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Horn, Rostek

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Corran Horn's adopted grandfather, Rostek was also a member of the Corellian Security Force and a contemporary of Fliry Vorru. He was good friend's with Corran's real grandfather, Nejaa Halcyon, and took care of his family after Halcyon's death. Rostek used his position within CorSec to eliminate all traces of the Halcyon family, hoping to hide Nejaa's widow and young son from Palpatine's Jedi purge. Rostek eventually married Nejaa's widow, and cared for her son Valin, whom they renamed Hal in honor of Nejaa Halcyon. Rostek lived to a ripe old age, but was held on Corellia by the will of the Diktat, even after the Battle of Endor. In his spare time, Rostek was known in several circles as the producer of some of Corellia's most beautiful flowers, hybrids he created in his private greenhouse. When the Diktat modified the Corellian Security Force into the Public Safety Service, he burned down Rostek's house - as well as Hal Horn's - hoping to eliminate the files Rostek had kept on public officials and other influential people. Rostek, however, had maintained several copies, and they began showing up in the mail of these officials, marked with one of the beautiful hybrid blossoms. In return for his continued silence, Rostek was awarded a grand new residence on the site of his old one. The PSS maintained watches on Rostek, and even tried to infiltrate his staff. Much had been made about Rostek's use of blossoms when sending his messages, and leaders debated the relative meanings of a live flower versus and cut specimen. In reality, Rostek had been using the redundant genes in the flowers' DNA to encode information about the Halcyon heritage, in hopes that Corran or Hal would return and claim it.