PART ONE: THE BIRTH OF MOOKIE

The first words that Mookie heard while in the belly of her mother was the soothing echoes of "Ooobah, Ooobah" or "Life, let their be life." Her mother, Yanti Moza, supervised the Chroon Tan B droid that specialized in midwifery, as she assisted Senator Padme Amidala of Naboo birthing a set of unremarkable human twins.

Ironically, the "Ooobah Ooobah" could not save the life of their mother. Padme inexplicably had lost the will to live. Yanti thought about what would become of the two orphans. “Probably a life of depravity and desolation,” she thought silently.

Yanti Mozu watched the birth of the Amidala twins as she planned her own fetal evacuation. She wished the forces of destiny would have careened in a different trajectory. But they did not. Her once-fiancé, Primo Din, abandoned a promising career as a cloning engineer for a smuggler's life. He left behind Yanti and their unborn child. Yanti felt that she had no choice.

Evacuations did not come cheap in the Outer Rim. Moreover, the only Calculated Parenthood Clinic (CPC) in the outer rim had been burnt down by “Let-There-Be-Life" extremists. Accessing Coruscant's CPCs also cost many credits for Yanti. In addition to the space travel expenses, Yanti had to pay three days of room and board once she got to the capital.

Even on Coruscant, female evacuations of any species remained controversial. Incited by a newly-minted Emperor Palpatine, a vicious mob surrounded the CPC in protest against the Jedi lies that "all life required death." The mob chanted "Life, let there be life!" And "we shall do what must be done to bring forth life!" Palpatine knew how to stoke the cultural fires. "White supremacist patriarchy thrives on anger, lies, and capital accumulation," he chuckled to himself.

Meanwhile, Mookie's unborn life hung in the balance. Yanti braved the jeering and riotous mob as she made her way to the CPC. The “Let-There-Be-Life” extremists held up shocking holograms of evacuated fetuses as the gagging masses shuffled by. Yanti marched forward. "Baby killer!!!" They screamed at her. She pleaded "I'm only here for a regular pre-natal check up!" "You LIE!!” They responded.

A low humming buzz of blaster fire emerged from within the crowd. Clone troopers mowed down the extremists. The mob was stunned. "Clone troopers? But Palpatine was on OUR side?!" they stammered to each other desperately trying to understand the situation. They turned dumbfound to their fate.

From atop the Senate chambers Palpatine turned to Vader and proclaimed: "Useful idiots. We cannot tolerate such mindless zealots. We need intelligence, competency, and cruelty. Not just cruelty. Those extremists served their purpose. We will need the CPC’s infrastructure for a galaxy-wide better breeding program." Emperor Palpatine had sinister plans for a “Final Solution.”

After the massacre of extremists died [pun] down, Yanti met a handful of clone troopers at the entrance of the clinic. "We understand that you ultimately have a choice," the commander said chivalrously. "I do not need mindless platitudes from a clone,” Yanti thought silently. As she entered the clinic, Yanti heard a faint voice echoing from her womb. She paused. Fetuses typically could not engage in telepathy at this prenatal stage.

“Mother! Please!! I want to make you proud...” Mookie pleaded with her mother. The telepathic fetus pierced her skull like a screeching mynock in heat. Yanti could not vocalize her internal conflict [literally]. And suddenly a wave of amniotic fluids burst onto the clinic floor. A nurse rushed over to Yanti’s side and called for a medic. “Doc! Her water broke! She’s in labor.” A shocked Yanti responded “It’s four months premature!” The nurse calmed her, “good thing you’re on Coruscant!”

“I came for an evacuation! What choice do I have?” Yanti asked. “Well,” the nurse responded, “ultimately, you have the choice.” The nurse sounded like the damn clone. Mookie moved quickly. Yanti belted out a silent Rancor scream, “Aaaaaaagggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!“

The nurse commanded her assistants: “Get the evacuation tubes, stat!” “Plug it in,” she continued, “No, no!!! This one goes here and that one goes there!” the nurse barked incredulously.

Yanti screamed silently: “STOP!" Yanti suddenly realized that she did have a choice.

"Life! Let there be life!!" She belted out telepathically. "Fuck it! Let’s do it live!” (Yanti winks to Bill O’Reilly).

And out plopped Mookie. Yanti hugged her baby's expressionless face and cried. Such a beautiful daughter and always ahead of time.

PART TWO: MOOKIE LIVES WITHOUT A VENGEANCE

After 15 years, Mookie recalled her time in Yanti's uterus with fondness if not a bit of unease. Nevertheless, Mookie and Yanti grew together. No hard feelings. And Mookie even made her mother proud from time to time. She joined an accelerated medic program at the University of Wiyentaah on Polis Massa and graduated summa cum laude in the restorative sciences with a minor in cloning techniques.

Mookie counted the aging rings on her finger. Similar to a logged-tree on Endor, any bystander could count the rings and know the age. “16 years young,” Mookie thought to herself, but she had been through so much. Her mother taught her the moral code of pacifism. Yet, she thought of herself as a soldier. A soldier in a battle to heal the universe of tyranny and hate.

She had also observed pacifism being carried out to its logical end when her Kaminoan colleagues allowed the empire to bring ruin upon their second colony called Kamino Colony 2 (another water planet). First, the empire occupied the cloning labs on Kamino before closing down the operation. Next, Star Destroyers began hauling massive amounts of water from Kamino Colony 2 to far flung regions of the galaxy. Kamino Colony 2 soon became a desert. All life had died on that lonely sad planet. And the empire made sure to eliminate their Kaminoan collaborators on Kamino Colony 2. The Great Genocide that few too many remember. That too many nameless, innocent souls were fed to the darkness of death by depriving their victims of water, the source of life.

The thing that Mookie feared most was this overall galactic trend toward species annihilation. Where did resistance and fighting end and where did peace and healing begin?

Outsiders frequently critiqued Polis Massans as "pacifistic to a fault" and their non-commital stance as "peaceful isolationists" as a little too self-interested. Yet Mookie felt pride at the ability of Polis Massa to collude in the establishment of a hidden Rebel base in the asteroid field. Her people had been sympathetic to the Rebellion. A network of clandestine tunnels secretly connected the capitol city of Wiyentaah with the rebel base. This created a plausible deniability in order to avoid imperial reprisals if the Empire discovered the Rebel base.

Traumatized by the genocide of her colleagues on Kamino Colony 2, Mookie joined the ranks of the admirable General Elora Silssusio, the Rebel cell commander of the Polis Massan secret base, (and the first woman Rebel General in the Outer Rim). General Silssusio was the chief liaison with the Polis Massan, and she oversaw all rebel operations in the asteroid field (and tougher than any man when it came to marauding pirates). She became a key figure in convincing the Polis Massan to clandestinely increase their support for the Rebellion despite the risks. The rebel base soon had 12 Y-wings in addition to 2 transports plus plenty of medics ready to heal those in need. Mookie was a believer. Mookie led the charge to expand clandestine healing clinics for those in need beyond Polis Massan in the Outer Rim. Her free clinics also provided evacuation services in honor of her mother and the principle of freedom of choice.

Mookie desperately wanted to avoid repeating the past. The Polis Massan believed themselves to be descendants of the Eallayin people native to the planet that shattered 500 years ago into a hundred-thousand pieces, which is now the Polis Massan asteroid field. Yanti spoke to Mookie of the "Cataclysmic Apocalypse" with such dread and horror. Now the galaxy faced an "Imperial Apocalypse." And Mookie understood that you could not remain neutral on a moving Star Destroyer in light speed.

Sometimes we must fight, Mookie reminded herself. But my fight is to save the lives that I can with the time that I have. How does one fight the battle of justice in an unjust war?

Mookie reached back to the comforting memory of her mother’s amniotic fluid. She would provide camaraderie. She would provide compassion. She would provide love. But she would not hesitate to put a bolt of blaster fire between the eyes of some mindless Imp.

And now the time has come to the Outer Rim. Which side are we on? Life to the Rebellion!!

Motivation type: Belief

Result: Honor- Mookie has a code of honor by which she lives derived both by her personal ethics and her Kallidahin culture.

Personnel: safety and health and leave nobody behind

1.2 meters tall

Skin color: Pale purple

Eyes: Deep black red

Home planet: Polis Massa

Gender: Female

Age: 18 years old