Vel Ardox

Vel Ardox was a Jedi Knight at the time of the Battle of Naboo. She was a female Blubreen from the Ploo Sector. Like all Blubreen, she could breathe underwater; she was also known for her repair skills.

Vel accompanied Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Noro Zak to Esseles to locate the missing Adi Gallia. On Esseles, the four Jedi sought to investigate Trinkatta Starships, Inc., which Gallia had been looking into before her disappearance. When the four Jedi arrived on Esseles, they were attacked by Trinkatta's droids. Qui-Gon split from the other Jedi to look for Gallia; meanwhile, Vel, Noro, and Obi-Wan fought their way through the droids trying to get to a central droid control room and shut the droids down.

Although the efforts of Vel and her colleagues failed, while they were fighting the droids Qui-Gon himself managed to shut the droids down, as well as locate Adi Gallia. Qui-Gon put the wounded Adi onto a skyhopper and picked up the other Jedi.

While Obi-Wan and Qui-Gonm continued the investigation on Esseles, Vel and Noro took Adi Gallia to be healed at the Jedi chapter house on Rhinnal. While they were there, communications on Rhinnal were knocked out by a storm, misleading Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan to believe their friends to be in danger. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan travelled to Rhinnal and discovered their alarm to be uncalled for; they took the opportunity to explain to Noro and Vel what they had uncovered on Esseles: Bartokk assassins had stolen hyperdrive-equipped vulture droid starfighters, created by Trinkatta, to attack Corulag Academy.

Vel, Noro, Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Adi Gallia were summoned to Corulag by Jedi Masters Mace Windu and Yoda, whom gave them a new mission: to rescue human female baby Teela Panjarra, a baby tagged for Jedi Temple training but kidnapped by the Academy's Science Services Chief Scientist Frexton, whom wished to use her to scientifically study the Force (much as Jenna Zan Arbor had earlier used Qui-Gon). The team's rescue was foild by Bartokk assassins, whom attacked the Academy nursery. Vel and her fellow team members rescued the nursery while Yoda himself rescued Panjarra from Frexton and destroyed the Bartokk assassins and their queen. Vel and the other Jedi returned to Coruscant with Panjarra.