Amne Zailyn

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Amne Zailyn
Biographical Information
Race	Hapan
Homeworld	Lorell
Mother	Lydia Zailyn Kenna Nikoris
Father	Rohlan Dermot
Spouse	Dianthe Tal'e (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. She was arrested after a brief career as a smuggler, although she was not identified by the Imperials as wanted for the murder of Dianthe Tal'e. Amne chose to serve in the Imperial Army rather than spend time in jail.

Biography

Amne, the only child of Lydia Zailyn and smuggler Rohlan Dermot, was born in the forested city of Farenth, Lorell. Lydia raised her daughter alone and relocated across the continent to a suburb of the Northern Ocean at the request of her job. After Lydia's brother died from a work-related accident when Amne was eight, his widow and infant daughter moved in with the Zailyns. Amne came to regard her aunt and cousin, Kenna and Cecily Nikoris, more as her second mother and younger sister. By the time Amne left home to attend university, she had grown to resent Dermot for his illegal smuggling, which had kept him from being around more.

At seventeen, Amne started studying at a distinguished university on Hapes so that she would become qualified to enter the Civil Service. There, she became friends with Dianthe Tal'e. 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. Just friends for the first year, as Dianthe casually dated and Amne was slow to recognize their mutual attraction, they gradually fell in love. Amne intimated to Dianthe that, if she did go through with the marriage, they could still remain lovers.

Dianthe, however, refused to even acknowledge the betrothal. Soon after their graduation in Year 9, Amne accepted Dianthe's proposal of marriage. They were idealistic - imagining a life of dream jobs, babies, and becoming old and wrinkly together. But, realizing that her daughter would not back down, Isola decided to resolve the issue by eliminating Amne. The murder attempt, however, killed Dianthe instead. Amne was effectively framed for her fiancée's death and three bounties were placed on her. Amne fled from Hapan space, leaving behind her mothers and sister, and was welcomed to stay on her father's ship.

Brokenhearted and in hiding from the law, Amne accepted her father's offer to work for his smuggling organization. Amne became closer to Dermot and 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 an apartment 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. Onboard the Mendoza, Sarka foolishly pulled a blaster on Graeda L'Annan, not recognizing the Army Commanding Officer and believing her to be a threat. Amne disarmed the Kiffar crewman and knocked her unconscious within seconds.

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. She had to work to break herself of the habit of defaulting to the use of feminine pronouns.

Relationships

Friendships

Although Lane Rendell initially expressed romantic interest in Amne, they became friends as they worked together to reclaim his space station from pirates. Amne later teasingly expressed her apologies when she learned that Rendell nearly married Thalia Brando.

Cecily Nikoris, Amne's cousin

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.

Amne is rarely able to keep in touch with her family, which breaks her heart. Dermot is sometimes able to pass along messages to her to keep her informed; she wasn't able to see Kenna fall in love again and remarry, and she becomes sad when she thinks about missing Cecily's adolescence. Lydia ended up leaving Hapan space and, by reading between the lines of their messages, Amne believes she may be rekindling her romance with Dermot.

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. Amne was primarily attracted to human women, but she sometimes dated men and non-humans. Amne shared a mutual attraction to Vianna, a Zeltron slicer, but Amne was pressed into military service before she was ready to act on it. After hearing Sarka say 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 verbally 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 Zeltron had taken a Bothan lover but had been so amused by the reactions of others that she let the rumors run rampant.

Imperial Service

Event	Darkness	Promoted By
Graduated from the Imperial Academy with Honors	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