Sara Kenau

Sara Kenau is an Imperial Army major commanding the 1st Perimeter Battalion at Korriban Garrison. A former enlisted soldier from Balmorra, she oversees perimeter security, battalion readiness, convoy verification, and casualty accountability around Korriban’s Sith institutions.

The failed Ash Corridior operation placed Sara’s own personnel and reporting under scrutiny. She now leads much of the Army-side operational reconstruction, working with verification droid PX-21 and medical officer Gavin Rin. Their findings have connected portions of the investigation to Grey Ledger, a wider pattern of contradictory records whose causes remain unresolved.

• One-Line Summary: Imperial perimeter commander balancing military readiness, disputed casualty records, and consequential family discoveries.

• Full Name: Sara Kenau

• Known As: Sara; “Perimeter Major” in informal operational usage

• Species / Model / Type: Human

• Gender / Pronouns: Female; she/her

• Born / Activated: 3653 BBY

• Place of Origin: Sobrik, Balmorra

• Current Residence / Base: Imperial Army command quarters within Korriban Garrison

• Occupation / Primary Activity: Major, Imperial Army; commanding officer of the 1st Perimeter Battalion

• Primary Affiliation / Community: Sith Empire — Imperial Military, Imperial Army

• Current Status: Alive

• Archive Status: Active

Appearance & Presentation

Sara stands 5 ft 4 in (163 cm), with a compact, endurance-conditioned build, steel-blue eyes, and dark-brown hair normally secured for operations. Her posture is restrained and her movements economical. No significant markings, cybernetics, or persistent visible injuries are established.

Sara’s battalion continues its ordinary security and readiness work while Ash Corridor remains under investigation. Checkpoints, observation posts, sensors, convoy movements, logistics, and personnel accounting still require decisions from a command whose earlier actions are themselves being examined.

The reconstruction compares orders and reports with communications, movement, casualty, readiness, procurement, and custody records. Damaged evidence and contradictory accounts complicate the sequence. Sara’s involvement and her family connection to another commander make independent scrutiny particularly important.

Colonel Veyra Dren holds senior Army authority affecting investigative scope, evidence transfers, and PX-21’s assignment. Broader Grey Ledger comparisons have created tension over how far Sara’s work can proceed under the formation’s mandate. Zylia Vashara conducts a separate, limited review of the Korriban formation.

Meanwhile, Sophie Kenau’s confirmed survival has introduced a different kind of uncertainty. Sara must get to know an adult sister whose life as Sophie Ordo developed independently of the Kenau family.

Common Locations

• Korriban Garrison — Sara’s residence and principal working environment, including battalion command and support facilities.

• Perimeter checkpoints, observation posts, and sensor sites — Recurring destinations for inspections, patrol coordination, readiness work, and initial security responses.

• Logistics and convoy compounds — Locations for cargo staging, manifest verification, transport coordination, supply work, and vehicle support.

• Ash Corridor Incident Site — An operational area where routes, damaged systems, communications infrastructure, and evacuation pathways can be compared with surviving reports.

• Army-administered approaches adjoining the Sith Academy — Places where perimeter duties meet Sith-controlled territory and require coordination across institutional boundaries.

Reputation & Information Visibility

Origins & Upbringing

Sara was born in Sobrik alongside her twin sister, Tarika Kenau. Their parents, Lena and Varek Kenau, worked in occupation-era industrial logistics. Their precise employer, formal status, motives, and degree of choice within that work remain uncertain.

Her childhood unfolded amid industrial demands, resistance warfare, shortages, damaged infrastructure, requisitions, and competing authorities. The family’s proximity to logistics made the consequences of supply, movement, and personnel records part of everyday life.

A childcare-facility fire separated the family from Sara’s younger sister Sophie. Damaged identifying records prevented a reliable reunion, and the family came to believe Sophie dead.

When Republic-supported Balmorran forces liberated Sobrik, the Kenau family departed with an Imperial evacuation column. They subsequently resettled in secure Imperial territory; the location is unknown.

Identity, Culture & Communication

• Cultural Connections: Sara retains a Balmorran identity alongside her Imperial military allegiance. Occupation and displacement remain important experiences without providing a simple explanation for every loyalty or decision.

• Names & Identity: Sara Kenau is her personal and professional name. “Perimeter Major” is an informal designation.

• Communication: Fluent Galactic Basic, including formal Imperial command and administrative usage; literate in the High Galactic alphabet; functional conversational Huttese. She favors direct language, especially when timing, authority, or the source of information is uncertain.

Formative History

Sara entered the Army alongside Tarika during the upheaval surrounding Zakuul’s rise. Enlisted service developed her experience in convoy security, evacuation, logistics, discipline, personnel accounting, and casualty reporting.

A disrupted Imperial withdrawal became her decisive career transition. Sara helped identify usable extraction routes, account for survivors, and coordinate movement when local command had failed. An independent recommendation led to a battlefield commission as an ensign. Later service as a lieutenant and captain brought platoon- and company-level responsibilities.

Veyra Dren became an evaluator and mentor during Sara’s development as an officer. Their shared concern with readiness, delegated authority, and accountable decisions helped shape Sara’s command methods. Promotion to major eventually placed her in charge of Korriban’s 1st Perimeter Battalion.

Ash Corridor tested those principles within her own command. Reconstruction brought PX-21 onto her staff and exposed discrepancies extending beyond the original incident. The same period overturned the family’s belief that Sophie had died.

Timeline Highlights

• Sith Empire — Sara’s political allegiance and the state she serves as a career officer.

• Imperial Army — Her profession, chain of command, and principal institutional community.

• 1st Perimeter Battalion, Korriban Garrison — Her command and central responsibility, including its personnel, readiness, security, casualties, and operational record.

• Army accountability and command-review channels — Professional connections supporting specialist assistance, records access, and scrutiny of military decisions.

• Grey Ledger comparisons — Compartmentalized cooperation concerning contradictory evidence. This is investigative involvement rather than membership in an organization.

Professional & Institutional Context

Sara directs battalion deployment, perimeter security, checkpoints, readiness, administration, and evidence handling within her assignment. She answers to senior Army command and remains accountable for her own decisions.

Her appointment does not confer unrestricted authority within the Sith Academy, intelligence services, civil institutions, outside archives, or other commanders’ jurisdictions. Cooperation beyond her assignment depends on applicable authorization, referrals, credentials, and the responsibilities of the institutions involved.

• Competencies: Battalion command; perimeter and readiness coordination; convoy and evacuation planning; personnel and casualty accounting; logistics reconciliation; and reconstruction of disrupted operations.

• Experience: Enlisted leadership followed by a battlefield commission and progressively larger command assignments.

• Investigative Approach: Compares personnel, routes, orders, communications, timing, supplies, and consequences against separately maintained evidence.

• Limits: Sara is not established as a physician, intelligence operative, advanced technical forensic examiner, Sith political specialist, or Force practitioner.

• Dependencies: Clinical interpretation requires medical specialists; complex authentication and custody work depend heavily on PX-21 and other qualified personnel. Effective action also requires usable infrastructure, cooperation, access, and sufficient time.

Equipment & Resources

Sara wants command decisions to remain explainable after an emergency: what happened, what information was available, who could act, and what their choices cost.

Her immediate goals are to sustain battalion readiness, complete the reviews entrusted to her, preserve reliable evidence, and support independent scrutiny even when its findings affect family or colleagues. Wider discrepancies test whether she can pursue an important question without losing the access required to answer it.

Her command, reputation, credentials, and professional relationships are at stake. So is the confidence of personnel who depend on her judgment. Loyalty to Tarika cannot determine what evidence Sara preserves, while loyalty to the Army does not make every institutional conclusion reliable.

Personality & Personal Life

Sara is observant, controlled, and formal. Under pressure, her questions tend to become shorter and more precise. She prefers to clarify responsibilities and verify information before committing, while recognizing that an opportunity to act may close before uncertainty is resolved.

She can place too much confidence in the ability of strong evidence to compel institutional correction. Personal uncertainty can produce a similar response: more questions, closer verification, and narrowed trust when another person may need something less procedural.

After difficult operations, she often reconstructs events and confirms the status of affected personnel. Time in her quarters with Coda, her female domesticated tooka, provides an established respite from command work.

• Boundary Incident — A security emergency crosses from Sara’s perimeter into another jurisdiction. Soldiers, technicians, medics, or other involved personnel must coordinate a response before the available time runs out.

• Casualty Reconstruction — A treatment record, evacuation log, witness account, or personnel manifest challenges one part of the accepted sequence. A character’s contribution may resolve a narrow question without settling the whole incident.

• Manifest Discrepancy — A shipment’s documented cargo, passengers, destination, or procurement authority differs from another record or from what arrived. Freight crews, escorts, contractors, and quartermasters may hold the missing context.

• Command Review — New testimony or evidence affects Sara, Tarika, Maxir, or another participant. Characters may contribute findings, challenge an interpretation, or encounter revised procedures during a later operation.

• Evidence Custody — Competing instructions threaten access to a record, archive, or PX-21’s verification work. A specialist or custodian must establish what can be preserved, examined, or transferred.

• Recovered Identity — Conflicting family, civil, travel, or contractor records create practical consequences around Sophie’s confirmed identity. An entry point might involve authentication, registry work, testimony, or coordinated family contact.

Player & RP Information

• Ash Corridor — The failed operation made Sara both a principal operational reviewer and a commander whose formation requires scrutiny. Its consequences continue to affect professional trust, readiness, and accountability.

• Grey Ledger — Comparisons arising from Army reviews connect some of Sara’s evidence to wider documentary contradictions. Their significance and the authority to pursue them remain consequential questions.

• Sophie Kenau Identity Confirmation — Restricted genetic comparison and supporting evidence overturned the family’s presumed-death account. The discovery begins new relationships without replacing Sophie’s established life.

• Meridian Recovery — Some wider comparisons intersect Meridian-associated recovery evidence. Sara’s connection is evidentiary; participation in the original battle, command of recovery operations, and unrestricted access to corporate records are not established.