Igni Irae
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: Codify a character established in rp.
Image Credit: Here.
Role: Alien auxiliary, bodyguard and muscle for Kyriaki. Although not a slave, Honna is not a free woman. The Vaderites are human supremacists who believe aliens are only fit to be servitors or exterminated. Honna has a somewhat higher status than a forced labourer because the racialist Vaderites regard Gamorreans as tough, but dumb, which makes them useful as muscle in ghettos, 'xenos reservations' and concentration camps, or as poorly-paid auxiliary troops. She has now landed a somewhat better job as Kyriaki's bodyguard. While Kyriaki is a Force User, she has a heart condition and a frail constitution. Honna is the brawn to her brain...though smart in her own right.
Permissions: N/A.
Links: The Valkyrie's Diary, Kyriaki, Dominion of Light, Republican Guard, Into Darkness, After Darkness, Amidala Corps, Adlerberg, Hope Falls, Elpsis Kerrigan-Alcori, Tephrike, Humanist People's Party, Darth Lachesis, KEC, Darth Eisen.
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
Age: 26.
Force Sensitivity: Non-Force User
Species: Gamorrean.
Appearance: Honna has the typical porcine features of a Gamorrean - a snout, upturned tusks and two horns on her head. She has green skin, black hair and brown eyes. While heavy and squat, most of her body mass is strong muscle. Honna is heavily scarred. Her body bears the marks of struggle, strife and abuse.
Numerous scars can be found on her back and leg, inflicted to 'discipline' her. Her face and torso are marked by injuries. She will usually wear a khaki uniform with a blast vest or armour on the job. The armour consists of mismatched pieces of durasteel cobbled together, along with a helmet with standard features such as a rebreather.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Name: Honna of Clan Grtack.
Loyalties: Disciples of the Vader, (reluctant auxiliary), Kyriaki, Tephrike.
Wealth: Low. Honna is not wealthy at all. The Vaderites do not respect or value their alien auxiliaries much. Moreover, their currency is pretty worthless anyway. Tephrike is a poor, isolated hellhole and the Vaderites govern a tin pot dictatorship. Honna is usually paid in a mixture of cash and goods that she can use or barter, such as cigarras, clothes, alcohol and food. Payment has often been irregular though, and the cash is worth very little due to inflation. Besides, there is not much for someone of her status to buy outside of the black market. Honna is cautious when it comes to spending.
It was all but expected that members of the Public Force such as her would help themselves to the belongings of a person they were ordered to arrest, kill or 'rough up'. Things are a bit more solid now since Kyriaki actually pays her...and her foes tend to more well-off than oppressed workers in a glorified ghetto, so there are more opportunities to loot. But she is still poor. Honna is smart though and has secretly stashed some specie and valuable loot away for hard times. She is very careful when it comes to drawing on it because she can never know when she might really need it.
Notable Possessions: A carving made by her father of a Gamorrean. Also the tooth of a Reek carved with traditional symbols. Owns a Arg'garok vibro-axe that used to belong to her father.
Skills: Skilled in the use of most ranged and melee weapons, except obviously a lightsabre. She favours a shotgun or assault rifle and a Gamorrean battle axe, but is also comfortable with other weapons. Alien auxiliaries are issued second or third rate weapons by the Vaderites, and so Honna is good at improvising. She is more familiar with slugthrowers than blasters, but can still use them. Honna is trained as a driver for vehicles such as speeders and groundcars, allowing her to say act as a chauffeur for her boss, and has basic skills as a mechanic. However, she does not have the training to pilot an aircraft or a spaceship because that is not allowed. While no savant, she makes a solid small unit leader on the squad level. Honna is as Force-Sensitive as a plank, but has a knack for resisting mind tricks and similar forms of Force-based mental manipulation.
Languages: Honna's mother tongue is Gamorrese, the language of her people, and she understands Basic. When interacting with humans, she will usually speak in broken Basic, mangle the grammar and use incomplete sentences. This is partly deliberate on her part, partly because her physiology makes it difficult. Humans expect Gamorreans to be dumb muscle, and will underestimate her if she seems to match their racialist expectations. At the same time the typical Vaderite human will not bother to learn an alien's native language due to racism. Honna knows some Twi'leki. It is not enough to be fluent in it and her grammar is poor, but she can communicate in it to a degree and has a knack for reading the Twi'lek''s elaborate sign language. However, Honna is illiterate. While she is able to recognise numbers, she cannot read or write words. In a way this is an advantage because from the point of view of the Vaderites, an educated 'xenos' is a threat.
Personality: Honna is grim, stolid, gruff, and patient. However, she's also quite cunning in that she plays the role of a brainless, uncouth thug. Gamorreans are stereotyped as being dumb muscle that cannot speak proper Basic, so that is the role she plays to ensure the human supremacist Vaderites do not see her as a threat. In truth she is rather smarter than she lets on. Her true personality shines through sometimes, but only the percective take notice. She has a long term view of things. She is caught in a bad situation, and rebellion has little chance of success, so she has to make herself useful to her Vaderite masters.
She's doing what she needs to survive, with the perspective that she can play into the Vaderites' need for minions whilst protecting her own interests. Serving them as kept her alive. Though the Vaderites would love to create a human ethnostate, their economy requires slave labourers, and they don't have the manpower to police non-human servitors solely with human troops. Using auxiliaries from 'martial, but dumb races' frees up 'real' soldiers for the frontlines. But they treat auxiliaries like her with contempt. She knows she'll always be close to the bottom. If the right moment came she'd betray the Vaderites in a heartbeat because she utterly despises the genocidal, human supremacist tyrants. She is particularly scornful of the KEC, the so-called 'elite racial vanguard'.
Honna is not proud of what she's had to do to survive. Her day-job has consisted of being the boot stomping on the face of the Vaderites' oppressed alien subjects. She's tortured; she's stolen; she's participated in mass shootings and murdered men, women and children. This has left her with deep mental scars, and her share of self-loathing. Alcohol helps numb the pain and the shame.
But she's learned early on that a 'xenos' only has value to the Vaderites if they are a useful minion - and sometimes even that is not enough. She chose to serve instead of starve to death in a camp. She knows all too well that many other non-humans regard her as a 'humie' collaborator and bootlicker. She retains some sympathy for them and will try to protect victims when she can, but is cynical about alien solidarity. She has no illusions about how rebellious rebels and other enemies of the Vaderites are likely to lynch her for her collaboration and her crimes if she is captured. She's also quite loyal to the members of her old squad.
If the right moment came she'd betray the Vaderites in a heartbeat without a second thought. Tephrike has been isolated for many centuries and the Vaderites do not like when their alien subjects have an education. Moreover, the Vaderites are incredibly ignorant of what lies outside Tephrike, too, and have a terrible education system. Honna has never seen a spaceship or met someone from another planet. As a result, she is very ignorant about the greater galaxy, and is illiterate. But lack of education does not equate to lack of intelligence.
Presently, Honna serves Kyriaki. The Sith unnerves her a fair bit. Being a Non-Force-User, Honna does not understand how the Force works, so she has no frame of reference for her master's Force abilities. Her view of it is a bit superstitious. More importantly, Kyriaki seems to be able to see through her facade to a degree. The Disciple treats her better than most humans, but Honna is still on her guard. Far as she is concerned, Kyriaki is nicer to her because she wants something, which is correct. If her own survival requires it, she will turn on her. One trait of Honna's is her incredible willpower, which ties in with her drive to survive. She cannot feel the Force, but is good at resisting mind tricks and other forms of mental manipulation. It allowed her to resist possession when an enraged spirit tried to take over her mind and body.
While not zealous, Honna has a spiritual side. This manifests in the animism typical for Gamorreans. To her, animals, natural features such as mountains, forests or rivers, sites of past battles and people all have an enduring spiritual essence that can affect the material world. She is particularly mindful of the power of spirits of the dead who have been unable to move on due to the violent or tragic nature of their death. This is derived from her own experiences with a nexus caused by a Vaderite massacre she was involved in. She may not understand how the Force works, but she knows that such places are cursed and that their power is not to be trifled with, even by Force-Users.
COMBAT INFORMATION
Weapon of Choice: Gamorrean battle-axe, blades weapons, explosives, blasters and slugthrowers. For ranged combat she favours close assault weapons such as shotguns and assault rifles.
Combat Function: Honna's main combat role is to act as the muscle and do the heavy lifting for Kyriaki. While a strong Force User, Kyriaki is held back by a heart condition and a frail constitution. She can dish out, but is more easily fatigued, suffers from spells of dizziness and her breathing has issues. This becomes particularly apparent during protracted combat or when she calls upon especially potent applications of the Force.
This is where Honna helps out. While no supersoldier or savant of warfare, she is a tough, no-nonsense soldier who can use most ranged and melee weapons. The Gamorrean is pretty good with improvised weapons. She is most effective at close and medium ranged combat. Physically tough, she can take a beating and dish out. Generally when the two are together, Honna will keep foes off Kyriaki's back and either provide fire support or engage them at close range and in melee. This allows the Disciple to use her Force powers such as elemental fire abilities or illusions. Honna has the attitude of a combat pragmatist, which means she will do whatever is needed to survive and come out on top. To her, honour in battle is a fancy word to excuse foolishness. Moreover, she has skill in small unit leadership, allowing her to say lead a squad. She lacks the training and experience to lead on the strategic level. Honna can drive standard transport vehicles such as a groundcar or speeder, but has not been taught how to pilot a starship or aircraft.
Strengths:
- Honna is resistant to mental attacks and attempts to trick her with the Force.
- Physically strong, tough and determined. She is deadly in close combat armed or unarmed.
- Honna's resistance to the Force is by willpower alone, so a powerful Master skilled in mentalism could overcome her mental barriers.
- Not trained in starship or aircraft piloting. Gamorreans don't have the best eyesight, which means she's not well-suited to a sniper role.
Honna is the product of a cruel, brutal society. She was forged in the fires of a war-torn planet and learned from early on that a life is cheap. When the Gulag Virus ravaged the galaxy, Tephrike descended into chaos. Cut off from the galactic trade it depended on, it experienced social and economic collapse. War, famine, the plague and other diseases killed millions. With the federal government unable to weather the storm, and warlordism on the rise, the local Jedi assumed a protective stance. Believing that they were the last Jedi in the galaxy, they staged a coup to restore order.
But this caused the planet to descend further into chaos. Good intentions were led astray, as the Jedi were corrupted by power and strife, establishing a totalitarian theocracy. Foes arose in the form of the Disciples of the Vader, a genocidal, human supremacist cult that established a breakaway state after their attempt to eclipse the light failed, and the Republican Guard, a revolutionary vanguard movement that sought to break the tyranny of Force-Users, by any means necessary. The Vaderites established a tyrannical regime built upon the bedrock of slavery, human supremacism and Vader worship. Non-humans only had value to them if they could be exploited as servitors or slave labourers. Otherwise they would be murdered or deliberately starved to death. On Tephrike, the Dark Age never ended.
This was the world Honna grew up in. She was raised in a remote village. Her father was a hunter, while her mother was a local medicine woman and midwife. Secretly, Honna's father was a partisan who belonged to Republican Guard militia, fighting the Vaderites. The life of a rebel was considerably less romantic than what holovids implied. The rebels were perpetually starved of resources and had to live in fear of betrayal. More often than not, their targets were not dastardly Sith, but low-level administrators, police officers and suspected collaborators. They staged assassinations, stole weapons and food, laid improvised explosive devices on roads and civilian locations to assassinate suspected Vaderite collaborators.
It was a brutal, dirty war because they faced an utterly inhumane enemy. The loot acquired on raids was helpful because it gave the family something to trade on the black market, for the Vaderites squeezed their alien subjects, which obviously made joining the partisans attractive. Her father taught her important lessons about hunting and survival. These lessons were sourly needed, for the Vaderite state cracked down on the rebels. Fortunately, her father was not known to be a partisan, but when there was partisan activity in an area the Vaderites chose to label any 'xenos' who lived in a village near it as a rebel.
Their 'reprisal' was vicious. Young Honna watched her village get burnt down. The Vaderites rounded up dozens of civilians in the school building, and set it on fire. Anyone who tried to escape was mowed down with machine gun fire. The rest of the inhabitants were rounded up and deported, after being forced to relinquish most of their belongings. Her family was among them. Her father had been able to hide his role among the rebels. Malnutrition, disease and wanton, sadistic abuse were rampant in the camp. Honna was beaten when she tried to get food. Her mother was put to work as a forced labourer. Her father was given a simple choice: serve or die. If he refused, his family would waste away in the camp. He chose to serve. It may seem strange that the Vaderites would choose to give people they held in contempt - and whom they knew hated them - weapons.
But the Vaderites had developed an intricate system to force compliance from alien auxiliaries. Though they liked to lump all aliens together, they hated some more than others. Twi'leks, Mon Calamari and Bothans were regarded with particular animus, for they were viewed as devious plotters who had conspired to destroy mankind. They also hated Yuuzhan Vong, viewing them as demons. Gamorreans were regarded with contempt rather than utter loathing since they were stereotyped as being dumb and primitive.
To the Vaderite Honna and her family were beasts. They would be fed if they bit whoever their masters told them to, and put down and replaced if they did not. Her father chose to survive and serve. Mother and daughter were kept in the camp as insurance, but given better conditions. Honna saw her father infrequently. There was always an aura of sadness about him. He drank too much. One day she was told that he had been killed by the Republican Guard, and it was her turn to repay the family's 'debt' to the Imperium. Or she could refuse and she and her mother could toil in the camp until they starved to death. She picked up her father's vibro-axe and chose to serve. The family was moved to a rural town called Hope Falls.
Officially Hope Falls was an 'autonomous xenos reservation' and a 'model settlement', In his 'unending mercy', Darth Eisen had given the xenos 'their own city'. Naturally they would show their gratitude by repaying him and the Humanist State for their benevolence. In truth, it was a glorified slave labour camp. The police force and the council were under the thumb of human officials. The locals did not own any of the land they worked on. Instead it was Eisen's property. But they were forced to meet oppressive grain quotas. Failure to achieve this was punished harshly. So-called hoarders, wreckers and sloths were publicly flogged or executed. For a while 'lazy' workers had their hands cut off, until Eisen complained that it made them unproductive. The council was powerless to resist the central government's oppressive decrees, and forced to become complicit if its members wanted to save any of their people.
Because her daughter was a guard, Honna's mother received better rations and was allowed to resume her job as a medicine woman. The Vaderites held 'xenos witchcraft' is disdain, which was ironic since their 'super science' was pseudo-science, but ironically she provided a good alternative to the local 'hospital'. She often patched her daughter up, but was monitored to make sure Honna stayed in line. Corruption and abuse was rampant in the Public Force.
The human officers looked down on their alien NCOs and enlisted, treating them with patronising contempt and often sadism. At the same time, Public Force grunts were encouraged to abuse civilians and beat prisoners to prove their loyalty. They and their families were better off than common workers and guaranteed rations, but could always be purged. But Honna learned fast. She learned to play the role of the dumb 'pig-xenos' and bide her time. She fragged a particularly vicious drill sergeant after he had her whipped as part of her training because she had been 'uppity'.
An unexplained and tragic fire consumed his lodgings. In truth, Honna had stabbed him and then started the fire to cover her tracks. In the early days of her time with the force, her squad had to raid a district for 'harbouring rebels' as a 'reprisal'. There were a few actual rebels, but most people were just civilians. Honna was given a quota of heads she needed to present to her human commander. "You piggies can't understand the niceties of civilisation so we'll make this simple for you; bring me twenty heads or I'll take yours." Honna brought him the heads.
Some time later she was approached by rebels - mostly disgruntled Public Force soldiers - for an ill-advised scheme to assassinate an alien bigwig and collaborator who was notorious for being corrupt and cruel. Honna was tempted, but felt it was a hare-brained scheme. She believed these squabbles were petty and detracted from the real struggle against the humans. After much agonising over it she turned over information about the plot. It made her a collaborator and a 'humie lover' but it was a foolish plan which would have killed more civilians than it saved. She often participated in requisitions - Public Force raids on residential areas and hideouts to find grain civilians had stolen and secretly hidden because otherwise they would starve. What truly broke Honna was her participation in a massacre in a forest near Hope Falls.
An official from the KEC, the praetorian guard of the Vaderites, and the secret police had hundreds of 'wreckers' rounded up for execution due to being accused of espionag and sabotage. Many of them were Twi'leks and Mirialans. Women and children were among them. Major Bakios, the human commander of the Public Force, was eager to ingratiate himself. The victims were forced to surrender all their possessions and dig their own graves. Then they had to lie down and were shot. Once one batch had been murdered, they were covered with earth, then the next group had to lie down. Some of the condemned tried to beg for their lives or bribe the officers. A Mirialan boy, whose mother had called out to him to say that he was part-human, was deceived by Bakios into believing that he could save himself if he brought him his mother's papers. But the KEC representative simply tossed the papers away because he was a 'mudblood' and Bakios had the boy shot. Honna was one of the shooters.
The experience left her traumatised. Like other soldiers assigned to the execution squads, she took to the bottle. Alcohol was distributed freely in between the killings, as it helped soldiers overcome their inhibitions and numb their conscience. Moreover, they received their share of the loot. Honna hated herself for accepting these gifts, but took them because she was poor and it would be taken by someone else anyway. When the killings were finally over, she lagged behind her unit and vomitted in the bush. She heard a gasp of breath from inside the pit, where bodies had piled up. Someone was still alive and digging their way out. She could not bring herself to kill them and pretended she had not heard anything.
She was found by the Gamorrean officer Commander Gorn, who was responsible for the Gamorreans in the Public Force. He admonished her to never let anyone see her like that. If a human soldier suddenly experienced a crisis of conscience, he could talk his way out of having to murder women and children. But if a xenos did it, they'd join the condemned in the pit. She did not get any sleep on that night. It soon turned out that the forest was cursed. When she and some other soldiers had to get rid of some bodies in the forest, they were assailed by the spirits of the dead and forced to flee. One of her comrades was driven insane and ripped his eye out. Honna tried to stop him, but he bit her and she was forced to put him down. She never told her mother what had happened in the forest, though the Gamorrean matron recognised the haunted look in her eyes. She didn't ask questions, but patched her up when she was hurt. Honna made sure she had supplies. She murdered a resident who tried to blackmail her mother for black market dealings.
She was promoted to corporal after a pacification effort is interrupted by Republican Guard partisan raiders. After the human officer was killed and the NCOs wounded or killed she managed to hold off the enemy attack and killed one of their leaders with her axe, despite being severely wounded. She was given a small team to run. Honna proved a strict, but competent team leader. She was not afraid to mete out strict discipline and administer corporal punishment, but focused on keeping her team mates alive and in one piece. They were all in this together and there was safety in numbers.
Honna was there when representatives of the Order of the Blessed Way, a pacifist Jedi sect whose members consumed mushrooms, visited the settlement on the invitation of the Vaderites. In preparation for the visit, Hope Falls was 'beautified'. Streets were renamed and cleaned, residents received a larger allotment of rations as well as fresh clothes. Honna and other alien soldiers received their first fresh uniform in ages to make them look more presentable. Several prominent residents were rehoused and the locals were encouraged to conduct musical and theatrical performances. Residents considered unpresentable were locked away by the Public Force.
The visit was a ridiculous propaganda spectacle. Honna and other soldiers were paraded around. Some residents were allowed to speak with the delegates, but it was made clear to them that they and their families would suffer if they contradicted the Vaderites' narrative. When a Blessed Way representative visited the Public Force headquarters, everything had been cleaned up. The inspector dismissed claims of enslavement and malnourishment. Honna had to restrain herself from lashing out when he acted patronisingly and praised Eisen's efforts to bring civilisation to the town. A train packed with 'useless eaters' had left Hope Falls a few days before the delegation's arrival.
Around this time, an entire harvest was lost because a Sith called Lysenko, a pseudo-scientific quack who thought he was a great alchemist and agronomist, decided to alter grain by introducing alchemy. He claimed this would create a bountiful harvest by creating a super crop. But he was completely ignorant of the elementary principles of genetics and plant physiology. However, he was a Sith so he knew better than people with actual knowledge of agriculture. The food produced by the alchemisation process was tainted. Indeed, people who ate it were turned into zombies.
Honna was among the Public Force soldiers called in to quell the outbreak. Since most of the food produced by Hope Falls was meant for humans, only a few aliens fell victim to it and it was concentrated in the human quarter, where the elite lived. Honna distinguished herself during the fighting. The Public Force was deployed to resolve the problem, but her squad had little backup and the humans would not issue heavy weapons to aliens. Lacking much in terms of firepower, she and her team used improvised explosives to set up a kill zone instead of carry out a fool-hardy charge.
The Gamorrean took great pleasure in blasting or beheading zombies who had once been humans. The chaos was also an opportunity to loot. However, she was punished because she had not followed protocol and the use of explosives had destroyed human property. Moreover, she was accused of theft. She was publicly flogged and given crap jobs, before Gorn, who had taken a liking to her, ensured her reinstatement. The brief Vaderite civil war following Firemane's destruction of Castle Maysaf did not immediately affect Hope Falls. It was a remote settlement and lacked strategic significance. The Republican Guard was too busy fighting the Dominion after the renewal of open warfare to cause serious unrest. However, food had to be requisitioned to feed the army. At first Hope Falls lay within the territory of the psychopathic 'Boy-King' Lord Achilles, but after Eisen's troops took Adlerberg, the council and the Vaderite Prefect hastily sent an effusive declaration of loyalty to the Supreme Leader, along with grain transports.
But the food situation was becoming more and more dire. Corruption was systemic rather than the result of the actions of a few villains. The Vaderites stole most of the grain and the natives in turn had to steal or buy food on the black market to survive. Honna was no different in that regard. Moreover, the Vaderites did not trust the alien workers with machines or complex tools, so they had to toil the fields using primitive methods, and half-starved labourers made poor workers. More and more residents tried to flee, making deals with rebels or smugglers. Honna and her comrades were once deployed to mow down fleeing residents trying to cross the river. One soldier refused and was hanged to make an example.
Meanwhile, the human officers lived a life of affluence. They had villas with perfectly manicured lawns. It stoked anger and hatred inside Honna, but she could not let it show. Her life took a decisive turn when the Vaderites dispatched a commission to investigate the situation. Of course, they did not care about the abuses, only that the city was seriously behind on its quotas. Corruption was endemic in the Imperium, but became a problem when it impeded the state. The commission was headed by Darth Lachesis, a cunning Vaderite warlord and butcher of Chios. She was assisted by Kyriaki, a frail but intelligent Disciple and the clone of the 'star woman' Elpsis Kerrigan. Kyriaki was made responsible for investigating the disappearance and theft of grain. Because she didn't trust official reports, she charged her Twi'lek slave Shakka with questioning the locals, dangling the carrot of providing better living conditions and less strenuous work to those who helped her.
Her mission eventually led Shakka to the so-called tent city. This was the worst part of town, as the workers and exiles literally lived in tents with little protection against the elements. Shakka, being marked as the 'pet' of a Disciple, was attacked by a Twi'lek gang who accused her of being a 'humie collaborator'. Before she could be launched, Honna and her squad came across her and chased the gang away. The encounter was awkward. To Shakka the Gamorrean was just another boot stomping on her fellow alien's face to ingratiate herself with the humans. As far as Honna was concerned, she'd just taken the best deal on the table. Nonetheless, she gave Shakka some information that helped her find her cousin, a worker considered a troublemaker and secretly a minion of a black market dealer. Honna was later involved in random round-ups in the residential areas.
Bakios, under pressure, wanted to prove that he was being tough on crime by arresting civilians and beating and threatening them until they confessed to being part of a diabolical conspiracy between smugglers, the Dominion and the Republican Guard. In truth, he was one of the biggest criminals in town, cooperating with important Vaderite functionaries in the province, including the commander of a nearby military base. Honna met Shakka and Kyriaki's secretary Cordé Tycho, an idealistic Humanist with a very patronising, but less racist view of aliens, again when at the Public Force jail, where the Gamorrean was handling prisoners.
Darth Lachesis being in the city utterly terrified the soldiers - and anyone in Hope Falls, for that matter. Everyone knew she had exterminated the entire non-human population of the island of Chios. A Disciple visiting the security jail was unsettling, for they were feared. The Gungan chairwoman of the council had already been arrested. Kyriaki was there to investigate suspicious disappearances of equipment as well as arrange for the wife of Shakka's cousin to be released into her custody. However, upon leaving she and her minions came under fire from rogue Public Force members, though they were able to overcome them. The result was that the human Prefect was arrested and Bakios demoted. Ten random prisoners were shot to make an example. Honna finally met Kyriaki during the executions. Remembering the Gamorrean who had saved her slave, the Disciple decided to conscript her as a bodyguard. Honna noticed that the Sith wore the uniform of a KEC officer, but clearly was not one since it did not fit well and lacked insignia.
She deduced that the Disciple was not comfortable with her KEC guard, Banneret Hasapis, and wanted someone more in her pocket. From then on Honna assisted Kyriaki in her investigation. The Gamorrean did not fawn, but was obedient and cautious. It unnerved her that her new boss seemed to be able to see through her facade to a degree. Much to her satisfaction, Bakios was arrested for corruption and other human bigwigs were humiliated. But this obviously didn't change the system. Indeed, it would get worse. Rations were drastically reduced by Lachesis, while quotas were increased. Many natives would perish, and the Sith encouraged infighting between the alien groups. To Honna it was clear that survival meant attaching herself to the Disciple.
She accompanied Kyriaki to the cursed forest, where a container of grain had been hidden by the Public Force according to her Twi'lek prisoner. It was supposed to be dug up by prisoners. Honna warned her of the boss of the dangers that lurked in the forest, and was proven right. But Kyriaki also proved herself a good leader when she unmasked an illusion that scared the soldiers and workers. The party faced illusions, freak weather patterns and enraged spirits who tried to possess them at the site of the massacre.
Honna was attacked by a spirit, but managed to resist its mental domination through willpower. However, Hasapis was possesed and attacked Kyriaki, who was not a fighter due to her frail health and weakened by helping the spirit of the Mirialan boy who had been murdered here long ago cross over. But as he was choking Kyriaki, Honna intervened and saved her life, beating him with her rifle butt. The two fought, with Honna holding her own, though she was injured by the augmented KEC soldier. As the Gamorrean held him off, Kyriaki was able to use what Force energy she had left to force the spirit out. Honna still gave him a bit of a beating for good measure before being told to stop.
Honna continued to serve Kyriaki. The Disciple seemed different than the others - distant, aloof and superior, but less haughty. However, she was wary. The Vaderites' reign of terror soon encompassed a local hospital. By Lachesis' orders, it was supposed to be cleared of 'superfluous eaters' who could not be expected to become productive. Applying the principle of divide and rule, the Vaderites let favoured species such as Gamorreans, Duros and Zabrak retrieve their least sick, at the expense of those deemed undesirable such as Twi'leks and Mon Calamari. The divided council was pushed into taking the deal and assume responsibility.
Kyriaki managed to subtly mitigate the damage by having her slave spread warning and make a deal with the KEC doctor carrying out the selections to save some patients for her sweatshop, but this also made her complicit in the others being taken away to be murdered or experimented on. When unrest broke out because the patients realised what was happening and civilians passing by tried to help them, it came to violence. Honna stood by her master. She fought when Republican Guard rebels staged an attack in the town to get vengeance on the Vaderites and cover for fugitive slaves.
Honna was still trapped among the Vaderites, though she had switched to a master who actually paid her and took an interest in her advice. Having learned that Kyriaki intended to set up a garments factory in Hope Falls, she was able to persuade the Disciple to move her mother to her to the sweatshop. Her mother was still of a decent age to work and good at giving orders. For the time being, Honna is permanently attached to Kyriaki as her bodyguard.
