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Prologue
Twenty years ago, Jedi Master Corelle Sanome broke one of the most important rules of the Jedi Code. She fell in love with and married Senator Jamal Organa of Alderaan, the uncle of the young Bail Organa. They had met on one of the moons of Alderaan, where the Senator had been holding peace conferences with neighboring hostile planets. Their wedding was a complete secret, held in one of the remote lodges by the lakes of Alderaan.
Both knew that staying together was not an option, and after a while, Corelle returned to Coruscant. It was only then that she discovered that she was pregnant. She spent the first few weeks of her pregnancy at the Jedi Temple, since her gestation was not yet obvious. She, however, revisited Alderaan when she could no longer hide the pregnancy from the Council.
After eight months, Corelle finally went into labor. She delivered a 7.7 pound baby girl that she decided to name Lyra Sanome. Both parents agreed that Lyra would stay on Alderaan with her father. On the peaceful planet, she would have a content life, and Corelle's position as a Knight and Jamal's as a Senator would not be endangered.
After a few months with her small family, Corelle returned to Coruscant. Although the Council tried to probe her mind, she had concentrated on false memories of her stay on the planet. Life continued for the young Jedi Master.
Meanwhile on Alderaan, Lyra was raised with the best of everything that her father could offer her. He doted on his young daughter. He even brought her with him to Coruscant five years later, when he received a transmission notifying him of a session of the Senate.
It was that act that reunited Lyra with her mother. A particular system that hated Alderaan had sent a bounty hunter to assassinate Senator Jamal Organa and his retinue. The bounty hunter, using explosives to blow up the front of the ship, had succeeded. The Senator was killed, along with his bodyguards and two other Senators from friendly systems neighboring Alderaan.
Lyra, however, survived. She was still on board and at the back of the ship in the care of a handmaiden when the assassination occurred. After escaping the ship's ruins, the handmaiden went to work for another Senator, taking Lyra with her.
Corelle, having heard about the assassination and that Lyra was one of the survivors, tracked down the handmaiden and took Lyra from her with the excuse that she was Force-sensitive. She brought her daughter to the Temple, where she told the Council that Lyra was a Force-sensitive orphan she found on the streets of Coruscant.
Corelle kept Lyra's true parentage a secret from everyone except her best friend; Qui-Gon Jinn. He strongly advised her to put Lyra up for adoption, as the risk of the Council finding out was too great. Corelle disagreed, arguing that Lyra was the last reminder she had of Jamal. Qui-Gon respected her wishes and agreed to keep her secret.
As soon as Lyra came of age, Corelle had her blood tested for her Midi-Chlorian count. It was exceptionally large, and she was put into training immediately. At the age of twelve, Corelle picked Lyra to be her Padawan Learner, and finally revealed to the young girl her true parentage. Lyra accepted the fact, harboring no hatred for her mother for keeping it a secret for so long.
But one day, Corelle and Lyra just…disappeared from the Temple. The Council sent tracers over all known planets, looking for Corelle's ship. They did find it, but in the possession of a smuggler from the Outer Rim. Corelle had obviously sold her ship, in order to avoid detection from anyone.
Unknown to the Council, Corelle and her daughter had fled to the remote planet of Tatooine. Only Qui-Gon Jinn knew of this, and he had vowed to his old friend that he would keep their location a secret. But even he did not know why they left Coruscant. Eventually, the search for Master and Padawan was abandoned.
A few weeks after the Council gave up on their search, they received a message from the aide of Jabba the Hutt. The message had gotten to Coruscant without knowledge of Jabba, and it notified the Council of a body found in the desert wastelands. The body was that of a woman, the report said, and she had with her a cylindrical object that produced a blue beam of light. Her face was burned beyond recognition, but a there was a distinctive wound on her chest. Strangely, the wound was sealed. It definitely did not come from blaster fire.
It was clear to the Council that the body was that of Corelle Sanome. But the location of her Padawan was still unknown. In reality, Lyra had been with the young Shmi Skywalker, an old friend of Corelle's. After hearing that Lyra's mother had been killed, Shmi took in the twelve-year-old girl.
Lyra stayed with Shmi for three years before getting a house of her own. Shmi and her son, Anakin, had been sold into slavery since money was hard to come by for them. Lyra, too proud to be a slave, moved out and got a job with a local shopkeeper named Jira. As a result, expenses became easier for Shmi. And although Lyra no longer lived with the Skywalkers, she and Shmi remained good friends and Anakin treated her like an older sister.
With a new loving family on Tatooine, Lyra lost all intention or hope of ever leaving. She never mentioned her last name to anybody, and requested Shmi and Anakin to do the same. She no longer wanted to leave Tatooine, knowing that she would have to leave Shmi and Anakin behind. That was something she couldn't do.
A/N: Sanome is pronounced 'Sah-no-may'. And there is a reason thatCorelle's and Jamal's wedding resembles Anakin's and Padmé's.
