Desera Synn

Desera is a female Zabrak NPC in the Star Wars: Agents of Chaos campaign.

Desera Synn is a former social worker on Coruscant who, due to the poor timing of a double date along with her best friend Ia with Les Karif and Rixx Corren, wound up being branded a traitor by the first order. As a result she fled the planet with the men and their allies and adopted an outlaw life as a result.

## Background

Desera grew up in the undercity of Coruscant and met her best friend Ia. Due to the rough manner of the upbringing they were connected to the criminal undercity gang known as The Lost Ones.

At some point both Desera and Ia managed to leave the life of crime behind them and migrate into respectable professions, with Desera becoming a social worker in an effort to help disadvantaged children like she had been. Overall she found the job itself dissatisfying as she felt she was making little impact in society and her ability to help people was limited.

## A Turning Point

During the New Years festival on Coruscant in  37 ABY Ia informed Desera that she had met and had a coffee with a First Order Security Bureau agent Les Karif. Desera encouraged Ia to ask him out again, offering to double date if Les knew someone to help keep things fairly light. As a result the two invited Les and Rixx Corren to the Western Sea for a vacation, to which they agreed.

The vacation did not go as expected, however, as they seemed to stumble upon a mystery of a missing girl, and the vacation was abruptly cut short when Rixx and Les’ fellow agents, Tohar Anlon, Aurelia Denelian, and Jaylin Draglen,  were attacked by Marshal Silas Cargeloth and his forces at a nearby island on Western Sea.

Although Les was reluctant to speed to the rescue of his colleagues Ia, Desera and Rixx convinced him and the four rented a boat to speed to the island to help them. During the journey, however, they were chased by a mysterious couple who turned out to be First Order agents Gunn Barboy and Nali Fellwen, who ordered them to stop and submit to arrest for treason.

Les and Rixx refused, and the latter seemed to cause their pursuers’ boat to crash while they sped to safety. They met up with the other agents, who had escaped with the assistance of Calder Brya, and retreated to Brya’s summer home on the lake. They all soon learned that the agents were being accused of treason and assisting the Resistance and all of them were sought.

The agents insisted the charges were false, but maintained that they needed to leave the planet anyway, as they did not believe they would receive a fair hearing. They offered to leave Ia and Desera behind, urging them to cooperate fully and even accuse them of being coerced if necessary to secure their safety, but both Desera and Ia decided they had little to remain on Coruscant for and asked to accompany them off the planet, in spite of the fact it would mean life as an outlaw. With varying degrees of reluctance, the group agreed.

## Fleeing Coruscant

With the assistance of Calder Brya and Dr. Henrietya "Corellia" Antilles, they were able to sneak to the spaceport and secure a ship, the *Harrand’s Folly* (though they promptly rechristened it the *Eclectic Mayhem*) and fled the planet.

Desera offered to put her psychological training to work helping the others, but she lamented that since she had no combat experience or training she was at a loss of how to help them on their missions. Rixx offered to train her in the use of blaster pistols, and others noted that they lacked a medic. Desera, who had been interested in the biological sciences, vowed that she would study medicine to try to help.

After a brief stop for supplies on Corellia, which saw a riot start due to rising political tensions, the *Eclectic Mayhem* fled to the outer rim. The crew was forced into a brief stint as bounty hunters to secure parts for their damaged hyperdrive engine, during which Desera remained on the ship as her combat lessons with Rixx had not yet begun.

## On Ryloth

### The Bounty Hunting Job

Desera and the others arrived on Ryloth and began to investigate job opportunities, as everyone had left only with the clothes on their back and the credits in their pocket. The group ultimately decided to accept a bounty hunting job to capture one Guzdan Tar because it offered the highest payout, and made contact with Guzdan’s cousin, Tadya Tar. It turned out that Tadya was the sister to a woman from Les Karif’s past, Sinya Tar, and Tadya agreed to help them due to her suspicions that Guzdan had sold Sinya into slavery to get her out of the way of his business ambitions.

However when Tadya failed to arrive at a scheduled rendezvous, the crew concluded that she had been kidnapped by Guzdan and was in the family operated offices of Sienar Fleet Systems. Rixx agreed to perform recon, but was caught and captured, leading the others to storm the building in an effort to rescue him.

In her first real firefight, Desera proved to acquit herself well, stunning several enemies and killing one after he had grievously injured Ia. Unfortunately, both Desera and Ia were captured when reinforcements arrived at the office and surrounded the two while the others were inside searching for Rixx and Tadya.

### Captured

Desera and Ia were captured by the Tar Clan and taken back to the Tar Clan hall and imprisoned alongside Tadya Tar. She and Desera were beaten and interrogated, though what (if anything) she revealed is unknown.

Ia was taken away a short time later, but thankfully later that same day the Crew of the *Eclectic Mayhem* raided the clan hall in a rescue. Upon having her restraints removed, Desera armed herself and attempted to help in the battle, but quickly suffered a near fatal blaster shot to the neck.

Aurelia and Tadya were able to administer life saving treatment immediately and Desera survived, though she was left emotionally shaken from the experience.

## After Ryloth

When the Crew of the *Eclectic Mayhem* left Ryloth, they assured Desera that their prime goal was to rescue Ia, but that they had to perform a heist first, or the First Order would be tipped off to their location by Zirr Sonn. Desera, having had her fill of violence, focused her efforts on learning more about medicine and experimenting with stimpacks to try to make them more potent and helpful.

The crew were successful in their heist, however in the aftermath Les had his cybernetics damaged by BB-9X. Desera did her best to stabilize the man, but admitted she could not perform the surgery he'd need to repair or replace his parts. Fortunately Tohar knew and underworld doctor who was able to perform the surgery, and Desera helped to monitor Les' aftercare.

## Rescuing Ia

The first step to rescuing Ia from her captivity was to get to Iridonia. Unfortunately the First Order had blockaded the spaceways that led there because of a siege on the Denelian System. Fortunately there was civil unrest on Iridonia and the crew planned to use the fact that the Iridonian government was hiring mercenaries on Vortex to get to the system. Desera joined the others in posing as mercenaries to try to get hired by and thus gain access to the system.

While out on patrol Desera and the Crew of the *Eclectic Mayhem* were able to make contact with the rebels, specifically Kendall Creel, a Mandalorian mercenary working with the rebels. Creel required that the crew prove themselves by locating an ancient Zabrak underground bunker that held a capital ship. Upon doing so, he agreed to take them to the rebel headquarters to meet with Acaadi and, more importantly, reunite with Ia.

Desera was overjoyed to reunite with Ia, the latter of whom had joined the Mandalorian and committed herself to the rebellion on Iridonia. Desera chose to remain with Ia, rather than continuing to travel with the Crew of the *Eclectic Mayhem.*

## Helping Ia

Ia asked the Crew of the *Eclectic Mayhem* to assist her in raiding the slave den owned by Zag Leer where she had briefly been imprisoned. The crew agreed, and Desera pledged to also aid her friend in the mission.

## Personality and Abilities

Desera is a friendly and somewhat sassy woman with a deep desire to help others. She is well versed in psychology and has begun to study medicine in an effort to help her fellow crewmembers. She has had limited combat training, but early lessons with Rixx Corren, and her first firefight, indicate that she has a fair amount of natural talent with blaster pistols. After her first real battle saw her best friend, Ia, severely wounded and both of them getting captured and tortured, she has had her fill of violence. Traumatized, she now focuses her efforts on improving her medical skills.