Jace Dallin

Jace Dallin was a heavily-scarred Human veteran of the Stark Hyperspace War and the Clone Wars.

Stark Hyperspace War
At the time of the Stark Hyperspace War, Dallin was serving as a bodyguard to Ranulph Tarkin aboard Tarkin's flagship, the Invincible. After the Stark Commercial Combine scattered Tarkin's fleet with a navicomputer virus, and routed the remnant that arrived to give battle above Troiken, it was Dallin who gave the order to abandon ship, before escaping with Tarkin in an escape pod.

On the planet, Dallin joined the survivors of Tarkin's fleet and army at the Mount Avos rendezvous. Here, he took shelter with such influential figures as Senator Finis Valorum and Jedi Masters Qui-Gon Jinn, Adi Gallia and Plo Koon. He also befriended Jan Dodonna, a fellow member of the fleet.

During the continuing battle at the base of the mountain, Dallin was badly wounded by an explosion. Due to the lack of bacta on the planet, Dallin's face was heavily scarred. Dallin was later placed in charge of evacuating the mountain and sealing the exits in the Jedi's plan to trap the soldiers of the Stark Commercial Combine.

Like the other followers of Tarkin, Dallin had been a Humanocentrist. However, during the war, his rescue by the Xexto Billibango in the Fourth Battle of Qotile, and the care and skill he saw exercised by the alien Jedi, namely Plo Koon, led to Dallin coming to terms with the errors of his beliefs and realizing that aliens were no different from Humans.

Clone Wars
More than twenty years later in the Clone Wars, Dallin was the Captain in command of the Rendili Home Defense Fleet from its flagship, Mersel Kebir. Dallin was against Rendili and its fleet joining the Confederacy of Independent Systems, but he, along with negotiators Plo Koon and Jan Dodonna, was arrested during a mutiny by the traitorous Lieutenant Mellor Yago.

The prisoners were freed by Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos, who then aided Dallin in putting an end to the mutiny. Dallin personally killed Yago and regained control of the Rendili fleet, which he then turned against the Confederate fleet. Following the Battle of Rendili, Dallin joined the Republic Navy along with the other officers of all other local defense fleets.

Imperial era
Shortly after the formation of the Galactic Empire, Dallin was one of the Imperial Starfleet officers called to Coruscant by Emperor Palpatine. When he expressed doubt that the Jedi could have truly been traitors, he received the "honor" of being the first Captain of the Imperial Navy to be Force choked by Darth Vader.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Republic: The Stark Hyperspace War
 * Star Wars Republic: The Dreadnaughts of Rendili
 * Star Wars Republic 78: Loyalties