Myana Trikoa

" 'When I discovered art, that’s really when I became a Jedi.' - Myana Trikoa "

Early Life


Myana Trikoa was born in 47 BBY in the sprawling city-planet known as Coruscant to Senator Bellion Trikoa and his wife Mistrialian. Senator Trikoa served his home planet, Arvigno, a small planet of vineyards, chateaus, and rolling hills situated in the quiet Mirnic System, for nearly twenty years. Bellion was elected as a young man in 57 BBY, roughly the age of 30, after a tumultuous period of civil war on Arvigno. Bellion met his future wife, Mistrialian Sybon on Coruscant. She had been a top student at the Atrisia Royal Academy of Arts, majoring in interior design and decoration, and soon after gaining her degree she entered into the employ of Garkania Interior Design, a major company that worked with the Galactic Senate in designing state rooms. Designing the living quarters of the new Senator from Arvigno after he grew tired of his basic accommodations was where she met her future husband. Senator Trikoa was mild-mannered, yet unwavering in his support for the rights of the Outer Rim peoples. He had frequent bouts with Core World senators regarding how the often looked-down upon non-Human species of the Outer regions lacked support from the Government. Bellion even verbally sparred with both Chancellors Kalpana and his short-lived successor, Kirames Kaj. In 47 BBY, after ten years of being a senator and five years of being married, Bellion and Mistrialian gave birth to their only child, a young girl by the name of Myana. Early in her life, Myana seemed gifted and intensely curious. With her wide eyes, she would stare out the windows of their apartment, gazing at the vehicles that zoomed by. It was around the age of three that she started to display certain abilities that frightened her mother, mainly wiggling her spoon at dinner with no use of her hands. While her mother was concerned, her father knew who to call to determine what the cause of this was. After some time, it was determined that Myana possessed more than normal connection to the Force, the mystical energy that the guardians of peace and justice in the Galaxy, the Jedi, used. A blood test determined that she did in fact have a high count of midichlorians, confirming Bellion's suspicion that she was gifted. Despite protests by Mistrialian, the two eventually agreed to have their only daughter taken to the Jedi Temple to join the monastic order.

By the time of the Naboo Crisis, Bellion had retired from the Senate, moving back to his estate on Arvigno, a sprawling compound in a fertile valley perfect for wine-making.

As a Young Jedi
Myana soon found herself in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, unlike many others in this place, the sky she looked out at during the night was the same that she had known all her life. This instilled in her a sense of calm that many of the young children awaiting training as a Jedi Youngling didn't possess yet. Eventually, she was chosen to be apart of the Hawkbat clan, under the direction of the aged Cosian Jedi Master Tera Sinube, the creature this clan was named after would speak to Myana. Through the passage of time, Myana later adopted the moniker of "Hawkbat" to describe herself and (later on) her artwork. The green color of the young Hawk-bat reminded her of the shades of green commonly worn by those of Arvigno, namely her parents and their associates. Although her memory of her youth was scattered and incomplete, she still remembered her parents' faces and bright clothes. Later in their lives, the adult Hawk-bat would be shades of purple, which also reminded Myana of the dark blue-purple mixed color of her family's hair. Her father, mother, and she all had this certain characteristic (one that was common as a genetic trait throughout Arvigno). Additionally, Myana's mannerism came to become similar to the Hawk-bat in battle as she trained in this clan. When she was old enough, Myana participated in the Initiate trials, heading to the holy world of Ilum to bond with a crystal. The crystal that bonded with her was a very strange color, most Jedi had crystals that became standard colors of the Jedi Order, blue or green, Myana's was green, but a very faint green. This white-green color combination at first frightened her, but her serenity and calm quickly soothed her. When she was of age, she was taken on as the padawan of a strict taskmaster named Llkaskador, one of the very few Trandoshan Jedi in the Order at this time. She was pushed in ways that she had never been pushed before, taught how to fight viciously despite being pulled more towards the growing empathic abilities that began to manifest in her at around the age of fifteen. Her master grew frustrated, and so did Myana, more than a few times members of the Jedi Council called her "troubled". Some even suggested she be returned to her parents or worse. Myana Trikoa's life might have taken a different direction, but after intense meditation alongside Master Yoda, Myana found an outlet for her dissatisfaction and occasional anger: art. Art flowed through the young girl's veins, her mother was an artist with drapery, carpets, house paints, while her father was an artist with words and people, for Myana, the canvas was her solace. Not only did art help her calmly work with her master, it also helped her empathic abilities grow, the Jedi Council took notice, and the young girl soon was on the path to membership in the Jedi Medical Corps. Her calm demeanor, alongside her empathic abilities, were helpful with providing excellent bedside manner for the sick and dying. Soon, her abilities in using the force to heal manifested itself, and while this often-dangerous technique could siphon the life force from the healer, she was taught by the Jedi how to mitigate and limit this danger.

Despite spending more time as a healer and medical doctor once her training as the padawan of Master Llkaskador was complete, Myana still enjoyed to keep her abilities with a lightsaber as good as they could be. She knew she would never be a great lightsaber combatant like Mace Windu or the legendary Avar Kriss, but she continued to study to protect herself. The young girl became an avid acrobat, taking on with ease the fourth form of lightsaber combat, Ataru, which focused on aggressive and acrobatic fighting during this time too. It soon however became apparent that she would need to continue to hone her combat skills, with the start of the dreaded Clone Wars shortly after her twenty-fifth birthday.

The Clone Wars
Much of Myana's career during the Clone Wars was spent on Coruscant, creating artwork for the Republic 's Commission for the Protection of the Republic, as well as art to support the Jedi Order. There were times in which she was called to the front however, notable instances include the mission to Malastare in early 19 BBY, where she was sent to command an evacuation of injured Republic soldiers which included Keisha Farlander-Darklighter. Often, Myana would be placed in command of the Pelta-class medical frigate Guardian, alongside her faithful medical droid MT-49 and Clone Commander Kar'ta, to ferry wounded, deliver medical supplies, or aid civilians. Her missions were primarily off the front lines, but some missions required her to be in command.

One such mission occurred in the finale of the Clone Wars, on the planet of Talamo. This volcanic planet, a colony of the Duros, was contested for nearly the entire war due to its strategic importance and rich resource wealth. The colony's capital city, Al'ka Tala'tk, had been destroyed in a massive bombardment from the Separatist forces, causing the ruined city to colapse into a gigantic sinkhole soon filled with lava. While the destruction was devastating, Duros researchers believed they could now harness the power stored in the new lava lake to create a dam to power the entire planet. Unfortunately, this attracted the Separatists again, who soon fought even more vigirously for control of the planet. A massive naval battle took place over the planet, but just as the Republic forces broke the blockade, the rest of the Separatist ships fled. Myana knew something was wrong, she commed Central Command and found out that Coruscant itself had been attacked and the Supreme Chancellor had been kidnapped. To add even more stress to the young woman now in command, reports surfaced of a young man wielding a red lightsaber holding the Talamo Central Authority hostage. Myana knew no reinforcements were coming now that Coruscant itself was being attacked, and she had to do something, so the young artist went to the surface to command the Republic forces in person. This lead to a climactic battle between Myana and the dark side practitioner, who seemed mad with rage and anger. Although she was not a skilled combatant, Myana was agile and quick, and her dexterity allowed her to manipulate her lightsaber in creative ways, confusing her opponent. By the end of the battle, Myana was victorious, having cleaved the dark sider in two and saved the Talamo Central Authority, but in the moment of her greatest victory would soon lead to her world crashing down.

Checking in on the wounded, Myana was healing some Republic soldiers and Talamoese royal guards hurt in the conflict when she was attacked by her clone troopers in an attempt on her life related to Order 66. The Jedi were seen as traitors by the Republic now, and Myana, confused, was only saved from the attack against her by the Talamo authorities, who saw her as their savior. The entire planet went into conflict once again, with the Talamoese attacking the Republic forces and even supplying the surrendered Separatist forces with weapons as a result of them attacking Trikoa. In that moment, Myana was overcome with emotion and felt a heavy disturbance in the Force. She was lucky however, becoming one of the few Jedi to survive the initial surprise attack against them, she successfully made her way off of the planet with the help of fellow Jedi Kai Darklighter. She got into communication with other survivors like Laothin Kendari, Lena Kendari, Thrix Starsider, a Clone commando whose programming was damaged, and former clone instructor Dranor Kargak, who all gathered on the long-forgotten Jedi world of Ossus to plan their next moves. After some discussion, as well as a exploration of an old Jedi Temple on the planet, the group went into hiding individually, with Myana making her way to the pirate-planet of Rishi to start a new life.

The Inquisitors Descend
Myana would soon become one of many former Jedi targeted by the elite Jedi hunters of the newly formed Galactic Empire. While on Rishi, she kept herself undercover, showing herself only when she needed food, choosing to live in an abandoned starship on the coast of Rishi and hiding when treasure-hunters attempted to steal from the wreckage. Unfortunately, she was found when she helped someone. One group of pirates attempted to find treasure on the ship, but before they arrived they were attacked by a large sea creature, leaving only one survivor. The man was injured, and Myana's nature kicked in, bringing him into her home and using her healing powers to help him. Nursing the man back to health, Myana helped him survive, her thanks was a group of black-armored individuals with red lightsabers approaching her location. The man had sold her out, telling the local Imperial authorities that a "wizard" healed him back to health by just touching him. Myana had two choices, fight and die or surrender and live, discouraged by the man's betrayal of her, she relented and surrendered.

The former calm and serene artist was transformed into a murderous machine by the Inquisitors, sending her to their dark fortress on the planet of Nur where she would be broken and rebuilt to serve their purposes. The Inquisitors fought many Jedi, but their only way of being healed if they were injured was the bacta tank, no longer, the Inquisitors had a dark healer of their own now. Myana was not named by a number like the other Inquisitors (if she was, it was never found out), all the others simply knew her as the "Healing Sister". She was corrupted, her mind a torrent of anger and rage, her arm and eye taken from her while training with Darth Vader himself. Myana Trikoa was pushed aside and her dark persona would torment the Galaxy for years.