Corran Horn

"I'm glad you think I'm not bad, but I want to be the best."

- Corran Horn to Wedge Antilles

Corran Horn was a Human security officer with the Corellian Security Force, husband of Mirax Terrik Horn, and father of Valin and Jysella Horn. He eventually joined the New Republic and learned of his powerful Jedi heritage. He became a powerful Jedi and a Master on the new Jedi Council. Horn's command qualities and experience made him a natural leader among the Jedi, which saw him become the temporary head of the Order during the Dark Nest Crisis.

Early life
For most of his life, Corran grew up believing that he was the grandson of Rostek Horn, and the son of Valin "Hal" Horn and Nyche Horn. Corran followed their footsteps by joining the Corellian Security Force (CorSec) and dedicating himself to law enforcement. He entered the CorSec Academy at the age of eighteen. Corran had always had hunches and instincts; these turned out to be early manifestations of Corran's latent Force abilities.



Once, he paid an individual to escort Chandra Conrad, a witness who had agreed to come forward to testify for his investigation against the Black Sun, back to him. He would have done this himself but had to attend an important meeting with his Black Sun contacts or else his cover would have been blown. Soon after this, he once again paid the individual; this time to bring Obrio Caldori, a Black Sun crook, to him for questioning. Caldori was eager to cooperate with him once he discovered how much Horn's witnesses already knew and turned over evidence implicating Voydd Blancken, one of Black Sun's major players. Horn knew that bringing him to justice would be a major blow to Black Sun as he knew where a lot of bodies were buried and so he once again called on the individual to bring Voydd in. This was a huge blow to the Black Sun operatives on Corellia, and they took a long time to recover.

During his time in CorSec, Corran and his partner Iella Wessiri protected several well-known individuals from kidnapping threats. Two such people were Wynssa Starflare and Siolle Tinta, the latter of whom Corran enjoyed a brief but passionate romance with. After a harrowing raid on a glitterstim den, he and Iella had nearly slept together; however, Kirtan Loor took them in for debriefing, and when they saw each other again, the moment had passed.

Hunting Zekka Thyne
"‘Risky’ isn’t exactly the word I had in mind [...] You have any idea how many CorSec agents have gone after top Black Sun lieutenants like Thyne and simply vanished?"

- Hal Horn



Corran saw a chance to capture Zekka Thyne, the Black Sun crime boss on Corellia when the crew of the hopskip unwittingly contacted the Back Sun operative Sajsh, claiming to have a delivery for Borbor Crisk, the Black Sun’s rival on Correllia. Trailing the crew, at first in secret, Corran and his “partner” Hal Horn eventually openly joined forces with the crew, pretending to be petty criminals looking for employment with Crisk, after rescuing them from a band of mercenaries along with “Jodo Kast”&mdash;really Grand Admiral Thrawn in disguise&mdash;who had orchestrated the whole encounter with Sajsh as part of a plan to bring down Thyne.

Corran, returning to the hopskip with Maranne Darmic and Riij Winward, on Kast’s orders, discovered that the two sleight boxes which could be opened and sealed again contained glitterstim and Durindfire gems, although both were actually fake. Kast returned, bearing the news that Hal, Haber Trell, and Rathe Palror had been captured by the black sun while attending a “meeting” set up by Sajsh. Corran demanded to accompany Kast on his trip to Thyne’s fortress to rescue Hal.

In the fortress, “Kast” pretended to betray Corran to Thyne&mdash;although in reality, it was part of a diversion Thrawn had planned to get as many of Thyne’s thugs out of his fortress as possible. Corran was locked up in the same cell as Hal, Haber, and Trell, and Thyne sent a squad after their companions. “Kast” provided Corran and Hal with a molecular stiletto to cut their bars with. They cut the bars, appropriated blasters from a guard, and headed after Zekka Thyne.

Corran and Hal arrived in Thyne’s office, just as stormtroopers were surrounding Thyne’s fortress, allegedly due to a rebel presence in the area. Thyne took off through a bolt-hole, and the Horns followed. Thyne was able to sneak up on and disarm Corran, and use him as a human shield against Hal. However, Hal was still able to hit Thyne with a stun bolt, using the reflective “diamonds” in the center of Thyne’s eyes as targets. Corran and Hal were subsequently almost killed by a squad of stormtroopers believing them to be Black Sunners helping Thyne escape, however, they were rescued by the arrival of Colonel Maximilian Veers, who had been informed of the presence of two CorSec officers in the area by Kirtan Loor, who allowed them to use one of his landspeeders to complete their apprehension of Thyne.



From CorSec to Rebellion
"And what will we do when the only evil left in the galaxy is the Empire?"

- Corran Horn

Corran's mother died in a landspeeder accident in 3 ABY. As Corran continued serving with CorSec, his relationship with his division of CorSec's Imperial Liaison officer, Kirtan Loor, became increasingly poor. After when Corran caught Trandoshan bounty hunter Bossk after Bossk had murdered Corran's father, Loor let him go without even a fine.

Corran and his parter Iella crossed paths with Rogue Squadron during a mission to rescue Soontir Fel's nephew who had been kidnapped by Ilir Post, who hated Fel because Fel had prevented from raping Pamr in the past. Because the kidnapping was really part of an imperial operation to ransom the location of Fel's wife, Wynssa Starflare, from the from the fell family, Kirtan Loor attempted to relieve them of the case, however, Iella was able to distract Loor by appealing to his egoism. Seeing through the imperial operation, Corran and Iella teamed up with Wes Janson, Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian and Plourr Ilo, who were trying to rescue Fel's family from the Empire. Corran and Iella rescued the three rebels from an alley fight with Post and some hired thugs, however, Post escaped. The five subsequently rescued Fyric Fel in a raid on Post's estate, with the help of a surprise appearance by Fyric's father, who shot Post before Post could kill Fyric. When the rebels were attacked by pirates while escaping with the Fel family, Corran shot down several of the Uglies in his CorSec X-wing. Hobbie recommended that Horn should be invited to join the squadron.

Knowing that Kirtan Loor&mdash;the Imperial Liaison officer&mdash;was planning to have them arrested on trumped up charges, Corran, his mentor Gil Bastra, Iella Wessiri, and Iella's husband Diric Wessiri, made plans to escape. Corran was lucky to escape as Loor was planning on having him murdered. Corran left with a CorSec X-wing and Whistler&mdash;his R2 astromech droid. Gil Bastra made sure that he was easy for Loor to track him down, allowing his comrades to escape. Bastra was eventually killed by Loor during a botched interrogation.

After leaving CorSec, Corran Horn spent two years on the run, using a series of false identities Bastra had prepared for him. Corran spent around a year as an aide to a series of incompetent Imperial Military Prefects on Garqi, under the alias Eamon Yzalli. Durring this time, Corran took his X-wing out on frequent night flights. On one such flight, Corran's starboard engine sucked in a Rdava-bird and broke. In order to get the parts he needed to make repairs to his ship, he contacted the Duros trader Lai Nootka, however, Nootka and the crew of his ship, the Star's Delight, were arrested and imprisoned, and the spare X-wing parts they were smuggling led prefect Mosh Barris to believe Garqi had become a hotbead of rebel activity.

While Corran attempted to devise a plan to get the spare parts for his X-wing out of the guard's hands, his Astromech Droid, Whistler, organized a "Rebel" cell among students at Garqi Ag University, over computer networks, although the extent of the cell's rebel actions was limited to vandalism using rebel symbols and slogans. One of the members of this cell, Dynba Tesc, was arrested after they traced paint that she used to paint an anti-Imperial slogan on the side of the Imperial court to her personal account. When Barris was unable to get any useful information from her after two days of interrogation, he decided to have her executed. At the same time, Corran found out that his former Imperial Liaison Officer at CorSec, Kirtan Loor, was coming to inspect Garqi.



Corran Devised a plan that would simultaneously save Dynba and the crew of the Star's Delight and allow him to get his X-wing repaired in time to get off Garqi before Loor arrived, while also framing Barris for treason and the murder of "Eamon Yzalli." He proposed to Barris that instead of executing Tesc, he could allow her to stage an escape with her fellow rebels and the crew of the Star's Delight, but sabotage the ship's shields, allowing them to shoot down the ship while it was escaping, destroying the entire "rebel" cell. Corran pointed out that Barris could time the plan to coincide with Loor's arrival to display his efficiency in dealing with rebels to the Intelligence officer. Barris approved, and Corran began executing the plan.

Corran went to Tesc, claiming to have had a change of heart about the Empire, which had destroyed Eamon Yzalli's supposed homeworld of Alderaan, and could not bear to see her executed. He gave her a rank cylinder which identified her as intelligent agent "Kirtana Loor", and allow her to take custody of the Star's Delight's crew, contact her conspirators, and escape. He meanwhile had the spare X-Wing part's transfered to the Star's Delight, but reported to Barris that some of the parts had been stolen, reportedly believing someone had stolen them to repair their private T-47 Landspeeder, while in actuality, he had stolen the parts to repair his X-wing. He then had Barris report that "Eamon Yzalli" had been executed for "anti-imperial behavior", so that Tesc would take leave without him.

The Star's Delight took off, and Mosh Barris sent TIE fighters in pursuit. Corran had originally planned to only use the Star's Delight's escape as a diversion for his own, however, he was forced to change his plans when he found out that the Code to activate the shields had not been communicated to the crew as planned. He took off after the freighter in his X-wing, and communicated the code to activate the shields to the crew. He destroyed all four of the TIE fighters in attacking the Star's Delight, and escaped along with the ship to the Rebel Alliance.

After hearing about the battle, rebel Captain Dromath attempted to convince Corran to join the rebels. While initially reluctant, Corran agreed to join when he heard that Rogue Squadron was being reformed, and he might be good enough to join it.

Rogue Squadron
"You're good, Corran, but you're no Luke Skywalker."

- Wedge Antilles on Corran's piloting skills.

[[Image:RogueSquadron_cover_art.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[The battle for [[Borleias]].]]

About two years after leaving Corellia, Corran Horn joined Rogue Squadron. He was the roommate and wingmate of Ooryl Qrygg. He did well enough during training that he was promoted to Lieutenant and given command of the squadron's Three Flight. His promotion came after he was the only potential Rogue to manage to beat the Redemption Scenario (also known as Requiem). Corran's call-sign was Rogue Nine.

Although he was an exceptional pilot, Corran had trouble adapting to working as part of a team early in his career in Rogue Squadron. During an early training mission on Folor, Commander Wedge Antilles fed Corran's targeting data to Corran's fellow trainees, whom he ordered to announce their scores to Corran, but to not tell him that they had received his targeting data. While the exercise was one in using reconnaissance data for the rest of the squadron, Wedge used the exercise as a way of teaching Corran that his own personal performance was unimportant compared to the overall success of the squadron. Although Corran was initially enraged by Wedge's deception, he eventually took the lesson after a talk with the Commander.

During transit to the Rogues' new forward base at Talasea, the Rogues stumbled on The Pulsar Skate, a Baudo-class star yacht being ambushed by the Black Asp an Interdictor cruiser. Rogue Squadron drove the Interdictor off without any losses, but Corran, wandering too close to the cruiser, got struck by a ion bolt and became immobilized and had to be towed to Talasea by Mirax Terrik, the daughter of smuggler Booster Terrik, at Wedge's request. This first encounter between them began to pave the way for their eventual relationship. Because Hal Horn had once arrested Booster and sent him to Kessel for five years, early animosity existed between Mirax and Corran, and between Booster and Corran, especially when Booster found out about his daughter's interest in his archenemy's son. However, over time, Corran and Mirax became close friends.

Later, after the Battle of Hensara, Corran entered into a contest as to who was the best pilot in the squadron, measured in kills, with fellow pilot Bror Jace. Bror would eventually win the contest by one kill, with 22 kills to Corran's 21. However, Corran had lost credit for four of his kills by agreeing to average kills with fellow pilot Gavin Darklighter, who at the time only had one, in response to charges that Gavin was the worst pilot in the squadron.

At the Battle of Vladet, Corran played a major part in destroying the Ravager, an Imperial Lancer Frigate, by having Warden Squadron, a Y-wing squadron in Defender Wing, lock their proton torpedoes onto his X-wing's homing beacon, and putting the Ravager in between the torpedoes and his X-wing when the torpedoes were too close to maneuver around the frigate. General Horton Salm, the commanding officer of Defender Wing, attempted to court-martial Corran for his actions, as they had been they had been taken against his orders, but the charges were dropped.

Corran participated in the disastrous First Battle of Borleias, although at the time, he only knew the planet by its code name, "Blackmoon." However, using data collected by his Astromech droid, Whistler, he was able to identify "Blackmoon" as "Borleias," and along with Lieutenant Judder Page, he devise the battle plan for the Second Battle of Borleias, which successfully took the planet with less resources than used in the first battle. During the battle, Corran expended too much fuel to return to Noquivzor, the planet from which the mission was staged, so he remained behind on Borleias. He was rescued by Tycho Celchu and Mirax Terrik in the Pulsar Skate. Because of the Pulsar Skate's superior hyperdrive speeds, Corran, Tycho, and Mirax arrived back at Noquivzor before the rest of the squadron. They played a prank by pretending to play a pre-recorded message from Corran, indicating that he had been left behind on Borleias. However, the "Message" was actually being spoken by Corran as the squadron viewed it, and Corran broke the facade by offering to share ryshcate with the squadron to celebrate a successful mission.

Coruscant scouting mission
"In comparison with our mission, any other problem is a minor problem."

- Corran Horn



Corran fought in skirmishes at Borleias and Mrisst, at which time Provisional Council began making plans to capture Coruscant. At the suggestion of Borsk Fey'lya, Corran and his squadron freed 15 Black Sun criminals from Kessel, to release onto Coruscant in an attempt to destabilize the Imperial capital. Corran was reluctant to release such dangerous criminals, especially Zekka Thyne, who he and his father had apprehended several years ago, but believed that former Corellian Moff Fliry Vorru could control Thyne.

Corran participated in a scouting mission to determine the best way for the New Republic to take Coruscant. He traveled with fellow squad mate Erisi Dlarit to the Imperial capital aboard the Jewel of Churba Erisi posing as a Kuati aristocrat, and Corran as her telbun. Corran and Erisi's mission was to survey Coruscant's basic security measures and medical facilities. During this time, the two grow close, but Corran stopped short of sleeping with Erisi, as he determined that their attraction was circumstantial, and a relationship would not work out in the long run.

Corran took a walk to mentally sort out his situation, however, he did not pay attention to where he was going, and stumbled into the Black Sun headquarters. There, he saw Tycho Celchu talking to a being he believed to be Imperial intelligence agent Kirtan Loor, leading him to believe that Celchu is an Imperial agent. Corran then encountered Zekka Thyne, who attempted to kill him. The resulting speeder chase through Coruscant's underlevels sent Corran's speeder through the window of a room where some of Corran's co-patriots, Wedge Antilles, Iella Wessiri, Mirax Terrik, and Winter were meeting, and landed Corran in the middle of an Imperial raid on the Alien Combine, where he met up with his squadron mates Gavin Darklighter, Rhysati Ynr, Riv Shiel, and Nawara Ven, as well as Alien Combine member Asyr Sei'lar.

Corran soon received word from Antilles that the nature of their mission had changed: Rogue Squadron was now responsible for bringing down Coruscant's planetary shields, in a limited amount of time. Corran met up with his former partner, Iella Wessiri, now a New Republic intelligence agent, and in a planning meeting attended by himself, Mirax, Antilles, Iella, and representatives from the Black Sun and Alien Combine, devises a plan to shut down the planetary Shields by gaining access to the planet's central computer system through a sabotage. The plan fails, however, when Zekka Thyne betrays the plan to Kirtan Loor, and Loor sends stormtroopers to foil the sabotage.

Corran, along with Mirax, are rescued from the failed sabotage by Inyri Forge, sister of Corran's deceased squadron mate Lujayne Forge, and lover of Zekka Thyne. They meet up with Thyne, who planned to kill Corran, but Inyri turned on Thyne and killed him. Latter, during another planning meeting, Corran, in conjunction with Gavin, Winter, and Asyr, devised a plan to knock out the planet's shields by using a construction droid to gain access to the control station necessary to gain control of one of the planet's orbital mirrors, which they would then use to concentrate sunlight onto one of the planet's reservoirs, evaporating the water in the reservoir and creating a storm large enough to disable the planetary shield's power grid.

On the morning before the operation, Corran entered a formal romantic relationship with Mirax Terrik. During the operation, Corran lead the mission's five-fighter cover wing of Z-95 Headhunters. When a back up power grid for the shields activated after the main power grid failed, Corran flew his Headhunter into the storm in an attempt to destroy the power substation which was transferring power from the back up grid to the shields. When his concussion missile fails to destroy the substation, Corran feeds his targeting data to Winter, who in turn remotely takes control of the a TIE Interceptor pursuing Corran, and uses the data to send the interceptor crashing into the substation, destroying the station and bringing down Coruscant's shields, just in time for the New Republic invasion force to arrive and capture the planet in the Battle of Coruscant

However, right after bringing the shields down, a remote radio link was made to the Z-95 Headhunter Corran was flying. This disabled Corran's inertial compensator and wrested control of the craft from him; Corran blacked out from inertial forces. When he came to, he found himself as the prisoner of Ysanne Isard&mdash;the head of Imperial forces, in Lusankya; the prison specialized in using drugs and psychological conditioning to turn rebels into sleeper agents that would activate and perform acts of terrorism against the Galactic Empire's enemies.

Lusankya and escape


"I'm going to come back for you, you know. Whenever I get clear, I'm going to have Wedge bring the squadron in and we'll get you out."

- Corran Horn to Jan Dodonna

Ysanne Isard attempted to convert Corran into a sleeper agent through use of drugs and physiological conditioning. Isard drugged Corran and had him fly TIE Interceptor simulations under the call sign Nemisis One. Corran initially went along with the simulation, shooting down TIE fighters and Uglies, Corran held back from destroying X-wings, even when he was told that they were being opperated by Kirtan Loor, and Tycho Celchu. Corran soon realized that the simulations were an attempt to brainwash him, and refused to continue to participate.

Ysanne Isard proceeded to interrogate Corran, and then moved him into the General Lusankya prisoner population. He soon met Urlor Sette and the unofficial leader of the prisoners, or "Old Man," Jan Dodonna. Corran immediately began thinking of ways to escape, despite the fact that no one had escaped from the prison alive before. During a disturbance in the mine where the prisoners were forced to work, Corran was hit by a guard's stun bolt. However, instead of passing out, the stun bolt merely temporarily paralyzed Corran.

While in the medical ward, Corran heard Stormtroopers marching on the "ceiling" of the floor below him. Corran came to the conclusion that this meant that the prisoner's were being held upside-down by artificial gravity generators, so as to cause any potential escapees to go just deeper when they attempted to head towards the surface. Jan and Urlor agreed to help him test this theory. They recruited several prisoners to stage a distraction while Corran threw a rock at the ceiling under the theory that the gravity generator's would be weaker there, and that the rock would stick to the "ceiling" do to the pull of natural gravity. The rock stuck, proving that the prisoners were indeed being held upside-down.

Corran soon made his move to escape. He made his way to the mines and slipped though the gate, using Urlor's Infrared profile to disguise his own, and soaking himself in the sink at the Latrine to minimize his Infrared profile when Urlor left. In the mines, he was attacked by General Derricote, who Isard had imprisoned in Lusankya as a punishment for the shortcomings of the Krytos Virus. Derricote had noticed Corran's experiment, and believed that by stopping Corran's escape, he could secure his own release. However, Corran was rescued by a surprise appearance of Jan, who killed Derricote. Corran hid Derricote's body, and Jan agreed to report Derricote missing after giving Corran a "head start" to begin his escape in, in order to divert their captor's attention from Corran.



Corran found an exit from the mine into the main facility, and eventually a passage which switched gravity from upside-down to right-side-up. During his escape, Corran found himself hiding in cabinet in a room in a library. When a stormtrooper searched the cabinet, he was able to use his latent force abilities to convince the stormtrooper that he wasn't there. After the stormtrooper left, Corran found a blaster in a box labeled as "The Complete History of Corvis Minor," as well as files showing that Tycho was not a Lusankya sleeper agent, like Corran had believed him to be. After some thinking, Corran was able to deduce the real identity of the Rogue Squadron spy. Finally, Corran discovered a hidden shuttle in the room, which took him to the Galactic Museum. However, Corran fell asleep in transit.

In the secret Jedi exhibit, he found a display on Nejaa Halcyon. Discarding his prison robes for Jedi robes he was surpised to discover two things: first, Neeja's statue wore a Jedi Credit very similar to his own, and second, Nejaa's silver lightsaber still worked. Corran took the lightsaber, noting that it would make a good "door opener," however, before he could use it, he was attacked by three of Fliry Vorru's men, who had been hunting for Derricote for Ysanne Isard. However, Corran Managed to escape. He then realized that he was actually still on Coruscant, not some backwater planet like he had believed. Corran contacted Whistler, and through Whistler's guidance, made his way to the courthouse where Tycho Celchu was being tried for murder and treason.

Corran began to explain everything that had gone on to him, as well as several other unexplained factors of recent events, however, General Airen Cracken ordered him to stop, for security reasons. At this point, the Lusankya broke out from under the Coruscant cityscape, killing millions. the Super Star Destroyer used it's weaponry to shoot it's way through Coruscant's sheild and escape, but not before picking up the spy in Rogue Squadron, Erisi Dlarit, and her X-wing. The charges against Tycho were subsequently dropped. Corran was able to decrypt a coded file encrypted by the recently deceased Kirtan Loor containing the location of all remaining Palpatine Counterinsurgency Front safehouses, allowing Rogue Squadron to quickly destroy what little was left of Loor's terrorist organization.

Meeting with Luke Skywalker


At the celebration party on Coruscant following Tycho's dismissal and Corran's return, Corran met Luke Skywalker for the first time. Luke had examined the closed portion of the museum and learned that Corran was actually the grandson of Jedi Master Nejaa Halcyon, who had died after the Clone Wars, and that Rostek Horn married his grandmother and adopted Hal to protect them from the Empire's Jedi hunters. Luke invited Corran to train with him to become a Jedi Knight, which Corran declined because he felt it was his duty to aid Rogue Squadron in what would appear to be their next mission: apprehending Ysanne Isard and rescuing the prisoners still aboard the Lusankya. When Borsk Fey'lya made it clear that this would not be allowed, Corran and his fellow pilots resigned their New Republic commissions en masse to wage a personal war with Isard, becoming a true 'Rogue' Squadron.

Fight for Thyferra
"A tyrant dead; a traitor dead; a Super Star Destroyer dead; and, if Escorol, Iella, and the Ashern have done their jobs, a planet liberated. Not a bad day at all."

- Corran Horn

Corran began carrying his grandfather's lightsaber. The squadron moved to the Yag-prime space station in orbit around Yag'Dhul. Because they were no longer officially part of the New Republic, Corran's X-wing, as well as 17 million credits, were the only resources that Rogue squadron had available to them at the beginning of their war against Ysanne Isard. Corran, Mirax Terrik, and Gavin Darklighter are sent on a mission to Tatooine to attempt to procure supplies from Gavin's uncle, Huff Darklighter, and encountered Booster Terrik, Mirax's father, who was also negotiating for the same supplies. Upon hearing why the Rogues need the supplies, Booster blackmailed Huff into giving them the supplies for free, but Mirax insists on paying a fair price. Booster accompanied the trio back to Yag'Dhul.

Corran participated in a raid on a bacta convoy in the Chorax system, and with his wingmate, Ooryl Qrygg, and transported a portion of that bacta to Halanit, a frozen world which was struck by a mysterious disease. Later, on a scouting mission to Thyferra, Corran was badly wounded in a firefight with stormtroopers, and was rescued by former squadron mate Bror Jace, who rejoined the squadron for the remainder of the war. Corran participated in several hit-and-run operations against bacta convoys, each now protected by one of Ysanne Isard's Star Destroyers, the Corrupter, the Virulence, or the Avarice.

After Ysanne Isard had the entire population of Halanit killed for accepting Rogue Squadron's bacta, Corran participated in the squadron's retaliatory Destruction of a bacta refinery on Qretu 5.

On a hit-and-run operation in Alderaan's Graveyard, the squadron is ambushed by the Aggregator, an Interdictor cruiser on lease to Ysanne Isard from High Admiral Teradoc, as well as the Corrupter. The Corrupter was destroyed and the Aggressor chased off in the resulting Battle of the Graveyard. High Adrimal Teradoc refused to lease Isard another Interdictor cruiser for the remainder of the war after this incident.



Corran participated in a mission to Elshandruu Pica to bribe Captain Sair Yonka to switch sides with his Star destroyer, Avarice. Later, Corran, Mirax, Gavin Darklighter, Rhysati Ynr, and Inyri Forge served as the escort flight for a convoy led by Talon Karrde's traitorous lieutenant, Melina Carniss, and by extension, Ysanne Isard, where Booster, Wedge, and Tycho had laid a "trap" for the Lusankya. While waiting for the convoy to arrive, Corran found out that his father had left a message for him about his Jedi heritage with Whistler, but decided against playing it for the time being. The night before the Battle of Thyferra, Corran and Mirax Terrik agreed to marry.

During, the battle, Corran, Ooryl, Tycho, and Nawara Ven broke off from the squadron's assault on Lusankya to chase the shuttle Thyfonian, which appeared to be transporting Ysanne Isard. Corran killed Erisi Dlarit, who was flying escort for Isard. Corran was unable to penetrate Isard's improved shields with his lasers, and was out of proton torpedos, but was able to give Tycho a targeting lock on the shuttle. Tycho destroyed the shuttle just before it entered hyperspace.

After the battle, Corran discovered the Lusankya prisoners had been moved from the Super Star Destroyer. He also learned that his wingmate, Ooryl, had been proclaimed Janwuine, and that he and the rest of the squadron were invited to his Janwuine-jika. He helped General Airen Cracken negotiate the removal of several guns from the Star Destroyer Booster Terrik had captured in the Battle of Thyferra. At this time, Booster learned of Mirax's engagement to Corran, and based on his reaction, Corran and Mirax have Wedge marry them before the squadron's victory party, resulting Booster losing a million credits in a bet with Talon Karrde, who predicted that they would do just that.



Zsinj Campaign
Joining the rest of his squadron in rejoining the New Republic, Corran spent some time unsuccessfully searching for the Lusankya prisoners, and then joined the campaign against Warlord Zsinj. After presumably participating in the destruction of the Implacable at Ession, Corran, along with the rest of his squadron, were assigned to the Mon Remonda as part of General Han Solo's anti-Zsinj task force. While part of General Solo's task force, Corran participated in several raids against Zsinj, including a raid on Lavisar and the destruction of the Super Star Destroyer Razor's Kiss.

Corran was presumably present for Zsinj's ambush of the Solo task force at Levian Two, and participated in a raid on the Binring Biomedical Facility on Saffalore. When his Zsinj-brainwashed squadron mate, Tal'dira, attempted to kill Wedge Antilles before a battle at Jussafet, Corran was forced to destroy his squadron mate&mdash;although in effect, Tal'dira had fought his brainwashing committed suicide, by shifting all his shield power to his aft shield allowing Corran's shots to hit his X-wing's unprotected bow, when Corran made him realize that his actions were highly dishonorable.

Corran Participated in some of the predominately Wraith Squadron speculation sessions on the nature of Zsinj's brainwashing program. Corran, along with Myn Donos, Cubber Daine, and Emtrey acquired the Millennium Falsehood &mdash;a decoy of the Millennium Falcon which the task force loaded with explosives and intended to use a bait for Zsinj&mdash;from a Corellian scrapyard. Corran participated in several proceeding missions to draw Zsinj's attention to their decoy Millennium Falcon, including missions to Kidriff and Belsmoth.

Millennium Falsehood's appearances eventually led to a large-scale, two stage space battle between the core of Warlord Zsinj's fleet and General Solo's task force at Vahaba and Selaggis. While engaging Tetran Cowall's ersatz 181st Imperial Fighter Group, Corran's force sensitivity allowed him to sense that his opponent was not a living being&mdash;tipping his squadron off to the fact that half of the TIE interceptors they were flying against were really flying bombs piloted by droids. Although Zsinj and his Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist managed to escape, the battle was a decisive victory for Solo's forces, costing Zsinj much of his fleet. Because of a deception which made it appear as though the Iron Fist had been destroyed, this was Corran's last major action in the Zsinj Campaign.

Rescue of Lusankya prisoners
"It's been a long time, General. Are you ready to go home?"

- Corran Horn



Corran continued his service in Rogue Squadron through the Thrawn Campaign. He and his Squadron fought at the Battle of Bilbringi, destroying a Golan Space Defense Station with the aid of New Republic Frigates Tyrant's Bane and Liberty Star, although he was surprised by the retreat of Thrawn's fleet. He only later discovered that Thrawn had been assassinated by his own bodyguard during that battle, and that Captain Gilad Pellaeon, not the Grand Admiral, had ordered the retreat. Following the battle, Corran received a promotion to the rank of Captain.

At a welcome-back party for the squadron on Coruscant, Corran received a "message" from Ysanne Isard in the form of one of Corran's fellow Lusankya prisoners, Urlor Sette&mdash;rigged with a device which would kill Urlor when activated by Corran's voiceprint. Urlor's death greatly disturbed Corran, who felt it was a personal defeat, as he had promised to rescue Urlor and the other Lusankya prisoners.

Components of the device which killed Urlor were traced to a xenobiological facility on Commenor locally referred to as "the old Xenovet place." Corran and his squadron, along with commando squads led by Captain Judder Page and Colonel Kapp Dendo, staged a raid on the facility. They found some of the Lusankya prisoners there, including Lag Mettier&mdash;although they were near death, and had been locked up in a barn for over a week, when Ysanne Isard had, according to Lag left with the rest of the prisoners.

Corran and his squadron fought in the Battle of Liinade III, the first battle in the New Republic's campaign against Prince Admiral Delak Krennel's rule of the Ciutric Hegemony. While leading Three Flight in a mission to pacify a hydroelectric power plant after the New Republic emerges victorious in the space battle, Corran's X-wing was shot down by stormtroopers wielding Merr-Sonn PLX-2Ms, ordering the rest of three flight away from the area, to protect them against the possibility of the facility having additional unexpected defenses.

Exploring his surroundings, Corran discovered and neutralized a secret Imperial facility were plans for a Death Star-like Pulsar Station were being analyzed for flaws. The search for a site where Krennel could have been constructing such a station led to Distna, a moon of the gas-giant fifth planet of the Corvis Minor system, which reports indicated may have been hollow. Corran and the rest of Rogue Squadron escorted former Rogue Squadron pilot Nrin Vakil, who was flying an unarmed T-65BR recon X-wing, on a reconnaissance mission to the moon.

The mission ended in disaster. Ysanne Isard, in league with Prince Admiral Krennel, had set a trap for Rogue Squadron. As Rogue Squadron's One Flight and Two Flight escorted Nrin for a close run on the moon, six squadrons of starfighters launched to attack the squadron &mdash; a squadron each of TIE Fighters, TIE Interceptors, and TIE bombers from both Corvis Minor V and Distna. Corran led Three Flight in engaging the fighters from the gas giant, in an attempt to keep the rest of the squadron's exit vector open. Though successful in thinning the numbers of their ambushers, Corran's X-wing was crippled and the squadron lost two pilots&mdash;Lyyr Zatoq and Khe-Jeen Slee&mdash;and appeared to have lost pilots Asyr Sei'lar and Wes Janson as well. The squadron was saved by the surprise appearance of Interloper and Stranger TIE Defender Squadrons under the command of Imperial Colonel Broak Vessery. The surprise rescuers escorted&mdash; or, in Corran's case, towed&mdash; the survivors from the system.



The Squadron was brought to a TIE Defender factory, under the command of Ysanne Isard, who had not actually been in shuttle that Tycho destroyed at Thyferra, and revealed the Isard in league with Krennel and in possession of the Lusankya prisoners to be a clone. Isard claimed to want only amnesty from the New Republic and the destruction of the her clone, and was willing to help Rogue Squadron infiltrate Ciutric, shatter Krennel's rule of the Hegemony, and rescue the remaining Lusankya Prisoners as a sign of good faith.

Corran, along with the rest of the squadron, began training in TIE Defenders, which they would use to infiltrate Ciutric. Corran was very distrustful of Isard, and strongly opposed attempts by the base's technicians to place a restraining bolt on his astromech droid, Whistler, but eventually reluctantly agreed to attach the bolt himself on Wedge's request. Whistler, however, had been reconfigured inside from his time with Corran as part of the Corellian Security Force, so the restraining bolt only communicated to him the signals from the controller, as opposed to actually shutting him down. Corran communicated the squadron's situation to Whistler, and Whistler, while 85% of the base's security forces were watching a fighter simulation, escaped with Wedge's astromech droid, Gate, and delivered a message from Corran to his wife, Mirax.

During the infiltration, Corran grew a mustache and dyed his hair black, posing as "Captain Pyr Hand," a member of Colonel Antar Roat's "Requiem Squadron," a nine-fighter TIE Defender unit. As part of Corran's false Identity, he went by the nickname "klick" because he "was a dead shot at that range." Corran grew to like the Hegemony's pilots, partially because they seemed more interested in defending their homes than destroying the New Republic, and partially because they were extremely bad at sabacc.

Krennel, staging for a strike at Coruscant, had called extra forces to mass at Ciutric at the time a New Republic fleet under the command of Admiral Ackbar had arrived to take the planet. As the battle over Ciutric broke out, Rogue Squadron made their move to free the Lusankya prisoners. Realizing that the commandos Isard had promised to send to assist them would not be coming, Corran, along with Nrin and Ooryl, landed and fought their way to the prisoners, Corran personally cutting open the door to Jan Dodonna's cell with his grandfather's lightsaber.

Although Hegemony troops swarmed the prison, and Isard's clone sent an assault shuttle to destroy it, Wedge Antilles shot down the shuttle before it could do extensive damage, and the appearance of Colonel Kapp Dendo and his team of Noghri saved Corran and the prisoners from the ground troops. The appearance of General Garm Bel Iblis with two Victory I-class Star Destroyers won the space battle for the New Republic, killing Krennel and breaking his hold on the Hegemony. Isard's clone was killed when Wedge Antilles traced her communications with the shuttle and destroyed the building she occupied with concussion missiles, and the real Ysanne Isard was killed while trying to take control of the Lusankya by Iella Wessiri, who had been tipped off to Isard's survival by Corran's message to Mirax.

Further Actions
Corran and Mirax had a home on Coruscant. When the resurrected Emperor Palpatine returned to helm the Empire, Coruscant became a battlefield. Debris from the conflicts above devastated vast swaths of the city, including the Horn family home. Luckily, none of the family were in residence at the time.

Jedi training


"Anybody goes missing next time it's me. You can do all the worrying, okay?"

- Mirax Terrik Horn

In 11 ABY, Mirax Terrik Horn was captured by roving warlord Leonia Tavira's Invids pirate group, who were seemingly invincible in battle. To find her, Corran began studying the ways of the Force. He enrolled in Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4 under the alias Keiran Halcyon, who was an ancestor of his grandfather Nejaa Halcyon. Corran played a message left by his father which told him more about his Jedi heritage.

Corran and Luke initially had differences over the training methods Luke used. Having been in the CorSec police force, and a member of Rogue Squadron, Corran preferred a more structured training regimen in comparison to Skywalker's more lax course of self discovery – which in turn led to several internal conflicts and arguments over methods. Corran was convinced that Kyp Durron's fall to the dark side could have been prevented if Luke had enacted more control over his students. After aiding in the defeat of the spirit of Exar Kun, Corran left the academy to find his own Jedi path. During this time, he successfully slipped into Corellia, where he visited his (step)-grandfather and learned more about his Jedi heritage. There, he and Rostek Horn decided on a plan for Corran to infiltrate the Invid pirate organization. With some help from his old flame Siolle Tinta, and his father-in-law Booster Terrik, Corran was able to successfully infiltrate the pirate group.

"If the wind no longer calls you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name."

- Elegos A'kla to Corran Horn

During his infiltration, Corran learned that Tavira's success was due to a group of Force-users called Jensaarai, who also happened to be the true reason of his Jedi grandfather's death after the Clone Wars. After working his way up through the pirate ranks he became a member of the pirate elite Bolt Squadron. In one particular mission as a pirate, Corran rescued a Caamasi named Elegos A'kla from a fellow pirate who had attempted to kill Elegos, whose uncle, Ylenic It'kla, had fought alongside Nejaa Halcyon when he died. With the knowledge he'd gathered from Rostek, and some intrepidity from Elegos, Corran was able to construct his own lightsaber. It was a dual-phase type, normally with a standard length silver blade, but could change to a purple blade more than double in length.

Corran acted out his part as a pirate by day, but by night he donned his Jedi robes and lightsaber, and set out to terrify the Invids into fleeing the organization. He covered his time as the mysterious, avenging Jedi by pretending to get drunk and be hung over. Corran was able to spook the idle pirates on Courkrus into a frenzy, making them believe that doom was coming to them for all their misdeeds. Eventually, word of the Jedi reached Tavira, who sent a few Jensaarai to kill him. Corran revealed himself to the Jensaarai in a five-on-one battle, only to find that Luke Skywalker had foreseen the battle through the Force and with Ooryl Qrygg's assistance came to help.

Interrogating the captive Jensaarai, Corran and Luke were able to find out the location of Tavira's forces and set out to destroy the Invid organization once and for all. During the battle at Susevfi, Corran found himself saber-to-saber with the Saarai-kaar, the leader of the Jensaarai, whose master had killed Nejaa Halcyon. After a pitched battle, Corran and Luke were able to defeat the Jensaarai, and after Elegos (with Corran's aid in projecting the memories passed from one Caamasi generation to the next) they were able to come to at least a temporary peace. However, the battle was not over, as Tavira's Star Destroyer was in a position to kill Corran and end the would-be rescue, but once again Corran's Alter Mind ability saved him from harm. He used this ability to project into Tavira's mind the image of the Errant Venture becoming the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Lusankya. He then displayed the Sun Crusher launching from the Lusankya.  In a panic, Tavira ordered her forces to flee the system.

After Mirax's successful rescue, Luke awarded Corran his Knighthood, but Corran chose not to pursue a full-time career as a Jedi. Rather, he chose to stay with Rogue Squadron, where he felt his time would be better spent helping the New Republic as well as allowing him more freedom to start a family. Corran did assure Luke that he would be available when needed.

New Jedi Order
"Perhaps it is not for me to sculpt the Force's flow to my purposes, but for me to be sculpted into that which more easily works with the Force."

- Corran Horn

Corran and Mirax had a son, Valin, in 13 ABY. Corran continued his activities with the Jedi, and eventually became a member of the restored Jedi Order. In 14 ABY Corran was dispatched to Wayland to determine whether or not the Disciples of Ragnos had visited the planet to drain its Force energy. He also took an apprentice named Raltharan at the same time Kyle Katarn took Jaden Korr and Rosh Penin as apprentices, it is also probable that he took part in the following Battle of Korriban where the Jedi triumphed over the Disciples of Ragnos. Corran finally resigned from Rogue Squadron following the signing of the Bastion Accords in 19 ABY, choosing to devote himself fully to Jedi training. At the time of his resignation, he held the rank of Commander. Corran and Mirax had a daughter, Jysella during this time.



At the beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Horn was teamed with Ganner Rhysode. This pairing proved difficult, as a result of their clashing personalities, views of the Jedi and the Jedi's role in the galaxy. Corran Horn and Ganner were given a mission to ensure the safety of a group of archeologists on the planet Bimmiel. After landing on Bimmiel, and finding the archeologists, Corran and Ganner started to gain a tenuous respect for each other while fighting off the local creatures. They later found out that the Yuuzhan Vong had been to this planet some 50 years before, and had recently returned. Ganner insisted on attacking them, but Corran argued that was not their mission. However, two of the archeologists were captured leaving them no option. While trying to save them, Corran was seriously injured. It was then that the Yuuzhan Vong warriors arrived. Corran held off the Yuuzhan Vong warriors to buy time for Rhysode and others to escape. Horn defeated both warriors but was bitten by an amphistaff. Rhysode felt Corran's life force dim and returned to save him against Corran's instructions.

After Corran recovered, he went with Ganner and Jacen Solo on a mission to Garqi. There they discovered that pollen from the bafforr tree native to the planet Ithor had the ability to destroy the vonduun crab armor worn by the Vong, due to a major allergic reaction. To hide the secret, Corran had the trees burned and added other fires to cover the location. At this time the Yuuzhan Vong began calling him Silverblade.



Corran next traveled to Ithor, which lay in the path of the Yuuzhan Vong. The New Republic made a stand at the planet, hoping to resist the invasion long enough to make use of the bafforr tree pollen. The battle became a stalemate, until Corran Horn offered to duel Commander Shedao Shai for the fate of Ithor. Though Horn eventually won, Shai's subordinate, Deign Lian, was ordered by Warmaster Tsavong Lah to unleash a plague of toxins upon the planet, in order to eliminate any chance of a pollen based bioweapon. The toxins turned the once lush planet into a barren wasteland and the atmosphere of Ithor into a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Afterwards the combined forces of the New Republic and the Remnant attacked the retreating forces of the Yuuzhan Vong destroying the cruiser Legacy of Torment. When the ship broke up parts of it fell into the hydrogen and oxygen rich Ithor atmosphere, causing Ithor to burst into flame. Corran was blamed by the media for the loss of Ithor, calling him "The man who killed Ithor." He returned to Corellia and went into seclusion. He also spent time traveling the galaxy aboard Errant Venture with Mirax.



After about a year, Corran Horn returned to the Jedi and began to assume a more active role in fighting the Yuuzhan Vong. He helped Nen Yim escape the Vong-formed Coruscant, and accompanied her, Tahiri Veila, Harrar and Yu'shaa to Zonama Sekot, a living world. There, Nen Yim learned of the connection between Sekot and the Yuuzhan Vong, though Yu'shaa&mdash;Nom Anor in disguise&mdash;killed her before she could impart her secrets. Corran attempted to stop Nom Anor, though the former Executor fled the planet. They remained on the living planet as it made hyper jumps to the core and eventually arrived in the Coruscant system. During this time Tahiri asked to be his apprentice to help complete her Jedi training. He agreed on a provisional basis until they could get Luke Skywalker's approval.

In the battle for supremacy of Coruscant, Corran flew a Sekotan Fighter in defense of Zonama Sekot against the Yuuzhan Vong. Later all ships were grounded on Zonama Sekot as the living world attempted to bring about peace between the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances and the Yuuzhan Vong.

Dark Nest Crisis
As of 35 ABY, Corran was granted the rank of Jedi Master for his actions during the Yuuzhan Vong War and became a member of the Masters' Council, where his belief that the Jedi were answerable to the Galactic Alliance came into conflict with Kyp Durron on a number of occasions. With Luke Skywalker away on a mission to Woteba, Cal Omas manipulated the Council into appointing Corran as the temporary leader of the Jedi Order&mdash;believing that Corran's disagreement with other Masters about the role of the Jedi would split the order, thus ending their interference in the growing Dark Nest crisis. After the Conclave on Ossus, Corran attempted to resign over his role in the schisms the Order had been facing, but Luke Skywalker refused, telling him to stop shouldering the blame for the Jedi, both over the schism and the destruction of Ithor. It was Horn's second attempt to resign, but Luke said that he would not refuse if Corran tried again.

At some point prior to 40 ABY, Corran established the Jedi Teaching Center on Corellia.

Confederation-Galactic Alliance War
"I'm just reading the mood like everyone else."

- Corran Horn

In 40 ABY, tensions between Corellia and the Galactic Alliance led to a war that strained the Jedi Order. In the opening operation, Corran commanded Team Slashrat that watched Coronet's main spaceport for large starfight activities. Despite his Corellian roots, Corran helped Luke and the Jedi Order by watching over the Jedi on Corellia and looking after new Jedi trainees shelter on Coruscant. Like all of the other Jedi Masters, Horn was shocked about Jacen's and Ben's actions during the GAG raid to capture Corellian insurgents on Coruscant.

Corran would later play a part in the escape of his wife, Wedge, Iella and Myri Antilles along with Han and Leia Solo and Lando Calrissian from Corellia where they left for the Errant Venture. While on the Venture Corran aided Jagged Fel, Zekk and Jaina Solo in their attempt to capture Alema Rar. Alema fired a blowdart at Corran who caught it out of the air and placed it in a datapad. After Alema's escape, Corran asked Luke what he wanted him to do. Luke told him to go to Coruscant, which he did.



When Luke Skywalker departed for Hapes to search for Mara Jade, Corran was placed in charge of the council. After the death of Mara, Luke used the Force to draw Lumiya out of hiding. Corran and the other members of the order found it increasingly difficult to ignore the call, and Corran told Luke that the whole council was willing to aide in the hunt, but Luke refused. Corran later attended Mara's funeral and afterwards during a meeting with the rest of the council, Corran admitted that he believed that Jacen was manipulating the order. Corran and the rest of the Jedi Order decided that Jacen Solo was too dangerous and needs to be dealt with. Afterwards, he and the rest of the Jedi Order took part in the Battle of Kashyyyk. He flew a StealthX fighter against the Galactic Alliance Fifth Fleet along with the rest of the Jedi Order. Their mission proved unsuccessful because Darth Caedus had anticipated the attack.

After the battle, Corran relocated with the rest of the Jedi Order to the Sanctuary Moon of Endor. He volunteered to lead Kyp Durron’s proposed mission to “capture-or-neutralize” Jacen Solo, despite misgivings about Kyp’s "local guide" for the mission, Seha Dorvald, who had previously worked as a spy for Jacen, but Master Skywalker selected Kyle Katarn to lead the mission instead. Horn flew a StealthX in an attempted ambush of Jacen and the the Anakin Solo, as part of Red Sword Flight, along with Kyp Durron, Luke Skywalker, Twool, and Sanola Ti, although the ambush was called off when Skywalker sensed Allana’s presence in Jacen’s starfighter. He later flew as Rakehell five, leading the second flight of Rakehell Squadron, under the command of Wedge Antilles during the Battle of Centerpoint Station, as part of a ruse to allow Luke Skywalker, Ben Skywalker, Saba Sebatyne, Leia Organa Solo, Han Solo, Iella Wessiri Antilles, and R2-D2 to infiltrate the Anakin Solo and rescue Allana.

Personality and traits
"When Corran finds trouble, he never seems to have any difficulty just diving in, especially when the lives of others are at stake. Nice trait to have in a friend."

- Wedge Antilles

Corran Horn was stubborn, hard working, and courageous. Corran preformed actions which he had believed would result in his death in order save his companions on multiple occasions,  although he was rescued both times. . Corran in general supported the concept of law and order, being one of the predominate pro-Galactic Alliance advocates on the Jedi Council during the Dark Nest Crisis, however, he believed that the value of law and order had it's limits, and did not support Jacen Solo's rule of the Galactic Alliance.

Corran was a highly independent-minded individual, and had trouble learning to trust others, especially in the time following his father's death. Corran Shared a typical Corellian distain for odds, and often felt a need to be "the best," although he was able to learn from an object lesson that this was not as important as the success of the mission from Wedge Antilles, early in his career in Rouge Squadron. However, despite his distain for odds, Corran was still a rational thinker, and was instrumental to developing the plan which lead to the deactivation of Coruscant's shields before the New Republic's Invasion. Corran took promises seriously, turning down a chance to begin Jedi training with Luke Skywalker after his escape from Lusankya because he had promised to rescue his fellow prisoners, and precipitated a mass-resignation of Rouge Squandron from the New Republic when Borsk Fey'lya forbid such a rescue mission. . He often clashed with Booster Terrik, who he perceived as an immoral smuggler who had been his father's nemesis, but they learned to tolerate eachother with the help of mutual friend Wedge Antilles, who helped Corran realize that his father was never in a personal feud with Booster, only a professional one.

Powers and abilities
"Sure. I can't move a rock with my mind, but, boy, can I make the rock think it's been moved."

- Corran Horn

Corran discovered his Force connection in his adult life when he escaped from Ysanne Isard's prison ship, the Lusankya. Although Luke Skywalker offered to train him, he felt that his first duty was to freeing the Lusankya prisoners and declined the initial offer. Luke did teach him some Jedi relaxation techniques, which proved useful in battles to come.



After beginning Jedi training, Corran quickly discovered that the Halcyon family was weak in telekinetic abilities, but made up for it with their ability to influence beings by projecting illusions and an ability to absorb energy and if needed redirect it to greatly enhance their Force powers, including telekinesis. His abilities to manipulate energy even allowed him to withstand lightsaber contact with only minor charring of the skin. Nor were they restricted to lasers and similar sources; they also spread to include things like heat and fire. He had the ability to absorb the heat and flames and convert them into Force power which could then be used to bolster his own powers and make his relatively weak telekinetic powers very strong. The absorbed energy had to be used relatively soon after absorption since his body was not able to cope with the increased amount of energy for long.

Like all Halcyons, Corran Horn had an affinity for Force Illusion. Similar to a Jedi mind trick, this power gave Corran the ability to project not only imagery but all other sensory information into the minds of other beings. It was discovered during his training and was nurtured into one of his most powerful abilities.

Corran favored a dual-phase lightsaber and constructed one shortly after he left the academy to search for his wife. The lightsaber's initial phase was a 133-centimeter-long silver blade due to a Durindfire crystal, but by twisting the grip a second crystal fell into place and the blade lengthened to 300 centimeters and changed to a brilliant purple.

When he first joined the Jedi Academy he helped Kam Solusar build the initial training program that would later be expanded and thus helped lay the foundations for the training structure of the New Jedi Order. Corran seemed to favor a more regimented type of training, no doubt a by product of his time with CorSec and when the Jedi relocated to Ossus, the new academy adopted just this sort of regime, but still with an emphasis on trainees' advancing at their own pace.

In many ways Corran embodied some aspects of the Old Jedi Order, both in the way he was trained and in his outlook on the Jedi as a whole; perhaps mirroring the Jedi of old, he felt that they should serve the Galactic Alliance. Mace Windu had held a similar view in his time, but remarked that the Jedi should rather serve civilization, as civilization brought peace and justice, of which the Galactic Republic was the prime example in his time. Corran seemed to feel the same way, realizing that a stable Galactic Alliance was the best way to ensure lasting peace.

Corran also embodied the spirit of the Corellian Jedi of the Old Republic, who were often regarded as unorthodox by other Jedi.

Relationships
"Falling in love, for him, had never been one of those one-look-and-passion-ignites things"

- Corran, thinking.

Siolle Tinta
"Siolle Tinta and I got along famously once we discovered we shared similar opinions about art."

- Corran Horn

While working with CorSec, Corran was assigned to guard Siolle Tinta, daughter of the owner of Tinta Lines, who was the target of a kidnapper. They developed a relationship during this time after discovering that they both enjoyed similar forms of art. Their relationship ended fairly soon after Corran's partner, Iella Wessiri, caught the kidnapper. They realized that while they had one similarity in the types of art that they enjoyed, their lives were different enough that a long-term relationship would not work out. However, they parted as friends.



Iella Wessiri
"That fear, and having been so closely brushed by death, made us want something positive to counteract it."

- Corran Horn

Iella Wessiri was Corran's partner at CorSec. During a raid on a glitterstim den, Iella saved Corran from getting shot. Corran felt as though he was in love with Iella in the immediate aftermath of the incident, but when they saw each other two days later, after being debriefed, the emotional rush of his near-death experience had passed, and he no longer felt that he was in love with Iella.

Chertyl Ruluwoor
"Believe me, I'd take Chertyl Ruluwoor over Erisi gladly."

- Corran Horn

Chertyl Ruluwoor was a sterile female Selonian who had been sent too Corran's unit in CorSec for training under a cultural exchange program about 6 months after the death of Corran's father. Each man in Corran's branch of CorSec was required to buy a ticket in a pool for 5 credits, and the "winner"&mdash;who most considered the loser&mdash;would, besides receiving the pool, accompany Chertyl to the CorSec Awards Ball. This was based on a tradition which started when a past director of CorSec had a daughter who, according to decorum, could not go alone, ordered participation in a similar pool. Corran talked all the women who wanted to go to the ball with other men in the pool into believing that the pool was rigged so the man they wanted to go to the ball would "win" unless they got out of the pool. He agreed to accept bribes to take "one more ticket," but insisted on secrecy. Corran had all the tickets by the time a winner was chosen.

Corran proceeded to donate the pool and the bribes to the survivors and orphans fund, and rented a repulsorlimo for the ball. He found out what sort of flowers Selonians liked, and traveled a fair distance to the only florist on Corellia selling them at the time. The ball went well, and Corran's relationship with Chertyl continued after the ball. However, they eventually parted ways, as Corran's mildly acidic sweat irritated Cherty's skin, and Corran was mildly allergic to Chertyl's fur.

Erisi Dlarit
"No, you just pretended to be her Kuati impregnator, then kissed her in full view of the Grand Hall of the Galaxy in the Imperial Palace. Clearly no relationship at all."

- Mirax Terrik

Erisi Dlarit, despite having different loyalties than Corran's, Erisi found herself attracted to Corran. She first declared her attraction to him after the Battle of Vladet, where Corran had saved the squadron from the Lancer Frigate Ravager. While Corran found Erisi attractive, he initially dismissed Erisi's attraction to him as being what he had felt for Iella after she had saved him during the glitterstim den raid. Erisi grew envious of Corran's friendship with Mirax Terrik, and threatened to use her influence in the bacta industry to get Mirax to "leave Corran alone."

While infiltrating Coruscant, Corran posed as Erisi's Telbun on the luxury liner Jewel of Churba. Due to the intimate nature of this cover story, Corran and Erisi drew close, and almost slept together, however, Corran came to the conclusion that a relationship between them wound not work out due to extremely different outlooks on life. After Corran made his preference for Mirax clear, Erisi grew vengeful. She supplied Ysanne Isard with the codes for Corran's Z-95 Headhunter necessary to capture Corran, provided the Empire with information on the route of a bacta convoy which Mirax's Pulsar Skate was part of, in an attempt to bring about Mirax's death, and eventually openly defected to the empire during Ysanne Isard's escape from Coruscant. Corran would eventually shoot down her TIE interceptor during the Battle of Thyferra.



Mirax Terrik
"For as long as I've known her she's had a habit of predicting how many weeks my relationships would last, and she's always been right on target. With us, no prediction."

- Corran Horn to Mirax Terrik

Corran's relationship with Mirax got off to a mixed start. When they first met, after Mirax had towed Corran's crippled X-wing from the reformed Rogue Squadron's first battle, Mirax, who's father had been sent to Kessel for smuggling glitterstim by Corran's Father, was not particularly happy to learn the identity of the the pilot she had transported, nor was Corran particularly happy to learn the identity of the vessel which had towed him from battle, despite the suspicion of mutial friend Wedge Antilles that they would eventually get along well. As Mirax continued to run supplies for Rogue Squadron, however, she and Corran began to become friends, and when Corran was stranded on Blackmoon during the Second Battle of Borleias, Mirax came to his rescue.

Corran's friendship with Mirax continued to grow during his time stationed on Borleias and his time undercover on Coruscant. On the morning before the Liberation of Coruscant, Corran and Mirax agreed to "get to know eachother better," planning to go to the "biggest celebration party" after Coruscant fell to the New Republic together. Mirax was devastated when she heard of Corran's presumed death during the battle.

Mirax joined Rogue Squadron in their Campaign against Ysanne Isard's control of Thyferra. Corran and Mirax grew closer over the course of the Bacta War, much to the annoyance of Mirax's father, who Corran met in an embarrassing incident during a supply run to Tatooine. On the night before the Battle of Thyferra, Corran asked Mirax to marry him, and Mirax agreed. Mirax's father was not pleased when he found out about his daughter's engagement after the battle, however, Wedge Antilles married them in the hold of the newly captured Lusankya while Booster and Talon Karrde were inspecting the guns on his new Star Destroyer, the Errant Venture, before Booster had much of an opportunity to complain, although they would later have a more formal ceremony on Coruscant. Mirax and Corran would eventually have too children, Valin and Jysella

Leonia Tavira
"So, you forced me to destroy my diversion, leaving me with need for a replacement. I think I will have you become my new diversion"

- Corran thinking

While attempting to infiltrate the Invids under the alias Jenos Idanian, Corran found himself in a peculiar situation. While flying as the leader of the elite Bolt Squadron of the Khuiumin Survivors, Corran found himself in a clash with Leonia Tavira's consort, Remart Sasyru. Remart wanted to kill Caamasi Elegos A'kla, and in order to prevent this, Corran ordered him not too, claiming that he wanted to take Elgos as a body servant, provoking a fist fight. Leonia Tavira, who had apparently only entered a relationship with Remart because he was Jenos's rival and wanted to see how Corran would get rid of Remart, had him killed for insubordination and striking a superior officer, believing that Jenos had staged the whole incident knowing that Tavira would have Remart executed. Tavira, who was attracted to Corran, and offered him a month to recover and make a decision as to weather he would enter a relationship with her or not.

Corran, while, believing that a relationship would help him further infiltrate the Invids, realized that he also was entering a relationship because he was attracted to her, which he believed to be wrong, attempted to put off a full time relationship as far as possible. Eventually, he would feign his own death and go on to rescue his wife Mirax, ending his involvement with the Invids.

Behind the scenes
Michael A. Stackpole, the author who first introduced Corran Horn and wrote the majority of the pieces in which he appears, was asked to pose as his character for a card in the Star Wars Customizable Card Game. Despite his vastly different appearance from the illustrations and descriptions of the character, Stackpole agreed and appears in the image above.

Corran Horn is a character who fits a number of the criteria for being a "Gary Stu": he is an exceptionally skilled fighter pilot who also happens to be a Jedi Knight, had a tragic background, and effectively is the most major of major characters in the first four X-wing novels. However, this description (or variants thereof) could be applied to several characters in this universe, and he has demonstrated flaws (recklessness and self-righteousness) that have at times done as much harm as his positive traits have done good.

Corran Horn's lightsaber is originally said to gain its silver hue from a Durindfire gem in I, Jedi. However, in the Dark Tide Duology, it is said to gain it from a diamond focusing crystal.