Desann

"...And you look like an overgrown Kowakian monkey-lizard, so I guess looks don't count for much."

- Kyle Katarn

Desann was a male Chistori Dark Jedi who was one of the allies of Lord Hethrir's Empire Reborn faction.

Biography
Desann hailed from a world where the Force was a strange, unfamiliar thing. Thus, he was shunned by his own people and lived a life of loneliness and despair, until a trader found him and took him to Luke Skywalker's Jedi Academy on Yavin 4.

Desann then became Jedi apprentice of Luke Skywalker, but soon began bullying his comrades. He eventually killed Havet Storm, one of his fellow Jedi, for standing up to his bullying ways, and turned to the dark side of the Force.

Desann forged an alliance with Admiral Galak Fyyar of the Imperial Remnant splinter group known as the Empire Reborn, and Fyyar took him to his secret master, the former Procurator of Justice, Lord Hethrir. Hethrir overcame his xenophobia to make Desann his second in command, and tasked Desann with training several of Hethrir's Empire Youths: Force-sensitive individuals who had shown devotion to the Empire Reborn and had been "purified" by the extradimentional being known as Waru. Desann took one of the Youths, Tavion, as his apprentice.

In addition to training those with talent, Desann experimented with imbuing Force-weak human Empire Youths (chosen by Hethrir for reasons of racial dogma rather than pragmatism) with dark side powers, using Artusian crystals and Sith alchemical secrets. To fulfill this twisted scheme his forces captured Artus Prime, where the crystals were mined. New Republic agents Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors were sent by Mon Mothma to investigate, and Jan Ors was captured. Desann decided to use her to his advantage : he had long searched for the Valley of the Jedi, for the Valley's power would be of considerable help in his plan to connect his servants with the dark side of the Force. But only Katarn and Jan Ors knew of the Valley's location. When Kyle attempted to rescue his partner, Desann ordered Tavion to kill her. Unbeknownst to Katarn, this was but a ruse to anger him and have him go to the Valley, and Jan Ors was retained aboard the Remnant flagship, the Doomgiver.

Thinking that his lover was dead, Kyle thirsted for revenge and in consequence travelled to the Valley of the Jedi, to regain his connection to the Force ; but Desann was tracking him. The Dark Jedi brought his band of Empire Youth students with him to absorb the Valley's power, forming an army of dark warriors called the Reborn. He also took with him a small proportion of his stormtroopers, and they became shadowtroopers, Force-sensitive soldiers armed with lightsabers and encased in cortosis armor enhanced by Artusian crystals.

Desann attacked the Jedi Academy but was defeated by Kyle Katarn, who destroyed the Doomgiver and most of Desann's army. On Yavin 4, Jedi Knights and troopers of the New Republic defeated the remaining Reborn and stormtroopers. Desann escaped to the tunnels under the Massassi Temple, but was later confronted by Kyle. After each unsuccessfully tried to convert the other to his cause, Desann engaged Katarn in a duel, resulting in the Dark Jedi's death.

Behind the scenes

 * Desann was voiced by Mark Klastorin.
 * There are two ways to kill Desann in Jedi Outcast's finale. One is to defeat him in dueling (a combination of Force speed and the Fast style is particularly effective). The other is to hit a pillar in the temple several times, until it weakens and falls on him.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

External link

 * The Dark Forces Saga, Part 6: Outcasts and Megalomaniacs Welcome