Aquarion Nieja

Aquarion Dreti T'nayrb Nieja was a during the  and. He was one of the few known examples of a Mon Calamari/Human hybrid, this being achieved by genetic manipulation, his great-great-great-grandfather on his mother's side being completely Human.

Early Life
Aquarion, or Aquary, as he was commonly known, was born to a Mon Calamari miner and a Mon Calamari hybrid in  on Bespin in. He was the second youngest of eight children and one of two boys. He was three years old during in which he and his family were taken off planet to work as slaves. Aquarion was spared from slave labor, however, as he was. Even though he was an alien in the Human-dominated culture of the, he was selected to be trained as an. He was at the on  when  was killed at the. Two years later, when the New Republic, a ship carrying Aquarion and other young Force-sensetives and Imperial personel escaped Coruscant with heavy damage and attempted to reach the. The damage sustained in breaking the New Republic bloakade required the ship to stop for repairs on, a now criminal controlled world en route to Kejim. The ship was looted and many Imperials were killed by a local Rodian crime lord who also took Aquarion as a slave. He was kept there for many years, usually used to bus the Rodian's cantina. He was fed well and allowed some degree of freedom, but he was still a slave. It wasn't until the Rodian gave him to a passing smuggler as payment for a run that the young Calamari left Athiss. The smuggler then went bust when he lost his cargo on a run. Aquarion was left to fend for himself on in 10 ABY. After about two months on the Smuggler's Moon, Aquarion was discovered by a who had survived. Sensing his affinity with the Force, she took him in to train him as a Jedi. Soon after they made contact with the New Republic and the Jedi Order and were accepted for membership just before the.