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Dar Appia, Vice-President Czerka News Network
Born Coruscant
Occupation Business Executive
Years Active 23 Years
Employer Czerka News Network
Title Vice President
Spouse(s) Ameli Starr (nee: Raxi)
Dar Appia is a Coruscanti Business Executive, who is the current a Vice President of Galactic Affairs within the Czerka News Network Trust. Before filling this role Dar had a lengthy career at the Czerka Corporation, through one of its subsidiaries, Czerka Shipping and formally Czerka Mining. Prior this he worked at the Santhe/Seiner Corporation, rising to become a Departmental Director during the ‘Age of the Republic’.
During his tenure at the Santhe/Seiner Corporation, Dar built up a web of contacts across the Imperial Military-Industrial complex, standing him in good stead to make a move over the struggling Czerka Corporation when it came under the leadership of Voren Makr. When he was in the position of President of Czerka Shipping, the division saw a considerable turnaround, with new space lanes being opened through Imperial Occupied space; thanks in part to the contacts Dar had made during his time in Santhe/Seiner. He was noted to be a strong advocate both in public, and in private meetings, for closer ties with the Imperial power of the Sith Order; something which frequently earned him the ire of the Czerka CEO, and the mainstream Republican establishment alike.
Regardless of the ire he had attracted from the Republic Administration, he was elevated to the position of Senator of Coruscant in the waning few years of the Government he served, thanks in no small part to his personal familial links to the House Appia by birth, and Royal House of Kuat by marriage. Since the collapse of the Republic he has been in position as the Czerka News Network, clearly keeping a low profile. Over the course of his long career, Dar has been featured in the Czerka News Networks annual list of ‘40 Under 40 - Rising Stars’ and has featured in a documentary that went ‘behind the scenes’ at the Czerka Corporation during the fall of the Republic.
Contents
- Early Life
- Career
- Joining Santhe
- Lobbyist
- Moving to Czerka
- Czerka Mining
- Czerka Shipping
- Czerka Corporation
- Moving to the Senate
- Joining CNN
- Personal Life
- Personality
- Assets
Born into a wealthy noble family hailing from the upper city of Coruscant Dar was educated by the house tutors from a young age, standing him in good stead to attend the University of Kuat and to graduate with a first class honors in Galactic Politics. Upon gradutaion, he took up work as a Sales Rep for the Santhe/Seiner Corporation, part-time whilst heading through secondary and higher education.
Career
Dar began his career whilst still in higher education, as a part-time field sales representative for the homeware branch of Santhe/Seiner Technologies. He had a natural affinity for the role, and when he graduated was accepted without application into the Coruscanti Sales Team for the business.
Joining Santhe
Fresh out of University, Dar was eager to advance his career and started his first job within a week of his final examination. Taking on the role of a Field Sales Agent, Dar worked within the Speeders & Home Electronics (Droids) Department of the Company, rapidly asserting himself as a good persuader and strong minded activist for change within the company. Initially working alone, he was placed to the top of his set after launching a new campaign to sell into the more upmarket region of the planet, considered a no-go area for the non-noble classes.
Despite the idea being dismissed by his Managers as ”dangerous and ineffective”, Dar took a gamble and continued with the plan regardless, taking additional classes in behavioral etiquette, and seeking to further understand the unique cultural practices of the Core Noble Families, so as to better integrate with them, and thus secure a profitable sales line. All in all he took just shy of six months worth of classes before stepping foot in the Noble District.
Between the glittering spires of the Nobles High-Rise Palaces there can be no doubting that the man felt very much at home in this setting, but after swinging himself an invite to one of the upper-class parties in the area, he managed to use his family name to get into the gatherings of the elite. Once inside his natural charm took over, and the young man was soon able to open up a new business line, becoming the supplier of choice for Speeders, Droids and Electronics for the wealthy citizens of the Deep Core.
Naturally, such success did not pass unnoticed, and he was rapidly promoted to ‘Director of Deep Core Operations’ to oversee what was rapidly to become one of the Santhe/Seiner Corporations most lucrative business ventures. Beginning to make waves in the Corporate world, the rising star was profiled by the Czerka News Network (CNN), and was soon inundated with offers to move to other companies. Despite this, he was to remain with Santhe/Seiner for five more years.
Expanding the operations of the company across the Core, Dar met considerable resistance from the Senate, who saw the Santhe/Sienar companies links within Sith Space as a threat; with some of the more populist Senators demanding that the company be assigned a ‘Senatorial Overseer’ to ensure the company was not harbouring Imperial Sympathisers.
Aware of the somewhat dangerous nature of bad publicity, the Director made attempts to assuage the doubts of the Senate, making moves into the Branding and PR fields, clandestine lobbying become something of a frequent occurrence in the day-to-day operations of the Company. Applying his considerable understanding of etiquette and political practice to the Senate and its members came in useful as the young Executive managed to stave off the attempts of the Senate to push Santhe/Sienar from the Core.
Lobbyist
In recognition of his need to press forward with a somewhat more political agenda for the company, Head Office moved Dar over to the position of ‘Director of Public Affairs’ in one of the Santhe/Sienar groups many departments and subsidiaries, so as to allow him to lobby the Senate with more transparency and ease. He took up his new position shortly after the death ascension of Chancellor Chanzot, and was quick to make inroads to her political staff - although never met the Chancellor directly.
Within this roll he was quick to put down any doubts of businesses malicious links to the Sith Order, and moved quickly to adopt more clandestine approaches to ensuring the Company's objectives would be met. Framing the Senator for Rodia by placing Spice in his office was one particular example of Dar’ ruthlessness over the course of his time as a lobbyist - with the frame spinning a vote for greater industrial oversight on Non-Republic companies in favour of Santhe/Seiner by one vote exactly.
Thanks to his contacts within the Senate, and with the Sith Order however, Dar began to hear greater and greater rumours of the incoming Sith-Republic war, and ever eager to position himself out of harm's way, he began to make plans to transition out of the company, setting his eyes on a more valuable prize - one that had recently changed hands.
Moving to Czerka
Keen to ensure he was in the right place at the right time, Dar moved to a company that he saw as better positioned to come out on top, regardless of who won the war, the newly acquired Czerka Corporation. Having recently changed hands and fallen into the ownership of the Kuati Noble, Voren Makr, he made arrangements through industrial contacts to be moved to the new business, initially as a Sector-Director for the Czerka Mining company.
Czerka Mining
One of the largest branches of the Czerka Corporation, Czerka Mining had operations across the Galaxy, and was one of the main suppliers of raw materials to almost every manufacturing company in the Galaxy. Being moved to the company was a considerable test for Dar, and he was placed as Director for the Chommel Sector, an area known for its blend of rich Plasma reserves, and dangerously independent natives. Setting up operations on Naboo, one of the most densely and profoundly populated planets in the Sector, Dar set in place a plan to bring the native-owned plasma-mines under the control of the Corporation.
Surprisingly to the Czerka main board, the plan was met with protests and riots, which later developed into outright guerrilla warfare from the native ‘Gungan’ population, who held the mines in an almost spiritual light. Dar was quick to quash any suggestion that the company would be pulling out of the area, and instead brokered deals with the local human-occupied City States, offering to lease the land from the them in return for mineral rights. It is widely considered that this lead to some of the initial conflict between the Gungans and the Cash-Strapped City-States of the Southern-Naboo.
Moving quickly to capitalise on the situation, and the company's newfound stream of income he opened up talks with Imperial Authorities to commence mining in numerous other sectors and was rapidly moved to the position of Vice-President of Galactic Operations (New) so as to ensure he remained with the Company. Heading up numerous ventures to expand the Corporations influence across the Sith and Outer-Rim territories, Dar was largely distant from the front lines of the war, and thus relatively unaffected by it.
Czerka Shipping
It was the death of Czerka CEO & Chairman Voren Makr that saw his moving from the Mining branch of the Company over to the more logistically inclined Czerka Shipping, following the company's restructuring by its desperate board. With share prices collapsing across the board, the company devolved the centralised power of the company, to attempt to block out the vast black holes their departing CEO had left in the balances and more importantly, the company's financial reserves for what could only be described as ‘dodgy practices’.
Dar move to the company was deemed political, placing the forward thinking and so-called ‘Rising Star’ into one of the Companies floundering branches. Personally, Dar thought of it as a death sentence, and with the culture of the organisation becoming more and more toxic with each passing day, he saw himself as having to fight to keep his own head above the water line, let alone the businesses.
Advancing on a program of brutal cost management, to such an extent that at one stage all purchases of new vessels had to be approved by him directly, Dar shrunk the business of Czerka Shipping on purpose, firing sufficient people that it is estimated several more distant colonies in the Outer-Rim actually starved as a result of the delays in shipping. This new approach, whilst effective, somewhat marred his image as the golden boy of the company, and soon left him smeared with the new nickname ‘Dar the Hammer’.
Not one to be put off by the necessity for action, Dar continued to focus on turning the business around, whilst also staving off the attempts from his rivals to usurp him from his ever strengthening position. Starting a new freelance shipping initiative, in which Czerka Shipping leased branded Czerka Vessels to Freelance Pilots, alongside a planetary Mono-Rail program, on the ravaged worlds of the Former-Republic, he began to hack into the losses the company was experiencing, and set his eyes on greater heights within Czerka itself, seeking to move out of the Company and up into Corporate.
Moving to the Senate
However, and despite his former insistence to remain as far from the fallout of the war as humanly possible, he soon fell out of favor with the Board at Czerka after his ambitions to make a bid to become CEO accidentally leaked and became public knowledge. Practically hounded out of the Company by his peers, he was soon back at the front door of his ancestral home on Coruscant, the tower-top apartment controlled by the Trust that held the Estates of his House.
Not one to take such a setback lying down, he sought influence wherever he could, and practically threw himselves into the Coruscant Political Scene, expertly working the fears of his peers to assure that he was well placed to become the next Senator for the Core World of Coruscant, a position in which he served for just shy of two years before the collapse of the Republic, and the resulting invasion of the Sith Empire.
Move to CNN & The Insurgency
Not one to court death openly, Dar returned to the High Politics of the Core with haste, and took up a role within the Imperial Transitional Authority, becoming something of a spokesperson for ‘Imperial Progress’ whilst working with former allies behind the scenes to channel information to rebel groups and other forces seeking to weed out Imperial Rule.
As part of this he was taken in by the Czerka News Network at a President Level, with responsibility for ‘Political Relations’ - something which played well into his strengths, enabling him to build ties within the Corsucanti establishment, and leverage them for the gains of CNN.
Since the Imperial Conquest of Coruscant, he has tried to lead an unremarkable life, attempting to stick to the shadows of society, rather than emerge and come to the fore. Despite this he has been approached and recruited into the Rebel Group known as the ‘Insurgency’ - who have requested he serve in the role of diplomatic envoy on behalf of the group.
Personal Life
Dar has been married once, to the actress and model Ameli Starr. The two met when filming a promotional video for ‘Czerka Tours’. They have no children.
Personality
An astute loyalist as well as a stickler for detail, one of the main aspects of Dars personality is his ability to conceal his thoughts and intentions behind a ’mask’ of pretenses. He is devoted to his family, as well as the cause of seeing the republic return. Despite his time spent within the Imperial Establishment, he has done his best to ensure that his own viewpoints have not been warped by their teachings and propaganda.
Assets
Dar has no assets in terms of military equipment or gear, aside from a small holdout pistol. He has a private speeder, but prefers to make use of ferry transports or contractors when traveling between worlds. Aside from this he as his apartment on the upper city of Coruscant.
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