Erisi Dlarit
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Erisi Dlarit is a fighter pilot and Imperial mole in the fictional Star Wars universe.
She was first introduced in the first book of the X:Wing series of books (Rogue Squadron). She died at the end in the fourth book.
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Early History and New Republic Service
Erisi was a native of Tyferra and the daughter of a prominent member of the Xhucpra corporation, one of the two main producers of bacta. As a result of her family's position in the bacta cartel, Erisi and her family were quite wealthy.
Rogue Squadron
At some point, she was approached by Imperials to infiltrate Rogue Squadron when the New Republic decided to rebuild the squadron. Erisi had applied to the squadron, and eventually was accepted as one of the eleven new members of the squadron. She was mainly accepted due to the fact that the New Republic wanted to keep the bacta cartels happy. Bror Jace, a member of the Zaltin corporation, was from the other member of the cartel.
She flew in a number of the early missions that the rebuilt squadron had undertaken. During the first disastrous attempt to take Borealis, the X-Wing she had flow had been hit by a TIE fighter, requiring her to eject from the ship. Erisi recovered in time to fly during the second attempt to take the planet, but was unable to participate in the mission due to a shortage of functional X-Wings.
Erisi also began to express attraction towards fellow squadron member Corran Horn. While Horn also found her attractive, he did not feel that Erisi was right for him because of their very different backgrounds.
When Bror Jace needed to return to Tyferra, Erisi informed Imperial Intelligence. They had sent a ship out to intercept him, and his X-Wing was destroyed. At the time, everyone thought he had died. However, just before his ship was intercepted, Jace had transferred to a freighter which took him the rest of the way home. Originally, he had planned to blow his X-Wing up outside the system, and have everyone believe that he had been killed. However, the interception was just as good of a cover as the original plan was.
Coruscant Scouting Mission
Erisi and Corran were then inserted into Coruscant as a way of determining the best way to take the planet back from the Imperials. Erisi's cover role was as a member of one of the great Kauti merchant houses. Corran's cover role was that of her Telbun, or Kauti impregnator. They spent the week traveling through Coruscant, especially the more well to do areas, with Corran evaluating the security setup on the planet. During this time, she reported their movements to Imperial Intelligence.
Eventually, Erisi and Corran joined forces with the other members of Rogue Squadron who were also on Coruscant. When she helped Corran with his Z-95 headhunter during the final part of the scouting mission, she had taken the fighter's codes, and transmitted them to Imperial Intelligence. This resulted in Corran's capture and imprisonment at Lusankya.
The Krytos Crisis
In the aftermath of the New Republic taking Coruscant, things were very difficult for the Alliance and the squadron. Despite Tycho Celchu being accused of treason and murder in Corran Horn's apparent death, the squadron was publically supportive of Celchu. Erisi also maintained this support of Celchu in public as well.
When a convoy of freighters carrying bacta were dispatched to Coruscant, Erisi informed Warlord Zinsi that the convoy would be stopping at the Alderaan System. Zinsi went to Alderaan, and destroyed nearly all the convoy ships. Mirak Terrik was initially thought to be dead, but she had secretly went to Borealis as part of a covert New Republic mission.
After Corran had escaped from Lusankya, Isard had the crew of that vessel break it free of the planet and leave the system. Erisi decided that she would rejoin the Imperials at that point. She flew in close to the Super Star Destroyer, and claimed they put a tractor beam on her. But Commander Antilles, having put a program into the unit's astromech droids, pulled the status data from her ship. He found that not only did her ship not suffer any damage, but there was no tractor beam on her ship.
Antilles called Admiral Ackbar, and was about to tell them that Erisi was the traitor. But Corran, who had just appeared during Celchu's trial, revealed that information first. Antilles and Corran were able to prove that Erisi was an Imperial mole. She had helped Jace plan his trip back home. Atilles told them of Erisi's lies concerning her ship's status. Finally Corran said that she also helped him check out his fighter, so she knew the codes too, and gave them to the Imperials, resulting in Corran's capture. They later determined that she had betrayed the bacta convoy to Zinsi to drive up prices, and to get her personal enemy Mirak Terrik eliminated.
Imperial Service
After leaving Coruscant with Ysanne Isard and the Lusankya, she went with them to her homeworld of Tyferra. She supported the revolution that placed Isard in charge of the Tyferran government. Erisi was named a Commander in the Tyferran Home Defense Corps (THDC), and assigned to lead Elite Squadron, which was composed of TIE Interceptors.
During the Bacta War, she remained mainly at home. She assisted Isard and former Corellian Grand Moff Fliry Vorru in planning the war against not only Rogue Squadron, but the New Republic as well.
One mission she did take a direct role in was the destruction of the Halanit colony. This colony had accepted a gift of bacta from Rogue Squadron. Because the colony had insufficient resources to pay for the amount of bacta they were given, Isard had the colony destroyed. She was responsible for the deaths of a large number of civilians.
Erisi and Vorru eventually became convinced that Isard was insane. Both of them reasoned that the New Republic would eventually intervene and send a force to Tyferra. They planned to leave Tyferra after the destruction of Antilles.
During the final battle of the Bacta War, Erisi scrambled her forces to defend the planet and Lusankya. She received orders to escort a shuttle that was apparently carrying Director Isard clear of the system. At this point, Erisi directly engaged her former squadron mates for the first time. She was able to destroy former squad mate Nawara Ven's X-Wing. However, Corran Horn chased her down, and inflicted lethal damage to her interceptor.
Damaged, her Interceptor was unable to maintain altitude over the Tyferran moon. It crashed into the surface, and crumpled into an unrecognizable shape. Erisi Dlarit was dead. Corran Horn remarked that it was nothing spectacular, and that she would have hated what had happened to her. His R2 unit Whistler told him something along the lines of who cared what she wanted.
Ultimately, the Rogue campaign was successful when the Lusankya surrendered to Wedge Antilles.