Vima Sunrider

Vima Sunrider (3,972 BBY&mdash;) was a famed Jedi Knight in the days of the Old Republic. She was the daughter of Nomi and Andur Sunrider.

Biography
As a child Vima attracted much attention from her parents and other Jedi for her Force potential. In the years following the end of the Great Sith War, her mother Nomi lived on Coruscant, where she held the title of 'councilor.' Nomi was also a well-known Jedi Knight, becoming a spokesperson and de facto leader of the Jedi while becoming embroiled in Republic politics on the capital.

Thus, she had little time to spent with her daughter Vima, who grew up to be somewhat rebellious and impatient as she. During the Jedi Convocation on Exis Station in 3,986 BBY, she became bored and stole one of the small sun-miner crafts in an attempt to fly with a corona work crew. Unfortunately, Vima found herself trapped in the Teedio star's magnetic storms. Luckily, Vima was rescued by the Twi'lek Jedi Tott Doneeta who brought her back to Exis Station, where she faced her mother's stern rebukes. Nomi questioned her daughter's actions, asking how she can expect to become a Jedi with such brash choices. Vima responded by saying that if Nomi would spend more time training her, she could have gotten out of it herself.

Impatient and frustrated, Vima stowed away on the spacer Hoggon's transport. When Hoggon discovered her, she showed him a hologram of the ex-Jedi Knight and former Sith Lord Ulic Qel-Droma. He immediately recognised him as the man whom he transported to the frigid world Rhen Var in the Outer Rim. Having arrived, he gave her a transmitter to contact him before leaving the planet. She then braved the snowy wastes of the planet and eventually came across Ulic's fortress. Having met him, she persuaded Ulic to train her as a Jedi. Ulic refused to do so at first, but after rescuing her from a blizzard, he reluctantly agreed and began instructing her in the ways of the Force. Despite the fact he could no longer touch the Force, the fallen Jedi was proven to be an excellent teacher, and Vima was proven to be an excellent learner.

Shortly after Vima's training was complete, Ulic was killed by Hoggon. It is unknown what Vima has done since, although she did have a descendant roughly 4,000 years later, Vima-Da-Boda, who was also a Jedi.

Vima was around forty years old at the time of the Mandalorian Wars and Jedi Civil War. Assuming that she survived it, she would have most likely been killed during the first Jedi Purge, led by Darth Traya, Darth Sion and Darth Nihilus.



Behind the scenes
Vima Sunrider was originally planned to be one of the main characters in the videogame Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic instead of Bastila Shan; the name Bastila Shan then belonged to the Cathar Jedi, one of the player's party members. When the developers abandoned that idea and made Bastila a human taking Vima's place in the plot, the Cathar character was renamed Juhani.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
 * Tales of the Jedi: Redemption