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Kira Carsen

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Kira Carsen

Physical description
Species	Human^[1]
Gender	Female^[1]
Hair color	Brown^[1]
Eye color	Dark brown^[1]
Skin color	Fair^[1]
Chronological and political information
Era(s)	Old Republic era^[1]
Affiliation	Sith Empire (formerly)^[1] Children of the Sith Emperor (formerly)^[1] Jedi Order^[1] Galactic Republic^[1]
Known masters	Bela Kiwiiks (Jedi Master)^[1] Hero of Tython (Jedi Master)^[1]

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Kira Carsen was a Human female Jedi active during the Cold War. She was the Padawan of Master Bela Kiwiiks of the Jedi Council on Tython and later also of the former Padawan of Master Orgus Din to help prevent the use of the Planet Prison weapon on Coruscant.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Child of the Emperor
- 1.2 Life as a Jedi
2 Personality and traits
3 Behind the scenes
- 3.1 Romance
4 Appearances
5 Notes and references
6 External links
- 6.1 In other languages

BiographyEdit

Child of the EmperorEdit

Kira Carsen was born to human parents in the territory of the Sith Empire during the Great Galactic War. Early in her life, the Empire learned that Kira was Force-sensitive, and her parents were forced to give her up to the Sith Academy. However, during her time at the Academy, Carsen noticed that other children would disappear for unknown amounts of time. When they returned, they were different, unable to remember where they had been or sometimes who they or others were.^[2]

At some point, Carsen discovered she could not recall days or weeks of time, and realized that she too had been taken. She become a Child of the Sith Emperor, meaning that the Emperor could possess her mind and body at will. Fearful of what the Emperor could do to her, she stowed away on a cargo ship headed out of Imperial space. She finally settled on Nar Shaddaa, where she spent years living in alleys and stealing to survive.^[2] She joined a group of alien refugees in the High Security Lockdown, where she met the Evocii Enaq and Darshyn.^[3]

Carsen spent the next eight years on Nar Shaddaa, using her nascent Force powers to defend herself and her friends. She would often bundle up in extra clothes to make herself look bigger, and was fiercely protective of her friends. When a street gang called the Ur'kossags began terrorizing the refugees, Kira paid the gang a visit. However, her attempt to negotiate with them ended poorly, and Carsen ended up killing several gang members. Carsen's actions backfired, however, causing everyone in the area to fear the refugee group's reputation. Carsen did not understand what she had done, because she left the planet not long after.^[3]

Life as a JediEdit

Carsen's life changed when she attempted to steal a hyperdrive engine from an expensive ship in the spaceport. She did not realize, however, that the ship belonged to the Jedi Master Bela Kiwiiks. Master Kiwiiks quickly recognized Carsen's affinity for the Force and offered Carsen the opportunity to join the Jedi Order. Carsen decided her best hopes of ending the evils that the Sith Empire had committed, against herself and others, was with the Jedi Order and accepted an apprenticeship with Master Kiwiiks.^[2]

Eventually Carsen met the Padawan of Orgus Din, and they worked together to stop Tarnis from unleashing the Planet Prison. She chose to travel with her new partner, and Satele Shan made her the padawan of the Hero of Tython after Bela Kiwiiks left on a lone assignment to Tatooine. Carsen was later captured by agents of Darth Angral, but her new partner/master freed her. Unfortunately, this allowed the Sith Emperor to find her at long last. He arranged for another Child, Valis to retrieve her. Carsen and her teacher were able to best Valis but Carsen was forced to come clean about her past, and decided to reveal the truth to the Jedi Council. Despite Jaric Kaedan's attempt to have her imprisoned, the rest of the Council decided to show leniency. Later, Carsen and her master rescued Bela Kiwiiks on Tatooine, and redeemed Lord Praven.

Eventually things came to a head on Tython. Darth Angral, driven insane by the death of his son, had attacked and planned to use the Desolator to destroy the entire planet, and the majority of the Jedi. Kira and her master disabled the Superweapon and confronted Angral. The Emperor possessed Carsen, and ordered Angral to kill the Knight. When Angral failed the Emperor stepped in and engaged the Knight. He had seen visions in which the Knight would rise and defeat him and he was determined to keep that from happening. When the Knight proved stronger the Emperor tried to keep them both on the critically damaged Desolator. Carsen refused to be his pawn and opened herself to the light, banishing the Emperor and severing the link. Returning to Tython's surface, Carsen was formally granted the rank of Jedi Knight by the Jedi Council.

Carsen eventually became part of a Jedi strike team tasked with capturing the Emperor and redeeming him to the light side. Unfortunately, they underestimated the Emperor's power, which he used to subdue the Jedi and corrupt them to the dark side. Carsen was placed in an interrogation device called the Tormentor, about to be subjected to torture by her own Master. Luckily, her Master had been released from the Emperor's control with the assistance of the ghost of Orgus Din. After disposing of the Sith Overseer, Carsen and her Master made to free their companions, only to find the Emperor's Wrath, Lord Scourge, had already done so. Scourge states that he has waited three hundred years for the appearance of Carsen's Master, whom he believes to be the one who would destroy the Emperor.

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Personality and traitsEdit

Enaq: "Can't believe it's really you. A Jedi. You're so different."

Jedi Knight: "Different how? A little taller?"

Enaq: "More than that. Strong and confident like always, but... happier. At peace. I still remember that little girl, bundling up in extra layers of clothing. Trying to look bigger and tougher than she was."

Carsen: "Hey, it worked. Add enough layers, and nobody knows who you are."

Jedi Knight: "Kira never talks about her past."

Carsen: "Nothing to tell. Life was hard and then I became a Jedi. But I never forgot my friends."

―Carsen shows her loyalty and self-confidence to her master.^[src]

Kira Carsen was a headstrong and confident Jedi, with a strong sense of loyalty towards her friends and allies. Behind this confident front, she hid fear of her past and a near-desperate desire to prove herself. She believed that her past in the Sith Empire would cause those she knew to turn on her if they ever found out, so Kira was determined to prove her loyalty and worth to the Jedi Order. She was also mildly claustrophobic, and she masked fear behind a quick tongue and sharp wit.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

Kira Carsen appears in the BioWare MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, as a companion character for the Jedi Knight character. The player gains her as a companion during the class storyline on Coruscant. Kira is voiced by Laura Bailey.^[4]