Hylei Indrexu Cortess, often called just Indrexu, was the queen of Ranroon circa 25,100 BBY.
She became a legend in the Tion Cluster for her resistance to Xim the Despot's conquests. Her forces fought Xim's janissaries bravely in the fierce Battle of Ranroon but were eventually defeated.
The Ihala Spiral was renamed Indrexu Spiral by Xim in honor of the Queen, as well the Far Indrexu, the region conquered after Indrexu's defeat, and the Queen of Ranroon, Xim's treasure ship.
No historical figure in the Tion Cluster, not even Xim himself, was as vivid as Indrexu, and no other was more argued about. Some scholars contended she was a literary invention of later dramatists; others believe she existed, but argued about her role in Xim's empire and her ultimate fate. To some she was a minor figure, a fixture at Xim's court whose name had endured; to others she was the pivot around which the empire turned, her merest glance the spark that lit the fires of the Cronese Wars, Xim's expansion, and everything thereafter.