User:Brandon Rhea

"I do, as a matter of fact, write these stories more for the fans of Star Wars than I do myself, though I cannot deny having a sense of pride when I write them."

- Brandon Rhea

Brandon Rhea, also known as “Jedimasterbac” or simply “Bac”, is a Star Wars writer best known for his Alternative Star Wars Saga. He has been a member of the online Star Wars community since June, 2004 and has been able to make a name for himself ever since. He is an Administrator on TheStarWarsRP.com and Fi-Sci.Com, as well as the Head Administrator and Head Writer on Sequel-Trilogy.Net. He is also a two-time and current VIP on TheForce.Net. On Star Wars Fanon, he has been User of the Week, has served as a High Priests and is currently a member of the Decreton Lords.

In his outside life, Brandon Rhea is a college freshman at Raritan Valley Community College and an Eagle Scout from BSA Troop 62 in Flemington, New Jersey. He is a Brotherhood Honor member of Sakuwit Lodge 2 where he has recently completed his term as Lodge Chief. He is also the Vice-Chief of Order of the Arrow Section NE-2B, serving Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern and Central New Jersey, Long Island and all of Europe.

Early Life/Rhea Legacy
Brandon Patrick Keylan Rhea was born on March 7, 1989 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has lived in Raritan Township, New Jersey for his entire life and has attended Francis A. Desmares Elementary School, Robert Hunter Elementary School, Reading-Fleming Middle School and, currently, Hunterdon Central Regional High School. He will be attending Raritan Valley Community College in the Fall of 2007 where he will eventually transfer to either Drew University or Rutgers University. After college, he hopes to go to Law School and eventually become a politician. His life-long goal is to become President of the United States. Regardless of the legacy he leaves as President, he will always remember the legacy of his family before his birth.

Congressman John Rhea was a 19th Century politician, serving in the United States House of Representatives as the Chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads during the tenth through the thirteenth Congresses and a member of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary War claims during the fifteenth through the seventeenth Congresses.

Jack Rhea, Brandon’s paternal grandfather, served in the United States Army during World War II, holding the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Jack fought on Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day and was awarded for his heroic actions during the Battle of the Bulge. He received two Purple Hearts during the war. Later on, Jack went on to become a professional Scouter, serving as the Director of Camping at Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico, where Brandon’s father grew up, and later as the Assistant Chief Scout Executive of Operations for the Boy Scouts of American, essentially making him second-in-command of the organization. Jack and Bart, as well as his brother Ron, are Eagle Scouts.

On his maternal side, Brandon’s great-grandfather Patrick Keelan, whose name inspired half of Brandon’s name, was the fire chief of Elizabeth, New Jersey. His son Thomas, Brandon’s maternal grandfather, also served during World War II in the United States Navy. Thomas helped build the ramp that launched the Enola Gay when it bombed Hiroshima during the final days of the war in the Pacific. Brandon’s maternal grandmother’s brother in law, Fred, was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 when it was attacked by the air and naval forces of the Empire of Japan.

Boy Scouts of America
In 2000, Brandon joined Boy Scout Troop 194 in Flemington where he advanced to the rank of Life Scout. Positions he held in Troop 194 include, but are not limited to, Patrol Leader and Troop Guide. In 2004, he transferred to Boy Scout Troop 62, also in Flemington, due to outspoken issues he had with the adult leadership of Troop 194. In Troop 62, Brandon advanced to the rank of Eagle Scout and held positions such as Assistant Senior Patrol Leader and Senior Patrol Leader.

Also in 2004, Brandon was inducted into Sakuwit Lodge 2 of the Order of the Arrow, the National Honor Society of the Boy Scouts of America, as an Ordeal Honor member. He became a member of the Sakuwit Lodge Executive Committee only five months later. His first position was that of the Chief of the old Pahaquarra Chapter, serving as the order’s regional representative in Hunterdon and Warren Counties. The next year, when the three chapters became six, Brandon was the regional representative in Hunterdon as the Chief of the Lenape Chapter. That year, he also served as the Lodge Ordeal Committee Chairman, planning and overseeing the induction of new members. In June, 2006, Brandon was elected the Chief of Sakuwit Lodge, overseeing the entire lodge that serves all of Central New Jersey. In 2007, Brandon chose not to run for re-election and Randy Breingan Jr. was elected his successor. Brandon has also actively served on the Council of Chiefs of Section NE-2B, the order’s organization that serves eastern Pennsylvania, northern New Jersey, Long Island and all of Europe. At the 2007 Section NE-2B Conclave, Brandon was elected Section Vice-Chief where he will oversee the Lodge Assistance Program. As a member of the Order, Brandon was able to attend the National Order of the Arrow conference, joining 10,000 other Arrowmen at Michigan State University in August, 2006 for the largest gathering of Order of the Arrow members in history. It is interesting to note that Brandon’s father was also a Lodge Chief and that he was bestowed with the Vigil Honor, an honor Brandon hopes to be bestowed with sometime in the future.

Sequel-Trilogy.Net
Sequel-Trilogy.Net started out as a collaboration between Brandon Rhea, Michael Jones and Gregg Tasoulas. Their intention was to create a site that acted as if the Original Star Wars Trilogy had never been created, meaning that the only Star Wars films out there would have been the Prequel Trilogy. The dates for the first three films were the same (1999, 2002, 2005), but then they wrote up press releases, acting as George Lucas, saying that Episode IV would be released in 2008. The intention of this site was never to deceive anyone, unlike SuperShadow.Com, but rather to give readers a look at what spoilers for Episode IV might have looked like. This idea died a slow and painful death. However, they soon decided to change the focus of the site to general Star Wars news and Fan Fiction.

The Alternative Star Wars Saga
Brandon and Gregg decided to begin writing an Alternative Trilogy, an alternate universe Star Wars Trilogy, but because of conflicting ideas they began writing separate stories. Gregg decided to stick with just Episode IV - Episode VI, but Brandon decided to expand the saga and write Episode IV - Episode IX, the first of the two trilogies being an entirely original storyline. There were many bumps in the road, and at one point Brandon and Gregg were fired from Sequel-Trilogy.Net. While they were gone, a new staff member named Eric Giordmaina was brought in. Gregg eventually disappeared, but Brandon came back to the site after mending his friendship with Michael Jones, both of them decreeing the entire ordeal as one big misunderstanding. However, when he returned, he learned that Michael was planning something big.

Fi-Sci.Net
For months, Michael Jones had dreamed about creating a Science Fiction/Fantasy website. Michael, Eric and Brandon eventually made that dream a reality. They called this reality Fi-Sci.Net

Soon, Eric began to quickly make a name for himself in the film industry. Taking over the role as Chief News Editor, Eric began to make handy contacts within the industry. Under the leadership of Michael, Fi-Sci.Net is becoming the one stop shop for all your Sci-Fi/Fantasy needs. Because there are writers from the United States, Great Britain and Australia, the entire globe is covered 24/7.

The Star Wars RP
When Brandon was fired from ST.N for a month or so, a man named Steven Alldis, who had already made a name for himself, offered him a job. He would co-operate a site called "The REAL SuperShadow", a site that exposed the lies of Mickey Suttle, aka. SuperShadow. Along with this, Brandon was made a moderator of TheStarWarsRP, a site hosted at ProBoards. Weeks later, Steven decided that regular modship was not a suitable job for Brandon, so he promoted him to the level of Global Moderator. In July 2005, when it was decided a new Administrator was needed, Steven chose Brandon for the position, a position where Brandon has now earned the respect of the entire site.

In November 2005, the members moved from their ProBoards site to an Invision based site called TheStarWarsRP.Com where Brandon continues to serve as an Administrator.