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Nim Orlan
Nim Orlan Portrait.png
Biographical Information
Race Human
Homeworld Coruscant
Physical Description
Gender Male
Political Information
Affiliation New Republic
Rank Director
Positions Center of Reebel Intelligence
Awards Operation Praxis
Beta Defense
Joint Operation Ribbon
Expert Pilot
CRI Command Citation
Service Ribbon 5+ Years
Academy Graduate Ribbon

Biography

Nim Orlan was born on Coruscant to Keitvan and Demerilyn Orlan, third-generation shopkeepers on one of the lower levels of Coruscant proper. He had one older brother growing up, Caed Orlan. At this time the Emperor's "New Order" policy was still in its infancy and since the Rebellion had not been able to really organize, mercenary help was not needed. Many mercenaries had turned to the lucrative slaving market, and the urban warrens of Coruscant proved immensely profitable. Thus it was that at the age of six Nim was kidnapped while running an errand for his parents' shop to the local outdoor market.

He was taken to a slave market on Nar Shadaa, where a moderately wealthy Hutt landlord bought him to work his estates on the nearby Nal Hutta. Here Nim toiled for eleven years, until by chance he was freed. The only way out of his master's compound was a long narrow passage walled on either side by fortress-like embankments. It was always heavily guarded, and thus no slave would have a chance of escaping. Shortly after Nim's seventeenth birthday a scuffle started by a disgruntled bounty hunter ended in him madly setting off a thermal detonator -- at the time still firmly gripped in his own hand. Needless to say, most of the gateway guards were attempting to physically restrain him at the time and were instantly incinerated. Along with a variety of other slaves Nim managed to escape to a nearby trading post and there stowed away on the first ship out.

It so happened that the destination of his ship was the planet Sluis Van, and there he resided for the next three years. The Sluissi population was just beginning to feel the strain of the New Order policies at this time and organized resistance was soon under way. Nim enlisted almost immediately, the idea of his new-found freedom still fresh in his mind. The resistance's resources were meager and their efforts great, but unfortunately in Nim's time there they failed to wrest the planet and system from Imperial hands. Towards the end of his three years there, a severe ISB crackdown on his resistance cell's operative occurred, resulting in Nim and a few others being driven into the outlands to lay low. It was on the fringe of society that he met a Hutt trader named Kavvel and learned of the galactic efforts of the Rebel Alliance. Using his modicum of underground contacts he finally was able to communicate with the Alliance. Right around the New Year (Y3 CGT) Nim was recruited into the Rebel Alliance by Dean of Recruits Marcus Nightcloud. Less than a week after he joined the vaunted intelligence corps of the Alliance, the Center for Rebel Intelligence.

Career

Nim joined the RA around Year 2 Day 358. After arguing with Marcus Nightcloud for about a week, he was finally allowed to join CRI (Marcus had wanted Nim to join the Marines, as Army was called back then). Nim languished in the academy with the likes of SFC pilots Alex Darkheart and Mecho Rykspin and Navy officer Tenx Echiveres, and then finally graduated a month later.

His CRI work was pretty low-key most of the time, but he showed enough command promise to be promoted to Dean of CRI academy that spring. At Director Frollo's retirement Nim was promoted to be new Director Lazarus Metzen's deputy. Lazarus did not last long in that position, and Nim unofficially took over around Year 3 Day 195.

Officially Nim Orlan became Director of CRI two months later. He operated without a deputy director for some time, until Frollo came out of retirement and took that position once again. CRI grew in strength and numbers during the whole of his tenure. They participated in a variety of interesting operations, including the allied defense of the Beta System, and planning an assault on what was the preliminary foundation of a Death Star. Nim's biggest regret was the fiasco with the Imperial spy Seele. Seele defected from the GE with a variety of information, and, breaking spying rules, defected back about two months later. He got little more than a slap on the wrist. Luckily, CRI discovered that the extent of information he gleaned from his stay was minimal and essentially faulty.

Around Year 5 Day 196 Nim retired from the directorship, handing it once again over to Frollo. He did not retire from CRI, and joined the military at the rank of Captain in order to run Recon Wing. Unfortunately SFC were strapped for pilots back then and the few Nim had tended to be inactive. The whole recon wing idea was dropped pretty soon and Nim mainly worked as an advisor in High Command between this time and around Year 7 Day 226. He also participated in the occupation and defense of Commenor during Operation Praxis.

Around July 2006 Nim again took a more active role in CRI, this time in internal security. When Frollo once again retired in September 2006 he took over the directorship a second time. Since then Nim was one of the main Alliance negotiators during the merger talks and have taken a rather forward role in the new NR government.

After openly opposing Ingo R Vailis' and Adam A Flynn's reign over the New Republic, Nim decided to run for Chief of State when a vote of no confidence was called in Ingo. However, when the Black Sun coup began, Nim was arrested and then executed by Black Sun operative, Aiden Taan.