Private A Legacy in Point Form

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

• As of 900 ABY, in the heart of the Unknown Regions drifts a cold black Star Destroyer: the Chimaera, second of that name and certainly not the last.
  • It has a limited droid crew for maintenance, is sometimes visited by Ashin's family and close confidantes, and is otherwise silent. If approached by anyone not bearing the proper codes, its hyperdrive will power up and move the vessel elsewhere.
  • It is accessible primarily via the random hyperspace portals of Xelec, the Lonely Warren, when induced and predicted by well-informed prophecy. There is an art to using the Xelec to reach the Chimaera, and that art is a closely guarded secret.
  • It was the flagship of the Sith Empire circa 835-836 ABY; well into the 840s, it led various warfleets of the Lords of the Fringe. In the early 850s, it came into possession of the Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps, later Royal Naboo Shipwrights, which used it as a testbed and for occasional defense purposes. It vanished in the 860s; it came here.
  • Under several names and faces, the Chimaera has been commanded by Ashin Varanin throughout its operational history. It is the closest thing she has ever had to a permanent home.
  • The Chimaera's hangars and immediate vicinity house smaller vessels that have been significant to Ashin throughout her many lives.
  • The Chimaera's rooms have become stockpiles, trophy rooms, and halls of memory. Fallen comrades and fallen enemies have place here as relics, trophies, carbon-frozen bodies, etc.
  • Ashin is an oathbreaker. She broke her oaths to the Jedi, the Sith, and the Mandalorians. Most consequentially, she broke her oaths to the Priestesses by leaving the mantle of Anger and returning to mortality to save her wife: as a result, the ability to take a new body is lost to her forever, and Ashin knows her next death will likely be her last. The meticulous collections aboard the Chimaera are the legacy that Ashin intends to leave to her daughters and her grandchildren.

 

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

Holdings stored in and around the Chimaera, a partial and ongoing list as of 900 ABY:

• The prosthetic left arm of Ashin's original body. This body was decommissioned when Val'Ryss Zankarr conducted a ritual to transfer Ashin to a new one circa 837 ABY. The arm was constructed in 836 after Ashin lost her arm above the elbow to Grandmaster Darron Wraith at the Battle of Roche (while putting a lightsaber through his belly). The arm's synthskin is heavily damaged and much-repaired from battles against, inter alia, Darth Moridin.
• A Varundana greel-wood box containing knives that Ashin collected during the 820s in the Unknown Regions: a preserved Yuuzhan Vong tsaisi, a coufee, a Rhandite crystal dagger, a Rhandite hilted lightdagger, a Ssi-Ruuvi forked knife, a Nagai long knife, and several Nagai throwing knives.
• The sword Ravening, which Ashin carried in portions of the 830s and 840s, then put in storage for specialized use. It is contained in high-grade nullification resin due to the particular volatility of the Velok Emblem that is its handle.
• The dress uniform of a Commander in the naval forces of the Jade Worlds, a defunct interplanetary government in the Unknown Regions, from the 820s.

 

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

• An ancient and retrofitted Sabaoth Destroyer. Its nameplates and telesponders have been scrubbed. It was used as a mobile Sith academy circa 830 ABY under Ashin's aegis, in connection with a Sith group she betrayed and annihilated. It is still a perfectly usable training site and indeed saw that sort of use by the Lords of the Fringe.
• Fragments of the Obsidian Throne of the Sith Empire, smashed by Mikhail Shorn sometime in the 840s.
• A wooden flute from Varunda IX, carved by an Ithorian Priest of the Mother Jungle in the early 840s.
• A sample of blood from Ashin's original body, contaminated with five distinct types of Sith Poison.
• The twin blue-bladed, Makashi-hilted lightsabers of Ashin's grandfather, the Fallanassi heretic, Selabite Keeper, and Jedi Grandmaster Je'gan Olra'en, once known as Darth Shule.
• The pickled head of a Sorcerer of Rhand.

 

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

• A tooth each from two Lotek'ks killed by Ashin and large teams of compatriots in the 830s and 840s, one at the Spires of Hell and one at Osseriton. The teeth are the size of a human arm.
• A battle-scarred Laureate-class science vessel called the Shambhala, which Ashin captained in the mid-to-late 850s for New Habat University on Varunda IX under the First Order.
• A vial of silver sludge, completely dead Mnggal-Mnggal, collected in the early 830s when Ashin walked on the surface of Mugg Fallow.
• A dead, preserved, and nullification-resin-coated Drengir from the assault at Nighthunter Port on Svolten in 874. Of the many battles that Ashin has fought against the Drengir, this was among the most memorable: it led to her arrest and trial by the Jedi.
• A red glove, worn by Ashin during her quest to resurrect her wife in the mid-870s after sacrificing her hand to an Arkanian dragon. It was lost on Pillio in the 870s during one of Ashin's most recent deaths, a battle against several Jedi and spacers, but was overlooked by her killers and later reclaimed.
• A wooden ring allowing access to the Drengir Root-Mind, with extremely detailed notes about why not to do this. (Anyone visiting, of course, would already know that Ashin's incursions on the Root-Mind, incident to her quest to resurrect her wife, led to her being hunted implacably by the Drengir for many years in the late 9th century.)

 

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

• An obsolete and damaged suit of power armor from the Jade Worlds, manufactured circa 820.
• A simple green-bladed training lightsaber from a remote Jedi praxeum in the Red Nebula, used by Ashin circa 813-815.
• A letter from Jedi Master Ember Rekali, dated 828 ABY, assigning Jedi Knight Ashin Varanin to infiltrate a Sith group, find opportunities to waste their resources, and direct them away from innocent targets.
• A biological analysis unit from the New Cov jungles, owned by Ashin's adoptive parents circa 810.
• The keys to an apartment on Nar Shaddaa, last regularly used circa 837.

 

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

• A set of orders regarding the creation of a Death Star, dated 835 ABY. (The resulting battlestation never became operational, and Ashin would later claim it as evidence that she was working against the Sith Empire while sitting on its throne.)
• The armor called Contempt, forged in 835. It has the effect of making the wearer's Force signature impossible to identify. Ashin wore it as Empress and reserved it for ceremonial use ever since.
• A ship list from the first Vagrant Fleet, dated 836.
• A short hard-copy book detailing the Breath of Ashes ritual, written in the 880s and kept with a Sith jar of Malachor ash.
• A mud-stained blaster rifle with a simple lightsabre bayonet, and holographic instructions on how to use it best in trench warfare, recorded by Ashin circa 830.
• A golden holobook, Way of the Monolith, written by Ashin in the 870s.
• A Wayfinder with the location of the planet of the Five Priestesses.
• Complete holographic instructions from Ashin, recorded in the 860s, on the four main ways of transcending death: how to disappear into the Force upon death and retain your identity (a la Kenobi); how to transfer to a new body (a la Palpatine); how to anchor your spirit to a location or object (a la Kun); and Ssi-Ruuvi entechment.
• The Kaiburr Crystal of Mimban, secured with Spencer in 835.

 

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

• The Fair Widow's Vase, made by Darth Cistes and rebuilt by Darth Ophidia ; acquired after it killed Darth Quercus, who insisted on being potted in it.
• A Central Isopter Observatory, depopulated, taken in trade for a map of every planet conquered under Ashin's aegis.
• A set of Tashai armor from the Tash-Taral ruins.
• A map to the terrifying Force nexus called Velok's Maw in the Polis Massa asteroids.
• A map to the Sanctum of Cronas Ren on Varunda IX, Ashin's former home.
• A map to Bristlebark Cave, a farseeing Force nexus on Naboo.
• A number of Ke'dem tester rings for determining someone's Force-sensitive potential.
• The so-called Holocron of Curiosities, sometimes used for study and instruction aboard the Pomojema.
• The so-called Nova Holocron, which may not be the original, sometimes used for study and instruction aboard the Pomojema.
• The Seren Ordavo holocron, sometimes used for study and instruction aboard the Pomojema.

 

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

• A hard copy of The Enduring Glance, written by Ashin between 836 and 858. Ashin considered this the authoritative work on short-term memory enhancement. Other copies were available in the library on the Pomojema.
• Instructions for conducting a ritual used by Exim Panshard to bind his spirit to his mask, involving the sacrifice of one hundred people.
  • Certain pragmatic notes on the value of not taking actions that would make you contemptible to yourself.
• Instructions for conducting a ritual pioneered by Darth Sanguis, which made him immortal but at the cost of a slow, unpleasant physical transformation. In the end, Sanguis was nearly quadripedal and described as decrepit. The ritual required a living sacrifice, but only one.
  • Certain pragmatic notes on the Sanguis ritual as a last-ditch option.
• A fully functional Ssi-Ruuvi entechment rig, captured by the Lords of the Fringe during the conquest of Lwhekk in the late 830s.

 

[Ashin Cardé Varanin]

• An extended and affectionate set of notes on the sunlight of several Sith Worlds, with ritual implications:
  • Dromund Kaas: Gloomy rich blue, often reflected in blue-black stonework that leans toward indigo.
  • Korriban: Dusty orange, deepening to red at sunset.
  • Rhen Var: Pale, flat, stark, and colorless, perhaps with a hint of blue.
  • Ziost: Thin, weak greenish-brown; the star itself is cursed yellow-green, but that hue rarely if ever reaches the ground.
  • Khar Delba and Khar Shian: A moody blue that is pale and flat but warm.
  • Bosthirda: A fierce orange.
  • Ch'hodos: Rich red, hazy orange by the horizon, cooling toward crimson overhead.
  • Ashas Ree: Warm soft pale gold.