Callista
a Jedi Knight from Chad III, she grew up with her family on an
ocean ranch, migrating on the Algic Current with the herds of
tsaelke. Callista was discovered by the maverick Jedi master
Djinn Altis at a late age, and agreed to train with him at his
facility on Bespin, and later aboard his personal training ship,
the newly-christened Chu'unthor. It was during this training that
she first met a fellow Jedi named Geith. When she accepted the
assignement to intercept and disable the Eye of Palpatine, she
and Geith - who was now her lover - were unable to completely
eliminate the threat of the ship. So, Callista decided to stay
behind and try to disable the ship while Geith returned to get
more help. When Geith was killed during his escape attempt,
Callista sacrificed her physical body and left her Force-aura in
the ship's automated firing computer. Years later, when Luke
Skywalker, Cray Mingla, and Nichos Marr rediscovered the Eye
of Palpatine, Callista fired on them, thinking that they were
Imperial troops come to recover the ship. Then, Irek activated
the ship's remote controls, re-initiatiing its original mission.
Callista was unable to determine the causes, but she was able
to sense Luke's Force-presence when he was brought on
board. She helped him rescue Cray and Nichos, but refused
Luke's attempts to store her consciousness in a computer.
However, when Cray decided to stay behind and detonate the
ship, she gave Callista her own physical body. Callista escaped
the Eye of Palpatine, but she could not longer touch the Force.
So, while she loved Luke, she felt that they could not be
together forever. The two tried everything they could think of to
help her regain her Force sensitivity, but she only succeeded in
finding the Dark Side. She vowed that, if the Dark Side was all
she could touch, then she wanted nothing to do with the Force.
This opened a rift between herself and Luke, which widened
with each failure. When the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 was
attacked by Admiral Daala's fleet, Callista took matters into her
own hands, and set out to strike a blow against the Empire,
even without the abilities of the Force. She commandeered a
TIE Bomber and landed on the Knight Hammer, quickly
sabotaging the ship's complement of TIE Bombers to detonate
their payloads and rip out the Super-class Star Destroyer's
engines. She then went to confront Daala, allowing the Dark
Side to wash over her as she tried to kill Daala. Daala
succeeded in stunning Callista, while the Knight Hammer
plunged into the core of Yavin. Callista was not killed when the
ship exploded, however. She recovered, and escaped in one of
the command-level emergency pods. She fled the New Republic
and Luke, setting out to break through the barrier of the Dark
Side in order to recover her powers. She felt that she needed to
do this herself, and sent a final message to Luke, asking him to
understand. Her travels led her to Nam Chorios, where she was
drawn into the web of Taselda and Beldorion the Hutt. She tried
to learn about the Force from both former Jedi, but was unable
to truly regain her power. Taselda enslaved her with the
promise of returned strength, using Callista to strike at
Beldorion. After escaping the old woman, Callista realized that
she was trying too hard to restore her Force sensitivity. She felt
that this would lead herto the Dark Side, so she allowed herself
to become Beldorion's slave as well. This fear - the fear of
falling into the Dark Side completely - was what kept Callista
from rejoining Luke. She came to understand the strange
relationship between the Force in the Spooks and the Therans,
and joined one of their troops in working to keep the drochs
from leaving the planet. It was Callista who re-initiated Leia
Organa-Solo's lightsber training, while they were spending time
in a Theran camp. After the defeat of Dzym and Seti Ashgad,
Callista again fled Luke, joining Umolly Darm and Be' as rock
ivory hunters until she found her way in the Force.
info gathered with permission from CUSWE
ocean ranch, migrating on the Algic Current with the herds of
tsaelke. Callista was discovered by the maverick Jedi master
Djinn Altis at a late age, and agreed to train with him at his
facility on Bespin, and later aboard his personal training ship,
the newly-christened Chu'unthor. It was during this training that
she first met a fellow Jedi named Geith. When she accepted the
assignement to intercept and disable the Eye of Palpatine, she
and Geith - who was now her lover - were unable to completely
eliminate the threat of the ship. So, Callista decided to stay
behind and try to disable the ship while Geith returned to get
more help. When Geith was killed during his escape attempt,
Callista sacrificed her physical body and left her Force-aura in
the ship's automated firing computer. Years later, when Luke
Skywalker, Cray Mingla, and Nichos Marr rediscovered the Eye
of Palpatine, Callista fired on them, thinking that they were
Imperial troops come to recover the ship. Then, Irek activated
the ship's remote controls, re-initiatiing its original mission.
Callista was unable to determine the causes, but she was able
to sense Luke's Force-presence when he was brought on
board. She helped him rescue Cray and Nichos, but refused
Luke's attempts to store her consciousness in a computer.
However, when Cray decided to stay behind and detonate the
ship, she gave Callista her own physical body. Callista escaped
the Eye of Palpatine, but she could not longer touch the Force.
So, while she loved Luke, she felt that they could not be
together forever. The two tried everything they could think of to
help her regain her Force sensitivity, but she only succeeded in
finding the Dark Side. She vowed that, if the Dark Side was all
she could touch, then she wanted nothing to do with the Force.
This opened a rift between herself and Luke, which widened
with each failure. When the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 was
attacked by Admiral Daala's fleet, Callista took matters into her
own hands, and set out to strike a blow against the Empire,
even without the abilities of the Force. She commandeered a
TIE Bomber and landed on the Knight Hammer, quickly
sabotaging the ship's complement of TIE Bombers to detonate
their payloads and rip out the Super-class Star Destroyer's
engines. She then went to confront Daala, allowing the Dark
Side to wash over her as she tried to kill Daala. Daala
succeeded in stunning Callista, while the Knight Hammer
plunged into the core of Yavin. Callista was not killed when the
ship exploded, however. She recovered, and escaped in one of
the command-level emergency pods. She fled the New Republic
and Luke, setting out to break through the barrier of the Dark
Side in order to recover her powers. She felt that she needed to
do this herself, and sent a final message to Luke, asking him to
understand. Her travels led her to Nam Chorios, where she was
drawn into the web of Taselda and Beldorion the Hutt. She tried
to learn about the Force from both former Jedi, but was unable
to truly regain her power. Taselda enslaved her with the
promise of returned strength, using Callista to strike at
Beldorion. After escaping the old woman, Callista realized that
she was trying too hard to restore her Force sensitivity. She felt
that this would lead herto the Dark Side, so she allowed herself
to become Beldorion's slave as well. This fear - the fear of
falling into the Dark Side completely - was what kept Callista
from rejoining Luke. She came to understand the strange
relationship between the Force in the Spooks and the Therans,
and joined one of their troops in working to keep the drochs
from leaving the planet. It was Callista who re-initiated Leia
Organa-Solo's lightsber training, while they were spending time
in a Theran camp. After the defeat of Dzym and Seti Ashgad,
Callista again fled Luke, joining Umolly Darm and Be' as rock
ivory hunters until she found her way in the Force.
info gathered with permission from CUSWE
