Mara Jade

Mara Jade starts off called The Emperor's Hand, his personal, force-trained assassin. After the death of the Emperor, she joins the smuggling crew of Talon Karrde, until Grand Admiral Thrawn appears, when she is forced to work together with Luke Skywalker to survive. This is hard for her because the Emperor had left a final force order in her mind, to kill Luke Skywalker. She finds a way around the Emperor's final order, killing an evil clone of Luke and silencing the voices in her head.

Later on, she becomes friends with Luke as he re-trains her in the ways of the force. Eventually, as Luke and Mara are on a mission and are about to die, Luke asks Mara to marry him, and they escape and she accepts.

In the New Jedi Order series, Mara gives birth to her and Luke's son, who Luke named after Ben Kenobi.

Later, when Han and Leia's elder son, Jacen turns to the dark side and is responsible for the deaths of many civilians, Mara hunts after him with one goal in mind, kill him before he kills any more people.  Mara only manages to severly wound Jacen before Jacan finally succeeds in killing her.

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