Reng Kasr

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 * "If you rely too much on trust, you get betrayed. If you rely too much on paranoia, there’s no one you can trust. A thin, knife’s edge, must be walked between the two."
 * — Reneg Kasr.

Reneg Kasr was once one of the most powerful men in the newly formed Galactic Empire, becoming the first of Palpatine's Grand Admirals. Through various events, he later formed the secret organization known as Oremin. He has also developed means for normal people to fight Force users, such as the fighting style known as Rask and a mental discipline dubbed Skra.

He has taken to training Jesika Doljian to replace him as head of Oremin. In order to effectively oversee Jesika’s training as well as his interests in the Laro system, Kasr has assumed a position as an ‘advisor’ to his protégé, who was proclaimed Queen of the Laro Order thanks to his machinations.

Kasr never uses his Imperial title anymore, content to merely be addressed as ‘Kasr’. He feels his rank is from a bygone era and refuses to use it again regularly until the Empire is restored to its former glory.

As Oremin's founder and driving force, whatever he says is law.

Rise of Kasr
Almost nothing is known about Kasr’s life before he joined the Old Republic Navy, although it is confirmed that he was born on Anaxes. At the time when Palpatine finally took power, Kasr was a junior officer who had grown disgusted with the Senate. Palpatine’s promises of order and an end of corruption appealed to him and he was one of the first to offer his services to the senator.

Palpatine immediately recognized Kasr’s potential and charged him with several missions to test the young officer’s skills in a variety of situations. Kasr proved more than able to meet the future Emperor’s expectations, who succeeded in his missions by applying a combination of technological prowess and ruthless efficiency. With such loyalty and impressive results, Kasr rose up quickly though the ranks. By the time the Empire came into power, Kasr had achieved the rank of Admiral.

Jedi Hunter
Aside from the need for a New Order, there was one other subject that Kasr and the Emperor agreed upon and that was for the extermination of the Jedi. Kasr felt that for any one person to have so much power went against the natural order of life. In other words, the Jedi were an abomination. Darth Vader was already actively hunting down the Jedi, but he was only one man, there needed to be more Jedi hunters.

To that end, Kasr received his final promotion to Grand Admiral, the first ever to be given this rank, and was charged with the task of finding and destroying the remnants of the Jedi by any means necessary. Kasr ordered the construction of the Seldon, a state-of-the-art science vessel, and filled it with the greatest minds he could find. Their sole tasks were to discover weaknesses in the Jedi and how best to exploit them. Many prototypes were developed, only a few of which were deemed reliable enough for the Empire to use at large, but those few were devastatingly effective.

Fall of Kasr
Kasr used his personal fleet to coordinate with Lord Vader’s efforts and comb the galaxy looking for the fleeing Jedi. It was on one such trip that Kasr discovered the massive planet of Oremin. By this time, Kasr had come to the realization that he had in fact been too successful killing Jedi. So much so that the Emperor had begun to regard him as a threat. Initial geological surveys of Oremin indicated that the planet had resources to spare. Kasr committed the coordinates to memory, erased it from his ship’s computer, and swore his crew to silence under penalty of death. At that point, Kasr deemed that Oremin would be his secret base of operations and started planning his own downfall and succession from the Empire.

Deception and Death
Through some clever manipulation and string-pulling of the more greedy Imperial higher-ups, Kasr managed to get himself court-martialed. The trial was a dangerous farce as the Emperor himself attended and dictated Kasr’s final punishment. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at a faraway Corporate Sector Authority prison known as Jorzan. However, according to official Imperial reports, his transport was intercepted by Rebels and destroyed.

It was a deception on the Emperor’s part. Kasr was dangerous, but he was deemed too valuable to destroy - exactly what Kasr had been planning on. The transport actually made it safely to Jorzan, effectively insuring that Kasr could be imprisoned without anyone the wiser. All traces of Kasr and his research were erased and destroyed. His Jedi hunting devices were buried as well to prevent someone else from using them against the Emperor.

The Seldon, as per Kasr’s orders, fled to Oremin to help oversee the new facility that would be built there with stolen blueprints taken from the Imperial database. Kasr, from the CSA prison, used the influence and connections he still had left in the Empire to secretly send resources and manpower to Oremin. Convoys and starships that were reported ‘lost in hyperspace’ or ‘destroyed by Rebels’ were in fact many times sent to Oremin through Kasr’s hidden connections.

All of this was before the Battle of Yavin.

Kasr's Return
A few years after the fall of the Empire and the deaths of both the Emperor and Darth Vader at the Battle of Endor, Kasr deemed that it was finally time for him to assume full control of the Oremin project, which had become fully self-sufficient. He contacted then Captain Dolomar Daktren of the Dark Star and had him ‘bust him out’ of the CSA prison. Like his trial a decade earlier, it was merely a clever ruse, as Kasr had unofficially been in control of the prison for years. All he needed Daktren for was to destroy the two VSD’s guarding the prison, which the captain accomplished with his usual skill. After the VSD’s were destroyed, Kasr launched a small shuttle and had the prison self-destruct, erasing any last records of himself from the galaxy.

Kasr finally returned to Oremin where he watched with disgust as the Empire continued to tear itself apart. He made it Oremin’s goal to preserve the ideals of the New Order should the Empire ever be wiped out. To that end he secretly contacted other loyal Imperials like Daktren who wanted to see the Empire returned to its full glory without the corruption that plagued the current Empire. He used them to secretly keep tabs on the Empire and its ever-changing state. Occasionally he would have them run missions to help better Oremin, but only rarely.

Oremin's Legacy
In order to prevent power struggles from tearing Oremin apart once he dies, Kasr has taken on a young girl, Jesika Doljian, as his heiress. Although he is in better shape then men twice as young as him, he is quite aware that there is no stopping his eventual death. His own beliefs prevent him from trying to cheat death through cloning or other means, and so he has devoted a lot of his time to training Jesika to be a powerful and effective leader.

Return to the Empire
During the reign of Emperor Damascus, Kasr began making plans to help overthrow the power mad leader. He sent Jer Roviditian and the Kismet to make contact with Byron Chamberlain to discuss ways Oremin could assist Chamberlain in his goal to overthrow Damascus. The Kimset ended up being attached to Chamberlain’s small fleet and helped Chamberlain all of the way through the Battle of Corellia.

Once Grand Admiral Thrawn took power, Kasr recognized that Thrawn shared many of Oremin’s goals and ideals. Towards that end, he had Roviditian meet with Thrawn and let him know that Oremin would do everything it could to protect Thrawn’s Empire. Since that time, Kasr has had Oremin work a little closer with the Empire, delivering information to Thrawn directly so that the perfect version of the New Order will finally come to pass and bring peace and order to the galaxy at last…

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