Dician

"You will obtain any Sith artifacts in Alema Rar's possession. You will also capture Alema Rar, or, if circumstances warrant, kill her." "It will be my pleasure."

- White Eyes and Dician

Dician was a dark-skinned female Human and member of the One Sith, serving during the time of the Second Galactic Civil War. In 40 ABY, before the One Sith had revealed themselves to the galaxy, Dician acted as an agent operating away from the Sith world of Korriban. She would use a number of cover identities to hide her true self from outsiders, while working to further the Order's agenda.

When fallen Jedi Alema Rar contacted the One Sith after the death of Dark Lady of the Sith Lumiya, Dician investigated the whereabouts of Rar as well as the threat she posed to the Order, working undercover to hide her true nature from the New Jedi Order. Presenting her findings to a conclave of Sith on Korriban, Dician convinced them to devote resources to locating Rar and destroying the asteroid residence of Darth Vectivus, which both Lumiya and Rar had inhabited. Taking the heavily armed frigate Poison Moon to the asteroid's location, Dician engaged the renowned Millennium Falcon which was also in the area, while she sent shuttles out to set up explosive charges on the asteroid. During the engagement, the ancient Sith Meditation Sphere that Rar had piloted to Korriban, Ship, rose from the asteroid. Learning the meditation sphere was heading to the original Sith homeworld of Ziost, Dician ordered the destruction of the asteroid base before the Poison Moon headed to Ziost so they could capture the meditation sphere.

Undercover Sith
"I would not aid the Jedi, but they must think of me as an ally. And having proved myself a legitimate intel officer, I received a considerable amount of information on their hunt for Alema Rar&hellip;which must necessarily include information and speculation about her."

- Dician addressing the Sith conclave

The dark-skinned female Human Dician was a member of the One Sith, during the time of the Second Galactic Civil War. In 40 ABY, long before the One Sith revealed themselves to the galaxy at large, Dician served as an agent operating away from the Sith world of Korriban where the Order was in hiding. She worked undercover, and used a number of cover identities to hide her true affiliation from outsiders while working to further the Order's agenda.

After the death of Dark Lady of the Sith Lumiya, fallen Twi'lek Jedi Alema Rar used information stored on a datachip in Lumiya's asteroid base, the Home, to locate the other Sith of which Lumiya had spoken. Traveling to Korriban, Rar approached the One Sith to seek assistance in aiding Jacen Solo in his quest to bring order to the galaxy as a Sith Lord. The One Sith were wary of her intentions and gave an ersatz holocron of Darth Vectivus as a gift, however, the holocron contained a tracking device so the Order could monitor her movements. When Rar left Korriban, Dician was tasked with gathering information on the Twi'lek.

After the tracking device in the holocron traced Rar's location back to the Home and she had collected information on the former Jedi, Dician met with an assembly of Sith Lords on Korriban to convince them to commit resources to locating Rar due to the valuable knowledge she possessed. In her report to the conclave, Dician recounted how she had worked undercover, impersonating a Confederation intelligence agent and convinced the New Jedi Order that she was a legitimate intel officer. Although she had no intention of aiding the Jedi, to make them think of her as an ally, Dician offered them her help in the Jedi's search for Rar. The Jedi provided her with considerable information about their hunt, which included information and speculation about Rar.

Hearing of her actions, many of the other Sith in the conclave greatly disagreed with her decision, objecting to the idea that she might have aided the Jedi. Dician defended herself on the grounds that the information she had gleaned was worth the risk, as it came to her attention that among the resources Rar inherited from Lumiya was the lost technique of Darth Vectivus; the ability to project phantoms across space. Some of the Sith dismissed this information, as they believed that Darth Vectivus was a fraud, while others commented that the ability could benefit them all. The One Sith raised the possibility that Rar’s actions could be turned to benefit their own purposes, however this was quickly dismissed as Rar was believed to be insane. The white-eyed man who led the conclave stated that they must capture Rar and extract the secret of the technique from her, as well as capture Darth Vectivus's asteroid which was the power source for the technique. Dician regretfully informed White Eyes that the Jedi were homing in on Rar and once they learned of the base's location, the secret of the phantom technique would be would be impossible to preserve. White Eyes agreed, and gave her command of the heavily armed frigate Poison Moon for a mission to capture or kill Alema Rar, with orders to locate and destroy Darth Vectivus's asteroid base, the Home, and to take any Sith artifacts she found.

Hunting Alema Rar
"We will make our run on the Falcon, and we will be perfect. We will launch our crews to raid the habitat and situate the bombs on the asteroid, and we will be&mdash;what will we be?" "Perfect." "That's right. Perfect."

- Dician and the crew members of the Poison Moon

Taking the Poison Moon to the location of the base, Dician allowed her chief pilot, an aging pirate and smuggler, Wayniss to navigate through the asteroid field. Wayniss knew nothing of the Force, and would have reacted incuriously to the news that Dician was a member of the Sith Order. Dician approved of him as he gave good value for his pay and remained loyal so long as the credits kept coming, making him reliable and predictable. They traced the source of the tracking device they had placed in the holocron and identified their target. Dician ordered Wayniss to make a stealthy approach and keep asteroids between them and the base for as long as possible. Her sensor officer, a Hapan woman named Ithila, announced that she had picked up readings of two other ships in the vicinity. Dician ordered them to continue their approach as ordered, but to prepare their weapons and be ready to make a fast run from the final asteroid to their target.

As they made their way through the asteroids, Ithila informed Dician that one of the ships they had detected was a Corellian light freighter with a distinctive disk shape. Dician instantly requested the ship's markings and modifications be compared with known records of the Millennium Falcon, believing that it was likely to be the ship that would show up wherever trouble was brewing. Ithila confirmed it was a match, leading Dician to contemplate the bragging rights she could obtain by capturing or destroying the Falcon, and ridding the galaxy of the infamous Han Solo, its owner. She also considered the possibility that Jedi Knight Leia Organa Solo, who Dician deemed a traitor to the noble Sith name of Skywalker, was also onboard, which would double her pleasure at destroying the Falcon. Dician told her crew to make no mistakes, telling them that they would be perfect; they would continue their approach, make a run on the Falcon, and destroy the asteroid base, and they would do it perfectly.

As they approached the Falcon ' s position, they noticed that it was making evasive maneuvers as if it were engaged in a dogfight, despite there being no opponent on the sensor board. It was the second odd occurrence, as less than a minute earlier, Dician had felt something brush against her in the Force and then seem to settle all over the Poison Moon. Dician ordered her crew to wait until the Falcon was oriented away from them before beginning their run; once she determined that the Falcon had detected them she would order all weapons to open fire on the freighter and all shuttles to launch in order to place their explosive charges on the asteroid. She reminded her crew to be perfect as they made their approach.

They began their attack on the Millennium Falcon and the asteroid base, having no luck in destroying the Falcon due to Han Solo's piloting skills. Their sensors picked up a starfighter-sized craft launching from the asteroid base that was empty. Dician recognized it as the ancient Sith Meditation Sphere Ship that Rar had brought to Korriban, and realized that if it was empty, then Rar was still on the asteroid. Dician concluded that destroying the Falcon would only have earned her considerable personal prestige, but that capturing the meditation sphere was an important and tangible prize, and so ordered her crew to follow the sphere. Confirming that the shuttles had planted their charges on the asteroid, she told her shuttles to congregate on the largest asteroid in the area so that they could be retrieved later. Dician reached out to the meditation sphere and asked it where it was going, without expecting an answer. However, the ship informed her it was heading to the original Sith homeworld of Ziost. Dician ordered Wayniss to lay in a course for Ziost and head there with all speed, so that they might beat the sphere there and apprehend it on its arrival. Just before entering hyperspace, Dician ordered the detonation of the charges to ensure the destruction of the asteroid base and Rar, congratulating her crew on what she considered the perfect resolution to a perfect mission.

Personality and traits
"What are we?" "Perfect, Captain." "That's right."

- Dician to her sensor officer Ithila

Dician was known to have a light musical voice, and had pale geometric tattoos on her cheeks, in line with the One Sith's later tradition of having all members covered in Sith tattoos. Dician was bold, standing her ground in front of the conclave of Sith on Korriban despite many reacting badly to her potentially aiding the Jedi. She expected perfection from both herself and those under her command, regularly reminding them of this.

As a member of the One Sith, Dician was Force-sensitive and was able to sense beings in the Force. She was also able to communicate telepathically with the Sith Mediatation Sphere.

Behind the scenes
Dician was created by author Aaron Allston when writing the Legacy of the Force novel Fury, as a member of the secretive Sith Order encountered by Alema Rar on Korriban, and is her only appearance in Star Wars canon to date. The Sith Order was later identified as being the same order portrayed in the Star Wars: Legacy comics.

Appearances

 * Fury

Notes and references
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