Alema Rar

shyiva, better known as shyiva rar, was a Twi'lek Jedi Knight during the Yuuzhan Vong War. shyiva 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, later a dark blue (almost black) blade during the Dark Nest Crisis.

The Yuuzhan Vong War (27 ABY–30 ABY)
"Embrace the pain, scarhead."

- Shyiva 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, shyiva and her sister sneaked out aboard the Nebula Chaser. However, 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 shyiva dragged her into an escape pod. Not long after, shyiva was then rescued by Jaina Solo and Mara Jade Skywalker as they had been nearby searching for the two sisters. When shyiva was recovering from her physical injuries from the voxyn in a bacta tank, Luke Skywalker realized that she would eventually go to the dark side.



shyiva 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 among 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 a lot 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. However, the loss of her sister, coupled with the disaster drove her into near paranoia.

shyiva 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, and found themselves in the middle of a Vong fleet, shyiva helped man one of the gun turrets and safeguard the Falcon. shyiva 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. shyiva forced the Corellian Captain into hiding, whom thought her to be Peace Brigade. When the Yuuzhan Vong boarding party arrived, led by Bastori Rak, posing as the Captain she enticed with the promise of Jedi training materials. When arriving in the cargo hold, she showed her true allegiance with her lightsaber and opening the containers holding YVH droids and killed all the Vong. To celebrate this victory she offered a flirtatious offer at Lando, which he politely refused, she 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. shyiva was also one of the Jedi to be knighted at this time on Mon Calamari. She would then fight in the Battle of Ebaq 9, which brought victory to the New Republic. shyiva would later bond with seed partners and fly a Zonama Sekotan Fighter to defense Zonama Sekot against 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 shyiva would fall."

- Jacen Solo and Luke Skywalker

At the beginning of the Dark Nest crisis, shyiva 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, shyiva's arm was severely maimed by Luke's lightsaber, who mercifully let her crawl to a tunnel and escape. Luke would later claim that, due to the loss of her sister, it wasn't so much if shyiva would turn to the dark side, but when.

Over the next year, shyiva continued to serve under the Dark Nest's influence, becoming the new Night Herald. A year following the Qoribu debacle, shyiva 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, shyiva 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, shyiva encountered Leia, who over the past year trained in the ways of the Jedi under Saba Sebatyne. The two engaged in lightsaber combat, and shyiva proved to be a worthy opponent for Leia, beating her to the point of almost knocking her unconscious. However, Leia was able to sever one of her lekku, and the Dark Jedi was forced to flee.

shyiva 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, shyiva 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."

- shyiva Rar

In 40 ABY shyiva survived her supposed death, though was horribly disfigured, and sought to kill the entire Solo/Skywalker family for what had been done to her physically and for the destruction of the Gorog Dark Nest. She located Jacen on Coruscant first and fired a poisoned dart meant to kill him but instead hit the World Brain which later died. 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 shyiva, 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 shyiva greatly as Jacen becoming a Sith would cause great amounts of pain to Leia, whom shyiva hated most and wished to suffer as much pain as shyiva herself had suffered at Leia's hand. shyiva referred to this as "the Balance." She revealed 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 subsequently also witnessed Jacen and Lumiya's meeting. shyiva 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."

- shyiva Rar to Lumiya

shyiva accompanied Lumiya, secretly, to the Hapan Consortium on the GAG Star Destroyer Anakin Solo. She assisted Lumiya to prepare for a fight with Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker at Roqoo Depot, removing explosives from a missile to be placed in vests and attached to a detonator linked to the wearer's heart. This way, should either shyiva 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 shyiva's. While Luke was engaged fighting Lumiya, shyiva 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. She let her intentions be known to Luke through the Force, and – to her surprise – he allowed Lumiya to injure him severely, severing his mechanical hand, so that he could warn Mara in time. Mara and shyiva dueled, and Mara knocked shyiva unconscious, but could not bring herself to kill an unconscious foe. When Mara searched shyiva'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.

shyiva then returned to the Anakin Solo, revealed herself to Jacen - who greatly 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 is unknown for sure. He did not kill shyiva for fear of her having set a trap that, should she die, his paternity of Tenel Ka's daughter Allana would be revealed. He allowed her to leave on the condition that she was to never come near his family again. She agreed, but before she left, she sewed 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 later nearly killed his parents, sister, Zekk, and apprentice Ben by having the Anakin Solo fire upon the Falcon.

Appearances

 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Destiny's Way
 * 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