<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=303259.msg14851948#msg14851948">Quote from: Thunder Splash on 06-05-2019, 08:12:02</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">can you post the text for her backstory here so I can copy paste it to the info thread?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Hira Darksun was born as the second child of a rather strange pair: A fiercely intelligent and charismatic Republic Intelligence Agent, and a former Jedi Knight, who left the order precisely to pursue the dream of having a family. However, for reasons Hira never learned, her mother disappeared when she was very young - for the longest time, both her father and older brother claimed that she was dead, but Hira has found evidence during her childhood that that might simply be a lie...<br/><br/>Born strong in the Force like the rest of her family, her father denied the Jedi Order the chance to recruit and train her, instead deciding to shut her off from the Force as best he could and 'educate' her himself. With the outbreak of the Clone Wars when she was still a child, Hira suddenly saw less and less of her father and older brother, who was over ten years older than her - but over the course of the fighting across the galaxy, her father received great renown as an agent of the Republic, at least within the circles that knew of his existence, while her brother enlisted as a soldier to fight alongside the Grand Army of the Republic.<br/><br/>However, the few times Hira did see her father, he grew more and more distant, cold, and driven. In these times where she had nothing to keep herself occupied beyond normal education and disinterested caretakers, she first discovered the 'Force', though she didn't recognize it as such. The ability to sometimes 'hear' what nobody else could.<br/><br/>The night the war ended, Hira awoke in a cold sweat. She could feel it, but not understand it - the death, the destruction, the annihilation of the Jedi Order resounded through the Force. As the temple on Coruscant burned, she shut herself off from the Force, retreating into her own mind out of sheer shock and fear.<br/><br/>With the new Galactic Empire replacing the Republic, Coruscant quickly became an awful planet to grow up on. Her father returned, part of the newly created ISB, and continued her 'education' - an abusive attempt to mold her into an instrument of the Empire's will. And her brother, the one who had always protected her when their father had gotten too rough in her training, was nowhere to be found, pronounced dead.<br/><br/>Eventually, Hira 'escaped' her father's personal training through enlistment into an Imperial Academy offworld to become an officer. Only there, during training not meant to also entirely undermine her sense of self-worth - though there was still plenty of that to go around - did Hira slowly rediscover her connection to the Force, and realize just what it truly was. Knowing how much danger she would be in, and that she didn't wish to help the Empire by working for them, she managed to escape the Academy into the Outer Rim territories as many things - a mechanic, a coms expert, a deckhand, or even a bodyguard at times. All thanks to the help of an insurgent sympathizer that she owes the biggest favor of her life to.</div></div>