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| “ | My wish is the death of this Rebellion. Now with the Empire in my hands, there will be no one to stop me from making that wish come true. | „ |
| ~ Ysanne Isard. |
Ysanne Isard, also known to her enemies as Iceheart, was the Director of Imperial Intelligence for the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. She serves as the main antagonist of the first four books in the X-Wing series of novels and one of the main antagonists of the X-Wing novel Isard's Revenge.
Biography[]
Isard blossomed into the Imperial Intelligence at a young age as a model field agent. After a mission to the planet Darkknell, she accused her father of treason and executed him and took his position as Director of Imperial Intelligence. Isard was given the second Executor-class Star Dreadnought constructed, the Lusankya by Emperor Palpatine. Isard hid the Lusankya in the lower levels of Coruscant and used a portion of it as a prison and brainwashing facility for many enemies of the Empire.
After the Battle of Endor, Isard became an advisor to Grand Vizier Sate Pestage while engineering his downfall. She bargained with Leonia Tavira for Pestage. Isard commanded a sizable force of the Imperial military and used her influence to proclaim herself Empress in all but name. On her orders, Imperial scientists developed and deployed a deadly virus called the Krytos virus, which killed millions of individuals. She supported a political coup of Thyferra, and was later elected head of state, allowing her to remain in power, eliminate the Zaltin, control the bacta industry, and start a small but important conflict known as the Bacta War. However, during a battle at Thyferra, Rogue Squadron managed to defeat her forces and captured the Lusankya. Isard was believed to have been killed during the Battle of Thyferra by Tycho Celchu when he destroyed a shuttle she was believed to be on, but in fact it was one of her clones piloting the shuttle.
Fleeing from Thyferra, Isard made her way to a secret military base. Killing the base commander she made the base her headquarters for the next few years. Instead of joining the Thrawn campaign or striking out against the New Republic on her own, she stayed at her headquarters and stewed over her losses. Following the Thrawn campaign she was contacted by the reborn Palpatine, who demanded she swear allegiance to him and recover the Lusankya from a New Republic shipyard where the ship was secretly being refitted for New Republic service.
Isard reemerged from hiding to assist Rogue Squadron in hunting down the warlord Delak Krennel. With the New Republic distracted by its campaign against Krennel, she slipped on board the Lusankya and tried to steal it back for the Empire. However Booster Terrix, his daughter Mirax, and Iella Wessiri all realized what she was doing and with authorization from the New Republic went on board the Lusankya to stop her. The team Isard brought with her were all incapacitated by Booster and his people.
Confronting Isard in her former stateroom, Iella told Isard that she would stand before a military tribunal for her act of piracy in trying to steal the Lusankya. She went on to explain that the military trial would not be publizied so Isard would have no chance to whip up public hysteria or incite those with Imperial sympathies into performing violent acts on her behalf. Iella finished by telling Isard that after conviction she would be locked away on Lusankya as another anonymous prisoner in a very secure cell and attended to only by droids. The thought of meeting that sort of fate caused Isard to panic, and she tried to kill Iella. However the other woman was ready and shot her with her own blaster, finally putting an end to the genocidal Imperial once and for all.
Meanwhile Rogue Squadron was brought to Lusankya and held in the ship's new quarantine section, which was where the old prison complex used to be located. This module was built at put in place in order to defeat any further biological weapons like the Krytos virus Imperials might have been cooking up. After it was confirmed Isard hadn't infected them with any biological weapons they were released. At a reception Iella told Corran Horn that she hoped her husband Diric - who had been a victim of Isard's brainwashing - could rest a bit easier now.
Legacy[]
Ysanne Isard in her intimidating red uniform.
During her life, Isard was responsible for millions, if not billions of deaths. In addition to the victims of the Krytos plague she unleashed on Coruscant, she also had families of Star Destroyer crews killed for any failures or defections. Given how many people served on even a single Star Destroyer, this could easily have run up into many thousands if not millions of people who died at her order. She also had the Lusankya's crew break the ship free from Coruscant, a liftoff that was estimated to have killed millions of people as the ship freed itself from the Imperial City. Isard easily ranked with the likes of Grand Moff Tarkin, Darth Vader, and the Emperor in the suffering in death inflicted upon innocent people throughout the galaxy. She became just as reviled among the people of the New Republic as the Emperor or Tarkin had been.
The invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong led the Empire, the New Republic, and its successor the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances to consider desperate measures. Taking a page from Isard's playbook some in the Empire and GFFA developed a biological weapon called Alpha Red to defeat the invaders. Many in the GFFA strongly objected to resorting to genocide, and the fact that Alpha Red could jump to other species led to the GFFA abandoning the project and forcing its sponsors into retirement.
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External Links[]
- Ysanne Isard on the Pure Evil Wiki.
- Ysanne Isard on the Star Wars Wiki