Zhade Secura

Zhade Secura, born and seen by the natives of Ryloth as Zhades'ecura, was a female Twi'lek Jedi Master, Second Commander of the 104th Battalion, and the General of the Crystal Squadron during the Clone Wars. Padawan of Master Yoda and Plo Koon and learning her lightsaber form from Master Mace Windu, she became general of a special operations group of all female clones by the name of the Crystal Squadron.

Early Life
At age three, she ran off into the Rylothian jungle, and became lost. Eventually found by Jedi Master Yoda and found as force sensitive, she was taken by Yoda while her tribe assumed her dead. At the time, Yoda and a few other jedi, were thinking of creating a special operation program inside the Jedi Order. Seeing the opportunity, he contacted to Plo Koon, Mace Windu, and Shaak Ti, all fellow jedi council members who had this project in mind. They decided to return her to the jedi temple, but only to be known by few healers and other workers of the temple, not even letting the council inside the idea for secrecy reasons. She grew a very close connection with Yoda, who trained her until she reached knighthood at age twenty-one. She was a little later into knighthood with her extra stealth, medical, flexibility, and agility training for her occupation as a special ops jedi. When she became a knight, she became Jedi Master Plo Koon's apprentice. They 'clicked' very quickly, and created a father-daughter relation. Master Yoda would often joke about how they were as close as Master Shaak Ti was to the clones on Kamino. All this time, Mace Windu taught her form seven, or Vaapad, of lightsaber fighting. She became very self conscious of this, because she could always feel the dark side pulling at her, start to like the fighting and combat, and even have her eyes turn yellow on a few occasions. She went on a special mission to Barab 1 to find a Barab ingot crystal for her lightsaber, which projected a clear color.

Knighthood
When she ascended into knighthood, was started to go on various different missions with Plo Koon and the famed Wolf Pack when the Clone Wars broke out three years into her knighthood. The 104th Battalion had met her a couple months after their deployment. She became a second commander also Commander Wolffe, and became close friends with the Wolf Pack. They went on many stealth missions, letting the jedi knight to never be seen by any rank of the Separatist army. She adopted a fully armored outfit with 104th colors and the Wolf Pack markings. After several years of being a knight, she mastered vaapad and created a very strong brother-sister relationship with all of the Wolf Pack along with the 104th Battalion's medic Cam and ARC troooper Rose who, after around a year of Zhade meeting the battalion, started to transition to a female. A short period after meeting the clones, she learned that she had a younger sister, Aayla Secura, who was also a jedi knight. She did not meet her, or most other, until her late years of a knight and after she became a master. She was introduced to part of Torrent Company, Anakin Skywalker, and his padawan Ahsoka Tano when Plo Koon, Boost, Sinker, Wolffe, and herself were saved by Skywalker and Tano from the Malevolence.

Becoming a Jedi Master and Meeting the Jedi Council
When she ascended into masterhood at age 28, the Clone Wars was into it's third year and many jedi were growing weary of the ongoing battle. Once she became a jedi master, she was introduced to the Jedi Council and knight Aayla Secura. There were many mixed feelings from all of them, many disagreed and agreed about the fact that they didn't tell anyone about it. Shortly after, she met the rest of the 501st, 212th, 41st, and the 327th battalions. After meeting the 501st, she had started to develop feeling for the medic Kix after they had gone on many missions together. Discovering it has mutual, they began to date in secret. She helped him overcome many hardships like the Umbara incident, Ahsoka Tano's arrest and leaving of the order, Tup and Fives death, and many others. It has a two months before her masterhood when she and the original creators of the special ops program when they created the Crystal Squadron. They had found out that the Kaminoans had made a female group of clone cadets that were also from the Jango Fett gene. When they formed the elite team, Zhade herself recruited Rose as the commander of the squad, which was made up of twelve troopers. Over the many years of the Clone Wars, she and her squad went on many extreme stealth missions and helped many of the battalions.

Order 66
When in the Jedi Temple, Anakin Skywalker and the 501st stormed into the temple. She was helping the younglings learn new skills when they had heard that the temple was being attacked. Scared and confused, they crept into the jedi council room at the top of the temple. The younglings consisted of a couple humans, two Togrutas, a Kel Dor, a Diathim and Zeltron hybrid, and a Nautolan. When Skywalker first went into the room, she thought he was here to save them. But, she soon noticed his yellow eyes, and tried to duel the newly turned sith. The 501st came in and started to execute the younglings. She was backed to the windows of the room along with the few younglings that were alive. She was thrown out of the window along with one of the younglings, the diathim-zeltron. She fell to the lower levels of Coruscant along with the youngling, by the name of Bisera Dohr who would become Secura's padawan. Protecting the small alien, she took most of the blow, which majorly injured her nerves around her legs and arms. She protected her torso because, unknown to all but herself and Cam (the 104th medic), she was a couple weeks pregnant. They both rushed away and went to go get help and to go into hiding.

Rebellion
A couple months after both jedi went into hiding, they joined the rebellion. Reuniting with the few surviving jedi, a couple clones, and senators, they agreed to join if they got more medical help, protection, and a secure place to go into hiding.

Reuniting with Old Acquaintances and Friends
When they first ran across the rebellion, it has with the Organas. With that, Zhade reunited with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who relayed to the relieved jedi that Yoda was also in hiding. Along with that, they met multiple men from Torrent Company, most of Wolf Pack, and all of the remaining Crystal Squadron, who were all very shaken from 66. They had all been in a secret group made up of clones who, directed by Captain Rex after Fives and Tup's death, removed their inhibitor chips. Of Torrent Company was Kix, who was in the jedi council meeting room when she fell, was very relieved and sorry of what happened. He found out that she was with-child, and accepted that they would be a family with open arms. Three months later then, she gave birth to a twi'lek human hybrid girl, who they named Cassandra Aayla Secura. This was in honor of their respectable siblings Hard Case and Aayla Secura. Sadly, during the couple months Zhade had joined the rebellion, she found out that they was pregnant with triplets, but two of them, a boy and a girl, had perished in the fall and were born stillborn. Since Secura's nerves were still slightly damaged, she had to get special attachments to her limbs so she could fully control those parts of her body.

Going into Hiding
Jesse, Kix, Rose, Bisera, Zhade, and the young Cassandra all went into hiding under the protection of Pantoran Senator Riyo Chuchi, who Zhade had befriended over the Clone Wars. They went to live in a secret house in the deep cold of Orto Plutonia, where they gained the protection of the Talz people. It was on this planet where Cassandra grew up and Bisera progressed into a jedi knight.

Personality and Traits
Even though she grew up isolated with only few jedi masters, she became a very social person to all the clone troopers she met and all jedi she became acquainted with. She easily grew attachments to many clones and her master Plo Koon. Her, the Wolf Pack, and the Kel Dorian jedi formed a family-like relationship. She also gained feelings toward the 501st medic Kix, who she eventually married with friends present who were mostly all part of the Rebel Alliance. She cared very much about all clones and jedi, and fought to protect them all that she could. She always was first in the battle field, instead of the clones being on the front lines. She formed close friendships towards her squad and the 104th. She is very snarky and will stand up to her opinion, but always acts kindly to her friends. She also has great respect for other's opinions, if she sees they are not very extremist. She is also very conscious about herself.

Zhade is 1.65 meters tall, or 5 ft 5 in. She is pretty busty for her size, and does not really like to show her body off very much. For her weight she has very long lekkus that reach around lower thigh length, which can be a pain for her head. She was light purple skin, and her lower to mid lekkus have orange patterns, which also appear on her ear "cones" and face. The patterns are made up of freckles and diamonds. Her lips and undersides of her hands and feet are orange as well. On her 21st birthday, she had blonde eyebrows tattooed on her face. Seeing as this is a major give away to her identity, she tries to cover those parts of her head and limbs when in public or when there is a danger of being recognized by the enemy. Secura shares her sister's hazel eyes.

For the majority of the Clone Wars, she wears armour given to her by the Wolf Pack, who had recycled some old clone armour to fit her psychic. She binds her chest for the armour for more compatibility. She has triangular designs on her amour that were first grey, but was switched to purple.

Trivia
I am in the process of writing a story about her. When I get the proper art equipment, I will start to publish my drawings of Zhade, and the rest of the crew. You can find the story, A Secret Long Kept, on AO3, FF.net, and Wattpad.

When she had her eyebrows tattooed on, she was heavily drunk, as Yoda had taken her out. They still have a running joke about it.