Years
after Lop's adoption into the Yasaburō clan, Yasaburō and Ochō took
opposite sides of a rebellion against the Empire. With her father
supporting the insurgency and her sister opposed, Lop found herself
trying to mediate between her family members. Ultimately, Ochō joined
the Empire and Yasaburō trained Lop to use their family's lightsaber to
confront Ochō.
During the Imperial Era, Lop and TD-4 fled to
escape from slavery. She met a human father Yasaburo and his young
daughter Ocho at a market. Yasaburō had a scar that had rendered one of
his eyes blind. The humans saw the young Lepi attempting to steal fruit,
and asked about Lop's origins and parents. After hearing Lop's stomach
rumble from hunger, Ochō invited Lop to join their family, insisting
that she could tell by looking at the Lepi that Lop was a good kid. Ochō
enthusiastically took Lop in hand to play on the beach, guilting her
father into adopting Lop. Yasaburō promised to clean Lop up and get her
well-fed. TD-4 cut off Lop's shock collar, then recorded a hologram of
the trio smiling on the beach.
Lop and Ochō came to regard each other as sisters. Yasaburō welcomed Lop as his daughter, and she referred to him as her father.
Seven years after joining the Yasaburō clan, an Imperial base on Tao was attacked. An explosion rocked the local town, and Lop woke up among smoke and debris from the destruction. Coming to, the Lepi donned her side glasses to view the wreckage in the infrared spectrum, before hearing Ochō confront Yasaburō over what had happened. Ochō asked their father what he had done, crying out that the town had been destroyed. After hearing Ochō's words, Lop expressed disbelief aloud that the explosion was her father's doing. She rushed over to a scene where Yasaburō and Ochō were fighting, surrounded by a crowd of affiliates of their clan.
Ochō expressed indignation that her
father attacked the Imperial base, while Yasaburō justified his
supported for the insurgency against the Empire on the grounds of the
Empire polluting and pillaging their planet. Yasaburō clan members
attempted to separate the quarreling father and daughter, saying they
needed to flee before Imperial troops arrived. Upon seeing Lop approach,
one clan member implored the Lepi to intervene. Lop begged her family
members to stop, saying there was no reason for them to fight each
other. Yasaburō silenced Lop, saying this was a problem for the head of
the family. Ochō exhorted her father, claiming a right as the next head
of family to assert her opinion. Ochō denounced her father's
anti-Imperial views as "stubborn opposition to development" and wrong.
The father and daughter continued to argue as Lop stood on. Imperial stormtroopers approached on speeder bikes, causing the crowd to flee.
Lop
was highly empathetic. When Ochō and Yasaburō found themselves on
opposite sides of the rebellion on Tao, affiliates of Yasaburō clan
called on her to mediate between her adopted sister and father. Lop
asked Ochō to consider Yasaburō's feelings about the Empire and their
homeworld, hoping to end the tensions within their family. Despite being
born on another planet, Lop came to feel at home on Tao.
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