Roganda Ismaren

Roganda Ismaren was a Human female from Alderaan, a former Jedi Initiate who had escaped the Great Jedi Purge. In 18 BBY, she and several other younglings were smuggled to Plett's Well on the planet Belsavis, under the guidance of Jedi Master Plett. However, their refuge was discovered by Emperor Palpatine, who sent the dreadnaught Eye of Palpatine to wipe out the Jedi. Although the weapon was disabled, Roganda was captured by Imperial Inquisitors during the evacuation of Belsavis. Taken to Imperial Center, Roganda integrated herself into Imperial society, growing into a beautiful woman. Using her good looks and Force-sensitivity, Roganda infiltrated the exclusive Imperial Court, eventually becoming one of the Emperor's concubines. During her time as Palpatine's consort, she began an affair with another court member, Sarcev Quest. When she became pregnant, Roganda submitted herself to the Emperor's mercy, becoming an Emperor's Hand and training in the dark side of the Force. In 4 BBY, Roganda gave birth to her son, Irek Ismaren, and began to train him as a possible heir to the Emperor. However, upon Palpatine's death in 4 ABY, Roganda did not have the necessary support to make a play for the throne. She retreated back to Belsavis and trained her son for a future attempt to take control of the Empire.

By 12 ABY, Roganda had formulated a plan to reunite the fragments of the Empire. Her son, who had been implanted with a subelectronic converter, used this device to summon the disabled Eye of Palpatine to Belsavis. With the promise of the warship at her command, she made overtures to various nobles in the Senex and Juvex sectors to gain backing for her son as the new Emperor. However, when the ship arrived above Belsavis, Irek found that he could not control it, and the plot fell apart. Roganda and her son made their way back to Coruscant, where she continued Irek's training, recruiting Lord Cronal to train her son. However, in an argument with his teacher, Irek was stabbed through the head with a lightsaber, rendering him brain-dead. Devastated, Roganda refused to accept the loss of her boy, placing him in suspended animation and trying to repair his brain with cybernetics. She also augmented him to become the most powerful darksider imaginable, installing lightsabers in his wrists, elbows, and knees and using growth hormones to increase his size to three meters in height. In an attempt to bring back Irek's mental faculties, she prepared operational programming and prefabricated memories to install into his destroyed brain. However, before this could be implemented, a groundquake awakened Irek from stasis. Driven only by a mindless need to destroy, he used the lightsabers installed into his body to cut his mother to pieces, ending her life.

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