Kasavo Shei

Kasavo Shei was a female  and  in the. One of the twelve Jedi who left the Order behind rather than become embroiled in the, she and her companions fell to the dark side and became Dark Jedi, launching the Nightmare War.

Youth and knighthood
Recruited at a young age on, Kasavo Shei was taken to the on  for training. Lithe and athletic, was a natural choice for the Twi'lek, who devoted considerable effort to her swordplay during her years as a. Despite this, she envisioned her role mainly as a law enforcer and peacekeeper; she felt warfare was not an appropriate occupation for Jedi. She was knighted in 2,001 BBY.

Shortly thereafter, the Jedi Master deserted the Order, only to return to the galaxy as the  Darth Ruin. As the Jedi braced themselves for the, Kasavo had numerous debates with her friends among the Jedi and her former master on the proper role of the Jedi in the conflict, if any. When the respected Jedi Masters Ador Hentral and Merita Ot'kyn began to publically discuss leaving the Order and its conflicts behind, Shei was drawn to them. As other Jedi began to follow the same idea, she agreed to their vision to leave the Order and the galaxy as they knew it.

Insanity
The twelve Jedi who ultimately banded together procured themselves a. Intending to freeze themselves in stasis and entrust themselves to the will of the Force, they directed their ship toward the. They hoped by the time the ship finally found a port, the seemingly eternal strife between Sith and Jedi might finally be concluded.

When the stasis system on the ship malfunctioned, the Jedi were kept immobilized, but their minds remained active. For an active and physical being like Kasavo Shei, the condition was pure horror, and she was one of the first to slip into despair and terror. Her fear was infectious, and as each Jedi in the group suffered its effects, they all dragged one another down into madness and the dark side.

The last year
The Dark Jedi emerged from their sleep in 148 ABY on the planet Kizav. Kasavo Shei was one of the least focused of the group, and she quickly took to slaughtering the native Skavik until she was restrained by Hentral and Sacco Vyrak. The elders enslaved the entire race of insectoids and unleashed them upon the Golden Empire.

Kasavo Shei took part in the early actions of the Nightmare War, frequently at the side of Vyrak, Vev Nar, or other warriors. Though all were twisted and insane, their presence helped her focus. She drank to intoxication regularly, murdered both soldiers and civilians without hesitation, and developed a habit of disabling and raping male combatants before killing them. She would occasionally torture her conquests even while enjoying them, stabbing them with the spikes in her gloves or burning them with the edge of her lightsaber blade.

When Sacco Vyrak was killed at Daispin, however, the telepathic unity among the Dark Jedi began to fray. All were affected by the absence of one of their brother minds, but none worse than Kasavo Shei. She began to be terrified of being alone, and when this frustrated and maddened the other Dark Jedi, it drove them still further away. She began to cling to the presence of the Vyrak Legions, going nowhere without clone guards and becoming ever more paranoid and violent.

As the other Dark Jedi launched an attack on Feldirjo, Kasavo fled from them, taking three Vyrak clones. In hyperspace, her paranoia and isolation drove her to kill one of them, repeatedly hacking him apart with her lightsaber. Their ship arrived on Mandos, and the two surviving clones wreaked havoc among the native Zeyote. Kasavo, however, simply trailed after them, alternating between manic, terrified killing sprees and forlorn meandering through the tall grass.

Breek Zagrev, Jira Zaffrod, and Kylaea and Malyri Porén responded to Mandos's distress call. While her siblings engaged the Vyrak clones, Breek dueled Kasavo Shei herself. She succeeded in amputating one of Kasavo's, then slicing off her sword arm at the elbow. Shrieking in agony and fear, Kasavo seized the lightsaber from her severed hand and it at Breek. The Centurion deflected the attack easily, but in that second, the hopelessly devastated Kasavo lurched to her feet and threw herself off a cliff.

Powers and abilities
As a Jedi, Kasavo Shei specialized in. Consequently, she was skilled in the use of the Force for and had some success  her speed. Her swordplay was fast and athletic, although she lacked the great upper body strength of some other Ataru stylists.

When she fell to the dark side, Kasavo Shei began using the Force in more sinister ways. She was able to others and could guide her saber  when thrown, but did not have sufficient control to crush bodies with the Force or conjure.

Appearance and personality
Kasavo was a Twi'lek, and thus had vibrant blue skin. She tended to wear leather-and-cloth headdresses wrapped around her forehead and lekku. As a Jedi Knight, she wore the typical robes of the Order, though loose enough to allow full movement; after falling to the dark side, she wore more revealing clothing and spiked gloves. Her single lightsaber had a yellow blade.

Before the New Sith Wars, Kasavo Shei was a lighthearted and friendly spirit. She got along well with other Padawans and enjoyed being with people; a definite extrovert, she found solitary meditation difficult, but loved group training sessions.

It was her reliance on others for happiness that helped unbalance her further after she fell to the dark side. Though as much a maddened creature of raw emotion as her fellows, she still thrived off the presence of the others; after twenty-one centuries of their minds roiling and suffering together, she was tightly bonded to them. Sacco Vyrak's death unhinged her, even though she had not been any closer to him than any of the others, and her growing feelings of isolation and hopelessness led her to commit suicide after being bested by Breek Zagrev.