Halnae Shalla

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> Halnae Shalla
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> ### Affiliation
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> Galactic Empire (formerly)
> The Coalition
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> ### Date of birth
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> 22 BBY
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> Belsavis
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> ### Species
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> Human
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> Female
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> “*I mean, she* was *a stormtrooper captain, I imagine they have some rudimentary understanding of medical equipment, at least what defibs can do. You didn’t find any stormtroopers dead from defib, did you?*"
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> "*No, not a defib, I have found one dead of a scalpel in their throat, though.*"
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> ― Kho'ara and Dr. Ectbel, in reference to Captain Shalla
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**Halnae Shalla** was a Human Female during the **Imperial** and **New Republic Eras**. Born at the beginning of the Clone Wars on Belsavis, Shalla was no stranger to war in the galaxy, and at the earliest she could, she entered the Imperial army. Fairly quickly, she ascended through the ranks of the army until she was promoted to Captain months before the Battle of Endor. Eventually, Shalla would serve as a Council Member of the Coalition.

### **An Imperial No More**

Shortly before the Battle of Endor, the Emperor issued an order to the Imperial troops stationed on the planet of Belsavis to put down many Belsavis citizens that the Empire had branded as "traitorous." In truth, many of them broke little to no laws, and the Empire was fracturing and the Emperor felt the need to exert control. Many of the troops under Shalla's command on Belsavis, as well as many of the citizens of Belsavis, were starting to feel the waning morale of the Empire, or question the Empire all together.

Shalla refused to issue the order the Emperor had given, and subsequently almost she and her entire battalion defected, and fought the Empire in a protracted guerilla war as the Imperials attempted to wipe out all signs of what they claimed to be rebellion across Belsavis.

### **The Coalition**

#### **Meeting the Coalition**

Two years after Endor, with the resurgence of Grand Admiral Thrawn and renewed war across the galaxy, Captain Shalla still warred against the Empire, and this caught the attention of the Coalition, who sought to recruit her to fight Thrawn on a broader scale. After smuggling themselves in, Scalpel Squad met with Shalla, and she told them that her and her men would join them if they could deal with the small Imperial force holding position over the planet.

Shalla also gambled on an ancient prisoner that her men had discovered in the depth of the ancient Rakatan prisons within Belsavis. She and Scalpel freed the prisoner, who turned out to be known only as "Cipher Two," a Cipher agent belonging to the ancient Sith Empire, who had been imprisoned on Belsavis almost 4,000 years prior.

Cipher Two, Scalpel, and Shalla successfully performed an extra-vehicular space walk along the outside of a Star Destroyer and breached the bridge, killing all of the Imperial command while Scalpel set the ship on a collision course with one of Belsavis' lifeless moons.

#### **The Battle of Thyferra**

During the Battle of Thyferra, Captain Halnae Shalla and her men served on the ground while most of the other Coalition members assaulted Admiral Thrawn's *Chimaera*. During this battle, Shalla and her men held their ground alongside New Republic and Jedi forces against Imperial forces led by Imperial General Maximillian Veers, and though the battle was costly, the New Republic and Coalition ultimately prevailed.

#### **Defense of Mantero**

Captain Shalla and her men partook in the defense of the Coalition base on Mantero, fighting against Imperial stealth troops. Captain Shalla herself defended Kho'ara, who was Thrawn's primary target during the attack, his men attempting to abscond with her. Captain Shalla successfully defended her while carrying her to Scalpel's personal transport.

#### **The Battle of Nirauan and After**

Captain Shalla and her men also took part in the Battle of Nirauan, fighting Imperial forces and aiding in the capture of Grand Admiral Thrawn. Afterwards, when many of the Coalition Council resigned, seeing as Thrawn was defeated, Shalla stayed, and she and many of her men became the planetary military for Nirauan upon the Coalition's residence upon the planet.

In 11 ABY, Shalla and her men were dispatched for a successful operation on the planet of Ansion.