The ISD Relentless

 In a remote asteriod belt  lies a ruined and immobile Star Destroyer - the Relentless.

            The Relentless was involved in the Battle of Endor, five years ago.   When the Second Death Star and the Empire were destroyed, the Imperial fleet fell into a rout.  Some ships surrendered, some fought on, some fled in groups or solo.  The Relentless fought on for a while, but as  the tide of battle turned, it attempted to retreat.  During that
retreat, it took heavy fire from Rebellion sources - damaging its hyperdrives.  The Relentless jumped blind.  It ended up in the asteroid belt four lightyears from the Ionian system.  The hyperdrives promptly exploded - voiding large sections of the ISD to space and crippling it forever.

             With the vessel crippled, and out of easy communications range with the Imperial Core, the officers and crew of the Relentless were reliant on dispatching Imperial shuttles and other lightspeed capable craft to get information while they desperately shored up their ruined ship.  When (and if) these vessels returned, the news that they brought was grim.  The Empire was falling, had fallen, Rebel troops and navies were scouring know space for Imperial remnants, etc.

            The Captain of the Relentless, Ren Gragara, is a loyal Imperial officer of high ideals, who felt that he was helping bring order to the galaxy through following the orders of his Emporer and his chain of command.  Those both are now gone.  Before the Battle of Endor, he had also been involved in a number of serious "political" clashes with Grand Moff Ty Kanora as well as a number of other high ranked Imperial Naval personnel.  Therefore, contacting any of the Imperial splinters for aid would not be prudent for him, his men or his ship.

            Over the last five years, Cpt. Gragara has been seeing to the evacuation
of as many officers or men that felt the desire to go, but the resources for the evacuation have been extremely limited and growing smaller as hyperdrive capable vessels failed to return for various reasons.  Currently, the last of the shuttles is six months overdue to return.  There are approximately 4,300 crew members still on board the Relentless, less than a skeleton crew.  Large areas of the ship have been closed off, and many less significant systems are no longer powered.  Supplies are running low as well.  The Relentless has maybe 7 more months of viability as a biosphere.

            During the last five years, morale aboard has been sinking rapidly.  As the Relentless is going through it's slow death, Imperial discipline has begun to break down.  There have been mutinies, desertions, riots, etc.  Through it all, Cpt. Gragara and the majority of his command staff have managed to do what's best for their men. An additional problem has been that of the original 36,000 crew total, only 3 were women and they were evacuated in the first wave.

            Currently, the Relentless is a ghost ship.  The remaining crew vary from the insane to the determined and grim loyal Imperial who will see his mission through to the end, with everything in between.