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{{Quote|But today several troopers were uneasy, and reported seeing "spies" watching us from the fringes of the jungle foliage. Their commanding lieutenant (and or expedition's shuttle pilot) led five of them into the forest&mdash;an hour later we heard several blaster shots coming from a distant corner of the jungle.|From the journal of Doctor Lancer Brunou|Artifact of Aaris}}
An '''Imperial lieutenant''' was a member of [[Moff/Legends|Moff]] [[Kentor Sarne]]'s [[Moff Sarne's forces|military]] in [[8 ABY/Legends|8 ABY]]. He was [[Commander/Legends|commander]] of a security detachment assigned to the [[Scientist/Legends|science]] team [[MS-133]] during their expedition to [[Aaris III]], a [[Planet/Legends|planet]] in the [[Kathol sector]] of the [[Outer Rim Territories/Legends|Outer Rim Territories]], doubling as the team's [[Unidentified Curich-class shuttle|shuttle]] [[Pilot/Legends|pilot]]. During the expedition, the [[Lieutenant/Legends|lieutenant]] led a small force of [[Soldier/Legends|soldiers]] into the jungle to investigate reports of beings "[[Spy/Legends|spying]]" on the team. The reports were the result of the [[Plaque of Victory]]&mdash;an inanimate [[Sentience/Legends|lifeform]] that manipulated individuals into destroying one another&mdash;influencing the members of the team and skewing their perceptions. The lieutenant never returned to the base camp, and his body was later found in the jungle by other members of the expedition.

==Biography==
In [[8 ABY/Legends|8 ABY]], a [[Gender/Legends|male]] [[Lieutenant/Legends|lieutenant]] was part of [[Galactic Empire/Legends|Imperial]] [[Warlord/Legends|warlord]] [[Moff/Legends|Moff]] [[Kentor Sarne]]'s [[Moff Sarne's forces|military forces]]. A trained [[Soldier/Legends|soldier]] and [[Pilot/Legends|pilot]], the lieutenant was assigned to command the security detachment for [[MS-133]], a [[Scientist/Legends|scientific]] research team that had been formed to conduct an [[Archaeology/Legends|archaeological]] dig on the [[Planet/Legends|planet]] [[Aaris III]]. Aaris III had once hosted a [[Aaris|native species]] that had [[Death/Legends|died]] out several thousand [[Standard year/Legends|years]] previously; the team was assigned to excavate the ruins of the civilization's [[City/Legends|cities]] and discover the cause behind the extinction. The lieutenant also doubled as the team's [[Unidentified Curich-class shuttle|shuttle]] pilot, and ferried the team to Aaris III aboard a [[Curich-class shuttle|''Curich''-class shuttle]], setting down near a large field of ruins. The team leader, [[Doctor/Legends|Doctor]] [[Lancer Brunou]], suspected that the lieutenant had been ordered by Sarne to land at a specific set of coordinates, but he could not prove his theory.<ref name="AOA" />

For several [[Standard month/Legends|months]], the scientific and [[Technician/Legends|technical]] staff conducted their excavations. Eventually, members of the team discovered an [[Plaque of Victory|artifact]] within a [[Place of Kastays|chamber]] in the ruins. After removing it from a floor vault, the expedition members began to experience heightened paranoia, feeling like they were being watched from the jungle despite their being no evidence of any other living beings on the planet. In reality, the artifact was an inanimate [[Sentience/Legends|lifeform]] that sought to destroy those around it by inducing feelings of paranoia and suspicion that would eventually lead to homicidal behavior. The team's experiences were the result of the artifact's influence.<ref name="AOA" />

With members of his team reporting that they saw "[[Spy/Legends|spies]]" in the jungle, the lieutenant took five of his men into the foliage to investigate. The small team never returned to the base camp, although those still at the camp heard [[Blaster/Legends|blaster]] fire in the distance about an [[Standard hour/Legends|hour]] after they had left. That night, the base camp was attacked<ref name="AOA" /> by the primitive descendants of the native Aaris<ref name="CSWE">{{CSWECite|II|154|Jelok}}</ref> wielding energy weapons, and a [[Lightfight|small battle]] occurred. When morning came, the bodies of the small unit that the lieutenant had led into the jungle were found just inside the foliage line. Over the course of the next few days, the artifact's influence<ref name="AOA" /> and constant attacks by the Aaris<ref name="CSWE" /> reduced MS-133 to two survivors&mdash;expedition leader Doctor Brunou and a research assistant, [[Solla Deremot]]. Both were eventually rescued from the planet by the [[New Republic/Legends|New Republic]] [[CR90 corvette/Legends|CR90 corvette]] ''[[FarStar]]''.<ref name="AOA" />

==Personality and traits==
The lieutenant was a qualified ground force commander and pilot, with enough skill to pilot a ''Curich''-class [[Shuttle/Legends|shuttle]]. When facing possible danger, he was bold enough to lead his men from the front and investigate any potential threat to his charges personally.<ref name="AOA" />

==Behind the scenes==
This lieutenant was a minor character introduced in ''[[Artifact of Aaris]]'', a [[roleplaying game]] adventure in ''[[The DarkStryder Campaign]]'', published by [[West End Games]] in [[1995]]. His involvement in the adventure is revealed through [[in-universe]] documentation from Doctor Brunou's journal and the accompanying out-of-universe game text.<ref name="AOA" />

While ''Artifact of Aaris'' implies that under the Plaque of Victory's direction, the lieutenant and his team were responsible for the initial attack on the base camp&mdash;evidence includes the use of blasters in the attack, and the presence of their dead bodies in the [[Tree/Legends|tree]] line in the morning&mdash;an adventure hook toward the end of the scenario establishes that the Aaris are not completely extinct.<ref name="AOA" /> ''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]'', published in [[2008]] confirmed that the team came under attack from the remnants of the Aaris civilization.<ref name="CSWE" />

==Appearances==
*{{DarkStryder|Artifact of Aaris|The DarkStryder Campaign}} {{1stm}}
*{{DarkStryder|Artifact of Aaris|The DarkStryder Campaign, Deluxe}}

==Notes and references==
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[[Category:Imperial officers]]
[[Category:Individuals of unspecified species]]
[[Category:Personnel of Moff Sarne's forces]]
[[Category:Unidentified Galactic Empire personnel]]
[[Category:Unidentified males]]
[[Category:Unidentified military personnel]]
[[Category:Unidentified pilots]]