Prelicia Vontessar

From data she has gathered from various sources over the years it is obvious that her father was an Imperial of a moderate position. However records point to many different possibilities for just which individual it is. Prelicia knows that she was found following an abrupt attack by the Atrivis Resistance Group on the planet of Mantooine. The ARG launched their assault in retaliation for the slaughter of the Mantooine Liberators some months earlier. The ARG was a group formed between the handful of survivors of the attack and the rebel forces from the nearby planet of Fest, which had not been attacked by the Empire. The relentless massacre that destroyed the small Imperial garrison on Mantooine left hundreds of Imperial personnel dead or wounded. It is believed that her father was an officer of the base or perhaps one who was stopping over while in route to some other destination. Nevertheless a small but elite group of Imperial troopers managed to escape the destruction and flee the planet. They found the orphaned Prelicia, who appeared to be between 3 and 5 years of age, amongst the wreckage of a command speeder that they were trying to escape on. They assumed that she was the child of one of the officers who was trying to escape the marauding rebel forces. They reluctantly took her in.

After a few months they grew attached to the little girl which they decided to name Prelicia Vontessar, which somehow worked out to be a combination of the troopers names organized in some fashion. Between assignments they would care for her and as she grew into her teens they began to teach her various ways of fighting. Prelicia learned much from her adopted parents. When they thought her old enough they turned her over to the newly formed SAGroup for instruction into the doctrines that made up the New Order. She excelled in everything she did and her instructors respected how little they had to encourage her into despising the Rebel Alliance and glorifying the order that was the Empire. At the approximate age of 15, two years before the death of Emperor Palpatine at Endor and only two years after entering SAGroup, she was transferred to another branch of the Imperial bureaucracy.

Upon entering the Ubiqtorate (Imperial Intelligence), she began immediate instruction into the disciplines of combat tactics so she could serve her Emperor as part of the division known as Adjustments. Her training was rigorous but she excelled in ever aspect. She became an Imperial Adjutant within a year and began her assignments. That is when it became exciting.

The Empire suffered its first major defeat at Battle of Yavin losing the Death Star Battlestation in that action. The Emperor was furious and a few months later dispatched Lord Darth Vader and the newly formed Imperial Death Squadron to hunt down the rebels. The Alliance, of course, had already relocated their hidden base. Realizing that even the Dark Lord could not be everywhere at every time and that the probe droids were only being sent to the ultra-remote systems, the Emperor order Imperial Intelligence to send out agents in an effort to locate the new base on some of the charted settlements. Due to the rather limited time in Intelligence, Prelicia was assigned to a planet of no particular strategic value because Ubiqtorate Command believed it to be of relative simplicity. However, planets of no particular strategic value are the planets that rebels loved. While Prelicia did not discover a main rebel base, she did uncover a very small rebel fighter base on the outskirts of the settled portion of the planet. She relayed her information back to Ubiqtorate Command and the Imperial Navy promptly responded. A few days after she left the planet and at approximately the same time that the Battle of Hoth occurred, two Imperial Strike Cruisers and a small escort force arrived and destroyed the rebel base leaving no survivors.

In the months between Hoth and Endor, Prelicia Vontessar, now code named "Dark Angel," located and destroyed several Alliance storehouses in various planets in the Mid-Rim region. She also assassinated three executives within Sienar who were in league with the rebels to overthrow the company's directorate and stop the flow of starfighters to the Empire. She also harassed rebel sympathizers on some small border systems and with a team of commandos, burned villages and terminated townspeople to remove the stain of rebellion from the face of the galaxy.

Then all was chaos. The Emperor was killed aboard the Death Star and the battlestation was also destroyed. This happened only hours after Prelicia had received the transmission informing her to her new position as a member of the Emperor's Elite Guard. She was to be serving directly under Mara Jade who was the Emperor's Adjutant. When she received the transmission that the Emperor had died, she new immediately that the Empire was doomed. Her time in SAGroup taught her that the Emperor was the Empire, that he was the galaxy. Without him, she new the Empires life had come to an end, at least for now.

In the months of confusion that followed, Prelicia left the Ubiqtorate and headed rimward to the fringes of civilization. She knew that her skills would not be appreciated by the New Republic and sought more exciting and devious things to do. At the approximate age of 18 she joined a small group of pirates and slavers and fought in several actions as a boarder. The pirate captain took a liking to her and assigned her to be the taskmaster of the slaving operation. She enjoyed that position almost as much as she had loved killing rebels. She acquired a neuronic whip to keep the slaves under control, and she stopped several attempted escapes simply by snapping it in the general direction of the prisoner. The captain admired her spirit and her cold, cruel attitude. In fact he liked it so much that he attempted to rape her. The first attempt was met with hostility and Prelicia made it clear that he was to "keep his nasty hands off her." A few days later he tried again and Prelicia snapped his neck. The pirates turned on her and attempted to kill her but she managed to fight them off and get into a small shuttle and hyperspace out of the system. She headed back to the galactic core hoping that things had died down enough for her to find someone with Imperial sympathies.

That is when she discovered that Grand Admiral Thrawn was attempting to drive an Imperial Armada into the core and crush the New Republic. Prelicia, now around 22 years old, was overjoyed. She began to search for Thrawn's outposts so she could contact one of the higher officers. After weeks of searching she found only disappointment that Thrawn's campaign had failed and the Grand Admiral himself had been killed. Prelicia was furious. Her aggressive energy became overwhelming. She began to work as a freelance bounty hunter and excelled at that as well. Although her acquisitions were seldom returned without being at least moderately injured. She loved watching them suffer and imagined them to be, at least in some small way, the rebels who killed her parents.

After a few years, at about the age of 24, she saw a bounty posting on a member of her previous pirate crew. Now sparked with a renewed hatred, she set out to destroy the pirates that used to be her shipmates. She hunted them down, not only the one that had a bounty posted, but all of them. She used every resource she could lay her hands on. She even went so far as to "procure" three mines from a New Republic storehouse and use them to destroy one of the pirates transports. When it was all over, Prelicia brought in the pirate, although he was permanently blinded in one eye and muted by Prelicia' deadly martial prowess.