Atuarre

Born into the Trianii species, Atuarre was a female who spent her early life on Trian, the Trianii homeworld. As a young girl, she dreamed of careers as a dancer, a model, or a corporate executive. Growing up in a higher-class family, she experienced a life of privilege and tranquility. However, her life changed when she captured the eye of Keeheen, a member of the elite Trianii Ranger force, while observing their training exercises. Keeheen was immediately captivated by her, but Atuarre, though intrigued, initially rejected his advances. Despite this, they exchanged contact information and remained in communication for the next two years, during which Keeheen frequently proposed. As Atuarre learned more about Keeheen and his life, she found herself falling in love with him, leading to their eventual marriage. Soon after, they had a cub, whom they named Pakka. Not long after, Keeheen asked the agile and athletic Atuarre to join him in the Trianii Rangers.

Despite the significant contrast between the life of a Ranger and the comfortable upbringing she had known, she quickly discovered her aptitude for the role. Her dance training aided her in mastering the complex Trianii martial arts. Upon becoming a full-fledged Ranger, she joined Keeheen in patrolling the planet of Fibuli, a long-standing point of contention between the Trianii and the Corporate Sector Authority. Initially, their assignment was uneventful, primarily involving the apprehension of herdbeast rustlers and the busting of thionarx dealers. However, in 2 BBY, open conflict erupted when the Authority initiated a forceful annexation of Fibuli. Atuarre and Keeheen participated in the armed Trianii resistance, but the Authority swiftly gained control of the world within three months.

During the fighting, CSA forces captured Keeheen and Pakka. Determined to rescue them, Atuarre managed to save her cub while he was being transported to an interrogation facility. However, the Authority's treatment had traumatized him to the point where he lost the ability to speak. Keeheen, on the other hand, had vanished without a trace. Desperate to find any information about her missing mate, Atuarre discovered that his disappearance was not an isolated incident. A series of disappearances had occurred involving individuals who had openly opposed the Corporate Sector Authority. This led Atuarre to join forces with a group of people searching for their missing loved ones, led by Rekkon, a Human academic whose nephew had disappeared after criticizing the Corporate Sector government.

Their investigation eventually led them to Orron III, where one of the Authority's Data Centers was located. They hoped to find answers there. Over a month, Rekkon, Atuarre, Pakka, and two other comrades gradually infiltrated the facility, with the Trianii posing as an apprentice agronomist. The stakes were high: during their time on Orron III, one of their group, Engret, suffered the same fate as the loved ones they were trying to save. However, they soon received assistance from Han Solo, a confident Corellian smuggler, and his Wookiee partner Chewbacca. They agreed to help them on their mission and extract them from the planet in exchange for repairs to their ship, the Millennium Falcon. Accompanying the smugglers were two droids, Bollux and Blue Max, who were able to download data about the location of the missing people. Atuarre and Pakka, along with fellow conspirator Torm Dadeferron, arrived as the droids completed their task. However, their introductions were interrupted when Blue Max alerted the group that the Authority's Security Police had detected their presence and were moving to intercept them.

With Blue Max's help, which used its access to the Authority's systems to create false alarms across the planet, Atuarre and her allies narrowly escaped the facility ahead of a squad of police. They stole a skimmer and attempted to reach the nearby spaceport. However, the pursuing police forced the skimmer to crash in a field, and while Atuarre focused on getting her cub to safety, Chewbacca was captured. The group regrouped without the Wookiee and returned to the Millennium Falcon to flee into hyperspace. However, their respite was short-lived. Soon after the Falcon entered hyperspace, Rekkon, who suspected an informant within their group, was found dead near the ship's dejarik board with a blaster wound in his back. Solo quickly identified Dadeferron as the killer and, with the help of Atuarre and Pakka, subdued him before spacing him out of the ship's airlock.

There was a silver lining to Rekkon's death: before he was killed, he had managed to examine the data from Orron III and determine the likely location of the Corporate Sector's missing, a place on Mytus VII known as "Stars' End." With two more members gone, Atuarre, Solo, Pakka, and the two droids continued to the Mytus system. They discovered it to be a desolate asteroid and Stars' End a heavily guarded prison. Solo devised a plan to infiltrate the prison: the crew of the Millennium Falcon would pose as entertainers, with Atuarre as the troupe leader and star dancer of "Madam Atuarre's Roving Performers." Despite her initial nervousness about the role, Atuarre convincingly portrayed the smug and effusive celebrity, successfully performing her people's native dances before an audience that included Mirkovig Hirken, the Viceprex of the Authority's Security Division.

The performance was a distraction, of course, designed to divert the prison personnel's attention while Solo and Blue Max searched the facility's systems for the prisoners' locations, which they soon found. Meanwhile, Hirken, unimpressed with Atuarre's performance, cut it short, wanting to see Bollux fight his Mark X Executioner gladiator droid. This led Atuarre to leave for the Falcon in a huff with her cub. As she approached the ship, a massive explosion rocked Stars' End, the result of a duel between Solo and Hirken's bodyguard, Uul-Rha-Shan. Atuarre watched in shock as the prison detached from the surface of Mytus VII and rose into the sky. Atuarre immediately took control of the Falcon and headed for the airborne prison. Realizing that the light freighter was too small to accommodate all of Star End's inmates, Atuarre used the ship's tractor beam to attach a tunnel-tube junction station, which had ample space, to the Falcon. With the station secured, Atuarre docked the ship on the hurtling prison and led the freed prisoners to safety, joyfully reuniting with a safe and sound Keeheen as they left Stars' End.

After their ordeal, Atuarre and her family tried to return to a normal life. They settled down in Trianii space, enrolled Pakka in school, and took a year off from active patrol duty. They both took positions in the Ranger hierarchy: Atuarre as a trainer for cadets, and Keeheen as an administrator. Pakka even began to speak again after a few weeks, indicating that Atuarre's family was fully on the road to recovery.

Atuarre, who was once arrogant, matured into a devoted partner and parent, displaying a willingness to take significant risks to safeguard her family and exhibiting no fear of death as she openly defied the Corporate Sector Authority. This represented a major departure from her early life. She was raised in an affluent family, enjoying a life of ease, and initially found the Rangers' seriousness amusing. However, after falling in love with Keeheen, her life took a different path. Although she never felt entirely comfortable with a blaster, Atuarre adapted quickly to her training and discovered that she possessed the inherent desire for justice required of all Rangers. She even overcame her initial reservations about living on a frontier world like Fibuli, joining Keeheen in patrolling the planet. However, the Corporate Sector Authority's kidnapping of her mate and cub transformed Atuarre, and she became consumed by vengeance, fully prepared to either rescue her family or die trying.

During her search for her mate, Atuarre was cautious about who she trusted. While she initially distrusted Han Solo, she quickly came to respect him during their adventure in the Corporate Sector. Atuarre's training as a Trianii Ranger proved invaluable throughout the ordeal, not only in terms of her combat skills but also in her discipline and ability to remain calm under pressure. The Trianii also demonstrated her skills as a freighter pilot during the events at Stars' End. Atuarre was a slender, athletic Trianii with a light, cream-colored pelt featuring a striped pattern on her back, standing approximately a head shorter than Han Solo, who was around 1.8 meters tall. Like most members of her species, Atuarre typically wore only a utility belt around her waist, foregoing other clothing.

Atuarre made her debut in the novel Han Solo at Stars' End, penned by Brian Daley and released in 1979. She was also depicted in the story's comic adaptation, with illustrations by Alfredo Alcala. Atuarre's entries in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia and the original Star Wars Databank erroneously identify her as an apprentice agronomist, which was merely her disguise during her group's infiltration of Orron III.