Lord Cross

Of all members of Empire Legion, of all military leaders and commanders of Polaris Empire Lord Cross stands out for his impressive number of won battles. The oldest member of the Legion, military leader, who served four Emperors, he is still strong. The Empire restorative medicine allows a man to be strong and keep his reason even at the age of 300 years old. Cross started his military career as a cadet-officer on the flagship of the 12th Empire Fleet. The details of the early period of his service are unknown in the Dominion, but Cross became very famous all over the galaxy with the beginning of the Empire intrusion into the Protectorate space. The shock wing of the Empire Fleet under his command won more victories than anybody else during the First Wave. However during the Second Wave of Intrusion, his fortune let him down and his fleet was defeated by the united forces of 32 planets in sector 45. Cross himself hardly escaped death and for a long time was in disgrace. By the beginning of the Third Wave of Intrusion, when the Empire appeared in the face of numerous rebellions on earlier occupied planets, Lord Cross was again called out to the ranks. Just during the Third Wave of Intrusion and the following period of Watchful Peace, Cross gained his greatest glory. As a commander, he took part in quelling rebellions on good hundred of planets and in each conflict proved to be an excellent tactician and a merciless restorer of the Empire order. Also Cross got the fame of another kind. The story of personal death-feud between Lord Cross and Protectorate Advisor Helen Piriel entered all historic chronicles. They opposed each other in thirty battles and each time their military opposition went beyond the scope of the conflict between opposing commanders turning into merciless personal struggle. The reasons of this mutual hatred are not know to anybody except, maybe, a few high rank officials of the Empire and Protectorate.

Lord Cross is like ancient kings – being quick to punish, he uses the fear of his soldiers to achieve results. He is excellent tactician and can foresee the opponent’s actions on the battlefield. At the same time, Cross is ruthless both to enemies and his own soldiers. His orders always have a single meaning and a failure to carry them out means immediate death. He had never been stopped with the possibility of casualties among civil population, if the war necessity required them.