Kymora Than

## Biography

### Early life

**Kymora Than** was born into slavery to cortosis miners on the decaying moon of Indara. Her parents were abducted from their world whilst her mother was pregnant with her. She knew practically nothing about the mysterious empire her family's labors benefited from other than the mysterious and masked overseers with the deadly plasma staves. They kept order in their communities by acting as judge, jury, and executioner. Disobedience to the rules or unpardoned absence from the mines meant a public and painful execution, one which all in their mining facility would have to watch. Being absent due to illness too many times was considered a burden on the camp, which spelled foom for Kymora's sick mother, who became afflicted with a lung condition.

When Kymora was four-years-old, her mother's condition became such that the ration dispensaries would not give them food to prolong her life. With Kymora risking starvation, her mother made the choice to freely give her life in a quick and painless fashion, privately. She said her goodbyes to her daughter, who didn't quite understand what was going to happen, and left never to return. She was told to be strong and brave now she wasn't going to have her mother's care, leaving her with her father.
Kymora's growth was somewhat stunted and was considered a runt. The overseers gave her the duty of planting explosives deep within the tight and deep tunnels the laser drills would carve out. She made sure to wear a filtration mask to avoid a lung condition like her mother's. She became familiar with planting and detonating charges to bring down structures without caving in the mines.

### Liberation

By the time Kymora was ten-years-old, a brewing uprising commenced. Tunnels were dug between the camp center, the guards' armory, and the hand-held laser drill and mining charge storage. A staged crime was committed by her father. Before he could be executed however, the trap was sprung. The plasma swordpikes, blasters, and weaponized laser drills were used against their overseers.

The end goal was to reach the cargo haulers where the raw ore went and left the planet. They reached the ships, but not before being intercepted by redirected troops. Kymora suffered a debilitating electrocution from the shock-end of one of the guard's pikes as women and children were led in first. Before the offending guard could execute Kymora, her father intervened with a severing cut from his laser drill and they were able to escape together. Nearly a third of their mining camp were killed in the uprising.

Thanks to her father's piloting expertise, the ship blasted passed the small blockade of attack cruisers with a short hyperjump, giving them a prime and safe distance to calculate a route back to New Republic space. However, by contigency sabotage, the navicomputer shorted out and was wiped forcing the ship to exit hyperspace too early. They were pursued and a distress signal was sent. Unfortunately, their ship was crippled by heavy fire. But before their ship was destroyed, the enemy ships turned and shot back into hyperspace before a pair of Republic cruisers came out of hyperspace and rendered aid.

They were given a home on a remote part of Dantooine with the other refugees until Kymora's father could get back on his feet. Everyone involved came to discover that no one knew anything about where their moon was or where the ships and their oveerseers came from, as they were from the Unknown Regions. The ship they were on was too damaged to be of any use in finding out such information. But what mattered most to Kymora's father was their freedom. He found work running cargo with a large shipping compant, as opposed to scouting new hyperspace routes. Kymora, though reluctant, went to school during her father's absences, keeping in contact via the Holonet. At his suggestion, she also learned how to fight from the New Republic relief soldiers as she got older.

### New Oppressors

In her late teens, Kymora's father stopped contacting her to check up on her as he usually did. Two weeks went by before shops came to their enclaved, knocked out communications, and released soldiers in white armor to abduct children. To Kymora's surprise, they weren't the troopers she remembered in her childhood, but they were no less vicious. She took up arms with the small force of New Republic soldiers to combat the enemy, but they were quickly overwhelmed and were forced to flee by order of the commanding officer. She did, escaping on a speeder, and told the military officials in the capital about the attack.
To her dismay, the only evidence of the attack and who could have perpetrated it were the ruins of the town, the dead adults and soldiers, and the disappearance of the young children. Though Kymora hadn't made friends, she felt that she failed in her responsibilites to protect those younger than her. Believing she had no certain future, she decided to enlish in the New Republic military police to find something structured since her father was now gone, and qualified to become a grenadier and explosives expert in counterterrorism. Using a custom magnetic grenade laucner and her know-how in effective and safe explosives handling, she and her squad helped the Republic combat domestic threats and dangerous bounty hunters.
The myserious white armored soldiers and the mining overseers never left her memory. She was unsatisfied with the lack of actions and information about them, knowing there was a bigger picture the Republic was not willing to admit. After mulling over her frustrations at a cantina with an older, wizened man on Coruscant, she was contacted by a Yunice Lasker and given transport to Nar Shaddaa.

## Personality and traits

Having experienced harsh, cruel living conditions and traumatic events, she had no one to trust but family. With no family left, she trusted no one, keeping a cautious eye around everyone and ready to fight to the death if necessary. Her default mood was stoic, grumpy, sarcastic, and borderline hostile. It was only lessened when she had to put up with people she had to be in close proximity to, unless they provoked her.

However, she exhibited a great deal of discipline. She followed orders without question, with a determination to see those she sides with succeed. Only in moments of severe stress would she forget such and act only on primal instinct.

## Powers and abilities

Kymora utilized her small frame to effectively sneak around and strike in surprise in a devestating fashion. She was an effective marksman with her grenade launcher, able to account for the differences in gravity on other planets, to do the most damage to enemies rather than the civilian structures. She also utilized a basic DH-17 sidearm with quick fire and accuracy.

As a Zabrak with a short frame, she had a natural ability to develop muscle mass superior to most other humanoid species. She could use meleee weapons with more strength than usual, thought not as practiced. But coupled with a warrior's instinct and Zabrak endurance, she could quickly be an underestimated combatant.

## Image gallery

Commissioned art done by ohheypleasestay (Instagram: @ohheypleasestay)