Daniel Joseph Artenon

Daniel Artenon’s homeworld was the peaceful planet of Alderaan. His parents had taken their fifteen-year-old boy there to visit his maternal grandparents. Unfortunately, soon after their arrival, the Trade Federation began their planet wide blockade of Naboo, preventing anyone without authorization from leaving the planet. When the invasion began, young Daniels’s family was taken to Prison Camp Four with many other inhabitants. The prisoners of Camp Four were eventually rescued; but, sadly, due to the harsh, brutal conditions, his mother died of a disease that had spread rapidly through the cramped living quarters, and his father, who had suffered a severe leg injury when he tried to escape and find medical help for his wife, was forced to have both his leg amputated. His uncle, Valorus Artenon (a member of the Naboo Security Force), took care of both his nephew and his brother until he recovered. In that time, Valorus (Val-or-us) convinced his nephew to join the Naboo Security Force. At sixteen, Daniel joined the NSF, and, due to his keen, tactical mind, he rose to the rank of lieutenant within a year. Although a loyal denizen of the Republic, he joined the separatist movement. His reason was complicated – he saw the corruption that had begun to take hold on the senate, and wished to bring an end it. Count Dooku had promised him that the Confederacy of independent Star Systems would help to end corruption in the senate. When Daniel asked how this was true if when he had defended the Trade federation in the courts, Dooku explained that he was preserving the rights of the accused by defending them, no matter how greedy they were. But a few standard years after joining, Daniel began to notice common traits in those joining. The Banking Clan, the Commerce Guild, the Techno-Union: they had all joined for power and monetary gain, not to end corruption. When the Trade Federation was accepted with open-arms, the twenty five-year-old lieutenant stormed out of the room and left the Confederacy of Independent Star Systems, disgusted by the corruption that had bubbled to its surface. During the Clone Wars, he fought in several battles, and his victories elevated him to the rank of Captain. After the Clone Wars, during the rise of the Empire, Emperor Palpatine had the Imperial Military purged of all ranked officials still loyal to the Old Republic. To escape the purge, Captain Artenon returned to Alderaan to bring his father with him into hiding. Unfortunately, he arrived to find that his whole neighborhood had been wiped out, including his father. The Imperial garrison reported that it had been a ruptured fuel line to cover up for the rather messy assassination, mentioning nothing of the fact that Daniel’s father had been questioned as to his son’s location, nor the Pemacrete Detonators Clone Technitions had planted to eliminate the “threat” he presented to “Galactic Peace”. Deeply saddened, he traveled to Naboo and organized the existing resistance made of Republic soldiers and members of the NSF. Isolated from the Rebellion, the NSF remained on Naboo, working with local farmers and smugglers to shuttle resources and munitions to economically suppressed areas and resistance groups both on Naboo and to local star systems. Captain Artenon remained a leading figure in the resistance (and a pain in the backside to the Empire) throughout the Galactic Civil War.

This Character was created by Logan Felipe in April of 2005