Alema Rar

Alema Rar was a female Rutian Twi'lek Jedi Knight who served the New Jedi Order while her hardships in life and inner darkness eventually resulted in a turn to the dark side of the Force. Born in the poverty on Ryloth, Rar and her sister Numa were enslaved and worked together as dancers to earn to survive in the ryll drug dens of the planet's major subterranean city, Kala'uun. They always witnessed the cruelty and hardships in the drug dens of the city. The two Force-sensitive Twi'lek girls were eventually rescued from their bleak existence by Jedi Knight Daeshara'cor and taken to be trained in the ways of the Force on Yavin 4. When the galaxy was invaded by the alien Yuuzhan Vong in 25 ABY, the Rar sisters battled the belligerent species on the front lines, leading a partisan resistance movement on the occupied planet of New Plympto. It was following the razing of New Plympto that her sister was killed due to being struck by corrosive acid. After being healed, Alema grieved for her sister's loss and began to sway close to the dark side. When the Yuuzhan Vong unleashed creatures known as voxyn upon the Jedi Order, the Twi'lek joined the Myrkr strike team, many of whom died on the Mission to Myrkr. During this affair, Alema began to find her way into the affections of Anakin Solo, whom she found attractive. Following her elevation to the rank of Jedi Knight, Rar fought alongside the New Republic Defense Force as a starfighter pilot, flying in Twin Suns Squadron and participating in battles at Ylesia; Ebaq 9; Bilbringi; and in the war's final engagement—the Recapture of Coruscant.

Six years after the war had ended, however, Rar and the surviving members of the Myrkr strike team received a call through the Force from Raynar Thul, who had been abducted by Dark Jedi Lomi Plo and Welk during the mission to Myrkr and presumed dead. Traveling to the Unknown Regions, Alema Rar discovered Thul, now leader of the insectoid Killik species, engaged in a border dispute with the Chiss Ascendancy. The Killik hive mind, as it did to Rar's Jedi companions, soon rendered the Twi'lek a Joiner, her individuality largely subsumed by the power of the Killiks' natural telepathic bond. Unlike other Jedi who became Joiners, however, Alema Rar was made aware of the Gorog nest—overseen by Lomi Plo—which was secretly controlling Thul and the Killiks. Plo, in fact a Sith Master, manipulated Rar's still powerful emotions of grief and anger over her sister's death, thus ensuring that the Jedi Knight completed her fall to the dark side; the Twi'lek assumed the title of Night Herald of the Gorog and, turning against her former friends, became Plo's right hand in the resulting Swarm War. By the time the conflict had concluded, Rar had grown mentally unstable. Battling the Jedi Order on the front lines, and mutilated through lightsaber duels with Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo, Rar descended into full insanity following the death of Plo and the destruction of the Gorog nest.

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.

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