User:TrueSith'ari/Fleet Admiral Rajko

"And you, Admiral Patten, are openly provoking us by sending your scouts to spy on my ships at close range! We do not seek a confrontation with the NEF, but your provocative actions are uncalled for. Withdraw your scouts at once! As was explained to you before, this is a contested sector. The only information I am authorized to disseminate is that the RTSE is at war with the Gatekeeper's Shadow Empire and their puny TEC allies. There is more happening here than meets the eye, Admiral, and until Lord Darkon is able to speak with you himself, this is all the information you shall receive. For the moment, do not interfere with us, and we shall not interfere with you. Otherwise, we will be forced to take action!"

- Fleet Admiral Rajko issues a direct and unambiguous warning to the deceptive Grand Admiral Patten of the NEF after NEF scouts were detected spying on Rajko's RTSE fleet.

Fleet Admiral Rajko is a seasoned fleet admiral of the RTSE, a command veteran of many battles as the RTSE was still expanding across the Prime Galaxy. Until recently, he was the supreme commander of the entire RTSE fleet, until Lord Darkon granted command of his flagship, the Blood Sanctum, and its core Prime Fleet to his apprentice, Deathstrike. A capable strategist in the field, Rajko never takes any situation at face value, and is adept at anticipating his enemies actions in battle. Calculating and reserved, every action he takes is based on evaluation and assessment of the facts, and he never acts impulsively in the heat of battle. That is a marked difference in his command style, as opposed to that of Deathstrike, whose actions are frequently impulsive and instinctive. While such a logical, structured approach is an asset in static battle conditions, especially when facing a superior adversary, Rajko is slow to react to an abrupt shift in enemy battle tactics, since, refusing to act instinctively, he first has to evaluate the new situation logically. On the other hand, unlike Deathstrike, he will not overcommit his forces, or leave them potentially vulnerable at the worst possible moment in battle. This command style differences became very visible during the massive battle of the Akates System, where Fleet Admiral Rajko's forces were tasked with battling the TEC and SE fleets, having inferior technology, but vastly superior numbers. His structured battle tactics proved very effective in combating a numerically superior adversary that could outflank and outposition them at any moment, given the slightest mistake in the RTSE fleet disposition. Cool and calculating, Rajko did not make one, and his fleet suffered considerably fewer losses than the Prime Fleet, commanded by Deathstrike. Seeing an opportunity to persuade another new power to join the battle on RTSE side, the Terran Confederation, Fleet Admiral Rajko led his battlegroup to conduct negotiations, although he later had to send the rest of the ships in his group back to reinforce the rest of his fleet, in a difficult position. His flagship, the RTSE Zatornik, remained to continue negotiations with the TC, and was out of the blast radius when the Uberweapon seemingly exploded, annihilating the rest of Rajko's fleet still in close proximity to it. Later, the Zatornik managed to intercept and retreive a small vessels that fled the Uberweapon just as it exploded, and it was determined by the deep-scanning team aboard the Zatornik that both Lord Darkon and the Gatekeeper were aboard the mysterious ship. Later, they were proven correct, when Lord Darkon mysteriously reappeared, and led the Zatornik to the re-formed Uberweapon for another face-to-face with the Gatekeeper, leaving the Zatornik and its crew, along with Rajko, suspended in space-time by his power until vanishing to Kane's alternate dimension. At that moment, the Zatornik returned to normal time, and, not knowing what really happened, Fleet Admiral Rajko led a small team to assume temporary command of the nearby Blood Sanctum, abandoned when Deathstrike went to join her master aboard the Uberweapon. Both ships returned to RTSE space, and have undergone repairs. When Lord Darkon and Deathstrike returned, they reassumed command of the Blood Sanctum, while Fleet Admiral Rajko went back to his flagship, supervising the replenishment with new warships and reformation of his almost fully destroyed fleet.

Appearances

 * Dawnbreaker EP2: Shattered Worlds