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when the Imperial operative Shira Elan Colla Brie was trained in the ways of the Dark Side of the Force by Darth Vader, she shed her old name and became the Dark Jedi Lumiya. Shira had infiltrated the Alliance at Vader's orders, in an effort to capture Luke Skywalker. Luke shot Shira's TIE Fighter down, and Shira barely survived. After being fitted with cybernetic implants and healing in a bacta tank, she emerged as the woman known as Lumiya. Lumiya's weapon of choice was not the lightsaber, though, but a new weapon known as the lightwhip. She discovered the lightwhip while searching through an ancient Sith tome during the Battle of Endor. Vader tried to keep her training a secret from Emperor Palpatine, but eventually had to reveal her existence. In order to keep favor with Palpatine, Vader presented Lumiya to the Emperor as a candidate to be one of the Emperor's Hands. This mysterious woman was the leader of a group of Imperial soldiers on Herdessa, where she had posed as a sophisticated cyborg and earned the role as chief of planetary security. Shortly after Leia Organa's arrival on Herdessa, Lumiya revealed herself as a Dark Side adept. Following the death of the Empire, Lumiya tried to defeat the New Republic with the help of the alien race known as the Nagai, after training her band on the planet Kinooine. There, she confronted Luke Skywalker again, explaining that it was he who killed Shira Brie and started her turn toward the Dark Side. She also tried to use their enemies, the Tofs, in a similar effort. Each time, she was defeated and left for dead, but her incredible strength and cunning allowed her to escape and survive. She was a force that skirted the New Republic, striking when it pleases her against remote locations. She had control of a small fleet of warships, and was supported by a contingent of crimson-armored stormtroopers. It was later discovered that Lumiya had trained the likes of Flint and Carnor Jax, developing their dark powers much the same way Darth Bane trained his progeny: with just two Sith magicians, a master and an apprentice. For many years after the Battle of Endor, Lumiya disappeared from the galactic scene, until the Yuuzhan Vong began their invasion of the galaxy. She made a bold attempt to steal a number of bafforr trees from a laboratory on Yaga Minor, in an effort to develop her own weapons against the alien invaders. Her assault on Yaga Minor coincided with a similar mission led by the Yuuzhan Vong. Lumiya's forces battled the Yuuzhan Vong warriors to a standstill, allowing the Imperials to drive off both attackers and maintain the bafforr tree lab.