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Stewjon
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13 ABY
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Not quite yet
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Human
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Female
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1.64
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54 Kg
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Blue with Pink Highlights
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Orange
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Patience Star
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Guy Neige
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Lightsaber, Pan,
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Cook, Sith
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Head Cook, Head of Propaganda
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Clan Scholae Palatinae
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Shadow Nighthunter
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"Sushi, ya I can cook that."
-Katyusha to Blade Ta'var
Neophyte Katyusha Neige was a Sith Maurauder who was a relatively new addition to the [Clan Scholae Palatinae]. Katyusha or Kat as she was know to by her peers and Darth Winter by her enemies who do not understand the Sith, Is known for two things, her height and her ability to cook very well(this comes into play later). Kat stands to be one of the shortest in the clan, Causing her to use an appearance of innocence and purity until she strikes revealing her dark side nature. Katyusha Is currently the apprentice of Shadow Nighthunter, the only Sith in the clan she truly respects or fears and would follow her hell and back if need be. Katyusha came to the clan shortly after the events of Midnight. Having little to no information, Katyusha believes the order to be too loyal due to listening to a possessed Xen'Mordin and not questioning his order to abandon their home system. She has however begun to respect them due to their retaking of their home. Katyusha is very loyal to the clan, especially Shadow since she sees them as her saviors after saving her life after being abandoned by the jedi.
Backstory
Childhood
Katyusha's Homeworld, Stewjon
young Kat playing with a toy sword
Katyusha was born on the planet of Stewjon in the year 13 ABE. Katyusha was born to a human couple. Her father, Guy(the french version) Neige; a hutt gang thug and her mother, Patience Star; a bartender and cook who worked at the local cantina and who taught Kat how to cook. When Katyusha was young she heard about the legendary Jedi hero Obi Wan Kenobi. Katyusha looked up to Kenobi and hoped one day to go on adventures like him. When Katyusha was 18, the Hutt gang who rivaled Her dad's attacked her local village, Killing her father and taking Patience and Kat to the Hutt's palace to be slaves.
Slavery and self discovery
When Katyusha reached the Hutt's palace, she and her mother were inspected to see if they would go to the work force or be used for the Hutt's more... pleasurable needs. Patience saw the inspection as an opportunity to escape. When she tried, she was shot by one of the guards and fed to the Hutt's pet Wampa. Kat, horrified and hungering for revenge, started to fill with rage, nearly deciding to try and avenge her mother. She decided that it would be wiser to play the waiting game and allowed herself to become his new dancing girl. Katyusha spent two years in the Palace, waiting to be rescued or bought to a less slimy owner. Katyusha's patience finally broke when the Hutt tried to do something Katyusha really did not want to do (you know what i mean). In this moment, Katyusha tapped into the Force for the first time, however it was not the light side that her Hero used, it was the dark side. She turned to the Hutt lord and screamed. All of a sudden, the Hutt lord was gasping for air, until he collapsed and died. Not knowing who or what killed him, the Hutt's lieutenant took control of the gang. A week later, a Republic strike force arrived to bust the illegal activities of the gang. After arresting all the criminals, a squad of Republic troopers approached Kat. In fear Kat screamed and the troopers were pushed back by a massive wave of pure Force energy. After this, a man in a brown cloak approached Katyusha, extended his arm and said he was Jedi master Jon Vandeus and that he would take her in and teach her the ways of the Force. Kat realized this was her chance to be a Jedi, just like her hero Kenobi and accepted.
Meeting the needs
When Kat was a slave, the Hutt forced her to meet his "requirements". The young woman was injected with a cocktail of drugs and enhancements, Here eyes grew larger and her skin became a snowy white. The drugs also shrunk her size as well as slightly enlarged her assets, this was all for the sickening pleasure of the hutt crime lord. The process painless for the assets and skin change, but the eye enlargement and shrinking was extremely painful as it happened slowly over the course of hours. The changes where one of the main causes Kat hated her slave master and why she turned on him and killed him by accident.
Jedi Training
After liberating Katyusha from Hutt slavery, Master Vandeus took her under his wing and taught her the ways of the Light Side on a nomadic journey across the outer rim with his small Jedi clan.The group consisted of Five Jedis including Kat. One Jedi Kat got close to was a young woman named Jemma Kelvin, who formed a close bond to and even a romance but only they knew about it. In terms of how they got around, they used an old merchant ship where Vandeus would fly and would teach Kat when she showed an interest in it. Their first mission together was to Illum to get Katyusha a kyber crystal to build her lightsaber and truly become a Jedi. When Kat emerged from the cave she came out with a blue crystal. When returning to the ship, the group were ambushed by a Giant Gorgodon and were forced to engage. When the gorgodon charged, it hit Master Vandeus and injured him severely whilst also scaring away the other padawans. This act of assault and cowardice angered Katyusha and caused her to lash out. Katyusha lifted the beast with the Force by tapping into the darker side of the Force and smashed it against the icy ground until the beast was dead. Master Vandeus and the padawans were stunned by this sudden fit of rage but dismissed it as they knew that Kat's past was full of anger and believed she would be able to overcome it. Little did they know this would not be the case.
Exile
Kat's display on Illum filled the group with worry but they did not pay mind to it. The groups next mission was to a small dark side rogue's outpost on Tattooine where they faced a group of apprentices. Katyusha charged in before her group, wanting to prove her worth in combat and show her master that she was no weakling. In fact, she wanted to prove that she was the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy or even ever, and this was not the Jedi way. When she attacked their leader, he simply shot a wave of Force lightning at her, knocking her unconscious and forcing her down to the ground. As she lay unconscious, her fellow Jedi attacked and one of the padawans, Jemma Kelvin, was struck down and killed by the leader and thrown beside Kat. When Kat awoke, she saw Jemma, who was a very close friend and had feelings further than that but never revealed them. When she saw the lifeless corpse of her best friend and lover, Kat was filled with hate, anger and other Dark Side feelings. Kat arose and extended her arm, Force choking the man who killed Jemma until she pulled him towards her and eviscerated him with her lightsaber and screaming a Scream of victory and dominance. as Master Kadeus approached Kat and touched her, she turned to him, her eyes red and orange as she was crying the loss of her friend and screaming she wanted to kill every Sith and dark side rogue ever and that she hated them. This was too much for the group. Master Vandeus Tapped Kat on the forehead using a Force ability to knock her out and put her on the ship, where they dropped her on Stewjon where there was a pilots training academy since Kat had an interest in flying.
The rise and fall of Katyusha Neige
The Rise
"It was like a watching fireworks, Explosions every where."
-Rayna Vulcanis
When Kat awoke, She saw the x-wing academy but none of her Jedi friends, She the realized they had left her due to her actions, Which angered her but she understood she needed to move on. Kat entered the academy and learned to become a pilot, where she made some new friends. After her time in the academy, Kat proved she had potential, using the force as a way to detect if she was being followed and to generally enhance her already high senses. Kat became a very successful pilot, downing 30 enemy fighters, Ranging from Crime syndicate fighters to newly discovered planet's defense fighters. Kat made several friends including the likes Jessika Pava, who later became her second in command when she was given command of Angel Squadron. Kat also became friends with other pilots like Rayna Vulcanis, Ellsworth Lockwood, Cade Gaunt, Jaina Sandwalker, Tobian Upari and Novan Skyron, who were the pilots that made up Angel Squadron. Kat also met the future poster boy of the resistance, Poe Dameron when Angel squadron and black squadron flew together to bust a apparent illegal trade between two intergalactic gangs, which turned out to be a trap left by the gangs. When the enemy fighters arrived, Katyusha and angel squadron engaged whilst black squadron escorted the fleet. In the engament, Angel squadron managed to take down three enemy fighters before suffering their first casualty. Whilst chasing an enemy vessel, Tobian Upari was shot down and killed instantly in the vacuum of space as an enemy fighter got on his six and fired upon him. Hearing the chilling last message of how he had been hit, Katyusha had felt those same feelings of hate and anger from when Jemma died, thinking how could she have let another friend die. Kat went berserk chasing down one enemy fighter after another, Shooting it down and moving on to the next one, with a chilling efficiency, Kat managed to shoot down ten of the twelve fighters. Kat realized all of this was caused not by pure skill, which in no small part helped. It was the dark side of the force which had empowered her and allowed her to be faster more perceptive and concentrate more. When Kat realized this, she decided she would not push away this power like those weak jedis and that she would embrace these emotions and exploit them. From that moment on, Kat had become an almost unstoppable force, almost rising to match the fame of such pilots like Wedge Antilles, Luke Skywalker and his father Anakin. Katyusha became the second highest scoring ace after Poe Dameron, passing him was a goal she continued to attempt. All her fame and fortune made her happy and made her forget her past as she felt at home in the cockpit of an x-wing. Everything was going well but as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end.
Kat in her pilot's outfit
The Fall
"I've Got a bad feeling about this..."
-Katyusha to her Astromech M1-G7
Katyusha's time as an ace pilot only lasted around a year and she still calls it the best year of her life. Katyusha's fall happened approximately 34 ABE when she was sent on a reconnaissance mission to Hoth after the New republic had heard of activity going on in the almost empty Hoth system. the republic decided to sent Katyusha alone since it was only a small recon mission. They also sent her without support because thy did not want to raise suspicion. Katyusha left. When Kat arrived in the hoth system, she was immediately greeted with a mass amount of blaster rounds and ion torpedo. Kat managed to down one of the enemy ships before being shot down. The ace maneuvered her seriously damaged ship into Hoth's orbit and tried to land. When Kat entered orbit, her X-wing crashed and was irreparable. when the craft hit the ground, it got wedged into the deep layer of snow on the planets. When Kat's x-wing crashed, Her cockpit was submerged in Snow and trapped her inside. She was barely conscious and managed to use the force to open the hatch and remove the snow. Kat crawled out of her vessel and attempted to use her holo communicator to contact the republic to bring aid but had noticed that the communicator was damaged. As Kat noticed that her communicator was broken, A giant blizzard had begun and Kat knew she wouldn't last long. Katyusha decided to use less conventional manners to get help, Kat reached out through the force to her old master, calling for him to come and pick her up, Instead of receiving an answer, all the former padawan got was silence. This silence enraged Kat, Reminding her of when she had awoken abandoned by her master and friends, she thought that they must of abandoned her because they feared her or that they were cowards. These thoughts of anger and hate festered in her mind as memories of Jemma arrived and began to think that maybe the Jedi let her die. All this hate, anger and sadness made Katyusha fully turn from the light and fully embrace the dark. Kat stopped reaching out to her master and began using the force to reach out to the nearest force sensitive beings, calling for help and only then did salvation come. When Katyusha was on the verge of freezing to death, A mysterious figure appeared and extended her arm to the barely awake Kat. The injured pilot asked the figure why she should trust her, Last time this happened she was abandoned by those Jedi. The figure scoffed and answered that she was no Jedi, she said she was a Sith and that she could teach her the way of the dark side and help her get revenge. The former Jedi agreed and grabbed her hand just like she had grabbed Vandeus's hand 5 years earlier.
Path of the Dark side
Tying up loose ends