Irizi'in'daro

Lakinda, a Chiss female, was originally born into a family of little significance within an Oyokal farming community. In order to join the Chiss Expansionary Defense Fleet, she left the community, and became a merit adoptive of the esteemed Xodlak family, receiving the name Xoldak'in'daro (Lakinda). Feeling indebted to the Forty Great Families for accepting her, she began to ascend through the ranks, aiming to bring honor to both herself and her new family, with the ultimate goal of elevating the Xodlak to the status of Ruling Families.

By the time the Nikardun threat was neutralized during the Battle over Primea around 19 BBY, Lakinda had risen to the rank of Senior Captain of the Chiss heavy cruiser Grayshrike. As a member of Admiral Ar'alani's fleet, specifically Picket Force Six, she collaborated with the Nightdragon man-of-war Vigilant and the heavy cruiser Springhawk, under the command of Senior Captain Mitth'raw'nuruodo Thrawn, to eliminate the remaining Nikardun bases within the Vak Combine. During the battle at the third to last base, the Nikardun's resistance proved unexpectedly strong. The Grayshrike's thrusters sustained damage from a fortunate hit, impairing its maneuverability. Consequently, Lakinda was forced to accept assistance from the Springhawk and remained behind while the Vigilant continued searching the system. Despite her protests, believing the Grayshrike was capable of participating, Ar'alani, aware of Lakinda's aversion to being excluded from action, tasked her with scanning the system for any additional Nikardun forces. Lakinda accepted the task with enthusiasm. After Thrawn and the Springhawk departed on a clandestine mission to the Rapacc system, Ar'alani and Lakinda proceeded to the second to last known Nikardun base, only to discover nine destroyed Nikardun ships. While gathering data and speculating about the force responsible for the destruction, they received a message from Supreme Admiral Ja'fosk, ordering Thrawn and the Springhawk to return to Csilla immediately. With Thrawn out of communication range, Lakinda volunteered to deliver the message herself. After Lakinda voiced concerns about the Vigilant's safety, Ar'alani assured her that her ship was fully capable of handling the last Nikardun base, and the Grayshrike departed for Rapacc.

During the journey to the Rapacc system, Lakinda contemplated her current predicament. The damage to her thrusters in the recent battle against the Nikardun and her assignment as a messenger left her feeling frustrated and deprived of the glory that she believed rightfully belonged to the Xodlak family. She firmly believed that the Grayshrike could have defeated the Nikardun independently. She also entertained suspicions that Ar'alani and Thrawn were secretly conspiring to favor the Mitth family, despite the lack of evidence. Being relatively far from Rapacc, Lakinda attempted to persuade her sky-walker, Bet'nih, with a specific dark cheese to navigate the ship faster through hyperspace, but without success. They arrived near the Rapacc system twenty-nine hours after leaving the Vigilant, from where they sent a tight-beam transmission to Thrawn. While awaiting a response from the Springhawk, Bet'nih was escorted back to her room by her caregiver, Soomret. Soomret commented on how some military officers disregard the needs of sky-walkers, prompting Lakinda to internally roll her eyes, considering the fact that the caregiver had arrived thirty minutes later than the sky-walker manuals suggests. As Bet'nih rose from her navigation chair, she struggled to maintain her balance, experiencing the aftereffects of Third Sight. Mid Commander Wikivv, who was at the helm station, reacted swiftly to catch her, already familiar with these issues. After Bet'nih and Soomret left the bridge, Wikivv informed Lakinda that younger sky-walkers often experience these effects after spending more than five or six hours navigating. Consequently, Lakinda decided to address the issue with Supreme Admiral Ja'fosk and the Defense Hierarchy Council, aiming to limit sky-walkers to nine hours, or twelve hours in an emergency situation. As the Springhawk remained unresponsive, Lakinda contacted the Rapacc government, reaching Uingali foar Marocsaa. He informed her that Thrawn had departed the Rapacc system seven hours earlier, taking a person called the Magys to her homeworld. Lakinda, certain that Thrawn lacked authorization for such a trip, was surprised to learn that it appeared to be the only way to prevent the Magys and her people from committing suicide. Because Uingali was unable to provide Lakinda with the name of the Magys's people or their homeworld, Lakinda and her first officer, Mid Captain Chap'ro'strob (Apros), questioned his trustworthiness. Nevertheless, they accepted the coordinates of Thrawn's destination provided by Uingali. The distance between Rapacc and this planet was fifteen hours by sky-walker, while the distance from the Grayshrike's current location and the planet was only ten hours by sky-walker. Considering Thrawn's headstart, both Wikivv and Apros suggested for Bet'nih to return to the bridge to navigate, citing the sky-walker emergency protocols. However, knowing that Bet'nih was tired and assuming that Thrawn would not use his sky-walker for all fifteen of those hours, Lakinda resolved to start the Grayshrike's journey via jump-by-jump. As she travels to her own quarters for her rest period, Lakinda wonders how Thrawn plans to use his new mission to benefit the Mitth.

Lakinda had her crew bridge on full alert when the Grayshrike arrived in the outer edges of the system specified by Uingali. Some members of the crew wondered if she was paranoid, but Lakinda knew Thrawn's history. True enough, scans indicated that the Springhawk was engaged in battle with fifteen gunboats of an unknown faction in high orbit of the planet. Hoping to gain some honor for her family, Lakinda decided to join the fight and reinforce Thrawn. Wikivv performed an in-system jump, bringing the Grayshrike directly to the planet, arriving at another angle than Thrawn had. From that position, they noticed a Battle Dreadnought class starship, the Grysk Shatter-class WarMaster HopeBreaker, orbiting the planet, which size outmatched the two Chiss heavy cruisers combined. The dreadnought immediately attacked the Grayshrike with three missiles, officially engaging the Chiss in battle. Thrawn quickly came up with a desperate and, in Lakinda's opinion, insane plan. Since the Springhawk was taking the main risk of the plan, Lakinda agreed in seeing it through. In between the Springhawk and Grayshrike were ten gunboats converging on the Grayshrike. The Springhawk would disable all of these gunboats with its remaining twenty plasma spheres. Lakinda would subsequently fire its plasma spheres upon the portside of the HopeBreaker, disabling its sensor capabilities. The Springhawk signaled the Grayshrike to make an in-system jump away from the battle, and during the Grayshrike's absence, Thrawn would fire the Springhawk's remaining breacher missiles at the Battle Dreadnought. Because its portside sensors were down, the HopeBreaker did not see the missiles, and upon the breacher missiles impacting the warship, the Springhawk would fire laser barrages on the HopeBreaker's portside, causing heavy amounts of damage. The HopeBreaker would turn around, facing its damaged side away from the Springhawk. However, the Grayshrike was performing a series of in-system jumps and would emerge back into the battle on the other side of the HopeBreaker. Lakinda continued causing massive damage to the HopeBreaker's portside before it made its own escape into hyperspace. However, it destroyed all its surviving gunboats beforehand, leaving no information for the Chiss to collect. After the battle, Lakinda met with Thrawn and his first officer Mid Captain Samakro aboard the Springhawk to both discuss their victory and to deliver the message from Ja'fosk. She also told Thrawn that Ar'alani suspected the message was coming from the Syndicure, judging by the way it was written. Thrawn understood that he had to depart immediately, leaving him no time to investigate what the alien dreadnought had been doing here. Thrawn also mentioned that the sight of the destroyed surface of the planet had convinced the Magys that her people were lost and had ordered her companion to die, who had already complied. To keep her from killing herself, the Magys had then been put into an hybernation chamber. Lakinda promised to tell nobody about it unless she was being asked a direct question about it from a superior officer. The Springhawk and Grayshrike left the system together, and the Grayshrike returned to the first of the last two Nikardun bases to rendezvous with the Vigilant. It would then travel back to the Csilla, where it would be repaired in one of the blackdocks (instead of the bluedocks). Since the blackdock was further away from the planet, the Grayshrike could more easily be sent out to rendezvous with the Vigilant to further investigate the situation at Sunrise (the Syndicure did not want the Grayshrike to be that far away from the Ascendancy).

Later, the Vigilant and the Grayshrike returned to Sunrise to investigate. They expected to encouter more enemy forces, but as they arrived, they could not see any apparent enemy ships. However, the place the dreadnought had been guarding was on the other side of the planet and outside of their view. Soon after their arrival, the Chiss noticed an asteroid on an almost circular orbit around the planet (an eccentricity value of 0.005) and wondered whether it had been there before or if it was a similar weapon to what Ar'alani had found at the last Nikardun base (she found that an asteroid was used to hide a missile launcher which destoryed the base). On Ar'alani's order, the Grayshrike performed an in-system jump to a spot only a kilometer away from the asteroid, hiding behind it. In the meantime, the Vigilant made its own in-system jump and encountered the same Battle Dreadnought, the HopeBreaker, from Lakinda's previous visit to Sunrise. After a short conversation between Ar'alani and the commander of the dreadnought, the asteroid began to rotate, confirming that it was indeed an artificial weapon. Lakinda and her bridge crew quickly came up with a plan to disable the missile launcher hidden inside the fake asteroid. The Grayshrike noticed that the asteroid was composed of small hexagonal fracture zones that were too small to fit a missile through, so, therefore, if the asteroid was indeed hiding a missile launcher, there would be a larger hexagonal zone for it to launch through. Shortly before the battle between the Vigilant and the dreadnought was about to start and the asteroid was ready to fire, the Grayshrike found this larger hexagon zone, and Lakinda ordered the Grayshrike to fire upon it with laserfire. The asteroid subsequently exploded, exposing the hexagonal lattice structure surrounding the missile launcher, which was quickly disabled by the Grayshrike with plasma spheres. Ar'alani ordered Lakinda to drag the launcher with a tractor beam and join the battle between the Vigilant and the HopeBreaker. Lakinda, not understanding that Ar'alani wanted to use the whole structure as a weapon against their enemy, thought that Ar'alani wanted to study the launcher after the battle. Since she was not able to get the launcher free from the lattice structure in time, she decided that the Grayshrike could fetch the launcher after the battle and subsequently ordered the Grayshrike to aid the Vigilant immediately. Lakinda ordered the Grayshrike to approach the HopeBreaker on from its portside, which was still heavily damaged and disabled from its previous skirmish. Ar'alani, wanting to distract the HopeBreaker from the Grayshrike's approach, initiated a conversation and taunted the Dreadnought's commander, and the Grayshrike would temporarily go dark to further conceal their approach. She then fired breacher missiles and plasma spheres at the HopeBreaker's starboard side, further distracting it. Then, the Grayshrike fired two clusters of breacher missiles at the HopeBreaker's portside, and the Grayshrike's preceding laser fire resulted in the destruction of the HopeBreaker's hyperdrive and one of its reactors. The enemy commander, knowing he had lost and there was no way out, ordered the destruction of both the HopeBreaker and the derelict asteroid missile launcher, leaving nothing behind but small pieces. After the battle, Lakinda received new orders from Csilla. She and the Grayshrike were to return to Csilla for repairs and join Thrawn and the Springhawk on their hunt for Vagaari pirates. In a meeting on the Vigilant, Lakinda apologized for misunderstanding Ar'alani's orders, but the Admiral ensured her that the missile launcher would have ended up exploded either way. Ar'alani also confronted Lakinda about her new orders, stating that she obviously had animosity with Thrawn. Lakinda denied the accusations, telling the Admiral that no personal opinion or family politics would influence her decisions as an officer. After transferring the remaining breachers and plasma fluid to the Vigilant, the Grayshrike left for Csilla.

As the Grayshrike was almost finished rearming at Csilla, Lakinda received a call from Lieutenant Commander Lakwurn, a Xodlak Grayshrike hyperdrive technician. She met with him in the chamber of hyperdrive two, where he told her he had a box that needed to be delivered to Thrawn and that he could not do it himself because he had received a call about a family emergency declared by the Xodlak. Lakinda, checking her own messages, found out she had received the same message from Patriel Xodlak'oo'nifis (Lakooni) on the planet Celwis. This emergency summons ordered every Xodlak officer and warrior in the Chiss military to aid the family. Lakinda quickly weighed the importance of her assignment on board the Grayshrike with the importance of this family emergency, and decided that Thrawn needed only her ship to help him, not her specifically. Checking the box, Lakinda and Lakwurn found a metal brooch, and Lakinda would task Mid Captain Apros with giving it to Thrawn before giving him command of the Grayshrike and departing for Celwis. At Celwis, she was greeted by Xodlak'ji'iprip (Lakjiip), the Senior Aide of Celwis Xodlak Councilor Xodlak'uvi'vil (Lakuviv), who was surprised that a Senior Captain had followed the call. Lakinda stated that no matter her rank, she would serve her family with pride and honor. Lakjiip then made Lakinda the commander the Midsummer and of the family taskforce to lay claim on a nyix mine on an the planet of Hoxim. With that mine in their possession, the Xodlak hoped to regain their status among the Ruling Families. When Lakinda asked about Patriel Lakooni, Lakjiip answered that she was consulting with Lakuviv in his office. In truth, she was being held hostage because she did not approve with Lakuviv's plan to claim the mine. Aboard the Midsummer, Lakinda listens to a final message of instruction and encouragement form Lakuviv. To herself, she gloated that there would soon be ten Ruling Families. She also reflected upon her failure to learn her bridge crew's names, which irked her. Before their departure to Hoxim, Councilor Lakuviv told them that he had instructed the comm officers to ignore every transmission that was not coming from him, fearing that somebody would try to stop the taskforce. Accompanied by the Xodlak cruiser Apogee, the Midsummer departed for Hoxim, and as they left, she told the comm officer to inform her about any incoming transmission. When Lakinda's first officer reminded her of Lakuviv's orders, she reminded him that commanding officers can countermand any orders where they see fit.

Later, the second comm officer called Lakinda as she was asleep, informing her about an incoming transmission from the Grayshrike. Lakinda, fearing something had happened to her ship in her absence, ordered the comm officer to open the channel. Apros, joined by Thrawn onboard the Springhawk, told her that the Pommrio and the Erighal had also called family emergencies. Worse, they gathered in the same region on the rim of the Ascendancy. They also told her that the jewelry given out by the Agbui actually originated from Sunrise, leading to conclusion that the mine Lakinda was tasked to claim for the Xodlak was fake and worthless. Assuming that the Erighal and Pommrio, both of the Great Families, were racing to the same destination, they realized that the Agbui were aiming to start a civil war among the Chiss, like they had probably done it with the people of Sunrise. Thrawn quickly came up with an insane plan to prevent the three family task forces from attacking each other. The Grayshrike and Springhawk would arrive at Hoxim before the three family fleets and would coordinate an fake attack on the Springhawk. Thrawn and Apros hope that the three families would help "save" the Springhawk before fighting each other over the fake mine. Lakinda agreed to quicken her fleet's arrival at Hoxim. Lakinda also made it plain that if it was inevitable, she was prepared for her ships to be destroyed. When the call ended, she ordered her pilot to calculate how to shorten the journey. After arriving at Hoxim, Lakinda discovered that her Xodlak fleet had arrived before the Ergihal and Pommrio fleets. Lakinda's first officer then demanded to know more about their mission, and Lakinda only told them that Lakuviv sent them to examine the value of rare ore mines on the planet. Because Lakinda only told them the bare minimum, the first officer threatened her with his status as Xodlak blood. Before Lakinda could say more, the Erighal and Pommrio task forces arrived, laying claim on the world and its resources. Quickly, the situation escalated and the families perpared for battle, when, suddenly, they noticed the Springhawk coming around the edge of the planet, apparently attacked by fourteen gunboats. As the gunboats broke off from the Springhawk and raced towards the ships of the three family, they quickly decided to join forces under Lakinda's command, as she was the highest ranking officer. The fighters, secretly piloted remotely by officers of the Springhawk, attacked the Chiss ships without dealing too much damage, while the Chiss tried to destroy all the fighters. When only eight fighters were left, Lakinda spotted the flaw in Thrawn's plan and retreated to the duty office to contact the Springhawk with a tight-beam transmission about it. She suggested that Thrawn had to find a way to destroy the fake mine so that the families wouldn't find out it to be a ruse and tried to find somebody to blame. She returned to the bridge to find her the second officer and two warriors with charrics were removing her from command under charges of crimes and offenses against the Xodlak family. Knowing that everyone on the bridge had probably been on board with the idea of mutiny, she conceeded and was confined to quarters until after the battle when a proper investigation could be completed. Although Lakinda was no longer in command, Thrawn and the Grayshrike succeeded in destroying the fake mine and preventing the family task forces from attacking each other.

The Xodlak Patriarch was furious with Lakinda, fueled by the testimony of the first officer aboard the Midsummer, accusing her of failing to secure the mine for the Xodlak. She wondered if the Xodlak would remove her from the family and she had to go back to her original minor family. In a meeting with Syndic Irizi'stal'mustro (Zistalmu), offering her a place in the Irizi family as a Trial-born. Lakinda was stunned by the offer, since the Irizi were one of the Ruling families and a Trial-born was much better than her current position as a merit adoptive. She assured Zistalmu that she would consider it and eventually took the offer. Her rematching to "Irizi'in'daro," core name "Ziinda," took place in Speaker Irizi'emo'lacfo's office, and was far less pompous than her rematching to the Xodlak had been. After the cerenomy, she met Speaker Xodlak'brov'omtivti in the Syndicure, who had just learned that Ziinda was to be rematched with the Irizi, and had hoped that she could get the chance to keep Ziinda with the Xodlak. Ziinda bluntly explained her that she knew her time with the Xodlak was over when the first officer of the Midsummer had relieved her of command and had gotten away with it only because he was blood. Lakbrovom assured her that she would bring him to justice, but Ziinda didn't care any longer about the family structure of the Xodlak.

After an unknown alien warship had showed up inside Chiss space,

A significant number of Expansionary Defense Fleet vessels were reassigned to protect Ascendancy planets, notably the Grayshrike, which received orders to take up a position above Jamiron. Upon their arrival, Ziinda and her crew encountered a peculiar conflict: a group of Clarr freighters and the family's light cruiser, the Orisson, were engaged in battle with a pair of Chiss patrol ships. Despite the Clarr ships broadcasting transponder signals, the attacking patrol vessels remained silent. The Orisson had sustained damage, and the patrol ships were preventing communication, prompting Ziinda to order the Grayshrike's intervention, deploying plasma spheres to neutralize the attackers. The interception of these spheres by dibbers immediately reminded Ziinda of the battle dreadnaught's strategy over Sunrise against attacks from the Vigilant. Consequently, Ziinda concluded that the attackers were not Chiss but the same adversaries encountered during the Sunrise conflict. Although the Grayshrike managed to disable two gunboats, the Orisson rejoined the fray and destroyed the remaining attackers before further action could be taken. Subsequently, the disabled gunboats self-destructed, leaving no recoverable evidence for analysis. Ziinda, eager to assist the remaining Clarr freighters, was met with a threat from Captain Roscu of the Orisson, who demanded that she stay out of Clarr affairs under penalty of consequences. The two commanders then debated the Grayshrike's authorization and expectation to aid the freighters. Roscu firmly stated that she would never allow an Irizi to access Clarr secrets, and further revealed that the attacking patrol ships displayed the symbols of the Xodlak and Erighal families, which stunned Ziinda. Ultimately, Roscu agreed to provide the Grayshrike with data collected from the attack, and Ziinda conceded to leaving the freighters under the Orisson's protection. The Grayshrike's analysts determined that the symbolic patterns affixed to the supposedly Erighal ships were identical, exposing them as forgeries, given that genuine family ship patterns are handcrafted. In a conference with Supreme General Ba'kif and Admiral Ar'alani, along with Senior Captain Wutroow, Ziinda presented their findings, leading Ba'kif to realize that the ships had been constructed by the same species that the Chiss had previously encountered over Sunrise, obtaining images of the ships at Hoxim. Ziinda nearly revealed Thrawn's involvement in coordinating the attack on the family warships at Hoxim, but she stopped herself in time. Ultimately, Ba'kif issued new orders for the Grayshrike to follow Roscu to Ornfra and ensure that the Dasklo family did not destroy the Orisson. ### Skirmish over Ornfra The Grayshrike reached Ornfra, a Dasklo family stronghold within the Nine Ruling Families and rivals to Roscu's family, prior to the Orisson's arrival. While the Expansionary Defense Fleet ship was waiting, the Dasklo family ships challenged it. Ziinda surmised that if they reacted that way to the Grayshrike, they would be even less pleased with a Clarr warship appearing in the system. As expected, upon the Orisson's arrival, two Dasklo Destroyers moved to intercept. Before Ziinda could warn Roscu that the message the Clarr had received by "Jixtus," apparently warning them about the Dasklo gathering new allies, was a fraud, Roscu told her that she did not have time listening to Ziinda, since she was looking for a Mitth spy platform in the system. Roscu terminated the communication, disregarding Ziinda's warnings, and aligned the Orisson to jump to the outer system. However, the in-system jump significantly overshot their intended destination, providing Ziinda with an opportunity to arrive first, after deducing that Roscu had identified an asteroid as the supposed Mitth spy platform. She immediately realized that this was no Chiss made station, but a similar hidden missile launcher she had faced over Sunrise. Approaching the fake asteroid, the Grayshrike also detected a freighter nearby, which had reported to System Patrol Command that they were undergoing repairs. Ziinda concluded that they were operating the missile launcher. She instructed her bridge crew to destroy the launcher platform, but at that moment, the Orisson reappeared directly in front of the asteroid, perfectly positioned to be destroyed. As Roscu continued to ignore Ziinda's attempts to hail her, Ziinda ordered the Grayshrike to fire across the Orisson's bow, successfully gaining Roscu's attention. Eventually, Ziinda managed to convey to Roscu that the asteroid was an alien missile launcher platform, providing records from the one they faced over Sunrise, and ultimately convincing Roscu. However, before they could react, the asteroid rotated, aligning the missile launcher to target the Orisson. To their mutual surprise, the launcher did not fire when it had the opportunity. Ziinda, understanding that the aliens intended to incite a civil war among the Chiss, ultimately realized that their enemies would favor the Chiss to attack each other without their help. Ziinda decided to play their game and ordered Roscu to fire at the Grayshrike and to put up a good show while slowly getting out of reach of the missile launcher. After a brief discussion, Roscu agreed to play her part, and the engagement commenced. Alerted by the laser fire, the two Dasklo Destroyers arrived to engage the Orisson themselves, disregarding Ziinda's warning to stay out of the conflict. Ultimately, Ziinda capitalized on the situation, firing a plasma sphere at one of the destroyers, but aiming for the alien freighter behind it. The destroyer evaded, and the freighter was disabled. Shortly thereafter, the freighter self-destructed, and moments later, the missile launcher platform exploded due to a dead-man switch. With no Chiss ship sustaining damage, the civil war was once again averted. ### Battle against the Grysk fleet In 18 BBY, Ziinda, regarded as one of Thrawn's few friends, was selected by Ar'alani to assist in Thrawn's strategy to defeat the Grysk fleet over Sunrise. Ar'alani also clarified that this mission was entirely unofficial and could have repercussions if they succeeded. Nonetheless, both Ziinda and her first officer, Apros, consented to help. Ziinda also proposed enlisting Roscu and the Orisson for assistance and was later able to recruit her. Sensing that Apros had something on his mind, Ziinda confronted him about it, and he revealed his desire to distinguish himself and earn honor for his Csap family. During the final battle over Sunrise in 18 BBY, Apros was assigned to protect and operate a secret alien weapon, a gravity well projector, while Ziinda remained aboard the Grayshrike, playing a crucial role in the battle against the Grysk. Initially, the Grayshrike aided in the destruction of a BattleChief and subsequently engaged in combat with the StoneCrusher-class WarMaster Emery. Thanks to the gravity-well generator, the element of surprise, and Thrawn's audacious plan, the Grayshrike managed to destroy the much larger Emery. Following this, the Grayshrike assisted the Orisson and the Springhawk in damaging another StoneCrusher, the Armageddon, but was then summoned to aid Apros in his gunboat, as Jixtus had recognized him as a threat. Ultimately, the damaged Grayshrike positioned itself between the fleeing flagship of the Grysks, the FateSpinner, shielding the gunboat carrying the gravity-well generator, thereby preventing the FateSpinner's escape. It was eventually disabled by the Kilji warship WhetStone. ### Aftermath of the victory over the Grysk Upon returning to Csilla after the battle, Ziinda received commendation but was angered by Apros's lack of recognition. Ba'kif explained that commendations were a family matter, with the Irizi sponsoring hers, while the Csap had not done the same for Apros. Consequently, Ziinda suggested a promotion for Apros, as this was a military decision. Ba'kif inquired whether Apros was prepared for the promotion and if she would relinquish her command and transfer the Grayshrike to him. After a moment of hesitation, Ziinda agreed. Satisfied with her response, Ba'kif decided to assign Apros to the Parala instead. Ziinda was also present among the spectators when Thrawn was sentenced to exile by the military tribunal. ## Personality and traits Lakinda exhibited unwavering loyalty to her adoptive Xodlak family, striving to prove her worth and bring honor to the family. Despite her exceptional tactical skills, she struggled with remembering names, which caused friction between her and the officers aboard the Midsummer. Lakinda placed great importance on family status and was both humbled and thrilled when Syndic Zistalmu offered her the opportunity to become a Trial-born of the Ruling Irizi family. Ziinda consistently sought adventure and opportunities to prove herself, leading her to join the Expansionary Defense Fleet rather than the Defense Force, enabling her to seek out threats in the Chaos instead of passively awaiting their arrival within the Ascendancy while on guard duty. ## Equipment Ziinda commanded the Grayshrike, a Chiss heavy cruiser. ## Behind the scenes Ziinda made her debut in the 2021 novel Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good, penned by Timothy Zahn. The character's introduction preceded the book's release, featuring in an excerpt from the novel published on StarWars.com on March 4, 2021.