Wullf Yularen

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## Biography

### Early life and career

"*He tore our ships apart. We barely escaped with our lives. In the end, a Jedi-led task force moved in to settle the matter. Trench's ship was destroyed, and we assumed he went down with it.*"
―Wullf Yularen, on Trench and the Battle of Malastare Narrows

Wullf Yularen was a human male born on born to an influential Coruscanti family and raised on the planet Coruscant. Yularen's father, Thull, was a legendary naval instructor who desired perfection from the cadets he trained. Wullf followed his father's footsteps and sought a naval career from a young age, studying historical conflicts like the Waymancy Storm and the Pius Dea Crusades with his father. Yularen attended Prefsbelt Academy on Prefsbelt IV and opted for service in the Planetary Security Forces over the Judicial fleet. Yularen took service in the Kwymar Sector Forces. In command of an Outer Rim patrol, Captain Yularen began cleaning up the dangerous sector.

Yularen later served as an officer in the Republic Navy. In 34 BBY, Yularen participated in the Battle of Malastare Narrows, a conflict in which a fleet organised by the Corporate Alliance blockaded the planet Malastare. Despite his best efforts, the enemy fleet, led by the brilliant Harch tactician Admiral Trench, proved impossible to break, and Yularen lost many of his own forces. Eventually, a dispatched Jedi task force turned the tide of the battle, defeating the Corporate fleet, vaporising Trench's flagship. The Harch was presumed to have gone down with his ship. Despite the victory, Yularen left the battle with a lasting fear of the Admiral's tactical capabilities.

Yularen's time with the Kwymar fleet left him obsessed with uncovering corruption and ensuring security, as leaks in Republic law-enforcement agencies often tipped off his targets. Ultimately, this lack of security caused him to resign from the sector fleet and instead pursue a career in intelligence. The prominence of his family provided Yularen the political backing to get a job as a special agent with the Senate Bureau of Intelligence. Over the next decade, he investigated a myriad of cases for, against, and about the Senate, observing all the major delegates and assembling detailed dossiers on all of them.

Yularen's dedication caught the eye of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who assigned him to an anti-corruption unit under the Office of the Supreme Chancellor, investigating both government corruption and individuals' ties to the growing Separatist movement. Yularen soon came to admire Palpatine and the direction in which he intended to take the Republic. Very soon, he was a loyal follower and a trusted agent for Palpatine's inner circle. However, the Senate saw Palpatine's special unit as a threat to its power and prerogatives, and managed to starve it of funding and resources. Frustrated and dissapointed, Yularen was forced into early retirement. Nonetheless, the Supreme Chancellor was not prepared to let a man like Yularen leave his services forever.

### Clone Wars

#### Return to service

"*Of all the Jedi, why did I have to end up with Skywalker?*"
―Wullf Yularen, on his assignment to Anakin Skywalker's fleet during the Clone Wars
Following the eruption of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY and the formation of the Grand Army of the Republic, Palpatine coaxed Yularen out of retirement and awarded him the rank of Admiral, making him the youngest member of the naval corps to achieve this rank. With the new Jedi Generals being paired with veteran naval officers, Palpatine assigned Admiral Yularen to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. After appointing the former Intelligence officer to Skywalker's fleet, Palpatine informed Yularen of Skywalker's unorthodoxy, but maintained that it was the "highest compliment." Yularen would be posted to the cruiser *Resolute*, the flagship of GeneralSkywalker's fleet.

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During the Battle of Christophsis, Yularen initially failed to break through the Separatistblockade of the planet with supplies for Senator Bail Organa's force trapped on the planet. Recognizing his insignia on the Separatist flagship, the dreadnought *Invincible*, Yularen concluded that Trench had survived at Malastare and was facing him once again. Fearing his capabilities, Yularen regrouped on the far side of Leesis, Christophsis' moon. Reinforced by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi's *Negotiator*, Yularen personally participated in a mercy mission aboard a new model of stealth ship to provide relief to the planet below.

The ship, fitted with an experimental cloaking device, easily slipped past the blockade. However, Trench, emboldened by the lull in the fighting, ordered a flight of Hyena bombers to attack Organa's position on the planet's surface in an attempt to draw out the Republic force and destroy it. Despite Kenobi's preparations, Yularen recognized that any counterattack would result in heavy casualties for their fleet. The Jedi, Skywalker, was able to outmaneuver Trench's attacks and destroy the *Invincible*. Despite his initial skepticism and friction with the Jedi, the Admiral was impressed with Skywalker's unconventionality, who commented that they made a good team. Yularen was later forced to withdraw due to a renewed Separatist blockade in orbit, but the destruction of the Separatist shield generator and ensuing surrender of General Whorm Loathsomallowed him to return with Master Yoda's reinforcements and secure a Republic victory.

Yularen then assisted General Kenobi in rescuing what was left of Clone Captain Rex's troops holed up at Teth's B'omarr Monastery. He tried to allow Skywalker, his PadawanAhsoka Tano and Jabba the Hutt's son, Rotta to land on his ship but were unable to due to Vulture droids attacking the ship's hangar. Following Rotta's return to his father and the establishment of the Republic's treaty with the Hutt Clan, Yularen would assign various missions to Skywalker and Kenobi throughout the war. After the Republic's defeatat Hypori, Yularen sent Kenobi, Commander CC-2224 "Cody" and the 212th Attack Battalion to aid Commander Mekedrix and his forces from Roon at a battle on Abrion Major.

In one of his earliest missions with Skywalker, Admiral Yularen was tasked with breaking a Separatist blockade of Christophsis, in order to deliver supplies to a beleaguered Republic force led by Senator Bail Organa on the planet. The Republic fleet, led by the *Venator*-class Star Destroyer *Resolute*, met strong opposition from the Separatist blockade; after suffering the loss of some transports from long-range attacks, the Republic force withdrew to the far side of Christophsis's moonand rendezvoused with General Kenobi's *Negotiator*. While Skywalker prepared to take a stealth ship past the blockade to deliver supplies to Senator Organa's troops, Yularen analyzed data from the engagement and noticed the insignia of Admiral Trench on the Separatist flagship, the dreadnaught *Invincible*. Concluding that their adversary was none other than the Harch admiral, Yularen went to the *Negotiator* to inform Skywalker of the discovery.

The admiral informed Skywalker that he had recognized Trench's maneuvers during the battle, and cautioned against renewing the assault. Yularen volunteered to accompany Skywalker on the resupply mission aboard the stealth ship, aware that his knowledge of Trench's tactics might come in handy. The cloaked ship easily slipped past the blockade, but Trench, growing impatient when no Republic counterattack appeared, ordered a flight of Hyena bombers to attack Organa's position on the planet's surface in an attempt to draw out the Republic force. General Kenobi prepared to move the fleet into battle, but Yularen saw the trap and knew that any counterattack would result in heavy casualties. Instead, seeing no other option, Skywalker chose to attack Trench's flagship with the stealth ship. Despite Yularen's complaints, Skywalker successfully outmaneuvered Trench and managed to destroy the *Invincible*. With the blockade's flagship gone, the Republic strike force engaged the remaining Separatist warships while Skywalker delivered the supplies to Organa's men on the planet. Yularen, impressed with Skywalker's unorthodoxy, spoke briefly with him, and the Jedi commented that they made a good team.

Despite the victory, the battle to liberate Christophsis was far from over. Skywalker and Kenobi led their clone troops against the droid army on the planet, but the strength of the Separatist forces continually pushed them back. Yularen, faced with a renewed Separatist blockade in orbit, was forced to withdraw his ships, leaving the ground forces on their own. Even without air support, Skywalker and his new apprentice, Ahsoka Tano—newly arrived as a messenger from the Jedi High Council—managed to destroy the Separatists' shield generator. Kenobi, meanwhile, forced the surrender of Separatist General Whorm Loathsom. The blockade fell apart, and the intense battle for Christophsis came to an end.

Skywalker and Tano were then set to Teth to rescue the Huttlet Rotta, the son of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, from Separatist forces on the planet. Yularen, onboard his flagship *Spirit of the Republic*, arrived with his fleet to cover the extraction team's escape to Tatooine. Aboard the G9 Rigger freighter *Twilight*, appropriated from Separatists forces on Teth, Skywalker and Tano attempted to board the *Spirit* to drop off the rescued Rotta while Vulture droids pursued. As the freighter bore a Separatist transponder code, the Star Destroyer originally fired on them, but Skywalker was able to convince the crew that he was who he was. Yularen noticed the Vultures and told Skywalker that while he would have the destroyer's deflector shields momentarily dropped, the *Twilight* would have to divert to the aft hangar bay. The admiral proceeded to tell his general that the *Spirit* had faced suicide runs before, forcing the crew to shoot first and ask questions later. Skywalker acknowledged, noting that Yularen had just put him in his place. Before the *Twilight* could land, three Vulture droids shot into the aft hangar, wreaking havoc on the landing zone and forcing Skywalker to take the *Twilight* to Tatooine instead. In the end, Skywalker successfully returned Rotta to Jabba and convinced the Hutt crime lord to open his trade routes to Republic military forces.

### Era of the early rebellion

#### Response to the Aldhani heist

##### Immediate aftermath

"*I spoke with Emperor Palpatine last night, and he's assured me that the ISB will be taking the lead going forward.*"
―Wullf Yularen, to multiple ISB Supervisors
In 5 BBY, in the aftermath of the heist on the Imperial garrison on Aldhani, Yularen spoke with Emperor Palpatine, who gave the ISB direct control of operations going forward. The next day, Yularen addressed the board of ISB supervisorsinside the ISB Central Office and relayed to them that the criminals responsible for the attack on Aldhani would be shocked to discover how ready and eager the Empire were to respond. He then informed the assembled that the Empire would impose a tribute tax five times the amount stolen from Adldhani on any sector harboring rebel activity, emphasizing that this would make it clear that nobody stole from the Empire. He then added that the use of any local custom, festival, or tradition as a cover for rebel activity would also trigger a permanent revocation of Imperial tolerance.

Yularen informed the supervisors about his meeting with Emperor Palpatine, then announced that the Emperor would convene an emergency session of the Senate to propose a legislative package of bills and amendments that will give the ISB unlimited powers of surveillance, search, and seizure. He went to inform them that they would also be invoking the Public Order Resentencing Directive, which meant that any criminal act with even indirect effect on the Empire, would be classified as a Class One offense. Supervisor Dedra Meero listened to Yularen's speech to her fellow officers but was visibly upset, something that ISB Attendant Heert noticed. After the meeting, Heert spoke with Meero privately in her office, and she expressed concerns that Yularen's policies were playing into the rebel's hands. Meero also remarked that the Empire is treating the Aldhani incident as a robbery when it was her belief that it was an announcement.

##### Dedra Meero's presentation

"*This is quite the wishlist. Full planetary comnet, full Garrison tech package, Series Nine Spectrum surveillance, local agent funding, Code Droid.*"
"*All ready to go, sir. If someone there is talking, we need to be listening.*"
―Wullf Yularen, and Dedra Meero
Major Partagaz temporarily reassigned the Morlana system to Meero shortly after the meeting with Yularen, as the incident on the planet Ferrix had become a point of interest for Dedra while it had become a distraction for the previous supervisor, Blevin. In this role, Meero presented a report to Yularen and the other supervisors regarding a stolen N-S9 Starpath Unit from Steergard. Yularen, intrigued, informed Dedra that he was listening, and she went on to explain that that very Starpath unit was found on Ferrix the month prior and the apparent thief was a local named Cassian Andor, who was wanted for the murder of two Corporate Security officers. She explained that Andor was in the act of transferring the unit to a person who she identified as "Axis," believing he was a central point to an organized rebel effort based on stealing Imperial gear.

Yularen then stated that the list of supplies that Meero had requested was "quite a wishlist," but Meero asserted that it was all ready to go, and that if someone was to be talking, they needed to listen. Yularen pointed out that it was a rather large investment, but Meero asserted that it was a fraction of the cost of the lost technology. Yularen asked Dedra what her plan was, and she asserted that they needed to find out who Axis was. Partagaz added that Meero had convinced him that Axis was their largest target, as even though they did not know his identity or region of influence, he had already caused much trouble. Dedra then stated that Ferrix was Axis' first mistake, and that what she wanted was to drill down and get a hunt started.

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#### Star pupil

Around this time, ISB Agent Kallus, Yularen's "star pupil" from the Imperial Academy,was after a crew of insurgents known as the Spectres. Yularen kept tabs on Kallus during his service.

#### Final days

"*The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.*"
―Grand Moff Tarkin reports the Senate's dissolution to the Joint Chiefs
Following the Battle of Scarif, Yularen and other key members of the Death Star's command staff met in a conference room to discuss the current state of the Empire. The colonel remained silent for the majority of the meeting, watching quietly as Motti and Tagge bickered over the threat that the Rebel Alliance posed to the Empire's military. Even when Tarkin arrived with the news that the Emperor had dissolved the Imperial Senate, Yularen remained silent. He continued to watch the meeting progress, listening as the others discussed the whereabouts of the stolen Death Star plans and sitting calmly as Darth Vader—Yularen's onetime Jedi commander, the former Anakin Skywalker—choked Motti into submission for his disbelief in the powers of the Force.

Some time following the meeting, the Death Star was infiltrated by a makeshift group of soon-to-be-Rebels, including smuggler pilot Han Solo, his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca, and Vader's secret son, future Jedi Luke Skywalker, as part of an attempted rescue of Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, who had been captured after attempting to deliver the stolen Death Star plans to the Rebel Alliance. As part of their infiltration, Solo and Skywalker disguised themselves as stormtroopers and pretended to escort Chewbacca to the detention block where the princess was being held. While the trio waited for a turbolift that would take them to the prison level, Yularen and another ISB officer passed by them, oblivious of their true identities. Skywalker's mission aboard the Death Star proved successful; the Princess was rescued and successfully evacuated to the Rebel base on Yavin 4. However, a tracking device planted aboard Solo's freighter allowed the Death Star to follow them to the Yavin system. The Alliance launched an attack on the battlestation, determined to destroy it. Skywalker, piloting a T-65 X-wing starfighter, proved successful in this task—his pair of proton torpedoes reached the Death Star's reactor core and detonated, obliterating the station. Yularen was killed in the resulting explosion.

## Current

Major Partagaz temporarily reassigned the Morlana system to Meero shortly after the meeting with Yularen, as the incident on the planet Ferrix had become a point of interest for Dedra while it had become a distraction for the previous supervisor, Blevin. In this role, Meero presented a report to Yularen and the other supervisors regarding a stolen N-S9 Starpath Unit from Steergard. Yularen, intrigued, informed Dedra that he was listening, and she went on to explain that that very Starpath unit was found on Ferrix the month prior and the apparent thief was a local named Cassian Andor, who was wanted for the murder of two Corporate Security officers. She explained that Andor was in the act of transferring the unit to a person who she identified as "Axis," believing he was a central point to an organised rebel effort based on stealing Imperial gear.

Yularen then stated that the list of supplies that Meero had requested was "quite a wishlist," but Meero asserted that it was all ready to go, and that if someone was to be talking, they needed to listen. Yularen pointed out that it was a rather large investment, but Meero asserted that it was a fraction of the cost of the lost technology. Yularen asked Dedra what her plan was, and she asserted that they needed to find out who Axis was. Partagaz added that Meero had convinced him that Axis was their largest target, as even though they did not know his identity or region of influence, he had already caused much trouble. Dedra then stated that Ferrix was Axis' first mistake, and that what she wanted was to drill down and get a hunt started.

## WIP

### W

In 5 BBY, a rebel infiltration team managed to steal the quarterly payroll for an Imperial sector from the Imperial garrison on Aldhani. As the news reached the Imperial capital, Yularen spoke with Emperor Palpatine, who gave the ISB direct control of operations going forward, as well as informing the colonel that he would convene an emergency session of the Imperial Senate. The following day, Yularen addressed the board of ISB Supervisors inside the ISB Central Office and informed them that the criminals responsible for the attack on Aldhani had not taken the Empire by surprise. He went on to say that the Empire would impose a tribute tax five times the amount stolen from Adldhani on any sector harboring partisan activity and continued to say that the use of any local custom, festival, or tradition as a cover for rebel activity would trigger a permanent revocation of Imperial tolerance.

After relaying the intricacies of his meeting with the Emperor, Yularen informed the board that none of them would have any issue gaining access to Army or Naval resources henceforth. He went on to say that during the upcoming emergency session, the Emperor would propose a legislative package of bills and amendments that would give the ISB unlimited powers of surveillance, search, and seizure. He also informed the assembled that the Empire would also be invoking the Public Order Resentencing Directive, which decreed that any criminal act with even indirect effect on the Empire would be classified as a Class One offense henceforth. Yularen continued and informed them that all prison sentences would be re-evaluated immediately and all outstanding fines and levies would be paid in full. Supervisor Dedra Meero listened to Yularen's speech but was visibly upset, something that ISB Attendant Heert noticed. After the meeting, Heert spoke with Meero privately in her office, where Meero expressed concerns that Yularen's policies were playing into the rebel's hands. Meero also remarked that the Empire is treating the Aldhani incident as a robbery when it was, in her belief, an announcement.

## WOo

Following the initiation of the P.O.R.D. legislation, Major Partagaz, leader of the board, temporarily reassigned the Morlani system to Meero and replaced its previous supervisor, Blevin, as the incident on the planet Ferrix had become a point of interest for Dedra while it had become a distraction for Blevin. In this role, Meero presented a report to Yularen and the other supervisors regarding a stolen N-S9 Starpath Unit from Steergard. Yularen, intrigued, informed Dedra that he was listening. Dedra went on to explain that the Starpath Unit had been found on Ferrix the month prior in the wake of the ambush and that a local named Cassian Andor was the apparent thief and that he was in the act of transferring the unit to a person whom she identified as "Axis," believing he was a central point to an organized rebel effort based on stealing Imperial gear. As she spoke, Yularen read the list of supplies Meero had requested and remarked that they were "quite a wishlist." Meero, however, assured the Colonel that they were all ready to go and that if someone on Ferrix knew information regarding Axis, they needed to listen. Yularen pointed out that it was a rather large investment, but Meero asserted that it was a fraction of the cost of the lost technology. Surprised by her boldness, Yularen's eyes widened, and he asked Dedra what her plan was. She asserted that they needed to find out who Axis was, and that Ferrix was the first and best lead the ISB had. Partagaz added that Meero had convinced him that Axis, even though they did not know his identity or region of influence, had already caused much trouble. Dedra then asserted that Ferrix was the first mistake Axis had made, and that what she wanted was to drill down, find Andor, and get a hunt started.