Akanseh

Doctor Akanseh was a Mon Calamari surgeon and chief medical officer onboard the New Republic corvette FarStar.

Early life
Akanseh was a an accomplished surgeon on his homeworld, but he was also a philanthropist. His goal was to take advanced medical services to the unprivileged backwater planets of the Outer Rim Territories. To avoid enslavement by the Galactic Empire when they invaded his homeworld, Akanseh fled Mon Calamari and spent several years in hiding. During this time, he developed a mobile surgical suite that was contained in the hold of a freighter and staffed largely by medical droids that he programmed himself.

In 4 ABY Akanseh began taking this surgical suite to several backwater planets, where he hoped to aid underprivileged individuals in need. He travelled in free-trader ships, trading his medical services for full passage, or at least a reduced price. While en route to a new planet, the freighter he was travelling in was captured by an Imperial Interdictor cruiser. Akanseh was taken to Kal'Shebbol, and brought before Moff Kentor Sarne.

Working for Moff Sarne
Sarne confiscated the doctor's medical suite, and forced Akanseh to work for him as an interrogator. A peaceful being, Akanseh chose not to resist and became a submissive prisoner, carrying out Sarne's orders. However, Akanseh had his own methods. Rather than torturing them for information, he got subjects to trust him enough to disclose the information willingly. Not wanting to cause other beings harm, he knew that if he couldn't get the information in this manner, then the prisoner would be turned over to Imperial interrogators and droids. Once, while interrogating a stubborn resistance fighter, Sarne performed a spot inspection on the procedure. Akanseh was forced to chemically torture the prisoner, or face the same fate himself.

Despite this, Akanseh was still technically a prisoner, and was kept in Sarne's dungeons. When the New Republic liberated Kal'Shebbol, he was freed from his cell by Page's Commandos.

Onboard the FarStar
Akanseh joined the FarStar mission as penance for the acts he performed in Sarne's service, although he kept quiet about that fact. As the chief medical officer on the ship, he was responsible for overseeing the medical bay, keeping track of medical supplies, and maintaining a medical droid pool.

He later left the ship to stay on Q'Maere, treating former prisoners from the Q'Maere Research Facility.

Personality and traits
Peaceful and non-violent, Akanseh was deeply ashamed of his time as a torturer. His greatest fear was that someone would find out about his past and expose him. Although a great shipboard doctor, he was easily confused in combat situations and was not an effective combat medic.

Akanseh believed in helping the helpless, and was insistent in bringing medical services to backwater planets, even while on the FarStar. To him, with-holding medical services was just as bad as causing injury. His ultimate goal was to recreate his surgical suite, but realised that, since that was not part of the FarStar's mission, it could not take priority. He worked in secret during his time on the ship, assembling equipment and medical droids.

Appearances

 * The DarkStryder Campaign
 * The Kathol Outback
 * The Kathol Rift