Ysanne Isard ( clone ) Around 4 ABY , the Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard , using a Spaarti cloning cylinder from the late Emperor Palpatine ' s storage , grew a clone of herself on her " Executor " - class Star Dreadnought " Lusankya " , which was hidden beneath the surface of the galactic capital of Coruscant . Isard constantly updated the memories of the clone , who was kept in a state of suspended animation , to ensure she would believe herself to be the real Isard upon awakening . After the New Republic conquered Coruscant with the help of the elite starfighter unit Rogue Squadron , Isard retreated to the planet Thyferra , establishing a regime there . During the Bacta War against Rogue Squadron in 7 ABY , Isard activated her clone and sent her out on a mission to scatter the prisoners of the " Lusankya " , whom Rogue Squadron sought to rescue . Isard planned to kill the clone when she returned ; however , before she was able do so , Isard was overthrown and went into hiding , and the clone was subsequently left alone in the galaxy . Two years later , the clone joined with Prince - Admiral Delak Krennel in the Ciutric Hegemony , giving him political advice during his fight against the Republic and devising a complicated plan to destroy Rogue Squadron . By planting a series of clues to the supposed location of the prisoners , she lured the squadron to Distna , a hollow moon in the Corvis Minor system , where a large force of starfighters provided by Krennel ambushed them . Unknown to the clone , the real Isard had been helping her to lure Rogue Squadron into the trap all the way , only to rescue them in the end . By doing so , she had earned their trust and employed her former enemies against the clone herself . Posing as the TIE Defender – comprised Requiem Squadron , the Rogues infiltrated Ciutric IV , the capital of the Hegemony and launched an attack to rescue the prisoners , while the New Republic fleet battled Krennel ' s forces above the planet . The clone forced Colonel Lorrir to pilot a shuttle and attempt to destroy the prison facility where the prisoners were being held , while she hid inside a training center and rerouted her comm system to Lorrir ' s shuttle in order to appear as though she was aboard the shuttle herself . The attack failed , and Rogue Leader Wedge Antilles saw through her deception when he recognized Lorrir ' s piloting style . Antilles ' s men shot down Lorrir , and Antilles himself fired a pair of concussion missiles at the training center , killing the clone . Biography . Creation . The clone of the Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard was grown by Isard herself around 4 ABY . Soon after the death of Emperor Palpatine , Isard found the Emperor ' s personal cloning facility inside the Imperial Palace on the galactic capital of Coruscant . She destroyed all of the Spaarti cloning cylinder s except for one , which she transferred to the " Lusankya " , her personal " Executor " - class Star Dreadnought hidden beneath the surface of the planet . On the " Lusankya " , Isard secretly bred a single clone of herself with an intention to employ her when matters needed Isard ' s personal supervision , but the original Isard was unavailable to attend to them . To this end , the Director kept her double in a state of suspended animation , all the while constantly updating her memories so that upon awakening the clone believed herself to be the real Isard . In late 6 ABY , the New Republic — thanks to the efforts of Rogue Squadron , its elite starfighter unit — captured Coruscant . Isard was forced to retreat from the planet with the " Lusankya " and the still sleeping clone aboard to the planet Thyferra , where she became the planet ' s ruler . Just prior to her departure from Coruscant , the Director of Intelligence had her clone ' s memories updated one last time . In 7 ABY , Rogue Squadron — against the will of the New Republic — launched a campaign against Isard , intending to overthrow her Thyferran regime . The Rogues ' other goal was to rescue prisoners held aboard the " Lusankya " ; among those prisoners was the Rebel Alliance General Jan Dodonna . Isard wanted to prevent the liberation of the prisoners and decided to scatter them across the galaxy , a task she only entrust to herself . Isard was needed on Thyferra , however , and so she decided to assign the dispersing of the prisoners to her clone ; she planned to dispose of the clone afterward by killing her , believing that there was a place for only one Ysanne Isard in the galaxy . The clone was finally brought to life and dispatched on her mission . When the clone returned with her task complete , Isard wanted to kill her , but was not able to do so as at that time Rogue Squadron attacked Thyferra . Isard was overthrown and presumed to have perished in battle . Allying with Krennel . Isard had in fact survived , as had her clone , who had no memories of the events on Thyferra as a result of a head trauma she had sustained . Because of the same trauma , the clone was forced to surgically repair her face , and it became asymmetrical and bore a network of raised scars below her right temple . After the loss of Thyferra , both Isards went into hiding , each unaware of the other ' s existence . While the Republic was preoccupied with fighting Imperial breakaway warlords like Zsinj and Grand Admiral Thrawn , both Isard and her clone kept a low profile and formulated their own plans to strike back at the Republic and Rogue Squadron . During the Thrawn campaign , the clone gathered the " Lusankya " prisoners back up and had them transferred to a facility that belonged to the bioengineering corporation Xenovet on the planet Commenor . Prior to leaving them on Commenor , however , the clone had been moving the prisoners from one location to another , but had been keeping the interior of their cells , the food , and the prison staff the same , so that the prisoners believed that they had been held at the same place all the time . At some point , the prisoners were stationed on Distna , a moon in the Corvis Minor system , where the bodies of those of them who had died were buried . While the prisoners were being kept at the Commenor facility , the clone paid for their housing to Xenovet ' s trustee , the attorney Mem Wooter , from her financial institutions also in the Corvis Minor system . Eventually , Xenovet went bankrupt and the clone took direct control of the facility . After the defeat of Thrawn in 9 ABY , the clone received word from her contacts on Coruscant that the New Republic Provisional Council had decided to strike at one of the Imperial warlords , thus convincing the others that the Republic had not been weakened by Thrawn . The Council chose Prince - Admiral Delak Krennel , the ruler of the Ciutric Hegemony , as their target . Krennel had previously allied himself with the real Isard after she promised to make him the new Emperor if he brought her the Grand Vizier Sate Pestage . Krennel , however , had murdered Pestage and claimed his holdings , the Ciutric Hegemony , for himself . Possessing the memories of those events and the knowledge of the Republic ' s plans , the clone Isard made her way to the planet Ciutric IV , the capital of the Hegemony , and offered Krennel an alliance . She provided him with a political program that would crumble the Republic and once again promised to make him the new Emperor , on the condition that he would provide her with resources needed to destroy Rogue Squadron . Believing that the clone was the real Isard , Krennel agreed to the alliance on such terms . Schemes and machinations . The clone ' s scheme was based on the fact that ever since its creation , the New Republic had been aiming at providing equality between Humans and other species . This meant , however , that many Humans were losing their wealth and power toward non - Humans . Acting on his new ally ' s advice , Krennel began a pro - Human political program , meant to make the Hegemony appear as a safe - haven for those who did not wish to share their wealth with aliens and felt abused by the Republic . This way , if the Republic were to attack him , it would look as though the aliens had enough influence on the Council to raise arms against someone merely protecting his own people . According to the clone ' s plan , this would provoke further fear in Humans and might even force some warlords to band together and become a bigger threat to the Republic ' s stability . Additionally , Krennel debunked the charges against him via the HoloNet , lying that by killing Pestage he had only done what the New Republic had wanted to do all along . Meanwhile , the clone began to leave a long trail of clues to the supposed location of the prisoners , a trail that eventually led the Rogues to Distna , where a large force provided by Krennel ambushed them . While creating that trail , Isard ' s clone tried to leave only the slightest hints for the Rogues in order to appear as though she was in fact trying to prevent them from finding the prisoners . Having struck the deal with Krennel , the clone had most of the prisoners transferred from Commenor to Ciutric , leaving the others to die from starvation . She personally visited the Commenor facility and told the remaining prisoners that they were going to die . The clone also had the dead bodies on Distna dug up and re - buried at a graveyard near the Xenovet facility . She then erased the memory of one of the living prisoners , Urlor Sette , and placed a cybernetic implant containing a deadly toxin developed in the Xenovet facility inside his brain . Sette was acquainted with Corran Horn , a Rogue Squadron pilot who had managed to escape from the " Lusankya " while it had been stationed on Coruscant . The clone programmed the implant to release the toxin inside Sette ' s brain upon Horn pronouncing Sette ' s name , and she sent the prisoner with a " message " to Horn at a party thrown in Rogue Squadron ' s honor on Coruscant . When Sette arrived at the party , and Horn informed the amnesiac man of his name , the toxin was released , killing the prisoner . Sette ' s appearance hinted at Isard ' s survival to the Rogues ; they soon discovered the cause of the man ' s death and the origin of the implant , leading them to initiate an attack on the Xenovet facility . The clone ' s plan involved Rogue Squadron finding the prisoners on Commenor dead ; she believed that they would also find the graveyard and analyze the state of the bodies buried there . The results of the analysis revealed that the bodies were unable to have decayed so much in Commenor ' s soil , and the clone believed that the Republic would work up a profile of soil composition needed to accomplish the decay and leave the correct trace elements on the bones — the soil composition of Distna . During the attack , Rogue Squadron liberated some of the prisoners who had managed to survive . The clone had expected the attack to follow later , when all prisoners would have been dead , but even with some of them still alive , she was not concerned , as she believed that they knew nothing beyond what she had wanted them to know , namely , that Isard was alive . The clone believed that since the Republic was now aware of the fact that she was still at large , the Republic ' s command would theorize that she had allied with Krennel . To this end , she told Krennel to begin negotiations with the refugees from the destroyed planet of Alderaan on the subject of providing them with a world in the Hegemony to settle on , but not to specify which planet just yet . She also instructed him to make a public announcement , apologizing for the Empire ' s destruction of the planet . When the Republic would attack a world in the Hegemony , Krennel was to state that it was the same planet he had been willing to give to the Alderaanians , a statement that would cause even more infighting in the Republic . Although Krennel was initially reluctant to surrender one of his worlds , the clone convinced him that it was necessary to do so to achieve victory in the long term . Soon enough , the Republic attacked the Hegemony , trying to destabilize Krennel ' s regime . When the Republic had conquered the planet Liinade III , the Republic leader Mon Mothma stated that a research station run by Krennel had been found there , containing information about a Death Star – like superweapon , the Pulsar Station , that was being built by Krennel somewhere in the Hegemony . Neither the clone nor Krennel were aware of the facility ' s existence . The clone sent her agents to check the reported site of the laboratory , but it had already been removed , and they found only a hole in the ground at the place where it was supposed to be . Since there was no actual evidence to connect the facility to Krennel , the clone dismissed the news as Republic propaganda against him , but did not hesitate to use those news to her advantage , hoping to tie the Pulsar Station into her intrigue as yet another lead to Distna . A fateful misconception . The Prince - Admiral , on his ally ' s instructions , dismissed the charges regarding his involvement in the project in addition to stating that Liinade III had been chosen as the safe - haven for the Alderaan people . In the meantime , the clone released a series of files that supposedly showed that Krennel did not have the resources in the Hegemony to build such a project . One of them , however , the Corvis Minor file , had been tampered with by the clone to show the exact opposite . The clone promised Krennel that once Rogue Squadron was destroyed , the Republic would conduct a major strike in the Corvis Minor system , leaving Liinade III open for a counterattack . Such a counterattack would show that Krennel was capable of maintaining the integrity of his state and would increase his popularity . The clone was unaware that the research facility on Liinade III actually belonged to the real Isard , who had discovered that her double had survived and was plotting her own agenda against the clone . Isard saw through the clone ' s plans and was planning to rescue Rogue Squadron from the clone ' s ambush in order to gain their trust to ally with them , and to use the squadron against the clone . Isard , however , believed that the trail her clone had left was too complicated , and she needed to ensure that the Rogues would fall into the trap , so she had faked the files pertaining to the non - existent Pulsar Station in the facility on Liinade III . Since Distna was a hollow moon in the relatively uncharted Corvis Minor system , Rogue Squadron concluded that Krennel was building the station inside the moon . The squadron fell into the trap and embarked on a scouting mission to Distna to check if the superweapon truly existed . There , they were ambushed by six squadrons of TIE fighters , TIE interceptors , and TIE bombers , but , unbeknownst to the clone , were rescued by the real Isard ' s TIE Defenders under the command of Colonel Broak Vessery and escorted to Isard ' s secret hideout . The clone ' s entire campaign of machinations resulted in the destruction of the starfighters provided by Krennel , and the deaths of two rookie Rogue Squadron pilots , Lyyr Zatoq and Khe - Jeen Slee . Two more Rogues , Wes Janson and Asyr Sei ' lar , were initially presumed perished , but were later recovered from the site of the battle with severe injuries and healed . When Krennel and the clone did not receive word from the ambushing force , the Prince - Admiral instructed the " Victory " - class Star Destroyer " Aspiration " stationed in the system to check the site of the battle . The " Aspiration " found nothing , although it reported that another Star Destroyer had visited the battlefield , but the " Aspiration " captain had not contacted it , believing it to be one of Krennel ' s ships on a mission connected with the ambush . As the only people who possessed Star Destroyers aside from the Republic and the loyalist Empire were several independent warlords and the criminal Booster Terrik — who was Corran Horn ' s father - in - law — and none of the warlords had claimed to have destroyed Rogue Squadron , the clone correctly realized that the Star Destroyer was the property of Terrik . She believed that Terrik had attempted to find any survivors and that anything he had seen , he must have reported to the Republic . Since Rogue Squadron was facing a foe that outnumbered them six to one , the survival of any of the Rogues would have been broadcast immediately . As rumors spread about Rogue Squadron ' s destruction , however , Mon Mothma made a public statement on the HoloNet , saying only that she could not tell anything about the squadron ' s fate in order to not jeopardize the entire Hegemony campaign . Upon hearing this , the clone assumed that her plan had succeeded . Downfall . After the Republic conquered Liinade III , it began to send convoys with supplies to the troops garrisoned there , and Krennel started attacking those convoys . In turn , the clone was analyzing the economic situation on the planets from which the supplies were transferred . When word reached her of another convoy , she did her research and realized that the convoy was only a ruse , created to lure Krennel ' s fleet into a trap . This conclusion was backed by the fact that a number of New Republic starships were being reported to be " on maneuvers . " She relayed this news to Krennel , and the latter planned to use the absence of the Republic ships to make a bold raid on Coruscant itself . During this time , Requiem Squadron , a squadron of TIE Defenders led by a man who introduced himself as Colonel Antar Roat , appeared at Ciutric , expressing their desire to join Krennel ' s forces . The squadron — which was , in reality , members of Rogue Squadron in disguise — was accepted into Krennel ' s military and placed under the command of Colonel Lorrir . The Rogues had allied themselves with the real Isard and infiltrated the planet in order to later bring down Ciutric ' s planetary shield and neutralize ground defenses around the prison building in the city of Daplona , thus opening the way for Isard ' s forces to rescue the prisoners . Following the Rogues ' instructions , the New Republic force was to engage Krennel ' s fleet at the same time . When Krennel was ready to move on Coruscant , he sounded a battle alarm . Requiem Squadron was to be transferred aboard one of Krennel ' s ships in order to be delivered to Coruscant , but Colonel Lorrir suddenly went missing , thus delaying the loading process , as the rest of the squadron was supposed to wait until he headed up first . When Roat had been told not to wait for Lorrir and to get his people airborne , Krennel contacted the clone , asking her to dispatch someone to search for the missing Colonel Lorrir . The clone , however , decided to find Lorrir herself and located him in the operations room inside the hangar — " Roat , " who was in fact the leader of Rogue Squadron , Wedge Antilles , had stunned Lorrir with a blaster and locked him there . She also found Roat ' s fake two - fingered arm and realized who Roat , in fact , was . As the Republic fleet appeared and engaged Krennel ' s staging ships , Antilles and his men began an attack on the prison ; Horn and another Rogue , Ooryl Qrygg , soon liberated the prisoners and began escorting them out of the prison building . Meanwhile , quickly setting her plans for escape in motion , the clone brought Lorrir to his senses and forced him to pilot an Imperial Assault Shuttle toward the prison , while she took position inside the Daplona base training center . Patching her comlink through the shuttle ' s comm unit , she began talking to Antilles — who was flying cover for Horn and Qrygg in his TIE Defender — in order to appear as though she was aboard the shuttle . As a last resort to deny Rogue Squadron their victory , she ordered Lorrir to destroy the prison facility , and the Colonel fired two concussion missiles at it . One missile was destroyed by Antilles in mid - air , but the other reached its target ; however , Antilles had warned his men inside , and they helped the prisoners to brace for the explosion , resulting in no casualties . After the failed attack , Antilles revealed to the clone who she in fact was . She did not believe that she was a mere clone at first , but Antilles ultimately told her the facts that proved it to her . Struck by this discovery , the clone cried in anger over the comlink . Meanwhile , Antilles , who had participated in training simulations against Lorrir , recognized the Colonel ' s tendency to sideslip in order to avoid attacks . Antilles saw through the clone ' s ruse , since the real Isard had attempted a similar trick to escape from Thyferra . Thus , he signaled two of his Rogues to attack the shuttle from different directions . After Myn Donos hit the shuttle in the aft port , Lorrir sideslipped to starboard , where Gavin Darklighter finished him ; the damaged shuttle crashed into the Daplona River and exploded . Playing dead , the clone put static through the comm system . Antilles , however , traced the comm signature to the training center and , after telling the clone that he had deciphered her plan , shot a pair of missiles at the center , killing her . Krennel had been killed in the space battle , and without a leader , the surviving forces surrendered to the Republic . It was soon discovered that the real Isard had planned the entire scheme to take down the clone as a distraction for the Republic , while she — on the orders of the reborn Emperor Palpatine — attempted to recover the " Lusankya " , which had been taken to the shipyards in the Bilbringi system to undergo repairs after the Battle of Thyferra . With some Imperial troops , Isard infiltrated the " Lusankya " ; Isard went to her quarters , while the Imperials tried to secure the ship . This plan , however , had been in turn foreseen by Terrik , and he , along with his daughter Mirax , Asyr Sei ' lar , and Republic agent Iella Wessiri , was already waiting for Isard aboard the " Lusankya " . Terrik lured Isard ' s men into the auxiliary bridge and captured them , and Wessiri shot Isard in her quarters . At long last , both Isards were dead . Personality and traits . As a clone of the real Isard , the clone stood 1 . 8 meters tall and inherited her unique features , such as light skin , black - and - white hair and differently colored eyes . The left eye was red and the right one was blue . The clone Isard was cunning , manipulative , and ruthless , having inherited these qualities from the real Isard along with her memories and her hatred toward Rogue Squadron . The clone was determined to destroy the squadron at all costs , no matter how many lives it would have cost . She was willing to let the prisoners on Commenor starve to death , and she did not care about Krennel ' s people when they had not reported after the ambush . In order to lure her enemies into a trap , she weaved a long web of deception , spending vast amounts of time and resources on its creation . Thinking one step ahead of the New Republic , she also provided Krennel with political advice which helped him to rise in popularity and gain support in his fight against the Republic . She often employed a deductive approach , figuring out that the ship that had visited the site of the ambush was Terrik ' s and connecting the economical situation in the Republic to the upcoming attack on Krennel . The clone preferred to contemplate her next moves sitting in a dark room surrounded by computer monitors . When something did not go according to her plan , she reacted quickly and adjusted to the situation , as was the case when she included the Pulsar Station in her plot to lure Rogue Squadron into a trap . Although scarred as a result of her trauma and the subsequent surgery , the clone was still considered fairly attractive by Krennel . She was also able to sustain her own spy network , which extended as far as Coruscant . She was also self - confident , constantly assuring Krennel that her plans would work , dismissing the New Republic ' s statement about the Liinade laboratory ' s connection to Krennel as a hoax , and believing that Rogue Squadron had been destroyed after hearing Mon Mothma ' s message . Despite all of the clone ' s planning , however , the real Isard was able to easily see through her schemes simply because the clone had the same mentality as her , and Isard considered the clone ' s plan to be too complicated . The clone was initially reluctant to believe that she was a mere duplicate , but when Antilles told her some facts that proved it , she cried in anger . The fact that she was a clone ultimately resulted in her death as well , as she attempted the shuttle trick that Isard had already used . Behind the scenes . The clone of Ysanne Isard was first mentioned in " " , a 1998 comic book written by Michael A . Stackpole . The clone was later featured prominently in the 1999 novel " " , also by Stackpole . Details of the clone ' s creation were later explained in Ysanne Isard ' s entry in the 2002 reference book " The New Essential Guide to Characters " . She was briefly mentioned at the end of the real Isard ' s entry in 2008 ' s " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " and in several other sources .