Isla Waverunner

Isla Waverunner, born Mitth'att'inrokini, renamed Isla Ahnkett by the Ahnkett family of Onderon and later voluntarily renamed Loreli Patek, was a ' ' taken in by the ' and trained as a ' until the age of ten, when she and her master were ambushed en route to a diplomatic distress call along the ', after which Isla was pressed into joining the ' as a .

During this transition, she adopted the name Loreli Patek, and would continue to use her new name for much of her adult life, leading the Jedi to presume Isla Ahnkett had been killed along with her master.

Trained by her new master outside of the common academy setting, Loreli was taught to specialise in stealth and assassination, learning to conceal her presence both ' and ' and eventually applying her abilities to assist ' operations as a volunteer when she became a Sith-proper, becoming a full-time operative of its successor organisation, '.

Despite being only fourteen years old, Chiss reached physical maturity at the young age of ten, and thus Loreli fought alongside her older peers during the ', almost being killed at the very beginning of the conflict when she was cornered by a group of ' while trying to escape a Hutt world, on which she'd been working undercover.

It was during this confrontation that she met Zhavi Waverunner, a self-declared Jedi  whose ship she'd been intending to steal for her escape. Zhavi saved Loreli from execution and- despite their ideological differences- delivered her to safety before continuing on her way, both oblivious to the fact that their fates were inescapably woven together.

Loreli returned to the Empire and continued fighting for them until the ' was victorious and a peace treaty signed, after which she resumed her old duties of espionage and assassination until ', at which point her frustration with the lack of resistance drove her to abandon her duties and seek out resistance groups.

Most of the groups Loreli encountered did not last, and though she took part in several successful hit-and-run attacks on the Eternal Empire's innumerable facilities it wasn't until  that she joined a small resistance group, finding herself once again on the same side as Zhavi Waverunner. After a handful of small but successful attacks, Loreli's group heard of a larger resistance movement, and after a little over a month of investigation they arrived on ', disbanding and formally joining the '.

Electing to work with Waverunner as part of the Alliance's supply network, Loreli and Zhavi evolved into good friends, becoming an effective team. Eventually, that friendship developed into an intense romantic relationship, a relationship which persisted all the way up until the destruction of the . Zhavi returned to Republic space, while Loreli picked up where she left off in Sith Intelligence, using her role to meet with Zhavi under the guise of an investigation into the whereabouts of the surviving Jedi.

Eventually, however, Scarlet Jhang, Loreli's mentor in Sith Intelligence grew suspicious, sensing the Chiss' feelings for the former Jedi and tiring of her repeated failure to produce results. She attacked Loreli, demanding information on pain of death, prompting her to reveal the existence of a hidden Jedi colony on , told to her in confidence by Zhavi. Zhavi had been told of the location by Bao Shotti, an old family friend, who in turn had been informed by his cousin, Padawan Maeve Shotti, who was living at the colony with her master and struggling with the isolation.

Fortunately, Sith Intelligence already knew of the colony and plans were underway to attack it; Loreli's torture had been a loyalty test, Jhang's way of forcing her to choose between Zhavi and the Empire. Ossus was , and all Loreli could do was hope Zhavi got out alive.

Once Loreli confirmed her survival she arranged to meet the former Jedi on ' on the poisoned world of ', hoping to console her and explain her innocence. Zhavi was in no mood to listen. Instead of accepting Loreli's explanation and apology, Zhavi attacked, besting Loreli quickly but falling short of delivering the killing blow, ultimately being unable to bring herself to execute the Chiss.

She left the planet, leaving Loreli to mourn the death of their relationship until she too was ready to head back home, neither of them ever knowing that Lord Jhang had been  the entire time.

Even on her return, Lord Jhang's machinations remained a closely guarded secret. Loreli returned to her life in the Empire with her peers none the wiser, channeling the sadness and despair she felt at the loss of Zhavi into her training. She slept infrequently, spending most of her waking hours working or training, strengthening her connection to the Dark Side.

Several months after the events of Ossus, an associate in Intelligence- an analyst she'd known for some time- passed along a report that had triggered a keyword flag on her console, requested by Loreli. That keyword was 'Waverunner', and the report detailed the capture of Yuri Waverunner, Nomi Waverunner and Carth Waverunner, Zhavi's parents and brother. All three had been navigating neutral space when Sith Intelligence operatives had captured their vessel and brought them in to be processed.

The chance encounter was questionable to Loreli, but even more suspect was the lack of information pertaining to which POW camp they had been sent to. It seemed, to her eyes at least, that the data had been deliberately deleted, and over the weeks and months that followed Loreli continued to monitor the situation, keeping tabs on rumours and camp reports to try and track the Waverunners by piecing together bits of relevant data.