Tenel Ka
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Tenel Ka Djo is a fictional character in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. She starred as one of the main characters in the Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights series.
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Tenel Ka is the daughter of Prince Isolder, Chume'da of the Hapes Consortium, and the Dathomiri witch Teneniel Djo. She was raised in the traditions of both her parents, learning the ways of politics on Hapes, physical training, and the ways of the Force on Dathomir. Her full name is Tenel Ka Chume Ta'Djo.
When she was old enough, Tenel Ka went to Yavin 4 to train at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. She became fast friends with Jacen and Jaina Solo, as well as the Wookiee Jedi, Lowbacca.
During a lightsaber training exercise with Jacen, Tenel Ka's newly constructed lightsaber shorted out due to a flaw in its focusing crystal. Jacen's blade slipped through the space it had previously occupied and cut off the Hapan princess's left arm.
In the ensuing period, a distraught Jacen Solo began to make his feeling for the Warrior Princess clear, paving the way for a future together.
In a display of personal strength and confidence, Tenel Ka refused to have a prosthetic replacement attached, and sought to enhance her physical abilities along with her Jedi talents to make up for the disability. She remains marred by the lack of an arm to this day, although all have long since learned that she does more than adequately without it, no matter the situation.
Years later, after the death of her mother, Tenel Ka was crowned Queen Mother of Hapes by her father, very much to the disappointment of her scheming grandmother, former Queen Mother Ta'a Chume. Tenel Ka pledged the support of the Hapan government and military to the fight against the Yuuzhan Vong and began working to change the corruption in the Hapan government and her family from the inside.
In the Dark Nest Trilogy by Troy Denning, Tenel Ka gave birth to Jacen Solo's daughter, Allana. When the child was a week old, Tenel Ka's grandmother attempted to have the child killed because she was aware that Jacen Solo was the child's father. Fortunately, the assassination attempt occurred on the same day Jacen and Ben Skywalker visited and learned he had fathered the child. Jacen was able to repel the attack. In order to ensure safety for his child, he snuck into Ta'a Chume's residence and interrogated her using the Force as a tool of mind torture to find out her motives behind attempting to kill his child. Shortly before security forces burst through the door, he blasted her mind with Force energy wiping it completely and leaving her in a vegetative state. Shortly thereafter, when Luke Skywalker took drastic meaures to unite the Jedi, Tenel Ka was given the choice of serving the Jedi Order whole-heartedly or relinquishing her position in the Order. She chose to set aside her affiliation with the Order, for she felt that she was needed far more by her own people. Master Skywalker, however, refused to accept her lightsaber, telling her she deserved to keep it, and expressed his hopes that she would return to the Order someday.
