Name: Sergeant Bloy
Died: 2 BBY, Ghorman
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Hair color: Gray
Eye color: Blue
Skin color: Light
Affiliation(s): Galactic Empire, Bloy's riot squad

Dexterity: 2D
        Blaster: 5D
        Dodge: 4D
        Brawling Parry: 4D
        Vehicle Blasters: 3D
Knowledge: 2D
        Streetwise: 4D
        Survival: 5D
        Tactics: 4D+2
Perception: 2D
        Command: 5D
        Search: 4D+2
Strength: 3D+1
        Brawling: 4D+2
        Climbing: 3D+1
Mechanical: 2D
        Communications: 3D
Technical: 2D
         Blaster Repair: 3D

Move: 10

Equipment:  Blaster Rifle (5D), Imperial Army Trooper Armour (+2 vs Energy, +1D vs Physical), Blaster Pistol (4D), Utility Belt, Spare Ammunition, Comlink, Imperial Army Uniform, Code Cylinders

Description: Bloy was a human male sergeant in the Imperial Army who was responsible for training the newest recruits. In 2 BBY, he and his inexperienced squad of Imperial security troopers were deployed to the planet Ghorman as part of the Imperial occupation there. Arriving in the capital, Palmo, in a troop transport, the sergeant and his men were greeted by Captain Kaido in Palmo Plaza.

The following day, Bloy oversaw the rearrangement of the barricades in the plaza, allowing large numbers of local protestors to gather there to object to the occupation. When Kaido ordered Bloy and his squad to patrol among the protestors, Bloy objected, but followed orders once the captain threatened to throw him and his men in the brig. The protestors jeered at the Imperials and began to throw projectiles at Bloy, who was about to call a retreat when an Imperial sniper shot one of his men on Kaido's orders.

Thinking that the shot had come from the protestors, Bloy ordered his men to open fire and shot one of the unarmed protestors himself. As Ghorman Front resistance fighters in the crowd returned fire and Imperial forces around the plaza's edge also joined in, a massacre ensued that claimed the lives of Bloy and hundreds, if not thousands, of Ghorman civilians. The entire event had been orchestrated by the Imperial Security Bureau in order to justify relocating the Ghorman population to allow for Imperial mining on their world, but it ultimately backfired and convinced many opposed to the Empire that armed resistance was their only option.

Biography
Pieces in a game
Bloy was a human male who served in the Imperial Army of the Galactic Empire during its reign. By 2 BBY, he held the rank of sergeant and was responsible for training the army's newest recruits. That year, he and his squad of untested security troopers were assigned to the planet Ghorman, where native tensions were rising due to an Imperial occupation. On Ghorman, Bloy and a dozen of his men traveled through the capital, Palmo, in a troop transport and stopped in the Palmo Plaza, where Imperial forces had set up barricades.

Despite Bloy's orders for them to tighten up as they filed out, the troopers shambled off the vehicle in a disorganized manner and then sloppily formed up in front of Captain Kaido, who was overseeing operations in Palmo. The captain greeted Bloy and ordered him to get the men cleaned up and prepared for presentation, prompting the sergeant to retort that none of the young troopers were men yet but that he would try. Kaido then got in Bloy's face and asked if he was going to be a problem, but the sergeant stood to attention and promised to not cause any issues. Bloy then marched his squad off the plaza.

Setting up the board
Bloy stands in the middle of Palmo Plaza issuing orders to various Imperial security troopers around him as the quickly move barricades around.
Bloy oversaw the rearrangement of the barricades in Palmo Plaza.

The next day, Bloy oversaw the removal of the Imperial barricades in the plaza, opening it up to the public again other than a protected area around an Imperial office complex and an access path from the building to the Monument to the Fallen in the center of the plaza. Once they learned that the plaza was open, many citizens of Palmo, including many members of the Ghorman Front resistance group, began to march toward the plaza to protest.

As the plaza began to fill up with protestors, Bloy oversaw his squad as they geared up inside the office complex, although they were unprepared to handle any civil unrest if it boiled over. With the plaza full, Kaido ordered that all exits be closed and stormtroopers began to trap the chanting protestors inside. Back in the building's lobby, he ordered a now armored Bloy to take his squad and patrol within the crowd of protestors, keeping the access route to the memorial clear. Knowing his men were unprepared, Bloy objected to the order on the grounds of their inexperience but backed down when Kaido threatened to have the whole squad thrown in the brig for the rest of their days. Ordering his men to attention, Bloy donned his own helmet and peered out into the plaza as the protestors began to sing.

Sacrificing pawns
Looking concerned, Bloy emerged with his novice unit into the barricaded access route, progressing slowly forward toward the monument in two columns. The unit kept their riot shields and electrobatons at the ready as Bloy eyed a protestor who scaled the monument to wave a flag. As protestors began to jeer at the Imperial troopers over the barricade, Bloy ordered the unit to close ranks, and they thrust out their shields to keep the Ghormans at bay.

The crowd began to push against the shields and the Ghorman Front member Capso hurled a piece of rubble at Bloy, causing him to stumble then dodge further incoming projectiles. Under orders from Kaido and his superior, Imperial Security Bureau Supervisor Dedra Meero, an Imperial sniper on a walkway above the plaza shot and killed one of Bloy's men right in front of him, just as the sergeant called for his unit to withdraw. Believing the shot had come from the protestors, Bloy gave an order for the incapacitated trooper to be removed to safety and then called for the unit to open fire on the crowd.

Firing the first shot, he killed the protestor who had scaled the monument, and his men began firing into unarmed protestors around them. The armed Ghorman Front members in the plaza then pulled their weapons and began firing on the unit as Bloy called for a retreat. Stormtroopers and other Imperials on the edge of the plaza also began firing into the crowd and in the ensuing chaos and slaughter, Bloy was killed and his body dragged back behind the barricade.

Legacy
The Ghorman Massacre, as the event that Bloy began came to be known, led to hundreds, if not thousands, of casualties among the civilians of Ghorman. It had been orchestrated by the Imperial Security Bureau in order to justify the removal and relocation of the Ghorman people so that the Empire could strip mine their world for kalkite. News reports focused on the Imperial casualties and called Bloy and the other soldiers who had died heroes and martyrs, blaming the insurrection on Ghorman on outsider agitators.

The next day, a session of the Imperial Senate on the massacre was held where Senator Nico announced that following the session a list of fallen Imperial patriots who had died on Ghorman would be submitted. Other senators spoke against the Ghorman and called the tragedy an emergency, but Senator Mon Mothma, secretly a part of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, spoke out against the Empire and the lies being told about Ghorman, naming it an unprovoked genocide and calling Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine a monster before fleeing the Senate.

Rather than supressing wider dissent in the galaxy as the Imperial Security Bureau had hoped, the Ghorman Massacre instead showed many who opposed the Empire that even peaceful protest would be met with violence and death and that there could be no political solution or compromise to Imperial oppression. This left armed resistance as the only option, a fact that had dramatic and long-reaching consequences in the Galactic Civil War that would ultimately topple the Empire.

Personality and traits
Bloy was relatively good-natured and ordered his unprepared troops to help each other when needed. Knowing they were inexperienced to the point of being useless, he objected to leading them out into a protest on Ghorman but did as he was ordered once threatened with imprisonment. After seeing one of his men killed in the plaza, he gave the order for his men to fire indiscriminately into the crowd, shooting a seemingly unarmed civilian himself. Bloy had light skin, blue eyes, and gray hair.

Equipment
Bloy wore a black Imperial uniform with a matching Imperial kepi, gloves, boot, and belt. When arriving he carried a black satchel and during the protests he donned the black chestplate, shoulderguards, goggles, and helmet of a set of Imperial Army trooper armor. He carried a blaster rifle.