Kira Carsen

Kira Carsen was a human female Jedi active during the Cold War. The Padawan of Master Bela Kiwiiks of the Jedi Council on Tython, and teamed up with the former Padawan of Master Orgus Din to help prevent the use of the Planet Prison weapon on Coruscant.

Child of the Emperor
Kira Carsen was born to Sith parents who gave her up to become a 'Child of the Emperor'. During her time at the Sith academy, Kira discovered other children would disappear for unknown amounts of time. When they returned, they were different, unable to remember where they had been or sometimes who they or others were.

At some point Carsen discovered she could not recall days or weeks of time and realized she too had been experimented on. Fearful of what was being done to her she stowed away on a cargo ship headed out of Imperial space and quickly escaped. Once she was free of the Sith she spent years living in alleys and stealing to survive. She finally settled in with a group of refugees on Nar Shaddaa.

Life as a Jedi
Carsen's life quickly changed after a failed attempt to steal from the Jedi Master Bela Kiwiiks. Master Kiwiiks quickly recognized Carsen's affinity for the Force and offered Carsen the opportunity to join the Jedi Order. Carsen decided her best hopes of ending the evils that the Sith Empire had committed, against herself and others, was with the Jedi Order and accepted an apprenticeship with Master Kiwiiks.

Eventually Carsen met the Padawan of Orgus Din, and they worked together to stop Tarnis from unleashing the Planet Prison. She chose to travel with her new partner, and Satele Shan made them an informal master and apprentice. She was later captured by agents of Darth Angral, but her new partner/master freed her. Unfortunately, this allowed the Sith Emperor to find her at long last. He arranged for another Child, Valis to retrieve her. Carsen and her teacher were able to best Valis but Carsen was forced to come clean about her past, and decided to reveal the truth to the Jedi Council. Despite Jaric Kaedan's attempt to have her imprisoned, the rest Council decided to show leniency. Later, Carsen and her master rescued Bela Kiwiiks on Tatooine, and redeemed Lord Praven.

Eventually things came to a head on Tython. Darth Angral, driven insane by the death of his son, had attacked and planned to use the Desolator to destroy the entire planet, and the majority of the Jedi. Kira and her master disabled the Superweapon and confronted Angral. The Emperor possessed Carsen, and ordered Angral to kill the Knight. When Angral failed the Emperor stepped in and engaged the Knight. He had seen visions in which the Knight would rise and defeat him and he was determined to keep that from happening. When the Knight proved stronger the Emperor tried to keep them both on the critically damaged Desolator. Carsen refused to be his pawn and opened herself to the light, banishing the Emperor and severing the link. Returning to Tython's surface, Carsen was formally granted the rank of Jedi Knight by the Jedi Council.

Carsen eventually became part of a Jedi strike team tasked with capturing the Emperor and redeeming him to the light side. Unfortunately, they underestimated the Emperor's power, which he used to subdue the Jedi and corrupt them to the dark side. Carsen was placed in an interrogation device called the Tormentor, about to be subjected to torture by her own Master. Luckily, her Master had been released from the Emperor's control with the assistance of the ghost of Orgus Din. After disposing of the Sith Overseer, Carsen and her Master made to free their companions, only to find the Emperor's Wrath, Lord Scourge, had already done so. Scourge states that he has waited three hundred years for the appearance of Carsen's Master, whom he believes to be the one who would destroy the Emperor.

Behind the scenes
Kira Carsen appears in the BioWare MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic, as a companion character for the Jedi Knight character. The player gains her as a companion during the class storyline on Coruscant. Kira is voiced by Laura Bailey.

Romance
If the Jedi Knight is selected as male, the player can choose to have a romance with Kira Carsen, even go so far as to marry her. As per the Jedi Code, this will give the player dark side points.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Old Republic