Fanry

Fanry was a human female princess who hailed from the Inner Rim planet Pijal during the Republic Era. Born in 54 BBY as a member of the Pijali monarchy, she lived within the Pijali palace near the world's capital city during her childhood. When she was six years old, Fanry inherited the right to Pijal's throne, and the Jedi Knight Rael Averross was sent to serve as her lord regent. Shortly after his arrival on Pijal, Averross took Fanry under his wing, mentoring the Pijali princess in leadership and diplomacy. Over time, Fanry came to resent being viewed as a replacement protégé for Averross's former Padawan, Nim Pianna. In the following years, she formed a distaste for the Czerka Corporation, a company she felt had exploited Pijal and its citizens for centuries using its expansive influence. Her research on Pijal's former monarchs led her to feel passionately that the Pijali people deserved to achieve freedom from Czerka.

At some point, Averross and the Czerka Sector Supervisor Meritt Col drafted a Governance Treaty for Fanry to sign at her coronation, a motion that would transfer authority to a newly formed democratic Assembly that could act to open the Pijal Hyperspace Corridor hyperspace route in coordination with the Galactic Republic. Despite her regent's heavy support of the initiative, Fanry dissented with the ritual phrases in the treaty, strongly feeling that it would eventually grant Czerka irrevocable power on Pijal. With her crowning steadily approaching, the princess's increasing disillusionment with Czerka prompted her to conscript the assistance of her enslaved attendant Cady and her royal guard captain Deren in plotting a revolution against Averross's goal of making her a constitutional monarch. Under her orders, Pijali blackguards incited attacks on Czerka facilities, slowly increasing in intensity. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi were sent to Pijal following the incidents, aiming to protect the princess and ratify the Governance Treaty on behalf of the Republic upon its signing.

Undeterred, Fanry continued with her revolutionary plans, hoping to prevent the treaty signing and free her world from Czerka. The princess devised two fabricated assassination attempts on herself, both of which Cady assisted with. However, when these attacks only strengthened Averross's resolve to force Fanry into signing the Governance Treaty, the princess began plotting to seize power by force in the near future. At her coronation, after being crowned queen, Fanry stabbed a Pijali religious leader and ordered the death of anyone who supported Averross's initiative. After the ensuing chaos, from the bridge of the flagship Righteous, Fanry rejected appeals to find a peaceful resolution with opposing parties. As she prepared her ship to fire on the Leverage, a Czerka cruiser, she was informed that slaves aboard the company's vessel were revolting against their owners. When Fanry coldly refused to help them, Cady turned on her queen, holding her at blaster-point until the ruler surrendered. In the aftermath of the incident, Fanry abdicated her position and Pijal's government was formed into a democratic Assembly lead by the Pijali Governor Orth. The former ruler was sentenced to four years of house arrest for her actions, and Averross later expressed guilt for failing Fanry as a mentor.

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