Ada Karr

Ada Karr or as she was originally known, Ada Fey'lya, was a female Bothan Jedi Master. She was the wife of Udo Karr and the mother of Derran Karr. Ada was born into the wealthy family of the Fey'lyas, and their legacy would haunt her for the remainder of her life, as she would have to deal with them following the Great Schism.

As a newborn baby, Ada was found to be Force-sensitive and sent to the Jedi Temple to train. She later was given a Master along with her friend, Udo Karr. Following the Jedi Purge, she was forced to flee with her Master to save the planet Kamino.

After the planet Novus Kamino Prime was found and settled, she became one of the first Jedi to join the praxeum built there by Nathaniel Kenobi and his wife Abigaile Jade Kenobi. Following Abigaile's death and Nathan's self-exile, she was put under the tutelage of Master Plett. She became romantically involved with Udo and they would marry, which then gave way for their first child to be born: Derran.

After the false savior Nat-ahn Mandrex had taken control over the majority of the Colonies, she was one of the few who remained true to her Master's teachings and helped his grandson to free them. Tragedy struck when the Fey'lya family tried to bring her back into their clutches, but she was able to escape. Even worse than her treacherous family, the Sith Order of Decreto ended her life during the Battle of Almania.

Early Life
Born into the wealthy Fey'lya familly, Ada was one of the most privileged individuals in the Galaxy. At a young age she was taught of the future responsibilities she would have in her life and that everyone else was beneath her.

Her life made a sharp turn when the of the &mdash;a male Dor Namethian named Julo'fen Marke&mdash;found her and took her away to the Jedi Temple. The Fey'lya's were outraged, because they hadn't given consent. Julo'fen would later remark that Ada's maid had been drunk at the time he had taken her and had assured him the family wouldn't mind.

Ada didn't mind leaving her home, because she didn't want to live the life her parents were thrusting upon her. She was soon brought into the Spider Clan and found new friends in fellow younglings Udo Karr and Plapoe Lamark, a female Marais.

They became the best of friends until 21 BBY when Plapoe was killed in the First Battle of Coruscant. The loss of their friend deeply wounded Ada and Udo both mentally and physically.

Luckily for them, though, a new face came into their lives: their future Master Nathaniel Kenobi. He had chosen them out of the twenty other members of the Spider Clan, because he sensed the friendship they had and their potential to learn.

Jedi Purge
"One of the most fearful days of my life."

- Ada on Operation: Knightfall

Ada and Udo began their training and sparked a new friendship with two other Jedi Nathan was secretly training: Whie Malreaux and Scout. They began conspiring to leave the Temple because of a premonition Nathan had had the day before of the Temple in flames.

Nathan was able to transport Scout and Whie to the planet, but their plans to leave the Temple were halted by the arrival of Darth Vader and the 501st. Nathan was able to ghost them away to a secluded spot of the Temple and keep them away from the massacre that followed.



Thanks to Senator Bail Organa, they were able to finally flee the slaughterhouse and reunite with other Jedi, notably Nathan's uncle Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. While Obi-Wan and Yoda decided to take out Vader and Palpatine, Nathan was bound and determined to make sure Scout and Whie had gotten to Qiilura safely.

They found evidence that they had been captured by two bounty hunters&mdash;Koh'la'wenimox and Tene-brith&mdash;and brought to the. Nathan was able to kill the two bounty hunters and freed Scout and Whie. After receiving proof that the two could live on Qiilura peacefully and without fear of the Empire, he left them on the planet to live out their lives, while he went to gather information on rumors of Jedi Agriculturalists and other AgriCorps members being imprisoned and brought to a mysterious location.

Thanks to information given by another being Nathan had been training, the Anointed One, they were able to discover the location of the missing AgriCorps members: a planet within the Deep Core:. They ventured there and found that the planet was very strong in the dark side and its allure was so strong, Nathan was forced to leave the sector so as not to fall under its influence.

Rethinking their position and meditating on the issue, they joined up with a smuggler named and were able to get on the planet without being noticed. While Nathan attempted to free the AgriCorps members from their bondage&mdash;the Emperor intended them to become some of his s&mdash;Ada and Udo were supposed to remain on the ship, but, owing to their young age, orders weren't their main priority.

They began exploring the world and eventually found an Aefan Jedi Agriculturalist named Greil and liberated him from the guards holding him captive. With his help, they saved Nathan from certain capture at the hands of the 501st and they were able to free a great many of the prisoners there.



They made their escape and were able to reach the planet Luyalsat Opec before they were captured in an interdiction field by the Interdictor Star Destroyer Palpatine's Fury. Nathan was able to Force persuade the captain of the vessel that he had made a mistake and had gotten the wrong ship. He also was able to gain special privileges to dock and get repaired at Kamino, which was the final place he had decided to go to before confronting Vader and the Emperor.

Clone Rebellion
Ada accompanined Nathan, Udo, and the other renegade Jedi to Kamino, which was second-to-last phase of Nathan's plans to take down the Empire. From what she had overheard, he was planning on committing genocide: destroying the clone factories and all data related with them. It seemed that he didn't care about the lives he was about to kill.

Even though she was barely five years old, she knew right and wrong, so she confronted Nathan about this. When he heard her cries and pleading, he smiled and said that he had thought the very same things she had.

"I've a thought a great deal on this issue, Ada. My job as a Jedi is to protect life, no matter what it may be. What does that mean? What's the purpose? Are there times when that rule to protect causes me to kill in order to protect life? Why are we here? Questions that are not easily answered. When the Empire took over and the Jedi died, it looked as if the very values I'd held dear for twenty-one years of my life, were gone, almost as if they were only dust in the wind. New tactics had to be found, harsh decisions had to be made, but they were only to protect the Jedi, so they could return and help protect life. By doing this Ada, I am protecting not only the Jedi by removing the threat of capture, but I am helping life, as the Jedi will arise after I have moved to the final phase of my plan. That doesn't make it easier, it's never easy to willingly kill someone, but, sometimes, Ada, the ends justify the means. I hate myself for saying that, but it must be done for the good of the Galaxy, for the good of the Jedi, and the good of everything that lives."

- Nathan explaining why he had decided to commit genocide against the clones.



Content that he wasn't doing it because he wanted to, she was a bit more cheerful the following days. They arrived on Kamino to find that not all was as it seemed. The space station was "crewed" by mere Force illusions and Nathan had been incapacitated by a mysterious woman. Ada, Udo, and the AgriCorps Jedi feared for their lives, but they soon found out that there wasn't anything to worry about, for the Kaminoans were rebelling against the Empire and Nathan was a guest, not a prisoner.

She and Udo became part of Asajj Ventress' Jedi training praxeum and were taught a different version of how to use the Force: the Potentium. However, after the wedding of Nathan and the woman who had shot him, Abigaile Jade, the Empire had come to Kamino to destroy the Rebellion.

Udo and her were able to escape before the battle started and were not a part of it at all really. They were safely shuttled to the main Acclamator and kepy under guard, until the rest of the planet had been able to flee the devastation that followed.

New Home, New Enemies
"Novus Kamino Prime. One of the most beautiful sites I had ever seen in my life. Following the Battle of Kamino, this became my new home. My Master made sure to build a Jedi praxeum to teach the many Jedi he had saved in the many adventures we had. It also began a sprial of tragedy for my Master. The Yuuzhan Vong, his arrogance, the loss of his wife, and the realization that he could have changed. I remember seeing him that last day. He was so calm, yet so afraid. He was so powerful, yet so weak. He was a victor, yet he was a captive. That was the last time I saw him, and it hurt. I hope he is okay wherever he is now."

- Excerpt taken from Ada's private journal

After the devastating Battle of Kamino, Ada was officially a part of the Clone Rebellion. She had finally made a true lightsaber, one of brilliant orange, which served to remind her of the way Kamino had been ground into an desolate planet. She and Udo started to train together and became even greater friends over the next couple of days.



She rarely saw Nathan, as he was almost constantly beside his wife's unconcious body, awaiting her to regain her usual self, which eventually happened. Seeing her Master happy made Ada even more so, as she loved the man for saving them and everyone else from the horrors of the Empire. She vowed to protect him however she could. Unfortunately, though, even the strong will of a six year old couldn't save her Master from himself.

Although the Rebellion's plans to go to Mandalorian space and work out of there had been eliminated by an Imperial blockade, hope was found in the form of Novus Kamino Prime. They quickly started to build the planet's first city and Jedi praxeum. Ada was still under the tutelage of Nathan, but she received some extra training later on from one of the Belsavis Jedi, a Ho'Din named Plett.

A new threat soon came to rear its head when the extragalactic aliens known as the Yuuzhan Vong had attacked the neighboring Ottiumigons. Ada did not participate in any of the two engagements the colony fought, but they would still scar her deeply, because she could not sense them in the Force.

The threat of the Empire would prove to be even worse to the fate of the colony, as Nathan had developed an unhealthy obsession with destroying it. Noticing the subtle changes within her Master's psyche, Ada tried to talk with him, but found, just like Nathan's wife before her, that he had no intention of listening. This deeply scarred her, as she had always thought of Nathan as the ultimate in being a Jedi, yet he seemed to be losing touch with that side of him more and more each passing day. Udo had noticed it too and the two of them tried to talk with him, to no avail.

When an Imperial vessel was responsible for the destruction of a clone scout ship, it seemed that it was all the excuse Nathan needed to leave to fight. Over the few years of life she had lived, Ada began to feel more passive and wished that he would just keep the status quo. Unfortunately, his choice to fight led to dire consequences to the entire colony.

Nathan's wife left the planet with her newborn child when she learned that Nathan had lied to her, the fleet was greatly reduced in size because the engagement at Toola had been costly, and the Jedi had been placed under the council of Plett, Pandraxon, and Logh-Urr. Nathan's return proved to be as dark as his departure, for his wife had been killed and he had decided to go in a self-exile for the remainder of his life. He also foretold of a danger to the colony, but it would be alleviated by a ddescendant of his.

With that cryptic prophecy, Nathaniel Kenobi left Novus Kamino Prime and Ada behind. Ada was then officially apprenticed to Master Plett and began her training to further her knowledge of the Force.

Love Gained, Love Lost
Over the next couple of years, she broke out of the shell created by the loss of her first Master. A major part of that was the realization that she loved Udo and he reciprocated the feelings. At eighteen years of age, she and Udo went to Taun We and asked her the marry them. Taun We was then asked by the newly-formed Jedi Council to help them devise a test to see if the two were really worth that much to each other.

A few lightyears away, there was a system that contained the planet Kelakus. Apparently, the people were a crustaceanlike race and excelled in building ships. If they could gain an alliance with them, the coming danger that Nathan had forseen could be averted or merely stalled. Eagerly, the two agreed to take the task that had been assigned to them.

Negotiations began well with the Kelakan leader at the time&mdash;Ster Lob&mdash;but the Kelakan Anti-Alien Force bombed the capital city of Htirit Sanim&mdash;more specifically, the senatorial buidling&mdash;and killed the majority of the pro-alliance Kelakans. Forced to hide, Ada and Udo became wanted beings.



After several arguments over what they should do next, the two split up. Ada went towards the shipyards where they had landed, to see if she could get to their vessel. Unfortunately, she was captured and imprisoned along with Udo, who attempted to steal another ship. The two realized that apart, they were both strong, but together, they were stronger. Formulating a new way to escape, they were able to retrieve their lightsabers and found the leader of the Kelakan Anti-Alien Force and managed to kill him.

With the terrorists out of the way, it looked like a simple ambassadorial job for them. Kelakus agreed to ally with Novus Kamino Prime and even sent several ship prototypes for use in their navy. The Council, seeing that the two had done a good job together and had found ways to work together, gave their blessing to the couple. Ada and Udo wed several weeks after and honeymooned on Ottiumigos Prime. They soon had a child, who they named Derran Karr.

This Schism is Anything But Great
"He says he came to save us, but he did the exact opposite. Two-fifths of the Order have splintered into his group, while the remaining three-fifths stay loyal to the Colonies. I, myself, wanted to go originally, but, there was something odd about him. My head told me to go, there wasn't anything wrong with him, but my heart told me differently. It told me that my Master's grandson would never have "fixed" a problem like the way he had. Thankfully, my heart won, and I am not a thrall of the scourge in our lives: Nat-ahn Mandrex. If it weren't for him, Udo would still be alive. Why did he have to take my husband? When are you coming, true savior?"

- Excerpt taken from Ada's personal journal

7 ABY was almost doomsday for the Colonies. The Kaminoans and Ottiumigons had been in a dispute over land. The Ottiumigons wanted more than the government had allowed them and Taun We refused to budge. The Jedi proved most ineffective in this dispute, as through several legal loopholes Taun We had made throughout her years as Prime Minister.

An end to the brewing conflict came in the form of a man who looked very much like the venerated Jedi Knight Nathaniel Kenobi. He proclaimed that he was his grandfather's descendant and that he was here to save them from themselves. Many joined up with him&mdash;the majority of those being impovershed Ottiumigons&mdash;including several Jedi, foremost among them: Logh-Urr.

Although the man appeared to be the prophesied savior, many in the Jedi Council were skeptical of his claims, including Ada and her husband. Fearful that the situation would get worse, they called all the Jedi to come for a meeting to discuss it. Three-fifths of the Colonies' Jedi came to attend, the other two-fifths had decided to stand beside their chosen savior.



The three-fifths turned out to be right in the end; Nat-ahn Mandrex&mdash;a Dark Jedi who had once been taught by Palpatine himself&mdash;had enthralled the people to join him, and to start his new empire. Unfortunately, tragedy followed that proclamation, as not all of the "loyal" Jedi were so. Many of them were actually sent there by Mandrex after they had agreed to join him, so that they could kill their former Masters, their friends, and their loved ones.

Udo Karr was among the first to fall. It is told that Ada spent nearly five days in isolation before she could speak again. The loss of her husband deeply wounded her, and her relationship with Derran suffered as a result. But she couldn't remain in her woes for long, because the Colonies needed her to fight for them, and fight she would.

Over the years, she and Derran would fight many inconclusive battles with the self-styled Traitors. Nothing seemed to stop Nat-ahn and his hordes of loyal followers. Kelakus soon found itself a puppet of his machinations and started building ships to fulfill his desires. Nobody was safe, and nobody knew when they could be called such, except Ada. She held on to the prophecy her Master had given, unlike the majority of the Colonies, who didn't.

In 29 ABY, intelligence reports from Ottiumigos Prime revealed that an unknown ship class had been exited hyperspace and been impounded by the Traitors. At the very same time that had happened, Ada had begun feeling the familiar presence of her Master, she decided that the two were linked, and&mdash;against the wishes of the Council&mdash;went to investigate with several loyal friends, including her son.



They soon found that she had been right, and that the true savior had been imprisoned by Nat-ahn, who turned out to be his own father. Freeing him, she asked him his name, and he replied that his name was Nathaniel Kenobi Solo and that he had come to save them from Nat-ahn. Overjoyed at seeing the true savior, she almost didn't make it off the planet alive.

Thankfully, they did, but unfortunately, they soon found that, in their absence, someone had taken care to slip onto Novus Kamino Prime and invade the Jedi praxeum. Rushing to their rescue, she was amazed by the skills Nathan possessed. If she hadn't known better, she would have said it had been Nathaniel Kenobi fighting for them.



After the uprising had been culled, she was one of the first to swear their allegiance to him, although he had already told them beforehand not to. Proving to the Council that he was the actual savior by ghosting, a feat normally reserved to the Kenobi Solos, Nathan began to take control over the Colonies' fleet, winning battle after battle.

Eventually, this led to several different confrontations with his father, and the last one was the Battle of Kelakus, where Ada served as a bodyguard. Killing many a Yuuzhan Vong warrior&mdash;they had joined Nat-ahn to kill the Jedi after they had stumbled upon the Ottiumigos Centrality&mdash;there with Amphistaff Legion, Ada was finally beginning to return to her normal, cheery self again.

Nathan soon killed his father in a duel and asked the remaining Traitors to stand down. Most complied, but others fled the scene and were never heard from again. He told the survivors of another reason he had come to the Colonies. He had foreseen a fight on Coruscant, which could either be the end or the beginning of the Jedi and he wanted their help to make sure the Jedi won.

Many joined up, including Ada, while others stayed to maintain the Colonies. Ada participated with valor during the battle and was given a medal as a result by Cal Omas. Unfortunately, the battle also garnered the attention of a young Bothan male named Holk Fey'lya, ruler of the Fey'lya clan&mdash;by marriage&mdash;and the one of whom Ada had been betrothed to at birth. Serious repurcussions would follow from this.

Family Meetings Aren't Always Fun
Over the next couple of years, Ada served the Colonies with the best of her abilities. But, even in these seemingly peaceful times, tragedy could strike. In 40 ABY, the Corellians broke away from the Galactic Alliance and the Bothans soon followed. Anxious to find out why, she asked if she could go on a mission to find out who the real leaders of Bothawui were. The request was granted by the Jedi Council of Novus Kamino Prime, with a vote of twelve to zero, thanks to the help of Nathan.



Journeying to Bothawui, her ship was shot down by Bothan pilots and she had to crashland on Kothlis. The tropical island she landed on proved to be a place of death, as it was inhabited solely by the bones of dead Bothans. Curious about the skeletons, and on how she could get away, Ada searched the island for life.

In her venture, she found a secret military base that housed a small group of the Bothan's soldiers. The island she had landed on proved to be a secret weapons factory as well. The skeletons she had seen were the result of a chemical weapon that had worked all too well. Horrified that her people could do this, she lost focus and was captured by the soldiers.

Interrogation revealed that the soldiers had never seen her before, and they asked her name and where she had come from. She replied that she was Ada Karr, formerly Ada Fey'lya, and a Jedi Master from the Ottiumigos Centrality. Fortunately, she was able to escape her captors, who sent native s after her to capture her.



Racing against them, she was able to find a boat and using her prowess at mechanics, managed to decode the voicelock and drove it off the island. She was soon followed by the soldiers, who were promising to let her go free if she would just slow down, apparently a very high official within the Bothan government wished to speak with her.

Feeling that they had no wrong intentions, she voluntarily stopped the boat and awaited their next command. They asked her to come to Tal'cara and meet their leader, a Bothan named Holk Fey'lya. Seeing no harm in meeting one of the people she had planned to spy on later, she followed them to Tal'cara.

Meeting with Holk in Tal'cara, she found that he was the leader of the Fey'lya Clan and he had been betrothed to her at birth, but, since the Jedi had taken her away, had been unable to marry her, so instead had wed with her now deceased sister, Ola Fey'lya. Misfortune soon followed and it appeared that Ola had been poisoned by a rival, leaving Holk the true leader of the Fey'lya Clan. But with Ada's reappearance, the Clan would now be run by her.

Astonished, Ada contemplated her possible paths. She could either run the Clan, break it away from the other Bothans with much dissent, or she could refuse and let her people kill themselves in the violent war. It was truly a no-win situation. When asked why she was contemplating this, she asked why she shouldn't. Holk chuckled and revealed that he enjoyed being the leader, and didn't like competition getting in the way. Ola had been killed on his orders, which was exactly the fate awaiting her if she had remained on Kothlis.

Fearful, Ada ignited her lightsaber, but realized she could not feel anything in the Force. Holk revealed that he had planted ysalamir throughout the mansion they were in, and that she would die very soon. Knowing that her lightsaber was basically useless now, Ada clipped it back on her belt and brought out her personal blaster and pointed it right at Holk's face. He told her that she had to worry about other things before she could even think about contemplating him as a target.



Into the room barged no less than six YVH droids, all who began to target her. Hiding behind a desk, she unclipped her ion grenade and threw it at the droids. Thanks to their armor all but one survive the grenade. Cursing herself for not remembering that, she Force pushed a chair at the one on her far right and managed to force another YVH's blaster to shoot another's.

Even that wasn't enough, as she soon was shot in the arm by a stray blastershot. Remembering special teachings her Master had given her on the Force power known as, she was able to slag the remaining five. Fleeing the room, she went after the security cams, so that no one could know where she was headed. Successful in that, she found the room that the ysalamir were being held captive in and was forced to annhilate them with a thermal detonator.

Hating herself for killing the animals so, she moved on, intent on finding Holk. She eventually found the coward, hiding behind a barricade of more YVH droids. Ada simply fried them with the same technique as before and cornered Holk. As she was about to arrest him, he suddenly fell down and died of a heart attack.

Content that a part of her mission was over, she left Bothan Space for the Colonies, hoping to rest and remember what had occured. It wasn't an easy thing to forget, but she would do all that she could to do so.

Fall of the Jedi
"These Sith are different than the ones I've seen before. They're much more ruthless, and a whole lot more smart. I don't understand their true motivations, but Nathan says that if we don't act now, the Colonies will be lost to us forever. That is a day I hope to never see pass."

- Excerpt taken from Ada's private journal

In 61 ABY, Nathaniel Kenobi Solo's wife, Jaina Solo Kenobi, had died during the Battle of Dathomir. Despondent, he had come to the Colonies to grieve and rethink his position on being a Jedi. Ada was a part of the group who were sent to comfort him, but he would have none of it. He kept telling them time and again that if they didn't act now, then the Colonies would be lost.

Personality/Traits
Ada was a hard worker and was always ready to complete a task that had been given to her. She was noted as one of the kindest Masters of the Order during the Great Schism, and was always on the lookout for the colony's savior.

She was noted for having an orange, a green, and a blue lightsaber. It was due to her tendancy to forget where she had placed things. She was noted as calling herself a very forgetful person.

Following the disastorous battle of Novus Kamino Prime, she became aa bit more cyincal and wasn't as easy-going as before. She all but shunned her family and was eventually confronted by Nathan on this, who then helped her regain her optimism and life back.

Talents
Her mastery of the Force centered more on healing others than fighting them. She was also noted for unbelievable Force Illusions, which tricked even the most skilled Masters.

Besides from her knowledge of the Force, she was an expert mechanic and a passable pilot. She loved taking things apart and remaking them, just for the joy of doing so.

Appearances

 * ''Last of the Jedi: Nathaniel Kenobi
 * Schism: A Tale of the New Jedi Order