Karina

Karina, known as "Karina the Great," was a Geonosian queen. The last of her kind, she was born during the reign of the Galactic Empire, and the egg from which she hatched survived the Empire's genocide on Geonosis. Prior to her birth, her egg was protected by a Geonosian known as Klik-Klak, who kept it safe from both the Empire and the rebel extremist Saw Gerrera. Klik-Klak hoped Karina would be able to repopulate the Geonosian species, but she was sterile and instead attached a mechanical womb to her body. From that womb, she produced modified B1-series battle droids with Geonosian features known as droid workers, which she regarded as children and the future of her planet.

During the Galactic Civil War, Karina's existence was discovered by the Sith Lord Darth Vader, who traveled to Geonosis to steal her battle droid factory and use it to build an army to regain the power and prestige he lost after being blamed for the destruction of the Empire's Death Star battle station during the Battle of Yavin. Karina attempted to thwart Vader's plot with her army of droids, but the Sith Lord and his companions—rogue archaeologist Chelli Lona Aphra and the assassin droids BT-1 and 0-0-0—severed and stole her mechanical womb to build battle droids of his own.

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