Elana Sela

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> ### Affiliation
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> Jedi Order
> Galactic Republic
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> ### Date of birth
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> 90 BBY
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> Naboo
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> 19 BBY
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> The Jedi Temple, Coruscant
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> Pantoran
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> Female
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> “There wasn’t anything more you could do."
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> “Yet it never feels that way. What now?"
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> ― Mace Windu and Elana Sela
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**Elana Sela** was a Force Sensitive Pantoran woman during the **Republic Era**, who served as a Jedi, and was instrumental in the founding of the Skovin Sector in the Outer Rim, as well as training multiple Jedi, including Rahm Kota.

### **Early Life**

#### **Jedi Beginnings**

Elana Sela was born in 90 BBY to Fen and Hadsey Sela on Naboo. When Elana was only a few months old, her family was approached by a member of the Jedi Order, who had been attending to a small viral outbreak in the slums in Spinnaker, a city only a few miles from the quaint Sela family farm. A chance meeting occurred one morning when Hadsey took her daughter to a marketplace in the city, and the Jedi detected that Elana was Force Sensitive. Very reluctantly, Fen and Hadsey agreed to let the Jedi train the child, as neither of them could understand the Force to the extent they would need to in order to raise a child.

Selkath Jedi Master Gasho Melko returned to Coruscant, and the Jedi High Council granted him Elana as his new Padawan. Elana was slow to actually learn to utilize the Force, but she proved rather disciplined as she grew up. It was very clear from early on that the path of the Consular was what the Force had in store for her, as instead of using the Force for combat, as a Knight would, or using the Force for “worldly” or civilian skills as a Sentinel would, Elana found herself spending her free time either in contemplative meditation, the pursuit of history and lore, or learning to practice medicine. However, beyond simple levitation or deflecting bolts from training droids, and a simple surface level ability to sense the living Force, she had still, by the age of 12, had not been overtly proficient in the Force yet. Many Padawans at her age were using the Force in a greater capacity than she. In this time, however, as she pursued knowledge and medicine, she also desired to serve as an arbiter and negotiator, as many Consulars do.

#### **Fateful Trip to Onderon**

When Elana was 12, she and her Master went on a voyage to Onderon, where a dispute had occurred between a group of the waning Beast Riders and the Onderonian government. The Beast Riders took issue with the Onderonian government and the Republic, as Onderonian wildlife was extremely valuable to Republic efforts to restore planets and terraforming others. To the Beast Riders, this was violating the sanctity of Onderon and Dxun’s wildlife, and their way of life. While the Jedi were sent to be arbitrators primarily, there had also been a rather gruesome confrontation just outside of the walls of Iziz. Several local Onderonian military members were wounded by drexl, and one military member was killed by the Beast Riders and their beasts. Therefore, both Jedi got to demonstrate their skills in healing and medicine, although Elana was, of course, much more of an assistant. At the climax of these negotiations, another fight broke out within neutral ground just outside the city, as the Beast Riders attacked once more, deeming that both the Jedi and the government were not doing enough for them. Defending the King and other members of the planetary government, Master Melko was struck with a near fatal slash from a drexl, and when Elana pulled him behind cover, she attempted to utilize the Force to heal him, as she had read of in a few texts in her studies. Impressively, it worked… enough to stabilize him and get him back to get proper medical attention, Had it not been for this intervention by Elana, the other doctors estimated that her Master probably would not have made it otherwise. At the end of this mission, both her Master and herself were gifted tokens of appreciation from the Onderonian King. Elana was given a necklace.

#### **Interlude**

For the next several years, Elana attempted to hone her connection to the Force, but found that healing through the Force was one of her only strengths in it. It took considerable effort for her to move objects through the Force, and she had little to no ability to enhance her own agility or strength with it. However, as any other Jedi, she and her Master continued training and going on missions throughout the galaxy, until eventually, in 69 BBY, they were presented with the opportunity of overseeing and partaking in a corporate sponsored Republic colonization effort of the I-12 Grid Square on the Galactic Map, a previously unexplored part of the galaxy.

### **I-12 Colonial Charter Company**

#### **Smooth Sailing, Mostly**

After having met with Senator of Jakku Jaskhar Winlan, Master Melko and Elana set out to join the colonization project. Meeting Senator Winlan's palace on one of Jakku's moons, Master Melko and Elana met with the other members of the Republic's effort. Master Melko took his place aboard the Board of the Charter Company, while Elana joined a squad of adventurers consisting of a Chiss who had infiltrated the galaxy as an infochant named Isena and a Cathar who served as protection named Xarogh.

Elana and the other two, given a ship by the Corellian Engineering Corporation, spent around 3 months cataloguing and naming planets and calculating jump paths between systems, including the discovery of the tundra planet Skovin, the planet that would later go on to be the seat of power in the sector, as well as a dangerous storm-ridden planet named Fulmen, a hyperlethal ocean planet called Catalyst, and a seemingly paradise world they named Manda Pax.

Upon first attempt at exploring Skovin, the trio only spent a short time before they were chased off by a bearsloth, but not before finding remains of an ancient civilization, including a seemingly impossible to create durasteel alloy. Upon first attempt at exploring Fulmen, the armor that Isena had helped design to get through the perpetual storms, but the armor didn't hold and they were forced to flee. Upon first attempt at exploring Catalyst, they found that the water world, while showing evidence of preexisting structures deep beneath the surface of the water, the water contained an incredibly efficient catalyzing agent, causing anything it came in contact with to undergo processes at super speed, such as the oxidization of metal. Everything except the metal discovered on Skovin was liable to fail on a molecular level. Upon first attempt at exploring Manda Pax, the trio encountered an insect-like species living in cave systems beneath the surface of the planet. They turned out to be incredibly territorial, and the leaders of the hive-like species utilized the Force to issue simple commands. The trio left the planet alone, and recommended against it for colonization due to the native species on the planet.

#### **Settling and Foundations**

Having selected Skovin as the planet to live on, the trio alongside Selkath Dr. Shaelas Hyao, the representative on the Board for Hrakert Medical, investigated the best spot to start a colony, and compiled a list of things to avoid, and things that are viable sources of food, water, and shelter. After selecting a quaint spot on the beach, the group investigated an abandoned bunker they had found on their first visit, and they found a few ancient but active droids and learned it was a massive geothermal plant.

After roughly four months of the colony undergoing construction, the newly established town of Khiothella begun facing food problems, as food had secretly been coming from a colony on Manda Pax, despite advisement not to. Naturally, the trio was sent to investigate, and they found that the insect species had attempted to communicate peacefully with them, but the Czerka security forces attacked them. They rescued several Czerka colonists from the caves, and learned of the fact that the insects were not the aggressors.

#### **Politicians and Corporations Unchecked**

The trio met with the full Company Board, which included representatives Rem Valik and Jaina Duine, who Elana had not met up until that point. Valik dismissed the group's concerns about Manda Pax, as did Senator Winlan. Duine was pretty clearly not as inline with their beliefs, but was for some reason afraid to do too much to move against either of them, at least in the open.

After about a week, one of the new food shipments was attacked by pirates near the Fulmen system, and again, the trio was sent to investigate. There, they were attacked by pirates using the storms of the planet as cover. The trio's ship was boarded by pirates, but they jumped into hyperspace with the pirate's ship attached, and they captured the pirates and learned of their base on Fulmen, as well as the fact that they were colonists that had escaped the massacre on Manda Pax. Afterwards, a prisoner exchange happened, between Czerka employees and the captured pirates.

After a month, Czerka and CEC deployed prototype battle droids commissioned from Baktoid upon Skovin as a police force, and the corporations issued an outrageous bill to every citizen, including two 3 trillion credit bills to each member of the trio.

#### **Stealing but For a Good Reason**

The trio stole the impounded pirate ship, and went to Fulmen to speak with the pirates, who held very strong anti-corporation sentiments. The pirate ship, having been outfitted with armor created to dissipate the lightning strikes from the storms, allowed the group to make it to the surface and meet with the pirates, after having run a blockade headed by Duine. On the surface, Elana convinced the Flag Captain Rena, head of the pirates, to use nonlethal force against the incoming CorSec forces, and after holding for a time, everyone fled inside into a bunker in the side of a massive mountain. Once inside, Duine, after telling the trio she was working from the inside, started an orbital bombardment of the planet, and the pirates escaped while Elana led the trio to an abandoned and ancient ship predating anything the pirates had made. While attempting to restart and access the ship, Elana found a kyber crystal which she used to build her lightsaber after they powered the ship up and escaped.

The trio met up with the Flag Captain once more, in a space station outside the Fulmen system, where upon learning that the ancient ship was nigh invisible to sensors, they devised a plan to board a dreadnaught over Skovin to learn more of Czerka's plans. After slipping in and downloading the plans and narrowly escaping, they learned of a base that Czerka had established on Manda Pax after the failure of the last, this time with battle droids.

#### **Endgame**

After heading to Manda Pax once more, the quartet encountered the insect-like species once more, who communicated through the Force with Elana, and permitted them to move through the tunnels and found a secret entrance into the Czerka base, where they obtained additional information, and then found a site where Rem Valik and several of his men massacred the insects before the quartet left for Catalyst, housing an ancient military research facility according to the information they uncovered.

On Catalyst, they encountered CEC and Czerka ships, once again led by Duine, who the quartet convinced that they were still going to be able to stop Valik, and so she caused the CEC and Czerka ships to open fire on each other, while Elana and the others used their ancient ship to travel under the water unaffected by its unique properties. Once at the research station, they confronted Valik, who Xarogh shot and incapacitated before he had a chance to fight, despite Elana's desire to attempt to talk Valik down. Upon returning with Valik's ship and destroying the factory, the Republic learned the truth of what had gone on in I-12, and Elana was acquitted of her debt to CEC and Czerka. Senator Winlan and Valik were taken into custody because of this conspiracy, and Elana was knighted by the Jedi based on unorthodox circumstances.

### **Life Moves On**

Afterwards, Elana went on to serve as a Jedi Knight throughout the galaxy. She took on a Padawan named Daran Grahm, who was a Rutian Twi'lek thar went on to become a Jedi Temple Guard. Afterwards, Elana was elevated to the position of Jedi Master, and she continued to serve the Order. In 44 BBY, a small uprising occurred on the planet of Esseles, and she, alongside with the Jedi Master Mace Windu, attempted to deescalate the situation, but the few dozen rebels took to violence. In the aftermath, after a near death experience, Windu and Elana discovered a young boy who was Force Sensitive who was orphaned in the attack. Despite reservations from Windu and the rest of the Council, they permitted Elana to train the young boy, who was named Rahm Kota.

Rahm Kota was eventually knighted, and went on to fight in the Clone Wars, narrowly surviving, and going on to rebel against the Empire and serve the Coalition in the fight against Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Elana served peacefully with the Jedi until 19 BBY, when she sacrificed herself during the Vader's March on the Jedi Temple when she collapsed one of the training rooms atop herself and several dozen 501st Clone Troopers to allow several younglings to escape.