Whetstone

The Whetstone was a Kilji war cruiser and battlecruiser that served in the government ruled by its commander, the Kilji Illumine of Generalirius Nakirre. The sister ship to the war cruiser Anvil and the smaller Kilji picket cruiser Hammer, Nakirre's warship served as his flagship used around 18 BBY while traveling with the Grysk operative "Jixtus."

Nakirre's Whetstone traveled across a region of the Unknown Regions which contained the planet Zyzek, the Chiss Ascendancy government, of which, the battle cruiser visited seven planets: Avidich, Rhigar, Ornfra and three others. On Rhigar, the Clarr family Captain Roscu boarded the Whetstone, and met the generalirius and Jixtus aboard one of the Whetstone meeting rooms, which Roscu thought was decorated as a child's playhouse.

Offering proof of treachery among the Chiss ruling families, Nakirre and Jixtus quickly incited a civil war while their relationships became more tense. Nakirre mocked his companion, and the Grysk did likewise, resulting in Nakirre becoming a mere tool of the Grysk that only accepted orders from Jixtus. After the Whetstone picked up Jixtus's agent, the navigator Qilori, at the planet Schesa, the navigator brought it to the Sunrise system. There, Jixtus killed Nakirre on the war cruiser's bridge, and Jixtus's fleet of Grysk warships fought a fleet of Chiss warships led by Senior Captain Thrawn.

As Jixtus's forced exploded, his flagship of the FateSpinner attempted its escape, however, Qilori brought the Kilji vassals aboard the Whetstone back from their mourning of Nakirre and ordered them to fire all of the Kilji's spectrum lasers, missiles, and weapons at the giant Grysk flagship. The disintegration of one of the Grysk starship's flank led Jixtus to use a self-destruct mechanism to destroy his forces, which allowed Thrawn to disarm the Whetstone before it departed toward the Kilji home.

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