Dan Eardornn

"The guy's got the heart of a droid and the mind of a muun. And I hate him for it!"

- Aanor

Dan Eardornn, nicnamed the Human Droid by Aanor, was a military commander who fought in the Clone Wars, the Jedi War and later the Galactic Civil War. Famous for his brutality and colorful collection of clone and stormtrooper battle armor, which he commonly wore instead of his officer's uniform, Eardornn became one of the most feared warriors in the Galaxy. He was also known for his anti-Jedi pholosephies and his willingness to go above and beyond Order 66, so that he could track down and kill dozens of Jedi Knights. Eardornn was born into a poor Coruscanti family and lived on the streets. However, his military genius and fighting skills were serve him well. Therefore he would live one the most powerful men in the universe. His death finally did come, during the Trelmark Mutiny. Thought betrayed and disgraced he would be remembered as great military leader. In his lifetime, Dan would serve as a Vigo in the Black Sun, a commander in the Grand Army and a Moff. These achievements were microscopic compared to his goals.

Ansestory
Dan, though few were aware of it, was a descendant of Mi Trelmark, the Supreme Chancellor during the Great Galactic Civil War. His great-great grandmother was Lady Malgra. Because of Trelmark's shameful death at Sam Palpatine's hands, Dan's family had fallen into disgrace. Therefore they married into the family of a business man, named Jack Eardornn, but he too went bankrupt.

Early Life and the Black Sun
Dan never knew his mother. He was raised by a group of space gypsies. From age twelve he lived in the streets of Coruscant. He learned how to defend himself and he was soon recruited by several street gangs. Eardornn's wanderings finally led him to the Black Sun, which at the time was controlled by Clawdite senator Tuuk Wessling, who skillfully used his political power as cover. Seeing the great wealth of Wessling, Eardornn began to lust for that same power. At that time the Black Sun began to battle rival company Bethzla InterGalactic Inc., led by Jalari gangster Mux Bethzla. When Black Sun agents learned that Bethzla was making large amounts of weapons in a Centax-2 war factory, Wessling staged an attack. The attack would be lead by Luhum Vigo, Huzzeek. Eardornn made sure that he was with Huzzeek. Dan then went into dangerous waters, when he informed Bethzla Inc. that the Sun would be attacking the factory from the north. However, he only gave them a part of the attack plan. Indeed the main assault would be to the north, but to the south Huzzeek, Dan and five others were to sneak in and assassinate Bethzla. As the Black Sun attacker were held back on the northern attack, Huzzeek and Eardornn, along with others, snuck through the back way. They stormed through Bathzla's office. Just as the Sun members were about the execute Bathlza Eardornn shot them all in the back. Bathlza was relieved and promised to reward Dan, however, Eardornn shot the crimelord in the chest, as he came to thank him. Then, using codes he obtained the Jalari's office, Eardornn order the Bethlza troops to retreat from the factory, winning the skirmish for the Black Sun. Instantly, Eardornn became a legend in the Underworld and when Wessling choose Huzzeek's replacement, no one was too surprised to see Eardornn get the job. As a Vigo, Dan Eardornn met Alexi Garyn, who took the young soldier under his wing. Later, Garyn would tell Eardornn of his plans to betray and replace Wessling. Eardornn, always looking for a way to get ahead, agreed to participate in the betray. In 35 BBY Wessling was traveling on his cruiser with those Eardornn had identified as loyalists. The ship exploded. Surprisingly Wessling served but he was stripped of power. Eardornn, now unofficially second-in-command of the Black Sun, was planning on killing Garyn. However, Dan underestimated Alexi's slyness. He was attacked by Black Sun mercenaries and robbed if his title. Though he escaped the assassination attempt, he went into hiding out of fear of the Sun.

Working for Uhilm Sarin
After being betrayed by the Black Sun Eardornn worked as a bounty hunter. At the unsettling time of the Separatist Crisis, Eardornn came under the pay role of Uhilm Sarin the cousin of the infamous Darth Maul. Upon learning the fate of his Sith cousin, Sarin was eager to enact revenge of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sarin hired Eardornn to kill Kenobi. Dan set out to hunt Obi-Wan. He followed the Jedi Master to Kamino Eardornn arrived too late to catch Obi-Wan, but he did discover the Grand Army being built. Eardornn realized that the clone army would soon become one of the greatest powers in the Galaxy. He investigated the clone army as the Clone Wars came upon the Galaxy. When Jedi Master Yoda summoned the clone troopers Eardornn disguised himself as a clone and went with the Grand Army to Geonosis.

Battle of Geonosis
Dan Eardornn was rushed into combat. As the droid army rained fire down on the clones, Eardornn went to work, securing his place in the war. He prevented aid from coming to his commanders, by knocking out Republic gun boats. After his officers were dead he helped defeat the Separatist forces, while his mates were stranded in the catacombs. For his bravery, Eardornn was given the rank of commander. When it was revealed that he was not a clone, he became a hero in the Republic. This was what he needed to move his plans for power along. Eardornn stayed on the former CIS capital to keep the native peoples from fighting the Republic behind their back. He was placed in command of fifty clone troopers and order to keep the peace. Looking for action, Commander Eardornn lead his force to a small Geonosisian village, which had surrendered to the Republic. Right before the attack, Dan had three HoloNet journalist executed for treason. He then marched into the village and killed two hundred men, women and larva. He then sent word to Coruscant that he had been victorious over a large force of rebels that had captured and murder the journalists. His upped him to full-fledge hero status.

Organic Lifeform Legion
"A fearful man is man I can do without."

- Dan Eardornn

Commander Eardornn returned to Republic space and organized the only non-clone legion of the war, the Organic Lifeform Legion. Dan spent the first year of the war training the Lifeforms, for he knew that if he was to be respected by the Commander-in-Chief his troops would have to be able to match the clones. When the troops were finally ready, he went with them on their first mission. The high command did not yet trust the Lifeforms, and therefore they were sent on, what was thought to be, an easy mission.

Battle of AKD-2387
They were to go to the lush moon of AKD-2387. The strategy was to show the Republic's force to the twi'lek colony, to keep the neutral moon from joining the CIS. However, when the Lifeforms arrived they were met with Separatist battle droids. The Legion was separated in the surprise attack on their transport. Eardornn tried to keep his men under control, but the unexperanced troops fled to the Sepratist laser fire. A missel destroyed the transport and hid. Not ready to give up, Commander Eardornn ordered his men to meet him. He first threatened them by saying that any man to again run would be shot for treason. He then began working on a plan to take the CIS ocean fort. That night the Sepratist commanders toasted their victory over the Republic. Meanwhile, the Oganic Lifeform Legion, disciezed as fishermen, crept closer to the fort. In a matter of seconds the droid sentries were dead and the Republic troops were storming the fortress, Eardornn at their head. With AKD-2387 taken, Eardornn and the Lifeforms became legends in their own time. Eardornn was given a metal by Chancellor Palpatine and the Lifeforms were comemnded by the Senate and the High Jedi Council.

Battle of Luhuma
As the droid army moved the planet Luhuma, home planet of the Luhum, Dan Eardornn was sent to secure the oceananic world. With the help of Luhum militia the Republic forces fortified the Luhuma cities and prepered for the attack. After a week with no sign of the CIS forces, Dan went to scout out the enemy. Using sea trooper gear, he trotted through the shallow oceans of Luhuma. His mission was relitily secsessful. He discovered the Confederate hideaway and discovered they too seemed to be in a defensive mood. On his way back, however, Dan was attack by a native ocean troll. He shot at the mad creature, but it only made it all the more mad. The beast charged at Dan, who ran for cover in an open cave, only partly submerged by the water. Now trapped in the cave, Eardornn fired more rounds at the troll. The beast was unscared as it tried to bring in the cave. Commander Dan made a do or die charge. He drew a small, light dagger he had aquired in his younger days, and jumped forward. He plunged the dagger into the ocean troll's throat. It batted Dan away. The Republic commanded toppled into the water as the creature moaned, and then fell dead. Dan Eardornn then returned to base and reported his findings. He decided to attack the droid headquarters head on. He ordered the Luhum generals to give him command of their militia. The lord of Luhuma refused to do so, threatening to dismantle his army. Eardornn murdered the governor and told his people that he had been assassinated by CIS agents. The Luhum were then blood-thristy and ready to fight. Moreover they agreed to march under Eardornn's colors. The Lifeforms and Luhum stormed Confederate base, elemating the fotress completely. Commander Dan then drafted the Luhum militia, encreasing the striength of the Organic Lifeform Legion.

It's a trap!:Battle of Hoth
"I have a bad feeling about this"

- Dan Eardornn

As the war steadily came to unend, and Palpatine's plans came about, the Chancellor became conserned the Lifeforms, under Eardornn, would not follow Order 66 and allow some Jedi to escape. To keep the legion from opposing him, he planned a trap. Palpatine ordered Eardornn to attack the fortress, on Hoth, where he suspected Dooku might be hiding. In truth the fortress contained new B5 battle droids and droid bombers that would whipe out the Lifeforms before they even had a chance to fire back. Eardornn, unaware that his commander-in-cheif had arranged for his death, flew the Lifeforms to Hoth, were he detected the fortress with surprising easy. The troops landed and surronded the base. The plan was to isolate the CIS and take "Dooku" alive. But, as soon as they got with in a mile of the base the life sensers on the new battle droids detected them and fired on the Republic forces. Dan ordered his troops to return fire, but quickly discovered that they were out of range. The droids, however, were killing him men left and right. Commander Eardornn ordered a retreate. As they tried to run, driod starbombers rained explosives from the air, cutting off their escape routes. The Lifeforms were being slaughtered. Dan tried to flee the battlefield. The B5s were hard to fool and one fired on him. It missed, but barely. Snow piled over Dan. Because of this, the droids could not sense him. As his men were massacred, Eardornn stayed hiden in the snowy bances. After the droids thought that all the Republic soldiors had been killed they automically self-destructed. Only after this did Dan amerge from the snow. He marched five miles to his transport, nearly freeezing to death. He used the heating units in his armor to stay alive. At long last he made it to his ship. He then returned to Coruscant in disgrace.

Second Battle of Coruscant
Dan Eardornn, defeated and critized by the press, stayed in Coruscant, hoping to get lucky. His operatunity came when droid forces under General Grievous raided Coruscant and captured Palpatine. He first tried to rescue the chancellor while he was on the world's surface but, like many others, failed. Dan then comandeered a starfighter and followed the escaping Sepratists. He tried to aviod combat, for he was not a great pilot. He was forced to fight off several droid fighters and the hull of his ship was scratted. Eardornn made it to the Invisable Hand after the two Jedi. He began searching for Palpatine and Grievous as the Second Battle of Coruscant raged. As he searched he devised a risky strategy. He plotted to capture Grievous and the Hand and therefore return to hero status. As Dan marched into the control room, he stopped Count Dooku, being guarded by two super battle droids and four B1 battle droids. Eardornn fired a round at the count, who blocked the bolt with his lightsaber. Dooku fled with the two super battle droids as the standured units tried to keep Eardornn at bay. Dan easily defeated the battle droids, but they had given Dooku time to escape. The Sith Lord had shot up the elivator to challenge Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. Dan used his jet back to fly up the elivator. He then blasted a whole through the elivator. He entered to place where Palpatine was being held to find Dooku knocking Obi-Wan out and Anakin charging him. Wanting to take home the glory himself, he stunned Skywalker with his shut blaster. Dooku simply mocked the agressor. The Sith said that he failed once and would fail again. Eardornn simply through a detnator at Dooku, who threw himself back. The detnator exploded. Niether Eardornn or Dooku were harmed, but the Sith's lightsaber would not egnite. Eardornn fired more lasers at Count Dooku. However, Dooku doudged eage one. Palpatine, though Dan was not aware of it, used the Force to keep Dooku from dying. As Anakin slowly awoke, Dooku picked Dan up with the Force and threw him through a hidden ship-to-space door. Dan, however, used his jetpack and onboard breething mecanisms to stay alive. But he was forced to rethink his strategy. He tried to blast his way into the control romm, but the ship's shields kept him from it. He was about to return to the planet's surface when he saw his oppertunity: General Grievous' escape pod.

Hunting Grievous
Dan Eardornn followed the escape pod to a Federation war fraget. He boarded the ship, as the shields were being lowered to allow a fighter to come in. Moments later the ship went into hyperspace. Dan was now floating through space, on an enemy ship, with no way of contacting the Republic. He embrassed the challenge and snuck through the ship. As Eardornn romed the frigate he encountered a security battle droid. He quickly destroyed it, but only after it had sent a warning signal to the rest of the ship. Grievous sent battle droids throughout the ship, searching for Eardornn, who hid himself in the cargo room. He hoped to take out a Grievous and then return to the Republic, with the droid general's head. The CIS ship landed on the Sepratist-friendly world of Cilwelli, before its final stop on Utupa. When Grievous went onto the world's surface, Dan followed. As droids searched the ship for Eardornn he was on the planet, following Grievous, waiting for he right moment to shot him down. As Eardornn lined up his scope with Grievous' head, he felt a blaster being placed on the back of his head. An anti-Republic twi'lek ordered Dan to drop his gun and surrender. He had no other option then to comply. He was taken to Grievous and Cilwelli's Hutt king, Muggera. Grievous ordered Cu to "terminate this scum." The general then boarded his ship and left. Muggera, unable to resist a creative death took Dan to the captal was he was going to feed him to several foul beasts in the arnea. Dan was ordered, a Cerean Master of Arms to bow before Muggera. When Eardornn refused, he was informed that his sentance would be doubled. Commander Eardornn was then taken to a great building where hundreds of people were gathered to watch him suffer. Dan was stripped of his armor and weaponary and tied to a long poll. In front of him lay a lightspear placed there to mock him for he could not reach it. A gate was opened at the far side of the areana. Five akk dogs came from the gate. The charged toward Eardornn, as he franteically tried to free himself. Using strienght and teeth he was able to do so. As the akk dogs launched at him, he grabbed he lightspear. However, when he plunged the spear into an attacking dog it only zapped the creature, making it all the more mad. As the dogs scapped at him, Eardornn batted them away with blunt end of the lightspear. Before long all the akk dogs were either dead or hiding in a corner of areana. Muggera was outraged. He sent Dan to his cell and put the Master of Arms in the areana insted. He was killed in a matter of moments. King Muggera then took Eardornn to the center of Cilwelli City. He chained him to a tree and ordered the people to stone Dan to death. Rocks flew at Commander Eardornn. He would have died if it wasn't for a blaster of fire then killed Muggera and scattered the people. In the explotion Dan's bounds were loosed and he fled. As he ran, however, he found himself in the hands of yet another crimelord, the Cilwellian Olmus Cu. Cu was the leader of the Cilwelli Freedom Party and Muggera's biggest rival and was plotting to destroy him. Eardornn, seeing Cu as a way out, volunteered to join the Cilwelli native. However, according to Olmus Cu's religion Eardornn, an outsider, had to complete two great task in order to join the Party. The first task was to climb a large mountain on the planet, catch six akk dogs and offer them a sacrifce to the heathen gods. Eardornn compeleted the mission with relitive ease. The final task was to endure a standerd hour of torgure, at the hands of Cu's men. This was far more difficult. Despite the challenge, Dan passed. However, the following day Muggera's troops surrounded Olmus Cu's camp, demanding that Cu give himself, and Eardornn, up so that they may be punished. The Hutt's troops attacked, destroyed the Freedom Party. Eardornn escaped with nothing but his life.

Order 66
However, the following day a Jedi Knight, named Huui Cvex, discovered Dan's location. He was rescued and on his way back to Coruscant. During the flight they met up with three clone troopers, under orders from Palpatine. As the Order 66 swept throughout the Galaxy the clone troopers did as they were told and went to kill both Cvex and Eardornn, fearing the human would try to intervien. Dan, however, was able to kill the clones with a detnator. Through his comlink he reseaved the Order. With out hesitation he marched into the contol center and murdered Huui Cvex. His act proved to the Emporer that he could follow orders just as well as the clones. After Dan returned to the Imperial Center (as it was now called) he was rewarded with a permosion and a new legion of his own.

Jedi War
Dan Eardornn was on Coruscant when a joint attack by Jedi and Sepratists forces on Mustafar began the crisis known as the Jedi War. General Eardornn was sent, once again, to the planet Luhuma. He was ordered to keep the rebels from invading the Mid Rim.

Fighting on Naboo
Eardornn sent scout ships all over the Galaxy, searching for the enemy. A probe droid located a Merraxen Redeemer stronghold on Naboo. The Redeemers were under the protection of the Naboo people and were being led by the merraxen Setra. The Naboo had overthrown the puppet monarchy and had placed a new queen in power. Dan led his troops to Naboo. He surrounded the planet with star destroyors and ordered the queen of Naboo. Naboo had already been spanked by the Empire, however, they believed that the Redeemers could help them defeat General Eardornn's army. Eardornn landed his army. He anounced that he would "flatten this flea in the Empire's hair." He first proclaimed HuMan rule by attacking the gungan cities, killing many thousands. The Naboo did not take this lightly. They railed their forces for a counterattack. A Merraxen-Naboo strike team launched a surprising move and attacked the Imperial camp. The stormtroopers were routed, but Dan kept his men from retreating. He held his ground as the attacking resistance forces stormed the camp. The Empire was able to hold out and they final pushed the Naboo and Redeemers out. The following day Eardornn marched his army to Theed. He renounced the queen and Setra as traitors and ordered that they surrender. The brave rebels refused. For the next hour Imperial laser canons rained fire on the Naboo capital, killing hunderds. After the deffenses had been thinned out, Eardornn led his troops into battle. They slaughtered the merraxen and Naboo. When some of the rebels tried to surrender they had them kneel down and then shot them. Soon only the palace remained free. The Empire quickly stormed it. Setra and the Naboo queen were captured. They were both lined up in front of a firing squaud the following morn. For a time, Dan lost control of his victory-celebrating men. They raped and pilaged the city of Theed, destroying many unreplacable artifacts. As the pupput monarchy was restablished, Eardornn regained control. His men were punished, but not for the crimes, however, for not opening him. When Aanor, the leader of the Redeemers, heard of Eardornn's violent victory he said that he had the heart of a droid. This comment would lead to Dan's nicname: the Human Droid.

Battle of Rodia
"I hate this kind of warfare. Just show me my enemy and let me destroy them like the the dogs they are."

- Dan Eardornn to Sam Fellmen

The Human Droid was kept busy as the Jedi and Confederate forces couninued to fight a gorilla war against the Empire. When the rebels raided the planet of Rodia Dan and another general, named Sam Fellmen, were sent to keep the planet from enemy hands. The two Imperial armies set up defenses and searched for the enemy hideaways. While Eardornn ran the search from the world's surface Fellmen stayed in the safty of his super star destroyer, with his commanders. General Eardornn was angered by Fellmen's cowardness. He had his most trusted agents plant an ion bomb in the destroyer. The bomb exploded, resulting in the crashing of the ship and the death of all the people on board. The death was ruled an axedent by Imperial investigators and Eardornn was given control of Fellmen's command. With new power grand General Eardornn focused his strienght to hunt down the enemy. He new they were hiding on the planet, or one of the moons. After a Rodian city was attacked by the Jedi-droid militia, he was able to limit his search. Native bounty hunters also searched the world, looking for the enemy. The Empire was able to shrink their search to a sixty mile radious. At last a Rodian hunter sent in a tip that the resistance was hiding in small, anti-Empire cosino town. The Empire surrounded the city and threatened to level it. When the townspeople heard that Dan Eardornn was in charge of the attack nearly ninty percent of the people surrendered. Eardornn determained to exterminate the remaining ten percent. He led his men into battle, personally. After the battle, nothing remained of the town. Everyone was killed. Every building was burned. The terror of Dan Eardornn spread. After the Battle of Rodia, Eardornn was given a new title: Moff.

Operation: Red Saber
After the rebel victory on Mandalore the Empire relized that the war was not simply going to go away with strong offinsive action. Moff Eardornn and many others, including Cornol Veers and Lord Vader, were summoned to the Imperial Center to create a new strategy. This plan, Operation: Red saber, was broken down into two steps. First the Empire was to destroy the rebel strong holds of Mandalore, Geonosis and Bespin. then they were to explore the Outer Rim, get aid from locle leaders, and elimate the enemy clusters. The Human Droid wanted to lead the attack himself, however, he was ordered to stay on Coruscant after Darth Vader was given that honor. Therefore Eardornn spent his knew-found free time to build himself a great palace, complete with a private cantina, shooting range and combat simulation field. He also hired dozens of workers for various jobs. One of the females hired to do work in the palace securty office was Cariea Nehu, the daughter of one of Dan's fellow moffs. While dinning in one of his private resturants, Nehu informed Eardornn that the report from the battlefield was coming in. At once, Moff Eardornn went to headquarters. The HoloNet confrence revealed that Lord Vader had completed his part of the mission. As the Empire tried to hunt down the hiding rebels, Dan remembered Tuuk Wessling.