Ysanne Isard
a native of Coruscant, Ysanne was born
to Imperial service. She was the daughter of Emperor Palpatine's last Internal
Security Director. She later betrayed her father to Palpatine, claiming
that he was going to defect to the Alliance. Palpatine had her father executed
- some say she was the person who shot him - and promoted her to his vacate
position. She was later promoted to Director of Imperial Intelligence,
and held the Empire together during the years following Palpatine's death
at Endor. She felt that Sate Pestage was incapable of holding the Empire
together, and began manipulating bureaucrats and military leaders - much
as Palpatine had - in an effort to turn them against Pestage. In the end,
she was responsible for Pestage's ouster from the Empire. Among certain
members of the New Republic and the Imperial remnants, she was known as
Iceheart. She was characterized by long, black hair, but what made her
an imposing force was her eyes. One eye was a cold, ice-blue; the other
was deep red with flame-like, golden highlights. She was also responsible
for the hiding of the Super-class Star Destroyer Lusankya in an unused
facility under Imperial City on Coruscant, from which she tortured and
interrogated her prisoners in the infamous Lusankya prison facility. From
the Lusankya, she could monitor the happenings on Coruscant without notice.
She employed Kirtan Loor as a her agent, creating the Krytos virus and
keeping him on Coruscant as the leader of the Palpatine Counterinsurgency
Force. Once the New Republic defeated the Krytos virus and fully liberated
Coruscant, she took the Lusankya and fled to Thyferra, where she took control
of the planet's government. Once she entrenched herself on Thyferra, she
ousted the Zaltin corporation and planned to execute 1,000 Vratix a day
until she had "downsized" bacta production or Rogue Squadron surrendered
to her. If either didn't happen in 30 days, she upped the number of Vratix
executed to 2,000 per day. Erisi Dlarit suggested that the plan be implemented
as a way to stop Ashern terrorism. In the meantime, Isard activated a specially-made
clone of herself, created just before she lost Thyferra, and allowed it
to use her own contacts and resources to hide the prisoners formerly hidden
on the Lusankya. Once the clone returned to Thyferra, Isard had it executed.
Isard continued to hold the upper hand over the Rogues until she lost the
Avarice to defection and the Virulence was captured at Yag'Dhul. Left with
just the Lusankya, Isard tried to make a stand at the Battle of Thyferra.
However, that battle never turned in her favor, and she fled the planet
on Fliry Vorru's personal shuttle, Thyfonian. The shuttle was intercepted
by Corran Horn and Tycho Celchu, whose combined attack destroyed its shields
and eradicated the craft with a proton torpedo. Isard was believed to have
been killed in the explosion, but in fact she wasn't on the shuttle at
all. Her communications had been from a remote sight, and she smuggled
herself off-planet disguised as a refugee and went into hiding to recover
from her losses. She made her way to General Arnothian's facility and took
control of his TIE Defender operation. Meanwhile, the clone Isard thought
she had killed had allied itself with Prince-Admiral Krennel, and worked
with him to bring down Rogue Squadron and the New Republic by trying to
re-open the division between human and non-human races. The clone also
kept a close watch on the prisoners of the Lusankya, collecting them all
while Grand Admiral Thrawn ruled the Empire and eventually using them as
bait for a trap meant to catch Rogue Squadron. Their plans were thwarted
by the real Ysanne Isard, who rescued Rogue Squadron from Corvis Minor
Five with the help of Colonel Vessery and convinced them to help her destroy
the clone and Krennel. While Krennel was killed in the space battle over
Ciutric, Isard's clone tried to escape using the same tactic that the real
Isard used to escape from Thyferra. However, Wedge Antilles recognized
the scheme and destroyed the shuttle - piloted by Colonel Lorrir - while
triangulating the clone's position by backtracking her communcations signal.
He launched a pair of concussion missiles at her location, destroying it
and the clone. The real Isard claimed to want nothing but peace, but really
wanted to regain command of the Lusankya, which was being refitted at the
Bilbringi shipyards. However, her motives were discovered by Booster Terrik,
his daughter Mirax, and Iella Wessiri, and a New Republic task force was
dispatched to prevent her from stealing it. In a struggle within the huge
ship, Ysanne and Iella confronted each other. After Isard threw every taunt
and tactic at Iella, Iella responded by shooting her dead, once and for
all.
Armand Isard, Ysanne's father
this man was the head of the Empire's Intelligence organization for many years, having risen through the ranks with the Old Republic. Many who met him remarked on the somewhat inhuman gaze he had. Armand was known to a great deal of people for his ability to ferret out and destroy a cell of Alliance supporters, whether they actually supported the Alliance or not. He was one of the first Imperial officers alerted to the theft of the plans to the first Death Star, and dispatched his daughter, Ysanne, to Darkknell to retrieve them. (Note that the Star Wars Databank claims that Ysanne was dispatched to Despayre to recover the plans.) His hope was that she would be killed in the attempt, removing any possible threat to his position. Unfortunately, Ysanne survived the mission, but failed to recover the datacards containing the plans. She also figured out why Armand sent her, and was so angry that she implicated Armand in the original theft. She also implicated Armand in the bombing of the Treitamma Political Center, claiming that he did it to kill Arrianya Bel Iblis so that Garm Bel Iblis would be free to join the Alliance. Ysanne then called in Imperial Security, and had Armand arrested and executed for treason. (from the Completely Unoffical Star Wars Encyclopedia on TF.N)