Zork Dees

Zork Dees was a male Nuno government officer of the Golden Empire. He held positions in the Ministry of Diplomacy and Internal Affairs and Integration, as well as private sector employment, before becoming a political and diplomatic attache and aide to Royal Executor Breek Zagrev.

Biography
Born on Tebrejj in 116 ABY, Zork was the second child of a family that eventually grew to four children. He attended the University of Dolomir, after which he secured employment in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Integration. He worked as an Integration Specialist in several planets which had been absorbed from the control of the after that government was conquered in 137 ABY.

In 145 ABY, Zork left the Royal government to work as an associate director for the non-profit Center for Chiss Policy, a think tank which sought to incorporate Chiss technology and governmental elements into the Empire while retaining the distinct character of the Royal government. During his time with the Center, Zork completed his doctorate in public policy. In 148 ABY he was elected Director of the Center by its governing board.

In 152 ABY, Zork resigned his directorate to accept a managerial position in the Ministry of Diplomacy. His policy expertise allowed him influence over several campaigns to incorporate territory at the Empire's border, including lingering vestiges of the and the. Despite his relatively young age of thirty-seven, in view of his breadth and depth of experience, in 154 ABY Zork was offered a position as Breek Zagrev's attache. Though he was not the most senior of her coterie of advisors, his proximity to her on a daily basis, her focus on expanding the Empire's borders, and his subsidiary role as Kyriel Windrunner's political tutor made him one of the most influential members of her staff. He regularly accompanied Breek everywhere, and was present for everything from her conflict with Shaydow Tynblade to her negotiations with the P'w'eck Confederation.

Appearance and personality
Zork Dees stood 1.83 meters (6'0") tall, and had a somewhat portly build. He had the ghost-white skin with black spots common to Nunes, including a distinctive patch of black over the thumb and first two fingers of his left hand.  He usually dressed in comfortably professional robes, rarely wearing anything too snug.

Like all Nunes, Zork shied away from intense confrontation, but his experiences with the Royal government in border regions had toughened him up emotionally by the time he entered Breek Zagrev's service, and he was able to endure even strenuous and acrimonious debate without backing down. He did, however, usually absent himself from the bridge of the Valkyrie when it entered combat. He was conscious of the great honor being done him with his appointment as Breek's aide, and so he endured some of the more trying experiences of his post—including tutoring Kyriel Windrunner and the regularly undiplomatic commentary of Breek's military advisors and staff—with good humor.

Zork was generally considered an intelligent man by his peers, having earned both his undergraduate and graduates degrees with honors. Apart from his dissertation, he published occasionally in periodicals and journals devoted to political science and public policy.