
Beka’Ra was never a sage or an idealist. She was born in the lower levels of a vast planetary metropolis, among industrial districts, cheap habitation blocks, and streets where the law usually ended wherever the glow of the advertising towers could no longer reach. Everything she ever achieved, Beka’Ra tore from life with her own hands. She began as an ordinary corporate mercenary, then became the commander of an assault team, a specialist in violent operations, and someone hired when negotiations no longer mattered. She killed, tortured, fought wars, and eliminated whoever appeared on the contract. With every successful mission, she climbed higher. Money, weapons, connections, and reputation gradually opened the gates of the upper levels before her. Danger became her profession, and eventually the only way of life she truly understood.
But at the top, mistakes cost far more than they do in the streets. One day, Beka’Ra crossed people who should never have been made into enemies. Her contracts vanished overnight, her accounts were frozen, her allies abandoned her, and her former employers placed a bounty on her head. The fall was swift. She returned to the very depths she had once escaped, only now she was broken. Drugs, underground fights, gangs, and the filthiest contracts dragged her deeper and deeper. Eventually, Beka’Ra found herself among cutthroats who hunted people to sell them into slavery. She began climbing again, but this time she was not rising toward the top. She was merely clawing her way up from the bottom, stepping over those even less fortunate than herself.
It was there that she met Obi Ta’Va.
The wandering monk should have seemed either a madman or easy prey. Instead, he became the first person in years who wanted nothing from her. Obi offered no contract, made no attempt to buy her loyalty, and gave no sermon about the crimes she had committed. He simply held out his hand and offered her a way out. When the local gangs decided that the monk and the fallen mercenary would make a fine example for everyone else, they were forced to fight side by side. For several days, the streets of the lower levels became a small warzone. There, Beka’Ra saw for the first time how a master devoted to peace would draw his blade only when every other choice was gone. And Obi discovered just how terrifying a weapon a woman could become when, for the first time in years, she had a reason to fight for something other than herself.
They survived. More than that, Beka’Ra managed to reclaim her influence, old connections, and part of the fortune that had once been taken from her. The road back to the top was open once again. This time, however, she already knew where that road led.
Instead of returning to her old life, Beka’Ra turned her wealth, contacts, and weapons against the very system she had once served. When Obi began gathering the Seekers of Great Truths, she joined him and became his Fireblade, warrior, bodyguard, and the one who reminds the more noble-minded Seekers just how filthy the real galaxy can be. She has not become a saint, nor does she try to forget her past. Beka’Ra simply decided that if she ever has to climb to the top over the bodies of others again, this time they will belong to those who truly deserve to be beneath her boots.
Sculptor: Stepan Kotlyarov
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