Misha Vekkian

Misha Vekkian was a Human female, who trained as a Jedi Padawan during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. After the formation of the Galactic Empire, she was turned to the dark side by the Inquisitorius, a group of Dark Side Adepts who served as the Empire's Jedi hunters. After undergoing military training, she joined the Imperial Navy and attained the rank of Lieutenant. When the Alderaanian Resistance, a resistance group based on Alderaan, sent a taskforce to wait near Coruscant, Vekkian was among the Imperial forces sent to destroy it. She was part of a boarding party that landed on the Alderaanian command ship, the Resurgence and she took up a position in the ship’s landing bay along with the squad of Imperial Navy troopers she commanded. After witnessing Inquisitor Valin Draco leave the ship with the captured Jedi Master Denia, she and her squad attacked a group of Alderaanian Resistance fighters.

Biography
Vekkian was brought up by the Jedi Order with no knowledge of her homeworld or her family. By the time of the Clone Wars, she had become a Jedi Padawan. However, after the end of the conflict, she was discovered by the Inquisitorius, an order of Dark Side Adepts who served the newly-formed Galactic Empire and were tasked with hunting down the surviving Jedi. They turned her to the dark side and she agreed to serve the Empire. After undergoing military training, she was commissioned as an officer in the Imperial Navy. Vekkian attained the rank of Lieutenant and commanded a squad of Imperial Navy troopers who, due to her harsh style, became some of the meanest men in the Imperial Navy.

A few months after the end of the Clone Wars, Imperial Admiral Gilder Varth infiltrated the Alderaanian Resistance, a resistance group based on Alderaan. He betrayed the location of a Resistance taskforce that was waiting near Coruscant and an Imperial taskforce under the command of Inquisitor Valin Draco was sent to destroy it. Vekkian and her squad accompanied them and they were part of a boarding party that landed aboard the Alderaanian command ship, the EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate Resurgence.

Draco captured Denia, a Jedi Master who had allied herself with the Resistance and took her to the landing bay. Vekkian and her squad were present there while he and his prisoner left the ship in his shuttle. Afterwards, they took up positions near the only Imperial shuttle left on the ship. A group of Alderaanian Resistance fighters, who had been carrying out assignments for Denia, arrived at the hangar too late to rescue her. Vekkian noticed their presence there and ordered her squad to open fire on them. She then ignited her lightsaber and used battle meditation to prepare herself for combat. The naval troopers then gave her covering fire, while she tried to attack them. The battle was a victory for the Empire and the Resurgence was destroyed shortly afterwards, while the surviving Alderaanian ships were forced to flee.

Personality and traits
Misha Vekkian was a tall woman, with an athletic build and close-cropped hair. Vekkian blamed the Jedi for her fall to the dark side, as she believed that if she had been left with her parents, then her Force-sensitivity might never have been discovered. She was very cruel to the troops who served under her and she would kill any of them who did not succeed in their goals, which caused them to both fear and respect her. Her squad was scared of her and thought that it would not be unwise for them to try and take her down, as they believed that she could read their minds. She was spiteful and never forgot any slight that she perceived to be against her. She was also vindictive and knew no mercy. Although she carried a blaster pistol, she preferred to fight with her lightsaber instead.

Powers and abilities
Vekkian had learned how to use the ancient technique of battle meditation, preferring to employ it before entering combat. When in combat, her favored tactic was to deflect the blaster bolts fired at her by an enemy, while she got close enough to them to engage them in hand-to-hand combat with her lightsaber. She also knew how to use telekinesis to move and grip objects; and Force Rage, which she could use to augment her fighting skills.

Behind the scenes
Misha Vekkian made her first and only appearance in A Reckoning of Wraiths, the seventh scenario in the Dawn of Defiance campaign written by Gary Astleford, a supplement to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game. In that, the player characters have to fight Vekkian and her squad, so her ultimate fate depends upon their actions and it is possible for them to kill her. If they do so, then her squad retreat back to the remaining Imperial shuttle and leave the Resurgence.