Salen Dechart

"*The execution of a brilliant strategy must truly be flawless. So that survival is formed into the only thing the enemy can hope for.*"
―Senior Colonel S. Dechart before the liquidation of the Imperial Senate.
**Salen Dechart** was a male Human from the planet Dromund Kaas who lived decades before the Galactic Civil War. When the Dark Lord known as Darth Sidious (Sheev Palpatine) arrived in office, Salen decided to join the Republic officially rather than to use his ties from his time serving on Dromund Kaas' personal planetary security agency. Satisfied by Palpatine's immense strategy, Salen chose to truly serve in the Republic's agency to fuel a return in possible Imperialism and thus ensured success and results for his Supreme Chancellor, earning him titles, awards and honorary positions in other branches. By 20 BBY he was considered one of the most prominent officers within the Republic's military service programs.

With the Republic's transformation into the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, Salen formatted his SBI (Senate Bureau of Intelligence) commission in favor of becoming a Lieutenant Colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau, and in this position, fueled the branches of his control to grasp that of even the Ubiqtorate, Imperial Intelligence and influence over the newly reformed Imperial Senate.

As the Emperor's plans neared completion, he co-orchestrated the liquidation of the Imperial Senate and execution of all history that remained of the Republic and the infamous Jedi Order. At long last, the Empire conquered the Galaxy, the great ways of Dromund Kaas were once more brought out and thus dominate the known Galaxy as all would look up to the flags of the new Sith's Galactic Empire.

Performing the will of Emperor Palpatine through the instrument that was the ISB, Command General Salen Dechart a now member of the Directorate and Governorate of the Empire, revealed the Galactic Empire's ideals to the galaxy as his fleets, spearheaded by his personal flagships, the ISDs - 'Lord Aeternum' and 'Lord's Reign' - invaded planets of the Galaxy which presented rebellion and 'cleansed' them until it would simply be ash and glass. However, Salen revealed that he had allowed his fleets to eradicate the rebellion so that once they couldn't expand, they would come together and when they did, he would take the new Advanced Weapons and Research department's new Fleet to destroy the Rebel Alliance to bring a swift end to the enemy. Although, in doing so the Captain of a ship had taken command of the ISD 'Dominion' and had caused a coup against the ISB for crimes against the people and thus his operation to eliminate the gathered Rebel Alliance Fleet on Endor was delayed. In a final clash of wills, the Jedi Champion - Luke Skywalker, aided by Lord Vader banished the Dark Lord of the Sith, Emperor Palpatine on Exegol causing an Empire's fall, causing all ships at Endor to retreat if they already hadn't before the final DS-2's explosion. This too includes the ISD Dominion entering hyperspace while in belief that the coup against the ISB had gone successfully. It simply was not the case as Salen was found with a blaster wound to the right of his chest by an Imperial Operative with the code name 'Slender'. All that is known is that it and Salen were never seen on the Dominion as when they left hyperspace, all escape pods were launched, all ships were dropped or had been flown out.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life and General Career**

**Childhood on Dromund Kaas and works**

"*Have you ever heard any backstory of Colonel Dechart?*"
"*I don't even know what planet he's from.*"
"*Few people do. He, like the rest of Imperial High Command have hidden their past, because if the truth came to light none would follow this Empire.*"
―Captain Forge to Lieutenant Wolfgang Alßair.

 Salen was born on Dromund Kaas, specifically in Kaas City - the ruins of the old Sith Empire's capital. It is implied he grew up as a warrior and strategist due to the planet's resistance against the acceptance of permitting irrelevant, petty and nonsensical dark sorcerers to take control out of ego, leading to his future push of pure Imperialism and capital supremacy across the Galaxy.

When the Clone Wars broke out, Salen served in the Senate Bureau of Intelligence [SBI], serving in the capital of the Republic and it's orbiting fellows. He was Republic Political and Military intelligence officer, with the rank of Captain. In 19 BBY (16:5:23), while performing Inspectorate duties in the Senate chamber, he witnessed the declaration of the Galactic Empire, of the new order. While the chamber rises in a thunderous applause, he would perform the long dead salute of the Sith Empire which would go to become the COMPNOR salute as he finally confirmed his conspiracy - the very large and far reaching conspiracy - that Sheev Palpatine - was the Dark Lord of the Sith. Emboldened under the noble house he succeeded and impressed with the prowess of the new order, he was among the first to join Imperial rankings. In the process of being such, he refused to save his fellow SBI senior officers from immediate execution for resistance to serve the Empire when it was found they were plotting a coup against the new Emperor. An act which came to place him as one of the only senior members of intelligence or security agencies.

Salen was assigned Lieutenant Colonel in the ISB. In 19BBY, Lt Colonel Salen Dechart served alongside Moff Minster, Veradun Dechart, Captain Kurt Jaeger and many others; in doing so they all committed several war crimes and atrocities against civilians in the core regions, expecting to receive orders to expand from their current position outwards until the Galaxy has been 'purified'.

Salen's commitment to Imperialism enabled him to rise up the ranks very quickly. He became a Command General of the ISB after 0ABY, and met the Galactic Emperor, Sheev Palpatine to which's true face was Darth Sidious as he would present plans, strategies and galactic reports.

### **The Construction of an Empire**

**Rebuilding an Empire to succeed its past**

"*When the declaration was done, the Emperor was the Empire. He was to always be far above anyone in existence. No one, force user or not could never be permitted to question him - it was made very clear by the ISB.*"
―Commodore Croft of the Vandelhelm Admiralty, a former member of Cmd General Salen's personal staff.
Salen spent time analyzing the officer corps of the Empire, finding secrets, ambitions and plans that would permit absolute control for the ISB and in turn the Emperor. In the early years of the Empire, the Emperor addressed expansion of Alien colonies. Thus came the question of an old terra-forming project being researched in the Republic - though under a different name to what it would become - the project was originally intended as a device to reform a planet to become whatever the Republic needed it to be, a home for a species, a farming world or a scrapyard, but Salen performed alterations. Those alterations soon changed it to target species and make planets uninhabitable for them yet completely fine to Humans and accepted humanoid genomes; Vac7 - codenamed after the phrase Salen described it to be which was 'The Vaccine to Xenos'. One that would be operational by 4ABY but destroyed during the explosion of the second Death Star while the satellites would be docked within the Lord's reign.