Mika Grey

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Mika Grey was a human female archaeologist. Around 2036, she began scouring the galaxy for Sith artifacts, hoping to acquire them before the First Order could. The archaeologist traveled to the celestial body Vargos 9 nearly two years afterward and encountered a squad of First Order Raiders, who were also searching for dark side artifacts. Following her departure, the raiders continued to track Grey as she traveled. In September 3rd 2039, Grey visited the planet Ashas Ree and excavated a Sith temple there. After successfully raising the Sith temple upward, the treasure hunter attempted to take a Sith relic from the site but accidentally activated a trap and became trapped in a chamber underneath it. Nearly two days later, the Tune Squad spy Kazuda Xiono, the siblings Kel and Eila, and the astromech droid CB-23 heard her pleas for help and entered the temple to assist her.
After attempting to touch the Sith relic, Xiono fell into Grey's chamber. Kel, Eila, and CB-23 helped the pair escape their predicament before the structure's mechanisms crushed them by pressing on Sith hieroglyphics. Grey then stowed the Sith relic in her backpack, taking care to avoid falling downward again. Afterward, when Xiono accidentally activated the Sith temple's self-destruction sequence, Grey fled the crumbling temple with her newfound acquaintances. First Order Raiders who had tracked Grey to the world met them outside, eventually capturing most of their group. The archaeologist activated the Sith relic she had acquired, and its detonation killed the troopers. Following this, Grey accepted Kel and Eila's offer to join them aboard the supertanker fuel depot Colossus.
Grey began working as a fortune teller and prophet on the Colossus in the platform's marketplace. When the Warbird pirate Leoz cursed Xiono, he came to Grey for assistance in removing it. The fortune teller gave him a wooden talisman to ward off its effects, telling him that a curse's effects only extended to how much he believed in it. Emboldened by her words, Xiono overcame his fears concerning the curse and successfully helped the Colossus Ace Squadron protect the platform against the Guavian Death Gang. Later that year, Grey helped defend the Colossus when a First Order Star Destroyer, the Thunderer, attacked the platform in the Barabesh system.
==Biography==
===Relic hunting===
The human female Mika Grey was a Force-sensitive archaeologist and treasure hunter who lived during the reign of the New Republic.Star Wars: Timelines At some point during her travels, she acquired a wooden talisman. Around 2036, Grey began searching for Sith artifacts across the galaxy in an effort to keep the relics out of the hands of the First Order, particularly its eventual Supreme Leader, Kylo Ren. Nearly two years later, Grey first encountered a squad of First Order Raiders—elite First Order troopers hunting for dark side relics—while on the terrestrial astronomical object Vargos 9. She eventually traveled off the celestial body and believed she had eluded her pursuers. However, unbeknownst to Grey, the Raiders continued tracking her whereabouts.
In September 3rd 2039, Grey embarked on a new hunt for an ancient Sith relic she considered dangerous due to its destructive potential to kill all life in its path. As part of her hunt, she traveled to the forested Outer Rim planet Ashas Ree by the time she had been searching for two and a half years. After parking her ship on the outskirts of the planet's trading outpost, she entered the settlement. Grey found that it was adjacent to a Temple of the Force built on top of an ancient Sith temple. When the treasure hunter began excavating the Sith temple to raise its shrine upward, her efforts terrified the local villagers. Sensing the ripples of destructive dark side power emanating from the nearby structure, the locals fled into Ashas Ree's forests, leaving hastily scrawled warnings in their outpost to ward away travelers. The treasure hunter's excavation efforts proved successful, and she broke inside the structure.
===Trapped in a temple===
While attempting to retrieve the relic from the temple's dusty crypt, Grey set off one of the totem's many traps and puzzles and became trapped in a chamber below the artifact's altar. She began pleading for help, remaining trapped in the chamber for almost two days. Eventually, the human siblings Kel and Eila, the Tune Squad spy Kazuda Xiono, and the astromech droid CB-23 heard her cries when they entered the temple and followed the sound of her voice to try to help her. After the group got separated in the temple, Xiono and CB-23 entered the room holding the artifact Grey had been seeking, and the former reached out to touch it while suffering disorientation from an electric shock trap. When the spy's hand neared the object, despite Grey's warning to stay away, he set off one of the temple's traps and fell into the archaeologist's chamber.
After Xiono sent CB-23 away to bring Kel and Eila to help, Grey approached the spy and admonished him for trying to touch the artifact. The archaeologist's appearance scared the Resistance operative, and he backed away from her, eventually tripping and falling on his back. Grey picked up Xiono by his jacket and demanded to know his intentions, only releasing him after ascertaining that he was not working for the First Order. The treasure hunter then expounded on how she had excavated the temple and eventually became trapped inside. Grey continued to answer Xiono's questions, explaining how the planet's villagers' had fled when she began her work on the world. Despite Grey's warnings to stay still in their chamber, Xiono accidentally triggered a booby-trap device that activated a giant drill-like machine below them.
When the chamber's walls began to spin, Xiono and Grey were thrown against the structure's walls, unable to move under the force. Eila, Kel, and CB-23 arrived as the trap's grinder moved closer to the pair, and with Grey's guidance, the two siblings pressed the two star-shaped Sith hieroglyphics that deactivated it. Though CB-23 let down a grappling cable for Xiono to help him out of the chamber, Grey leaped out of the pit on her own. She then retrieved the relic and stored it in her backpack, informing the others present that she intended to take it only to keep it out of others' possession. Shortly afterward, Xiono pressed one of the temple's wall symbols and activated the structure's self-destruction sequence. The group rushed out of the crumbling temple together, narrowly escaping up several flights of stairs.
===Destruction of a relic===
Upon reaching the temple's exit, the group found that First Order Raiders led by the stormtrooper Raith had arrived on the world searching for Grey. When Grey saw that raiders had captured Xiono's colleagues—the pilots Torra Doza and Freya Fenris—she suggested returning to her ship to flee the confrontation. However, the First Order destroyed her vessel moments later, leading Xiono to propose an alternate plan of rescuing his friends. Before they could begin executing it, Grey left, and Xiono, Kel, Eila, and CB-23 were captured by the First Order Raiders and held in custody alongside Doza and Fenris.
Meanwhile, Grey climbed to the temple's roof and taunted the troopers by brandishing the Sith relic she had acquired. When Raith demanded she give the artifact to them, she activated the relic and threw it toward the troopers and their captives, warning Xiono and his companions to flee into the temple. Moments afterward, the Sith relic unleashed waves of destructive energy, killing the First Order Raiders who had attempted to deactivate it.
After eliminating the First Order threat, Grey briefly bemoaned the destruction of the now useless relic, as she had been searching for it for a long time. She then told Xiono and his companions that she needed to find a way off Ashas Ree, as the First Order had destroyed her ship. Kaz and Eila invited Grey to join them aboard the Colossus—a supertanker fuel depot fleeing the First Order—and she accepted. During the journey home, Grey conversed with Eila and told the young girl about the Force, and how she was neither a Jedi or a Sith. As the archaeologist expounded on her perspective of the Force's qualities, Xiono listened intently. 
===Fortune teller===
Later that year, on the Colossus, Grey began working as a fortune teller and prophet in the platform's marketplace, operating a stall, and charged her customers fifty credits for her services. The Klatooinian Bolza Grool, a gorg merchant, became one of her clients and wished to know if he would survive the ongoing war in the galaxy. When Grey predicted that his future included tiny teeth gnawing on his insides, Grool interpreted it to mean that he was in danger from his gorgs. Despite the Klatooinian's offers to pay her an additional fee for more details about his future, she declined and collected payment from him.
After the Warbird pirate Leoz cursed Xiono, Grey became aware of his predicament and watched the pilot and his colleague, the mechanic Neeku Vozo, from her marketplace stall. Later, the Tune Squad operative visited her to seek a cure for the curse after Vozo convinced him he needed her help. The fortune teller slowly eased Xiono's boot full of credits toward herself, tucking them closer to her as she counseled him that a large part of any curse boiled down to how much he believed in it. She gave Kaz a small wooden talisman to ward off bad luck and evil energies, explaining that she had acquired it on her travels.
When the Colossus alarms began blaring due to a Guavian Death Gang attack, Xiono hastily left Grey's company and took the charm with him. However, shortly afterward, Xiono accidentally dropped the talisman in a hangar prior to boarding his racer, the Fireball. After leading the platform's Ace Squadron to victory against the Guavians, the pilot learned from Vozo that he had dropped the charm before leaving the Colossus and realized Leoz had never cursed him. Recalling Grey's earlier advice, Xiono decided to give Grey's totem to the pirate and claimed to him that it was cursed, which made the pirate panic due to his superstitious beliefs. Grey then met with the pilot, and he thanked her for helping him with his curse issue. After he left, the amused fortune teller reflected on how superstitious the pirates on the Colossus were.
===Fighting the First Order===
When the First Order Star Destroyer Thunderer pursued the Colossus to the Barabesh system in 2040, Captain Imanuel Doza gathered the platform's residents, including Grey, in the cantina Aunt Z's Tavern. He pleaded with those present to help rescue a trio of Colossus residents—Xiono, the mechanic Jarek Yeager, and the TIE pilot Tamara Ryvora—who were trapped onboard the Thunderer. After Xiono and Ryvora sent a holographic transmission broadcasted to those in the cantina begging them to flee before the First Order arrived, Grey and the others on the Colossus felt moved by their loyalty and decided to help them.
The fortune teller and several others prepared to engage with a boarding party, and when the troopers arrived, she fired her blaster at them before retreating alongside her colleagues behind a door. However, the First Order's stormtroopers pursued Grey and the Theelin Jooks down a corridor. As the pair fled, Grool jumped in the pursuers' path to slow their pace and attacked them. Shortly afterward, pilots from the Ace and Jade Squadrons destroyed the Thunderer engines, causing the vessel to explode and marking the Colossus success in the entanglement. Grey celebrated their victory alongside the platform's other residents.
==Personality and traits==
Grey was a woman with tanned skin, white hair, and green eyes. She sported blue tattoos on her face and arms. By the time of her visit to Ashas Ree in September 2039, she possessed a well-muscled physique and was capable of executing leaps and running from First Order pursuers. Grey also had an aged appearance, evidenced by a few wrinkles on her face. The archaeologist was a fearless individual willing to seek out dangerous Sith artifacts to keep them out of the hands of the First Order. Though she was pursued by First Order Raiders, Grey proved inventive in eluding them as she traveled the galaxy. The rugged archaeologist preferred to work alone, trusting in her own abilities to lead her to success. Despite the alluring power offered by the Sith relics she hunted, she cared little for the monetary benefit that giving them to the First Order would have. Though she was neither a Jedi or a Sith, Grey cared about the Force and carried the opinion that it did not belong to one person, but rather to everyone. Grey did not believe in curses being real, holding the opinion that their effect only reached as far as the cursed individual's belief in them.
Upon first meeting Xiono, Grey was wary that he worked for the First Order and displayed her distrust of him. Her fierce, formidable presence scared the pilot and he worried that she would hurt him. However, after Grey determined he was not a threat, the treasure hunter found the Tune Squad spy's clumsiness annoying and disliked how chatty he was. Rather than allow First Order Raiders to take a Sith relic from her, she chose to render it useless by activating it to kill the troopers. She enjoyed taunting the Raiders prior to their deaths, taking pride in her evasion of them up until that point.
While working as a fortune teller on the Colossus, Grey capitalized on the superstitious fears of her customers by offering advice for a fee of credits. Grey helped counsel Xiono out of his fears that a pirate curse was affecting him, offering him a talisman in exchange for his credits to ward off evil. Later, when he realized he had never been cursed, he thanked the fortune teller for her help in overcoming his fears. When the First Order attacked the Colossus, Grey helped defend the station against the invading troopers and worked alongside other residents to repel the soldiers.
==Skills and abilities==
By the time of the New Republic, Grey had experience as an archaeologist and treasure hunter, allowing her to explore worlds with dark, ancient histories. She was especially knowledgeable about dark side artifacts, including Sith relics and the sacred temples they resided in. The archaeologist was Force-sensitive, which allowed her to seek out and sense sites emanating the power of the Force, such as Ashas Ree's temple. Her skills helped her excavate the world's Sith temple, raise it, and break into its structure to locate an artifact. Grey's dark side knowledge helped save her from dying in the temple, proving able to guide Kel and Eila into deactivating one of the temple's traps with Sith hieroglyphics.
The treasure hunter was also able to activate and drain the power from a Sith artifact,Star Wars The Dark Side Pocket Expert which killed the First Order Raiders threatening her and her companions. Though Grey maintained that she was neither a Jedi or a Sith, she felt the Force did not belong to any one person but was instead inside everyone. As a fortune teller on the Colossus, Grey proved skillful at manipulating people's fears and desires regarding their superstitious beliefs. By charging credits for her services to act as a prophet, she earned credits from Colossus residents seeking advice or solutions.
==Equipment==
While hunting for Sith relics, Grey owned a starship she used to planet-hop across the galaxy. However, First Order Raiders destroyed the vessel on Ashas Ree. While working as a fortune teller in the Colossus marketplace, Grey charged her customers fifty credits for her services and stored her payments near her workspace. At some point, she acquired a talisman that she later gave to Xiono aboard the Colossus, though he returned it to her not long afterward. During the platform's fight against the First Order in the Barabesh system, the fortune teller used a blaster to fire at stormtroopers.
Grey wore a multicolored shirt trimmed in gold, gray pants, and white wrappings around her lower calves. She also put on a gray scarf, gray shoes with white soles, a gold ring, and styled her hair with decorative clips and a brown hair tie. As part of her outfit, she sported a coral-colored anklet on one leg, several black ties on the other, gray earrings, and a gold nose piercing. Grey donned a brown side pouch attached to a belt and a light gray backpack that she used to carry the Sith relic on Ashas Ree and to hold her possessions on the Colossus. To complete her ensemble, the treasure hunter wore two armbands—one white and one gold—and donned several beaded bracelets in brown, coral, and white.
==Behind the scenes==
Mika Grey first appeared in "The Relic Raiders," the seventh episode of the second season of the animated television series Star Wars Tune Squad, which aired on November 17, 2019. Prior to the episode's release, Grey appeared unidentified in a season trailer released on August 14 and her voice appeared in a preview for "Relic Raiders" released on November 13. She was identified by name in the episode, and was voiced by the actor Tudi Roche. Lucasfilm Animation artist JP Balmet created a concept-art illustration of her on March 10, 2018. In an earlier version of the script for "Relic Raiders," Grey would have elaborated that the Sith relic she acquired on Ashas Ree once belonged to an ancient Sith Lord.
According to Lucasfilm Story Group's Pablo Hidalgo, Grey's character was inspired by imagining what Asajj Ventress—a Force-sensitive individual who has "gone through" a lot—would have been like had she survived into the episode's time period. The character's name, according to Hidalgo, was a "sort of rhyming nod" to Nika Futterman, who voiced Ventress in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Star Wars Resistance lead writer Brandon Auman indicated that a very early version of the story for "The Relic Raiders" was written to include an older Ventress's confrontation with Kylo Ren. However, the script was eventually rewritten to replace Ventress with Grey, as the show's creator Dave Filoni felt that fans would focus too heavily on Ventress's appearance due to her popularity as a character from Star Wars: The Clone Wars, taking focus away from the series' other characters. Author Kristin Baver considered the archaeologist similar to the Force-sensitive smuggler queen Maz Kanata, in that Grey did not actively use the Force despite retaining a deep knowledge of and respect for it.
Grey also appeared in "Kaz's Curse," the tenth episode of Star Wars Tune Squad second season that aired on December 8, 2019. One early version of the episode's story was written so that Xiono's inflicted curse was real, and that Grey only let him believe it was fake to make it easier for her to remove. The episode eventually depicted the curse Xiono received as only superstition and a mental hurdle to overcome. A StarWars.com article indicated that the talisman in "Kaz's Curse" had several possible origin stories, one of which was that Grey discovered the trinket on the planetSolo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide Mimban, while another possible story was that it was one of Eila's missing dolls.
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