Tel Talianos

**Tel Talianos** was the father of Arrow Squadron member Jev Talianos and the Imperial governor of the planet of Virujansi. He replaced the ancestral leader of the Virujansi people, the Rajah, in 15 BBY. Brutal, stern, and ruthless, he ruled the planet with an iron fist until he was killed by his own daughter in 1 ABY.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life and Appointment to Post**

Tel Talianos was born on Coruscant in 57 BBY. He was raised in the upper echelon of Republic social circles as his father and mother were both very wealthy and very connected.

As a young adult, Tel joined the social circle of a young Senator from Naboo named Sheev Palpatine. While Palpatine had no real interest in the young man, Tel was blindly loyal to the Senator and admired his ambitions. Tel remained loyal to Palpatine after his rise to power as Emperor and was rewarded with the post of Governorship of the planet of Virujansi.

### **Troublesome Children**

For some time, Tel had been serving as the Emperor's liaison with the planet. His wife had given birth to their three children, including a young girl named Jev, on the planet. While Virujansi offered all the creature comforts he could have desired, he longed to return to Coruscant and, despite having a cushy, comfortable position, viewed the post as something of a punishment for an unknown crime.

To compensate for whatever he had done to draw the Emperor's ire - which was nothing - Tel implemented a brutal crackdown on the Virujansi people. Several small uprisings had broken out, but all of them were crushed with brutal efficiency. These reports were happily sent back to Coruscant and Imperial High Command.

Tel, meanwhile, had shielded his young family from the brutalities of his rein by keeping them locked away in his secure compound. Everything they could have wanted was provided by servants and tutors until his eldest child, the rebellious Jev, had escaped out into the surrounding city on a lark. While on the outside, she learned of the brutalities inflicted upon the locals by her father and the Imperial forces. She spent several days hidden among the people, learning everything she could, including news of a rising Rebellion within the galaxy. Eventually, she ran into trouble. When she was asked to produce an ID card, she was beaten and nearly killed by Imperial Stormtroopers who did not recognize her.

She was returned to the compound and her father had the Stormtroopers executed. She was punished for escape and locked away once again. Over time, she managed to learn more about the occupation from the servants in the compound. She also hid her sympathetic tendencies well, convincing her father that she was a loyal Imperial subject. She was even allowed to join the planetary defense forces and the Rarefied Air Cavalry, which served as part of the Imperial war machine. She developed into a comparable pilot, but always remembered the brutality in which she had been complicit. One day, with the help of her servants, she was able to escape the compound in a shipment of storage containers.

Tel was furious upon learning of her defection and either fired or executed most of the servants within the Imperial Compound. Despite the pleas of his wife, and with the support of his Imperial supervisors, he put a hefty bounty on her head.

Eventually, some of his hired bounty hunters located his daughter in the Betseeda System. He sent them to bring her back to his for trial and a planned, very public, execution. However, she managed to escape and kill her captors. Tel had little idea the impact his tactics would have upon his daughter. The bounty hunters had brutalized Jev, doing unspeakable things to the young woman. While her spirit was crushed, her singular focus became revenge.

## **Death**

> "*You're no daughter of mine. You're nothing but a Rebel traitor, a whore to the Rebellion. No, you're not a Talianos, you're nothing to me. Tell me, Jev, did those bounty hunters pass you around like I told them to, hmmm?*"
> ― -the final words of **Tel Talianos**
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Along with two of her fellow pilots - Idolon Jdre and Udas - Jev Talianos returned in secret to Virujansi. The trio managed to infiltrate the Imperial compound with the help of Rebel sympathizers. While Udas and Ide stood guard, Jev entered her father's chambers, intent on killing her father.

What she did not expect to find was her father severely weakened by a prolonged illness. Bedridden and infirm, he was unable to move, but capable of speech. Her resolve wavered upon seeing her once proud, handsome father reduced to a shell of his former physical self.

However, the elder Talianos recognized his daughter instantly and began to insult and belittle his daughter. When she heard that he had ordered the bounty hunters to assault her, something that left her permanently scarred, she left upon the frail old man and slit his throat with a virboblade.

Tel struggled for a moment, but died in a pool of his own blood at the hands of his own daughter. Together with Jdre and Udas, she escaped Virujansi in the confusion that followed.

Governor Talianos's death was celebrated by rebel supporters on Virujansi. Ultimately, when told of his death, Emperor Palpatine did not even remember the young man who had once been a loyal supporter.