Sarah Starr



Sarah Valin is a renouned Jedi Healer and Councilor and has often been specially recognized for her services and dedication to the Jedi Order. She joined the order at the age of fifteen and has always been faithful to the Jedi. She is also one of it's most prominent Healers if not it's most successful having saved the lives of 95.5% of all those in her care, critically wounded or otherwise. She is the mother of Kyra Starr Valin with her husband Jace Valin who is a Jedi Sentinel.

Early Years

Sarah Starr was born on Taris and grew up in the lower-city. Her parents were very poor and her life as a child was mostly a constant struggle for survival. Her parents would scavange around the lower-city and undercity for food despite the dangers of gangs and Rakghouls. Eventually Sarah's father joined one of the gangs to help better provide for his family and for awhile they did somewhat better despite how little Sarah's father was able to see his

family. One day Sarah was abruptly woken up by her parents to some urgent news. She wasn't told why or what for but her parents told her she had to leave Taris, as if her life depended on it. The young girl was very confused and nervous not wanting to leave her parents but after much arguement she was sent on a ship with a smuggler her parents had hired to take her to Nar Shadda to meet a relative who she would live with.

 Live and Survive 

Sarah arrived on Nar Shadda with the smuggler and he immediately sent her off on her own to wait for her relative. She had waited nervously for two days without seeing anyone or being approached by anyone. After the third day Sarah decided whoever was supposed to meet her wasn't coming so she left on her own. Being only ten years old she was very frightened and confused and didn't know what she was going to do. Luckily her parents had taught her about survival incase anything should happen to them on Taris and she was left alone, Sarah had first looked around in the smelly and loud city she was in for a place she could live. She came across an abandoned warehouse which was very messy but it was somewhat devoid of the foul stentch of the outside city. She managed to set up a shelter inside the warehouse with things she had scavanged outside the city and brought it back to the warehouse to set up appropriately. Sarah knew how to pick-pocket and also how to build things out of broken parts and scrap durosteel she found in near junkyards which she was able to sell to some cheap marketplaces to get money.

As difficult as life was for the girl she managed to survive for years in the dangerous enviornment, she built weapons of her own out of the scrap she found and she continued to upgrade her living space inside the warehouse. No one really came near the old warehouse because of rumors that it was haunted, but Sarah never believed in such foolishness. Sarah sometimes would have trouble with local gangs and thugs but she did her best to avoid them, seeing they would only cause trouble for her.

Soon though the local gangs started to take interest in teasing the young girl now 14. The harrassment got so far as one of the thugs trying to kiss her which she found completely unacceptable, she took her home-made dagger and slashed him across the eye. Naturally this angered the thugs and his friends and they started to chase her waving their melee weapons at her, lucky for Sarah they didn't seem to have any blasters. She ran all the way back to her warehouse hopping to lose them but they followed her all the way there. She locked the doors inside so they could not get in, but they merely waited outside for her to come out. She was locked inside hiding for a day before one of the thugs managed to somehow get inside and approach her. He attacked her with a vibroblade and Sarah raised her own home-made vibroblade in defense. It seemed Sarah had natural skill with a blade for she was able to block and parry the thugs attacks and disarm him pinning him to a wall. Unfortunately the other thugs followed him inside and charged at her which caused Sarah to flee. She ran into a vent which led outside the warehouse and she lost them, then began searching for a new place to live.

 Lifes Chances 

After years of surviving Nar Shadda, Sarah had managed to live in the hostile enviornment for about six years making her sixteen. Life had been difficult as always, everyday was a struggle but she had been used to this for it had been so her entire life. Now that she was older and thanks to her natural skills with a blade she was able to fend off the petty thugs that she encountered.

One day Sarah was hanging around in a small-time club that really had no security or anything, so being underage wasn't really an issue. She sat alone and drank just relaxing and trying to forget about life minding her own business when a local gang approached her. They started harrassing her telling her they had seen her around taking out some local thugs and they told her they wanted her to join their gang. Sarah quickly refused and told them to space off. The gang didn't take to kindly to this and pulled her out of her seat and pinned her to a wall, threatening her with her life saying that they "don't not take no for an answer."



Sarah spit at the gang members face. He grunted and pulled out a dagger and raised it about to stab her when Sarah broke his hold on her and dodged it ducking around under him she pulled out her blade and stabbed him through the back, her first kill. The other gang members retorted by getting their own blades and attacked her. She parried and blocked their attacks, and attacked back. Impaling one thug through the chest and cutting off anothers arm. She turned to the gang leader and charged at him, but he surprisingly dodged her attacks and hit her in the torso repeatidly with a stun baton. She fell back onto a wall and looked as she was about to be shot by the leader who pulled out a blaster. As he fired someone leapt infront of her and light green glow appeared coming out of a hilt he was holding. She saw the blaster bolts bounce of the light and back to the gang leader, killing him. She then blacked out.

She awoke sometime latter in a daze, she looked around the room she was in seeing an unfamiliar space. The room was white and she was in a comfortable bed, she looked out a window seeing the city she lived in. A man entered the room and explained how he rescued her from the thugs, Sarah was confused as to why someone would do this for her but she was far more interested in the green light she saw. He explained it was his 'Lightsaber'. Sarah wasn't familiar with the term which seemed to surprise the man, he told her he was a 'Jedi' and she also found this term unfamiliar. She asked him what it was, and it took sometime for him to explain it. After he told her everything, she seemed astonished, she had never encountered a being like a Jedi before. She was very curious of 'the Force' and wanted to know more, Dacken explained that he had been searching for a spark of force energy and told her that she was it's source. He told her she was able to learn about the Force and become a Jedi if she allowed him to take her to Coruscant for training, Sarah quickly agreed, eager to leave the poor excuse of a life she had on Nar Shadda. With that, Sarah left with him to become a Jedi.

 Jedi Training 

Sarah had loved her new life as in the order, she was amazed by Coruscant and Dantooine, the two planets she was allowed to stay at. She also found life inside the temples a vast improvement to the life she had on Taris and Nar Shadda. She also liked to spend time in the Archives and study all the different aspects of the force, several masters took interest in her hunger for knowledge with much enthusiasm. As much time as she spent in the archives, she spent an equal amount in training rooms practicing with a training saber. She was able to defeat most of her peers in spars.

Sarah was exceptionally skilled with a lightsaber. She had learned how to properly wield one quickly, this impressed the masters that observes her. Sarah excelled in her studies as well, she had studied long and hard for her classes and was never late once. Sarah always listened carefully to her teachers and practically printed every word they said into her mind to help with her studies. She was always a very devoted student, she was grateful to the Jedi for saving her from the miserable life she had once had and wanted to repay by doing everything she could to become a great Jedi. Whenever her friends tried to tear her away from studies or practice they failed misserubly, she was far too determined.

By the time she was 17 she had bested her lightsaber form the best she could without training from a master. Soon after she was taken as a Padawan by a master. She finally thought she would be able to adequately develop her skills under his tutorage. She learned the full form of Shii-Cho and proved to be very skilled in the form, she learned it quickly under her master and he seemed impressed.



Sarah finally able to develop her skills and was able to press forward and learn the one force power she had been studying for months on end. Force Healing. After requesting this to her master, he agreed and told her to meet with him for a training session. Her master sat down with her and pulled out a needle, Sarah then leaped up in fear for she had a natural phobia of needles. He seemed to find it very amusing as he laughed at her, Sarah sternly scolded him about it and told him it was a personal thing. He calmed down and continued to go on with the lesson, and after awhile he had taught her how to use the force to speed up the bodies natural healing process. Sarah had finally learned how to use Force Healing which had been her goal for two years.

 The Healer 

Since she had learned to use the force to heal injured people, Sarah had done a lot of voluntary work at medical bays in Jedi Temple's as well as Republic bases. Most of the time she looked over injured people in med-bays while they recovered and didn't really take up and extreme medical work. She had studied a lot in the archives to try and further her powers as a healer, slowly but surely she would become stronger with the technique.

With help from her master-as well of hours of practicing, Sarah had become an adequate healer even though she wasn't officially a healer. She was able to use the force to influence the bodies natural healing process and speed it up. This ability was a essential to a healer and she knew that so she learned as much as she could about it.

One day on Corellia near the temple, their was an attack on the Republic Embassy by terrorists. The base exploded into flames and the Jedi were dispatched to help and retrieve everyone they could. Sarah was present and she leaped into the flames and saved as many as she could. Even though they were safe from the flames, the surviving soldiers were badly injured from burnt internal organs. They were brought back to the temple to be healed and Sarah was entrusted to make sure they recovered. Sarah was able to use the force to heal the burning lungs of most of the dying soldiers, although their were some she wasn't able to save in time. Sarah received praise from the Republic commissioners in the area for saving the troops and also earned special recognition of the council.

After years of practice, Sarah had become as skilled as a swordsman. She had defeated all of her Padawan peers as well as several Knights, perhaps a master or two. Sarah was indeed a very gifted swordsman and her master admitted there was little more he could teach her about saber her saber skills. Although Sarah hadn't focused on the force as much, she still had a strong command over it. As well as that, Sarah was a very gifted healer-one of the Orders best and most efficient, she had saved the lives of most who entered her care.

 Jedi Knight 

One day she had gotten one of the happiest messages of her life from Jace, he told her that she was to report to the crystal meditation room in the Coruscant temple for her Knight Trials. She wasted no time speeding there, incredibly eager to move on.

When she arrived she noted the three masters present, Grandmaster Kadari, her master, and another councilor she was unfamiliar with. She answered the trial questions quickly and surely. She also easily answered questions about saber forms and demonstrated them. She then successfully completed the traditional pole leaping and lava runs. Sarah had some specific troubles answering parts of the Jedi Code, but she knew most of it. The part she had trouble understanding was about Passion being unapproved by the Jedi, Sarah though believed other-wise and developed her own theories about love and how it can be controlled so a Jedi can still use logical and rational thinking while having passions for another.

When she was requested to see them again, Kadari conferred the level of Jedi Knight upon Sarah. Sarah proudly knelt before her masters as they commenced the knighting ceremony and bowed to each one respectfully before leaving.

Weeks later Sarah was an honorary Healer of the Jedi Order, her powers had been more developed then they had ever been before, she was now one of the best Healers in the order.

Sometime after her trials, Sarah began a search for a Padawan. She had spent much time observing younglings and initiates in training rooms, looking for a suitable one to be her Padawan. From what she could tell she had only seen many full-hearty kids not solely focused on fighting with a lightsaber. She hoped she would find someone who was as interested about healing as she had been. Not finding anyone suitable she extended her search to other Jedi Temples across the galaxies hoping to find someone she felt she could really teach to the best of her abilities. She decided who ever she took would be a very promising swordsman or someone with an interest in Force Healing. With that in mind she embarked on her search.

Her Padawans

Her search had eventually led her to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant which is where she met a young teenager named Kaden Fletch. She had noticed his interest in healing while he was reading in the archives. Sarah approached him and they both engaged in a long conversation about healing. Sarah was intrigued by his desire to learn about healing for she had had little luck finding any initiates who were interested in healing.

Sarah began to formally test the boy to see if he was elligable to become her Padawan. Kaden had passed all of her tests and most of which were about healing, but since she was also a Jedi Guardian she had tested him in saber combat, he did reasonably well with a saber for his position as an initiate, but he still had work to do. Sarah decided she would take him and train him as her Padawan. The council had advised against her taking Padawans since she was still very young, only 18 years of age but she decided she would anyways believing she would be able to train him. The council reluctantly agreed and allowed her to train him. Sarah and Kaden continued to train together for years to come and would become good friends.

After returning to the temple on Taris, Sarah had once again encounter Jace alone in the archives. She approached him and apologies for her strict behavior towards him during the mission and Jace retorted by accepting it. She had then asked him why he had been alone and not practicing with his master, Wytrocca, and he told her his master is usually busy with council affairs and isn't able to train him. Sarah then offered to tutor him while his master was busy to which Jace gladly accepted.



She and Jace would train daily together and she would help finish training he had begun with Master Wyrtocca but had been unable to finish. After awhile together they had developed a freindship and a force bond since she had basically taken him as her own Padawan though unofficial. They both came to enjoy eachothers company and would spend time together doing things other then train.

 Mission to Korriban 

During her time on the Corellian Jedi Temple, Sarah was approached by Jedi Master Veldiris and asked to accompany him and two Padawans to a suspected Cultist academy and destroy it. SInce there was a shortage of Knights on the planet, Sarah accepted the offer and accompanied them to Korriban.

When they arrived on Korriban, Sarah had felt a presence she had never encountered before. A dark and powerful energy, an eerie thing something that seemed to be everywhere and watching her. Despite this she refused to allow it to change her values during the mission and they proceeded to the old Sith academy.

Once they arrived inside, they were automatically attacked by saber weilding cultists. Sarah had immediately become concerned for the Padawans, Lillian Talon and Jace Valin. She allowed Veldiris to do most head on fighting while she paid careful attention to the other two. As they proceeded deeper inside Sarah fought closely by Jace due to his cocky and stubborn attitude, feeling he could look after himself and fight on his own. Sarah protested against this telling him he was acting foolish and wreckless, he only ignored her and continued to fight alone.

At some point during the battle, Jace had charged at a group of Cultist unknowing how many there were. Before Jace realized this it was too late, they were closing on him. Sarah acted quickly and interjected herself between them and him, which caused her to be stabbed through her shoulder. Although injured she used the force to heal herself enough to continue the fight. After defeating the remaining cultists, they had been able to gather sensative information about a plot to ressurrect a dead Sith Lord from the cultists. Once they had recovered this they had quickly left the academy before anything else.

The Sith Return

After some months had passed things had been quiet in Sarah's life. She had trained with her Padawans daily and kept tutoring Jace. To her everything seemed far too quiet, she felt something big was going to happen and soon.

Apparently he gut instinct was right. Soon Master Veldiris had assembled all the Jedi he could to the Corellian Temple, the location of the tomb where the Cultists would be ressurecting the dead Sith Lord had been discovered and it was time to strike. Once all the Jedi had gathered, they headed once again to Korriban. Sarah had asked Veldiris why Kadarin was not with them and he told her he had already gone ahead to Korriban which Sarah took to grimly, she didn't think it was very wise of the Grandmaster to head to such a strong Sith planet alone.

Sarah's ship was to come up and land behind the tomb and secret to catch the enemy on their flank, but apparently the Cultists had preditcted such a movement and shot down her shuttle as it was en landing route. When she emerged she had been surrounded by cultists. She ignited her cyan blade and engaged them despite being outnumbered.

Due to her being far mor skilled in lightsaber combat and her greater command of the Force, Sarah eventually was able to defeat the large group of cultists. As she proceeded alone to the tomb she encountered several waves of cultists but she was able to defeat them all as they came.



When she came upon the back entrance she encountered another cultists, but this one seemed more skilled in combat using the advanced form Jar-Kai. The cult girl revealed her self as Jy'sani, the future apprentice of the Dark Lord. For awhile the two seemed equally matched but Sarah was able to gain the upperhand when she switched to Djem'so and overpowered the light and graceful Jar-Kai. Jy'sani fled but promised Sarah they'd meet again.

After she entered the tomb she caught up with the rest of the Jedi and spoke with Veldiris asking to be filled in. Veldiris revealed it was too late, the Sith Lord had been risen and Kadarin. Sarah immediately felt grief and sorrow for the great loss of their Grandmaster. Veldiris told her now was not the time to mourn, he told her to get all of the Padawans out to the shuttle as the rest covered their escape. Sarah did so and led the Padawans to safety encountering some resistance but she was easily able to defeat whoever came.

As they left, Sarah was approached by Jace feeling her grief. She warmly welcomed his company and they talked to eachothers about what had transpired. As Jace comforted her she had felt some strange sensation and emotion being in his presence, it was calm and soothing. She leaned forward and kissed Jace, to which he reacted surprisingly but returned the kiss. After she had pulled away she had been speechless for her actions and only muttered an apology to which he retorted and they tried shrug it off the rest of the ride home, but the feelings they both had only seemed to grow after that.

The Youngest Jedi Councilor

Some days after the battle, the Jedi Knights had a large assemly. Many Knights had gathered in the Grand Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Master Veldiris and Wyrtocca explained they would be building up a larger Jedi Council instead of immediately selecting a new Grandmaster.

As they started picking out names for the Council, Sarah felt a sense of hopelessness, she didn't really think she should be at the assemly it seemed obvious to her she would not be called. She heard two names called first, Lyon Ulris and then Arindoch. When the next name was called she could hardly believe what she had heard, they had called her name. She had been selected to be on the Jedi Council of Experience, at the age of 19.

As it showed, Sarah seemed to be an excellent Councilor. She had never been late or missed a meeting, she had always passed down judgment on important topics and discussion and her word in the Council was respected by each member and other Jedi. During recent times she had prooved to be a valuable member of the Jedi Council.



After an important Council meeting after the an attack on the Tavin VI Praxeum, Sarah had volunteered to spend most of her time in temples closest to the Outer-Rim to keep a careful eye on vulnerable systems suspected to be at risk of a Cultist attack like Taris, Rhen Var, Ossus, Tatooine, and Yavin IV. Due to her experience in the Outer-Rim territories the Council felt it best she was best for the assignment, and in addition she was made Jedi Watchmen of Taris since it beared the location of an important Jedi Temple, as well as it being her homeworld.

Engagment on Taris

While being stationed on Taris, she had been keeping a careful eye on the rest of the system and checking the HoloNet for any updates on Cultist movements, but for now everything seemed to be quiet which she didn't like. Despite her feeling uneasy about monitering an entire system on her own and being responsible for the safety of Taris, she managed to remain calm and keep a level head for those who looked to her for leadership.

While she was on Taris she encountered Jace for the first time since Korriban, she realized it wasn't wise to keep pushing aside the feelings she and Jace openly admitted to eachother by sharing a kiss on Korriban so she decided to approach and speak with him. For a while they talked about his training and she also continued tutoring him since Wyrtocca had been on Corellia. After sharing a casual and friendly day together she decided it was time to confront the issue at hand. She asked Jace to if they could go to the local cantina together and talk, he agreed. They both went and had lunch together, and after another casual discussion she brought up the kiss they had shared before. Jace wasn't sure what to say about it so she asked him how he was feeling towards her, he was unsure just as she was. She decided there was only one way to solve the issue, they needed to kiss again for real this time to find out their true feelings for eachothers. Jace agreed and they both slid closely to eachother and let their lips meet eachother in a deep and intimate kiss. They held it for a few moments and broke apart, Sarah finally knew she had felt and she seemed surprised to find out she had strong feelings for this boy who was atleast three years younger then she was.

After she contemplated on this, she admittied to Jace she felt for him and to her surprised he returned her feelings. They both agreed to engage in a romantic relationship. After the day had progressed that had spent most of their time together talking and training like they usually do, but they weren't afraid to make closer contanct with eachother, even in public.

Despite how good the day seemed to be going, the pleasantries were cut short when an impending Cultist attack was discovered on long distance radar. A small fleet of ships had somehow managed to sneak past the planets orbital security and landed it's forces on the surface. The cultists devistated the lower-cities of Taris which caused Sarah to become extremely concerned for her mother's safety whom she knew was still living their ever since her father's death. The entire lower-city was in flamed and she rushed as many Jedi as she could to it to gather the wounded and dying. After bringing as many as they could back to ther upper-city they had stumbled into an ambush.

A large group of cultists were attacking the upper-city around the Jedi Temple and they were attempting to break into the temple. Sarah and all able Jedi engaged the enemy forces and began a long battle in the upper-city.

The long battle caused much damage to the city around them, and the Jedi found themselves outnumbered and caught completely off-guard from the attack, but despite all of the disadvantages they fought back hard and long and eventually due to their better training and the home-front advantage the Jedi eventually were able to thin the cultists army's numbers.

After most of the cultists had been pushed back, Sarah had engaged the commander of the cultist forces in a saber duel to the death. For awhile Sarah seemed to have an advantage using Djem'so against the staff blade of the commander as he used Niman. However, after she disabled a side of his blade the mentally-unstable commander seemed to fight much better using Shii-Cho against her Djem'so and started gaining the upper-hand. After she realized she would not win using her favored stance, Sarah utilized Shii-Cho and hers prooved to be stronger then his as she begain to drive him back, and eventually dodged a strong blow from him which left him open for him to stab him through his chest.

As she looked into the eyes of the dying commander, she saw sadness and fear in his eyes which made her feel terrible for striking the fatal blow. As he died Sarah tried to revive him with her powers, but it prooved unsuccessful.

Later on as she sulked in her room she was confronted by Jace who attempted to comfort, but although she felt an improvement with him there she could not get over the fact she had just killed someone. She vowed she would never take another life if anything else was possible, to which Jace supported her. Although even after this she still grieved and Jace did something unexpected, he kissed her passionately and lovingly which would lead to them sharing an intimate night together, after which they both had admitted their love for eachother.

Turning the Page



 Powers and abilities 

Sarah is the Jedi Order's most prominent and successful healers. Most of those who have entered her care of either fully recovered from their injuries or have been saved from death itself. She begain studying Healing early as a Padawan while she was attempting to become a Jedi Guardian. Her master had agreed to help her learn it although she was young and inexperienced. Over the course of four years Sarah had mastered Healing and it is now what she is mostly recognized for.



Aside from her being a truely gifted Healer, Sarah is one of the most advanced swordswoman in the Jedi Order, having mastered Djem'so at an early age and matchng masters in combat using Shii-Cho. Sarah may be considered the most skilled swordswoman on the Council next to Wyrtocca.

 Personality and appearance 

Sarah is a very kind and tender woman though she is capable of being very serious and outgoing. Like all Jedi should; she values all life considering it sacred, but after she had killed a mentally unstable Cultist commander she had felt horrible. She could not believe she had taken the life of another, especially one who had no idea what he was doing. Sarah vowed to never take another life again. Sarah can also be very passionate about love and life. After she had fallen in love with Jace Valin she had been mostly kind and gentle to almost everything and everyone, and after the birth of her daughter Kyra she had become one of the most kind and caring Jedi and perhaps human someone could ever meet.

Sarah stands at a height of 5'6 feet and weights under 125 lbs. She has shiney blond hair and usually has it tied back and only wears it down when she is feeling casual. Sarah would usually be seen in a traditional brown cloak and a tan robe, she also has her own pair of Healer robes though she usually will not wear it. Sarah has two blades, a green and blue blade. Although she is a Guardian, she had consutructed a green blade since she favors the green over blue. She will sometimes be seen using the green blade in training or battle but she will mostly weild her traditional blue lightsaber.