Llerd

"Yes, sir."

- Llerd

Llerd was a barrel-chested Human male serving Naga Sadow's Sith invasion fleet in 5000 BBY as a Lieutenant aboard the Sith dreadnaught Harbinger. He unhesitatingly accepted orders from his superiors and enjoyed watching his enemies die. When the Jedi Master Relin Druur infiltrated the Harbinger and used explosives to damage the ship's hyperdrive, Llerd and all of its occupants were sent over 5000 years into the future to the year 41.5 ABY. Llerd was promoted to Colonel by the Harbinger Captain, the Sith Lord Saes Rrogon, and oversaw the reparations of the warship's instrumentation and the pursuit of an enemy freighter by Blade-class starfighters. When it was discovered that Druur was aboard, Llerd hunted for the Jedi from the ship's secondary bridge, but was killed when Druur used the dark side of the Force to destroy the Harbinger.

Biography
"You are acting executive officer, Colonel Llerd."

- Saes Rrogon, promoting Llerd

In the year 5000 BBY, Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow dispatched two ships from his invasion fleet, Harbinger and Omen, to the Phaegon system in order to obtain Lignan, a rare ore powerful in the dark side of the Force. Sadow hoped to use the ore to bolster his forces at the upcoming Battle of Kirrek during his invasion of the Galactic Republic. Llerd was a Lieutenant on the Harbinger bridge night-watch crew, and was off-duty while the two Sith dreadnaughts bombarded the largest moon of the planet Phaegon III, exposing the Lignan beneath its crust. During the bombardment, the Harbinger was boarded by the hostile Jedi Master Relin Druur. When the ship's Captain, the Kaleesh Sith Lord Saes Rrogon, was alerted to Druur's presence, he ordered both warships to return to Sadow's fleet at Primus Goluud, but was foiled when Druur damaged the Harbinger hyperdrive by detonating explosives. Druur's Padawan Drev Hassin crashed his Infiltrator starfighter into the ship's bridge seconds before it entered hyperspace, and the compounded damage caused the Harbinger to misjump, failing to enter a hyperspace tunnel and traveling through time to the year 41.5 ABY.

Away from the bridge, Rrogon was able to use The Force to pull the ship back into realspace in an unfamiliar system, and ordered all members of the bridge night-watch crew to the secondary bridge. Unaware of the Harbinger new temporal location, Llerd arrived at the bridge and, noticing that the ship's instrumentation was down, ordered a full stop. He alerted his crew when Rrogon arrived on the bridge, and was promoted to Colonel on the spot by the Captain, replacing Los Dor, who had died with the rest of the original bridge crew. Llerd was also named acting executive officer, and was tasked with overseeing repairs of the instrumentation and scanning surrounding space in an effort to determine their location. As his crew undertook those tasks, Llerd watched, nearly hypnotized, as Rrogon tapped a bleeding finger against one of his jaw horns, but regained his composure when the Captain instructed him to order security to perform a room-by-room sweep of the ship for their wayward Jedi. Llerd began working on repairing the ship's instrumentation, and the Harbinger systems began to come online one-by-one. When the scanners became operational, they revealed the presence of a nearby disk-like freighter. Llerd also noticed one of the ship's escape pods in nearby realspace, and was ordered to fire on it. He informed Rrogon that the ship's weapons systems were still offline, and was consequently ordered to deploy two squadrons of Blade-class starfighters.

As the freighter, called Junker, fled into the rings of the system's gas giant, Llerd relayed an order from Rrogon calling for the Blade starfighters to pursue it. Rrogon was then told by the ship's science droid, 8L6, of the time travel that had occurred, and ordered an ignorant Llerd not to monitor or scan any local subspace channels. Llerd was eager to see Junker destroyed, and when it jettisoned its cargo into an asteroid, he believed that the Blade starfighters had succeeded. Rrogon shared his belief, and ordered the Colonel to put the Harbinger into orbit around the gas giant's moon. Llerd was also told not to plot a course to Primus Goluud should the hyperdrive be fixed. The Captain retreated to his quarters, content that the Jedi had been killed. Several hours later, a shuttle appeared in realspace beneath the Harbinger and penetrated its deflector shields, entering the warship's landing bay. Cautious of potential explosives aboard the shuttle, Llerd dispatched all available security to the bay and isolated the area. He then commed Rrogon, and both men realized that Junker had not actually been destroyed. Rrogon cut the call off, but commed Llerd again moments later when it was discovered that Druur was aboard the ship.

Llerd informed his Captain that he had been unable to locate the Jedi despite a trail of bodies, and was told by Rrogon that Druur was in the cargo bay. As Llerd prepared to call security, he was informed that Rrogon would face the Jedi alone. Llerd acquiesced as he was told to evacuate all personnel from the cargo bay. Rrogon engaged Druur in a lightsaber duel, but was killed by the Jedi, who, having fallen to the dark side, drew in power from the Lignan in the cargo bay and used the Force to destroy the ship, killing Llerd and everyone on board.

Personality and traits
"...the eagerness in his voice betraying a desire to see something die."

- Saes Rrogon's thoughts on Llerd

Llerd was a barrel-chested man who served Naga Sadow's Sith fleet as a Lieutenant. He was respectful to his superior officers, and unhesitatingly accepted orders, even if they perplexed him or placed others' lives in danger. When he ordered Blade starfighters to pursue the Junker, he was eager to see his quarry die, and his face became flush when he believed that they had been killed. When observing Saes Rrogon tap a bleeding finger against a jaw horn, he watched his Captain as if hypnotized.

Behind the scenes
Llerd was created by author Paul S. Kemp for his 2010 novel Crosscurrent. The book has been Llerd's only appearance to date.

Appearances
Crosscurrent