Biography
Kroah Dashan was a famous Cielioid inventor and engineer of the poet subspecies, and lived about about 80,000 years ago. Dashan was sprouted on the Kroah family podding ground on Artanis 4,(in the Empire of 1,000,000 Suns, first names are family names, and last names are personal identifiers), home-world of the Nalorgians. At an early age, Dashan showed a great deal of curiosity, often cobbling together simple inventions from the caretakers' tools at the podding grounds, and wandering into the nearby Artanian gearwood groves.
At school, young Dashan used free-study sessions to learn engineering and science, while the other poets studied the arts. Engineering classes were highly competitive, and Dashan was isolated and outnumbered in a class primarily composed of Brains and Watchmakers. Dashan did have one ally though, Selech Thumm was a Cielioid Grey, and similarly isolated. The two became close friends, and continued to stay in touch throughout the remainder of Thumm's life (Thumm died at age 78, a roughly average lifespan for Greys, but substantially younger than Dashan's 160 years). As part of a class project, Dashan and Thumm invented an improved plasma blade, and won an award from the Imperial Office of Technological Advancement as a result.
After graduating near the top of the class, Dashan went on to work at the Imperial Office of Technological Advancement (IOTA), and Thumm became a civil engineer for the Imperial Infrastructure Administration. Within five years of joining IOTA, Dashan had made about thirty significant inventions and improvements to existing technologies, including an improved Hyperdrive. Later, Dashan and Thumm worked together on a network of stargates, designed to protect imperial trade routes from piracy. Kroah Dashan had a long, and productive career touching a wide array of engineering fields. Dashan's greatest invention was the entanglement device, which allows instant communication between two points in space, although at very low bandwidths.
Over the course of a lifetime, Dashan planted two pods in the Kroah family podding ground. Dashan retired at the age of 140, surrounded by admirers, with full Imperial honors for a lifetime of excellence. Dashan's later years were spent raising Izorian bottle-bugs and cruising the luminous nebulae of the core-ward portion of the Spozak. Dashan passed away from natural causes at the age of 160, and the Empire knew it had lost a great mind.
