Ganner Krieg

Ganner Krieg was a Human Master of the Imperial Knights who served Emperor Roan Fel's Empire-in-exile during the Second Imperial Civil War. Noted for his calm and serious demeanor, Krieg was a trusted friend of fellow Knight Antares Draco and was often paired with him on missions during the war. In 137 ABY, the two of them accompanied the Emperor as he retook the planet Bastion from the Sith Lord Darth Krayt's Imperial forces, the fortress world having been wrested from Fel's control following the conclusion of the Sith–Imperial War seven years prior. Krieg and Draco soon after disobeyed a direct order from Fel and traveled to Vendaxa, where the Emperor's daughter, the Princess Marasiah Fel, was being pursued by agents of the One Sith. After joining forces with two Jedi and the pirate crew of the starship Mynock, the Imperial Knights were able to fight off the Sith and bring the princess back to Bastion. Fel punished them by designating them the Empire's foremost heroes and prime candidates for its most dangerous missions.

Over the next several months, Krieg and Draco were sent to locations such as the Wheel space station and the Jedi Order's Hidden Temple on Taivas. On the latter mission, while Marasiah attempted to negotiate an alliance with the Jedi Council against Darth Krayt's Empire, Krieg, Draco, and fellow Knight Azlyn Rae joined a strike team put together by Cade Skywalker, a former Jedi and the captain of the Mynock. The team journeyed to the Deep Core world of Had Abbadon and set a trap for Darth Krayt, hoping to assassinate him and destabilize his Sith Order. Krayt took the bait laid by Skywalker and nearly died in the ensuing battle, and Fel afterward sent Krieg to the planet Kiffex to retrieve Rae, who had been mortally wounded while fighting Krayt and then been taken to Kiffex by Skywalker to be healed. Krieg, Rae, and Draco were later part of a bodyguard contingent who accompanied the Emperor to Agamar in order to finalize negotiations with the Jedi.

An alliance was struck, but the process was interrupted by an attacking group of Sith. The new allies banded together to protect the Emperor and were able to evacuate the planet, although Marasiah did not make it aboard the escape shuttle. Draco then recruited Krieg and the Jedi Knight Shado Vao for an infiltration mission to the Sith world of Korriban, where they successfully freed Marasiah from her imprisonment. Draco remained onworld to buy his allies time to escape and was captured by the Sith, but Krieg was soon after reunited with him during a visit to Taivas. Draco had revealed the Hidden Temple's location to the Sith under torture; he and Krieg stood with the rest of the allies and defended the temple from attacking Sith forces. After they evacuated to Bastion, Krieg joined a strike team that brought down the orbital defenses of Krayt's throneworld of Coruscant, which allowed the allied fleets of the Empire-in-exile, the Jedi, and the Galactic Alliance to attack the planet. Krayt was killed and the war was won for the allies, although the Emperor died at Draco's hands after falling to the dark side of the Force. In the battle's aftermath, Krieg attended Fel's funeral.

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