Yané Carinda

"I'm still not sure a doctor should be that good with a blaster."

- Crix Madine

Yané Carinda was fifth handmaiden to Queen Amidala and later a medical officer and commander in the Rebel Alliance and New Republic military, as well as the daughter of Naboo weaponsmaker Hurio Carinda and the wife of General Crix Madine.

Early life (44 BBY to 33 BBY)
A native of Theed from the beginning of her life, Yané was doted on by her father, who saw her as the heir to his business. From the time she was five years old, he taught her how to use most of his weapons, arguing to her mother that it was better that she know how they work and thus how to avoid hurting herself with them. This, however, led to her friends' parents being wary of her and discouraging thier friendships, which led to her keeping more and more company with her father. In school, Yané was teased by her classmates and scolded by her teachers, whom she believed were trying to turn her against her father.

Hurio would often pull his daughter out of school to travel off-planet with him. He sold to all sorts of customers, including less reputable ones, and while he tried to keep Yané away from his most unsavory company, he did not always succeed. Years later, Yané would vividly recall meetings with Jango Fett, whom she admired, and who was fascinated by the relationship between father and daughter, which may have eventually led his to acquire a clone "son" of his own.

When she was twelve, Yané took an interest in the Royal Handmaidens and expressed an interest in becoming one of them should Princess Amidala being elected Queen. Her father encouraged her, and submitted her to Panaka, her security head. Impressed by her marksmanship and her technical knowledge, he selected her as one of the Queen's five principle handmaidens.

Royal Handmaiden (33 BBY to 24 BBY)
Though the constant separation from her father was hard on Yané, she excelled in her training, and also formed a close friendship with Saché Aeyinson, another principle handmaiden close to her in age, also from Theed, and a fellow fighter, or so it seemed to Yané at the time.

During the Trade Federation invasion of Naboo, when the Queen fled for Coruscant, on her order both Saché and Yané remained behind to hassle the Federation occupiers, though neither were at all happy about it, and even cried at the separation from their mistress. During their subsequent campaign, Yané was badly wounded in her side; she would eventually choose the keep the scars from it. She also would be witness to the death of one of her fellow handmaidens, Moré Yelnina.

It was in reaction to this death, to being treated by the handmaidens' medic Briné Salmune, and to the battle that Yané would come to realize that she in fact wanted to heal injuries rather than cause them. After the battle, she began taking lessons from Briné and from the palace's other medical personnel. On learning her new life's ambition, her father was disappointed, but with her mother's aid learned to accept it.

Clone Wars (24 BBY to 19 BBY)
After finishing their service to Queen Amidala, Saché and Yané both enlisted in Naboo's militia, and Yané began training as a nurse. Her fighting skills declined slightly; Saché had already begun to surpass her marksmanship abilities. It was also during this time that Yané went through her only pregnancy, which would end in miscarriage before she had even told anyone about it. She would confide in Saché shortly afterwards, asking that they never speak about it in the process, a request Saché honored.

The Clone Wars would return Yané to fighting form, and, as she insisted later in life, teach her more about being a doctor than any other experience in her life. She and Saché both fought in battles taking place near Naboo as well as in both attacks on their own home system, during the second of which Saché would meet her death, possibly the most painful loss Yané suffered in her entire life, though years later she would bury both her husband and her father, and less than a year after burying Saché would be present at the funeral of her old mistress, Padme Amidala.

Quiet Rebellion (19 BBY to 14 BBY
On hearing Motée Sensari's case for their mistress having been murdered by Palpatine and Sabé's susequent diatribe and oath against the Emperor, Yané, on fire to avenge Saché, for whose death she could now hold him responsible, was the second to repeat the oath, after Coté Lanlin.

Over the next five years she set about two tasks. One was to earn a proper medical degree, for which she studied for four years at University of Theed, graduating in 15 BBY. The other was taking a hand in her father's business, which surprised but pleased him. Little did he know that with Eirtaé Lasara's aid, she was smuggling his weapons to the rebels, until Eirtaé was arrested in 14 BBY. Although Yané's involvement with the smuggling was never discovered, he then managed to guess it, and got her to confess to him. He expressed his sympathies, but forbade her to continue. However, two weeks after the arrest she left Naboo with the other former handmaidens.

Ship's Doctor (14 BBY to 1 ABY
When the group commandeered a small Corellian gunship they christened the Padme Amidala in honor of their late mistress, Yané established herself in the ship's sickbay, where she ended up examining most of the refugee passengers, and putting her knowledge of treating battle wounds from the Clone Wars to good use. Due to her skill with a blaster, she also often escorted them to safehouses through dangerous planetary surfaces.

Initial Meeting with Crix Madine
During one such trek through a moon of Ord Ibanna in 5 BBY Yané and the scientist refugee she was protecting were captured by Storm Commandos under the leadership of Crix Madine, at which point the scientist gave up hope of escaping and immediately killed himself. Yané was interrogated by Madine, who was aware that he ought to torture her, but was already finding himself doubtful about the rightness of his actions for the Empire, and spurred on by her taunts, attempted to break her in a verbal battle of wills first, only to be easily bested. That there was, as both would admit years later, a mutual attraction, did not make the experience any pleasanter for either. Finally he reluctantly ordered the Commandos to begin the torture process, though much to the relief of both, as this point, in a daring move, the Amidala swept down on their location and rescued Yané.

Command Level (1 ABY to 15 ABY
Early in 1 ABY Yané would distinguish herself in the Battle of Skyrees, and would be promoted to Commander, and soon after given a high-ranking position in the medical frigate. This was the beginning of the splintering of the Amidala's crew, though Yané remained close to Ellé Okrest as the primary physician for her baby daughter Amlé.

Much later in the year she would experience a shock when a wounded Crix Madine was placed in front of her, having recently defected. She dutifully treated him, but they exchanged hostile words. It took being forced to work together during another battle in 2 ABY to bring them to an accord, after which Yané would admit her attraction to him, but aware that he had left a fiancee behind kept it to herself.

Yané would be placed in charge of the medical facilities on Hoth, and it was she who supervised Luke Skywalker's treatment by the medical droid 21-B, and again when after Hoth's evacuation he was brought to the medical frigate with a severed hand. She would become convinced in the process that he was indeed Amidala's son by Anakin Skywalker, but as per her earlier agreement with her fellow former handmaidens would not approach him.

Shortly after this command of the medical frigate was briefly taken over by someone else while Yané was sent on several field missions, including infiltrating now Grand Moff Panaka's flagship and rescuing three of her crewmates from the Amidala, killing Panaka in the process. She would again at the conclusion of this series of missions take command of the medical frigate, and remain there through the Battle of Endor

New Republic Military
After beginning a romantic involvement with Madine in the celebrations following Endor, Yané would again step down from command of the medical frigate to participate in the liberation of Naboo, at which point, to the surprise of of her fellow three surviving handmaidens, she declined to retire, instead marrying Madine and staying with him in the growing New Republic military. She was often separated from her husband for long stretches of time, and the two of them occasionally had difficulties maintaining their relationship. Nonetheless, she reacted very badly to his death in 12 ABY, and bore a grudge for the rest of her life against Hutts due to it. After losing him, Yané grew less and less happy in the military, finally retiring in 15 ABY.

Yuuzhan Vong Invasion
Back on Naboo, she returned to her father, and inherited his business after all when he died a few months after her retirement, having lived just long enough to teach her all that she still needed to know. She continued to make and sell his weapons, though with slightly less sucess than he achieved, until the Yuuzhan Vong war began, in which they were needed. After Naboo was conquered in 28 ABY, Yané once again put her medical skills to work, working behind the lines in the Chommell Sector. Interestingly enough, she never in her life saw a Yuuzhan Vong, though she saw enough of what they could do.

After 30 ABY, the remaining years until her death in 57 ABY were divided between Naboo and offworld. She took on Eirtaé's grandson as an apprentice, and the two of them also participated in the reconstruction efforts whenever they could.