Llerd was a Human male serving Naga Sadow's Sith invasion fleet in 5,000 BBY as a lieutenant aboard the Sith dreadnaught Harbinger. He unhesitatingly accepted orders from his superiors and enjoyed watching his enemies die. When Harbinger was on a mission to acquire Lignan ore in the Phaegon system, it was ambushed by the Jedi Master Relin Druur and his Padawan, Drev Hassin. The ship attempted to enter hyperspace, but its hyperdrive and bridge had been heavily damaged, causing it to misjump and travel over 5,000 years into the future to the year 41.5 ABY. Shortly after this, Llerd was promoted to colonel by Harbinger's captain, the Sith Lord Saes Rrogon, and oversaw the reparations of the warship's instrumentation and the pursuit of an enemy freighter by Blade-class starfighters. When it was discovered that Druur had again boarded Harbinger, Llerd hunted for the Jedi from the warship's secondary bridge, but was killed when Druur used the dark side of the Force to destroy the dreadnaught.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Mission to Phaegon III 1.2 Destruction of Harbinger 2 Personality and traits 3 Behind the scenes 4 Appearances 5 Notes and references

BiographyEdit

Mission to Phaegon IIIEdit

The male Human Llerd was a lieutenant on the bridge night-watch crew of the Sith dreadnaught Harbinger in the year 5,000 BBY. During that year, Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow dispatched Harbinger and Omen, both of which were ships from his invasion fleet, to the Phaegon system in order to obtain Lignan, a rare ore powerful in the dark side of the Force. Sadow hoped to use the ore to bolster his forces at the upcoming Battle of Kirrek during his invasion of the Galactic Republic. Llerd was off-duty while the two warships bombarded the largest moon of the planet Phaegon III, exposing the Lignan beneath its crust. During the bombardment, Harbinger was boarded by the Jedi Master Relin Druur, who hoped to prevent the ship from delivering its Lignan cargo to the Sith fleet. When the ship's captain, the Kaleesh Sith Lord Saes Rrogon, was alerted to Druur's presence, he ordered both warships to return to Sadow's fleet at Primus Goluud, but was foiled when Druur damaged Harbinger's hyperdrive with explosives. Druur's Padawan, Drev Hassin, crashed his Infiltrator starfighter into the warship's bridge seconds before it entered hyperspace, hoping to prevent it from leaving the system. The compounded damage caused Harbinger to misjump, failing to fully enter a hyperspace tunnel and traveling through time to the year 41.5 ABY.^[1]

Away from the bridge, Rrogon was able to use the Force to pull the ship back into realspace in an unfamiliar system, and ordered all members of the bridge night-watch crew to the secondary bridge. Unaware of Harbinger's new temporal location, Llerd arrived at the bridge and, noticing that the ship's instrumentation was down, ordered a full stop. He alerted his crew when Rrogon arrived on the bridge, and was promoted to colonel on the spot by the Captain, replacing Los Dor, who had died with the rest of the original bridge crew when the bridge had been rammed by Hassin. Llerd was also named the acting executive officer, and was tasked with overseeing repairs of the instrumentation and scanning surrounding space in an effort to determine their location. As his crew undertook those tasks, Llerd watched, nearly hypnotized, as Rrogon tapped a bleeding finger against one of his jaw horns, but regained his composure when the Sith instructed him to order security to perform a room-by-room sweep of the ship to search for Druur. Llerd began working on repairing the ship's instrumentation, and Harbinger's systems slowly began to come back online. When the scanners became operational, they revealed the presence of a nearby disk-like freighter. Llerd also noticed one of Harbinger's escape pods in nearby realspace, and was ordered to fire on it by Rrogon, who suspected that Druur was inside of it. Llerd informed his Captain that Harbinger's weapons systems were still offline, and was consequently ordered to deploy two squadrons of Blade-class starfighters to attack the freighter.^[1]

Destruction of HarbingerEdit

As the freighter, named Junker, fled into the rings of the system's gas giant, Llerd relayed to them an order from Rrogon, calling for the Blade starfighters to pursue the freighter. Rrogon was then informed by the ship's science droid, 8L6, of the time travel that had occurred, and, wanting his crew to remain focused on their objective, ordered Llerd not to monitor or scan any local subspace channels, hoping that he would remain ignorant of their situation. Llerd was eager to see Junker destroyed, and when it jettisoned its cargo into an asteroid, the resulting explosion caused him to believe that the Blade starfighters had succeeded. Rrogon shared his belief and ordered the Colonel to put Harbinger into orbit around the gas giant's moon. Llerd was also told not to plot a course to Primus Goluud should the hyperdrive be fixed. The Captain retreated to his quarters, content that the Jedi had been killed. Several hours later, however, Junker appeared in realspace beneath Harbinger and penetrated its deflector shields, entering the warship's landing bay. Cautious of potential explosives aboard the freighter, Llerd dispatched all available security to the bay and isolated the area. He then commed Rrogon, and both men realized that Junker had not actually been destroyed. Rrogon cut the call off, but commed Llerd again moments later when it was discovered that Druur had been aboard Junker and had infiltrated Harbinger.^[1]

Llerd informed Rrogon that he had been unable to locate the Jedi despite a trail of bodies, and was told by Rrogon that Druur was in the cargo bay. As Llerd prepared to call security, the Sith Lord informed him that he would face the Jedi alone. Llerd acquiesced as he was told to evacuate all personnel from the cargo bay. Rrogon then engaged Druur in a duel of lightsabers and Force powers, but was killed by the Jedi, who, having fallen to the dark side, drew in power from the Lignan in the cargo bay and used the Force to consume the ship in flames, killing Llerd and everyone on board.^[1]

Personality and traitsEdit

Llerd was a barrel-chested man who served Naga Sadow's Sith fleet as a lieutenant. He was respectful to his superior officers and unhesitatingly accepted orders, even if they perplexed him or placed others' lives in danger. When he ordered Blade starfighters to pursue Junker, he was eager to see his quarry die, and his face became flush when he believed that they had been killed. When observing Saes Rrogon tap a bleeding finger against a jaw horn, he watched his Captain as if hypnotized.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

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

AppearancesEdit

• Crosscurrent (First appearance)

Notes and referencesEdit