As can easily be determined by the art style,  Lexi_Foxxx was kind enough to do this commission for me. She's recently moved to being a full-time furry artist, and so when I found her at BLFC (and found out the good news), I wanted very much to get something from her - both because of her incredible art style and to help support her. :) Thankfully, as I very much expected, she did not disappoint - this is very, very much in keeping with how I imagined Karia.

As the previous image of Karia explained in its description, Karia is one of a handful of characters I created for a Star Wars game some time back. As I went into a fair amount of detail about the story/setting in that picture, perhaps I should describe the Companions more here.

I never explicitly stated it, but what I'd figured was that the Kaminoans had repurposed some of the technology they'd used to build the Republic's Clone Troopers, as it was no longer being used. In effect, a person's mind would be scanned, likely destructively, and digitized in such a way that it could be flash-imprinted into a clone body. Both the clone body and the digitized mind, however, were altered in the process: the clone body was carefully engineered from a combination of (usually) animal genetics as well as the original's, the mind overlaid with special psychosomatic conditioning to (in theory) cause them to be pliable and docile, as well as use certain features of the clone body.

By and large, the process worked. Karia, as an example, was left in a body based on her own but vastly altered, unable to resist the conditioning that had been laid into her mind. By all outwards observation, she seemed a perfectly eager and compliant sex worker.

What the Kaminoans failed to account for, is a Jedi's conditioning and control over the Force. That was how Ce'nedra Sunrider was able to overcome - and indeed, make use of - the psychosomatic conditioning and break out several of her fellow Companions before presenting the case to the New Jedi Order.

It is currently unknown how, precisely, they were able to move a Jedi's Force potential over unharmed. Perhaps the genetic code they used, much like mitochondrial DNA in real-world humans, 'coded for' an abundance of midichlorians, or perhaps they utilized something related to the Ssi-Ruuk entechment rigs in the transfer process.

The original body was destroyed in the process, at any rate, but in an odd way, several of the Companions feel a bit of gratitude to the Kaminoans for what the did. Jedi Sunrider, for instance, was nearing the end of her rather extended life before she was made into a Companion - now, she has all the knowledge of a nearly 200-year-old Jedi Consular in the body of a young woman in her prime, a most potent combination.

Due to the expense of the process, the Kaminoans engineered the initial runs (i.e. all that were made as slaves) of Companions to be biologically able to adjust themselves, essentially a low-level degree of shapeshifting. Their gender was variable; naturally possessing both genders but able to shift fully to one or the other at the client's whim, their assets similarly under some degree of control. It was intended that the Kaminoan handlers would 'program' the Companion to the client's desire before turning them over to the client, preserving the program's secret... but when they found out how to use the conditioning protocols themselves, that left them with the ability to change to their own whims. Different Companions were also made to accommodate different fetishes; Karia, for instance, lactates heavily, fitting of her bovine nature.

The Kaminoan corporation that had produced the Companions was, of course, heavily penalized by the Republic once it was determined what they had done, but another company bought them out and continued the work - with volunteers/employees instead of slaves. It's quite costly to have oneself made into a Companion, certainly, but now if one truly wished, it could be done - paying either in credits or in service. Some degree of psychosomatic conditioning is still present, depending on what 'added features' are introduced into the clone body, as well as to allow graceful movement in the new body, but no longer are they programmed to be slaves...