Illiath

Illiath

First Name
(Unknown)

Last Name
Illiath

Rank / Title
Brevet Captain / Captain, Vortan

Affiliation(s)
Maxolhx

Physical Description

Species
Maxolhx

Sex
Female

Vitals

Status
Alive

First Appearance
ExForce 5: Zero Hour, Chapter 31

Last Known Location
Maxolhx Patrol Cruiser Vortan

Illiath is the Captain of the Maxolhx Patrol Cruiser Vortan. She is extremely intelligent, astute and loyal.
Before her command on the *Vortan*, she was a Subcaptain and First Officer of the Battlecruiser Rexakan.
Illiath was assigned to investigate who was really behind the Bosphuraq *Ghost Ship* attacks because the Maxolhx doubted the cover story. went to the Bosphuraq system the Merry Band of Pirates attacked and found out that the star had been modified well after the research bases were destroyed. Commander Illiath and the ship's AI decided that someone had likely framed the Bosphuraq, and that the next step was to find out who. She suspected that the Rindhalu were behind the attacks in order to cause degrade relations their clients, though she was confused because she found human DNA among the wreckage of a Bosphuraq ship and delivered her findings to Admiral Urkan.
Maxolhx Fleet Intelligence had requested Illiath as a liaison between the Maxolhx and the Rindhalu. At a neutral site closest to Bosphuraq territory, once the Rindhalu ship arrived, Illiath begins talks with the Rindhalu liaison, Kashelob about joint efforts to investigate and capture the *Ghost Ship*. Kashelob proposes they go to Rahkarsh Diweln (Rikers) because, to Illiath's surprise, the *Ghost Ship* had been sighted there by the Thuranin and Kashelob believes humans are somehow involved because the Rindhalu wondered why the *Ghost Ship* would be in the area.
Kashelob tells Illiath that the Ruhar ship that attacked the Thuranin at Rikers had the signature of a highly modified Maxolhx jump drive from an Extinction-class battlecruiser. The Vortan's AI agreed with the assessment and that it was also *not* the *Ghost Ship*. Illiath internally questioned whether or not the Bosphuraq has *two* ships or whether the Rindhalu knew the identity of the ship because it was one of theirs. The Rindhalu and Maxolhx had become interested in Rahkarsh Diweln due to the Thuranin witnessing the *Ghost Ship* and, in a joint mission, they travel to Rahkarsh Diweln to investigate.
Illiath had been reassigned from the joint Rindhalu and Maxolhx investigation at Rahkarsh Diweln. She was now investigating chaotic, intermittent gamma rays detected by the Thuranin. After transitioning through one wormhole, they jumped to the location of the anomalous readings. She discovers that a dormant Elder wormhole was booting up and she learns that the far end of this wormhole was toward the center of the galaxy, between spiral arms. Since she had been given a wide latitude to research the errant Wormhole Network behavior, she wondered if there was another dormant wormhole waking up near Earth.
Illiath discovered the Broomstick wormhole to Earth. resisted the temptation to take Brookstick to Earth and followed standing orders. She went back to the nearest major fleet base to report her findings. When they arrived at Broomkstick, Admiral Denoth ordered the *Vortan* through first while he kept the rest of the Maxolhx battle group at a safe distance. With a nauseating transition through, the *Vortan* arrived safely. At the earliest opportunity, Illiath guided the *Vortan* back through the wormhole to report it was safe.
She was promoted to Brevet Captain (an honorary rank with none of the authority).
Illiath and her crew aboard the *Vortan* were being punished with lonely picket duty due to her opinion that Senior Admiral Reichert was being unnecessarily reckless in trying to capture Skippy the Magnificent and their association with the failure and humiliation of Admiral Denoth's Wormhole Task Force at Earth. The *Vortan* was stationed in a brown dwarf star system six jumps from the far end of the Broomstick wormhole that connected to Earth.

1. ↑ Zero Hour
2. ↑ Valkyrie
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Critical Mass
4. ↑ Brushfire
5. ↑ Breakaway