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Homeworld: Adumar Lightsaber: Green Snubfighter: X-Wing (pre-Questions of Honor), Blade-32 (post-Questions of Honor) Astromech: R2 unit "Digger" First Appearance: Sith Squadron Lord Pilot Thunder was originally born under the name of Tundre ya Silens in the province of Yedagon to poor parents who were forced to work in a broadcap manufacturing facility. Her family was a poor family in a poor nation. Her older brother died during an accident when she was only seven years old. She began working in the factory at the age of ten. She worked long days with her parents, but imitated the blastsword duels that she watched on the flatscreen. She was particularly fascinated by the Cartann Championships. Cartann became her dream. Cartann was a powerful and rich nation. Everything was possible in Cartann. She decided that she would flee from Yedagon and travel to Cartann. Her parents discovered her plot and begged her to stay with them. She obeyed their wishes, though she knew that someday she would travel to Cartann. Cartann filled her dreams at night and haunted her mind during the day. Tundre ya Silens managed to save up enough money to purchase her own blastsword. It felt so natural in her hands-the blastsword in her right hand, the Adumari dagger in her left hand. Sometimes it seemed to guide itself through lunges and parries while she relaxed her mind. When she was twelve, a violent disagreement erupted between Cartann's Challabae Admits-No-Equal Eruptive Manufacturing Concern and Yedagon's Shummakte Pierces-the-Ground Explosive Manufacturing Company. Several weeks before Tundre ya Silens' thirteenth birthday, she awoke in a cold sweat and was overwhelmed with the sensation of nausea. She was unable to travel below to the factory and stayed home in the warrens while her parents left for work. She knew the very moment of their deaths before the shockwave hit their warren. Infiltrators from the Cartann plant had rigged the Yedagon facility with explosives. The Independent Nation of Yedagon was too poor to press charges against Cartann's manufacturing plant. Tundre ya Silens was only thirteen now and completely alone. She knew that the plant manager would come to take her into his home. It was a Yedagon tradition, though it had lost its honor. He should have taken her into his home as a daughter, but managers usually took orphans in as their personal slaves. Tundre ya Silens would not live a life of servitude. When Nolicra ya Russah came to collect his new daughter of fortune, she was waiting for him in the middle of her parents' warren. He ordered his guards to wait outside and came into the warren by himself, just as she had foreseen. Ya Russah approached her with open arms and compliments. He could not remember the last time he had seen such a young beauty. Her skin the color of the dark red mud from topside, her hair coal black, her eyes so dark that they seemed to suck the light from the room, and her muscular tall figure. She would make a wonderful new addition to his family. Nolicra ya Russah would never touch Tundre and he would never leave her parents' warrenalive. Though the man was a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier, Tundre ya Silens overpowered him in a couple of lightning fast moves that dispatched his left arm and put a blast hole through his head. The two guards, hearing the commotion, rushed into the tiny warren. Tundre ya Silens focused her thoughts on the large wall-locker that contained her family's possessions. It tumbled over onto the two guards and pinned them long enough for her to silence them with a quick tap of her blastsword. She donned a long dark brown robe, covered her face with its hood, swallowed the hate welling in her mind, and stepped out into the darkness. She hid for many months in the mountains separating Yedagon from Cartann. She continued to practice the art of the blastsword and dagger. When she finally emerged onto the streets of Cartann City, she was stronger and more focused on her goals. Tundre ya Silens never spoke unless it was absolutely necessary. She could not afford to risk revealing her identity, even though Cartann would probably never turn her over to Yedagon authorities. She witnessed her first non-title challenge and was thrilled with the action. Tundre could sense the fear of both fighters. She knew the one with the most fear would not survive and the victor was overwrought with foolish pride. Tundre ya Silens challenged him to a non-title fight. Confusion swept like silent waves over the crowd. The victor turned and laughed to see a woman of such poor attire challenging him. Tundre stood there, stoic and solid. The victor, Ulash ke Telackan, had to accept. Tundre ya Silens announced herself as Tundrin ke Silant and dispatched ke Telackan of his life. Between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, Tundrin ke Silant became famous as a blastsword champion and finally achieved the title of Ground Champion at the age of sixteen. Tundrin was not satisfied with her acquired wealth and fame from becoming Ground Champion. The Adumari skies, filled with the screams of the Blade Fighters, had captured her heart and mind. She volunteered to train and fly with Strike-the-Moons Flightknife that had recently been assigned to the Giltella Airbase. She made quick friends with another new recruit by the name of Liak ke Mattino. [Important timeline note: Wedge Antilles meets ke Mattino fourteen years from now. The Starfighters of Adumar takes place about seven years after ROTJ. So, seven years from now (now Thunder is sixteen) Thunder will be twenty-three years old and the Battle of Endor will be taking place.] Both ke Silant and ke Mattino impressed their commanding officer with their ability to fly and fight. They attained the title of Lord Pilots after only a year of flying. Two years later, ke Silant was forced to flee from the Cartann Strike-the-Moons Flightknife because a relation of ya Russah had managed to track her down for revenge. She slew the man and fled to the nearby forests. After hiding in the densely forested region for several weeks, an unfamiliar ship made a crash landing into a nearby ravine. Tundrin made her way through the brush to the ship. She had never seen a Corellian Transport before and had never thought of the possibility of leaving Adumar. She made fast friends with the transport's captain, Rent Salazor, who promised to take her off-world as soon as the ship was space-ready. Salazor had been fleeing what he called Imperial authorities when he jumped to lightspeed too soon and ended up in this unknown region. Salazor hated trying to pronounce Tundrin ya Silant's name and decided to refer to her as Thundering Silence. She, however, insisted on him using her pilot's title, which resulted in Salazor calling her Lord Pilot Thunder. Lord Pilot Thunder stayed with Salazor and assisted him with his business over the next year. He was impressed with her ability to fly a Z-95 Headhunter and the unfamiliar blastsword at her side. The Imperial authorities, however, finally caught up with Salazor's smuggling ring. Many of the smugglers, including Thunder, were captured and brought aboard an Imperial Star Destroyer. While many of the smugglers were put to death immediately, Fighter Command was impressed with Thunder's display of snubfighter skill in the slow Headhunter. She had managed to vape four TIE fighters before an Assault Shuttle shocked her snubfighter. Thunder passed the TIE simulator exercises with a score that rivaled the few aces still alive in the TIE squadron. She continued as a TIE pilot for only a year before she managed to steal an Assault Shuttle and flee the ISD. She had chosen the moment of her theft and escape by listening to the strange sense that seemed to fill her mind and body. While she was escaping with the Shuttle, several Rebel squadrons entered the vicinity of the ISD and began a hype-and-fade. An unusual looking snubfighter pursued her shuttle, the pilot unaware that she was attempting to escape. Having no choice, she turned against the X-Wing pilot and managed to shock the faster fighter. The TIEs that had been pursuing her shuttle had been forced to engage the other X-Wings and Y-Wings. Thunder donned an EV suit, grabbed her blastsword, stuffed a few explosives into her TIE suit, and exited the shuttle. She was going to need a faster ship. She rigged the X-Wing's canopy to blow off, but the pilot decided to comply with her and hang out in the vacuum of space. He popped the canopy and climbed out to rely on the magcon field to protect him until a Rebel shuttle picked him up. She settled into the X-Wing and managed a cold start. She hyped out of the area, repainted the X-Wing a dark green, wiped the astromech's memory, renamed the R2 unit Digger, and settled into a life of casinos. Shortly after engaging in her new lifestyle of gambling and murder, Lord Pilot Thunder met Baron Reno and her fate was sealed. She felt his dark and powerful presence the moment she entered the same room. She also knew-sensed--that she must follow this dark warrior on his path of drunken victory.