ryath centaur

Centaur, Colonel Ryath– Former Imperial Biker Scout and colonel in the Emperors 21^st Blue Star Riders.  Born on the world of Sapphire, Ryath Rai Centaur soon enlisted in the Imperial army along with his younger brother Torath and was soon rising through the ranks, making sergeant while posted to Entall.  He married his fiancée Sarra and successful engagements followed with criminals and a nascent rebel opposition falling before him before his posting to Durathosin. It was here that a rebel cell executed Torath and Colonel Pillot betrayed him.  Disillusioned with the service and cheated on by Sarra, he elected to go AWOL and hunt down his brother’s killers, primarily Pillot Alvarna.  For years he tracked down the men on that list, sometime using the alias of Yorath Devalis.  Becoming friends with Jan Lomona, Goah Galletti, Newell Arrithat, and a known acquaintance of Tarr Ranth Centaur helped out the Rebel Alliance, though strictly for his own ends, and worked for Glann Cipple as a mercenary on a handful of occasions.  He entered into a seven-year relationship with a Zelonian woman by the name of Clara and with her at his side founded the Iron Claw mercenary unit, which he based on Hellion.  After a surprise defeat at the hands of a well-organised rogue Imperial faction and the loss of the original Thunderchild, Centaur wearily handed over control of the Iron Claws to his great friend Saul Davlon.  Appalled with the chaos and ruin that followed the fall of the Galactic Empire, Colonel Ryath Centaur worked for the remnants of Imperial Security before finally leaving the Empire behind and returning to lead the Iron Claws following the death of Saul Davlon. After finally laying the demons of his past to rest with the execution of his long-time enemy Pillot, Centaur still plied a good trade as a mercenary in his starship the Thunderchild II.  Centaur was seen less and less in the Mid-Rim as he expanded his interests elsewhere, but was drawn back to the sector when he fell unexpectedly in love with Jan Lomonas daughter Paige.  During the Ki-Ki/Setnin War Centaur became a figure of huge influence; given the rank of Colonel he assisted in the formation of the unified Setnin Defence Force and used the Iron Claws in conjunction with the Trac-Tran Transit Company of Jan Lomona and Squadron Indigo to strike at the Ki-Ki, and with his vast fleet, temporarily bolstered by the addition of Daemon Garr’s Raven Corporation vessels before their defection to the Ki-Ki, he caused consternation to the enemy.

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