Rhondi Tremaine
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- "What is a body, but the Force given form?"
- ―Rhondi Tremaine, to Ben Skywalker, on the Force sustaining one's body[src]
Rhondi Tremaine was a Human female who was born on a colony in the Maw, and was a member of the Maw Irregular Fleet. With her brother Rolund Tremaine, they were used to gather information as spies. In 41 ABY, when Centerpoint Station was destroyed, both siblings felt a call through the Force to journey to Sinkhole Station, a scaled down version of Centerpoint. At Sinkhole, the two siblings joined the Mind Walkers, Force-sensitives that completely immersed themselves in the Force by separating their force auras from their physical bodies. In 43.5 ABY, exiled Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker and his son Ben boarded the station during their search to discover why Jacen Solo fell to the dark side.
When Luke was mind walking, Ben started to feel paranoia, and believed that the Mind Walkers were trying to kill them. To insure his and his father's safety, Ben made Rhondi take him beyond shadows to see Luke. To make sure that he wouldn't be killed there he sealed Rolund in the next room, placing a detonator on the other door. While the Skywalkers were beyond shadows, a group of Sith from Kesh arrived at the station to kill the Skywalkers. After Rhondi and the Skywalkers had returned from beyond shadows, one of the Sith set off the detonator that Ben had placed in the room in which he'd trapped Rolund. When Rhondi ran to the sealed door she was killed when her head was impaled by a lightsaber from one of the Sith who was slicing open the door.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
- "You see, it is nothing to die beyond shadows. But to live trapped in a body, that is…anguish."
- ―Rhondi Tremaine's views on "Beyond Shadows"[src]
The Human female Rhondi Tremaine was born in the Maw sometime between. She lived on the colony that belonged to a secret fleet that had been established by Admiral Natasi Daala. While still young, Rhondi and her brother, Rolund Tremaine, were deemed unfit to serve in the military due to their Force-sensitivity. Instead, as the two grew older, they were used as spies for the colony. Rhondi had assignments varying from retrieving information to stealing ships for the Irregular Fleet. This espionage group was so skilled that Daala was able to keep the colony flourishing.
The Tremaines served this group for a decade until the Second Galactic Civil War. When Centerpoint Station was destroyed, Rhondi and all the other Force-sensitives in the secret fleet had terrible longings to return to their homes. When their requests to leave were denied, they soon became extremely paranoid. This paranoia quickly grew to the point that Rhondi and the others believed the whole war was being fought just to expose them. Those affected quickly began deserting all at once, and stole ships to get to the heart of the Maw. There, they found Sinkhole Station, a smaller replica of Centerpoint and the home of the Force-sensitive Mind Walkers. Rhondi and her brother joined the Mind Walkers and discovered that these beings could separate their Force presences from their physical bodies in order to go to a place called the beyond shadows. They did this by meditating then imagining the number one. Then two and when they reached seven they would be completely severed.
[edit] Aiding the Skywalkers
- "Then you'll be returning beyond shadows with us? I'm sure you'll find it very...enlightening."
- ―Rhondi Tremaine to Luke Skywalker on "Beyond Shadows"[src]
After being with the Mind Walkers for two years, Rhondi met Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker and his son Ben when they visited Sinkhole Station on their journey to discover why Jacen Solo had fallen to the dark side of the Force. The Skywalkers first talked to the siblings while Rhondi was with fellow Mind Walkers Seek Ryontarr and Feryl, who agreed to take Luke beyond shadows. While Luke was there, Rhondi and Rolund often visited Ben in the Jade Shadow. The trio talked, while the siblings often stole food from the Shadow's stock in hopes of starving Ben, to make him to go beyond shadows.
On one of their visits, Be told them that Luke's hydration tube kept falling out of his mouth, so he was going to put his father on an IV. However, Rhondi and Rolund knew it wasn't falling out, rather, one of the Mind Walkers was removing it. When Ben realized this he asked the siblings why the Mind Walkers would do this, and Rhondi explained that Luke didn't need any food while beyond shadows, as the Force would sustain him. Then she admitted that they were only eating the Skywalkers' food to help Ben realize it wasn't necessary; he only needed the Force to survive, and Ben began to believe that the Mind Walkers were trying to kill him. He sealed Rolund into a room and then shackled Rhondi to the floor with a pair of stun cuffs, so that if he died while beyond shadows she would be unable to save her brother. Rhondi pleaded for her brother's life, but eventually agreed to take Ben beyond shadows.
Together, they went beyond shadows, where they found Luke with Seek and Feryl near the Lake of Apparitions, a lake where one had to follow a certain path or fall into the depths and see and communicate with spirits. Seek disapproved of Rhondi's bargain with Ben since a woman across the lake, in the mists, wanted Luke to come to her, and they didn't want Ben to stop him and convince Luke to go back to his body. Luke decided to talk to the woman, and Rhondi guided the Skywalkers toward the figure, warning them to stay immediately behind her lest they slip and fall into the depths. Along the way, Rhondi watched as the Skywalkers talked to the spirit of Anakin Solo, Luke's nephew and Ben's cousin who died in the Yuuzhan Vong War. They also spoke to Mara Jade Skywalker, Luke's wife who was killed by Jacen during the Second Galactic Civil War, and Jacen Solo himself. While talking to her Mara warned them to go back, when they were talking to Jacen he told them they had all the time in the world to reach the lady. Upon hearing this the Skywalkers felt that they were in danger and commenced to return from beyond shadows.
When the three returned to their physical bodies, Rhondi and the Skywalkers discussed whether or not the lake and the people they had talked had been real. When Ben said that the presence he felt there was what he thought was driving the Jedi insane, Rhondi replied that they were not crazy, but being called home. When Rhondi asked for her hands to be released, Ben showed her he hadn't locked the cuffs, in case he had died beyond shadows.
Unknown to those on Sinkhole Station, a Sith strike team from the Lost Tribe of Sith had arrived on the station with the intent of killing the Skywalkers. While recovering from her journey Beyond Shadows, the detonator went off in the room where Ben had left Rolund. Rhondi rushed to the sealed door and began pounding on it in hopes of getting through, but before the Skywalkers could stop her from hurting herself, a lightsaber from one of the Sith pierced through the door and into Rhondi's head, killing her instantly.
[edit] Personality and traits
- "If you want grandchildren someday, you need to have a conversation with your son about how to talk to the ladies."
- ―Rhondi Tremaine, to Luke Skywalker, after Ben shackes her to the floor with stun cuffs[src]
Rhondi Tremaine had a strong connection to her brother Rolund. They served side by side under Admiral Daala's command for many years and remained together after joining the Mind Walkers at Sinkhole Station. The two siblings had similar expressions, and maintained a strong Force bond. When Ben Skywalker threatened Rolund's life by trapping him in a sealed room, Rhondi protested loudly and begged Ben to stop. She was forced to take Ben beyond shadows and insure his survival to save Rolund's life, even though the Mind Walkers believed that nothing mattered except the Force, not even death.
[edit] Behind the scenes
Rhondi Tremaine was created by author Troy Denning for Abyss, the third novel in the nine-part Fate of the Jedi series.
