Saba Sebatyne

"The Jedi are few and the Yuuzhan Vong many, yet look at the forcez they direct against us: voxyn, blockades, whole hunting fleetz. We are doing something they fear, and the Force tellz this one she must continue."

- Saba Sebatyne to Luke Skywalker

Saba Sebatyne was a Barabel Jedi Master in the New Jedi Order.

The Yuuzhan Vong War
Saba Sebatyne was discovered by the Jedi Knight Eelysa. Despite Luke Skywalker's resistance to the training of aggressive species like Barabel, Eelysa undertook to train Saba until she was run off Barab I by the Diversity Alliance. Between the two of them they also trained a number of other Force-sensitives, including Saba's son, Tesar Sebatyne, and his hatchmates Bela and Krasov Hara, who, while one of them shared a father with Tesar, were not her children. Most of her apprentices were Barabel Jedi Knights, including Drif Lij; but she also trained the Brubb Jedi, Wonetun. Saba formed her apprentices into the Wild Knights squadron.

Later integrated into the New Jedi Order, Saba would go on to hold a seat on the Galactic Alliance High Council. She fought in numerous battles with the Wild Knights, taking on the scientist Danni Quee as well.

While traveling to Barab I to visit one of her hatchmates, she found her homeworld a lava ridden wasteland, and that there was still a Yuuzhan Vong ship there. Saba opened fire, but when the ship was breached, its contents began to drift out into space. Saba realized that what she at first thought to be junk were actually Barabels, and the incident caused her great guilt. She eventually realized the Barabels would rather have died than be made slaves to the Yuuzhan Vong. After the costly war with the Yuuzhan Vong, she became a Jedi Master and sat on the Masters' Council that was formed by Luke Skywalker.



The Dark Nest Crisis
In 36 ABY, Saba accompanied Masters Luke and Mara Skywalker, along with there son, Ben (Who was afraid of the Barabel since he could not read her) to track down and recover Jaina Solo, her own son, Tesar Sebatyne, and other young Jedi Knights in the Unknown Regions. They found them on the planet Qoribu, where they learned that they had been joined with the Killik Nest there. The Killiks were an insectoid species that were led by former Jedi, Raynar Thul, who had been brainwashed and absorbed into the Nests. With Jaina, Zekk, and Alema Rar refusing to leave but help the Killiks in their border dispute with the Chiss, Saba remained behind to keep an eye on them. It was only a few days later that Saba was attacked by the Dark Jedi Welk, who fought in a fierce lightsaber duel. Although she successfully crippled Welk, she was nearly killed from poisoning strikes from Gorog assassins commanded by Welk as well as attacks by him. Saba was soon taken back to Ossus with Alema by Han Solo and Leia Solo. It was soon after that a battle erupted between the Killiks and Chiss, and the Dark Nest, which Alema Rar had joined under Welk and its Queen Lomi Plo, were revealed. Leia was able to end the dispute, and then requested that Saba train her as a full Jedi. Saba agreed, and they soon grew close, with Leia as her apprentice.

A year after the border dispute, Saba and Leia accompanied Han, Luke, and Mara to Woteba, one of the many new planets given to the Killiks in the Utegetu Nebula. There, they learned that Raynar's Killiks were being killed by a mysterious substance, and Luke and Han stayed behind to solve the problem. It was then that they were held hostage, and Saba and Leia traveled back to save them, only to be stopped by the Galactic Alliance Fifth Fleet led by Bothan admiral Nek Bwua'tu. They then felt a disturbance in the Force and warned Nek Bwua'tu that the Killiks were attacking the fleet and trying to escape to battle the Chiss, since the Dark Nest was egging them on. The Killiks attacked, and Saba and Leia helped the evacuation of the Admiral Ackbar.

Some weeks later, Saba accompanied Leia, Han, Jae Juun, and Tarfang to the Killik world of Tenupe to stop the Chiss from infecting them with parasites. On the planet, Leia battled Alema Rar and was able to feed her to a spidersloth (Though it was revealed in 40 ABY that she had survived). The Dark Nest was stopped by Luke, and Saba promoted Leia to a full Jedi Knight.

Confederation-Galactic Alliance War
In 40 ABY, Saba aided in Luke's search for Lumiya following the death of Master Tresina Lobi on Coruscant.

As the war progressed, Saba expressed worry to her fellow Council members that the Galactic Alliance had been involved in the assassination of Corellian Five Worlds Prime Minister and Confederation leader Dur Gejjen.

Appearances

 * Recovery
 * Star by Star
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Destiny's Way
 * Ylesia
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
 * Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Tempest
 * Sacrifice
 * Inferno