User:Grand Moff Tranner/Sandbox

Welcome to my sandbox. Here I'll be working on articles in an effort to get them to FA or GA status. Feel free to leave any comments on the relevant talk page. See my resume for articles that have reached either FA or GA status.

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=Titus Klev=

Titus Klev was an officer of the Imperial Navy. He was an active member of the Sub-Adult Group, and was accepted into CompForce despite his young age. He later became the 37th generation of Klevs to enter the Imperial Naval Academy after being rejected once.

Following the defeat at Endor, Klev was assigned to Battle Station Observations onboard Dedicated Siege Platforms. Onboard such a platform in the Battle of Wann Tsir, he discovered a Rebel agent attempting to sabotage the platform. He earned both a commendation and a promotion for the action. His path potentially could have led to becoming a Moff.

In 10 ABY, Klev was a member of the resurrected Palpatine's forces. He commanded the lead World Devastator, Silencer-7, in the First Battle of Mon Calamari. His path to the title of Moff ended in the oceans of Dac, where he died when the World Devastators were sabotaged by the astromech droid R2-D2 into colliding with each other.

Biography


Born on Alsakan into privilege, his father being a high ranking veteran of the Clone Wars and his mother being the wealthy heiress of a trading company, Klev was an active participant in the Sub-Adult Group, being one of the first enrolled, where he proved skilled in Wegsphere. At age 13, Klev was sent to a special training camp on Ibanjji, and after saving an instructor from a pack of wild varns, was accepted into CompForce despite being four years underage.

He volunteered for CompForce Assault, but his parents arranged for him to go into Observation, where he became Chief Ideological Monitor. Wanting some excitement, he applied to enter the Imperial Naval Academy, and after being rejected once for insufficient grades, a fellow SAGroup member bent the rules to allow him in. Klev became the 37th generation of Klevs to enter the Academy. He was noted as being the kind of Human that was usually featured in propaganda. He graduated first in his class.

He never got the chance to serve aboard the Death Star II, and following the defeat at Endor, was assigned to Battle Station Observations and served onboard Dedicated Siege Platforms.

Klev participated in the siege of Wann Tsir onboard such a platform. His discovery of a Rebel agent attempting to sabotage his vessel's shields earned him a commendation and a promotion, and he was considered on the road to becoming a Moff.

By the time of Palpatine's resurgence in 10 ABY, Commander Klev was given his command of Silencer-7, his first command, and led the Imperial forces during the First Battle of Mon Calamari. He died during the battle when his World Devastator was sabotaged by R2-D2.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Dark Empire

Notes and references
=Wullf Yularen=

Wullf Yularen was a male Human who served the Galactic Republic as an admiral in the Republic Navy, and the Galactic Empire as a colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau.

While serving as an admiral during the Clone Wars, he commanded his fleet from the Venator-class Star Destroyer Spirit of the Republic. He would also operate onboard the Resolute, during the Battle of Christophsis in 22 BBY, in which he was unable to provide support for Jedi Generals Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Later, he led his fleet into the Battle of Teth from the Spirit of the Republic.

Sometime following the creation of the Empire in 19 BBY, Yularen became a colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau. He would be stationed onboard the Death Star I, where he was tasked with maintaining loyalty to the Empire and briefing Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. He was killed when the Death Star was destroyed at the Battle of Yavin by Luke Skywalker, the son of Yularen's former Jedi commander-turned-Dark Lord of the Sith.

Biography
During the Clone Wars, Yularen was the admiral in charge of Anakin Skywalker's fleet. He was often worried of his commander's reckless tactics. During a brief lull in the Battle of Christophsis, Yularen and the Resolute were sent to re-supply and bring much-needed support to the outnumbered clone troopers on Christophsis. The Separatist forces, under the command of the Kerkoiden General Whorm Loathsom, had been waiting for the assault cruiser to depart and immediately attacked the beleagured Republic forces. As the battle raged, Yularen was tasked with delivering Ahsoka Tano to Jedi Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Skywalker.

Yularen, from his flagship the Spirit of the Republic, was later sent to Teth to aid with the extraction of Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure's son Rotta from the hands of Separatist agent Asajj Ventress. When Skywalker and Tano escaped B'omarr Monastery with the Huttlet aboard the G9 Rigger Twilight, Yularen's forces originally fired on the freighter as it bore a Separatist transponder code. After Skywalker was able to confirm that he was onboard the Twilight, Yularen momentarily dropped his cruiser's deflector shields to allow the Corellian freighter to land in one of the rear hangars. However, a Vulture droid that had been pursuing Skywalker broke off his attack and dove into the hangar, exploding and destroying everything in its path. Unable to land, Skywalker instead made the hyperspace jump to Tatooine in the Twilight.

Sometime following the Battle of Teth, Yularen was present when Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano, and clone troopers had themselves frozen in carbonite in preparation for a strike on the Separatist shipyards of Gwori Revolutionary Industries at Gwori.

In the time of the Empire, Yularen became a colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau and was assigned to Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin's staff onboard the first Death Star. Yularen was tasked with maintaining loyalty to Emperor Palpatine, and rooting out Rebels onboard the Death Star. He was certain that Tarkin would become disloyal, and would attempt to grab power for himself. If he did, Yularen intended to stop him, thus ingratiating himself to Palpatine, who would, Yularen thought, appoint him to head the Security Bureau.

Yularen's plans were foiled when he was killed in the Death Star's destruction during the Battle of Yavin.

Behind the scenes
An action figure of Yularen was produced by Hasbro in 2007 as part of the Death Star Briefing set. It included a short biography claiming that none of the officers present at the briefing were aware that Yularen was an ISB agent, though he was obviously wearing an ISB uniform in the scene.

Yularen's last name may have been inspired by a character from Sutâurufu named Colonel Yarulen who wears a white uniform. His first name may be a reference to the same film's main character, who is a Jedi-like warrior known as a "Star Wolf." Featured in the United States as Star Force: Fugitive Alien II on Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sutâurufu has many similarities to (and may itself have been partly inspired by) A New Hope.

On the packaging of the Hasbro Death Star Briefing set, his first name is misspelled as "Wulff." On page 138 of The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide, his last name is misspelled as "Yularan."

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars (novel)
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Biography
Pitta spent most of his time obsessed with the purity of the Imperial New Order, and especially the racial purity aspects of it (reputedly, even COMPNOR members felt he was too vociferous); in a classic case of psychological projection (since Pitta himself was not pure Human&mdash;he also had Etti and Borneck blood), Pitta spent considerable effort investigating varied people's racial background and purging ruthlessly those who were even the slightest bit "impure". When not investigating backgrounds, Pitta busied himself wandering around the Outer Rim Territories with three of his Imperial dungeon ships (Apocahk, Angrix, and Azgoghk) abducting aliens, and torturing, enslaving, or experimenting on them. Despite this apparent lack of military ability or ambition, after the Emperor's death at the Battle of Endor, Pitta quickly bribed or otherwise coerced the Diktat of the Corellian system into accepting the new warlord as his "protector", which gave Pitta control of the strategically valuable Corellian Sector and its invaluable shipyards.

About a year and a half after Endor, Pitta obtained a torpedo sphere from an unknown source, and set about procuring the thousands of proton torpedoes necessary to render the sphere militarily useful. Hard on the heels of finishing refurbishment and supply, fellow warlord and Grand Admiral Josef Grunger invaded the Corellian system, which culminated in the Battle of Tralus. Pitta enjoyed initial success, his modest fleet savaging Grunger's armada amidst a devastating fusillade of proton torpedoes. Grunger, facing defeat in this battle, and the defeat in his larger aim of becoming the new Emperor, surveyed the wreckage of his once-mighty fleet, and in desperation ordered his Super Star Destroyer Aggressor to ram at full-speed Pitta's torpedo sphere.

Both Grand Admirals were aboard their respective flagships, and both perished in the ensuing explosion.

Behind the scenes
Though never published and thus not canonical, Star Wars Insider author Daniel Wallace indicates that Pitta's personal Star Destroyer was named Impenetrable.

The psychological projection that drove Pitta to his racial-purity obsession mirrors the rumors that Reinhard Heydrich had Jewish ancestry, which angered him enough to fuel his destructive rage (whether Heydrich actually had such ancestry or not is unknown, but he hid his ancestry out of such fear).