Those in the Bounty Hunting profession in the Star Wars galaxy ranged in both skill
and personalities.
Some hunters were very professional and were quite honorable at the job, viewing it only
as a business and nothing more; a few others enjoyed the thrill of the hunt itself and
took some pleasure in getting the kill or capture of their targets, but even then they
mainly only did it for the credits.
And then there was Aurra Sing, who was perhaps the cruelest and most insane bounty hunter
to ever exist.
Unlike most others, Sing hunted more to satisfy her bloodlust than for the credits.
Just to give you an idea of this, she’s the type of person who slaughtered an entire
Coruscant police force, only to leave one member alive so that she could torture the
man in bondage, as a means to draw out a team of Jedi who felt the disturbance in the force.
Then ambush said Jedi team so she could kill them right in front of one of their padawans.
Taunt the padawan of her master’s death until the child cried, and finally tell the
now masterless padawan to run back to the Temple so that she can train to become a knight,
just so that she can later meet the same fate as her master.
You know that antenna in her head?
While it did serve the practical use of allowing Sing to contact her allies directly into her
brain, it’s primary purpose was to increase the amount of pain and suffering she felt
from her victims as a means to satisfy the sadistic pleasure she constantly craved.
Another example of her insanity and unhinged willingness to achieve her goals was during
her one hunt on a bounty that was hiding within the deep caves of Hoth.
Her target had a small army of Wampas that were mind controlled through headgear to do
his bidding.
Determined to murder the man, Sing killed and skinned one of the Wampas so that she
could wear it as a disguise as a way to infiltrate her target’s cave.
Needless to say her target was not prepared to see her burst out of one of his Wampas,
and he was swiftly killed as a result by his hunter.
With all that being said, why did Sing become so cruel and how was she able to take on Jedi
all on her own, besting them with their own weapons?
Aurra Sing was born on the Hutt controlled planet Nar Shaddaa to a drug addicted mother.
When she was still quite young, a Jedi came across her and noticed that she was force
sensitive.
As a result, Sing was taken to the Temple to be trained in the ways of the force.
Due to her harsh upbringing and early violent tendencies, Sing was given over to the Jedi
Master known as the Dark Woman who specialized in training unique students.
As a padawan, Sing did not get along with her master who was far too strict in her teachings.
However, her time as a Jedi padawan quickly came to an end when Sing was kidnapped during
a mission by pirates.
They later sold her to a Hutt who realized that she was once a padawan of the Jedi Order.
Her new master then forced her into an Anzati assassin training school that was infamous
for crafting some of the most brutal and dangerous assassins to ever serve in the entire galaxy.
While there, Sing came to despise her former Jedi Master and the Order as a whole due to
them abandoning her when she was kidnapped.
At the assassin school, Sing was forced to undergo training in one of the most barbic
environments she could have imagined, where she witnessed a few of her fellow students
get straight up murdered by their very instructor over simple mistakes or just as a demonstration
for the rest of the class.
It was here she was trained not only to be a killing machine, but also to enjoy the act
of taking another being’s life.
When she passed all her trials at the assassin school, Sing served as a personal hunter for
her Hutt master until she got sick of him and disposed of him.
After that she went rogue and became a bounty hunter, quickly making a name for herself
as she used both her Jedi and assassin training to hunt down her targets.
Her preferred targets were always Jedi, with her at times even hunting them for fun as
she enjoyed the thrill of getting revenge on them, as well as having her name be spread
among the Temple as someone to be feared.
She also had a collection of lightsabers she took from her fallen victims.
At some point during her early career, Sing came across Jango Fett who she had taken a
great liking to.
Jango himself actually felt deep sympathy for her after learning of her upbringing,
later telling himself that she had not chosen bounty hunting as a profession.
Bounty hunting had chosen her.
Sing would later take up a short mentorship of Jango’s son, Boba Fett, where she taught
him some of the more cruel tactics of being a bounty hunter.
Though they parted ways after Boba was arrested by the Republic.
While Sing enjoyed the hunt of Jedi, her prime target was her former master the Dark Woman,
as she blamed most of her suffering on her former master’s failure of keeping her safe.
She went on to discover the Dark Woman’s planet of self-exile, attempting to murder
her during an ambush, but she was stopped by a Jedi team that was sent to capture her.
Her second attempt to exact revenge on her master happened during the Clone Wars, when
she trapped her in a cave following a laid bombing trap.
However, before she could claim the Dark Woman’s life, Sing was defeated and taken prisoner
by Jedi Knight Aayla Secura.
Sing would spend the rest of the war under the custody of the Republic.
By the time of the Galactic Empire’s reign, Sing was released from her holding cell by
Darth Vader as he wanted to test her abilities in killing Jedi in hopes of possibly having
her serve as a possible Inquisitor.
However her failure to capture the Jedi she was tasked in hunting likely ended any other
plans Vader had for her.
Following that brief interaction with Vader, Sing continued on as a bounty hunter where
she was largely forgotten about by the rest of the galaxy over the years.
She had no confirmed death in the original Expanded Universe, but she was said to have
died in Canon after being pushed to her death by a pirate named Beckett.