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Alema RarBiographical informationHomeworldRyloth[1]Bornc. 10 ABY (45), Ryloth[1]Died40 ABY (75), The Home[2]Descriptive informationSpeciesTwi'lek[1]GenderFemale[1]PronounsShe/her[1]HeightGreater than 1.6 meters[3][4]Eye colorGreen; yellow scleras under the influence of the dark side[5]Skin colorBlue[1]Family informationSibling(s)Numa Rar[1]Chronological and political informationAffiliation(s)
- New Jedi Order[1]
- New Plympto resistance[1]
- New Republic[6]
- New Republic Defense Force[6]
- Galactic Alliance[7]
- Galactic Alliance Defense Force[7]
- Killik Hive mind[8]
- Gorog hive[8]
- Lumiya's Sith (in free association)[3]
- Daeshara'cor (Informal Jedi Master)[1]
- Lomi Plo (Dark Jedi Master)[9]
The Twi'lek was thought to have been killed on the planet Tenupe in the final battle of the Swarm War; she did, however, survive, returning to civilized space in 40 ABY after spending two years in Tenupe's wild jungles. Her continued existence known only to Chiss-aligned bounty hunter and former comrade-in-arms Jagged Fel, Rar was eager to exact revenge upon Organa Solo and Skywalker. Once she had allied herself with the resurgent Dark Lady of the Sith Lumiya, Rar hunted her targets during the Second Galactic Civil War, engaging the Skywalkers and the Solos in a series of skirmishes upon her surprising return. When Mara Jade Skywalker was killed, in fact by Lumiya's new Sith apprentice Jacen Solo, the Twi'lek was thought to be responsible, and a Jedi strike team was formed to neutralize her. A brief dalliance with the One Sith, the possession of the ancient Meditation Sphere Ship, and even the knowledge of advanced Sith techniques were all ultimately unable to protect Rar; the fallen Jedi was tracked down to the late Lumiya's retreat, and died there at the hands of Jagged Fel.
Alema Rar was born around 10 ABY into one of the most dangerous ryll dens of Kala'uun, the largest underground city of the Twi'lek homeworld, Ryloth. The Force-sensitive Twi'lek had a sister, Numa Rar, with whom she formed a close bond as they worked together as enslaved dancers, earning money to survive.[1][11][12] They grew up together in the cave warrens of Ryloth, and throughout her life Rar retained her preference for confined spaces.[13] Together, they witnessed much of the cruelty and hardships of the galaxy. As a dancer on Ryloth, Rar would learn the grace and dexterity which would aid her in lightsaber combat in years to come, as well as the feminine charm found alluring by so many males.[1] She came to love dancing,[10] despite her status as a slave.[11] Eventually, the Rar sisters were rescued from their hand-to-mouth existence when they were discovered by Jedi Knight Daeshara'cor,[1] who purchased their freedom once she recognized their innate talent in the Force.[11]
Although not a Jedi Master, Daeshara'cor began the training of the two Twi'lek girls, and brought them to the Jedi Praxeum on the moon of Yavin 4.[12] Rar and her sister were schooled in the Jedi arts on Yavin 4, where Rar was instructed in lightsaber combat, galactic history, and the uses of the Force.[13] She constructed her own lightsaber,[12] with a silver blade.[1] At some point in 25 ABY, Rar met Leia Organa Solo, sister to Jedi Master Luke Skywalker and a former Chief of State of the New Republic.[2] When the Yuuzhan Vong, aliens from another galaxy, invaded the Outer Rim Territories that same year, Alema and Numa Rar joined the fight against the new threat.[1]
The Rar sisters were affected by personal tragedy in the first year of the war when Daeshara'cor died fighting the Yuuzhan Vong at Ithor.[14] Alema Rar grieved for her fallen protector, but also developed an angry focus which failed to fade even as time passed.[12] Alongside Numa, Alema became one of the founders and leaders of the resistance force against the Yuuzhan Vong on the occupied planet New Plympto. On New Plympto, Rar's anger and grief were tempered by the presence of her sister.[1] The resistance, supplied by maverick Jedi Kyp Durron, saw many successes against the invading Yuuzhan Vong.[15] As the leaders of the movement, Rar and her sister used their physical similarities to masquerade as a single Twi'lek woman, or even a Human with suitable disguises.[1] At resistance meetings, only one of the two sisters would ever be present, maintaining the charade that only one leader existed.[12]
This deception fooled the Yuuzhan Vong, but Rar was faced with other, more personal issues. Her partisan war against the enemy was drawing her close to the dark side of the Force, and Master Skywalker, the head of the Jedi Order, felt that Rar was putting her integrity as a Jedi at risk. The Rar sisters soon suffered another loss; the New Plympto resistance became successful enough that the frustrated Yuuzhan Vong decided to raze the planet, rather than continue to attempt subjugation.[1] All life was wiped from the surface of the planet, rendering it uninhabitable and killing seven million sentients.[16] The Rar sisters were only just able to flee in time, hiding with several thousand other beings aboard a fleet of intrasystem ore miners until help arrived in the form of the Corellian cruiser Nebula Chaser, already loaded with refugees. The captain of the Nebula Chaser, Pollux, promised the Jedi sisters safe asylum. Many during the war had sought personal gain in turning wanted Jedi over to the Yuuzhan Vong, but the Rar sisters accepted the captain's offer and boarded the cruiser.[1]
In a deserted star system, the Nebula Chaser was intercepted by a Yuuzhan Vong frigate, which dispatched a boarding craft to dock with the cruiser. As the captain of a civilian refugee starship, Pollux was not immediately under risk, but it soon became apparent that the Yuuzhan Vong were seeking Jedi. The Rar sisters hid in Pollux's cabin, observing via a console feed as a group of Yuuzhan Vong warriors questioned the captain and his crew. With the Yuuzhan Vong, however, they sensed an unfamiliar, feral presence, somehow attuned to the Force. The Yuuzhan Vong boarding party had brought with them a voxyn, a bio-engineered creature bred from the vornskrs of Myrkr, able to hunt using the Force. Captain Pollux had claimed that there were no Jedi aboard the Nebula Chaser; Rar and her sister, suspecting the voxyn's ability to sense Jedi, were aware that if detected they would be placing their protector's life in danger. With their power to shut down their presences in the Force having no effect, Rar wished to confront and kill the voxyn. Her sister, on the other hand, knew that the Yuuzhan Vong would kill the crew once they discovered Pollux's lie.[1]
The sisters removed their lightsabers' Adegan crystals and used fleshglue to attach them in their navels. Disguised as innocent belly dancers, the Rar sisters fled toward the cruiser's escape pods. On the way they had to abandon their lightsabers, in order to trick the Yuuzhan Vong who questioned them, and thus when the voxyn intercepted the Rar sisters as they entered an escape pod in one of the cruiser's launch bays, they had only the Force to defend themselves against the creature's many natural weapons. In the ensuing chaos, Numa was struck in the face by corrosive acid, spewed from the voxyn's mouth. Rar held her sister as Numa died, suffering severe acidic burns in the process, and before long the escape pod launched into space. There, it was eventually picked up by the Jade Shadow, a starship piloted by fellow Jedi Mara Jade Skywalker and her niece, Jaina Solo.[1]
Alema Rar was taken to Eclipse Station, the secret Jedi base in the Deep Core, in a state of nervous collapse. At the station, she healed in a bacta tank, unaware that as an act of reprisal the Nebula Chaser had been destroyed, with ten thousand refugees lost. Even without this knowledge, Rar was raging inside with grief and anger. While the Twi'lek recovered the threat of the voxyn grew greater. Several Jedi fell to the creatures, which were deposited on worlds and relay junctions across the invasion corridor to seek out hidden Force-wielders. Eventually, Jedi healer Cilghal discovered that the voxyn were being cloned from a single female, which was subsequently referred to as the voxyn queen. A mission to Froz was organized to retrieve more of the creatures for study and Anakin Solo and a squadron of fellow Jedi managed to return with several dead voxyn. By the time Alema Rar was out of the bacta tank, and informed of the destruction of the Nebula Chaser, it had been discerned that the voxyn queen was located on or nearby the planet Myrkr, which was itself deep within Yuuzhan Vong territory.[1]
Rar attended a meeting to discuss the threat, where she began to inveigle her way into the affections of Anakin Solo, whom she found attractive. Using her feminine charms, Rar soon entered into a subtle rivalry with Tahiri Veila, a childhood friend of Solo's, over the young man's affections. Sexual pursuits, however, were soon put aside as the gathering descended into an argument. Anakin Solo had raised the idea of a team of Jedi turning themselves in to the Yuuzhan Vong, thus gaining access to Yuuzhan Vong occupied space, before traveling to Myrkr and ending the voxyn threat. Jacen Solo, who was pursuing a pacifistic approach to conflict, claimed that the Yuuzhan Vong would retaliate for any attack on Myrkr, killing the millions of refugees currently held hostage over the planet Talfaglio. Unable to bear responsibility for the deaths of her sister and the thousands of refugees who had died indirectly due to her actions, Rar took the line of blaming any innocent death on the Yuuzhan Vong themselves, and renounced any culpability for possible Yuuzhan Vong reprisals at Talfaglio.[1]
With her fellow Jedi, Rar was incarcerated on the Exquisite Death, as Yaght selected members of the strike team for torture sessions with one of the voxyn. Kore was tortured extensively; already suffering from the severe wound to her back and the puncture to her single lung, the Bith was supported by the Force Meld as best the Jedi could manage in their weakened state. Commander Yaght questioned Kore continually on the existence of the secret Jedi base, and when the other members of the strike team began to feel that it would be easier on the wounded Bith if she relinquished the name and location, Rar grew worried, able to see that Yaght's goal was not to break Kore's spirit, but the spirit of the strike team. When she communicated this fear to Jaina Solo, Rar was struck and rendered unconscious by her captors. Despite her wounds, Kore soon managed to bring about the death of the voxyn, and the Yuuzhan Vong commander became aware that the Jedi were too dangerous to be incarcerated for a long period of interrogation. The Exquisite Death traveled faster toward Myrkr.[1]
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