Seyn Marana

Seyn Marana
Biographical information
Born	c. 20 BBY
Died	0 ABY, Jeosyn
Descriptive information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Dark brown
Skin color	Light brown
Chronological and political information
Affiliation(s)	Galactic Empire Imperial Academy of Uyter Naval Intelligence Agency Inferno Squad Dreamers (as a spy)

"Seyn Marana, you possess the gift of eidetic memory, which has served you well throughout your career. You graduated top of your class at the Imperial Academy of Uyter a full year early—and with honors. You speak…twenty-seven languages, is that correct?"

―Admiral Garrick Versio

Seyn Marana was a female human who served the Galactic Empire. After graduating a year early from the Imperial Academy of Uyter, she worked with Naval Intelligence Agency before joining Inferno Squad. She was killed while undercover with the squad and infiltrating the Dreamers.

Biography

Early career

During the Imperial Era, Marana studied at the Imperial Academy of Uyter. Possessing an eidetic memory, Marana was a master cryptologist and a superior shot who could take out any foe at over five kilometers, knew 29 languages, and could write seven more. Her unique skill set allowed her to graduate at the top of her class a year early with honors. After graduation, she worked at the Naval Intelligence Agency for surveillance, a skill that her eidetic memory allowed her to excel at.

Joining Inferno Squad

"Hang on, Commander Meeko. We might want to sell that bottle and make a small fortune."

―Seyn Marana to Del Meeko

Days after the Battle of Yavin, Marana was concentrating intently on her assignments following the destruction of the Death Star. The battle station’s demise affected Marana greatly and she dedicated herself to her work in the immediate aftermath of its end. Her assistant Ensign Jastin Vrayn informed that she had received a communication from Admiral Garrick Versio. She was aware of Versio, and had worked on some cross-faction cases for him, but she had never met or interacted with him and was surprised that he knew her name. However, she knew the message would be of high importance.

Marana arrived at Versio’s office and introduced herself to Senior Lieutenant Iden Versio, and Lieutenants Del Meeko and Gideon Hask who had also all received the summons. Versio entered the room and quickly directed their attention to the holoprojector in the center of the table where they were made to watch the destruction of the Death Star. While watching the footage, Marana’s eyes widened and lips parted in shock. Versio explained that he had gathered them as he was creating a team and deduced that the assembled four represented the finest the Empire could field. He praised Marana for her achievements at the Imperial Academy of Uyter, her grasp of languages and her eidetic memory. Despite never seeing combat action while at NavInt, Admiral Versio trusted her capabilities and thought she was a valuable addition to the team. The new team’s mission would be to recover information, artifacts, or individuals that would prove harmful to the Empire if they fell into the wrong hands.

Versio tasked each member with creating a plan for their upcoming first mission, and the agent whose plan was selected would become squad leader, a title that was eventually afforded to Iden. Marana asked the Admiral if they were free to discuss their ideas amongst themselves and share the information they had been provided. After a moment of consideration, Versio allowed the idea. Before the team left for their lodging at the Diplomat Hotel, Versio informed them they would be known as Inferno Squad.

In the Diplomat, Marana informed the team that their conversations within the lift were not recorded, but their images were. She informed them that there were a lot of secrets discussed that people did not want overheard. When they entered their shared suite, Marana was impressed to discover the propaganda posters that adorned the walls were created by Iden’s mother, Zeehay Versio. As the new squad settled in, Marana questioned Iden whether she thought the assignment was difficult given the commanding officer was her father, but she denied the idea. As they began to bond over a bottle of Alderaanian Toniray wine that Versio provided, Marana joked that they might want to sell the bottle and make a fortune. Each member delivered a toast to their new team, and Marana delivered hers in the Ahak Maharr language, a guttural, deep-pitched language punctuated by the sound of Marana clacking her teeth together. When the other three members looked at her warily, Marana burst into a wide smile at their reactions. She told them that the speech translated to ‘May we rend the flesh of our enemies, and drink their blood as we do this liquid before us.’ Hask was highly impressed and requested that Marana teach it to him, but she informed him it was difficult to pronounce Ahak Maharr if you did not have tusks. She relaxed into the night with the exceedingly rare wine and chatted easily with Meeko.

The following morning, Marana joined the team in the suite in her impeccable NavInt uniform before heading to Versio’s conference room. There he commended each member of the squad for their reports and praised Marana for her intelligence-backed knowledge of the situation. After confirming Iden’s report was his preferred choice, Marana and the team were provided with the plan for their first mission.

Initial Missions

"Thanks for catching him."
"Thanks for knocking him out."

―Seyn Marana and Gideon Hask

Admiral Versio had tasked Inferno Squad with infiltrating the wedding of Famma Pereez, the daughter of Moff Jaccun Pereez, on Arvaka Prime to recover sensitive Imperial information the moff was intending to sell. Marana and Hask were to pose as a couple at the wedding, with Marana having to wear an exquisite pale-purple shimmersilk gown, much to her chagrin as she disliked dresses. As she completed her outfit change and prepared for the mission, she believed her plan of confronting Pereez with forged documents that implicated him in matters that would see him in deep trouble was a better option. Marana had forged the wedding invitations beforehand and Meeko had been able to conceal recording devices throughout the moff’s mansion by posing as a member of the event decoration team. She warned Hask not to lay it on too thick as he offered her his hand to join the wedding, but she took it nonetheless along with their wedding gift of sunfruit liquor which she had laced with ten milligrams of deraformine - which Marana referred to as the life-after-death drug. The effects of the drug would make it appear as if the moff had died, though he would fully recover after a short while, meaning Marana and Hask could locate and extract the information they were there for. With earpieces inserted deep into their ear canals, the pair entered the wedding without incident where she adopted the name of Lady Dezara Monay. Marana had concocted histories for both her character and Hask’s pseudonym, Brixx Gavan. She ensured they were elaborate enough to use during small talk but simple enough to remember.

They made their way to the VIP area of the event and were met by a serving droid that Meeko had reprogrammed to assist them. Marana quietly instructed the droid to shadow the moff. They were greeted by Sind Reloran, one of the groomsmen, to whom Marana presented the liquor and suggested that the moff make a toast with it at some point. The pair made their way to the moff’s library where Meeko had hidden a small security code descrambler. After Hask located it, Marana confirmed that Pereez had been presented with the sunfruit liquor. She told Hask that the moff was likely struggling not to immediately consume the rare alcohol, adding that they did not need him to, but it would create a welcome distraction if he did.

Marana flew as Inferno Four

Marana knew that the wisest thing Pereez could have done was to keep incriminating documents offsite but still be easily accessible. She also believed that the second-wisest option was to hide them somewhere no one would think to look, but knew people fell back on habit, laziness and familiarity. Because of this, she reckoned the moff had a safe in his personal office where the information would be located. As Pereez began drinking the liquor, the pair headed to the master bedroom where, upon unlocking the moff’s safe with the descrambler, did not find the information inside. Meeko told them to keep looking near the safe, and Marana located the datachip behind a painting of a young Famma. She hid the chip in the bodice of her gown and proceeded to make her exit with Hask. By that time, Pereez had succumbed to the effects of the drug, and the pair were stopped by a guard before they could leave. However, Marana rendered him unconscious with a thunderous uppercut, much to the delight of Hask. Kicking off her high heels, Marana sprinted to the squad’s shuttle with the datachip and information they had set out to extract. Iden congratulated them on a successful mission, though Marana admitted she felt bad for the moff, stating they had put him through a scare on his daughter’s wedding day.

Following the success of their first mission, Marana and the rest of Inferno Squad earned promotions, giving her the title of Agent. They were also presented with the Corvus, which would become their mobile base of operations, and Dio, an ID10 seeker droid. Marana was stunned following a cursory inspection of the ship’s databanks, telling Admiral Versio that the squad were the beneficiaries of his experience and how grateful she was.

In the weeks following, Marana isolated herself and studied the most up-to-date intel available in between missions. The subsequent missions following Arvaka Prime were generally not long-term and could be completed within a few hours if implemented successfully. During the missions, Meeko and Iden expressed surprise at the behaviors of certain Imperials, but Marana told them this was not untypical behavior stating that having worked in intelligence for a long time, she had seen a lot of surprising things.

Infiltrating the Dreamers

Tellik Four Station Extraction

"Inferno-One, we should abort right now."

―Seyn Marana to Iden Versio

Versio convened the team and provided them with their next mission - infiltrating a partisan cell known as the Dreamers who were comprised of the survivors of Saw Gerrera’s Partisans. During the meeting, Marana confirmed Iden’s confidential information that the incident on Jedha before the Battle of Scarif was not a mining accident, but the first test of the Death Star selected specifically to eliminate Gerrera and his partisans. She confirmed that while Gerrera and many of his partisans had died during the test, NavInt had evidence that several individual partisans were not on the planet at the time. Versio firmly told his team that the Dreamers had gained access to highly sensitive information that they were using to target the Empire. The squad were instructed to extract Bokk Naarg, a Sullustan partisan who claimed to have information on where the Dreamers had been getting their intel, from Tellik Four Station.

Hask was tasked with entering the Singularity Club at the trading post and gaining Naarg’s trust, as Marana monitored from the Corvus at Bay 47. She informed the others that several Imperial officers were regulars at the club and NavInt had been gathering information to blackmail them if they ever needed to discipline them. When Hask had enquired why Inferno Squad were given the mission rather than the Sullustan’s already-established Imperial contact, Marana bluntly stated that the agent had multiple contacts and could not risk having his identity discovered, adding that she did not believe Hask appreciated how convoluted espionage was.

When Naarg arrived with an unexpected entourage, Marana noted that their jewellery potentially concealed explosives as partisan suicide attacks were becoming more common. Marana continued to monitor the club’s patrons, but became wary when Naarg demanded that his Pantoran accomplice Sharima would also need extracting. She demanded that Iden abort the mission as it was beginning to stray from the agreed plan, but the order was denied. All of her tightly-honed instincts were telling her that they were walking into a trap. Her suspicions were confirmed when another of Naarg’s accomplices deduced that Hask was potentially an Imperial trying to recruit Naarg. She informed Hask of the information as Iden, in stormtrooper armor to blend in, headed to Hask to assist with his extraction and escape.

After Dio had retrieved a datachip containing a portion of Naarg’s intel, Marana worked remotely to aid Iden and Hask in their escape. When her comrades returned to the ship, tensions became heated as Iden blasted Hask for disobeying a direct order leading to Naarg’s death in the chaos. Marana angrily added that the mission turned sour the moment Naarg arrived with an entourage and that it should have been aborted instantly. She believed that their actions had jeopardized the safety of other undercover agents who had gained Naarg’s trust. When Hask retorted that the agents would be fine now that multiple partisans were dead, Marana argued his point was irrelevant as the mission was to extract Naarg to gain information from him. She claimed the mission had been a failure aside from two Imperial officers surviving the blast that killed the Sullustan. Marana was able to inspect the data on the chip and surmised that they had not left the mission empty-handed, though Iden scolded her for twice demanding they abort the mission before relenting and admitting Marana had been right with her analysis of the situation. However, the incident would make news across the galaxy.

Beginning the Mission

"He means that my body is going to be altered to corroborate my cover story. It’s commonplace for undercover operations like this one."

―Seyn Marana

After their failed mission, Admiral Versio assigned Inferno Squad to directly infiltrate the Dreamers base. The four Imperial agents would be split up and infiltrate the partisans with different backstories. Marana was visibly uncomfortable with the idea and asked Versio why Inferno Squad were being sent ahead of Imperial Security Bureau agents. After questioning whether Marana was up to the task, he replied that Inferno Squad’s collective experience with weapons, vessels, and action made them the perfect team to complete the mission. He informed the squad the Dreamers were planning to attack Otor's Hub, a space station located in the Ojostor sector of the Outer Rim Territories, and eliminate the handful of merchants known to spy for the Empire, including Rudaga, the Dug owner of an antique store. The Dug would be informed that Marana was to join him in his store as an undercover operative. Posing as his slave, he would teach her enough about the business that the Dreamers would not suspect her when they arrived. Versio told her that she would inform the Dreamers that she had been trained in forgery by Rudaga, and her story of mistreatment would ensure the partisans rescued her from her enslavement. Marana was reminded that she would require her body to be altered to corroborate her story, a commonplace necessity for undercover operations. She allowed her body to receive scarification and other symbols of abuse under the guise of Shum Laudor, a specialist recommended by Versio.

Undercover on Otor’s Hub

"Take me with you! I hated Rudaga, I hate everyone here. Please!"

―Seyn Marana to the Dreamers

Marana spent much of her time in Rudaga’s shop practising her forgery skills but suspected the Dug enjoyed having a ‘slave’ to do his bidding. She had researched him before she arrived and believed he had become a liability who would not be missed when he died. To lend her backstory further credence, Versio sent spies to the station and Marana would provide them with datachips to return to NavInt. She amused herself by loading the chips with false information that would be useless to anyone who attempted to break the code.

Eventually, the Dreamers arrived at the station - the day that Marana had been waiting for. She had spent several hours in simulators and completed numerous live-fire exercises but she had limited field experience. She was excited to transition from staring at vidscreens to a place where she could actively participate. As the partisans opened fire on their targets within the station, Rudaga anxiously asked whether they had arrived as part of her cover. She lied and confirmed that they had and instructed him to wait in his office with his Trandoshan security guards for his safety. As the cowardly Dug hurried to his office, Marana caught one final gust of his old-cheese odor and knew the galaxy would be better off without him in it.

With the Dug gone, Marana slipped into her slave persona and stumbled toward the front of the shop, tripping on an old statuette of the Voolukarian fertility god Kuk'waibi. Kuk’waibi’s stone Spear of Desire stabbed her arm and she used the pain to bring tears to her eyes. Reaching the front of the store, she surveyed the area whilst keeping a look of wild panic on her face. She saw three partisans - a male Kage, a Twi’lek female, and a human male - heading towards her and she hurried their way when they approached close enough. With tears in her eyes and the neckline of her tunic revealing an explosive shock collar around her throat, she shouted to the Dreamers that their target, Rudaga, was in his office. With a precision that surprised Marana, the partisans moved in and eliminated Rudaga and his guards swiftly before moving on. Marana followed them as they moved through the station, traversing a sea of corpses, and eventually begged them to let her join them. The Twi’lek, Dahna, instructed Marana to head to their ship where a Chadra-Fan named Piikow would remove her collar. The human partisan, Kaev attempted to prevent her from boarding the ship, but Marana played on her cover story and pleaded with them. Dahna overruled him and brought her onboard where Piikow successfully removed the collar before the partisans departed the station in their ship. Onboard, Dahla scolded Kaev for not following orders, a move that surprised Marana as she had always seen Twi’leks as soft and kind. During the flight, Dahla showed Marana the small explosive orbs and detonators each partisan carried with them on their missions, causing Marana to realise that every mission the group ran was a suicide mission. She offered the ‘slave’ a ration cube, a container of nutritive milk and a meiloorun fruit, but Marana took only the milk and cube. Dahna stated she understood Marana’s reticence and mannerisms as she too had been a slave. The rest of the crew wanted to know what Marana might have done to help the Empire and what she could offer them, and Marana told them Rudaga used her knowledge of Basic to help him catalogue his stock. Dahna pushed her to reveal more information, and Marana hesitantly told them she had a steady hand and sharp eye and the Dug forced her to create forgeries to make stolen items look legitimate. She also told the partisans that she was proficient Huttese, but knew no other languages beside that and Basic. Dahna said they would take her back to their base and test her forgery skills, and when asking if Marana knew who they were, the Imperial said she assumed they were rebels. The Twi’lek confirmed they were the Dreamers and they would take her in.

In a quiet moment, Dahna acknowledged the scars and bruises that Marana carried and asked whether she had tried to kill Rudaga. Marana confirmed she had not but she would have liked to. Dahna told her not to think like that as that kind of killing was personal and ugly, but said what the Dreamers, and Marana, were doing was different as they aimed to end the Empire that allowed atrocities to happen to people like them. She snarled that the Empire’s actions were in service to themselves only and that Marana should not forget that. With Dahna’s treasonous words burned into her memory, she smiled at the Twi’lek and earnestly told her she would not.

Jeosyn

"Listen up, before anyone walks in on me. There’s something I have to tell you."

―Seyn Marana to Del Meeko

When Marana arrived at the Dreamers encampment, she was questioned and examined by group and their leader, Staven. After a short time, the three other members of Inferno Squad had joined the Dreamers' ranks, with Meeko and Hask posing as two brothers and Iden joining under the guise of being a defector. Marana continued to go by Seyn and was assigned multiple jobs forging documents by Staven, passing all her tests with flying colors, demonstrating a believable level of familiarity with computers and forgery, and turning out high-quality faked documents.

Dahna and Nadrine, a human partisan, had taken a shine to Marana quickly owing to her delicate and deceptively open, innocent appearance, and Sadori Vushan, the male Kage warrior, was quickly attracted to her. She found the mysterious Mentor to be puzzling as he was trusted and liked by the group but never participated in missions.

She had advised her Inferno Squad comrades against wearing communication devices of any sort due to the Dreamers’ potential access to cutting-edge technology, so their early communications were minimal until Meeko was able to amend their comlinks discreetly. Immediately after receiving her updated device, she contacted Meeko to inform him of a crucial piece of information she had learned. When Iden arrived after being rescued by Azen Novaren, who had been undercover as an Imperial for the Dreamers, Marana's eidetic memory allowed her to realize who he was. He was the disgruntled ISB agent Lar Kantayan, and Marana realized that it was likely he was operating on his own since she recalled his file saying he had multiple failures and was not recommended to be sent into service again. After eventually alerting Iden of the situation, Iden planned to set up Azen and expose him.

Whilst the squad waited for the opportunity to eliminate Azen, Marana found herself becoming impatient during the mission, and Sadori sensed it. The two shared many conversations about their emotions and she felt an unexpectedly soft feeling when Sadori opened up about his and his parent's, Ru and Halia's fears when he departed on missions. She began to use his feelings to her advantage, holding his hand and continuing to talk with him despite their need to continue working, in an effort to have him open up further about the partisans. He would bring her Dahna fruit and dance with her during downtime within the group.

Framing an Agent

"It’s all on there. Everything I could remember. Code names, alternate identities, the wording of his censures, everything. It should be of use."

―Seyn Marana to Del Meeko

Before the group’s Mission to Affadar to expose the planet’s duplicitous epoch Emoch Akagarti, Marana provided Meeko with a datapad containing everything she knew about Azen, including code names, alternate identities, and images. Meeko would then create fake conversations between Azen and an Imperial Intelligence officer to frame him. After handing him the datapad, she reminded Meeko that the Dreamers were the enemy after he showed concern for Piikow’s failing health.

Sadori later took her to a grotto a short speeder ride from the base, telling her he had been wanting to show her the location. She was initially internally hesitant, comparing her situation of having to pretend to be romantically interested in Sadori to the work her comrades were putting in. When she arrived at the cave, she gasped at its natural beauty. She and Sadori entered the grotto’s water and the pair marveled at the mystical and ethereal bioluminescence in the darkness. Sadori told her that he wanted to visit the cave with Marana as they were soon going on their first mission together and wanted to experience the beauty with her in case something went wrong. As the pair stood together in the water, Marana felt unwilling to leave as they listened to the sounds of the grotto and watched the glowing blue creatures dancing in the water.

During the Affadar operation, which claimed the lives of Nadrine and Kaev, Hask framed Azen for planting a homing device on the Jinata Security ship the Dreamers had used during the mission. When the group returned to the base, thanks to Marana’s intel and Meeko’s work in creating falsified information, Azen was deemed a traitor and tortured to death.

Later that evening, Iden assigned each of them to get close to the Dreamers, and Marana's task was to continue ingratiating with Sadori and his family. Before the squad departed back to the base, Iden asked Marana privately if there was anything more between her and Sadori that could cause complications for the mission, but Marana told her commanding officer that she did not love Sadori any more than Hask was Staven’s best friend. Iden apologised for questioning Marana’s judgement and was satisfied with her agent’s situation.

Mission to Anukara

"Sadori, it’s fine, it’s fine. Stay with me."

―Seyn Marana to Sadori Vushan

Staven had previously instructed Marana to work on forging identification cards for two students at a small university - one for Sadori, and one for her - promising to fill her in on the details when the time came. The Dreamers’ leader announced the next mission would be bombing a newly minted munitions factory on the planet Anukara. Marana and Sadori would go undercover as students who were visiting the new factory and would place bombs inside that would detonate and kill Moff Rys Deksha, General Ivel Toshan, and approximately four hundred schoolchildren who were on the field trip. Before the mission, Iden told Marana to follow through with the plan despite being bothered by the unnecessary civilian casualties herself, citing Admiral Versio's orders to allow Imperials to be sacrificed to ensure the eventual destruction of the Dreamers.

Preparing for the operation, Marana found herself impressed at Sadori’s ability to disguise his natural skin tone and appearance with concealing cosmetics and contact lenses. She and Sadori wore suicide bombs in case of discovery and Marana traveled with Dio, the ID10 unit disguised as a droid that helped Marana with a ‘medical condition’. Using the documents Marana had forged prior, the pair were able to gain entry into the school.

As the mission began, Marana felt nervous as she thought of the countless agents she had sent into the field on near-identical assignments who had not returned. She held Sadori’s hand as they took their seats on the transport that would take them to their destination, both wearing patches of the malleable explosives they would set. She communicated with Meeko throughout, her squadmate posing as her father.

When the tour reached the factory, Marana encountered a student named Anice. Upon learning of Marana’s ‘medical condition’, she offered her some of the chocolate she received for her birthday. Knowing the sweet was a delicacy in that part of the galaxy, Marana declined but Anice insisted, telling her that her kid brother would eat it when she got home. Hearing that, Marana went still knowing what the mission entailed.

When the students ended the tour in the reception area for a meet and greet with the moff and general, Marana assembled her explosive in the restroom. At this point, Marana got cold feet and decided to delay the bomb's timer from five to fifteen minutes so the students could escape, but did not inform Sadori. After they exited the building and made their way back to the ship, Sadori realized that something was wrong when the bomb did not detonate. She tried to insist nothing had gone wrong and pleaded with the Kage to return to the ship with her. He told her that he and his family had fought their whole lives for a peaceful future and he had to play his part to ensure that became a reality. She touched his cheek and told him it would be fine, her voice cracking with genuine emotion as she spoke. She thought to herself if he just stayed with her for ten more minutes, he and the children would live. With his final words to her, Sadori told Marana that he wished the future he fought for could have been with her, before kissing her passionately, and Marana reciprocated the gesture. As Sadori ran back towards the facility, Marana attempted to catch up to him before she stumbled and was collected by Meeko, who had arrived on the ship with Staven to extract the pair. Aboard the transports, they watched as Sadori's bomb exploded, killing him instantly, followed shortly by the delayed bomb Marana had set. Through her tear-filled eyes, Marana looked back down through the viewport to see the schoolchildren had escaped to safety.

Aftermath of Anukara

"Shut up. Just shut up. You, Del, Gideon—you’ll forget what you’ve seen, eventually. Not all of it. But time will soften it, and it’ll lose some of its punch. You’ll forget some of the details. But I won’t. I can’t."

―Seyn Marana to Iden Versio

The following days back on Jeosyn were a blur for Marana and she was not suspected by the Dreamers of playing a role in Sadori's death. She thought of him with pride and thought him a hero, though still felt conflicted that his final act had been to try and ensure the death of innocent children. Ru and Halia tried to comfort her and took care of her, knowing how much fondness their son had for her.

Iden tried to comfort her in private, but Marana told her that she took responsibility for the bodged mission. When Iden quietly reminded her that necessary sacrifices were a part of the mission, Marana replied that she agreed with the idea but it felt different in the field. She told Iden that she would never be able to stop replaying the events in her mind, and became angry when Iden said the whole team could understand that. Marana shouted at her commanding officer to shut up as she told her that her eidetic memory meant that she would never be able to forget what happened and she would have to relive the horrible moments as Sadori sacrificed himself unnecessarily. Iden apologised to her, and the pair stood in silence looking out in the dusk of night. When they returned to the base, Ru and Halia invited Marana to share the shun-rai - the Kage funeral meal.

Discovery and Death

"For the Empire!"

―Seyn Marana's final words

In the week following the loss of Sadori, Marana found herself sitting with his parents to eat and hear their stories about Sadori as a child. She would smile at their words and wished Sadori was there to be teased by those who cared for him, though she reminded herself that she was not Sadori’s love but a member of an elite squadron who still had a duty to perform.

Eventually, Staven provided her with work to complete, which she found comforting as she focused on his forgeries and eavesdropping on conversations within the base. One evening, while listening in on a conversation between Dahna, Ru, Halia, and Piikow regarding Staven’s distrust of Iden, Marana made the fatal mistake of interjecting in the conversation using the Chadra-Fan language to stand up for the Vushan family. Dahna realized that Marana had lied about how many languages she could speak, and Ru told her accusingly that Chadra-Fan was not a language one would simply pick up. The Twi’lek snarled at her saying she never suspected that Marana was in league with Azen as a spy. Marana attempted to convince herself that she would be fine but knew that it was a futile hope she clung to. The group were extremely fond of her, but following the factory mission, they were angry and looking for someone to blame. She tried to reason with them that she was just good at languages, and as a slave, she learnt to adapt quickly but Dahna gripped her wrists and dragged her to Staven and the rest of the Dreamers. Marana knew various ways to break her grip and was confident she could flee the base, but knew she had to fix her mistake. She began to cry and fearfully asked what she had done wrong, but Dahna did not loosen her grip despite Piikow’s mild protestations.

Reaching the main gathering space, Dahna threw Marana to the stone floor and explained to Staven and the group what Marana had done. Staven immediately assumed she had been eavesdropping the whole time, and Piikow deduced that the second detonation at the factory was down to Marana’s tampering with the explosive. She knew she could not look for mercy at that point and ensured she did not make eye contact with her Inferno Squad comrades, though she saw their horror out of the corner of her eyes. Ru drew her vibroblade and demanded to be the one to kill Marana as Staven and the Mentor argued as to whether she was an Imperial agent or not. When the Mentor suggested that they check Dio’s databanks, Marana knew she could not let that happen as there was no telling what they would find. It was then that she admitted to delaying the explosion, telling the group she could not participate in the murder of children, but she denied Staven’s claim that she was an Imperial agent. Seeing the pain that radiated from Ru and Halia hurt Marana but she realised that the Mentor, Piikow and Dahna were searching for reasons to believe her, while the others wanted a reason to kill her.

Staven took the vibroblade from Ru and approached Marana, standing close enough that she could smell his sweat. As he towered over her, Marana thought of Staven losing his temper and striking her down before she could tell him anything. Instead, Staven passed the weapon to Iden and told her to interrogate Marana. When Iden hesitated with her actions, Marana acted swiftly. With a wailing sound of fury, she lunged at Iden and impaled herself on the vibroblade. As the blade pierced through her, she stared at Iden with wide eyes and mouthed the word “yes” silently to her commanding officer. Marana used her final moments to raggedly, but defiantly, declare “For the Empire!”, before pulling the blade deeper. With a final gasp, her lifeless body crumpled to the ground. Her corpse was later dragged and tossed into a ditch outside of the base where, unbeknownst to everyone, it was collected by the native statue-like species of the planet and taken to the caverns below the surface where she would be laid to rest.

Legacy

"The Dreamers are no more. Seyn Marana gave her life to make sure that happened. And we honored her sacrifice by seeing to it that it did."

―Iden Versio

Marana's death marked the beginning of the end for the Dreamers. They would now be split, and be completely unaware of the three more Imperial agents in their ranks. Her sacrifice would mean the end of that cell, as they would start to turn on each other and become less effective. The surviving members of Inferno Squad went on to complete the mission and eliminate the Dreamers. While debriefing, Iden took responsibility for Marana's death, but Admiral Versio decided that it was nobody's fault and just an unfortunate loss. After her death, Marana was recommended for the Posthumous Black Laurel for Service to the Empire by the Admiral.

Personality and traits

Seyn Marana flies as Inferno Four

Seyn Marana was a human female with light brown skin, black hair, and dark brown eyes, with a diminutive frame - both small and slight. One of the brightest cadets at the Imperial Academy of Uyter, her eidetic memory helped her excel, graduating a full year early. She was able to learn almost thirty languages, including Basic, Huttese, Chadra-Fan, and Ahak Maharr. She was chosen as the fourth member of Inferno Squad despite never seeing combat during her young career at NavInt, which was a testament to her skillset that included forgery, cryptology, and tremendous skill as a marksmen. Admiral Versio noted that she was able to take out targets at over five kilometers.

She was an adept agent and worked well undercover, and she was capable of deep focus for extended periods of time. However, despite her skill, she accidentally revealed herself by understanding Chadra-Fan, a mistake that cost Marana her life. Although her persona undercover was not completely the same as her normal one, Staven thought that she reminded him of Jyn Erso, noting their comparable forging skills, age, and even their names. Although Marana was already a young woman, Iden Version thought that Marana looked even younger than her age.

Behind the scenes

Seyn Marana first appeared in the novel Battlefront II: Inferno Squad. After Iden Versio was added as a leader in the Star Wars: Unlimited set Spark of Rebellion, team member Tyler Parrott was determined to fit Marana into the game. Parrott had become attached to the character and did not want to see her ignored. While the side of her head is seen on the Inferno Squad cover, Unlimited was not allowed to depict her face, so she was depicted via flying her TIE fighter.

Appearances

• Star Wars Battlefront II (Mentioned only)
• Battlefront II: Inferno Squad (First appearance, simultaneous with Battlefront II: Inferno Squad audiobook)
• Battlefront II: Inferno Squad audiobook

Sources

• Star Wars: X-Wing Second Edition — Galactic Empire Conversion Kit (Card: Seyn Marana) (Reissued in TIE/ln Fighter Expansion Pack)
• Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
• Star Wars: Timelines
• Star Wars: Unlimited — Spark of Rebellion (Card: Inferno Four—Unforgetting) (SWUDB backup link)

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