Konrad Rus

"The Mission has always been at the service to the Emperor; a change in Emperor simply means finding new ways to be of service."

- Konrad Rus to Darth Krayt

Konrad Rus was a Human male Moff who led the Imperial Mission between at least 130 and 137 ABY. By virtue of his rank, he was a member of the Moff Council, and although quiet, he was a skilled political negotiator, who had opposed the bellicose majority on the Council several times.

With the rest of the Council, Moff Rus witnessed Darth Krayt's seizure of the position of Emperor in 130 ABY; one of the Sith Lord's first acts was to invite the Moffs to swear allegiance to him, and Konrad Rus obeyed, along with his peers.



Although he remained in office under Krayt, Rus continued to be regarded a good man by subordinates like Missionary Astraal Vao. In 137, Astraal, stranded on Vendaxa, trusted him enough to inform him of her whereabouts, and that of Princess Marasiah Fel, the daughter of Emperor Roan Fel.

Moff Rus, however, immediately brought this communication to Darth Krayt. On learning that Krayt planned to subject Princess Sia to Sith torture in order to learn her father's location, he further offered to lure Roan Fel into a Sith trap on Vendaxa, in order to cut out the unnecessary "unpleasantness" of making a young woman undergo such a brutal interrogation.

Konrad Rus's guiding motive seems to have been that service to whoever ruled the Empire enabled the Mission to fulfill its duties: his loyalty to Krayt was based on this surmise, and the same moral calculus can be detected in his offer to help forge a trap on Vendaxa, to avoid what he considered as further and worse atrocities.

Behind the scenes



 * Konrad, as he appears in Star Wars: Legacy 0, bares a striking resemblance to actor Henry Gibson. This could be coincidence or he could have been the reference inspiration for the character's appearance, as was apparently done previously in titles like Star Wars: Union.


 * Konrad is a typical Polish and German first name, meaning "bold counsel", a name that seems appropriate for Moff Rus.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Legacy 1: Broken, Part 1
 * Star Wars Legacy 5: Broken, Part 4
 * Star Wars Legacy 7: Broken, Part 6