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Sing, Aurra
Category: CharactersAurra Sing was portrayed by Michonne Bourriogue in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, and she was voiced by Jaime King for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated television series.
This bounty hunter was, at one time, a student of the Force. Aurra Sing was a female humanoid with pasty, white skin, three-jointed fingers, and thin limbs, she was quite striking in her appearance. Perhaps the monst unusual feature about her appearance was the antenna that protruded from the left side of her top-knotted skull. Born to Aunuanna on Nar Shaddaa, Aurra Sing was never aware of her father's identity. Some claimed that he had been a Rattakati or an Umbaran, given her own pale skin, but the genetics of these races did not account for her long life. After growing up in poverty, she taken from the degenerate moon by the famed Dark Woman and trained on Coruscant for a short time. As a Jedi trainee, she learned minimal control of the Force from the Dark Woman, but Aurra was captured on Ord Namurt by a group of Sennex Pirates, who later apprenticed her to Nooga the Hutt. The pirates told Aurra that the Dark Woman told them she was not strong enough to complete the early training of a Padawan and had been dismissed by the Dark Woman.
This angered Aurra, and she hated the Jedi fiercely from that point on. Nooga apprenticed her to some Anzati assassins, who implanted a Rhen-Orm biocomputer in her skull to augment her mental capacity. After learning that she could use her minimal contact with the Force to hunt down others, she returned to Nooga, assassinated him, and set out to become a bounty hunter. Note that the story Aurra's Song claims Aurra Sing was purchased from the Sennex Pirates by Walla the Hutt, after the Dark Woman sold her to the pirates.
She was noted for her ability to hunt down and kill the Jedi Knights, and she had several lightsabers in her trophy case to mark her prowess. After leaving the Jedi, she had a Rhen-Orm biocomputer implanted in her head, to help her in her hunting. She was the bounty hunter who eventually located and eliminated Reess Kairn on the Forest Moon of Endor. Shortly before the Battle of Naboo, Aurra was retained in an effort to locate and kill the secretive Jedi Master, Sharad Hett. Since she was familiar with the streets of Mos Espa, assignment was easy for her. Despite the efforts of Ki-Adi-Mundi, she was able to assassinate Hett.
During the early stages of the Clone Wars, Aurra Sing was recruited by Cad Bane to assist with a mission to free Ziro the Hutt from prison. The mission involved the capture of several Senators, who were to be held hostage until Ziro was freed. Aurra Sing served as the team's sniper, taking out the Senate Guards who blocked their entrance to the Senate Rotunda. Following this mission, Aurras Sing was hired by Devaronian Senator Vien'sai'malloc to assassinate Elsah'sai'moro and protect the Separatist base on Devaron from attack. Eager to kill more Jedi, Aurra agreed to the job. She nearly killed both Jedi Master Tholme and her own former teacher, the Dark Woman, but she was apprehended by Aayla Secura. Aurra Sing tried to taunt the young Jedi, trying to use an advantage she could gain. However, in combat, Aayla managed to slice off the antenna on Aurra Sing's head, momentarily cutting her off from her anger. Aurra Sing was captured by the Jedi and sentenced immediately to imprisonment on Oovo IV. The lightsabers she had collected were returned to the Jedi Order for distribution to students of the dead.
Although no records from Oovo IV survived the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, Aurra Sing was believed to have escaped from the prison facility. In reality, she was extracted from Oovo IV by Darth Vader himself, and offered a chance to track down Jax Pavan. During her search, she crossed paths with Captain Typho of Naboo inside the ruins of the Jedi Temple, and she was slightly upset when the one-eyed man managed to slice off her biocomp antenna before making his escape. Putting this minor failure aside, Aurra Sing continued to pursue Jax Pavan, relying on her own connection to the Force to track him down. In a construction area of Spaceport Nine, she managed to confront him in one-on-one combat. She found that his skills with a lightsaber were good, but believed that she had a very good chance of defeating him. However, she was unprepared for his use of unorthodox tactics, and Aurra Sing found herself trapped in an active reposticator. Aurra Sing fell into the sand-like raw material that the machine used to create construction supplies, and Jax believed that she was died inside the machine.
However, Aurra Sing managed to keep her wits about her, and escaped from the machine before it could tear her apart. In the years that followed, Aurra Sing made a quiet living in the more remote parts of the galaxy during the years leading up to the appearance of the Yuuzhan Vong. She went into hiding, but reappeared some ten years later in the Hapes Consortium. Still active at the age of seventy-five, Aurra Sing was hired by Lady Morwan and the Heritage Council to assassinate the Queen Mother, Tenel Ka. Her attempt was thwarted by the Hapan Royal Guard, and she managed to escape with Han Solo and his wife, Leia Organa Solo, who had been on Hapes trying to warn the Queen of the assassination. They traveled to Telkur Station, where Aurra Sing was ordered by Lady Morwan to cut off her hunt of the Queen Mother, and to concentrate on eliminating the Chume'da, Allana. She nearly reached the child after infiltrating the Anakin Solo, but Allana managed to inject her with a chemical that rendered the bounty hunter immobile.
Source Abbreviations Listing - YJC1, IG1, SWI57, BHAS, OWS, DSSB, ASNG, J3, LF3, CN2, CWTV22
For more information, please read or view the following material(s):
Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows, by Michael Reaves, copyright 2008, from Del Rey Books
Dark Horse Presents Annual 2000: Girls Rule! (contains Aurra's Song), by Dean R. Motter, copyright 2000, from Dark Horse Comics
Legacy of the Force: Tempest, by Troy Denning, copyright 2006, from Del Rey Books
Star Wars Insider Magazine (issue number n follows SWI), by Various, copyright 1997, 2008, from Various
Star Wars: Episode I Insider's Guide, copyright 1999, from LucasArts Entertainment Company
Star Wars: Jedi - Aayla Secura, by John Ostrander, copyright 2003, from Dark Horse Comics
The Bounty Hunters: Aurra Sing, by Timothy Truman, copyright 1999, from Dark Horse Comics
The Dark Side Sourcebook, by Bill Slavicsek and J.D. Wiker, copyright 2001, from Wizards of the Coast
The Official Star Wars Website (http://www.starwars.com)
Young Jedi Collectible Card Game - The Menace of Darth Maul, copyright 1999, from Decipher, Inc.
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