Terra Needa

Terra Needa was a commissioned officer of the Imperial Special Operations Command, Naval Special Warfare Command. She was the granddaughter of and the grand-niece once removed of. A flag officer of the Galactic Empire Special Operations Command and born into the infamous family, she would become notable for being one of the first female recipients of the Galactic Medal of Honor, earned by her meritorious service in the Battle of Raxus Prime.

Biography
Terra Needa was born into the family of great infamy: her grand-uncle once removed,, had been killed by , and all of his relatives had been killed, save for Lieutenant , who had kept the Needa bloodline alive. Born in, Terra was expected, as all Needa descendants, to join the. With excellent academic standing, she enrolled into the Imperial Naval Academy on in  at the age of twenty, and although graduating as the salutatorian of her graduating Naval Academy class, she would become black-listed by all her following commanders, who knew of 's unfortunate and much-lauded death.

While all her classmates went on to become Junior Lieutenants serving aboard esteemed warships, such as Imperial-class Star Destroyers or Turbulent-class Star Destroyers, Junior Lieutenant Terra Needa would be busted down not to work at a capital ship position, but instead, as an officer in the ignominious, the Naval stormtroopers stationed aboard warships to prevent piracy. Although humiliated and spiteful that her intelligence and merit had gone to waste because she was the grand-niece once removed of, she would steadily climb the ranks in the backwater Marines, until in , she was a Commodore (Rear Admiral), transiting from the staff ranks to the flag ranks. Knowing full-well that it was notoriously difficult to obtain a flag command in the Imperial Marines, which were a small and esoteric military unit, when the Galactic Empire Special Operations Command began putting out offers for candidates into Naval Special Warfare, Commodore Needa jumped for the opportunity.

Behind the Scenes

 * Terra Needa is named in part after "Terra", a Latin name for the planet Earth.