Merc Richardson

Merc Richardson was a Captain in the Imperial Army who specialized in close-quarters combat and ship boarding operations. He joined the Army in 7 ABY and completed Officer Candidate's School in 8 ABY, and was assigned to a unit that was some of the first Imperial troops to land on Caspar during the Caspian Annexation Campaign. He would later be the commanding officer of the commando unit assembled by Danik Kreldin to infiltrate and capture the NRSD Templar during the Fourth Battle of Sullust. His success in capturing the Templar earned him much recognition in the Empire, and months later Kreldin would call on Richardson's services once more to infiltrate the NRSD Crusader during the Etti IV Crisis, where his team, including Tanis Cadell and Sandor Woden, successfully hijacked the ship's turbolasers and started the Second Battle of Etti IV. Cadell was wounded during the firefight aboard the Crusader and Richardson personally stayed behind to see Cadell to an escape pod, carrying him on his shoulders amidst heavy enemy fire. He left no soldier, alive or dead, behind on the Crusader, and his team escaped just moments before the Crusader herself was destroyed after a collision with the HIMS Conqueror.