Doctor Aphra
Doctor Aphra is a female character who features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Chelli Lona Aphra was a female human born a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away as the daughter of Korin Aphra and his wife Lona Aphra.
After the Great Jedi Purge, Korin began neglecting his family to focus on his work, believing it would make the galaxy safer for his daughter by restoring the light that had died with the Jedi. The Jedi were a group of spiritual followers of the Force who had served as the primary peacekeepers of the Republic for thousands of generations. While the Jedi were dedicated to the light,[21] they had counterparts in the dark side of the Force called the Sith. The existence of the Sith was doubted by the time Chelli was born, but the Sith Lord Darth Sidious was secretly responsible for the galactic strife. The Sith's long-last artifacts were said to be deadly and destructive, but Chelli found her father's stories of them much more interesting than those of the Jedi. It seemed to Chelli that Korin only paid attention to her when she pretended to be interested in his Jedi research.
Lona struggled in her marriage due to her husband's obsession with locating the Ancient Aspects of the Jedi and what she saw as his need to achieve greatness. Although she never outright hated him, they disagreed on what was best for Chelli. Lona would not compromise on that, and thought her family should both live without fear of consequences and make a new home in the middle of nowhere. The couple would argue about Korin's research when they thought their daughter was asleep. Even when she was only six years old, Chelli understood that she could get them to stop fighting if they paid attention to her instead.
One night, Chelli interrupted her parents while they argued about Korin's plan to secure records from the university library on the Fifth Moon of Thrinittik before they could be destroyed by the Republic's successor state, the totalitarian Galactic Empire that was ruled by Sidious in his public guise as Emperor Palpatine. Chelli's father asked her if she would like to stay home and play with her pet tooka or join him on an adventure. Wanting her father's attention and the thrill of possible danger, she agreed. It turned out he invited her in part because she was small enough to slip into narrow spaces to locate hidden materials, cute enough to distract the librarians while her father gathered up the materials, and able to help carry them after he bribed a librarian. She was later certain that was the event that made her mother decide to leave her husband and take their child with her.
Examining his findings from the library, Korin realized his collection of stolen memory crystals that the Imperials had marked for the garbage compactor were indeed genuine; he had recovered Jedi heresiologes, including an account of Oo'ob called "The Crimes of Jedi Renegade Oo'ob the Apostate." Korin was excited about the findings and their potential to help him restore the Ordu Aspectu or find the Lost Citadel of Garn. Preoccupied with his discovery, he did not notice Chelli cut her finger on one of the crystals. Lona did not share his excitement, as his research could get the family marked by censors for a firing squad, and Chelli did not understand why her father did not seem to care about her injury. Lona told Chelli to pack some of her things for a trip,[8] and they left Korin behind
Overview
Personality and attributes
Aphra's first and foremost concerns and loyalties were to herself, and while she often double-crossed her allies, at times she felt compelled to assist others.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Doctor Aphra was created by Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca where she made her first appearance in Star Wars: Darth Vader v1 #3 (March, 2015).
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Appearances
- Star Wars: Darth Vader v1: (2015)
- Star Wars: Doctor Aphra v1:
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