Wullf Yularen

Wullf Yularen was a male human Anaxes bureaucrat and military officer whose career spanned from the final years of the Galactic Republic into the era of its successor state, the Galactic Empire. Prior to the outbreak of the Clone Wars, which pitted the Republic against the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Yularen served in the Republic's Judicial Department as a fleet officer, and also eventually served in the Senate Bureau of Intelligence. Although Yularen eventually retired, he returned to serve in the Republic Navy and ascended to the rank of fleet admiral with the outbreak of war. A by-the-book officer, Yularen was assigned to work with Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. Though Skywalker was brash and reckless in contrast to Yularen's crisp nature, the two overcame an initially rocky relationship and successfully combated the Confederacy in many battles throughout the war, including Christophsis, the Kaliida Nebula, and Geonosis.

Though Yularen grew accustomed to serving under Skywalker, he would have to learn to work with his Padawan learner, Ahsoka Tano. During the Battle of Ryloth, Tano's refusal to follow orders led to Wullf being injured when his flagship, the Resolute, was attacked by droid fighters. Despite his injuries, however, Yularen managed to give the Padawan a critical vote of confidence, which allowed them to break the Confederate blockade. Narrowly escaping the destruction of the Resolute, Wullf was considered one of the preeminent naval officers of the time, and he continued to serve alongside Skywalker for the remainder of the war.

Following the rise of the Galactic Empire at the end of the war, Yularen resigned his commission as an Admiral in favor of a career as a colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau. In this role, Yularen's role was to root out sedition in the Imperial Senate as well as serving as a liaison to the Naval Intelligence Agency. Following the events of the Berch Teller campaign, Yularen was promoted to head the reformed NIA with the position of deputy director. However, Yularen continued playing an important role in the ISB, eventually rising to become the bureau's director, and he was an early ally of the Chiss, Thrawn, as he rose through the ranks of the Imperial Navy to reach grand admiral, assisting Thrawn in his campaigns against the rebel agent Nevil Cygni.

As various rebel networks began to grow and band together, Yularen oversaw the ramifications that followed the successful heist on the Aldhani Garrison. During this time, ISB Agent Alexsandr Kallus, Wullf's "star pupil," was in the middle of hunting a rebel group known as the Spectres. A few years later, Yularen assisted Thrawn, who had since become a grand admiral, in hunting for the rebel mole "Fulcrum," who leaked Imperial intelligence to the rebels. Working with the Chiss, the two discovered that the rebel mole was in fact Kallus, who subsequently defected to the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Following the Battle of Scarif, which saw the theft of the Death Star plans, Yularen was one of the officers assigned to the battle station, where he was killed during the Battle of Yavin.

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