Neema Sunrider

Neema Sunrider, known as Neema Da-Boda later in life, was a   from  born during the  period. Daughter of  and granddaughter of , Neema was a prodigious Force user of a  who participated in the  and. A member of the faction of, Neema fell to the  during the  and served  as a. She inadvertently slept for millennia in a  to escape the, living the remainder of her life during the  in self-imposed exile for her crimes.

As the immediate descendant of two legendary Jedi Masters, Neema was raised among the at the  and taken as her mother's  upon coming of age. However, as a teenager, she exhibited a reckless, rebellious streak on account of her desire to extricate herself from her grandmother and mothers' shadows. Enamored of and his romantic crusade against the  during the, Neema readily abandoned the Order against her mother's wishes and joined herself to the s, eventually falling to the  with the faction's survivors during the.

Her desire to escape the and the  that followed ultimately led her to encase herself in an ancient   to escape discovery by s. Suspended in isolation, she inadvertently slept for millennia, awakened during the  by  smugglers who had believed her oubliette to be empty. Broken and alone, she abandoned the name of "Sunrider" in favor of her grandmother's maiden name of "Da-Boda" to avoid arousing unwanted interest in her origins. She made no effort to reconnect with the Jedi Order in the years that followed, believing herself to have fallen too far for redemption. She eventually gave birth to a child, continuing of Force users that persisted into the  and beyond. She served as the namesake of her great-great-great-granddaughter,.

Behind the scenes
Neema Sunrider's extended period in stasis was devised by the author as a means of explaining the inexplicable claim made in  that six generations of Sunriders were enough to bridge the near-4000 year gap separating and. The name "Neema" was used in reference to, whose mother was also named "Vima" and who spent a period of time in an after falling to the dark side. As a slight nod to Firedance's Suri Sunrunner, a Revanchist with a similarly named Sith guardian spirit who provided some inspiration for the character, was chosen as Neema Sunrider's homeworld.