Hiale Serros

Hiale Serros
Biographical Information
Physical Description
Personal Information
Allies:	Dlarit Corporation
Chronology & Political Information
Position:	Legate
Era(s):	Dark Jedi Brotherhood Era
Affiliation:	Clan Naga Sadow
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Hiale Serros is a medical doctor and scientist, specializing in pathology and neurophysiology.

Biography

Early Life

Hiale Serros was born on Bastion but raised on Coruscant, the son of lower-class parents. From a young age, Serros realized the misfortune of his birthright and swore that he would rise to great success, despite his disadvantages. Serros approached his education with an intense passion that set him apart from his peers and quickly rose through the academic ranks. He graduated second in his class behind his close friend, Arik Shathis, with whom he formed a tight bond in their shared passion for advanced scientific and technical topics.

University

Serros and Shathis were roommates at Imperial University. Like his friend Arik, Hiale also chose to double major and studied microbiology and neuroscience. He and Arik achieved summa cum laude honors, but again would come in second to his close friend in class ranking.

Medical Career

While Arik would eventually return to the Imperial University Coruscant campus to obtain his medical training, Hiale ventured to the medical campus on the core world of Marngar III for his advanced degree. No longer in the shadow of his friend, Hiale found a certain momentum in his training that he had not experienced prior. In short course, Hiale would demonstrate to his professors an exceptional aptitude in both theory and application of advanced medical principles and would eventually co-author more than twenty academic research papers as a medical student. This unprecedented feat would bring a certain fame to the young physician-scientist.

Hiale completed his medical with specialties in pathology and neurophysiology. Instead of taking a settled post as an intern of fellow at a single medical unit, Hiale took temporary posts at highly esteemed medical universities across the galaxy as a visiting professor. His research, however, kept a constant progress as he and his small research group would relocate to more than a dozen universities in the few years after completing his medical degree. This experience gave Serros an extremely broad exposure to the various anatomies of the galaxy, and particularly unusual experience in the great variety of diseases plaguing each population.

At some point during this period, Hiale decided he wanted to establish a much larger research group which would not be so easily relocated from university-to-university. Coincidentally, his old friend Arik Shathis had succeeded to the position of chair of the clinical pathology department at Lamoramora Medcenter on Coruscant. Shathis would offer Serros an extremely lucrative package in order to relocate his now famous research program to the campus. Enticed by the offer to work closely with his friend again, Serros accepted.

Infection

After three years of general practice, during which he built a significant client base and found himself not only successful and satisfied with his career, but quite wealthy as well, he decided to look into further opportunities to help people, outside sphere of medicine. He invested much of his funds into construction projects in the various ghettos around Bastion's capital, particularly the area he come from. With the housing situation improved, he turned his eye to the job market. While looking into ways to decrease unemployment and raise wages, he received a call from his old friend Arik Shathis, asking him to join his medical team. Serros jumped at the change to work with Shathis again, and the two were brilliant together. Soon, though, tragedy struck.

Arik and Hiale were working the case of a patient with a degenerative neurological disease. It affected motor control, causing unsteadiness at first but eventually becoming full-blown tremors and, finally, effecting vision and speech. Oddly, this disease could be transmitted by touch, unlike most conditions of its kind. Additionally, it was a cross-species disease. A lab accident led to both doctors being infected. They managed to develop a treatment to keep themselves from infecting others, but were unable to develop a cure. The hospital was unwilling to fire them after all they had done, and so they were moved into administrative positions, eventually running the entire medical center. Hiale used his new-found influence over hospital policy to change the standard of medical care given to the poor and down-trodden, and to convince doctors to lower their pricing.

Finally, many years later, he received another call from Arik, asking for his help with an outbreak. Overjoyed at the possibility of practicing medicine again, Serros rushed to Tarthos to assist with the plague. Together they managed to find and disseminate a cure. While Hiale entered the political spotlight, Serros enjoyed his relaxation and Serros and the continued help he provided the population. In the end, though, Hiale once more asked for his help, this time requesting that Serros join the political machine of Tarthos to serve as Legate, a position he could not turn down.