Star Wars/Characters/New Jedi Order and Legacy Eras

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This page is for characters in the Star Wars Expanded Universe New Jedi Order, Dark Nest Trilogy, Legacy of the Force, and Fate of the Jedi book series, as well as the standalone novels Millennium Falcon, Crosscurrent, and Riptide. The comic series Star Wars Legacy has its own page.

Jedi Masters

Jaina Solo

Kyp Durron

Corran Horn

Kenth Hamner

Saba Sebatyne

A Barabel Jedi Master who was trained outside of the Order by Master Eelysa. She served with distinction during the Yuuzhan Vong War, and trained Leia following the Swarm War. She continued to serve as a major voice on the Jedi Council, often favoring more aggresive solutions to problems, which led her into direct conflict with acting Grand Master Kenth Hamner following Luke's exile by Chief of State Natasi Daala.

Cilghal

Harfard: "Now get out of my way, fish-head."

Cilghal: "Two things. First, my name is not Fish-Head. It is Master Cilghal. Second, I am not in your way. That is a logistical impossibility. I am less than a meter wide. The entryway where we stand and the doorway behind me are several meters wide. I now leave it as an exercise of your alleged intelligence to find a way into the Temple. If you do a very good job, perhaps we will name the test after you."

  • Hidden Badass: Before Backlash, we had never seen Cilghal in a fight. When she is confronted by Jedi Knight Sothias Saar, who had just succumbed to Force psychosis, she squashes him in about five seconds. Chief of State Daala is surprised when she sees the footage, but realizes that Cilghal is a Jedi Master for a reason.
  • The Medic

Kam Solusar

A former Dark Jedi who served Palpatine, he was redeemed by Luke and joined his Order. He met and married Tionne, a fellow Jedi, and together they run the Jedi Academy.

Tionne Solusar

The foremost scholar of the Jedi Order, and co-head of the Jedi Academy with her husband Kam.

Octa Ramis

Tresina Lobi

A Chev Jedi Master who served on the Advisory Council during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Killed fighting Lumiya and Alema Rar after discovering the plot to turn Jacen Solo and Ben Skywalker to the Dark Side.

Barratk'l

  • Action Girl
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has one across her throat. She had her vocal cords thinned while the wound was healing so other species could understand her better.

Jedi Knights

Anakin Solo

  • Badass: He kills more Yuuzhan Vong than any other Jedi during the first two years of the war. The first time he fights Yuuzhan Vong warriors, he kills two of them in two moves, when his aunt Mara had hard work to kill one.
  • Brother-Sister Team
  • Dead Guy, Junior
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Killed off because of George Lucas thinking fans wouldn't be able to tell the difference between him and his granddad. Unlike Jacen, he at least gets to go out with a…
  • Heroic RROD
  • Heroic Sacrifice
  • Technopath: As a child, his talents with the Force were for intuitively understanding machinery. Or accidentally melting it.
  • The Messiah: Before his heroic sacrifice.
  • The Stoic: Before the New Jedi Order.
  • What Could Have Been: See Jacen's entry. Also, Denning considered reviving Anakin.

Ben Skywalker

Only child of Luke and Mara, and the youngest Knight in the Order, having risen to the position at the age of 14.

Unfortunately not invulnerable to shipping debates, if this thread is anything to go by. We know he has descendants (see the Legacy entries below), but is it really necessary to start "the great debate" when he's only 16?

Luke: And when someone asks you to talk to her among the Trees of Imminent Doom?
Ben: I say yes, and close my eyes and pucker up for a big kiss.
Luke: There, that's the Skywalker survival instinct at work.

Ben: How do you feel? Better than you look, I hope.
Rhondi: That's nice. (turns to Luke) If you want grandchildren someday, you need to have a conversation with your son about how to talk to the ladies.

Ganner Rhysode

An arrogant young Jedi Knight who was part of Kyp Durron's aggressive faction very early in the Yuuzhan Vong war. His own failures and battles against the Vong humbled him, and he turned away from Durron and began supporting Luke's faction. After the Mission to Myrkr, he began investigating rumors that Jacen Solo was alive. He found him seemingly serving the Yuuzhan Vong and was captured, but discovered it was a trick so Jacen could convince the World Brain of the Vong shaped Coruscant to switch sides. Ganner held off the Yuuzhan Vong long enough for Jacen to do so and escape, in a Heroic Sacrifice that is regarded as one of the greatest moments in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

Nom Anor: "There are thousands of warriors out here. You are only one man!"
Ganner: "I am only one Jedi."
Nom Anor: "You're insane!"

Ganner: "No. I am Ganner. This threshold is mine. I claim it for my own. Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass."

  • Character Development: Goes from an arrogant glory seeker to a humble Jedi who sacrificed his life to save someone he didn't even like because he knew Jacen's survival would restore hope to the New Republic.
  • Dissonant Laughter: During his Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Dying Moment of Awesome: Regarded so by everyone in universe: the Yuuzhan Vong eventually elevate him to their pantheon of gods as the gatekeeper of the dead due to it, and the Jedi regard him as one of their greatest heroes.
  • Glory Seeker: He got over it following his failure on Garqi against one Yuuzhan Vong warrior.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Recieves a nasty one on the left side of his face when fighting a Yuuzhan Vong for the first time. He kept it to remind himself what his arrogance could cost him.
  • Heroic Sacrifice
  • Heroic Wannabe: He struggles to resist this, but before his Heroic Sacrifice, he realizes that his need to play the hero could be one of his greatest strengths, and uses it against the Yuuzhan Vong by tempting them into coming at him one at a time in honorable combat.
  • Last Stand
  • Small Name, Big Ego
  • You Shall Not Pass

Lowbacca

Tahiri Veila

Zekk

Raynar Thul

Tekli

Tesar Sebatyne

Valin Horn

Jysella Horn

Bazel Warv

Seha Dorvald

A orphan who lived in Coruscant's Vongformed lower levels until Jacen Solo discovered her Force sensitivity and helped her enter the Jedi Order. In thanks, she supplied him information about things that happened in the Jedi Temple and carried out several tasks for him. When he fell to the Dark Side, Seha ceased assisting him and played a part in trying to bring about his downfall. After the war, she became the apprentice of Council Master Octa Ramis, and became a full Jedi Knight while participating in operations against the Lost Tribe of Sith.

  • The Apprentice: Until Conviction.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She grew up in the Vongformed underworld of Coruscant as an orphan until Jacen rescued her.
  • The Mole: Served as Jacen's in the Jedi Order. Once she found out he had gone to the Dark Side, she stopped helping him and offered all the information she had to the Masters.
  • Parental Abandonment: Both of them are dead.
  • Significant Anagram: "Seha Dorvald" is an anagram for "Sad Hard Love", fitting with what she goes through.
  • Unwitting Pawn: To Jacen.

Jaden Korr

The main character of Jedi Academy, a youth full of talent from Coruscant who managed to build a lightsaber by himself. He's sent to Luke's Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 in order to learn the ways of the Force. The player could choose different races and genders for Jaden, but officially, he's a male human with a purple (later green) standard lightsaber. Jaden has since stared in two EU novels, Crosscurrent and Riptide, set nearly 30 years after the game.

  • Anti-Hero: Assailed by self-doubt and uncertainty, Jaden is solidly a Type I in Crosscurrent.
  • The Atoner: Following his actions during the Battle of Centerpoint, in which he ordered a deck be spaced to quickly clear his strike team a path even though there were civilians inside. He takes a leave of absence from the Jedi Order to sort everything out.
  • Back from the Dead: He gets killed by a One Sith agent at the end of Riptide, but his mind is taken in a Ratakan mind spear. Marr uses the mind spear to transfer Jaden's conscience into a clone of Jaden made by the One Sith that was to be used to infiltrate the Jedi Order. Marr does not tell him what happened, but Jaden can sense something is wrong with him once he wakes up, and notices that several scars are missing.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: In the game, the player can choose to use Dark Side powers, but still play a Lightsided character. In the novels, Force lightning comes to him unbidden when he gets angry or scared, much to his concern.
  • Cloning Blues
  • Deadpan Snarker: A little in the game. His snark is cut down a lot in the novels: justified since he is older and more than a little depressed.
  • Dual-Wielding: Averted: he has two lightsabers, but never uses them together.
  • Fingore: He loses three fingers in a lightsaber duel during Crosscurrent.
  • Sword and Gun: He uses both lightsabers and blasters in combat.

Marr Idi-Shael

A Cerean math savant, which is linked to his Force sensitivity. He is a salvager who works with Kheydan Faal and is hired by Jaden Korr to help investigate a mysterious in Crosscurrent. He becomes Jaden's apprentice at the end of the novel, and their story is continued in Riptide.

Sith

Jacen Solo/Darth Caedus

Lumiya

Considered by some to be the "proto-Mara Jade" (ie. redheaded/green-eyed Imperial assassin). Of course, her path didn't lead to as nearly a fulfilling life as Mara's…

Vergere

  • Enigmatic Minion
  • Heroic Sacrifice
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard
  • Retcon: She was originally a loyal, if weird and unorthodox, Jedi of the Old Republic. But George Lucas, who is like a painter constantly running back to the museum every year to re-paint his pictures, now says that she's a Sith. Even though that doesn't jive at all with some of her actions, such as her final sacrifice.
    • May have been retconned again, as Wookiepedia states that she was a "failed Sith apprentice," which implies that while she may not be a Jedi anymore, she's not a Sith either.
  • Trickster Mentor: And how!
  • Wild Card

Lomi Plo

Welk

Vestara Khai

Luke: You want me to take a Sith who's trustworthiness seems to depend on the time of day, the season, and the phases of whatever moons happen to be nearby, on a potentially dangerous mission to the Sith homeworld?

    • She ultimately settles on Heel.
  • The Ishmael: She's the only Lost Tribe Sith whose POV we see with any regularity.
  • The Power of Love: How Ben (with Jaina's support) hopes to bring her to the Light side. Ben gets… mixed results.
  • Tragic Villain: Your Mileage May Vary, but she sees herself as this, after she commits murder to save Ben from toxic fumes.
  • You Can't Go Home Again: At the end of Vortex, after she kills Taalon, who was "too high above her station", Vestara can't risk going back to the tribe, and willingly stays with Luke and Ben.
  • Well Done Daughter Girl: Ben mocks her for this:

"Yes, dear Papa." "No, dear Papa." "You are amazing, dear Papa."

Gavar Khai

Vestera's father, and a high ranking Sith Saber of the Lost Tribe.

Sarasu Taalon

One of the High Lords of the Lost Tribe, and the head of the fleet dispatched to deal with Abeloth and Luke Skywalker.

Darish Vol

The current Grand Lord of the Lost Tribe of Sith.

Dark Jedi

Alema Rar

New Republic/Galactic Alliance Military

Traest Kre'fey

Sien Sovv

Nek Bwua'tu

Cha Niathal

  • Dropped a Bridge On Her
  • Karma Houdini: Disscused and averted. Daala wants to simply let her retire in peace, but Wynn Dorvan insists that putting others who were complicit in Jacen's rise on trial but not her seems like playing favorites. Daala eventully decides to go forth with the trial, but Niathal commits suicide before being arrested.

Gavin Darklighter

Related to Biggs Darklighter, Luke's Mauve Shirt friend from A New Hope. He debuted in the X Wing Series as a member of Rogue Squadron, and worked his way up to leader of Rogue squadron during the New Jedi Order. He became a fleet commander by the time of the Dark Nest Trilogy, and in Fate of the Jedi he became the leader of the Galactic Alliance Space Marines as an Admiral.

New Republic/Galactic Alliance Politicians

Cal Omas

Viqi Shesh

The New Repulbic Senator from Kuat during the Yuuzhan Vong war. She believed the invaders would win, and served as their spy.

Wynn Dorvan

Haydnat Treen

Hapan

Tenel Ka

Tenel Ka Djo was the daughter of the man who almost married Leia in The Courtship of Princess Leia. A hot-headed princess, she was attending the Jedi Academy by the time of the Young Jedi Knights series and was friends with the Solo children. An accident during a lightsaber training session against Jacen cost her an arm, that she refused to replace with a prosthetic. She eventually grew up to inherit the throne her mother and grandmother had held before her. She had a daughter with Jacen, but had to fake the kid's death to protect her from political opponents.

Allana Djo Solo

Taryn Zel

Imperial Remnant

Drikl Lecersen

  • Affably Evil
  • Big Bad Wannabe: Unfortunately for him, he started making his moves when the Lost Tribe of Sith and Abeloth emerged. Once they entered the picture, he was out of his league.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He's a Moff: it is a requirment for the job.
  • Corrupt Politician
  • Dirty Coward: Put him in any position in which his life is threatened, and he will immediately switch sides or cave to any demand.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Unlike other Moffs, he has no problem with women in power, and respects several non-humans. When one member of the Imperial-Alliance conspiracy mocked Nek Bwua'tu after their assassination attempt put him in a coma, Lecersen was offended, since he thought Bwua'tu was a Worthy Opponent.

Vitor Reige

Chiss

Jagged Fel

Yuuzhan Vong

Yuuzhan Vong in General

  • Blue and Orange Morality: Big time. The everyday actions of their lives make them seem horrifically Exclusively Evil to the eyes of the galaxy's inhabitants, and the feeling is mutual.
  • Body Horror: Ritual body modifications and scarification are big.
  • Combat Sadomasochist: The most fanatical warriors (particularly from Domain Shai) are like this, though pain gives them religious, rather than sexual, ecstasy. Even the less fanatical Vong are used enough to pain that they can take even massive amounts of it without dropping.
  • Elite Mooks: With their lightsaber-resistant armor and weapons and invisibility to the Force, Vong Warriors are far more formidable one-on-one than Imperial Stormtroopers.
  • Exclusively Evil: Subverted. They're explicitly no better or worse than humans would have been under the same circumstances.
  • Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Yuuzhan Vong culture and religion was heavily influenced by those of Meso-American cultures such as the Aztecs. Examples include having a polytheistic religion, the concept of gods sacrificing themselves in creation then requiring people be sacrificed to them, a strong emphasis on honor and a ritualistic approach to the wars necessary to sustain these sacrifices to name some things. They also seem to take cues from the Ottoman Empire since both were theocratic empires with religions that extol martyrdom during war (also in the books written after 2001, some also made use of suicide attacks), they had a partial acceptance of fratricide, used stoning as a method of execution for sacrilege (in the Vong's case it was also used to destroy droids since the Vong religion considered manufactured technology an abomination), didn't practice primogeniture and both used slave-soldiers taken from peoples they'd subjugated. Another possible inspiration is the Māori of New Zealand, whose tattoos (called Tā moko) signaled status and rank, and - similar to the Aztecs - they were also feared for their war-centered society and ritualistic approach towards it.
  • The Horde: At first, they're a spacefaring version. After taking Coruscant, they turn into The Empire.
  • Humanoid Aliens
  • Master Race
  • Organic Technology
  • Proud Scholar Race: Subverted with the Shapers. Although they're the Vong's scientists, they just keep and transmit pre-existing knowledge. Creating new knowledge is heresy of the highest order.
  • Proud Warrior Race: The Warrior Caste.
  • Religion of Evil: The Great Doctrine is... not a pretty religion. It's not as insidious as the Sith, but even more overtly brutal.
  • Scary Dogmatic Aliens: Of the "aliens as religious fanatics" flavor, with some elements of "aliens as Nazis" (though that's more The Empire's hat).
  • Space Elves: They're basically Space Dark Elves in culture meets Space Orcs in appearance and the Zerg in aesthetics.
  • Spikes of Villainy: A fair bit, mostly on the vonduun crab armor.
  • We Have Reserves: Since they have no qualms about dying themselves or sending subordinates to their deaths, it's unsurprising they rely on this tactic a fair bit. Ultimately deconstructed when they spend so many warriors' lives that they run out of reserves.

Nom Anor

  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
  • Dirty Coward: While he can fight, if there's a fight looming he prefers to flee or put others between himself and danger where possible.
  • Driven to Suicide: In his final scene, Nom stays behind on an exploding warship rather than escape with the heroes, for reasons detailed under Hoist by His Own Petard below. We don't see him die, but it's heavily implied he goes down with the ship which exploded shortly after the heroes evacuated.
  • Evilly Affable: While Nom is a total bastard with few redeeming features, his scheming plots and increasing status as the Only Sane Man among the Vong make him a very entertaining character.
  • Hazy Feel Turn: He winds up siding with the heroes at a few points, but for his own selfish purposes. He also helped evacuate the protagonists from the Supreme Overlord's deteriorating flagship in the last book, but they could've done it without him and he tried to betray them twice first.
  • Hiding Behind Religion: While Nom Anor was living among the Shamed Ones, Nom tried to co-opt their beliefs in his guise as a being called the Prophet. However, Nom didn't actually believe in the religion or its gods was only looking to gain power and influence.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: In a roundabout way. By the end of the last book, Nom Anor's scheming and chronic backstabbing have made him enemies among every group - to the point that he tried to kill the protagonists twice after they'd just killed the Supreme Overlord and defeated the Yuuzhan Vong in war. Nom's personal views also mean there's something he hates about every group as well. So in the end, Nom burned all his bridges, didn't fit in anywhere and was too proud to reconsider his life choices, so with nothing left he chose to stay behind and die on the exploding flagship.
  • I Have Many Names: Uses a ton of aliases and pseudonyms.
  • It's All About Me: While he will pander to those with power over him, he will abandon them if he can benefit and get away with it at the drop of a hat. Ultimately, Nom Anor's only allegiance is to Nom Anor.
  • Manipulative Bastard
  • Only Sane Man: How he often feels among his own people, which is even true some of the time.
  • Smug Snake
  • Villainous Breakdown: Experiences this twice in Traitor; the first when Jacen massacres most of the durhayam, and the second when Ganner does his badass final stand.

Supreme Overlord Shimrra

Onimi

Warmaster Tsavong Lah

  • Bad Boss: Though by Vong standards he's almost cuddly, even sparing the lives of subordinates he could have killed. Not that that says a whole lot, mind you…
  • Body Horror: His "uniform" is a suit of armor scales that has basically been grafted to his skin.
  • The Chessmaster: Sometimes. Authors varied a lot about how competent they made him- at his best he was about on level with Admiral Ackbar, Garm Bel Iblis, or Pellaeon; at his worst he's a raving animal. It's certainly difficult to see the canny Warmaster of Star by Star falling into the trap that kills him in Destiny's Way.
  • Combat Sadomasochist: It's a requirment for Yuuzhan Vong warriors.
  • The Dragon
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: He becomes obsessed with hunting Jedi, so of course this ends up getting him killed.
  • Knight Templar
  • Pet the Dog: His relationship with his father.
  • We Have Reserves: Standard Yuuzhan Vong combat doctrine. Except that after three years of war, he ends up running out of reserves, and is chewed out by Supreme Overlord Shimrra for it.
  • Worthy Opponent: Sometimes- it depends on the author. Denning in particular has said that Lah could have been a great hero if he hadn't been a Scary Dogmatic Alien.

Nen Yim

Nas Choka

Harrar

  • Heel Face Turn
  • Karma Houdini: He presided over the sacrifice of thousands of captives and instigated several plots to kill the Jedi, but once he has his change of heart, he is welcomed by the Jedi. Considering that he then was instrumental in ending the war and leading the reform of the Vong, this is probably Justified.

Mandalorians

Mirta Gev

Goran Beviin

Other Characters

Mirax Terrik Horn

Corran Horn's wife, and a (former) smuggler who specialized in antiques.

  • Dating Catwoman: She's a smuggler dating, and later married, to an ex-cop.
  • Happily Married
  • Mama Bear: She manages to knock out a Yaka captain, who is several feet taller than her and much more physically imposing, after finding he had hung her children who had been frozen in carbonite on his office wall.

Danni Quee

Droma

Abeloth

  • A God Am I: Abeloth's ultimate goal because she craves adoration - one of her self-appointed titles is "Beloved Queen of the Stars". She's also one of the most powerful characters in the Star Wars franchise.
  • Assimilation Plot: She takes bodies as her own and absorbs minds in order to make herself stronger.
  • Belated Backstory: She was the "Mother" to The Ones from The Clone Wars series, bordering into Retcon since she was introduced to the Star Wars storyline before they were.
  • Big Bad: Of Fate of the Jedi.
  • Eldritch Abomination: She's this kind of entity, even if she was once a mortal.
  • Enemy to All Living Things: Death follows her everywhere.
  • Face Monster Turn: Upon drinking from the Font of Power and bathing in the Pool of Knowledge.
  • Fighting a Shadow: One of two reasons aside from her power level that she's hard to kill. The real Abeloth seems to exist almost totally within the force, and she can take over physical bodies- sometimes more than one at a time to interact with the physical universe. Killing them weakens her, but doesn't hurt her much in the long run.
  • Foe Yandere: She was awfully obsessed with Luke, and she is killing his ex-girlfriends though that stop when Callista was removed from her.
  • Glamour Failure: Both Luke and Vestara can see through her illusions. In Luke's case its because he saw her in the Beyond Shadows realm, and Vestara's because she figured out Abeloth's treachery.
  • I Just Want to Be Loved: Her real motivation stemming from her past as The Mother. In fact, love is the very reason why she turned into an abomination: she wanted to be inmortal in order to stay with The Ones forever so she bathed in the Pool of Knowledge and drank from the Font of Power.
  • More Than Mind Control: This is how she ends up controlling every person in the Maw.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: If the title of the last book in the series, not to mention the Thuruht queen's statement about the end times arriving as soon as she learns about Abeloth's unsealment, it is implied that she's pretty much going to attempt to destroy existence.
  • Physical God: Abeloth is a celestial being and Force entity, and in her Belated Backstory was able to subdue both the Son and the Daughter single-handedly at the same time. Though Abeloth's opponents manage to put her on the backfoot several times kill her avatars and defeat her, she's still dangerous - dangerous enough to make the Jedi and the Sith team up to take her down - and really hard to kill. Some of her most notable feats are making a Force Flash that effected an entire solar system, destroying a city full of Sith unintentionally while chucking a tantrum and making volcanoes pop up all over Coruscant.
  • Reality Warper: Abeloth's power is somewhere between this and Physical God. In addition to being able to use both the Light and Dark sides of the Force, she has numerous powers including inducing Force psychosis (what's more, she can do this even if a Force-user is in orbit above her planet) and teleportation. On her planet, she made animals photosynthesize and plants turned carnivorous ("Allies" mentions a Sith having their foot bitten off by a pile of leaves).
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: She was sealed in the Maw, which was made to imprison her.
  • Was Once a Man: She didn't become an Eldritch Abomination until she tampered with the Font of Power and Pool of Knowledge.
  • World-Wrecking Wave: Her presence on a planet causes a subtle version of this. Over time, she will take control of all plants and animals on a planet and can alter them at fundamental levels.
  • Yandere: She inherited her interest in Luke from assimilating Callista.

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