Member
Species/Race: Twi'lek
Name: Baladeen'plaat
Middle Name: N/A
Last Name: Plaat
AKA: Master Plaat
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 41 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin)
Place of Birth: Tann, Ryloth
Age: 24
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 128 lbs
Home Planet: Ryloth
Current Residence: Unknown
Hair Color/Style: Long Lekku, coiled around her neck.
Facial Hair: None
Eye Color: Yellow
Body Appearance: Though short and lean, Bala has a body honed for the acrobatic leaps and dynamic style of Form IV Lightsaber Combat. Her shoulders are shallow compared to her hips. Her face is round and feminine.
Vehicle/Starship: Delta-7 Aethersprite-Class Light Interceptor
Armor: Brown Jedi Robes.
Primary Weapon(s): Yellow Single-Bladed Lightsaber
Secondary Weapon(s): Two Ryyk Blades
Allegiance: Jedi Order
Rank: Jedi Knight
Biography:
Baladeen'plaat was born in an isolated village, deep within the jungles, on the Twi'lek home planet of Ryloth. As a result, Bala was already almost a galactic standard year old when Jedi Knight Aayla Secura came to claim her for the Jedi Order. As a fellow Twi'lek, Aayla had little trouble convincing Bala's parents to part with their precious child, who would in time learn the ways of the Force and become a guardian of peace and justice in the galaxy.
As a youngling at the Jedi Academy on Almas, Bala exhibited a strange and somewhat contradictory pattern to her personality. While eager to learn and a quick study, she was not one for always following the rules. This tendency often found her caught up in all manner of mischief. It was at this time that she caught the eye of the Academy's Battlemaster, a wookiee named Kirlocca.
Kirlocca took on young Bala as his Padawan learner, and directed her more mischievous energies into lightsaber combat training. Through constant martial training, Kirlocca passed on his knowledge of the Force and the ways of the Jedi to his young apprentice. When the Clone Wars broke out, Bala remained at the Almas Academy with Kirlocca, who had elected not to take up arms against the Separatist Droid Army. Instead, he organized a meditative retreat into the Almas Wasteland, a dead region on the planet's surface surrounding an ancient Sith Fortress. Though her Trials of Knighthood were scheduled to begin soon, Bala elected to accompany her master on his foray into the dead zone, along with the other Knights and Padawans that had chosen to go on the retreat.
During the retreat, as they were meditating, the group was attacked by a group of maddened Jedi, tortured by the Dark Side energies emanating from the ancient fortress at the wastelands' epicenter. This was Bala's first real-world exposure to the effects of the Dark Side. While she, her master, and the others on the retreat were able to subdue the mad Jedi and return them to the temple, the memories of the experience stuck with Bala cementing her commitment to follow the path of the Jedi.
Then, at the conclusion of the first year of the Clone Wars, her peaceful life on Almas was brought to an abrupt end. Newly knighted and acting as an assistant to Kirlocca at the Almas Academy, she received word that her former master had been killed at a peace conference he was attending. Raik Munn, an initiate who Kirlocca had dismissed from the Almas Academy for falling in love with another student, had attempted to discredit the Jedi Order by unleashing a pair of t'salaks aboard the ship on which the peace conference was being held. Kirlocca had died defending himself, his fellow Jedi, and the peace delegates.
After Kirlocca's death, Bala was reassigned to command a company of clone troopers in the Grand Army of the Republic. Being a relatively untested warrior, her unit was usually ordered in as support in smaller skirmishes and as a result, never saw the large scale clashes of the war.
Name: Baladeen'plaat
Middle Name: N/A
Last Name: Plaat
AKA: Master Plaat
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 41 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin)
Place of Birth: Tann, Ryloth
Age: 24
Height: 5' 4"
Weight: 128 lbs
Home Planet: Ryloth
Current Residence: Unknown
Hair Color/Style: Long Lekku, coiled around her neck.
Facial Hair: None
Eye Color: Yellow
Body Appearance: Though short and lean, Bala has a body honed for the acrobatic leaps and dynamic style of Form IV Lightsaber Combat. Her shoulders are shallow compared to her hips. Her face is round and feminine.
Vehicle/Starship: Delta-7 Aethersprite-Class Light Interceptor
Armor: Brown Jedi Robes.
Primary Weapon(s): Yellow Single-Bladed Lightsaber
Secondary Weapon(s): Two Ryyk Blades
Allegiance: Jedi Order
Rank: Jedi Knight
Biography:
Baladeen'plaat was born in an isolated village, deep within the jungles, on the Twi'lek home planet of Ryloth. As a result, Bala was already almost a galactic standard year old when Jedi Knight Aayla Secura came to claim her for the Jedi Order. As a fellow Twi'lek, Aayla had little trouble convincing Bala's parents to part with their precious child, who would in time learn the ways of the Force and become a guardian of peace and justice in the galaxy.
As a youngling at the Jedi Academy on Almas, Bala exhibited a strange and somewhat contradictory pattern to her personality. While eager to learn and a quick study, she was not one for always following the rules. This tendency often found her caught up in all manner of mischief. It was at this time that she caught the eye of the Academy's Battlemaster, a wookiee named Kirlocca.
Kirlocca took on young Bala as his Padawan learner, and directed her more mischievous energies into lightsaber combat training. Through constant martial training, Kirlocca passed on his knowledge of the Force and the ways of the Jedi to his young apprentice. When the Clone Wars broke out, Bala remained at the Almas Academy with Kirlocca, who had elected not to take up arms against the Separatist Droid Army. Instead, he organized a meditative retreat into the Almas Wasteland, a dead region on the planet's surface surrounding an ancient Sith Fortress. Though her Trials of Knighthood were scheduled to begin soon, Bala elected to accompany her master on his foray into the dead zone, along with the other Knights and Padawans that had chosen to go on the retreat.
During the retreat, as they were meditating, the group was attacked by a group of maddened Jedi, tortured by the Dark Side energies emanating from the ancient fortress at the wastelands' epicenter. This was Bala's first real-world exposure to the effects of the Dark Side. While she, her master, and the others on the retreat were able to subdue the mad Jedi and return them to the temple, the memories of the experience stuck with Bala cementing her commitment to follow the path of the Jedi.
Then, at the conclusion of the first year of the Clone Wars, her peaceful life on Almas was brought to an abrupt end. Newly knighted and acting as an assistant to Kirlocca at the Almas Academy, she received word that her former master had been killed at a peace conference he was attending. Raik Munn, an initiate who Kirlocca had dismissed from the Almas Academy for falling in love with another student, had attempted to discredit the Jedi Order by unleashing a pair of t'salaks aboard the ship on which the peace conference was being held. Kirlocca had died defending himself, his fellow Jedi, and the peace delegates.
After Kirlocca's death, Bala was reassigned to command a company of clone troopers in the Grand Army of the Republic. Being a relatively untested warrior, her unit was usually ordered in as support in smaller skirmishes and as a result, never saw the large scale clashes of the war.
