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| - Captain Tesserian came to the Exarchate of Eriadu after a long period of service to both the Empire and the Imperial Republic. Captain Tesserian's service record shows his first assignment as an Imperial Navy Officer and tie Avenger class pilot was along the southern rim, serving under the command of Moff Ravyne Rayne. Based in Mos Eisley, Captain Tesserian fought in many battles against rebellious imperials and local pirate forces. After his service on Tatooine, Captain Tesserian was assigned to naval patrols along the Kessel - Nar Shaddaa corridor flying interdiction missions. It was here Captain Tesserian was captured by Black Sun Pirates and forced to ingest various spices, including glitterstim red spice and the notorious Rakian-D. Although rescue soon followed, this episode left Captain Tesserian's mind ravaged, and he was discharged from the Imperial service. Parlaying his knowledge of the southern trade lanes, Captain Tesserian emerged as the head of a large merchant fleet. After serving briefly as a trade representative to the Talmerith Dynasty on Coruscant, Captain Tesserian left the Imperial service to serve the Velmor-Onderon dual monarchy of Queen Hyacinth. Serving twice as Trade Minister on Onderon, Trade Minister Tesserian helped the Port of Iziz recover her place as Jewel of the Perlemian after the the Empress Talmerith's Onderon Crusade. It was during this period that Captain Tesserian began to suffer delusions related to his former misadventure with the Black Sun Pirates. His behavior followed a pattern typical to those suffering from glitterstim and Rakian psychosis. Believing he had received telepathic messages guiding him to the fabled "Ancient Spice Empire," Captain Tesserian constructed an elaborate hallucination in which he had found fabled lost cities and led a Jedi Crusade. Recuperating on Zonama Sekot, Captain Tesserian underwent basic Jedi training to help him master the latent force potential that had been awakened as an after effect of his exposure to Rakian-D. Fully recovered, Captain Tesserian was assigned to the Eriadu Central Bureaucracy to help revive Eriadu's fortunes as a once great trade center. Presiding over several key development projects as well as excavations along the ancient Banthastraat, Exarch Tesserian hastened Eriadu on the road to economic recovery. Captain Tesserian was later deposed as Exarch of Eriadu by elements of the ECB and the Metus Imperia, which had come to power within the ECB in their role as Adjudicators. During the time of Captain Tesserian's exile on Bespin, Autocrators Rannik Nurr and Trevor Ashdene came to the fore of the ECB. To stabilize trade, the Eriadu Trade Board, composed at the time of many different trade concerns, the Coruscanti Sector H-88 Branch of the Banking Clan and several Ralltiir Neimoidian Accounting Groups ("NAG"), pushed forward for control of trade regulations within the entire lower Hydian region. To counter their moves, the Metus Imperia and Autocrator Ashdene revived Eriadu's traditional role as Regional Imperial Capital. During this time, Captain Tesserian launched a discreet, private investigation into the so-called Sith attack on his person and his removal as Exarch, believing both had been engineered by his former protege, Autocrator Ashdene. After recovering on Bespin, Captain Tesserian joined forces with the embattled Queen Nepthyss of Bakura, being appointed Bakuran Trade and Commerce Minister. From this position Captain Tesserian brought significant trade revenue to Bakura and New Tibannopolis, as well as solidifying his contacts with the now agitated Eriadu Trade Board, dominated by the Banking Clan and several Neimoidian Accounting Groups. The events surrounding Captain Tesserian's deposition occured immediately following the death of Huttila the Hutt, and immediately before the departure of the Revenant Armada from Coruscant and the resignation of PGA Chancellor Rimzy Baudin. After the overthrow of Autocrator Ashdene by the Eriadu Trade Board's First Droid Corp, and the subsequent assassination of Autocrator Ashdene on Tatooine, Captain Tesserian began to regain his influence within the Eriadu trade board, using his contacts on Bakura to further his program of regional consolidation. This portrayal is quiet different from that offered by the Historian of Ossus, who writes: While a monograph contained in the work "History of the Later Onderon Dynasties" reflects the following: Captain Tesserian was an experienced freighter Captain plying the spice trade across the known galaxy. Captain Tesserian's "Spice fleet" maintained as many as 544 ships trading in various spices, exotics and sundries from the unknown regions to Kessel space. Captain Tesserian was born on Ekazi at the edge of the unknown regions near New Kashi space. Indentured into the spice fleet by his mother at an early age, Tesserian was accustomed to a nomadic existence, including long periods in transit on the galactic hyperspace runs. After becoming an officer on the Nomad, a Z-35 type Questor-class freighter, then navigator second-class Tesserian saved the Nomad over Tatooine after coming under fire by trigger happy Imperial tie-fighters. Unfortunately, the Captain of the Nomad was killed in the attack, and the Nomad rendered inoperative. After living a hand-to-mouth existence in Mos Eisley, Tesserian joined the very Imperial Fleet that had killed his own Captain aboard the Nomad. Tesserian rose quickly through the ranks, becoming an Avenger-class tie-fighter pilot and participating in many battles under the command of Moff Ravyn Rayn. His nerves shattered by constant fighting in the southern regions, Tesserian began to partake of various spices, at first to develop forbidden visionary and telepathic powers, and then out of pure addiction. The situation was made worse when Tesserian was pulled off of combat status after an increasing number of "incidents" and assigned as an undercover Imperial Agent investigating the very spice fleet he had been a part of several years before. Little is known of Tesserian's supposed undercover activities- "Captain" Tesserian reemerged several years later when he is recorded making a multi-lateral agreement with rogue imperials, the xenophobic KamRain, and the Black Sun Syndicate- an agreement giving the spice fleet exclusive shipping rights to glitterstim red spice being mined in the asteroid field formed by the remains of Kessel's Garrison moon after it was destroyed by the Death Star prototype during field testing. By this time Captain Tesserian was in command of nearly a dozen vessels in the spice fleet and seems to have secured a great deal of backing from unknown sources. Seeking a veneer of legitimacy, Captain Tesserian became a Trade Representative in the Imperial Senate on Coruscant, but was ejected due to his involvement with a shadowy movement dedicated to restoring the Galactic Republic. After his ejection from the Senate, Captain Tesserian joined forces with the Court of Velmor, loaning out ships of the spice fleet to rescue refugees from Vjun during the Vjun War, as well as transporting strategic supplies to Velmor, and later to House Onderon when the Queen of Velmor, Hyacinth Janick, ended the dynastic dispute on Onderon by selflessly taking the throne for herself. Tesserian followed Queen Hyacinth into service on Onderon, being named a minor Lord of House Hyacinth. It is rumoured that Captain Tesserian received several highly lucrative trade deals for services rendered. After the Fall of Onderon, Captain Tesserian disappeared once again, along with many members of the Royal Court of Onderon. A "Royal Court of Onderon in Exile" surfaced briefly, only to collapse into factional strife over issues of accomodation and resistance to the Empire. Rumours continued to build that Captain Tesserian had begun to parlay revenue from the spice trade into hiring commerce raiders to attack merchant ships and cargo freighters bound for the galactic core, while simultaneously financing numerous independent freighters and small shipping groups to carry much needed fuel and food supplies to planets all along the outer rim. Captain Tesserian also became the target of several criminal investigations sparked by InterGalactic Banking Clan allegations that the Banking Guild financial computer network had been sliced by operatives from the Black Sun Syndicate. Many mercantile groups expressed concern that the allegations were part of a campaign by the Empire to discredit former members of the Court of Onderon who had not bowed down to the Empire, as well as extend Imperial control over the Banking Clan's financial apparatus. These charges were abruptly dropped following a sudden rise in the stock of the Coruscant Sector-88 Intergalactic Banking Clan Group.
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