Ysanne Isard (New Galactic Empire)

Ysanne Isard was a high-ranking officer that served as director of numerous Imperial subsidiaries under Emperor Vader of the New Galactic Empire.

Biography
Ysanne Isard was the daughter of Armand Isard, the Director of Imperial Intelligence in the Galactic Empire. She grew up with tales of the treachery of the Jedi Order, the Clone Wars and the rise of the New Order, as part of Palpatine's scheme to restore the Sith to their former glory.

Her father died in the destruction of the Death Star when she 14 and had already become one of the Academy's brilliant students, thus sparking her hatred for the Rebellion and all who dared oppose the Empire.

While at the cemetry where her father was buried, as she wept for his death, she felt a cold hand on her shoulder. She turned to see a man wearing mechanical suit, black mask, helmet and cape that looked down at her. He told her how Armand Isard was among the few Imperial officers to gain his respect and how the director had helped him many times in tracking various insurgent cells. He was now in his debt and offered to take Ysanne with him. She agreed, but as they left the cemetry she asked what was her benefactor's name. The man coldy answered: Vader.

For the next 6 years, Ysanne lived with Lord Vader in his castle on Mustafar. She became accustomed to his servants, mainly Vaneé and the two Royal Guards tasked with protecting the Sith in his sanctum. He ensured anyone who bullied her would pay the consequences, while also financing the Academy in the hopes that one day she would be what he considered to be a perfect officer. As he raised her and taught her history lessons from his point of view, she became more and close to him.

A month after graduating from the Academy, Vader took her with him at the Imperial Palace during an audience with Emperor Sheev Palpatine. The ruler was pleased with what Ysanne knew and was impressed with her tactical abilities, warrior skills, determination and ruthlesness, in the end agreeing with his apprentice's demands to make her the new Director of Imperial Intelligence.

Ysanne Isard would lead her battalion of Stormtroopers on mumerous occasions against the Alliance to Restore the Republic, but many jealous Imperial officers thought of her as merely a concubine due to her closeness with Lord Vader. Indeed she had come to think of him as more of a romantic interest rather than the man who simply raised her, claiming that she cared for him and pittied him, while also hoping he cared for in return. However, Vader regarded her as but a resource for the Empire to gain and once of no more use, would be eliminated.

After the Battle of Endor in which Sheev Palpatine perished, Vader was named Emperor of the New Galactic Empire and declared war once more to the Alliance. Ysanne was among the few to be aware of the Sith Lord's obsession with hunting down the rebel leaders, while also being made privy of his desire to turn Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker to his side, while not knowing the fact that the boy was Vader's son. The Emperor made her director of Imperial Law Enforcement, Imperial Advanced Weapons Research and Imperial Court Security as rewards for her service to him, thus she remained a valuable asset for his forces. Madam Isard searched for Skywalker on Byss where Palpatine once had his own storehouse built, but during the conflict she commanded the Imperial Military from Fortress Vader.

She managed to track Luke Skywalker to his homeworld of Tatooine and captured him in the Mos Eisley Cantina. Ysanne brought him back to the Imperial Palace on Coruscant in order to get him to her master. Emperor Vader was pleased with her success, but ordered her and the Royal Guards away. However, as soon as they left the throne room, a bomb exploded, killing the Emperor. As Luke carried his father to the medical bay, he ran into Isard. The woman had taken vibro-knife and used it to battle the boy, until Skywalker used her own blade to impale her. Ysanne crawled towards her burning office, from where she saw through the window, Vader's statue in the center of the planet, collapsing thus signifying the end of his reign. She was found in the same office later, with a hologram of her beloved Dark Lord in her hands.