Ashin Cardé Varanin
Couple bodies in the garden where the grass grows
- As of 900 ABY, in the heart of the Unknown Regions drifts a cold black Star Destroyer: the Chimaera, second of that name and certainly not the last.
- It has a limited droid crew for maintenance, is sometimes visited by Ashin's family and close confidantes, and is otherwise silent. If approached by anyone not bearing the proper codes, its hyperdrive will power up and move the vessel elsewhere.
- It is accessible primarily via the random hyperspace portals of Xelec, the Lonely Warren, when induced and predicted by well-informed prophecy. There is an art to using the Xelec to reach the Chimaera, and that art is a closely guarded secret.
- It was the flagship of the Sith Empire circa 835-836 ABY; well into the 840s, it led various warfleets of the Lords of the Fringe. In the early 850s, it came into possession of the Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps, later Royal Naboo Shipwrights, which used it as a testbed and for occasional defense purposes. It vanished in the 860s; it came here.
- Under several names and faces, the Chimaera has been commanded by Ashin Varanin throughout its operational history. It is the closest thing she has ever had to a permanent home.
- The Chimaera's hangars and immediate vicinity house smaller vessels that have been significant to Ashin throughout her many lives.
- The Chimaera's rooms have become stockpiles, trophy rooms, and halls of memory. Fallen comrades and fallen enemies have place here as relics, trophies, carbon-frozen bodies, etc.
- Ashin is an oathbreaker. She broke her oaths to the Jedi, the Sith, and the Mandalorians. Most consequentially, she broke her oaths to the Priestesses by leaving the mantle of Anger and returning to mortality to save her wife: as a result, the ability to take a new body is lost to her forever, and Ashin knows her next death will likely be her last. The meticulous collections aboard the Chimaera are the legacy that Ashin intends to leave to her daughters and her grandchildren.
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