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Shifting loyalties
"After the Sith attacked&hellip;Massacred!&hellip;So many Jedi on Coruscant and Ossus&hellip;a lot of us apprentices just scattered&mdash;Made our way the best we could. Like you! A pirate rescued you! That's what you became! An Imperial Knight rescued me. They finished my training&mdash;I owe them&hellip;"

- Azlyn Rae to Cade Skywalker

The Human female Azlyn Rae grew up at the Jedi Academy on Ossus, where she trained to be a Jedi as an apprentice to Master Rasi Tuum. While training, she spent much of her time with her fellow apprentice Cade Skywalker, and the two often embarked on adventures through Ossus's jungles together. They once put live gullipuds in the boots of Wolf Sazen, Skywalker's Master, and were forced to clean nerf stables for a week as punishment. Throughout their pranks and evenings spent meditating together, Rae and Skywalker grew close and developed feelings for one another, kissing on at least one occasion. Their romance and Rae's training were cut short in 130 ABY with the conclusion of the Sith–Imperial War, however. Rae and Tuum were at the Jedi Temple on the galactic capital of Coruscant when a group of Sith serving Lord Darth Krayt attacked. Tuum told Rae to run, and she did, losing her master amidst the smoke and chaos and managing to flee the planet. She believed the worst and assumed her Master to be dead. Coruscant fell to the One Sith, who attacked Ossus two days later and completed their fracturing of the Jedi Order. Many Jedi were scattered, and Rae believed Skywalker to be dead as well.

Darth Krayt installed himself as Emperor of the galaxy and began hunting surviving Jedi. Rae attempted to forget her past, putting memories of Skywalker behind her, and began to wander the galaxy in disguise doing odd jobs and trying to make ends meet. She showed some prowess as a bounty hunter and took it up as a profession. Rae eventually encountered an Imperial Knight, who recognized her sensitivity to the Force and offered to complete her training. She accepted and swore oaths of loyalty to Roan Fel, Emperor of the Empire-in-exile, promising to serve the Force through dedication to him and his throne. Rae's training began, and her understanding of the Force expanded. She constructed her own lightsaber, identical to the standardized model of the order but with an orange rather than a silver blade. After completing her training and becoming a full-fledged Imperial Knight, Rae earned the rank of "Master", a title reserved for the order's highest-ranking members. Her diverse training prompted the Emperor to often assign her on missions as a Scout and undercover agent. During her time as an Imperial Knight, Rae developed feelings for fellow Knight Ganner Krieg.

Tense reunions
In 137 ABY, Rae found out that Skywalker had survived the Massacre at Ossus. He had been working as a bounty hunter himself for seven years, but had recently begun to become involved in major galactic affairs. He was a brief guest of Emperor Fel's on the Imperial fortress world of Bastion after rescuing Fel's daughter Marasiah from the clutches of the Sith, and was later a captive of Darth Krayt on Coruscant before escaping. When Fel was made aware of the latter development, he feared that Skywalker had divulged Imperial secrets to the Sith, and sent Rae out into the galaxy to locate him and convince him to return to Bastion.

Rae donned a bounty hunter disguise and tracked Skywalker to the Crimson Axe on Socorro, where she observed he and his friends bully Rav, the Crimson Axe owner, into turning the starship Grinning Liar over to the smugglers Chak and Kee. Before Skywalker departed the planet in his own starship, the Mynock, Rae placed a homing beacon on its hull. This allowed her to cloak her ship and follow him to Iego. Once there, the Mynock helped Skywalker's uncle Rawk dispatch some members of the Black Sun criminal organization that were causing trouble for Rawk's family, and Rae landed her ship away from Rawk's home to observe the skirmish. When the criminals had been defeated, Rae reported her coordinates and status to Marasiah Fel, who was following close behind in a starship.

While Skywalker and the Mynock crew visited with Rawk and his family, Rae awaited further instructions from Marasiah. After four days, she sneaked up on Skywalker at the site of the landed Mynock and physically attacked her former friend. Skywalker was high on the euphoria of death sticks and could not adequately defend himself, but his uncle swiftly arrived and was able to put up a fight. Rae and Rawk battled telekinetically with the Force, before Rae drew her lightsaber on the older man. He responded by knocking her arm out of the way and elbowing her in the face, knocking her out of the fight. Skywalker recovered and approached the two, prompting Rae to remove her mask and reveal her face. Surprised to see her, Skywalker invited her into Rawk's home to drink some caf. Therein, she sat down with Skywalker, Rawk, Rawk's wife Droo, Skywalker's co-pilot Jariah Syn, and his mechanic, Deliah Blue. Rae told them of her past since the Sith's attack on Coruscant, but left out any mention of the Imperial Knights, claiming to still be a bounty hunter and to have pursued Skywalker in the interest of collecting the bounty on his head. She also claimed to no longer be interested in collecting it, as Skywalker was the same friend she remembered from her childhood. At that moment, Rawk's long-range sensors detected the arrival of a Star Destroyer in the system, belonging to Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire. The crew of the Mynock hid while Rae and the Rawks received Captain Gurlok, the Imperial officer who landed on the ground to confront them.

Outside of Rawk's home, the captain and his stormtroopers physically assaulted Rae and Rawk, demanding to know who had recently lent the Rawk family assistance in their battle with members of Black Sun. He did not believe Rae's claim that it had been her, and threatened to harm Rawk's children until he got the answers he wanted. A bloodied Rae was able to persuade him to leave with a mind trick, however, and the Imperials departed Iego. Skywalker began preparations to leave himself, hoping to somehow kill Darth Krayt, which he believed would allow him to lose himself in the criminal underworld. Rawk suggested that he might find allies at a Hidden Jedi Temple, and boarded the Mynock in order to lead its crew there. Rae was permitted to join them, and as she moved her ship into the Mynock cargo hold, she sent an update to Marasiah, who was in her own ship with fellow Imperial Knights Antares Draco and Ganner Krieg.

The Mynock traveled to the Hidden Temple on Taivas, and after it arrived in-system, Rae dropped a homing beacon out of its garbage disposal. Her fellow Imperial Knights followed the Mynock to the temple in their cloaked ship, and landed immediately behind Skywalker's vessel on a landing platform. As a greeting party arrived to welcome the Mynock crew, the Jedi Knight Shado Vao saw Marasiah and her companions depart and drew his lightsaber. He and Skywalker began to duel Draco and Krieg, and after a furious Skywalker Force-pushed the two Knights away, he realized that Rae had betrayed him and began shouting at her. Marasiah asserted that the Imperial Knights were on a diplomatic mission and placed Rae within its safe conduct, and as tensions began to die down, the Imperial delegation was brought to see the Jedi Council. Rae waited outside the council chambers under the watchful eye of Master Mai as Marasiah proposed to the council an alliance between the Jedi and her father's Empire, directed against Darth Krayt's forces.

While Rae waited, she brought a cup of caf to Jariah Syn and apologized for betraying the Mynock crew. Syn was sympathetic, however, as her actions had caused the Jedi stress. Rae attempted to discover the reason for his dislike of the Jedi but was interrupted by Rasi Tuum, who approached his former apprentice and hugged her. The two were both relieved to see the other alive. Tuum openly questioned Rae's loyalties, sensing that while her Imperial duty was clear to her mind, her heart yearned for the Jedi way. She left to consider his words and sought out Marasiah in the quarters that had been assigned to them. Marasiah, too, could sense Rae's conflict, and reminded her that the oaths she had sworn were lifelong. She also stressed that the only Imperial Knight to have ever left the order had died soon after. While Rae struggled with her dilemma, the Jedi Council refused Skywalker's request for help in his mission to assassinate Darth Krayt. He was determined to proceed without their assistance, however, and Marasiah assigned Rae, Draco, and Krieg to accompany him while she remained behind to continue negotiating with the Jedi. Skywalker's astromech droid R2-D2 opened the Mynock cargo bay doors so that Draco and Krieg could load their TIE predators, and Skywalker grudgingly accepted the Imperial Knights' offer of assistance. Shado Vao joined the strike team as the Jedi's sole representative, and the Mynock made its way to the Deep Core.

Ambush in the Core
Skywalker formulated a plan to lure Krayt to the Deep Core world of Had Abbadon. En route, Rae sat outside of his quarters while he meditated. She tried to apologize for using him to sneak Marasiah into the Hidden Temple, and appealed to their childhood memories while seeking forgiveness. While she spoke to his door, the ship was drawn out of hyperspace by the interdiction field of the Star Destroyer Iron Sun, which Old Republic Jedi Celeste Morne had commandeered ten years before and kept dormant in the Deep Core. Skywalker emerged from the captain's quarters and accused Rae of interdicting them, and the two argued on their way to the bridge. No TIE predators or other ships came out of the Destroyer to meet them, and when the Mynock was locked in a tractor beam, Skywalker and Vao sensed the presence of a Force-user aboard. The strike team set out to explore the derelict vessel, and Rae's party, including herself, Skywalker, Syn and Vao, found nothing but bones in the hangar bay. Draco and Krieg commed Rae from adjacent corridors and reported similar discoveries, and as Rae's party mulled over their findings, a group of Rakghoul beasts emerged from a doorway and attacked them. Rae was scratched and Skywalker was bitten before Celeste Morne arrived and ordered the beasts to stop. She was able to control them with the power of the Muur Talisman, an ancient Sith artifact that housed the spirit of the Sith Lord Karness Muur.

When she saw that Rae and Skywalker had been infected by the Rakghoul plague, Morne Force-pushed them into a holding cell and shut a door to keep away Syn and Vao, hoping to keep Rae and Skywalker quarantined until the plague caused them to mutate into Rakghouls. She told them that the plague had no cure, and promised to quickly kill them after they transformed. While they waited, Morne told them of her past and how she had come to wear the Muur Talisman in order to keep Karness Muur's spirit contained. Rae and Skywalker began bleeding, and Skywalker, desperate, asked Morne if the Rakghoul plague was a disease. She replied in the affirmative, and Skywalker grabbed Rae and called on his healing powers to rid both of them of their ailment. Their minds flashed back to their youth together as energy surrounded them, and their disease vanished. Morne was impressed by Skywalker's use and control of the Force, and as the door that she had earlier shut opened, she offered to join their strike team. With a new passenger, the Mynock thus completed its journey to Had Abbadon, a planet that was under the control of Krayt's Empire.

At Had Abbadon's Imperial base, Draco, Krieg, and Vao fired on TIE pilots from their starfighters as Rae, Skywalker, and Morne stormed the base. Morne used the Talisman to turn the defending stormtroopers into Rakghouls, who attacked Darth Reave, their Sith overseer. After being scratched, Reave fled, and a telekinetic push from Morne prevented Rae and Skywalker from pursuing him. She had spontaneously decided to allow Reave to report to Krayt, hoping that the bait of the Muur Talisman would lure the Sith Lord into their trap. As the strike team prepared themselves for Krayt's arrival, Rae was approached by Krieg, and the two discussed the feelings that they had for one another. The tender moment was interrupted by Draco, who had received new orders from their Emperor via the HoloNet: obtain the Muur Talisman. Rae thought that the Sith device was evil, and stormed off, disgusted by the new orders.

Rather than let the Talisman corrupt her Emperor, she decided to destroy it by killing Morne, and approached Morne's quarters with a blaster in hand. Skywalker approached her outside of the door, however, and began teasing her when he caught wind of her intentions. A brawl erupted, and the two swung at each other with both fists and lightsabers. Rae re-asserted her position that Morne and the Talisman needed to be destroyed, but Skywalker calmed her down by catching hold of her and mentioning their romantic youth. Feelings came flooding back to both of them, and they kissed before retiring to the quarters of the base's former commander for more private intimacy. As they cuddled on a couch and reminisced, Karness Muur began telepathically speaking to them, and Skywalker left to confront Morne.

Morne used Skywalker as additional bait and contacted Krayt, inviting the Sith Lord to Had Abbadon so that both Skywalker and the Talisman could heal him of a malady that was slowly killing him. Krayt arrived along with four of his most trusted Sith Lords: Darths Stryfe, Wyyrlok, Talon, and Maladi. All of the Sith Lords save Wyyrlok confronted Morne and Skywalker, before Rae, Krieg, Draco, and Vao emerged from hiding, having managed to conceal themselves in the Force. The six members of the strike team attacked the Sith, aided by Morne's army of Rakghouls, which ended up cutting the Imperial Knights off from the battle. Adamant that Krayt needed to die, Rae tried to stop Draco from pursuing the Talisman, but was angrily Force-pushed away. Krieg then physically restrained Draco and bid him to go after the Talisman while he and Rae dealt with Krayt. Rae and Krieg stood back-to-back as they made their way through the Rakghouls towards Krayt, who was dueling Morne.

As Morne distracted the Sith Lord, Rae saw an opportunity to attack, and tasked Skywalker with holding off the Rakghouls while she leapt at Krayt. Krayt was hurling Force lightning at his foe when Rae came from behind, stabbing him through the chest. Morne hurled the weakened Krayt's lightning back at him, and both Rae and Krayt were electrocuted. Morne then Force-pushed the Dark Lord off of a cliff while Rae collapsed to the ground, badly burnt and on the brink of death. An enraged Skywalker killed Morne and destroyed the Talisman, before Syn and Vao noticed that Rae was still alive. Skywalker attempted to heal her with the Force, and upon discovering that her body was too damaged, continued to pour Force energy into her as the strike team boarded the Mynock to go find a medical facility. Skywalker refused Krieg and Draco passage, however, as he knew that Draco had attempted to seize the Talisman for the Emperor. The Mynock made a desperate flight to Kiffex, where Rawk and his family had been hiding since their brush with Krayt's Imperials.

Another chance at life
As Syn brought the ship planetside, Skywalker kept up his attempts at healing, despite Rae's pleas to be allowed to die and be taken by the Force. The Mynock crash-landed in the middle of a storm, and Skywalker rushed onto the ground, handing Rae to Rawk and Droo and demanding that they heal her. He hurriedly told Droo, who was a Kiffar healer, that Rae wanted to live, and she brought him to the workroom of their family's compound. Droo placed Rae into a bacta tank, but Rae resisted any further attempts to heal her. Droo was ready to let her die, but Rawk insisted on honoring their promise to Skywalker. The two thus placed Rae in a suit of life-preserving armor that pumped bacta around her and breathed for, buying her time until a better solution could be found.

Rae was furious that Skywalker had lied to Droo, and attacked him when he returned to the Rawk Compound from a night at the nearby Ven Karya Spaceport. She accused him of selfishly keeping her alive when she had wanted to die, and tossed him around the room as she explained how trapped she felt inside the armor. Deliah Blue pulled a blaster on her as she choked Skywalker, and Rae, devastated, walked away, wanting nothing more than to leave the planet. She made her way to the Palace of the Sheyf family and stayed as a guest of Sheyf Zharia Vos. There, she was found two days later by Ganner Krieg, who had been sent by the Emperor to retrieve her. Krieg brought her back to Bastion.

In the care of the Imperial Knights, Rae was fitted with new armor by Hogrum Chalk, the Master Armorer of the order. The improved design resembled crimson Imperial Knight armor and negated the need for a helmet, as Chalk installed an artificial breathing system in the suit's neck. Some time after her return from Kiffex, Rae tested out her new armor's capabilities in a sparring match with Krieg. Master Treis Sinde directed them as several other Imperial Knights watched, including Chalk and the Emperor. Rae called on Krieg to give the duel his all so that she could discover what her armor was made of.

Trap on Agamar
With her new armor tested and ready, Rae joined a contingent of Imperial Knights that accompanied the Emperor to Agamar in order to conduct peace talks with the Jedi Order. Several Imperial Knights disguised themselves as farmers and hid away from the rest of the party on the planet's surface, while the main party, including Rae, made camp for the night on Agamar's grassy plains. The next morning they awoke and met with representatives from the Jedi, led by Master K'Kruhk and including Rasi Tuum.

A formal alliance was struck, and Fel declared Bastion a safe haven for both the Jedi and the Galactic Alliance, but the parleying was quickly interrupted by an approaching intruder riding a local animal. Masters Krieg and Dare began firing at the animal with blaster rifles until Fel recognized the rider as Nyna Calixte, the Director of Imperial Intelligence for Krayt's Empire who had held the same title under Fel's leadership prior to the conclusion of the Sith–Imperial War. Calixte hurriedly told the assembled party that the Sith were aware of the meeting and had sent a task force under the command of Moff Rulf Yage to capture or kill the Emperor. As the task force, led by the Pellaeon-class Star Destroyer War Hammer, engaged Fel's Dauntless in orbit, she suggested that the Imperial Knights and Jedi run if they wanted to survive.

The Jedi and the previously undisguised Imperial Knights donned farmer disguises of their own, but were nevertheless advanced upon by a group of Sith emerging from nearby swamps. Antares Draco and K'Kruhk called on their respective parties to defend Emperor Fel, and all disguises were shed as a battle ensued. Rae and Tuum fought side-by-side in an effort to protect Princess Marasiah, and at least ten Sith fell to the blades of the Imperial Knights and Jedi, as well as to Calixte's blaster. When the escape shuttle Defender One landed near the site of the melee in order to evacuate the Emperor, all of the surviving Imperial Knights and Jedi boarded, save for Rae, Marasiah, and Tuum, who were too far away. An explosion from the blasts of incoming TIE predators sent the three further away from the shuttle, knocking them unconscious. In an effort to protect the Emperor, Draco gave the order for the shuttle to lift off. Defender One escaped the planet, leaving Rae, Marasiah, and Tuum at the mercy of Krayt's Imperials.

While Rae and Tuum lay unconscious, Marasiah was taken by the Sith. They awoke, severely injured, and found that the princess was missing. Three days after the battle, they came across a grounded attack ship being used by Bokar and Yuln, two Sith who were searching the area for any survivors. When the Sith returned to their ship, Rae and Tuum ambushed them and struck them dead. Although Tuum wanted to return to Bastion, Rae insisted that her duty dictated that she try to rescue the princess. Tuum obliged, and the two piloted the attack ship to the Sith–Imperial fleet in orbit, where they sensed that Marasiah was being held. Their attempts to infiltrated the War Hammer failed when they discovered that their docking codes were no longer valid, and they were forced to flee into hyperspace from pursuing attack craft.

Rae and Tuum returned to Bastion, and made it past the planet's mines when they transmitted the proper clearance codes. Their approach nevertheless set off alarms, and a group of Imperial Knights and Jedi rushed onto a landing platform to find that a Sith attack ship was making planetfall. Rae contacted Ganner Krieg on his personal comlink, which prevented Bastion's artillery batteries from firing upon her craft as it landed. After she disembarked, Rae was seized by a frantic Antares Draco, who demanded to know where Marasiah was. She related her story, but he continued to accost her, claiming that she should have died rather than return home without the princess. Tuum's attempts at intervention led to him being Force-pushed across the landing platform, but the confrontation was halted by Hogrum Chalk, who informed the Imperial Knights present that they were needed in the Emperor's quarters. Therein, Fel worried that his daughter knew all of the Empire's codes, and gave Draco three hours to form a plan to rescue her.

Powers and abilities
She knows battle strike, mind trick, Force slam, rebuke.

Behind the scenes
In issue 28 of Star Wars: Legacy, Azlyn Rae's orange lightsaber is incorrectly colored blue.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Legacy: Loyalties
 * Star Wars Legacy: The Hidden Temple
 * Star Wars Legacy: Vector
 * Star Wars Legacy: Storms
 * Star Wars Legacy 39: Tatooine, Part 3
 * Star Wars Legacy 43: Monster, Part 1
 * Star Wars Legacy 45: Monster, Part 3
 * Star Wars Legacy 46: Monster, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Legacy 48: Extremes, Part 1
 * Star Wars Legacy 49: Extremes, Part 2

Notes and references
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