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'''Koltan 'Kol' Seraph''' is a 19-year-old [[Coruscanti]] male, currently serving as a [[Sergeant]] in the [[Imperial Army]].
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'''Koltan "Kol" Seraph''' is a 25-year-old Human [[Imperial Army]] Officer and former [[COMPNOR]] member, currently holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. From Y14 D323 to Y15 D58, he served as Project Manager for the [[Imperial Archives]], succeeding his fellow Brigade Commander, comrade, and close friend, [[Amne Zailyn]].
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Kol Seraph was born on Taris, on Y-11 D232 to Garran and Lasha Seraph, who were refugees from a war in the Outer Rim. Although educated, as Kol’s parents were refugees, the Seraphs were forced to live in poverty in Taris’ Lower City, a violent place made infamous by its swoop gangs and ever-present signs of urban decay. Unwilling to spend the rest of his life in hardscrabble poverty and squalor under the great spires of his segregated urban homeworld, Kol ran away from home during his adolescence and joined one of the Lower City’s swoop gangs: the “Undercity Shades”, vowing never to look back.
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Kol Seraph was born on [[Coruscant]] 19 galactic standard years ago, on Day 206 of Year -7, in the district known as Sah’c Town. His father, Garran Seraph, was the manager of an interstellar shipping firm, which he and his wife, Lasha Seraph (nee Evard, a commercial accountant from [[Bonadan]], in the [[Corporate Sector]]) had co-founded a few years before Kol was born. Unfortunately, Lasha died in a tragic speeder accident when Kol was three. In grieving over his wife’s death and now bereft of her financial expertise, Garran slipped into a steadily deteriorating state of depression, worsened by an increasing dependence on stimulants to escape his problems. Due to his financial trouble, Garran relocated to the tenement habs in the brutal Undercity, as he could not afford to move off world, and he eventually had to declare bankruptcy. Growing more and more desperate, as he was running out of money to fuel his addiction, Garran eventually decided to accept a loan from the only people who would ignore his financial history: the [[Black Sun]] Criminal Syndicate, promising to repay the money he would owe by using the loan to rejuvenate his business, despite the risks involved. Of course, the chances of such a plan actually working out were remote, to say the least.
 
 
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After several years, Kol, whose blond hair, slim, lanky frame, and emerald-green eyes belied an uncommon cunning, ambition, and willpower, eventually rose to become one of the Shades’ ranking lieutenants, known for planning and leading many daring and successful raids against rival gangs in the Lower City, and attacking vulnerable commercial interests in the slightly less troubled Middle City. This lucrative state of affairs began to change for the worse, however, after the [[Galactic Empire]] claimed Taris and took over Taris’ Upper City, installing a planetary governor and garrisoning the planet with large numbers of well-disciplined foreign troops. The Shades, along with their fellow gangs, began making plans to defend the Lower City from Imperial attack, and each attempted to unite all the gangs under their banner through strength of arms, leading to a vicious gang war. This vicious, internecine conflict eventually spilled into the Middle City, forcing the Empire’s hand to intervene. Realizing that the war against the Empire was lost before it had even begun, Kol abandoned the Shades and went into hiding, knowing that he could not return home, as doing so would put his innocent parents’ lives in jeopardy, and committed to stay true to his promise to never turn back no matter what, no longer for his own sake, but for theirs now as well.
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Vigo Hartland, the man in charge of [[Black Sun]]’s operations in the Undercity, made Garran a proposal to settle the debt if he sold Kol to him as a slave. Kol’s father, knowing of Hartland’s foul reputation as a pederast, refused the Vigo’s ultimatum, and the enraged crime boss sent his enforcers to ‘teach him a lesson’. The 3-year-old Kol, hiding under his bed, watched in horror as the Vigo’s men brutally murdered his father before his very eyes. After they ransacked the dilapidated apartment, Hartland’s men found Kol and ended up enslaving him anyways, and he suffered his master’s abuses until he was 8 years old. Kol killed his master in his sleep with a knife, and after escaping the [[Black Sun]] stronghold, he learned to survive by his wits alone on the unforgiving, ruthless streets of [[Coruscant]]'s decaying, neglected Undercity, while [[Black Sun]]’s operations on [[Coruscant]] reeled from the Vigo’s death for months. On the merciless streets, Kol joined a relatively unknown juvie street gang, known as the 'Undercity Shades'. With his ambitious nature and his affiliation with violence, it was not long before Kol became the head of the gang. His leadership eventually brought the Shades notoriety and the ire of [[Black Sun]]. The primary target of Kol’s predations was the same Syndicate that had orphaned him and made him their slave years before.
 
 
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While in hiding, however, Kol was discovered and caught by his former comrades, who nearly beat him to death, and would have finished the job, had it not been for the intervention of a squad of Imperial soldiers conducting a reconnaissance patrol of the Lower City, in advance of the main assault force. His tormentors killed by the Imperials, Kol was rescued and brought to the Middle City for medical treatment, a turn of events which convinced him to re-evaluate his views on the [[New Order]], a society he had been taught to hate and distrust by his treacherous former peers.
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During this time, Kol did not preoccupy himself solely with running his gang or his war with [[Black Sun]]. 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. 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|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 his juvenile mind.
 
 
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Kol and his followers managed to outwit [[Black Sun]]'s agents for about 6 years, and could have eventually forced the Syndicate off the planet if it had not been for Cardin Shrike, Kol's most trusted friend and second in command of the Shades. Cardin had always been secretly envious of Kol’s popularity and resentful of his leadership, and enthusiastically betrayed the Shades when given the chance. In exchange for a small fortune in [[Imperial]] [[credits]], Cardin approached [[Black Sun]]’s new Undercity leader in secret, and betrayed his fellow Shades by giving the new Vigo information on the gang’s current activities, whereabouts, and safe houses. Despite his vicious upbringing, betrayal at the hands of his best friend was the very last thing Kol expected. The trap [[Black Sun]] had set resulted in the deaths of the entire Undercity gang, and Cardin’s too: the one thing [[Black Sun]] tolerated less than competition on its turf was a traitor motivated by greed.
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After Kol had recovered in the Middle City (the traumatic experience of first awakening fully submerged in a bacta tank developing into a lifelong phobia of confinement in close quarters, and a distrust of doctors and medical treatment in general), Kol made up his mind to join the [[Imperial Army]], and to leave Taris behind for good. At the time, however, he was 16, being a year too young to enlist. So Kol instead joined [[COMPNOR]]’s Tarisian Imperial Youth Militia, a local paramilitary organization of youths devoted to ending the gang violence that, it was said, had plagued the Lower City for untold generations. His experience as a gang leader of no small repute serving him well in the Youth Militia, Kol soon distinguished himself and swiftly climbed up the organization’s ranks. By the time of Kol’s 17th birthday, his prior service in the IYM had earned him passage off-world, to commence Basic Training in the Imperial Army.
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It seemed Kol's brutal life was about to be cut short, when a squad of [[Imperial Army]] soldiers suddenly burst into the scene and made short work of the unsuspecting and ill-prepared [[Black Sun]] agents. By chance, or perhaps even fate, the leader of the [[Black Sun]] hit-squad that had killed Kol's gang, a Zeltron by the name of Salam Barbusse, had raped and 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 desire to belong to something greater than himself, and by a sense of duty to uphold the [[Empire]]'s values: the brutal enforcement of order and justice upon a chaotic, lawless [[galaxy]]. The [[Empire]] hence gave Seraph the motivation he needed to bring order to his own violent existence.
 
 
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Kol trained as an IBT Recruit under Captain Rik Zoidic, then CO of the [[3rd Imperial Legion]], who recognized Seraph’s ability to grasp fieldcraft, specifically a heightened perception of his surroundings and ability to move about unseen if he wished, as well as his affinity for piloting ground and air repulsorcraft, traits that had more than earned Seraph a place in the Army’s Reconnaissance Corps. After graduating from Basic Training, Seraph was promoted to Private, and made a Legionnaire of the [[1st Imperial Legion]], being assigned to the 1st Brigade, “the Immortals”.
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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. The Youth Militia was an organization which encouraged frustrated adolescents to instill order on the neglected, crime-ridden streets of [[Coruscant]] through state-approved violence, giving lower and middle class adolescents their own place to belong and a purpose to fulfill outside of the gangs. Due to his previous life experiences 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.
 
 
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After several months of lectures dictated to him by a man he considered a true [[Imperial]] hero, Kol graduated from the Academy with an impressive grade (not to mention a perfect score on his Final Assignment), and at last was able to enlist in the [[Imperial Army]], and received a promotion to [[Private]] for doing so. Two weeks after graduating, [[Private]] Seraph received word from his unit’s Signals Officer, who assigned him his first posting in the [[Imperial Army]], and from there, Kol’s life as an [[Imperial]] truly began.
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It did not take long for Seraph’s superior officer, Lieutenant Akai Ai, to recognize the leadership potential in the young Private, who soon promoted him to Corporal, swiftly followed thereafter by a promotion to Sergeant (making Kol a Non-Commissioned Officer), which in fact took place on the same day of Emperor Guinar’s ascension to the Throne. This last promotion was earned during an operation which saw Seraph and his squad infiltrate an Eidola-controlled installation, code-named "Elandorea", to retrieve a stolen Imperial starfighter and take into custody the defector who intended to profit from making it over to the Pirates. This mission, although costing the lives of several of Seraph’s squadmates, was concluded successfully, with the defector executed on-site, and the starfighter recovered.
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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]] [[Rik Zoidic|Zoidic]]. Instead, he received a message from [[RADIA]] stating that they had assigned him to arguably the most elite Brigade in the [[Imperial 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. [[RADIA]] then promptly gave him his first orders: to get in touch with his new Chain of Command and make his way to his unit's [[Victory Star Destroyer]], its home and mobile base of operations. It was not long after successfully doing so that Kol arranged transport to the [[VSD]] and looked upon his homeworld from space for the first time in his life, an exciting prospect for the young [[Coruscanti]] soldier.
 
 
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Upon returning to Brigade HQ (at that time the Army [[Victory Star Destroyer I|''Victory'']]-class Star Destroyer ''Immortal''), it became clear that Seraph, whose abilities and leadership skill were recognized, was being groomed for command of his own at a later date, which suited the young Sergeant just fine. Seraph was appointed Signals Officer of the 1st Legion, succeeding [[Santiano Salazar]], CO of the 1st Brigade’s sister unit, the 4th Brigade, in this position. Embracing the duties that accompanied an administrative position with the same zeal that he had demonstrated on the battlefield, Seraph soon earned his promotion to Master Sergeant, and an accompanying appointment as Captain Ai’s new 2iC. As a Master Sergeant, Kol also applied for adult COMPNOR membership, and successfully joined both the [[Imperial Archives]] and the [[Imperial Centre for Recruitment]] on a part time basis, as an Archivist and Recruiter, respectively. His devotion to duty, not only to the Army, but to COMPNOR as well, duly paved the way for Seraph’s eventual promotion to Command Sergeant.
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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]] [[Graeda L'Annan|L'Annan]], the Army Executive Officer, through his eccentric new [[BCO]], whose demeanor and idiosyncrasies often reminded Kol of his former friends in the Shades. Seraph and his [[BCO]] 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 fairly attributed to military inexperience, Kol's [[CO]] must have been impressed with his performance, as, even in the presence of superior officers, he took the liberty of labeling Kol as 'the best [[Private]] in the [[Imperial Army]]' several times. To Seraph’s astonishment, his [[BCO]] 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 went to the most eligible man for the job, a newly commissioned [[2nd Lieutenant]].
 
 
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[[Private]] Seraph's first posting was as a designated [[Sniper|Marksman]] of Alpha Squad, the command Squad of 1 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 Reconnaissance 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 [[Sniper|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, retired from active duty. Not long afterwards, Seraph, on [[Sergeant]] Perry's personal recommendation after having distinguished himself during the Fenves operation, was duly recognized for his consistently excellent service by being promoted from [[Private]] to [[Corporal]], and therefore became Perry's new [[2IC]]. This appointment simultaneously made Seraph Squad Leader of the Section’s Bravo Squad. When asked about his unorthodox style of leadership, Kol always responded that he viewed his squadmates and fellow soldiers as his brothers, and the [[Imperial Army]] itself as his home, and attested that the bonds he desired to forge between himself and his subordinates were intended to transcend traditional military relationships, but not at the cost of their loyalty to the [[Galactic Empire]].
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Having reached as far as he could go in the Army while remaining a Non-Commissioned Officer, but unwilling to relinquish his ambition of one day having his own command, Seraph made clear his intention to undertake the rigorous training and studies necessary for him to earn a commission and become an Officer. With his CO’s support, Kol enrolled in the infamously exclusive Imperial Army College on Carida, source of the Army’s finest commissioned Officers and located in the immediate vicinity of Army HQ. Applying his practical experience garnered both during his adolescence on Taris and after enlisting in the Army, Seraph excelled in his studies, surpassing many of his higher-class peers. Several months after enrolling in the Army College, Seraph graduated and earned his commission to 2nd Lieutenant, returning to 1BDE as an officer whose area of expertise, Brigade Command – Reconnaissance Specialization, earned him the coveted Brigade Command Medal. Lieutenant Seraph concluded his tenure as 1st Brigade Executive Officer by co-ordinating leadership of the Immortals with Captain Ai, helping lead them to a resounding victory against a determined Rebel incursion against the 5 worlds of the Ralltiir system, located in the Darpa Sector. In recognition of the Immortals’ decisive triumph in the Ralltiir theatre in mid-Year 13, the Immortals received the praise and adulation of the whole Empire, and the ACO, Lord General [[Graeda L`Annan|L`Annan]] herself, awarded each and every member of the 1st Brigade with the Unit Distinguished Service medal. Captain Ai himself was also promoted to Major and awarded with the Achievement Medal for his leadership, accolades which Kol was proud to have helped his CO earn.
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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, [[Legion]] Command charged the ersatz [[Corporal]] guilty of deserting her post. This incident sparked further outrage when it was made public that 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 entirety of the 2nd Heavy Armor Battalion to wipe all traces of the [[pirate]]s from Spira once and for all. The second was a small unit of 1st Reconnaissance Battalion soldiers to; a) bring the traitorous Jamima into [[Imperial]] custody, and b) secure [[Imperial]] property (Inferno 10 itself), and spare it from the complete destruction of the [[pirate]] base. The unit chosen for this inherently dangerous operation was [[Corporal]] Seraph’s former unit, [[Sergeant]] Perry’s Alpha Squad. Before deploying, [[Sergeant]] Perry put all his affairs in order, and once again voiced his support for [[Corporal]] Seraph, his chosen [[2IC]], to succeed him as Section Commander in the event that things turned out for the worst. In hindsight, it is easy to see that the veteran [[Sergeant]] knew the chances of his surviving this mission were marginal at best.
 
 
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With the subsequent appointment of [[Santiano Salazar]] as the new Commanding Officer of the 1st Legion, the vacancy in the chain of command Seraph had long awaited finally presented itself. Before his appointment, Salazar had been CO of the 1st Brigade’s sister unit, 4BDE, better known by their nickname: “the Spectres”. ACOMD was now looking for a promising young officer to assume command of the premier Reconnaissance Brigade in the Army, and Lieutenant Seraph put his name forward, confident that his credentials and record of service among the Immortals would earn him his own command. He was not disappointed, as the reins of command were bestowed upon him, along with the honor of an accompanying promotion to 1st Lieutenant. Seraph commanded 4BDE with Icarus Carinae as his 2iC, and [[Redme Schwarz]] as his Sergeant Major, and during his tenure as BCO, the Spectres contributed much to the Army-wide initiative known as [Operation: Isolated Axiom], which sought to modernize various aspects of combat doctrine in the face of increasing aggression against the Galactic Empire and its [[Imperial Union|allies]] from the belligerent, renegade states of the [[Galactic Alliance]].
 
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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. The bodies of the [[Imperial]] casualties had been disrespected and defiled in numerous, unspeakably atrocious ways, and Seraph’s fear of failing his team through this dangerous operation soon turned to a hatred for his enemy that he had not felt since his days of terrorizing [[Black Sun]] in [[Coruscant]]’s Undercity. Bravo Lead’s rage and desire for vengeance only increased when he visually confirmed that [[Sergeant]] Mikhail Perry, his former Squad Leader and mentor, had been captured by [[Eidola]] and tortured to death, seemingly only for the pleasure of his tormentors.
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As Section [[2IC]], the duty fell upon [[Corporal]] Seraph to complete Alpha’s mission, and rescue the Alpha Squad survivors, before getting everyone 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 Corpsman [[Private]] Bisenti, and Rifleman [[Private]] Faroe, and Bravo Lead himself), liberating only two Alphas out of the former 8-man strong unit. 1st Section’s command squad was now a shadow of its former self, a truth which enraged and saddened Bravo Lead immensely. 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.
 
 
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Team 3, ([[Sniper|Marksman]] [[Private]] [[Kin-Jal Sidewinder|Sidewinder]] and Rifleman [[Private]] Hicks), accomplished the first of Alpha Squad’s two primary objectives, and incapacitated the traitor, Alzie Jamima, whom [[Corporal]] Seraph considered personally responsible for the deaths of three quarters of his Section’s command squad. The two young [[Private]]s, relying upon their training and discipline, were able to safely escort [[Corporal]] Jamima through the [[pirate]] base, linking up with Team 2, and assisting them in the ongoing defense of Inferno 10, which they had secured previously.
 
 
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With all three primary objectives completed, and his men reconsolidated 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 completion 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.
 
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Kol's traumatic experiences, namely witnessing firsthand his father's murder, suffering as a slave of the [[Black Sun]] Criminal Syndicate before murdering his master, and later, fighting his way to a position as a gang leader in [[Coruscant]]'s Undercity, have left their marks on his mind, but most prominently on his body as well. He has suffered many injuries in the past, including a broken nose and a dislocated shoulder, giving him a high tolerance for physical pain.
 
 
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To this day, due to the traumas of his childhood and the betrayal of the friend who he once considered his own brother, Kol still has trouble trusting others. However, paradoxically, he resents and fears being alone, while never forgetting that those closest to him can hurt him the most. As such, because of the hardships of his life, Kol is very much an introverted, complicated young man, holding all his peers at arm’s length, and showing to his superiors exactly what they expect from a soldier: obedience, discipline, and professionalism, and to his subordinates, the qualities he himself expects in a leader: decisiveness, impartiality, and authority. He has experienced desire for others in the past, but his traumatized mentality has led him to subconsciously scorn attraction as an exploitable weakness. What Kol fears most is abandonment, but his demeanor seems to do a very good job of driving others away, or ensuring that they never even see his true feelings in the first place.
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As well as being a first-rate soldier, Seraph is, on his off-duty time, something of an amateur writer and poet. He is the author of the tragic poem entitled: 'And Death Shall Be Our Dominion', which, after he published it, was adopted by the soldiers of the [[Imperial Army]]'s 1st Assault Brigade as their unit's official hymn. When asked about what motivated him to write this particular piece, Seraph remarked his inspiration as being the carnage he witnessed and the deaths of his former squad mates at the hands of the [[Eidola]] [[Pirate]]s during the Elandorea Raid.
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===General Information===
 
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Surname: Seraph <br>
 
Surname: Seraph <br>
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Given Name(s): Koltan, 'Kol' <br>
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Rank: Sergeant, Imperial Army <br>
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Education: Imperial Academy Graduate <br>
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Age: 19 <br>
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Homeworld: Coruscant, Sah'c Town <br>
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Family: Garran Seraph (father; deceased), Lasha Evard (mother; deceased), no siblings
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Koltan "Kol" Seraph
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Lieutenant Colonel Kol Seraph
Imperial Army
Biographical Information
Race Human
Homeworld Taris
Mother Lasha Seraph (assumed deceased)
Father Garran Seraph (assumed deceased)
Spouse N/A
Siblings N/A
Children N/A
Born Y-11 D232
Imperial Service
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Imperial Army
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COMPNOR

Positions Retired
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Imperial Intelligence:

  • II Public Agent

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Imperial Army:

  • 3rd Brigade Commanding Officer
  • Acting 3rd Legion Signals Officer
  • 4th Brigade Commanding Officer
  • 1st Brigade Executive Officer
  • 1st Legion Signals Officer
  • Legionary

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Imperial Academy:

  • IBT Candidate (Army)

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COMPNOR:

  • Archive Project Manager [IIS]
  • Recruiting Officer [ICR]
  • Imperial Youth Militia
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Koltan "Kol" Seraph is a 25-year-old Human Imperial Army Officer and former COMPNOR member, currently holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. From Y14 D323 to Y15 D58, he served as Project Manager for the Imperial Archives, succeeding his fellow Brigade Commander, comrade, and close friend, Amne Zailyn.

Biography

Kol Seraph was born on Taris, on Y-11 D232 to Garran and Lasha Seraph, who were refugees from a war in the Outer Rim. Although educated, as Kol’s parents were refugees, the Seraphs were forced to live in poverty in Taris’ Lower City, a violent place made infamous by its swoop gangs and ever-present signs of urban decay. Unwilling to spend the rest of his life in hardscrabble poverty and squalor under the great spires of his segregated urban homeworld, Kol ran away from home during his adolescence and joined one of the Lower City’s swoop gangs: the “Undercity Shades”, vowing never to look back.

After several years, Kol, whose blond hair, slim, lanky frame, and emerald-green eyes belied an uncommon cunning, ambition, and willpower, eventually rose to become one of the Shades’ ranking lieutenants, known for planning and leading many daring and successful raids against rival gangs in the Lower City, and attacking vulnerable commercial interests in the slightly less troubled Middle City. This lucrative state of affairs began to change for the worse, however, after the Galactic Empire claimed Taris and took over Taris’ Upper City, installing a planetary governor and garrisoning the planet with large numbers of well-disciplined foreign troops. The Shades, along with their fellow gangs, began making plans to defend the Lower City from Imperial attack, and each attempted to unite all the gangs under their banner through strength of arms, leading to a vicious gang war. This vicious, internecine conflict eventually spilled into the Middle City, forcing the Empire’s hand to intervene. Realizing that the war against the Empire was lost before it had even begun, Kol abandoned the Shades and went into hiding, knowing that he could not return home, as doing so would put his innocent parents’ lives in jeopardy, and committed to stay true to his promise to never turn back no matter what, no longer for his own sake, but for theirs now as well.

While in hiding, however, Kol was discovered and caught by his former comrades, who nearly beat him to death, and would have finished the job, had it not been for the intervention of a squad of Imperial soldiers conducting a reconnaissance patrol of the Lower City, in advance of the main assault force. His tormentors killed by the Imperials, Kol was rescued and brought to the Middle City for medical treatment, a turn of events which convinced him to re-evaluate his views on the New Order, a society he had been taught to hate and distrust by his treacherous former peers.

After Kol had recovered in the Middle City (the traumatic experience of first awakening fully submerged in a bacta tank developing into a lifelong phobia of confinement in close quarters, and a distrust of doctors and medical treatment in general), Kol made up his mind to join the Imperial Army, and to leave Taris behind for good. At the time, however, he was 16, being a year too young to enlist. So Kol instead joined COMPNOR’s Tarisian Imperial Youth Militia, a local paramilitary organization of youths devoted to ending the gang violence that, it was said, had plagued the Lower City for untold generations. His experience as a gang leader of no small repute serving him well in the Youth Militia, Kol soon distinguished himself and swiftly climbed up the organization’s ranks. By the time of Kol’s 17th birthday, his prior service in the IYM had earned him passage off-world, to commence Basic Training in the Imperial Army.

Kol trained as an IBT Recruit under Captain Rik Zoidic, then CO of the 3rd Imperial Legion, who recognized Seraph’s ability to grasp fieldcraft, specifically a heightened perception of his surroundings and ability to move about unseen if he wished, as well as his affinity for piloting ground and air repulsorcraft, traits that had more than earned Seraph a place in the Army’s Reconnaissance Corps. After graduating from Basic Training, Seraph was promoted to Private, and made a Legionnaire of the 1st Imperial Legion, being assigned to the 1st Brigade, “the Immortals”.

It did not take long for Seraph’s superior officer, Lieutenant Akai Ai, to recognize the leadership potential in the young Private, who soon promoted him to Corporal, swiftly followed thereafter by a promotion to Sergeant (making Kol a Non-Commissioned Officer), which in fact took place on the same day of Emperor Guinar’s ascension to the Throne. This last promotion was earned during an operation which saw Seraph and his squad infiltrate an Eidola-controlled installation, code-named "Elandorea", to retrieve a stolen Imperial starfighter and take into custody the defector who intended to profit from making it over to the Pirates. This mission, although costing the lives of several of Seraph’s squadmates, was concluded successfully, with the defector executed on-site, and the starfighter recovered.

Upon returning to Brigade HQ (at that time the Army Victory-class Star Destroyer Immortal), it became clear that Seraph, whose abilities and leadership skill were recognized, was being groomed for command of his own at a later date, which suited the young Sergeant just fine. Seraph was appointed Signals Officer of the 1st Legion, succeeding Santiano Salazar, CO of the 1st Brigade’s sister unit, the 4th Brigade, in this position. Embracing the duties that accompanied an administrative position with the same zeal that he had demonstrated on the battlefield, Seraph soon earned his promotion to Master Sergeant, and an accompanying appointment as Captain Ai’s new 2iC. As a Master Sergeant, Kol also applied for adult COMPNOR membership, and successfully joined both the Imperial Archives and the Imperial Centre for Recruitment on a part time basis, as an Archivist and Recruiter, respectively. His devotion to duty, not only to the Army, but to COMPNOR as well, duly paved the way for Seraph’s eventual promotion to Command Sergeant.

Having reached as far as he could go in the Army while remaining a Non-Commissioned Officer, but unwilling to relinquish his ambition of one day having his own command, Seraph made clear his intention to undertake the rigorous training and studies necessary for him to earn a commission and become an Officer. With his CO’s support, Kol enrolled in the infamously exclusive Imperial Army College on Carida, source of the Army’s finest commissioned Officers and located in the immediate vicinity of Army HQ. Applying his practical experience garnered both during his adolescence on Taris and after enlisting in the Army, Seraph excelled in his studies, surpassing many of his higher-class peers. Several months after enrolling in the Army College, Seraph graduated and earned his commission to 2nd Lieutenant, returning to 1BDE as an officer whose area of expertise, Brigade Command – Reconnaissance Specialization, earned him the coveted Brigade Command Medal. Lieutenant Seraph concluded his tenure as 1st Brigade Executive Officer by co-ordinating leadership of the Immortals with Captain Ai, helping lead them to a resounding victory against a determined Rebel incursion against the 5 worlds of the Ralltiir system, located in the Darpa Sector. In recognition of the Immortals’ decisive triumph in the Ralltiir theatre in mid-Year 13, the Immortals received the praise and adulation of the whole Empire, and the ACO, Lord General L`Annan herself, awarded each and every member of the 1st Brigade with the Unit Distinguished Service medal. Captain Ai himself was also promoted to Major and awarded with the Achievement Medal for his leadership, accolades which Kol was proud to have helped his CO earn.

With the subsequent appointment of Santiano Salazar as the new Commanding Officer of the 1st Legion, the vacancy in the chain of command Seraph had long awaited finally presented itself. Before his appointment, Salazar had been CO of the 1st Brigade’s sister unit, 4BDE, better known by their nickname: “the Spectres”. ACOMD was now looking for a promising young officer to assume command of the premier Reconnaissance Brigade in the Army, and Lieutenant Seraph put his name forward, confident that his credentials and record of service among the Immortals would earn him his own command. He was not disappointed, as the reins of command were bestowed upon him, along with the honor of an accompanying promotion to 1st Lieutenant. Seraph commanded 4BDE with Icarus Carinae as his 2iC, and Redme Schwarz as his Sergeant Major, and during his tenure as BCO, the Spectres contributed much to the Army-wide initiative known as [Operation: Isolated Axiom], which sought to modernize various aspects of combat doctrine in the face of increasing aggression against the Galactic Empire and its allies from the belligerent, renegade states of the Galactic Alliance.

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Commission

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 Calendar

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-Ninth Day of the Thirteenth Year of the New Order Calendar CXCVIII XIII and in the First Year of Our Reign.

By Command of His Excellency Lord Seele, the Imperial Executor.

Imperial Personnel Profile

General Information

Surname: Seraph
Given Name(s): Koltan, "Kol"
Age: 25
Species: Class A Citizen (Human - Tarisian)
Branch: Imperial Army
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel [O-5]
Service Number: IACO-K17-665-S89
Security Clearance Level: Top Secret
Formal Education:

  • Imperial Basic Training (Army),
  • Imperial Army College (Brigade Command, Reconnaissance Specialization),
  • Imperial Intelligence Agent Certification



Psychological Profile

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Physical Description

Height: 6'0
Weight: 165 lbs
Build: Fit
Complexion: Fair
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Blond

Imperial Service Record

Army Ranks

Grade Insignia Rank Time held (Combine Time) Time held (Real Time)
[E-1] ME-1.gif Recruit Year 12 Day 187 - Year 12 Day 189 June 6th, 2011 - June 8th, 2011
[E-2] ME-2.gif Private Year 12 Day 189 - Year 12 Day 283 June 8th, 2011 - September 9th, 2011
[E-3] ME-3.gif Corporal Year 12 Day 283 - Year 12 Day 327 September 9th, 2011 - October 24th, 2011
[E-4] ME-4.gif Sergeant Year 12 Day 327 - Year 13 Day 43 October 24th, 2011 - January 13th, 2012
[E-5] ME-5.gif Master Sergeant Year 13 Day 43 – Year 13 Day 108 January 13th, 2012 – March 17th, 2012
[E-6] ME-6.gif Command Sergeant Year 13 Day 108 - Year 13 Day 198 March 17th, 2012 - June 15th, 2012
[O-1] MO-1.gif 2nd Lieutenant Year 13 Day 198 - Year 13 Day 273 June 15th, 2012 - August 29th, 2012
[O-2] MO-2.gif 1st Lieutenant Year 13 Day 273 - Year 13 Day 315 August 29th, 2012 - October 10th, 2012

Intelligence Ranks

Grade Insignia Rank Time held (Combine Time) Time held (Real Time)
[O-2] IIO-2.gif Agent Year 12 Day 315 – Year 14 Day 185 October 10th, 2012 – June 2nd, 2013

Army Ranks

Grade Insignia Rank Time held (Combine Time) Time held (Real Time)
[O-2] MO-2.gif 1st Lieutenant Year 14 Day 189 - Year 14 Day 296 June 6th, 2013 - September 21st, 2013
[O-3] MO-3.gif Captain Year 14 Day 296 - Year 14 Day 337 September 21st, 2013 - November 1st, 2013
[O-5] MO-5.gif MO-5.png Lieutenant Colonel Year 14 Day 337 - Present November 1st, 2013 - Present
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