Castor E-196
Imperial Naval Special Forces
Little is known of Castor’s life before the Imperial Academy. Even he would be hard-pressed to remember. All that is known is that he had a modest upbringing on Borosk, his parents likely one of many technicians that worked on the Sith Empire’s defences ringing the world. During the Civil War, Castor’s neighbourhood was particularly hard-pressed. Anti-Sith resistance forces bombed the city regularly, killing his parents. His extended relatives were forced to fight for the Sith when war came to the planet, while much of his community were killed for arbitrary reasons by the ever-tightening Sith grip. Left alone to survive, Castor was forced to hunt, scavenge and steal in the ever more desolate situation of the city to survive, and managed to survive the months of siege before the Sith were destroyed.
After the Imperial liberation of Borosk, Castor, newly orphaned, was swept off the streets by the new Imperial administration to be enrolled in the newly built Imperial Academy of Borosk. He did not spend much time there, as he was soon picked up by the ELITE program as a candidate due to his sharp mind, tenacity and genetic markers suiting him for SILVERLIGHT enhancements. From then on, Castor was trained under the gruelling conditions of the program. He was one of the 40-odd candidates not to be maimed by any of the enhancements, and he displayed a sound tactical mind and composure under fire. While he was able to work well with his team during these years, the rest were either washed out or reassigned to rehabilitated units, and Castor found himself alone again despite this new community. Castor gained a reputation for being a lone wolf, and excelled at single operative taskings during training, preferring close-quarters combat with high powered weapons.
When he and his batch of ELITE operatives graduated, Castor spent some time with the Imperial Navy’s Special Warfare Command with a fireteam of other ELITEs, taking out key targets in Sith holdouts. A short solo stint with ISB successfully leading CompForce troopers and Stormtroopers in rooting out and destroying rebel cells brought him to the attention of an Admiral in Navy Command, who promptly plucked Castor and his team out of NAVSPECWAR and reserved him for such internal missions under his direct supervision. What the other ELITEs may have lacked in compliance or discretion, Castor made up for, and he alone was given expanded mission profiles beyond Sith holdouts: rebels, radical reformers, aspiring planetary warlords, rabid Tarkinists, anyone who the Admiral deemed a threat to the Iron Sun was quietly removed by the lone operative or at the head of a faceless Navy death squad.
When Grand Admiral Caarlyle Rausgeber took over naval operations, a review of pre-existing non-standard assignments easily turned up the ELITE operative. Although the Admiral was dismissed for his ‘reckless misuse of resources’ and the ELITE team reassigned, the Grand Admiral was more than happy to maintain Castor in his role under direct supervision of Naval Command and to continue using this asset. Now Castor serves as one of many tools used by the Navy and its leaders to exert their new vision of the Empire.
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