Jevona Takanir

Jevona Takanir is a young Corellian female Force Sensitive currently fighting the Galactic Empire as a member of Stargazer's Commandos. She is a descendant of a sideline to the Halcyon Family, though none of her ancestors as displayed any Force Sensitivity for several generations.
==Biography==
===Childhood===
====In the beginning====
Jevona Takanir is born in 20 BBY on a farm near Duoba Guerfel, Corellia. She is the only child of Josh Takanir (explorer, hunter) and Saleena Meinar (shipwright). Since both father and mother often were absent for longer periods of time due to their professions, she was raised by her grandparents. Her early childhood remained largely uneventful, although Jevona showed an inquisitive mind and trustful nature. Her inborn abilities were discovered by a Jedi master and his pupil in 19 BBY, however the Jedi decided not to notify the Jedi Order, based on a short vision he experienced when touching the child.
====Journeys====
In 10 BBY, Jevona's grandfather died and her mother finally had to move to one of the orbital construction sites permanently. Against her mother's wish, Jevona accompained her father on his journeys. During these years, she visited several alien worlds and gained a profound knowledge about hunting and survival. Moreover, Jevona developed a strange affinity towards animals and birds which she seemed to attract. Jevona's journeys came to an end in 5 BBY when her grandmother's farm returned less and less profit and Saleena forceed her daughter to return to Corellia to help her grandmother. Since Jevona had mostly learned by herself and from her father, she had some problems to adapt to the routine of a regular school. Moreover, she did not like large crowds of people as she found them distracting.
===Corellian years===
====Razor Cats====
During a hunting trip with her father on Corellia, Jevona felt strongly drawn towards a mountain side, where a landslide just had gone down. Climbing through the boulders and rocks, she discovered a small cave that had been almost completely buried by the landslide. Inside the cave, she discovered a young razor cat which she names Dotty. Both Jevona and Dotty quickly became inseperable.
====Taking over the farm====
After her grandmother's death Jevona decided to take over the farm to spite her mother who wanted to sell the land. Despite putting much effort into the farm, Jevona hardly managed to keep things running.
====The death of Josh Takanir====
Jevona's father accepted a temporary contract with the Imperial ground forces as a scout. The squad which he was accompaining was caught in an ambush by local rebels. Josh Takanir did not return to Corellia. Following his death, tensions between mother and daughter began to rise, leading to Jevona leaving Corellia two months after her father's death. She started travelling around, earning money by offering her services as experienced hunter and creature handler.
===Planet hopping===
For the next five years Jevona travelled from planet to planet, always earning just enough money to be not totally broken. During a stay on Corellia, she managed to aquire a second sand panther which she names Kitty.
===Tatooine===
====Bestine====
Jevona and her cats arrived on Tatooine, following the tales of giant reptilian beings that were rumored to live there. Running out of money quickly, Jevona got to know Ascag, a Bothan jack-of-all-trades. Ascag introduced her to two Twi'lek siblings, Zava A'ren and her older bother Saki. Saki, himself a Force sensitive unlike his sister, and Jevona fell in love. It was because of Saki who served as a regular soldier in the Imperial army that Jevona joined the army herself. During this time, Jevona's empathic skills developed. Still herself unaware of her gift, she suddenly found herself prone to quick changing moods which she could not explain. Moreover, she allowed her temper to get the better of her more and more often. Saki who was able to sense Jevona's anger and the satisfaction of turning it loose changed slowly. Things became worse, when Saki was caught by rebels. He managed to escape, but from that moment on, he hated the rebels from the bottom of his heart. When Jevona finally began to realize the nature of her own emotional instability, she also noticed how much Saki had changed in the past year and came to the conclusion that he was not the man she fell in love with anymore. After several fruitless and heated arguments, during one of which Saki shot at his little sister, Jevona decided to leave him for good. Since she suspected that Saki would find her fast, she tried to fake her own death by shooting herself so that Saki would feel the pain. She succeeded to hide from him for a while in a small settlement near Mos Taike.
====Mos Taike====
With Jevona turning away from him, Saki gave in to the Dark Side completely, while Jevona tried hard to gain some sort of control over the Force. To fill out the void that Saki had left inside her, she linked up with her razor cats. People often were surprised to see the cats act as on some unspoken command. When Saki finally found Jevona, he tried to turn her to his side, even if that would mean that she had to kill him to complete her way. Jevona refused at first, but he kept coming back. Finally, she was desperated enough to accept the help of a woman which the locals called "witch". The woman, a user of the Dark Side of the Force, handed Jevona a black thorn and taunted her by telling her that only the strong would survive the effects of the thorn. Jevona disregarded all common sense and embedded the thorn into her left wrist. While helping to keep Saki from sneaking into her mind, the thorn started to change her into a cold, emotionless woman. She set out to hunt Saki down and finally killed him. However, during their fight Saki injured his former love. Jevona was able to drag herself into a small settlement before passing out. When she woke again, the thorn had been removed, leaving her left hand crippled. Jevona returned to Mos Taike. Horrified by what she had done, she started to drink. She only managed to sort out her life, when she entered a relationship with Awa Italekon, another Force sensitive Twi'lek. From him and Kyara, a close friend, Jevona learned what she knew about the Force. Also by Kyara, she was entrusted with an old lightsaber for safe-keeping. Jevona decided to have her razor cats (five by that time) guard the weapon. Shortly afterwards, Kyara began to drift further and further to the Dark Side, without Awa and Jev being able to hold her back. In the end, Kyara was killed. The stable, in which Jevona kept her cats, was destroyed in a bomb blast which killed all razor cats. Jevona nearly died from the backlash through her links to the cats, but was saved by Awa and Sauul, another very close friend and Force sensitive.
===A new life (3 ABY)===
====Rori====
A small group of people, including Jevona, Sauul and Awa, relocated to Rori due to some trouble on Tatooine. There, the group of Force Sensitives was tracked down by Imperial researchers. Jevona was arrested under false pretense and abused as test subject for Force enhancing / blocking drugs. Awa and Sauul tried to find her with the help of some friends. After almost two months, they were able to locate the facility and to free Jevona. The experiments that had been done on her and two other subjects left deep scars. After her rescue, Jevona barely reacted to her environment. Sauul and Awa decided to have Jevona's name changed to "Mareena Moondancer" and to leave Rori via Restuss which at that time was occupied by Imperials. To give Sauul a chance to escape with Mareena, Awa created a diversion by attacking a squad of stormtroopers in Restuss. Awa was killed, Sauul and Mareena escaped on Sauul's YT-1300, the "Black Moon Rising".
====Kor Vella, Corellia====
After changing course a few times in an attempt to shake off pursuit, Sauul headed for Corellia, in hope to find help for Mareena. They landed in Kor Vella where they checked in to the local hotel. In order to raise money, Sauul decided to use some old contacts on Nar Shadaar. Since he did not want to take Mareena with him to the Smugglers' Moon in her present state, he decided to leave her behind, figuring that he would be back in a few days. Unfortunately, Sauul found out that there has been a bounty on his head on Nar Shadaar. He did not return to Kor Vella.
Hungry, disoriented and scared, Mareena wandered the streets and eventually ended up in a corner of one of Kor Vella's bars where a yound woman, Draxia Shadat, who overheard a conversation bewteen Mareena and Sebastyn Brandt, addressed her. Draxia offered to organize the search for Awa and Sauul.
====... and back to Tatooine====
Draxia decideed to take Mareena to Outmian Yakta, a settlement in the Western Dune Sea, to hide her. Shortly afterwards, Draxia disappeared together with her cousin Drackos. Mareena was taken in by Tarrik Sunstrider. During her time in Outmian Yakta, she was discovered by a young Zabrak Force user who calls himself Iago. Iago obviously enjoyed taunting her and playing on her fears. After a nervous breakdown resulting from one of Iago's visits, Mareena woke in the small medical center of Outmian Yakta. Scans done on her showed an aberrance in her neurotransmitter balance. The medical treatment, Mareena received afterwards, improved her condition somewhat. Her memory seemed to be more coherent and she started to remember parts of her past.
===Jedi Padawan===
====The Chapterhouse (Naboo)====
When Araiya Berilac left Tatooine together with Barid Badar, Mareena was drawn to them by a strange feeling of familarity. She managed to stow away onboard Barid's ship which took them to Theed, Naboo. There, Mareena quickly got lost. Without the medical treatment, her condition worsened again. Plagued by panic attacks and nightmares, Mareena took refuge under one of Theed's many bridges. There she was found by Val-Tane Ricaud and Junichiro Kodama who brought her to the Gallo Chapterhouse. She stayed in the care of the Jedi and began to recover gradually.
====Nomads====
After Kodama revealed his true nature, the other Jedi decided to leave Naboo. Not wanting to leave Mareena behind, they took her with them. During their travel on board the Amber Dawn to Tatooine, Mareena decided to accept Val-Tane's offer to become one of his Padawan.
====Outmian Yakta, Tatooine====
When the small group landed at Mos Espa starport, Val-Tane asked Onjo to travel to Outmian Yakta to deliver some encrypted files to a contact. The files had been retrieved from the Imperial Research lab on Rori, in which Mareena had been kept prisoner. Since Alliance Intelligence had been able to break the codes, Val-Tane hoped that his contact's slicers would be more successful. Mareena, hoping to meet Draxia again, accompains Onjo. Upon their arrival, Onjo handed the datadisks over whereas Mareena asked around for Draxia. Since Draxia was on her way back to town, Onjo and Mareena decided to wait for her. Unfortunately, while they waited, storm troopers entered Outmian Yakta in search for the datadisks. Onjo and Mareena were both taken prisoner along with some citizens of Outmian Yakta. Both were turned over to Barid Badar who supervised the operation. Barid had Mareena fitted with a tracking device and set free in Mos Espa in hope that she would be picked up by the rest of the Jedi.
Fleeing from Tatooine, the small group of Jedi fugitives travelled the galaxy together, following what seemed to be the path the Force had laid out for them. During that time, Onjo Noor was knighted and took over Mareena's training. Gradually, as training advanced, Mareena's condition improved, so that it finally became possible to heal the damage done to her mind.
===Coming back home===
====On her own again====
Upon waking one day, Mareena finds a short note from her master telling her that he needed to see to something important and that he would be back soon. However, after a month, her master has not returned yet, and Mareena's best efforts to find any trace of him remain fruitless. Left to her own devices, she picks up her old name again and starts to travel the galaxy for a while as she had done in her youth.
On a brief visit to Corellia, Jevona saves a little male razor cat form a poacher who tried to sell the little creature to some members of the high society. Jevona notices that the cub is barely old enough to be able to survive without his mother's warmth and care. Despite remembering the losses of her cats quite accutely, she decides to take on responsibility for the little rascal. Since the poacher's price for the cat is way out of Jevona's limits, she breaks one of her own taboos, never to use the Force to meddle with someone else's mind, and tricks the poacher to sell off the cat for a less than tenth of what he asked before. Using one of the licences for her old cats, she names the cub Shahil and hurries to leave Corellia.
====Back to Tatooine====
During her travels, she notices that, in addition to what she is able to identify as her own memories, she also can recall events, she cannot have witnessed herself. Suspecting a connection between these false memories and the experiments, Jevona starts to investigate on her own, but soon meets a dead-end. After some hesitation, she decides to contact DSE, since she vaguely remembers the efforts of her helpers to retrieve some data from the lab. Her comm call is answered by Saldena Wolfgang, who asks Jevona to meet her in the DSE office. Jevona asks for the data discs from the lab, however, Saldena seems to be unaware of their existence. Jevona accepts Saldena's offer to contact her once she knows more, not only because she hopes to finally get the data that way, but also because she notices a familiar aura around Saldena. Jevona spends the days after the meeting in the Outmian Yakta DSE office wandering the dunes and hunting together with Shahil, always waiting for Saldena to comm her. Finally, almost a week after their first meeting, Saldena calls her to ask her to meet her in the Mos Espa starport. After a brief greeting, Saldena suggests to move to a quieter area of the starport where the two women are joined by Tsotha-Lanti and Araiya Berilac who offer Jevona a strange deal: Answering a few simple questions in exchange for the data. Although Jevona feels trapped by the strangers, she agrees to listen to them and answer their questions concerning the Force and her connection with it. The meeting ends with Jevona aquiring a set of data disks and a way to contact Tsotha-Lanti if she should want to continue their talk.
====New companions====
Jevona takes her time to review the data on the disks, but soon notices that the major part of the information is still encrypted and hence useless to her. She decides to contact Tsotha-Lanti through Caerwynn Royce again, hoping to find a way to gain access to the important part of the information on the disks. They meet in Caerwynn Royce's house for a lengthy talk which again mainly revolves around the Force. A couple of days later, Jevona leaves Tatooine and follows Tsotha-Lanti and his apprentice to Lok. There they pick up a few things and journey on to look for a suitable place for a new hideout. During their travels, the group - now joined by Saldena Wolfgang - runs into a pair of bounty hunters. In the ensueing fight, one of the bounty hunters is killed. The other one suffers the lost of his trusted animal companion. As the hunters had identified as 'Jedi', Jevona thinks it prudent to erase this piece of information from the surviving bounty hunters's memory. On their way out, Tsotha-Lanti expresses his concerns about what Jevona just has done. She, however, sees it as the lesser of two evils as the only other way to ensure their safety would have to kill the bounty hunter.
====Back to Tatooine yet again====
The group decides to settle in an out of the way area of Tatooine. As they make their way there, they notice that they are still followed by several bounty hunters. With their ship badly damaged, they reach the planet, however crash on their attempt to land there. Both Araiya and Jevona sustain serious injuries. Being a healer, Tsotha-Lanti is able to remedy a small part of the damage before they find themselves surrounded by their hunters. They are able to defend themselves barely and leave the crash site to look for some shelter for the approaching desert night. After an arduous trip, they find a ruined house in which a small Tusken tribe has settled. Since they need a place for the night, Tsotha-Lanti decides that it is time for some dire measssures, however both Araiya and Jevona hold him back as both woman believe that killing or driving away the Tusken would be against the Jedi Code. Moreover, Jevona knows that any such action against the Tusken would result in the Tusken attacking the small moisture farms and settlements in that area. Seeing someone that claims to follow the Code even considering something like that without giving any thoughts to the consequences, plants some doubts in Jevona's heart.
====A phantom from the past====
After a few days of travel, they arrive at their destination, a hunting lodge hidden in the rugged mountians of Northern Tatooine. With some quiet returning to her life, Jevona starts to explore the surrounding area of the lodge, slowly making herself aquintained with the terrain. During one of her day trips, she dreams about Sauul departing for Nar Shadaar. Eventhough, she is not sure whether that dream was a memory unlocked or just wishful thinking, she decides to find a place to stay for Shahil and head out to follow the trail. Her investigations on the Smugglers' Moon soon lead her to the discovery of a roaring trade in slaves. Following her feelings, Jevona mingles with the slaves as they are herded onboard of a transporter, which leaves Nar Shadaar for Kashyyyk. As they arrive at their destination, Jevona keeps low profile and looks for a way to leave the slaver camp which proves all but impossible. Unknown to herself, Jevona has been identified on Nar Shadaar and followed to Kashyyyk by Imperial Forces. Under the pretense of taking a group of slaves to a work camp, she and a few others are herded through Kashyyyk's jungle. As soon as the slaves and their keepers arrive at the work camp, Jevona is singled out and stunned to be transported offworld.
Jevona wakes up a couple of days later in a medical facility which makes her collapse from shock immediately again. Only by administering sedatives, her hosts are able to calm her down enough to explain that she is safe, that she has been rescues by an Alliance commando and that they mean no harm to her. She is allowed a couple of days to recover from her recent ordeals, before she recieves a visit from two high ranking Alliance members, General Crix Madine and her Highness, Princess Leia. Jevona discovers to her surprise that the Alliance thinks her important enough to not only rescue her, but also offer her a new life on the sole condition that she would not join the Empire. Although confused it doesn't take Jevona long to agree, even if the thought of renouncing her father's name hurts considerably.
===A new name, a new life===
With the help of the Alliance, Jevona assumes the identity of "Cayla Dunestrider", daughter of a simple Tatooinian moisture farmer from Mos Taike. She returns to Tatooine and tries to make contact with Rhyley Stargazer, a name which has been provided by the Alliance. Rhyley and his wife, Atyphe, introduce her to another Force user, Aniwevei Chreitti, who offers a place to stay to Jevona.
====Apprentice====
Bit by bit, Cayla gets used to her new life, though she still is not able to leave her old life behind. Nightmares and flashbacks keep haunting here and things only start to improve a bit when she happens across a young boy, Exao Gunn, who tells another patron about a pyramid shaped object that his mother had left behind to him. This raises Cayla's suspicion and she decided to approach the boy about it as she is afraid that the object might be one of the ancient Sith holocrons. Cayla asks Exao to show the object to her and a brief touch confirms her worst fears. Not wanting to leave such an object in the hands of the unexperienced young man, Cayla explains about the dangers and asks Exao to hand it over to her. Exao agrees under the condition that Cayla helps him to find out about his mother, which she promises gladly. Cayla takes the holocron into the Dune Sea in order to destroy which ends in exhausting mental fight against herself and the gatekeeper's personality. After several hours, Cayla finally manages to destroy the object.
Since she had noticed Exao's potential as a Force sensitive, Cayla decides to introduce him carefully to the Force and offers to train him to the best of her abilities. Exao accepts the offer and becomes Cayla's first apprentice. This gives Cayla back some sense of purpose, something which she was lacking ever since the fatal day on Rori.
Cayla trusts Exao enough to ask him to help her find Rhyley Stargazer when the young Corellian goes missing. Together with Rebel Operatives Raedan Kitani, Erisey Casoona, Bai'yle Norssohn and Atyphe Vrydella, they were able to track the young Rebel Commander to Corellia. There, Cayla stumbled across an Imperial research facility by chance. While Bai'yle Norssohn and Exao Gunn play bait to draw the AT-AT that patroled the permise away, Cayla and Atyphe enter the facility, finding its interior destroyed and stripped of any working equpiment. However, Cayla recovers a broken datapad from a heap of scrap which she hands to Erisey Casoona, knowing that the young girl was a capable slicer and responsible for the decryption of the project files. The female slicer quickly dismantles the datapad to find the storage disk still intact. With other, more pressing problems at hand, Cayla decides to investigate this new piece of the puzzle later on. Following Rhyley's traces to Draal, Cayla witnesses the events leading the loss of Drall.
====Master====
After returning, Cayla resumes her life as hunter on Tatooine. Travelling to Outmian Yakta at least twice a week to sell of hides and stock up on rations and equipment, she also uses her visits to continue to train Exao. It is during this time that Cayla meets Eirga Orus for the first time. As she is awfully protective of her young charge and doesn't like the old Sullustan's probing questions, Cayla first reacts rather hostile towards him. Things get worse when Exao tells her how much she means to him. As she still cannot deal with her losses, the thought of Exao relying that much scares her into running away from him. She stops training him and retreats into herself, shunning any attempts to get close to her. Only when Exao and Eirga team up, they can force her to stop running. Eirga recognizing both her potential as Force sensitive and the extend of her trauma, reveals himself as a former member of the old Jedi Order and offers to train her. Cayla, realizing how close she is to falling to the Dark Side if she cannot find a way to deal with what happened on Rori, accepts the offer. During one of their training session, Eirga learns about Cayla's inability to sense and manipulate inanimate objects through the Force. He also notices that Cayla is able to dissipate small amounts of energy, which leads to him suspecting that she is part of the old Halycon bloodline.
The relationship between Cayla, her apprentice and her master is put to a test, when Cayla enters a shortlived affair with Rhelex Jubulii. Eirga proves to be unable to put his own past and the events during the Clone Wars behind him and refuses to accept a Mandalorian as Cayla's partner. Exao and Rhelex on the other hand start to fight over Cayla. However, Cayla trusts the Zabraki Mandalorian.
====Belgaroth====
During this time of relative quite, Cayla starts to review the contents of the datapad from the Corellian research facility. She soon realizes that the facility was connected to the experiments that had been done on Rori. Combining the data, she concludes that there is at least one other research facility on Belgaroth. Cayla is determined to make sure that that facility like the other two is shut down and destroyed. She calls those that she trusts most for help. Together with Exao, Eirga, Rhelex, Araiya and Saldena she leaves Tatooine for Belgaroth. There they are able to retrieve the coordinates to what may be the facility they are looking for. They decide to travel there and take a closer look. Things start to get weird when they arrive at the site. Though it seems to be heavily guarded by several Imperial walkers, their pilots fail to react as the group approaches. It soon becomes apparent that some strong Force User controls most personel on the site, as Rhelex falls under the same strange spell. Entering the facility, they find what appears to be a twelve year old girl of an unknown species who seems to the the origin of the mind control. Cayla is shocked as she realizes that the girl is in fact a chimaera, bred by Imperial scientists from the genetic information of several test subjects, including herself. The girl, Aurek-931, is killed by an Imperial stormtrooper when she looses her control over her minions. Now having to deal with a garrison of stormtroopers who came back to their senses, the group has to fight their way out and back into the debris strewn wasteland that Belgaroth is. They are able to leave the planet before the Empire can move in to destroy the traces of the facility.
====Fallen Friend====
After their return to Tatooine, Cayla learns that Aniwevei has slowly slipped back to the Dark Side, when she finds her apprentice in the bunker badly injured by the young witch. Understanding Aniwevei's threat towards her, Cayla decides to hunt down and face the witch in hope to be able to talk sense into her. However, Aniwevei contacts Exao and lures the young man and Rhelex into a trap by making them believe that Cayla was injured and needed their help. When Cayla arrived at Aniwevei's camp in the Beggar's Canyon, she had to watch Aniwevei taking both men prisoner and forcing her to reveal herself. Left with no other choices, Cayla walked into the canyon to meet Aniwevei on her terms. With Rhelex restraint and Exao injured yet again, Aniwevei turned her attention on Cayla and tried to break by making her relive her time in the lab on Rori. Cayla breaks down, however before Aniwevei can make use of the situation, Exao manages with an effort to shot Rhelex's restraints. With Aniwevei being distracted and preparing to attack both men, Cayla is able to recover and grab hold of Aniwevei before the witch is able to send a Force Lightening towards Exao. Remembering Eirga's words about her being able to soak up energy, Cayla tries to take in as much of the lightening as she can, only to notice at one point that she needs to get rid of the energy again somehow. Before Cayla realizes what is happening, the energy that has built up inside her discharges in a massive telekinetic wave that sends Aniwevei and herself flying into different directions. Disoriented by the blast, it takes a few moments and a helping hand from Rhelex for her to recover. As she gets to her feet, she spots Aniwevei disappear down the canyon on her mount.
====Inquisition====
It's not long after, that Cayla wakes from a nightmare of Rhelex killing Exao in a vicious fight and Eirga turning on both Rhelex and her for "betraying him to the Mandalorians". The dream scares her and she starts to look at her friends with some mistrust that is even increased by Exao and Eirga both blaming her to go behind their backs and plan to backstab them. However, Cayla also notices that there is something fundamentally wrong with the dream. Even more so, since all of them had similar dreams the same night. As she tries to meditate on this, she notices the residues of a foreign prescence in her mind which she manages to push out successfully. She is also able to get Eirga to look for this prescence in his mind and get rid of it. Together, they help Exao to free himself of the influence. As they investigate further, they notice that Force sensitives that they know of had similar nightmares that affected them on different scales.
Before they can get to the bottom of this, Exao is arrested by a squad of stormtroopers. Cayla, Eirga, Saldena and Araiya receive a message from a man who introduces himself as Inquisitor Kiname and tells them that they are to hand themselves in or leave the planet, though that the last option will lead to Exao's death at his hands. To lend credibility to his words, Kiname proceeds to stab Exao through the shoulder blade with his lightaber. Unable to stand and watch her friend and apprentice being tortured, Cayla rushes off in a mad frenzy and is only stopped when her razor cat Shahil, by now an almost fully grown male, pounces her and pins her to the ground with his weight. After a lengthy "discussion" with Shahil, Cayla finally gives in and returns to meet with Eirga, Saldena and Araiya to plan a real rescue.
The group decides to start their search from Bestine where they happen across a group of strom troopers new to Tatooine. As Araiya and Cayla both use the Force on the same trooper to try and gain information, they accidently melt his mind, but are able to retrieve the whereabouts of Exao. Heading there, they find an Imperial installation where several supposed Force Sensitives are held captive by the Inquisition. The group forces their way into the facility to free the prisoners. During the fight, Eirga separates from the group to face his former friend, now Inquisitor Kiname. Their fight ends with Kiname dead and Eirga exhausted but alive. Meanwhile, Araiya, Saldena and Cayla search the cells for Exao, finally finding the physically and mentally injured young man curled up in a dark corner. While Araiya starts to tend to Exao's wounds, Cayla tries to calm him down. As soon as Araiya has treated the worst injuries, they move Exao back to the relative security of the bunker, where Cayla tried to help him cope with what happened.
====Sithspawn====
The time of relative quiet that followed Cayla's run-in with the Inquisition does not last for very long and is brought to an end by a comm call from Raedan Kitani. Raedan explains to her that Rhyley Stargazer has returned, but is acting strangely. In fact, the man had attacked Raedan and his wife the day before and tried to kill them both. Only with the help of Saldena, they had been able to stop him by knocking him unconscious. After hearing all of the story, Cayla at first believes that Rhyley had undergone some brainwashing at the hands of Imperials. However, when she tries to break through what she thinks is his new conditioning, she notices a malevolent prescence that seems to have consumed the young man. While an Imperial stormtrooper squad tries to gain access to their hiding place, Cayla tries to undo the conditioning. However, Rhykan, as Rhyley calls himself now, displays a proficience with the Dark Side that catches Cayla by surprise. He is able to beat Cayla, however when he is in a position to deliver a fatal strike with his lightsaber, the blade is diverted at the last possible moment and misses her by a fraction of an inch. Instead, the blade strikes a nearby terminal and destroys it. The explosion distracts Rhykan enough for Raedan to be able to knock him unconscious again. Cayla and Raedan agree to destroy the hide-out and move Rhyley/Rhykan to a new location.
Together, they move the sedated Rhyley to Cayla's house in the Northern Dune Sea. There, Cayla calls Eirga for help. Together with Exao, they again try to break through to Rhyley. Again, Rhykan proves stronger. However, again Rhykan seems to be unable or unwilling to deliver a death blow. Again, the attempt ends with Rhykan getting knocked out and Exao, Eirga and Cayla nursing their cuts, burns and bruises. With the Imperials still hot on their trail, Raedan decides to move his friend away from Tatooine and to a bunker on Najiba. Cayla informs Saldena and Araiya and asks for help with treating their wounds and dealing with whatever has possessed Rhyley. After Araiya has seen to Eirga's wounds, the group travels to Najiba. There, they attempt again to rid Rhyley of his Rhykan personality. Having gone over their last attempts, they have noticed that Rhykan reacted to sounds of explosions. Hence, they decide to have Raedan hold him back inside a force field, while they try to distract him with sounds of explosions. Araiya, Saldena and Cayla would work together to reach Rhyley's true self through the Force. However, all efforts seem useless as Rhykan keeps taunting them and tries to break free. Only when they start to increase the volume of the sounds, Rhykan starts to cringe in pain. Finally, as they set the sounds to maximum volume, what looks like a black oily liquid oozes from Rhyley's eyes. The young man collapses as the droplets congelate and squeeze themselve through the cracks in the force field to attack the nearest person: Cayla. Only the quick reaction of Saldena who uses the Force to attack and burn the creature spares Cayla from suffering the same fate as Rhyley.
====Watching from the Sideline====
For the next months, Cayla stays with Rhyley's unit, watching over him and her student Exao. She is worried that the time that Rhyley was possessed by the unknown creature has done much more damage than visible. However, stubborn as any Corellian, Rhyley blocks her offers to help. Cayla resorts to watch and listen to be able to lend help if it should be required.
When the unit has to move from Najiba to Rishi, Cayla and Shahil travel along. It is during her time there that she notices that both Sava Stary and Kileo Dimoh display some faint sensitivity to the Force. Cayla decides to tell both of them about it as she remembers well how she stumbled over not knowning about her abilities. Sava rejects the idea of him having anything to do with the Jedi. Kileo however is more than surprised and intrigued by the idea. When Rhyley finds out about Cayla telling them, he ends up in an heated argument about it with her. The situation does not improve, when Aniwevei shows up unexpectedly at the Rishi bunker and Cayla tries to defend her against Sava, Kileo and Rhyley, actually more worried about that taking their revenge on the young witch could be their first step towards the Dark Side. This leads to another heated argument with Rhyley for meddling.
Still, when the unit leaves Rishi for a mission to the Corel system, Cayla again joins them. It is in one of Daeric's cantinas that Cayla happens across a twi'lek lady called Mysty Fys. Noticing the familiar notion of Force sensitivity in her, Cayla follows her when she leaves, watching her and waiting to be addressed by her. When Mysty asks Cayla why she followed, Cayla probes her for strange coincidences, lucky findings or 'gut feeling' in her life. After talking for a while, Cayla is sure that Mysty can be trusted. She carefully introduces Mysty to the idea of being able to touch the Force and offers Mysty to get her into contact with someone who could help her to discover her abilities. Cayla contacts Aniwevei to ask her to take care of Mysty's training, hoping that taking on that responsibility will help Aniwevei as much as it has helped her. Aniwevei agrees and at her next meeting with Mysty, Cayla asks her to run a small errand to get her in touch with the witch.
During an investigation on an attack on some members of the unit, Rhyley and Cayla end up acting as lovers. To keep up their charade, they have to share a room and the bed in a hotel that they suspect to be the center of the gang that attacked their comrades. When she wakes up the next morning, she realizes that she has snuggled up against Rhyley while sleeping, even addressing him as 'Awa'. Scared by the thought that the young man may have come that close, she leaves the room in a hurry. Down in the breakfast room, she is joined by Mysty who unfortunately addresses her with real name. As this raised the attention of the staff, Cayla tries to ingore Mysty and leaves the hotel to give her a comm call as soon as Cayla thinks she has lost her tail. Unfortunately, she is still watched at her meeting with Mysty. After the meeting, Cayla contacts Rhyley who collects her from Daeric while Mysty returns to the hotel.
After the unit has completed their assignment in the Corel system, they meet up with the Alliance Navy for some recreation. Again, Cayla travels with them. She stays with Stargazer's Commandos when they are sent to a diplomatic mission to the Draxial system. The initial diplomatic meeting goes awfully wrong and Rhyley hands himself over to their opponents to save the lifes of his friends. During the investigation into the incident, Raedan adopts a young boy, Yoshi, and Cayla finds some joy in caring for him. While playing with him, she senses his still dormant abilities with the Force. Not wanting to get into yet another argument with Rhyley, she only informs Raedan and asks him to have an eye on it, but does nothing else. When the unit members manage to free Rhyley from a prison where he obviously has been subject to some weird medical/biological experiments, Cayla cannot help but feeling sympathetic for him. When she is told that Exao would be transfered to another unit that will be stationed on Filve, she is torn between moving with him and staying with the others. However, she acknowledges that she is only tolerated with Stargazer's Commando and that she cannot expect to be tolerated with Exao's new unit.
====Arbra====
From the rally point of the Alliance fleet, the unit is sent out to scout for a location suitable to built a new base at. They are sent to explore Arbra, a seemingly uninhabited forest world. Cayla again travels with them. She stays back at their ship, as the unit gradually explores the planet's surface. During one of their first expeditions, the unit looses contact with the ship. After she has waited for several hours for another signal, Cayla sets out to track the group down. Thanks to her skills as a hunter and scout she is able to find the group with all electronic devices dead and drained of power. This has Raedan and others with cybernetic implants in an awkward situation. Cayla hands her comm link to Kileo to call for help as she tries to figure out who exactly is talking to her via Telepathy. Looking around she spots a small rodent-like creature that has been caught by the group. To her surprise, the creature seems to be intelligent and able to communicate with her through the Force. It identifies itself as a Hoojib. Between what the members of the group and the Hoojib tell her, she figures that the Hoojibs feed on energy. Famished by being cut off their main feeding ground, they were drawn to the group due to the massive amounts of energy that they carried. The Hoojib apologizes when Cayla told it that by feeding on their electronic devices, they almost killed one of her friends. Since Cayla feels sorry for the little scared creature, she decides to set if free after it promised that they wouldn't feed no their devices again. Moreover, she asks Rhyley whether there are any power packs on the ship that they can spare and if so if he could ask Bai'yle to drop them off at some distance to draw the Hoojibs away from the landing ship. Though he does not seem to be too enthusiastic about loosing the power packs, Rhyley passes the order to Bai'yle.
===The Rebellion===
====Picking up the fight====
By and by, the Alliance builds an outpost in one of Arbra's many caves. Stargazer's Commandos is amongst the units that are stationed there. With tensions rising on Filve, it is only a matter of time until Rhyley has to break the news of Exao's probable death to Cayla. Devastated by that loss, she almost turns to drinking again. However, Rhyley provides a shoulder to cry on for her, helping her through the first shock. After she has calmed down somewhat, she confronts Rhyley with her wish to come along to Filve with the unit even if that means that she will have to sign up with the Alliance military. Rhyley reluctantly accepts and allows her to join is unit when it is dispatched to Filve to help organize an Alliance underground network.
The unit manages to smuggle themselves onto the planet in a stolen Imperial freighter. Though most members are used to Tatooine's hot climate, they are surprised by Filve's intense heat and dryness. Setting up their base of operations in a cave, they start to investigate Filve's remaining cities and gather information. Cayla is able to retrieve hints to an Alliance contact from captured Rebel just before his execution by Imperial stormtroopers. At the same time, Raedan is able to slice into the Imperial holonet and download vital data. While Cayla and Kileo try to find the contact, Raedan finds the coordinates of a slave camp amongst the data. The data suggests that captured Alliance members have been brought to that camp. Cayla and Kileo find the contact in a med center. After having been able to talk to him and gain further hints to more Rebels on Filve, the girls rejoin the others. Together the unit sets out to close down the slave camp. Arriving at the coordinates, they are able to overwhelm the slavers and free the slaves, however they cannot gain access to supplies. While they are still busy with breaking the prison doors open, a lone armoured figure approaches the camp in a desperate attempt to attack. Before any harm can be down, Cayla steps in as the person feels somehow familiar to her. However, it is not before the attacker ignites a lightsaber-like weapon that Cayla realizes that it is her student. It takes her several moments to convince both the newer members and Exao that everything is alright, that they are all fighting on the same side and that they are in fact for real and not another halluzination, caused by heat, exhaustion and thirst. It turns out that Exao and his partner Liet had been seperated from their unit during the Imperial assault on Filve.
Though Cayla is overjoyed to find Exao alive and well, there is little time as the unit is still faced with dwiddling supplies and has not come any closer to establish contact with the Rebel underground. After several more visits to Filve's remaining cities, they finally manage find Chasdy who as gathered some of the surviving Rebel operatives around him. Relocating the cell to the cave, they start to work on a plan to aquire supplies. They decide to attack one of the smaller Imperial garrison. They are successful and are able to aquire enough to provide Chasdy with a solid base from which to expand the Rebel underground network on Filve. Hijacking an Imperial corvette, Stargazer's Commando together with Exao leave Filve.
====The Cost of Saving a Life====
After the unit's return to Arbra, Cayla enjoyed some recreation time with the rest. As she and Shahil returns from an extensive walk through the maze of tunnels that the base is, she joins Rhyley and Kileo in the cantina. While they talk, both Kileo and Cayla notice a trickle of blood flowing from Rhyley's nose. When Kileo points Rhyley to it, he first tries to wipe it away, but decides to check into the med center when he cannot stop the nose bleed. However, Rhyley does not even get this far and collapses almost as soon as he stands up. He is rushed into the med center by Kaje and Kileo, with Cayla following close behind. During Kaje's attempts to stabilize Rhyley's condition, both Kileo and Cayla notice that Rhyley's mind seems to have left his body. The moment, however, that Kaje manages to restart Rhyley's heart, both woman feel him return. They decide to take shifts in watching Rhyley during the night. As Cayla turns to leave, she receives a comm call from Exao who tells her that Aniwevei has been poisoned and is in danger of dying from the poison. Fearing a connection between Rhyley collapsing and Aniwevei dying, she asks Kileo to help Exao in finding an antidot to the poison while she stays behind to be ready to intervene if things start to go wrong.
The next couple of days see Rhyley's condition slowly deteriorating, with Cayla and Kaje being able to do little more than to watch. During the third night of her watch, Rhyley passes away. As Cayla is not prepared to loose the young man, she reaches out to him through the Force and follows him without a second thought. Passing out and entering a critical state herself, she is barely able to catch him in time. Confessing her true feelings for him to both of them, she opens herself to him through the Force and allows him to bond himself to her, effectively replacing Aniwevei as his bond partner.
Cayla awakes later the next day, feeling physically so weak, she barely is able to speak at first. She spends the next days between sleeping and watching over Rhyley and gradually recovers some strength. On the second day, Kileo and sava return to report on their journey to Dxun and how they have been able to heal Aniwevei, though not before she died. When Rhyley awakes shortly after, Cayla is not sure whether she had done the right thing in saving him. She is unsure of how to tell him and unsure of how he will react to being bond to her. In the end, she almost asks his forgiveness for what she has done before curling up in her bed again.
The next morning, Cayla wakes to find the young Corellian gone. Assuming that he is avoiding her because of what she did, she starts to withdraw and spends the day away from everyone with Sahil being her only companion.
====Opening Old Wounds====
During the following night, she suffers a nightmare in which she relives parts of her memories from her time in the Imperial laboratory. Waking with a start, she slowly realizes that the dreams hasn't been an ordinary night, but some kind of vision. It is not long before she spots the news item about her mentor, Eirga Orus, having been arrested on Talus and currently waiting his public execution. These news unsettle her enough that she asks for permission to leave Arbra for Talus. Before she leaves, she asks Kileo for help.
The women arrive in Kystes, Talus, early the next morning and are soon joined by Exao who has been staying with Aniwevei after the Filve mission. Their breakfast at the local diner is soon interupted by the news that the execution of Eirga would take place in Dearic in two hours. The trio decides to leave at once. When they arrive at Dearic, they find the city packed with spectators and Imperial troopers. While Kileo and Cayla make their way towards the main plaza, they loose Exao in the crowd. Nevertheless, both women make their way to the market plaza where the public execution is supposed to take place. They try to mingle with the crowd to watch, however as soon as Cayla spots the prisoner, the realization that they have walked into a trap and that the Sullustan that is brought onto the stage by stormtroopers is not Eirga. With no chance to save an innocent live, they turn away and try to find Exao. While they are still searching, Cayla and Kileo spot a Lambda shuttle lifting from Dearic starport. Without a second thought, Cayla decides to go after the shuttle, knowing instinctively that Exao is on board. Kileo manages to hire a friend, Kosha'k, to give chase to the shuttle and they manage to track the shuttles exit vector before the shuttle jumps to hyperspace.
Following the Lambda shuttle, they jump to Roon, only to find themselves confronted with a large Imperial fleet in that system. They have little to no chance, but refuse to comply with the orders to surrender. Unable to take the beating from several TIE fighter squadrons and larger vessels, Kosha'k's transport crashes on Roon's surface. Kosha'k and Cayla are severly injured. Kileo sustains only light injuries. It is not before long that Imperial troops arrive at the crash side. Kileo and Kosha'k are separated from Cayla who receives a special welcome from Inquisitor Bein Turvold who tries to take advantage of her injuries to torture her. When he does not quite receive the reactions that he hoped for, he has her brought to an Imperial Outpost. There she along with Kileo and Kosha'k is forced to witness Exao being abused for some experiments that involve an improved version of the drugs that Cayla was subjected to several years back. Exhausted, in pain and struggling to protect Rhyley from witnessing the events through their bond, Cayla tries to mind trick Mona Kraus, the Inquisitor supervising the experiment, into releasing Exao, however without much success. Exao is treated with the gaseous variant of the drug which leaves him blind and dead to the Force. Kileo, Kosha'k and Exao are brought into a cell, while Mona Kraus takes Cayla for a tour of the facility, knowing who Cayla really is and that the mere thought of being prisoner in a research lab again must scare Cayla off her wits. Finally, Mona confronts Cayla with another dead clone of Aurek-931 and announces that they want Cayla to give them all information she has about the old research projects. Cayla refuses and is brought into the cell in which the others are held, too. As exhaustion and the pain from her untreated wounds take their toll, Cayla collapses on the floor, unable to help her friends or to keep Rhyley away from her pain. Drifting into an uneasy sleep, she finds herself surprised but grateful as he starts to lend her his strength through the bond.
The next couple of days see all of them being subjected to interrogations and torture. Although, the Inquisitors manage to almost break all of them, they do not succeed in turning even one of them or gaining the information they want. Before that can happen, Eirga, held in a cell close to them, intervenes. As a rescue team comprising Sava, Rhelex and the Trandoshan Slukas Frost forces its entry into the outpost, Eirga frees himself and kills Bein Turvold. Releasing his student and her friends, he tells them to leave as he goes to confront Mona Kraus. The rescue team reaches their friends just in time to hear the self destruction alarm of the outpost ringing through the building. Grabbing those who are unable to walk themselves to carry them, they hurry to leave the outpost which is destroyed in an explosion mere moments after they reach a safe distance. Cayla, unconscious and feverish, barely notices anything of her rescue and her return to Arbra where they receive medical and psychological treatment.
As she recovers, Cayla realizes the full extend of her thoughtlessness and stupidity and fully expects to be court marshaled. She is surprised that she gets away with a a rather uncomfortable debriefing by Major Wynonyms.
====The Call====
While Exao leaves for Talus to recover, Cayla stays behind on Arbra with Shahil and tries to figure out her place within the Alliance and the unit. Still unsure of her connection to Rhyley, she is surprised when he contacts her through their bond and asks her to find him. She contacts both Bai'yle Norssohn and Raedan Kitani in hope to find out about his location. After embarrassing herself in front of Raedan and pleading him to tell her where she could find Rhyley, he finally yields despite his promise to give his friend and brother the space and time, he needs to recover. Asking Rhyley's father for help to get to Rhen Var, she again finds herself in an embarrassing situation, giving away more of her feelings for Rhyley than she wants. Major Wynonyms finally agrees to help her and provides her with a Y-wing fighter and an astromech droid, however not before reminding her about her last failure and the fact that she is under observation because of it.
Cayla leaves Arbra and heads for Rhen Var the same day. She finds Rhyley waiting for her at the mouth of a cave, a lonely, lost figure. Though both feel attracted to each other, Rhyley still hesitates, unsure of how to deal with the situation. Afraid of attaching himself to her completely, he halfheartedly tells her to pull away from him as he wouldn't be strong enough to do it. Cayla can't help but laugh, as she knows that his concerns are justified, but that she wouldn't have herself the strength to distance herself from him anymore, despite her words and her promise to him to leave him, should he ever want her to leave. They end up getting closer with Rhyley confiding something in Cayla which he up to now hasn't told anyone else.
After a couple of days in the frigid desolation of Rhen Var, Rhyley asks Cayla to travel back to Arbra in the Y-wing fighter. He promises her that he will follow in his ship and that he would like to keep their relationship hidden from others for now. Cayla, though disappointed, agrees and arrives back at Arbra just in time to receive the order that terminates the unit's leave.
====War====
SGC together with other units is called into a brief which is headed by Admiral Ackbar, General Crix Madine and the Bothan General Laryn Kre'fey. They disclose information on a secret Imperial project at the Kuat Drive Yards and outline a plan to draw Imperial attention away from Kuat in order to destroy whatever it is that the Empire is building there. Already while listening and watching the three men presenting Operation Strike Back, Cayla starts to have a bad feeling. The strategy devised by Ackabr and Madine seems logical, however she dislikes the way the Bothan tries to supersede the two acknowledged military leaders. Things are not getting better when they are informed about the formation of several new commandos which means that Bai'yle will leave their unit. However, she is happy to spot Rhyley standing in the back and listening.
With the few pieces of information about their task, the assault on Orupia in the Sega System, the members of SGC try hard to come up with a plan to make the impossible happen. As they all agree that a direct assault of the heavily guard Normaic Base would not stand the slightest chance, they resort to ruses and deceptions. With final preparations being made throughout Haven Base, Cayla is happy when Rhyley takes the time to offer her some flight lesson on the T-47 Airspeeders which have been assigned to the unit.
====Losses====
The mission to Orupia proves to be a desaster from the start. Approaching the planet in the RAGS Bulkyare, the morale of the unit suffers a harsh blow when they helplessly witness the RACC Deviant Flight with Bai'yle Norssohn and Rhelex Jubilii-Gahn on board explode under heavy planetary fire. Before they even have time to recover from that shock, several alarms announce that their own ship is close to break apart itself. Abandonning the ship in escape pots, the unit find themselves scattered across a large area with some of the unit's members being severely injured. After treating the wounded, the unit manages to meet up before the set out towards Ground Zeor, their designated landing zone.
Already being late when they arrive, the unit immediately starts to set their plans into action. Using a ruse, they manage to land at the beach close to Normaic Base where they meet heavy resistance. Though struggling with her own morale codex, Cayla does her best to get their part of the job done. Using both the Force and her skills with rifles, she manages to snipe at least one of the troopers that man the e-web nests that defend the base. Despite their best efforts, it soon becomes clear that the way through the front door would cost them dearly. Sneaking around to the side of the base with Rhyley, the pair of them decides to enter the base by climbing over the wall. Once the unit has made their ways over the wall and into the base, they cover Kileo who starts to take out the communication and defense system. With Normaic Base now crippled, the unit pushs on into the continent.
====Darkening====
While they try to win back the time that they have lost due to their unfortunate landing, Kileo starts to feel drawn to the site of an ancient tomb. Following the young Nabooian, Cayla feels her skin crawl with the energies of the Dark Side emenating from the tomb. She warns Kileo not to touch it, neither physically nor with the Force and ushers her team mate to hurry on. Having lost even more time due to the incident, the group hurries on towards Juno Base. As they survey their next target, they fail to realize that they have walked blindly into an Imperial ambush. Taken completely by surprise, Rhyley, Sava and Exao are shot in the backs by an Imperial officer, which causes Cayla to draw her lightsaber and engage the officer. During the ensuing fight, several members of Stargazer's Commandos are injured. Though the unit receive unexpected help from the Royal Alderaanians who are brought in by Raedan Kitani, the situation becomes desperate when two black troopers enter the fight. In order to allow them to escape, Rhyley draws on the Dark Side of the Force, hitting one of the black troopers with a lightening. Retreating to the Redemption, the unit has some time to recover before being chastised for failure by Laryn Kre'fey.
Choosing to ignore the Bothan's orders to stay put, Rhyley Stargazer summons his unit to tell them that he would head back to Orupia to get the job done with whoever wants to follow him. Without another thought, the others prepare for a second attempt. This time, they are successful, though they cannot prevent some obviously high-ranking Imperials from escaping. Laryn Kre'fey, now seriously furious at the unit for stealing his thunder, threatens to have Rhyley Stargazer and his unit court-martialed for insubordination. Though Rhyley takes the brunt, the unit is little surprised when their next assignment seems to be a suicide mission. Ordered to make their way through an artic waste and meet with other Alliance units to prepare for an assault on Pareen, the unit fight their way through the icy landscape. During their journey, they discover several ruins which all seem to be tainted by the Dark Side. Also, it becomes more and more apparent that Kileo is under some dark influence. Though Sava and Cayla try to help her, they are unable to and only succeed in making things worse. While the three of them collapse in pain, Rhyley, Raedan, Kaje and Exao witness several Imperial agents taking interest in one of the ruins close by. Heading down to examine the ruins the next day after the Imperials are gone, they find little but the lingering taint of the Dark Side.
As they travel on, the temperature keeps dropping. After an uncomfortable nightm, they are lucky for once, they come across a herd of herbivoral animals. Using her innate skills, Cayla is able to ask the animals for their help and the unit is able to continue their way riding. Making good speed, they cross a huge crater in the center of the waste. Reaching the other side of the waste, they release their mounts and continue towards the rendez-vous point where they are told that command had recalled all troops.
Returning to the fleet, Cayla soon finds out that that was only part of the truth and that Rhyley together with Raedan has been assigned on an infiltration mission to Orupia. Spending their last hours together, Cayla tries to comfort her lover and sooth his pain best she can.
====Bound by Promise====
Fearing soon, that those last hours together will have some consequences, Cayla purposefully ignores all early signs of pregnancy and tries to carry on as normal. Returning to Talus
*Mission to Nazrike / Uba IV
*Mission to Abridon and Vjun
*Breaking Exao and Evei out of Dathomir jail
====Hope Rekindled====
Finally, after several long months, SGC receives the mission for which Cayla had been waiting every since leaving Orupia. Ironically, she now longer is able to go back to the planet and rescue the father of her children to be. So, after due thought, she decides to break her promise to Rhyley and reveal her secret to Rhyley's father. Major Wynonyms, though surprised, offers his help and sees to her being transferred to a more passive role. Again, she spends her time waiting and praying, hoping that things would get easier once Rhyley was back with the Alliance and his unit. When SGC returned with Rhyley, she is more than relieved, though the fact that she seems to be unable to reach him through their Force bond unsettles her and leads to her questioning their relationship.
Meanwhile, the unit has been scheduled for psychological evaluation as part of the investigations following the treason of Romas Navander. The evaluation puts every single member of team to test by confronting them with their worst fears and memories. This leads to the tension rising almost hourly. Though she notices that Rhyley does not take the strain easily, her own insecurities cause Cayla to approach matters of their relationship and her pregnancy in a rather blunt and undiplomatic way.
====Endor====
After the unit has been cleared as result of the evaluation, SGC is included into the planning of a daring mission, that could both destory an Imperial weapon of mass destruction and kill Emperor Palpatine in one swift strike. Again, Cayla stays back as the unit is deployed to the forest moon Endor, praying for her friends and her lover to return safely. Having been transferred to the Hope to assist Dr. Walex Blissex, Cayla has to watch the space battle and the destruction of the medical frigate Redemption without being able to do much. When she is finally able to travel down to the surface of the forest moon after the battle, she is shocked to see that Rhyley has lost his right hand during the battle. She blames herself for not having been able to support him through the mute link, which makes her even more unsecure of their relationship.
===Rascal's Rogues===
====Family Business====
The Alliance's success at Endor marks the end of Stargazer's Commando. The unit is disband and almost immediately recreated as a Regional Special Operations Group, Rascal's Rogues. Stationed on Talus, they are tasked with destabilizing the Imperial hold in the Corel system. As each member of the unit settles down in the small city of Kystes, Cayla prepares for a life as mother of three children. Noticing Rhyley's hesitation, she tries to confront him, which only results in him running away. After receiving a comm message from him, hinting at him having run into trouble with a couple of ISDs over Corellia, the other members of the unit decide to infiltrate Corellia and get Rhyley out. Yet again, Cayla stays behind, worrying. The rescue mission turns into desaster with Kaje, Jacoreb Illstrike and Rhyley only just escaping death.
Once the team returns to Talus, Cayla tries to confront Rhyley again concerning their relationship. She tries to explain her fears to him, but notices too late that she has managed to insult the man she still loves. Frustrated, confused and hurt, she retreats and decides to give Rhyley time and space. A couple of days later, Cayla goes into labour several weeks too early. Kaje is the first one to respond to her comm calls for help and takes her to the local medical center. Shortly after, both Weekat and Jacoreb arrive and prepare to help her to deliver her children. To her surprise, the next person to enter the medical center is Rhyley who lends his support best he can. The first child to be born is Micah, a healthy boy and spitting image of his father, even at that early age. It takes a considerable while to deliver the second child, Allya. While still struggling to deliver her daughter, Cayla gets increasingly worried about the last child as she feels it getting weaker. Reacting to Cayla's worries, Weekat and Jacoreb decide to perform a c-section to save the child. Thanks to the efforts of the two doctors, little Bai is saved.
Staying at the medical center for a few day, mother and children gradually recover. Though Cayla feels that three infants are a bit over her head, she tackles the task of caring for them, hoping for Rhyley's support. The day, she and the children leave the medical center, she receives a comm message from him. Asking him to take them back home, she hopes for the best, but finds herself disappointed when Rhyley explains that he only wanted to ask her to help Jacoreb, if possible.
Trying again, to relay her feelings for him to Rhyley, she finds her hopes shattered as he turns to leave her and the children alone.
Cayla stays behind, devastated and beaten. It's for the children's sake that she forces herself to stay in Kystes and not ask for a transfer to another post right away. For the next couple of days, she tries hard to forget him, though finds it next to impossible with her children reminding her of their father.
====Spectres of the Past====
While she still tries to get over Rhyley and settle into a daily routine again, Cayla receives a broken comm message from Nar Shaddaar, which Kileo and Erisey are able to decipher.
At the same time, the death of Jobosan Raen as dangerous cultist leader was announced on the holonet. Though both the news and the message unsettle her, Cayla refrains from travelling to Nar Shaddaa at once to investigate herself because of her children. That resolve is blasted to bits, when Sarparious Serpentus appears on her door steps just a day later, showing her evidence that the group around Tsotha Lanthi well knew about her past and was actively searching for her former close friend Sauul Dhampir without telling her. Against better judgement, Cayla decides to follow the Trandoshan to Nar Shaddaa in order to investigate Sauul's whereabouts.
The couple makes a first stopover at Tatooine to examine an old safehouse of Lanthi's group. When they arrive at the location, they find it occupied by a group of Dark Siders, who seem to have errected some kind of altar close by. Sarparious and Cayla decide to engage the intruders. They are able to defeat them, however Sarparious looses a hand in the battle. Taking the injured Trandoshan into the house, Cayla sets out to search the building, both for clues and for anything that may help her treat the Trandoshan's wound. Finding little of immediate help, she walks back outside and approaches the altar to retrieve the cut off limb on Sarparious' request. As soon as she enters the area around the altar, Cayla finds her mind assaulted with overwhelming emotions of passion and power. It takes considerable willpower to tear herself away from the altar and return to the house. However, once she has delivered the limb to the Trandoshan, she feels herself being drawn back outside to examine the altar and its surroundings a little closer. This time, she falls under its dark spell and ends up fighting with Sarparious, who has followed her outside, over dominance of the place. During their struggle, Sarparious touches the stone of the altar and collapses. At the same moment, Cayla is freed from the influence. Flinging her weapon aside, disgusted by how easily she has given in to the lure of the Dark Side again, she approaches her companion to check on him. However, as soon as she touches Sarparious, a foreign prescence invades her mind. The prescence calls herself 'Leanna Zaphyr, the Lost Spirit of the Dunes' and tells Cayla how she had been betrayed by loved ones just like Cayla. The spirit offers her powers and her help to Cayla, who hopes despite better knowledge to be able to win Rhyley back that way. As Sarparious and her leave the place, Cayla allows the spirit to stay with her which seems to augment her connection to the Force considerable. For the first time in all her life, Cayla is able to sense and manipulate objects through the Force.
Returning to Kystes, Cayla sets to sort through the few items that she has taken from the safehouse: a diary, a camera drone, a broken comlink and a Kryat Dragon pearl. The diary turns out to be written by Aylia Galin, a female Jedi that was with Tsotha Lanthi at the time. The diary speaks of her disagreeing with the way Lanthi handled various things and that she finally set out to Mustafar to search for Jobosan Raen and Sauul Dhampir herself.
==Equipment==
===Lightsaber===
Jevona received her first lightsaber from Onjo Noor a few days after his knighting. With this, Onjo took her as his first Padawan. For Jevona, the lightsaber is a symbol for her responsibility towards life and the Force. However, after the disappearance of her Master, she rarely ever carries the weapon as she is well aware that she couldn't make efficient use of it if need arises.
Jevona surrendered her lightsaber to Tsotha Lanti during their second meeting, telling him that hse thought it would be safer with him than with her for the time being and that she would accept it back when she would have earned it. Tsotha Lanti returned the saber to Jevona later on.
===Blaster weapons===
Jevona tends to carry a FWG5 Blaster Pistol on most occasions. If she is on a hunt, she also carries an old, but trusted LD1 rifle and a utility knife. With these weapons, she feels most at easy as she more or less has handled them ever since the age of 14.
==Personality Traits==
Jevona before the experiments was a young woman that loved her independance. Sometimes a bit stubborn, she always tried to keep a level head and rarely charged into things head first. However, compassionate in nature, she somtimes disregarded her own needs, health and safety to help people she felt attached to. Jevona loved to be out in the wilderness. It was there she felt most at ease with herself and her surroundings. In contrast to that, places with large crowds of sentients made her feel uneasy.
The experiments done on Jevona left scars. Mareena, as Jevona is called now, was insecure and freightened. Eventhough she sometimes looked for contact to other people, she tried to hide herself on such occasions by wrapping herself tightly into an old, worn-looking cloak. Talking to Mareena took time and patience as she talked very softly and tended to stutter. Moreover, she had problems placing past events in their correct chronological order. Mareena tried to draw back, either phyically or mentally, rather than fighting. After being taking in by Val-Tane Ricaud, Mareena's condition gradually improved due the good care of Onjo Noor and Jordiane Dho'mai, who finally were able to heal both Mareena's crippled hand and mind.
After the healing, Mareena's old personality starts to surface again. However she is much more patient and calmer than she had been in her old life. Her love for nature and living creatures still runs deep, but whereas prior to the experiments she mainly sought the challenge in surviving on her own and in unity with her surroundings, she is now more caring and considering. The fact that she enjoys to see live growing and developing around her does not mean that she doesn't accept that death and decay are as much part of nature as birth and growth. Nevertheless, seeing needless suffering and death still hurt her deeper than she may admit. Due to her experiences, she is wary of strangers and tries to keep her distance.
==Relationships==
===Family===
====Josh Takanir====
Jevona's father, Josh Takanir, was the eldest son of a Corellian farmer family. Leaning to a life of traveling and exploring, Josh was known as a proficient scout and ranger and would often leave Corellia for longer periods of time. His parents hoped that the young man would settle down and start a family of his own, when he met Saleena Meinar in early 25 BBY. Though both entered a romantic relationship, none of them ever considered marrying until it became clear that Saleena carried Josh's child, Jevona. When the girl was born in 26 BBY, it soon turned out to be the only link between the couple. Josh stayed with Saleena for the child's sake.
For Jevona, the single most important person in her youth was her father whom she adored. Most of her training as scout and hunter, she received from him during the time she traveled with him. Josh noticed his daughter's strange affinity to animals and birds and started to suspect the nature of that affinity, though he kept his suspicions hidden from everyone, including his daughter.
His death in 1BBY was a heavy blow for Jevona and one she never quite got over.
====Saleena Takanir====
Jevona's mother, Saleena Takanir born Meinar, was a hyperdrive technician with CEE. She was a serious young woman with talents in science and mathematics. Saleena insisted on Josh Takanir marrying her, after become pregnant with his child. Though, she never was really happy with the marriage, she stayed with him, determined to bring up her daughter to be a responsible and respectable member of the Corellian society. However, as Jevona was not able to live up to the high standards her mother had set for her education, the girl began to distance herself from her mother early on and finally broke contact with her shortly after her father's death. She did not see her again before her death in early 3ABY on board an exploding starship construction frame.
===Bond Partners===
====Saki A'ren====
Saki A'ren was a blue skinned Twi'lek, that Jevona got to know through his sister Zava. Jevona and Saki started dating relatively quickly, having found something in the respective other that both couldn't quite explain. Neither of them knew of their Force sensitivity at that time and neither noticed when the bond started to form between them. They both attributed the growing empathy for each other to their growing love. When Saki started to discover his strange powers, he quickly became enamoured with the power that came from them. As he descended slowly to the Dark Side, both of them started to pull each other down deeper. At some point, Jevona started to have nightmares about Saki and herself killing each other. Sensing the warning in them, she tried to warn Saki, but the Twi'lek wouldn't listen and suspected that she was cheating on him. He started to use their bond to control Jevona, while she tried all and everything to get away from him, including a faked suicide. In the end, both made Jevona's visions come true as they both wounded each other in a fight.
To the date, Jevona is unable to tell, whether the bond is still intact an Saki alive, or if she really managed to kill him in their struggle. However she has felt nothing of Saki anymore ever since.
====Awa Italekon====
Awa Italekon was a red-skinned Twi'lek, only son of an ex-Jedi knight in hiding. When his parents were about to be discovered, his father entrusted a couple of friends with the life of his son and went to face his destiny. Awa grew up on board of a freighter and learned to handle a ship before he could walk properly.
Jevona and Awa met on Tatooine. At that time, the wounds of the messed up relationship with Saki were still fresh and Jevona tried to silence the voices in her head with brandy. Their first night together was due to brandy and need. When Jevona woke next to the Twi'lek, she had no clear recollection of the night before, and neither had he. It was parts decency and parts curiosity, that they started to date more often. Over a short time, both grew closer and came to love each other. Being both Force sensitive, they formed a bond way before their wedding day. Awa and Jevona supported each other and helped each other to come to terms with their lives and sort them out. Jevona stopped drinking, while Awa was able to forgive his parents for giving him away as a young boy, seeing that they had no other chance.
Awa was killed when he created a diversion to allow Sauul to escape with a deranged Jevona after her rescue for them Rori lab. Her mental state shielded her from the immediate impact of the breaking bond, however it left a gaping wound inside her that took a long time to heal.
====Sauul Dhampir====
Sauul Dhampir was a human male who suffered from near total amnesia. The only hint to his past were the glyphs that had been tatooed all over his body. As Jevona found out, these glyphs were of Dathomirian origin and formed some kind of spell. At first disgusted by his cold and curt behaviour, Jevona slowly came to understand that Sauul suffered from uncontrollable flash backs of his shattered memories. When the man went through a crisis, she offered her help. Together with Awa, Jevona started to work on her Force talents to be able to help Sauul in unlocking his memories. Working so closely with the man, Jevona couldn't stop him from developing some feelings for her, though with her being married to Awa, she didn't allow herself to admit her own feelings for Sauul.
When Jevona's pack of razor cats was killed, Jevona desperately tried to replace the broken bonds to the cats. As Sauul was close to her at that moment, she managed to latch onto him. Though it saved Jevona's life, it created tensions between Awa and Sauul which both man only were able to settle when Jevona was kidnapped. Sauul escaped Rori together with Jevona, then Mareena, while Awa sacrificed himself to buy them time. He later left Jevona alone on Corellia to travel to Nar Shadaar for unknown reasons. Jevona hasn't seen him since and though she bonded with him, she cannot tell whether he died and her mental state shielded her as it did when Awa died or if Sauul is still alive.
====Rhyley Stargazer====
When Cayla first met the young Corellian pilot, he was still married to his first wife. Moreover, Cayla still mourned the loss of both her husband and her best friend and had vowed never to enter any close relationship again. Hence, she was trying hard to keep people at a distance in order to protect herself. Nevertheless, Cayla was unable to stand back when Rhyley returned under the influence of a Dark Side parasite. Using the Force, Cayla with the help of some other Force users was able to break the influence. Having been victim of mind altering experiments herself, she cautiously tried to help Rhyley. However, Rhyley turned down her help and the pair was often found in heated arguments about various topics.
It wasn't before a night in Daeric, involuntarily spent together to keep up their covers, that Cayla fully realized what she felt for the Corellian pilot and Rebel leader. Waking up next to him, she was shocked to have curled up against him. Still not prepared to allow anyone getting that close to her, she fled the room. For the next couple of months, Cayla maintained her distance and watched him from the sideline. When she decided to apply for a place inside his unit, she did it as much to save Exao from Filve as she did it to protect Rhyley. When Rhyley was on the verge of death, suffering the effects of Aniwevei's death on Dxun, Cayla disregarded all common sense and surrendered herself to the Force in an attempt to save the man, she had fallen in love with. In a spur of the moment decision, she followed him, ready to die if she couldn't save him. It was in the very last moment that she was able to call him back from death by replacing the broken bond with Aniwevei by a bond with her.
Though she treasures this bond with Rhyley, she feels like she had forced herself onto the young man and is afraid that he may not share her feelings. These fears were given even more reason when he asked her to keep their relationship a secret to everybody else and by his recent reactions towards her and her unborn children. Though Cayla loves Rhyley, she would rather see him happy with somebody else than staying with her out of a sense of duty.
===Friendships===
====Aniwevei Chreitti====
====Exao Gunn====
====Kileo Dimoh====
====Sava Stary====
====Kaje-James Reilloc====
====Weekat Matiren====
====Eirga Orus====
==RESOLUTION D100 Character Sheet==
=== Knowledge ===
Skill 	Modifier
Knowledge 	Wilderness
Knowledge 	Force
Luck 	+3
Force Alignment	+0
=== Skills ===
Skill 	Class or Non-Class Skill	Modifier
Acrobatics 	Class 	+1
Alchemy 	Class 	+1
Appraisal 	Non-Class 	+0
Armourer 	Non-Class 	+0
Astrogate 	Class 	+2
Climb 	Class 	+7
Communications 	Class 	+2
Craft 	Class 	+2
Deception 	Non-Class 	-2
Demolitions 	Non-Class 	+0
Disable Device 	Non-Class 	+0
Disguise 	Non-Class 	+0
Dodge 	Class 	+6
Endurance 	Class 	+1
Entertain 	Non-Class 	+0
Escape Artist 	Class 	+0
Forgery 	Non-Class 	+0
Gamble 	Non-Class 	+0
Gather Information	Non-Class 	+0
Handle Animal 	Class 	+13
Heavy Weapons 	Non-Class 	+0
Hide 	Class 	+5
Initiative 	Class 	+2
Intimidate 	Non-Class 	+0
Listen 	Class 	+3
Mechanics 	Class 	+0
Move Silently 	Class 	+5
Operate 	Class 	+0
Persuasion 	Non-Class 	+0
Pilot 	Class 	+0
Programming 	Non-Class 	-5
Repair 	Class 	+2
Ride 	Class 	+5
Search 	Class 	+4
Sense Motive 	Class 	+0
Sleight of Hand 	Non-Class 	+0
Slice 	Non-Class 	-5
Spot 	Class 	+6
Survival 	Class 	+10
Swim 	Class 	+2
Terminal Use 	Non-Class 	+0
Treat Injury 	Class 	+3
Use of Force 	Class 	+8
=== Force Skills ===
Force Power 	Active or Inactive	Modifier
Affect Mind 	Active 	+5
Alter Environment 	Inactive 	+0
Animal Empathy 	Active 	+9
Battle Meditation (ls)	Inactive 	+0
Craft Force Weapon 	Inactive 	+0
Control Pain 	Active 	+2
Dissipate Energy 	Active 	+2
Drain Energy (DS) 	Inactive 	+0
Drain Force (DS) 	Inactive 	+0
Drain Knowledge (DS) 	Inactive 	+0
Drain Life (DS) 	Inactive 	+0
Empathy 	Active 	+4
Enhance Senses 	Active 	+3
Farseeing 	Active 	+2
Force Alchemy (DS) 	Inactive 	+0
Force Defense 	Inactive 	+0
Force Jump 	Inactive 	+0
Force Light (LS) 	Inactive 	+0
Force Lightening (DS) 	Inactive 	+0
Force Speed 	Inactive 	+0
Force Stealth 	Inactive 	+0
Heal Another (LS) 	Inactive 	+0
Heal Self (LS) 	Inactive 	+0
Instinct Astrogation 	Inactive 	+0
Malachia (LS) 	Inactive 	+0
Mind Link 	Active 	+5
Morichro (LS) 	Inactive 	+0
Plant Surge 	Inactive 	+0
Psychometry 	Inactive 	+0
Rage (DS) 	Inactive 	+0
Sense Force 	Active 	+5
Sever Force (LS) 	Inactive 	+0
Telekinesis 	Inactive 	+0
Telepathy 	Active 	+5
====Notes====
The Resolution D100 Character Sheet was created and designed by the Resolution GMs Stargazer & Erisey Casoona with aid from Resolution GMs Kileo, Sava Stary & Raedan. Created around 2009, it derives from various source rule sets as well as customised Resolution rules that are easily placed in game for enhancing and adding to role-playing.
This character sheet has been approved by Resolution GMs.
All stats may change depending on IG RP.
==Behind the Scence==
* Jevona Takanir has been the first MMORPG character of the player. The original character concept was an attempt to play something different that the 'healer mage' type of character, the player had prefered up to that point. Obviously, that did not quite succeed.
* The players of Zava A'ren, Saki A'ren and Ascag Le'at are real life friends of the player / her husband and she is every thankful to have shared that time with them (online and offline).
* The character started out in October 2004 on Farstar as a Scout / Marksman. The decision to go for Creature Handler as Elite Profession was made when the player watched a Master Creature Handler (MCH) training her cu pa 'Aki' as mount. Shortly after gaining the first few skill boxes in that profession, the player ran into a MCH at Coronet Starport who wanted to leave the game and was looking for a new home for his pets. Jevon inherited a complete set of composite armor and a datapad full of pets, include two razor cats. Since one of the razor cats, Dotty, was rather low level, it was the first of those pets, Jevona was able to use in game. It soon became her trademark and was the starting point for her story as Force Sensitive creature empath.
* When having to define Jevona's Force skills, the player decided to exclude any form of telekinesis for that character, as it is hard to display in game. She only noticed later that the combination 'Corellian, 'Force Sensitive', 'unable to use telekinsis' and 'creature empath' made Jevona a copy of Valin Horn. After due consideration, the player decided to go all the way and make the Takanir family a sideline of the Halcyon family.
* Also, the player had neither seen the movie 'Serenity' nor any episode of 'Firefly' when she put down the outline for the Mareena Moondancer's experiments plot, though she admits to have used the character of River as a reference for Mareena after having seen the movie.
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