Tenel Ka Djo


 * "You will give birth to a daughter first, and she will be strong and virtuous, like you."
 * &mdash;Luke Skywalker to Teneniel Djo, 8 ABY

Tenel Ka Chume Ta' Djo (10 ABY&mdash;) was the daughter of Prince Isolder, Chume'da of the Hapes Consortium, and the Dathomiri witch Teneniel Djo. Later, she became Queen Mother of the Hapes Consortium over her own personal wishes and gave birth to Jacen Solo's daughter.

Jedi (up to 27 ABY)
Tenel Ka was raised in the traditions of both of her parents, learning the ways of politics on Hapes and physical training and the ways of the Force on Dathomir. When she was old enough, Tenel Ka went to Yavin 4 to train at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum. She became fast friends with Jacen and Jaina Solo, and the Wookiee Jedi, Lowbacca, although she did not tell them of her position as Princess of Hapes at first.

While the group of friends were repairing a crashed TIE fighter, the pilot, Qorl, abducted Jaina and Jacen, but Tenel Ka made it back to the Praxeum to summon help, although by the time help arrived, Qorl had taken off in the newly repaired craft.

During a lightsaber training exercise with Jacen Solo, Tenel Ka's newly constructed lightsaber (with an on switch made from a rancor tooth) shorted out due to a flaw in its focusing crystal. Jacen's blade slipped through the space it had previously occupied and cut off the Hapan Princess's left arm. Tenel Ka bore Jacen no ill will, but Jacen felt seriously guilty, and the accident drastically changed their relationship, especially in light of the fact that, prior to the accident, Jacen had hoped they would become more than friends.

Whisked back to Hapes by her grandmother Ta'a Chume, Tenel Ka briefly considered whether she should continue to train as a Jedi, but in a display of personal strength and confidence, Tenel Ka refused to have the prosthetic replacement her grandmother arranged for her to have attached, and sought to enhance her physical abilities along with her Jedi talents to make up. This, along with foiling a plot by one of Ta'a Chume's ambassadors to kill her and her grandmother, showed her that her path was definitely one of a Jedi.



Tenel Ka then faced down Tamith Kai and helped to foil the plot by the Shadow Academy to invade the Jedi Praxeum. Shortly after, her parents and grandmother sent her an old unmarked Hapan ship which she named the Rock Dragon. Tenel Ka chose Jaina and Lowbacca as pilot and co-pilot, and the friends went to the graveyard of Alderaan for their maiden voyage. While there, they were confronted by Boba Fett (who, in fact, was Boba's daughter Ailyn Vel), but they managed to escape with help from Zekk in the Lightning Rod.

Afterward, Tenel Ka stopped an attempt to abduct Raynar and Aryn Dro Thul, and after Lowbacca had seemingly joined the Diversity Alliance, she and her friends went to rescue him. However, they were caught by Diversity Alliance personnel and sentenced by Nolaa Tarkona to work in the ryll mines. Lowbacca found out about their presence and arranged an escape plan. In the confusion, however, Tenel Ka and Jacen were separated from Jaina and Raynar and were stuck on the dark and frozen side of Ryloth, where they found Kur. Help came in the form of the Rock Dragon piloted by Lowbacca.

After Zekk rescued Bornan Thul from bounty hunters, Tenel Ka and the rest of her friends went with them to destroy the asteroid containing the Emperor's Plague. After the battle was over, the normally stoic Tenel Ka kissed Jacen Solo.

In 27 ABY, Tenel Ka was one of the members of the Myrkr strike team. With the success of the mission, they retreated to Hapes. During the voyage, she felt what was apparently Jacen's death through the Force, and after breaking down, she realized she loved Jacen.

Queen Mother (27 ABY and beyond)
On Hapes, Tenel Ka watched Jaina fall to the dark side and suffered the poisoning death of her mother by Ta'a Chume's assassins. Although she detested everything the position stood for, Tenel Ka was crowned Queen Mother of Hapes by her father, very much to the disappointment of Ta'a Chume. Tenel Ka pledged the support of the Hapan government and military to the fight against the Yuuzhan Vong and began working to change the corruption in the Hapan government and her family from the inside.

In 35 ABY, Jacen Solo approached Tenel Ka about sending a fleet to guard the Killiks while the Jedi tried to find a way to deal with the Chiss. She agreed, providing he spend some time with her. The end result was that the Killiks got their fleet&mdash;and Tenel Ka became pregnant. She gave birth to Jacen's daughter the following year (though she delayed the child's birth through the Force by a few months), but remained secluded, as the baby would be a target for angered Hapan nobles. The three were attacked by assassins sent by Ta'a Chume, not by the assassins Tenel Ka expected, but by the Dark Nest. Tenel and the baby, however, were saved. During the attack, Tenel was thrown against a wall by Ben Skywalker in an impressive display of Force power on the untrained Force user's part. Jacen erased Ben's memory of the incident rather forcefully, which disturbed Tenel Ka. Jacen then focused most of his energy to protecting her and their baby from the Killiks, going so far as to render Ta'a Chume comatose and lead a preemptive strike against the Chiss.

Appearances

 * Young Jedi Knights series
 * Jedi Eclipse
 * Balance Point
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Destiny's Way
 * The Unifying Force
 * The Joiner King
 * The Unseen Queen

External link

 * Through Her Skin: a Tenel Ka shrine & fanlisting