Tru Veld

Tru Veld was a male Teevan Jedi Knight serving the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars as a Jedi General.

Biography
A Force-sensitive Teevan, Tru Veld was born to a family on Teevan who gave him to the Jedi Order for training in the ways of the Force. A student of the Coruscant Jedi Temple's academy, Veld was selected as the Padawan of [Jedi Master]] Ry-Gaul at the start of the Separatist Crisis which would plague the Galactic Senate for the next decade. During his apprenticeship Veld would construct a crimson-bladed lightsaber, which he wielded with his left hand. Despite the functionality of the weapon, Veld's lightsaber design was poorly designed and had many vital flaws.

Becoming close with fellow apprentice Anakin Skywalker after meeting in an alley searching for droid parts, the pair joined their masters on several missions together taken them to worlds such as Radnor where they assisted in the worlds evacuation and Euceron where they serving as security at the Galactic Games with Skywalker and Ferus Olin. On a mission with Darra Thel-Tanis, Veld was shocked when she was injured on Haaridan. Assigned to practice his sparring with Master Soara Antana to assist Skywalker hone his battle skills, Veld became very loyal to Skywalker, standing up for his friend when Olin questioned his loyalties to his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Despite their friendship, Skywalker grew more and more confrontational as time passed, and his failure to understand the antipathy between Skywalker and Olin would only lead to more trouble in the future. A technical wizard with a photographic memory, Veld was able to use his species' natural flexibility to his advantage during missions.

Along with their masters Veld, Skywalker, Olin and Thel-Tanis were dispatched to Korriban by the Jedi High Council to locate and detain the mysterious Granta Omega. As the Padawans worked together, Veld became truly aware of Skywalker's failings when confronted with Olin and was dismayed by their failure to cooperate. When Veld was injured in the fighting and his lightsaber was damaged, he avoided asking Skywalker for help and instead turned to Olin, as Skywalker's previous repairs had not held. Olin did not report the damage to the masters and assisted Veld much to the Teevan's surprise. Continuing to fight with the flawed weapons, the repairs inadvertently reversed the fixes Skywalker had applied earlier and the lightsaber's power supplied dwindled. Unwittingly Veld entered the Valley of the Dark Lords alongside the other Jedi with a useless weapon and when a firefight broke out, his lack of a lightsaber proved fatal. As he attempted to block a blaster bolt from striking him the weapon would not activate and it shot past him and struck down Padawan Thel-Tanis.

While the Jedi ultimately completed the mission successfully, Thel-Tanis died from her wounds, filling Veld with grief. Because of his failure to treport the malfunctioning weapon, Olin resigned from the Order and departed for the Outer Rim Territories, no longer a Jedi. Veld eventually came to realize that Skywalker had been aware of Olin's faulty fixes to Veld's lightsaber but he chose to remain silent in order to shame Olin. Confronting Skywalker with his suspicions outside of the High Council Chamber at the Jedi Temple, Veld ended his friendship with Skywalker that day, a friendship Skywalker knew would never be mended. When the Clone Wars erupted between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Veld was elevated to the rank of Jedi Knight and served as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Having constructed a teal-bladed lightsaber to replace his faulty one, Veld served throughout the war until the very end. When his former master was dispatched on a top-secret mission to the Outer Rim, Veld was assigned to remain at the Temple to collect and compile very important information which would aid Ry-Gaul in his mission. Veld was in the Temple Archives when Darth Vader initiated Operation: Knightfall at the Temple. As the Temple burned, Veld was able to flee the slaughter and escape through the Coruscant Underworld. A special bulletin was issued to Coruscant Security personnel warning that they should call in assistance from the 501st Legion before opening hire on the Teevan Knight.

Despite his efforts Veld was unable to escape the devastation of Contingency Order 66. Veld was ultimately found and executed by clone troopers who were once loyal to him and his lightsaber was confiscated. Returning it to the Jedi Temple, the clones added the weapon to a collection of other lightsabers in the Temple's storage sub-basement as part of a trap to lure other Jedi survivors into the basements to be killed. Having returned to the Temple to investigate the rumored Jedi prison, Ferus Olin discovered Veld's weapon and reflected on his fallen friend, returning the weapon to the pile of lightsabers as a way of honoring his lost friend.

Personality and traits
A Teevan, Tru Veld's skin had a silvery cast and his tall, lanky frame was exceptionally flexible and could bend in surprising ways. It was this quality that made him good at fighting.

Powers and abillities
While moderately skilled in lightsaber combat, Veld was less seasoned when it came to their construction, and his crimson-bladed weapon was forged with several flaws, requiring frequent repairs and maintenance, which Veld relied on others to perform for him.

Appearances

 * Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice
 * Jedi Quest: The Trail of the Jedi
 * Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games
 * Jedi Quest: The Master of Disguise
 * Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
 * Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
 * Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
 * Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel
 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission
 * The Last of the Jedi: Dark Warning
 * The Last of the Jedi: Underworld
 * The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon
 * The Last of the Jedi: Reckoning