Alema Rar

"Everything's a trap with you."

- Tahiri Veila

Alem'arar, better known as Alema Rar, was a Twi'lek Jedi Knight in the New Jedi Order and served during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Alema and her sister Numa were trained by Twi'lek Jedi Master Daeshara'cor. During the Dark Nest crisis, she became a Joiner of the Gorog nest of Killiks, leading their forces as the Night Herald against her former comrades. She wielded a silver-bladed lightsaber during the Yuuzhan Vong War and, later, a dark blue (almost black) blade during the Dark Nest Crisis. During the Confederation-Galactic Alliance War, she was a Dark Jedi.

The Yuuzhan Vong War (25 ABY–30 ABY)
"Embrace the pain, scarhead."

- Alema Rar



This blue-skinned Twi'lek, along with her sister Numa Rar, was one of the founders and leaders of the Yuuzhan Vong resistance force on New Plympto. When the Yuuzhan Vong decided to destroy New Plympto because of the aggravation of the resistance, Alema and her sister snuck out aboard the Nebula Chaser. However, the Yuuzhan Vong caught the vessel and sent voxyn, Jedi-sensing destroyers, aboard. The voxyn found the Twi'lek sisters and while the Jedi fought these monsters, one of them sprayed acid at Numa's face, eating it away and killing her even as Alema dragged her into an escape pod. Not long after, Alema was then rescued by Jaina Solo and Mara Jade Skywalker as they had been nearby searching for the two sisters. When Alema was recovering from her physical injuries from the voxyn in a bacta tank, Luke Skywalker realized that she would eventually turn to the dark side.

Alema later participated in the Jedi strike against the voxyn. She believed along with Raynar Thul that destroying the voxyn and defeating the Yuuzhan Vong would justify any action they undertake; this caused great controversy among the group, especially with Jacen and Zekk. During the mission, she began to show an attraction to Anakin Solo, which was a cause of concern for his father Han Solo, because though close in age, she was much more mature than him in many ways. Her attraction also caused her to be a target of jealousy from Tahiri Veila. She was one of the few Jedi who survived the Myrkr mission. Even so, the loss of her sister coupled with the disaster at Myrkr drove her into near paranoia.



Alema traveled to Hapes with the rest of the remaining strike team, but then soon departed with Han and Leia Organa Solo to Borleias. When the Millennium Falcon arrived in the Borleias system they found themselves in the middle of a Yuuzhan Vong fleet and during the ensuing action Alema manned one of the Falcon's gun turrets. Alema assisted in the Battle of Borleias which was technically lost, although it represented a great moral victory.

After arriving at Borleias, she was sent on a mission (recommended by Talon Karrde's organization) on the refugee ship Jeolocas, which was expectedly ambushed by the Yuuzhan Vong. Alema forced the Corellian captain into hiding, who thought her to be Peace Brigade. When the Yuuzhan Vong boarding party arrived, led by Bastori Rak, posing as the captain, she enticed them with the promise of Jedi training materials. When arriving in the cargo hold, she showed her true allegiance with her lightsaber, opening the containers holding YVH droids and killing all the Vong. To celebrate this victory she made a flirtatious offer to Lando, which he politely refused, then told the captain he could come out of hiding.

She later joined with Admiral Kre'fey's military fleet along with many other Jedi, and helped develop the Jedi mind meld. Alema was also one of the Jedi to be knighted during this time on Mon Calamari. She would then fight in the Battle of Ebaq 9, which saw an enormous victory for the New Republic. Alema would later bond with seed partners and fly a Zonama Sekotan Fighter to defend Zonama Sekot from the Yuuzhan Vong.

Dark Nest Crisis (35 ABY–36 ABY)
"You saw this coming, didn't you?" "Not this &mdash; not Gorog. But I knew Alema would fall."

- Jacen Solo and Luke Skywalker

At the beginning of the Dark Nest Crisis, Alema became a Joiner of the Gorog nest and turned on Han and Leia at Woteba and later, Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker. On Qoribu's moon, Kr, Alema's arm was severely maimed by Luke's lightsaber, who mercifully let her crawl into a tunnel and escape. Luke would later claim that due to the loss of her sister, it wasn't so much if Alema would turn to the dark side, but when.

Over the next year Alema continued to serve under the Dark Nest's influence, becoming the nest's new Night Herald. A year following the Qoribu debacle, Alema encountered Luke and Han on Woteba, the new home of the Saras Nest under the leadership of Raynar Thul (now known as UnuThul). She tried to plant seeds of doubt in Luke and Han over Mara's past life as Emperor's Hand in order to hide the presence of Lomi Plo, who was also a Joiner of the Dark Nest.

Later on, Alema led the Gorog into battle against the Galactic Alliance in the area of the Utegetu Nebula known as the Murgo Choke. After boarding the Alliance cruiser, Admiral Ackbar, Alema encountered Leia, who over the past year had trained in the ways of the Jedi under Saba Sebatyne. The two engaged in lightsaber combat and Alema proved to be a worthy opponent for Leia, beating her to the point of almost knocking her unconscious. Leia, however, was able to sever one of Alema's lekku and the Dark Jedi was forced to flee.

Alema apparently met her end in the Swarm War during another duel with Leia on Tenupe. While trying to coax a native spidersloth into eating Leia, Alema was caught off-guard by Leia and knocked into the carnivore's path. Before she could properly react, the spidersloth pulled her into its mouth and made off with her struggling form. Her body, however, was not found, and it was assumed that it had been entirely eaten. The Chiss were less than pleased with the Alliance's answer, saying that they "preferred certainties to presumptions."

Survival
"We have no time for your games."

- Alema Rar

In 40 ABY it was discovered that Alema survived her supposed death, though she was horribly disfigured after barely cutting out of the spidersloth. It was after her resurfacing that Alema set out to find and kill the entire Solo and Skywalker families for what had been done to her physically and for the destruction of the Gorog Dark Nest. Her first quarry was Jacen Solo, whom she found on Coruscant. Alema tracked Jacen into the lower levels and fired a poisoned dart meant to kill him but it instead hit the World Brain, which would later die. Jacen's life had been saved by Dark Lady of the Sith Lumiya, who in the course of a subsequent conversation made it clear that Jacen was her apprentice. This revelation shocked Alema, who wondered if the galaxy had gone mad.

While following Jacen later, she witnessed a discussion between him and Lumiya and came to the conclusion that Lumiya was manipulating Jacen into becoming a Sith. This pleased Alema greatly since Jacen's becoming a Sith would cause great amounts of pain to Leia, whom Alema hated most and wished to suffer as much pain as she herself had suffered at Leia's hand. Alema referred to this as "the Balance", which was a perverse way for her to justify her dark side deeds. She would later reveal herself to Lumiya when she helped her to kill Jedi Master Tresina Lobi, who had been spying on Ben Skywalker to determine whether Jacen was turning him to the dark side, and who subsequently also witnessed Jacen and Lumiya's meeting. Alema dedicated herself to helping Lumiya and her plan, assisting with assassinations of members of the Bothan True Victory Party.

"We hope you will let us serve you. What you are doing with Jacen is so delicious – and so right for the Balance."

- Alema Rar to Lumiya

Alema secretly accompanied Lumiya to the Hapes Consortium on the GAG Star Destroyer Anakin Solo. She assisted Lumiya in preparing for a fight with Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker at Roqoo Depot, removing explosives from various missiles to be placed in vests and attached to a detonator linked to the wearer's heart. This way, should either Alema or Lumiya die at a Skywalker's hand, the explosive would detonate and kill all in the surrounding area. At Roqoo, Luke and Mara were aware of Lumiya's presence, but not of Alema's. While Luke was engaged fighting Lumiya, Alema had the drop on Mara. But she did not want for Mara to die without Luke knowing it was going to happen just before, causing him greater agony that he had not stopped it and thus better serving the Balance. However, she let her intentions be known to Luke through the Force and, to her surprise, he allowed Lumiya to injure him severely by severing his mechanical hand, so that he could warn Mara in time. Mara and Alema dueled, and Mara knocked Alema unconscious, but could not bring herself to kill an unconscious foe. When Mara searched Alema's body for weapons, she discovered the bomb-vest, and managed to disarm it and warn Luke before he killed Lumiya who was also wearing such a vest.

Alema then returned to the Anakin Solo and revealed herself to Jacen, who very much wanted to kill her for her involvement with Gorog, and informed him of her and Lumiya's failure at Roqoo. She expressed her belief that Lumiya was dead, but Lumiya's fate was not in reality confirmed. Jacen did not kill Alema for fear of her having set a trap that, should she die, his paternity of Tenel Ka's daughter Allana would be revealed. Therefore Jacen allowed her to leave on the condition that she was to never come near his family again. She agreed, but before she left she sowed the seeds of doubt in Jacen's mind about the innocence of Han and Leia Solo regarding their part in the coup against Hapan Queen Mother Tenel Ka. She was successful in this final endeavor as Jacen nearly killed his parents, his sister Jaina, Zekk, and apprentice Ben by having the Anakin Solo open fire upon the Millennium Falcon.

Alema left the Anakin Solo aboard the sabotaged Duracrud and enlisted the aide of its captain, Uran Lavint. After fixing the hyperdrive of the Duracrud Alema and Uran left for the Errant Venture where Alema would again try to kill Han, Leia, Luke and Mara, only to fail again. The Jedi had learned how to counter her Force-flashing and used it against her setting her in a trap while in one of the Venture's casinos where she was confronted by Zekk, Corran Horn, Leia and Jaina. She escaped through a turbolift shaft only to be confronted by Jagged Fel, who shot her in the left shoulder, further mutilating her. Alema knocked Jag down and escaped the Venture by stealing the Duracrud. Alema would return again at a secret meeting on Gilatter VIII and would again engage Leia in a lightsaber duel. The duel ended in a draw with Alema escaping again.

Behind the scenes

 * On page 280 of Exile, Alema is misspelled Alena.

Appearances

 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Destiny's Way
 * Ylesia
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
 * Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Tempest
 * Exile
 * Sacrifice