Indara

Indara was a human female who joined the Jedi Order as a youngling during the High Republic Era. As a Padawan, she trained under her Jedi Master's tutelage before later attaining the rank of Jedi Knight around 161 BBY. Around the same year, Indara was trapped in the mines of Seswenna during the Farlingan Collapse. Afterward, to recover from the traumatizing experience, she served as a Jedi archivist in the planet Coruscant's Jedi Temple. Around 160 BBY, the Jedi High Council sent Indara to bring Jedi Master Vernestra Rwoh—who was traveling the galaxy as a Wayseeker—back to Coruscant. After Indara met Rwoh on the planet Cerifisis and helped the Jedi Master defeat the Strafes pirates plaguing the world, the pair returned to the Jedi Temple.

Rwoh and Indara were tasked with escorting Senator Jakob Garn to Coruscant, who had agreed to provide information on the production of lightsaber nullifier weapons. The pair's attempt to extract him from the planet Thelj was unsuccessful, prompting them to continue their search for the scientist working on the nullifiers by visiting the planets Hynestia, Ingae, and Ruathi. On Ruathi, Indara fought gheriol creatures in a fighting arena, having been kidnapped by underlings working for the weapons dealer Nilsson Summach. After Rwoh and Yorrick rescued her, the trio fled the planet and visited the hideout of Rwoh's former acquaintance, Deva Lompop. Begrudgingly, Lompop gave the group information on the scientist Florinda Jackard, who had been working for Summach to create the lightsaber nullifiers. Indara, Rwoh, and Yorrick's efforts to take Jackard into custody on the planet Pinara proved unsuccessful. Continuing their pursuit, they confronted Jackard and Summach in Summach's private laboratory on the planet Septra. On Septra, Summach's assistant, Grizela, killed her boss for his incompetence during a confrontation between Summach and Rwoh. After the incident, Grizela and Jackard were brought to Coruscant to face justice for their roles in the nullifiers' production. Upon her return, Indara submitted a request to the Jedi Council to become a Wayseeker, wanting to follow in Rwoh's footsteps.

By 148 BBY, Indara had become a Jedi Master and was training a Padawan, Torbin. Often commanding an authoritative presence, the Jedi Master was skilled in several forms of combat, including wielding the Force to protect herself and others. In 148 BBY, she was present on the planet Brendok with the Jedi Master Kelnacca, the Jedi Knight Sol, and Torbin to discover if a vergence of the Force had regenerated life on the world following the Great Hyperspace Disaster. While there, she and Sol tested the twin sisters Verosha "Osha" and Mae-ho "Mae" Aniseya to be potential Padawans after discovering them within a coven of witches led by Mother Aniseya. When Mae-ho tried to prevent Verosha from leaving with the Jedi, Sol rescued her from the fire that happened afterward, bringing her into the Jedi Order as his Padawan afterward when the Jedi—including Indara—departed the world.

At some point after leaving Brendok, Torbin completed his Jedi training under Indara, eventually ascending to the rank of Jedi Master. Around 138 BBY, Indara suggested to the Jedi High Council that Osha's training be ended, though the latter ultimately left the Order on her own. Meanwhile, Mae-ho sought revenge against Indara and the other three Jedi who had been on Brendok for perceived wrongs, though the Jedi had assumed Mae-ho had perished in the Brendok fire in 148 BBY. In 132 BBY, Indara fought Mae—now a Sith assassin—on the planet Ueda in a skirmish in Lomi Usqi Noodle Shop. The pair engaged in an extended spar, with the Jedi Master defending herself using the Force as Mae-ho used her knives to attack. However, Indara was ultimately killed by Mae-ho when the assassin stabbed her, as the Jedi had been distracted by acting to save the noodle restaurant's barkeep, Cabuck, from one of Mae's knives.

Following this, the Jedi Knight Yord Fandar and his Padawan, Tasi Lowa, brought Verosha in as a suspect in the murder. However, they ultimately cleared her of suspicion after discovering Mae-ho still lived and had been involved in Torbin's death on the planet Olega. Afterward, the Jedi continued investigating Indara and Torbin's murders and displayed their holograms in the Coruscant Jedi Temple. Meanwhile, Mae-ho continued her quest and sought to fight Kelnacca on the planet Khofar next, though her master, a Sith she knew as the trader Qimir, ultimately killed the Wookiee instead. In the aftermath of the investigation, Rwoh blamed Indara, Torbin, and Kelnacca's deaths on Sol following his death at Verosha's hands. Rwoh further insisted Sol was a rogue Jedi who had murdered his colleagues to prevent the truth of their confrontation with the witches on Brendok years before from coming to light, leaving on the official record that Indara and her fellows had conspired to hide the truth—and while true that the group had not told the entire truth, neither did Sol kill his colleagues.

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