James Prent

James Prent, space waitress

Okay, so James is the daughter of a prostitute from Nar Shaddaa. She never knew her daddy, and made do working in restaurants near one of the Smuggler's Moon's spaceports. At an all night diner where she was working (called James Tau, back then) she met Sanis Prent and Cirrsseetto Raurrssaatta, and ended up traveling with them in their ship Layla across the galaxy. She'd always had a head for maps, and had studied astronavigation in school (when she went). Plus Sanis was hot!

Anyway, then they met up with Loklorien s'Ilancy and her daughter Tak, who Sanis knew from way back, and who needed a place to stay. They all teamed up in Layla for a while, until James had an accident. Lok ran into an old 'friend' (Zem Vymes) on a backwater planet, and she and Sanis had to do some work getting Zem out of a pickle. James got mad at Sanis for something he said, and ran off. Things exploded, and it turned out that she was a Force adept and hadn't even known it. But while she was wandering around this backwater planet (and Lok and Sanis and Cirr were occupied with old Jedi Zem), she got snatched by local authorities who collared her as a witch. Her head was shaved, she was beaten, and then sentenced to death. By burning.

She got pretty crispy before Sanis managed to rescue her, and they flew straight into the Rebel fleet asking for medical assistance. The Alliance took James in, and she got healed up but not before finding out her one-time crush Sanis was in fact her half-brother. Yuk!

The Layla crew had to move on before she was well, and James met and spent time with Byl Laprovik while she was still recovering. Eventually it was time for her to move on, but she didn't have a way to contact Sanis, and was sort of still uncomfortable about the whole "wow, I made out with my brother" thing, so she let the Alliance settle her on Bespin with a sympathizing doctor, Barton Henning. She bunked with him for a while, got a job with Mu Satach at the Cloud 9 Bar and Grill.

Eventually she got her own place, and just generally kept her head down. She knew she was an adept, and knew what that meant in the Empire. Lok had offered to train her, but James wasn't sure she wanted to be trained and open herself up to more persecution. After about half a year she ran into Sanis and her other old friends, but a weird vision about Lok made her turn down their offer to rejoin their merry band.

Lonely, she called up Byl Laprovik, only to find out that he'd lost his memory in some sort of accident. He came to Cloud City and they... rekindled their friendship despite his amnesia. Some Jedi were gathering on Cloud City, and through her connection to the Alliance and to Barton Henning she became involved when it came time for the Jedi to leave. She helped Serena Laran sell her Republic-era yacht, and saw her get captured by the Inquisitorate. She and Byl were followed and attacked, and nearly captured themselves, but they managed to evade the Imperials and board a transport to nowhere. Well, to Copperline, which was just about nowhere.

Now they're not quite sure what they're gonna do next, and Byl's memory still hasn't come back all the way! I gotta feelin' things'll be changin' soon, though.

She had an adventure in the Undercity with Dasquian Belargic after her master was kidnapped by an Altered Beast. Soon afterward she met Dasquian's twin brother, Aaron Belargic, and they began to develop feelings for each other. After she was made a Knight, James met and became friends with Pierce Tondry and his little boy, Jax Ivanrue Tondry. She was plagued by dark visions of the future, all centered around little Jax. She often talked to Master Figrin D'an about these visions.

James eventually found out that she had an older sister, an older sister who did not know she existed. James' parents had died in Imperial custody, her mother executed after James' birth. James was put into an orphanage and adopted out, but her older sister had been put in a different orphanage, when her parents had first been imprisoned for being Rebel sympathizers. Lilaena De'Ville, a darkside master and mother of Jax, was James' sister.