Karl Valehn

Karl Valehn, The Technocrat or more often known just as Valehn, was an Imperial Navy Officer, and scientist devoted to Cybernetics and Shielding Research. He served briefly under, sharing the generals obsession with cybernetics, but taking it to an extreme, his entire body was augmented with cybernetics, going as far as to replace everything below his neck with cybernetics, in a similar way to a , having his food intake and oxygenation of his blood carried out by his cybernetic body, or in the former case dedicated nutriet storage and processing capability into his neck region. He however was quite eccentric, focused on one of his pet projects for years, the Rancortrooper, an improvement in his eyes of the Darktrooper program, started not long after the death of Rom Mohc, though solely funded by Valehn himself.

Early Life
Not much is known about Karl Valehn's early life, given that he never spoke of it and all records of him were mysteriously wiped not long after he first appeared with his cybernetic body. By age sixteen he would have his first cybernetic augmentation, replacing his left hand after an accident with a cybernetic prosthesis, or that is how Valehn told the story of his first prosthesis. However at age twenty, he would enter into the Imperial Navy, only two years after the formation of the empire. He was a devout follower of the Emperors doctrine, though disappointed that the Droid Army was largely deactivated, due to his fondness for technology.

Early Imperial Service
Early on Valehn excelled in his post, largely staying to himself and, though serving in the outer rim hunting pirates and quite good at capturing the pirates ship, many of the pirates he captured were never seen again, most agree that he used them to test theoretical cybernetic that he had designed while in the outer rim on his, The Cerebellum, otherwise due to his efficiency and his extreme loyalty to the new order, as well as certain connections he had made for himself in. By his 30th patrol in the outer rim, Valehn now nearly 26, would perfect his experimental cybernetic augmentations, including the SPDR Head Augmentation that turned his mind into a connection to an external hardrive, aswell as a and transmitters implanted in his brain, programming his personal  to be capable to do this surgery after preforming many tests on captured pirates, his new droid body would also be completed though he would cover this with synth skin as many did not appreciate this level of cybernetics. After his new body was completed he would personally request to be put under Rom Mohc's cybernetic research which was accepted. As such ended his front line service.

Under Rom Mohc
While not a big name in Imperial Science, he would serve well, he was adept at many things thrown his way, though whether this was due to his actual intelligence or the help of his cybernetic brain implants is up to debate. However at this time he gave himself the title of The Technocrat, introducing himself as The Technocrat Karl Valehn, to many lower officials, though his real rank was only that of Colonel. However his eccentricities did not end there, he was fond of keeping track of everything in whatever facility he was working on, and had hacked into many Mouse Droids, to follow certain officers while attaching a small camera and microphone to them, which transmitted to his hard drive. As such he was quite persuasive in what he could and couldn't do in these facilities. This is when he began testing personal shielding technologies in an effort to improve them, as well as to design one that could be integrated into his body. This however would not go very far as he continued working on Mohc, largely connected to the Phase Zero Dark trooper program, Karl Valehn would sit in this job until the Death of Rom Mohc.

To New Horizons
By 1 ABY Valehn had stayed quite under the radar, never over preforming under Mohc's design teams, but at the same time never falling behind. He had taken to keeping to himself doing his projects on the side, due to his propensity to not sleep more than 10 hours a week for weeks on end due to his cybernetic existence, and the fact his SPDR Head Augmentation, also injecting stims largely when sleep was needed, however Valehn still have to sleep, leading to an addiction to stimulants which led to his mental stability becoming quite off. Once Mohc died however alot of this changed he would be transferred to a shield development program, as Mohcs programs were shut down, taking over as a site administrator where he would use some funds for his pet

Valehn's Pet Shop
Valehn's facility would eventually pick up the nickname to those who served under him as Valehn's Pet Shop, due to Valehn designing many of his projects after wildlife or giving them names based on wildlife. Most notably the Rancortrooper, meant to be a large darktrooper type battlesuit that was highly modular, only limited by the frame it had and what Karl Valehn deemed an acceptable module. Otherwise advancement in shielding was slowly coming along, largely incremental improvements. But in Valehn's Pet shop the large advancements were in modular battledroid systems, never given to the Empire, due to 's dislike of battle droids. Many of these were stored in this facility and taken with Valehn once the Empire fell.