Star Wars Infinities: The Master
Interlude Profile: Leia Organa
By: Christopher W. Blaine
e-mail: darth_yoshi@yahoo.com
DISCLAIMER: All of the characters and situations contained in this story are ©2003 by LucasFilm Ltd. They are used here without permission for fan-related entertainment purposes only. This original story is ©2003 by Christopher W. Blaine.
She is considered to be one of the most beautiful women in the galaxy, She is well educated, an accomplished diplomat and ace pilot. She is the daughter of two powerful Sith Lords and is well on her way to becoming a full Jedi Knight. Yet, Leia Organa is one of the most complex and lonely individuals to have ever lived.
When Padme Amidala was mortally wounded at the Battle of Koriban, General Bail Organa had her transported immediately to his flagship's medical facilities. Despite the fact she was turning to the Dark Side of the Force and married to Darth Vader, Organa was madly in love with Padme and was desperate to find some way to redeem her. His physicians informed him that Padme was pregnant with twins and that they had to be removed from her if she were to live. Seeing an opportunity, he had the female child removed from the mother in secret and immediately transported to his home planet of Alderaan.
Previously, Mon Mothma of Chandrilla had rescued the Jedi child of Lyndia Jade by stating it was her own child. Bail enlisted his friend's help and together they fueled a rumor that Leia was their child by an illicit affair. The Emperor, thinking that he could use such a scandal to keep the liberal Mothma and Organa in line, did not bother to question the legitimacy of their claim. Thus, Leia was raised in the royal palace of Alderaan while their mother, who became the Dark Lady of the Sith Darth Deceptra, raised her twin brother, Luke.
For the most part, Leia's life was relatively quiet for the first decade. As she started to reach adolescence her Force abilities began to manifest. She became an accomplished pilot, a skill she inherited from her father, but she also had her mother's political savvy. Her political leanings were liberal and so she never bothered to learn any martial skills and her father, wary of informing her of her heritage, tried to goad her into politics. At 12, she beat Luke Skywalker in a podrace; at seventeen, she was elected to the Imperial senate.
The Emperor, who warned Bail Organa to rein his daughter in before she got in serious trouble, did not appreciate her leftist views. Bail tried in vain to get his daughter to calm her rhetoric, but she honestly believed that by rallying the people of the Empire, they could overthrow the Emperor by political means and re-establish the Republic. All of that changed when Garm Bel Iblis sent Dash Rendar and Hal Horn to retrieve Leia. During the Clone Wars, Bel Iblis had made a deal with Jedi Master Quinlan Vos. The specifics of this deal were that when Leia became of age, she would be sent to Dagobah to train in the Jedi ways. Bail was more than happy to oblige.
Though she did not want to go, she acquiesced to her father after he explained her true identity. A strong sense of duty compelled Leia to travel to the swamp world and meet the aging Jedi master. During the trip there, she became acquainted with Hal Horn's son Corran, who was only a few years older than Leia. There was an immediate attraction between the two of them, but Leia also found herself drawn to the rough and brash Dash Rendar. Both men held qualities that intrigued her and for the first time in her life, she was not sure of what she was supposed to do.
Very shortly after she left Alderaan, Leia's foster father was murdered by Darth Deceptra who was investigating the rebellion. Through interrogation, Deceptra learned that Leia was her daughter and in a rage, murdered Bail Organa and then ordered the execution of the entire Alderaanian royal family before placing the planet under interdiction.
On Dagobah, Leia began to train with Corran, who was found to be a Force-talented individual as well, and their friendship started to quickly become more. She could not deny her strong attraction to the straight-arrow, no nonsense former CorSec agent, but again, a small part of her was deeply attracted to the more dark character of Dash Rendar. All of this tension was interrupted when Ferrin and Kyp Durron arrived on Dagobah to raise a Jedi army.
Leia immediately sensed that Kyp had more than a passing attraction to her and while she did not do anything to encourage his feelings, she never did anything to stop them either. In later years, Kyp and Corran would find themselves battling for her affections; a fight that Corran would eventually win.
When Leia found out what had happened to her foster-father, she immediately challenged Darth Deceptra to a duel. They agreed to meet on Tatooine in order to settle their differences. Deceptra believed Leia was not capable of deception and accepted, not knowing that her daughter intended to bring both Ferrin and Kyp Durron along as back up. The resulting battle ended the threat of Darth Deceptra once and for all and all four returned to Dagobah.
Originally, the newly reformed Padme Amidala was supposed to train Leia but when the New Republic was established, the leaders of the fledgling government demanded that Padme be made to stand trial for her crimes. In a move that would have been incomprehensible in the past, Jedi Master Quinlan Vos agreed to allow Kyp Durron to take both Corran and Leia on as his padawan learners. His reasoning was that there were not enough Jedi to protect the New Republic and that extreme times required extreme measures.
Over the next five years, Leia and Corran trained under their younger master and they were involved in several adventures. During this time it has been speculated that Leia and Kyp were romantically involved at least once but that ended when Corran proposed to Leia. In the old Jedi Order, marriage was generally frowned upon, but it appears that Quinlan Vos actually encouraged Leia to marry. The thinking by many outside the Jedi community is that it was the quickest way to get her pregnant and to produce Jedi children. All of the efforts of the Jedi to track down other Force-talented persons had failed, as if someone was always one step ahead of them.
Leia is now in a most difficult position. She now realizes that she is not as in love with Corran as she is with her and she has been plagued with dark fantasies of being with Dash Rendar. She is completely unaware that it is her twin brother, Luke, who is behind this. He is bent on destroying her life slowly and only time will tell of he is successful.