Corjentain Malaqua

Corjentain Malaqua was a female human member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic who had known ties to the Sullustan resistance led by Nien Nunb. Shortly before the siege of Inyusu Tor, Malaqua's name was given alongside fellow Rebels Nunb and Sian Tevv as potential infiltrators that Imperial forces located in the city Pinyumb should be on the look out for. It was believed that the three may smuggle arms and equipment in for a full-on revolution.
A short while later, the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry found themselves stranded on Sullust at Inyusu Tor. Their Captain, Hazram Namir, then went to Pinyumb to find the Sullustan resistance for support. He and his men were ambushed before Nunb saved the expedition group and took the team to Corjentain, who was with two other Humans within the resistance. She explained her resistance's role on Sullust and stated that she could only help him return to the rest of the 61st. The aground 61st later successfully defended the captured factory on Inyusu Tor, hence allowing Nunb to take the opportunity to rally the Sullustan resistance along with the Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front to wrestle Pinyumb from Imperial occupation, instigating a planet-wide uprising on Sullust.
==Biography==
===Operations at Pinyumb===
Hailing from Sullust, a volcanic industrial planet in the Outer Rim Territories, the human female Corjentain Malaqua served the Rebel Alliance during the Galactic Civil War against the Galactic Empire. By 3 ABY, she and a handful of other rebel operatives, led by the Sullustan revolutionary Nien Nunb, went to Sullust's capital, the cavern city of Pinyumb, to ally the Alliance with the local protest group known as the Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front, which was becoming increasingly anti-Imperial. However, the cell, known as the Sullustan resistance, found that the group's most militant members had been incarcerated, with other members being scared from taking up arms.
As a result, Malaqua and her cell got to helping Pinyumb how they could in the hopes that it would inspire more supporters. Operating out of a mining hangar they smuggled in relief supplies—including food, tools, medical gear, and anti-Imperial videos—for struggling citizens, using the VCX-150 freighter Keepsake to bring in these supplies. The Empire caught indications that made them believe that the Cobalt Front might have been cultivating ties with the Alliance. In their efforts to identify any rebels operating on Sullust, intelligence at the Imperial garrison gathered information on rebels with known ties to Sullust, including Malaqua, Nunb, and Sian Tevv. By that point, an estimated eighty percent of the Cobalt Front membership was in Imperial custody.
===Escalating conflict===
The Sullustan resistance soon made a sabotage attack on the Inyusu Tor mineral processing facility near Punyumb, where a member of the cell stuffed a pipe with a chemical cocktail soaked rag, which sabotaged the magma extractors and resultantly the magnetic separators. The attack sparked raised the attention of the garrison while an Imperial lieutenant was briefing stormtroopers of the local Imperial Ninety-Seventh Stormtrooper Legion on Sullust affiliated rebels like Malaqua. Pinyumb was locked down as a result of the attack, with stormtroopers conducting raids. The Empire soon flagged and boarded the Keepsake, discovering a Chadra-Fan Sullustan resistance member who set off a detonator to avoid being captured.
Meanwhile, the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry was carrying out a campaign along the Rimma Trade Route to divert Imperial resources through a series of attacks. The Empire tried to make up for production losses on Sullust, the Sullustan resistance spying on redeployments that arrived at Pinyumb. The 61st then came for Sullust, capturing the Inyusu Tor facility, but becoming stranded when their troop carrier was shot down. Pinyumb was put under lockdown, with more citizens being subjugated. Nunb thus went out on a relief mission for people affected while Malaqua and the other two remaining Sullustan resistance members waited at the hangar.
===Joining forces===
Nunb soon returned to the rest of the cell with Hazram Namir, the assumed captain of the 61st. Namir had come to Pinyumb to seek the Sullustan resistance's help, as his company was preparing to defend the Inyusu Tor facility from an Imperial counterattack. After speaking with Nunb, Malaqua exchanged introductions with the captain. She told him about the Sullustan resistance's efforts on Sullust and the troubles with getting the Cobalt Front to be more active. After she admitted that the 61st's arrival was bringing consequences to the people of Pinyumb, the captain promised to be out of their way as soon as the company could escape the planet. The rebel operative, though, feared that the Empire's new crackdowns were irreversible.
In return, Namir told Malaqua and her cell about the 61st's campaign, explaining that he had originally intended to seek help from the Sullustan resistance before learning of how small it was. Malaqua offered to help him reunite with his company at the processing facility at daybreak. Grateful, the captain discussed what the cell would when the Empire attacked the facility again. The cell's members were intent to make a final fight, and so Namir asked to see what they had on offer and give them a fresh perspective to draw out their war. The group looked over maps of Pinyumb, Malaqua and Namir debating over where was best to deploy snipers.
While Malaqua prepared to take Namir back up Inyusu Tor, the captain devised a plan for his company to hold out at the processing facility and help the Sullustan resistance by drawing Imperial forces away from Pinyumb and digging out magma flow tunnels to use against the enemy. He brought the four rebel fighters together and explained his plan to them before Malaqua helped him to a path back towards the Inyusu Tor facility, giving him directions down some crevices, following migrating ash angel birds. Namir returned to the 61st and had them solidify their defenses before Imperial forces began their attack on the facility, backed by the Imperial II-class Star DestroyerStar Wars: The Rebel Files Herald.
==Behind the scenes==
Corjentain Malaqua appeared in the 2015 novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed.
==Appearances==
*Battlefront: Twilight Company 
==Notes and references==
Category:Alliance to Restore the Republic members
Category:Females
Category:Humans
Category:Individuals with she/her pronouns