Arlan Hale

Arlan Hale was born on Corellia in 27 BBY and quickly made a foray into gunrunning against the Republic. He was quite skilled at the entire ordeal, making a good pilot and excellent combatant until the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire. At that time, he decided he was better off with the government than against it, so he signed up to become a Stormtrooper.

He fought well, through the Empire's ups and downs, earning the rank of Sergeant in the Stormtrooper Corps; he got training as a scout trooper and excelled in it, but was eventually assigned to the most boring - yet allegedly most important - duty of all: security on the Super Star Destroyer Cleansing. He was never transferred again, after the war with the Xen'Chi began.

When the vessel leapt from a battle with those same Xen'Chi, Arlan was still aboard. As the ghost of Damascus and the invading Xen'Chi prepared their armies to wipe out the few remaining sane Imperials, Arlan found himself caught in the middle - and chose to fight Damascus first. He ventured to the lower levels and "joined forces" (though "was coerced" might have been a more appropriate term) with three Xen'Chi to reach engineering and destroy the seemingly cursed ship...