Ysanne Isard was a Human female who served as Director of Imperial Intelligence before briefly reigning as ruler of the Galactic Empire.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Ysanne Isard was born into a family of wealth and influence on Coruscant approximately eight years before the outbreak of the Clone Wars. She idolized her father Armand Isard, who served as Director of Imperial Intelligence for most of the Empire's reign.
Director of Intelligence[]
As his daughter quickly became one of Intelligence's top field agents, Armand began to fear Ysanne would one day usurp him and attempted to have her eliminated by sending her on a suicide mission. Ysanne failed the mission however but was able to get back at her father by uncovering evidence that he was plotting to overthrow the Emperor. In short time, Armand Isard was executed and Ysanne was made Director of Imperial Intelligence.[1][2]
After the Battle of Endor, Isard served as an adviser to interim Emperor Sate Pestage, although she desired the throne for herself. Conspiring with the Ruling Council, she was able to manipulate Pestage into losing his power, leading to him making a deal with the New Republic. When Pestage fled from arrest, the Council sent Admiral Delak Krennel to retrieve the former Grand Vizier. While the Empire was preoccupied with Pestage's retrieval, Isard tracked down the ruling members of the Imperial Court and assassinated all but one of them, General Paltr Carvin, whom she had imprisoned on her flagship, the Lusankya. With this done, as well as with Pestage's supposed death at Krennel's hand, Isard was Empress in all but name.[3]
During this time, Isard kept in contact with Grand Admiral Thrawn, who remained in the Unknown Regions on the orders of Emperor Palpatine. While Isard did not trust Thrawn and saw him as a threat to her rule, she maintained a work rapport with him and coordinated with his operatives. When Thrawn requested that she capture and deliver the traitorous Baron Soontir Fel to him in exchange for him staying in the Unknown Regions, Isard agreed to the offer.[4]
Appearances[]
- Evasive Action: Prey
- Agent of the Empire – Hard Targets
- "Interlude at Darkknell" — Tales from the New Republic
- Mara Jade – By the Emperor's Hand (Appears in flashback(s))
- X-Wing Rogue Squadron: In the Empire's Service
- X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Masquerade
- X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Mandatory Retirement
- X-Wing: Chasing Phantoms
- From the Ashes (Mentioned only)
Non-canon appearances[]
- The New Republic (Mentioned only)