Amne Zailyn

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. Amne is currently serving as a Master Sergeant in the Imperial Army.

Biography

Amne was born in the forested city of Farenth, Lorell, the daughter of Lydia Zailyn and Rohlan Dermot. Amne was close to her mother's best friend, Kenna Nikoris, who was like a second mother to her. After Kenna died from cancer in Year 0, Lydia adopted her orphaned three-year-old daughter Cecily. Lydia then moved her family across the continent to a suburb of the Northen Ocean. Throughout her years of schooling, despite having classmates of various species, Amne adopted the societal prejudice against non-humans and, less so, against men.

Amne and Dianthe, before their engagement

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. Just friends for the first year, as Dianthe casually dated and Amne was slow to recognize their mutual attraction, they gradually fell in love. Dianthe had a strong influence on Amne from the beginning: challenging her misandry and anti-alien biases, helping her realize her attraction to women, and introducing her to the galaxy outside her middle-class Hapan world. Soon after their graduation in Year 9, Amne and Dianthe were engaged to be married.

Although Amne knew that Dianthe was the eldest daughter of the Turil'din Isola Kuat, she had been unaware until after their engagement that Dianthe had long been betrothed to the only son of a wealthy Duch'da - her mother's cousin - via an arrangement that Dianthe refused to acknowledge or honor. Isola had consented to send Dianthe to university in hopes that her daughter would experiment and then return home, ready to be mature and settle down. Even though Amne was willing to live as mistress as she continued in her career in the Civil Service, Dianthe was determined to have Amne as no less than her wife and mother of her children. (Dianthe, as the titled wife, would have had to bear their children in order for them to be considered legitimate heiresses.) Realizing that her daughter would not back down, Isola decided to "solve the problem" by eliminating Amne. The murder attempt, however, went awry and claimed Dianthe's life. Amne was effectively framed for her fiancée's death and two bounties - one from the Hapan police and another from Isola personally - 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 the fact that she was wanted by the Hapan police for murder. She was offered the choice between prosecuted as a smuggler and 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 at the rank of Corporal. Immediately starting her first tour of service, Amne found herself as part of a minority of women in the military. 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 - now Master Sergeant Zailyn - 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 while 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. 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 Sheirim to help defeat the uprisings and restore order to the established government. In return, the planetary government of Sheirim 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

"I just have elegant taste."

— Amne Zailyn

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