Jyuria Song

"Passion is the fuel which drives Zeltrons. But for Jedi passion is the fire which can burn away all that we are."

- Jyuria Song

Jyuria Song was a female Jedi Knight during the. She often struggled with her nature as a member of what was widely considered by the galaxy to be the hedonistic Zeltron species and her desire to control her emotions as demanded of a Jedi by the.

Early life (42 BBY–29 BBY)
Jyuria song was discovered on Zeltros by the when she was only five weeks old. The Dark Woman described Jyuria's mother as "a party girl who knew she wasn't ready to raise a child. Especially not one gifted with the Force." This being the case, the wandering Jedi was able to convince Jyuria's mother that her child would be best off in the care of the. After dropping the child off at the Jedi Temple the Dark Woman returned to her work.

Jyuria's childhood in the temple was a happy one. She would one day describe her first memory as that of the face of master smiling down on her as she lay in her crib.

Adolescence (29 BBY–22 BBY)
"Growing up the place we most often saw Zeltron women was wearing bikinis in ads for . That is one of the reasons Jyuria tries so hard to cultivate modesty as a virtue."

At the age of thirteen, Jyuria was selected by the aging Duros Jedi to become his Padawan after taking third place in that year's. Hing held the title of Master of Lightsabers at the Jedi Temple and was the Order's leading expert on the construction of lightsabers. Hing had not taken a Padawan for many years but claimed he sensed not just "a potentially fine Jedi" in the young Zeltron but also a budding as well.

Duel on Byss
In Jyuria and Hing pursued the powerful  dark side adept Heket Fahll into the  to recover a Sith holocron made by  that she had stolen from a Jedi archeological dig on Dantooine. In the process they rediscovered, a place whose location had been lost to the Republic for 30,000 years.

Pursuing Fahll into some ruins the Anzat managed to separate the pair and tried to finish off Jyuria first. Engaging in her first real lightsaber duel Jyuria managed to hold her own for a time. But the wily Anzat eventually managed to disarm her forcing Jyuria to flee deeper into the ruins to save her own life.

By chance she stumbled across the makeshift camp Fahll had made in the ruins. Searching for a weapon, knowing that the dark Jedi was certainly only minutes behind her, Jyuria found the holocron she and Hing had been searching for among Fahll's belongings. The sheer amount of dark side power emanating from the device made the young Zeltron feel physically ill. Before she could dwell on what to do, Jyuria experiencing a sudden flash of warning and instinctively knew that Fahll was catching up to her. Pocketing the holocron she fled even deeper into the ruins.

What seemed like an eternity later Jyuria sensed she'd lost her pursuer and stopped to catch her breath for a moment. Curious she pulled out the holocron to examine it. To her shock the device suddenly came to life and Jyuria found herself staring at the grim visage of Darth Traya. Though normally only accessible to very powerful and experienced darksiders, Darth Traya, however, had designed her holocron to be able to be activated by anyone with sufficient potential in the Force. Thus allowing her to find and corrupt potential students while they were at a more vulnerable stage of development.

Investigation on Chad
In 26 BBY Jyuria and Hing were dispatched to to investigate acts of sabotage aboard the massive arks which served as home to the planet's minority human population.

Mission to Tatooine
"Tatooine? It's a soulless rock with filled with nothing but lowlifes and sand. It's debatable which is worse."

- - Anakin Skywalker

In 24 BBY Jyuria and her master, accompanied by, traveled to Tatooine in search of a operative suspected of carrying out a bombing on.

Rescue on Alderaan
While conducting a peace conference on his homeworld, the Senator received word that his wife,, had been kidnapped. Jyuria and Hing were on hand aiding in the diplomacy so the senator asked for their discrete aid in saving his wife while he worked to keep the peace negotiations from falling apart.

Against Agents of Black Sun
Jyuria and Hing were dispatched to in 23 BBY to protect up-and-coming senator  from assassins sent by  end her support for a major Republic-wide anti-crime bill.

Battle of Geonosis
"This is just the beginning!"

- - Count Dooku

In 22 BBy Jyuria and Hing were members of the who went to Geonosis to rescue fellow Jedi Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker as well as Senator Padme Amidala. Assigned to the space team, Jyuria pleaded with her master to be allowed to join the team that would be attacking the arena directly in order to personally aid in rescuing Skywalker, whom she considered a friend. Hing would not be moved, however, and still uncharacteristically seething Jyuria reluctantly obeyed.

Under the leadership of and the Dark Woman the space strike team battled droid fighters in the asteroid belt above Geonosis. Jyuria proved herself a capable fighter pilot in the battle but did suffer a fractured wrist due to a lucky shot from a droid fighter.

The Clone Wars
Jyuria had strong misgivings about Jedi serving as military leaders and strongly considered invoking the in order to stay out of the fighting. But when her master was killed on a routine mission that turned out to be a Separatist trap Jyuria felt that she could no longer stand by and let the threat of Dooku's force go unchallenged.

Knighthood
"Jyuria Song, by the right of the Council, by the will of the Force, I dub thee, Jedi...Knight of the Republic."

- Yoda

Jyuria was awarded Knighthood a few months after the Battle of Geonosis.

Clash With The Coven
Under the leadership of master, Jyuria was a member of an impromptu strike force that also consisted of fellow knight and padawans  and  who clashed with the Dark Side Coven aboard the wreckage of the ancient Sith warship Undying in the asteroid field that had once been.

Battle Royal on Felucia
The second encounter between Jyuria and the Coven would happen on the wild jungle world of.

Order 66
"The time has come. Execute Order 66."

- Palpatine, 19 BBY

Jyuria survived Order 66 thanks to being on an undercover missing on the Outer Rim world of. The disturbance in the Force caused by the deaths of so many Jedi hit Jyuria especially hard due to her natural empathic abilities. The impact of those deaths caused her to physically collapse and Jyuria feared she might die or do mad from the sense of loss that assaulted her. However, she managed to endure the event and while still shaken instinctively began figuring out how to get back to the Temple. But before she was able to flee Phaeda the clone squad she'd been in command of caught up with her and she was forced to kill the very troops she'd once led and come to care for.

Jyuria was on her way back to Coruscant in a stolen fighter when she heard Yoda's order to go into hiding. Ditching her fighter she decided to flee to her homeworld of Zeltros thinking that her birth world's long history of overcoming invasions would help keep her safe. While slowly working her way to Zeltros, Jyuria was constantly looking for information on or a way to contact other Jedi survivors.

About a month after Order 66 she made contact with her friend and fellow Knight who invited her to the. Though desperate to be with fellow Jedi again Jyuria chose to heed Yoda's orders but asked that Swan contact her later on Zeltros.

Shortly afterwords reported that a group of Jedi "insurgents" had been killed on Kessel by Darth Vader. Bulter Swan and another of Jyuria's friends, were among the fatalities.

Personality and Traits
The racy reputation of Zeltrons was a cloud that Jyuria felt hung over her despite the best efforts of her fellow Jedi to convince her otherwise. This caused her to at times overcompensate and be "more Jedi than a Jedi" as some would put it. At the same time Jyuria tired to embrace the best aspects of her people while conforming to the Jedi Code. She deliberately made part of the hilt of her lightsaber "the color of the sky on Zeltros" and even tried to learn to play the during her teenage years. Despite her best efforts, however, Jyuria's skill with the instrument remained modest at best.

Lightsaber


Built when she was eighteen as part of her, Jyuria poured anything she'd learned as the padawan of the Jedi Temple's Master of Lightsabers into her weapon's design. The included a backup power cell. To increase the weapon's potential in battle Jyuria Chose an as its. She also waterproofed her lightsaber using specifications created by.

Powers and Abilities
"I have a bad feeling about this."

- Jyuria Song after being alerted to danger by her Force Sense ability.

Though strong in the Force, Jyuria had few abilities of an offensive nature. Her greatest ability actually lay in an especially powerful knack for using. This power's ability to sense danger was common among Jedi, but Jyuria's talent for it was exceptionally sharp and the extra moments of warning this gave her saved her life and those of her allies on many occasions.

Another part of her skill in Force Sense was Jyuria's ability to enhance her natural empathic powers with. While the ability to greater understand the emotional states of others was often helpful, it could also affect Jyuria herself if she was around large numbers of people feeling negative emotions. For example, the rather grim air around the Jedi Temple during the Clone Wars made keeping depression away a daily challenge for Jyuria. Feeling the deaths of thousands of Jedi during Order 66 left her with powerful mental scars after almost overwhelming her mind. To deal with this, Jyuria often used the technique to relax her mind as well as gain practice in fixing and maintaining lightsabers.

Additionally, Jyuria was able to use, and  which allowed her to "buff" herself or her allies during combat. She was also proficient in the use of and.

Lightsaber Training
Jyuria was a practitioner of the of Form V. She disdained the use of the reverse grip when practicing Shien seeing it as needlessly flashy. Barrier of Blades was one of her signature moves.

While she mastered the style as part of her path to Knighthood, Jyuria dreamed of someday being acknowledged as not simply a master of Shien but the master of Shien. This goal was not unlike how many in the Order regarded Obi-Wan Kenobi as the most skilled living practitioner of.