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Lumiya

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Rebirth 1.3 The Fall of the Empire 1.4 Nagai-Tof War 1.5 Working with Isard 1.6 Into hiding 1.7 Interaction with the Yuuzhan Vong 1.8 JVS page references 1.9 Revenge 1.10 Legacy 2 Appearances 3 Sources 4 Notes and references

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

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"Although the Emperor knew of Brie's talent and force sensitivity, it was Vader who recommended her for a Rebel infiltration mission. To provide a credible background, the Empire razed the city of Chinshassa on Shalyvane." (NEGTC)

"After her graduation, Shira served in Imperial Intelligence under the leadership of Ysanne Isard. Almost immediately, she was sent on a highly sensitive mission-a mission that had been ordered by Darth Vader himself. Her objective was to cause Luke Skywalker to join the Empire. To achieve this, she would aim to alienate him from the Rebel Alliance, thus encouraging him to turn to his father. If she could not do this, she was to kill the young Rebel. As a measure of how important the Emperor saw this mission, he had the city of Chinshassa on Shalyvane utterly destroyed in order to give Shira Brie a convincing identity. She arrived at the Rebel base on Arbra claiming to be a refugee from Shalyvane. She was welcomed and soon made contact with Luke. Shira was drafted into Rogue Squadron and flew with Luke on a mission to free Cloud City from Imperial control." (Fact File)

"Shira Elan Colla Brie was born on Coruscant, and spent her life serving as a key agent of the Empire. It was Darth Vader who handpicked Brie for accelerated training in Imperial Intelligence. Her mind was enhanced through mnemonic drug training, her body hardened through expertise of exotic martial arts. Proving herself a capable agent, Brie was dispatched by Vader to infiltrate the Rebel Alliance. One of her primary goals was to discredit Luke Skywalker. Vader hoped that his son, finding no quarter within the Alliance ranks, would eventually wander back to him. Brie almost succeeded when Luke destroyed her fighter, but Skywalker was able to prove his innocence, and reveal Brie's past." (Databank)

[edit] Rebirth

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"Shira did not die in the TIE fighter incident. Her crippled body was gathered by Vader's agents, and she recuperated within secret chambers aboard the Super Star Destroyer Executor. Vader watched closely as Brie's body was rebuilt and enhanced through mechanical implants. Fueled by rage and an already promising strength in the Force, Brie emerged from the bacta tanks a changed woman. She had given in to hatred, and was renamed the Dark Lady Lumiya. Impressed with his pupil's development, Vader began to hone her Force abilities. Vader knew that no secret could be kept from his master, the Emperor. He presented Palpatine with Lumiya as a gift -- as a new Emperor's Hand. Palpatine accepted, and Vader continued her training. Lumiya was sequestered on the ancient Sith world of Ziost when the Battle of Endor forever changed the Empire. It was on this frigid world that she crafted her unique weapon -- a lightwhip built of Kaiburr crystal shards and Mandalorian iron." (Databank)

"Meanwhile, Brie was not dead. Her body had been recovered and taken to Darth Vader on his Super Star Destroyer Executor. There, Vader had Imperial scientists work round the clock to restore Shira to an operational state. This involved the use of prosthetic limbs and a life-support suit. Brie awoke from her coma consumed by anger. Her descent into the dark side accelerated, and she became even more powerful. Vader was proud of his creation and presented Shira, now renamed Dark Lady Lumiya, to the Emperor as an Emperor's Hand. Her first task was to travel to the planet Ziost, the ancient capital of the Sith Empire, and build herself a weapon. Using Sith technology, Lumiya constructed a deadly lightwhip." (Fact File)

"The Geonosian technology responsible for giving Grievous a second life was significantly improved after the beginning of the Clone Wars. It was used in the reconstruction of Anakin Skywalker's shattered body following his battle with Obi-Wan Kenobi on Mustafar and, later, Darth Vader would employ the Empire's best bio-scientists to secretly refashion his dark-side pupil Shira Brie into his own image with similar technology." (Unknown Soldier, ending)

"Mara Jade could barely contain her rage. Solo had revealed the identity of the Emperor's other Hand: Roganda Ismaren. Mara knew her but had never considered Roganda anything mroe than one of Palpatine's favorite amusements. He said I was the only one, the extension of his will... While the revelation struck hard, Mara had fostered suspicions for years. During his campaign against the New Republic, Thrawn called Mara a glorified courier, like "the rest of the Emperor's Hands." But Thrawn being Thrawn, none knew whether he was divulging useful information or pulling invisible strings. In such light, denial had been simple. Memories began coming to the fore, striking out from her mind like flying splinters of a shattered vibro-ax. Mara recalled one particular encounter with absolute clarity. There'd been a cyborg covered head to heel in metallic circuitry, a woman Mara would encounter again on Caprioril. Watching her, Mara had caught her own distorted reflection on the cyborg's metal crown. The Emperor asked Mara to leave then. As she passed the woman, Mara sensed an immediate, inexplicable, and mutual animosity that descended to an atomic level—like the repulsion of magnetic polarities. Underlying the cyborg's steel gaze, she sensed mocking laughter, as if the cyborg were aware of some secret knowlegdge that Mara was not. As they parted, eyes still engaged in a silent duel of loathing, Mara peripherally heard the Emperor cackle: "Come Lumiya. You will be an extension of my will..."(EP, foreward)

"He assigned a Force-sensitive Imperial Intelligence agent named Shira Brie to infiltrate the Rebel Alliance, but her mission to discredit Luke Skywalker was a failure and left her horribly injured. Because Vader still considered Brie valuable, he ordered Imperial medics to replace her shattered limbs with cyborg prosthetics, and offered her to Palpatine to serve as an elite secret operative." (Rise and Fall of Darth Vader)

[edit] The Fall of the Empire

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[edit] Nagai-Tof War

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"In the nebulous and shifting alliances that plagued the Imperial fragments during the Nagai invasion, Lumiya attached her Imperial resources -- which included three Star Destroyers, two frigates and four corvettes -- to the alien fleet belonging to the Tofs. When the Tof incursion was eventually repulsed, Lumiya disappeared from the galaxy." (Databank)

[edit] Working with Isard

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"Left alone, Lumiya sought ships to supplement her decimated fleet. She also petitioned Ysanne Isard for Royal Guards. Isard agreed conditionally: in exchange, Lumiya had to "remind" Imperial researchers in the Cron Drift of their loyalties and capture a wanted criminal named Mara Jade." (EP Lumiya entry)

"Lumiya accepted the mission, together with the ships and troops that Ysanne had made available to her. However, instead of pursuing her mission to its conclusion, Lumiya set herself up as a rogue warlord. She continues to ride the spaceways to this day, and her exact whereabouts are unknown." (Fact File)

"Lumiya accepted Isard's warships and stormtroopers, but struck out on her own as a minor warlord. She is believed to have trained would-be emperor Carnor Jax in the ways of the Force." (NEGTC)

"Luke Skywalker gave Mara his old blue-bladed lightsaber, lost at Cloud City but recovered at Wayland. She used it to replace her violet saber, lost during the years she'd spent on the run from Isard and Isard's freelance enforcer, Lumiya." (NEGTC Mara entry)

• Mission to Cron Drift—Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire.
• Duel on Caprioril—Emperor's Pawns, Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force

[edit] Into hiding

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"Except for aforementioned information from Mara Jade, there are few records of Lumiya's activities between 4 ABY and the current year of 40 ABY. Following the Emperor's death, Lumiya was conscripted by Ysanne Isard, the direct of Imperial Intelligence. Isard dispatched Lumiya to hunt down fugitive Emperor's Hand Mara Jade, whom Lumiya fought on Caprioril. Mara Jade defeated Lumiya, and yet again Lumiya was assumed dead, an assumption that was only strenghtened by the lack of any records of Lumiya after the duel on Caprioril." (JVS)

"Like Bane after the Battle of Ruusan, Lumiya plunged the Sith Order back into secrecy." (EP)

[edit] Interaction with the Yuuzhan Vong

^{[9] [24] [13]} "The Yaga Minor spaceports are now on full alert, but if the heroes reach the lab they discover that Lumiya has arrived at the same time, hoping to steal the pollen for her own purposes. Assuming the heroes survive their encounter with this Sith Lord and her escorts, they must still escape through a wall of angry Star Destroyers and TIE fighters." (IYV)

"I paid no heed while the Yuuzhan Vong ravaged the galaxy. We later sought to bring the Dark Jedi, Lumiya, into the Order but she sided with Vergere and her creation, Darth Caedus. Caedus—another Skywalker gone to the dark side—served our plans however unwittingly. He was a Sith lightning rod, attracting the Jedis' attention away from us." (Legacy)

[edit] JVS page references

Brie-47-48, 221 Lumiya-xv, xvi, xxi, 47-49, 51, 146-147, 220

[edit] Revenge

^{[10] [14] [25] [26] [3]} "Disappearing from the galactic spotlight for years, Lumiya's travels brought her to the Mecrosa Order's trove of Sith lore. Studying ancient Sith knowledge, Lumiya emerged after the Yuuzhan Vong War to lure Jacen Solo to her asteroid sanctuary in the MZX32905 system." (Databank)

[edit] Legacy

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[edit] Appearances

• Star Wars 56: Coffin in the Clouds (First appearance)
• Star Wars 57: Hello, Bespin, Goodbye
• Star Wars 58: Sundown
• Star Wars 60: Shira's Story
• Star Wars 61: Screams in the Void
• Star Wars 62: Pariah (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars 63: The Mind Spider
• The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars 88: Figurehead (First appearance as Lumiya)
• Star Wars 95: No Zeltrons
• Star Wars 96: Duel With a Dark Lady
• Star Wars 97: Escape
• Star Wars 100: First Strike
• Star Wars 107: All Together Now
• "Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire" - Star Wars Galaxy 3
• Betrayal
• Bloodlines
• Tempest
• Exile
• Sacrifice
• Inferno (Mentioned only)
• (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars Legacy 18: Claws of the Dragon, Part 5 (Mentioned only)

[edit] Sources

•  Lumiya in the Databank
•  Carida: Heavy Duty on Wizards.com (article)
• The Emperor's Pawns
• I, Yuuzhan Vong
• The Official Star Wars Fact File 111
• The New Essential Guide to Characters
• The Dark Forces Saga
• The New Essential Chronology
• Evil Never Dies: The Sith Dynasties
• Unknown Soldier: The Story of General Grievous
• Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
• Star Wars Miniatures: Legacy of the Force
• "Comic Marvels" - Star Wars Insider 91
•  Behind the Threat: The Sith, Part 1: Portrayal on Wizards.com (article)

[edit] Notes and references