Ysanna

The Ysanna were a tribe of Force sensitive individuals who lived on Ossus. Born from the survivors of Cron Supernova's effect on Ossus, the Ysanna survived through sheer mettle and the luck bestowed to them by their Jedi bloodline, a planet devastated full of electrical storms, caustic atmosphere and the danger of fierce predators. Their Jedi heritage of knowledge and wisdom lost through generations of hardship and ignorance, the people of Ysanna degenerated into superstition. Turning into intelligible wizards, their use of the Force diminished to nothing but simple tricks. Their superstition built upon the remainder of Jedi and Sith artifacts left on the world from its speedy evacuation, the Ysanna wizards use various Sith masks in battle to intimidate in battle and when protecting the Jedi ruins from trespassers, graverobbers, tombraiders or anybody that would walk on their sacred ground. Armed with elementary slug throwers, the tribespeople defend themselves from the varied creatures of Ossus and ultimately become as fierce as their predators, now their prey. Eventually these creatures would turn into the domesticated mounts of the Ysanna when they go into battle and traverse their world. Shortly after the return of Emperor Palpatine, Luke Skywalker and Kam Solusar arrived on Ossus in search of ancient Jedi artifacts. They soon came upon the Ysanna, who attempted to kill the two intruders. The fighting between the two groups came to a halt with the arrival of Imperial forces led by Executor Sedriss. The Ysanna fought back most of the Dark Troopers and Stormtroopers leaving Skywalker and Solusar to deal with only Sedriss and two of the Dark Side Elite

The battle had turned in favor of Skywalker and Solusar, when Sedriss took the young Ysanna Jem hostage and backed against the inert Ood. Suddenly coming to life, Bnar attacked Sedriss and killed the Dark Jedi along with himself.

Okko, the tribe's shaman, allowed Skywalker to take Jem and her brother Rayf to train as Jedi Knights. However, this would prove to be a bad omen for the Ysanna. Jem died on New Alderaan, Rayf was killed on Onderon and Okko and two others were trapped in carbonite by the forces of Palpatine, who was seeking to use the tribe as a means to halt the genetic decay of his last clone.

After the planet was opened to the general public, the world once again teemed with life. The Ysanna now the hosts of a great number of archeologists, historians, and all forms of academicians from all over the galaxy who study, scrutinize, analyze and discover new things.

Appearances

 * Dark Empire II
 * Empire's End