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Lumiya
Category: CharactersWhen the Imperial operative Shira Elan Colla Brie was trained in the ways of the Dark Side of the Force by Darth Vader, she shed her old name and became the Dark Jedi Lumiya. Shira had infiltrated the Alliance at Vader's orders, in an effort to capture Luke Skywalker. Luke shot Shira's TIE Fighter down, and Shira barely survived. After being fitted with cybernetic implants and healing in a bacta tank, she emerged as the woman known as Lumiya. Lumiya's weapon of choice was not the lightsaber, though, but a new weapon known as the lightwhip. She discovered the lightwhip while searching through an ancient Sith tome during the Battle of Endor.
Vader tried to keep her training a secret from Emperor Palpatine, but eventually had to reveal her existence. In order to keep favor with Palpatine, Vader presented Lumiya to the Emperor as a candidate to be one of the Emperor's Hands. In this role, Lumiya was dispatched to serve as the leader of a group of Imperial soldiers on Herdessa, where she had posed as a sophisticated cyborg and earned the role as chief of planetary security. Shortly after Leia Organa's arrival on Herdessa, Lumiya revealed herself as a Dark Side adept.
Following the death of the Empire, Lumiya tried to defeat the New Republic with the help of the alien race known as the Nagai, after training her band on the planet Kinooine. There, she confronted Luke Skywalker again, explaining that it was he who killed Shira Brie and started her turn toward the Dark Side. She also tried to use their enemies, the Tofs, in a similar effort. Each time, she was defeated and left for dead, but her incredible strength and cunning allowed her to escape and survive.
She was a force that skirted the New Republic, striking when it pleases her against remote locations. For several years, she had control of a small fleet of warships, and was supported by a contingent of crimson-armored stormtroopers. It was later discovered that Lumiya had trained the likes of Flint and Carnor Jax, developing their dark powers much the same way Darth Bane trained his progeny: with just two Sith magicians, a master and an apprentice.
For many years after the Battle of Endor, Lumiya disappeared from the galactic scene, until the Yuuzhan Vong began their invasion of the galaxy. During this time, she discovered the location of the Mecrosa Order's cache of Sith lore, and dedicated herseld to learning what she could from it. When the Yuuzhan Vong launched their attack, Lumiya made a bold attempt to steal a number of bafforr trees from a laboratory on Yaga Minor, in an effort to develop her own weapons against the alien invaders. Her assault on Yaga Minor coincided with a similar mission led by the Yuuzhan Vong. Lumiya's forces battled the Yuuzhan Vong warriors to a standstill, allowing the Imperials to drive off both attackers and maintain the bafforr tree lab.
She then disappeared again, resurfacing some ten years after the end of the Yuuzhan Vong war as Brisha Syo. Using this alias, she lured Jacen Solo to an asteroid in the MZX32905 System, where she revealed her true identity after they located the spirit of Darth Vectivus. She then explained that she wanted to Jacen to join her, not to become an evil dicator, but to study Sith lore as Darth Vectivus did. Her reasoning was that Jacen had not yet been corrupted by the light side of the Force, as had Luke Skywalker, and that he could avoid the temptations of the dark side.
She then proposed to Jacen that his former teacher, Vergere, was not what she seemed to be. In fact, according to Lumiya, Vergere had been studying Sith lore under Count Dooku, which led them both into contact with Darth Sidious. Sidious accepted them as a candidates for apprenticeship, and Vergere discovered he was truly evil. She tried to kill him, but Sidious survived. He then sent his agents after Vergere, forcing her into hiding on Zonama Sekot. Jacen refused to see how this made Vergere a Sith, although Lumiya claimed that she was a Sith in the mold of Darth Vectivus. However, Jacen also came to see that there was some truth to her words, when his visions of the future involved his killing of Master Skywalker.
When Jacen chose to leave her in order to meditate on what he had heard, Lumiya held onto the belief that he would return and take his place as a Sith, a belief that became more true as the days and weeks passed. Eventually, Jacen called out to her and asked for assistance in becoming a Sith, confident that he would not make the same mistakes his grandfather, Anakin Skywalker, had made. He secreted Lumiya away in a Zorp House apartment near the Well of the World Brain on Coruscant, where she could continue his training and assist him in his work as the leader of the Galactic Alliance Guard. She explained to Jacen that he had been the culmination of Vergere's search for the ideal candidate to become a Sith.
Unknown to Jacen, Lumiya took on Alema Rar as a second student, although she knew that the Twi'lek lacked any real power that might challenge Jacen's right to lead the Sith. Lumiya explained to Alema that, even should she die, the Sith plan would continue on, hinting at the existence of a larger group of Sith in the galaxy. The pair managed to ambush Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker on Roqoo Depot, shortly after an assassination attempt on the life of the Hapan Queen Mother, Tenel Ka. The Skywalker had planned to meet their son, Ben, on the station, but instead were confronted by Lumiya and Alema Rar.
While the Twi'lek attacked Mara, Lumiya squared off with Luke. Her use of the lightwhip gave her an advantage, although Luke's shoto proved more than effective. However, in the heat of the battle, Luke managed to grab a discarded blaster and fire three shots into Lumiya's chest. Believing her to be dead, Luke investigated her body, only to find that Lumiya had wired herself to a pack of explosives. If she were to die, the dead-man switch that monitored her heart would set the explosives off. Luke and Mara only barely escaped before the blast occurred, and they fled Roqoo Depot believing that Lumiya and Alema Rar had died in the blast.
Lumiya managed to escape, and returned to Coruscant to recuperate. During this time, she came to wonder about Ben Skywalker's ability to serve as Jacen's future apprentice. She hired Byalfin Dyur and his goons to kill Skywalker during his mission to recover the Amulet of Kalara, and was surprised when he returned alive and in possession of a Sith Meditation Sphere. She commandeered the sphere for herself, after it greeted her as a Sith. Her concerns about Skywalker were only strengthened by the sphere, which agreed that he wasn't as strong as Lumiya had believed. She also began to view Alema Rar as a liability, since the Twi'lek's motivations seemed to be directed at the wrong goals.
Meanwhile, Jacen continued to work behind the scenes to gain power, and Lumiya knew that her usefulness to Jacen was coming to an end. She realized that there would come a time when she would be expendable, having given everything should could to help him complete his journey to the Dark Side. It was during this period of self-discovery that Lumiya also discovered that Jacen had had a daughter with Tenel Ka, and she believed that his daughter would be the sacrifice he would have to make to complete his training as a Sith.
Out of pity or concern, Lumiya followed Jacen to the Hapes Cluster, where she found him in a starfighter duel with Mara Jade Skywalker. Lumiya managed to crack the cockpit of Mara's StealthX fighter, forcing her to land on Kavan. Lumiya would have continued the fight, but found that the Sith Meditation Sphere she was flying in no longer responded to her commands. It had stopped obeying her at the urging of Ben Skywalker, who briefly controlled the unusual ship until he felt his mother's death. In that brief instant, Lumiya was able to regain control of the sphere, and she followed Jacen to Ziost. There, she learned that he had killed Mara Jade Skywalker, and Lumiya realized that she had to intervene if Jacen was to succeed. She agreed to confront Luke Skywalker and claim that she had killed Mara, to throw him off of Jacen's trail.
Luke managed to track her to Terephon, where he forced her to land and confront him. Lumiya drew upon the Force to make her claim of killing Mara as truthful as possible, ensuring that Luke would attack her. In a brief struggle, Luke pushed her to the edge of a mesa, but refused to let her fall. Instead, he drew his lightsaber and beheaded her, believing in his heart that he had avenged the death of his wife.
Source Abbreviations Listing - GAL3, GMR5, MC88, SWDB, GMR8, MC95, MC107, OWS, LF1, LF2, LF3, LF4, LF5, EGF
For more information, please read or view the following material(s):
Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, by Ryder Windham, copyright 2007, from Del Rey Books
Legacy of the Force: Betrayal, by Aaron Allston, copyright 2006, from Del Rey Books
Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines, by Karen Traviss, copyright 2006, from Del Rey Books
Legacy of the Force: Exile, by Aaron Allston, copyright 2006, from Del Rey Books
Legacy of the Force: Sacrifice, by Karen Traviss, copyright 2007, from Del Rey Books
Legacy of the Force: Tempest, by Troy Denning, copyright 2006, from Del Rey Books
Star Wars: Marvel Comic Series (issue number n follows MC), by Various, copyright 1977, 1986, from Marvel Comics Group
The Official Star Wars Website (http://www.starwars.com)
The Star Wars Databank (http://www.starwars.com/databank/), by Paul Ens and Pablo Hidalgo, copyright 2000, 2005, from Lucas Online
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