Zahara Cody

Zahara Cody was the chief medical officer, working for the Imperial Corrections Service, on-board the Imperial prison barge Purge. She had a mother and father. She was isolated from the other Imperial workers on Purge because she cared a lot about her prisoner patients.

During her service aboard the Imperial prison ship Purge, a mass outbreak of a virus had threatened to kill off the entire crew of the ship. Zahara soon found that she was immune to the virus. Zahara knew that there must be more that had survived. And so she found Kale and Trig Longo, two teenage prisoners accused of rebellion against the Empire. In Solitary Confinement, deep within the bowls of the prison ship, she found two of the most notorious smugglers of all time, Han Solo and the Wookie Chewbacca. The group would soon find out that they could not escape from the Purge, mostly due to the fact that the derelict Star Destroyer Vector. The four surviving member would eventually travel to the massive ship and locate the tractor beam and disable it. The group would soon find out that it was easier said than done.

Early Life
"Time is muscle. Time is brain."

- A saying Zahara's surgery teacher taught her during her time on Rhinnal

Little is known about Zahara's life prior to the disease aboard Purge. However, it was known that she indeed did go to medical school at a school on the planet of Rhinnal. She was the daughter of fairly wealthy parents, who took a dim view of her interest in medicine. After working on several aid missions, Zahara decided to join the Empire and was transferred to the Purge as its chief medical officer. During her early time as the chief medical officer aboard the Purge, Zahara became friendly with a Devaronian inmate named Gat, who she regarded as one of the "good" prisoners.

Escaping Purge
Zahara Cody worked as the chief medical officer of the Imperial Prison Barge Purge. During a routine day, the main thrusters on the Purge had malfunctioned and eventually stopped working all together. After drifting, Purge happened upon a derelict Star Destroyer. A scouting party was soon sent aboard the ship to salvage for parts. They brought back the parts but also a horrible disease. The infirmary on the ship was overwhelming with sick prisoners and already dead prisoners. The boarding party was put in isolation to try to contain the disease. After basically everyone was dead, Zahara went up to talk to Tisa, a droid built into Purge that knew everything about the Purge. Zahara asked Tisa what the life count aboard the Purge was. Tisa replied six; with two in solitary confinement, located in the lowest levels of the ship. Zahara thought that since solitary confinement was so deep into the ship and was rarely visited, that maybe the infection had not reached the personnel and inmates yet. Zahara hoped there would be survivors.

Zahara then traveled down to the lower levels to solitary confinement. When she exited the turbolift, she almost tripped over a couple of guards who had succumbed to the virus. In the second cell Zahara opened, she found Han Solo and his first mate Chewbacca, who had not been infected by the virus yet. Just to be safe, Zahara injected the two with an anti-virus she had produced with her medical droid Waste. They made their way back to the turbolift. Zahara realized that the bodies were not there. The group entered the turbolift and made their way back to the medbay. When they arrived, all the bodies that had been in the beds and on the floor were all gone; nowhere to be found. Zahara found Waste on the floor, ripped to pieces. She had a little conversation with Waste, and when she turned around, Han and Chewbacca were nowhere to be found. They had just dissapeared. They returned shortly with Kale Longo and Trig Longo. When the group was reunited, they traveled back up to talk with Tisa. Tisa showed them a technical readout of the prison barge. There were red dots on the screen that represented life-forms. When Dr. Cody had been there a little while ago there were only six. Now there seemed to be hundreds, maybe even thousands. All moving in massive groups. There only choice of surviving was to try to make it out to the derelict Star Destroyer. They traveled to the docking tube the Purge had used to attach itself to the Star Destroyer; evading groups of the undead. The things had found them and were secretly following them now. They finally made it to the docking-tube. They made it through the tube just in time and sealed it air-tight so that none of the things could follow them. After much traveling and dismay, the last surviving group of the Purge had finally made it through the winding passages of the prison barge and made it to Vector.

Journey throughout Vector
After a lifetime of running from the undead all throughout the Purge, the last surviving members of the prison ship finally made it to the great labyrinth that was Vector. The groups first directive was to travel to the cockpit and turn off the tractor beam. But since Kale Longo was too weak to travel, Zahara volunteered to stay behind with Kale and wait. That decision would soon come to haunt Zahara as it would result in the loss of a great friend.

Loss of Kale
Han, Chewbacca, and Trig went along to try to find the cockpit of the master destroyer to turn off the tractor beam, while Zahara and Kale stayed in put. Before they sealed up the hatch, Kale had gotten bitten on the leg. Zahara tried to save Kale by cutting off his leg, but it was too late, the disease had already ravaged the lower half of his body and was starting to crawl up to above his waist. The hatch suddenly burst open and the things started to chase after them. Zahara started to drag Kale, but his face was obliterated by a blaster bolt shot by one of the things chasing after them. Zahara decided there was nothing she could do for him now, and left him. She forced herself not to look back at Kale, knowing she had lost a great friend.

Bio-lab 242
"What happened here? What did you do?"

- Zahara trying to communicate with the infected researcher

Zahara just kept running. After what seemed like forever, she lost track of where she was. She surmised that she was somewhere still in the main hanger area, but further back. Zahara leaned herself against the wall, temples throbbing. Zahara was listening. Listening for any sound or movement that warned her of the zombies arrival. But the corridor she was in was absolutely silent. She started to walk forward and looked to her left to see a hatchway with a sign posted over it that read BIO-LAB 242. She entered it to find dozens of empty, glass-enclosed cells. The whole entire chamber smelled like antiseptic and chemicals, most likely because the ventilation fans had been motionless for quite a time. Walking forward, Zahara noticed the dead computer terminals, all the keys scattered across floor. Zahara continued to walk forward, finding a somewhat operation computer terminal, lines of text and a cursor on the screen awaiting a reply. She tapped a key and more data came zooming past the screen, too fast for her to read. It stopped again, the cursor still clicking. The wall in front of her clicked and opened to reveal a thick pane of glass. Across the pane of glass was another hive-cell. This was contained two yellow corpses dangling from the ceiling by various tubes and wires. Zahara heard another click and the ventilation fans switched on. Without warning, one of the corpses raised it's head. The fans were starting to pump fresh air into the cell. Then the other corpse next to it followed by doing the same thing. They started swaying back and forth, all of the wires and tubes starting to peel off of their decaying skin; except for one single wire attached to their chests, collecting a strange black liquid.

Behind her, she surprisingly heard a footstep scraping across the lab floor. She spun around to see nothing but darkness. a shape suddenly emerge from between two workstations, something crunching beneath it's foot. She saw a syringe on the floor, her only weapon. But the mysterious figure had vanished. A loud sound filled the lab. one of the corpses had started to slam it's body against the glass, leaving a giant red smear. It hit the glass again, harder. Zahara then bolted across the room, grabbed two syringes, and felt something move in behind her. Zahara spun around and it grabbed her. Zahara looked and saw that it was a decaying researcher, obviously one that had been infected by the disease. She rammed the syringe into the decaying researcher's eye socket. The thing screamed and collapsed under it's own weight. Zahara started for the exit, but the thing was trying to communicate, saying gibberish. The researcher then took the syringe from it's eye socket and started to scrape it along the floor, trying to write something. Zahara couldn't understand it, it was scribbles. The researcher then jumped on top of Zahara, pinning her to the ground.

The researcher put both of its cold hands around her neck, choking her. Zahara tried to resist but there was no way. There was a metallic cling, like saw on bone. A strange liquid splashed onto her hair, along with the cold hands sliding off her neck. Zahara looked up and saw a surgical bone saw halfway through its head. Zahara was surprised to see a familiar face, Waste. However, it turned out to not be Waste, but a totally different 2-1B. Zahara asked if the 2-1B could tell her anything about what the Imperials were doing here. The 2-1B knew barely nothing, but did direct her to a functioning workstation. The 2-1B told her that there was a couple of undisturbed stations in the hangar control center. The 2-1B then plotted a route there, specifically avoiding the hangar itself. Zahara then thanked her rescuer and followed the route the droid had given her.

Final escape
"That gray liquid in those tanks was a highly refined version of the virus. The whole operation was set up to create an unlimited supply of it, probably so that the Empire could manipulate its behavior wherever they wanted"

- Zahara explaining Blackwing

The 2-1B had been very exact in its directions: first, the droid had sent Zahara through a Byzantine of walkways that led her to a service lift, then she continued on the lift all the way up to the pilot's room, and finally through a set of doors that opened to the hangar control itself. Thankfully, Zahara had encountered no obstacles or resistance on her travel.

Zahara had tried three keyboards before she found one that worked. She typed in the word blackwing. The words "password accepted" crawled across the screen. Zahara told the computer to access the Star Destroyer's tractor beam. Zahara told it to diable the tractor beam. The computer could not comply because it had already been turned off. Han, Chewbacca, and Trig had succeeded. Zahara then typed in the question "What is blackwing?". The computer responded with the words "Galactic virus dissemination and distribution algorithm." The last thing the computer said was "Project status: In progress." Since the room Zahara was in overlooked the hangar, Zahara looked down and saw that all of the things were climbing into different kinds of spacecraft. Zahara understood now: they were leaving. Zahara noticed that the things were carrying black tanks on their backs. This disease was a method in which the Empire could anywhere it wanted in the galaxy. As a group, the things started to move an X-wing, pointing it up to where exactly Zahara was standing. There was a blinding column of flame hurtling towards her.

Zahara was able to warn Trig, Han, and Chewbacca via comlink; telling them to stay away. Zahara was able to get in muttled words such as "under attack", "too many of them" and "laser cannon." Trig, Chewbacca, and Han finally made it to their destination, Freebird. The group had thought that Zahara was gone, but they had no choice: they had to board the shuttle or die. After with much opposition from Trig, the trio boarded the shuttle. They then found Pauling and Tanner, two of the survivng members of Vector. The group powered up the shuttle, with Han as the pilot. Multiple ships followed, with the undead piloting. Han punched it and the shuttle made it out of the hangar; but not before one of the undead slithered onto the ship. The thing tore Pauling and Tanner apart and devoured their flesh, while Chewbacca and Trig hid in the corner. Han headed for the cabin and saw the sight. He groped for his blaster, but the comforting feel was not there. The Next thing everyone heard was a blaster being shot, by Zahara Cody herself. Chewbacca then ran over, picked the undead Imperial up, and began to slam it down on the shuttle floor. Zahara told Chewbacca to put it down, that she should shoot it again. The thing started to convulse, grayish liquid spewing from its mouth. The group looked out the viewport and saw that all the ships had stopped moving. Zahara told them that that was Blackwing's flaw. She then told the trio that the grayish substance inside the tanks they had seen earlier was a highly refined version of the virus.

Personality and Traits
"Your sweet on cons. I'll bet if I were some low-life Rebel scum you'd treat me like your only patient. Every sob story that comes along, you're ready with a sympathetic ear."

- Jareth Sartoris

Zahara had a habit of forming friendships with prisoners who visited sick bay. This caused her to be shunned slightly by other imperial personnel. After the Purge's voyage, she planned to leave imperial corrections. Zahara concluded that even though she was going to leave Imperial Corrections, she had gained invaluable life experiences and learned more about herself than she could ever imagine. Even when sick inmates and guards had flooded the medbay, Zahara had not regretted what she had done for the Empire.

Letter to her father
In a letter to her father, she stated that she was planning to resign her post soon and take a position in another organization. Zahara also wrote a second, shorter letter telling him of a medical situation aboard Purge that had killed many people. She stated that isolation and quarantine had no effect to the virus and that she felt it only a matter of time before she became infected as well. She was one of the few people immune to the disease. Zahara Cody made an anti-virus which she gave to Han Solo, and Chewbacca. She did, however, manage to survive the events, along with Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Trig Longo.

The letters were later recovered aboard Purge after its occupants were all but wiped out by the plague.

Skills and Abilities
As a doctor and chief medical officer onboard Purge, she had a great and ever expanding knowledge of human anatomy and physiology. Zahara was a headstrong individual who persevered through every sort of complication she encountered. Zahara was also a relatively strong individuak, On one such occasion was when Zahara encountered the surviving researcher onboard Purge, she thought on her feet and reached for one of the needles and stabbed it into the researchers eye socket. She soon overpowered the researcher with brute force and threw him off of her.

Appearances

 * Death Troopers
 * Star Wars Galaxies