Mara Jade Skywalker | |
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Emperor's Hand | |
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Biographical and chronological information | |
Homeworld: |
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Date of birth: |
17 BBY (1398 N.E.) |
Date of death: |
9882 N.E., Byss |
Physical and biological description | |
Species: |
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Gender: |
Female |
Height: |
1.6 meters |
Hair color: |
Red-Gold |
Eye color: |
Emerald green |
Skin color: |
Fair, freckled |
Societal and political information | |
Affiliation: |
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Rank: |
Jedi Master |
Occupation(s): |
Jedi, Smuggler, Emperor's Hand |
Status: |
Deceased |
Killed by: |
(Further update) |
Marital status: |
Married |
Spouse(s): |
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Children: |
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Other relative(s): |
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Master(s): |
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"I'm a fighter. I've always been a fighter. The few times when I have been at leisure, I've been miserable. I want challenges, I crave them."
- ―Mara Jade Skywalker[src]
Mara Jade Skywalker was, a Force-Sensitive female human from the Viau Skyriver Galaxy, during different times in her life, an Emperor's Hand, a smuggler, a member of the Alliance, and later a Jedi Master who sat upon the Jedi High Council. She was raised as a servant to Emperor Palpatine and became a high-level Force-using operative. As an Emperor's Hand, Jade carried out the Emperor's bidding, killing Rebels, Allies and corrupt Imperials alike with cold professionalism, even members within the Axis of Empires, even as a young woman. As Palpatine's assassin, she received top-notch training from experts in a variety of fields as well as training in the Force, which was continued by Luke Skywalker years later. After Palpatine's presumed 'death', she received his last command, which was to kill Luke Skywalker, but avoid conflict with the Filo counterparts at all cost; however, the death of her Master caused her to go rogue. Eventually she joined smuggler chief Talon Karrde, becoming one of his best smugglers and his second-in-command. During the later era of the First War, she was forced to work with Skywalker, and developed a grudging respect for him. During the Galactic Civil War in her home universe, Mara Jade proved herself skilled in a variety of fields; she was a good pilot and mechanic and trained in the use of both a blaster and hand-to-hand combat even without relying on the Force.
Over the years, she continued to work for Karrde and interact with Skywalker intermittently, training at his Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 for a short period of time. She was groomed by Karrde to take over the Smugglers' Alliance and had a brief relationship with Lando Calrissian, as part of that role, although she later admitted it was a charade. She also continued to grow closer to Skywalker and worked alongside him on numerous occasions, including the Almanian Uprising and the Corellian Crisis. The two finally realized in XXX ABY (1XXX NE) while on a mission to Nirauan that they were in love, and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
After marrying Skywalker, Mara Jade took the surname Skywalker and devoted her life to the New Jedi Order, becoming a Master in her own right. Shortly before the Yuuzhan Vong Invasion, she fell ill due to deadly coomb spores that she'd been infected with by a Yuuzhan Vong agent. She used the Force to slow their progress even as she continued to fight against the invaders on numerous battlefields including Dantooine and Ithor, but the disease was only purged from her system after the birth of her son Ben in XXX ABY (1XXX NE). After becoming a Master, Jade Skywalker took her niece Jaina Solo as an apprentice until she reached Knighthood. During that time, she participated in Jedi offensives against the Yuuzhan Vong, aiding in the war effort. After the fall of Coruscant, she helped Cal Omas become elected as the Chief of State as the New Republic reorganized itself into the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. Jade Skywalker ultimately saw her efforts against the Yuuzhan Vong rewarded in the war's final battle on Coruscant with the death of Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane.
She joined her husband, alongside her family and the Jedi in the battle to destroy the Death Star II, while she was not present on the Forest Moon, she went to the battle station to save Luke and confronted the emperor in their final duel.
In the following years, Jade Skywalker was active during the Dark Nest Crisis and the subsequent Swarm War, wherein she helped to thwart the expansionist plans of Raynar Thul and the insectoid Killiks who were spreading into Chiss space and subverting many other people into becoming Joiners under the influence of several Dark Jedi. Jade Skywalker was insistent that the Jedi who had joined Killik communities would be withdrawn, as they were using their skills in combat against the Chiss, provoking them. She continued to serve by the side of her husband as a Jedi Master during the Remnant Wars, first serving alongside the United Civilizations against the rebellious Confederation. The re-emergence of the Sith Lady Lumiya was another threat that Jade Skywalker had to confront, but though she and her husband skirmished with both Lumiya and the fallen Jedi Alema Rar on multiple occasions, the darksiders escaped.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Mara Jade was born in 17 BBY (1397 NE) during a time of great instability as Emperor Palpatine, alias the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, and his apprentice Darth Vader were eliminating the remnants of the Jedi Order. Jade was takenfrom her parents and brought her to the planet Coruscant at a very young age on the orders of the Emperor himself, where he began to train her in the Force, although officially she was one of the Imperial Palace's dancers. Years later, Jade remembered little about her early life besides her parents' reluctance to let her go and her own certainty that she was going to leave with the Emperor. She did recall at one point that she had had a falling-star globe as a child and had gotten in trouble after breaking it to see how it worked. Her master trained her in the ways of the Force and she was made into an agent of the Empire. Some of the Imperial court assumed her to simply be a dancer or one of Palpatine's concubines.
Viau Galactic Civil War[]
First Multiverse War[]
Defection to the Alliance[]
Personality and Traits[]
Mara Jade Skywalker was an extremely proud woman, who always gave her best at everything that she did—that could be seen in her time as an Emperor's Hand. During her investigation of Moff Glovstoak, she showed efficiency and skill in bringing down the corrupt Imperial. However, she did not let Glovstoak's fall, or the Emperor's approval, end her mission—she continued by delving deeper into the conspiracy, eventually following the clues directly to their source.[11] She refused to serve the warlords who seized power after the Emperor died, feeling that they were beneath her.
Powers and Abilities[]
Equipment[]
Relationships[]
Romances[]
Luke Skywalker[]
Family and Relatives[]
Enemies[]
- Natasha Volkova
- Anizka Ivanovna
- Venom Snake
- Behati Prinsloo (Zol Universe)
- Quiet
- X6-88
- Jamison Fawkes
- Katarina Du Couteau
- Phasma
Allies[]
- Talon Karrde
- James T. Kirk
- Anya Oliwa
- Jaina Solo Fel
- William Adama
- Allison Jakes
- Anakin Skywalker
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Poe Dameron
- Marian Hawke
- William Joseph B.J. Blazkowicz