Enric Pryde

Enric Pryde, also known by the callsign Steadfast, was a human male officer who held the military rank of Allegiant General in the First Order during the First Order-Resistance War. In the last days of the conflict, Pryde was appointed as the commanding officer of the Final Order—a massive fleet of Xyston-class Star Destroyers—by the reborn Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious. Occupying a position of power and privilege, Pryde was a high-ranking First Order officer who wielded authority over the ground and naval forces of the First Order military. Pryde's flagship, the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Steadfast, was named in honor of the vessel he commanded during his time in the Imperial Navy.

A native of the planet Alsakan, Pryde was born during the twilight of the Galactic Republic and was raised under the reign of the Galactic Empire. Pryde personally witnessed Darth Vader in action as a young fleet officer, and eventually became a captain of a battlegroup. As such, his ideology was shaped by the principles of the New Order, and he became a veteran of the Imperial Military. After the Galactic Civil War, Pryde went into hiding with other former Imperial officers, nobles and technologists into the Unknown Regions to flee the New Republic, eventually joining a remnant led by Grand Admiral Rae Sloane that sought to rebuild the Empire.

Pryde eventually became a High Colonel in the Imperial Remnant, which maintained a covert but close relationship with the Corporate Sector Authority, who in turn provided them with secret funding. At one point, Pryde was assigned the code-named Steadfast, to work with the CSA. The Sith Eternal, a Sith cult that resided on the dark desert planet of Exegol, trusted Pryde, and instructed the Jedi hunter Ochi of Bestoon to seek out Steadfast during the hunt for Dathan, Miramir, and their daughter Rey. Using his authority in the CSA, Pryde provided Ochi with a contingent of CSA troopers and put a tracker beacon on his ship when the family fled in it. Pryde then became part of the First Order and became a secret agent within it for the resurrected Darth Sidious, where his consciousness was thrust into a cloned body of himself and trusted with the news of his rebirth to Pryde. As part of a second wave of leadership that Supreme Leader Snoke kept in reserve after the unveiling of Starkiller Base, Pryde was to serve in this. After Snoke's death, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren supported Pryde's career at the expense of their rival, General Armitage Hux.

While the mysticism of Snoke and Ren were foreign to him, Pryde was more than willing to follow Sidious's new command as an Imperial veteran himself. As a member of the First Order Supreme Council, he supported Ren's alliance with the Sith Eternal, and personally executed Hux for committing espionage for the Resistance. When Ren's mission to Kef Bir led to his renunciation of the dark side, Sidious assumed command over First Order forces with the support of Pryde, who had been summoned to Exegol, where he was given command of the Sith fleet. Pryde, however, perished when his command ship was destroyed by Resistance forces during the Battle of Exegol. Without the Steadfast, the Sith warships were unable to leave Exegol, resulting in the Sith fleet's destruction by the Resistance navy and Citizens' Fleet.

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