Dorst Beordray

Dorst Beordray was an Imperial General, that served throughout the first war with the Galactic Interplanetary Alliance, and was in command of the elite, one hundred and sixty sixth Stormtrooper legion. He was a master tactician, that genuinely cared about his troops, and fought in Stormtrooper armour, even after his promotion to general. He beleived that a leader should not order his troops to do something he himself would not do.

Early life and career (12 BDK-1 BDK)
Born on the Imperial fortress world of Borosk, to a mid-level income family, Dorst watched Imperial stormtroopers during parades, and eventually aspired to join the Stormtrooper Corps. He joined the academy on Borosk, and quickly rose through the ranks of his fellow recruits. He impressed his instructors with his quick thinking, although he also took the time to strategize before launching attacks during training.

This cut down on the 'casualties' in his squad significantly, and he gradutated at the top of his class. His first assignment was on the planet Ciutric, which was engaged in a massive civil war. Despite the fact that neither the men of the 103rd Stormtrooper battalion nor his commanding officers believed the Imperials on the planet would prevail. The squad Dorst was assigned to was one of the first to land on the planets surface, and the intervening Imperial stormtroopers immediately drew the brunt of the two warring factions hatred.

The squads sergeant was killed by a sniper, and the corporal died saving his comrades by throwing himself on top of a thermal detonator. Dorst and the surviving seven men of the squad found themselves in an abandoned building, that been bombed during the opening days of the conflict. While the rest of the 103rd landed on the planet, Dorst took command of his fellows and managed to do a decent job of killing enemy snipers, and keeping the landing zone relatively clear, while the rest of the battalion disembarked from their transports. The major in command, Vance Gerral, was very impressed with the young stormtroopers perfomance, and promoted him to the rank of sergeant.

For the rest of the Corsest campaign, sergeant Dorst lead his squad, through several battles, fighting against both sides of the unruly populace, and sometimes both at once. However, despite all odds, he lead his quad through the guantlet of fire and managed to survive the war, and along with his squad and the rest of the 103rd, was sent off world. He had gained the respect of his entire battalion during the war on Ciutric, and was one of the youngest soldiers to recieve a medal of valour. However, he didn't flaunt the medal, and remained a humble, loyal stormtrooper.

Liare Crisis (1 ADK)
While patrolling the border of Imperial space, the star destroyer that played a mobile base to the 103rd, the Tyrannus was sabotaged by terrorists that had snuck aboard the destroyer during one of its stops. Apparently, the group was disenchanted with the Imperial crackdowns that had recently occured on their homeworld of Liare. To that end, they snuck aboard, and planted thermal explosives near the ships engines and weapons banks, intending to disable the ship, allowing their allies to launch an attack and, hopefully, destroy the Tyrannus and deliver their political message.

Sergeant Beordray, currently in the destroyers mess hall when the bombs detonated, immedately assembled his squad and commed the bridge for orders. To his surprise and distress, the stormtroopers communications were jammed, presumably by a device that the terrorists had smuggled aboard the star destroyer. Dorst met up with several fellow stormtroopers, and lead them against the terrorists on the ship, rallying ships crew, the destroyers trooper complement, and fellow 103rd stormtroopers along the way. After retaking the ship, Beordray and his squad met up with Major Gerral, but before they could sweep the Tyrannus for terrorist survivors, several light cruisers came out of hyperspace, and began attacking the star destroyer.

The Tyrannus' captain sent out a distress signal, as both the destroyers weapons and engines were still off line. Meanwhile, Beordrays' squad, and several other squads boarded one of the light cruisers using Imperial dropships. The Liarran dissidents, while fairly well equipped, lacked both the training and motivation to take on Imperial stormtroopers one on one. Within an hour of boarding the destroyer, the 103rd was in control, and the few terrorists on board had either been surrendered or been killed. Major Gerrall once again praised Dorst for his quick thinking and leadership, and had the troopers on board the cruiser open fire on their fellow cruisers. This both surprised and panicked the terrorist forces.

At the same time, the Imperial devastator class star destroyer, Wyvern, came out of hyperspace, and engaged the cruisers, destroying three of them. The rest of the ships were summarily destroyed between the Wyvern and the hijacked dissedent cruiser. After the battle, Major Gerral received orders to move on to Liare and deal the rebels there a final blow. Dorst and the men aboard the cruiser were shipped to the Wyvern which promptly left for the Liare system. Upon arriving at the system, the Wyvern destroyed several rebel vessels, before deploying the 103rd in dropships, near the capital city of Dun. As on Ciutric, Dorst and his squad were one of the first to hit the ground, and were promptly engaged by rebel troops. Corporal Lucius Dracus was shot in the shoulder.

While Dorst and two others of his squad covered the squad medic, an armoured ground speede arrived, and began firing at the 103rds landing zone. As the rebel forces consolidated around the improvised tank, the 103rd was slowly pushed back, until sergeant Beordray managed to destroy it with a thermal detonator. Dorst continued to fight on Liare for the better part of the year, with his squad that had become increasingly loyal, following him into what other Imperial commanders considered suicide, and emerging with zero casualties. Because of this, he was admired by the stormtroopers of the battalion, and many of the commanding officers came to respect him as well. After the Liare campaign was over, Dorst was promoted to captain.