User:QuentinGeorge/Kendalina

"We have opened the child's mind to the larger world of the Force."

- Coleman Trebor

Kendalina, born Ludi Billane, and known briefly as Aris-Del Wari was a Jedi youngling in the months before the Clone Wars. As an infant, was at the center of a custody dispute between her mother Jonava Billane and the Jedi Order. She was a student at the Kamparas Training Center during the Clone Wars and, after the Great Jedi Purge served as a nurse in an Imperial insane asylum on Kessel until her death in 7 BBY.

Biography
After the groundquake of Ord Thoden, a team of Jedi rescue workers found a Force-sensitive child in the ruins of the Ord Thoden capital Domitree. Presuming the child's parents to be dead, the Jedi named the child Aris-Del Wari and decided to train her in the ways of the Force.

When Jonava Billane recovered and learned her child, Ludi, had survived and been rescued by the Jedi, she traveled to Coruscant and petitioned to be reunited with her daughter. However, the Jedi Council rejected her petition, arguing that giving back the child to her would be too dangerous now that the baby's mind had been opened to the Force.

The case went public, gaining Billane many supporters galaxywide. She eventually appeared on the Eriadu-based talkshow Essence to tell her story. Her particular episode was seen by over 25 billion sentient viewers and gained her much support. During the show she broke into tears four times, gaining even more sympathy galaxywide than before. She thanked all her supporters and also revealed that she had authorized a full-length holo feature based on her story.

Jonava seemed to eventually lose interest in the case, focusing more on the holo feature that would tell the story of her and "Baby Ludi." When Aris-Del was moved to the Jedi Training Center on Kamparas, Jonava was too busy reviewing casting auditions for the holo feature to comment on it publicly.

The case of "Baby Ludi" sparked considerable anti-Jedi feelings throughout the Galaxy.

Kendalina's origins were unknown, but she was probably a youngling or Padawan survivor of the Great Jedi Purge. The reason for her designation as a "Jedi Princess" was also unknown. It is possible that she was both a Jedi and the offspring of a noble or royal family (much like Leia Organa Solo, a princess who later became a Jedi, or Oppo Rancisis and Dooku, who were both members of royal families before becoming Jedi).

Kendalina fell in love with an inmate named Triclops and conceived a child with him. When Kendalina later died of unknown causes, the child, named Ken, was hidden in the Lost City of the Jedi.