Sheeka Tull

Born in 59 BBY, the Human woman Sheeka Tull was the daughter of Sheevis Tull and spent her childhood on Atrivis 7. However, her parents met their end in a range war. In 41 BBY, Tull became romantically involved with Jango Fett, the bounty hunter, after meeting him in the Meridian sector, where he was in search of his missing armor. They spent a year together, developing a close bond. Their time as a couple concluded when pirates attacked their ship; they separated in different escape pods and never saw each other again, though Tull held onto fond memories of him for many years.

Later, she traveled to the distant planet of Ord Cestus, where she fell in love with and married Yander, a miner, moving to his home in the Zantay Hills. Tull enjoyed the community there and spent time with Yander's three children, Tarl, Tonoté, and Mithail. She and Yander remained together for four years until his passing, after which she took care of his children. She continued her work as a pilot on Ord Cestus, leaving the children with their aunt and uncle at their fungus-farming community when she was away. At some point, she acquired her own YT-1200 suborbital freighter, which she named Spindragon.

Some time later, Tull's younger sister joined a religious group on Devon Four. When the sect refused to pay their taxes, the Galactic Republic imposed a trade embargo on the planet. When a plague broke out on Devon Four, the Republic refused to send medicine, so Tull smuggled it in. The medicine saved her sister's life, but Tull was caught and sentenced to ten years of labor on a work planet.

In 21 BBY, as the Clone Wars raged between the Republic and the Confederacy, Sheeka Tull, while on Ord Cestus, was recruited as a Republic contact to assist a Jedi-led mission. The Jedi's goal was to prevent Ord Cestus from selling advanced JK-13 security droids to the Confederacy, or to disrupt production if diplomacy failed. Before the Jedi and their team arrived, Tull scouted a cave in the Dashta Mountains to serve as a staging area, though her report that there were no cave spiders inside was inaccurate. After Kit Fisto, the Nautolan Jedi Master, arrived on Ord Cestus with four [clone troopers](/article/clone_trooper-legends], they had to defend themselves against a group of spiders in one of the caves, which they managed to do. Shortly after they cleared the cave, Tull arrived to meet them on the Spindragon. The Jedi Master was unhappy with her incorrect report, but she apologized and agreed to help them in exchange for her criminal record being cleared. Fisto then told Tull that he needed to contact the leaders of Desert Wind, a group of guerrilla fighters who opposed the Ord Cestian government. Tull asked why he wanted to meet with Desert Wind, and the Jedi replied that he was preparing a force to potentially sabotage and overthrow the government. She said she could take him to people who knew them, but also stated that she would leave the Jedi after this mission.

Tull took Fisto and two clone troopers in Spindragon to meet her contacts. The flight was short, and when they landed at a nearby settlement, Fisto gave a speech to the locals, urging them to take up arms against a greedy government. As part of his presentation, Fisto had the clone troopers remove their helmets, which shocked Tull because of her past relationship with Jango Fett, the genetic template for the soldiers. After the presentation, she took them to several other settlements to deliver the same speech.

At their third stop, the Jedi, Tull, and the troopers were invited to eat with some of the locals. The clone troopers initially sat apart, but Tull chose to sit next to A-98, the Advanced Recon Commando trooper, or Nate, whom she had briefly spoken with on Spindragon on the way to the first stop. He noted that she didn't speak Basic like a native of Ord Cestus, and she told him a little about her background, discussing her parents and how she came to Ord Cestus. However, she didn't want to talk about her family's current whereabouts or why she had a criminal record. Her revelation that she had known Jango Fett surprised the ARC, and he asked her many questions about him, but Tull didn't tell him anything, instead teasing him by saying she would tell him more later if he was good.

Tull continued to transport the Jedi and clones to various destinations, and watched when Nate was put in charge of giving the speech to some of the locals at their fourth stop. Soon after, they returned to their base and waited for new recruits to arrive. Tull continued to take Master Fisto to various settlements to continue the Republic's efforts to enlist more Ord Cestians into a guerrilla force. She spoke with Nate again after dropping Fisto off at the base camp, and he asked more about Jango Fett, specifically asking how to become more like him. Tull told him that he would have to "not be afraid of being Human." He bristled at that, so she challenged him to try and experience life as a Human being instead of just a soldier. He stalked off, perturbed, and returned to his duties, while Tull spent the rest of the day helping the Jedi set up and run the camp. That evening, while she was working on Spindragon, Nate approached her again. They spoke briefly, and she flirted with him. However, in talking to him, Tull was even more strongly reminded of Fett by the clone trooper, and she left him and returned to her ship.

Tull continued to occasionally watch the training of the new recruits. On one occasion, she asked Nate what he thought of the trainees, commenting that many of them believed it was time to fight. He replied that they were doing well and playfully suggested that she would be good as a soldier, though Tull insisted that she was just a pilot. She teased him in response, but the ARC enjoyed her attention and didn't mind the joke.

As part of the Republic operation, Fisto and another Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, executed a bluff, where Fisto posed as a servant of Separatist leader Count Dooku and threatened the heads of the ruling Five Families until Kenobi rescued them. After its successful completion, Sheeka Tull was present at a celebration of the victory. She had been busy delivering illegal cargo for the next stage in the Jedi's plan and arrived late. She found Nate at the celebration and coerced him into dancing with her. While dancing, he told her a little bit about her mission. Sensing her displeasure, he asked her why she was helping the Republic, and she told him that she was trying to clear her name. He then asked her why she spent so much time with him, and she said it was because he reminded her the most of Jango Fett.

Tull then decided to show him something dear to her and, taking him with her on Spindragon, took Nate to a nearby settlement to meet what she referred to as her extended family, people that she cared for and trusted despite not being related to. It was in the mountains that she loved, and she relished showing the clone trooper how her people lived and had families. She pointed out the contrast between family life on Ord Cestus and serving in the Army of the Republic, and suggested that living the life of a villager was harder and more fragile than that of a trooper due to the emotional attachments that came with it. In doing so, she stated that men like Nate were a danger to her people's way of life, which displeased him. Realizing the offense she had conveyed, she apologized for judging him, but communicated to him that she had a hard time relating to the troopers in part because they did not have names, just numerical designations. She then asked if she could give him one. He was amenable to the suggestion, and Tull named him "Jangotat", Mando'a for "Jango's brother." The ARC liked the name and, when they returned to the base camp, he told the others of his new moniker.

Soon after, the Jedi's attempts to negotiate with the Ord Cestian government were thwarted, forcing Kenobi to leave the capital city of ChikatLik. Moreover, his ship had been destroyed by an ambush, and while Kenobi wasn't on board when it was attacked, the Jedi and their clone troopers were stranded on a hostile planet. So, they began using their newly trained recruits and Desert Wind fighters to launch sabotage raids on Cestus Cybernetics to force the government back to the negotiation table. Tull was kept busy ferrying in supplies throughout the campaign. Their efforts were largely successful, but the raids attracted the government's attention, who sent several probe droids and JK-13 security droids to attack the Republic camp.

The attack surprised the Desert Wind and Republic fighters, and they suffered heavy losses. Tull was in the cave when the droids attacked and was soon cut off from the others. Jangotat jumped to her rescue, pulling her behind a boulder and shielding her with his body. He was grazed by a blaster hit, and she and another fighter named Skot OnSon dragged the injured clone out of the cave toward Spindragon. OnSon left her to return to the fight, and Tull made the last leg of the journey herself, burdened with the wounded trooper. Taking off, she tried to escape. Several ships pursued her, but she eluded them. Hiding in the caverns, Tull enriched her engines' fuel mixture to create a thick cloud of smoke to conceal her vessel. One of her pursuers flew through it and, disoriented, crashed into the caves. The other lost her trail in the thick cloud, allowing her to escape.

Tull cautiously skirted her way through the local airspace, taking precautions to avoid pursuit, and flew Spindragon to her home in the Zantay Hills. Finding a friend of hers named Brother Nicos Fate, she arranged for the injured Jangotat to receive medical treatment and refuge at her village while he recovered. While he was treated, she also enjoyed a happy reunion with her children. However, she also knew that the clone's presence endangered her people, though she was pleased to see him recover. After he was ambulatory again, Jangotat was moved into her home by her request, and she took care of him alongside her three children. As he regained his strength, he helped her around the village with farming tasks, and Tull's children took a liking to him. His very presence reminded her of the time she had had with Jango Fett, and she found herself wishing that the love she once shared with Fett could be reincarnated with the clone trooper. However, he knew that his place wasn't in her village, and that his duty was to leave and contact the surviving Republic forces on Ord Cestus.

Before Jangotat left, Tull took him to see the caves where the sentient Force-sensitive Dashta eels resided. It was a great secret among her people, and he was blindfolded during the trip to keep the location hidden. She revealed that the eels were the source of the medicinal and nutritional fungus that were grown on Ord Cestus, as well as a principal component of the JK-13 security droids. The eels had an effect on the clone, showing him possible alternate futures through the Force that gave him an idea of what it would be like to live with a family, to grow old. He voiced his newly discovered emotional inadequacy to her, and she responded by encouraging him to embrace his humanity and to develop relationships that would anchor him emotionally. He continued to express his feelings about the life he might have had if he hadn't been born into Republic service, and also told Tull of his attraction to her. She replied that she loved him.

Jangotat stayed with her a few more days, and although he enjoyed living in the tranquility of the village with Tull, he knew it was his duty to return. When the time came, Tull conveyed him to a neutral landing site and he went from there to reunite with his clone brethren and the Jedi. They parted with a kiss, and then he returned to the war. Shortly thereafter, Jangotat undertook a mission to take out the ruling Five Families so the Republic could negotiate from a position of strength. He was badly injured in the process, but called down an orbital bombardment on himself to destroy the Five Families and restore power to the people of Ord Cestus. Little did he know that the bombardment beacons had previously been re-targeted by a Separatist agent, Asajj Ventress, to hit populated areas; his action allowed the Republic to prevail with minimal casualties, but it cost him his life. He sent one last message out before his death, requesting that it be shown to Tull. In it, he professed his love for her, yet also stated that his duty had always been to serve the Republic. However, if given a chance, he would have returned to her, as he loved her. She wept as she saw the message.

As the Jedi were preparing to leave, Tull saw them off and Kenobi encouraged her to be strong, both for her and for the sake of Jangotat's child that she was carrying. After the Jedi and clones left, Tull said her own farewell to Jangotat at the cairn they had built for him, and promised that their son would grow up as an individual.

Sheeka Tull possessed both pragmatic and idealistic qualities. Despite disagreeing with the reigning government's agenda, she agreed to cooperate with the Republic to clear her criminal charges. She also disregarded a Republic embargo to save her sister and other colonists from a plague. Tull was willing to go to great lengths to protect those she cared about, such as flying through caves while being pursued to save Jangotat, and assisting the Republic in dangerous missions despite having three children to care for.

She didn't naturally seek out conflict, preferring to "just fly." However, she could be tough when needed, such as when she dragged a semi-conscious man through a cave to her ship by herself. She hated the destruction caused by the Clone Wars, but felt pity for the clones who were raised to fight in them. Tull wished that events would stop taking those she loved away from her, and would do whatever she could to prevent it.

Tull was an expressive person, easily moved to laughter or tears. When speaking of hardship, people she had lost, or distant memories, such as her relationship with Jango Fett, she became wistful and sad. When she first met Jangotat, she was shocked by how much his face reminded her of Jango Fett's. She grew close to him, admiring his natural leadership, and hoping to recreate the life she'd had with Fett in her youth. As she did with others, she developed her trust of him incrementally, revealing more of her heart to him until she admitted her true feelings for him after he was wounded. Tull could also be mischievous, teasing the ARC trooper by promising him more stories of Jango Fett if he behaved himself. She wanted to fully reveal humanity to him, and grew frustrated by how literal Jangotat could be at times. She eventually succeeded in doing so, though she later wondered if she had done the right thing, as he was no longer perfectly content with his life as a soldier.

Tull met Jango Fett in her youth shortly after he'd been freed from slavery. He was looking for his armor at the time, and she fell in love with him. They spent a year together, and Sheeka developed a lasting attraction for him. They parted suddenly during a pirate attack and she never saw him again. However, the feelings she felt for Fett were deeply ingrained inside her, which later prompted and influenced her relationship with Jangotat.

While she had fled to Ord Cestus seeking isolation, Sheeka Tull soon fell in love with a miner named Yander, as well as his three children and their whole community. They were married, and Tull and Yander spent four happy years together until he died. Tull would later speak fondly of their time together, although she was somewhat reluctant to broach the painful memory of her lost husband.

Tull first met the clone trooper known as "Nate" on Ord Cestus while helping the Republic on a mission during the Clone Wars. She was taken aback by how strongly he resembled Jango Fett, but was dismayed to find him thoroughly ingrained in his military mindset. Little by little, she tried to draw him out of his shell, to reveal to him what it meant to be Human. The fact that he had no name disturbed her and led her to eventually dub him Jangotat, or "brother of Jango." At the same time, she herself began falling for him as she tried to reincarnate with Jangotat what she had with Jango. Although they did eventually have a relationship, leading to her becoming pregnant with his child, it was short-lived. Jangotat died on Ord Cestus in the line of duty, leaving her heart-broken but determined to raise their child as an individual, not as merely another clone.

Sheeka Tull was initially created by Steven Barnes in his novel titled The Cestus Deception. Later appearances include a reference in The New Essential Chronology and a mention within Jangotat's entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

There is an inconsistency regarding the duration of her relationship with Jango Fett. The Cestus Deception states in two places that they met in 41 BBY; however, she also mentions that they met two years after the destruction of the Mandalorians, which occurred in 42 BBY. This article assumes that the former interpretation is correct.