Raif Slaxton

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Rear-Admiral Raif Slaxton is a Human male and Commanding Officer of Clan Taldryan's Battlegroup Vanguard. An experienced and reserved individual, Rear-Admiral Slaxton is the captain of the CSD Justice, the Clan's largest and most heavily armed ship.

Early Life and Career

Coruscant

Raif Slaxton was born to an aristocratic family from Dubrillion. His father was a Senator in the Old Republic and became an adamant supporter of Chancellor Palpatine as he rose to prominence. During the reign of the Emperor, the family gained naturalization on the glittering world of the Imperial Center. Here, Slaxton was given every opportunity to attend high class schools and centers of education and Human High culture. Though pampered by his loving mother and raised sternly yet lovingly by his father, the young slaxton sought more from the Galaxy, and applied to join the Imperial Academy at the age of seventeen, only three years after the demise of the Republic. With the endorsement of his father, the young man set a course that would affect the rest of his life.

Imperial Career

Raif graduated two years later from the Imperial Academy on Raithal, a prestigious Naval Education Center, with honors and a Lieutenant's Commission. Specializing in Fleet Operations, the young officer was on a fast track to success. Assigned as the Executive Officer of a Gunship, his first experience in combat became his first in command of a ship. During a routine patrol of an Outer-Rim system, a pirate force attacked the lone ship, and in a freak accident, the Captain was killed. This left the nearly 20 year old man in charge of a vessel. After defeating the pirates using a nimble defense balanced with a healthy offense. His actions were recognized, and he was promoted soon after to Commander, and given command of his very own Lancer Frigate. For the next few years, Raif would use his talents to win engagement after engagement, and promotion after promotion. By the time of the Battle of Yavin, Slaxton was a Commandant, and at the helm of a Victory I Star Destroyer. The defeat of the Empire struck him like a dagger, and emboldened the Man to fight the rebellion with his entire being.

Fall of the Empire

Raif Slaxton spent the next few years hunting down and eradicating Rebellion forces and outposts, but was dismayed nonetheless by the increasingly frequent reports of defeat at the hands of Alliance fleet units and ground forces. By the time of the Battle of Endor, the Commandant now commanded a small task force of several Victory II Star Destroyers, and an Imperial Escort Carrier. This force was supposed to have been present at the defeat of the Rebellion, but was held up in escorting a supply convoy to its destination, and missed the destruction of the Death Star instead. Seeing no future in the Empire without the Emperor, Slaxton gave his forces to a Rogue Grand Admiral named Ronin, the head of the Emperor's Hammer Fleet.