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Ember Chankeli
Biographical information
Homeworld	Telerath
Physical description
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Hair color	Gold
Eye color	Brown
Skin color	Tan
Chronological and political information
Era(s)	Rise of the Empire era

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Ember Chankeli was a Human female who contracted Dass Jennir for a job on Cato Neimoidia and owned an inn on her home planet, known as Telerath. She would later accompany Jennir on his travels and become his lover.

BiographyEdit

She was born and living on Telerath, in a town of Noua that mostly dealt business in the tourist trade. But the things changed when a gang of slavers moved in and made the town its headquarters, resulting in most of the businesses failing – Ember's included. Ember wanted to clear the town of the gang and to restore it to what it once was. To do so, she posted an ad in a cantina on Cato Neimoidia, where off-record jobs were posted. Several individuals tried to acquire the job, including a Chistori thug and a young Human male, but it was former Jedi Dass Jennir who proved to be able to perform the job. Ember left him some advance credits and the datachip with coordinates of the city and agreed to meet him there in two weeks since their first meeting.

When Jennir arrived on Telerath he found out that the slavers led by a Chagrian named Demanna wasn't the only gang in the town – the second one was a spice running gang led by a couple of T'surr and the two gangs were constantly after each other. After learning about that Jennir realized that his employer told him only half the truth. In fact, Chankeli hired Jennir to take care of the slavers in order to make space for the spice runners.

In the middle of the night, while Jennir was attending to Dado, who lost his right hand attempting to join Demanna's gang, Ember slipped away to inform the spice gang leader, Ken-Kiba, of her beliefs that Jennir can be easily manipulated; on the side, she also brought Ken-Kiba a sentient slave for him.

However, while she was out, Jennir made it to Telerath's second moon, where he freed the slaves from Ken-Giree, Ken-Kiba's brother and pinned his death on the slavers.

The next morning, Ember returned to her inn to inquire if Jennir had had his breakfast. When Tam said that he wasn't in his room the last time she checked, Ember let out her fury at Nikollane, who was more occupied with her son, before she saw Jennir walking with Mors Demanna; she commented: "This is going better than expected". Ember later guessed that he must have been recruited into Musori's gang. Nikollane voiced her opinion that Jennir shouldn't be running around with the people who harmed her son, which resulted in Ember striking her. She threatened to sell both her to the Hutts and dump her son into a canal if either of them interfered in her plans.

Later, Jennir returned to Ember's inn, announcing that the gang problems would be resolved. Then suddenly, Jennir rushed off after Nikollane informed him that Dado intended to rat him out to Musori. A suspicious Ember then demanded answers from Nikollane. Ember then went to Ken-Kiba, who was in the midst of a gang war with Musori, and brought him and his gang back to her inn, where Jennir was about to urge her slaves to leave. As Ken-Kiba began to avenge himself upon Jennir, Nikollane activated the inn's trapdoor to enable him to escape. Enraged, Ken-Kiba had Ember and all her slaves locked up, determining that it was in fact she was manipulating him, not Jennir.

After suffering at the hands of the spicers, Ember was rescued by Jennir after a showdown with Demanna, and she followed Jennir as he made his way to finish the battle with Ken-Kiba and his followers.

The events damaged Chankeli's reputation, so it seemed impossible for her to continue in her old life. She asked Jennir that she would be allowed to accompany him on his travels. After this was agreed, the two broke into the direction on the planet Vondarc where Chankeli wanted to visit her family. During the flight, they were attacked by Imperials, after which they crashed on the barren wasteland of the planet Prine. In search of civilization, Chankeli confessed to her Jedi companion that she had no family at all on Vondarc, but this merely was a pretext to accompany him on his journeys. When they were both separated, Chankeli was kidnapped by a group of slave traders.

Behind the scenesEdit

The appearance of Ember is based on a friend of Randy Stradley named Kimber.^[1]

AppearancesEdit

• Star Wars: Dark Times: Blue Harvest, Part 1 (First appearance)
• Star Wars: Dark Times: Blue Harvest, Part 2
• Star Wars: Dark Times 13: Blue Harvest, Part 1
• Star Wars: Dark Times 14: Blue Harvest, Part 2
• Star Wars: Dark Times 15: Blue Harvest, Part 3
• Star Wars: Dark Times 16: Blue Harvest, Part 4
• Star Wars: Dark Times 17: Blue Harvest, Part 5
• Star Wars: Dark Times 18: Out of the Wilderness, Part 1
• Star Wars: Dark Times 19: Out of the Wilderness, Part 2
• Star Wars: Dark Times 20: Out of the Wilderness, Part 3
• Star Wars: Dark Times 21: Out of the Wilderness, Part 4
• Star Wars: Dark Times 22: Out of the Wilderness, Part 5

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