Kendalina

"We have opened the child's mind to the larger world of the Force."

- Coleman Trebor

Aris-Del Wari, the Princess Kendalina, born Ludi Billane, was a Jedi youngling in the months before the Clone Wars who later became a royal princess of Ganath. As an infant, was at the center of a custody dispute between her mother Jonava Billane and the Jedi Order. She was a student at the Kamparas Training Center during the Clone Wars and, after the Great Jedi Purge served as a nurse in an Imperial insane asylum on Kessel until her death in 7 BBY.

She had one child, Ken, who was the son of the imprisoned Triclops.

Early Life
After the groundquake of Ord Thoden, a team of Jedi rescue workers found a Force-sensitive child in the ruins of the Ord Thoden capital Domitree. Presuming the child's parents to be dead, the Jedi named the child Aris-Del Wari and decided to train her in the ways of the Force.

When Jonava Billane recovered and learned her child, Ludi, had survived and been rescued by the Jedi, she traveled to Coruscant and petitioned to be reunited with her daughter. However, the Jedi Council rejected her petition, arguing that giving back the child to her would be too dangerous now that the baby's mind had been opened to the Force.

The case went public, gaining Billane many supporters galaxywide. She eventually appeared on the Eriadu-based talkshow Essence to tell her story. Her particular episode was seen by over 25 billion sentient viewers and gained her much support. During the show she broke into tears four times, gaining even more sympathy galaxywide than before. She thanked all her supporters and also revealed that she had authorized a full-length holo feature based on her story.

Jonava seemed to eventually lose interest in the case, focusing more on the holo feature that would tell the story of her and "Baby Ludi." When Aris-Del was moved to the Jedi Training Center on Kamparas, Jonava was too busy reviewing casting auditions for the holo feature to comment on it publicly.

The case of "Baby Ludi" sparked considerable anti-Jedi feelings throughout the Galaxy.

Young Fugitive
With the end of the Republic, the rise of the Empire and the Great Jedi Purge, the Kamparas training center was attacked. Many of the students inside perished, but not Aris-Del. She and several other younglings were rescued through the actions of Aidan Bok, a Jedi scholar who was studying at Kamparas during the final months of the Clone Wars. Together with Empatojayos Brand, they fled the agents of the Empire, seeking a place of refuge.

Pursued by the Exactor, Brand, Bok and Wari arrived in the Ganath system where, in a fearsome battle with Darth Vader, their ship was crippled and Brand mortally injured. Left by Vader to die in space of radiation poisoning as their craft went through its death throes, the Jedi fugitives prepared for the end.

Princess of Ganath
But fate was kind. Found by the native Ganathans the Jedi were rescued and brought back to Ganath where, in awe of the strangers, the Ganathans hailed them as their new rulers. The dying Brand was heavily augmented with cybernetics, and proclaimed His Royal Eminence, the King of Ganath. In a similar fashion, the Ganathans named Aidan Bok Lord Chancellor, and, perhaps mistaking Brand's connection with the younglings as biological, named Aris-Del Wari and the other younglings as princes and princesses.

Wari herself became known as Princess Kendalina. The name "Kendalina" was Ganathan for "Light of the World".

The monarchy that became established on Ganath combined the traditional trappings of royalty with the elements of the Jedi tradition, particularly their code of ethics. Under their "Jedi King", the people of Ganath experienced almost three decades of enlightenment, the so-named "Golden Age of Ganath". Bok and Brand did not neglect the education of their youngling wards, however, and carefully integrated traditional Jedi instruction into the "royal education" the princes and princesses were receiving. In 13 BBY, Aidan Bok offically took Princess Kendalina as his padawan.

A Final Mission
For years the Jedi refugees lived in a kind of splendid isolation on Ganath, the events of the outside galaxy passing them by. While both Bok and Brand yearned to assist their brethren elsewhere in the galaxy, the crippled state of their craft and the low technology of Ganath ensured that leaving the system was nigh-impossible.

Then, seven and a half years after the formation of the Empire another spacecraft landed on Ganath containing a single passenger and an ominous warning.

Voli Quana, famed Jedi Master was dying from numerous wounds and torture had used almost the last ounces of her strength to land the Lord Jahan on Ganath. Despite the best efforts of the Jedi and the Ganath, Quana knew her time was at an end. She told Bok and Brand what she could - of those Jedi she had known to survive. Qu Rahn had been the only Jedi she had known about for sure before her accidental arrival in Ganath. She and Rahn had participated at a Jedi Conclave at Tython, but Halagad Ventor had betrayed them to Darth Vader. All had been killed except for Rahn and Quana, who had barely escaped with their lives. Quana was on her way to Nespis VIII but, knowing she would not last long enough to reach there she trusted in the Force, and chose an alternate path.

Before her death Quana passed on two pieces of information - Firstly, just as Rahn had taught her, she passed to Bok and Brand the secret of eternal life in the Force. Then, she gave her warning - a library on Nespis VIII that contained vast knowledge of the Force was in danger of being discovered by the Empire. She pleaded that, after her death, it not fall into the hands of Vader or the Emperor.

Both Brand and Bok knew that Brand, with his responsibilities on Ganath and his crippled form could not leave. It was up to Bok to protect Nespis VIII. With a heavy heart, Bok and his padawan bade farewell to the others promising that after they had secured the contents of Nespis VIII they would return. Taking the deceased Quana's ship, they headed off into the galaxy.

The Death of Aidan Bok
Aidan Bok and Kendalina arrived on Nespis VIII, bypassing the defences the Jedi had put in place to prevent its fall to evil.

Then he came face to face with the most infamous representation of said evil: Darth Vader. It had been a ploy, a trap even - Vader had been waiting for a Jedi to arrive at Nespis VIII, knowing that once news of its vulnerability had leaked, hiding Jedi would be attracted to it like moths to a flame. The Dark Lord had expected Voli Quana- but Bok was as good a prize as any. Vader ordered his surrender.

After all he had been through, and even counting the despair that now enveloped him, still, the Jedi Knight would not abandon his oath. He vowed to defend the library with his life and drew his lightsaber for a final duel. Flee, he told his padawan, back to the ship, and back to Ganath.

But Vader was quick, and as skilled a duelist as ever. Within barely a few minutes Bok was disarmed, decapitated and had become one with the Force. The petrified Kendalina was now in the tender mercies of Darth Vader, murderer of everything the Jedi Order had ever held dear.

Prisoner of the Empire
Vader spared Kendalina, but not because he was merciful. The Emperor was always in need of young, malleable force-sensitives and Kendalina, barely eleven years old, would seem to be well suited to the task. She was restrained, taken aboard Vader's ship and returned to Coruscant. There she was subjected to a combination of torture, brainwashing and training in Dark Side techniques, all of which were intended to break her spirit and destroy her past life as a Jedi.

She was sent to Dromund Kaas, where it was planned she would be instructed under the Prophets of the Dark Side. There she met a young man known only as Triclops, who was being trained as an Emperor's Eye. Despite his mental instability and strength in the Force, Triclops was in truth a kind and gentle soul, and the lonely Kendalina quickly warmed to him.

For years the Prophets attempted to impose their instructions on both Kendalina and Triclops, and for years they resisted - Kendalina clinging strongly to her past and the memory of her master, Aidan Bok; and Triclops' mental state proving to unstable to tame.

Eventually, both were considered failures and consigned as slaves to the Spice mines of Kessel.

The End on Kessel
For years, Kendalina would be consigned to Kessel, laboring in the insane asylum where Triclops was imprisoned. Although his sanity was rapidly disappearing, he remained the only person who Kendalina thought she could trust, and they eventually became secret, clandestine lovers. As far as Kendalina knew, she had been forgotten by everyone else.

She was, however, mistaken. Rumors and wild tales of her existence and survival had spread amongst the survivors of the Purge and they eventually reached the ear of Qu Rahn who was still trying to safeguard the scattered remnants of the Jedi Order. He informed two of his compatriots, A'Sharad Hett and K'Krukh, and, despite a failed attempt to recruit Obi-Wan Kenobi, the trio set off to rescue the Jedi they heard had been imprisoned on Kessel.

Having fallen in love with Triclops, Kendalina now discovered that she had conceived a child with him. By the time her erstwhile rescuers arrived, months later, Kendalina had given birth to a son but the labor of birth after the many years of mistreatment had exhausted her. With her final breath she thanked the Jedi trio, and bade them to take her son, raise him, and keep him safe from the Empire.

The child, named Ken, was hidden in the Lost City of the Jedi by the Jedi.

Family tree
Unknown ---+--- Jonava Billane |       (see Palpatine family)      | |                      |            |                       |           Triclops-+-Kendalina |                                                    |                                                    |                                                 Ken

Behind the Scenes
This biography combines the two seperate characters of Kendalina and Aris-Del Wari, mixes in elements from other sources, most particularly the Dark Empire and Galaxy of Fear to create one integrated narrative.