Camila Ivy Tavira

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.

Accepted by the Galactic Empire Special Operations Command and confirmed as a Commodore of the new Naval Special Warfare, the first special operations force of the, Needa would be a Systems Admiral by , when she would command a Naval Special Warfare special operations task force that was charged with recovering the , a Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer hijacked by n extremists while on patrol in the. Her knowledge on how the extremists would defend against a boarding action (earned from her long career in the ), combined with Lieutenant Commander Ava Chyler's experience in hijacking vessels, would lead to a distinct Imperial victory, with a hundred and fifty Naval Special Warfare special operators under Needa's command storming the vessel and retaking it without a single Imperial fatality. For her successful coordination of the assault on the Iron Sun, Systems Admiral Needa would be promoted to the rank of Fleet Admiral and would be placed in command of Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force—Caluula (CJSOTF—Caluula), a thousand-man Special Forces division responsible for all Imperial special operations in the, headquartered on forested.

As Commander-in-Chief of CJSOTF—Caluula, when revealed in  that it was likely that that the  used in the nuclear attack on  had come from, Fleet Admiral Needa authorized an immediate and expeditious special operations attack on , which was right next door to  in the. The tremendous success of CJSOTF—Caluula's operation, code-named Operation: NOBLE HOUND, would earn Admiral Needa the Galactic Medal of Honor, making her one of the first female Imperial officers to earn the meritorious decoration.

Behind the Scenes

 * Camila Tavira was created in homage of, one of writer User:RelentlessRecusant}RelentlessRecusant's most favorite canonical characters.