Frehesia Tressen

> *"Enjoy your time out of your cell, slime. You'll find your way to safety littered with land minds. Bye Bye!" - Lieutenant Frehesia Tressen allowing a convict the change to run the mine gauntlet of Adahalo IV's First Order Security Bureau complex, 20 ABY*
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## Early Life

Frehesia Tressen, the "Shadow of Sullust" as she was later known, was a First Order Security Bureau agent active during the creation of the First Order and, eventually, the Cold War between the Order and the New Republic. Born during the Galactic Civil War to famed General (and dark side practitioner) Raviston Tressen and his lover, Dhalia Reuenthal, aboard the General's Star Destroyer, Frehesia's early life consisted of being in space. Her father had little time to care for her, but he did show an affection towards his daughter with the "odd-eyes" (just like her mother), unlike his own adopted father. Frehesia moved with her mother, as she was transferred to Ord Mantell, where she would rise in importance as the Commandant of a training academy on the planet's surface.

When she was three years old, her world flipped upside down, with the destruction of the Galactic Empire and the death of Emperor Sheev Palpatine. While her father had been reassigned to the border regions between the Empire and the Chiss (supposedly to prevent a spill-over of the Chiss-Grysk conflict into Imperial territory), Frehesia and her mother experienced the chaotic in-fighting that began between Imperials almost immediately after the Emperor's death. Ord Mantell soon turned into a war zone, with the Imperial Governor Aric Dolus initiating the devastating final orders of Palpatine: Operation Cinder. Soon, Ord Mantell was rocked with weather patterns that were causing volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, and vicious lightning storms. It seemed as if the wrath of Palpatine himself had come out of those weather satellites. While the young child cried in the arms of her mother, who steadfastly gave a speech lambasting the Governor's insane plan, a group of heroes raced to avert yet another galactic disaster.

## Life in Exile

Despite Governor Dolus being killed, Ord Mantell continued to be a war zone until the New Republic came and swept up any criminal elements that sprung up as well as Imperial remnant. Luckily for Frehesia, her father had her and her mother whisked away on his own Star Destroyer, the family was reunited once again. The Phantom, Tressen's Star Destroyer, and her crew were a people without a nation. The decision at that moment was to flee back into the Unknown Regions, the location that Tressen and his crew had patrolled for nearly five years. Some soldiers on the ship asked to be relieved of duty, which the aging General allowed in a lavish "war's end" commemoration. One of Frehesia's first memories as a young girl were watching her father give a speech to those Imperials who wanted to return to a normal life now that the Emperor was dead and the Republic had won. Throughout her life, her father's words rang through her head "The Empire may be shattered, but some day, the chaos the New Republic has brought will no longer be tolerated by the citizens of the Galaxy. Every day people do not want chaos, they crave order, peace, and security above all else."

With that, the Phantom and her skeleton crew drifted into Chiss space, where they were welcomed, albeit with apprehension. Striker learned of other Imperials who blasted their way through the Unknown Regions, ending up in a remote part of space even the Chiss were not able, or did not want to, traverse. Considered a war criminal by the New Republic for fleeing instead of bringing his ship and crew for processing in the Core Worlds, General Striker was not able to return to the known Galaxy for the rest of his life. His wife, behind his back, began contacts with some of the Imperial Remnant that decided to flee further into the Unknown regions. This strained the relationship between Dhalia, who wished to continue to fight for the restoration of the Empire as the "civilization of order", and Raviston, who began to enjoy the retirement he felt he deserved. Decades of service with the Judicial forces, the Republic Army, and the Imperial Army had taken their toll as well. Despite having abilities due to his connection with the Force, his age began to catch up with him, and Raviston Tressen decided to hang up his uniform shortly after arriving in the territory of the Ascendancy in 6 ABY.

Soon, the rift grew even greater between Raviston and Dhalia, getting to the point where Dhalia began to secretly plot with the other crew of the Phantom who also wished to continue fighting the reborn Republic. In 7 ABY, Dhalia took Frehesia, three hundred men of the Phantom's crew, and a compliment of droids to help pilot the ship, and stole the Star Destroyer, leaving the former General Striker alone on the Chiss planet of Copero. Soon, the Phantom and its crew ran into an Imperial Remnant deep within the unknown regions, it was discovered that this was the remnant led by legendary Grand Admiral Rae Sloane. It was at this moment that, inside one of her packs, young Frehesia found a strange item inside, a metal cylindrical device wrapped up inside of a letter addressed to her only from her father.