Ysanne Isard

SW Character


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name= Ysanne Isard
planet=Coruscant
species=Human
gender=Female
height=1.8 meters
eye color= one red, one blue
weapon=Blaster pistol
position=Head of Imperial Intelligence, "de facto" ruler of the Empire
vehicle=Star Dreadnaught Lusankya
affiliation=Galactic Empire
portrayer=N/a

Ysanne Isard is a fictional character from the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe.

History

Early rise

Isard's back story is established in the "Tales From the New Republic" series. One of the most powerful figures in the Galactic Empire, Isard is a ruthless and cunning woman, earning her the nickname Iceheart among her subordinates. She is a native of Coruscant, only daughter of Armand Isard, then the Director of Imperial Intelligence. Perhaps realizing how dangerous his daughter is, the elder Isard tries to have her killed as she moves up rapidly through Imperial Intelligence ranks by dispatching her on a mission to Darkknell to retrieve the stolen datapads containing the plans of the first Death Star. She survives, but fails to recover the datapads. She soon realises why her father sent her on that mission, and implicates "him" in the theft of the Death Star datapads and the bombing of the Treitamma Political Centre (an assassination attempt upon General Bel Iblis). She then has her father executed.

Ysanne Isard is promoted to the recently vacated position of Director of Imperial Intelligence. While in this position, she takes command of the Super Star Destroyer "Lusankya", which Palpatine had secretly buried deep beneath the cityscape of Coruscant. Isard uses the "Lusankya" as her private prison, where she keeps captured Rebels to be brainwashed into sleeper agents. After the death of Palpatine and the defeat of the Empire during the Battle of Endor, she allies herself with Palpatine's immediate successor, Grand Vizier Sate Pestage, who had assumed command of Imperial Centre and Imperial Oversector 0. Later, Isard allows him to be captured by the New Republic at Brentaal, and arranges for his death. The Ruling Circle of Imperial officials assumes command, but she has them murdered. She then assumes command of Coruscant, but her rule is threatened by both rival warlords and the New Republic.

Imperial leader

In the "Jedi Prince" series, the appearance of Trioculus, a con artist posing as Palpatine's son, threatens her reign. While he is too weak militarily to challenge Isard directly or to attempt to capture Imperial Centre, Trioculus wins the allegiance of a considerable portion of the Imperial Starfleet, and at one point is even recognized as the legitimate ruler of the Empire by the Prophets of the Dark Side. Isard devotes considerable resources to undermining the pretender, isolating the moffs who lent him their support in an attempt to prop him up as a puppet dictator. Finally, she uses her Grand Admirals to destroy the Prophets themselves when they attempt to usurp her rule.

In "The Bacta War", Isard coerces General Evir Derricote and his scientists off the planet Borleias and onto Coruscant, where they create the Krytos virus that only targeted non-human races; the strategy is to strain the New Republic's resources by forcing them to deal with the problem. The Krytos virus is specifically engineered to incapacitate and kill thousands to maximize terror and exploit inter-species tensions within the New Republic as a variety of economic warfare. She then flees Coruscant onboard the "Lusankya", which tears off a large part of Coruscant's cityscape, killing millions. She heads to the bacta-rich world of Thyferra, taking it and its bacta assets; while her agent on Coruscant (Kirtan Loor) continues his guerilla war, she, having seized control of the galaxy's bacta supply (which is necessary for treating the Krytos virus), proceeds to raise the price of bacta astronomically. Isard reaps a windfall profit from the New Republic, which has to buy the bacta for the victims to formulate a cure. She later fights Rogue Squadron in the Bacta War, during which the "Lusankya" is captured. Isard, along with a clone of herself, escapes and scatters the prisoners.

After Thyferra

In "Isard's Revenge", the clone comes into the service of Prince-Admiral Krennel, while the real Isard commandeers a secret Imperial base and go into hiding, resurfacing to help the New Republic retrieve the missing prisoners from Prince-Admiral Krennel.

Fearing execution for treason after being contacted by a resurrected Palpatine on Byss, the real Isard plots to retake "Lusankya" in order to present it to the Emperor and be reconciled for her failure. Anticipating her treachery, Iella Wessiri shoots Isard dead during the attempt to repay for the death of Iella's husband Diric. [ [http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/ysanneisard/eu.html Star Wars: Databank | Isard, Ysanne ] ] . Her clone is killed along with Prince-Admiral Krennel during the New Republic invasion of Citruic.

References

Related Books

*"Tales from the New Republic", 1st paperback printing, 1999. Peter Schweighofer, Craig Carey (editors). ISBN 0-553-57882-0
**"Interlude at Darknell", Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole
***Part One by Timothy Zahn
***Part Two and Three by Michael A. Stackpole
***Part Four by Timothy Zahn
*"Rogue Squadron", 1st printing paperback, 1996. Michael A. Stackpole, ISBN 0-553-56801-9
*"Wedge's Gamble", 1st paperback printing, 1996. Michael A. Stackpole, ISBN 0-553-56802-7
*"The Krytos Trap", 1st paperback printing, 1996. Michael A. Stackpole, ISBN 0-553-56803-5
*"The Bacta War", 1st paperback printing, 1997. Michael A. Stackpole, ISBN 0-553-56804-3
*"Isard’s Revenge", 1st paperback printing, 1999. Michael A. Stackpole, ISBN 0-553-57903-7

External links

* [http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/ysanneisard/index.html Article] from the Star Wars Databank
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