Tomer Darpen

Tomer Darpen, sometimes known as Ejector Darpen, was a Human male from Commenor who was a career diplomat serving with the New Republic Diplomatic Corps and later New Republic Intelligence. He initially served as a rebel pilot, during the early years of the Galactic Civil War as a member of the Tierfon Yellow Aces, a starfighter squadron which was equipped with Y-wings, prior to the Battle of Yavin.

Dispatched to the newly-rediscovered planet of Adumar in 13 ABY as part of a diplomatic mission and head of the local New Republic Intelligence office, he was tasked with assisting the delegation, led by General Wedge Antilles, in swaying the government into allying itself with the New Republic.

Darpen encountered many problems in his mission; the most glaring was that Adumar did not have an established world government for him to negotiate with. Another problem was the fact that the Galactic Empire also sent their own delegation to the planet, which put a strain on Darpen's time table of winning the planet over. Compounding his woes was Antilles and his pilots, who refused to conform to the Adumari custom of death duels, and were beginning to spread their contrary ideology to the natives.

Realizing the Imperials, who had readily adapted to the lethal tradition of the Adumari, would eventually be more popular and admired than the New Republic pilots, Darpen decided to put his plan into action. He convinced Perator Pekaelic ke Teldan, ruler of the powerful nation of Cartann, to declare a world government with himself in command. The perator also extended an invitation to the pilots from both sides to lead the Cartann forces against the other nations that rejected his rule. The Imperials accepted but Antilles refused to assist a war of conquest, wrecking Darpen's plan. He began covering his tracks by lying to the perator about Antilles's reason for refusing, and having the New Republic pilots declared as exiles.

Antilles and his pilots managed to survive the multitude of assassins that barred their escape from Cartann. They made their way to the Yedagon Confederacy, one of the nations opposing Cartann, and successfully led the united forces of the other nations in the brief civil war. After Cartann's surrender and subsequent joining of the newly formed Adumari Union, Antilles had Darpen arrested as a war criminal.

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