Rianne Sciner

Rianne Sciner was a self proclaimed Jedi Knight under the New Jedi Order during Luke Skywalker's term of Grand Jedi Master. Brainwashed and angry, she ended up committing her own suicide. Her final act was protecting the galaxy from an unknown threat.

=History= Sometime before 38 ABY, Rianne Sciner was brain-washed by a group of individual's in the Unknown Regions. The group, known to her as "the Programmers" rewired her brain to be their own tool. Rianne was told that she was to train with the Jedi Knights in order to fulfill her destiny of saving the galaxy. Due to knowing nothing else, Rianne clung to the conclusion that that was her lot in life.

Jedi training
Months after being brain-washed, Rianne Sciner awoke on the starship, Force's Tool, in route to Coruscant. She landed in the Jedi Academy's landing pad and was greeted by Jedi Master Kyp Durron. Durron interrogated her heavily inside the ship until a frightened Rianne burst into tears. Taking pity on her, Master Durron led the girl to Grand Master Luke Skywalker. Master Skywalker listened to the poor girl’s tale and decided to believe her tale. Master Skywalker suggested that perhaps Darth Revan, an ancient Sith who disappeared into the Unknown Regions. Nevertheless, Master Skywalker welcomed Rianne Sciner into the Jedi Order, assigning her to Kyp Durron as a Padawan. Durron, however, had recently lost his prospect apprentice and he was still angry about the betrayal. At the beginning of Rianne and his apprenticeship, he treated her coldly to the point of breaking her down into tears. During a training session, he commanded her to jump off a tall pole. Rianne jumped, without Force assists, and broke nearly all her bones. Rianne Sciner began second-guessing their relationship after Kyp refused to visit her in the Med Bay afterwards. Mara Jade Skywalker became a frequent visitor to her during that time and the pair formed a friendship. After recovering from her fall, Rianne resumed her training. Mara had spoken to Kyp about his uncaring attitude towards her and the Jedi Master was more willing to work with her. Kyp got Rianne to tentatively use her Force powers to feel the world around her. Rianne discovered that she had a special power of sensing people... including herself. During the exercise, the girl felt her own self compared to the people around her and found that she was "cold and dead" compared to everyone else. Master Durron agreed to help her become more alive as long as she trusted him. The next day, Rianne Sciner was greeted by a pair of other Jedi Apprentices, of who were friends with Kyp Durron's preferred apprentice, Cebca Enlldra. The next day, Rianne Sciner was greeted by a pair of other Jedi Apprentices, Siasmar Aziok and Shana Hityao, one of whom was friends with Kyp Durron's preferred apprentice, Cebca Enlldra. Siasmar, Cebca's friend, was convinced that Kyp Durron was at fault for Cebca's running away and was out for revenge. Seeing Rianne as a tool to hurt him, Siasmar and Shana talked her into ditching a class Durron had wanted her to attend. Instead, Rianne went shopping with Shana and Siasmar. While out, she ran into a young man named Leon, who caught her eye. Shana dragged her away before Leon and she could get into a proper conversation though. Later in the evening, Rianne met up with Leon again. This time, the young man tried to convince Rianne that he knew her. At first, Rianne didn't believe him, until he was able to identify a tattoo of an eye on her lower back. After she was convinced, he whispered her name in her ear and she was flung into a memory that had been swiped. Leon had been in the memory. Rianne woke again and demanded Leon to meet her later on in the night. Leon agreed and Rianne returned to the Jedi Academy with her new 'friends'. Kyp Durron caught her in an attempt to sneak back inside of her room. Kyp was outraged at her for disobeying him and she was equally angry at him for his previous dislike of her. Durron locked her in her room while getting her a different set of clothes, finding hers to revealing. In the time he was gone, Leon got into her room and returned her lightsabers she'd demanded he hold onto before her trip to the Unknown Regions. They shared a much prolonged kiss which triggered another memory to Rianne. She tumbled into unconsciousness and awoke to find Kyp Durron killing Leon. The older Jedi had assumed that Leon had killed her and was exacting his own revenge. Rianne tried to stop Kyp, but in the end, Leon died. Devastated, Rianne swore to kill Kyp Durron, even if her life depended on it. Mara Jade Skywalker reassumed Rianne's training, teaching her to chill her hatred over.

Chiss Ascendency
Two years later, Rianne Sciner was serving as an ambassador/spy for the Galactic Alliance to the Chiss Ascendency. During the two years there, Rianne had developed a romantic relationship with the young, dashing Chiss Head Interrogator, Thean. She also forged a friendship with Wynssa Fel. While in the Chiss system, Rianne didn't keep up with the recent galaxy news and wasn't informed of the Jedi Order leaving the Galactic Alliance. About a week after they left, Rianne was called by Jacen Solo himself who demanded she stay loyal to the GA. He also brought up the death of Mara Jade Skywalker, by his own hand. Rianne refused to join him and slaughtered the assassin Jacen had sent to kill her.

Endor
Rianne fled from the Chiss capital Csilla and to Endor, the meeting place of the Jedi Order. Kyp Durron met her on the ground and began scrapping up old wounds of hers. By the end of the brief walk, Rianne was sure she hated Durron again. She made a home for herself inside the wreckage of the Death Star's laser. The next day, she met the young Jedi girl, Seha. Seha was amazed with Rianne's style of fighting and obviously wanted to be trained. Rianne ignored her at this time and met with Kyp Durron who gave her the task of locating, finding, and apprehending his wanted apprentice Cebca Enlldra. Rianne accepted the challenge, drawing off an old memory of Kyp's to locate the younger girl. Cebca apparently had been spending the last two years in the Deep Inner Core, a part of the galaxy full off black holes. Rianne cracked open a Holocron of Darth Bane that gave her coordinates to the unheard of planet, Alzand. Stealing a ship and illegally accepting Seha as her own apprentice, Rianne ran off to the hidden Cebca.

Alzand
Upon arriving on Alzand, Rianne nearly suffocated to death on the airless world until she began eating Seha's own fear to survive. She made it as far as to the doorstep of the only colony on the planet before she passed out. After three days, she awoke to find the primitive inhabitants of the planet attempting to brainwash her again. Enraged, she nearly killed her operator before a green-haired girl stopped the assault. The girl tried to offer Rianne a chance to start her life over a take a place in their colony. Rianne refused and flat out threatened to obliterate everyone inside the colony if Cebca wasn’t brought to her. The green-haired girl freaked out and explained how she’s Cebca. Rianne irritably dragged the renegade Jedi out of the complex, where Cebca challenged her into a lightsaber duel. Rianne toyed with the girl, as Cebca was a poor fighter, until pinning her to the complex wall between two of her blades. Rianne began to enact her revenge… the revenge she’d been longing for ever since she’d learned Cebca name. In her mind, Cebca was the one who had led to Leon death due to the rift between her and Kyp due to him missing Cebca. Rianne drained all the oxygen out of the colony and suffocated the inhabitants to death before taking Cebca back to the Jedi base on Endor. During that time, Rianne began to question her own actions and how they paralleled those of Kyp Durron. Coming to the conclusion she was a want-to-be-Sith, Rianne returned to her Death Star home and sulked.

Death
Kyp approached her about her problems and even agreed to help her overcome them. Rianne agreed to his proposition then, but minutes later committed her own death. Her suicide was abrupt and unexpected; seconds before she stabbed herself, she’d talked to her boyfriend, Thean, and had sounded totally fine. Before passing out of life, she’d scribbled her known life story into the dirt of Endor, claiming Jacen Solo had tricked her into the suicide attempt. In her final thoughts, she created apparitions of all the people she’d let down in her head and sulked in her death until she had an idea. She discovered she could still protect the galaxy from an unknown threat… the threat she had been programmed to face down. According to her words, she could only contain the threat for one hundred years before it was released. She died moments later.

=Legacy= After her death, all the key figures in her life met at her funeral pyre. Thean, the Chiss interrogator, who was under the pretense that Jacen Solo killed her, pushed for the Chiss to side with Coreilla during the war in the upcoming months. Seha was shattered at her master’s death and became a harder person. Cebca Enlldra released her anger at Rianne for destroying her surrogate planet and returned to her life as a Jedi trainee. Kyp Durron swore to protect the galaxy, if only for Rianne’s sake. Through discreet actions, Rianne’s friendship with Wynssa Fel led to inspiring Jagged Fel to fight for his family’s honor by killing Dark Jedi Alema Rar. Perhaps the most important, her final act was to protect the galaxy for an unknown threat for one hundred years. Even though she spent much of her time dabbling in the dark side, in the end, her body was enveloped into the light side of the Force.

=Appearance= Rianne Sciner was only eighteen at the time of her death. As such, she looked much liked a scared teenager for most of her remembered life. Near the end of her time, she overcame her fright and came over more threatening and cold than anything. Her preferred attire was a skintight green dress, brown leggings, dark green cloak, and black boots. Her other commonly worn outfit consisted of a loose green tunic, tight black pants, and ankle boots. Kyp Durron constantly picked on her choice of ‘suggesting clothing’; leading to the conclusion she had an attractive body. She usually wore her dark red hair just below her shoulders, except for the time the Alzandians attempted to brainwash her again and cut all her hair off. Her eyes were a deep purple.

Lightsabers
Rianne Sciner fought with sabers only utilized by her. The hilts had 3 emitters on each one and she fought with two such blades. One saber was purple and the other was orange ."

=Behind the Scenes= Rianne Sciner was created after the character Cebca Enlldra and was originally intended to only be a supporting character. Rianne’s name isn’t revealed through most of the book, considering she couldn’t remember her life for much of the book.