Urik Panteer

Urik was only fourteen, not of an age to even consider his true political allegiances, much less swear an oath to fight in an insurgent movement. Politics was to be the dominating force in his life, the life of a noble of House Panteer. Change from within, the principles his family had instilled in him for generations. But on the day the Empire came, the Alderaanian diaspora flocked to the Alliance in the aftermath. Urik would have answered the call as well, had it not been for the discovery that he was a Force sensitive, though his parents, through their considerable influence within remaining Alderaanian communities, were able to keep the warning signs from manifesting publicly.

Yet Urik and his family were not the only ones to have been blessed by serendipity on the day they found themselves visiting a neighboring Core world, for along with them on what had meant to simply be a vacation from a beloved home, came Desmond Rist, thirteen and inseparable from Urik growing up. Desmond was a ward in Castle Panteer immediately prior to the Death Star's strike. For a while, the two became closer together, but after Desmond's accidental discovery of Urik's sensitivity as they both neared their second decade of life, the young man and one of the only survivors of House Rist, was cast out for Urik's protection.