abstract
| - Auxin Valerius is the current Executive Officer of the I2SD Inquisitor. A tactician by specialization, and previously the strategist behind a hunter-killer capital-popping cruiser squadron, Valerius' novel tactics often draw questioning eyes from his superiors, but on balance he generally achieves his objectives with resounding success when left to his own devices. A self-taught hacker (in the colloquial terms of 'one who dismantles down to its core components to understand how something works', rather than simply an author of malicious code) and student of game theory, his original profession was that of a professional holostrat gamer, playing games designed atop the an old Republic software codebase originally designed for military simulations. Indeed, the game was played widely and fondly by many budding strategists of the time, a sort of chess for them--but it wasn't without its popular aspect as well. While on Nar Shadaa to provide live commentary and analysis for a game, in 15 BBY Valerius found himself in the middle of an Imperial blockade and planned destruction of the planet under the direction of the Sector Moff, who had a dispute with the Hutts; the mercenaries hired by the Hutts to repel the Imperial fleet approached Valerius to provide them with strategic advice. Left with the choice of probably dying on the planets surface, and doing something that would forever haunt him, he chose the latter, and in his first taste of real-life naval warfare, directed the small mercenary fleet to the complete destruction of the two star destroyers. Afterwards, he returned home to Coruscant, and applied to the Naval Academy to start his career.
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