Imperial Treachery

Imperial Treachery
Attribution
Author	Josh Bender
Cover artist	Josh Bender
Editor	Chris Swann
Publication information
Release date	March 5th, 2009
Media type	eBook
Chronology
Canon	Fanon
Era	New Republic
Timeline	7 ABY
Series	Death Watch Revival Series
Preceded by	Failure at Cerea
Followed by	Death Watch Revival

Imperial Treachery is a Star Wars fan fiction novel currently being written by Josh Bender.

Table of contents

• Chapter One Pages 1-10
• Chapter Two Pages 11-24
• Chapter Three Pages 25-35
• Chapter Four Pages 36-47
• Chapter Five Pages 48-59
• Chapter Six Pages 60-67

Plot

Celeste Ial, captain of the Frayed Hunter, lands her ship on her home planet of Eriadu on the way to Voltar. While stationed planetside, Celeste learns that her childhood friend, Echon Tarkin, survived the Battle of Endor. The two stay the night in their old home after reminiscing. In the morning, Echon is confronted by Evan Zenete, Celeste's second-in-command. After the two exchange words, Evan drugs Echon and kidnaps him. Aurea Hali, a friend of Echon's, senses this and sneaks on-board the ship.

As the Frayed Hunter travels to Voltar, Aurea frees Echon and the two manage to knock out Evan. They find Celeste, also drugged by Evan and attempt to escape just as the ship arrives at Voltar. Oulu, believing the Volta to strike, attacks one of their fighters. After a small battle ensues, the crew manages to escape to the planet's surface.

On Voltar, Nayt Fillion and Skoti Romero, two rebels, intercepts the conversation between the Frayed Hunter and DF-88, a Nationalist pilot. One of the escape pods crashed near them and the pair investigate. Echon, Celeste, and Aurea crash somewhere else and are captured by Nationalist soldiers. Before they can be taken into custody, a witch named Mila appears and captures them. Nayt returns to his base and is chewed out by Meda, his commanding officer. After Meda departs, Nayt and Skoti decide to seek out the help of Meda's old mentor, Jax Refiek.

Echon, Celeste, and Aurea wake up at Mila's hideout, which happens to also be Jax's home. Mila tends to Echon's wounds before Nayt and Skoti arrive. After trying to poison Skoti fails, Jax appears and talks with Nayt and Skoti about Meda. Wanting to talk to Meda, Jax agrees to go with them to their base, bringing Mila, Echon, Celeste and Aurea along as well.

The crew arrives only to find the base had been destroyed and the survivors of the Frayed Hunter had been captured and sent to Caucasus, a practically impenetrable prison facility. They devise a plan and attack the complex, starting a riot. While inside, they learn that Arcia, the Krayt maiden, has been locked up there as well. The group splits up and rescues both Arcia and the Frayed Hunter's crew. Afterwords, the group is rescued by rebel forces on their way to liberate Viscera.

Appearances

The following appearances have been confirmed by the author as of August 1st, 2011.

By type 

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Dramatis personae

Nayt Fillion (First appearance) Aurea Hali Celeste Ial (First appearance) Mila (First appearance) Jax Refiek (First appearance) Echon Tarkin Evan Zenete (First appearance)

Other characters

Arcia (First mentioned) Arom (First mentioned) Walther Bedacus (First appearance) Bufftrooper (First appearance) (Appears in hologram) Nem Bocaj (First mentioned) DF-88 (First appearance) Nayt Fillion's father (First mentioned) Kilbasa (First appearance) Ialad (First mentioned) Ysanne Isard (Mentioned only) Jensen (First appearance) Joie (First appearance) Josen (First appearance) Jared Mas (First appearance) Tyno Meda (First appearance) Neek (First mentioned) Old Eriadu woman (First appearance) Oulu (First appearance) Roland Refiek (First mentioned) Skoti Romero (First appearance) Luke Skywalker (Indirect mention only) Sinius (First mentioned) Aron Stain (First appearance) Rivoche Tarkin (Indirect mention only) Thalassa Tarkin (Mentioned only) Wilhuff Tarkin (Mentioned only) TK-975 (First appearance) (Appears in hologram) Eska Var (First appearance) (Appears in flashback(s)) Kea Var (First mentioned) Viscera Voltar (Mentioned only)

Creatures

Krayt dragon (Mentioned only) tempus spider (Mentioned only) wurm (First mentioned)

Events

Attack on Volta rebel base (First appearance) Caucasus riots (First appearance) Defense of Voltar (First mentioned) Elsian blitz (First mentioned) Mission to Caucasus (First appearance) Mission to Voltar (First appearance) Volta Civil War (First appearance)

Locations

Clær (Mentioned only) Dantooine (Mentioned only) Death Star II (Mentioned only) Elsian (First mentioned) Endor (Mentioned only) Eriadu Eriadu City Tarkin Mansion (First appearance) Tarkin Square (First appearance) Feriae (First appearance) Imperial Academy (Mentioned only) Kashyyk (Mentioned only) Kessel (Mentioned only) Mustafar (Mentioned only) Outer rim (Mentioned only) Tremulant system (First appearance) Voltar (First appearance) Bedlam (First mentioned) Caucasus (First appearance) Eastern quadrant (First mentioned) Northern quadrant (First mentioned) Western quadrant (First appearance) Cicatriz (First appearance) Sutherlands (First appearance) Refiek farm (First appearance) Volta rebel base (First appearance) Viscera (First mentioned) Sartinaynian (Mentioned only) Wayland (Mentioned only)

Organizations and titles

Angel (First mentioned) Black Fangs (First mentioned) Captain Colonel Galactic Empire Galactic Guard (First appearance) Galactic Republic General Grand Moff Hornet (First appearance) Imporator Krayt maiden (First mentioned) Lieutenant Commander Nationalists (First appearance) Nationalist Public Radio (First appearance) New Republic Sir Volta rebels (First appearance) Witch (First appearance)

Sentient species

Human Hutt (Mentioned only) Miraluka Mon Calamari (Mentioned only) Rodian (Mentioned only) Twi'lek (Mentioned only) Wookiee (Mentioned only)

Vehicles and vessels

AT-AT (Mentioned only) CR90 Corvette Frayed Hunter (First appearance) Dact (First appearance) Dragon-class fighter (First appearance) escape pod Raptor (First appearance) Truck Turtle-class transport (First appearance)

Weapons and technology

auto-kinetic rifle code cylinder comlink conservator Electronic Nullifying Pulse (Indirect mention only) Force-detector (Mentioned only) Gravity well projector (Mentioned only) holovid hold-out blaster Krayt dragon ceremonial fang (First appearance) powder charge radio shotgun stun-baton turbolift

Miscellanea

alcohol Alavari ale Coruscant blush wine Zeltron spice wine Aurea Hali's book (First appearance) bantha butter (Mentioned only) cloth doll (First appearance) credits durasteel Force powers Battle meditation Force sight Force speed telepathy telekinesis Hyperspace Hyper-rapture Northcent (First appearance) Pazak poodoo (Mentioned only) Recovery serum (First appearance) transfer chip Vegetables celery wurm venom (First appearance)

Behind the scenes

Imperial Treachery was started on September 2, 2008. The novel is a retelling of Echon's past, which effectively makes it the first retcon for the Death Watch Revival Series. The release of the concept cover on September 4th, 2008 revealed Nightmare975's name to be Josh Bender. On November 11, 2008, Bender restarted the novel, changing the location and major parts of the storyline. The cover was also removed, due to the author's distaste in it. On February 9, 2009, Bender released a sample of the first rewritten chapter, asking for criticism. Finally, on March 5, 2009, he released the full first chapter. On May 16, 2009, he released the second chapter. After numerous delays, chapter three was released on August 30, 2009. On October 18, 2009, Josh released a new version of the cover. On March 5, 2011, two years after his first release, Josh released new drafts of the first three chapters.