Darsha Assant

"I have always taught you to be honest in your feelings, for they are the surest conduit to knowledge, both of the self and of the force."

- Jedi Master Anoon Bondara to Darsha

Darsha Assant was a Human Jedi Padawan prior to the Battle of Naboo. The apprentice of Master Anoon Bondara, she wielded a yellow lightsaber.

Biography
Found by Bondara as an orphan on Alderaan, Darsha was raised and trained at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, and she eventually became Bondara's Padawan. She had also received education from Qui-Gon Jinn. She was strong in the Force and had once defeated Obi-Wan Kenobi in a mock lightsaber duel.

Years later, shortly before the Invasion of Naboo, Darsha was given the task of recovering the Fondorian informant Oolth from Coruscant's undercity as the Trial for her Jedi Knighthood. She ran afoul of one of Coruscant's gangs, however, and she lost Oolth. In the hopes of salvaging something of the mission, Master Bondara returned with her in the hopes of finding Oolth, but they discovered that he had been killed.

Darsha and Master Bondara were returning to the Jedi Temple when they witnessed the Sith Lord Darth Maul hunting Lorn Pavan and I-5YQ. Bondara sacrificed his life to delay Maul, allowing Darsha, Lorn, and I-Five to escape into Coruscant's depths.

Maul hunted them through the various perils of the undercity, battling through Cthons and a taozin, until finally cornering them in a warehouse. Darsha managed to save Lorn and I-Five by freezing them in carbonite, before confronting the Sith Lord. During the battle, Darsha found a connection to the Force unlike anything she had previously experienced, managing to hold her own against Maul's superior skill. She then caused a massive explosion that claimed her life, never knowing that Maul himself managed to escape the inferno.

Appearances

 * Cloak of Deception
 * Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
 * MedStar I: Battle Surgeons