Wullf Yularen

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**Wullf Yularen** had an long history of service in both Republic and Imperial governments. During a Clone Wars Wullf served as a Admiral of the Republic's Navy, serving alongside a Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. He saw Anakin as a reckless pilot rather than the respectable general, but nevertheless the two served in multiple conflicts against the Confederates, sharing victories and defeats before the end in the war. Following the rise of the Empire, Yularen became an Colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau, and in the course of this career was made a Deputy Director in Naval Intelligence. During the early Rebels movement, Yularen assisted the Imperial efforts to defeat this enemy threat, notably assisting Grand Admiral Thrawn during this time. Near the start of the Galactic Civil War, Yularen was among a group high-ranking Officers aboard this Death Star I station, and Wullf was among the casualties when the station was destroyed during a rebellion assault on this battlestation.

## Biography

### Republic Service

**Wullf Yularen** was an Human male born at planet Coruscant. Prior to the start of the Clone Wars, he served as an officer in the Galactic Republic Navy. He'd participated at the Battle of Malastare Narrows an conflict in which the fleet organized by the Corporate Alliance blockaded Malastare. Despite his best efforts, the enemy fleet, led by a brilliant Admiral Trench, then proved impossible to break, and Yularen lost many in his own forces. Eventually, a Jedi task force turned the tide of conflict and defeated this Corporate fleet, vaporizing the flagship and seemingly killing Trench. Despite the victory, he left the Battle with his lasting fear of this admiral's capabilities. Wullf served in the Senate Bureau of Intelligence for a time, until he retired.

#### Clone Wars Service

Following the eruption of the Clone Wars twenty-two years prior to a Battle of Yavin and the formation of an grand army of the Republic, supreme chancellor Sheev Palpatine encouraged Yularen to join the new Republic Navy, awarding him the rank Admiral, making him the youngest member of the Naval corps to achieve this rank. Since a War bargain struck between the Jedi Order and Chancellor ensured that the new Jedi Generals would be paired with veteran naval officers, Admiral Yularen was assigned to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. Initially in command of an *Venator*-class Star destroyer, this Starship heavily damaged in the Battle of Teth, after which he would be posted to the Cruiser *Resolute*, the flagship of General Skywalker. During the Battle of Christophsis, admiral Yularen was part of this republic force under a General Skywalker and General Obi-Wan Kenobi's command tasked with deliver supplies to the surface on this planet, but were stopped by an fleet led by Trench, and during the conflict, Yularen recognized the symbol of the suposedly dead Trench.

After realizing Trench still lived, Yularen informed General Anakin Skywalker of his past encounter against this tactician and offered to accompany Skywalker in his mission to deliver supplies using an stealth ship, feeling that his experience might aid in their objective. This ship fitted with experimental cloaking device, easily slipped past this blockade. Though circumstances changed when Trench ordered bombardment against an republic position on this world below in attempt to draw out the Republic naval Force and destroy it. Despite Kenobi's preparations, Wullf recognized that counterattack would result in heavy casualties for this fleet. Jedi Anakin Skywalker was able to outmaneuver Trench's attack and then destroy the *Invincible*. Despite an initial skepticism and friction with the Jedi, Admiral Wullf was impressed with Anakin's abilities. Yularen was later forced to withdraw due to a renewed Separatist Blockade, but the destruction of the enemy's shield generator and ensuing surrender of the General allowed him to return with the reinforcements and secure victory.

Wullf Yularen then had assisted Jedi General Obi-Wan in rescuing what was left of Captain Rex's Troopers holed up on Teth's B'omarr Monastery. He tried to allow Skywalker, Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano, and Jabba the Hutt's son to land at his ship but however was unable to due to Vulture Droids attacking this ship hangar. Yularen played a pivotal role in the search and the destruction of General Grievous's secret-weapon, his Warship *Malevolence*. After this *Malevolence* was destroyed, Yularen assisted Jedi Generals Kenobi and Skywalker in an search for Grievous. After discovering Grievous planned to attack Kamino the homeplanet and production center of the clone army, Yularen was placed in charge of the planet's Blockade fleet. The vigorous orbital defense was successful in damaging much of the Separatists Fleet, only to discover the space battle was an enemy ruse in order to launch a ground attack. Despite this, Kamino was successfully defended from the attack. Wullf Yularen was involved in multiple other engagements as well throughout the Clone Wars.

He participated at the Battle of Quell arriving to reinforce the beleaguered fleet of General Aayla Secura but to no avail. After the Jedi's cruiser inadvertently disappeared into hyperspace, with Secura, Skywalker, Tano, and several Troopers onboard, he was left to fight on until the battle was lost. As the Republic moved to liberate Ryloth, Yularen led the Fleet during the battle against an enemy blockade. The initial engagement saw the loss of an *Redeemer* while both *Resolute* and the *Defender* were severely damaged, however, he authorized Skywalker's plan to ram their crippled *Defender* into their enemy flagship, allowing Kenobi's troops to land on the planet. The admiral also coordinated the aerial support for the three-pronged ground assault in Second Battle of Geonosis, as well as being given command of a task force during the Battle of Saleucami, while the Jedi attempted to rescue Eeth Koth, as well as capture Grievous. He commanded an Fleet during a Battle of Sullust, where *Resolute* was lost. Yularen, however, was able to evacuate before its destruction.

Later in the wars, admiral Yularen attended the Republic strategy conference on the Starbase *Valor* over Carida, where he almost perished due to a Separatist plot to ram the station with a captured Star Destroyer. He returned to Coruscant to attend the memorial service for the victims of the Jedi Temple hangar bombing. He was a member of the prosecution, headed by lead prosecutor Admiral Wilhuff Tarkin, in the Military Trial of Padawan Tano, now exempt from prosecutorial immunity after Ahsoka was then expelled from the Jedi Order, who was accused of orchestrating the Coruscant Temple Jedi hangar bombing. However moments before the Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine read an final verdict the real perpetrator, an fallen Jedi Barriss Offee, was brought before their Court by Skywalker, and Ahsoka Tano was allowed to go free. Wullf Yularen participated in the Battle of Ringo Vinda directing Skywalker and his team towards the remains of the destroyed *Nu*-Class Transport that was transporting malfunctioning Clone Trooper CT-5385 to the planet Coruscant.

### Imperial Service

#### Imperial Security Bureau

Near the end of this Clone Wars, Admiral Wullf Yularen stood as one of the higher-ranking Republic Naval officers, and following the conclusion of the war, supreme chancellor Palpatine transitioned the Republic into a Galactic Empire, with himself as the Galactic Emperor. With the New Order, Yularen resigned his Admiral's commission in favor of pursuing a career with the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order's Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) with a rank Colonel. His first assignment was heading an division whose purpose was to expose instances of sedition in the Imperial senate. By the fifth year into the Imperial reign, Yularen had been appointed the head liaison between the ISB and its main rival, an Naval Intelligence Agency, and was responsible for ensuring cooperation between the Empire's different intelligence agencies. During this time, he'd personally reviewed the reports of naval Intelligence operative commander Gallius Rax, bypassing the Vice Admirals Rancit and Screed. He had good connections to the inner circle, but remained outside of it.

Yularen headed up his own special task force during the early Imperial years that had received high-level assignments, often involving a Senator or other important individuals. This ISB served as a secret-police organization to increase the Emperor Palpatine's knowledge of political events. By the outbreak of early Rebellions he had acquired a reputation as an effective leader with boundless personal loyalty to Palpatine. During a Berch Teller campagin Yularen along with the direct superior, Harus Ison, represented the ISB on Coruscant when Moff Wilhuff Tarkin arrived to give the report about the attack on Sentinel Base. As the Campaign progressed, he continued to play an active role of the Imperial response from Coruscant, conferring with both Tarkin and the Joint Chiefs. After the death of a Vice Admiral Rancit at Carida, the Emperor promoted Wullf Yularen to replace his rival's former role as head of the NIA when it was folded under Imperial Intelligence, with a position of Deputy Director. In this role, he continued to receive Rax's top-secret Intelligence reports.

#### Rebellion Movement Threat

Despite his promotion as a head of the reformed NIA with the rank of Deputy Director, Yularen continued playing a vital role in the ISB, and became an early ally of the Chiss officer Thrawn as he rose through the ranks of the Imperial Navy, assisting him in his campaigns against the rebel agent Nevil Cygni. In response to the growing rebellion threat, Colonel Yularen assisted now-Grand Admiral Thrawn in hunting for the Rebel mole Fulcrum, who leaked Imperial intelligence to the rebels. Working with Thrawn, Yularen discovered that the rebel mole was an former student Agent Alexsandr Kallus. At the start of the Galactic Civil War, Yularen was present aboard the nearly-completed Death Star I battle station for an meeting of high ranking Imperial personnel, which concerned their security of the station in view of the recent theft of its technical readout by agents of the Rebel Alliance. He'd remained quiet throughout this meeting, even when Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin then had announced that their galactic Emperor Palpatine had permanently dissolved the Imperial senate.

Due to the presence of ambitious high-ranking officers, Wilhuff was there to ensure that the station personnel remained absolutely loyal to the Emperor. Wullf Yularen as head of the ISB contingent, was placed in charge of numerous agents specializing in surveillance, investigations, internal affairs, interrogation, reeducation and enforcement. In addition there were multiple undercover Agents aboard to investigate suspicious activities, acting as soldiers, administrators, and also lower-level officers, and at least one of Tarkin's personal aides was an undercover ISB Agent. Because of the service in the fields of military and intelligence experience, Yularen was considered one of the more important members in empire hierarchy by the time of the Battle of Yavin. Along with another Officer, he passed by Rebels Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Chewbacca, the former two disguised as stormtroopers in an attempt to rescue a imprisoned Princess Leia Organa. Yularen remained on Death Star during battle of Yavin, where he died along with many Imperials when it was destroyed.