User:Jaymach/Aurra

Aurra Sing, also known as Nashtah, was once a female Jedi Padawan but, following a series of tragedies and misfortunes, left the Jedi Order to become a vicious bounty hunter specializing in Jedi assassinations. Her career spanned over seven decades, from at least 32 BBY to 40 ABY.

Early life
Born in the stinking slums of Nar Shaddaa to a spice-addicted mother and a father of an unknown, long-lived species, Sing was forced to learn combat techniques while suffering at the hands of various hooligans. While she remembered little of his period in her childhood, it nevertheless left an indelible impression on her overall psyche for the rest of her life. It was through these encounters that Sing learned the rules of the street which governed street fighting.

Jedi training
After two years of this treatment, however, Sing was discovered by a mysterious Jedi Master known as the Dark Woman. Having sensed the inherent Force potential in the young Sing, the Dark Woman was able to convince Sing's mother to give up her daughter. Soon afterwards, the two beings departed on the Dark Woman's starship and headed to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant where Sing's second education began.

Sing spent the next seven years of her life among the sterile confines of the Jedi Temple, learning both lightsaber combat and the use of the Force from the Dark Woman along with several other Jedi, including the Dark Woman's former apprentice Ki-Adi-Mundi. While training Sing, Mundi sensed Sing's troubled spirit which caused him a great deal of worry. During her training, Sing managed to construct her own red-bladed lightsaber though she never advanced past the rank of Padawan.

Pirate life
At the age of nine, the Dark Woman took Sing to the planet Ord Namurt for some offworld training but before Sing could complete this training she was tricked by a young Twi'lek girl and captured by star pirates. These pirates were soon able to convince Sing that the Dark Woman had sold her into slavery, and because of this Sing instead chose to ally herself with the pirate crew from whom she learned the tricks of buccaneers and cuthroats; Sing's third education had begun.

The captain of these pirates quickly took a liking to his new acquisition, teaching her how to track and ambush targets though after several years Sing's skill in her work made him jealous. Indeed, the captain grew fearful that Sing would use her talents to usurp his position and take his power. Hoping to stop this from happening, the captain sold Sing to Wallanooga the Hutt for only a few thousand credits.

Hutt slave
Wallanooga, wanting his own personal assassin, apprenticed Sing out to a group of Anzati who owed him a favour. While teaching Sing some of their techniques, the Anzati implanted a Rhen-Orm biocomputer inside of Sing's skull to better augment her situational awareness. Sing's fourth education would teach her to be an untouchable killer, and made her one of the most deadly fighters in the galaxy. Through this, Sing became one of the only outsiders to earn the Anzati's respect.

Bounty hunting life
After completing her training, Sing was returned to her Hutt master who she promptly killed, deciding to take her revenge on all who had used her. Following this, Sing went on to kill the pirates who had stolen her and took their blockade runner for her own ship. Taking up work as a freelance bounty hunter, Sing killed any Jedi she crossed paths with and kept their lightsabers as trophies, though she wanted to take revenge on the Dark Woman for her "betrayal" more than anything else.

Despite being a bounty hunter, Sing refused membership in the Bounty Hunters Guild, though she did still accept the occasional side job from its leader Cradossk. Around the Battle of Naboo, Sing spent much of her time on Tatooine during which time she witnessed Anakin Skywalker's victory in the Boonta Eve Podrace, later returning to hunt the Jedi-turned-pirate Rees Kairn.

Sometime after this, Sing again returned to Tatooine where she took competing jobs from both Gardulla and Jabba the Hutt, both of which pitted her against the rogue Jedi Sharad Hett, who had taken on the role of a Tusken Raider warlord. Though she managed to kill Sharad, his son A'Sharad survived the battle and became the Padawan of Sing's former mentor Ki-Adi-Mundi.

Around 30 BBY, Sing managed to attract the attention of the Jedi Council by murdering two Jedi Masters in the undercity of Coruscant. The Council, wishing to stop her threat, assembled a team of three Jedi&mdash;Ki-Adi-Mundi, Adi Gallia, and A'Sharad Hett&mdash;to track her down and stop her activities. Not knowing of this threat, Sing accepted a contract on two beings&mdash;the second of whom she joked that she would have killed for free&mdash;Quarren Senator Tikkes and the Dark Woman.

Sing attacked her targets on a jungle world in the Kamdon system, though she had been tracked her by the team of three Jedi. Before she was able to kill either of her targets, however, she was beaten badly by A'Sharad who was still nursing the pain of his father's death. Despite this, Sing managed to slink away in order to fight another day.

Following this, Sing's public profile dimmed though her career did indeed continue for several years. For a while, she worked as a contract stringer for Jango Fett.

Many years later, sometime between the Battle of Hoth and Battle of Endor, an ageing Sing entered into Jabba the Hutt's vehicular demolition contests where she became a contestant.