Emberlene
- "Speaking of Emberlene, I'd stay away from there if I were you. For that matter, I'd stay away from any other Mistryl, period."
- ―Karoly D'ulin, to Shada D'ukal
Emberlene was a planet located in the Authala sector of the Expansion Region.
History
- "They say that three years before its destruction, the rulers of Emberlene set off on a rampage of conquest. That for the first two and a half of those years they destroyed and conquered and plundered every one of the dozen other worlds within their reach."
"No. No. That can't be true. We wouldn't… we couldn't have done something like that."
"The average citizens weren't told the true story, of course. Though I imagine most could have read between the lines if they'd truly wanted to know what their leaders were doing. But they had triumph and spoils, pride and glory. Why bother with mere truth?" - ―Jorj Car'das and Shada D'ukal
Emberlene was a planet inhabited by the matriarchal Human Mistryl and governed by a council known as the Eleven Elders of the People. It was famous as the home world of the Mistryl Shadow Guards, highly-trained warrior-women who could be hired for a variety of roles, including bodyguards, assassins, commandos or anti-piracy pickets for high-security cargoes.
During the Clone Wars, the planet joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems and conquered many neighboring worlds. In response, various conquered peoples pooled their resources and hired a mercenary army under the command of rogue factions of the Thyrsian Sun Guard to raze Emberlene, leaving on it an impoverished people supported only by the income of the Shadow Guard.
Although the Eleven Elders privately conceded that their own imperialism had been the cause for their neighbors' attack, they spread the myth that Emberlene had been an innocent victim of Imperial aggression, and the Mistryl proudly refused to have any dealings with the New Order, although in practice, even this principle was negotiable.
After the Clone Wars, Emberlene appeared to have remained independent. The planet was, at least on an official level, defiantly hostile to the Galactic Empire, and there was no evidence that it ever joined the New Republic or the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.
Appearances
- Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters" (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only)
- File:SWG logo sm.png Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (Mentioned only)
- Specter of the Past (Mentioned only) (First identified as Emberlene)
- Specter of the Past unabridged audiobook (Mentioned only) (First identified as Emberlene)
- Vision of the Future (Mentioned only)
- Vision of the Future unabridged audiobook (Mentioned only)
- The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse (Mentioned only)
Sources
- The Last Command Sourcebook (Indirect mention only)
- The Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook (Indirect mention only)
"The Smuggler's Alliance"—Star Wars Gamer 3 (Indirect mention only)- Hero's Guide
- File:Gal-icon.jpg The Azure Cabal on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Threats of the Galaxy (Indirect mention only)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Galaxy at War
