Vima-Da-Boda (Jedi Renaissance)

Vima-Da-Boda was a female Human Jedi Master serving the Jedi Order during the last century of the Galactic Republic. While

Early life
Vima Da-Boda was the great-great-great-granddaughter of Vima Sunrider, daughter of legendary Jedi Master of ancient times Nomi Sunrider, and served the Force for over a century. Turned over to the Jedi Order, the Force-sensitive Human was educated at the Coruscant Temple for thirteen years before she was selected for training by the Bith Jedi Knight Olik Send. Constructing a blue-bladed lightsaber in the Temple on Ilum, Da-Boda trained as a Consular and eventually passed her Trials of Knighthood and was elevated to the rank of Knight by the High Council. While the Order did not condone marriages, Da-Boda became pregnant and delivered a baby girl named Neema-Da-Boda|Neema within the Halls of Healing at the Temple on Coruscant. In keeping with the rules of the High Council, Da-Boda turned her child over for training at the academy and observed her daughter's training from afar in keeping with the Order's rules on attachment.

When her daughter was old enough Da-Boda took her on as her Padawan, much to the chagrin of the High Council. They permitted the apprenticeship on a trial basis and told Da-Boda that should their pairing become problematic then she would be reassigned. Despite all of Da-Boda's efforts her daughter grew frustrated by the slow pace of her Jedi education, and sought alternative training. The girl's impatience and lack of knowledge in the ways of the Force opened her to the dark side. Consumed by the dark side, Neema-Da-Boda fled her mother's side and renounced her allegiance with the Order. Returning to Coruscant and reporting her failure, Da-Boda mourned her daughter's fall but continued her service. Years later, Da-Boda received a telepathic plea from her daughter, who had become the wife of an Ottethan warlord. Da-Boda rushed to the dungeon to her daughter's aid, but was too late: Neema-Da-Boda had been fed to the rancors of Ottethan. Giving in to her rage, Da-Boda sliced the warlord in half with her lightsaber before she realized she was succumbing to the dark side herself. Going into exile to hide her shame, Da-Boda's connection to the Force diminished as she attempted to shelter herself from the dark side's influence.

Jedi Renaissance
Well into her hundred and sixtieth year, Da-Boda continued to hide from the dark side as the Jedi Order waged war with the Confederacy of Independent Systems on behalf of the Republic. Having fallen into almost near obscurity, Da-Boda was contacted in 19 BBY by the newly appointed Grand Master Tomac Moorcé at the close of the war. Fearing that the Jedi had come to arrest her, Da-Boda attempted to attack the Grand Master with her lightsaber but was quickly disarmed. Moorcé, ensuring the ancient master of his good intentions, convinced her to remain calm as he explained his reasons for visiting. Detailing his plan of relocating the Order to Ossus, Moorcé invited Da-Boda to return to the Order and rebuild her skills in the Force. Timid at first, Da-Boda was eventually reached through the Force by Moorcé and agreed to accompany the Grand Master to the Jedi fortress world. Upon Da-Boda's return to the Order, Moorcé placed her in the care of the instructors at the Academy to reeducate her in the ways of the Force and help her to access its power once more.

As of 9 BBY, Da-Boda had once more embraced life and the living Force and was capable of moving about with ease and fluidity once again. At the age of 185, the Order bestowed upon her the rank of Master and she took up the studies and duties of a librarian in the Great Library. Living in a small hovel just off the shores of the lake behind the Library, Da-Boda favored young children and spoiled the younglings at the Academy whenever they visited her or the Library. In the wake of the Battle of Yavin, Da-Boda dismissed the rumors of misconduct and favoritism which were lobbied against Grand Master Moorcé and the young Master Keith Varté. Reprimanding her peers for their whispers of a secret love affair being carried out on the High Council between the two masters, Da-Boda reminded others that the Grand Master was wise and reasonable and should he choose to keep secrets it was probably for a good reason. When the discussion reached a fever pitch and led to the eventually disappearance of the Kiffar Jedi Master, Da-Boda ordered a group of Jedi calling for the resignation of Moorcé out of the Library claiming their ignorance was fouling the air.

Da-Boda's accelerated age did not keep her from serving the Order actively in the years after the Order was nearly split in two. She was continued to work in the Library and pass on her knowledge to any who would listen to her tales. In 14 ABY, Da-Boda was called before the High Council and questioned about her knowledge of the Curse of Andur, a vicious poison not seen since the Great Hyperspace Wars. Named after her ancestor, Andur Sunrider, Da-Boda was well versed in the deadly toxin and its effects as she literature on the substance had been passed down through her family for generations. Asking her to take a seat on the High Council, Da-Boda was called upon to put her knowledge of the poison to the test as members of the Senate turned up dead during the administration of Chancellor Mon Mothma. Passing on her knowledge of a cure to the members of the MediCorps and positioning security with antidotes throughout the Senate Building on Coruscant, the High Council hoped that the string of murders had ended. After a month of no assassinations, Da-Boda was prepared to leave the High Council when the Confederacy of Independent Systems reported a death by poison in the Confederate Parliament. Personally travelling to Raxus, Da-Boda began to track the poisoners as Parliament members and their aides turned up dead over the period of a year. Painstakingly tracking the trail of the murder, the trail went cold for eight months until reports arose from Coruscant that another Senate aid was found dead. Targeted seemingly at random, Da-Boda was eventually able to follow the poisoner back to the last Vigo of Black Sun. Entering his apartment, Da-Boda attempted to arrest the Gotal Vigo but was forced to defend herself when his security team attacked her. Using the Force, Da-Boda hurled the Gotal out of his window, sending the poisoner to his death several thousand levels below.

Tired from the fight, Da-Boda called in her success before taking a seat on the crime lord's sofa and becoming one with the Force. When Jedi teams dispatched from the Coruscant Temple arrived and discovered her body, they ceremoniously returned it to Ossus where she was cremated on the Great Pyre. Her lightsaber was added to the collection within the Grand Jedi Temple's Sword of the Jedi tower where it would remain long after her death. Her position on the Council was taken by Master Bardan Jusik, Chief Healer for the Order.