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"My true name is Shira Brie.''" "But you're better known as Lumiya." "''Yes."

- Lumiya reveals herself to Jacen Solo

Shira Elan Colla Brie was a Force-sensitive Human female born on Imperial Center during the height of Galactic Emperor Palpatine's reign over the majority of the galaxy. Originally an Imperial Intelligence major within the Galactic Empire, Brie embarked on a number of missions designed to destabilize the Rebel Alliance war movement on behalf of Palpatine's chief lieutenant, the Sith Lord Darth Vader, while also receiving rudimentary training in the dark side of the Force. Brie's primary objective was to infiltrate the Alliance as an undercover agent and either cause the death of or facilitate the ostracization of Rebel champion Luke Skywalker amongst his peers, the latter of which Brie successfully achieved. However, the events that resulted in Skywalker's expatriation also had serious consequences for Brie; her body was nearly destroyed, and she was left on the brink of death. Darth Vader rescued and rehabilitated her, fitting the Imperial major with cybernetic enhancements over more than half of her body. No longer the woman she once was, Brie cast aside her former existence to begin Sith training under Darth Vader as Lumiya, Dark Lady of the Sith.

Early life
"Born in Empire capitol. Raised in palace of Emperor Palpatine as part of experiment in adolescent indoctrination. Experiment totally successful."

- Excerpt of Brie's Imperial dossier from the Krake Data Vault



Shira Elan Colla Brie was a Human female born on Coruscant, then known as Imperial Center, at the height of the Galactic Empire. A Force-sensitive, Brie's childhood was spent in the Imperial Palace of Emperor Palpatine. Brie was chosen for adolescent indoctrination via the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order where she quickly became COMPNOR's premier inductee, and her success there saw her fast-tracked into another similar Imperial program by her superiors. Brie's impressive achievements fell under the notice of the Emperor's foremost servant, Darth Vader, who recommended Brie for training in the Empire's Imperial Intelligence division. She had few memories of her life before her time with Imperial Intelligence; the young woman soon excelled in all aspects of her training, becoming proficient in nearly all exotic martial arts, from Echani to Noghri Stava. Brie's body was also biologically enhanced with accelerated healing and a maximum increase in her pain threshold; furthermore, her mental faculties were improved by means of mnemonic drug training.

As part of her training in Imperial Intelligence, Shira Brie was enrolled in the Coruscanti Pilot Institute in 2.5 BBY. Holding the rank of cadet, the young woman underwent training under Commandant Mogurk. Brie struck up a friendship her fellow trainee and bunk-mate Cadet Myrette Davani, and soon rose to the top of the class. Throughout her three years of training, Brie's also received instruction under Darth Vader which occurred at night and in utmost secrecy. Although the Sith Lord's tutelage wearied Brie, she was able to maintain her position as the Institute's best cadet. Her time in Imperial training became one of the few times in the young Force-sensitive's life that she felt that others truly cared for her well-being. She swore an oath of loyalty to the Emperor, to which she attached great importance.

Training on Carida
"Shira still hasn't discussed the bug walker incident, and I've stopped pressing her. Nothing like it has happened since. She still spends a lot of time in "private tutoring" that she won't tell me about, though. Frankly, I think she's heading into intelligence. It would explain why more of a stink wasn't made about the accidental deaths of six students, and it would explain her mysterious private training, which always happens at night. Yet in many ways, she's still the same woman I've known for years. Same sense of humor, same brilliant mind, and the same love of practical jokes. But that darkness inside her keeps growing."

- Myrette Davani, who trained alongside Brie



Circa 0.5 ABY, Brie's flight school class transferred from Coruscant to Carida for one last year of study at the Imperial Military Academy. There, Brie and her fellow flight school classmates would undergo one term of stormtrooper boot camp, followed by a further two terms of strategy, survival and tactics. As the school's finest pilot, the role of flying the personnel shuttle from Coruscant to the academy fell to Brie. The cadet refused, however, and her superiors instead selected Davani. The class arrived safely at Carida, a high-gravity world, and settled in to prepare for boot camp. The training began with two days of arduous physical conditioning in the barracks, before the cadets were dispatched on a 200 kilometer hike across one of Carida's deserts on the third day. Brie and her fellow classmates were told by the instructors that they could pack however many supplies they wished, but the young woman perceived the exercise's true purpose. She explained to Davani that the instructors were waiting to see if the cadets would foolishly weigh themselves down with extra water and other supplies; any cadet who did would perish on the hike due to the world's high gravity. Taking only the standard supplies, Brie and Davani completed the hike together&mdash;two of twenty trainees to survive out of two hundred.

The hikes proved to be a staple of the boot camp training, along with war games and long hours honing their pilot skills in the simulator. Together with Davani, Brie also used simulators to put in extra practice, especially for one upcoming war game against Bantha Squad, in which the two cadets would be operating the new Mountain Terrain Scout Transports&mdash;the war games at the academy often served as field tests for new technology. Brie's training under Darth Vader, however, continued to take a toll on the young woman's mental state. In 1 ABY, six months into the final year of the military training, the Mountain Terrain Scout Transport war game was carried out. Brie and her fellow cadets were dropped into a mountainous area known as Tarkin's Teeth, some 300 kilometers outside the academy proper. There, they boarded their MT-STs and began the exercise. While the rest of the squad formed a perimeter, Brie and Davani undertook separate reconnaissance missions in their individual walkers. Brie soon encountered the Bantha Squad walkers and opened fire&mdash;her vehicle, however, had been fitted with live weapons rather than the training lasers employed by the other cadets.

In moments, Brie had destroyed twelve MT-STs and killed six cadets. The Force-sensitive woman was laughing when Davani arrived. Due to pressure from above, the live weapons were blamed on "instructor error" and the deaths passed off as training casualties. Although Davani pressured her to discuss the incident, Brie refused to do so. She trained at the academy during the day and with Vader at night, earning consistent high marks from her military superiors and developing new powers under the Sith Lord's tutelage, which continued to affect her psyche. A short time before circa 1.5 ABY, to celebrate their upcoming graduation ceremony, Brie and Davani headed out into the local Caridan district on their two-day leave passes. The two cadets began a cantina crawl, heading through several establishments in short order and drinking at each one. At the first bar, Brie used the Force to exert influence over the Caridan bartender so that she and Davani could enjoy certain perks unavailable to regular customers, such as discounted drinks. Four bars later, when a group of Caridans offered to buy the two women a drink, Brie once again made use of her abilities. She used the Force to immobilize one of the Caridans and then telekinetically flattened him to the floor.

Soon after, Shira Brie graduated from the Imperial Academy with top honors, an accolade which had been achieved by no other student as of 3 ABY. Lord Vader granted Brie the rank of a major in Imperial Intelligence. Following Brie's graduation, Darth Vader and Director Ysanne Isard of Imperial Intelligence arranged for the young Force-sensitive to be dispatched on a solo mission. Brie proved herself able, encouraging Vader to field her as an operative personally in his attempts to rid himself of the threat of the Rebel Alliance.

Joining the Rebellion
"I found that the nomads had told the Empire that my tribe was in league with the Rebel Alliance. My drunken friend said that was why they had killed them all: men&hellip;women&hellip;children. And so I joined the rebellion."

- Shira Brie



Following the Empire's devastating loss to the Rebel Alliance during the Battle of Yavin which saw the destruction of their first Death Star superweapon, Shira Brie was given a new assignment by Darth Vader. She was to be installed a counterspy within the Rebel Alliance with instructions either to cause the death of the individual directly responsible for the Death Star's destruction, Rebel hero Luke Skywalker, or to so severely tarnish his reputation that he would be discredited in the eyes of his fellow rebels. To this end, a plausible back story was fabricated for Brie which stated that she was from the city of Chinshassa on Shalyvane. Though the planet was home to the native Em'liy species, Brie's cover story falsely identified Humans as the domestic race. The Em'liy were instead cast as oppressors to the Humans who warred with them and destroyed the society to which Brie supposedly belonged, killing her family in the process. This pseudo war between the Humans and the Em'liy lasted for years until they two species cast their differences aside to make peace with one another. All of Shalyvane's natives then gathered together at a shrine called the Circle of Kavaan to solidify their new conciliation under the guidance of alien ambassadors contracted by the Em'liy, but they were instead attacked by these offworlders, who proceeded to massacre all those present. Brie, a little girl, managed to escape the slaughter and was left to survive into adulthood by her own faculties. Many years passed before she learned the "truth" of Shalyvane's destruction from an intoxicated ex-fighter pilot; the Em'liy had allied with the Empire and also lied to them, claiming that Brie's people were members of the Rebel Alliance. Enraged by the revelation, Brie sought out the Alliance and decided to enlist. The verisimilitude of her cover story was bolstered when Darth Vader ordered the razing of Chinshassa, which had previously displayed resistance to Imperial rule. Shalyvane would also serve as the secret location by which Brie would report her progress to Vader; a personal means of contact was furnished by the Dark Lord that was activated when her unique blood chemistry came into contact with a transmitter embedded within the Circle of Kavaan.

Lieutenant Brie
"Wasn't it nice of Shira, asking to help like that? She's such a thoughtful person.''" "Yes. Isn't she." "''And cute, too&mdash;for a Human."

- C-3PO, Leia Organa, and Plif

Brie posed as a Shalyvane refugee and successfully infiltrated the Alliance, due in part to their immediate need for fighter pilots following the Battle of Hoth. Eventually earning the rank of lieutenant, Brie engaged in several rebellion sorties, including work alongside fellow Force-sensitives Kyle Katarn, Corwin Shelvay, and Erling Tredway on a mission to D'rinba IV to disable the superlaser of the second Death Star.



Shira was next assigned to Rogue starfighter squadron and was stationed at Haven Base on Arbra, during which time she met and befriended her superior, flight commander Luke Skywalker. When lieutenant Brie volunteered to accompany Skywalker on a mission to Bespin's Cloud City in search of Lando Calrissian, her congenial demeanor and obvious affection for him spurred contemptuous feelings from Princess Leia Organa&mdash;who had been denied Skywalker's companionship on a reconnaissance drill around Haven Base. Oblivious to Organa's scorn, Brie left with Skywalker for Bespin, flying her X-wing starfighter as his wingmate. Upon their arrival Lieutenant Brie noted that Cloud City seemed deserted, and an investigation by Commander Skywalker's astromech droid R2-D2, determined that the planting of a series of bombs within Cloud City's infrastructure resulted in the evacuation of the populace, though they were soon thereafter neutralized by a lobot and a Human, which Skywalker surmised was probably Lando Calrissian. Before their investigation could take them any further they were attacked by Hugo Treece, an Imperial governor stationed on Bespin by Darth Vader. They remained pinned under fire from Treece and his squad of stormtroopers until Calrissian's arrival served to distract the Imperial's attention away from his allies. Brie stood by while Commander Skywalker reactivated the bombs through the Force, and the resulting explosion was enough to scare the Imperials into swiftly evacuating Cloud City.

After returning to Arbra, Lieutenant Brie stayed behind while Commander Skywalker ventured to the Bazarre space station in the Cademimu sector with Lando Calrissian and the Wookiee Chewbacca to negotiate the sale of four disabled TIE Fighters with weapons dealer Orion Ferret. Brie instead took part in an experiment of Princess Organa's that involved hiding a portion of the Rebel fleet within the primary star of the Arbran system. The expressed reservations of Organa's protocol droid C-3P0 about carrying out such a hazardous plan without the presence of Luke Skywalker led Brie to volunteer to act in his stead&mdash;a request that was reluctantly granted by the Princess.

Alliance heroine
"In recognition of your recent acts of heroism on the planet Shalyvane, you are herewith awarded the Burdine Cluster, along with the traditional advancement in rank&mdash;Captain Brie."

- Princess Leia Organa

The deal with Orion Ferret had been successful, and Lieutenant Brie was selected with Luke Skywalker and two others to test the newly-acquired TIE Fighters as part of the Flying Bantha Squadron in actual combat during an assault on the Imperial Spindrift Station on the planet of the same name. The the forces stationed there mistakenly identified Brie's team as friendlies which ultimately resulted in capture for the Imperials, as well as the seizure of the specific location coordinates of a secret armada being assembled by the Empire. Mission accomplished, Brie and her companions traveled back to Haven Base.



In the interim between the time it took the Rebel forces on Arbra to decipher the codes retrieved during the Spindrift mission and when they planned to execute their attack on the secret armada, Lieutenant Brie requested permission to return to her pseudo-homeworld of Shalyvane for personal reasons. In truth, the time had come to submit her annual progress report to Darth Vader. Brie was initially refused by Princess Organa when she requested the specific spatial coordinates of Arbra, Organa's reason being that such knowledge was privy only to the principle and most trusted among the Rebel Alliance leadership. However, when Commander Skywalker, who knew the map specs of Arbra, offered to accompany Brie on her pilgrimage, Organa grudgingly granted them permission. They arrived in Brie's false hometown of Chinshassa, and the Lieutenant led Skywalker and fellow Rogue pilots Wald and Hanc Thorben to the Circle of Kavaan, a place of great importance to the Shalyvane natives, but also the means by which Brie was to secretly communicate with Darth Vader. Feigning an expressed need to perform a sacred ritual in private, Brie approached the monument and knelt at its foundation. Much to Skywalker's astonishment, she pierced herself and let her blood trickle onto the alter, which triggered the embedded communications transmitter. Brie's message to Vader was interrupted, however, when Shalyvane's Em'liy natives ambushed the Rebels and forced them to take cover. While fighting against the Em'liy warriors, Lieutenant Brie revealed several elements of her cover story; that it had been these same natives who destroyed both her family and childhood home of Chinshassa in allegiance to the Empire which led her to pursue membership with the Rebel Alliance, and that she returned annually to Chinshassa in remembrance of her people's massacre.

The Rebels were forced to give quarter under the relentless advance of the Em'liy warriors until Commander Skywalker's astromech R2-D2 discovered the location of a series of underground tunnels previously spoken of by Lieutenant Brie that could potentially serve as an adequate means of escape. Skywalker volunteered to enter the subterranean labyrinth first but lost the opportunity to do so when Brie, who was already familiar with their existence, jumped in before him. Believing that Brie had been lost to them after the entrance in which she disappeared was sealed following an explosion caused by the Em'liy warriors, the Rebels began to make their final stand against the opposition; but as the natives closed in they were cut off by Lieutenant Brie&mdash;who had successfully sneaked past them through the tunnels to recover her X-Wing and returned to save her comrades. She decimated the Em'liy barbarians in a strafing run and afterward met up with her teammates who&mdash;especially Luke Skywalker&mdash;expressed much relief in knowing that Brie was alive and well. A ceremony was held following their return to Haven Base in the presence of many Rebel Alliance members wherein Lieutenant Shira Brie was recognized for her gallantry during the peril she and her fellow Rogues faced on Shalyvane. The prestigious Burdine Cluster award was presented to the lieutenant along with a promotion to the rank of captain by Princess Organa, who displayed considerable gratitude for the selfless valor of Shira Brie.

Mission accomplished
"&mdash;I had to use the Force to tell me if the blockading TIE was friend or foe! And, Leia&hellip;the Force told me to shoot! It told me to shoot, blast it! But according to the holographs taken by our other surviving fighter, the pilot of the TIE I shot down was Shira! My own wing guard! It's impossible!''" "I believe you, Luke. I don't know what happened, but I believe you. However, I&hellip;I'm afraid I can't support'' you!"

- Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa discuss Shira Brie's death



Shortly after Brie's commendation, the Rebel Alliance finally discovered the location in space of the Empire's secret armada. They also learned that the following the Battle of Hoth, the Empire had captured a teezl; a non-sentient creature with a natural ability to act as a hyperspace communications amplifier. Believed to be extinct, the teezl was under escort of the Imperial armada to Coruscant where it would be installed and made to serve the Empire as a limitless source of communications energy. The Rebel Alliance was aware of this, and was determined to thwart the Imperials at all costs. To this end, Captain Brie again joined Flying Bantha Squadron alongside Commander Skywalker and two additional pilots, Alph and Hanc Thorben, to partake in a mission which involved sabotaging the Imperial armada by infiltrating the fleet disguised as TIE pilots by means of the TIE fighters that had been previously obtained on Bazarre station. Just prior to their departure, Captain Brie related to Skywalker her apprehension in undertaking the task set before her, as well as making obvious her deep affection for him by kissing him passionately&mdash;much to Skywalker's surprise.

The preliminary phase of the Rebel mission involved the Flying Banthas intercepting a pair of TIE fighters patrolling the route in which the Imperial armada was to travel. After shooting down the two TIEs and confiscating the armada's recognition codes, the Rebels donned their own recently acquired TIEs and prepared to infiltrate the armada. The successful transmission of the recognition codes allowed for a seamless and unsuspecting insertion of Brie's team into the ranks of the Imperial fleet, and once each of the Flying Banthas had assumed an adequate vantage point, the attacks commenced. The Imperials were confused by what seemed to be friendly fighters engaging in wanton destruction and quickly deduced that Rebel forces had penetrated their ranks with fraudulent TIE fighters. In response, Admiral Mils Giel ordered for the teezl to cause interference on all communication frequencies except the Imperial war band with a psychic shriek in an attempt to expose the enemy forces. With no other means of communication between herself and her team, Shira Brie seized an opportunity to complete the assignment she was originally given by Darth Vader. Capitalizing on the forced comm silence, Brie maneuvered her TIE fighter directly into Luke Skywalker's line of fire; with only the Force to guide him in determining friend from foe, Skywalker landed a direct and crippling hit on Brie's fighter. His assault also resulted in the destruction of the teezl as well as effectively ending the Battle of the secret armada. Skywalker's return to Haven Base was met with somber greetings; he was immediately debriefed by Princess Organa and a holocam recording from Hanc Thorben's TIE revealed that the fighter which Skywalker had shot down was not one of an enemy, but that of Captain Shira Brie. Though she had been unable to kill him, Brie's Imperial mission was a total success; Skywalker had been absolutely disgraced in the eyes of his fellow Rebels for "killing" her, and riddled with guilt over being responsible for the "death" of both an Alliance champion and the woman for whom he had developed strong feelings. He was initially stripped of his Alliance commission, but would later be exonerated after infiltrating the Empire-operated Krake Data Vault on Krake's Planet and discovering the nature of Shira Brie's deception.

Emperor's Hand
"Come Lumiya. You will be an extension of my will&hellip;"

- Darth Sidious



No longer a captain in the Rebel Alliance, Major Shira Brie of Imperial Intelligence had completed her assignment. However, the consequences of her success were grievous; she had suffered extensive physical injuries and her ruined TIE fighter had been left drifting through space while she struggled for life. The Force-sensitive was certain she would die alone in the starfighter, but the modifications made to her body during her Imperial training as well as being able to enter a healing trance afforded her the ability to survive the hard vacuum of space. Darth Vader discovered his badly scarred and wounded protégé and decided to return Brie to the Executor for medical treatment where it was determined that the young woman's injuries would require the installation of cybernetics to ensure her survival. The mechanical implants further enhanced Brie's body, though ultimately she was left more machine than human. After Brie's body had been restored, she began to receive training in more than just the dark side of the Force from Darth Vader, but also in the ways of the Sith. She fully embraced her new life as a student of the Dark Lord and, eschewing the yoke of all that she had once been, cast aside her former identity as Shira Brie and became Lumiya.

In the year 4 ABY, Darth Vader, fully aware that any deviation from the Rule of Two principle was forbidden while he was a constituent of the Order of the Sith Lords, decided bring Lumiya before his own Master, Emperor Palpatine. When Lumiya arrived at the Imperial Palace with Vader, they interrupted a meeting between Palpatine and another of his personal assassins, Mara Jade. As Lumiya crossed Jade's path the two immediately exchanged feelings of intense animosity with one another; the young woman recognized Lumiya as the cyborg female with whom she had engaged in a duel after a chance meeting not long ago. Jade then departed and Lumiya was ushered into Palpatine's presence, presented by Darth Vader for consideration as an Emperor's Hand&mdash;secret agents of the Emperor whose sole purpose was to bring his will to fruition. Palpatine accepted Lumiya into his service, and allowed her to continue training under Darth Vader.

Lumiya was soon thereafter sequestered by Darth Vader on Ziost, the ancient homeworld of the Sith species. There she discovered an archaic Sith tome which detailed the process required to craft a lightwhip; a unique weapon similar to though more difficult to master than the traditional lightsaber, which possessed a flexible energy beam instead of a steady blade. With this ancient knowledge she created a device like no other; one which included a hilt of nearly indestructible Mandalorian iron from which many extensions spewed forth. Shards of Kaiburr crystal given to her by Darth Vader provided the power source for the strands of energy, while tendrils of metal and others of studded leather complimented the pliant beams of plasma to make a one-of-a-kind and deadly flail. Her final test as the Dark Lord's pupil was finally complete; however, she was still on Ziost when the Empire suffered a staggering defeat over Endor at the hands of the Rebel Alliance. She returned to Imperial space from the Outer Rim only to find that the Alliance had successfully toppled the Emperor, and that both he and Darth Vader had perished in the destruction of the second Death Star.

Ascension
"Lumiya? Queen of the stanging Sith?"

- Mara Jade Skywalker

With no one left to further her Sith knowledge, Lumiya proclaimed herself Dark Lady of the Sith, and embarked on a quest of her own volition to progress in dark side wisdom, first by seeking out an organization with a historic allegiance to the ways of the Sith: the esoteric Mecrosa Order. Known to be in possession of many ancient secrets and artifacts, the Order's members felt a sense of obligation to the woman who arrived at their fortress on the planet Nyssa bearing an unnerving resemblance to the late Darth Vader. Lumiya was given access to all of the Mecrosa's relics, and was even allowed to take from them custody of the oldest of Sith holocrons&mdash;that of the legendary King Adas.

Following the Battle of Endor, Lumiya amassed a naval fleet of Imperial starships as she began to consolidate her power in preparation for retaliation against the Rebel Alliance. Her armada included three Imperial-class Star Destroyers, two EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigates, and four CR90 Corellian Corvettes. More than two hundred TIE/ln starfighters and TIE/sa bombers were divided in several squads amongst the Star Destroyers, Frigates and one Corvette, which completed the fleet. The details surrounding the fragmenting of the Empire were still unclear to many Imperial servicemen, and Lumiya sought to keep the truth hidden by depriving her subordinates of certain information, thus ensuring their complete loyalty to her and the endeavors she undertook.

It was during this time that while in Sith space, Lumiya's fleet came into contact with an attack group representing a race of extra-galactic spacefarers known as the Nagai. The commander of the Nagai force hailed her flagship, the escort frigate Revenant, fully expecting to contact an officer of the Imperial Navy; instead, Lumiya answered. The Dark Lady of the Sith shared a common enemy with the Nagai in the form of the Rebel Alliance, and promised the support of her resources to them when they proposed an alliance with her.

Events on Herdessa
"Run back to your friends, little Leia&hellip;but you have worse things to worry about than stormtroopers. Before long, you and everyone you hold dear will learn just how 'pretty dangerous' a foe I can be."

- Lumiya



Under instruction from the Nagai, Lumiya set out to take action against the Alliance of Free Planets, the fledgling galactic government formed out of what had been previously known as the Rebel Alliance. She went to the Mid Rim world of Herdessa where she installed herself as the head of planetary security on behalf of the planet's oppressive leadership, the Herdessan Guild. Lumiya organized a slaving ring under sanction from the Guild which targeted the planet's lower-class citizens and shipped them off world. However, the arrival of Alliance delegates Mon Mothma and Leia Organa on Herdessa with promises of guaranteed civil rights for the planet's citizens under the galactic new government threatened to become problematic for Lumiya's covert operation. Wearing the face of benevolence, the Dark Lady and a squad of Herdessan shocktroopers apprehended several dissidents after Organa was pummeled with mud. Lumiya located the culprit, a woman named Suzu, in Guild sector three and proceeded to aggressively take her into custody, but was interrupted by the Princess&mdash;whose intervention on Suzu's behalf resulted in her escape. In response, Lumiya attacked the Princess but was betrayed by her own cumbersome cybernetic enhancements, which saw her quickly bested and slammed to the ground by Organa. As the Princess fled after Suzu, the humiliated Lumiya intended to deal with both the naysayer, and the off-worlder who interceded on her behalf.

Lumiya and her shocktroopers tracked Organa to the insurgent's hideout and forcefully demanded their surrender. Organa managed to escape the firefight that ensued, and Lumiya chased her for a time before abandoning pursuit, instead choosing to round up all the Herdessan rebels in the city center and made a public declaration that unless Organa was turned over to the custody of the Herdessan Guild, executions would commence. Imperial stormtroopers assisted the Herdessan shocktroopers in Lumiya's tyranny, even apprehending Organa's companion, Mon Mothma, and counting her among the nonconformists. An altercation erupted between one of the prisoners and a stormtrooper, and Lumiya decided that he would be the first to die. Suzu then relented and betrayed Organa's whereabouts to the authorities, but it was all a ruse: Organa instead appeared behind Lumiya and incapacitated her with several blaster shots before eliminating the shocktroopers, freeing the captives, and leading them in a successful revolt against the Herdessan Guild. With her sinister benefactors overthrown and her slave trade dissolved, Lumiya quietly retreated, but not without vowing to take revenge on the Alliance&mdash;namely Princess Leia Organa&mdash;for thwarting her efforts on Herdessa.

Upholding tradition
"In terms of the classic Master–and–apprentice Sith structure, there can be only two&hellip;"

- Lumiya



Lumiya's cybernetic enhancements had been irreparably damaged on Herdessa and required extensive repairs. Upon completion, she emerged sporting new armor, and donning for the first time a triangular cloth headdress that, along with her lightwhip, would thenceforth be synonymous with her name. Lumiya fully intended to resume her campaign against the Alliance of Free Planets; however, a matter of greater importance manifested itself, and presented a considerable problem; the perpetuation of the Sith Order. The ancient "Rule of Two" doctrine to which Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader adhered stated that the dark side of the Force could only be divided between two individuals in the entire galaxy at any given time: one Sith Master to personify its power, and a single Sith apprentice to covet it. Although Lumiya designed a new Order in her own image and reinstated the core ideals of patience, cunning, and secrecy that were fundamental to Darth Bane's Order more than a millennia ago, she was determined to also maintain his Rule of Two, and along these lines began the quest of finding a worthy being to impart the Sith teachings upon.

Though exceptionally strong in the Force in her own right, Lumiya had not been Darth Vader's only pupil. The Dark Lord had several students under his instruction with the intention of eventually pitting them against one another for the right to become his Shadow Hand, or Sith apprentice. After Vader's death Lumiya sought out one of these pupils, a young Force-sensitive stormtrooper named Flint. Vader had planned for Lumiya and Flint to contend with one another while he was still alive but his premature death at Endor left both Lumiya and Flint without their Master. Flint, who mourned the Dark Lord as one would a deceased parent, retreated to Vader's abandoned citadel on the planet Vjun where he was successfully tracked and confronted for the position of Sith Master by Lumiya. The Dark Lady's superior strength resulted in the sound defeat of Flint, and she chose to take the Belderone native as her first apprentice.

Plans were immediately set in motion by the new Sith to undermine all that the Alliance of Free Planets had achieved in the wake of Emperor Palpatine's death. Lumiya tasked her new Shadow Hand was tasked with both conquering the Phelleem sector as well as exacting vengeance upon Luke Skywalker for the death of Darth Vader. Styling himself as the Dark Lord of Belderone, Flint's exploits led him to the planet Naldar where he was confronted by Skywalker and persuaded to forsake his devotion to the dark side of the Force. Lumiya learned of Flint's abdication and promised fatal reprisals when the opportunity presented itself. The Dark Lady had more pressing matters to attend though, which involved the continued preparation of the Nagai for war with the Alliance of Free Planets.

Laying foundations
"We can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way. But it won't change a thing. Because, sooner or later, you are going to tell me what I want to know."

- Lumiya threatens Faron



As stipulated by the partnership Lumiya had previously formed with the Nagai, an attache was sent to her in the form of Den Siva, who rendezvoused and established an underground base of operations with her on the desolate planet Kinooine. An Alliance scouting party had recently been dispatched to Kinooine after life-forms had been detected on the otherwise unoccupied world. Lumiya ambushed them and killed nineteen of the team's twenty members, leaving one, a man named Faron Tolis, alive for interrogation. She accused Faron of being a member of the former Rebel Alliance, and attempted to torture him into disclosing the whereabouts of Princess Leia Organa, something of which he held no knowledge. Under penalty of death, Faron surprised Lumiya when he revealed that Organa had nothing to do with his team's mission; it had instead been Lumiya's sworn nemesis Luke Skywalker who had dispatched them to survey the Outer Rim planetoid.

Lumiya's actions caused Skywalker himself, along with a female Zeltron named Dani and her Chuhkyvi lover Kiro, to journey to Kinooine in search of his missing reconnaissance team. Skywalker set up camp while Dani and Kiro explored the surrounding area, only to be caught unawares by the Dark Lady who brutally attacked them with her lightwhip. Knowing that Skywalker would come for his comrades, Lumiya took Dani captive and, after smashing the faceplate of Kiro's rebreather helmet, left him for dead. Skywalker found Kiro and did not have to search far for the Chuhkyvi's assailant; Lumiya had been waiting for him on a nearby precipice. Silence preceded a vicious duel where Lumiya unleashed the full fury of her hatred upon Skywalker, whose unfamiliarity with the dual nature of her lightwhip saw him repeatedly lashed, quickly disarmed, and eventually defeated. Triumphant, Lumiya refrained from killing her enemy and instead took him as a prisoner to her underground fortress.

Identity revealed
"I was Shira Elan Colla Brie. Now I am Lumiya. And someday, little fish man, I will spit on your grave&hellip;as I will spit on your friend, Skywalker's, after I have seen him bereft of hope, of even the will to live&hellip;''" "Lumiya&hellip;the man who made you feel this way used you as a tool&hellip;but he's dead now and he wouldn't want you to go on like this&hellip;at the end&hellip;he reconciled to the good in himself. As'' you can. I know it&hellip;"

- Lumiya and Luke Skywalker



Meanwhile, several of Den Siva's cohorts under command of the Nagai warrior Ozrei "Knife" N'takkilomandrife intercepted a gathering of Alliance statesmen who were scheduled to meet with Princess Organa and General Han Solo in the Mid Rim on the world of Kabray. They were subsequently defeated by the wiles of Organa's Zeltron escorts, and Den Siva relayed the news of their failure to Lumiya. The Dark Lady was more concerned with the progress of the main invasion fleet, however, and left to further her preparations for their arrival. In her absence, Kiro infiltrated her underground lair and rescued Luke Skywalker. Lumiya was completely surprised when Skywalker appeared on the crag behind her, and was unable to prevent him from reclaiming his lightsaber from her possession. Not to be deterred, Lumiya prepared to face him in combat yet again, but in this rematch the circumstances had changed; in addition to his usual weapon, Skywalker armed himself with a lightsaber of shorter blade-length known as a shoto. Lumiya's weapon was no match for Skywalker's two sabers which, in conjunction with each other, were successfully able to counter the duality of her lightwhip's tendrils. She charged her opponent in a fit of rage after being disarmed, only to be stripped of enough armor that her face was exposed and her true identity as Shira Brie was revealed.

The humiliated Sith Lady begged for death while also blaming Skywalker for the tragedies that had befallen her; even in defeat, she vowed that her satisfaction would only be realized when Skywalker himself was ultimately dead. The Jedi attempted to reconcile their differences but was cut short when the Nagai fleet&mdash;for whom Lumiya had been waiting&mdash;dropped out of hyperspace into the Kinooine atmosphere. While Nagai forces descended to the planet's surface, Lumiya was bound by Luke Skywalker and Kiro, who held her captive as they prepared themselves to rescue Kiro's lover, Dani. The rescue mission was successful, and Lumiya was abandoned by Skywalker and his companions who were forced to flee Kinooine as the Nagai continued to swarm the planet.

Second battle of Endor


"Ah, revenge is sweet! I wonder how many of those fools will die before they realize the truth&mdash;that thy were betrayed before we ever arrived here."

- Lumiya, over Endor

After the Nagai established a sufficient operational platform on Kinooine, they installed a double-agent among the Alliance forces in the form of the Human-Nagai hybrid Bey, who provided Alliance logistics, battle schematics, and ship formations to his kinsmen. Armed with this knowledge, Lumiya reemerged as flight leader of the Nagai's Twelfth Squadron in battle over the forest moon of Endor, the same location where both Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader had perished nearly a month ago. The Nagai also gave Lumiya one of their unique starfighters for her own personal use; she dubbed the craft Screamer after the teezl which had been destroyed during battle of the secret Imperial armada. With the intelligence provided by Bey, the Dark Lady led Twelfth Squadron in a dogfight against the Alliance's Gold Squadron under leadership of her former comrade Lando Calrissian, and Mandalore Fenn Shysa's Resurrector Squadron. Severe damage was dealt to the Alliance forces over Endor, and members of their command began to contemplate retreat. Under command of Bey's half-brother Knife and Lieutenant Hol B'shaki, the Nagai prepared to execute coordinated strikes against several Alliance installations on Endor's surface while the Twelfth Squadron made short work of the Alliance's Gold and Resurrector starfighter groups. However, Bey's duplicity was soon discovered by his childhood friend Han Solo who was also on Endor. The Alliance fought and ultimately defeated the ground-side opposition's ambush while ordering Gold and Resurrector Squadrons to forsake their original battle strategies; this change in tactics had a detrimental impact on what seemed like Lumiya's precognitive advantage and the tide was no longer in her favor. With the battle of Endor effectively lost to the Nagai on both fronts, Lumiya ordered a full retreat of her forces.

Changing sides
"Lady Lumiya&hellip;truly, we cannot adequately express our gratification&hellip;at your having forsaken your Nagai comrades and joined yourself to our cause.''" "''No thanks are necessary, Prince Sereno. I vowed to Darth Vader, my old Master, that I would lay down my life for the destruction of Luke Skywalker and the Alliance of Free Planets. The Nagai were only useful to me so long as they seemed likely to fulfill that end. Now that they've allied themselves with Skywalker, well&hellip;"

- Prince Sereno and Lumiya



The Nagai defeat over Endor was the beginning of a turning point in both the war, and in Lumiya's relationship with them. The Tofs, enemies of the Nagai from their native Companion Besh galaxy, followed and defeated them in battle on the planet Trenwyth. What began as a Nagai invasion of Zeltros during a diplomatic rendezvous with the Alliance quickly turned into another battle that saw the Nagai join forces with the Alliance to face their new common foe, the Tofs. Because of this, Lumiya renounced her partnership with the Nagai in favor of the Tofs. She met with their leader, Prince Sereno, at the Tof stronghold on Saijo to discuss the terms of their allegiance. Unbeknown to them was the presence of their mutual enemy on Saijo and, as Lumiya and Sereno conversed, the Nagai-Alliance trap was sprung. Lumiya quickly shot down the leader of the attack, Knife, but was deterred from killing him by Leia Organa. The Dark Lady's sights were then set on the princess, she was completely incapacitated by Bey, who had infiltrated the Tof ranks by posing as one of them. The battle of Saijo soon came to an end with the capture of Prince Sereno. Lumiya survived the injuries suffered during the altercation, and managed to slip away unnoticed in the midst of the commotion.

Epsilon Nine
"I am Lumiya. You were charged with developing new spy satellites for Imperial Intelligence. I am here to remind you of your loyalties to the Empire, and will overlook consorting with the enemy just this once."

- Lumiya

Despite her efforts, Lumiya's plan to manipulate the Nagai-Tof war as a weapon against the Alliance of Free Planets resulted in utter failure. She managed to recover from the injuries received during the war's final battle, but her fleet was left in shambles. To this end, the Dark Lady sought her former Imperial Intelligence superior Ysanne Isard, who now maintained stewardship over the remnants Galactic Empire, with a request to provide resources with which she could replenish her depleted forces. Lumiya was considered a threat by Isard to her authority, and the Imperial stewardess surmised that compliance with the Lady of the Sith's demands would sufficiently eliminate any potential problems that might arise between them. Two TIE fighter squadrons, Alpha and Theta, were thus allocated for Lumiya, as well as four platoons of stormtroopers&mdash;two of which were elite red-armored Royal Guards who had personally served in the defense of the late Emperor Palpatine. Isard's succor was not without conditions, however; in exchange for support, Lumiya was asked to inspect several top-secret Imperial research installations hidden within the Cron Drift.



The Nebulon-B escort frigate Revenant served as Lumiya's command ship as she led her fleet to the to the Auril sector. Upon their arrival, it was discovered that those working on the asteroid-based Epsilon Nine Communications Research Station were attempting to forgo their Imperial mandate and defect to the recently-reorganized New Republic as evidenced by the detection of a low-level radiation pulse; furthermore, the station's comlink system had been reconfigured to transmit on New Republic wavelengths. The emergence of nine T-65 X-Wing starfighters from Epsilon Nine served to excite the Revenant's crew, who wondered how the New Republic had become aware of the installation's secret location within the Cron Drift; however, Lumiya was aware of all these facts before hand, and ordered her fleet to engage the Republic forces as her own approached the asteroid base.

Assault shuttles launched from the CR90 corvette Wolf-Pack within Lumiya's armada and landed on the surface of Epsilon Nine's asteroid location to pave an opening into the base while the remainder of the fleet made short work of the X-Wings and base defenses. Lumiya then went from the Revenant to the asteroid in her personal Lambda-class T-4a shuttle and entered the base, prepared to make an example of the traitors inside. Her stormtroopers rounded up all the scientists for interrogation, and one indignant individual was immediately executed by the Dark Lady&mdash;having his throat Force-crushed in response to a snide remark. Lumiya then made certain that their commitment to Imperial service was reinstated, and also stated that a garrison would occupy the station to further ensure their cooperation. Before departing the Cron Drift with the remainder of her fleet, Lumiya vowed to return in eight weeks to make certain her will remained uncontested.

Return of the Emperor
"I'm not sure I even count the Emperor's clones as Sith. After all, they didn't earn their Sith knowledge, didn't acquire it through sweat and sacrifice; they inherited it like a package of downloaded computer programming. I think that the last Sith were gone when the Emperor and your grandfather died on the same day. But plenty of Sith legacy survived. Individuals who were candidates to become Sith and failed for some reason to achieve full apprenticeship. They knew enough to survive, enough to continue learning. One may have learned enough to become a Master."

- Lumiya

Lumiya's Order had become imperiled in the wake of Flint's treachery and subsequent desertion of his Sith Master. A new prospect arose, however, in the form of a Force-sensitive Royal Guard named Carnor Jax, one whom Lumiya had come across amongst those allotted to her by Ysanne Isard. The Dark Lady took Jax as her new apprentice and, though his training was abbreviated, the Order of the Sith Lords lived on. One of their first missions together was to the planet Bosthirda, where they completed the sterilization of the remaining Prophets of the Dark Side cult, a massacre first enacted by the dejected Dark Jedi Azrakel.



With her mission to Epsilon Nine complete, Lumiya began fulfillment of Isard's second request: locating and returning rogue-Emperor's Hand Mara Jade to service under Isard. While she readied herself to hunt Jade, Lumiya ordered Carnor Jax to infiltrate the upper tiers of the Galactic Empire and prepare for any rising threats to her Sith order. She meanwhile journeyed to the planet Caprioril, where she learned that Jade had assumed the alias Marellis and had gone underground as a Come-Up Flector for a swoop gang. Lumiya located Jade and attempted to persuade her to come back into the Imperial fold, a petition that was refused. A duel resulted in which Mara escaped, leaving Lumiya unsuccessful in the task set before her by Ysanne Isard. The Dark Lady chose not to report her failure to Isard, which led the Empire to believe that her confrontation with Jade on Caprioril had somehow resulted in Lumiya's demise, a position also assumed by the New Republic following the end of the Nagai-Tof conflict.

Through his own machinations, the Dark Lady's apprentice began to secretly manipulate the Empire's ruling council. During this time, Lumiya received word from Jax that he had been approached by a mysterious individual known as Nom Anor, who represented an extra-galactic race of warfarers intrigued by the possibility of an alliance with the her. The threat to the Sith of which Lumiya spoke also manifested itself, in the form of the return of Emperor Palpatine. However, his resumed reign was brief; the clone bodies he was using to facilitate his resurrection had been sabotaged by Imperial physicians, which was the catalyst for his final death on the planet Onderon less than a year later. Carnor Jax immediately attempted to install himself as the new Emperor, but his dynasty was also short-lived. After requesting audience with Lumiya in an attempt to lure her into a trap, Jax was killed in a duel by one of Palpatine's former Royal Guardsmen, Kir Kanos. Jax's links to Nom Anor were lost upon his death on Yinchorr, leaving Lumiya unable to respond to the individual's overtures. Three years after Jax's death, Lumiya's original apprentice, Flint, was found dead on his homeworld of Belderone.

Invitation to the New Order
"Our apologies for the brevity of your journey. Had we foreseen the speed of the invaders' advance, we would have sent a more sizable escort. Should you survive and care to reach us on your own, the navigation string attached to this message will guide you&hellip;once."

- White Eyes invites Lumiya to parley with the One Sith

In 25 ABY, the galaxy was invaded by the extra-galactic invaders who, by means of the advance agent Nom Anor, had attempted to make overtures to Lumiya and Carnor Jax fourteen years previously. Known as the Yuuzhan Vong, the species intended to eradicate all technology and either convert the inhabitants to their own religion or annihilate those who stood in their way. The New Republic suffered heavy losses in the opening months of the war. That same year, Lumiya learned that though she was without an apprentice to perpetuate the legacy of the dark side, she was not alone in its practice; a fledgling Sith order had taken up root on their namesake's ancestral grave world of Korriban. The attention of the One Sith had fallen upon Lumiya, and she was invited by their leader to consort with them. An escort in the form of the Sith Master Lomi Plo and her apprentice Welk was sent for the Dark Lady, but on the return journey, they were forestalled by the Yuuzhan Vong. Though her chaperons were captured by the extra-galactic invaders, Lumiya eluded them and escaped to plot her next course of action.

Lumiya first decided to strike against the Yuuzhan Vong. The New Republic suffered a defeat at Ithor in 25.3 ABY when Yuuzhan Vong forces laid waste to the planet. It had been discovered that the pollen of Ithor's native Bafforr trees was lethal to the living armor worn by Yuuzhan Vong warriors. The New Republic had allied with the Imperial Remnant to defend the world and its valuable military asset, but to no avail. Determined to secure a sample of the now rare Bafforr pollen, Lumiya elected to strike at Yaga Minor, a fortified Imperial Remnant world that housed some of the last pollen in the galaxy. The Sith Lady penetrated the world's defenses and arrived at the laboratory in which the samples were located, but was confronted there by a band of Yuuzhan Vong who had infiltrated the facility themselves and destroyed its large munitions dump.

Several months later, Lumiya met Vergere, who was a member of the Fosh species and a Sith. The Fosh explained herself to Lumiya; a rogue student of the Force during the age of the Galactic Republic, she had rebelled against the orthodox teachings of the Jedi Order and sought out new knowledge. In her quest, she had come across Count Dooku, a former Jedi Master and the Sith apprentice to Darth Sidious. Sidious subsequently accepted Vergere as a Sith candidate, but when the Fosh learned of his desire to dominate the galaxy she tried to strike him down. Sidious survived the assassination attempt and sent killers after Vergere, who took a Jedi mission to the living world of Zonama Sekot in 30 BBY, which was under siege by a Yuuzhan Vong advance force. Vergere surrendered herself to the Yuuzhan Vong that same year, and spent decades living among the extra-galactic species.

It had been Vergere herself who had encountered A'Sharad Hett, a former Jedi of the Old Republic, when he had been captured by Yuuzhan Vong scouts in the Unknown Regions. Vergere had imparted her Sith knowledge to Hett, who had returned to Korriban and founded his One Sith. Apparently unaware of her survival, Hett's agents fashioned another invitation for Lumiya to ally herself with their Order. The message from the spokesman of the One Sith, a man with glowing white eyes stated that another escort would not be arranged, but directions were provided on the navigation string included with the message should Lumiya decide to answer their summons. Lumiya had come to believe, however, that the One Sith's methods were too slow; by the time the Order on Korriban had moved beyond its fledgling status, the Dark Lady felt that Skywalker's Jedi would be too powerful. Lumiya encouraged Vergere to appreciate that Hett's plan was a long-term affair and the Fosh Sith relented.

A plan for the galaxy
"There is a plan&mdash;a plan that will be carried out whether or not I survive."

- Lumiya

Vergere imparted her own Sith wisdom to Lumiya. The Fosh finished the Coruscanti's training, which had begun so long ago under Darth Vader, and enabled her to ascend to the rank of a true Sith Lord. Nevertheless, both Sith knew that neither could restore peace to the galaxy. Vergere was tainted by her collaboration with the Yuuzhan Vong, and Lumiya's cybernetic implants limited her Force potential. The Sith Lady became willing to surrender her own desires in service of a Sith destiny. Together, Lumiya and Vergere decided to select a new Sith champion, one who could rise to control the galaxy and preside over a reign of peace and stability as a benign dictator. The question of who would be chosen as the new Sith Lord was one of great importance; many candidates were considered, and many discarded. Kyp Durron, a powerful Jedi Master, was considered too volatile and obstinate, while Lumiya's old rival Mara Jade Skywalker was felt to possess too many attachments. Jaina Solo, the daughter of Leia and Han Solo, was dismissed as too emotional, while Leia herself was bypassed as too fearful of Anakin Skywalker's legacy. Even Luke Skywalker was considered, but Lumiya declaimed him as too bound in the dogma of the Jedi Order.

It was Jacen Solo, the brother of Jaina, who fell under observation. In 25.7 ABY, Solo had proven his ability to wield power responsibly when he had refused to fire Centerpoint Station, an ancient space station capable of firing vast energy beams, against the Yuuzhan Vong, due to his belief that it would be an overly aggressive action. At the beginning of the war's second year, during the Battle of Duro, Solo defeated Warmaster Tsavong Lah of the Yuuzhan Vong in personal combat, which demonstrated to Vergere and Lumiya that the young Jedi could use his power when necessary. Jacen Solo was selected as the best candidate; his close relationship with his uncle Luke Skywalker, however, posed problems. It was decided, therefore, that Vergere would return to the Yuuzhan Vong and facilitate Solo's capture by the aliens, whereupon she could train him without interference. In 26.5 ABY, the Fosh Sith made her way back to the Yuuzhan Vong, whereupon she inveigled her way into the confidence of Tsavong Lah himself. Vergere abducted Jacen Solo during a Jedi mission to Myrkr, and exploited the young Jedi's isolation in Yuuzhan Vong captivity to begin his training.

I think we're going to need to examine the arguments put forward in Traitor, Betrayal etc and work out what Vergere's training actually was :S

Vergere returned with Solo to the New Republic, where the Jedi was re-united with his family. Solo's attachment to his sister Jaina was such, however, that when during a pitched battle Jaina was endangered by the forces of Warmaster Tsavong Lah, Vergere's trainee rushed to defend his sister at the risk of his own life. Fearful that Solo would die on his mission, the Fosh sacrificed herself in service to Solo's destiny, killing the Yuuzhan Vong warriors threatening Jaina and ensuring her protégé's survival. With Vergere dead, the duty of enacting the Sith plan fell entirely to Lumiya. A year after Vergere's death, the Yuuzhan Vong were defeated at Coruscant and the galactic capital was reclaimed by the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances&mdash;the successor government to the New Republic. While Luke Skywalker's Order and the rest of the galaxy began the long process of recovery, Jacen Solo set off on a five year journey of discovery. The Yuuzhan Vong War had cost Lumiya both her battle fleet and her Sith companion; though the time to approach Solo was a decade away, the cyborg woman had the time and freedom to make preparations for that day.

Long preparations
"Don't put it past Lumiya to engineer events to serve her purposes."

- Luke Skywalker

Discovery of the Home, Darth Vectivus etc. Lumiya decides to re-emerge and facilitate Solo's Sith teachings by means of instigating the Second Galactic Civil War. Manipulates Klauskin.

Aware that she would have to find a way to lure Solo to a location of her choosing, Lumiya alighted upon the idea of a riddle or a puzzle that the Jedi would have to unravel. Drawing on a variety of different cultures, Sith ideals, peversions of Jedi precepts and Solo's own past, Lumiya set about constructing a small piece of beadcraft, an artifact made up of a series of intricately designed colored tassels. Each tassel was unique and carried its own message. Lumiya ordered the creation of lines from the Tahu'ip culture of the Twi'lek people; the Bith Aalagar race of Clak'dor VII; the language of the Firrerreo; the prison language of Kessel; and numerous other sources, wishing to create an item that would attract Solo's attention and encourage him to study its meaning. Some lines, such as the Tahu'up tassel, referred to Solo's own life and how he had strengthened himself through pain in Yuuzhan Vong captivity.

Others referred to the trials he would endure as he ascended to Sith mastery&mdash;the sacrifice of love, which Lumiya presumed would be carried out by means of the murder of a relative or friend&mdash;the ruination of those who defied justice, and the balance of peace and conflict. Elements of the tassels were contrived; others, such as the sacrifice Solo would have to make, were the province of the Force itself. Lumiya was operating in the realms of Sith prophecy and was far from omniscient in what needed to be done. The final line, which pertained to Solo being drawn from peace into conflict, was constructed from a language from the Sith world of Ziost and imbued with the Force, in a last attempt to capture Solo's attention. The Sith Lady believed that Solo's attempts to understand the mysterious tassels would lead him to an expert&mdash;Doctor Heilan Rotham&mdash;on the planet Lorrd, a world with a culture that had a history of non-verbal communication. On Lorrd, which was located in the Kanz sector near her base in the MZX32905 system, Lumiya planned to engage Solo in a series of tests which would bring the precepts of his training under Vergere into sharp relief.

Attracting Solo's attention and maneuvering him into a position where he was approachable and accessible for training, however, was only one stage of Lumiya's plan. The Sith Lady was aware that Solo would have to ascend to power against the backdrop of war and instability. Since the end of the Swarm War several years prior, the galaxy had remained at relative peace. The Galactic Federation of Free Alliances and its Chief of State, the Alderaanian Cal Omas, maintained close ties with Skywalker's Jedi Order and operated alongside them to keep the peace. Nevertheless, tensions were arising between the Galactic Alliance and the world of Corellia, a planet with a people known for their independence and pride. The Corellian government, headed by Five World Prime Minister Aidel Saxan, wished to enjoy the benefits of Galactic Alliance membership while flouting the government's regulations. It was this division that Lumiya decided to enlarge in order to plunge the galaxy into conflict and enable the rise of Jacen Solo.

Personality and traits
"No, I don't miss my beauty, you fool, because it would have vanished by now anyway. Once I understood that my injuries freed me from worrying about such nonsense, I realized that I had a task that only I could fulfill."

- Lumiya




 * She was streetwise.


 * Never manifested the yellow-orange eyes of the Sith.

Powers and abilities
Just a bit sketchy at the moment; will make it cohesive over time.

Force ability
"The Force is the energy of the living. You interact with it, its eddies and flows, with your own living body. It's all right to have a mechanical part or two&mdash;an implant, a replacement foot. But for true Mastery in the Force, light side or dark side, you have to be mostly organic. I'm not, and so the greatest, the most significant powers, I can never learn."

- Lumiya

"Why so dismayed? Surely you knew that my training in the ways of the Force&hellip;gives me mastery over limited amounts of matter and energy&hellip;and hence&mdash;telekinesis."

- Lumiya

Brie's early training under Darth Vader enabled her to wield the Force with proficiency. She used mind tricks and telekinesis while on Carida.

She could enter a healing trance, create Force whirlwinds, deflect blasters, dissipate energy, project hatred. Battlemind.

Able to tame beasts as steeds if the need to arose.

Piloting skills
A fine pilot, Brie was top of her class during her training at the Coruscanti Pilots Institute and maintained a consistently high record throughout her time at the Carida Academy. Practice on simulators enabled Brie to hone her skills and gain proficiency at piloting a variety of vehicles, such as the MT-ST.

Physical prowess
Lumiya was proficient at Echani and Noghri Stava. In addition to Galactic Basic Standard, Lumiya could speak Huttese, Mon Calamarian and Bothan.

She was an accomplished swimmer.

Cybernetics
"I'm actually more machine than organic&hellip;there's a point, I think, at which a woman ceases to be a human with cybernetic implants and becomes a machine with organic parts. I believe I've crossed that threshold. And you know what? I'm not unhappy with that."

- Lumiya

Her original prostheses included blasters incorporated into the hands. When these were replaced after the Nagai-Tof conflict, they no longer included integrated blasters, rendering her unable to fire energy beams from her hands.


 * Talk about Lumiya's original mechanical enhancements as shown in Figurehead.
 * Blasters incorporated into her hands, shown in Figurehead and described in LDSE.
 * Increase in height based on stats from LDSE.
 * Discuss the awkwardness of her original mechanical enhancements, shown in Figurehead.
 * Described how Leia exploded her original cybernetics as shown in Figurehead.
 * Describe her new prostheses as shown in Duel With a Dark Lady after her original set was destroyed in Figurehead.
 * Discuss the chest monitor thingy like Darth Vader's.
 * Discuss how she could hide her lightwhip inside one of her prosthetic legs as described in Betrayal.
 * Discuss how her cloak flowed like perpetual darkness as shown in Duel With a Dark Lady.
 * Describe her signature triangular headdress.

Lightwhip


"&hellip;Biting metal and stinging light&hellip;"

- Excerpt from the Sith tome which inspired the creation of Lumiya's lightwhip

The one thing probably more closely associated with Lumiya than her signature triangular headdress was her choice of weapon; the ancient Sith lightwhip. A peculiar thing that resembled a cat o' nine tails, Lumiya's device was constructed of Mandalorian iron and powered by shards of kaiburr crystal. It differed than the lightwhips wielded by the Sith of old, in that it was a multi-stranded device of equal parts studded leather, strands of metal, and coherent lightsaber energy. Lumiya's lightwhip had a five meter attack radius, but she was also able to shorten the lengths of its tendrils in combat when more precise control over a shorter area was required.

Ship
"What a magnificent piece of engineering. It says it's found me."

- Lumiya


 * Describe how Ship recognized her as Sith & came to her for instructions in Sacrifice.
 * Describe how Ship later realized that Lumiya lacked sufficient Sith knowledge to be considered a Master by Ship's standards, and therefore was unable to fully command Ship, losing control of it to a Jedi Padawan (Ben Skywalker) in Sacrifice.

Behind the scenes
While Lumiya's Databank entry claims that the woman was recovered from her TIE fighter by Darth Vader's agents, The Emperor's Pawns states that the Sith Lord himself discovered Lumiya in the damaged starfighter.

The final duel between Luke Skywalker and Lumiya, which took place on Terephon, was illustrated by artist Tommy Lee Edwards for Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force. In Edwards' depiction, Lumiya is still wearing her headdress, whereas Sacrifice states that the Sith Lady removed it before the duel took place.

On Edwards' blog, another illustration of the duel is shown. In this unpublished drawing, Skywalker is shown decapitating Lumiya, although the events of the duel in Sacrifice are once again contradictory. Link to Lee Edwards' blog http://web.mac.com/tommyleeedwards/iWeb/Site%202/TLE%20BLOG/78EA8B5A-57FA-4106-8625-028D707BD0E0.html

In Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, Mara Jade Skywalker recounts her first encounter with Lumiya on Caprioril, and then talks about how she saw her later in passing while at the Imperial Palace. Furthermore, the cover for The Emperor's Pawns shows Lumiya dueling Mara Jade, lightwhip versus lightsaber. If the chronology of the events given by Mara Jade in JVS is correct, Lumiya's databank entry contradicts this because it states Lumiya constructed her lightwhip after being presented to Palpatine as an Emperor's Hand, though Mara Jade is shown fighting her with a lightwhip in their first encounter (according to Jade) with one.

Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire lists Lumiya's height as 6' (1.83 meters) as late as the battle of Endor, but The New Essential Chronology lists it as 5'2" (1.6 meters). Furthermore, Tempest states that Alema Rar is considerably taller than Lumiya, but the NEC shows them both as the same height at 1.6 meters, while Dark Star of the Empire contradicts both of these.

Lumiya: Dark Star of the Empire also mistakenly identifies Lumiya as having been previously a Jedi Knight that fell to the dark side of the Force.

In the New Essential Guide to Characters Lumiya's eyes are stated to be green. However in Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, Mara Jade Skywalker says that Lumiya's eyes are gray. Lumiya's picture in The Essential Atlas show her eyes as green also.