Holly Aayla Maria Talon. If you haven't heard the name, you don't know how lucky you are, you're much better off not knowing about people like her. She's got a bad reputation, let me tell you. Its not like it her fault though. I'm pretty sure I'd be like her if I'd been through what she's been through. Say what you will about Holly's background and distinctly criminal instincts, but always remember all the good things she's done. So some of her policies are a little... radical and biased,
but that's her past talking through her, but TAFP was the bravest, most selfless thing any of us have done... give her some credit.
No one believed in her. No one ever had. But she made it. She was one of a kind, a great friend, and the one person you really didn't want to get on the wrong side of. There was no one in the galaxy more dangerous when angry than her. One thing everyone noticed about Holly was that she never tried to hide her background, or where she'd made her money. She didn't fit the same mold as anyone anywhere. She was stunningly beautiful and she knew it, played it to her advantage at every chance she got.
It was her background that was the most talked about thing though. She blasted her way to the top, she had to fight for everything she achieved. She was an orphan, you see. She was barely six months old when her mother and father were killed by the Death Watch. She was raised by her many older sibling, most notably her brothers,
Dazz and Jett. They hardly had the easiest life. I don't know the details though, Holly and I are close friends, but its not something she wants to tell anyone. One of her sisters married the Prince of Felucia, but the new lifestyle she was forced into didn't suit Holly, and she soon escaped, becoming the hunter and warrior she was trained to be. She was Mandalorian. She was a desendent of the notorious Champion of The Great Hunt, Holly Cadera-Talon, possibly the best known warrior of her time, and arguably the most infamous of the nine Talon sisters from that era. She's proud of that heritage, I know, but I also know that she's ashamed. She doesn't see herself as the great leader, the supreme warrior or even the shrewd politician that her entire family is known for. She never saw herself that way. But she is. Or rather, she was. Now she's just a shadow of her former self, her blonde hair has greyed, her blue eyes lost their sparkle, her skin wrinkled, she's become antisocial,
she's lost most of her teeth, she can't walk, can't look after herself and these days, her hearing is fading too... she's lost everything. It wasn't even her fault.
Now she's a woman with a broken life, training her daughters to be the leaders, warriors and politicians she could never be.
She was a legend... now she's a nobody. History will remember her, for setting up the alliance, but forget everything else she did. Well, we all have our stories to tell about Holly. And we'll all tell you. Telling everyone the truth is the least we can do for the wild-spirited saviour of our galaxy.