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Philip Douglas was a Rebel Alliance, New Republic and Galactic Federation of Free Alliances General who lead an elite team of commandos called the Green Strike and captained the 'Privateer', a modified Corellian Corvette. He, and his team, were experts in boarding actions and specifically trained in taking control of large capital ships.

Early Life
Philip lead a farely normal life untill an injured Rebel Operative turned up on the doorstep of his family's house, in 9 BBY. His parent's helped the man and he was able to escape the planet, however the Empire tracked him to them and exectued them and Philip's sister. Upon discovering the bodies, Philip fled and found a group of Rebels which were recruiting soldiers on Xerxes. He signed up[ and was smuggled off the planet.

Early Service
Philip trained as a marine and was posted aboard Nebulon-B frigate 'Wookiee's Wrath' under the command of Wookiee captain, Artrath. When the frigate was caught by an Victory Star Destroyer and boarded, Philip joined the defense which was devastated by Imperial Stormtroopers. He survived the first attack and after retreating into the ship, took command of the small group of survivors. They fought back and, using their access to the ship's computer to spring traps on their foes, pushed the Stormtroopers off the ship. Too large a proportion of the crew had been killed for them to escape in it, so they fought their way into the Star Destroyer's hangar and stole a Theta-class T-2c shuttle, with which they made their escape.

Elite Commando
Philip's actions brought great attention from Rebel Commanders and he was selected to form a new Marine Commando unit, with many of the survivors from the 'Wookiee's Wrath'. He was promoted to Major and given acces to rebel traing facilty to train his new force. After a year of intensive training, disrupted by an Imperial attack on the base, he felt they were ready for action. During this time he oversaw the modifaction of a Corellian Corvette into the 'Privateer', making it capable to landing on enemy ships and drilling into them. The majority of the cost of this refit was paid for by funds which he managed to retrieve from his family's abandoned bank accounts.

In 6 BBY, he lead his commando force, now named Green Strike, on their first mission. They found the Star Destroyer that attacked the 'Wookiee's Wrath' and boarded it. Hacking into the ship's computer, they drained the atmosphere from the ship's Stormtrooper's quarters and shutdown the bridge's control of the ship. Philip led the unit through the ship to the Bridge, where they captured the captain, Maes Leert, and forced the ship to surrender. After a large proportion of the ship's crew escaped in Escape Pods, they slaved the computer systems together and managed to get the ship into hyperspace. He took the ship to a rebel base and turned it over to the Rebel fleet, earning himself a promotion to Colonel, along with most of his troops.

Green Strike carried out many missions for the Rebel Alliance and later the New Republic. At the Battle of Endor, Green Strike was stationed on a Mon Calamari Cruiser and boarded an Immobilizer 418 cruiser which they captured but were forced to abandon when an Imperial Engineer overloaded the reactor. They participated in a large number of major battles over the following years and many more covert operations. The unit broadened its skills and became experts at many different types of covert operations, from surveilance to infiltration.

'To be continued...'