Avon Sunvale

Avon Sunvale, also known as and remembered by her family as Avon Starros, was a human female who was the daughter of Galactic Republic senator Ghirra Starros and a member of the Starros Clan. Born around 244 BBY, Starros was an aspiring inventor who lived during the High Republic Era. At some point, she was kidnapped but later rescued by her uncles, who killed those who had taken her. The incident scared Ghirra and convinced her to keep her daughter close by at all times until she sent Avon to Port Haileap. When Starros was little more than ten, she visited the Jedi Temple Archives on Coruscant with her mother, where she found their public section on kyber crystal theory to be lacking. Sometime after the Great Hyperspace Disaster, Starros, along with her protocol droid J-6, was supervised by Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh on a cruiser trip to the dedication ceremony of the new space station Starlight Beacon. However, when bombs went off aboard the cruiser, Starros, J-6, Rwoh, Padawan Imri Cantaros, and Honesty Weft escaped in a shuttle and wound up stranded on Wevo, a nearby jungle moon.

After she was captured by the Nihil, Avon began to realize there was those in the galaxy who would use her and her research to create terrible things, and she grew reluctant to share her discoveries with people. Instead, Avon created a series of journals in which she documented all of her research on crystal theory, which she then stored in a data cube, along with a message for how it was to be used by anyone who found it, and then left it in her family's vault. To protect the cube, Avon added a pass code. During the Nihil's destruction of Starlight Beacon, Avon was present on the station alongside Cantaros and J-6. The girl was among those who were assumed to have died, though she had actually survived thanks to her mother who ensured Avon escaped the destruction.

At some point, Avon went missing, and her descendants were not aware of what happened to her as she was not documented in the family archives. When she was young, Thea Starros found Avon's data cube and unlocked it, accessing the secrets Avon had left in it. Sometime afterwards, the cube was taken by the Galactic Empire, and between 3 ABY and 4 ABY, Thea, along with her daughter Mevera Starros, and her nieces Sana Starros and Aryssha, set out to recover the data cube from the Empire.

After the Nihil conflict, Starros and other scientists fled the most populous parts of the galaxy and traveled to the Wild Space planet Ingae, co-founding the Collective, a group who wanted to pursue their experiments for the good of the galaxy, away from those who would like to profit off their breakthroughs. During her time on Ingae, Avon had a child named Felix Sunvale, and taught the girl Florinda Jackard to build artificial crystal matrices. Eventually, she died and a funeral was held, which was attended by Lompop and Rwoh.

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