Rynalla
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Professor Rynalla, sometimes known as Profex Rynalla was a female Human dark side adept, archaeologist and scholar, affiliated to the University of Sanbra. In 30 BBY, she sparked a war between the Human colonists of Leritor and the native Sauvax when she began to excavate ancient Sith artifacts from the planet.
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Rynalla was a scholar affiliated to the department of ancient history of the University of Sanbra. She was an expert in galactic history, archaeology and the lore of several traditions of Force-users, including the Jedi Order the Sith and other more organizations bygone in her time. Secretly, Rynalla researched the Sith and traditions of the dark side to increase her own powers of the Force.
While researching in the University records, Rynalla discovered that a missing Sith treasure, the Bracers of Najus, had been lost in a Sith starship that crash-landed in the planet Leritor. The Bracers could be used to increase the power of the dark side, and she coveted the relic. She hired two dozen Klatooinian soldiers and went to Leritor in her bulk freighter, with her two PTR-3 Vedette snub fighters in tow. She might have had sponsors, partners and/or rivals in this quest.
On arrival, Rynalla found the Sith starship half-buried in the local mountain range known as The Bleaks. She quickly organized a dig site using prefabricated buildings. Noticing two main groups in the planet, the Human settlers that farmed the inland prairies and the native Sauvax living the coast, she decided to capture strong individuals from each group and use them as slave miners to unbury the ship.
Rynalla's forces raided one of the massive harvester machines used by the farmers, the nearby Nellist. The stronger colonists were captured and the weaker ones were murdered with the traditional Sauvax weapon, the gruush, so that the other Humans in the planet would blame the Sauvax — even if a more detailed analysis would have pointed otherwise. Similarly, the Klatooinians also assaulted a Sauvax community or kuuvan, again executing the feeble and conscripting the powerful. They used blaster weapons, so that the Sauvax in other kuuvans would suspect that the Human farmers were behind the incursion. Rynalla wanted a war among the Sauvax and the farmers to keep them busy while she plundered her prize.
Fifty prisoners were captured, including both Humans and Sauvax. They were put to work, with the amphibious Sauvax in the deepest, submerged decks of the ship, and always watched by armed Klatooinians. Rynalla did not tell the captives what she was looking for, but every two days, she evicted the exhausted laborers while she looked for the Bracers — and the Klatooinians looked for any attempt of escape tunnel.
Rynalla's disposal of waste polluted a river, a change that was being noticed by several Sauvax. However, she was sure that nobody could even imagine there was a slave camp there. More worried about fugitives than about intruders, Rynalla organized a second, smaller camp near the edge of the mountain, to stop and execute any runaways. Five individuals met their end there.
A Sauvax kuuvan led by their tevelor, mistakenly believing that the farmers intended to exterminate their species, surrounded the combine-reaper Gevion and demanded an explanation. As the farmers believed that the Sauvax were an aggressive, murderous species, they were careful to not send any envoy; and as such, in a stalemate, the Sauvax refused to allow the Gevion collect a crop. This situation would have escalated to a war, but some offworlders heard a distress call from the Gevion and offered to mediate. These people began investigating and found a trail to Rynalla's camp.
Rynalla found the Bracers of Najus just in time to face her new enemies. She was eventually defeated, and peace was restored to Leritor.
