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Inwe Ventidius
Biographical Information
Race	Thyferran
Homeworld	Thyferra
Mother	Corvina Attius (deceased)
Father	Bassus (deceased)
Spouse	None
Siblings	Lucius, Caepio, Denter, Cimbri
Children	None
Born	Year -14 Day 213 (23)
Imperial Service
Branch	Imperial Navy
Positions	Imperial Navy Pilot
Prior Service	NA
Awards

Inwe Ventidius was born on Thyferra, a descendant of the humans that colonized the planet following the discovery of bacta. Throughout most of her youth, she had no desire to ever abandon her home planet for a life elsewhere among the stars. However, tragedy in her young adult life irrevocably altered all her dreams when her family was assassinated by the Rebel Alliance.

She found herself alone in the universe; all her dreams withered by haunting memories. Inwe decided to create new dreams and so joined the Galactic Empire to serve the ultimate authority. Upon graduation from the Imperial Academy, Inwe began her vocation in the Navy. Her Imperial career is still very young, but she hopes her determination, ambition, and desire to advance the Empire will carry her far.

Character History

Early Life

Born into what would be a large family, Inwe was the oldest of five children. Her mother was a molecular theorist employed by one of the many biotech labs on their home planet. The career demands placed upon her mother were immense, so that meant Inwe and her siblings were raised mainly by a series of governesses. When her father was home, most of his time was spent locked away in his study working on some scientific paper to publish. He was always writing another journal article or book.

The first sixteen years of Inwe’s life had been extremely predictable. She attended her classes, excelling in math and sciences. In addition to education, her calendar was well rounded with a series of extracurricular activities; her governess would never let even one slide. To do so would deprive Inwe of a “full and complete education” as she was reminded too often. There were also the experiences every teenage girl endures: best friends and betrayal, stolen kisses and heartbreak, and the events along life’s path that mark the way to maturity.

First Adventures

Tempting Fate

Turning Point

While Inwe always respected the achievements of her mother, Corvina, however, her passion was for her father’s vocation. Bassus worked at a research university teaching advanced biochemical engineering at the graduate level. The remarkable strides made in the theoretical and practical application of genetic-specific viral pathogens have been attributed largely to his research. This labor included greater specification range of the genetic relationship variable – a feature very useful if you can only get a DNA sample of the target’s cousin or you want to eliminate a family group instead of a single individual. As part of her advanced studies, Inwe was assisting him in crafting a technique to construct a pathogen transmittable among the general population without the expression of symptoms until it found a host matching the specified code sequence.

Bassus was in the middle of a series of critical experiments when Corvina was sent by her company to demonstrate a product – a method of regenerating damaged lymph tissue – at an off world conference. Inwe had just turned twenty-two when this happened. The conference held a great deal of interest for her father as well, compelling the typical home-loving Thyferran family to temporarily abandon their planet. The younger siblings – Lucius, Caepio, Denter, and Cimbri – accompanied their parents, leaving Inwe behind to tend the experiments.

Rebel forces attacked and destroyed their shuttle before they reached the conference. Rumors abounded that the reason for the attack was Bassus Ventidius’ research, which the rebels considered an imminent danger.

The report devastated Inwe. The loss of her brothers was the most poignant; Cimbri was only ten at the time of the attack. During this time she called the government on a daily basis, insisting on knowing what actions were being taken to prosecute the pilots that had murdered her family. The officials were less than helpful. They listened gravely to her calls, noted her concerns, and forgot about her as soon as the connection terminated. Eventually she was informed that the Thyfferan government had no official means to offer her justice, but a petition had been logged with the appropriate diplomatic branch of the Rebel administration. Frustrated, Inwe relentlessly pursued the filing of that petition until finally, one Thyfferan diplomat, under duress, admitted that probably nothing would become of the innocuous paperwork.

Inwe learns of the deaths

Inwe nodded, grim-faced, when she received the news. In truth, she had been suspecting an answer similar to the one offered. There were no tears now; it had been a month since their deaths and she had reached her limit of tears and self-pity. However, the ideas long forming in her mind instantaneously became decisions. She also knew that the Empire was her destiny; they had much more accepting views regarding none traditional weapons and maybe, just maybe, she would be able to strike at the rebels.

Most of her deceased family’s resources were seized by the Thyfferan government under some vague jurisdictional statute. Inwe offered no protest, moving into the dorms and dedicating the next year to completing her Master’s studies at the university. Biomedical engineering was no longer her only area of inquiry; she expanded her studies to include weapons research and development. A rigorous physical routine also became a stay in her schedule – preparing her body to withstand the stress of planets with stronger gravity fields. When she had intended to stay on Thyffera for the duration of her natural life, the weaker gravity of the planet had no effect on her, but now it was a hindrance. One she overcame.

Concurrently, she liquidated what was left of her inheritance, spending part of it to buy the names of the pilots in the squadron that had destroyed her family; and also the name of the commanding officer who had issued the order. However, the bulk of her resources went to obtaining DNA samples from those five individuals, in reality she only gained four samples. It had been more samples than she expected, the smuggler she had hired to acquire them was well worth his price.

Covertly using the resources in her father’s old lab, under the guise of completing research-in-progress, she synthesized genetically engineered pathogens for the purpose of exacting retribution. Inwe agonized during the molecular formation and alteration, deciding whether or not to expand the microbes to be inclusive of genetically close relatives.

Inwe graduated with honors a month after turning twenty-three. Some cautious inquiries revealed that the commander who ordered the assassination had been transferred to a space station hub and two of the pilots were still assigned to him and also on the station. She had to admit, the indiscreet rumors of the Corellian network, to which her former lover had introduced her, were particularly effective; Inwe was tapping them a lot for thinking the lawless underside disdainful. A better opportunity for revenge would not present itself.

She booked passage to the space station and then a subsequent departing flight fifteen hours later. A couple layovers after departing the station and she would be on Coruscant, ready to fulfill her application to the Galactic Empire.

Inwe leaves the space station

The air of the space station was contaminated by the engineered virus-complex within minutes of Inwe disembarking. It was just hours until the captain and two pilots were infected. Approximately nine hours after the transport carrying her toward the heart of the Empire had left its docking port, all three reported to the infirmary within half an hour of each other. Brief concerns about an infectious outbreak began to flicker across the holonet. Testing by the station doctors revealed the infection to be caused by the virulent Jiama strain. After another 48 hours the holonets reported the brilliant success of the doctors in containing the infection and limiting the outbreak to only three casualties.

Military History

Character Description