Editing Advisor Mark Chang

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There is a widespread belief that all advisors are daring knights of cloak and dagger who "spread their tentacles into the internal affairs of sovereign planets, using trickery and guile to disrupt the Polaris Empire's noble plans". This is not entirely true. Some of them, the oldest and wisest, have instead chosen the path of training new advisors, of searching for talented youth throughout the entire Human Dominion Sphere.<br />
But even among his colleagues, Mark Chang is famous for his longevity. It's said that he was born two years before the first - then pre-Protectorate - treaty. There isn't much information available regarding his past, but it is known for certain that, prior to joining the Advisor Corps, Chang was leading quite an active lifestyle.<br />
One of the earliest investigations regarding piracy within Protectorate borders mentions the name of Black Mark, a pirate captain; the resemblance of his description to Mark Chang is uncanny. However, that's ancient history.

By the beginning of the First Wave, Chang was leading the recruitment department of the Advisor Corps Academy, many famous and successful advisors having had started their careers under his guidance. The most famous battle among the ones Chang took part in is also closely linked to his Academy activity.<br />
At the very start of the Second Wave, the Empire attempted to deal an irrecoverable blow to the Advisor Corps; an imperial contingent, half consisting of human drop troops (unusually for the clone-reliant Empire), struck the so-called Young Roots Fortress, in which an advisor training base was located.<br />
By the way, it was Chang, a big admirer of Chinese and Japanese literary classics from the times of Old Earth, who gave such poetic names to the training bases.

Protectorate forces were completely unprepared to an attack that sudden; there was only a small garrison on the planet where the base was located. In a quick battle, imperial drop troopers overthrew the defense units and broke into the training camp's territory, its personnel not having had the time to evacuate.<br />
Advisor Chang, present in the Fortress at that time, was now responsible for the evacuation and defense. Together with eighteen full-fledged advisors from among the postgraduates, he assembled a small force tasked with protecting the other students during their escape through the teleport gate deep within the rock underneath the camp. With the gate's capacity rather small, it would take at least three days for everyone to leave.

Chang made an unusual decision; he ordered the defenders to abandon the perimeter fortifications, divide into tens of tiny squads, and spread throughout the camp with its small buildings, underground passageways, obstacle courses, and other favorable terrain features. Benefitting from the environment, advisor-led student units were attacking imperial forces in order to not let them enter the underground levels. For three days and a half, until Protectorate reinforcements arrived, the Empire never managed to break into the depths. The reinforcements, of course, couldn't lift the siege, and the camp was lost to the Protectorate; however, after a number of strikes aimed at the imperial force that scattered across the Fortress, Protectorate troops successfully evacuated the units providing cover to the retreat.

A day before the evacuation, advisor Chang met against Erkhard, a member of the Imperial Legion, in mortal combat on one of the camp's training areas. Erkhard was fully clad within his warbot, while Chang only had a monomolecular sword for a weapon and a force cloak for armor; despite this, it was Chang who emerged victorious. He managed to find the warbot's only weak point, a connection of armor plates over the cockpit, and short-circuited almost all electronics inside with a singular strike. As a result, Erkhard lost both his arms and was out of the campaign for several months; meanwhile, Chang successfully left the Young Roots Fortress and continued his work.

During the Second and Third Wave, Chang took part in no epic clashes; the small skirmishes and battles he participated in, however, were many.

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