Veers, General Maximilian
Maximilian Veers was a loyal Imperial who excelled during his classes at the
Academy, achieving an officer's commission at a young age. Veers was dismayed by
the complacency and incompetence of officers senior to him, and proved his worth
when he saved his lackluster commander, General Irrv, from a native insurrection
on Culroon III. For that action, young Lt. Veers saw promotion to major.
When Veers married and had a son, he became what the Imperial propaganda
posters lauded as the ideal Imperial citizen: a proud military man with a
productive family unswervingly loyal to the Imperial cause. Tragedy struck a few
years later when Veers' wife died, leaving Maximilian to raise his young son
Zevulon. Not exactly a caring father, Veers was a rigid disciplinarian, who
insisted his son honor his mother's memory by serving in the military.
Despite not playing the hierarchical game of politics found throughout the
Imperial echelons, Veers continued to rise. As a Colonel, he was transferred to
the high profile Death Star assignment. He and a handful of officers escaped the
station's destruction at Yavin, having to survive on his own in the jungles of
the fourth moon after his escape shuttle was shot down.
Veers eventually rejoined the Empire proper, earning the rank of General and
command of the ground forces assigned to Lord Vaders Imperial Death Squadron.
Although Hoth was a considerable victory for Veers, he faced personal shame when
his teenage son defected to the Rebellion.
Not much is known of Veers' activities after the fall of the Empire at Endor. He surfaced again during the resurrected Emperor's campaign as a ground officer at the Battle of Balmorra.