Kira Carsen

Kira Carsen was a Human female Jedi Knight who served the Jedi Order during the Cold War and the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the reconstituted Sith Empire. Born in 3663 BBY on the Empire's capital planet of Dromund Kaas to Sith parents, Carsen underwent Sith training as a child, but she fled the Empire after discovering she had been turned into a Child of the Emperor—an unwilling puppet of the Sith Emperor. Carsen survived on her own through her teenage years on the moon Nar Shaddaa, but when she met the Jedi Master Bela Kiwiiks, she was recruited into the Jedi Order as Kiwiiks' Padawan, though Carsen told no one of her true origins.

In 3643 BBY, Carsen became involved in a crisis involving stolen Republic superweapons and the agents of the Sith Lord Darth Angral, and was reassigned as the Padawan of a young Jedi Knight who was the former student of Jedi Master Orgus Din. Carsen and her new teacher proved integral in stopping Darth Angral's crusade of vengeance against the Republic, chasing the Sith's agents across the galaxy, but in doing so she came to the attention of the Sith Emperor, and her past was exposed to the Jedi Order when the Emperor's agent tried to capture her.

Though some Jedi believed her to be untrustworthy, Carsen purged the Emperor's influence in the final battle with Angral, earning herself the rank of Jedi Knight. Carsen continued to serve alongside her former teacher, now known as the Hero of Tython, as the galaxy erupted into renewed war, and worked as part of a Jedi effort to capture the Sith Emperor, though the mission ultimately failed and the group was captured. When they were finally freed from the Emperor's clutches, Carsen and her allies raced to stop the Emperor's agents from bringing about death on a galactic scale, and fought alongside her friends in a mission that saw the Hero strike down the Sith Emperor on Dromund Kaas, turning the tide of the war.

Carsen continued to travel with the Hero in the years that followed, but when the Jedi Master disappeared around the time of the Eternal Empire's invasion of the galaxy in 3636 BBY, it caused the Hero's group to fragment in the chaos. However, she eventually reunited with another member of the Hero's group—the former Sith Lord Scourge—and the two made it their mission to track down and eliminate their old enemy, the Sith Emperor, who had continued to escape the clutches of death. To that end, the pair struck down the Emperor's original body, and allied with the Commander of the Eternal Alliance in order to ensure that the threat of the Emperor was ended once and for all.

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