The Essential Guide to Force Exile/Annita Daowot Knrr

Annita Daowot was born on Commenor into a broken home. Her mother and father separated shortly after her birth and Annita was placed with her father, Tord Daowot, who blamed Annita for the disappearance of his wife. Furthermore, Tord was an unruly drunk who rapidly became abusive. Annita suffered all throughout her school years from sometimes daily beatings, wearing long sleeves to hide the bruises and keeping to a limited circle of friends. She even ran away once, but her father found her and punished her severely for that. Eventually, one of her classmates, Sarth Kraen, noticed that she didn’t go home at night. Sarth followed her home one night when she was about fifteen and was shocked to hear her being beaten by her drunk father. Sarth informed his own father, a lawyer named Samtel Kraen, about the situation, and Samtel filed an abuse and negligence suit on her behalf. She went to live with her mother in the city of Munto, but continued her schooling with financial aid from Samtel Kraen and tutoring from Sarth, as her mother had little means to provide for her. She spent many afternoons of her last few years of secondary school at the Kraen residence and grew attracted to Sarth, but he never reciprocated her feelings.

Eventually, she graduated and joined the Commenor Investigators after going more education to qualify her as a forensics expert. Her own childhood experiences made her dedicated to finding and hunting down people like her own father, whom she hated. Driven to succeed, she quickly rose through the ranks to that of detective and became known as the best forensics investigator in the Munto Investigator force.

Several years after joining the Investigators, she became embroiled in more Kraen family intrigue while investigating a double homicide on the Kraen residence, apparently in self-defense. She eventually learned from the recently returned Sarth Kraen that the Mistryl Shadow Guard were attempting to kidnap him, placing his entire family at risk. Her superiors placed her as the lead officer for the investigation, but Sarth was surprisingly uncooperative. Annita saved Sarth’s life after another Mistryl capture attempt, this one in broad daylight, and she realized that she needed to take drastic measures until all the remaining Mistryl on Commenor could be caught. Sequestering the Kraens in a remote safe house, Annita took as many precautions as she could, even hiring private security guards to watch over the Kraens, but it was in vain. The Mistryl tracked down the safe house and attacked it, only to be beaten off by the security guards. The last surviving Mistryl instead opted to kidnap Annita, threatening to kill her unless Sarth surrendered. The Mistryl left her at the Kraen residence tied with her head underwater, a rebreather with ten minutes of air on it her only supply of oxygen, before delivering an ultimatum to the Kraens.

Annita was rescued minutes before drowning by a guard named Spectre, a companion of Sarth’s. Furthermore, the Mistryl were being dealt with by Sarth’s cousin. In a conversation, Sarth accidentally revealed that his cousin was actually his brother, a Jedi Knight, but Annita promised to keep that detail secret for Sarth’s sake. However, she finally admitted to herself that Sarth had already found someone else for him, Cassi Trealus. She rededicated her life to fighting crime, but soon became attracted to a rakish Corellian spacer who had once flown with Sarth but decided to settle down on Commenor and open a tapcafe. She and Jorgesoll Knrr became an item and their love soon flourished as they realized they were right for each other. There were a few obstacles in their relationship, and certain subjects that they couldn’t discuss due to their legality of the issues, but they fell in love. Less than two years after they first met, Annita and Jorge were engaged when Jorge proposed to her after taking her to see a fancy dinner and opera show.

Still, that didn’t deter her from continuing to succeed in her job, as she was promoted even further to sergeant and assigned as the head of evidence for the entire city of Munto. It was possibly one of the happiest times of her life and she could hardly contain her excitement. However, more troubling was the Imperial liaison officer assigned to her division, Captain Norres. Norres had been conducting his own investigation of the Mistryl case and had surmised that Annita was hiding something.

Over the next several months, Norres continued to probe, even though Annita deflected all of his queries. Undaunted, Norres resorted to bugging hers and Jorge’s residences, searching their apartments for evidence and having them followed, casting a pallor over their wedding preparations. Annita was resolutely determined to go forward with the wedding, though they both knew they might have to leave Commenor afterward. She had already planned out her dress, location, bridesmaids, cake, and the entire ceremony and didn’t want to ruin the occasion.

Annita had a dream wedding planned out in a traditional Commenorian chapel and Sarth and his shipmates arrived just in time. As the ceremony was taking place, though, a group of Imperials, led by Norres, entered the chapel, intent on arresting her for treason and collaboration with insurgents. However, Selu and Jorge had laid contingency plans, catching the Imperials in an ambush while the wedding party was evacuated. Norres tried to kill Jorge, but Annita coolly shot him with the Norres’s own blaster. She and Jorge then escaped via a pre-arranged escape route while Sarth, Selu, his crewmates, and a dozen friendly spacers covered their backs and fended off the Empire.

She and Jorge were conducted on the Hawk-bat to the Force exile refuge of Yanibar, where they were married in a simple ceremony that was vastly different from the one she had planned. Nevertheless, she was happily married, though she and Jorge didn’t stay on remote Yanibar for long. Instead, they moved to the mining and resort world of Bespin, where Jorge had friends, and opened a shipping company that helped funnel goods to Yanibar. It wasn’t the life she had grown to love on Commenor, but she learned to adapt and adjust. As long as Jorge was by her side, Annita felt she could handle anything.

A few years later, Annita was present at the wedding of Selusda Kraen and Milya Tayrce. She would also later see the newlyweds during their honeymoon on Bespin after they were attacked by the renegade Dark Jedi Asajj Ventress. Milya and Selu slew Ventress, but were injured in the process. Jorge brought the two back to his and Annita’s apartment, where she helped treat their wounds and divert official attention from their involvement in the destruction that had been wrought during the duel.

Appearances

 * Force Exile II: Smuggler
 * Force Exile III: Liberator
 * Yanibar Tales/Hand in Hand