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Yavin 8
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16 ABY
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Human/Melodie hybrid
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Female
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1.70 M
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60 kg
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Black
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Yellow
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Dark Jedi Brotherhood
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Appearance
Miranda has long black hair reaching down to just below her shoulders. Her bright yellow eyes can be warm, but also intimidating. Three almost invisible slits on either side of her neck, just below her ears are in fact gills. When under water, she can use them to breathe. Usually they are cover by a few strands of hair.
On land she breathes like any other.
Were she to undress there would be a narrow silvery line of tiny scales running from the back of her neck, all the way down her spine. Her fingers and toes are webbed slightly more than usual humanoids.
Heritage & Roots
Born from a human father and a Melodian mother, Miranda is a half-breed. The only one of her kind.
During the Galactic Civil War, her father Krios Goto, was a pilot for the Rebellion. After escaping an Empirial hunting party, he crash-landed on Yavin 8. There he met and fell in love with Liara; one of the Changeling Melodies. This all happened a year before she had to undergo the Changing Ceremony that would transform her legs into single finned tail.
Not thinking clearly about the possible consequences of their union, Krios and Liara bonded. The young Melodie became pregnant and was outcast from her society. For such a union was unnatural and could have unforeseen complications.
Just a few weeks before her 20th birthday, Liara gave birth to a beautiful girl. The infant seemed human in every way, except for her amber and yellow eyes and near to invisible gills on her neck.
However, since Melodie normally lay eggs and do not give birth to live young, there were indeed complications. Liara died from massive internal bleeding.
Krios was heartbroken but still had his daughter to think about. He named her Miranda and taught her everything he knew about piloting and engineering. She grew up to become a very smart and beautiful woman.
But there was a problem. Krios did not know how much of her mother’s heritage Miranda had received. Would she also begin the transformation when she became 20 years of age?
Determined to keep her away from the creatures who had expelled his pregnant young wife, all those years ago, Krios finally repaired his ship and took Miranda of age 16 off world. Someone out there would know a solution.
Unfortunately they never got that far. Slavers captured their ship and in a valiant struggle to protect his daughter, Krios was killed.
Miranda was taken and sold to work as an engineer on board the pirate vessel Dim Purgatory. Often beaten and verbally abused, Miranda grew up with a grim view of the universe.
But slowly she started to discover her inner potential.
Abilities
Apart from her growing knowledge of the Force, Miranda is also an excellent swimmer due to her genetic makeup. She is also quite a good pilot and engineer. Loyalty is a term that has great meaning to Miranda. She does not make friends easily, but when she does, then they are as family to her.
Escaping Purgatory
That vessel was a living hell for the young girl. She knew she had nowhere else to go, but anywhere had to be better than this? So she planned and schemed. Through her docile appearance and advanced engineering skills, she was able to work herself into a position of reasonable trust with the captain and crew.
She would often requisition seemingly harmless items, but in the hands of a skilled engineer, paper could be turned to knives. Miranda’s solution, however, was a lot more inventive and a lot less bloody.
She was able to convince the captain that an integrated cooling system for the primary engine’s heat-exchangers would double the time they could travel with the hyperdrive engaged.
Miranda constructed two large cooling tanks and filled them with water. Then, she waited.
Knowing that a captain so arrogant as this would sooner or later meet his match, all Miranda had to do was be ready to go at a moment’s notice. After spending 3 years on the Purgatory, she got her chance.
The captain decided to attack a small corvette. The corvette however was crewed by Dark Jedi.
Completely surprised by the intensity of the counter attack, the captain and crew panicked. This was Miranda’s queue to come into action. She rigged a power cable so that it would overload a few auxiliary systems, enough to be a distraction. Then she slipped out of sight and into one of the main cooling tanks. Only one tank had actually been there to cool. The other had been mixed with oxygen.
When the overload occurred, the crew on the bridge released some of the lockouts and jettisoned both cooling tanks into space.
The Corvette swung round for a few more passes. Miranda could see the Purgatory go up in flames and a spectacular explosion.
The Corvette must have noticed her life signs, as they came about and picked up the tank which held the young girl. Little did Miranda know that she had been rescued by the most lethal organization in the galaxy.