Aloop Tchekaba

Aloop Tchekaba was a Twi'lek female Jedi Master within the Jedi Order in the final years of the Galactic Republic. 
Alongside her fellow Jedi, Tchekaba participated as a Jedi General for the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Armed with a double-bladed lightsaber constructed in her late master's honour, Tchekaba was an exceptional fighter, but deeply burdened by her constant desire to achieve perfection. In 31 BBY, Tchekaba found Amara Crendal in the streets of Coruscant and took her on as a Jedi Apprentice despite not obtaining her family's permission, as Tchekaba secretly hoped to rise within the ranks of the Order. The pair formed a strong bond, but Tchekaba failed to notice the internal struggle that overcame her padawan, and by 19 BBY, this propelled her to lead a search for truth about her past which eventually proved successful, forcing Tchekaba to admit her wrongdoings. The pair eventually reconciliated, but Crendal decided to temporarily leave the temple to reconnect with her family. Several weeks later, Tchekaba and Crendal reunited as they fought against Celia the Hutt's forces as they invaded a sector of Coruscant. However, during the battle, Order 66 was declared, and Aloop sacrificed herself to save her padawan and later faced fallen Jedi Kieran Nerik, who killed her while she was distracted but the surrounding blaster fire. 
==Biography==
===Childhood===
Aloop Tchekaba was born in 58 BBY on the planet Ryloth. She was taken by the Jedi order at very young age, and as a result, had very little memory of her childhood.
===Jedi Training===
In her early years as a Jedi Initiate, Tchekaba was a relatively unskilled student, but was friends with her fellow younglings. She went on to barely fail the Initiate trials and was separated from all her friends. She was almost deported with her friends to the agri-corps, but was accepted last-minute. She was deeply traumatised by this event, and became strongly motivated to work as hard as she achieve perfection. 
Tchekaba quickly became obsessed with respecting the Jedi code, becoming the living manifestation of it, and isolated herself almost entirely from her friends, remained quiet and composed. She mastered the form of defense, Soresu, to achieve the teachings of the jedi code, while also taking on Makashi as a secondary form. Tchekaba also mastered the use of the force, becoming remarkably strong in it. 
Some years later, Aloop attended the Gathering. Despite the group's willingness to stay together, Tchekaba decided to go it alone, remaining calm throughout the trip. Inside the cave, she stumbled on a weaker student escaping. deadly avalanche, and attempted to shield herself from the snow, however, motivated by feelings of sympathy for her fellow youngling, she used a force push to get him to safety, sacrificing herself in the process. She managed to survive the incident, and found her cyan coloured crystal in a block of ice within the avalanche, despite wishing to obtain a blue one. She began training relentlessly for the padawan tournament, hoping to impress her masters. The young girl excelled at the code knowledge test and force wielding test, but struggled during the dulling tests, desperately defending herself against all attackers. In the final duels, she was blinded and fell into a trance, using her yet unmastered technique. Tchekaba went on to succeed he finals, but ended up fainting because of fatigue and fell unconscious. 
A few days later, she discovered that she had been assigned to an old but skilled master, Ves Sevinak. She was proud of her success, but despaired of her fatigue, and was confronted by her master for her reckless behaviour. Despite desperately trying to respect the code, she bonded with her teacher over the years, and became his perfect student. He helped her develop her own lightsaber technique adapted from Soresu, which she learned to master. However, because of his old age, Sevinak eventually passed away, and gifted his own cyber crystal to Tchekaba in his final moments. Wanting to honour his passing, the padawan built herself a double lightsaber, using both of her cyan blades and mastering its use. 
Because of her short time as a padawan, the council doubted her readiness for knighthood, but Tchekaba proved them wrong by passing the jedi trials with great success. She went on to become a teacher for youngling for a short period of time, and chose to become a Jedi Guardian. In the years that followed, Tchekaba was sent on several missions by the council, proving her worth and earning their respect.
===Discovery of Amara Crendal===
On one such mission in 31 BBY, Tchekaba found a young Iridian Zabrak female known as Amara Crendal running in the streets, seemingly scared and traumatised, as her mother had unconsciously lashed out at her in a drunken state. Tchekaba witnessed the child use the force to protect herself from a vehicle in an instinctive act, and became conflicted, wondering whether or not to bother to find Amara's family and ask for their permission to take her away, which was considered a mandatory task within the order. Fueled by her desire to earn the council's respect and finally rise up within the ranks of the Jedi, Tchekaba decided to take the child away with her immediately, flying off to the Jedi Temple. However, as the ship began leaving, Tchekaba noticed Crendal's mother, Sya Crendal, screaming for her child to be brought back, and hesitated, but eventually decided to take Amara away regardless, but not while realising that the child has formed strong attachments and was burdened by an emotional, turbulent past. After discussing the situation with the Jedi Council, she decided to mostly erase Amara's memories of her childhood in order to allow her to pursue the Jedi Path free of attachments and emotional burdens. Due to Tchekaba's high talent, Tchekaba was tasked with initiating the young jedi youngling
===Jedi Master===
Eventually, tasked with training a padawan to become a master, Tchekaba chose to train Amara, who succesfully managed to pass the Initiate Trials in 26 BBY. From then on, the two formed a strong bond, as Aloop cared for her padawan, training her to be an expert at Form II, which she favoured herself used as a secondary form. However, as Amara matured and became more aware of the world, she grew doubts about her suspiciously blank past before the Order, and became increasingly insecure. Tchekaba failed to notice these changes, and as the Clone Wars waged on, the pair took on numerous missions, but Amara often found ways to evade the most significant assignments, terrified of failing and disappointing her master in the field. 
==Personality and traits==
Aloop Tchekaba was an Twi'lek female, and subsequently bore a pair of cyan lekku with dark circles. She had deep turquoise eyes, cyan-coloured skin, a bulky, muscular build. Throughout the course of her life, Tchekaba was particularly introverted, and a definite perfectionist, doing everything to respect the jedi code and suppress any anger or emotion. Her greatest fear was to fail at being perfect and experience emotions risk of any kind, feeling felt comfortable training her padawan and isolating herself from others. 
==Powers and abilities==
===Lightsaber abilities===
Aloop Tchekaba excelled at Form III, Soresu, which allowed her to be particularly skilled at countering blaster fire, but also very effective at blocking and parrying lightsaber strikes, withstand numerous opponents, and maintain a calm focus that allowed an appropriate defensive response to any threat. Tchekaba's technique was focused on tight, controlled movements and a strict economy of action. She was also an adept practitioner of Form II, and used it as a secondary resort. Upon becoming Amara Crendal's Jedi Master, she recognised that Makashi suited her student perfectly due to its precise, fluid and elegant nature. However, as a practitioner of Soresu, Tchekaba realised how weak Makashi was when it came to blaster defection, and sought to amend this by teaching Amara techniques of Form III.
Aloop Tchekaba was also a practitioner of Jar'Kai, wielding a double-bladed cyan lightsaber in combat, which made her even more adept against multiple opponents.
=== Force powers===
Tchekaba had a high midi-chlorian count, and was well attuned with the force, knowing how to use it in most situations. 
==Equipment==
===Weapons===
Aloop Tchekaba wielded a double-bladed lightsaber with two cyan-coloured kyber crystals and a silver cylindrical hilt. She obtained her first kyber crystal from the sacred planet of Ilum during the Gathering: In an attempt to save a fellow youngling from a deadly avalanche, she force pushed her friend to safety but was consumed by the snowstorm. She managed to survive, and found her crystal within a block of ice. Tchekaba was initially upset by the color of the crystal, having hoped for a green blade akin to those used by Jedi Council members, which she strived to become. However, she eventually grew to appreciate her kyber crystals, recognising their rarity. Later, after successfully passing her Initiate Trials and training under Jedi Master Ves Sevinak for several years, she eventually obtained a second kyber crystal, gifted by her dying master as he passed away from old age. In an effort to honour his wishes, she modified her current hilt into a double-bladed weapon, which allowed her to implement both cyan crystals in her possession.
===Attire===
During her time as a Jedi Master, Tchekaba piloted her own Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor, a starship commonly used by the Jedi during the Clone Wars. It was considered a smaller vessel when compared to previous models but had superior firepower. The starship sported a teal paint job with a white Jedi symbol over the top of it, and was co-piloted by her personal astromech droid, R4.
===Outfits===
====Typical garb====
As a Jedi Master, Tchekaba wore soft long beige robes with a low cut, overlapped with another deep brown layer of leather-like material. Two large stripes of pale wool-like cloth were sewed on top, and joined at her waist, where she wore a gold ornate belt with a circular Jedi Council emblem. Her sleeves were soft beige and wrinkled, stopping before the elbow with a leather strap that resembles the belt in all but size, revealing her muscular forearms. The lekku were left bare, and her headband was a ribbon of cloth, decorated with a disk gold jedi crest, identical to the one on the belt. At the right side of her belt was attached a long double bladed lightsaber, made of a silver like material, measuring about 50 cm with a smooth and sparsely decorated hilt.
===Battle armor===
Upon realizing her mistakes, mainly taking Amara away from her family, Tchekaba chose to leave behind her jedi robes and don an armor to join her padawan in battle. The armour ended up being her final piece of clothing, as she perished wearing it during the Great Jedi Purge.
==Behind the scenes ==
Aloop's name was originally derived from the Twi'lek slave-dancer Oola Tarkona, with her first name being an inverse of the slave's name.
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