Beorn Andariusen

Beorn Andariusen was a male officer in the  and.

Early life
Born on the ice planet of to an impoverished family, Beorn Andariusen enlisted in a regional military school at the start of the  as he believed it was the only way to improve his position in the socioeconomic hierarchy. The needed more officers to man the fleet at the start of the war and created a program for accelerated reserve officer training to be able to mobilise more officers to the front. Joining the program, Andariusen completed military school and entered the at age 16, in 20 BBY.

Andariusen's grades were average and placed him in the middle of his class, but he gained particular notoriety during the "New Order Challenge" war games that were run at the Academy in a collaboration with the and designers at. The purpose was to test several next generation warship models, including the new models of s, while simulating a "likely" scenario — a Separatist offensive in the. Andariusen was on the "red" or Separatist team during the war game, and managed to destroy a Star Destroyer and sixteen other "blue" or Republic team warships within the first two days. He used an asymmetric strategy and older methods in order to evade their electronic sensors. This included using messenger shuttles for communications to evade surveillance or jamming; and small scout ships to determine the position of the enemy fleet. He used concentrated blitzkrieg groups of small ships with firepower, such as gunships and torpedo spheres, with a swarm of missiles to overwhelm the Blue Star Destroyer's electronic sensors and destroy its bridge. Following the destruction of the Star Destroyer, the armada of small Red ships Andariusen put together then took out other Blue warships with both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's overconfidence in its defenses against smaller ships.

Had it occurred in a real battle, the result would have been hundreds of thousands of Republic casualties and a defeat. The result of the war games shocked the KDY designers and the War College officers, who had expected a Republic victory. Andariusen meanwhile earned a reputation as a strategic genius among the cadets and instructors, but at the same time made himself unpopular with the who thought that the war games would validate their "big ships big guns" doctrine. Still, the Arkanian cadet gained the attention of several other senior naval officers that observed the war games for his ingenuity, among them Captain.