Morrigan Corde

Nyna Calixte was a Human female who was a Grand Moff on the Moff High Council of the new Galactic Empire around 137 ABY.

Prior to the Sith-Imperial War, Calixte was using the persona of Morrigan Corde, and was working as an agent for Imperial Intelligence. While out in the field, she had a chance meeting with Kol Skywalker, a member of the Jedi Council. The pair fell in love, married and had a son, Cade. However, claiming that the Empire recalled her back into service, "Morrigan" left her new family when Cade was still a toddler. Shortly afterward, Calixte abandoned her "Morrigan" persona for approximately two decades.

Back in Imperial service under her own name, Calixte became the head of Imperial Intelligence, and was later appointed a Moff. She entered into a marriage with fellow Moff Rulf Yage, and they had a daughter, Gunn. However, the marriage would prove to be short lived, and Calixte entered into an affair with another Moff, Morlish Veed. When the Sith approached the Empire in 128 ABY offering to help in the Empire's war against the Galactic Alliance, they did so through Calixte. Calixte manipulated the other Moffs into accepting the Sith's offer, then plotting with Veed to place him on the Imperial throne. However, her plan was foiled when Darth Krayt claimed the throne for himself.

In 137 ABY, she "reactivated" her Morrigan Corde persona to help keep Cade Skywalker from being turned to the dark side of the Force by the Sith.

Early life
Little has been recorded about the early life of Nyna Calixte. However, prior to the Sith-Imperial War, she was using the name Morrigan Corde and was employed as an Imperial Intelligence agent. While out in the field she met and fell in love with Kol Skywalker, a member of the Jedi Council. The pair married and had a son, Cade, but Morrigan walked out on her family when Cade was a toddler. Shortly after returning to Imperial Intelligence, "Morrigan" retired from the field in 117 ABY, and Calixte did not use the persona again until 137 ABY.

The Sith-Imperial War
"Your plots, your betrayals, your desire for control&hellip; You might have made a good Sith, under Darth Sidious. Under Darth Krayt, we are a different breed."

- Darth Maladi, to Nyna Calixte

As Nyna Calixte, she rose rapidly through the ranks of Imperial Intelligence, eventually becoming the head of the department. At some point she was also appointed to the position of Moff, although some of her colleagues on the Council of Moffs claimed that she had not earned the honor through merit alone. Also around this time, she had married and later divorced her fellow Moff, Rulf Yage, and they had a daughter, Gunn. Nyna had very little to do with Gunn's upbringing, and Gunn despised her mother for leaving her and her father and entering into an affair with Morlish Veed.



When the new Sith Order first approached the Empire in an effort aid them in their war against the Galactic Alliance, they did so through her. The Sith had engineered the war in an attempt to destabilize the galaxy, having had sabatoged the Ossus Project and using the lingering hatred many still felt against the Yuuzhan Vong for their invasion over one hundred years ago to shift the blame. The Empire declared war against both the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi, and when the Sith approached the Empire with their help, Calixte manipulated the other Moffs into allying with the Sith behind Emperor Roan Fel's back. Appealing to the Moff's greed for power, she then secured their cooperation and received the approval of the Moffs to join the war on their side. In 130 ABY, Fel discovered the extent of the Sith conspiracy, and realized that Calixte was behind it. After angrily confronting her and almost killing her with his lightsaber, he backed down only when he received a communication from Morlish Veed that the Galactic Alliance had surrendered. Shortly after accepting the surrender of the Galactic Alliance, Roan Fel stated that he wanted to send a diplomatic mission to the Jedi on Ossus, with the intent on persuading them to join the Empire. When Rulf Yage and Darth Nihl instead led an attack on the Jedi, Calixte expressed her disapproval to Darth Maladi, stating that the attack had gone off without the approval or knowledge of both the Emperor and the other Moffs.

After Calixte and Veed celebrated what they thought was Veed's promotion to Emperor, Calixte sneaked over to Roan Fel's quarters and informed him that it would be in his best interest to flee. When Fel questioned why she was helping him, she informed him that she knew that Darth Krayt was going to install himself as Emperor, and that Fel's survival was in the interests of both her and Fel. Fel reluctantly agreed and sent a double in his place, secretly making his escape with Antares Draco at his side.

Once Darth Krayt had installed himself on the throne after killing Roan Fel's double, he sent Maladi to Calixte's quarters to get the Moff to explain herself. Calixte said that the Sith underestimated Fel, and that they need both her and Veed to keep the other Moffs united. Maladi relented, but stated that although Calixte could keep Imperial Intelligence largely unchanged, she now had to report to Maladi.

The search for Skywalker
"I'm Morrigan Corde. Imperial agent. Like you, I've been assigned to find Skywalker. If you hadn't tried to kill me before, I could have told you that and saved us both the time and trouble."

- Morrigan Corde to Jor Torlin



In 137 ABY, she attended the interrogation of captured Jedi Hosk Trey'lis in Darth Maladi's laboratory. After witnessing Maladi torturing the Jedi in order to get information on a man named Cade, Calixte received orders from Maladi to locate Cade. Calixte asked Maladi why they wanted to find Cade so bad, but Maladi told her Sith affairs were none of her business. After Calixte pointed out that she needed all available info to do her job properly, Maladi offered up the fact that Cade was a Skywalker.

Armed with this piece of information, Calixte returned to her quarters and had a discussion with Veed regarding Cade's importance. They decided they would try and get to him first, and use him as a pawn against the Sith. For this purpose, she "hired" Morrigan Corde, as she did not trust any of Maladi's agents. After viewing one of Calixte's security cam feeds from a gambling haven called the Wheel, they discovered that the Wheel was Cade's last known location.

In her guise as Morrigan Corde, she traveled to the Wheel and encountered Jor Torlin, an agent of Maladi's sent by Sith Intelligence. Morrigan set up a brawl to test his mettle and helped him defeat his assailants. In repayment, Torlin turned on her, but not before she sprayed him with a gas, rendering him unconscious. Corde then proceeded to carry Torlin back to his ship, the Raider.

Reaching the ship, Corde told the Wheel's security that Torlin was over served. Apparently satisfied with the explanation, they let the pair on board. Corde then proceeded to tie the still-unconscious Torlin to a chair and familiarize herself with the ship and it weapons. When Torlin woke up, she berated him for trying to kill her, and then proceeded to threaten to kill him. After Torlin called her bluff, the pair reluctantly formed a partnership. They discussed possible locations that Skywalker might have gone, and since he was no longer on the Wheel, Corde suggested they take care of some other business while they were there.

When Torlin expressed surprise that there was other business to take care of, Corde again berated him for not seeing the bigger picture. She explained that there were two ships parked at the Wheel: one belonged to Admiral Gar Stazi of the Galactic Alliance, and the other was a ship that had defected to Roan Fel's faction of the Empire. After pointing out that Stazi and Mingo Bovark, Fel's emissary, were discussing an alliance, she suggested breaking up the negotiations, but to do it in a way that made it seem like both parties were going to blame the other. Torlin then proposed using several Command Override Limpet Droids on the Imperial vessel, and once they were attached, the pair overrode the commands of the Imperial shuttle from Torlin's ship and shot at the Galactic Alliance shuttle. The incident was a success: Stazi blamed Bovark for the incident, and the Imperials loyal to Fel were banned from ever setting foot on the Wheel. Now that they had ended the potential alliance, Corde and Torlin resumed their mission to find Cade Skywalker.

The pair traveled to Ossus, with Corde saying it was more likely he was there instead of their other potential destination, Hapes. Upon reaching Ossus, Torlin decided that it was time to end their collaboration. When he tried to shoot Morrigan, she released a nerve toxin from an ampule she had implanted in his body while he was under the effect of the gas on the Wheel, apparently killing him. After watching a hologram of her and Kol, she decided to leave Cade alone, unable to bear the thought of seeing him again.

Rescuing Skywalker
"Everything I've gotten from my sources&hellip;from the other Moffs&hellip;suggests that Skywalker is on Coruscant. If the Sith have called off the chase, they must have him."

- Nyna Calixte, to Morlish Veed

Back in her Calixte persona, she was at a gathering of the Moff Council when she was instructed by Maladi to call off the search for Cade Skywalker. When Calixte asked why, Maladi told her it was not her concern anymore. When she heard from Rulf Yage that Gunn was one of the ones who spotted Cade's ship on Coruscant, Calixte then went and interrupted a meal between Gunn and Rulf. After questioning Gunn on what she saw, Calixte later deduced that Cade was on Coruscant and had been captured by the Sith.

Upon sharing this info with Morlish Veed, he promptly hired Morrigan Corde to remove Cade from the Sith Temple and bring him into Veed's custody, again in an effort to use Cade as a pawn against the Sith. Calixte, as Corde, then sneaked into his room in the middle of the night and demanded two things: that he turn over to her the three dozen Yuuzhan Vong thud bugs that the Imperials recently confiscated from Black Sun, and to pull his predators off the Temple on her signal. After Veed made some unwanted advances toward her, she left.



After she left Veed's apartment, Corde then located Cade's friends, Deliah Blue and Jariah Syn, at Rik's Cantina. Blue and Syn were locked in an argument with rival smugglers Kee and Chak over Cade's ship, the Mynock. After overhearing Blue exclaim to Chak that she wasn't leaving until they rescued Cade from the Sith, Corde stated that she had a plan to rescue Cade if Blue did not.

After bribing the cantina's owner to buy her silence, Corde then identified all four of the smugglers present, and presented her plan. When she told the four smugglers that Cade was her son, Syn did not believe her. After Chak confirmed that the holo she had then displayed of herself with Kol Skywalker and a young Cade was real, Morrigan told the group to fly to the coordinates she had specified and wait.

Back in her Calixte persona, she found out that Veed was going to deliver the thud bugs to Corde personally. However, Calixte accused Veed of being attracted to Corde, and she stated that she was going to make the delivery to Corde herself.

Later on, as Corde, she had delivered the bugs to the Mynock and tasked Syn and Kee with modifying them, requesting that some act as spy cameras and others act as "boom bugs." Once their task was complete, she then disguised herself as a Sith to plant the bugs at the Sith Temple. Three weeks after the bugs were planted, one of the spy bugs located Cade.

Corde then tasked Syn with keying a specific bug to follow Cade, park another spy bug outside Krayt's chambers, then to move the "boom bugs" near a hangar at the Sith Temple. Once Cade was near a window or some other accessible spot, they would then attempt their rescue. After Corde was done explaining her plan, she asked the crew for questions. Syn then asked Corde what would happen if Cade wanted to stay with the Sith. She replied that that was the case, then she no longer considered him her son.

When Cade was spotted to be on the move by the spy bug Syn had keyed to him, Corde ordered the rescue team to get into position. Cade was eventually captured and taken to Darth Krayt's chambers, where he then engaged Darth Talon, Darth Nihl, and Darth Krayt himself.

After Corde ordered the Mynock to position itself near the Sith Temple, she then ordered Syn to use the "boom bugs" to blow up the Sith hangar. Using a rocket pack to fly up to the window near Krayt's chambers, Morrigan shot Darth Krayt in the back as he was dueling Cade Skywalker. Cade took this opportunity to escape, with Jariah Syn catching him as he jumped out the window. Once Cade was on board the Mynock, Corde had a short conversation with Cade over a comlink, in which she told him that she was his mother and that he would not get any answers from her, but made one request of him: to run as far away as possible. Corde then stated that she had an alternate escape route, and used her rocket pack to fly away.

Aftermath
"Run."

- Nyna Calixte, viewing the old holo of herself with Kol and Cade Skywalker

Back at Calixte's apartment, Calixte was in the middle of taking a shower, with Veed standing just outside the door. The pair then discussed the reports of Cade's escape from the Sith temple and the Sith's anger because of it. Veed then noticed the choker that Corde wore around her neck lying on a table and asked Calixte about it when she emerged from the shower. Calixte mentioned that it was a "family heirloom," and took it from him. Veed then told Calixte that Corde was an old pro that did her job well, to which Calixte said she would pass on the compliment, unless he wanted to contact her himself. Veed then asked Calixte if she wanted to order in some food, but she insisted they do so later, and at his place. Veed then took his leave, and after she got dressed, Calixte activated the holo inside the choker, looked at the Skywalker family holo that had emerged and whispered "run".

Personality and traits
"Listen to your father, child. It's always a mistake to get too close to people."

- Nyna Calixte, to her daughter, Gunn Yage

Nyna Calixte exhibited astute political acumen, and was seen by many as manipulative. She was the one who manipulated the Moff Council into allying with the Sith, and was seen as the person behind Morlish Veed's political ambitions to become Emperor. However, knowing that Darth Krayt was going to assume the throne, she was also the person who warned Emperor Roan Fel about the Sith coup in 130 ABY, thus betraying the Sith. She also displayed a lack of trust towards both the Sith, especially Darth Maladi, and her own lover, Morlish Veed, and as far it is known, has told no one about her identity as Morrigan Corde.

Calixte also refused to let anyone get close to her emotionally, and that extended to her relationship with her children. Calixte had little to no part in her daughter Gunn's upbringing, with Gunn's father Rulf being her primary caregiver. For her part, Gunn despised her mother, even going so far as to call her a "nasty old rancor." Her relationship with her son Cade was practically non-existent, having left him and his father Kol when Cade was around two years old. However, when she found out that Cade had survived the Massacre at Ossus and was being sought after by the Sith, she reactivated her Morrigan persona for the sole purpose of rescuing him. Because the sight of him would threaten to overtake her emotions, she refused to be near him both times she had located him.

Powers and abilities
Calixte had once stated to Roan Fel that she has had some success in shielding her thoughts from Force users, even though there has been no evidence to suggest she was Force-sensitive.

In her guise as Morrigan Corde, she exhibited knowledge of hand-to-hand combat when she helped Jor Torlin defeat the thugs on the Wheel.

Equipment
As Morrigan Corde, she had two distinguishing pieces of equipment; the first being her comm devices, and the second being her choker containing the holo of her family. Her comm devices were located on her face, and there were two of them: one under her left eye, and the other on her chin. It remains unknown exactly how they functioned.

Morrigan wore the choker around her neck, and she often displayed the contents when she was alone. However, she did show the holo to Cade's associates when they doubted her claim as to being Cade's mother. Although the holo was dismissed as fake by Jariah Syn, Chak confirmed the holo was real, having worked around the Jedi Temple on Ossus around the time period the holo was taken.

Origins
Nyna Calixte was created by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema was first mentioned in Star Wars Legacy 0. She made her first in-universe appearance in the first issue of Stars Wars: Legacy. Morrigan Corde was also created by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema, but did not make her first appearance until Star Wars Legacy 9: Trust Issues, Part 1.

Corde was thought to be a totally separate character from Nyna Calixte until the release of Star Wars Legacy 19: Claws of the Dragon, Part 6, which the scene was written in a way in that the reader is the only person privy to the secret. Author John Ostrander later confirmed in a forum post that Nyna and Morrigan the same person, but it remains unclear at this point which persona is the "real" one.

Name pronounciation
Jan Duursema has said Calixte's full name is pronounced Nine-uh Kalix-tay, and that Morrigan Corde's last name is pronounced "Cord".

Morrigan Corde's eye color
During Corde's first appearance in the Trust Issues arc, her eyes were colored blue, but in all later appearances they were colored green. Jan Duursema has stated that the blue eye color was a coloring mistake.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Legacy 1: Broken, Part 1
 * Star Wars Legacy 8: Allies
 * Star Wars Legacy: Trust Issues
 * Star Wars Legacy 11: Ghosts, Part 1
 * Star Wars Legacy: Claws of the Dragon