Kiza

**Kiza** was a Pantoran female member of the Acolytes of the Beyond. During the Coronet City revolution on Corellia in the months following the Battle of Endor, Kiza freed a fellow acolyte, Remi, from the Peace and Security station in the city. After freeing the boy, they killed all but one of the detectives in the station. Kiza later took part in an attack on a New Republic outpost on Devaron. During that attack, she wore the mask of Viceroy Exim Panshard. Consumed by the dark side of the Force, she killed her lover Remi.

## History

### The Coronet City revolution

Kiza was born to a lowborn family of Pantoran exiles on Corellia where she lived in the impoverished parts of Coronet City on the planet. Throughout her life, Kiza harbored rage at her perceived "oppressors": the peace officers who hassled her, the chits-and-debits office that pursued her family's debts, and the highborn Corellians who looked down on her lowborn origins. During her adolescence, Kiza began to experience Force visions. Following the Battle of Endor, she was recruited by a man—Yupe Tashu, a former adviser to the late Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine—from the Acolytes of the Beyond, a cult of non-Force-sensitive individuals that revered the Sith and the dark side of the Force. Tashu may have implanted the Force visions in Kiza with a Sith artifact.

Building her way up the ranks, Kiza initially started off tagging walls with the Darth Vader mask sigil and the warning "VADER LIVES." She also stole credits and tithed them to the cause. Kiza also scouted locations for dead-drops of safe meetings. She developed a sister-like bond with fellow acolyte Komat. In the months after the Battle of Endor, Kiza developed romantic feelings for a youth named Remi, who shared her passion for the dark side. Prior to the Coronet City revolution, the Acolytes assigned Kiza with the task of infiltrating the local Peace and Security station. They created a false identity which allowed her to pose as a secretary.

During the Coronet City revolution, Kiza killed several Corellian peace officers with a blaster. When the detective Erno demanded to know what was going on, she told him that she was no longer his doll. Meanwhile, Remi retrieved a lightsaber from the archives beneath the station. Before Erno could subdue Kiza, Remi cut off his blaster hand with the lightsaber. Kiza then clubbed Erno on the head and told him that Vader lived. She spared his life so that he could warn the others that the Acolytes were coming.

### Attack on the Devaron outpost

Prior to the Battle of Jakku, Kiza, Komat, and their fellow Acolytes regrouped on the Colonies world of Devaron. They took part in an attack on a New Republic outpost in the Karatokai Mountains. This attack was part of a coordinated series of attacks on New Republic outposts throughout the galaxy. Her cell group was led by Tashu, who would reveal himself as the true leader of the Acolytes. During that time, Kiza came to doubt whether she was as strong as Remi, who had become besotted with the lightsaber he had obtained on Corellia.

After communing with the spirits of fallen Sith, Tashu gifted the mask of Viceroy Exim Panshard to Kiza. When Remi expressed jealousy and demanded the mask, Tashu chastised him for angering the specters. As punishment, he confiscated the lightsaber from Remi and gave it to Kiza. The Acolytes then launched a surprise attack on the New Republic outpost. During the assault, Kiza struck down several New Republic personnel with her lightsaber, including slicing the legs off a fleeing woman.

Kiza also allowed the dark side influence within the mask to consume her mind and body, with the voice of Panshard holding onto life and speaking to her. Remi took advantage of the chaos to try and recover his lightsaber. He managed to knock her to the ground, causing her to drop her lightsaber. While struggling against Remi, Kiza managed to find the blade and jammed the unignited blade against Remi's temple. She then ignited the blade through his skull, killing him. After adjusting her mask, Kiza rejoined the attack on the New Republic outpost, now fully consumed by the dark side. Komat came to realize her friend had changed, and she and Kiza herself believed the corrupted Acolyte killed Tashu.

### Mustafar

In 7 ABY, Kiza and several fellow Acolytes discovered the Glove of Darth Vader on Mustafar after it was lost by Chattar Lal, who had been defeated in battle by Boba Fett.

### Finding the Saber of Scardont

In 9 ABY, Kiza sought out the Saber of Scardont, a Sith lightsaber that was said to drive its wielders mad. When she landed on the sixth moon in the Scardont System, she encountered the archaeologist Indiana Jones, who had gotten to the lightsaber first. The two then fought in a duel, with Kiza wielding her own lightsaber and Jones wielding the Saber of Scardont. During their fight, Jones knocked Kiza's lightsaber out of her hands but Kiza grabbed the Saber of Scardont's hilt and vowed that she was going to take it. Jones responds that it was his and tickled Kiza. Getting the Saber of Scardont back, Jones performed a saber swing that caught Kiza off guard, and Jones' companion K-7R3 tripped Kiza as she stumbled back, sending her falling off the cliff. However, she survived the fall.

## Appearances

* Agent of Doom (First appearance)
* "Raiders of the Lost Lightsaber"—*The Further Exploits of Indiana Jones*