Empress Cora Killaeon

Killaeon on the bridge of an Imperial Arquitens over Chenisia

### Rank

Lt. Col. ( - 4 ABY )Supreme Commander ( 4 ABY - 5 ABY)Empress ( 5 ABY - Present )

## Physical description

### Gender

Female

Cora Killaeon is a Human female, Imperial Hardliner, and Empress of the Imperial Remnant on Cheninus. Formerly Lieutenant Colonel of the MIR, Killaeon now leads the vast majority of Imperial forces on the planet, and rules the Eastern Continent with an iron fist.

## Life Prior to Cheninus

Cora Killaeon was born on Coruscant in 31 BBY to a pair of Republic Naval Officers, and enjoyed a life of relative privilege on the upper layers of the city-planet. With the fall of the Old Republic and the rise of the Galactic Empire, Killaeon was enrolled in the Imperial Academy on Carida, where she excelled in both her academic studies and egregious examples of cruelty, to the interests of her instructors. Upon graduation, she was deployed to the Outer Rim world of Cheninus, to oversee the planet's vital military industry.

## Lt. Col of the MIR

Upon arrival, the Lt. Col. was immediately beset by worker's strikes attempting to improve the quality of life in Imperial's Arms Factories. Instead of negotiating with the striking workers, Killaeon immediately deployed the Imperial Army into the city, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of peaceful protestors. Order was quickly restored to the factories with only symbolic concessions to the protestors, and established the new way of life in the MIR: a frightened but peaceful province, where the most minor of violations was answered with AT-AT's and public executions on the steps of the old Royal Palace.

## The Death of the Emperor

With the death of the Emperor at Endor, Imperial Administration quickly buckled under pressure from a resurgent Rebel Alliance and an angry population tired of Imperial Rule. Millions of protestors rose up across the planet, including hundreds of thousands inside the MIR. While other Imperial Officers attempted to negotiate and peacefully disperse the protestors, the Army was immediately deployed in the MIR, and specifically ordered to inflict as much damage as possible as a show of force to those celebrating the death of the Emperor. While the Lt. Col.'s actions brought a swift end to the protests, it exacerbated other protests across the planet, and led to widespread criticism from other Imperial Officers, eventually resulting in the Grand Moff relieving Killaeon of Command.

## Hardliner Revolt

Killaeon, furious at her dismissal and determined to continue to her brutal crusade against anyone considered disloyal to Imperial rule, set in motion an coup of Imperial Forces in the region. Loyalist officers were quickly arrested, and remaining Imperial Army units declared their loyalty to the self-declared Supreme Commander of Imperial Forces on Cheninus. Imperial Guard units, drawn from the local population and far less radical than the hardliner officers, attempted to destroy as much military production as possible to deny the Hardliners critical equipment, but were eventually evicted from the city after destroying nearly 1/5 of the factories in Maybederu. Shortly after Imperial Forces in Cabermayde joined the Hardliner's under the direction of Daymont Bernad, who had secured their own rule of their province. In less than a month half of the Eastern Continent had fallen into the hands of the Hardliners.

## Intervention in Invercta and Unification of the Eastern Continent

With the rapid collapse of the loyalist forces in the west after repeated losses of senior officers, The Hardliner's were approached by remaining Imperial Forces in Invercta, which was rapidly falling to the forces of the Gallorican Independence Front. an Expeditionary Force was formed, but was unable to arrive before Imperial Forces in Invercta were wiped out by the Rebel forces, who suffered extreme casualties overrunning entrenched Imperial positions. After retaking Invercta City, Killaeon led the remaining rebel forces into a trap, leaving the city almost completely undefended to march on the city of Aberloch to the north. Rebel forces attempted to retake the city, and were then trapped by the Imperial Army and annihilated.

Shortly thereafter the New Republic landed a massive rebel force at the Capital City in the west, wiping out Imperial communications and high command, throwing the remaining loyalists forces into chaos. Kaven, the final province in the east not under the control of the Hardliners, fell into chaos after a botched coup attempt by its Governor Isaand Warpow. The Governor approached the Hardliners, who endorsed his coup and quickly secured control of the province, uniting the entire Eastern Continent under the control of Killaeon's Imperial Forces.

## Reformation of the Hardliners into the Imperial Remnant

Cora Killaeon, fresh off her conquest of the Eastern Continent, declared herself Empress of Cheninus and Queen of Gallorco. Seeing the inevitability of that the Imperial State could not survive in its current form, she immediately declared elections for a constitutional convention, to reform Imperial Institutions into something that could keep the ideals of the Empire alive, while charting a path to survival in an uncertain galaxy,