| “ | Fear me, Jedi! I am Aurra Sing, Nashtah, scourge of your kind! I haunt your darkest dreams! I drink Jedi blood; I nest in their guts! Your nightmares now have a name, hierophant, and that name is Aurra Sing! | „ |
| ~ Aurra Sing |
| “ | Next time I tell you to pull the trigger, you do it! | „ |
| ~ Sing harshly scolding Boba Fett |
Aurra Sing is a supporting antagonist in the Star Wars franchise.
She is a Palliduvan bounty hunter who was training young Boba Fett following his father's death and was known for her acquaintance with pirate captain Hondo Ohnaka, as well as working for Ziro the Hutt and Cad Bane. She is also the archenemy of A'Sharad Hett.
In her cameo in The Phantom Menace, she was portrayed by Michonne Bourriague. In the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, she was voiced by Jaime King, who also portrayed Heather Vandergeld in White Chicks.
Personality[]
Aurra Sing was one of the most powerful and ruthless bounty hunters in the galaxy. She was remorseless about killing, whether it be wounded clone troopers or former partners such as Castas. Despite her cold-hearted and ruthless nature, Sing was also a somewhat compassionate mother to Boba Fett during his teenage years, sometimes addressing him as "honey" and stopping him from drinking alcohol in Hondo Ohnaka's bar. She was very selfish, sarcastic and egotistical, as she abandoned Fett to save herself after the boy was captured by Plo Koon.
She also tried to get the boy to murder the helpless Commander Ponds; when he wouldn't do it, she shoved him aside and killed Ponds herself. Aurra Sing also had a past romantic relationship with Hondo Ohnaka, and though they were no longer lovers, Ohnaka still referred to her as "my dear". Consequently, after Sing and Boba arrived at Ohnaka's base, he asked if Boba was his son. Even with their past, Ohnaka refused to help Sing when she tried to lure Ahsoka Tano and Plo Koon into a trap.
The Legends continuity showed her that she had a degree of respect for her enemies, like Anakin Skywalker for not cheating in the Boonta Eve Classic Podrace, which astounded her. Decades later in the Clone Wars, she formally met Anakin again when she posed as a Tatooine local, and asked for his help in eliminating a womp rat nest that was harassing the inhabitants. To her surprise, Skywalker managed to solve the problem without any incident. She shared one of the tales with Anakin's daughter Leia Organa.
History[]
Early life[]
Ten years before the start of the Clone Wars, Sing was on Tatooine during the time of the Boonta Eve Classic podrace. Sing watched the podrace from a balcony on Beggar's Canyon, and saw Anakin Skywalker in the running against rival Sebulba.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars[]
Raising Boba Fett[]
Aurra Sing was renowned as a skilled bounty hunter and assassin during the Clone Wars. She became feared by even the most powerful criminals. At some point in her life, she came across the pirate Hondo Ohnaka, and had a short relationship with him.
Later during the war, she teamed up with Boba Fett, son of fellow bounty hunter Jango Fett, in an attempt to seek revenge on Jedi Master Mace Windu to avenge Jango's death. To that end, she recruited Bossk and Castas to aid them in their mission. The first part of her plan involved Boba infiltrating the Clone Youth Brigade under the alias "Lucky" on board the Republic warship Endurance.
Aurra kept in contact with Boba from Slave I, and ordered him to place a bomb with a laser tripwire outside of Windu's quarters. However, a clone accidentally triggered it, and was killed instead of Windu.
Aurra then told Boba to destroy the ship's reactor core, to which Boba reluctantly complied and regrouped with the brigade. He later deactivated their escape pod as the Endurance crashed onto the planet Vanqor. Aurra and Bossk then docked Slave I to the escape pod and extracted Boba while leaving the clone cadets behind.
Afterwards, Aurra and the bounty hunters flew down to Vanqor and went to the crash site, where Aurra killed all the survivors except for Commander Ponds, a naval officer, and Admiral Kilian, whom she took hostage. Boba then placed his father's helmet in the bridge rigged with an explosive to trap Windu.
By the time the bounty hunters regrouped, Windu arrived at the crash site with Anakin Skywalker to investigate. Anakin saw the helmet and went to look at it before touching despite a warning from Windu. Boba noticed the bomb in the bridge go off and explode, trapping Windu and Anakin in the rubble. Aurra, Boba, and Castas then headed to the wreckage to collect Windu's corpse, hoping to collect a bounty from the Separatists for killing a Jedi Master.
While they made their way up to the bridge, Anakin's droid, R2-D2, attempted to prevent them from reaching the Jedi by pushing rubble around the ship, forcing them to retreat back to Slave I. Later, they noticed R2 flying Windu's starfighter heading for Coruscant to send a distress signal to the Republic they tried to stop him but failed and he escaped.
Aurra and the hunters then pursued Artoo in Slave I and disabled its communication system. When R2 attempted to use the Hyperdrive rings, Boba destroyed one of them, but Artoo used the second Hyperdrive ring to escape the hunters and headed for Coruscant. When Boba asked Aurra what their next move was, Aurra told him that she would use the hostages as leverage to lure Windu to them.
Later, onboard Slave I, Aurra and Boba contacted Windu and told him to surrender, or they would start killing the hostages. Aurra then ordered him to kill Ponds as an example. But when Boba refused, Aurra killed the commander herself. The bounty hunters then arrived on Florrum in hopes of enlisting the help of Hondo Onaka against Windu.
Although Hondo refused, he promised not to stand in their way. Later, Aurra overheard a conversation between Castas and a fellow hunter with her comlink, in which Castas planned to betray Aurra. Overhearing the insult, Aurra killed Castas without a second thought. Jedi Master Plo Koon and Anakin's Padawan Ahsoka Tano later arrived on Florrum to rescue the hostages and apprehend the bounty hunters.
Aurra was then confronted by Koon, who interrogated her about the hostages whereabouts. An angered Boba then emerged from the shadows and held Koon at gunpoint while Tano held her lightsaber at Aurra's throat. After a brief standoff, Koon captured Boba while Aurra stole a speeder bike and escaped, but was pursued by Ahsoka.
After the Padawan rescued the hostages and subdued Bossk, Aurra attempted to escape on Slave I. However, Ahsoka severed one of the ship's wings, which caused Slave I to spiral out of control and crash, and Aurra seemingly perished in the wreck. After her supposed death, Ahsoka and Koon took Boba and Bossk to Coruscant and imprisoned them. It was later revealed that Aurra survived the crash, as she was pulled out of the wreckage by Hondo.
Seeking Vengeance[]
After recuperating, Aurra was hired by the imprisoned gangster, Ziro the Hutt, to assassinate Padmé Amidala, the senator of Naboo. Her motives were soon uncovered by Ahsoka through a series of Force visions, and she decided to accompany Amidala to the planet Alderaan for a summit.
While Amidala was giving a speech, Aurra infiltrated the vents above the room with the intent of sniping the senator. As Aurra aimed her rifle for a fatal shot, Ahsoka intervened as she pulled the trigger, resulting in a mere flesh wound.
After a brief confrontation, Aurra managed to retreat and escape the scene. Later, the Naboo royal guard used a cloaked luxury droid as a replacement for Amidala, while the real senator gave her speech through the droid in her healing quarters.
But this did not fool Aurra, and she proceeded to make a second attempt on the senator's life. After she made her way to Amidala's healing chamber, Ahsoka yet again intervened. Although Aurra managed to subdue the Jedi Padawan, Amidala stunned her and Captain Typho apprehended the bounty hunter. Ahsoka, Amidala and Typho then took Aurra to Coruscant where she was imprisoned.
Attacking the Senate[]
After escaping prison, Aurra teamed up with Cad Bane's bounty hunter team for the raid on the Republic Senate Building. During the hostage siege, Aurra covered Bane's entrance to the building by taking out the Senate Commandos with her sniper rifle.
After Bane eliminated the remaining Senate Commandos, Aurra shot a dying one who asked for help. Later, she aided Shahan Alama in searching for the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, whose presence in the Senate Building threatened Bane's plan. Eventually, with the help of Robonino, they managed to render Skywalker unconscious. When the Hutt crime lord was freed, Aurra successfully left the crime scene along with the rest of the group.
Later life[]
Later, Aurra Sing's career as a bounty hunter came to an end when she was killed by Tobias Beckett, a thief working for the Crimson Dawn, a criminal organization under the secret leadership of former Sith apprentice Darth Maul. Beckett pushed her off a ledge, and she fell to her death.
Legends History[]
Hunting Jax Pavan[]
Aurra survived the Clone Wars and was hired by Darth Vader to kill Jax Pavan, who, unknown to Aurra, was Anakin Skywalker's old friend. While searching the Jedi temple for clues about Jax, she ran into Gregar Typho and in the resulting duel between them, she lost and became unconscious. Typho then took one of her lightsabers, which he would later send as a gift to Jax.
Aurra was closing in on her quarry, getting nearer and nearer to finding Jax, and at one point engaged in a duel against Jax's ally, Laranth Tarak. Later, she caught up with Jax and engaged him in a duel. Jax manage to outsmart Sing, and dropped her into a reposticator, where he presumed Sing met her death.
Hunting Vader's granddaughter[]
In 40 ABY, using the name "Nashtah," Aurra was accidentally hired by Lalu Morwan to assassinate Tenel Ka and her young daughter Allana. After allying herself with an undercover Han and Leia Organa Solo, whom she shared her tale of watching Anakin Skywalker's race, her attempt to kill Allana was thwarted by Jacen Solo and ironically, her own quarry.
While she managed to destroy the Defender Droid DD-11A and deal a few wounds on Solo, she had suffered a dislocated knee and was immobilized by Allana's injector pen. Soon afterward, she was captured by security forces and placed in a holding cell aboard the Star Destroyer Anakin Solo.
Appearance[]
Aurra Sing was a female near-human, who was very tall and physically agile. She was known for her distinctly pale skin and green eyes. She also had long, skeletal fingers. Her brown hair was tied in a ponytail on the back of her head, which was strapped with many beads she collected from the Jedi that she murdered. Since she was implanted with a biocomputer to enhance her natural attributes, an antenna protruded from the left side of her head.
She also often wore an earpiece comlink so that she could stay in contact with her allies or listen in on distant conversations. She wore an orange jumpsuit, which covered her whole body except for her head, upper chest, and arms.
On top of that, she also wore a short, brown vest with several bullet shells strapped to it. In addition, she wore boots made of rancor skin. She used a brown belt with holsters made of shaak hide to store her twin blaster pistols when they were not in use.
Powers and abilities[]
- Force-Sensitivity/Cyborg Physiology: Aurra Sing was once a Jedi Padawan before she became a bounty hunter. Unfortunately, her ability to use the Force has deteriorated, due to not using it for some time after leaving the Jedi Order, causing her current skills to become rusty. Her skull had a built-in comlink antenna and a Rhen-Orm biocomputer that allowed her to track multiple threats simultaneously and to line up distant shots with her sniper rifle. The biocomputer also heighten her senses, and allow her to simulate the Anzati ability to perceive fear.
- Expert Fighter: Aurra is also a skilled fighter having to slew several Jedi throughout her career. She possessed a considerable amount of strength as she snapped the neck of a Senate Commando and was even able to completely close her large hand around the smaller Ahsoka Tano's throat.
- Expert shooter/Sniper: Aurra has excellent marksmanship with both one-handed blasters and a sniper rifle. Her Force abilities also help her guide blaster bolts into her targets. She managing to shoot down several Senate Commandos with great accuracy during her mission to rescue Ziro the Hutt and shot a blaster pistol out of Anakin Skywalker's hand after he disarmed her companion, Shahan Alama.
- Skilled Assassin: Aurra is an experienced killer, having started out as a simple bounty hunter before becoming a well known bounty hunter. She is even one of the few people, known as a Jedi hunter/Jedi killer, to ever slain Jedi.
Equipment[]
- DX-13 blaster pistols: Aurra often carried dual DX-13 blaster pistols. Unlike common blaster pistol designs, this model featured two individual triggers. The weapons featured both single-shot and rapid fire mode for devastating attacks.
- Adventurer slugthrower rifle: Aurra often carried a Adventurer slugthrower rifle slung on her back. The weapon could be easily dismantled for ease of transport or allowing it to be smuggled through places. It also included an oxidizer release module which increased the bullet's velocity. Additionally, since the weapon fired slugs; solid projectiles; it was suitable for stealthy night missions as it avoided the bright blaster bolts. Although it is able to also fire regular blaster bolts.
- Sniper rifles: She also used another unidentified model of a sniper rifle when she tried to kill Senator Amidala.
- Lightsabers: Aurra also carried several lightsabers of the Jedi she had slain.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Assassin", Aurra Sing has a black stripe painted across her eyes. The black stripe across her eyes is an homage to the look of Daryl Hannah's character Pris in the 1982 movie Blade Runner, which stars Harrison Ford who played Han Solo.
- According to Jamie King's husband: Kyle Newman in an interview, Aurra Sing was supposed to die in one of the unfinished episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the Bounty Hunter arc.
- Although given how Tobias Beckett managed to kill her,it is unknown if the unfinished episodes are canon.
- Also, in the Legends Continuity, she's still alive during "The New Jedi Order" series, if The Clone Wars hadn't got canceled, it is unknown how this would affect her appearance in "The New Jedi Order".
