Captain Aces

Johan "Aces" Leyton was a Captain (Rear Admiral Formerly) aboard the Valkyrie Venator who formerly held the rank of Lead Command Deck Crewman and was also former engineer.

Aces was a skilled navy tactician; who was known as a Confederate fleet-killer.

## Biography

### Early Life

Aces was born on Coruscant where he worked as a mechanic along with his brother, Nolan Leyton. He would later join and rise through the ranks of the Republic Navy.

## Captain Aces

Aces (Right) Sitting next to Admiral Viax

### Affiliations

Galactic Republic, Engineer Corps, Open Circle Fleet, Valkyrie Venator Crew, Clone Officers, Valkyrie Fleet, Galactic Empire, Imperial Navy, Kota's Militia (Briefly).

### Valkyrie Venator

During the Clone Wars, Aces was stationed aboard the Valkyrie Venator, participating in many fleet and capital ship battles.

### **Valkyrie Venator Crash**

During the war, the original Valkyrie Venator was shot down over the planet Ninka V. Aces managed to survive in the right bridge where he was found under pieces of metal and rubble. Aces and Commander Kuat were among the few surviving crew on board.

### **The Capture of the Crew**

Long after the crash, the second Valkyrie was filled with gas after a hangar was left open and all personnel on board were rendered unconscious. When Aces regained his senses he found that he and everyone else was lined up to be sent to cells in a Confederate prison. He, among many others soon escaped on 2 LAAT gunships and returned to the venator to return to their normal posts.

### **Anaxes Base**

After his heyday in the Valkyrie Garrison, he was transferred along with most Republic staff in the fleet to the Anaxes Base; a mid-sized Core World base designed for operations across the galaxy. By this point, most people Aces knew had moved on to other garrisons or were killed in battle.

### **The Supernatural**

During Aces' time on the base, a figure known as 'The Highwayman' left a lingering effect on the base after several incidents of his sightings or the stealing of subjects from the base. Among the people taken to the Highwayman's purgatory, **The Theatre,** was Leyton himself. Direct information of his disappearance and sudden reappearance is unknown, with only Aces himself being able to give a report after waking from a coma two days later. This may have been one of the first insights into the Theatre, and the Highwayman as a whole.

### **Beyond the Clone Wars**

Order 66 started on what had been a normal day for the captain. He was walking by to check on a piece of equipment that had been worked on by engineers. As he approached the equipment, he heard blasters being fired in a nearby room, and after the blasters stopped firing, Aces went to find out what happened. Aces walked into the room to find a group of clones standing around a dead Jedi Knight. Aces at first was shocked, but realized that there had been previous cases of rogue Jedi, so he continued on... Several minutes later, Aces noticed something. Looking from the air traffic control tower, he saw a Jedi Master and his Padawan fighting back a clone battalion. Aces was left entirely speechless after watching 2 Jedi get mercilessly killed by a vast swath of clones... And then, Aces too received the 'new orders' from the chancellor, informing him about Order 66. After hearing the message, Aces went to his office to decide what he was going to do. An unspoken decision was made, and after Order 66, Aces, who was in total disbelief that the Chancellor committed such an atrocity, was seen rushing to his shuttle. Aces then proceeded to blast his way out of the hangar bay before jumping to hyperspace. His navigation system went offline near the Dathomir system, with his whereabouts after the Clone Wars being long unknown; his shuttle's remains being found crashed on Agamar. He would later be found by imperial agents in 2 BBY.

### **Life in the Underworld**

Aces, now a Republic runaway, was later found by imperial agents as a mechanic in the 4035th Level of the Coruscant underworld. The imperial agents presented him with an ultimatum to join Empire or to be executed, as he held information on the Republic Navy that could assist the rebellion if word got to them. Aces truly wanted no part in the war, telling the agents "It's not my battle, so why fight it?" After minutes of reluctant coercion, Aces sided with the Galactic Empire, as his mentor, and many officers close to him were also part of the Imperial Navy.

### **Imperial Navy**

Aces, who was coerced into joining the Empire by his peers, quickly found how mistreated Clone Wars veterans were by the Empire, especially those who stood by the principles of the Republic. He witnessed execution after execution, atrocity after atrocity, and never received any gain for his work. His rank of Captain was quickly dropped, in favor of a much more Emperor-aligned leader to command the ISD Olympus; the Emperor's temporary flagship at the time. By the time five years had passed into the Galactic Civil War, he had never seen a single clone trooper left on the ship, all replaced by unquestioning drones flipping switches and pushing buttons, or becoming cannon-fodder on the front lines. He had tried his hardest to tolerate the Empire's seemingly robotic functions, but could no longer take it when he was ordered to open fire on civilian transports. Aces, hoping for at least one shred of humanity among the crew, asked if they were going to let the two unarmed transports go, as only one had weaponry on it.

The Olympus' current Captain would hardly acknoledge this question as they opened fired on the armed transport, then on one of the two unarmed transports. Following the engagement, the now Senior Petty Officer was heavily reprimanded for having any sympathies for the Rebels, suggesting that "If they wanted to protect the civilians, they wouldn't have sent them with weapons."

Now on thin ice, and having a reputation as a Rebel sympathiser, he decided that he would make those allegations true. Upon the landing of Imperial troops near a Rebel base on the planet below, he would send ahead messages to Kota's Militia, warning them to move their corvettes away from the refueling depots. However, the warnings were much in vain, as Imperial bombers made quick work of all four depots, taking the CR90s with them. The Rebel squadron that Aces had joined would be quickly encircled and killed, with Aces being taken back to the Olympus for execution.

His execution would be performed in the main hangar, overseen by the Sector Grand Admiral, the Captain, Commodore, and Imperial Advisor for the mission. He would be shot in front of the hangar door, and kicked into deep space, where the ISD Olympus left him to die.

## More Info

### **Relationships**

*Aces' Relationship with Groups/Major Characters*

### Valkyrie Staff

Aces had long been the Captain of the Valkyrie Venator, where he had grown connections with many of his crewmates.

### Nolan Leyton

Nolan was the brother to Aces, serving the Orion Fleet until his redeployment to Anaxes due to Aces being temporarily MIA.

### Admiral Tycon

Aces knew Admiral Tycon for a long time and served under him on the Valkyrie Venator.

### Admiral Soul

Admiral Soul was a Separatist admiral whom Aces had fought against numerous times, creating a rivalry between them.

### Equipment

Aces used an ELG-3A, a DC-15A, and a Multi-Tool. He often Carried a Datapad, and would carry a DC-17 in the late years of the Clone Wars.

### Personality Traits

Aces had grown up with a fascination with the innerworkings of spacecraft, and worked on private starships before joining the Republic Navy. He was at times impulsive or vengeful due to his mental conditions, which he required medication for, but was usually very cautious and polite.

### Death

Johan Leyton was confirmed dead in 14 BBY after his execution aboard the ISD Olympus.