Lily Tora-Asi

Lily Tora-Asi was a human female Jedi Knight who lived during the High Republic Era. Alongside her former Jedi Master, Arkoff, and her Padawan, Keerin Fionn, Tora-Asi was stationed on the remote planet Banchii, where she trained the Jedi younglings Nima Allets and Viv'Nia Nia'Viv and helped establish the planet's Jedi temple. Shortly after settling Banchii, she met the native Banchiians and suggested setting up an area to share items with the residents of a settlement. In the aftermath of the Great Hyperspace Disaster in 232 BBY, Tora-Asi and her fellow Jedi worked to help displaced civilians relocate to Banchii. After the residents of the settlement requested help, Tora-Asi investigated the nearby forest, where she found several residents that had been killed or turned to wood. She then returned to the settlement to find it under attack by the Drengir, a type of sentient carnivorous plant. As lightsabers were ineffective against them, she devised a plan to burn the Drengir, and with the help of the other Jedi, defeated them.

In 230 BBY, Tora-Asi had the settlement's farmers work on creating bunkers in case of an attack by the Nihil marauders. Jedi Master Savina Besatrix Malagán arrived on Banchii, and while Tora-Asi argued with her about the best way to prepare for the Nihil, an explosion was set off near the bunkers. After uncovering several bombs, Tora-Asi visited the Starlight Beacon space station and delivered a report to Arkoff and Jedi Master Stellan Gios. Upon returning to Banchii, she found it under attack by the Nihil. Fionn was deceived by the Nihil spy Zaret and killed in battle. Following her Padawan's death, Tora-Asi decided to destroy Banchii's temple to prevent the Nihil from finding the information they were seeking from it. After the Nihil retreated, the Jedi received a message from the Jedi Council informing them that Starlight Beacon had fallen and all Jedi were being recalled to the galactic capital Coruscant. However, Tora-Asi defied the Council's orders and chose to remain on Banchii to protect it.

Around 228 BBY, she reunited with the other Jedi, who had returned to Banchii. As they worked together to reconstruct the temple, the wooden bodies of those killed in the Drengir attack rose from their graves and spoke to the Jedi. Grand Master Yoda and former Jedi Azlin Rell arrived to assist in the investigation, and they learned that the wooden figures had been raised by the Drengir. Shortly after, Nihil forces led by the scientist Niv Drendow Apruk arrived to once again attack Banchii. With the help of the Drengir and Banchiians, Tora-Asi and the other Jedi defeated the Nihil and their Force-consuming Nameless creatures, causing Apruk to retreat.

Following the battle, Tora-Asi decided to once again prepare for the possibility of another Nihil attack. The Drengir informed her they soon needed to leave but agreed to protect Banchii. When a group of Banchii residents who had previously evacuated returned, she warned them of the danger but eventually accepted their offer to help prepare for the Nihil attack. After the Drengir departed in their shuttle, she had the residents take shelter in a warehouse. Soon after, the Nihil Minister of Advancement Baron Boolan arrived on Banchii and offered the Jedi an opportunity for advancement. Tora-Asi claimed she would consider the offer and visited the warehouse, where she assured its inhabitants she would protect them, before leaving to battle the Nihil. Although the Nameless posed a threat to the Jedi, they were defeated with the help of Banchii's civilians, and the Nihil fled soon after. Tora-Asi reflected on the recent events as Banchii's residents celebrated their victory.

In the same year, Tora-Asi was selected as a member of a secondary team to the Luminous Nine, a Jedi team that embarked on a mission to Planet X to stop the plague known as the blight. Tora-Asi attempted to help Arkoff when he was bitten by a Nameless shortly before the mission, and she accompanied the rest of her team to retrieve the Nine from Planet X after they succeeded.

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