Captain Stokes

Captain Stokes was the captain of the Boar Division's third Dreadnought. As a Raksasha, he was not originally from Neih, and joined the Fourth Fleet late in his life. Yugoloths are more common in the realms of Tuth, Frit, and Uz, but not Neih. Captain Stokes was from none of these, hailing instead from Hah, where he made a living as a pirate captain. He was the terror of the skies in the Great Caspian Airway (a trade route used by hundreds of Hahlian worlds), as he hunted mainly passenger ships for those he could ransom. He built quite the infamy, but it was nothing he could not handle in his cruel ways. That was until he bit off more than he could chew kidnapping and killing a high priest of the cult of Snabb.
He had to flee Hah, leaving his crew to face the consequences of his mistake. He chose Neih for he believed it the best place to lie low, as he considered it a backwater primitive plane. Yet, by chance, he appeared near the Eternal Empire. He was first contacted by the Eternal Empire's Planar Division, and after adequate interrogation, captain Stokes offered his services. He found this Empire could possibly shield him from the cult of Snabb. He served them for the next one hundred years, working his way up the ranks until he became the captain of the Third Dreadnought of the twelfth division just before the failure of Menthol.
Captain Stokes, famous for his tricks and plots, had some victories to his name in that war, but none of the Fourth Fleet see that campaign as anything more than a shameful defeat. The invasion of the Veritian Leaf was their chance to redeem their honor. That redemption did not come for Captain Stokes. Early in the invasion, his ship was boarded by a hero of Neih named Whitcomb, and the ship was promptly lost.
The Boar Division's mothership, the Equinox, later retrieved the floating wreck of a ship and commenced salvage. Despite the defeat, approximately two thirds of the crew initially survived the attack and were infected with Summer Sickness. Scavenge crews rescued many of these unaware victims before their ignorance led them to their deaths, and eventually the Nightingale crew ventured into the wreck and repaired the A.I. system. Much work still needed to be done fix the ship, but it no longer was a death trap for salvage crews.
As for Captain Stokes, the nightingales were able to find evidence that the rakshasa fought with the hero of Neih, and that he was able to flee via a portal to Tuth. They left others to rescue him.