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A
native of Coruscant, Ysanne was born to Imperial service.
She
was the daughter of Emperor Palpatine's last Internal Security Director, Armand
Isard. He was one of the first Imperial officers alerted to the theft of the
plans to the first Death Star, and dispatched Ysanne to Darkknell to retrieve
them. His hope was that she would be killed in the attempt, removing any possible
threat to his position.
Unfortunately for him, Ysanne survived
the mission, but failed to recover the datacards containing the plans. She also
figured out why Armand sent her, and was so angry that she implicated Armand
in the original theft. She also implicated Armand in the bombing of the Treitamma
Political Center, claiming that he did it to kill Arrianya Bel Iblis so that
Garm Bel Iblis would be free to join the Alliance.
Ysanne then called in Imperial Security,
and had him arrested - betraying her father to Palpatine, claiming that he was
going to defect to the Alliance. Palpatine had her father executed - some say
she was the person who shot him - and promoted her to his vacate position.
She
was later promoted to Director of Imperial Intelligence, and held the Empire
together during the years following Palpatine's death at Endor. 
She felt that Sate Pestage was incapable
of holding the Empire together, and began manipulating bureaucrats and military
leaders - much as Palpatine had - in an effort to turn them against Pestage.
In the end, she was responsible for Pestage's escape from the Empire.
Among certain members of the New Republic and the Imperial remnants, she is known as Iceheart. She is characterized by long, black hair, but what makes her an imposing force is her eyes. One eye is a cold, ice-blue; the other is deep red with flame-like, golden highlights.
She was also responsible for the hiding of the Super-class Star Destroyer Lusankya in an unused facility under Imperial City on Coruscant, from which she tortures and interrogates her prisoners in the infamous Lusankya prison facility. From Lusankya, she can monitor the happenings on Coruscant without notice.
Recently, she allied with the Interstellar Empire (TIE) in an effort to bring order back into the Galaxy. Lead by clones of Palpatine (whom she was rumoured to be in love with) and Thrawn, she for once cast her dislike of clones and the Alien Thrawn away, and swore allegiance to them - as she saw in them the forces it would need to re-establish the New Order in the Galaxy.
Trained as an Intelligence Agent, her skills are ranging from Hand-to-Hand combat, weapons (anything from Blasters to Vibro-axes, and even Lightsabers), demolitions, subversion, infiltration, encryption to more ordinary skills. She has a tendency to employ unconventional methods in a fight, and has lately taken to carrying a specially-designed weapon that is both a whip and a small flamethrower (preferably used to defend herself from the hordes of Ewoks that have swarmed the Galaxy since Endor - they look so droll when they're hopping around madly trying to extinguish the flames on their fur).
She takes a great interest in interrogating, subverting and brainwashing her prisoners. With her team of specialists, she has created a system of making human weapons to send against her enemies and catch them at their most vulnerable spots. Another topic of interest to her is medicine and bio-genetics - and the use of them to wipe out as many enemies as she might.
Kuat Drive Yards Executor-class command ship
Scale: capital
Length: 8000m (subject to a continuity dispute, more probably 17.6km)
Skill: Capital ship piloting: super star destroyer
Crew: Skeleton: 50000 with command 7D; Total crew: 280734
Passengers: 38000 troops
Cargo Capacity: 250000 metric tons
Consumables: 6 years
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x2
Hyperdrive Backup: x10
Nav Computer: Yes
Maneuverability: 0D
Space: 4
Hull: 10D
Shields: 8D
Sensors:
Passive: 75/1D+2
Scan: 150/3D+2
Search: 300/5D
Focus: 8/6D+2
Weapons:
250 Turbolaser Batteries
Fire Control: 1D
Space Range: 3-15/35/75
Atmosphere Range: 6-15/70/150km
Damage: 7D
250 Heavy Turbolaser Batteries
Fire Control: 0D
Space Range: 5-20/40/60
Atmosphere Range: 10-20/80/120km
Damage: 10D
250 Concussion Missile Tubes
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 2-12/30/60
Atmosphere Range: 0.2-1.2/3/6km
Damage: 9D
250 Ion Cannons
Fire Control: 4D
Space Range: 1-10/25/50
Atmosphere Range: 2-20/50/100km
Damage: 4D
40 Tractor Beam Emplacements
Fire Control: 4D
Space Range: 1-5/15/30
Atmosphere Range: 0.1-0.5/1.5/3km
Strength: 9D
Isard's preferred weapon is a DL-44 Blaster. She usually carries a spare miniblaster strapped to her forearm, mostly hidden under her tunic sleeve. She can also use anything from a Xerrol Nightstinger Sniper-rifle to an ordinary vibro-axe.
But she is perhaps most known for her appliance of unconventional weapons in a personal one-on-one fight. Enemies have to watch out for modified datapads, walking sticks, and in fact anything she might have access to. And while not able to feel the Force, she can indeed wield a lightsaber, if there is a need for it. Therefore, she possesses a crimson lightsaber, but as she prefers the use of more modern weapons, she usually keeps it somewhere in her desk where it accummulates dust and nothing else.
