So as I promised way back when I first upload one of this weird hologram things of me telling you about how I spend years trying to find the name of the girl in the picture with my grandfather. Raya Black. Remember her, if not feel free to go back and watch the first hologram diary. So now its time to start telling her story and how she is connected to the rather mysterious and rather legendary black kyber crystal. If you still have no idea what that is then I will give you a little explanation on it. The black kyber crystal is the rarest of them all and a powerful one, it can be used for other weapons outside of the lightsaber. Most of them were destroyed thousands of years ago. Now only a handful of them are left in the galaxy.

So back to the story of Raya Black. She was born in 40BBY on the slave planet of Zygerria. So yes she was born a slave, much like most members of her family were, unlike them though she showed signs of being force sensitive, her master had noticed as did the queen and some of the others around there. Since the planet she grew up on was on the outer rim and far from the control of the republic. Yet not out of the watchful eye of the Sith Lords. In 36BBY when she was four and on her normal route home, a mysterious cloaked figure grabbed her from behind and took her away. It was later discovered it was Darth Maul who took her, although he had done so without informing his own master of what he was doing.

In cording to records at around that time, the same mysterious man dropped the four year old girl off at the Jedi Temple, placing a note in her hands and a single stone necklace around her neck. No one knew why Darth Maul took her from her home world or even why he hand delivered her to the Jedi when they were his enemy. The only two people who knew that are now only part of history, the answers to so many questions lost with them. Like all future Jedi Raya was put through the many tests and then placed in classes when she passed, she was watched rather carefully by the masters on the Jedi Council. They must have sensed her power, she must have been the strongest in her class even to the point, the famous Obi-Wan Kenobi watched over here for a while before going off on missions with his master Qui-Gon Jinn.

When it come time for the masters to accept a padawan, Raya quickly found hers when Mace Windu came to her, quickly taking her under his wing at the order of Master Yoda since it was widely believed she was going to be one of the more powerful Jedi, something turned out to be true although why her name was lost in a mystery to me. All through her training she kept the necklace she was given by the stranger who had rescued her from the life she was destined to have before. In 31BBY when she was nine years old she introduced to my grandfather Anakin Skywalker who was only a year older than her, Qui-Gon had asked her to show Anakin around the temple since he would be starting his training soon despite him being much older than most who became padawan's. As you can probably guess that's when the two became life long friends, the two were so close and could easily match the other's power. What my grandfather over took her in terms of power she counter it with her knowledge and skill.

By the time the Clone Wars started in 21BBY, Raya had graduated to being a Jedi Knight, having passed her training and the trails that followed behind it. Becoming the youngest Jedi in history at aged nineteen, just as she was the only Jedi noted to have wielded a double bladed black lightsaber than could turn into two single blades. As you can guess she was one of the many Jedi Knights sent to rescue Anakin Skywalker, Obi Wan Kenobi and Senator Padmé Amidala from being executed on Geneosis. The separatists there knew who she was upon seeing her black lightsaber most of which fled. It was during the battle she got her most notable scars, one of the droids shot at her several times, although she was able to deflect most of them she was unable to stop the one which hit her in the face, while she was distracted she was shot again in the stomach, lucky she survived thanks to one of the other masters there helping her aboard one of the clone ships and taking her back to a medical facility.

If the records are correct then it was the following year when she was given the news she would be training her own padawan despite not gaining the rank of master. As you can imagine the news was overwhelming to her at first but she quickly accepted it. Much like my grandfather did when she was assigned his own padawan Ahsoka Tano. She was assigned the padawan Caleb Dume, who accompanied her on many mission and also taught her a few things. As you can imagine both master and apprentice had a lot of questions although some were the same others were very different. One of the ones they had the same was why Jedi Knights were being granted padawan learns, to which Yoda explained due to the war their weren't enough masters out there to train the padawans, so the Knight who fought so hard to keep the peace were being given a chance to train their own padawan's.

Caleb asked her a lot of questions to, the most notable of which being about the necklace she wore, often time it glowed and other times it appeared as those she fought against had tried to take it. She had happily answered his question by revealing it was one of the only remaining black kyber crystals in existence although she also admitted she couldn't remember being given it. All she could remember was walking home on Zygerria then waking up to Obi-Wan in one of the dorm rooms of the Jedi Temple. I believe if the records are correct that was also the year Darth Maul and his brother Savage made themselves known to the world by attempting to take control of Mandalore one of the only systems to be neutral in the war thanks to the prime minister Duchess Satine Kryze. To be fair to her she did a good job at keeping her world in order although it didn't go down well with the warriors of the planet who always wanted to fight, hence why the planet was war torn in the first place.

So I'm guessing your wondering what happened next right. Well I will give you a few hints and then continue with the rest of her story in the next chapter. She was sent to Mandalore with Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi as well as both Padawan learns in Ahsoka and Caleb to help bring peace to the planet as the many bounty hunters there were attempt to rebel so their planet could fight in the war and fight back with the separatist with were against those they were pretty much born to hate in the Jedi. The next chapter you will read how that mission changed Raya's life and also how it ended, as well as how her story didn't end with her death as many thought it would have.

This is Commander Kylo Renn of the first order signing off. See you soon fellow recruits.