Avon Sunvale

Avon Sunvale, formerly known as Avon Starros, was a human female who was the daughter of Galactic Republic senator Ghirra Starros and a member of the Starros Clan. She 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. 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,The High Republic: Mission to Disaster 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.Sana Starros 2 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.
==Behind the scenes==
Avon Starros first appeared in the junior novel The High Republic: A Test of Courage, written by Justina Ireland. The publisher's summary for A Test of Courage stated that Avon was eleven years old during the events of the book, whereas Ireland stated in a Comic-Con panel that Avon was twelve years old. Ireland later clarified that Avon was indeed twelve during the events of A Test of Courage.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: A Test of Courage 
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*The High Republic: Out of the Shadows 
*The High Republic: Mission to Disaster 
*The High Republic: The Fallen Star 
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*The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness 
*The High Republic: Defy the Storm 
*The High Republic: Temptation of the Force 
*Sana Starros 2 
*Sana Starros 3 
*Sana Starros 5 
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