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Brie, Shira Elan Colla

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Shira was born on Coruscant, during the years when Palpatine was still a Senator. She grew up on one of Palpatine's estates, and quickly became an intelligent, beautiful young adult. She was chosen for, and became a leading member of COMPNOR, and came under the watchful eye of Darth Vader. It was Vader who recommended her for service in Imperial Intelligence. Her skills and loyalty were without question, and so she was chose as an operative trainee. The Emperor's scientists biologically altered her body's defenses, making her pain threshold extremely high and giving her an accelerated healing rate. Following the Battle of Yavin, Vader provided her a false history using the alias Shira Brie, and placed her on the planet Shalyvane, were she quickly infiltrated the Alliance while posing as a refugee. She became a fighter pilot, and was involved in the mission to destroy the teezl being carried back to Coruscant by Admiral Giel. She flew a disguised TIE Fighter, but was mistakenly shot down by Luke Skywalker at the end of the mission. She was assumed dead in the attack, but her altered physiology kept her alive long enough for Darth Vader to rescue her and return her to Coruscant, where she was fitted with cybernetic prosthetics to replaced damaged limbs. Shortly thereafter, Vader again recommended Shira for advanced training, this time in the ways of the Dark Side of the Force. Vader managed to hide the fact that he was trainined Shira by proposing that Emperor Palpatine used her as one of his Emperor's Hands. Shira took to her new training readily, and soon afterward, Shira Elan Colla Brie ceased to exist. In her place was the Dark Jedi, Lumiya. Instead of a lightsaber, Lumiya constructed new weapon called the lightwhip, which was more powerful than the lightsaber.