Hailing from the home-world of Csilla, Shren was leading a Chiss scouting party comprised of himself and 5 others.

He took basic medical training in the Csilla Institute of Medicine and Health where he completed his field certification of frontier medicine and command. He was promoted to commander by the Chiss Defense Fleet, being assigned a shuttle with a crew.

Privately he has noted unexplained feelings and abilities that surface when he focuses them. With only his direct superiors aware of this, he was chosen to lead a scout to find a new colony.

Their mission was to find a new habitable world for their people or resources to support recent expansion now that the Imperial/Rebel Alliance war was fully engaged with each, leaving them open to explore more.

During their first mission on the outer rim, after scouting a few planets, the scout team arrived on Nirauan and found some promising signs of for a new colony in its jungle terrain. They stumbled on an imperial patrol in the jungle and after a deadly misunderstanding regarding the mysterious loss of Imperial troops in their region and being falsely blamed, his team fled and despite being to start their shuttle and take off, they were swarmed by Tie Fighters. With amazing grace they took out their foes but with more enemy ships incoming, they knew a more desperate move was needed. To buy time they scuttled their ship on that remote world, dumping their cargo and supplies into the jungle so they could make use of them later. They knew that they had a better chance of surviving the ground forces instead of the Imperial ships. All 5 members plus Shren agreed that the best course of actions was to split in different directions in the jungle and use their different strategies to divide their pursuers and take any opportunity to leave the planet and find help. This intrepid team through ingenuity held out for a week, whittling down their pursuer's numbers with simple snares and traps. While contact was limited in the jungle, after a few weeks all 5 of his team ceased their contact, presuming they were eventually captured.

Shren himself managed to survive another month in the jungle and finally eluded his pursuers by faking his own death in an explosion and stowing away on the landed imperial shuttle, which returned to the main imperial cruiser. Overconfidence on the imperials part led to Shren being able to stow on another shuttle that landed on Nar Shaddaa as the imperial cruiser was recalled to that system for special cargo and supplies. After sneaking off he had to find his team, knowing that their efforts enabled him the extra time to outwit and divide his pursuers. Now with no supplies or plan he knew that in time an opportunity would open up and he could fulfill his duty to bring his team home, either in this world or the next.

The fate of his five fellow patriots unknown, he can only assume they were imprisoned, still on that jungle planet or dead. As the commander of his group and their friend, he can't give up on leads of their search until he can deliver a final resolved report to their families.

His options include: freeing his fellow Chiss himself; using the neutral agreements his people have with the Empire; if his people are close to Chiss space, perhaps have the Chiss bring them back.

His main mission is to confirm where they are before he can proceed.

He now travels from world to world and looking for odd jobs to pay his way to the next world, always on the lookout for leads to the fate of his fellow countrymen.

Csilla, the heart of the Ascendancy and the homeworld of the Chiss, sits in the Unknown Regions: an area of space largely separated from what we know as the Star Wars galaxy by volatile spatial anomalies that made traversing there all but impossible for most ships.

Even within the Unknown Regions, space travel and navigation were a risky business. The Chiss—who dubbed the expanse “the Chaos”—and other species had to carefully plot hyperspace paths through solar storms, by black holes, and other rogue anomalies. In particular, the Chiss harbored a secretive corps of navigational service used by its military branches to help vessels plot safe courses: Force-sensitive young girls, gifted with “Third Sight” as it was interpreted by the Chiss, could use their abilities to help a starship effectively see a path. Dubbed ozyly-esehembo in Cheunh, the Chiss language—translated as “sky-walkers”—every ship in the Chiss Navy was given one of these young girls (and their career) as an official navigator.

The process of using the Force to navigate the Chaos is a tumultuous one. Sky-walkers only usually have a career that lasts between the ages of around 8 and 13 before their ability to sense is almost entirely faded.

Chiss society, aka the Ascendancy, is ruled by two main bodies: the Aristocra and the Military. The Aristocra is made up predominantly of nine major noble houses (more on those later) and handled the actual governance. Through the Syndicure, the Ascendancy’s political branch, the ruling and greater families of Chiss nobility passed laws and united the disparate sovereignties of each family. But exploration and defense itself were handled by the military—most notably the Expansionary Defense Fleet, the Ascendancy’s naval operation. The Defense Force, although itself controlled by governing articles from the Syndicure, was a fundamental aspect of Chiss culture, which prided itself on duty to the state through service. It was tasked with peacekeeping within the Ascendancy’s borders and, when required, exploratory missions beyond those borders.

The Chiss Ascendancy is one of the most powerful factions in all of the Unknown Regions and not a body born out of military expansionism. The Chiss’s strict intervention policies practically forbid war without a threat attacking first. Its influence and control are instead expanded through arms-length diplomacy, ensuring (for the most part) relative peace with other races...if only because the Chiss themselves believe their species to be the superior beings of the galaxy. But the earliest days of the Ascendancy’s reach into the stars weren’t born out of Imperial goals or even a desire to explore, but climate disaster. Approximately a thousand years before the time of the Clone Wars, Csilla’s sun began to dim, freezing the Chiss homeworld. While some Chiss brought their civilization below the ice-locked planet’s surface to survive, many took to the stars instead to find nearby worlds capable of sustaining life as they’d known it.

From those planets—Rentor, Avidich, and Sarvchi—the Chiss began looking further into the cosmos around them, reaching out to other worlds in the Chaos and, at times, going to war. The Chiss even partially ventured beyond the anomalies safeguarding their area of space and into what we know as the Star Wars galaxy. This was well before Thrawn did so as an attempt to investigate whether or not the Galactic Republic and, by the time he actually arrived, the Empire, was a worthy ally to help the Ascendancy combat the sinister forces they had discovered in their borders. In fact, the Chiss had ventured into the wider galaxy eons before: fighting alongside the Sith Empire, thousands and thousands of years prior, in its wars with the Republic.

The Aristocra, in overseeing most social, political, and economic aspects of Chiss society, is served by a council of noble families that harbor the most influence: the Ruling Families. Currently, there are nine—the Boadil, the Chaf, the Clarr, the Dasklo, the Irizi, the Mitth, the Obbic, the Plikh, and the Ufsa. The families are not bound by direct bloodlines, mostly, but are much larger sociopolitical factions, governing the worlds of the Ascendancy. There are multiple titles within a family reflecting a member’s purpose:

Patriarchs were the heads of each Ruling Family, the most important member.
Speakers and Syndics were the representatives (Speakers being the chief Syndic) who participated directly in the Syndicure
Patriels and Councilors were the bureaucrats who handled governmental bodies on planetary and local levels, respectively
The Aristocra were the general nobility of a family with no specific governmental or military role.
Although they make up the majority of the Aristocra’s powerbase, there are several smaller families—known as the Greater Families—below them. Throughout Chiss history, the exact number of Ruling Families has expanded and contracted and the Nine are the most influential force in Chiss society as we know it. Not just politically, in that they essentially control the Syndicure, but because Chiss society is structured to subsume most Chiss into one family or the other. If military service is a major part of Chiss culture, then through it so is adherence to the nobility, to the point that their very names are shaped, and can be changed, by the family they are part of and their standing in that family.

Chiss have two names: a full name, and a shortened core name. Full names are made up of three segments broken up by apostrophes; the first segment is the name of the family they come from, the second is the personal name that helps build that Chiss’ core name, and the third is an indicator of that person’s relationship to their family. There are currently five known tiers of relation: Blood, Cousin, and Ranking Distant cover Chiss who are, in varying degrees, descended from a family’s bloodline. Trial-Born and Merit-Adoptive, meanwhile, are Chiss who have become part of the family through an assessed process of adoption. Merit-Adoptives are recruited for their skills, predominantly through military service (in which case affiliation expires upon the end of that service), but Trial-Born are permanent members who pass specific rituals (unsurprisingly called trials) to continue serving a family.

This doesn’t just highlight the tight grip the Ruling Families have on the very fabric of Chiss society but is reflected linguistically too: a Chiss’s own name can change over the course of their life, as they move between familial affiliations and careers. Thrawn, for example—full name Mitth’raw’nuruodo—was born Kivu’raw’nuru, a member of the lesser Aristocra family Kivu.

Comrades: Can't rest until he can bring his comrades home.

5 Dutybound: Can't return home until all his men are accounted for

5 Blackmail: Personal information is being used to keep the group fulfilling the request of their hooded informant.

Height: 5'9
Weight: 180
Build: Slender
Personal craving for Ewok jerky and other exotic foods