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Name: Sei Maru (Say Mah-rue)
Home Planet: Sullust
Species: Sullustan
Sex: Male
Height: 5’6”
Weight: Very lightweight, roughly 245 lbs.
Hair Color: N/A; Blue and White facial hair
Eye Color: Black



Words cannot put to illustration the enigmatic, self-serving process of such a malicious and hungry politico, businessman, and armed strategist as Sei Maru. Even at the inception of his life, irony and confusion surround him. Sei Maru is a Sullustan born during the days nearing the end of the Old Republic, where Sullust was a major competitor among planets. Sei came from a humble background, and, like many Sullustans under the institution of the Empire, became easily swayed in the partisanship that moved from supporting a Separatist front to supporting the Emperor’s will, inevitably succumbing to the demands of a tyrannical hierarchy. His life became one jump from power to another leading him into an underhanded life of vigilance and deceit.

Now as the Chief Administrative Officer of SoroSuub Corporation, he has his eyes set on making a valuable contribution to the galaxy, from his perspective, but with time, his program for change and power will take its steady progression. This ambitious Sullustan waits with bated anticipation for the day when he can become the Chairman of the Board of Directors of SoroSuub Corporation and effectively run the company as its Chief Executive Officer, and reorganize, once again, the Sullustan Council into his easily obtainable grasp, further cementing his goals of achieving a strong, political grouping known as the Free Trade Directorate set to be stationed in the Outer Rim Territories. So that, with time, Sei Maru will be the frontrunner of intergalactic political and economic power.

Sei Maru possesses none of his parents’ qualities. Both his parents, whose names escape him because he never cared for their humble and just way of life, were a very cautious people that valued their security. However, Sei Maru looked forward, imagining and conceiving this strong and admirable sense of duty, for which he prepared for a life steeped in power and control. He always wanted more in his life than working as lowly miners and farmers on his native Sullust. His dark, almond-shaped black eyes are typical of his Sullustan brethren, and like his species, he possesses no hair on his head.

He did want hair on his face because he wanted to appear more sophisticated as he went up the social ladder from his squalid beginnings. He surgically and genetically enhanced his face to grow a small tuft of iridescent white and blue facial hair, a beard really, on his chin much like his older adversary, Dllr Nep. Contrary to Nep’s white hair; Maru has a darkened color in his facial hair, much like peppery mixture, but the beard appears as a dominant blue. Maru’s skin is still a strong pink pigment, connecting him to his strong Sullustan roots much their large, round, floppy ears, but Maru made a concerted effort to stand out from his brethren by altering them to appear more triangularly-pointed.

Maru always had this superior way of seeing himself. He knew from a very young age that he was better than everyone, but the pedigree sometimes becomes a loathsome personal conviction battle for him. The only way he jumps past the perception is by obtaining more control and pushing that same power over those who criticize him. He will not stop at anything to make his point known and ultimately win. Understandably, he never forgave Emperor Palpatine for his xenophobic methods during the height of the Galactic Empire because he grew to become a strong, sympathetic ally to the Empire, but Palpatine turned his back on the modern technology and intergalactic ties that Sullust had because of the humanocentrism.

Maru understood the method, in his mind, and established to himself that the issue came probably from the shame that other races brought in the galaxy, always siding with one another and lacking the gall to make strong ties with those in power: Sullust definitely paid dearly for many decades for their incompetence. Because of his inward shame, he dressed always with tight-skinned leather gloves without gauntlets, severing any personal, physical contact from anyone. He viewed his people as dirty and ignorant people that must move forward and transcend their situation if they every wanted to gain favor.

When upon seeing Sei Maru, he stands an unassuming height of five feet six inches. Remarkably small for someone that holds some power within the scheme of the sector. He swaddles himself in robes and garments fitting a member of elite society and power, wearing dark colors such as browns, burgundies, maroons, and blacks. His appearance, and able-mindedness, allowed him to climb the ladder of power within the large corporation. He knew how these organizations influenced his people and the surrounding systems. Sei made it his goal to become one of the most powerful Sullustans through infiltrating and working his way through the conglomerates, and he spent time researching and developing a sense of kindred closeness with the SoroSuub Corporation.

Maru began this mission by employing various methods of manipulation and control. He entered the SoroSuub Corporation as a counsel and consultant for the directorate. He wanted to understand their ways because for a long time during galactic imperial control, the corporation made it clear that they wanted the Empire’s support and along with it the influence and control over the Sullustans. They, the Sullustans, were systematically the problem area of space because they would not know where to side on intergalactic issues, nor did they remain consistent.

When the large companies like SoroSuub Corporation washed out their council members and became the visible entity of control, life became easy, but when the Rebellion forced the hand of the Empire, after only twenty years or so, Maru grew impatient with the dialogue and SoroSuub Corporation had to retract their mitigated power over the Sullustans. The council reinstated their core again by the time that Maru became one of the members of the Board of Directors. Sei Maru had the task of keeping up with his connections within the Imperials because he knew that at some point in the future they would probably regain power. He remained in loose contact. The corporation wanted to use such political weight to maintain a healthy business and political relationship as the galaxy underwent changes. The Empire had not fully dissipated in the scheme of the drama that followed with the New Republic, which in Maru’s eyes was a complete political nightmare, but the Sullustan wanted to make sure that the SoroSuub Corporation did not and would not fall out of favor in case the Empire reinstated itself.

Maru definitely took advantage as a method of intergalactic foreign policy to side with the Empire, or what was left, and use that same rhetoric and image to oppress the people. Sei Maru argued that SoroSuub Corporation only used these methods to quell problems and push the planet into a specific program of development for the system’s own political and economic gain. He turned against his Sullustan heritage when he initiated, publicly accepted, and consented to the large companies’ poor treatment of its people. The Sullustan then began to wage their lack of support and the newly reinstated Sullustan Council grew in disfavor—denouncing the large organizations and industries that ran the system.

In response to the faithless individuals that wanted the corrupt organization out of their hair, Sei Maru grew increasingly impatient with the response of SoroSuub Corporation to the Sullustan Council. He began waging a personal campaign with the directorate to look at the Sullustan resentment as a chance to assert who possessed the power. The people were not collective enough to make any long term defense against a corporation with money, political power, and means to shut down such uprisings. He went ahead and covertly contacted his strongholds in nearby sectors convincing them that there might be a possible need to redevelopment a completely new consortium of unparalleled proportion in the Outer Rim.

The directorate wanted to ensure that Sullust had equal footing in the sector. Since the Sullustans were working on a repulsive synergy—the people waged unspoken and physical support to the Rebellion cause when really the corporation running the political air of Sullust demanded commitment to the Empire. Wasting no time, Maru along with the other members of the hopeful directorate that oversaw the control of the corporation discussed their quelling the problem on Sullust. Maru made it clear to the group that no such action would warrant any real help, but through time and patience, changes would come and at unstoppable odds.

With support looming in the thin threshold of secrecy, Sei Maru went back to the SoroSuub Corporation and stepped into his campaign full force to declare a no-confidence vote in the CEO and asserted that the Chairman be removed from office. The handling of the Sullustan issue was intolerable and those following such measures of support would find Sullust no longer receiving the benefits of the political ties that the corporation now had. Maru explained that the system would become unidentifiable in the process, and by unanimous support by the company’s directorate, Sei Maru watched as the authority of the SoroSuub Corporation went away from two of his former cohorts: Intergalactic politics was a risky business and Sei Maru knew what he was doing.

Following his rise to complete and utter decimation of power in the SoroSuub Corporation, Maru skillfully established a binding and contributive coalition with the Galactic Alliance, but he figured that after their control would not last long. For the purposes of what was developing in the galaxy, he wanted to make his public image not change or dwindle in lieu of the enigmatic change and stipulations that barred political unity.

He, Maru, had to wage some political clout for the corporation, which remained undeclared with their leader. For a long time, he assumed authority as provisional administrator as the directorate went forward with the procedural placement. Stockholders and the Sullustan Securities Commission (SSC) wanted to make sure that whoever would take over the large company would ensure that economically, Sullust would not fall into ruin. The revenue that the company brought each month annually was crucial to the taxation and economic threading of the Sullustan Council being able to establish some sort of invested public and political authority. Underlying, Maru used this double-edged situation to begin his own directorate to become a major pressure group.

The last thing that Maru wanted was the New Republic using their original methods or learning from their previous methods and disbanding commercial or conglomerate entities using military force or creation of small armies. The SoroSuub Corporation had not begun using military force, but the plan came across the table of the corporation directorate. So, he appeared benevolent in the eyes of the Sullustan Council, so he could secure a seat as the president, but he also made concerted efforts to address the neutralization of the Sullustan Council for what he saw was a necessary move for the directorate’s ability to move forward in power. Since the SoroSuub Corporation had already dissolved the council, Maru wanted to make sure that the people and the council members did not realize what was happening again, but also ensuring that a reinstatement of the council would never happen again. He had to first appear as a strong leader to lead both the council and the corporation as their president and chief administrative officer respectively.

In order for Sei Maru to wage such economic and political control, he had to move from his present location on Sullust. He disbanded Sullust from its current position and area of dominance into someplace more fluid and consistent. Sei Maru established that SoroSuub Corporation should take a backseat from its current dealings where its media consumption and press would appear differently. Sei Maru covertly developed his operations in the Outer Rim territories at the new home became Koboth in Kobothi Space. The Free Trade Directorate would not start, but by establishing an unknown origin for its headquarters, he could appear ubiquitous without having the same clout.

He could appear under two faces, while working effortless at assuming power in the galaxy through his embodiment as President of the Sullustan Council, Chief Administrative Officer of the SoroSuub Corporation, and declaring himself Director General of the Free Trade Directorate in the Outer Rim Territories. Life would be good if soon he became the chairman, but it was only a matter of time. As for his newly-devised directorate, Maru figured that the obscure location and desolation from the solar scorched surface would be a wonderful place to harness his power and goals throughout the galaxy. He wanted to work his alliance from an undisclosed location, but by having no definite planet, each member of his directorate could not viably find a way to overthrow him.

Overtime, his position as Director General of the Free Trade Directorate would know him. Maru, under this dual-authority, remained the President of the Sullustan Council because politically, his face remained stable, and also as the strong, vigilant Chairman Candidate and Chief Administrative Officer of the SoroSuub Corporation, for the company had to change its infrastructure to allow for two separate portions: the actual company from the perspective of the Sullustans and the free trade directorate bent on obtaining more political and economic gain on the much larger galactic scale.



Character Affiliation: Commerce Guild, Confederacy of Independent Systems, SoroSuub Corporation, The Sullustan Council, The Old Republic, The Galactic Empire, The New Republic, The New Order, and The Free Trade Directorate
Affiliation Rank: Director General, Free Trade Directorate; President, The Sullustan Council; Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and Provisional Administrator, then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), SoroSuub Corporation
Weaponry: SSK-7 Heavy Blaster Pistol, kept on his person while traveling
Personal Effects: Ambassador-Class Luxury Shuttle Eranthum, Dauntless-Class Heavy Cruiser Enterprise, Horizon-Class Star Yacht Hildegard