Neshan Sarafean

Neshan Sarafean is a Commenorian politician and Senator in the Senate of the Galactic Republic. Sarafean is a founder of the Republican Rebirth League, an intergalactic political party. In his third year as senator, Sarafean was assassinated by the "Real RRL" extremist group.

Biography
Neshan Sarafean was born to Markarr Sarafean and Luseen Sarafean (née Arzrunee) in Chasin City, Commenor. Markarr Sarafean worked at the principal spaceport on the planet, employed as a travel agent and baggage carrier. Markarr lost his job to aliens and droids, leading to him becoming an alcoholic, with their only family income coming from Neshan's mother's small chrysopaz gemstone business which was rapidly losing money. When he was 11 years old, a Rodian gangster killed his parents because they refused to give him the credits they had saved all their lives to send Neshan to Theed University.

Crime and Kaldana Syndicate
After the loss of his parents, Neshan Sarafean developed a hatred of non-humans. For the next few years, Neshan Sarafean operated several scams, frauds and racketeering scams, often capitalizing on his age. While younger he tended to engage in petty theft and pickpocketing, often while pretending to be lost. As he approached 14 years in age, Sarafean moved onto more complicated schemes, including peddling fake Chrysopaz gems to tourists and a "Zyggerian prince" scam.

After witnessing the trial of Luke Blackmouth, a member of the Kaldana Syndicate, a 15-year old Sarafean paid for his bail and sneaked him out of the system with a fake passport, on the condition that he would join the Kaldana Syndicate. Thus, Sarafean traveled to the neighboring Corellian sector, in order to join the xenophobic Kaldana Syndicate.

They rejected him initially, yet secretly tailed him back to his planet, where a dejected Sarafean tracked down the Rodian who killed his parents, beating him to death with his bare hands. Seeing this display of violence and now having confirmation that Sarafean was not a spy, he was formally accepted (under a fake name) into the criminal syndicate.

While working within the Kaldana Syndicate, Sarafean was initially principally involved in arms dealing, before moving to weapons creation. Notably, he became an expert in explosive creation, after being sent to train in explosives with the Nebula Front terrorist group. Sarafean produced the explosives that were used in the attack on Selonia's Non-Human Heritage Museum. In addition to his areas of expertise, Sarafean was sometimes involved in the trafficking of spice and non-humans.

Eight years after joining, Neshan left the Kaldana Syndicate as a lieutenant, believing that its scope of operations was not wide enough.

Return to Commenor
Neshan Sarafean soon returned to his homeworld of Commenor, where he began to take an interest in politics. Sarafean was a local member of the Chasin City COMPNOR, which was threatened by the rising power of the Federalists on Commenor. In 7958 CRC, the unthinkable happened: Senator Vale of Commenor was assassinated and the Federalists won the Commenor parliamentary elections by forming a coalition with the Commenor Advancement Party. The new Federalist-CAP ruling government banned COMPNOR on Commenor, forcing many of its members to go underground or into exile.

Sarafean used this opportunity to cleanse his image and tie up any remaining loose ends. He hunted down or sent bounty hunters after anyone who could have possibly remembered his face from his time as a terrorist in the Kaldana Syndicate. Sarafean was protected in large part by the fact that he joined the Kaldana under a fake name.

A 26-year old Sarafean returned to Commenor once more, where he took an active role in politics as a Commenorian Member of Parliament from the Salvation of the Republic faction, a political party made up mostly of ex-COMPNOR members. Most former members of COMPNOR were too afraid of being arrested to participate in politics once more. For over 2 years, the SR and Federalist-CPA were locked in intense rivalry; however, in 7960 CRC, a bargain was reached between the SR and Federalists - Sarafean was elected senator without opposition, while a member of the Federalists was to be elected as Prime Minister. Instead, the Federalists were betrayed as Sarafean traveled to the residences of former COMPNOR members convincing them to vote for a member of the Salvation of the Republic faction.

In the end, the SR won both the Senate and Parliamentary elections, allowing them virtually total control of Commenor. Salvation of the Republic was turned back into COMPNOR, as most of its higher officials were former members.

Senator
18 days into his term in office, Sarafean founded the Republican Rebirth League, a nationalist labor party.