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The life of Martin Oberan

Early days

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 set good bye, martin steeled himself and focused solely on his career from then onwards and has very rarely ventured outside the MoD since.

Present Day

Martin is currently the System CO for the Epidimi System

Awards and Commendations