Jer Roviditian

Description

 * "You can retire me after I'm dead."
 * — Jer Roviditian.

Jer Roviditian has served with a galactic military in some form or another ever since he was old enough to join the academy. First it was with the Old Republic, then the Empire, and finally as one of the most valuable members of Oremin. Despite his advanced age, Roviditian's keen mind hasn't suffered one bit from the passage of time.

Even though he has earned a long-deserved retirement, Roviditian has chosen to serve for as long as he is able. The only way he wants to die is in battle, fighting a cause he believes in.

Appearance
Physically, Roviditian looks very weak. It is very clear that age hasn’t been kind to him. However, it is only his physical looks that have deteriorated, his mind is still as sharp as ever. A dangerous gleam in his eyes lets everybody know that he is far from senile.

Eternal Soldier
Coming from a pacifist family, Jer Roviditian's views of protecting the citizens through means of violence made him an outcast. Despite repeated efforts on his part to convince his family, they refused to listen to him and eventually Roviditian just gave up and accepted his family’s views even if they didn’t accept his.

He proved to be an extremely capable soldier and tactician and rose up quickly through the ranks of the Old Republic navy. After he managed to garner the rank of ship’s captain, Roviditian served for about a year before becoming bored with simple peacekeeping duty. Unwilling to drop out of the service, but also unwilling to spend the rest of his life doing routine patrols, he transferred back to the Republic Academy to become an instructor.

The Meeting of a Lifetime
At the academy Roviditian met a brilliant and ruthless young man by the name of Reneg Kasr. Kasr was fast becoming the academy’s most promising student despite the wishes of several of his instructors who saw him as arrogant and cocky. Most of the time this was borne from the fact that Kasr tended to show-up his instructors in their own lessons. Roviditian, on the other hand, recognized Kasr’s talent and made it a point to know the young man better.

Very soon a strong bond of respect was created between instructor and student. Roviditian taught Kasr everything he knew about tactics and the internal politics that ran the military. Kasr opened Roviditian’s eyes for the first time to the corruption that was festering on Coruscant, promising that it wouldn’t be long before the government fell, perhaps even in their lifetime. Eventually Kasr graduated from the academy with honors to become an officer in the Old Republic navy, but his cryptic remark on the stability of the Old Republic government stayed with Roviditian.

Roviditian remained an instructor, learning not only from the more seasoned instructors there, but also from recruits like Kasr who had several revolutionary new ideas. As the years went by, Roviditian began to see more and more signs that Kasr’s prediction would come true. By the time the Trade Federation began its blockade of Naboo, he had grown utterly convinced of the inherent disaster that would befall the Republic.

A Galaxy in Turmoil
Kasr eventually returned to the academy to personally invite Roviditian back into active service. Roviditian had his doubts, but with Kasr’s urging and assurance, he assumed command of a starship again. This time, however, Roviditian made it a point to transfer under his command the promising recruits he had helped train at the academy.

From then on he served with distinction, eliminating trouble spots for the Republic, and later proved himself in several battles during the Clone Wars. By the time the Galactic Empire was firmly in power, Roviditian had been serving in the military for at least five decades and managed to garner the rank of admiral. In recognition for his years of service and his loyalty to the Empire, Roviditian was given command of one of the Empire’s prototype Imperial-class Star Destroyers.

The Kismet, as it would soon become known, was held up as an example of how a proper ship should be run. Roviditian himself had the respect of several in the Empire, many of them former students of his who were now in command of their own ships or fleets.

The Fall of a Friend
For Roviditian, the future, which had previously seemed bleak under the Old Republic, now looked very promising under the Empire. That was until Kasr, now a Grand Admiral, approached his former teacher in secret and revealed several disturbing trends happening in the Empire. He shocked Roviditian further by revealing his plans to leave the Empire and create a shadow Empire that would work on Palpatine’s New Order without the myriad mistakes being perpetrated by the current regime. Kasr then entrusted Roviditian with the location to Oremin and a detailed outline of how to realize this new shadow government.

The next time Roviditian saw Kasr was at his friend’s court-martial. Even knowing Kasr’s plan, it was hard for Roviditian to watch the trial, but it did help to convince him of the corruption within the Empire. This was especially true when Kasr was able to contact him despite official sources declaring him dead from a Rebel ambush.

Departure
About a year after the Battle of Yavin, because of his advanced age, Roviditian began to receive an enormous amount of pressure to give up his command of the Kismet to assume an important, but largely administrative position. Knowing that he was still more than capable of staying in the field, Roviditian used that pressure as his final excuse to leave the Empire behind and dedicate the remaining years of his life to serving Kasr. He jumped the Kismet to Oremin and assumed command of the entire project pending Kasr’s return.

Ever since that fateful date, Roviditian has been looked upon as Kasr’s de-facto second-in-command. Not just because he’s the only one at Oremin who can safely say he’s Kasr’s friend, but because he has the wisdom and strength of character to make himself just as feared and respected as Kasr.

His loyalty isn’t so much to Oremin as it is to Kasr. As long as Kasr deems Oremin to be important, Roviditian will do his best to see that it thrives. While exceedingly loyal, Roviditian won’t hesitate to argue with Kasr’s judgement if he feels that it is unsound.

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