Brunso Nelwart

Brunso Nelwart was a Republic and later Imperial officer from Coruscant.

History
Brunso was the son of a physician and a medical scientist. Upon coming of age, however, Brunso did not pursue his parents' path in medicine, and enlisted in the Republic Judicial Forces Academy to train as a starfighter pilot. He eventually passed the academy and was deployed to the Mandalore sector to fly an A-6 interceptor against insurgents and pirates in the Great Clan Wars. He evaded death several times during his deployment and managed to claim several Mandalorian lives in dogfights; during an air raid over a Mandalorian outpost, Brunso's interceptor was shot down and he was forced to stand his ground with a nearby Judicial Forces infantry unit for several days before being evacuated. During the evacuation, he was struck by a grenade launcher which caused significant damage to his right arm; he was forced to receive a cybernetic replacement and was honorably discharged from the Judicial Forces with several honors and commendations. Having barely achieved adulthood, Brunso "retired" on Coruscant where he took up work as a speeder mechanic.

This new career would not last long, however, as in 22 BBY he answered a call to be part of a transition to the experimental Republic Navy. He immediately gained the rank of lieutenant aboard an Arquitens-class light cruiser. For the first years of the war, the light cruiser patrolled in uncontested zones and saw little to no combat, however at the height of the war, the cruiser was attacked by a pirate warship, who was able to deploy infiltrators that managed to assassinate the ship's captain before being defeated by the ship's clone trooper guards. Brunso took command of the ship for the remainder of the battle and managed to damage the pirates' engine beyond repair, marking the system for inspection for nearby law enforcement and executing a tactical retreat. For this "victory", Brunso was promoted to replace the previous captain. The cruiser's operations would not be as uneventful as it was under the previous captain, as it was deployed to fight in the Mandalore campaign immediately after Brunso's promotion; Captain Brunso was chosen by his superiors for the operation because of his familiarity with fighting Mandalorians. The first few months of his deployment was spent in the Vorpa'ya system preventing foreign smugglers from resupplying local resistance groups. Eventually, Captain Brunso's cruiser