Dude, this question is a novel unto itself. ;) But...not knowing how much you know about Star Wars or how much you care about spoilers, I will do my best to answer. As you may or may not know, Star Wars has an extensive Expanded Universe in novel, comic, game and other-stuff format. Unlike a lot of tie-in fiction it is all, at least in theory, canon, and is supposed to fit together without contradiction. (Of course sometimes it doesn't and we get hilarious shit like Boba Fett falling into the Sarlacc at least twice and possibly three times...)
One of the biggest novel series they did was set about 25 years after the movies and features Luke, Han, Leia and Han and Leia's three kids in the middle of a giant galactic invasion of creepy extra-galactic aliens who think technology is a sin and only use biological technology (which is just as advanced just...alive) and um, worship pain and other cliches. It's honestly a bit better than I'm making it sound.
Anyways, in the middle of this series there is a book called TRAITOR where Jacen Solo is assumed dead but is actually in enemy captivity. Into this situation walks Vergere - a morally ambiguous, potentially traitorous ex-Jedi - who proceeds to spend the entire novel teaching Jacen who he is, or rather, teaching him how to decide what the answer to that question is. It's one of the most extraordinary and believable characters arcs I've read, as Jacen goes from a boy paralysed by fear of consequences into inaction to a man completely at peace with the notion that the only thing he can truly control are his actions. Vergere manages to muddy every single black/white aspect of the dark side/light side equation, by deconstructing simplistic duality, yet it never loses sight of the notion of heroism. It never descends into nihilistic moral relativism where we all end up being asked to actions as "morally ambiguous" when in truth they are "morally reprehensible" but done in a trenchcoat and involving angst.
Basically Vergere is a pint-sized philosophical headfuck that looks kind of like a chicken.
The novel totally split Star Wars EU fandom between those who loved it more than bread and those who hated its ambiguity. Or rather its surface ambiguity - the notion that because she acknowledged the existence of moral relativism she must be part of some slippery slops conspiracy rather than acknowledging that she pointed out the dangers of it as often as the benefits. But now I'm ranting.
Basically she was...half-heartedly retconned into "secretly a Sith all along!" some years later, which is a real shame, but also, we know from multiple authorial sources, not something that was ever originally intended. It was just a disappointing (and utterly nonsensical) backtrack.
Fortunately, the only people in-universe who ever claim Vergere as a Sith are other Sith, primarily in an attempt to convince Jacen to join them. And in my opinion the conversations and motivations are ambiguous enough all of the few instances where she's been officially "retconned" are murky enough that if it weren't for Lucasfilm inference, I wouldn't even be sure I was supposed to believe them.
Anyway, that's who she is. Bet you wish you hadn't asked now!
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Who is Vergere?
Dude, this question is a novel unto itself. ;) But...not knowing how much you know about Star Wars or how much you care about spoilers, I will do my best to answer. As you may or may not know, Star Wars has an extensive Expanded Universe in novel, comic, game and other-stuff format. Unlike a lot of tie-in fiction it is all, at least in theory, canon, and is supposed to fit together without contradiction. (Of course sometimes it doesn't and we get hilarious shit like Boba Fett falling into the Sarlacc at least twice and possibly three times...)
One of the biggest novel series they did was set about 25 years after the movies and features Luke, Han, Leia and Han and Leia's three kids in the middle of a giant galactic invasion of creepy extra-galactic aliens who think technology is a sin and only use biological technology (which is just as advanced just...alive) and um, worship pain and other cliches. It's honestly a bit better than I'm making it sound.
Anyways, in the middle of this series there is a book called TRAITOR where Jacen Solo is assumed dead but is actually in enemy captivity. Into this situation walks Vergere - a morally ambiguous, potentially traitorous ex-Jedi - who proceeds to spend the entire novel teaching Jacen who he is, or rather, teaching him how to decide what the answer to that question is. It's one of the most extraordinary and believable characters arcs I've read, as Jacen goes from a boy paralysed by fear of consequences into inaction to a man completely at peace with the notion that the only thing he can truly control are his actions. Vergere manages to muddy every single black/white aspect of the dark side/light side equation, by deconstructing simplistic duality, yet it never loses sight of the notion of heroism. It never descends into nihilistic moral relativism where we all end up being asked to actions as "morally ambiguous" when in truth they are "morally reprehensible" but done in a trenchcoat and involving angst.
Basically Vergere is a pint-sized philosophical headfuck that looks kind of like a chicken.
The novel totally split Star Wars EU fandom between those who loved it more than bread and those who hated its ambiguity. Or rather its surface ambiguity - the notion that because she acknowledged the existence of moral relativism she must be part of some slippery slops conspiracy rather than acknowledging that she pointed out the dangers of it as often as the benefits. But now I'm ranting.
Basically she was...half-heartedly retconned into "secretly a Sith all along!" some years later, which is a real shame, but also, we know from multiple authorial sources, not something that was ever originally intended. It was just a disappointing (and utterly nonsensical) backtrack.
Fortunately, the only people in-universe who ever claim Vergere as a Sith are other Sith, primarily in an attempt to convince Jacen to join them. And in my opinion the conversations and motivations are ambiguous enough all of the few instances where she's been officially "retconned" are murky enough that if it weren't for Lucasfilm inference, I wouldn't even be sure I was supposed to believe them.
Anyway, that's who she is. Bet you wish you hadn't asked now!
Final note: DUNHAMS. WE WANTS THEM BACK PRECIOUS.