Calo Drusan

A male captain of the Galactic Empire, Calo drusan commanded the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Chimaera during the Galactic Civil War against the Rebellion. In 0 ABY, Drusan allied himself with the Storm-hair Warlord Nuso Esva, who promised to help the captain get promoted to admiral by assisting him in a decisive battle against the Rebels, which would prompt the Empire to promote Drusan for his hoped-for rank. While acting as if Emperor Palpatine had verified Esva—who posed as a fictitious Lord Odo of the Imperial court—the captain had done so himself.

While the Chimaeras captain criticized the capabilities of Imperial High Command because of their assignment of the Star Destroyer to passenger duty, Esva's Kazellis-class light freighter, the Salaban's Hope, jumped out of hyperspace. Commander Gilad Pellaeon, Third bridge officer, noted that the light freighters speed was significant and advised Drusan to sound a combat alarm. After six starships affiliated with Esva's realm appeared, the captain did as advised and charged the Chimaeras turbolasers. Through comm, Esva ordered his ally to divert all power to the tractor beams and pull the last two attacks toward the Chimaera, allowing the Salaban's Hope to destroy them while the Star Destroyer took care of the others.

The Salaban's Hope then docked with Drusan's ship, and the captain ordered Pellaeon to greet their guests, as he was busy. After Esva and his pilot, Sorro, had received their quarters and been welcomed by Pellaeon, Drusan announced to all senior bridge officers—including his first, Senior Commander Grondarle—that the warlord was in absolute command of the Chimaera as part of a special assignment. Esva then ordered the Chimaera to the Wroona system, where, on the planet Wroona, he was to obtain some special equipment. After the material was obtained, Drusan delayed their departure from Wroona because he wished to make sure Esva's errand had been completed. It was, and the warlord commanded him to speak to the helm immediately, advising Drusan to follow his every command. Shortly after, Pellaeon assisted Esva in his move to his new quarters closer to the Chimaeras bridge, where Drusan was waiting for the pair. Upon their arrival, the captain dismissed the commander.

After determining that Esva could be a member of the Arkanian species because he quoted an Arkanian legend, the Song of Salaban, Pellaeon shared his findings with his captain. Drusan was impressed by the other's findings, and confirmed the commander's suspicions: Esva was an Arkanian and the order to carry him around had come from the Outer Rim, specifically from the Imperial Star Destroyer Predominant. The captain claimed the order had come from Palpatine himself and shared that the warlord had been ordered aboard the Chimaera to look into a possible alliance between the Rebellion and Esva himself. Ordering Pellaeon not to tell any of what he had said to the commander, Drusan once again dismissed him. Shortly after, the Chimaera briefly visited the Poln system before heading into the Unknown Regions. Drusan then told Pellaeon of what they would be doing in the Unknown Regions: hunting down one of Esva's attack squadrons alongside Imperial Task Force Admonitor.

Arriving at Teptixii, Drusan considered Task Force Admonitors formation foolish, and set upon to correct it. Believing the Admonitors Captain Voss Parck to be risking his task force's two Strike-class medium cruisers and four Carrack-class light cruisers, the Chimaeras commander advised the other captain to pull back his cruisers; however, Esva disagreed, telling Drusan that putting the cruisers in front of the Admonitor shielded the Star Destroyer from the firepower of Esva's main ships, the Firekiln warships, whose firepower was significant. The warlord also explained that by shielding the Admonitor with the other ships, Parck was able to lower his flagship's shields for a long enough period of time so that he could destroy one of the Storm-hair's other vessels. Drusan then ordered his crew to set the Chimaera to flank Esva's attack squadron, and Esva remarked that that would not be what the Star Destroyer would be doing. Instead, under the warlord's directive, it angled thirty degrees portside to divide the Firekilns' screening ships, prompting them to flee to hyperspace. Esva, seeking to bring Parck's superior, Senior Captain Thrawn, to the Poln system, ordered the captain to travel to the Poln system. As Parck refused, Drusan threatened to invoke Directive One-Oh-Three before a transmission reached both the Chimaera and the Admonitor. The message instructed both warships to travel to Poln to respond to an insurrection, with Drusan sending his ship there.

Once they arrived, Drusan informed Pellaeon that a DeepWater-class light freighter, the Lost Reef, had been following the Chimaera since they departed from Poln before the Teptixii engagement. The captain stated that Esva believed it was one of his agents or the warlord himself, and ordered Pellaeon to find the Storm-hair, as he was expected to have joined the captain by that time. However, the commander had no chance to tell his captain, as Esva sabotaged the Chimaera and incapacitated Drusan himself. While the captain died, Pellaeon confronted him and learnt why Drusan had verified the warlord. Drusan's hoped-for victory over the Rebellion did not arrive, with Esva's Eastern Fleet being shattered shortly after the captain's death by Imperial and Rebel forces. Eventually, Admiral Horst Strage became the Chimaeras captain.

Captain Calo Drusan was an impatient male who was willing to lie to his officers and crew to obtain a promotion.

Calo Drusan appeared in Timothy Zahn's 2011 novel Choices of One.

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