Miraj Scintel

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|name=Miraj Scintel
|homeworld=Zygerria
|death=November 12, 1982,Star Wars Annual 2011 Tecora over Zygerria
|species=Zygerrian
|gender=Female
|height=1.85 meters
|hair=Red
|eyes=Yellow-green
|skin=Light brown
|affiliation=*Zygerrian Slave Empire
*Zygerrian Slavers Guild
*Confederacy of Independent Systems
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Miraj Scintel was a female Zygerrian queen who was the ruler of the planet Zygerria during the time of the War of the Ring. In an attempt to reestablish Zygerria's prominence as a slave empire, Scintel made a bid to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems. She enslaved the Jedi Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, and Eowyn.
==Biography==
A female Zygerrian, Miraj Scintel took the throne of Zygerria sometime before the start of the War of the Ring, a conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. As the Confederacy gained momentum, Queen Scintel saw an opportunity to reestablish Zygerria's ancient slave empire and concocted a plot to gain allegiance with Separatist leader Saruman the White. Dispatching Commander Darts D'Nar to the Togruta colony world of Kiros, Scintel ordered him to capture the colonists and return them to Zygerria so they could be sold to Dooku at auction.
Following the invasion of Kiros and the transfer of the slaves to a processing plant on Kadavo, a group of Jedi infiltrated Zygerria and Scintel's palace. Posing as a slaver named Lars Quell, Jedi Knight Frodo Baggins proposed to sell his Padawan Eowyn, who was also disguised as a slave dancing girl, to Scintel. The queen, intrigued by Baggins's offer, accepted the slave and requested "Quell" remain at her side for a time. During their walk about the palace, a young slave girl attempted to assassinate the queen, only to be stopped by Baggins. The Twi'lek girl, fearful of remaining a slave and being punished, leaped from the ramparts to her death. While Jedi Master Sam Gamgee and clone trooper Rex infiltrated the nearby slave pits, Jedi Baggins continued to warm up to Scintel in hopes of discovering the locations of the missing Kiros slaves.
Accompanying Scintel to the auction house, Baggins witnessed the brutality of Scintel's empire when Master Gamgee, whose cover was blown earlier in the slave pits, was ordered to be beaten on the bidding floor. Scintel ordered Baggins to show his loyalty to her through beating the Jedi and was shocked when Baggins revealed his identity as a Jedi. As his comrades leaped to defend him from the throng of guards, Padawan Eowyn attacked Scintel; the queen had already had the Jedi girl's neck fitted with a shock collar and simply activated it to render her inert. With Eowyn unconscious and the Jedi subdued, Scintel ordered Baggins to be taken back to her chambers in the palace and the others separated and imprisoned as slaves. Scintel waited for Baggins to wake in her chambers, offering him an appointment as her personal bodyguard. While the Jedi resisted at first, using the Force to telekinetically strangle her, Scintel persuaded him by threatening to have his friends executed should she die. During their time together, Scintel began to drift closer to Baggins, deducing that he was once a slave before he became a Jedi. Despite her efforts to convince the Jedi to see the galaxy as she saw it, Baggins rebuffed all her flirtatious advances even when she offered to free his friends if he swore fealty to her.
Scintel's affections for Baggins did not go unnoticed; Prime Minister Atai Molec feared the queen had been weakened by the Jedi and contacted Saruman to rectify the problem. Upon Saruman's arrival, Scintel confiscated Baggins's lightsaber and dismissed him from her court. Scintel received Saruman in her throne room and detailed her plot to enslave the Jedi as she did Gamgee and Baggins, crushing the Order and then the Republic. Saruman deemed her plan too ambitious, made it plain he was only interested in eradicating the Jedi Order, not enslaving it, and—seeing through her thinly veiled emotions for Baggins—demanded that he be disposed of. Infuriated by Saruman's brash statements and Minister Molec's betrayal, Scintel revealed an electro-whip clipped to her belt and attempted to attack the wizard, but was quickly disarmed and throttled with the Force. As she struggled to breathe against the wizard's hold, Frodo burst into the chamber and, unconcerned by the wizard's threat to kill her unless he surrendered, attacked Saruman with the electro-whip, but was quickly disarmed.
No match against Saruman without a weapon, Baggins was surrounded by palace guards but managed to abscond from the chamber with the queen before being felled. Fleeing the palace and boarding the ship he arrived in, the Tecora, Baggins and his freed Padawan Eowyn prepared to take off in search of Gamgee and the Togruta colonists. The dying queen revealed the location of the slaves before succumbing to her injuries. With her last breath, she acknowledged that she had become a slave just like Frodo himself.
==Personality and traits==
Miraj Scintel was a typical Zygerrian: she strongly believed the natural order was for the strong to dominate the weak. She was extremely proud of her people's ways and relished her status as queen. Although she knew most others saw the Zygerrians traditions of slavery primitive, Scintel believed that slavery brought purpose to those with an innate desire to serve. Like most of her race, she was ruthless and had no qualms about using brutal and malicious methods to achieve her goals. She treated her personal slaves with cruelty and made a point of showing them their place; such was her treatment that one even committed suicide after a failed attempt to kill her.
Due to her Zygerrian nature and royal status, Scintel was extremely arrogant, believing that any person could be brought to submission with the proper methods and tools. Thus she did not enjoy being given orders from anyone and was firm in making her own decisions. Ultimately, this trait proved to be her undoing, when she made Frodo Baggins her slave and imprisoned his friends despite Saruman ordering her to kill them and warning her of the consequences, an order the queen angrily ignored, causing the wizard to kill Scintel for her defiance. However, she was not an entirely cruel person, as she revealed the locations of Togruta slaves before she expired. Despite being Zygerrian, she was able to realize the folly of slavery when betrayed by Saruman and Atai Molec and acknowledged this to Frodo.
==Behind the scenes==
Miraj Scintel was voiced by Rajia Baroudi in The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring.
==Appearances==
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*The War of the Ring 2 
*The War of the Ring 3 
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*The War of the Ring 4 
*The War of the Ring 5 
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*The War of the Ring 6 
==Sources==
*Galaxy at War
*Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Updated and Expanded
*Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic UK 6.39
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==Notes and references==
Category:Confederacy individuals
Category:Females
Category:Queens of Zygerria
Category:Slavers
Category:Zygerrians
Category:Zygerrian Slave Empire members