One of the Tribune's first assignments was to work with the Sith Lara Grayson to 'free' Venus Dekan from Caspian hands. It was here that Korolov and Grayson set off a bomb in Fountain Square that filled the fountain with millions of soap bubbles to distract the Caspian authorities from their true objective, Venus Dekan. With the Imperial Consort in tow, the pair made their way back to Korolov's ship Praetorian and returned to Imperial space. Emperor Valak liked how the pair worked together and sent them off to the Imperial fleet to assist Warlord Jarl Rellik in his campaign against the New Republic, aboard the flag ship HIMS Emperor Valak. While aboard, Korolov and Grayson were able to prevent a coup staged by a renegade Imperial Tech and an army of battle droids he had cobbled together. S