Amne Zailyn

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Amne Zailyn
Biographical Information
Race	Hapan
Homeworld	Lorell
Mother	Lydia Zailyn
Father	Rohlan Dermot
Spouse	Dianthe Tal'e (fiancée) - deceased
Siblings	Cecily Nikoris
Children
Born	Year -12 Day 80 (Galactic date) Year 4014 Day 80 (Hapan date)
Imperial Service
Branch	Imperial Army
Positions
Prior Service	Hapes Consortium
Awards

Born and raised as a citizen of the Hapes Consortium, Amne Zailyn fled Hapan space after being framed for the murder of her fiancée. After a short career as a smuggler, Amne enlisted in the Imperial Army. She is currently serving as a Command Sergeant.

Biography

Amne, the only child of Lydia Zailyn and smuggler Rohlan Dermot, was born in the forested city of Farenth, Lorell. Kenna Nikoris, Lydia's best friend, was like a second mother to Amne. Watching Kenna slowly waste away as she succumbed to cancer was the most difficult experience of Amne's young life. Kenna died when Amne was twelve, and Lydia adopted Kenna's orphaned daughter Cecily. Lydia then moved her family across the continent to a suburb of the Northern Ocean.

Dianthe and Amne at a dance

At the age of seventeen, Amne started studying at a distinguished university on Hapes, wishing to enter the Civil Service. There, she became acquainted with the free-spirited Dianthe Tal'e. Dianthe challenged Amne's misandry and humanocentrism, introducing her to concepts from outside her middle-class Hapan world. Just friends for the first year, as Dianthe casually dated and Amne was slow to recognize their mutual attraction, they gradually fell in love. Turil'din Isola Kuat had consented to send Dianthe, her second-born daughter, to university in hopes that she would experiment and then return home, ready to be married to the only son of a wealthy Duch'da. Amne intimated to Dianthe that, if she did go through with the marriage, she would be willing to live as her mistress so they could still be together.

Dianthe, however, refused to even acknowledge the betrothal and had no intention of marrying her cousin. Soon after their graduation in Year 9, Amne accepted Dianthe's proposal of marriage. Realizing that her daughter would not back down, Isola decided to resolve the issue by eliminating Amne. The murder attempt, however, went awry and claimed Dianthe's life. Amne was effectively framed for her fiancée's death and three bounties were placed on her. Amne fled from Hapan space along with her mother and sister, and they were welcomed to stay at her father's apartment on Coruscant. This uprooting of their lives caused a rift between the sisters; Cecily, at the cusp of thirteen, at times failed to repress her growing resentment toward Amne for her severance from her friends and home.

Brokenhearted and in hiding from the law, Amne accepted her father's offer to work for his smuggling organization. Around this time, Amne had an intense fling with Vianna, a violet-haired Zeltron slicer in her father's employ. After an assignment gone wrong, Amne found herself arrested by the Coruscant Security Force. Vianna made sure that the CSF did not discover that she was wanted by the Hapan police for murder. She was offered the choice between prosecuted as a smuggler and one year of military service, so she opted for the Imperial Army. Flunking out of the Imperial Academy would've granted her a nice stint in jail, but Amne graduated with honors. She was placed in an elite brigade and assigned the rank of Master Sergeant. Being one to take pride in her work, she devoted herself to her assignments and befriended the other soldiers in her brigade.

After several months, Amne was permitted a brief sabbatical. She spent the weekend on Corellia at the apartment of a male acquaintance in Carthage. At the end of her sabbatical, instead of being ordered back to the Army base, Amne was immediately sent to a mission briefing in Coronet. Chief Daelis Stanov of Imperial Intelligence would be posing as a wealthy businessman offering to sell Imperial supplies to Dax Goreline, a warlord of Garos, while Amne, Euna Miriel, Lilith Sarka and computer specialist Thalia Brando made up his entourage. Amne and Miriel's assignment entailed protecting Brando as she extracted data from Goreline's casino's mainframe computer. Amne was surprised that she had been chosen for an Intelligence mission, given that she had only recently become an Imperial citizen ... with a criminal record, to boot.

Amne declined invitations to the Imperial Ball, hosted on Year 12 Day 39, from Dante Erinith and Lane Rendell in order to attend with Miriel. Amne ran into Rendell on Bothawui while on leave for her twenty-fourth birthday. They went out for drinks and Amne later invited herself along with Rendell to reclaim his space station from pirates. Soon after completing her one year of court-mandated military service, which removed her probationary status and made her eligible for advancement, Amne's commanding officer promoted her to Command Sergeant.

Not long after, Amne's past caught up with her and she was captured by a bounty hunter. After recovering and passing an intensive psychological evaluation, Amne was approved to return to active service. She was assigned to the neutral planet Fenves to help defeat the uprisings and restore order to the established government. In return, the planetary government of Fenves agreed to submit to Imperial authority.

Personality

"One reason all Kiffar women's words have weight is because only Kiffar women give birth to real men."
"It's so cute when men think they're significant."

— Draelor Nah`utal and Amne Zailyn

Amne was fond of spiced Hapan ale; the smell and taste made her feel like she was back on Lorell. Amne found it difficult to trust Kuati, suspecting that they may be spying for Isola Kuat. Amne suffers from aviophobia; when she's not the pilot, Amne has been known to become nauseous and even pass out during space battles, particularly from advanced maneuvers. She takes Imperial Medical Corps-prescribed drugs to avoid these side effects while traveling for Army assignments. She has often used "Amne Dermot" as an alias, especially when she expects the use of the name to get back to her father. Amne remained in the habit of using Hapan years when referring to past events - often, for example, giving the year of her birth as '14 - which was confusing for many of her Imperial compatriots.

Relationships

Family

Although his career did not allow him to be a steady presence in his daughter's life, Dermot maintained a relationship with Amne. As she grew older, he taught her things that "she would never learn in school" but that he deemed "necessary to round out her education," as he later explained to Lydia when she found out. These skills included stealth, thievery and rudimentary slicing and ship mechanics. Dermot later offered his apartment to the Zailyns when they fled from the Hapes Cluster.

Romance

Despite her middle-class upbringing and decidedly tainted blood as the daughter of a smuggler, Amne's committed relationships were with wealthy aristocrats, namely Dianthe Tal'e and Euna Miriel. Even though Amne typically dated human women, she was also attracted to men and, rarely, non-humans. Amne had a brief but intense liaison with Vianna, a Zeltron slicer. After hearing Sarka express the opinions that non-humans are not sapient and "an alien who can fly a ship or shoot a blaster is like a dog you've taught to open the fridge," Amne mused that one of the greatest nights she'd ever had was with a Bothan, who "certainly didn't need to be taught any tricks." Sarka categorically ignored Amne, assuming that the latter was just messing with her in order to derail the rant. Later, Amne privately revealed that she had been quoting Vianna after the latter's "Bothan encounter" but had been so amused by the reactions of others that she let the rumors run rampant.

Imperial Service

Event	Darkness	Promoted By
Awarded the Imperial Academy Honors Graduate ribbon	Year 11 Day 309	Califf D`Troit
Promoted to Corporal	Year 11 Day 309	Califf D`Troit
Assigned to the Imperial Army	Year 11 Day 309	Califf D`Troit
Promoted to Master Sergeant	Year 11 Day 309	Califf D`Troit
Promoted to Command Sergeant	Year 12 Day 330