Icaris Hood

Icaris Hood (1029 BBY &mdash; 913 BBY) was a Republic ship captain and explorer during the heady days after the Ruusan Reformation. He had served as a midshipman and junior lieutenant aboard Republican warships during the New Sith Wars' final campaigns, and had been present for numerous battles during the Ruusan Campaign. After the War, he pursued his own Papers of Captaincy, and was assigned to several small patrol and security ships.

In 991 BBY, he was given command of a survey ship named Resplendent XI and sent to Bimmisaari to begin a five-year deployment surveying several hundred "log anomalies". These anomalies had been recorded by starships crisscrossing those regions during war time, but had never been investigated. Two years into the voyage, Resplendent XI stumbled across Caspia, and an entire culture, as well as Hood's life, was changed forever.

Hood was so taken by Caspia and the Sarian people that after his term of service to the Republic, and thousands of cataloged star systems, he emigrated his family to Caspar twenty years later to live out his years.