Kylia Tille
Kylia Tille
I. General Information
Name: Kylia Tille
Alias: None
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Affiliation: Eternal Alliance (formerly Zakuulan Overwatch)
Title: Eternal Alliance Senior Emissary
Rank: Strategic Operations Commander
Force Sensitive: No
Homeworld: Zakuul
Current Residence: Odessen
II. Physical Appearance
Physical Stats:
Height: 1.72 meters (5'8")
Weight: 61 kg (134 lbs)
Build/Body Type: Angular, efficient, quietly agile
Eye Color: Light blue
Hair Color: Light auburn-blonde, styled in sleek waves or archival curls off-duty
Skin Color: Fair
Distinctive Features:
Distinctive Characteristics: Stillness sharpened by purpose, eyes attuned to shifts beneath still surfaces
Scars/Tattoos/Markings: Fine scar over left brow (pre-defection breach); subdermal trace key embedded in left wrist
Other Notable Features: Wristpad never fully dormant; attire structured for seamless interfacing and tactical fluidity
III. Personality & Traits
Personality Profile:
Openness to Experience: High (internally adaptive, externally composed)
Conscientiousness: Very High (recursive logic, deliberate in every edge case)
Extroversion: Moderate (engagement calibrated by clarity and strategic trust)
Agreeableness: Low (utility-focused empathy; relational bandwidth is intentional, not broad)
Neuroticism: Very Low (stress metabolized through refined systems and poised intent)
Additional Traits:
Strengths: Pattern resonance, infrastructure evolution, decisive restraint
Flaws: Withholds vulnerability even in trust; reflexive recursion risks stalling momentum
Likes: Transparent systems, silent validation, elegantly recursive code
Dislikes: Symbolism without substance, sentiment detached from consequence, punitive inflexibility
Disposition: Grounded, incisive, quietly reformative
IV. Relationships
Command Structure:
Superior: Lana Beniko
Subordinates: None
Personal Connections:
Significant Other: None (emotional deferral acknowledged; not disavowed)
Notable Friends: Raeya Tille (cousin, co-strategist, emotional axis)
Pets/Companions: Cipher (female loth-cat, signal-mirroring temperament)
Family:
Mother: Lesha Tille (status: unconfirmed)
Father: Darven Tille (retired Overwatch; fate unclear post-defection)
Siblings: Raeya Tille (Senior Emissary; system complement and stabilizing twinforce)
V. Skills & Equipment
Skills & Abilities:
Signature Abilities/Force Powers: Integrative memory patterning, recursive logic routing, reform embedded in procedural mimicry
Combat Specialties: Non-combatant; excels in disruption forecasting and passive grid manipulation
Languages Spoken: Galactic Basic (fluent), advanced Zakuulan civic dialects
Notable Achievements: Authored Continuity Thread Alpha—central stabilization algorithm post-Eternal collapse
Other Skills: Null-signal cartography, behavioral pattern scrubbing, ghost-layer protocol seeding
Equipment & Gear:
Primary Weapon(s): Alliance utility pistol (registered, never discharged)
Notable Equipment/Gear: Modular wristpad (tiered access, embedded dead switch redundancy)
Armor/Outfit: Emissary-class fieldwear—dark, interface-responsive, precision-lined with secure seams
Personal Items: Encoded silence logs, Raeya’s early signal tag, etched Spire core fragment
Mount/Vehicle: No personal vessel; transit via encrypted diplomatic shuttle manifest only
VI. Hooks & Story Seeds
Roleplay Hooks:
Quirks & Habits: Monitors breath for deviation under duress; annotates unnoticed anomalies; completes three silent system audits nightly
Rumors & Reputation: Credited—unofficially—with realigning an entire planetary grid from a single dead relay; some claim she’s already designing post-Alliance foundations
Open Connections: Former Zakuulan sentinels, quiet defectors, Alliance operatives quietly shielded by her systemic recalibrations
Story Seeds:
Current Goals: Forge structures that don’t require fear to function; ensure systems serve nuance, not control
Hidden Agendas or Secrets: Maintains an anonymized archive—edits and changes unrecorded in official logs
Fears/Weaknesses: That order without care is hollowness; that her silence may one day resemble compliance
Story Arcs: Define legacy beyond lineage or title; stabilize structures to outlast her presence; ensure Raeya never carries reform alone
VII. Biography
Background:
Kylia Tille was born in Zakuul’s civic lattice, where systems murmured louder than words and silence functioned as clarity. Raised in a household that prized precision over praise, she learned to anticipate disruption before it manifested. Her entrance into the Spire Academy was less aspiration, more inevitability—a place to refine her ability to edit without erasure. Climbing swiftly through Overwatch, she rewrote faults into function, embedding stability beneath compliance. But as Zakuul's peace sharpened into suppression, silence became complicity. Refusing that path, she defected during Vaylin’s unraveling regime and began calibrating from the wreckage outward. She didn’t seize power—she structured it. Now, as an Eternal Alliance emissary, she offers no doctrine. Only systems that endure, and silence that speaks only when it serves.
Timeline/Chronology:
3653 BBY | Age 0 — Born on Zakuul amidst rising Eternal Empire rhythms.
3643 BBY | Age 10 — Flagged first civic deviation; correction logged, unacknowledged.
3636 BBY | Age 17 — Enrolled in Spire Academy; diagnostic overlays integrated into cadet metrics.
3635 BBY | Age 18 — Predicted Eternal Fleet expansion; co-developed crowd suppression metrics with Raeya.
3632 BBY | Age 21 — Promoted to Overwatch Supervisor; neutralized covert breach via silent redirect.
3630 BBY | Age 23 — Defected during Operation Dragon’s Maw; restructured corridor access to enable mass escape.
3629 BBY | Age 24 — Joined Eternal Alliance; discovered dormant protocol mirroring her Overwatch code in outlaw den.
3627 BBY | Age 26 — Recovered inverted signal echo on Belsavis; confirmed manipulation of her legacy systems.
3624 BBY | Age 29 — Authored Continuity Core framework adopted across Alliance stabilization routes.
3621 BBY | Age 32 — Negotiated Sith standoff; bonded with Cipher, silent companion amid signal quiet.
VIII. Out-of-Character Notes
Roleplayer Info:
Contact Preference: In-game (Kylia Tille - Imp Side)
Timezone: EST (UTC-5)
Activity & Availability: Weekdays (afternoon) & weekends (during day)
Roleplay Preference & Boundaries:
Roleplay Style: Prefer 1:1 or small group roleplay, mostly in-game.
Triggers & Boundaries: No god mode.
Plotting & Collaboration: Open to long-term plots but prefer things to develop more on the fly/spontaneously.
Other Notes: Preferred session length: 1–3 hours.
IX. Episodes
🪐 Galactic Context:
In the tense quiet following the Treaty of Coruscant, Republic and Imperial forces ready for inevitable conflict—but not here. In Zakuul, far from galactic stagecraft, power moves without banners: encoded in architecture, embedded in civic rhythms. For Kylia Tille, the war beyond the stars is noise. The only battles worth fighting are the ones no one sees.
📘 Narrative:
✧ In Kylia Tille’s household, silence didn’t mean absence—it meant attention. Her father, Darven Tille, a retired Overwatch Captain, taught her to read the weight behind a nod, the warning inside stillness. Her mother, Lesha, a triage medic in Zakuul’s civic response network, raised her to recognize what would fail before it broke. Dinner conversations weren’t warm—they were functional: transit disruption logs, sensor calibration protocols, injury spread projections. Kylia didn’t play with toys; she color-coded civic sublayer maps and rebalanced shuttle schedules to minimize footfall strain. She didn’t ask for praise. She recorded efficiencies like they were lullabies. Her parents didn’t enforce obedience—they modeled competence. And from that, Kylia learned an early truth: sentiment is noise. Structure speaks more clearly. Zakuul didn’t teach her control. It taught her how to listen for it.
✧ That listening became obsession. When pedestrian routing delays exceeded their tolerance thresholds, she tracked which sectors adjusted first. When civic power relays staggered by 2.4 seconds across the promenade grid, she flagged which zones bore the instability—and which were conveniently spared. Two weeks later, a silent patch was rolled out. Exactly what she’d predicted. She never said a word. Her father had taught her that control didn’t always wear a badge; her mother had shown her that intervention came before recognition. Her throat tightened the night she saw her flagged anomaly rerouted—unacknowledged, but real. She almost told them what she’d done. Instead, she logged it: “system response correction—source uncredited.” That was enough. But part of her still wondered: Did they know—and say nothing on purpose?
✧ Her cousin Raeya visited weekly, more sister than guest. Where Kylia mapped behavior in systems, Raeya tracked it in people. They would sit along the civic tramway, logging footstep frequency and posture drift near patrol nodes. Kylia logged the numbers. Raeya described the feelings. “That one’s pretending not to notice the guards,” Raeya murmured once. “His steps speed up, but his shoulders stay still. That’s fear.” Kylia added a metric to her overlay: emotional compensation ratio. Their quiet study of the city was more than curiosity—it was calibration. Together, they understood what Zakuul refused to admit: order wasn’t peace. Suppression wasn’t safety. And systems could look perfect—right until the silence cracked.
✧ One afternoon, during a civic ceremony honoring tram-line expansions, a minor routing node failed. The detour was brief. The crowd disruption minimal. The panic—avoidable. Kylia had flagged the node’s irregular echo pings two days earlier. She stood near the control console, jaw tight, as technicians fumbled through reinitialization codes. Lesha passed her, breath ragged, tending to a civilian who had fallen in the crowd surge. Darven, standing at the Overwatch post nearby, didn’t speak. He only nodded—once. That evening, Kylia submitted her analysis packet through a generic public feedback form. Two days later, the city archived the incident without citation. But the node was replaced. Kylia made no note of pride. Just a line in her ledger: “Resolved anomaly—preventable. Authority silent.”
✧ By the end of that cycle, she had constructed seven overlays of civic subroutines, each color-coded for reliability drift. Her personal archive tracked 62 deviation patterns the public didn’t even know existed. She used no illegal access—just open terminals, open data, and the closed attentiveness of someone who noticed. Darven once saw her reviewing guard cycle inefficiencies over morning stimcaf. “That’s Overwatch work,” he said. “It’s everyone’s work,” she replied, “if they care what breaks.” Lesha smiled quietly, and Kylia swallowed the sudden warmth that rose in her chest. She almost said thank you. Instead, she added three new tags to her failure index: unacknowledged insight, silent approval, acceptable risk. She didn’t want a title. She wanted a system that didn’t require one. And she believed, even then, that stability meant vigilance—not applause.
📓 Personal Log: “Foundation in Silence” | Zakuul, 3643 BBY
"Everyone thinks the system keeps people safe. That’s only true if someone’s watching it before anything breaks. Father taught me to read the gaps. Mother taught me to act before pain arrives. Raeya sees what people carry—I see what systems ignore. Together, we’ll find what the Spire refuses to log. The relay didn’t fail because it was flawed. It failed because no one cared until it collapsed. But I cared. That’s the line between obedience and vigilance—and I intend to stay on the right side of it."
🪐 Galactic Context
In the aftermath of Ziost’s annihilation by Vitiate’s lingering presence, fear simmers beneath the Republic-Imperial ceasefire. Though Zakuul remains outwardly untouched, its systems grow more alert—more brittle. The Spire Sentinel Academy accelerates training cycles under civic doctrine, preparing for threats its citizens aren’t allowed to name. For Kylia Tille, entry into this institution is not a beginning—it’s an extension of what she already understands.
📘 Narrative
✧ Kylia Tille did not enter the Spire Sentinel Academy to learn how systems worked. She came to confirm how they were maintained. Her childhood knowledge of protocol and public infrastructure placed her well ahead of her peers—her intake test ranked her in the upper five percent of operational diagnostics before formal instruction began. Instructors noted her composure under pressure, but questioned her lack of urgency during physical drills. Kylia didn’t need adrenaline. She needed accuracy. When a dormitory routing interface failed during orientation, she rebuilt its command path in twenty minutes without assistance. The tech overseer said nothing. But the system updated quietly that night—patch notes uncredited, just as expected. She filed a silent entry in her private archive: “First correction rendered. System accepted truth without permission.” Her throat clenched briefly as the screen flickered confirmation. She almost smiled—then swallowed it.
✧ While cadets drilled in crowd containment and simulation response, Kylia gravitated toward less visible modules: civic arbitration theory, surveillance drift analytics, public trust flow modeling. She requested access to incident review logs two years ahead of her cohort. Instead of being denied, she was invited to assist a junior operations analyst. That analyst—Lieutenant Corrin Vos—later admitted she’d corrected his metrics three times without saying a word. “You don’t need volume,” he told her once. “You need sight.” Kylia accepted the praise without reaction, but the words nested under her skin longer than she liked. She respected logic, not compliments. But part of her wondered if sight was enough when systems preferred blindness. Her hands trembled slightly during a tribunal review sim, but her voice remained measured. “Don’t just observe policy,” she told the panel. “Observe why people stop trusting it.” Silence followed. She didn’t flinch.
✧ Her bond with Raeya deepened within the academy’s rigid walls. Though assigned to different squadrons, they were granted a shared analysis thread after outperforming a patrol simulation in opposite sectors. Kylia flagged erratic sentiment flows based on complaint timing; Raeya confirmed civilian anxiety on-site through posture tension and clipped speech. Their reports began mirroring each other—one in code, one in tone. They never planned it. They simply aligned. During a festival patrol, a merchant dispute threatened to escalate when a supply grid shorted mid-transaction. Kylia bypassed the glitch using a policy clause memorized from transit law case studies. Raeya stepped forward, translated the act into plain speech, and resolved the tension without raising her voice. Afterward, a senior officer reprimanded them: “You corrected the problem too visibly. Now others will expect transparency.” Kylia logged the line. Raeya underlined it in her notes. Neither forgot it. Later that night, Kylia quietly submitted a reroute protocol based on the incident, adjusted to reduce false transaction triggers. Raeya reviewed the language before submission—making sure it wouldn’t raise alarms. Two weeks later, the new clause was folded into civic commerce routing. No mention. No credit. Just corrected.
✧ The warning sat heavy for days. Kylia reviewed the officer’s performance history and discovered three prior suppressions of system variance flags. It wasn’t a pattern. It was a habit. She almost filed a formal inquiry. Instead, she recreated the simulation with adjusted parameters, submitting it as a “training improvement module.” The underlying error remained the same—but the visibility of the correction was reduced. The module passed with commendation. Kylia received an anonymous commend in the weekly log cluster. Her jaw tightened when she read it. She didn’t want backdoor praise. She wanted the system to stop punishing visibility. But she understood now: sometimes, you changed the system not by defying it—but by slipping corrections through the seams it refused to notice. Raeya called it “subtle sabotage.” Kylia called it “calibrated leverage.” Neither was wrong.
✧ By year’s end, she was reviewing case files three ranks above her clearance, under quiet authorization. Her instructors didn’t question it—they’d stopped questioning her long ago. She had rewritten two internal tracking frameworks and created a diagnostic overlay for crowd response zones now used in official drills. Her name was never on the credits. She didn’t care. She was no longer seeking permission. She was building proof. Proof that order wasn’t strength unless it could evolve. Proof that authority wasn’t earned through volume, but through repetition that could not be denied. At night, she and Raeya would review patrol logs over silent caf—both knowing the system would never ask them to lead, but would quietly build itself around them anyway. Their names weren’t in any log. But two joint overlays had been absorbed into the patrol doctrine. One detected friction before it flared. The other rerouted response before panic took hold. Neither girl mentioned it. But they both knew what they were building—even if no one else said it yet: the system’s invisible firewall.
📓 Personal Log: “Correction Without Permission” | Zakuul, 3636 BBY
"I didn’t enter the Academy to be seen. I came to become fluent in how silence is enforced. Systems reward obedience, not correction—unless the correction is invisible. That’s fine. I don’t need authority. I need adaptability. Raeya and I bypassed a failure today, and they told us not to repeat it—because truth was too transparent. But I’ve learned the pattern: offer the fix quietly, and eventually the structure adopts it. Let others chase influence through visibility. I’ll keep rewriting the terms—one protocol at a time. And together, we’ll make sure the system forgets nothing—not fear, not failure, not us."
🪐 Galactic Context
Galactic Context Zakuul's silence shatters as Arcann returns from the Outer Rim cloaked in conquest. His Eternal Fleet begins a swift, devastating campaign—razing Sith strongholds, blockading Republic routes, and forcing the galaxy into sudden submission. For those within Zakuul's walls, the war begins not with fanfare, but with an echo—data spikes, rerouted protocols, and a whisper of fear buried beneath the system’s smooth surface. Kylia Tille feels that tremor before the city names it.
📘 Narrative
✧ Kylia Tille wakes to a systems alert—not from the Sentinel network, but from her private deviation tracker. Her overlays show logistical bleed in troop mobilization routes, inconsistent with civic protocols. Her breath tightens. She almost escalates it beyond her level before swallowing the instinct. She tags it as a "probable wartime initiation." No one had declared war, but the Fleet’s shadow was already threading through her city. She scrubs the alert from public logs, rerouting it to a private archive. She knows what she saw. Her hands still on the interface longer than needed. Silence weighed heavy on her.
✧ At midday drills, training simulations pivot from civic unrest to wartime coordination. Kylia watches cadets react—not to the new tactics, but to the shift in tone. Their breathing is shallow. Her own jaw clenches as she logs failure latency across units. She almost raises a flag about psychological readiness—then swallows it. Instead, she builds a new metric cluster: Preemptive Sentiment Disruption Index. Behind every data point, she sees a story her instructors won’t name. That night, Raeya cross-references her delay matrices with observed breath suppression patterns—“You measured fear in pauses,” she says. “But I saw it in how they avoided looking at each other.” Kylia adjusts her metric parameters. The result: clearer thresholds. She doesn’t submit it. But two nights later, the simulation framework updates. No credit. Just function.
✧ Raeya intercepts her in the hallway, offering a single phrase: "Korriban fell." No report, no broadcast—just those two words. Kylia's throat constricts. She already knew. The timestamped fleet drift confirmed it. But hearing it aloud sharpens the edges. She almost says, "We should leave," but swallows it, shifting instead to, "We need to reframe the fallout maps." Together they reroute the lower-tier crowd control overlays to allow for mass movement. Raeya identifies sectors least likely to comply under stress; Kylia reprograms corridor signal logic accordingly. They don't speak of fear, only friction. And in that unspoken space, war becomes real not through fire—but through protocol.
✧ During her analysis shift, a false-positive triggers in the atrium grid—a sign of potential sabotage. Kylia cross-references signal drift and catches a buried signature routed through obsolete civic diagnostics. Her breath slows. She almost triggers lockdown before swallowing the alarm. She isolates the fault, sends Raeya a coded trace marker, and redirects pedestrian flow manually. The atrium remains quiet. No one notices. But in her private log, she writes: "Eternal access confirmed—probing phase underway." She closes the terminal with shaking fingers. The system updated itself again—without asking why.
✧ The week ends with a debrief where instructors praise "adaptive silence" in cadet response. Kylia nods, but her hands are cold. She almost speaks when they reference stability. Instead, she uploads an anonymized overlay showing timing drift in public reassurance campaigns. Her analysis concludes: "Measured calm is not peace." No one responds. But a day later, a new training module appears in the civic archives—uncredited. At night, she and Raeya test their resilience model—Kylia’s grid logic paired with Raeya’s posture stress profiles—against three archived panic events. It outperforms baseline protocols by thirteen percent. The next morning, Overwatch updates its early-response drills with embedded timing tags. No attribution. Just adoption. Raeya calls it quiet recognition. Kylia logs it as system convergence—human and machine, finally calibrated.
📓 Personal Log: "First Firewall" | Zakuul, 3635 BBY
"War doesn’t start with fire. It starts with irregular signal drift. It starts when cadets hesitate and instructors pivot simulations. It starts when your overlay tags the enemy before your command does. Today, Raeya told me Korriban burned. But I already knew. I felt it in the protocols. I saw it in the numbers. We’re not observers anymore. We’re the first firewall. And that means silence is no longer safety—it’s exposure, if you’re not ready. I intend to be ready. And this time, I'm not alone in it."
🪐 Galactic Context:
Under Arcann’s reign, the Eternal Empire expands without pause. The Eternal Fleet maintains control through faceless precision, while Skytroopers patrol the Spire with mechanical grace. On the surface, Zakuul gleams—but within the system’s code, discrepancies accumulate like hairline fractures. For Kylia Tille, now promoted earlier than protocol typically allows, the proof is no longer theoretical—it’s personal.
📘 Narrative:
✧ The alert came in late—12.6 seconds past the system’s event threshold. Kylia’s breath caught as she parsed the data stream: a freight lift reroute had compressed pedestrian traffic into a structural choke point. Two injuries. The log marked it as “minor,” but her overlay pulsed in red—this wasn’t a system error. This was override by Eternal Fleet command, silent and unacknowledged. She almost escalated the breach through official channels. Instead, her fingers hovered, then pivoted—rewriting the timestamp and routing it through a dormant archive node. The lift rebooted. The log corrected. No one spoke to her about it. No one ever had—not even when she’d been given command three years ahead of schedule. That was how Overwatch promoted: with silence sharp enough to feel like permission. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ During metrics review, a senior officer cited “unshakable public confidence.” Kylia sat motionless, spine upright, but her jaw tightened at the lie. Her variance model told another story—civilian compliance increased only where Skytrooper density peaked. Not trust. Conditioned response. She almost interrupted, almost asked for clarity in a room trained not to grant it. Instead, she submitted a reframed assessment: “Panic suppression correlates to predictive fear zones.” The phrasing passed filter. Her data was absorbed within the hour—no credit, no citation. She returned to her terminal and re-ran the overlays. Each pass worsened. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ Raeya arrived without warning—no protocol, no uniform. Kylia had already queued the encrypted drive, knowing the visit would come before it was requested. “They blamed Firebrand again,” Raeya said, setting her gloves aside. “Junction blast in West Tier. Four sectors tripped.” Kylia nodded. She’d logged the pre-failure strain on that junction last cycle—ignored, of course. Raeya didn’t need comfort, and Kylia didn’t offer it. Instead, she handed her cousin a diagnostics report labeled “unresolved heat signature,” the only language they could safely use. They didn’t speak of guilt. Only failures mapped in timestamps. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ A directive arrived with no name attached—reassigning her squad to transit nodes with known instability. At first glance, it looked like optimization. But the cadence was too clean. Too predictive. Kylia re-read the routing logic three times before realization settled: these weren’t patrols. They were collapse indicators. The system wasn’t preventing panic—it was measuring how far it could stretch before breaking. Her hand hovered over the diagnostic lockdown code. She almost activated it. Instead, she logged a shadow trace, mirrored the new patterns, and called it calibration. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ She stood on the roof of the East Analysis Hub that night, city lights flickering like binary—on, off, on. Below, somewhere, someone had etched a crude Flamechaser sigil into a junction panel. Kylia didn’t admire Firebrand. But she understood her. If the system used optics as protection, then clarity itself became a kind of defiance. She didn’t wipe the symbol away. She didn’t report it. She just logged one more line into her private archive: “Silent corrections no longer sufficient.” Her hands didn’t shake this time. They steadied, not from certainty, but resolve. And still, the silence lingered.
📓 Personal Log: “Radical Honesty” | Zakuul, 3632 BBY
"I rerouted three failures today. Not because I believe the system deserves saving—but because I still don’t want it to break while people are standing under it. They blame Firebrand for lighting fires. But the sparks were already in the wiring—we just stopped admitting it. Raeya still watches the people. I watch the numbers. But even the numbers are whispering now. I used to think the system just needed tuning. But maybe it needs something more radical: honesty. Even if it doesn’t survive it."
🪐 Galactic Context:
Empress Vaylin’s Grand Festival cloaks the Spire in spectacle, her control absolute, her temper unchecked. While the Eternal Empire parades rebels in chains beneath golden light, Operation Dragon’s Maw surges in shadow—an Alliance-coordinated sabotage plot aligning with Indo Zal’s betrayal. Just yesterday, Kylia Tille was promoted to Overwatch Captain—one of the youngest ever appointed. She should have celebrated. Instead, she defected. Not for glory. But because she knew no rank could fix what was already broken.
📘 Narrative:
✧ The food logistics overlay refreshed every thirty seconds—too fast for most, too noisy for sabotage. But Kylia had mapped the cadence. Seventeen minutes in, she inserted a signal cascade behind a vendor sync protocol, hidden in a refresh loop. Her breath hitched—not from fear, but from the precision of it. The cascade created a thirty-seven-second patrol gap—just long enough to move the prisoners. Just long enough to upend the system she once swore to maintain. Her fingers trembled slightly as the signal pulsed green. She could still stop it. Could still be Overwatch Captain, loyal, decorated, safe. But her thumb tapped the final relay. The choice made her colder. Clearer. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ The festival shimmered above like a lie printed in gold. Kylia threaded through the crowd in neutral silks, her Overwatch credentials buried beneath a civilian badge. Just yesterday, she’d stood in the Spire’s briefing hall as the congratulations echoed. “Historic appointment,” they said. “Tactical brilliance,” they said. No one asked why she looked hollow. The title felt like an epitaph, not a reward. Fireworks masked the signal burst. She rerouted the corridor cameras and sent one word to Raeya’s relay: Proceed. Her pulse fluttered. Her chest ached. She didn’t say goodbye. She just walked toward the breach she helped create. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ From a balcony above the inner terraces, Kylia tracked rebel movement through her lens overlay—disruption patterns, flickering shock collar statuses, visual distortion from failing skytroopers. The plan was working. But one anomaly blinked back: a signal delay, too elegant to be error. Her breath caught. It was her own code—inverted, just enough to create pause. She traced the signature. Bella. Or Brina. A Horizon Guard had seen her. And hadn’t stopped her. Her throat tightened. Her hands shook, then steadied. “They gave us time,” she whispered. Not permission. Not absolution. Just time. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ The palace fractured around her—ion bursts and glitched alarms cascading through the corridors like failing veins. Kylia ducked into service access tunnels she had memorized years ago. She hadn’t planned to see it fall from the inside. But now that she did, she wasn’t afraid. This was architecture crumbling the way it had been designed: under pressure, under silence, under denial. She reached the beast pen corridor just as the final lockdown failed. Raeya emerged, winded but whole. They didn’t embrace. They didn’t speak. But Kylia reached for her hand—just for a breath—and let go. Raeya ran. Kylia followed. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ At the eastern exit junction, skytrooper fire skidded just shy of their backs. Kylia rerouted the lift manually—hard override keyed to her Captain access. The panel recognized her. Didn’t question her. “Access granted,” it chimed. She almost laughed. Almost cried. She was still the system’s child. Even in treason. Even now. The lift opened into smoke and chaos. Raeya vanished into the dispersing crowd. Kylia hesitated, her body still shaped by protocol. Then she stepped forward. One line crossed. One title left behind. And still, the silence lingered.
📓 Personal Log: “Clearance Code: Silence” | Zakuul, 3630 BBY
"They promoted me yesterday. Overwatch Captain. I should’ve felt something. But all I felt was weight. Not of responsibility—of surrender. I’ve spent years correcting systems from the inside. I thought I could save it before it broke. But you can’t calibrate a structure built to suppress. You can only escape it—or become it. Today, I escaped. Barely. And someone—one of them—let me go. They saw me. And chose silence. I won’t forget that."
🪐 Galactic Context:
Though the Eternal Empire’s grip has shattered, the scars remain. In the Outer Rim, pirate factions like the Dust Vipers, long thought neutralized, have resurfaced—raiding old data caches and threatening Eternal Alliance logistics across key trade routes. Fleet Admiral Bey'wan Aygo, now head of Alliance military operations, dispatches Kylia Tille and her unit to confirm total neutralization of the Dust Viper threat near the remains of their den on Tatooine—a task easier said than done under twin suns and ancient treachery.
📘 Narrative:
✧ The heat hit her first—not just temperature, but signal noise. Tatooine's sandstorms scrambled external sensors, making her overlays drift by milliseconds. Kylia’s jaw clenched as she recalibrated for local delay variance, watching the flicker of false positives ghost across her HUD. She almost flagged it to Aygo’s ops channel, but swallowed the instinct; the Admiral had trusted her discretion, and the data hadn’t crossed her break threshold. Beside her, raider activity pulsed faint in the lower strata of the terrain map—too organized for a ghost faction. She rewound a cluster drift from two hours prior, eyes narrowing on a compression pattern near an abandoned comms dish. Her breath hitched. Not a signal—it was a shadow protocol: embedded code to mimic interference. She remembered that tactic. She’d written it once. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ The entrance to the Dust Viper Den was buried under a dune crust, but her boots found the rhythm in the terrain. Every step was recorded; every pressure differential mapped. Her hands trembled slightly as she input the old Alliance override—one she wasn’t supposed to have, but had kept anyway. The hatch opened without protest. That made it worse. “It’s too clean,” she muttered, voice clipped over comms. One of Aygo’s lieutenants, a Devaronian named Nerro, gave a low whistle behind her. “Thought these pirates were ashes. Looks like someone swept the grave.” Kylia didn’t reply. She watched as an echo of her own encryption protocols activated the internal systems—reanimated without permission. Her pulse stayed even. But her trust didn’t. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ Inside, the den was cooler—death preserved in dust. Crates marked with Alliance insignia lay cracked open, stripped of anything sensitive but still tagged with tracking nodes. Her overlay blinked red three times—then recalibrated. Someone had taught the remnants how to mimic compliance. Her fingers hovered over her wristpad. She almost activated a lockdown—then stopped. “Raeya,” she whispered into their secure channel. “Someone here studied our logs. This isn’t leftover tech—it’s inherited.” Static answered first. Then her cousin’s voice, quiet but certain: “Then it wasn’t pirates who buried it. It was someone who wanted it to stay accessible.” Kylia swallowed hard. She entered the next corridor with a tighter grip on her blaster. And still, the silence lingered.
✧ They found bodies eventually—scorched, preserved by failure. But the kill signatures were Zakuulan. Not pirate. Not Alliance. Old skytrooper metrics, burned into the walls. Her throat tightened. “This den was never abandoned,” she said. “It was quarantined.” Nerro frowned. “Why fake a shutdown?” Kylia didn’t answer right away. She remembered the rumors from her Overwatch days—of shadow deactivation orders never logged. She remembered how clean data could lie. She ran a deep scan of the remaining storage node and found it—buried deep in an access log from 3630 BBY: her own reroute signature, mirrored. She stepped back, hands shaking now. “Because someone wanted us to forget we were ever here.” And still, the silence lingered.
✧ By nightfall, the den was sealed behind them again—cleared, confirmed, but not understood. Kylia uploaded her full report to Aygo with one redacted tag: “False Shutdown Protocol – Source Unknown.” She almost sent a second file, encrypted to An’dral for deep analysis—but paused. The truth would reach them eventually. It always did. She sat by the shuttle, sand in her gloves, watching the stars flicker above as though trying to remember themselves. Nerro offered a ration pack, but she shook her head. “We didn’t wipe out the Dust Vipers,” she said softly. “We just inherited their den.” He didn’t ask what she meant. He didn’t have to. And still, the silence lingered.
📓 Personal Log: “Inheritance Protocol” | Tatooine, 3629 BBY
“I walked into a dead den and found myself looking back. My own code. My own trail. Echoed by someone who shouldn't have had it. Either I left more behind than I realized, or someone else learned how to be me. I thought defection ended my connection to Zakuul’s shadow archives. But shadows don’t stop when you leave—they follow the path you burned escaping. I don’t think the Dust Vipers ever mattered. I think the real threat is who taught them how to look like us. And that means someone out there remembers the old silence—and knows how to wear it. I’m not tracking pirates. I’m tracking legacy. And this time, it’s not mine I’m worried about. It’s theirs.”
🪐 Galactic Context:
The galaxy wavers between uneasy order and quiet retribution. On Belsavis, buried infrastructure from the Eternal Empire groans beneath collapsing ice. When Sigma-47—once a signal routing node for the Eternal Fleet—activates without cause, the Eternal Alliance responds. Not with battalions. With watchers. Intelligence emissaries. Kylia Tille arrives under the veil of cold protocol to assess a broadcast too close to her own past. But Sigma-47 is not malfunctioning. It’s remembering. And memories—especially those coded into old war systems—have teeth.
📘 Narrative:
✧ The relay chamber was colder than protocol allowed, but Kylia Tille didn’t flinch. Her gloves tapped methodically across the console as the signal spun its flawless loop. No distortion. No degradation. Just a pristine recurrence with no recipient—something designed to seem benign. Her stomach tightened. She knew this format. She wrote this format. Not for broadcasting. For tracking. She’d buried it years ago, hidden inside Zakuulan architecture meant for quiet dismantlement. But someone had rewritten it. Called it forward. Her lips parted as the rhythm struck a familiar stutter. “It’s my loop,” she whispered. And still, she didn’t terminate the feed.
✧ Protocol dictated deletion. But protocol had failed them too many times. Kylia restructured the interface mask instead, rerouting the feed to an isolated cache layered behind secure overlays. This wasn’t a flare. It was a fingerprint. Her fingerprint—altered. She tracked the changes, breathing shallow as the signature diverged: re-encoded harmonics, altered pulse gaps. Intentional tampering. But the work was precise. Professional. She felt it before she heard it—Force-sensitive steps behind her. Jedi. She didn’t turn. Raeya moved first—always better at meeting tension without escalating it. Kylia kept her back to the room and whispered, “It’s not sending out. It’s testing us.” And still, her hands didn’t leave the console.
✧ Amara stepped closer, her presence rigid, coiled like a spring. “You authored this protocol,” she said. Not an accusation. Not a question. But the Force around her trembled—like someone caught between certainty and restraint. Kylia met her gaze. “The original, yes.” She didn’t say I buried it so it couldn’t be used. Kleya remained silent, scanning the readouts. Raeya cut in—soft but firm, grounding the moment. Kylia appreciated it, even if she didn’t show it. She stepped back, letting the signal run its loop again. “This isn’t accidental,” she said. “Someone wanted this found.” Her voice didn’t waver. But her breath caught when she added, “And they used my legacy to do it.” And still, no one offered comfort. Only understanding.
✧ She adjusted the output stream to route through vibration markers in the surrounding ice—subtle, almost undetectable. A shadowfeed. No command channels. No server logs. Just memory embedded in decay. She recognized the signature of another hand layered on top of her own—familiar, but obscured. Intelligence? Zakuulan loyalist? Or someone deeper still? Her pulse thrummed in her throat. Sigma-47 had no business being online. And yet, it remembered. That frightened her more than she admitted. “We’re standing on testimony,” she muttered. “And no one wants to be the one who hears it first.” Raeya turned but didn’t speak. And still, Kylia didn’t ask for agreement—just the silence to finish her thought.
✧ She left the outpost with a copy of the altered code buried behind ten layers of failsafe triggers—accessible only by dead switch or key phrase. Her breath fogged as the transport ramp lowered. She looked back once—at the facility, at the faultline, at the crack forming where ice met history. If this resurfaced, it would be loud. It would be painful. But at least now, someone would know where to look. She glanced at Raeya, who met her eyes, no words needed. Kylia gave the faintest nod. She hadn’t stopped the signal. She’d let it speak. And still, she wondered who else had already listened.
📓 Personal Log: “Recursion” | Belsavis, 3627 BBY
"I built it to fade. To guide us back from the edge without lighting another war. But they used my framework to resurrect ghosts. The signal’s not a malfunction—it’s a message. Altered. Twisted. Intentional. And I don’t know who the message is for. I should’ve erased it. I didn’t. Because sometimes, memory is strategy. And maybe this time, I’ll be ready when it echoes back."
🪐 Galactic Context:
Odessen hosts a fragile convergence of Empire, Republic, and Alliance powers. The summit is not peace—it is architecture: a construct of delay, diplomacy, and concealed leverage. Kylia Tille, one of the Alliance’s core emissaries, maintains the protocols no one sees. While others debate future wars, she ensures no hallway overheats, no surveillance loop drifts, no corridor leads to failure. But today, the system doesn’t just bend under political weight—it watches who stands still in its faultlines.
📘 Narrative:
✧ The summit’s routing core blinked a clean pattern—two-thirds green, one-fifth yellow, three error codes blinked once, then silenced. Kylia didn’t flinch. She adjusted the node timing by 0.34 seconds, rerouted backup strain through the north server rail, and stabilized a shadow loop tied to a Republic audio sync. All before the sensor flagged the anomaly. She moved through the infrastructure like a whisper: not unseen, just unremarkable. Her badge said “Emissary,” but her work was pure calibration. Others saw banners and treaties. She saw thresholds. Behind every political gesture was a structural weight—load-bearing, but only barely.
✧ Her comm flickered as Raeya’s voice broke through: “Perimeter conflict neutralized. No escalation.” No emotion. Just confirmation. Kylia had already seen the breach alert minutes prior—Zakuulan thread, flagged in a Republic manifest. Her fingers had hovered over the hard override. But Raeya had been faster—again. She trusted that. Trusted her cousin’s presence like a balancing loop. She let the override expire. Instead, she turned her head as diplomatic aides returned to the corridor—Republic delegates first, then a pair of figures in red armor that pulled gravity toward them like a faultline. Imperial. No insignia. Regiment issue. Korriban hue. But something sharper in the way they moved. They weren’t just here for ceremony. They were here for someone powerful. And yet—it wasn’t the Sith Lord who held her focus. It was the two Captains who flanked him, who said nothing, but watched everything.
✧ She passed one of them later—north junction, after the manifest breach had been contained. The taller of the two, dark hair cropped, posture still as breath. The other appeared a corridor away, scanning without comment. Both wore silence like a uniform. Kylia didn’t register threat. She registered constraint. The kind built from years of doctrine. Their armor was polished. Unbroken. But even steel had flex points. She didn’t engage. Just cataloged. Raeya appeared moments later, offering a quiet nod. “They came from Korriban,” she murmured. “Escorting a Lord. But I think they’re doing more than guarding.” Kylia didn’t ask how she knew. Raeya always saw the space around presence—not just the steps.
✧ By dusk, the summit courtyard shimmered—moisture clinging to stone, tension clinging to breath. Kylia reviewed the environmental sync logs from an elevated terminal, her gloves hovering above a haptic relay. She could see the Imperials again—down the far spire walk. Still. Watching. Not imposing. But unavoidable. She logged a proximity trace to track sector load and prevent pattern interference. Not for security. For integrity. The system didn’t just need peace. It needed containment. Stability under observation. And yet, she wondered—who were these Captains when they weren’t standing at attention? When no one was watching? She exhaled, slow. And let the record keep breathing.
✧ That night, in the temporary Alliance command wing, she submitted her summit diagnostic. All stability metrics cleared. All control nodes balanced. She attached a silent addendum: “External regulatory influence noted. No functional obstruction.” She paused before finalizing. Thought of the red-armored sentinels. Of silence, not as threat—but as weight. As legacy. As caution dressed in discipline. Then she submitted the log. Not because it explained everything. But because it allowed her to stop wondering—just for one moment—who among them was actually free. And still, the silence lingered.
📓 Personal Log: “Systems Don’t Blink” | Odessen, 3624 BBY
"I saw two Imperials today—both Captains, stationed by doctrine but steadied by something older. They didn’t speak. They didn’t reach. But they anchored every hallway they entered. Presence like pressure—controlled, precise. I don’t think they feared us. I think they feared what silence would break if they moved wrong. Raeya said they weren’t just here to guard a Sith. They were here to watch what happened when order was questioned. I wonder if they saw me too—green and brown, standing still. I wonder if they logged us. Or just remembered."
🪐 Galactic Context:
The galaxy has not healed. It has stabilized—barely. The Eternal Alliance now governs not through fleet intimidation, but quiet recalibration. With Lana Beniko overseeing diplomacy, emissaries like Kylia Tille serve as the new architecture: frameworks of trust measured in systems, silence, and constraint. On Dromund Kaas, a world that does not forget power, she faces two Sith Lords who remind her that legacy isn’t always something built. Sometimes, it’s endured.
📘 Narrative:
✧ Dromund Kaas greeted her with static rain and coded malice. Kylia stepped onto the landing platform with silent precision, the storm flaring dimly off her sealed hood. Behind her, Raeya moved with visible steadiness—presence calibrated for diplomatic balance. The Sith Academy loomed to their right, its spires pulsing red like old wounds that never closed. Their purpose was clear: to reaffirm diplomatic channels before the next surge of conflict. But presence always carried risk. And inside the annex, two Sith Lords waited—one with the eyes of a predator who studied silence, the other with calm restraint so practiced it almost resembled peace. Neither gave their names. Neither expected theirs in return. That suited Kylia fine.
✧ The room was cold—too cold for protocol, but just right for control. Kylia studied the first speaker. Cloaked. Measured. Efficient. She did not blink when referred to simply as an Eternal Alliance Emissary. Across from her, the second Sith radiated something different—not threat, but structure. Discipline without overt menace. Kylia cataloged it as a distinction, not a weakness. When the one who called herself the Voice of Alignment—clearly the political shadow of the two—spoke of stability through perception, Kylia listened without flinching. “Certainty,” the Sith Lord said, “not safety, is the Empire’s offering.” Raeya shifted subtly beside her, the signal of ethical tension. Kylia responded not with argument, but precision. “Then I hope your perception accounts for humanitarian thresholds. Chaos beneath silence is still collapse.” The Sith did not reply. But she did listen.
✧ The exchange moved like encoded wirework—questions as probes, answers as walls. Raeya pressed gently on the subject of border stabilization. The second Sith—Executor of Stability, by designation—responded not with threats, but tactical logic. “Collapse isn’t where we intervene,” she said. “It’s where we calculate the next fracture.” Kylia met her gaze and saw no cruelty. Only caution. Something tightened in her chest. Not fear. Familiarity. They were not so different, these Sith—at least not in the mechanisms they trusted. But proximity didn’t mean alignment. “Humanitarian corridors are not weakness,” she said, “They’re retention protocols. For trust.” The Sith Lord inclined her head, as though filing that term away. The conversation paused. But something had shifted. Recognition, not resolution. And still, the silence felt navigable.
✧ After the meeting, they left without ceremony. Kaas storms cracked open the sky again, hissing against perma-glass as they stepped onto the shuttle platform. Neither cousin spoke. But both were alert, scanning not for danger—but for lingering signal. And then—movement. Small. Close. Two forms, tucked beneath a fuel conduit vent: feline, damp, wary-eyed. One loth-cat limped slightly, fur dusted with soot. The other tilted its head with mathematical focus, as if calculating escape vectors. Raeya dropped to one knee, whispering soft syllables without words. Kylia crouched beside her. “She’s watching the gate logic,” she murmured. Raeya smiled faintly. “She’s waiting for permission.” The cats did not flee. One brushed against Kylia’s glove. The other stepped toward Raeya like it remembered her. And still, no one spoke approval. It simply… happened.
✧ Kylia named hers Cipher—a fitting match: silent, observant, precise. Raeya named hers Trellis, without explaining why. But Kylia understood. A trellis holds growth others can’t see. They boarded the shuttle just before the next security sweep, loth-cats wrapped gently in emergency ration blankets. Neither Sith Lord would know. Neither needed to. Legacy was not only written in doctrine. Sometimes, it curled beneath your feet and reminded you what continuity really meant. The hatch sealed behind them. Kaas shrank to shadow in the viewport. And still, the bond held.
📓 Personal Log: “Two Systems Chose Us” | Dromund Kaas, 3621 BBY
"They didn’t draw blades. Neither did we. That alone felt like progress. The Sith called themselves titles instead of names, but the control in the room wasn’t hollow. It was measured. Strategic. They spoke of deterrence, not annihilation. One used silence as power. The other used precision. I understand that. Raeya saw their restraint. I saw their calculations. We didn’t align—but we didn’t fracture, either. As we departed, two small systems found us. Cipher follows without sound. Trellis watches Raeya like a pulse point. We didn’t choose them. They chose us. Maybe that’s what peace begins with: being seen, and staying."