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>it is extremely difficult to write a compelling story about a heroic Imperial character because they're cogs in a machine.
Edmun Dontus is a young man working as an apprentice with his father in the shipyards on Correlia. He and his family want nothing to do with the growing sectarian violence between the Empire and the Correlian Resistance, but find themselves caught in the middle of it when a group of resistance fighters break into their home to evade Imperial patrols after bombing a convoy. Dontus parents are both brutalized by the insurgents when they try to alert the authorities and are killed in the crossfire of the ensuing gunfight. The resistance fighters escape, Dontus' parents are dead, and Dontus is falsely accused of collaborating with the resistance and sent to a detention facility.
Years later, Dontus is given a chance to join the Imperial Army and climbs through the ranks to make his way into the Special Forces, hoping to use his combat skills, position, and power to hunt down the people he blames for the death of his parents and his false imprisonment - the resistance fighters, now all high-ranking figures in the Rebel Alliance. Unsympathetic to the Rebellion's fight against the Empire, or simply blinded by his single-minded pursuit of vengeance, Dontus travels across the galaxy to destroy the lives of the people who destroyed his.
