Inazuma Anaea

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General Inazuma "Livewire" Anaea

• Full Name: Inazuma "Livewire" Anaea

• Alliance: Alliance to Restore the Republic (Rebel Alliance)

• Rank: General

• Species: Corellian (Panthera tigris-Panthera pardus)

• Age (Ep2): 31

• Sex: Female

• Assignment or Location: Commander of the Nebulon-B class frigate Vreni's Hope

• Born: 1771 (Janus Ager Calendar)

• Location of Birth: Vreni Island, Corellia

• Parents: Aerion Anaea and Mara Anaea

• Education: Graduated from Corellian Academy of Space Sciences, 3 years in civilian flight training

• Marital Status: Single.

• Created By: Inazuma

Background:

Inazuma Anaea was born on Vreni Island, Corellia, the first-born child of a politician father and a scientist mother. Although the Empire came to power during the course of their life on the island, Inazuma's parents managed to remain true to the ideals and philosophies of the Old Republic. For a long time, they remained low-key enough in their true beliefs to avoid drawing the attention of the Emperor's Political Correctness Enforcers, giving their daughter a relatively stable childhood despite the looming perils of the Clone Wars.

The Clone Wars occurred when Inazuma was quite young and she only remembers scant details about the actual conflict, less than most other children her age. Her parents feared that the gruesome images of war-the ones that the Empire allowed to filter through the holonet, anyways-might scar the impressionable minds of Inazuma or her younger brother Kaze and they did not buy a holoprojector for their home until Inazuma was nearly eleven years old.

Both of the children were sent to local primary and secondary schooling and like most average Corellians, they obtained First Standard marks all the way until the age of fourteen. It was around this time that Inazuma began to become increasingly familiar with the true nature of the Empire. History was often one of the more neglected subjects in adolescent schools on the planet, though the government had taken some efforts to rewrite a few key events of the recent past to cast themselves in a better light. Regardless of her parents' efforts to shield her from the war, it was practically all that was discussed in some of her classes and during break periods in school. Though teachers always insisted that the formation of the Empire brought freedom and strength to the galaxy, Inazuma herself became more and more unsettled by the idea of a single group taking over and suppressing ideas and people who did not agree with their agenda; at her young age it reminded her all too much of the seemingly pointless restrictions her own parents imposed upon her.

About then, as it was with many Corellian children, the teenage adolescent "social life" began to set in, and over the next few months her grades plummeted several points; falling from the First Standard to the Fourth. After being sheltered for so long from the Holonet, Inazuma's younger brother Kaze became obsessed with a fighting sport called "shockboxing," an obsession that he inevitably dragged his older sister into as well. Soon, the importance of papers, research assignments and homework dwindled in comparison to the new idols of shockboxing and friends.

A holo-channel based out of Coronet hosted bi-weekly matches, which Inazuma and her brother tuned into faithfully every time. By this time, things had turned ugly on the otherwise peaceful world of Corellia, as a military coup by the Imperials deposed the government for what they described as "acts of sedition." Kaze's older sister especially found the shockboxing to be a good escape from the constant talk of new Imperial rulership of her planet, and a distraction from her fear of the storm troopers who now patrolled the streets of her island.

Inevitably, the fascination of just watching shockboxing began to wear off, and the two begged their parents to send them off to learn the sport themselves. Their parents agreed, but on a single condition: that Inazuma and her brother pull their grades up back to First Standard and graduate with honors, which neither of them were on track to do. Unbeknownst to them, however, Aerion and Mara had more than one reason to see their children off to shockboxing camp: Vreni Island had become something of a political hot-spot, as Rebel sympathizers had begun to speak out against the recent coup. If things turned ugly quickly, the children could be shipped off to relative safety.

Inazuma and Kaze were sent to Tyrena, a popular tourist city with a respectable shockboxing school lead by an Oviraptor named Versipellis. She taught the two basic shockboxing techniques and the standard rules of the sport. Kaze was rather slow to learn, but Inazuma was eager and picked up the new lessons quickly, showing promise to advance quite far, despite her small stature and slight build. After a month, the bi-weekly trips to the city began to put a strain on her time and her social life, but Inazuma met the challenge with redoubled effort, and was able to drag her average up to First Standard within the next year. Pleased with her improvement, her parents allowed her to continue her training, but Kaze's performance had not been so spectacular. His grades slipped down to Fifth Standard and Inazuma's parents forbid him to continue his training. He resigned himself to watching Inazuma practice when he could find the time and cheered her on whenever she mastered a new technique.

When Inazuma turned seventeen, her parents required that she attend the Academy of Space Sciences in Coronet, and she jumped at the chance. Though far more Imperial troops patrolled the streets of Coronet, that kind of close scrutiny brought with it a measure of security: Coronet was about the last city the Empire would think of looking for Rebel sympathizers. Inazuma herself had a few quiet fears of attending school there, but the lure of attending school in the shockboxing mecca of the galaxy silenced those qualms. After applying, she spent two agonizing months awaiting the decision but was ultimately accepted into a first-year level set of coursework. After getting a handle on the new course load, and with Versipellis' assurance that she wouldn't fail miserably, Inazuma entered into an amateur shockboxing tournament, the final match of which would be broadcast over the Holonet. Eager to show her little brother that she'd accomplished both of their dreams, Inazuma fought hard, but lost in the semifinals. Embarrassed and disappointed, she returned to her schoolwork.

She continued practicing with a group of her academy friends, who eventually formed a loose club known as the "CoroShockers." Their club attracted spectators to their weekly matches in the gym, and Inazuma fast became the favorite as the smallest, one of the few females, but one of the more skilled boxers. She was nicknamed "little Livewire" by her peers, as a pun on both her name and her incredible speed, the latter of which saved her neck in the majority of her matches.

In her fourth and final year of academy, at the age of twenty-one, Inazuma and a few of her clubmates entered a similar tournament to the one she had lost at during her freshman year. This time was greatly unlike the last; Inazuma floored all of her competition, the final match being against one of her clubmates, whose weaknesses she knew all too well. The following week was her commencement ceremony from the Academy, at which she noticed to her nervousness that none of her family members were present. She caught the nearest transport home to Vreni Island the following morning to find her home trashed and abandoned.

Inazuma's parents had always told her that if anything were to happen to them that they would leave a holodisk under the floorboards for her. On it she found encrypted instructions; her family was fine but they were in hiding. As it turned out, the Imperials had finally learned of her parents Rebel sympathies, and had raided in the house to unearth evidence of treason.

The holodisk gave directions to where her parents and Kaze were hiding, a vast labyrinth underground about five klicks from Inazuma's home. They were among a large group of people, known supporters of the Rebel Alliance, many of whom were parents of her fellow Coroshockers; apparently the other students had received similar surprises from the Empire upon their returns home. The leader of the group announced to the recently-graduated that they were to be shuttled to a rebel outpost closer to the Outer Rim to escape the Imperial PC Enforcers and receive training by the Alliance; they were valuable assets that could not be wasted.

When Inazuma questioned her parents, they were very supportive; Aerion, a politician, had never outwardly questioned the Empire's dealings, but had inwardly supported the Old Republic and now the Alliance. Sending his son and daughter to support his cause meant a lot, and Inazuma was both eager to please her father and fight her fear of the monstrous organization. Within a week, she was smuggled off the planet to a distant Rebel base.

Over the next two years, Inazuma underwent intensive flight training. Her competitive nature and eagerness to learn did nothing but aid her; her only hindrance was her tendency to get into mock-shock matches with her fellow cadets, which many of her superiors frowned upon. When she was twenty-four, Inazuma flew her first real combat mission; she took command of her flight wing and deftly led them to a swift victory. Needless to say, it was an easy and relatively overmatched fight, with a wing of six X-Wings flying against a lone squadron of basic TIE-Fighters; however, Inazuma's superiors were impressed, and thus promoted her to the rank of Captain. She was given temporary control of a midsized ship.

By the age of twenty-six, Inazuma had established a niche in the outpost; she had obtained a ship, a Corellian corvette named the Catharsis, and had been given the rank of Colonel. Many of her former fellow classmates were lieutenants under her command; they had given up rising in rank in order to stay a tight-knit group. However, she and her crewmates had become sick of standing guard over this relatively isolated outpost; the last straw was hearing of the battle of Endor. Ina's crew left their outpost and wound up on Nubia, attracted by the possibility of ship upgrades and shockboxing. Inazuma and several crewmates entered using aliases; Inazuma used her old nickname, 'Livewire'. She won several rounds before being knocked out of the competition. Inazuma and her crew aboard the Catharsis spent a few years in light skirmishes with the Empire, hopping around from shockboxing tournament to tournament. Many of the Corellians who joined her were former members of CorSec, those who'd been disallusioned by the empire, and also former classmates of hers; others were randoms they'd found at different arenas, who seemed like they could be of aid.

One of Inazuma's new lieutenants, a military-trained ocelot named Jasen Tigh, brought along a mission, and an opportunity for Ina's growing cell. It was an intercept mission to free several captives of the Empire from Derias, Tigh's homeworld. Several members of the Derisian aristocracy had been caught funding another rebel group, and had been arrested and sent to Coruscant for processing. Ina's cell successfully intercepted the prisoner transport, returning the aristocrats to Derias and scoring quite a bit of funding and two more CORVs, complete with crew, in the process - the Derisians were quite pleased with her cell's skilled use of stealth and manipulation.

Inazuma's crowning moment came soon after her acquisition of the new ships; the successful capture of a Nebulon-B frigate. Her lieutenants insisted she take the rank of general, as she was now in charge of quite the small fleet - which was given the name Cornet's Vengeance. They were officially a functional cell, and completely able to run their own subterfuge missions, now. Ina proudly re-named the frigate after her home island - the Vreni's Hope. Tigh, her Derisian lieutenant, became captain of the Catharsis. Soon after this, Inazuma's CorNet intels recieved word that two other large factions, the Tiharr-led faction and the Green Berets, had been destroyed.

Character Notes:

Inazuma is short; approximately five feet tall. She has light grey fur mottled with darker grey patches, and light greenish-blue eyes. Her hair is a dark green, with blond bangs. Inazuma is very feisty; although she keeps her temper in check as much as possible, her snappish tones have been known to put off a crew member or two. She rarely loses her cool. She can be very stern, but in peaceful times, serves as a sort of older sister or mother figure to many of the crew on her ships, even those older than her. Ina serves her purpose well and with all of her being. She considers her crew family; since she grew up with many of them, it is not an unreasonable thing to consider. She will protect them to the best of her ability.

Inazuma's cell, Cornet's Vengeance, consists of the flagship, Vreni's Hope, three corellian Corvettes, the Catharsis, Solaria and Triton, along with several midsize gunships, and a significant number of shuttlecraft and small fightercraft. Her cell numbers about 3,000 people at this time.

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