Lunais

Lunais was an Inquisitor prior to and during the Galactic Civil War.

Early Life
While in her later years she was a figure representing all that was terrifying of the Dark Side, Lunais wasn't born a monster. She was born to a small family of farmers on Ukio. They led a simple life, but the family was happy. It all changed with the sudden, unexpected arrival of Darth Vader in the middle of the night. Vader's Imperial-class Star Destroyer had happened to make a detour through the system, and when he sensed a massive concentration of Force energy: Lunais. His arrival startled Lunais' parents, who refused to surrender their daughter to the Dark Lord.

They didn't survive the night.

The young girl was forced to watch as the nightmarish figure in black cut through the family she had known her entire life with his lightsaber. Vader took Lunais to his shuttle, and on the return trip to Coruscant aboard the Exactor, initiated the girl into the powers of the Dark Side. Lunais, though she hated Vader for his atrocity, fell to the Dark Side with the promise of enough power to destroy him.

Life in the Inquisitorius
Lunais, though younger and more inexperienced than the fallen Jedi of the Inquisitorius, quickly established herself as a brutally efficient agent of the Empire. She became a very calculating individual, plotting, and subsequently succeeding, to humiliate no less than four of her fellow Inquisitors. By the time she reached her teen years, she had become the Emperor's preferred Inquisitor in the sensitive affairs of hunting down the remaining Jedi. Her successful capture and corruption of nearly a dozen Jedi earned her a potential spot as one of the High Inquisitors, as well as a small fleet of warships, led by the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Dark Force. Her group of warships quickly gained a reputation as one of the most efficient fighting forces roaming the Outer Rim Territories, a significant achievement against larger and more capable fleets.

Two years prior to the Battle of Yavin, her fleet arrived above the hellish world of Shola, investigating rumors of a deranged Dark Jedi. The fleet encountered a fleeing Theta-class shuttle, but Lunais sensed no Force-sensitive aboard the shuttle, or anywhere in the system. Her cruisers still chose to fire on the planet as a "demonstration of power."

Galactic Civil War
Lunais was a leading member of the Inquisitorius by the Battle of Yavin. She was known to be particularly capable in the torture of subjects with a strong willpower. Her expertise was called upon several times by the Emperor himself to break traitorous enemies of the Empire.

The Tieres Affair
During the interrogation of a Jedi that had taken refuge in Imperial Center's underlevels, Lunais learned of a teenage girl that had a strong affinity to the Force, but it was apparently untrained. She sent an agent to scour the underlevels for the girl, and soon received word that it was no less than the missing daughter of Moff Enric Tieres, Naelah. Lunais ordered a squad of shadow stormtroopers, on loan from a former teacher, Cronal, to capture Tieres for interrogation, and to turn into a Dark Side Adept like herself.

Just as the stormtroopers were preparing to move in, Naelah was grabbed by a Mandalorian bounty hunter, Phiht Piroc. Quickly determining the destination of the hunter, Lunais ordered the Dark Force and its battlegroup to prepare to depart, and arranged for a delay in granting Piroc clearance to depart Imperial Center. Her warships were halfway to Bilbringi by the time Piroc's Skipray had been granted clearance from Imperial Control.

Her warfleet arrived at Bilbringi, and Moff Tieres was shuttled aboard only an hour before the arrival of the Mandalorian in-system. The Skipray was brought aboard, where Naelah was taken by Lunais for extensive torture sessions. She decided to use the Moff's government complex as a temporary base as she attempted to turn Naelah to the Dark Side.

Lunais didn't yet realize, however, that Moff Tieres had gone behind her back and again hired Piroc to rescue Naelah and get her to the Rebellion and safety. It isn't yet known if the Mandalorian mercenary was successful.

Personality and Traits
Lunais originally came from a simple background. She was the daughter of two loving parents, and grew up on their farm. She was fun-loving and carefree, and a very happy girl. However, Darth Vader's arrival and subsequent murder of her family forced her to grow up and learn to survive the inner intrigues of the Galactic Empire quickly. She quickly became a powerful Dark Sider and became known for being cruel and brutal in all her endeavors. She also became very calculating, coolly plotting the elimination of rival Dark Side Adepts or the conversion of Jedi Purge survivors. Lunais was often underestimated on account of her young age and relative inexperience compared to many of the fallen Jedi that made up the Inquisitorius, which she exploited and used to her advantage. Her abilities put her in the running for High Inquisitor at the age of twenty, an astounding feat, as well as gaining a small group of Star Destroyers for her personal use. She turned the already capable crews into an extremely efficient team, making it one of the best fleets in the Empire.

Power and Force Potential
Lunais had a natural affinity to the Force that would have been considered remarkable by the Jedi of old. Her training under Vader and other Dark Siders of the Empire taught her to control her abilities and use them to their fullest potential. She approached learning to use the Force with a zealous glee, and learned to use Force Choke, Force Lightning, and other abilities, which became useful to her as both weapons in combat and as tools of torture. She was noted by Darth Vader to be one of the strongest of Palpatine's Dark Siders, and would continue to become more powerful if allowed to.

Lightsaber Training
While she preferred the use of the Force in combat, Lunais was also a skilled duelist with a lightsaber. She had knowledge and skill with all seven forms of lightsaber combat, but her primary focus was Ataru and Juyo. She was an extremely offensive fighter, often being quick and powerful enough to press the attack without tiring with the aid of the Force. Her technique left little room for an opponent to press a counterattack long enough to survive a blade-to-blade encounter.

Weapons
Lunais primarily used her Dark Side powers as her weapons. She was extremely skilled with the used of Force Lightning, which often became her opening attack in a fight. She also wielded a lightsaber with a red blade, the traditional weapon of Dark Siders galaxy-wide. Her lightsaber's hilt was fashioned of a silver metal inlaid with red and black stones.

Vehicles
Lunais had command of a fleet consisting of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Dark Force, two Victory-class Star Destroyers, dubbed the Master of Death and Fallen Hope, and sometimes an Immobilizer-418-class cruiser, the Rapier. She also utilized a Lambda-class shuttle for transportation to and from a planet's surface.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Breaking Darkness