Dru Valan

"Captain Hoge. See to it that all alien personnel in my fleet are replaced with human personnel. I want a superior crew to deal with this alien pest"

- Dru Valan

Dru Valan was a Human male who was an admiral in the Imperial Navy who was loyal to the usurper faction of Darth Krayt. Even though by this time the Imperial Military allowed aliens to serve alongside humans, Valan was blatant speciesist with a personal vendetta against Duros Admiral Gar Stazi of the Galactic Alliance, whom he considered an "alien pest".

Biography
"I've studied Stazi. I know every move he's likely to make. I know him better than he knows himself"

- Dru Valan on Gar Stazi

In 130 ABY, he fought at the Battle of Caamas, and was responsible for failing to prevent the escape of Admiral Gar Stazi.

In 137 ABY, after the Sith Lord Darth Azard executed Admiral Sha Dun, Valan was placed in command of the Outer Rim Third Fleet and tasked with hunting down Stazi, a mission in which Admiral Dun had failed numerous times. Valan believed in Human High Culture and ordered the removal of all alien crew from the fleet to ensure that "only the best" would serve under him. He even crushed a part of the Kel Dor's breathing mask under his foot after his former commander had been eliminated.

Now in the command of the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer Relentless, Admiral Valan plotted to set up a trap for Stazi by baiting him with the possibility of capturing the Advanced Star Destroyer Imperious, which resulted in the Battle of Mon Calamari. However, Valan ignored that Stazi was already aware of the possibility of a trap.

Gar Stazi had prepared for the trap and set up one himself. He hacked the shipyard's automated defenses to fire on Imperial ships, and the combined firepower from the Alliance fleet and the Shipyards inflicted heavy damage on Valan's fleet. To add insult to injury, the stormtroopers that had re-siezed the Imperious were actually Alliance Remnant troops. They hijacked the Advanced Star Destroyer and got it to one of the Alliance's bases.

Enraged that he had been outmanuevered, Valan ordered his ships to fire on the Indomitable, hoping to eliminate Stazi and cripple the Remnant. But while the Indomitable took the fire, the rest of the Alliance fleet escaped. After Stazi was removed form the Indomitable, its captain Jaius Yorub piolted the ship into the Mon Calamari Shipyards, destroying a third of them.

By the end of the battle, the Imperious was in Alliance hands, Stazi had escaped, the Mon Calamari Shipyards had been heavily damaged, and Valan's fleet had been devastated. Valan retired to his quarters with a laser pistol of his own personal collection after being defeated, apparently thinking of committing suicide.

Trivia

 * Admiral Valan's character design is somewhat similar to that of Gamilon General Talan (Sergeant Masterson) from the 70s japanese Sci-Fi anime series Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers).

Appearances

 * Star Wars Legacy: Indomitable