Miri Dakaar

NAME: Miri Dakaar
SPECIES: Vongformed Human.
HOMEWORLD: New Alderaan
RESIDENCE: The Flower of Light, a 800-meter Vong cruiser.
AGE: 24 standard years
GENDER: Female
HEIGHT: 5'11" / 180 cm
WEIGHT: 158 lb / 72 kg
EYES: Blue
HAIR: White
SKIN: Fair
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes

FORCE POWERS:

• Battlemind - By employing this meditative technique, Miri can excise from her mind all distractions and concerns outside of attaining victory over her opponents as the Force guides her. Even fatigue and injury fall by the wayside with this Force power, as it gives her the drive to fight through even the hardest conflict. Though use of this technique can be dangerous due to the emotions combat inspires, it is not itself a dark side technique but rather light side.
  
• Force Valor - Miri is able to draw on the light side of the Force to augment herself and her allies, making them faster, stronger, and tougher.
  
• Force Sense - Miri can tune into the Force and expand both her mundane senses and her ability to detect things through the Force.
  
• Healing Meditation - Miri not only uses this technique to help keep her biots in check, she can use it to facilitate recovery from injuries.
  
• Telekinesis - Miri's telekinetic powers are only of middling strength, as she has somewhat neglected them in favor of other avenues.
  
• Telepathy - Miri can transmit and receive thoughts by establishing mental links in a sort of psychic comlink. She is adept at communicating with Yuuzhan Vong biots with this power.

SKILLS:

• Miri is trained as a fighter pilot, and is a skilled repulsorcraft operator as well. That training translates well to the coralskipper.
  
• Miri is familiar with most commonly available weapon types, including the weapons of the Yuuzhan Vong, but her preferred weapon is the lightsaber. She is proficient in Form I - Shii-Cho, Form III - Soresu, and Form V - Shien. Miri is an outstanding saber duelist, one of the best in her class.
  
• Having lived among the Vong, Miri is more familiar than most with their biots and their culture. She has a pain tolerance worthy of a Vong warrior, and is thus able to use most of their biotech without handicap.
  
• Miri speaks Basic, Huttese, and Yuuzhan Vong.

A sharp contrast to the hulking, scarred Vong she lives among, Miri is a slender, pretty woman who bears few external marks from her Vongforming. She is tall, about the average height of a Yuuzhan Vong despite being a Human woman. Thanks to the work of the shapers, she is surpassingly resilient and quite strong, particularly her yorik coral-reinforced skeleton. Miri has deep blue eyes and silvery-white hair, bleached by either her encounter with her father or as a side-affect of her shaping. She considered dyeing it back to its natural blonde, but decided against such a vanity when she was tasked as the envoy to the Yuuzhan Vong.

Miri commonly wears her Vonduun crab-shell armor with her glistaweb robe. Her armor is only partial, only covering the torso and arms, and the glistaweb covers the arms with a skirt depending from the crab-shell's 'belt'. The carapace is glossy blue-black studded with golden-orange lambent gems and trimmed with glistaweb. The glistaweb is pearlescent white and shimmers with a rainbow of colors in the dimmest illumination, changing its hue to suit her mood. The glistaweb can suppress its glow at empathic command, such as when Miri tries to hide from her enemies.

When she does not wear her armor, Miri prefers to dress in the Yavin colors, though her robes are somewhat atypical. She commonly wears a light tan dress with a hemline about mid-thigh, and over that a brown tunic with a black vest, and a pair of long black boots on her feet.



Miri has an aggressive nature tempered somewhat by years of Jedi training. She is passionate, almost too much so for a Jedi, but staunchly opposes the Dark Side and especially the Sith. She found much to like in the Yuuzhan Vong culture, particularly in their honorable-unto-death warriors and their reverence for life.



Miri was born in 510 ABY, just months before the beginning of the Imperial Civil War and the return of the Sith. Her father was a Jedi Knight, while her mother was a apprentice dropout-turned-peace activist he met during a mission to the Core in an effort to avert the coming catastrophe. She was tested for Force sensitivity shortly after birth and found to be extraordinarily gifted, much more so than either of her parents. Her parents raised her on Dantooine, and though her father was away more often than not her mother was a constant, comforting presence in her life. Miri was quite close with her mother, but though she saw her father but rarely Miri practically idolized and hero-worshipped him.

Miri's father was killed in the later stages of the war, ambushed by the Sith while trying to smuggle refugees to safety from the doomed planet of Naboo. This caused a split between Miri and her mother - while losing her father made her all the more determined to join the Jedi and fight the Sith who'd killed her father and so many others, Miri's mother steadfastly refused to let her little girl join the people who had stolen the love of her life from her. Thus, rather than joining the Jedi at twelve as she'd expected to do, Miri was forced to move with her mother to her home system of New Alderaan. Miri dreamed of running away to join the Jedi Order, but was unable to even so much as study the Force in her mother's household. The house grew tense, as the formerly inseparable mother and daughter grew apart.

On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, Miri ran away from home before the sun had even risen. She took only a few things with her, all of those being clothing and necessities she had purchased with her own credits earned at her job, and stowed away aboard a freighter bound for Dantooine. Though the freighter captain discovered her before the jump to hyperspace, he was willing to take her provided she helped with the chores. He was much more generous than he let on, being as he made the bargain knowing he'd practically have to teach her everything about operating a starship. Miri proved a quick study, and (more importantly to the captain) charming company; the girl was eager to learn, and eager to listen to his stories about life on the space-lanes.

The Jedi accepted Miri as a junior apprentice, putting her through the accelerated training program on account of her age. She did not, after all, need to spend time learning the basic academic subjects the younger apprentices occupied much of their time with. She was fast-tracked to senior apprentice in two academic years. Miri requested transfer to the Temple Academy at her instructors' recommendation, as she was unusually aggressive and quick to anger, with a core of bitter resentment that would require special attention - but a steadfast opposition of the Sith and all they stood for that could make her into a fine Jedi Guardian.

On Yavin, Miri was assigned to a Miralukan Jedi Knight named Ryle Q'Nath as her primary instructor. One of the Jedi Order's troubleshooters, the Knight took Miri on several missions into Sith space - as well as many more to less dangerous worlds throughout the galaxy. Unfortunately, on one of those missions into Sith space Miri discovered something that rocked her to her core.

Not only was her father alive, he had betrayed the Jedi and joined the Sith. Her mother had lied to her to spare her the truth, and had accepted her daughter's resentment rather than break the girl's heart. Miri could barely recognize him after the Rites of Purification and years with the Sith had transmuted him from the gentle, loving father she knew into a hard, cruel creature anathema to everything she stood for. Miri confronted her father as he slew Ryle, tearfully demanding an explanation as to why he'd abandoned her and betrayed the Jedi.

He left her for dead. Miri doesn't know how she survived, only that she woke up in her instructor's ship, adrift in space near the event horizon of a black hole after a hyperspace miscalculation. She knows that she took a blow to the head, and she suspects that the Sith tampered with her memory - probably ripping memories from her mind, and definitely erasing things; she remembered practically nothing from the mission before her confrontation with her father, and little after it. Miri spent three days near-death aboard a derelict before a group of Yuuzhan Vong on their coming-of-age rites came across her ship and rescued her. They were exuberant to discover their rescue was of a Jedi, and eagerly tried to help her recover. Unfortunately, Miri's injuries were too extensive for their meager skills to fully repair, so they elected one of their number to return to the fleet with her, the resources of her crippled ship, and their other collected treasures as tithe. The tithe was barely adequate; the young Vong was accepted into a lowly position aboard a small ship, but the shapers and Jeedai of the Vong took Miri into their infirmaries aboard the bioship Flower of Light. Miri slowly recovered in the Vong's care, the shapers repairing her ruined body through a combination of grafting and bacta treatment, using a variant of yorik coral to repair her skeleton and implanting organs and tissue to repair or replace her lost and damaged limbs and muscles. While she recuperated, Miri studied with the Vong Jeedai on the Flower, learning much of their Force tradition while sharing what she knew of the Jedi arts.

Miri returned to Yavin after her recovery, where a special tribunal approved her for promotion to Knighthood in lieu of continuing the traditional Trials without her master. The Jedi Council dispatched Miri to the Vong Confederation as a diplomatic envoy, wishing to take advantage of her special connection to them. The Flower of Light willingly accepted her back, taking her commission from the Jedi Order as an adequate tithe. Rather than offend her hosts by bringing a deadtech lightsaber with her, Miri consulted with the Vong Jeedai and created a unique biot combining Vong biotech with Jedi tradition - the tsaisaber.

• Vonduun crab-shell armor: Miri wears a young suit of Vonduun Skerr Kyrric, barely mature enough to be considered for a Vong Warrior. While hardly traditional garb for a Jeedai, much less a Jedi, she has received special blessing from the warriors of the Flower of Light in recognition of her status as a Jedi Guardian. Miri's armor only covers her torso and arms, leaving her lower body unprotected save for her glistaweb and other garments. Miri's armor is glossy blue-black.
  The armor can repel a glancing blow from a lightsaber, and it can absorb one to three blaster pistol shots or one or two blaster rifle shots. It is only a light armor, only really effective against light attacks - unarmed strikes, melee attacks, shrapnel, and the like. It is the most flexible and lightest of the armor phenotypes, roughly the equivalent of a padded flight suit.
  
  
• Glistaweb: Miri also wears the faintly luminous living robe-like garment common to Jeedai and other high-ranked Vong of other castes.
  The glistaweb is resistant to energy weapons, even feeding off of them somewhat, but provides practically no protection against lightsabers or kinetic weapons.
  
  
• Tsaisaber: Miri's lightsaber has a lambent focusing crystal specially grown for the purpose, a living gemstone that produces light at telepathic command - and in the organic, living case made from a shaped tsaisi and yorik coral, it produces a 150-cm golden-orange lightsaber blade. The emitter has a trio of short, curved fangs located in a triangle around it, and the pommel has a retractable 15-cm tsaisi blade that extends out at telepathic command from the 38-cm handle. When Miri isn't using her weapon, she can fasten it to a special slit at the back of her armor's 'belt' that provides it with the nutrients and kcals it needs.
  
  
• Implanted Biots: When the Yuuzhan Vong saved Miri's life, they implanted several biots into her body both to replace lost functionality and to sustain what they could keep alive. Unlike cybernetic enhancements, they feel as natural a part of her as her own flesh and blood.
  • Yorik Coral Skeleton: Though some of it remains, for the most part Miri's skeleton has been entirely replaced with and transformed into yorik coral. The coral bears marrow, blood vessels, nerves, and all the other necessities normal bones bear, but it also lays the groundwork for supporting other implants.
    
  • Grafted Organs: Miri's left lung and her heart were both damaged and replaced with shaped organs. Because the shapers were unfamiliar with Human biology and decidedly unimpressed with Miri's own 'weak' anatomy, they saw fit to implant a second heart on the right side of her chest as well as well as shaping her arteries to have cut-off valves to prevent exsanguination. Her nervous system was also shaped to be exceptionally conductive, making Miri's senses unusually sharp - particularly her sense of touch.
    
  • Dandil: A Yuuzhan Vong organ, this was implanted into Miri's brain in order to give her a proper pain threshold and resilience rather than subject the shapers to dealing with her soft-folk complaints.
    
  • Fighting Claws: The one graft Miri objected to, the Yuuzhan Vong shapers implanted retractable claws in both of her forearms, located right in between the two bones. The claws extend out through the skin when released, making them quite painful to use. The barbed, sickle-shaped claws attached to a four-meter retractable tendril are quite sharp, and react to her commands as they're linked to her nervous system through her yorik skeleton. They are of the same genus as Vonduun crabs and amphistaves, and produce the same sort of hard energy field as they do. Miri is often reluctant to deploy them, and when she does she tends to keep them out until she's very sure the fight is over.

• Slayer - Wherein Miri and Urir Jamaane seek out rogue shapers creating the forbidden Slayers
  
• Knights of Yavin - Where Miri meets with Keller Dan-Dover.