First let's do some stats.Nomi was the wife of the jedi Andur Sunrider, and the mother of the newborn Vima. They lived on a craggy world, assisted by their personal droid A-3DO. From his master, Chamma, Andur had recieved a parcel of Adegan crystals--the best gems for constructing lightsabers. Since Nomi always worried about his safety, Andur decided to take his family with him to deliver the crystals. They departed to the Stenness system, where the legendary Jedi Master Thon was watchman.
Unfortunately, Great Bogga the Hutt found out about their precious cargo when they docked at the Stenness Hyperspace Terminal. Two thugs arranged a diversion while a third approached from behind, carrying a poisonous gorm worm. The creature bit Andur, killing him instantly.
Nomi rushed to her husband, but he had already become one with the Force. His glowing form appeared to her, telling her to pick up his lightsaber and defend herself. In life, Andur had always known Nomi was capable of becoming a great Jedi, but she was too timid to train in the Force. With Andur's death, Nomi was transformed, and killed two of the thugs.
Honoring her husband's wishes, Nomi continued, with her daughter and Threedee, on the trip to see Master Thon. She landed the Lightside Explorer on the ringed world of Ambria. There, in the desolate wastes, Nomi met the Jedi Oss Willum and the armorplated creature known as Master Thon. The two Jedi and Nomi defended Thon's homestead when Bogga the Hutt and his thugs--having followed Nomi's ship--attacked in search of the crystals.
Nomi agreed to stay on Ambria and train to be a Jedi, but in the months that followed, Thon ignored her. Nomi raised her daughter, protecting her from dangers with her nascent Force talent, which seemed to be the ability to alter events with her mind. She did not yet know, but this talent was part of the Jedi battle meditation.
Knowing a battle with the darkside was imminent on the other side of the galaxy, Thon finally decided to begin training Nomi. Her grief for her husband had lessened, and she could train now without her emotions becoming a problem. Oss Willum was leaving Ambria with Master Arca, to fight the Freedon Nadd uprising with the appretices Ulic and Cay Qel-Droma and the Twi'lek, Tott Doneeta.
Still angry at his defeat on Ambria, Bogga ordered the space pirate Finhead Stonebone to attack Master Thon and steal the Adegon crystals. Thon had begun training Nomi, but the now Jedi-to-be refused to build or even use a lightsaber. Taking Nomi and Vima through the exotic terrain of his planet, Thon stressed that a lightsaber was more than a tool of defense; it focused the mind, assisting a Jedi's connection to the force.
Nomi still refused, so Thon taught her, using a Jedi Holocron, about the millennia-old battle between the light side and the dark side of the force. The Holocron gatekeeper, Master Ond Bnar, prophesized that Nomi would play a large role in the coming battle against the dark side. Conflicting emotions ran through Nomi. She didn't want to kill to defend the galaxy. She wanted to take her daughter and leave Thon and begin her life anew.
Events forced her to decide otherwise. Finhead Stonebone and his pirates arrived, attacking Thon. Nomi still refused to fight, and took her daughter to saftey among the rocks. Before he had allowed himself to be captured by the pirates, Thon had told her to use her special Force talents. Nomi used her connection to the Force to intensify the pirates' aggressions, causing them to fight one another, as well as Bogga's men.
Finally, Nomi realized she could not turn away. Taking Thon's ancient lightsaber, she charged the group, welding the blade as if she had done so for years. Between her skills and Thon's Force shields and waves of energy, the pirates were defeated. Few survived to return to Bogga, and in the aftermath of the battle, Nomi knew she must continue her training.
Nomi's training eventually took her and her daughter to Ossus, the third planet in the Adegan system. Ossus was a thriving center of Jedi learning, and Thon brought her there to apprentice Master Vodo-Siosk Baas. Baas trained her in the making of her own lightsaber, using one of the crystals her husband had given her.
Nomi trained in many Jedi ways on Ossus, but one day a fateful assembly was called. The Jedi Master Arca had fallen to Sith sorcery on Onderon, and a team of Jedi was needed to rescue him. Nomi was one of those chosen for the task. Leaving her daughter to the care of the other Jedi, Nomi traveled to Onderon for the coming battle against the Dark Siders.
The Jedi ship arrived at the ruling city of Iziz, as Galactic Republic forces stormed its walls to fight the followers of Freedon Nadd. The Jedi touched down their ship, charging to rescue Arca and his students. In the fortress walls, Nomi could feel the dark side, and she confronted it, ignoring the savage battle around her.
Nomi was struck down by a blast thrown by King Ommin. She was kept safe by Ulec Qel-Droma, whom the other Jedi had rescued. The surviving Jedi, their numbers cut to seven, stormed the citadel, intent on rescuing Master Arca from Ommin. The king himself attacked them, driving them back with the power of the ancient Sith, but Ulic prevailed. The evil spirit of Freedon Nadd appeared, pulling Ommin's dying spirit into the dark side, and bid the Jedi farewell, promising that though they thought they had won the battle, in the future they would find that they had lost.
Over the following weeks, the Jedi stayed on Onderon, protecting and exploring it. Nomi and Ulic grew fond of each other, but tradegy was to strike. Arca knew that a Sith uprising was shaping in the Empress Teta System. The Ossus Jedi were to return to their planet to prepare, but Nomi stayed behind to train with Arca in the Jedi battle meditation that shaped her unique Force talents. Just as she had become an expert in the use of a lightsaber, and had become a confident leader rather than a timid follower, so too would Nomi gain strength in her other talents.
Arca soon assigned Nomi and Ulic to lead the joint peacekeeping fleet of the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Knights. As the fleet emerged from hyperspace to protect the planet Koros Major, the Krath rulerAleema used her Sith magic to create illusions of powerful space monsters. Nomi used her powers to defeat Aleema, but the Krath mobilized a counter attack.
Aboard the command ship Reliance, Ulic was hit by a piece of shrapnel, but Nomi pulled it out, willing the force to heal him. Meanwhile, the Republic commander ordered his fleet to retreat and plan a new attack strategy.
With the threat of the Sith growing stronger, most of the Jedi in the galaxy converged on the red planet of Deneba to discuss their plans. Ulic Qel-Droma proposed allowing one person to infiltrate the Krath and find the secrets of their growing power in the dark side. But before a decision could be made, Krath unleashed upon them a set of war droids. One of the droids snatched Vima, but another Jedi, Sylvar, cut the droid down.
In the battle, Master Arca was killed. Later, in the victorious aftermath, Nomi confronted Ulic, who planned to infiltrate the Krath to learn the dark side and how to destroy it from within. She cautioned him, having been taught the dark side could tear him apart. Ulic would not reconsider, though; the need to conquer the dark side and avenge the fallen Jedi burned within him.
Ulic departed for the Empress Teta system aboard a smugglar's freighter, Kestrel Nova, kissing Nomi good-bye. She knew that when she next saw Ulic, he would be a greatly changed man.
Time passed, and with no word from Ulic, Nomi took his brother, Cay, and Tott Doneeta with her to the Empress Teta system. She traveled to the city of Cinnagar alone so that Ulic's secrets would be safe. A visit from one might not arouse suspicions, but a visit from three would. In the city,, Nomi discovered that Ulic was held within the dark citadel of the Krath. To gain entrance, she revealed herself as a Jedi and allowed her capture.
Unfortunately, Nomi's plan backfired. The Krath leaders, Satal Keto and Aleema, asked Ulic to execute the Jedi woman in order to prove his allegiance to the Krath. But Nomi broke free and used her force powers to turn the guards against each other. Then she called Cay and Tott to the citadel from their planetary orbit.
The trio of jedi valiantly attempted to save Ulic, but he had been injected with Sith poison. Nomi, Cay, and Tott escaped from the planet knowing that Ulic was no longer one of them.
Back on Ossus, Nomi led an attack on Cinnagar, accompanied by Cay Qel-Droma, Tott Doneeta, Dace Diath, Oss Willum, Shoaneb Culu, Qrrrl Toq, and Oran Kira. Although they knew they couldn't winagainst the Krath, Nomi and Cay hoped they could at least rescue Ulic from the dark side.
After a successful run into Cinnagar, the transport disgorged Warbeasts, ridden by Nomi and three others. In the Krath stronghold, Nomi faced down Aleema, destroying her Sith illusions. Aleema hid behind her lover, Ulic, who berated Nomi for her rescue attempt. Nomi finally admitted she had risked all because she loved him.
Working with Cay, Nomi tried to make Ulic confront how deeply he had become enmeshed in the dark side. In his anger, Ulic lashed out, striking Nomi with a bolt of dark-side lightening from his Sith amulet. The Jedi woman knew then that as it was the Jedi Masters had forewarned. Ulic must choose to leave the dark side on his own, or be lost in its evil. Sadly, Nomi and the other Jedi turned their backs and left.
Nomi Sunrider's ultimate fate is unknown, but her descendants brought honor to both her name and to the Jedi. Thousands of years after Nomi first picked up her lightsaber, her multigreat-grand-daughter, Vima-Da-Boda, became a prominent and illustrious Jedi Knight. Vima served the force for over 100 years, but fell in disgrace. She began the path to redemption when she encountered Princess Leia Organa Solo. one of the new breed of Jedi. Mother to daughter, and to daughter again, the example of Nomi Sunrider would forever be legend in the annals of Jedi history.