Jedi_Sommie

Not all Jedi have a shining background of privilege and luxury before being discovered to have a natural affinity for the Force. Some didn't come from successful families with two loving parents who chose the right thing by giving their child to the Order for training, so they could attain a life of meaning and purpose. No, the Force manifests in random individuals with no care for social upbringing, and sometimes it can be found even in the refuse of civilization. Sommie for instance was born on a small freighter in a fleet of starships belonging to a tribe of nomadic traders, merchants, and scavengers known as Karavan, a constantly moving city consisting of thousands ragtag vessels ranging from the size of trash can-sized drones to the two enormous retrofitted cruisers that house most of Karavan's population, the sister ships Amaun and Atvan.


The 'citizens' of Karavan were the less than savory sorts, refugees and criminals, con artists and mercenaries, and as an orphan, Sommie grew up as an outcast in a society of outcasts, with no planet or group or even ship to call her home. And yet, somehow she thrived in that environment, enjoying the ultimate of freedoms. She learned the ins and outs of clan interactions, familiarized herself with the endlessly complicated network tunnels, ducts, and conduits that constituted the veins of the Amaun and Atvan. She spent her time learning trades from anyone who would suffer her assistance long enough to teach her something useful. Pilots, engineers, traders, Sommie's interests were as varied as the people who taught her, but eventually she began to come into her own, her natural talents and hard-earned skill creating a valuable, if somewhat free-spirited mechanic. Sommie made a living scavenging, tinkering with, and repairing scrap metal and spare parts, and then trading it away to those who needed it. Eventually she even got her own part-time job at a chop shop junker ship.


Her role as a scavenger and fixer-upper put her in contact with many types of vehicles, from speeder bikes to starfighters and bombers and even gunboats. Her love of mechanics and ships was so great that she wanted one of her own and by the time she was 8, she had a plan. At a stop on the planet Erzurum, Sommie took a shuttle down to the surface and snuck into the local starport with a very specific goal: to take a spacecraft out on a joyride. While some of the other Karavan hoodlums kept security adequately distracted, Sommie, with only a bare minimum of knowledge on how to actually fly a ship, blasted out of the hangar in a Corellian Wasp assault gunship, nearly running over several technicians in the process. Much to her surprise, Sommie fell in love with the little gunship, as she navigated a series of canyons and valleys to evade the pursuing patrolcraft scrambled by the starport, and instead of ditching the Wasp like originally planned, she managed to make it back to Karavan's orbiting location, hiding the craft until the fleet made the jump to hyperspace to travel to the next system. Ever since that day, the Wasp has been Sommie's pet project, and she's spent more days inside of it and examining its systems than she has any other vehicle in the fleet.


A few stops later, and Sommie was getting quite good with the Wasp, to the point of growing cocky, taunting planetary defense forces into chasing her and then racing around the surface or through asteroid fields until she lost them, and everything seemed to be going well. That is, until she made a critical error when Karavan set up shop in orbit around the planet Genarius, where it just so happened there was a Jedi enclave. Long story short, Sommie found herself being chased by Jedi starfighters, and she would have gotten away if it weren't for the planet-based tractor beam installation that snagged her craft, stalling her in midair and forcibly yanking her back down to the surface. She thought it was all over... but when the security personnel dragged her from her ship she was surprised to learn that not only were they not intending to punish her, they brought her before the pilot who'd chased her down, a Jedi Knight by the name of Onaan Ukr, who had felt her Force sensitivity during the chase. Although it was against tradition, he offered to train her to use her abilities, to take her on as his padawan.


Sommie's Wasp gunship





WIP!