Garik Armande

Garik Armande was Human male pirate from Sanduluc, the penultimate Captain-General of the Nightside Raiders. Beginning his career as a smuggler, Armande was lured to piracy by the promise of easier work and the protection of the Raiders' brotherhood. He quickly rose through the ranks, his flying experience allowing him to employ less-traveled hyperlanes and catch convoys by surprise. By 76 ABY he had a flotilla of freighters and corvettes under his command, and by 81 ABY he beat out his rivals to become Captain-General of the Raiders.

In 96 ABY, the young bank robber and murderer Kilwyo Kesh caught Armande's notice after a brazen robbery of the Rubutu main branch of the Vall`to Sector Bank. Locating Kesh on Deshad, Armande recruited the young man into the Raiders. Kesh quickly became Armande's right hand man and apprentice, an efficient and lethal commander who scored dozens of successes for the Raiders and a large influx of capital, which allowed the brotherhood to expand even further.

Armande captained the Raiders through the Great Liberation, using the chaos of war to prey upon settlements more distant from Mezlagob than its own sector. However, a year after the war ended, Kilwyo Kesh decided he had learned enough and was ready to lead the Raiders, and stunned Armande, put him in an escape pod, and shot it into a black hole, bringing a crushing end to Armande's life.