Name: Kari Windryder 

Age: 10 standard years

Hair/Eye color: Blond/Blue (sometimes green)

Height: 3’8”

History: Kari is the only child of Tack and Kaia Windryder. She has never seen her homeworld, though her parents have spoken of it at great length. Her life had been aboard their ship, the Gale Rei, a word in the native language of her planet encompassing the meaning of “Ultimate freedom, owner of the skies”.

Kari possesses the unique gift of a select few people on her world, passed down through her family line. She has the gift of flight. As do her mother and father. Though she would have grown up in the sky palaces on the floating islands of her homeworld, Kari’s parents were forced to escape when she was a baby, and thus raised her in the space lanes. Their only visitor was an old man with graying hair, and a smile that reminded Kari of the squint a person makes when looking at a solar flare, but in a funny way. She called him Uncle Gar.  He was the only family that she knew of, yet she never knew if he was a kind friend, or actual blood.  

Her parents continuously reminded her of one very important rule: Keep your feet on the ground. She was never told what her parents had done to warrant fleeing their homeworld, or why they were being hunted. She only knew that it was incredibly important not to hover, fly, coast, or otherwise let her feet leave the ground when they were visiting space stations, or other planets. She doesn’t even know the proper name for her people. All she knew was that they had to collect enough credits to give to Shara, this woman who would call them occasionally asking for “her right.” Whatever that was. She would find ways around this rule by skipping stairs, or gaining just enough height to see over a counter top, or speed up to get past people walking by.
Their visit to the Olympus Station above the desert world, Tatooine, was supposed to be short –intended only to pick up a shipment of ore and then move on to Corellia. Once they departed, Shara’s ship caught up to them and opened fire. Her mother placed her in an escape pod, gave her a photo of her and Tack, and told her to keep her feet on the ground. The last thing Kari saw was her mother spinning worriedly to her right as though something was bearing down on her, then backing out of view.

Once back on the station –after being picked up by a Federation ship—Kari was watching her family’s craft through the window, hoping to see it turn around to dock with the station. Instead, before her eyes, the ship exploded into a ball of flame.
Kari has not seen them since. She still has hope that her mother and father are alive. She is now an orphan as far as anyone is concerned, though she now makes her home at Garden as one of its students.

Her favorite color is green, and her favorite cartoon is an action/adventure animated series called "Arch Rangers."  Staring Jeremy Arch --leader of the Arch Rangers--, and his friends.  Amelia Starfire is his best friend, and is the green Arch Ranger.  She's trying to put together her own Amelia Starfire ranger costume, and daydreams about going on adventures with the team.  She has a crush on the character of Jeremy.

THE GREAT CIVIL WAR.  A HISTORY OF THE PLANET AIDA'S WAR AGAINST THE ENJERA.

Aida is a planet in the Midrim territories of lush valleys, oceans, forests, jungles, and mountains.  The Sky Aidians lived in lush settlements built on floating islands --most of them over the planet's largest ocean, but different Clans lived over the various terrains of Aida as well.  Their representatives lived in a palace hovering over the central plains of the main continent.  The island, Rei, --meaning freedom-- was moved there for political reasons.  Over the years, the surface Aidians came to refer to their brethren of flight as 'Enjera' -- meaning 'Wingless Flight.'  Other names were "Skyryders" and "Windwalkers" among many.  They lived in peace with the surface dwellers for centuries, but within that time, arguments and jealousy at the Enjera's ability to shun gravity spurred the occasional fight, though both sides were always able to come to an agreement.  Still, it was a delicate matter, and always resting on a razors edge.  When the Empire's ships decimated cities both on the islands and the ground, the two peoples banded together to fight back.  With the death of the Emperor, the Imperial presence waned, and control was given back to the planet's Senate --consisting of both Aidians and Enjera.   

Some of the surface dwellers saw the Enjera as oppressors, and created an uprising.  They spread propaganda that the "Rei" --(now a bastardized word to refer to their capital island as a place of barbarity) were holding them back, turning them into slaves, and creating a 2nd class citizen statute for any Adian unable to leave the ground of their own will.  They raged of equality, stating eras in Aida's history where the Enjera had used their abilities to become the planets nobility hundreds of years before.  Though Aida was a modern planet by now, with modern conveniences and air ships, along with lessons learned from the past, the Equalist cries reopened old wounds.  This uprising quickly spread, fueled by the embers of the Imperial scar left on the psyche of the people.  The Enjera tried to keep the peace, saying they would hunt down and imprison any of their kind with malicious intent toward the surface dwellers, but that did little to appease the people.  For their years of suffering under the Empire, mixed with fear, and jealousy, the Aidans declared war on the Enjera.  Every "Rei" became a scapegoat for their pain.  The Enjera were forced to leave whatever homes or lives they'd made on the ground and flee to the safety of the islands.

When the Plague hit shortly after, only surface dwellers were affected by eating the leaves of a plant that only grew on the crust of the planet.  Again, they blamed the Enjera when none of them showed any symptoms of the disease.  Only those remaining on the surface were affected.  The Aidians cause of equality became deafening.  They attacked the Island of Rei, sacked its capital, and turned their rage onto the Enjera. 

Aida was a space fairing civilization, though not as old as the Republic.  The two fought savagely in air battles --machines against man--and soon the entire planet was at war.  Anyone born showing the ability to fly was a target for genocide.  The Enjera population on Aida diminished to a quarter of what it was when the war began.  As a result, many Enjera fled Aida to start new lives elsewhere, and completely erase their past.  Coruscant became a haven where they could hide among its dense populations.  Enjera children were either taught to refrain from flight, where and how they could use their natural gift, or never told of their gift and history at all. 

Aida remains at war.