Grimaldus Helbrecht
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The Early life of Martin Oberan
Darkness Prevails
On Neimoidia hatchlings are quickly taught the necessity of greed and aggressiveness, the first years of their lives are lived in. Martin was treated exactly the same as every other new born that year. Unlike many of his brethren Martin thrived here, a cunning nature and willingness to use physical force. Life was still hard in the colony but as one of those at the top Martin found it more comfortable than most.
His survival was assured at the cost of his several siblings, little else of note happened until he left the colony at the age of seven. Being one of the more notable specimens he was taken as an apprentice by Lord Brier. This Neimoidian was one of the wealthiest and an uncle to the young Oberan. He owned several companies producing ship parts to droids, running banks and offices. He was also one of the most corrupt and cold people you could ever have the misfortune to meet. He would invite you into his house and then use bylaws and other means too make sure your wallet was left much lighter.
Martin learnt quite quickly though not quite a ruthless as his mentor he was showing promise, he soon had a thorough grasp of basic, galactic law and Neimoidian business practices. At the age of ten he was running a small section of one of his uncles businesses and was set to inherit his uncles fortune. But Martin wasn’t willing to wait that long, by the time he was fifteen he had set a plan in motion that would have given him power over all the company assets but there was one problem. Lord Brier had long suspected Martins possible treachery and was ready for him.
In a hail of blaster fire Martin was forced to flee the compound he had lived in, bribing one of his uncles pilots to help him escape the planet. His pride and his wallet wounded he spend almost a year just drifting through space, landing on a handful of planets and none taking his fancy. It was at the end of this year that he found his accounts had been suspended, penniless he was trapped on the planet he’d landed on.
He needed money, he was in luck though. His physical strength, his cunning and intelligent mind lent itself readily to a military career. From Varno he joined up with the Trade Federation, partly for the money but mostly for the Neimoidian influence that still proliferated the government. Here he would rebuild and someday strike back against his uncle and claim what should be his.
A New Beginning
After signing up to the Trade Federation military he was picked up in a Bayonet-class Light Cruiser by Jack Hildor and headed to the Amorris system and in it the aptly named planet Amorris. This martins first time on-board a capital ship, his inquisitive side took over and he began searching the ship from top to bottom looking forward to the day when he himself would be flying one. Upon landing at the designated training area on the planet ammoris he quickly disembarked looking forward to learning the skills necessary to surviving on any battlefield, ranging from space to ground. It was here martin first met his friend and mentor for his entire Trade Federation career, Kage Renbukai. At this time Kage was only a captain within the army,but was still the inspirational leader he is now.
Martin quickly completed his training and was on course to joining the navy under what would be his commanding officer Jack Hildor, but kage brought him aside one night and talked to him about a different career path, one within the army. Martin quickly accepted this offer due to the promise of better promotion prospects due to the smaller nature of the army to the navy and that kage was a promising leader to follow, and follow he did within days martin's transfer request was approved by the then navy commanding officer.
Soon martin was working flat out moving tanks, artillery and troops into deployment zones for use in later operations. A bright and shinning career lay in-front of martin. During this time martin met many other people who would be guiding influences in his life and career including Xavier Hood, Cyern Mora and Daniel Zorg. These were all leaders and people martin looked up to as guiding lights in the darkness.
The Rise of the Three
Within a month of martin joining the Ministry of Defence certain changes were already starting to happen that would make it into the efficient well run machine it is today. It was like a new wind was sweeping through an old and broken machine, the scent of change was in the air, people were starting to take more notice of the MoD and as such the unfit elements in it were coming to light and the process of sweeping them away was already under-way leaving the way free for the more able elements in the MoD to move forward. With this Kage Renbukai was promoted to a commanding officer rank and began preparations to step up recruit for the MoD. Within days new recruits were flooding through the borders of the trade federation to join the MoD. Among them where two new recruits that martin would soon come to know very well. Drakken Ryder was the first to appear and take the notice of the now promoted Oberan, Drakken was more than able in carry out missions that were assigned to him, he had great skill and a will to advance that set him apart from the crowd. One day Kage introduced martin and Drakken to each other and from there their friendship grew quickly, soon martin was able to talk to the newly nicknamed Drak about anything and vice-versa. There friendship still stands strong nearly two years on from meeting each other.
The next person to catch martin's attention was a Twi`lek going by the name of Bree Teksa, but instead of friendship initially they were at each others throats, Bree wanting Martins current power and martin worried by her quick rise. In the words of xavier who passed judgement on the matter when things came to a head said that "You are worried that she will steal your glory and thunder, and you are worried that his glory and thunder will overshadow yours." In short we were jealous of each other, but eventually relations started to warm after we exchanged Christmas greeting messages to each other. Eventually differences were worked out and a friendship was begging to take root between the two, there was always a trace of competition between the two of us but it was always in good fun. Eventually we even launched spam assaults on the DoL, ultimately they all ended up failing but the attempt was there and the friendship strengthening. After a few months they decided to start up a business together, Galactic Hyperdyrne Services (I think the add is still floating about on the banner exchange to this day) ultimately it resulted in a failure due to no real beforehand experience in building up a corporation, but a lot of lessons were learnt in the formation of the business which would be used in later businesses that martin would found. There were rumours of a potential love interest between the two which nobody denied or confirmed, leaving for people to judge themselves.
Within months of joining three names would be on everyone's lip's in the ministry of defence, Oberan, Teksa and Ryder. All good friends and all willing to learn and work until they reached the top, but the good times of the three were not to last, soon Bree began to feel sick and preform less and less of her duties, one day she just boarded her shuttle and left for the unknown regions and never returned. Although no love was professed between the two, martin did miss her incredibly and felt very sad at her leaving especially when she never even said good bye, martin steeled himself and focused solely on his career from then onwards and has very rarely ventured outside the MoD since.
Early Commands
By the time of martins first command kage had been promoted to the position of Army Commanding Officer and xavier and cyern to glythe and centrality Commanding Officers for the army in those sectors. To add to these changes soon the position of flight leads within system forces was born, this was the precusor to the eventual formation of the position of system commanding officer. The position itself didnt have a great deal of power attached to it but it did set you as the leader of the people stationed in that system.
At this stage martin was part of the vinsoth army task force and was given the position of flight lead of that task force. Martin watched over his fellow troops tirelessly and did the best he could to make sure they were safe and had no problems. Within a month the vinsoth task force was one of the best functioning groups in the glythe task force's. After a few months a new group was formed, this group was to be a spec ops group based out of the then hidden system of velm, this group would be made up of the most elite members of the ministry of defence and was at the time a complete secret. Martin was offered a place in the group under the flight lead of a newly returned Akkarin Honorous, work within this group went well for martin and he did well under Akkarin's command.
Eventually though major change was in the air once again, the army and navy were on course to be merged into one entity for better management and use of available forces. With this came the need for officers who were reliable and capable of command, from the spec ops task force most of the system commanding officers were chosen and soon martin was appointed commanding officer of the Epidimi system.
A New Home
Within days martin had settled into his new role comfortably, but Epidimi was a new addition to territory that the MoD had to cover and so upon arrival nothing was in place and the fort itself was still under construction and martin was forced to sleep on his ship for another few weeks until his command base was finished. During this time though martin quickly took charge of the situation and began making preparations to move huge quantities of droids, equipment and ships to his new system. Under him many officers came and went, some he liked some he didnt but he worked tirelessly with what he was given. Within a few months many thousands of tonnes of equipment including tanks and droids were moved into storage for future operations, in orbit a fleet was starting to appear ranging from Dreadnaught-class Heavy Cruiser's to the trade federations iconic fighter the XS.009 Scarab.
Present Day
Currently martin is the System CO for the Epidimi System and is the captain of the Imperial Star Destroyer TFN Formidable while also the duceroy of Galactic Technologies Corporation, with the will and determination to lead both the Trade Federation and Galactic Technologies to a bigger and brighter future.
A Neimoidian at heart
Everything must start with an Idea
Neimoidian Inner Council(NIC)
A small organisation proposed and formed by Tal Ercrow that would act as a race charity group for neimoidians around the galaxy and try to form a community spirt between them. Fairly soon after it was proposed and formed martin was invited to join, and so he did and was accepted with open arms. It was here that martin would meet a neimodian that would go on to be an honourable and reliable friend, martins best friend, Salamku Derov. Martin and Salamku or sal as he became known as, quickly got along and were soon debating the pro's and cons of the NIC. Within weeks both had assumed leadership positions in the organisation and were trying to make the organisation more functional by selling items and buying to produce a profit so they could support more neimodians in need of help. Within a few months martin and Sal had gained full leadership over the organisation and decided it was time it was bent to there will and with that the NIC was disbanded and reformed into a non-race group profit organisation under the corporation banner of Galactic Technologies(GT). The first arm of the corporation to take shape was Galactic Naval Technologies.
Galactic Naval Technologies(GNT)
A plan was developed between martin and sal to begin the ship building arm of there mighty corporation first as it would be the most lucrative and would be able to fund the building and founding of the other arms of the corporation who would in turn support each other. At first progress was slow as areas of the company were worked out then reworked countless times to it was perfect in the eyes of martin and Sal. Eventually enticing good freinds to become investors martin and sal were able to purchase a small factory city and work began on expanding from there. Soon ships were being produced in this factory city allowing even greater expansion, with the building of the GNT'S first shipyard. This was only possible with our active and dedicated workforce, investors and good command personnel including Dax Owok and Salamku Derov.
Campaigns
Operation Seraph
Martin was approached by his sector commander and friend Drakken Ryder to head to the Trax sector and Uogo'cor System as part of a Trade Federation force which was part of a larger Imperial Union force to help out the forces of Tion Hegemony who were caught up in a conflict with forces of Cron Resurrection. Upon arriving in system to join the rest of his Trade Federation comrades Martin soon found the situation worse than he had feared. The heroic forces of the Hegemoney under the command of Admiral Dax Owok were battling against not only the outside forces of Cron but forces that had infiltrated the ranks of Tion itself. Martin actually never came face to face with either of the two that betrayed the Hegemoney for money and fame, these two went by the names Helena Gladio and Zara Sturm.
Helena's betrayal was the first and sparked the most anger within the Hegemoney and her allies, upon being promoted to a position of power she quickly stole credits and assets worth millions and cut power on many worlds to many billions of citizens leaving them without basic amenities in the name of "freeing them from there tyrannical Tion overlords". Then units of cron troops began advancing and securing areas of Tion space while Tion forces set about restoring power to the billions of people who were affected by Helena's betrayal. Buildings under the banner of Cron began appearing in areas of former Tion space, soon Tion troops mobilised and began recovering areas that they lost but the fighting was hard and bloody. Soon after Imperial union forces had begun to arrive within the system Zara Sturm lured the tionese leader, Jeff Corbin aboard a ship a ship and then captured and executed him. With his brothers passing Typhon Corbin took command of the tion government and swore vengence upon all those who had betrayed him and his people.
Soon the system was full of Imperial Union forces ranging from Trade Federation Star Destroyers to Hapan Battle dragons, but even with all these forces the trade federation effort was floundering due to there being no clearly appointed leader and conflicting orders. Rather than see the forces of the federation pull out without a single victory martin decided it was time to overrule rank and took charge of the situation. He set first went and talked to Admiral Dax Owok who was leading the defence against cron, to get a clear picture of what was happening and to ask where Trade Federation forces would be best used, soon they started talking and martin got a clear picture of what was happening and began to set up a plan for his forces to patrol planets under threat from cron forces.
Soon trade federation forces under martins command were holding the line on certain planets the same as the hapan forces freeing up tionese forces for operations against cron. This was the first time martin saw hapan forces in action and was highly impressed, intending to keep pace martin soon started to increase the workload on his troops and they handled the increased workload very well and gave martin great hope for the future of the MoD. A hero for all the Imperial Union forces in system was the Hapan Commando or Tara Tylger, she cut swathes through the enemy forces and even when enemy forces looked set to overwhelm the defences she was providing hope to those that had none by showing that victory could be achieved against all the odds. Martin rallied the Trade Federation forces for a final charge against the enemy lines in his forces area to force them onto the defensive. After cron sent many of his followers to there deaths he eventually called off the offensive and moved to a more defensive stance, giving Imperial Union forces a chance to breath and regroup.
Soon shield generator's under construction began to appear on planets under crons control, soon a raid was planned on enemy territory to regain control over much of the territory that was lost. A spy was planned within cron and eventually gained access to large areas of the cron resurrection inventory. Elite members from each of the Imperial union forces were asked to partake in the raid. Martin was asked and he joined willingly and also brought in his good and reliable friend Salamku Derov as he knew he could trust him to do his job and do it better than well. In the arly hours of the morning the group of raiders stuck building tionese shield generators on cron's lands and then defending the workers while they hurried to complete the installation. The operation was largely a success and most cron cities were covered with a tionese shield grid, tion then called for the surrender of all forces under the shield grid. This was a huge blow to cron and his forces never fully recovered from the defeat and the heroic and dedicated Admiral Dax Owok pushed his forces on to further victorys in the days and months to come.
After this battle trade federation forces were ordered out of the system as the main cron threat had been dealt with and events elsewhere had to be dealt with. Even though he left martin is regularly kept up to date with events between cron and tion by his now good friend Dax Owok.
Operation Taboon
Within days of returning to normal operational duty back in Trade Federation space a call was sent out to all MoD members to aid hapes in their battle to regain a planet lost in the populaces general rebellion after some bad building choices were made by the hapes governor. Martin was then offered the job as commander of this operation for the trade federation forces involved, quickly men and equipment were set in motion for taboon. A show of force that reviles no other was on its way to the system and martin was to play a large part in it.
Arriving in system in his former flag ship a Victory Class Star Destroyer martin set about scanning and getting to grips with the situation that lay before him. Huge amounts of "freelancers" were landing on the planet and setting up colonies on the surface in no organised manner or fashion, this left the planet in chaos as new settlers flew in to there new "colonies". Natural habitats were quickly ruined and the planets atmosphere began to quickly degrade threatening not only the original citizens but the new colonists as well. Forces were quickly deployed to round up, capture and kill the illegal builders and gather up the new colonists and send them back to there original world. In orbit the hapan SSD appeared in system adding greatly to the show of force, and forcing enemys to flee in fear and anybody else in system to gaze in awe upon her majestic hull, that ship was a force to be reckoned with.
Within a week the situation was well under control huge amounts of illegal building work had been stopped and the illegal builders dealt with. The planet was fully recaptured quickly as no organised enemy force stood against the joint hapan-TF force, but the people would always have to deal with the degraded atmosphere of there planet now that it had undergone massive industrialisation almost instantly. This was the first operation between joint Trade Federation and Hapan forces since the newly announced full alliance between the two governments, martin was pleased with the job the trade federation forces did under him and again the hapan forces out did themselves leaving the enemy forces dead in there tracks. The future looks bright in martins eyes for the two governments.
