early age, Kol displayed a real talent for leadership

Although the events of his life denied him a proper Imperial primary education, and he eschewed the abusive curriculum taught at the Imperial orphanages, Kol understood the value of learning and planning ahead of his enemies. A testament to his sharp intellect, Kol retained basic reading and comprehension skills his parents had imparted to him at a very early age, and as he grew older, he taught himself how to read and write Imperial Basic. His time as a slave proved to do very little in preventing him from developing his intellect, although the experiences he witnessed at a premature age undoubtedly had an effect on other aspects of his juvenile mind.

Kol and his followers managed to outwit the Syndicate's agents for over 6 years, and Kol himself displayed a talent for turning the passions and prejudices of the warring gangs from against each other to their mutual enemy, which could have eventually forced the criminal enterprise off the planet entirely, if it had not been for the greed and envy of Kol's most trusted lieutenants. They had always been secretly envious of Kol’s leadership and resentful of his ambitions, and enthusiastically betrayed their leader when given the chance. In exchange for a fortune in credits, the collaborators approached the Syndicate's new Undercity leaders in secret, and betrayed to them information on the rest of the gang’s current activities, whereabouts, and safe houses. Despite his vicious upbringing, betrayal at the hands of his closest compatriots was the very last thing Kol expected. The trap the Syndicate had set resulted in the deaths of all but one of the Shades, including the traitors: the one thing the bosses tolerated less than competition on their turf were turncoats motivated by greed. Of course, they saved Kol for last; forcing him to watch on as both his loyal comrades and those who had betrayed him were put to the sword.

Born Again Imperial

At 16, Kol became determined to serve the Galactic Empire

It seemed Kol's brutal life was about to be cut short, until a squad of Imperial Army soldiers suddenly burst into the scene and made short work of the unsuspecting and ill-prepared syndicate agents. By chance, or perhaps fate, the leader of the mobster hit-squad that had killed Kol's gang, a Zeltron, had murdered the daughter of an Imperial Moff several years earlier, and the Empire had come to bring justice down upon the criminal's head, a fortuitous coincidence for the 16-year-old Seraph. The coldly efficient and professional Imperials saving his life and inadvertently avenging the deaths of his friends had a profound effect on Kol's life. After convincing the squad Sergeant to allow him to tag along, Kol soon made up his mind to join the Imperial Army, motivated by a sense of duty to uphold the Empire's values: the brutal enforcement of order and justice upon a chaotic, lawless galaxy.

Seraph's old Imperial Youth Militia uniform

Having to wait two years before being eligible for enlistment in the Emperor's armed forces, Kol spent the time by enrolling and serving in the Imperial Youth Militia, a paramilitary detachment of the Imperial SAGroup, itself a subsidiary body of COMPNOR, to gain the military ethos he believed he required to excel in an Imperial Army career. Due to his previous life experience on the streets, Kol excelled during his time in the Militia, and through them, he earned a scholarship to attend the Imperial Academy, which he did as soon as he turned 18. Under the tutelage of Captain Rik Zoidic, then CO of the 3rd Imperial Legion, Recruit Seraph found the inspiration he needed to excel in his Academy studies as well. During his time at the Academy, Recruit Seraph's superiors and peers noted that he not only possessed an above average IQ and that he absorbed the customs of Imperial military life with gusto, but also that he was no stranger to violence and the responsibilities of leadership.

Two weeks after graduating, Private Seraph received word from 2nd Lieutenant Santiano Salazar, his unit’s Signals Officer, who assigned him his posting in the Army, and from there, Kol’s life as an Imperial truly began. Upon graduating from the Academy, Kol was initially expecting to receive a posting to 3IL, the Shadow Guards, under the command of his Academy mentor, Captain Zoidic. Instead, he received a message from RADIA stating that they had assigned him to the 1st Imperial Legion, the Immortals, and arguably the most elite Brigade in the entire Army. Initially surprised that RADIA had assigned him to such a prestigious Army unit, Kol soon came to feel quite honored about where Army administration had placed him. It was not long after that when transportation was arranged for Kol to the Immortal, the 1st Legion’s VSD and current base of operations. As he departed Coruscant, Kol gazed upon his homeworld from space for the first time in his life, something the young Coruscanti soldier had looked forward to for as long as he could remember.

A Soldier of the Imperial Army

Kol's homeworld, Coruscant, as he saw it for the first time from orbit

Despite his inexperience, Seraph soon came to be viewed as a valued member of the unit due to his incredible self discipline and sense of professionalism, meeting General L'Annan, the Army Executive Officer at the time, through his eccentric BCO, 2nd Lieutenant Akai Ai, whose demeanor and idiosyncrasies often reminded Kol of his former friends in the Shades. Seraph and Lieutenant Ai often joked about life in the Imperial Army and the Empire in general, although Kol always remembered to restrain himself when doing so, so as not to receive disciplinary action for misconduct by any of his other superiors. Despite a few incidents and mistakes on his part that his superiors attributed to military inexperience, the Lieutenant must have been impressed with his performance, as even in the presence of superior officers, Ai took the liberty of labeling Kol as 'the best Private in the Imperial Army' several times. To Seraph’s astonishment, Lieutenant Ai actually made good on his offer to try and make Kol his BXO by requesting permission to do so from ACOMD, although they denied this request, and the position instead went to Dante Erinith, a newly commissioned officer who was without a doubt the most eligible man for the job at the time.

Kol began his career as a Marksman in the 1st Recon Battalion

Private Seraph's first posting was as a designated Marksman of Alpha Squad, the command Squad of the 1st RECON BN's 1st Section, under the immediate command of Sergeant Mikhail Perry, a career soldier the young Private came to respect immensely. The 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, also known as 'the Vanguards', was the premier Recon unit in the whole Imperial Army, and it was in this outfit that Kol Seraph first proudly donned the armor of the Imperial Scout Trooper. As a Marksman of Alpha Squad, Kol saw his first combat action, on the politically troubled planet of Fenves, in the aid of besieged government forces seeking to deliver the planet into the Imperial fold from Rebel insurgents. The so-called Fenves Intervention, known officially as 'Operation: Exorcist', was a resounding success for Imperial forces, although the leader of 1st Section's Bravo Squad, the Section's 2IC, was wounded in action, and shortly thereafter, she retired from active duty. Not long afterwards, Seraph, on Sergeant Perry's personal recommendation after he distinguished himself during the Fenves operation, received a promotion from Private to Corporal, and therefore became Perry's new 2IC. This appointment simultaneously made Seraph Squad Leader of the Section’s Bravo Squad.

It was during this time that Seraph participated in the tail-end of the ongoing Imperial operation code-named 'Blue Horizon', which involved performing a thorough audit of all planets, systems, and sectors in Imperial space, in the search for insurgents and infiltrators. Fortunately for Corporal Seraph, his level of participation and time commitment to this particular tasking earned him recognition in the form of a Throne-approved Imperial Campaign Medal, with the label 'Planetary Audit' embossed on the medal itself.

ISD Protector

A disabled Protector

While en route to the Kuat Sector and their next assignment, Bravo Squad participated in the defense of the Imperial Star Destroyer Protector after the actions of a Rebel saboteur crippled her, and afterwards, when Rebel reinforcements subsequently arrived to attempt to take control of the ship. Coordinating their efforts with their Navy comrades, Seraph and his Squad successfully repelled the hostile boarding action, although the survivors of the Rebel strike force managed to wound Corporal Seraph quite seriously while he personally saw to the defense of the Protector’s bridge, and was forced to spend the next two weeks immersed in a tank full of bacta solution to recuperate. Bravo Squad itself was decorated for the unyielding support it gave to wounded Imperial Navy personnel throughout the ship, saving several dozen lives.

Elandorea Raid

All of Seraph’s Legion comrades were shocked when one of their own, Corporal Alzie Jamima, an Imperial Academy honors graduate and Seraph’s peer in the 3rd Infantry Company, went AWOL. After a probationary period had ended, Legion Command charged the errant Corporal guilty of deserting her post. This incident sparked further outrage when Jamima had commandeered her assigned craft, designated Inferno 10, which LCOMD had tracked to none other than a recently discovered, Eidola-controlled base on the Imperial planet of Spira, in the Lytton Sector. To deal with the fallout of this incident, LCOMD deployed two units. The first was the 2nd Heavy Armor Battalion, tasked to wipe all traces of the pirates from Spira for good, and the second was a small unit of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion soldiers. The latter’s objectives were to bring the traitorous Jamima into Imperial custody, to secure Imperial property (Inferno 10 itself), and to spare it from the complete destruction of the pirate base. The unit chosen for this inherently dangerous operation was Corporal Seraph’s former Squad, Sergeant Perry’s Alphas.

LCOMD gave Alpha Squad 48 standard hours after deployment to complete their mission and extract themselves, at which time the 2nd HARM BN would have the go-ahead from Command to commence their operation and obliterate the Eidola cancer on Spira. After the 2-day operational window ended, LCOMD still had received no word from Perry or his men. Fearing the worst, but reluctant to condemn an elite Imperial Army unit to death by friendly fire, LCOMD had no choice but to accept Corporal Seraph’s proposal for Bravo Squad to conduct its own extraction operation. The most time Seraph and Bravo Squad had to conduct their operation was 24 hours, as the 2nd Heavy Armored Battalion could not afford to delay the commencement of their own operation any longer.

Under Seraph’s orders to split up and pursue the completion of multiple, simultaneous objectives, Bravo successfully infiltrated the Eidola facility, codenamed ‘Elandorea’, and shortly discovered that most of their Alpha comrades, Seraph’s former squad mates, had been killed, and the survivors had been imprisoned.

As Section 2IC, the duty fell upon Corporal Seraph to complete Alpha’s mission, and rescue the Alpha Squad survivors, before getting the hell out of dodge. Carrying out the remainder of the Raid as Acting Sergeant, Seraph successfully directed his Squad with the experience and decisiveness expected of a veteran leader. Kol personally led the rescue operation of the Alpha survivors, conducted by Bravo Team 1 (consisting of Private Bisenti, Private Faroe, and Bravo Lead himself), liberating only two Alphas out of the former 8-man unit. After liberating the exhausted, tortured POWs and securing their confiscated arms and armor, Team 1 and the Alpha survivors linked up with Teams 2 and 3 for extraction.

Team 3 in action

Team 3, Private Sidewinder and Private Hicks, accomplished the first of Alpha Squad’s two primary objectives, and apprehended Jamima, whom Corporal Seraph considered personally responsible for the deaths of his former squad mates. Relying upon their training and discipline, Team 3 was able to escort Corporal Jamima through the pirate base, linking up with Team 2. Team 2, consisting of Private Petrik, Private Delorian, and Private Franco, accomplished the second of Alpha’s objectives by securing the stolen Imperial Army starfighter and defending it against wave after wave of lightly armed pirate mobs led by deadlier mercenaries in Eidola’s employ.

With all three primary objectives completed, and his men re-consolidated without sustaining casualties, Acting Sergeant Seraph declared the Elandorea Raid over, and called for immediate extraction. As soon as Bravo Squad blasted its way clear of the Eidola base, Seraph relayed his Squad’s mission complete status to LCOMD. At last, given clearance to begin their operation, the 2nd Heavy Armor Battalion moved to assault Elandorea in force, and easily swept aside all enemy resistance, which had been significantly scattered and demoralized by Bravo’s operation. Within hours, Imperial forces had completely annihilated the Eidola presence on Spira, and declared victory.

With Sergeant Perry killed in action, and in recognition of his excellent leadership of Bravo Squad and rescuing the Alpha survivors, LCOMD promoted Acting Sergeant Kol Seraph to full Sergeant, and made him Commander of 1st RECON BN’s 1st Section. As Alpha Squad did not at the moment possess enough members to be considered a combat-ready unit, Seraph’s superiors granted him special dispensation from standard Imperial military doctrine, and allowed Sergeant Seraph to continue to serve as Squad Leader of 1st Section’s new command squad: the Bravos. Despite having saved two of his former squad mates, Seraph refused to recognize the Elandorea Raid as anything other than a Pyrrhic victory.

Unit Administration

As 1st Section's new Commander, as well as Bravo Squad Leader, Seraph had quite a workload to get used to upon returning from the Elandorea Raid. The Section's newest member, Private Ka`Marick, who had been slated to be added to Alpha's roster, now had no Squad to serve in. Ka`Marick possessed prior combat experience before enlisting with the Imperial Army that Sergeant Seraph knew better than to ignore. When LCOMD followed through with promoting Ka`Marick from Private to Sergeant himself, Kol approached him with a choice: either he now could leave 1st Section to become a Section Commander himself, or he could remain in 1st Section and serve as Seraph's 2IC. Fortunately for Seraph and 1st Section, Sergeant Ka`Marick chose to remain on Bravo's roster, agreeing to temporarily take up the dual positions of Section 2IC and Bravo Squad Leader. This allowed Sergeant Seraph to concentrate wholly on his duties as Section Commander: to rebuild 1st Section into a viable combat unit in the wake of Alpha Squad's dissolution.

Victor Hellebore, Seraph’s Battalion Commander

In due time, Kol's hard work and the talent he displayed in his administrative duties was noted by his superiors, and on Day 37 of Year 13, he was appointed to Signals Officer of the 1st Imperial Legion, replacing his predecessor, 1st Lieutenant Salazar, who had been promoted and appointed to Army Signals Officer at an earlier date.

Conveniently, a position opened when Command Sergeant Marco Kerred, Commander of the 1st RECON BN, received an officer’s commission and transferred out to command another unit. His replacement, Command Sergeant Hellebore, lacked a 2IC and chose Master Sergeant Seraph, newly promoted and the most eligible soldier in the Battalion, to take his place. Hellebore’s own protégé, Sergeant Perry, held the young Coruscanti soldier in high regard before his death at Elandorea. Therefore, the newly promoted Master Sergeant left command of 1st Section to his former 2IC, Sergeant Ka’Marick, and became Battalion 2IC. However, before leaving 1st Section, it is worth noting that Seraph reconstituted Alpha Squad, leaving his successor in command of a fully combat-ready unit. Command of Alpha Squad naturally fell to the new Section Commander as well.

Return to the Front

When it seemed that just as he was getting accustomed to the prospect of non-combat duties in the Imperial Army, Master Sergeant Seraph was again called upon to lead his fellow Immortals in combat operations on a couple of occasions. The first was a highly experimental joint task force training exercise carried out by integrated elements of both the Army and Navy, following the Military Integration reforms of early Year 13. The precise details of this training operation are still classified, but it can be shared that elements of both the 1st Legion's Infantry and Reconnaissance Corps performed admirably under strenuous conditions, under the command of 1st Lieutenant Akai Ai and Master Sergeant Seraph, who served as his Acting XO for the duration of the Operation.

The second, however, was no training exercise. A string of terrorist attacks in the form of suicide bombings, perpetrated by anti-Imperial insurgents on the Empire's capital of Coruscant, Seraph's home planet, forced the soldiers of the 1st to prematurely suspend their roles in the aforementioned training exercise, return home with all haste to restore general order, and bring Imperial justice down upon the heads of those insurgents who still remained alive. Upon entering the capital's orbit and swiftly deploying to the likely target of the Rebels' next strike, Seraph and his comrades swiftly and efficiently brought the crisis to an acceptable resolution with extreme prejudice. Seraph himself, concerned of the presence of hostiles on his homeworld, diligently did all he could to ensure none of the cowards' ringleaders either escaped Imperial custody with their lives. Kol realized only some time later that around this time, his actions began to be closely monitored by powers beyond his immediate vision, powers that had the ability to make or break him...

On Day 73 of Year 13, Master Sergeant Seraph's candidacy for the position of Brigade Executive Officer was once again brought under consideration, following 2nd Lieutenant Erinith's rather abrupt announcement that he would be rescinding his Commission and resigning from the Imperial Army. After only a short period of deliberation between 1st Lieutenant Ai (who had rather infamously requested ACOMD to allow Seraph to serve as his XO when he was but a mere Private fresh out of the Academy), Captain Morcha Drayson, 1IL's Commanding Officer, and Seraph himself, the 19-year-old Coruscanti Non-Commissioned Officer became the new Executive Officer of the 1st Assault Brigade. Added to Seraph's exultation at such a development in his career was the fact that, as Legion Signals Officer, he himself would be responsible for updating his Legion's records to make note of his latest achievement.

His Own Command

Hellebore and Seraph, promoted to Captain-in-honoris and Command Sergeant, respectively

Seraph’s Battalion Commander and immediate superior, Command Sergeant Victor Hellebore, initially proved to be a most difficult man for the 19-year-old Non-Commissioned Officer to please. Expecting to end his professional career as a highly decorated career soldier with his deceased protégé, Mikhail Perry, as his 2IC and eventual successor, Hellebore begrudgingly took Seraph into his staff, reporting disdainfully to his superiors of just how much he disapproved of ‘this Coruscanti Upstart’. However, Seraph proved a more than adequate 2IC for the coarse veteran through his hard work, determination, and drive not only to succeed, but also to exceed his superior’s expectations. First impressions aside, Hellebore could not help but be impressed by the accomplishments of his most professional soldier, most notably his appointment to Brigade Executive Officer, which in essence put Seraph in a greater position of authority than Hellebore himself, despite being almost 2 decades younger. Coming to accept that not only was Seraph a good soldier, but also one with a future, Hellebore came around and vouched for Seraph’s candidacy to command a Battalion of his own, although the veteran Imperial continued to never once accept anything other than Kol’s best. Despite misgivings of his own at the start that were inspired by Hellebore’s enmity, Seraph came to a similar conclusion: he would be damned if he thought that Command Sergeant Hellebore did not deserve his respect. The question of Seraph’s command returned to the fore when LCOMD had him promoted to Command Sergeant, convincing Hellebore that Seraph indeed was the right man to replace him. Only entertaining the possibility of retirement when he felt sure that his Battalion’s command would be a commendable soldier’s inheritance, Hellebore embraced Kol as a son, announcing his intention to step down as Battalion Commander of the Vanguards and accept an honorary commission to Captain in retirement, leaving command of his beloved 1st Reconnaissance Battalion solely in Seraph’s hands. He remains there still, ever nurturing his experience and leadership abilities for the battles of today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Operation: Eagle Eye

Planet Ralltiir, Darpa Sector

Kol's next major deployment would be to the newly discovered Ralltiir system in the Coruscant Oversector, specifically located in Darpa Sector. As this system was in the jurisdiction of the Immortals, the duty fell upon Kol's unit, as well as elements of the 1st Imperial Fleet, to secure the entire system in the name of the Emperor. The efforts of the joint Army-Navy task force would come to be known among military circles as 'Operation: Eagle Eye'. In addition to the commitment of the entirety of the 1st Assault Brigade to the field, Kol's own Vanguards would prove to be an invaluable asset to the Operation, being the only Army Battalion of its kind involved.

Incredibly, the joint Military task force, having been drilled and well trained for operations such as these over the previous months, succeeded in locking down and securing the entire star system in little over a fortnight. The hard work and perseverance of the Joint Task Force, and 1BDE in particular (which engaged itself with the messier details of the tasking, specifically laying down foundations on the varied planetary bodies of the Ralltiir system for Imperial development, and bringing into custody unauthorized persons who had attempted to stake their own claim on the system) did not go unrecognized. On Year 13, Day 170, before a great assembly of Imperial personnel, and before His Majesty Emperor Ndengin himself, Lord General L`Annan, speaking on behalf of Army Command according to her station as Army CO, praised the personnel and leadership of the 1st Assault Brigade for their invaluable role in firmly planting the Imperial flag in Ralltiir, ensuring total Imperial dominance in Darpa. The Lord General's accolades, and the recognition of the Emperor himself, were broadcast throughout the Empire, from the spires of the Core Worlds to the distant regions of the Outer Rim, a fact which greatly pleased Command Sergeant Seraph, 1BDE's XO, to no end. Standing before the Emperor himself in such a manner proved to be one of the proudest moments of Kol's life, and he reaffirmed his belief in his subordinates and fellow soldiers by offering his own praise to their shared accomplishment a short time afterwards. ACOMD went on to further show its appreciation for the Immortals' herculean efforts by promoting its Commanding Officer, 1LT Ai, to Captain, and awarding him with the much-coveted Achievement Medal. Kol's pride in having the honor to serve as an Immortal soared to new heights.

Following the successful conclusion of Operation: Eagle Eye, and doing his part to ensure another victory for the Empire, Kol submitted a request for a two-week leave of absence to replenish his reserves of energy and tenacity, wary of the dangers of burning out due to the stress of the last two weeks. It was during this time that, while en-route to Corellia, he was invited to attend the high-profile social event known as 'the Jenruasi', hosted by Flight Corporal Orion Jenru of the Imperial Navy, in his opulent Corellian estate, Jenru Manor.

Current Op

WIP

The Paper That Changed It All

GUINAR NDENGIN THE FIRST, Suzerain of the Galactic Empire, of Its Worlds and Territories Emperor, Sovereign of Humankind, Defender of the New Order

To Koltan Seraph

hereby appointed an Officer in His Majesty’s Imperial Army

With Seniority of the One Hundred and Ninety-Eighth Day of the Thirteenth Year of the New Order

WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage and Integrity do by these Presents Constitute and Appoint you to be an Officer in Our Imperial Army. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge your Duty as such in the Rank of 2nd Lieutenant or in such other Rank as We may from time to time hereafter be pleased to promote or appoint you to, and you are in such manner and on such occasions as may be prescribed by us to exercise and well discipline both the Inferior Officers and Non-Commissioned Members serving under you and use your best endeavor to keep them in good Order and Discipline, and We do hereby Command them to Obey you as their Superior Officer, and you to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as from time to time you shall receive from Us, or any other your Superior Officer according to Law, in pursuance of the Trust hereby Reposed in you.

IN WITNESS Whereof our Rightful Hand and Imperial Executor hath hereunto set his hand and Seal at Our Government House in the Imperial Palace of Coruscant this One Hundred and Ninty-Eighth Day of the Thirteenth Year of the New Order CXCVIII XIII and in the First Year of Our Reign.

By Command of His Excellency the Imperial Executor.

Description

Kol's time as a slave before murdering his master, and later, as a gang leader in Coruscant's Undercity, have undoubtedly left their marks on his mind, but most prominently on his body as well. He has scars covering much of his body, serving as not only a constant reminder of his time as a slave, but also of his successes on the battlefields of the Undercity and beyond.

Despite having little memory of his parents, Kol distinctly remembers the fact that he inherited many of his mother's physical characteristics, which Kol still believes is a major cause for his father's insanity and eventual suicide. These most notably include his blond hair and green eyes, as well as a prominent angular jawline ending in a pointed chin. He has noticed, however, that his originally stark-white hair has, with age, darkened and settled to a dirtier blond, undoubtedly his father's genes at work. The eyes, however, remain as verdant and cold as ever.

Amazingly, despite the hardships of his life, Kol remains a difficult man to arouse to anger, dealing with crises presented to him with a cold, detached professionalism and objectivity that has seen him through many tough situations in the past. He views himself as a fair man, meting out credit and discipline wherever and whenever they are due. However, it must be said that when someone or something actually succeeds in angering him, his rage is something terrible to behold.

Predominantly, the major drive in Seraph's life has been (and he has admitted to this several times to his peers) his fiercely burning, unquenchable ambition. He desires nothing more than to work his way up to the top of the hill in every social dynamic he has been in, to possess power, and to prove to everyone, including himself, that he deserves a place among the best. His achievements do bring him satisfaction, but they are fleeting, impermanent things, much to his frustration. Kol regards his few personal failures bitterly, but he always looks forward to the future and the opportunities for advancement and recognition that it brings. His singular drive to succeed has, many times in the past, alienated him from those he considers his peers.

Recruit	Private	Corporal

Sergeant	Master Sergeant	Cmd. Sergeant

2nd Lieutenant

Imperial Personnel Profile

General Information

Surname: Seraph
Given Name(s): Koltan, 'Kol'
Race: Coruscanti, Class A Citizen
Gender: M
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant, Imperial Army
Service Number: IA-B52-693-665
Education: Imperial Academy Graduate
Age: 19
Homeworld: Coruscant, Sah'c Town
Family: Garran Seraph (father; deceased), Lasha Seraph (mother; deceased), no siblings

Psychological Profile

Personality Type: Rationalist
Rationalists are motivated by a desire to understand and gain power over their surroundings. They seek to control, predict, and explain reality, to be seen as competent, and to most of all possess competencies, capabilities, abilities, capacities, skills, and ingenuity pertaining to their field of concentration. They seek to do things well under varying circumstances, to constantly improve, to be free of errors, to increase their store of knowledge and to learn as much as they can, to rearrange their environment to suit their needs, to speculate about the possible motivations and thoughts of those they associate with, and to attempt to fit their experiences into some sort of system. They tend to be adaptable, impartial, tenacious, and uncompromising leaders.

Positive Attributes:
Rationalists tend to exert at least several of the following traits: Adventurousness, Ambition, Assertiveness, Autonomity, Boldness, Capability, Collectedness, Competence, Competitiveness, Confidence, Courage, Daring, Decisiveness, Determination, Directness, Dominance, Drive, Efficiency, Forcefulness, Independence, Ingenuity, Inventiveness, Objectivity, Outspokenness, Persuasiveness, Positivity, Power, Pragmatism, Proactiveness, Productivity, Progressiveness, Resourcefulness, Responsibility, Self-Assurance, Self-Direction, Self-Reliance, Strong-Willed, Succinctness, Tenacity.

Negative Attributes:
Rationalists tend to exert at least several of the following traits: Authoritarianism, Bossiness, Craftiness, Domineering presence, Impatience, Intolerance, Manipulativeness, Pride, Resistance, Short-temperance, Stubbornness, Tactlessness, Lack of affection or sympathy, Attention to detail and protocol that borders on fanaticism.

Physical Description

Height: 6'2
Weight: 165 lbs
Build: Lean
Skin Color: White
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Blond
Addendum:
Clean Shaven and well groomed,
Signs of past physical trauma (scars)

Imperial Army Service Record

Ranks

Grade	Insignia	Rank	Time held (Combine Time)	Time held (Real Time)
[E-1]		Recruit	Year 12 Day 189 - Year 12 Day 191	June 6th, 2011 - June 8th, 2011
[E-2]		Private	Year 12 Day 191 - Year 12 Day 284	June 8th, 2011 - September 9th, 2011
[E-3]		Corporal	Year 12 Day 284 - Year 12 Day 327	September 9th, 2011 - October 22nd, 2011
[E-4]		Sergeant	Year 12 Day 327 - Year 13 Day 43	October 22nd, 2011 - January 11th, 2012
[E-5]		Master Sergeant	Year 13 Day 43 – Year 13 Day 108	January 11th, 2012 – March 17th, 2012
[E-6]		Command Sergeant	Year 13 Day 108 - Year 13 Day 198	March 17th, 2012 - June 15th, 2012
[O-1]		2nd Lieutenant	Year 13 Day 198 - PRESENT	June 15th, 2012 - PRESENT

Awards

Ribbon	Name	Date Awarded	Awarded by
	Imperial Academy Basic Graduate [IABG]	Year 12 Day 191 (08-06-2011)	Rik Zoidic
	Imperial Service Medal [ISM]	Year 13 Day 101 (10-03-2012)	Zhaff Orikan
	Imperial Campaign Medal [ICM]	Year 13 Day 101 (10-03-2012)	Zhaff Orikan
	Imperial Monthly Meeting [IMM]	Year 13 Day 101 (10-03-2012)	Zhaff Orikan
	COMPNOR Member Medal [CMM]	Year 13 Day 186 (03-06-2012)	Zhaff Orikan
	Imperial Service Medal - 1 Year [ISM-1]	Year 13 Day 189 (06-06-2012)	Akai Ai

Appointments

[Legion Signals Officer]
Appointed 1st Imperial Legion Signals Officer
Year 13 Day 37
January 5th, 2012

[Archivist]
Appointed to the Imperial Archives Staff
Year 13 Day 59
January 26th, 2012

[Brigade Executive Officer]
Appointed 1st Assault Brigade Executive Officer
Year 13 Day 73
February 10th, 2012

Commission

[Commissioned Officer]
Promoted to the Rank of Army 2nd Lieutenant
Year 13 Day 198
June 15th, 2012

Memorable Quotes

"Welcome to MY world, where we do things MY way..."

— Kol during his time as leader of the Undercity Shades

"Hail to the Emperor, the Empire, and the New Order. May its righteousness never falter!"

— Cadet Seraph, reciting the salute of the Imperial SAGroup

"A great people can be killed, but they cannot be intimidated."

— Recruit Seraph, on the Empire's citizens, at the Imperial Academy

"There is no room in an Army uniform for second thoughts."

— Private Seraph, having heard the news of the desertion and arrest of his former classmate and friend, Kaylin Shen

"Does it matter how much blood we lose, or how much we shed, so long as the Empire is victorious? Does the number of those lost need to be justified?"

— Private Seraph's thoughts on what victory means to the Empire, during the Fenves Intervention

"Come on, you Rebel DOGS! You want to live forever?!"

— Corporal Seraph, participating in the defense of the ISD Protector

"And whatever you do, don't try to be heroes, damnit! Only fools go into battle looking for a 'glorious death'... I don't command fools, I command SOLDIERS! A soldier's duty is to live and keep fighting!"

— Corporal Seraph, addressing his men before deploying on the Elandorea Raid

"Truth be told, that life made me the man I am today. Down there, 8 years is half a lifetime. We're talking about the Undercity, mind you. Much of the planet, the tops of the towers I mean, is quite liveable. You know, Coruscant is a mirror of the Galaxy itself. There is horror and real danger everywhere you go, but there is also beauty, even in the most unlikely places."

— Sergeant Seraph, reminiscing on his early years and his homeworld with Urist Nammoth of the Imperial Navy

"You honor me, sir. As always, you will only get my best."

— Sergeant Seraph, having been appointed LSO of the 1st Imperial Legion, to the ASO, 1LT Salazar

"I don't always gun down 'civilians'. But when I do, I prefer to do in the ones that strap bombs on others to fight for them."

— Master Sergeant Seraph to his comrades, while neutralizing a cell of suicide bombers on Coruscant

"Sir, I am honored to accept the duties, responsibilities, and privileges of this new rank. My life in service to the Emperor and the New Order!"

— Seraph to 1LT Ai, upon being promoted to Command Sergeant

"All three Corps give something to make the Imperial Army the greatest organization of its kind in the Galaxy. Armored with its superior firepower, the Infantry with their inexhaustible numbers... but Recon, gentlemen, is where you will find the finest soldiers who have ever lived. I'm glad to see you've made the right choice."

— Command Sergeant Seraph, addressing the newest additions to the 1st Recon Battalion

"In any war, there are heroes on both sides. The victor is determined by who is more willing and able to seize the day."

— Command Sergeant Seraph, during Operation: Eagle Eye

"Sir, the impossible has happened! Hell has frozen over! And... I got my commission!"

— Seraph to ISB-Captain Orikan, upon receiving his Officer's Commission and being promoted to 2nd Lieutenant