Kina Ha

"Your prowess with a lightsaber is childish vanity.Your physical Force powers are no more than a conjurer's trick, sleight of hand to dazzle the ordinary beings you should be serving. You profane these powers by using them as weapons in war. And you fail to grasp the single, simple, uncompromising duty of the true Jedi. The Jedi is the rock-lion at the gate who says, "I will defend these beings with my life, and that is the sum of me." Etain Tur-Mukan died to save one life, a man she did not even know, but felt compelled to save, and that is what made her stronger in the Force and a truer Jedi than any of you acrobats, tricksters, and specious, empty philosophers."

- Kina Ha

Kina Ha was a female Kaminoan Jedi Knight. A wizened and distant Jedi, she was one of the few to survive Order 66 and lived on Mandalore during the Dark Times.

Biography
Born on Kamino, Kina Ha was a Force-sensitive who had been genetically altered to survive long hyperspace journeys. These deep-space missions were never carried out, and her unexpected and unwanted Force-sensitivity caused her to be treated as an outcast on her world. As the only one of her kind, she was somewhat of an embarrassment to the species and chose to leave Kamino rather than be seen as a threat. Alive to witness struggles between the Mandalorians and the Jedi Order thousands of years before the rise of the Galactic Empire, Kina Ha was trained by Jedi Kras'dohk sometime after being discovered by the Order. After a century of travel and Jedi training, she experienced a Force vision on Vorusku in which she saw countless soldiers of the dark side emerging from her home world. Troubled, she returned home and observed in secret. She took up residence underneath the Slici Canyon on the floor of Kamino. Because of Kamino's constant cloning, she was unable to discern which group would destroy her Order, therefore leaving her helpless to defeat it.

Kina Ha escaped Order 66 and was found by Nyreen Vollen, who brought her and Padawan Tallisibeth Enwandung-Esterhazy to Kal Skirata's home on Mandalore. Skirata agreed to let her stay at the clan's home on the condition that she provide biological samples to a geneticist trying to slow down the accelerated aging of all Jango Fett's clones. Kina Ha meet his request, saying that she felt it was only right and fair; unlike the rest of her species, she did not think that beings should be designed as commercial products.

The Kaminoan was baffling to both Skirata and the Null-class Advanced Recon Commandos he had adopted as sons. Accepting her into their home balanced on a knife-edge of necessity for her genes, and bargaining with a species that had scarred them all. Kina Ha was a patient and gracious guest, however, and Skirata and most of the clan eventually softened toward her. Rather than kill her to keep her from unwittingly betraying the location of their home, Kyrimorut, Skirata and Bardan Jusik decided to allow her and Jedi Arlingan Zey to join rogue Jedi Djinn Altis after attempting to Force-wipe the location of Kyrimorut from her mind. It is not currently known if this was ever accomplished.

Personality and traits
Although Kina Ha was a Kaminoan, she lacked the general disdain for imperfection typical in her species. As the lone Force-user of her race, she was considered by the scientists of her world to be a threat. She chose to leave the planet rather than face daily hostility. By the end of the Clone Wars she had lived over 1,000 years and had seen events such as the Sith going into hiding, the invention of bolo-ball, and the creations of hundreds of cloned armies and factory workers on her home world.

The Mandalorians she resided with after the Clone Wars saw her as an ancient and regal lady that baffled them by going against all Kaminoan stereotypes. While most Kaminoans prefer water worlds with little sun, she sat outdoors with the rest of the Skirata clan at Kyrimorut (though she wore a cap to shade her eyes when out-of-doors). Unlike most of her race, she possessed a cunning sense of humor and was known to cheat at pazaak.

Powers and abilities
Knowledge on Kina Ha is very limited as only a few in the whole galaxy knew of her existence. After leaving Kamino she was taken under the tutelage of Master Kras'dohk. Kras’dohk’s teachings were unorthodox, taking Kina on travels throughout the galaxy and imprinting her own separation from the Jedi Council onto Kina. During this training Kina divulged deeply into the Jedi Code rather than the Jedi Order. When Kras’dohk passed into the force Kina was left alone and although her Jedi training was not executed according to the traditions of the day, the Jedi Council believed that Kina Ha was a true Jedi Knight and were content with allowing her to operate on her own.

Kina Ha had a vision after a century of being away from her home that there would be millions of soldiers preparing for war, even though she knew that this was only a possible future event it compelled her to return home. The event she unknowingly foresaw was the Clone Wars, she predicted this centuries before it happened, even before Master Yoda. This is great insight to that she must have been a very powerful user of Force vision. She was also extremely intelligent. Coming back to Kamino she knew she had to do it in hiding, so she hid at the bottom of the Slici Canyon converting a Uulshos Manufacturing DPx yacht into a submarine herself. Showing that Kina still retained the inherent intelligence of the Kaminoans. She hid there for centuries undetected by the Kaminoan above or the Jedi who came to Kamino, such as Sifo-Dyas and Obi-Wan Kenobi. This may be a sign that she was also a strong user of Force Immersion more commonly something that was used by the Fallanassi but something that she might have come across in her galactic travels. Her lightsaber skills are not documented but must have been somewhat proficient for the Jedi Council to allow her solitary travels. She must also have been a capable pilot as she went through the galaxy for decades before going into hiding. The last and possibly most interesting thing about Kina Ha is that she lived for well over a millennia. At the time Order 66 was enacted she was already over a thousand years old and afterwards lived for an undetermined amount of time in hiding. With this she quite possibly could have been the longest living Jedi, far out living Master Yoda and even Odan-Urr. This shows that despite her irregular relationship with her Jedi peers, she had a very strong connection with the force.

Appearances

 * Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel
 * Imperial Commando: 501st