Fara

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"We all have a place in The Great Work."

―Fara^[1]

Fara was a human female^[2] individual who lived in the galaxy during the New Republic Era^[4] together with her daughter Fern^[2] on the planet At Attin. Fara was a teacher at a school on the planet and part of the government as an undersecretary.^[1]

In 9 ABY,^[4] Fern met a boy named Wim who found an old starship buried in the woods outside their city and together with two other children called Neel and KB, Wim and Fern investigated the ship but they accidentally activated it and became lost in space.^[1] Together with Wim's father Wendle, Fara tried to find the children and bring them back home.^[5]

Biography

Early life

Fara was born on At Attin. At some point at a young age, she and her friends would occasionally run off before the safety droids brought them home. Later on, when Fara became an adult, she became an undersecretary to At Attin's government, and had one daughter, Fern.^[5]

Life as Undersecretary

In 9 ABY, Fara personally oversaw a class of young children. She briefly observed one student, Wim, drawing a crude image of a Jedi on his desk monitor and coughed to indicate to the distracted boy to pay attention to the lesson. Shortly afterwards, she introduced herself to the class and informed them of the Career Assessment Test going to be held the next day to assign their future career to support the Galactic Republic's Great Work. The droid teacher then asked her class to voice their planned career path, many of whom desired a bureaucratic job. Eager to hear more, Fara picked out Wim, who expressed his desire to help people out of dangerous situations, but was rebuked by the droid teacher, who reminded that safety droids handle those tasks, earning the boy a mocking giggle from the classmate behind him. Fara then encouraged the students to study hard, get plenty of rest and to not be nervous, reminding they all had a place in the Great Work.^[1]

Managing to get off work early, Fara later returned to her household, where she waited for Fern to return. Fara spotted her daughter walking up the spiral staircase. Fern quickly claimed to have been studying in her room, which her nanny droid supported, having been secretly had her memory overridden a bit earlier. Fara then asked her if she was hiding anything, before passing her daughter a school badge which she dropped. Fern pretends to be relieved to get her school badge back before walking up to her room.^[1]

The Missing Kids

However, the next night, Fern went out into the woods with KB to investigate an alleged Jedi Temple Vim claimed to have found, which was in fact the buried pirate ship, the Onyx Cinder. Wendle later reported to a pair of safety droids that he witnessed the Cinder take off with his son, Wim, and three other children.^[1] As her own daughter was one of the lost children, Fara gathered with the children's parents. While awaiting a report from the At Attin government, Fara optimistically suggested that the safety droids would recover their children as they had in the past, recalling her own past delinquency. Soon enough, a droid entered the room to announce that the children had indeed illegally breached the Barrier on a starship, but the Supervisor was unwilling to risk contacting the Republic to get them back, resulting in outrage from KB's mothers, Garree and Maree. Fara vowed to submit a petition for an immediate audience with the Supervisor.^[5]

Some time later, a safety droid approached Fara in her office, producing a cable device it had confiscated from Wendle, and asked if it should initiate security protocols. In response, Fara ordered the droid to delete all records of the incident and to power itself down. Soon spotting Wendle peeking around her door, she indicated for him to enter. After shuttering her blinds, she reprimanded him for not waiting as instructed. Wendle defended that he and the other parents just wanted to get a message past the Barrier to recover their kids without giving away At Attin's location. Fara insisted that she was working through the proper channels to get it done but Wendle argued that the Supervisor wasn't going to help them. Admitting that something wrong was going on with their leadership, Fara considered his argument before asking what his plan was.^[6]

Battle of At Attin

During the Battle of At Attin, Fara at first fell for Jod Na Nawood's deceptions and granted Jod's pirate ship access past the Barrier. However in the later course of the battle she proved pivotal in overcoming her own desire to keep At Attin hidden behind the Barrier when she engaged the switch that permanently destroyed the Barrier to allow New Republic X-Wings to pass and defeat the pirates.

Personality and traits

Fara strongly believed in the Great Work and was loyal to The Supervisor, however her love for her daughter Fern was stronger even than her belief in the government of At Attin of which she was a part. For example she was willing to smuggle a message to her daughter past the barrier even though this might risk the existence and location of At Attin becoming known to the wider Galaxy. Fara hoped that the Barrier would shield her daughter from all the evils of the wider Galaxy allowing her to grow up in peace. For that reason she was extremely reluctant to see the Barrier destroyed as this would mean giving up everything she had worked for her entire adult life.

Behind the scenes

Fara appeared in the live-action series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which released on December 3, 2024, where she was portrayed by Kerry Condon.^[2] She was first revealed in the trailer for the series on August 9 of that year,^[7] and identified in a promotional asset released by Walt Disney Studios on Getty Images on the same day.^[8]