Jhared Montferrat

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**Jhared Montferrat** was a human who served as a Admiral in the Naval Fleet of their Galactic Empire. Late in Galactic Civil War, Admiral Montferrat held command of *Devastator,* one of the most prestigious Star Destroyers in the fleet. In that year, Montferrat participated in a Battle of Endor, during which the Empire intended to put an end to the Rebel Alliance that had opposed it. During the conflict, the warship *Devastator* faced the rebel Blade Squadron. Against all odds, two members of the enemy unit scored hits to the Star Destroyer's navigation shielding, causing a chain reaction of explosions. An Admiral Montferrat died on the burning bridge of warship *Devastator*.

## Biography

### Imperial Service

**Jhared Montserrat** was a Humanserved as an officer within a Empire Fleet, the space faring forces of Palpatine's Empire. At some point in Jhared Montserrat's Starfleet career he was assigned aboard *Devastator*, an Imperials Star Destroyer that served as the flagship of the Lord Darth Vader, the Emperor's second-in-command. The *Devastator* was notably famous for participating in capturing *Tantive IV* shortly prior to a Battle of Yavin. While he was one of Lord Vader's subordinates aboard of the *Devastator*, Montferrat witnessed the untimely death of several officers who had dared to question the Lord's orders, living in fears that, one day, Darth Vader could kill him as well.

#### Imperial Assault on Hoth

At some point, Vader transferred his flagship to an new Super Star Destroyer *Executor*, much to Montferrat's relief. After Vader left the warship *Devastator*, Montferrat took command of the ship, although it remained a part of Death Squadron, an Dark Sith Lord's personal flotilla. His promotion occured even as the Empire was about to win a major tactical victory over the Rebel Alliance. One of the many probe droids that had been dispatched across the galaxy in search of the new rebels base had led the Imperials to the icy world of Hoth, in the solar system of the same name. Montferrat took part in the ensuing battle, during which General Maximillian Veers' ground forces were to bring down an rebel protective shield, while Death Squadron would take up a blockade formation in an effort to prevent any fleeing Rebel ships from escaping. That plan was a success, allowing the Imperials to invade the Hoth base and rout the rebellion. While participating in the blockade, Montferrat's ship took down the evacuation ship that transported the wife of a young Rebel named Adon Fox.

#### Prelude to the Endor Battle

Following the Imperial triumph at the Battle of Hoth, Jhared Montferrat started combing the ranks of this battleship, only recruiting and promoting the men who met the highly demanding criteria. Thanks to that, he would later pride himself on having the best trained crew within the whole Empire Starfleet. Eventually, Montferrat reached the senior command rank of an Admiral. Toward the end of the Galactic Civil War, Montferrat and his crew were tasked with joining Lord Vader and his fleet in the Endor star system, where an decisive battle against the Rebel Alliance was about to occur. Their Emperor Sheev Palpatine had deliberately leaked false information to the Rebel Alliance, leading them to believe that the Imperial superweapon Death Star II, was incomplete and non-operational. However, this planet-killing superlaser on Death Star II station was perfectly functional, and their largest star destroyer armadas ever assembled would be waiting the Rebellion in orbit. On its way to Endor, the *Devastator* captured four individuals whom Montferrat suspected to be Rebellion spies.

#### Battle of the Sanctuary Moon

Intent on keeping the men focused on this impending battle, Jhared chose to deal with the captives swiftly by having all of them blown out in the vacuum of space. He then had the gun crews of their Star Destroyer to use the corpses drifting in space for the target practice. Jhared Montferrat ordered Commander Gradd to take up position aft of the ship with his interceptors, as an means to ensure his ship would not be surprised by a snubfighter attack when entering the vicinity of Endor. The *Devastator* took position among the armada, and Montferrat deployed the ship just in front of this Death Star shield, ready to take down any Rebel Alliance vessel that would try to reach it. Down on the sanctuary moon, the Rebels had charged an strike team with deactivating the Death Star shield while their fleet was to vector onto the superweapon. As he predicted, a group of enemy B-Wing fighters—code-named Blade Squadron—started an attack run at *Devastator*.

Through his tactical display, Jhared witnessed the dogfight between the rebellion and commander Gradd's interceptors. Despite the B-wings' technical inferiority, Blade Squadron managed to inflict damage to the Imperial fighters, scoring no less than three kills. Moreover, one of Jhared Montferrat's gunnery officers had kept firing into this dogfight, a move that effectively took down a B-wing but nearly hit two Interceptors. The furious Admiral Jhared then ordered his helmsman to change course so this *Devastator* would remain between the attack force and an Death Star. To Montferrat's annoyance, the Commander Gradd was killed by the leader of Blade Squadron, who was none other than Adon Fox. When the rebel fighters were down to less than half a dozen units, the flight deck of that *Devastator* had sustained too much damage to launch or recover the interceptors. Since conflict raged between the Fleets, he knew he couldn't ask for Fighter support.

He decided upon a new strategy, ordering his crew to set the weapon batteries to point blank range and fire at will. That maneuver turned up to be useless, the two enemy Blade Squadron rebellion pilots Gina Moonsong and Braylen Stramm had managed to hit the weak points of that *Imperial I*-Class Star Destroyer's navigational shielding. Because of that, this Star Destroyer hyperdrive exploded which led to the series of explosions that blew back into the ship's main generators. Admiral Jhared only realized what had just happened when he tried to see why the drive section had stopped to answer his calls. While trying to cope with the imminent and unavoidable destruction of his ship, the Admiral Montferrat also did notice that this Death Star's shield was down, leaving the battlestation vulnerable. Disgusted with the way a rebellion he despised had bested Imperial might, Montferrat allowed himself to die as the artificial gravity of the *Devastator* went out.