Vodo-Siosk Baas

"Together Jedi can overcome their weaknesses."

- Vodo-Siosk Baas

Vodo-Siosk Baas was a male Krevaaki Jedi Master and the ancestor of future Jedi Master Bodo Baas. Master Vodo was highly thought of throughout the Jedi Order and was known to have taken part in the training of several famous Jedi Knights. He was among the most powerful of the Order and one of its leaders; however, he died at the hands of his former apprentice, turned Dark Lord of the Sith Exar Kun, in a vicious duel.

Instructor of Jedi
"My master has been respected for centuries among our fraternity."

- Exar Kun about Vodo-Siosk Baas

Like his descendant Bodo, Vodo was "Gatekeeper" of a holocron. Vodo trained several Jedi on Ossus and Dantooine, one of these being Exar Kun. Kun, unlike Vodo's other students, was fascinated by the ways of the Sith. Master Vodo was unhappy with this fascination, and realized that if Kun delved too deeply into the dark side of the Force, he would turn from the Jedi path, perhaps permanently.

Fall of Exar Kun
When Kun nearly killed one of his fellow pupils, a Cathar named Sylvar, Master Vodo stepped in and challenged Kun to a duel of walking stick versus his pupil's lightsaber. Despite what seemed to be overwhelming odds, Master Vodo apparently defeated Kun. Exar Kun used the Force to reach for an extra lightsaber, and eventually managed to break his Master's walking stick. Vodo acknowledged Kun as his most formidable student, yet indicated that there was emptiness within his soul with much potential for the dark side to overtake him.

During this time, Master Vodo taught both Nomi Sunrider and Shoaneb Culu on lightsaber construction. This seems to indicate that Master Vodo was himself a skilled Jedi artisan.

Kun left Dantooine, and when he finally called again to Master Vodo, it was when he was crushed and near-dead under the ruins of a Sith Mausoleum Freedon Nadd had collapsed on top of him on Korriban. Vodo tried to help meditating in the Force to protect his former student, but Freedon Nadd's spirit blocked his efforts.

The Sith War
"Go on to your higher plane, teacher. The galaxy is mine now."

- Exar Kun, just before killing Vodo

During the Great Sith War, at the Trial of Ulic Qel-Droma, Vodo challenged Kun before the frozen Galactic Senate. Vodo and Kun fought each other, Kun taunting his master into joining him while Vodo firmly held his ground and refused each time. However, when Kun revealed his double-bladed lightsaber, Vodo could not hold him off, and he was slain by his former pupil.

Vodo's spirit became one with the Force, and his stories became part of the holocron's stories. A statue dedicated to him was constructed at the entrance to the Draay Estate.

After Death
Millennia later in 11 ABY, Luke Skywalker used Vodo's holocron at his Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4, until the spirit of Exar Kun destroyed it. After that, the spirit of Vodo joined with Luke and his Jedi initiates to bind and destroy Exar Kun forever.

Appearances

 * Tales of the Jedi: The Freedon Nadd Uprising
 * Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith
 * Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 9: Flashpoint Interlude: Homecoming
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 18: Nights of Anger, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 32: Vindication, Part 1
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 33: Vindication, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
 * Dark Apprentice
 * Champions of the Force
 * I, Jedi
 * Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force
 * Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force

Notes and references
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