Mel Dora was born and raised on Burnin Konn. Mel’s mother and father were both ore miners as they raised her. As the grip of the Empire tightened around outer rim worlds, the demand for ore heightened and the Empire did not see failure as an option. If your village was not meeting a quota, the Empire would not hesitate to move the residents to Kessel, or worse, and then repopulate the area with new workers. One day when Mel was young, an Imperial ship landed at New Anan. She did not know exactly what happened in the two days the Imperials were on planet, but shortly after they left, the elderly, the sick, and children were also employed in the mines.

Mel’s parents taught her to mine when she was 12 years old, as the colony was not meeting their quota and needed to step up their operations. Mel’s father trained her in use of explosives and other tools.

A few years passed and nothing changed. Mel had hoped that the destruction of the Death Star would ease up the Empire’s grip on New Anan. She only wanted to grow up with a normal childhood, like kids on Coruscant did, but the Empire’s grip only tightened as their demand for ore grew after the destruction of their weapon.

One fateful day, the Empire visited New Anan once again. Upon their landing, Mel’s parents instructed her to hide, knowing that this visit would not be a simple check-in. Mel hid for what seemed like hours. When she finally peeked out from her hiding spot, the colony seemed completely empty except for some stormtroopers and Imperial Officers walking about and surveying the mining operations. There was one less transport on the landing pad than before. When Mel realized that the Imperials took her parents and everyone else to… who knows where… a rage grew inside of her.

Mel quietly emerged from her hiding place and grabbed as many mining explosives as she could from the equipment room. She planted the explosives within the mine, along the load bearing structures, and within several homes and buildings in the colony.

Mel made her way to the landing pad and, with one last look at her childhood home, pressed the button on her detonator. Chaos ensued. As the colony went up in flames and the mine started collapsing, the Imperial forces were in a frenzy. Mel took this moment of confusion to board and steal the Imperial ship. She took off from New Anan, leaving her home and childhood behind, and looked forward to a life of ensuring the Empire’s destruction.

Three years later, Mel had not yet found her parents, or anybody else from New Anan for that matter. No matter where she searched, no matter who she asked, there were no answers. She did, however, fulfil her new purpose in life. She stood, mouth agape, but only for a moment before cheering and hugging her comrades, while standing upon the forest moon of Endor and looking up to the galaxy's largest firework.

Mel wants vengeance for the Empire's abduction of her parents and her colony. Too many people have been disappeared just like her family and the Empire deserves to suffer for it.

30 - Sabotage

Officially, Mel is a Mechanical Engineer for the New Republic, specializing in evaluating structural weaknesses as they expand their foothold in the galaxy.

Unofficially, she is tasked with exploiting structural weaknesses within the Empire. Her skills include interrupting supply lines, creating false intelligence, and otherwise ensuring that the Empire is unable to use their expensive toys.

Name: Mel Dara (unknown if real name, no record found)

Species: Human

Gender: Female

Age: 22 (unknown if real age, no record found)

Height: 5’8”

Weight: 62 kg

Homewold: Burnin Konn