Name: Alcander Caedmon

Profession:  Colonel, Galactic Federal Navy (GFN), Naval Intelligence Division (NID).
Current Assignment: Commander, Special Operations Group (SOG) 42.

Aliases: Colonel Caedmon, Al, Alc

Species/Homeplanet: Human/Corellia

Age: 38

Height: 185cm (6'1")

Weight: 99kg (220lbs.)

Hair: dark brown

Eyes: green

Aura: goldish yellow

Family:

• Iella Brahe Caedmon, Ph.D., age 38 -- wife (married 9 years)
• Melanah Caedmon, age 8 -- daughter
• Zeven Caedmon, age 6 -- son
• Erisi Caedmon Drayson, Commander, GFN, age 30 --  sister
  • Current Assignment: NID, SOG 42; CO, Squadron VI-1138
• Rayf Drayson, Commander, GFN, age 30 -- brother-in-law
  • Current Assignment: NID, SOG 42; CO, Squadron VI-2641
• Jenica Drayson, age 2 -- niece
• Tycho Brahe, M.D., age 34 -- brother-in-law

Description: Alcander is a very intelligent and well-educated man in his late thirties with a sharp, satirical wit and a generally easy-going attitude. He has another side to him, however: a driven, pragmatic and cerebral part of his personality. His wife and his friends call it his "Secret Agent" personality. When engaging in his job as an intelligence operative, or when doing a task he considers an important duty, such as running his fighter squadron, he is strictly business. He is supremely pragmatic, very focused, and sometimes intensely serious.

Clothing: Galactic Federal Navy uniform (some variation) is normal. Sometimes wears dark brown leather bomber jacket, especially when out of uniform and keeping a low profile.

Other distinguishing marks/traits/habits: Thin, closely-trimmed beard and mustache. Known for his sharp, satirical wit and normally easy-going nature.

Weapons: Orange bladed lightsabre with simple black and chrome handle; one thin, streamlined heavy plasma pistol in underarm holster. Plasma pistol is of a simple, blocky design specifically shaped for quick draw from secure holsters with a black matte finish. It is a little ugly, but powerful, accurate, and very effective.

Discipline: Jedi (Jedi Knight, de facto Master), and Rori techniques; fighter pilot and Naval Intelligence operative.

Notable Skills: An extremely skilled and talented natural and trained pilot, Alcander is equally at home in the cockpit of a starfighter or the bridge of a transport, and could be possibly be ranked among the best pilots in the galaxy. As a Jedi, his strengths lie in control of his senses and bodily functions, and especially in telekinesis. In fact, he is perhaps one of the most powerful telekinetics in the entire Jedi Order, melding Rori techniques into his study of the Force to be capable of amazing feats with his telekinesis. In addition, he is highly skilled with a lightsabre, though he'll refuse to admit as such.  He has also dabbled in the esoteric Corellian art known as "The Way of the Gun," and has developed a keen grasp of space and land battle tactics.

Bio:  Alcander is from Corellia, one of the first wave of human colonies settled after the outbreak of the Wars, after humans had developed/acquired faster-than-light capability. As a Corellian, his sensitivity to the Force is a relative rarity. Thus, he was not detected as being Force-sensitive until he was in his early twenties. Alcander's mother was an engineer with the Corellian Engineering Corporation, where she designed and built new starship prototypes.  Which his father, a test pilot for CEC, tested.  Alcander and his younger sister, Erisi, were soon learning to fly and repair starships under their parents' supervision before they knew how to walk.   Alcander also had an extended family of sorts in the Roons, a Selonian family.   Jenathera Roon was another engineer at CEC, and Al's mother's best friend, and Jorl Roon was a test pilot with Al's father, and was his best friend.  The Roons and the Caedmons raised their children together, with each set of parents acting as surrogate second parents to the others' children.  Karimena Roon is Alcander's age, and the two were inseperable while in primary and secondary school, as close as siblings.  Brolle Roon is a like a younger brother to Alcander and older to Erisi, and Serafina Roon, two years Erisi's junior, is a like a younger sister to both of them.  Alcander's childhood was fairly ordinary, despite his learning to pilot and repair a starship when most children were still figuring out how to tie their own shoes.  This exposure to the adventure of space travel had an impact on the young Corellian.  He was attracted to the allure of it all, and thus he spent his teens studying and dabbling in the esoteric Corellian martial art called "The Way of the Gun," an incredible technique that was made famous in holodramas for the sheer poetry of its violence.

When Alcander was old enough, he put his natural piloting skills to work by buying a second-hand space transport and heading out into the spacelanes as a pilot for hire.   After several months of living life from spaceport to spaceport and charter to charter, Alcander wound up working for Nyphot Shipping Company, run by Tony M. Nyphot and his family.  He made many friends there, among them Eric Nyphot, heir to the family business only a few years older than Alcander, and Tony Nyphot himself.  He also met Iella Brahe, a beautiful down-on-her-luck spacer who came to work for Nyphot Shipping as a mechanic.  Alcander and Iella hit it off almost immediately, and for several months, close to a year, they were in an increasingly serious relationship.  But they were both young, and stupid, and both felt the pull of "adventure."  Iella was the one to break off the relationship, as she had finally saved enough to purchase her own light transport and felt an acute sense of wanderlust.  Alcander was devastated, and spent the next month in a funk, until Eric Nyphot yanked him out of it by firing him (for his own good, Eric said, and Alcander realized later).

Back in the spacelanes again, Alcander spent the next few months living life from charter to charter.  His his life changed dramatically when he took a charter to ferry a Jedi Master named Oorin Krell to the Jedi Academy on Earth. It was Krell who detected the young Corellian's rare Force sensitivity and suggested that Alcander spend a few days at the Academy when they arrived.  He was 22 years old.  The rest is history. In three quick years, Alcander was a fully-trained probationary Jedi Knight. His skills in telekinesis and bodily and sensory control and enhancement were impressive, and his acceptance of the Jedi philosophies -- especially those of the cosmic Jedi -- was equally impressive, considering how alien they were to his previous lifestyle as a rough-and-tumble spacer.  He immediately started going on missions for the Jedi Academy on Earth, blending his experience and skills as a spacer and his abilities with the Force to prove a valuable asset for the Jedi Order.  Alcander was part of a team of Jedi from the JAE that took down a fledling Sith warlord from the southern fringe of the galaxy, and another that foiled a plot by a renegade Sith crime lord from the Shadow Sun syndicate.  His successes piled up, and within two years, he was officially granted the title of Jedi Knight.

At the end of those idyllic five years, however, everything changed yet again. The Children of Grendok, a new organization of Sith warlords from the northern fringe of the galaxy, stole a Ranyan doomsday device.  Alcander led the team of Jedi who investigated the Ranyan device, while other Jedi from the JAE took it upon themselves to find the Children and the device and stop them before they enacted whatever they had planned.  Alcander found that a Martian weapons manufacturer built the doomsday device illegally, and gave this information to the press and law enforcement agencies.   In the process, he learned just what the device was capable of doing, and knew he had to help stop it.  By that time, the Terran Jedi Council had learned from other teams of Jedi that the Children were planning on using the device to destroy as much of Coruscant, the Federal capital, as they could.  Alcander took command of a fighter squadron during the ensuing battle, but abandoned his command to infiltrate the device and help the Jedi assault team take it down.  The ensuing battle with the remaining Sith warlords on the station/device was one of the most harrowing and terrifying experiences in Alcander's life.  Especially when he caught a glimpse of just what he was capable of doing with the Force.

Alcander was furious at the Council's decisions during the whole fiasco, or total lack thereof in most cases, and his fear from the battle on the station only exacerbated his general state of emotional turmoil.  Unable to cope with the poor leadership in the Order, as he saw it, and with is own doubts and fears, he turned in his lightsabre and robes the next week. He left the Jedi Academy on Earth in his new transport, a heavily modified Corellian Engineering YV-100, along with his V2-series pilot droid Yoke, and headed back out into the spacelanes that had once been his home for so many years.

Things were different this time. He no longer had the stomach for the old spacer's life. Feeling mentally and spiritually adrift, he wandered from spaceport to spaceport, not really taking an interest, and in a deeper funk than he had been all those years ago.   Not even Eric Nyphot, his best friend from his pre-Jedi days, could lift his spirits.  It was during this time that he met up with an old flame of his during his days as spacer: Iella Brahe, now an independent trader. They fell in love all over again and were married within four months. They now have two children: a daughter, Melanah, 8, and a son, Zeven, 6.

Shortly after meeting Iella for the second time, they formed a new business, Brahe Shpping, which was originally based out of Alcander's YV-100, the Notlob II, as Iella's ship was an unsalvageable wreck.  Iella continues to run the company, which is now quite a successful small shipping company, owning 6 light transports and 2 bulk transports, and employing 15 pilots and 20 mechanics.  Alcander accepted a commission in the Galactic Federal Navy as a Commander, and took command of a fighter squadron. He took his squadron on patrol along the border with Mal'kith's small empire, keeping a constant vigil. After six months, the Naval Intelligence Division found out about his training and experience as a Jedi, his part in uncovering the links to the Ranyan doomsday device and the Martial weapons manufacturer, and his years of experience in the galactic underworld. They offered him a job. He accepted, and his squadron was reassigned to detached duty based on Coruscant, the capital of the Galactic Federation.  Meanwhile, Alcander and Iella, now married, used the steady income from his military career to send Iella back to school, where, within 3 years, she had earned her Ph.D. in starship engineering.

Alcander spent the next couple years coming to terms with the myriad of experiences and training he had received over the decades of his life. He built a new lightsabre and renewed practice with it. He combined Jedi investigatory techniques with intelligence training, and he used his Jedi skills in sensory and bodily control to improve his piloting skills to near-mythic quality. At the same time, he worked to improve his already impressive telekinesis by practicing Rori techniques he was taught by Telti Hok, a Rori "master" whom he had befriended, oddly enough, through his intelligence work.

As Alcander grew back into accepting his Jedi self again, he renewed his affiliation with the Jedi Order, at least the Jedi Academy on Earth, his old stomping grounds, and the spinoff Jedi Academy on Chandrilla that resulted from a minor split in the aftermath of the Children of Grendok affair.  He reunited with old friends from the Academy, especially Sah'ar Suntoucher, Aicerno OCathasaigh, and Dan Tam, who was now the founder and head of the Jedi Intelligence Agency (JIA), which reported directly to the Jedi Grand Assembly.  Three years ago, Alcander's troubleshooting squadron, as his fighter squadron was recreated to be, was merged into a larger Special Operations Group (SOG).   He was promoted to the rank of Colonel and given command of the Acheron, a completely refitted Vergesso-class troop transport, now sporting heavy cruiser armor and armament, two interceptor squadrons, support craft, and his original troubleshooting squadron as well as a second such squadron.  SOG 42 took nearly a year to setup, as the Acheron's refit took quite a while.  During that time, the NID brass assigned him to be the NID liason officer to Dan Tam's JIA, which brought Alcander to the attention of the Jedi Grand Assembly and its de facto leaders, the Elders.

When Alcander joined the NID and was given his troubleshooting squadron, one of the officers under his command was his own sister, Erisi Caedmon.  Erisi quickly rose to be his executive officer.  Three years ago, when the SOG was forming and a second squadron brought in, Erisi met Rayf Drayson.  They fell in love and were married rather quickly, and now have a daughter, Jenica, 2.  About 6 years ago, while Alcander was coming to terms with being a Jedi again, he realized that his sister, Erisi, had a good deal of potential with the Force.  Not as much as he had, but a fair amount; definitely Jedi-caliber.  He took it upon himself to begin her training, teaching her to touch the Force and then the use of basic Force techniques. Eventually, this led to further instruction as Alcander's own powers grew.  Now, Erisi Drayson is a probationary Jedi Knight, and has built her own lightsabre.  Recently, as of 2 years ago, he began instructing his daughter, Melanah, in the same fashion, though at a much slower pace.  Because of this, and because of his power and deep understanding of the Force, the Jedi Grand Assembly considers his a de facto Jedi Master, although they have yet to formally offer him the title.

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