Kyra Vos

Kyra (pronounced k-I-ra) was found by Jedi later in her life that what was normal. She was born on the prison planet Kiffex and raised a wild child. Though several of the other prisoners protected her from the more violent prisoners, she was raised without a mother or father. Little was known about her parents other then the clan they belonged to, as the evidence was plain enough by the yellow stripe under Kyra's eyes. She quickly learned to use her small size and speed to get the better of the meaner prisoners, and was taught how to hack the guard's computer system as well as construct makeshift weapons. Even from a young age she showed a strong connection with the force, knowing when to cut and run and when to stand her ground. She had very limited telekinetic control, able to do little more then tweak ears or throw pebbles, but it was enough to make some of the other prisoners afraid of her. A guard, recognizing the signs of the force, sent a message to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. A week later a shuttle arrive with jedi Master Luradi, who immersed herself into the prison life as a new inmate. She watched the seven year old Kyra run free without a care in the world, using her wildly fluctuating force powers to scrape out of every dangerous incident. It seemed the young girl sought dangerous situations, sought to test herself against others. Before the girl could hurt herself, Master Luradi revealed just who she was and what Kyra was going.

Kyra leapt at the chance to get out of the prison, because while free to run anywhere she wanted, she had never been beyond the durasteel walls of the complex. And on the ship back to Coruscant, Kyra revealed she had known someone was coming to get her. She didn't understand the feeling, only that she had little to fear of remaning prisoner #RD125411 for her entire life. Master Luradi told her this had been her incredibly strong connection with the force guiding her, protecting her from dangerous situations, but not to depend solely on the force for every situation.

The meeting with the Jedi Council doesn't go as smoothly as Kyra expected. They acknowledged her strength in the force, but claimed that the habits she had learned while growing up on Kiffex would interfere with her training. She refused to back down however, and challenged them to prove it. Of course the only way to do this was to start training her, but the masters were not so easily tricked. They sent her to the temple on Ossus, and she took to her training with a zeal. Several times she had to disciplined to trying to learn too much too fast, which they claimed was a way to begin walking down the Dark Side. Kyra chafed at these rules at first, but as the years passed she learned patience and discipline, and discovered that by slowing down she was able to find peace in herself. She dealt with long buried feelings of isolation and loneliness from her youngest years without her mother, bringing them to the surface and understanding the danger they posed. She found new family with her fellow students and teachers, and these painful feelings faded into sad memories, no longer to be hidden but a source of strength.

She was chosen as a padawan apprentice at eleven years old by a **** Jedi master by the name of Jarek Theros. Master Theros recognized the strength in Kyra's abilities, and immediately began to train her in the use of her lightsaber. When other padawans were being taught about focus and patience, Kyra was sweating in the sparring area with her Master, their blades clashing for what seemed like hours on end. The fighting itself became a meditation for Kyra, and she learned to empty her mind during battle, to allow the Force to flow through her without interruption, to guide her movements and give her strength.

While the war raged between the Alliance and the Empire, the Jedi steadfastly refused to take part, taking the stance of nuetrality that had originated from the founder of the new Jedi Order, Grand Master Luke Skywalker. Master Theros brought Kyra to the sites of