Sai Iroma/Changing Times

"Thank you Master, but...I'd rather not fight with a lightsaber. I'd much rather render someone unconscious than ever kill again."

- Sai Iroma upon receiving her lightsaber

Sai Iroma, a Force-Sensitive female Ushtan, was a Jedi Padawan within the Jedi Order during the Clone Wars. Being one of the rare Jedi who refused to fight with a Lightsaber, rather only using it as a form of defense while she attacked with her style of martial arts passed down by her people to prevent herself from killing.

Early Life
Before the Clone Wars, Sai was the daughter of Lembek III Iroma who was the head of the Iroma Tribe on Nar Shaddaa. Though the Iroma's treated each other much like family, they were vicious and a brutal people working as a gang within the lower level of Nar Shaddaa ever building up an Empire to take back their homeworld of Ushta. Having believed the time was soon, and seeing as Sai being the next Head figure of the Tribe she was trained to fight as soon as she could walk; spending most of her time either sparring with the adults or tasked with killing any prisoners or traitors in hopes to build up a strong discipline. Around the age of six, a close friend of hers was related to a man who had betrayed and killed much of her tribe, and when Sai was ordered to kill her, having forced to commit the act Sai quickly left the next day to which she'd have a chance encounter with a Jedi, a Jedi which gave her an opportunity to return to the temple with them for what was planned to be a short amount of time.

Time as a youngling
With having no where to go, and at risk of being taken back to the Iromas she was inevitably kept at the temple regardless of her age. Though it seemed to end up for the better, though she was gifted in martial combat she held great control for herself and would often request to be given meditation lessons or to be within the archives instead, proving at a young age that perhaps she could be a Jedi after all. It wasn't until the age of fifteen however when she became a Padawan under the tutelage of Master Ven Plo.