SkekKriala the Firstborn / the Betrayer

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As firstborn daughter of Empress SkekKrisha, Kriala grew up in great luxury and praise on Homeworld. She was her mother’s favorite child, bearing the envy of all her younger sisters. When her time came, she accepted her first colony-ship with childlike joy and went out to explore the galaxy. But she grew too fond of her ship and the skeksis living there. However being the firstborn princess, Kriala was then sure, she can convince her mother to let them free. When the time came for the ship to submit to Homeworld, Kriala pleaded with her mother to not commit the horrible act on her ship, which waits for each one reaching Homeworld.

Much to her shock and horror, her mother did not have mercy for them. When Kriala turned her ship away from the course, Homeworld opened fire and the ship drifted into space with heavy damage. All assumed, that the heresy of the firstborn princess was clensed and her name was erased from the royal bloodline.

However, SkekKriala and her crew survived a dreadful, long year, drifting in space aimlessly, until they crashed into a desert planet on the outskirts of the galaxy. There they met some old skeksis, descended from the urSkeks themselves and these Masters of Haven, helped Kriala and her people to survive. Later Kriala herself and most of her crew established a different colony, a bit farther out on the outskirts of the galaxy to avoid the Empire’s gaze and they began a big work, to establish a different kind of life.

The first big event in the life of this new colony was, when Kriala’s outriders caught news of another ship refusing to return to Homeworld and receiving the same threathment. The captain was one of Kriala’s younger cousins and when she reached out to her, she and her crew was guided to the new colony.

There, Kriala and the young captain made a pact, that they will never let any of their sisters suffer because of the choice of freedom. Later three more ships and their crew, joined their cause. They devised a plan to watch every ship in the galaxy, masqureading their outriders as lawless skeksis, space-pirates... "Scavengers". Thus was the Scavenger Admiralty born. Commanded from the shadow-colonies by the hand of the renegade princess and her sisters.

SkekKriala is now the leader of the free worlds and mother of two small male hatchlings.

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The song which inspired her character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EtOAaK19bA

We don't share the same light even though we share the same blood Instead I'm a shadowy creature, dreary, and unloved

I was important some distance before their time Before notice of my flaws, as they were no match to mine

I've tokens, trinkets, memories of love and still feel the hate An emotion that startles me still to this date

I reason and rhyme, my reasons and rhymes To give a definition to the wrongs I confine

A justification that what I've endured must fit A crime that my breathing would unjustly commit

Perhaps I was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time Those words echo in me, the emotion the same with every repeat of the line

I was a creation of their own that they'll never truly embrace I'm the scar that enhances every mistake that they've made

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