My Family

I grew up on Mandalore in the City of Sundari.  My whole life I was raised by two women, sisters. Both of whom I called Aunt. 

My Aunt Duchess Satine Kryze, was the leader on Mandalore during the clone wars. Satine tried to lead her people away from the the violent past that defined the old Mandalorian traditions. The past that some refused to let go of. Pre Vizsla and Death Watch were on the top of that list. 

As Irony would have it My other Aunt, Bo-Katan, was not the pacifist that her sister believed her to be.  Instead she was a member of Death Watch, a Nite Owl. After Darth Mall killed Pre Vizsla, Bo-Katan became leader of Death Watch and fought against Mall's soldiers. 

After Mall Murdered Satine, Bo-Katan helped Obi-Wan Kenobi escape Mandalore. Then she had the unimaginably horrible task to tell her nephew (me) the bad news. She slowly and begrudgingly found her way to the place that she had convinced me to hide out at while Mall's occupation was in place. I could tell immediately that something was horribly wrong.

"Aunt Bo, are you okay?" I asked. 

"No Korkie," she replied "I'm not okay. That monster Darth Maul just butchered your Mother"

"My Mother?!?" I was shocked and confused. After all I didn't know who my mother was.

"Satine, I meant Satine." She cried, then broke down in tears.

I held her while my own confusion was suddenly eclipsed with sorrow.

Over the next few days we discussed what happened to Satine. After a few more days the curiosity surpassed the grief and I had to ask, "Aunt Bo, why did you say that Satine was my mother?"

She tried every trick in the 'avoid to talk about it' game, but it didn't work. Because it never did. Then she stopped, slowly turned around, looked me straight in the eye and said "Because she was Korkie. Satine was your mother, but please Korkie, don't hold it against her for not telling you. She kept it from you to protect you ."

"To protect me?" I asked "from who or what" 

She stood there with a look like she was trying to decode the Banking Clans network account codes for a long long long time. 

Then she grabbed my hands and got right in my face and said "Korkie, you have to understand that Satine was Royalty. Being a powerful figure brings certain risks." 

Sensing that the whole truth was being avoided I stated, Aunt Bo, Satine has not always been Duchess. So why not tell me before then?"

You know that look on a grown ups face when they have been caught by their kids being a bit dishonest? Yeah, she had one of those looks.

Then she fessed up a bit more. "You have to understand Korkie, that Satine made me promise not to tell you anything. She made me keep this secret because she couldn't let anyone know that she had you. It was to protect herself, you, and your father, who does not know that she had you either." 

"Um, you know who my father is too?!?" I exclaimed.

She snapped back with "Yes, I know him. No, you don't know him. He is not from Mandalore."

After seeing that my look of shock and curiosity was not going away, she gave up only this. "He just cannot be attached to anyone or anything for now, but they did love each other. Let's just leave it at that."

I was not able to get anything more out of her, but hey on some planet or moon or asteroid or space station or transport out there 'not Mandalore' I have a father, who knew.