| Royce_Tomson | Date: Monday, 14 Jan 2013, 2:55 PM | Message # 1 |
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Name: Royce Clayton Tomson
Age: 36 standard years
Species, Homeworld: Human, Commenor
Occupation: Writer, Former Senator, Rebel Leader
Affiliation: The Ruusan Reformation League
Personality:
A thoughtful, caring man prone to manic depression, he is a reluctant leader who projects an unwavering image of self-confidence to others but privately doubts himself. A staunch rationalist with a well-defined sense of right and wrong, his opinions and beliefs are thoroughly-reasoned, and he is a man of few prejudices. He is both hopeful for humanity and despairing of it, a contradiction at the heart of many of his novels. A passionate man and archetypal "hopeless romantic," he is a loyal torchbearer for those he's loved and lost. He is also deeply empathetic to the suffering of others, regardless of species. The despotic Empire is his natural enemy.
Background:
Born on Commenor in 45 BBY, Tomson was a member of the peace movement at the University of Commenor in the years prior to the Clone Wars, writing a number of anti-war pamphlets under a pseudonym. He enlisted in the Commenor Militia, however, when war did break out, continuing to write critically of the horrors of war, but not the war effort itself. Late in the Clone Wars, he returned to the University of Commenor to complete his studies, having never seen action. His non-political writings on the war were later compiled into a widely-read and -respected book about the Clone Wars, his first literary success. He then turned to fiction, his first love, from 22 BBY to 17 BBY penning a series of popular novels about philosophical and political intrigue, propelling him to celebrity status on Commenor and throughout the Core Worlds. He is also outspoken on Commenor politics during this time. He has a reputation as a womanizer, and he also buys out a major publishing company on the planet after disputes with editors.
In 17 BBY, Tomson is persuaded to run for Senator of Commenor, and surprised to win. He is idealistic at first, but quickly becomes jaded with the Imperial Senate and involved, with several other Senators, in a money-making conflict-of-interest in repulsorlift companies. His disgust with himself, with the fact that neither he nor any of the other senators were caught, and his growing disgust with the Empire are the reasons he doesn't seek re-election, despite having been named a junior member of the influential Senate Defense Committee.
When his term ended in 13 BBY, he returned to Commenor and wrote a series of increasingly anti-Imperial essays over several months; one essay profiled some of the Nosaurian rebels who'd been sold into slavery during the Empire's ethnic cleansing of New Plympto in 19 BBY; another essay was critical of the Empire's bloody Battle of Renatasia in 12 BBY. Some of his writings were censored throughout the Core Worlds, and threats to his life were made. Later in 12 BBY, around the time of his mother's death and the ambush of an Imperial TIE squadron over Vale, Tomson wrote and self-published a condemnation of the Empire and its atrocities, and promptly went underground, taking his fortune with him.
All of Tomson's books and essays were retrospectively-banned by COMPNOR, though he continued to release anti-Imperial pamphlets that brought him to the attention of Vespasian Boldt, the Moff of the Yminis Sector and a former acquaintance of Tomson who shared his passion for non-Human rights. Boldt placed Tomson in contact with Darryl Varos, a former General in the Ketarisian Planetary Defense force, and the two of them put together the Ruusan Reformation League with the secret support of Moff Boldt. Tomson, the leader of the Ruusan League, has spent the last several years traveling the galaxy, recruiting fighters to his cause with brief, anti-Imperial speeches. He has spent a considerable amount of his fortune on space stations, ships, weapons, and medical supplies for the Ruusan League, and at long last its numbers are sufficient and its troops well-trained enough to strike at the Empire.
Royce Tomson
Leader of the Ruusan Reformation League
Former Senator of Commenor (17 BBY—13 BBY)
Four-Time Bestselling Author
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