Baruti Saayman
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Baruti Saayman | |
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| Affiliation | Star League |
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| Profession | Major General |
Baruti Saayman was a Major General in the Star League Defense Force.
History[edit]
He rose to the commanding post of the XXXIX Corps in 2742.[1]
Saayman was born and raised in the Outworlds Alliance as a pacifist until his entire family had been killed by pirates, at which point he had joined the SLDF, eventually graduating from the War Academy of Mars. He responded to the dramatic increase in piracy following the beginning of the Phony War in 2741 by enforcing a kill-on-sight policy against pirates and bandits. He was responsible for the harsh stance taken by the Corps regarding piracy, well in advance of First Lord Simon Cameron issuing similar orders to the entire SLDF.[1]
Saayman was also intolerant of acts such as looting conducted by SLDF personnel; anyone from XXIX Corps caught looting during Saayman's tenure was subject to an immediate court martial rather than the nonjudicial punishments imposed by other corps.[1]
The long supply chain out to XXXIX Corps was a particular problem for General Saayman; with every province and many of the independent worlds within the League insistent on imposing border inspections and controls on SLDF shipping moving through their space, delays were common and there was a noticeably increased chance of supplies for XXXIX Corps being subject to predation by the same pirates that XXXIX Corps was hunting - with several notable instances of XXXIX Corps units having to fight pirates equipped with matériel intended for XXXIX Corps and stolen en route. As a result of the first instance of this bandit predation Saayman had started assigning naval flotillas from the Seventh Fleet to escorting supply shipments.[1]