User:Kgunzer
Only child of a ranking engineer in Kuat, heir to large fortune and business operation, orphaned at a very young age after the empire seized control of Kuat's ship production facilities. Brought up to the care of trusted servant after the imperial forces drove off those that resisted the taking, Kru's parents were forced in labor mines while Kru, grew up in the junk yards learning a rough trade of ferrying scraps and material to and from shipyards around Kuat.
He grew a reputation for succesfully comandeering condemned ships that are no longer spaceworthy. He has the cunning ability to make possible things that by normal calculation, impossible. This reputation, nearly cost him his life which led him to the Imperial fold. Served in the Imperial fleet for four years as a well decorated fighter pilot but later retreating to a less exposed service as his rank increased. With the Empire expanding, he gained higher status in the Imperial Navy and got promoted to Commodore and began commanding small starships of the Imperial Navy.
As he gained higher rank, his assignment grew and this exposed him to a chain of secret Imperial activities. This led him to the discovery of the fate of his forebears he secretly started looking for disgruntled or maltreated personnel who shares the same contempt with the Empire in the Imperial ranks. He gains the loyalty of some personell, notably, Captain Aires Briggs who he saved in an mis-encounter with a suspected Rebel stronghold that turned out to be pirates. They thought of staging a coup to overthrow the Imperial command but it was too risky as their number is insufficient to overthrow the Imperial Navy and they have no means nor the upper hand to do such a feat. However, the number of angry officers and servicemen begins to grow and the threat of being discovered becomes imminent. It was through this scheming that he was able to contact General Zaarin and convince him of test flying TIE-Phantom to try out in a manuverability test on an asteroid feild. The TIE-Phantom's reputation then of being unreliable gave him the opportunity to fly the craft in an uncharted sector of the asteroid feild, eject and leave the TIE-Phantom's for a salvage craft to later disect and learn of it's capabilities and make it more reliable in space combat. During the debriefing, he blamed faulty controls and navigational instability led to its demise. Secretly, he ordered the craft disassembled, and prepared for cataloguing and thought of ways of improving the craft.
His loss of the intial TIE-Phantom never gave him another chance of piloting the same craft except on the when