Thichis Kuras

Tichis Kuras was born a Kuati noble who had been groomed from an early age to serve as a naval officer for the republic, partially as a token to promote future Kuat commissions for the republic. In that sense, he was educated on Kuat as an Engineer and diplomat, before being shipped off to a Naval academy on Corrussant. In both, He seemed to excel. Although seemingly never becoming an exceptional tactical genius, Kuras showed extreme adaptitude in organising his troops, supply lines and was commended on several occasions for his ability to remain calm and calculating under any circumstance.

Serving a sting in the Judicial corps of the Republic, his career was initially somewhat unremarkable. Performing patrols in the far flung stretches of the republic in anti-piracy duties. It was not until the Clone wars started, that Kuras would come to his own. Securing the captaincy of a Venator-class Star Destroyer early in the War, he managed to rise through the ranks, at a reasonable rate, becoming known for his capability to plan effective and successful planetary invasions, as his aptitude for logistics and organisation came to its own in these complex operations. With these skills, he would prepare and execute various planetary invasions all during the reconquest of the Rim.

When the New Order came to be, Tichis Kuras had his pick of positions, but eventually decided on becoming a liaison officer to Kuat drive Yards. Here he would supervise the development and deployment of the various new ship models that the Empire had come to order and commission from Kuat Drive Yards. In the end, even with the death of the republic and the rise of the new Order, it seemed Kuras had achieved the plan his family had prepared him for all his life. This posting would end eventually, when Kuras was wounded during the testing of the original EF-76 Nebulon B frigate, a controversial vessel that would eventually only be partially adopted by the Empire, many mothballed versions of this ship ending up in rebel hands.

After his recovery, he was promoted to a leading position in the Imperial supply and commissioning office of Kuat, dealing with various logistical matters, ensuring clean and efficient supply lines and negotiating the orders of new starships directly with Kuat Drive. A prestigious position that would allow him to make many allies. Even with rebel activity increasing and danger to the supply lines increasing yearly, Kuras his efforts in increasing the efficiency of the Imperial supply lines was noticeable, for which many a Imperial officer would be grateful. In the end, it was a relatively comfortable post with little risk. With the posting, Kuras took the time to acquire influence, resources and supporters. His Kuati heritage made him a popular figure in the sector and his position ensured he could curry favor with the various dockyards in the Oversector and the Imperial Admiralty who desired swift access to repairs, ships and replenishment. It was here that Kuras had come to desire a more prestigious posting in the Empire. That of Grand Moff of the Kuati over-sector, a position that would make him one of the most powerful men in the Empire.

But even with political capital and a long, somewhat successful naval career, Kuras required extraordinary circumstances, before he could petition Imperial High Command for such a prestigious commission. An opportunity to this extent would later arise when the Alliance to Restore the Republic launched what would later be called the Mid Rim Offensive. Kuras, at this point the rank of Moff, noticed an opportunity when he saw one. He arranged to be given a leading position on the strategic planning of the defense. Using his connections and knowledge of the over-sector, he arranged a complex fighting retreat across the region. A strategy that, Initially, received multiple complaints declaring it foolish and cowardly.

But due to Kuras' machinations, the rebellious fleet and their assembled ground forces soon found themselves overstretched and struggling to maintain cohesion across a front that spanned dozens of sectors. It was then that Moff Kuras launched a well prepared counter-offensive that wreaked havoc on the overstretched elements of the rebellion fleet. With their ground forces deployed and engaged with Orbital fortresses and Imperial garrisons Kuras had well-supplied during his initial and well planned retreat, rebel fleets often had to either fight to the death, in an attempt to evacuate their ground based comrades or abandon hundreds, if not thousands of rebel forces engaged on the surface. With this campaign culminating in the re-pacification of dozens of sectors and a crippling blow to the first large scale offensive the rebellion had launched in the civil War, Kuras had finally assembled all the necessary political capital required to establish himself as Grand Moff of the Kuati oversector.

But here, Kuras would find himself in a frustrating position. He had plans and ambitions with his new posting as Grand Moff, overseeing the prestigious worlds of Kuat and Rendilli. Ever since his commission as a Liaison officer, he had hoped to adjust the doctrine of the Imperial fleet, which he found lacking and inefficient. But his commentary on overall Imperial Fleet doctrine and his proposed amendments to fleet composition and which construction projects were to receive priority, were often overruled or shot down by such people as Grand Moff Tarkin himself or other members of Imperial High command. And worryingly, it seemed his ideas were not only unpopular with Grand Moff Tarkin or elements of Imperial High Command, but even the Emperor himself...

Were it not for the disastrous battle of Endor his continued and unpopular commentary on the issues of the Tarkin doctrine would have likely ensured his replacement with a less critical Moff before long. But with the Emperor, Lord Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin dead, nor anyone else of sufficient rank to depose him officially, Grand Moff Kuras was left to his own devices, for better or worse.