| rdfs:comment | - Raviston Meji, later going by the nickname Striker, was a High General and Jedi Hunter during the reign of the Galactic Empire. Born in 55 BBY on Mon Calamari, Raviston was the elder of two children born to Garu and Kasha Meji, the other was born ten years later in 45 BBY. When Raviston was eleven, and his brother was barely a year old, the two children were sent away by their parents due to poverty and food shortages of the planet. Raviston's younger brother, Senu, was sent to the Jedi Temple to eventually be trained in the ways of the Force, while Raviston was given to his uncle on Corulag. From that moment, Raviston Meji saw his Uncle Maragon, who was a military engineer and staunch Republic supporter, as his father. Once he was of age, Raviston was enrolled in the Corulag Academy, whic
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| abstract | - Raviston Meji, later going by the nickname Striker, was a High General and Jedi Hunter during the reign of the Galactic Empire. Born in 55 BBY on Mon Calamari, Raviston was the elder of two children born to Garu and Kasha Meji, the other was born ten years later in 45 BBY. When Raviston was eleven, and his brother was barely a year old, the two children were sent away by their parents due to poverty and food shortages of the planet. Raviston's younger brother, Senu, was sent to the Jedi Temple to eventually be trained in the ways of the Force, while Raviston was given to his uncle on Corulag. From that moment, Raviston Meji saw his Uncle Maragon, who was a military engineer and staunch Republic supporter, as his father. Once he was of age, Raviston was enrolled in the Corulag Academy, which was considered to be the most prestigious military college on the planet. Soon after his graduation, the Clone Wars erupted, and Meji was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Grand Army of the Republic. He served with distinction in several ground and space battles during the war, and received many medals for bravery and valor, including the Republic Medallion of Honor for his service at the Battle of Boz Pity. During the Battle of Talamo, Raviston was severely injured when a combat walker he commanded was hit by Separatist artillery. Although he was eventually rescued from behind enemy lines by a Jedi strike team, the concussion he sustained during the attack caused him severe memory loss that affected much of his memory of his parents and brother. Despite his wounds, Meji would return to the front lines during the first half of the Clone Wars, eager to bring the fight to the Separatist Alliance. During this period of time, he would be tasked with conducting counter-insurgent and espionage missions for Republic Intelligence. In this capacity he was given the operational code name of "Striker", which he would eventually adopt in place of his true name. After the Clone Wars, Meji quickly rose to a position of power in the newly formed Galactic Empire, his previous service in the Republic military, and in particular his handling of several delicate situations while working for Republic Intelligence, made him stand out to the new Emperor of the Galaxy, Palpatine. After proving both his battlefield efficiency against several minor rebellions in the first few months of the Empire, as well as writing several operational manuals about theoretical tactics regarding engaging, capturing, and killing Jedi, Raviston Meji was promoted to the rank of High General by the Emperor. In addition to this new rank, the Emperor also awarded Meji the Imperial Medal of Valor and provisional command of a new prototype ship, the Revinance, which was an early rendering of what would evolve into the Super Star Destroyer. He first discovered his connection to the force while in the presence of the Emperor's apprentice, Darth Vader. Vader noticed this and took an interest in the General, eventually instructing him in the ways of the Lightsaber at his keep on Mustafar. Eventually, the Emperor became aware of his training and, due to his quick learning and military prowess, assigned the General on a mission to kill several rogue Jedi. His targets included Jedi fugitives Keisha Farlander and Kai Darklighter, Farlander's apprentice Lena Arano, as well as Laothin Kendari, a rogue Jedi considered to be a legend in the Jar'Kai lightsaber form. Perhaps the most notorious of General Striker's actions during the Galactic Civil War was a coordinated targeting of Corellia, which he engaged in around a year after Order 66. In an attempt to lure out Jedi by creating a wound in the Force , Striker was given authority to bomb high density civilian targets in and around the capital city of Coronet. In order to make the incident seem as an accident to the Imperial Senate, Striker used high velocity escape pods from his ship; shooting out nearly half of all the escape pods on his command vessel towards the city from high orbit. This action was labeled by the Imperial government and its Corellian allies as an accidental malfunction by a prototype emergency medical ship; the reality was that nearly two million civilians were killed or grievously wounded by the attack. While the Imperial record commended Striker for quick action that prevented more lives from being lost, the General gained a nickname as a result of the incident within resistance cells of the growing Alliance and Jedi survivors, the Butcher of Corellia. After the bombardment of Corellia, he became the first man to be awarded the title "Hero of the Empire", as well as a personal commendation from the Emperor himself. Although he was present at the test firing of the Death Star over the world of Jedha, Raviston Meji was unable to stay the entire event, as the attack had adverse affects on him due to his heightened force sensitivity. With the destruction of the battle station and the death of Grand Moff Tarkin and nearly the entire Imperial Joint Chiefs, Striker was given temporary command of the Imperial Army, until the Emperor promoted Cassio Tagge to the position in the immediate wake of the Death Star's destruction. After Tagge was executed by Vader, Striker was given a posting as Imperial emissary to the Chiss, with whom he negotiated trade deals, as well as officer exchange programs this position kept him deep into the Unknown regions of space for most of the Galactic Civil War. Despite his position in Chiss space, Striker would continue to investigate and actively engage Jedi targets within the Unknown regions of space. With the Battle of Endor came chaos throughout the Empire, Striker's fleet, which had become a conglomeration of Imperial light cruisers, Chiss warships, and some Mandalorian mercenaries, arrived too late to provide much reinforcement. With a new power struggle brewing between the emerging major warlords of the Empire, General Striker chose to prematurely flee back into Chiss space, which would help him evade the eye of the New Empire under Rae Sloane and Gallius Rax. It was around this time that Striker finally learnt of his previously unknown heritage,as a member of the Meji family of Mon Cala. He also found out that he had a brother, a man who he had ran into previous times during the Clone Wars, and a man who the Jedi Order considered to be a primary authority on double-bladed Lightsaber combat, the Jedi Master Senu Meji. By choosing self-imposed exile over continued fighting, Raviston Meji survived the collapse of the Empire and the formation of a New Republic. He did not return to the known galaxy until nearly fifteen years after the Battle of Jakku, in order to investigate rumors swirling around the Chiss government about a revived Empire known as the First Order, forming on the opposite side of the Unknown regions. Raviston was able to negotiate Chiss assistance in reforming his original strike force; his flagship was repaired and upgraded, several senior Chiss military officials joined his ranks, and the Chiss Intelligence branch told him of several planets ripe with mystery and potential power. One such planet was Rakata Prime, which was rumored to be the capital of a legendary star empire thousands of years previous, on which Striker found facilities to restore the ranks of his personal guard, the Elites. As he continued to scour the Unknown regions for profit and knowledge, he began to engage the outlying units of the First Order in combat. This lead to a meeting to establish General Striker, and the Chiss planets, as neutral parties in the eyes of the mysterious leader of the First Order, Supreme Leader Snoke. With neutrality settled between Striker and the First Order, the General was able to freely travel the regions held by the successor state to the Empire. His expeditions would lead him to run into his long lost brother's son, a young major in the Onderonian military named Jargon Meji, which spurred him to begin creating a plan concerning how his forces would be divided up after his eventual death.
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