Alexsandr Kallus

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**Alexsandr Kallus** was an ISB agent in service to the Galactic Empire, holding a firm belief in the Empire while working to suppress dissent on numerous worlds, fighting against the insurgency movements of the rebellion, taking part in the hunt for the rebels of the *Ghost* on Lothal. Over the course of his pursuit of the *Ghost* crew, Kallus began to question his beliefs about the Empire and the rebel movement, and he covertly became a spy for the Rebel Alliance under the alias **Fulcrum**, thanks to Garazeb Orrelios. He fed the rebels intel about the Empire's activities, but after some time he was discovered by Grand Admiral Thrawn who learned Kallus' true allegiance after realizing there was a spy in his midst. Kallus managed to escape from Imperial custody during the Battle of Atollon and was rescued by the *Ghost*, joining the rebels at Yavin 4.

## Biography

### Early Imperial Service

#### Joining the ISB

**Alexsandr Kallus** was born a Human male on the core planet Coruscant several years prior to the Invasion of Naboo, during the last decades of the Republic. After Chancellor Palpatine, declared himself Emperor and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire, Kallus attended the Coruscant's Royal Imperial Academy. At the Academy, Kallus was taught by ISB Colonel Wullf Yularen, who considered Kallus one of his star pupils. He also befriended Jovan, who became an informal mentor to the young Coruscanti. Eventually, Kallus completed his course of study, graduating as the head of his class. Later on, Kallus joined the Imperial Security Bureau, a secret task force that pursued and destroyed rebel activity across the galaxy. His designation was **ISB-021** and he rose through the ranks to become an ISB agent.

#### Agent of ISB

During his first time as an ISB agent, Kallus led his own platoon of Stormtroopers. One day, Kallus and his platoon were sent by the Empire to bring order to the planet Onderon, a planet left in chaos after the Clone Wars, due to their former occupation by the Separatist Alliance and the false King, Sanjay Rash. During a routine patrol a rebel mercenary, a Lasat, working for Saw Gerrera, ambushed the platoon and knocked out Kallus. When the ISB agent came to, he found he couldn't move and was forced to watch as his squad was brutally murdered by the Lasat mercenary. Kallus would remember this moment during his next mission, the Fall of Lasan. Kallus took part in the cleansing of the planet Lasan, in which the planet's species, the Lasat, was all but destroyed and completely driven away from their homeworld. Kallus gave the order for Imperial troops to use T-7 ion disruptor rifles against the population. These rifles were powerful enough to disable starships and had gruesome results when used against sentient beings. These weapons were ultimately banned by the Imperial Senate as a result of their destructive power. Before the cleansing of Lasan ended, Kallus was given a J-19 bo-rifle from a member of the Lasan High Honor Guard that he had defeated.

### Hunting Rebels on Lothal

#### First Encounters with the *Ghost*

During his time in the ISB, Kallus worked along the Internal Affairs branch and the Investigations branch of the bureau. When the rebel's heist of Imperial crates caught attention to the Empire on Lothal, Agent Kallus was brought in to investigate. Kallus wasn't so surprised by all this, noting that he was aware of familiar rebel attacks. Considering these ongoing attacks could signify the spark of a rebellion, he was determined to hunt down those rebels and put an end to their rebellion before it could get a chance to spread. Kallus set up a trap for the rebels to board an Imperial transport ship in an attempt to rescue Wookiee prisoners, Kallus and his Star Destroyer came out of nowhere and tractor beamed the two ships to the hanger. However Kallus and his men failed to capture the Rebels but he was able to capture Ezra Bridger and planned to use him as bait, even though Ezra told him he doubted they would come back for him but eventually they did and got away after rescuing Ezra. Kallus and his men showed up on Kessel where they cornered the Rebels trying to rescue their Wookiee prisoners. It was here, Kallus learned of Kanan Jarrus's Jedi identity. He went after Ezra who went to rescue a young Wookiee from a Stormtrooper. Again he lost Ezra and the rebels but lived to inform the Grand Inquisitor of his finding of a surviving Jedi.

Following a theft of illegal T7 Ion Disruptors committed by the Rebels, Kallus was contacted by Minister Maketh Tua about the incident. Thanks to C-3PO, he was able to find the Rebels location, and led an attack on them. He challenged Zeb to a bo-rifle duel, and admitted he was responsible for the usage of the Disruptors against Zeb's people. He quickly overpowered Zeb, and just before he could kill him, Ezra's Force pushed him away from Zeb. Weeks later, a cadet named Dev Morgan did some work in his office. The next day, another cadet named Zare Leonis came up to him claiming to be delivering Podracer parts he ordered, to his confusion. Kallus discovered much later that Dev Morgan was really Ezra and that Leonis's delivery was a ruse to help him steal a decoder the Ghost Cell needed to attack a kyber crystal shipment. At the time of the Empire's fifteenth anniversary, Agent Kallus was involved in the search for a Rodian named Tseebo, a member of the Imperial Information Office, who accidentally downloaded half of the Empire's secrets into his cybernetic implants while searching for information on what happened to Ezra's parents. When the rebels tried to smuggle Tseebo off Lothal, Kallus pursued them but his attempts to capture the Rodian failed after they escaped aboard the *Ghost*. The Grand Inquisitor pursued them with his TIE Fighter but this would fail.

Sometime afterwards, Lothal was visited by Grand Moff Tarkin, who was furious for the Planetary government's ongoing failure to deal with the Rebels and who proceeded to berate Kallus and Tua for allowing the cell to attack Imperial Stormtroopers, destroy Imperial property, and disrupt the Empire's trade. Kallus admitted he'd exhausted every resource to capture them, even bringing in The Grand Inquisitor himself, but the Rebels have proven elusive. The next day, Kallus and Tua looked on in horror as Tarkin had the Grand Inquisitor execute Commandant Aresko and Taskmaster Grint to serve as a grim warning that failure would have merciless consequences from now on. Tarkin then ordered Kallus to dispatch probe droids to find the Rebels. Thanks to the probes, Kallus found the Rebels and he and the Grand Inquisitor succeeded in capturing Kanan Jarrus. Following the rescue of Jarrus over Mustafar and the death of the Grand Inquisitor, Kallus informed Tarkin that people were beginning to see the Empire as weak and vulnerable. However, Tarkin assured him there was no need to worry as the Emperor had sent an alternative solution to deal with the rebel cells, in the form of the Emperor's enforcer Darth Vader. Agent Kallus quickly proved himself to be an admirer of the Dark Lord of the Sith for his creativity, strategic ability, and obvious war experience shown against the rebels.

#### Encounters with the Rebel Cells

When Tua and Kallus were arguing about more methods to find the Rebels Vader came in and told them they were going to do things his way and told Tua that she was to visit Governor Tarkin to account for her failures. Later, Kallus had a probe follow Tua and discovered that she was attempting to defect to the Rebellion. He later escorted her to her shuttle on Lord Vader's orders. When the Rebels attacked and Tua got on the shuttle, Kallus blew it up and framed the Rebels for her murder. Afterwards, he burned Tarkintown and took the inhabitants captive on Vader's orders. When Admiral Konstantine reported that the Rebels got through the blockade and Vader ordered his ship prepared, Kallus informed the Admiral that the shuttle the Rebels stole had a homing device planted on it and Vader planned to follow them back to their command ship. Kallus later congratulated Vader for his victory. Soon after the Siege of Lothal, Agent Kallus was at somepoint promoted to Commander and was tasked with helping Admiral Kassius Konstantine to locate the rebels. While aboard the bridge of the *Relentless*, an officer alerted him that Clone Trooper Wolffe had reported an encounter with Jedi on the desert planet of Seelos. He sent a probe droid to investigate, and once it was confirmed he ordered his ship to set course for Seelos.

Upon arrival, the clones refused to surrender their new allies to him. So Kallus went down to the surface with three AT-AT walkers to commence a ground assault on the rebels and the clones. Outwitted, Kallus lost two walkers in battle and was forced to retreat on a speeder. Following his defeat, Agent Kallus and Admiral Konstantine were joined by another Inquisitor sent by Darth Vader, known as the Fifth Brother. Unlike the Grand Inquisitor, This Inquisitor was not highly regarded by Kallus due to his reliance on hunches. When an officer reported a power surge from an abandoned Republic medical station, he dismissed it as something that could be anything until the Fifth Brother stated it was the Rebels and set off alone to nab them himself. He later came back with the Seventh Sister, who Kallus had more respect for. Sometime afterwards, Kallus was placed in command of the Imperial blockade over Ibaar. When the Rebel Network fleet tried to deliver food to the people, the Imperial fleet easily beat them. When they came back with the B-Wing, Kallus deemed the ship not a threat. This would prove to be the blockade's undoing because the B-Wing was powerful enough to enable the rebels to break through. When Admiral Brom Titus captured Jun Sato and Bridger, Kallus told him he was on the way and warned him not to underestimate Ezra. When he arrived, he realized that Titus did not heed his warning.

#### Working Alongside a Rebel

Kallus' next move was to set a trap for the crew of the *Ghost* at an Imperial construction module over the desert planet of Geonosis. Despite his success in luring the rebels into the trap, his men failed to capture them and the rebels managed to escape into space. During the skirmish, Kallus engaged the Lasat in single combat. When Zeb attempted to flee in an escape pod, Kallus pursued him into the pod and attempted to subdue him. The escape attempt resulted in Kallus breaking his leg and the pod crashing onto the frozen Geonosian moon of Bahryn. Zeb spared Kallus, not wishing to defeat his rival in an unfair fight. The two enemies were forced to cooperate to avoid freezing to death and being killed by the bonzami, ferocious predators that inhabited the moon. When the creatures attacked and Kallus regained his weapon, he passed up the chance to kill Zeb and helped him fend off the predators. After saving one another, the two adversaries opened up to one another and formed an unlikely bond. After their heat source failed, Zeb located a small meteorite still glowing and emanating heat which he gave to Kallus.

When the bonzami attacked them again, they managed to escape the underground cavern to the surface following a struggle. Here Kallus had the opportunity to shoot Zeb but opted to save him from the bonzami instead. The following morning, the crew of the *Ghost* returned for Zeb, after picking up his transponder. Zeb invited Kallus to come along claiming he would be treated fairly. However, Kallus declined and opted to wait for the Imperials. After the rebels had departed, Kallus was picked up by a passing independent trader, as the Empire had exhausted its allocated time and resources for finding him. After finally returning to the Imperial fleet, Kallus crossed paths with Admiral Konstantine who barely acknowledged him much to Kallus' dismay after witnessing the camaraderie Zeb had shown him. After limping back to his quarters, he placed the meteorite Zeb had given him on a shelf before reflecting on his sobering experience with his enemy, now privately doubting the Empire. Following his encounter with Zeb, Kallus's doubts began to grow. They eventually pushed him to defect to the rebellion as a spy called **Fulcrum** that would supply intel to the rebels.

### Informant for the Rebellion

#### Spying on the Grand Admiral

Later in the pursuit for the Rebel Network, Kallus was joined by Grand Moff Tarkin, Arihnda Pryce, the Imperial Governor of the Lothal System, and Grand Admiral Thrawn, the Commander of the Seventh Imperial Fleet. Tarkin informs Kallus of Pryce's theory that the Rebel Network was becoming a growing threat to the Empire. While Konstantine disagreed with her assessment Thrawn agreed and vowed to make the Rebels the architects of their own destruction. Later, they got a call from Commander Brom Titus telling them the Rebels are doing what Thrawn predicted: Attacking Recrahm Base to steal Y-Wings. When they inform Thrawn, he tells them to let the rebels go. Later he and Governor Pryce arrive at an elite Tie Fighter Pilot Academy, with information about some cadets who wish to defect to the rebels. While his search does not turn any thing up, Governor Pryce arranges a trap, to catch the rebels in their ranks. While the Rebels are escaping, Kallus appears before them, opening the locked blast door and advising them which floors to avoid, and which hanger to take a ship from. When Sabine questions why they should trust him, he asks her to tell Zeb that they are even. His assistance allowed the rebels and the defecting pilots to make it safely back to their comrades.

When the rebels were planning to infiltrate an Imperial manufacturing facility, it was revealed that due to his respect for Zeb, Agent Kallus has secretly defected to the Rebellion, taking up the moniker of Fulcrum. During their return to Lothal, he aids the two Jedi Ezra and Kanan in acquiring information on the new TIE Defender starfighters that Grand Admiral Thrawn has been building, and then makes it appear as though he was thwarted and subdued while trying to stop them. Kallus then meets with Thrawn and Governor Pryce, who believe that there might be a mole within the Imperial ranks. When Thrawn believes that they will succeed in ferreting out said mole, Kallus, in keeping up his act, agrees with the Grand Admiral, saying that his plans always succeed. He is later informed by Ezra Bridger that the Imperial Government is on to him. He learns that Ezra is right when he meets his old teacher Colonel Yularen and Thrawn reveals that he knows about Fulcrum. Believing he can do more good for the rebellion by remaining where he is, Kallus decides to frame Yogar Lyste for being Fulcrum. He accomplishes this by taking advantage of the ambitious lieutenant's woeful naivety to trick him into attacking Governor Pryce. His plan works but he is unaware that Thrawn has seen through his trick.

#### Discovered by the Grand Admiral

After the arrival of Thrawn on Lothal, Kallus secretly listens to his conversation with Konstantine, Pryce and Tarkin thanks to a mouse droid. Thrawn informed Tarkin that the Phoenix Squadron was going to attack the Lothal factories. Kallus went to the old communication tower where Ezra once lived to send a preventive rebellion. While he sent his message his device began to be scrambled and Thrawn appeared directly at the entrance of the tower. Kallus engaged an combat with the Grand Admiral but was no match for him and ended up defeated and then captured by Death Troopers. Thrawn used the trajectories of General Jan Dodonna's fleet and Kallus' Fulcrum signals to identify the location of Chopper Base on the planet Atollon, and with this information Thrawn sent his fleet to face the rebels. Kallus was later brought onto the bridge of the *Chimaera* and forced to watch the battle in captivity, in the presence of Thrawn and Governor Pryce. Kallus remained a prisoner in the command room of the Star Destroyer until Pryce ordered the Stormtroopers to throw Kallus out of the ship after Kallus taunted Pryce. Kallus managed to defeat his guards and entered a rescue capsule before being saved by the crew of the *Ghost* who had fled Atollon. Once aboard, Kallus thanked Jarrus for taking him in and was in turn thanked by Jarrus for risking everything for the rebels.

## Abilities

* **Expert Hand-To-Hand Combatant:** As a former ISB agent, Kallus is extremely skilled in unarmed combat. He was able to stand up to Thrawn but he was finally defeated by the grand admiral.
* **Expert Staff Fighter:** Kallus is extremely skilled in staff fighting.
* **Expert Marksman:** As a former ISB agent, Kallus is extremely skilled in utitlizing blaster rifles.