List of New Order Jedi characters
This article is about fictional Jedi characters that appeared in the Post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe and were part of Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order.
Cilghal
Template:SW Character Cilghal was a Mon Calamari Jedi. When a poisonous drink almost killed Mon Mothma, Cilghal healed her through the Force.
Cilghal appeared late on in the Star Wars universe, helping the Young Jedi Knights (Jacen and Jaina Solo, etc.) destroy a large stash of illegal spice. She also appeared in the New Jedi Order series, helping unravel the mysteries of the voxyn and other Yuuzhan Vong creations. Cilghal also became one of the six Jedi to sit on the Advisory Council of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. She also learned Vergere's 'small' Force abilities, and took the Chadra-Fan Tekli as an apprentice. By the time of the Dark Nest crisis, Cilghal sat on the Jedi High Council, and it was with reluctance that she tortured a Killik prisoner to gain information about the Dark Nest's powers of influence over the partly Joined Jedi Knights Tahiri Veila, Tesar Sebatyne, and her own former apprentice Tekli. She, like Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo, questioned this new order of moral relativity and was regretful of her experiment on the Gorog assassin Killik.
Dorsk 81
Dorsk 81 is a Jedi Knight in the fictional Star Wars universe, originating from the clone world Khomm. As all of Khomm's people are genderless and cannot support life. This is due to their race reaching a stage in their evolution that proved satisfactory and switched to a cloning based society, in order to maintain this point in evolution. They have covered their planet's surface with cloning facilities. As a consequence, none of Dorsk 81's people can be Force sensitive, because Khomm's first people were not.
But Dorsk 81 was force sensitive, and because of this anomaly he was shunned by his people. Only Dorsk 82, Dorsk 81's clone, respected him, as both of them were strong in the ways of the Force. Dorsk 82 would later go on to become a respected Jedi Knight.
Dorsk 82
After the death of Dorsk 81, Dorsk 82 joined the New Jedi Order. Like his predecssor, Dorsk 82 was Force-sensitive. However, he believed himself unworthy of his predecessor. Dorsk 82 later died in the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, when he was shot by peace supporters led by the Yuuzhan Vong, while attempting to rescue a large number of droids.
His death was not alone, as the Jedi were being hunted by desperate peoples across the galaxy who were trying to earn the Yuuzahn Vong's mercy.
Gantoris
Template:SW Character A headstrong man and a leader to many, Gantoris was one of Luke Skywalker's first Jedi candidates for the New Jedi Order. Originally from Eol Sha, Skywalker chose Gantoris as his first candidate because of his ability to sense earthquakes and, as a child, survived an avalanche after his friends were killed.
The brash man tested Skywalker's abilities because he had been plagued by dreams of a "dark man" who would show Gantoris unique powers and then kill him. However, the young Jedi Master passed all of Gantoris' tests, and, with the man as his new student, he promised to help the people of Eol Sha find a new home on the planet Dantooine.
After Skywalker gained more candidates and set up his academy on Yavin 4, Gantoris was once again plagued by dreams of the "dark man." This man turned out to be the evil spirit of the great Sith Lord, Exar Kun. Kun told Gantoris how to construct a special dual-phase lightsaber, thus exceeding his training past Skywalker's bounderies. Gantoris took his new lightsaber and challenged Master Skywalker to a duel. Skywalker was fazed that his student had already constructed a lightsaber without proper training and instruction, and yet even more impressed about the lightsaber's ability to extend in length. However, it didn't stop his dueling skills, and Skywalker soundly defeated his student by using the Force to take the lightsaber out of Gantoris' hand.
Again, Exar Kun's spirit haunted the young Jedi apprentice, saying that he wanted Gantoris' anger to release his spirit and bring chaos to the galaxy again. Gantoris tried to calm himself by reciting the Jedi Code, but Kun vented out Gantoris' anger by showing him a vision of the refugees of Eol Sha on Dantooine being killed and destroyed by Admiral Daala. Gantoris ignited his lightsaber and tried to attack Kun's dark spirit...
When two of Skywalker's other candidates, Streen and Dorsk 81, came to get the Jedi Master for help, it was too late for Gantoris. They found him dead, his whole body charred and black. Skywalker, upset with the death of one of his greatest students, told his other apprentices to use this as an opportunity to show how much they had to beware of the dark side.
Horn, Corran
Corran Horn is a character from the fictional Star Wars universe. Corran was a security officer with Corellian Security (CorSec) who eventually joined the Rebellion and learned of his powerful Jedi heritage.
Katarn, Kyle
Kyle Katarn is a character in the fictional Star Wars universe, the protagonist of the video game Star Wars: Dark Forces and its sequels. Although created only for the needs of a video game, Katarn became a surprisingly famous Expanded Universe character, almost as famous as Mara Jade. The surname comes from the Katarn, a predator animal living on the planet Kashyyyk.
Son of Morgan and Patricia Katarn, farmers from Sulon, he was educated at Republic Academy on Carida when his mother was killed by a malfunctioning BT-16 perimeter security droid. He became a decorated Imperial trooper but his father, unbeknownst to him, was a Rebel supporter. During the attack on his homeplanet of Sulon (officially a Rebel attack), he lost his father. Kyle began to hate the Rebel Alliance and supervised many Imperial operations against it.
Lowbacca
Lowbacca (aka "Lowie") is the nephew of Chewbacca, a Wookiee from the Star Wars universe. Lowbacca studied to become a Jedi at Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy. He was a companion of Jaina Solo, Jacen Solo, and Tenel Ka. Since most of the people with which he would have to interact were not fluent in the Wookiee dialect, he used a small translating droid that he carried at his waist named Em Teedee. Later it was modified so as to hover, and follow him around, flying. Being a Wookiee, Lowbacca is a rarity among Jedi as Force-sensitives are less common among Wookiees than among other species, one being born only every century or so. He wields a bronze-bladed lightsaber.
During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Lowie was one of the Jedi to go on the assault on the voxyn-creating worldship near Myrkr.
Thul, Raynar
Raynar Thul (b. circa 9 ABY) is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe that originally appeared in the Young Jedi Knights series of books as an antagonist, then as a friend of, the Solo twins. He is the son of former Alderaan nobles Bornan and Aryn Dro Thul, and the heir of their shipping enterprise, Bornaryn Trading. He is (usually) never seen in clothes that do not have the colours of the House of Thul on them.