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Introduction
Dorset Konnair appears in two of Allston’s X-Wing books as an A-Wing pilot who flies with the Wraiths on occasion. While she defends the value of her snubfighter compared to X-Wings, she is otherwise quiet and unassuming - perhaps because she feels out of place among other New Republic pilots due to being from Coruscant. (She never has a POV section so that’s another character’s belief.) Allston writes Dorset as “a small woman of very pale skin and very dark hair” with multiple blue tattoos, though in my story she hasn’t gotten them all yet.
Taryn Clancy was only in the Adventure Journal story “Retreat From Coruscant,” later included in Tales From the Empire. It has her as a mail courier with a strained relationship to her father, an element that dovetailed well with what I had in mind for Dorset so I made them friends. (At the time my story is set, Taryn is studying toward that sort of career.)
Left: An image of Dorset I drew for my series on her, though at this point she doesn't have the star-flare tattoo around her eye. (I headcanon it was inspired by events in Wedge's Gamble, but I'm not good at drawing people so I wasn't able to make a new version that worked.)
Right: Actual art of Taryn Clancy, drawn by Mike Vilardi for Adventure Journal 7 and saved from Wookiepedia.
Maps
Imperial Center Districts and close-ups:
The Government District is an all-encompassing area that includes military branch headquarters as well as those of Imperial Intelligence, the ISB, and the Ubiqtorate, and the Imperial Palace. COMPNOR headquarters are located in the Column Commons District, which contains many HoloNet companies. (I made a more detailed map based on available legends information, but this is enough for what's in the story.)
The meaning of the orange marks around Taryn's apartment will be revealed in the third chapter.
Taryn's Apartment:
Credit to the Ikea website's room designer tool, which I repurposed to plan out this sketch in 3-D. Around half the story is set in this one-room apartment so it helped to have the exact details.
I hand-drew the bike, then digitally traced it and added text to replicate the 1995 Essential Guide to Vehicles & Vessels format. The initial basis is the Air-2 Swoop Bike seen in the Han Solo novels by Brian Daley, and I incorporated some elements of the Imperial speeder bikes seen in Return of the Jedi as well as real-life motorcycles.