"I time to live... a time to die..."
                       The story of Major General Caso

        One rainy afternoon on Coruscant, a young woman had gone into labor.
She was one month early, so it was a deadly time. Six months earlier, she had
wed with a young frieghter pilot. He was hansom and skilled. He had also died
two months later when his freighter fell under attack by several ships from
the Kessel Fleet. She was alone... alone with her unborn child... an unborn
child who was screaming to be brought into this world of deception,
destruction, and death. She was finally at the end of labor... she grasped at
her new child. She named him Chris Caso; a child destined for victory and 
power. It was at that unfortunate moment, that, due to complications, she
"expired". She spent those last breathes of air holding her new child; the one
who she could never possibly imagine what would lie ahead in his future.
        He was adopted by a peaceful family on Alderaan, where he lived till
he was 15. Then, due to the fact that he seeked adventure, he ran away. He
had stowed away on a spice freighter en route to Corellia. When he arrived, he
was forced to live on the streets. He learned how to hijack a land speeder,
and he acquired his first T-47 Skyhopper. That was when he first experienced
what it would be like to glide in the air.
        Less than five months later, a robed man approached him and convinced
him that he had great powers... powers that he would not yet understand, but
would learn to use in time.
        He then moved in with another young boy that he had met. This young
boy was a hot-shot Corellian named Wedge Antilles. Wedge had decided to join
the Rebel Alliance when he was 18, and convinced Chris Caso to do as well. At
this time, Chris Caso was only 17, so he had to lie about his age to join the
Alliance. They flew a few missions together as wingmen in X-Wings, but were
soon separated before the battle of Yavin IV. The last time Chris Caso and
Wedge Antilles saw each other was two months before the battle of Endor, and
they were doing escort duty for a Rebel Alliance freighter.
        Not too long after, Chris Caso was on vacation on the pleasure planet
of Ancheron VI. There, he met one of the Empire's best pilots; a young
Alderaanian female commader named Brooke Shepherd. She was in command of a
shipping unit for transporting Imperial goods. They met on friendly terms when
an old Corellian gambler assaulted her on an attempt of rape. Chris Caso saw
the man attacking her in the back of a shuttle platform, so he ran over to
assist her. Unfortunately for the gambler, life was at an end. She expressed
her thanks by offering him a possitian in the Empire, but, when he told her
that he was a member of the Rebel Alliance, she thought otherwise. Then, she
realized that it didn't matter who he was with, she owed him possibly her
life, so they became friends.
        After that, they got closer and closer together. Then, they finally
became lovers... seeing each other whenever they had the chance. They were
closer than a pilot to his ship. Shey were inseperable. Finally, Chris Caso
had the guts to ask her to wed. She agreed and they plans were made for the
wedding to be held in exxactly six months time.
        Five months later, she was called out to duty to command a bulk
freighter en route to Bispattih, an Imperial shipping center. All that she
told Chris Caso was that she was flying a shipping unit to a classified
destination, so he didn't know where she would be. He was already getting
the final steps for the wedding completed.
        Just a week later, Chris Caso was placed into an elite strike 
squadron of X-Wings assigned specifically for heavy assault missions. He was
called immedietally out to intercept and destroy an Imperial convoy carrying
weapons. His squadron immediatelly left and set course for the interception
point. WHen they arrived, they were right on time... the convoy had their
shields down and were unprepared. His wingmen started locking on the
freighters and firing torpedoes. Then, he remembered about his lover... she
was supposed to be commanding a group of freighters en route to a classified
destination. Then it hit him! This was HER convoy they were assaulting! He
then started identifying all remaining freighters before they were destroyed.
Finally, he identified what he thought to be the last one, and was relieved
when it didn't have her on it. Then, on the very far end of his sensor array,
he noticed a blip... an unidentified freighter! He turned sharply and did a
high-speed dive for the freighter. He targeted it... was withing range... and
no sooner than he identified it, a torpedo was on its way to destroy the
freighter; the one that identified his lover on board. The second it hit, he
was filled with rage... a kind of rage that not even the Dark Lord of Sith,
Exar Kun could experience! He then assaulted his own squadron with such force
that even the Emperor himself would have been impressed! He took out six of
his eight wingmen, while the other two made a jump to hyperspace like cowards!
Then, out of nowhere, an Imperial-Class Star Destroyer appeared. A swarm of
TIE Fighters appeared out of her hangar bay and escorted the X-Wing back
aboard the Star Destroyer for interogation.
        When aboard the ISD, Chris Caso told Lord Vader himself that he would
get revenge for the murder of his lover. The Dark Lord was impressed at his
performance against his own wingmen, and decided to spare his life. Then,
the Dark Lord senced something special about him... he held powers in the
Force! He would be a valuable  asset to the Empire if he could be turned to
the Dark Side! The Dark Lord had him sent off to an Imperial training academy
for TIE Fighter pilots, where, Chris Caso graduated to top of his class. He
was then assigned a position in a TIE Defender aboard the Star Destroyer
Chimaera, and all in a months time. He was aboard the Star Destroyer Chimaera
during the battle of Endor, and witnessed the destruction of the Death Star,
and felt the losses of both the Dark Lord and the Emperor.
        Four years later, the Star Destroyer Chimaera was crowned the new
flagship for the last (Or supposed last) of the Grand Admirals... Grand
Admiral Thrawn. Thrawn admired his tactics, so he was placed on a special ops
unit for the most important missions only. He was also aboard the Chimaera
when the mad Jedi clone, Joruus C'Boath took command of the entire crew...
the entire crew except for Grand Admiral Thrawn, Captain Pellaeon, and him.
Joruus C'Boath never detected him, since he knew that the mad Jedi would do
who knows what to him, so he always had a ysalamir frame attatched to himself
to prevent the mad Jedi from detecting his powers. He was also one of the
last people to speak with Grand Admiral Thrawn before his untimely death, when
he was being briefed for a last-ditch assault before they retreated. Thrawn
was murdered by his Noghri bodyguard, Ruhk, not five minutes after he had left
Thrawn's chambers.
        After the death of Thrawn, Chris Caso was promoted to General for his
excellent record of service to the Empire. He was called out on patrol duty
one day, when, unexpectedly, he fell under attack by pirates. They attacked
his TIE Defender with a Lancer-Class Frigate, and he had no choice but to
make a jump to lightspeed or die by puthetic pirates... he had to flee like
a coward from combat.
        When he dropped out of hyperspace from a blind-jump, he noticed he was
in the Aurora System... a little-known, and mainly un-explored sectore with
nothing more in it than a dead planet from what he knew of it... but as fate
played its hand, he was wrong. He turned out to be at the base of a huge fleet
which had a Super Star Destroyer in it, several Star Destroyers, some
frigates, some cruisers, some platforms, and who knew what else! What was
this?! A mind trick of some kind! This was an impressive fleet for an Imperial
officer who served during the glorious days of the Emperor! How could this be?
Was it an illusion of some sort? He couldn't figure out heads nor tails of the
situation. Then, out of nowhere, a group of some new type of TIE Defenders
came up along side of him and ordered him to land on the next platform for
questioning. He was brought into a room, where he was interogated on who he
was, where he was from, why he was here, etc. He demanded to be brought to
the leader of this fleet, and they brought him aboard the Super Star Destroyer
they called the "Avenger". He recalled the name from the battle of Endor, but
the Avenger was an Imperial-Class Star Destroyer, not a Super-Class Star
Destroyer! Could someone have somehow upgraded the Avanger to a Super-Class?
He entered a room where a man in a white uniform sat. He identified himself
as Grand Admiral Ronin... truely the last of the great Grand Admirals. He
identified himself before the Grand Admiral as General Caso, a TIE Defender
pilot for Captain Pellaeon of the Star Destroyer Chimaera. He explained how
he arrived here and why, and then demanded an explenation of this place. He
was told that is was the Emperor's Hammer, an elite, top secret fleet of the
Emperor's. He also informed General Caso that not even the remenants of the
Empire know of its existance. Then, General Caso asked for a way in.
        He was placed in the Flayer Squadron, aboard the Star Destroyer
Subjugator. He was the 3rd wingman in flightgroup I. He had now served under
two separate Grand Admirals... something that he had never heard of being
done. He felt good about it. He would soon experiance several more victories
for the Empire in the near future. Promotions were also destined. He would
soon join the Dark Brotherhood, where he would learn to understand and control
his special powers in the Force. He would meet another lover... a young,
beautiful waitress named Lisa Esterly, who was four years older than him. He
would most certainly bring victiry to the Grand Admiral. He would die for his
cause... the cause to bring peace and order back among the Galaxy! The Empire
would soon return in command of the Galaxy... it would be only a matter of
time...
	It was only a few months later that his squadron commander, BG Jordan
was promoted to LG... and only a few weeks after that, that his squadron
commander was promoted to commadore of the Frigate Storm Wind. It was around
this time that GN Caso was promoted to BG, as well as he was transfered over
to Wing I, aboard the SSSD Sovereign, and was given command of Delta Squadron.
	His days in Delta Squadron were long and hard, yet they were fun. He
would spend many enjoyable days in Delta Squadron, and he would meet some new
and good friends. He would also be able to see many new worlds, on many of Delta
Squadrons deep-space recon operations. He loved it, but he still didn't have the
power he had wanted... he yerned for more. He soon became power-hungry, and that
thirst for power would only continue to grow. He became good friends with LG
Devin, the Wing Commander of Wing I... maybe he wasn't perposfully doing it,
maybe so, but he was sucking up at every chance trying to get more and more
promotions. Nothing would stand in his way on the road to power. Soon, therafter
LG Devin was promoted to the Command Attache of the Fleet Commander, Grand
Admiral Ronin, and Wing I was without a WC, and they needed one bad. Naturally,
BG Caso took the opportunity to his benefit... he began to attempt to gather all
his friends in thee EH to recommend him for the position. It was a tight race to
become WC of the original first Wing in the Emperor's Hammer, and alot of people
wanted the job too... but he HAD to get it... he HAD to have more power. Then,
one morning, he woke up with a letter sitting at his door... it was from Admiral
Zlatan, the Command Attache of the Flight Officer. It stated congradulations,
and said that he was now an LG, as well as the new Wing Commander for Wing I.
	He was now the WC of Wing I, and he liked it. He was in command of over
six full squadrons... he got off on having the power of god at his finger tips,
and up until now, this was the closest hes ever gotten. He could start a war
with what he had now, but he wouldn't. He knew what his duty was, and he'd carry
that duty out... he would serve the EH until the New Republic was erradicated,
and then he still may continue his service in the EH. His life had gone from
tragedy, to glory, to confused, to powerful... he enjoyed it. It was only a
matter of weeks that he'd get promoted to Major General, and he'd be sent out
on many missions to bring glory to the Empire. That was his job... the job of
a member of the Emperor's Hammer... the galaxy's most elite, powerful and feared
fleet since the glorious days of Emperor Palpatine.