Iden Versio

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**Iden Versio** was an Human female pilot and soldier who had served in the Galactic Empire. As commander for her Inferno squad, an Special Forces unit of elite Empire soldiers, Versio protected this Empire from potential threats, erased enemies, and buried Imperials secrets. Versio's unconventional tactics tested limits of Imperial protocol but her success as leader is undeniable. As the daughter of admiral Garrick Versio, Versio gained her mastery of combat and flight at an Future Imperial Leaders Military Preparatory School on planet Vardos. During a certain time in her life, she was willing to give her life for the Empire and end this rebellion once and for all until one fateful event changed everything. Their final order given by Emperor Palpatine had demanded purging of several worlds including her homeworld. Against her pleas, her father then carried out Operation: Cinder and everything Iden thought she knew and trusted about the Galactic-Empire was brought into question.

## Biography

### Early Life

**Iden Versio** was born and raised on the planet Vardos during the Era of the Empire. She was a child of ISB Admiral Garrick Versio and Zeehay Versio, the artist who did contribute to the numerous propaganda-Posters designs. Iden Versio followed her father's example, she trained to become an Soldier in the empire, and to that end attended the Future Imperial Leaders Military Preparatory School on Vardos, and following that she enrolled in the Imperial Academy on Coruscant, the Imperials capital. Iden had later graduated from the Imperial Coruscant royal academy with honors, and she was the top of this class.

### Imperial Service

#### Death Star Service

Assigned to the Death Star I as an Senior Lieutenant, Versio was present for the Destruction of Jedha City in which the which an ancient Jedha City located on the desert moon of Jedha was destroyed by this Death Star I's Superlaser. The ensuing destruction also obliterated a ancient Temple of the Kyber, and killed Saw Gerrera and his Rebel faction cell of the Partisans rebels. Shortly after the Destruction of Jedha City Versio was present for the Battle of Scarif, in which this Death Star I Superlaser was used to destroy a Imperial facility which had been infiltrated by rebels, who sought to steal the Death Star-plans which were present at the Imperial-facility. An ensuing blast wiped out an entire region, along with several rebel ships which had been trapped within Scarif's shield, though rebels on the ground were able to transmit an copy of the plans to a rebel ship. The plans were then transferred to a blockade runner under the command of princess Leia Organa. Following this Scarif conflict, Alderaan was chosen by Wilhuff Tarkin as an suitable test for the Death Star.

Upon arriving at Alderaan, the Superlaser was charged and on Grand Moff Tarkin's order fired, destroying Alderaan. As most personnel aboard the Death Star had been ordered to do Versio watched the Destruction of Alderaan. Iden Versio participated at the Battle of Yavin under her callsign TIE Sigma Three. As the Rebel Alliance launched fighters to attack the Death Star Versio and her squadron were deployed to intercept them. She believed that rebel-fighters presented no threat to the Imperial-Station and questioned her deployment, but once she was warned not to waste a Dark Lord Darth Vader's time, she kept silent about it and followed orders. During the course of this Battle Iden shot down several Rebel fighters. Ultimately, Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker was able to fire a proton torpedo down the Death Star I thermal exhaust port which triggered a chain reaction resulting in this Battle Station destruction. Following this Death Star explosion, her TIE was struck by debris from this station, causing her to lose control of her TIE and crash-land on Yavin moon, Yavin 4.

#### Commander of Inferno Squad

In response to the destruction of the Death Star I, Garrick assembled a Inferno Squad; which consisted of Iden, Gideon Hask, Del Meeko, and Seyn Marana. Their first significant mission was to neutralize the Dreamers, an Rebel group that had risen from the ashes of the Partisan rebels. The mission was ultimately a success. After being willingly captured by the Rebel Alliance, Versio escaped with the help of Del Meeko's ID10 seeker droid after deleting Imperial Moff Raythe's intercepted transmission regarding their Imperial Fleet's position at Endor. Four years after the start of the Galactic Civil War she participated at an Battle of Endor and witnessed the Destruction of this second Death Star. Knowing they were defeated, this Inferno Squad looked to her for direction. Versio led her troops to avenge their Emperor, by hunting down the Rebels responsible for his death and the Destruction of their Death Star II Station namely Luke Skywalker. After the Battle of Endor, Inferno Squad was briefed by Iden on the next several missions to aid the Emperor's Operation: Cinder.

After several missions such as securing the climate disruption arrays at Fondor Imperial Shipyards, Inferno was tasked with extracting the empire ally Gleb from her homeplanet of Vardos. Inferno were told that their latest missions were an element of the emperor's contingency plan, but were not given further details about the mission. Upon arrival to Vardos Iden learned Admiral Garrick Versio had deployed satellites above this planet to conjure an electrical storm as part of a Operation: Cinder. Iden Versio was furious feeling the extermination of the people loyal to this empire was immoral and unjustified. Admiral Versio ordered her to carry out the mission, clarifying that she was only to extract Gleb and nobody else. When the Inferno Squad had reached the Archive, where Gleb was waiting, an explosion caused by this electrical storm broke off some debris from the inside this building crushing the civilians. Unable to stand the situation any longer Iden and Meeko disobeyed Admiral Versio's orders and offered to evacuate some of the civilians via the Raider *Corvus*.

### Defecting to the Rebels

#### Rebel Defense of Naboo

Gideon Hask, however, was adamant that they follow the original plan. Unbeknownst to Versio and Meeko, Gideon had been ordered to kill them should they defect. When Hask drew the weapon to fire, she quickly disabled him by shooting him in the leg. Now traitors to the empire Iden and Meeko fought their way through Vardos to make it to the *Corvus* and escape. Along the way they stole a AT-AT and then used it to clear a path so they and some citizens could evacuate on the *Corvus*. After they escaped Vardos, Meeko and Iden contacted the Rebels and surrendered. Shriv Suurgav, a rebel officer, and Lando Calrissian talked with this now defected Inferno Squad about either living new lives, or joining in their fight against the Empire. Del and Versio joined the fight against an late Emperor's contingency plan at Naboo. Iden and a fleet of other Rebellion pilots engaged in the fight against an Star Destroyer and their weather satellites above Naboo. Iden destroyed the Satellites but knew of an protocol that called for a jump to a safe location, and the target was Theed.

### New Republic Service

#### Campaign Against the Empire

Once planetside, Iden met General Leia Organa, where she was instructed to repair power relays that would activate a sonic charge deactivating the electronics in their surrounding area. With their weapons either destroyed or disabled the Imperials immediately surrendered. After this conflict, Iden, Del, and Leia formally met to which Organa chastised them for all they had done to the alliance. Iden apologized, and owned up to the facts that what she did was inexcusable, but she wanted to fight for what was right. Leia accepted her offer and welcomed her to an New Republic. Six Months later, she received a call from Leia Organa, asking her to find the missing General Han Solo on Takodana. Iden and Del then arrived and helped him deal with some Imperials allowing Solo and Chewbacca to escape and prepare for the eventual Kashyyyk liberation. They'd regrouped at *Corvus*,and Iden spoke with Leia again, discussing Imperial forces at planets Bespin then Sullust, which had given Versio hope that her father Admiral Garrick could possibly be caught and stopped.

General Organa agreed with Versio that removing Garrick from his Imperial Remnants would be an huge advantage for the New Republic. Iden and Del had later traveled to Chinook-Station at Bespin looking for Hask who was overseeing a refuel operation for Garrick's fleet. Iden and Del believed Hask might help them track down the admiral. The two landed at the station and went undercover as Imperial Troopers. They traveled across this station and up the tower, but to their dismay, Hask had anticipated their arrival and had already evacuated. Fighting their way through this ambush, they had commandeered a Cloud Car then proceeded to blow up fueling-stations where Star Destroyers were docked. After they regrouped, she briefed Shriv, who accompanied Lando, on an mission to a abandoned weapon depot on Sullust, where they were to steal the weapons. Although the weapons were not recovered, Lando destroyed the Factory to prevent the weapons from falling into enemy-hands. Versio picked up these two from a AT-ST that was nearly swallowed up by lava.

#### Defeating the Empire Tyranny

Right after the destruction of the facility on Sullust, Iden was informed by admiral Ackbar that all Republic ships were to go to Jakku, where the rest of the Empire Navy was waiting. During the battle Iden helped out the Republic by rescuing ground forces, then by taking out some TIE-bombers and other such ships. Near the end of the conflict the *Corvus* was disabled by TIEs from Garrick's ship, as he was going to destroy it. Iden took out the fighters that were headed towards *Corvus*, then seemingly defeated Hask in a dogfight. Iden's burning passion for her father led her to board his ship then try to save him. While doing so, Versio crashed her Fighter on the hull of the Destroyer, and almost fell. She climbed up through the holes in the ship, and fought her way towards the bridge where Iden met her father. Garrick recognized this as an rescue-mission but could not accept it, as he knew his daughter was much stronger than he was and Gallius Rax expected him to escape, stating she saw the empire's weakness and didn't let it consume her and for her to live her life.

Versio came to terms with him and the fact that her father wasn't leaving his post, and jettisoned an Escape Pod just as the destroyer crashed into the desert and was obliterated. Del found Iden's downed-pod, and helped her out. They then shared a kiss. Del told Iden that they had won the war, and it was over. The moment was interrupted by Shriv, who then invited them to come see the end of their Battle and the final nail in the coffin for the Galactic Empire. Following the end of the Galactic Civil War, Iden married Meeko and they had a daughter together. However, thirty years after the battle at Jakku Del went missing and Iden went to search for him. The First Order had discovered Del knowing the location of an man that possessed a map that could lead them to Skywalker, and so Kylo Ren was dispatched to retrieve Del's intel of the map. Successful in his interrogation, Ren ordered Del's old squadmate Hask, to clean up the mess. After a brief talk Hask executed Del aboard *Corvus* and ordered Gleb to cover up everything but to leave the ship for Iden to find at Pillio.

### Joining the Resistance

#### Resurrection of Imperial Terror

Shortly after the death of Del, their friend Shriv Suurgav, now an Resistance soldier, found *Corvus* abandoned on Pillio. With this crew and Del gone, Shriv worried by this contacted Iden, who was flying in an Asteroid-field with her daughter Zay. This duo then made their way to *Corvus*, where Shriv told Iden and Zay their situation. The three began an search for Del, which led them to Athulla, where they received a transmission from a Athullan asking if they'd found his people, only to realize they weren't Del. Before learning more about the mysterious Project: Resurrection, the transmission was cut off by an Jinata Security fleet commanded by Leema Kai, who lead the kidnappings of Athullans. Iden and Zay then managed to disable the fleet and eliminate Leema, with the J-Sec Fleet surrendering and telling them about the Project: Resurrection after Zay threatened to fire the *Corvus'* concussion-missiles, which was an bluff. This lead them to believe Gleb was keeping Del prisoner at Vardos. After arriving at Vardos, they then found the scars left from Operation: Cinder.

As they walked through the ruins Shriv and Iden spotted an bright red flash out in the distance. Making their way to this location where Del was supposedly being held, they'd found Gleb dead who was executed by Hask. Hask then taunted her stating he'd waited for this day he could get revenge on her for her and Del defecting years ago, then revealing that he'd killed Del and then would kill Zay next stating that the new Republic's time was over and the First Order would rise with Iden realizing the flash of light she saw earlier was the Destruction in the Republic thanks to Starkiller Base. To her horror, *Corvus* was fired on and shot down by the *Retribution*. With confidence of the plot, Hask ordered Iden and Shriv to be interrogated and then executed, as well as the city burned. As Iden and Shriv were escorted, fighting had erupted between J-Sec and First Order, giving Iden and Shriv an chance to escape to see if Zay had survived this *Corvus* crash. While fighting through these factions, they were able to find several escape pod beacons thanks to Iden's Seeker Droid.

#### Uncovering an First Order Plot

Going through the escape pods they eventually reunited with Zay, who had set up a snipers nest. After the fighting was over Iden told Zay that Gideon killed her father and that she planned to board his ship then kill him, but Zay then talked her down, telling her it wouldn't bring Del back. The crew then altered the plan then decided to board Hask's flagship in order to deliver any useful information to their Resistance. Stealing First Order TIE Fighters, they made their way to the Star destroyer but discovered they were unable to make an ordinary landing. The Star Destroyer's crew had eventually become suspicious of this unusual behavior and attacked them. After a period of dogfighting, their droid Dio then found an entrance into the ship through an heat exhaust-port by the engines, which they blew open just as this destroyer was preparing to jump into Hyperspace. Successfully making their way into the ship, Iden and her comrades fought the way into a control room, which contained numerous First Order secrets such as schematics for the First Order Dreadnaught.

Though they'd secured vital intel, they were unable to escape while the ship was in hyperspace, so Versio then devised an plan to force the ship out of Hyperspace by destroying this Hyperdrive. While Shriv searched for a escape ship, Iden and Zay fought their way to the hyperdrive control platforms, fighting through stormtroopers. Before making their way to their last objective and planting this last explosive she had Dio reroute enemy reinforcements. Just after arming the last explosive, Hask snuck up from behind Zay and held her at gunpoint while taunting Iden to shoot him. Realizing that she couldn't shoot Hask without risking hitting Zay, she threw away her blaster. Gideon Hask, disappointed in her cowardice prepared to shoot her, but was interrupted when Zay managed to break free and redirect the blaster shots away, only to be knocked off the platform. Iden managed to grab Zay, but was caught off guard by Gideon, who prepared to finish her off. Before doing so, Zay tossed a blaster to Iden and she shot Hask, sending him falling to his death in the reactor core.

#### Sacrificing for a New Rebellion

With Gideon dead and Del avenged, Iden hauled Zay back to safety, and the two retreated to a observation room while watching the explosions go off, ripping a part of the hull open and forcing the ship out of Hyperspace near the Starkiller Base. Happy that this plan worked, Versio suddenly doubled over in pain then showed Zay an bloodied part of her shirt where a stray blaster bolt from Hask's weapon which struck her earlier. Zay, saddened by this, tried to figure out how to help Iden, but was reassured by Versio that there was no time and that as long as they fight to keep others safe even if that meant for them to sacrifice themselves so they would make the difference. After telling her child that Dio needed to be brought to their Resistance and that she loved her, Iden succumbed to her wounds with Zay left alone, saddened by her mother's death. Remembering Versio's final words, Zay and Shriv then made their way to a D'Qar Resistance Base and delivered the intel they recovered that would later be used by Poe Dameron to take down Dreadnought *Fulminatrix*.