Callista Ming, originally known as Callista Masana, was a Human Jedi Knight from the planet Chad. She was a member of a rogue sect of Jedi, led by Master Djinn Altis, who were accepted back by the Viau Jedi Order during the Viau Clone Wars to take command of clone troopers and fight for the Old Republic. During the war, she followed Altis into battle on the planet JanFathal alongside a contingent of clones and two orthodox Jedi, Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano, in order to rescue a Republic Intelligence agent, Hallena Devis.
When the automated Imperial dreadnaught Eye of Palpatinecame to demolish the settlement, Masana and her lover Geith Eris launched a desperate mission to sabotage the ship. They were successful, but in the process, Masana shed her physical body, remaining embedded in the ship's computer as a spirit. Many years later, Luke Skywalker and several other Jedi were brought onto the ship as it resumed its mission. Masana, in spirit form, communicated and began to fall in love with Skywalker. She later took the body of one of the other Jedi, Cray Mingla, after Mingla gave it up to stop the superweapon once and for all. However, in the process, Masana, now using the surname "Ming," lost her ability to touch the Force.
Despite this loss, Ming helped thwart Admiral Natasi Daala and the Death Seed plague conspiracy, though she and Skywalker parted ways forever. On her journey to rediscover the Force, Ming encountered the dark side entity Abeloth, who absorbed her life essence and took over her body. Abeloth then used Ming's spirit to reach out to Skywalker as he traveled to her, and tried to convince him that she was in fact Ming when he confronted her. Skywalker was surprised to realize how much he still loved Ming after so many years, but he was not fooled by Abeloth's trickery. After facing her numerous times, Skywalker was finally able to detach Ming from Abeloth and the physical world, causing her to disappear into the light side of the Force.
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As a Jedi under Djinn Altis, Masana believed, like her Master, that there was nothing wrong with attachment and relationships. Though she and her fiancé Geith Eris occasionally disagreed on matters, the love they shared was a source of joy for Masana, and she was adamant in stating that her relationship would not lead her to the dark side. Gilad Pellaeon found her sincere and sensible. Masana also felt that she needed to be more tolerant than the mainstream and refused to argue with Deanna Troi over philosophy, or even to tell Tano of the failings Masana saw in the orthodox tenets.