Wookieepedia:Featured article queue

This is the queue for featured articles scheduled to appear on the Main Page. The dates listed indicate when they will be showcased. For a list of articles already featured on the main page, see History, History 2006, and History 2005.

May 6, 2007 – Bastila Shan
Bastila Shan was a female Human Jedi Padawan who became one of the key figures involved in the Jedi Civil War and its immediate aftermath. She was known for having an impressive talent in Battle meditation and as such was seen as the key to winning the war. Bastila was the only survivor of the Jedi strike team sent to neutralize Darth Revan, forming a Force bond with him when she saved his life. The Jedi Council then reprogrammed Revan's damaged mind and put him under Bastila's care, hoping he could subconsciously lead them to the Star Forge.

While transporting the amnesiac Revan during the war, her ship was ambushed over Taris and she was captured by the Black Vulkar gang. After being rescued by Revan, Bastila accompanied him on his mission to find and destroy the Star Forge. Bastila was later captured by Revan's former apprentice, Darth Malak, who turned her to the dark side. However, Revan confronted her and redeemed her from the darkness to which she had succumbed, and she aided the Galactic Republic in the Battle of Rakata Prime. Bastila was also one of the few Jedi to survive the purge which followed the war.

May 13, 2007 – Armand Isard
Armand Isard was the Director of the Senate Bureau of Intelligence, and respectively, post 19 BBY, the Director of Imperial Intelligence. From humble beginnings as an SBI agent, he worked his way up through the ranks, doing sterling work for the Republic, and constantly aiding the war effort during the Clone Wars.

During Palpatine's reign, Armand worked closely with Lord Vader and the Inquisitorius to hunt down the survivors of Order 66. On several occasions, Isard's men were able to pinpoint the location of Jedi for the benefit of Vader or Inquisitor Tremayne. Simultaneously, Armand began grooming his daughter, Ysanne, for a career as a field operative.

As she grew, she became more and more capable in her role, and, naturally, Armand felt threatened. He sent her on a suicide mission to Darkknell as a means of getting rid of her, but, much to his surprise, she survived and completed the mission. On her return to Imperial Center, she had Armand framed for treason, and personally executed him, ending his decades-long career as Director of Intelligence and launching her own.

May 20, 2007 – Mount Sorrow
Mount Sorrow was a mountain on the Forest Moon of Endor. The tip of the mountain was in fact sentient, and had the power to both blow people off the summit, or cry tears of healing. Sorrow was a figure of legend in Ewok lore, albeit an obscure one, known only to the shamans and witch doctors of Endor. Sometime during the Imperial era, Mount Sorrow was able to cure budding poet Teebo of the perilous laughing spell, inherited from a loonee bird in the Endor Woods.

Despite being a mountain, Sorrow was in a constant state of depression, be it either stern or sad. He had excessively high standards, granting the benefit of his powers only to those deemed "worthy." He also had no qualms about sending children to their death, which he demonstrated by attempting to murder Wicket W. Warrick and Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka.

May 27, 2007 – Form IV: Ataru
Form IV: Ataru, Way of the Hawk-Bat, or the Aggression form was the fourth of the seven forms of lightsaber combat. The history of Ataru stretched back through the Old Republic, at least as early as the Mandalorian Wars, where it was commonly employed by Jedi of that day. Ataru continued to be a common form among the Jedi in the latter stages of the Republic.

An aggressive style, Form IV was fast-paced and effective against single opponents, though weaker in prolonged combat and confined spaces. Ataru was characterized by Force-assisted acrobatics, both for attack and defense, and fast, powerful strikes. Notable users of this combat form included Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn.

June 3, 2007 – Joram Kithe
Joram Kithe was a resourceful, if cowardly, accountant for the Galactic Republic who received a temporary commission as a lieutenant in Republic Intelligence in order to study the performance of clone troopers on Pengalan IV. When that mission turned into a disaster, Kithe was put into the unusual position of leading the isolated survivors off the planet, destroying a missile factory on the way. Over the course of the mission, Kithe moved beyond his admitted cowardice and selfishness, bonding with the clones under his command and sharing in their danger.

Kithe chose to continue as an intelligence agent after the mission, finding new purpose in fighting the Clone Wars. His success inspired the Republic to create a pilot program putting bureaucrats, with their analysis skills, into the field as intelligence agents. In a mission to Tarhassan, Kithe found the results of that program extremely lacking. He was barely able to keep the mission from being destroyed by overly officious bureaucrat-agents, but managed to use his budding skills to complete it successfully.

June 10, 2007 – Isolder
Prince Isolder was the former Chume'da of the Hapes Consortium. As the second son of Queen Mother Ta'a Chume, Isolder was not expected to rule. However, after his older brother Kalen was murdered, Isolder went on an undercover quest to hunt down the person responsible. Impressed by his finding of the culprit, his mother granted him the rank of Chume'da.

In 8 ABY, Isolder fell in love with Leia Organa when she came to Hapes to discuss a possible alliance between the New Republic and the Hapes Consortium. However, after a series of events led him to the planet Dathomir, he instead fell in love with Teneniel Djo, one of the local Witches of Dathomir.

Shortly after his marriage to Teneniel, Ta'a Chume stepped down as Queen Mother, and Isolder and Teneniel ruled over the Consortium. During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Isolder was pivotal in allowing the Hapan Royal Navy to participate at the ill-fated Battle of Fondor, and later suffered the murder of his wife due to his mother's plotting.

During the Second Corellian Insurrection, Isolder served as an advisor to his daughter, Queen Mother Tenel Ka.

June 17, 2007 – Sun King
The Sun King was a powerful entity who ruled the summer season of the forest moon of Endor. He could only bring about summer with the Season Scepter, although the power was not exclusive to him. He was the brother of the Flower Queen, the Leaf Queen, and the Snow King. During the Imperial era, his brother, the Snow King, entered into an affair with Odra, Duchess of Sleet, and placed a large portion of the forest moon under perpetual winter. To avert the crisis, the Sun King sat in on a cabal with his sisters, and enlisted the help of the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village. Thanks to the efforts of Wicket W. Warrick and friends, Orga was defeated, and summer restored.

The Sun King himself had a cavalier attitude towards life, and despite his lofty political position, he had no grasp of formality. He surrounded himself with courtiers, whom he would refer to as "dudes." It is perhaps this apathy and laid-back stance that allowed the Snow King to mount his coup against the Sun King.

June 24, 2007 – Keyan Farlander
Keyan 'Lucky' Farlander was an Agamarian who joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic after his parents were killed in an attack by the Galactic Empire. Serving as a pilot in Red Squadron aboard the Independence, he participated in many of the early battles of the Galactic Civil War, including the Battle of Yavin.

He later trained as a Jedi Knight, combining the life of a Jedi with his life as a military commander for the New Republic. By the Yuuzhan Vong War, he had been promoted to general and served as one of the Republic's senior commanders, leading their forces in several battles including the Battle of Ebaq 9 and the Second Battle of Coruscant.

July 1, 2007 – Jaina Solo
Jaina Solo was a Jedi Knight of the New Jedi Order and the twin sister of Jacen Solo. Born to Han and Leia Organa Solo, she inherited her father's mechanical adeptness and her mother's Force sensitivity, resulting her eventually training at the Jedi Praxeum. During her time there, she had many adventures, including helping to thwart the Second Imperium.

When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the Galaxy, Jaina joined the New Republic military and distinguished herself as a Rogue Squadron pilot. She was constantly on the front lines of battle during the Yuuzhan Vong War, earning the title of Sword of the Jedi from her uncle, Luke Skywalker, and becoming known as an avatar of the Trickster Goddess Yun-Harla to the Yuuzhan Vong. However, the death of her brother Anakin caused Jaina to walk dangerously close to the dark side. She was later redeemed, and led Twin Suns Squadron. As the war waged on, Jaina discovered a way for the Alliance to use Yuuzhan Vong warships and biots to their advantage, and was present at the final conclusion of the war. Jaina, as a survivor of the Mission to Myrkr, later became Joined into the Killik community, and was involved in the subsequent Dark Nest Crisis and Swarm War. At the war's conclusion, she underwent reconditioning to un-join her, but the conflict separated her from long-time love interest Jagged Fel.

In 40 ABY, she assumed control of the Hardpoint Squadron and participated in the Battle of Tralus, choosing to side with the Galactic Alliance. Afterwards, she and her brother Jacen commanded Rogue Squadron during the Blockade of Corellia. The resulting crisis resulted in a split between her and Jacen due to his increasingly aggressive actions, though she remained an active member of the Jedi Order.

July 8, 2007 – Orman Tagge
Orman Tagge, Baron Tagge was the head of the House of Tagge from 20 BBY until his death in 1 ABY, and elder brother to Cassio, Silas, Ulric, and Domina Tagge. Tagge was also the head of the Tagge Company, a massive conglomerate that encompassed many of the galaxy's most successful franchises. Tagge himself became so famous that his likeness was used as the logo for the fast food chain Biscuit Baron.

But beneath the public façade, Tagge's life was rife with problems. In trying to curry favor with Galactic Emperor Palpatine, Tagge earned the ire of Lord Vader, and in turn, Vader blinded the Baron for life. From that moment on, Tagge swore revenge, leading him into a personal vendetta that would get him involved with Alliance figureheads such as Luke Skywalker. The vendetta came to a close after 20 years, ending unresolved, when Skywalker was forced to strike down the Baron in combat.

July 15, 2007 – Trioculus
Trioculus was a three-eyed mutant warlord of the Galactic Empire who declared himself Emperor a year after the Battle of Endor. As a figurehead of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs, led by his mentor Bertroff Hissa, Trioculus took control of the remnants of the Empire in opposition to Ysanne Isard.

The self-proclaimed son of Palpatine, Trioculus was in actuality a pretender to the throne, usurping the role of Palpatine's real three-eyed son, Triclops. Spurred on by a prophecy of the false Kadann, he sought the glove of Darth Vader to establish his legitimacy. Trioculus's pursuit of the Jedi Prince Ken and his infatuation with Leia Organa pitted him against rival Zorba Desilijic Tiure, and led to him being taken captive by the Hutt and frozen in carbonite. Trioculus was eventually betrayed by Kadann, who sought the Imperial throne himself, and in the end was assassinated by a New Republic droid.

July 22, 2007 – Ebon Hawk
The Ebon Hawk was a freighter-turned-smuggler ship that rose to fame due to its use around the time of the Jedi Civil War. It was well-known throughout the Galaxy as a ship associated with the Exchange, and it passed through many hands before coming into the ownership of the amnesiac Jedi Revan. The ship then became instrumental in Revan's search for the Star Forge.

After Revan left known space, the ship eventually fell into the hands of the Jedi Exile, who used it on her quest to stop the Sith Triumvirate. Soon after, the Exile used the Ebon Hawk to follow Revan into the Unknown Regions. The ship was heavily modified over the course of its use, to the point that it was difficult to determine its origins. With its extremely powerful hyperdrive, the ship was believed to be the fastest in the Galaxy during its time.

July 29, 2007 – Padmé Amidala's wardrobe
Padmé Naberrie Amidala, Queen and later Senator of Naboo, maintained a large wardrobe of extravagant, ornate and in some cases very elaborate disguises, gowns, and robes of office throughout her life. As a Princess of Theed, her gowns were more simple, geared more towards practicality than style. However, her gowns and dresses during her terms as Queen were ornate and uniquely styled, geared highly towards Naboo tradition than comfort. After her second term as Queen was ended, the more practical and fashionable clothing made her realize her physical beauty, and she more and more sought to accent it, realizing that, before, it had been neglected. This led to less dramatic and striking clothing, leaving more attention to her than to her clothes. After her marriage to Anakin, she began wearing more conservative clothing in public, almost symbolizing her dedication to only him.

August 5, 2007 – Snow King
The Snow King was a powerful "god" who ruled the winter season of the forest moon of Endor. He could only bring about winter with the Season Scepter. He was the brother of the Leaf Queen, the Sun King, and the Flower Queen. During the Imperial era, he was seduced by Odra, Duchess of Sleet, and engaged in an affair with her. During this time, she froze his heart, turning him into a merciless dictator.

Just shy of declaring war on his siblings and turning the forest moon into a battleground, he had his Ice Head Commandos apprehend the Season Scepter from the Sun King, and then used the scepter to cast an eternal winter over Endor. Only the efforts of Wicket W. Warrick, under the banner of the Coalition of the Freezing, were able to stop Odra and the Snow King, and in an altercation at the Snow Palace, the King's heart was thawed. Seeing the wrong he had done, the Snow King reversed his evil, and any damage he had caused was repaired.

August 12, 2007 – Arbra
Arbra was a densely-forested planet that became the headquarters of the Rebel Alliance after the evacuation of Golrath Station, around 3 ABY. Home to the lagomorphic Hoojibs, Arbra was once inhabited by an ancient race who had resided in subterranean cities.

As a safe haven in a desperate hour for the Rebellion, Arbra earned the nickname "Salvation." They launched many missions against the Empire from the world during their stay. The location of Arbra was kept top-secret, and the Rebel base on its surface was heavily secured. Though the planet was never attacked by Imperial forces during the Rebels' stay, there were close calls, and Arbra offered its own share of dangers.

After the Battle of Endor, Arbra remained a member of the Alliance of Free Planets, and later the New Republic. The system was overlooked by the Yuuzhan Vong during their invasion, and served as a location to slowly build up military forces.

August 19, 2007 – Voren Na'al
Voren Na'al was a prominent historian in the service of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and its various successor governments. He began his career as a reporter for the Galactic News Service. His experiences and imprisonment during the Imperial overthrow of the government of Corsin drove him into the arms of the Alliance. There, he became a historian under Master Historian Arhul Hextrophon, tasked with compiling the histories of the Heroes of Yavin.

His historical works led him to continued advancement, first as Director of New Republic Council Research and Assistant Historian to the Republic, and later as Archivist Emeritus of the Historical Council of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

August 26, 2007 – Gaeriel Captison
Gaeriel "Gaeri" Captison was a member of an influential political family on Bakura. Her father, Dol Captison, and his brother, Yeorg Captison, were both senators in the Bakuran Senate. As a result, she was raised in the presence of notable political figures, and with a desire to follow in her family members' footsteps.

Gaeriel was influential in the Battle of Bakura, siding with the resistance. She went on to become the Prime Minister of Bakura and lead as a staunch ally of the New Republic. She married Pter Thanas, with whom she had a daughter named Malinza. Gaeriel later accompanied the Bakuran fleet during the First Corellian Insurrection as a diplomat, sacrificing herself and the Intruder to destroy a large portion of the insurgent fleet.

September 2, 2007 – Kaox Krul
Kaox Krul, also known as The Marauder, The Dark Killer, and The Madman, was a Sith Lord and warlord of the New Sith Empire. He was a formidable warrior within the Brotherhood of Darkness and targeted as a major threat by the Jedi Council near the end of the New Sith Wars. Krul was an avid supporter of Lord Kaan and had developed a mental link with the leader of the Brotherhood of Darkness, so that he could be summoned at great distances.

As Krul fought with the brotherhood, he became known for his brutality and hated the Jedi with a dark side-fueled passion. As the war pushed on, he was targeted for assassination by the Jedi Council, and the Jedi Crian Maru was assigned to hunt him down. In 1,002 BBY, he was responsible for the destruction of the Duros colony on Harpori. Later that year, just before the Ruusan campaign, he was finally tracked down by Crian Maru and was subsequently killed during a Duel on Balowa.

September 9, 2007 – Dark Side Elite
The Dark Side Elite, also known as the Dark Side Warriors and unofficially as the Emperor's Dark Jedi, was a body of seven Dark Jedi established by Palpatine during his return in several clone bodies. The elite group was hand selected by Palpatine to lead Operation Shadow Hand in the Galactic Empire's quest to retake the Galaxy. Palpatine made sure that the group always contained seven warriors, and if one of their number was lost, he made sure to immediately appoint replacements. When a Dark Side Adept was selected into the brotherhood, they went through an initiation of sorts in which the adept was empowered with the dark side by Palpatine himself. As the war accelerated, the Dark Side Elite began to take a more personal role in the war and were tasked with hunting down Luke Skywalker to prevent his interference in the Emperor's plans.

However, the Emperor's Dark Jedi were unable to match Skywalker's power, and with the help of other Jedi that Skywalker had found on his journeys, along with his sister Leia Organa Solo, the Elite were withered down to a paltry few. In fact, one of their number, Kam Solusar, defected to Skywalker's side, and began to use their powers against them. With a high amount of failures on their record, the Elite holed themselves up in their headquarters at Bast Castle on Vjun. It was there that Skywalker and his Jedi besieged them, taking the fight to the enemy. The entire dark brotherhood was slain in the encounter with the exception of their leader Xecr Nist who died in prison shortly afterward.

September 16, 2007 – Guardian of Forever
The Guardian of Forever, also referred to as the Sentinel, was the name given to the unidentified creature that protected an underground city on the planet Alashan. The being was the byproduct of an ancient complex within the underground metropolis of Forever. The power of the complex caused the creature's presence to give off an extremely large energy signal that could be sensed at a distance, even by the sensors on an astromech droid. The creature and the complex had been seemingly created by an ancient race native to Alashan, whose technology and culture had been lost to time. For some unknown reason, the race had sealed their city's walls with a massive metal barrier, locking the Guardian and their ancient technology away from outsiders.

The Guardian possessed near-supernatural powers and strength. Among its arsenal was the ability to fire a concentrated superlaser, as well as the ability to modify its size and to teleport. After being released from its prison by curious Rebel archaeologists, the Guardian began to slaughter what it perceived as unwelcome intruders. Eventually, due to efforts by Rebels Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa and Imperials Wil'm Grau and Anarine, the ancient complex was smashed into disrepair, apparently killing the seemingly invincible monster.

September 23, 2007 – Battle of Grassy Plains
The Battle of Grassy Plains (32 BBY) was the climactic battle that the Gungan Grand Army fought for Naboo against Trade Federation battle droids that had forcibly occupied Naboo during the Invasion of Naboo. It is often called the Battle of Naboo.

The battle served as a diversion for Queen Amidala, who planned to strike at Federation-controlled Theed, and needed the main Federation force drawn away from the city. Viceroy Nute Gunray ordered the main army away from Theed to deal with the threat, leaving a security force that was minuscule by comparison to defend Theed. The Gungans fought for several hours; however, they were swiftly routed by OOM-9's forces, and were tactically defeated. However, the destruction of the Droid Control Ship by Anakin Skywalker caused the Federation army to deactivate, and resulting in a final Gungan victory.

September 30, 2007 – Form V: Shien / Djem So
Form V: Shien / Djem So, The Way of the Krayt Dragon, or The Perseverance Form was the fifth of seven forms recognized as canon by the last Jedi Council for lightsaber combat. It was developed by practitioners of Form III: Soresu, who felt that the defensively-minded form would unnecessarily extend time spent in combat by forcing its users to wait for an opportunity to strike, rather than creating their own openings.

Shien, considered the classical Form V, was more adept at blocking blaster bolts, whereas Djem So, developed later, was designed for lightsaber combat. Both Shien and Djem So were designed to use the opponent's attack against them, as evidenced by Shien's focus on returning blaster bolts to their origin.

October 7, 2007 – Atris
Atris was a Jedi Master and Jedi historian who sat on the Jedi High Council during both the Mandalorian Wars and Jedi Civil War. She viewed the Order as a symbol of light, justice, and perfection. All this changed, however, when the Jedi Exile defied the council and participated in the Mandalorian Wars alongside Revan and Malak. Having one whom she cared about defy everything she believed in shook Atris to her very core.

During the First Jedi Purge, Atris arranged a Jedi conclave on Katarr in the hope of drawing out the Sith. The plan failed, and many Jedi died. She went into seclusion, surrounding herself with those who could not feel the Force. Influenced by Sith holocrons she had been collecting, Atris gradually fell to the dark side. She was eventually confronted by the Jedi Exile, and after a heated lightsaber duel, Atris was defeated. The Exile spared her life, and started her down the path to redemption.

October 14, 2007 – The Keeper
The Keeper was a machine with an artificial intelligence designed by the Akurians. It was located on Akuria I and controlled by four android children. Built by the Akurians to preserve their homeworld in a time of war, the Keeper drew its power from Akuria's core, which allowed it to survive long after the people had fled. The Keeper was installed to restore the world to its former status for the Akurians, so that when they would return years later, the planet would be suitable for them to live on.

Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa landed on Akuria seeking shelter from an Imperial fleet. Battling their way through the wilderness with the aid of their two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, they stumbled upon the Keeper's Temple, and in turn, met the Keeper's four android "children". The Keeper was convinced that the Rebels were of good faith, and decided to help them, by forcing the Imperial troops that had landed to flee offworld. Skywalker and Organa then left the Keeper in peace to continue her task of building a civilization.

October 21, 2007 – Jon (farmer)
Jon was a farmer who lived on Dantooine near the Jedi Enclave with his daughter, Ilsa. Ilsa was killed by a pack of Mandalorians in 3,956 BBY due to her defiance against their assumed authority, and, in his rage, Jon demanded that the Jedi of Dantooine deliver justice. Inadvertently, that justice was delivered by the former Sith Lord Revan, who struck down the Mandalorians in self defense during his trials to become Zhar Lestin's Padawan. Appeased, Jon returned to his farm, and resumed work.

Following his daughter's death, Jon thirsted for Mandalorian blood, and demanded that the Jedi exterminate them. Even when a batch of the Mandalorians had been killed, Jon was not satisfied, and demanded the killing of the leader. Only then did he return to his former state.

October 28, 2007 – Stagorr
Stagorr was an Ice Demon and Dark Wizard on the forest moon of Endor. He was a magical being and had the ability to freeze surfaces with even a passing touch, as well as a remedial talent in Force lightning. Some time before the Battle of Endor, Stagorr came into conflict with the Ewok shaman, Logray. During a duel on Endor, Stagorr was soundly beaten and the Ice Demon was imprisoned within Ice Mountain under a type of spell which impelled him to stay within the confines of the frozen crags of the mountain. In his makeshift prison, Stagorr planned his revenge on Logray, waiting for the perfect opportunity to bring down the Ewok's favored magician.

Years after he had first been imprisoned in Ice Mountain, Stagorr finally found his chance for revenge. While gazing upon Bright Tree Village, Stagorr witnessed the young Ewok warrior, Wicket W. Warrick, testing Logray's powerful Force-imbued staff. Knowing that the Ewok would prove a powerful hostage, Stagorr transported Wicket to Ice Mountain, forcing another showdown with Logray. However, Stagorr's magic still proved inferior to the power of Logray, and the final fight claimed the life of Stagorr and any hope he had entertained of defeating Logray.

November 4, 2007 – Chik Apla
Chik Apla was an Imperial commando from Coruscant. He was a former member of the Emperor's Royal Guard, more than likely from the recreated guard under Admiral Daala. While in service, Apla had an active career, eventually receiving a distinguished scar that ran down from his right temple. He wore the armor that was reminiscent of the guard's Master Instructor and maintained the suit well into the dominant days of the New Republic. After the fall of the Galactic Empire and the signing of the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty, Apla retired to the planet Dolis 3 to spend the rest of his days.

Around 19 ABY, Apla was recruited by Moff Derran Takkar and was instrumental in his plan to ruin the highly publicized wedding of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade. However, Chik Apla's attempt to assassinate the bride-to-be met with disaster. Chik Apla was soundly defeated by the fully-fledged Jedi Knight and taken into New Republic custody.

November 11, 2007 – Barpotomous Drebble
A short stocky individual wielding a flamboyant mohawk of brown hair, Barpotomous Drebble was a businessman who had a weakness for gambling and a furious temper. Through undercover acts by Lando Calrissian, Drebble found himself promoted to Captain and declared a hero of the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

Drebble's newfound status as a hero led him to leadership status on the planet Stenos. He controlled a substantial section of the Stenos capital and ruled it in the best interests of the Alliance of Free Planets. It is likely he was still helping govern Stenos during the rule of the New Republic.

November 18, 2007 – Halagad Ventor
Halagad Ventor was a Human Jedi Knight who was trained at an unusually late age, due to the fact that he was passed over for training initially during his childhood on Alderaan. Since the nature of his training was unnatural, Ventor's actions as a Jedi were considered unorthodox, and he neglected the more subtle aspects of the Force. During the Clone Wars, Ventor served as a Jedi General, most notably at Bal'demnic.

After Order 66 was executed, he was interrogated by Darth Vader, and named names of several other Jedi in hiding. He escaped Vader and fled to Trinta, where madness and the dark side of the Force consumed him. After many years, a band of Rebels confronted him, and drew him out of the dark side, redeeming him. Ventor would persist in the Force as a Force ghost, and would guide survivors of his betrayal years after his death.

November 25, 2007 – Hiromi
The Hiromi were a bipedal, sapient insectoid species. Despite a strong instinct for self-preservation and a large aversion to anything that could bring them harm, the Hiromi saw themselves as a glorious race of mighty warriors.

Their government was the Hiromi Empire, and they were members of the Alliance of Free Planets. The Hiromi secretly dreamt of galactic conquest; to achieve their aims, shortly after the Battle of Endor they tried to incite a war between Lahsbane and the Ewoks to tear the Alliance apart, but this plot was foiled. They then tried to conquer Zeltros, but were again foiled when the planet was later conquered by the Nagai, and in turn the Tofs. They gave up their dreams of conquest afterwards, helping the Alliance and the Nagai fight the Tofs.

December 2, 2007 – Kir Kanos
Kir Kanos was an Emperor's Royal Guard and the final loyal member of the guard after their ultimate betrayal at Yinchorr by their fellow guardsman Carnor Jax. After swearing an oath to hunt down the traitor and bring him to justice, Kanos became the most wanted man in the Galaxy, after a massive bounty was put on his head by the Imperial Remnant. However, his skills helped him stay alive, and he eventually caught up with Jax and engaged him in a final duel. Kanos slew the would be Emperor, avenging his brothers.

However, Kanos then set out to eliminate everyone that had helped accelerate the Emperor's ultimate death, specifically targeting the Imperial Ruling Council. With a sizeable bounty on his head, Kanos went undercover as Kenix Kil, eventually making a name for himself in bounty hunting circles. It was with this alias that Kanos was finally able to infiltrate the council and execute the traitors within, especially Xandel Carivus, who planned to take the throne. With his main work complete, Kanos continued to search for traitors to the Emperor, hoping to one day face Luke Skywalker and avenge the Emperor's death.

December 9, 2007 – Malcor Brashin
Malcor Brashin was a respected Grand General in the Imperial Army. Though his career had an unassuming beginning, he was converted into a fanatical supporter of the New Order after nonhuman thieves murdered his wife and daughter.

This event gave him the drive to become one of the army's highest-ranking officers, in which position he oversaw the development of the Battlefield Holographic Control Interface and served as Brenn Tantor's superior throughout Tantor's Imperial career. However, when Tantor disobeyed an order to wipe out a refugee camp, Brashin had him imprisoned. Tantor escaped and defected to the Rebellion, where he faced Brashin once more and escaped again. By the time of the fall of Coruscant, Brashin was commanding the defense of the planet, where Tantor defeated his forces decisively.

December 16, 2007 – Dagon Niriz
Dagon Niriz was a fourth-generation navy officer, a captain in the Imperial Navy and the commanding officer of the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Admonitor in the years leading up to the Battle of Endor. A stalwart supporter of order and obedience in naval service, he took his position seriously.

When he was assigned to Thrawn's mapping expedition in the Unknown Regions, he initially saw it as a blow to his career. However, after a test of Niriz's loyalty which caused the officer to doubt Thrawn's fitness for command but during which Niriz refused to participate in mutiny, Thrawn revealed the true nature of his mission. Thrawn, with Niriz and Voss Parck at his side, was in fact assigned to conquer the Unknown Regions for the Galactic Empire and secure it against the vast array of hidden threats within. Niriz took great pride in this cause, and continued to serve in the Unknown Regions, where Thrawn's holdings became the Empire of the Hand, even after Thrawn returned to the Empire after the Emperor's death.

December 23, 2007 – Record Time
The Record Time was an armed troop transport that served with distinction during the fall of Coruscant and later at the Battle of Borleias. The ship ferried the initial waves of ground troops and YVH-1s to the surface of Borleias in the initial stages of the battle as part of a New Republic effort to take the planet, but sustained heavy damage in the process.

Following that engagement, the vessel was later used to insert a team of Wraith Squadron infiltrators and Jedi onto the surface of occupied Coruscant. While performing this mission, the ship was attacked by multiple coralskippers and a Yuuzhan Vong frigate analog. The Record Time ultimately fulfilled its mission, but succumbed to the plasma cannon fire, disintegrating over Coruscant as its crew escaped.

December 30, 2007 – Plif
Plif was a Hoojib, native to the forests of the planet Arbra. Like all Hoojibs, Plif had the ability to telepathically communicate with other sentient species. He also possessed the ability to partially perceive the thought processes of lower-order non-sapient species, such as Sliviliths. Communication with such creatures was practically impossible, however, and the only mental impressions Plif could perceive from one were in the forms of vague, emotional images. Possessing a sharp mental acuity, Plif was the spokesmind for his Hoojib tribe of Arbra, and was commonly regarded as their unofficial leader.

As their leader, Plif founded a strong support base for an Arbran government, and, as such, Arbra became one of the founding members of the Alliance of Free Planets, the short-lived successor to the Alliance to Restore the Republic. In his role as de facto head of state, Plif actively participated in military actions against the forces of the Galactic Empire, the Nagai, and the Tofs. He was constantly paired up with Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker in commando raids and expeditions during the Nagai-Tof War tour of duty, and even led his fellow Hoojibs into battle on several occasions.

January 6, 2008 – Selkath
The Selkath were an aquatic sentient species, native to the ocean-covered planet of Manaan. Since Manaan was the only naturally occurring source of kolto, the Selkath held great diplomatic sway during the Jedi Civil War. At that time, they held tightly to their neutrality; however, a few farsighted Selkath occasionally broke their neutrality in secret, and arranged deals to help their preferred side.

Eventually, the kolto market disappeared and the galaxy abandoned the Selkath. It was not until the rise of the Galactic Empire that the Selkath would have interaction with the galaxy again. Conquered by the Galactic Empire, the Selkath eventually repulsed the invaders and gained freedom.

January 13, 2008 – Ravager
The Ravager was a capital ship of the Galactic Republic Navy, and later joined the Sith as the ship of Darth Nihilus. It was first destroyed in the Mandalorian Wars on Malachor V, then crushed by the weight of the Mass shadow generator built by Bao-Dur. However, Nihilus tore the ship from the gravity well, along with the rest of his fleet, and used it as his flagship in his search for a world with which to satisfy his eternal hunger. The ship barely held together, being maintained only by the Sith Lord's will, who kept only the barest of life support systems intact to sustain himself, his soldiers, and the Force-zombies under his control. It was destroyed in 3,952 BBY by the Jedi Exile after the Dark Lord's death.

January 20, 2008 – Jadru
Jadru was a felinoid enchantress who lived on the forest moon of Endor. She lived in an elaborate lair a short distance from Bright Tree Village. Jadru resided in the center of the structure where she sat on an ornate throne which controlled the entrance and pathways into her home. Besides her treasured fortress, Jadru was the owner of a magical Quarf which served as her pet and assistant, carrying out special tasks that she would entrust it with.

At some point, Jadru set her eyes on the Ewoks' sunstar, a powerful object that had a variety of uses, including the the ability to increase one's own magical talents. To seize the stone, Jadru sent out her pet Quarf to capture the Ewoks' princess, Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka so that she could ransom her for possession of the sunstar. After "Silky," as the young Ewok children had named her pet, infiltrated the village, the Quarf captured Kneesaa and brought her back to Jadru's lair. However, before Jadru could ransom the young princess, Kneesaa's friend Wicket W. Warrick was able to rescue the princess and led Jadru on a chase throughout the tunnels of the fortress. Unfortunately for the enchantress, Wicket was able to trick her into leaving her throne and succeeded in trapping her within her own maze.

January 27, 2008 – XJ-6 airspeeder
The XJ-6 airspeeder was a custom-built airspeeder created by Narglatch AirTech, fashioned to Senator Simon Greyshade's elitist tastes. The vehicle was very powerful with two large turbofan engines located at the front of the craft. The senator used the souped-up airspeeder to compete in races that took place on Coruscant.

The airspeeder later gained wide attention in 22 BBY after its apparent theft outside of 500 Republica by Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker and subsequent use in rescuing Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and pursuing Zam Wesell, Padmé Amidala's attempted assassin. After the chase, the XJ-6 was tracked down by Coruscant authorities, over 100 kilometers from its original spot in the senatorial garage. The son of a Senate Guard who worked with Greyshade, Reymet Autem, was initially charged with the theft; however, before charges could be filed, the airspeeder was returned to its spot in the lot of 500 Republica.

February 3, 2008 – Carth Onasi
Carth Onasi was a loyal soldier and an expert pilot in the Republic Naval Starfighter Corps. He served in the Mandalorian Wars, and after the war's end, Carth planned to leave the service and return to his wife and son on Telos IV. However, tragedy struck and put an end to those plans when Revan and Malak turned on the Republic. During the war, his wife was killed and his son abducted by the Sith in an attack commanded by his former mentor, Admiral Saul Karath.

During the Jedi Civil War, he played a crucial role in the search for the Star Forge, helping the reprogrammed Revan save Bastila Shan on Taris and piloting Revan and Shan across the galaxy in the Ebon Hawk. After the Battle of Rakata Prime, Carth was made an admiral in the Republic Navy and took a leading role in the Republic recovery effort, following Revan's orders to protect the Republic.

February 10, 2008 – Ozrei N'takkilomandrife
Commander Ozrei N'takkilomandrife or Knife was a Nagai and one of the foremost Nagai leaders during the Nagai-Tof War in 4 ABY. He commanded several of the early missions into Alliance territory. The son of scout Krai H'voc, Ozrei first encountered Han Solo, Lando Calrissian, and Chewbacca when he tried to set up a slave ring on Kashyyyk, using Chewbacca's family as hostages to keep the Wookiees in line. Knife appeared several more times during the conflict, even being temporarily captured at one point. However, he soon escaped to lead the Nagai throughout the rest of the war.

During the invasion, Knife learned of his half-brother Bey and immediately befriended him, not showing any sign of discrimination. When the Nagai finally allied with the Alliance near the end of the conflict, Knife had a hard time adapting to the new allegiance, picking fights with Alliance warriors. However, the joining of the two forces proved fruitful, and they managed to defeat the Tof threat. With the conflict over, Knife returned with the Nagai fleet to their conquered home planet of Nagi to free it from the Tof ruling there.

February 17, 2008 – Voss Parck
Voss Parck was an officer in the Imperial Navy who discovered the future Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo and later served as the commander of Thrawn's Empire of the Hand. Hailing from a naval family on Corulag, Parck followed the expected career path and joined the Republic Navy, serving in the Clone Wars. Shortly after the transition to empire, Parck came across Thrawn while chasing smugglers in the Unknown Regions. Impressed by Thrawn's tactical abilities, Parck offered him a position in the Empire and took him back to Coruscant, where Emperor Palpatine was greatly pleased with Parck's find.

Parck remained attached to Thrawn's career, following the grand admiral on his mission to subjugate the Unknown Regions and its myriad aggressors. Deeply devoted to and admiring of Thrawn, Parck served as his right-hand man throughout the deployment. When Thrawn returned to known space to take up command of the Empire's military forces, Parck was left behind as steward of the Empire of the Hand, an Imperialist territory Thrawn had carved out of the Unknown Regions. Upon Thrawn's death, Parck assumed sole command of the Empire of the Hand, continuing its mission to pacify the hostile civilizations in the region, which he regarded as essential to the future of the galaxy. When a hoax proclaimed the return of Thrawn ten years after his death, Parck cautiously opened relations with the galaxy at large, retaining high-level diplomatic ties even after the impostor was exposed.

February 24, 2008 – Flint
Flint was a male Human native to Belderone. The son of a Clone Wars-era Jedi Knight, Flint was chosen by Darth Vader as his fourth pupil, following the destruction of his home and death of his mother, Zana. While Flint was in service as a stormtrooper, he received personal training from Vader so that he would eventually face Vader's other pupil, Lumiya, for the honor to be Vader's Shadow Hand. However, after Vader's death, the showdown took place prematurely, and resulted in Flint becoming the apprentice to the new Dark Lady of the Sith, Lumiya.

Flint served under Lumiya as she prepared for the Nagai-Tof War and was sent to subjugate the Phelleem Sector. He was also ordered to avenge Vader's death at Endor by confronting and killing Luke Skywalker. Flint finally had a showdown with Skywalker on the planet of Naldar, but was unable to bring himself to overcome or kill the Jedi. In the end, his childhood friend, Barney, helped redeem Flint from the dark side of the Force, and he turned on his Imperial allies. After residing in prison for a time, Flint took to helping displaced peoples from the Galactic Civil War. This work continued until he was finally murdered by his old master Lumiya for his ultimate betrayal.

March 2, 2008 – Anti-Sith coup attempt
The anti-Sith coup attempt was a plot carried out by several high-ranking members of the Galactic Empire in 1 BBY. Led by Grand Moff Trachta, the conspiracy attempted to overthrow the Sith leaders of the Empire, Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader.

The attempt hinged on a special detachment of cloned stormtroopers, programmed to obey not Palpatine, but Trachta. After splitting up Vader and Palpatine, the conspirators would have their stormtroopers, planted within the ranks of the two men's forces, turn on the Sith and kill them.

The plot did not go as planned. The members first turned on each other, resulting in the assassination of most of the participants. The surviving members were no more successful, as Vader and Palpatine's mastery of the Force allowed them to easily defeat the stormtroopers and dispose of the remaining leaders. In the end, all members of the conspiracy but the Imperial assassin Gauer were killed in the attempt.

March 9, 2008 – Burl Ives
Burl Ives (June 14, 1909–April 14, 1995) was an Academy Award winning actor, author, and a renowned folk singer. After dropping out of school at an early age, he roamed the countryside looking for work as a singer. He eventually found work in New York City, both as a singer and an actor. After missing out on most of World War II, Ives began his career in film.

However, in the 1950s, Ives was branded as a communist. To avoid blacklisting, and in an attempt to return to work, Ives named names to Senator McCarthy's committees, which earned him the ire of his colleagues. Nevertheless, the rotund Ives established a strong presence for himself on the screen, and was the eleventh actor to be directed to an Academy Award by William Wyler for his work in The Big Country.

Ives was also known for his voice work. In 1964, he voiced the snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and in 1984, he narrated John Korty's Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure. On passing in 1995 due to oral cancer, Ives was survived by his second wife, Dorothy, and his children.

March 16, 2008 – Tholme
Tholme was a Jedi Master during the waning years of the Galactic Republic, who served in both the Stark Hyperspace War and the Clone Wars. After completing his Jedi training, Tholme served as Jedi Watchman of the Azurbani system, where he came across the young Jedi hopeful Quinlan Vos. Sending him to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Tholme relinquished his Jedi Watchman status in favor of training Vos. Several years later, when Vos' training had been completed, an unfortunate incident occurred when Vos lost his memory. When he had partially regained it, Tholme took it upon himself to help the wayward Jedi, and even took up Vos' former Padawan, Aayla Secura, as his own.

During the Separatist Crisis and subsequent Clone Wars, Tholme set up a spy network with Vos, hoping to glean information from the upper echelons of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. After sustaining grievous injuries from Count Dooku himself on Bakura, Tholme masterminded the plan to have Vos infiltrate Dooku's inner circle of Dark Acolytes. Unfortunately for Tholme, Vos turned to the dark side in earnest, and began participating in highly damaging Separatist activities against the Republic. In the meantime, Tholme participated in several Republic engagements, on worlds such as Devaron, where he was injured by Aurra Sing, and Saleucami where, coincidentally, he would turn Vos back to the light and the Republic. He was able to evade Order 66 and the subsequent Great Jedi Purge along with his lover, the Neti Jedi T'ra Saa, and took refuge on Kashyyyk, hidden from the new Imperial occupation.

March 23, 2008 – Stranger
The Stranger was the name given to the insidious Wizard of the Night Spirit by the Ewok children of Bright Tree Village on the forest moon of Endor. The Stranger had long ago fought alongside his people in a decisive battle with Ewok shamans only to see his entire race banished to the otherworld, a devastated wasteland far from the forest moon. However, the creature plotted to return to the moon and exact his revenge upon the Ewoks. Sometime around 3 ABY, the Stranger succeeded in escaping the otherworld and made his way back to Endor.

After arriving, the Stranger began a campaign against the Ewoks, seeking to capture the Sunstar, a powerful artifact that the Ewoks had used to banish the Stranger and all the Wizards of the Night Spirit to the otherworld. After finally getting a hold of the stone, the Stranger entered the Stone Circle and prepared to use the Sunstar to summon his people back to Endor. With the artifact's incredible abilities, the Stranger opened a rift in space, letting the rest of his species through. However, in another showdown with the Ewoks, the Wizards of the Night Spirit were sorely defeated, and due to the efforts of Wicket W. Warrick and Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka, the Stranger was forced back into banishment.

March 30, 2008 – Guri


Guri was a Human replica droid created by the Imperial researchers Simonelle and Massad Thrumble and the only one of her kind engineered as an assassin. After being sold to Prince Xizor, head of Black Sun, she served as his lieutenant and was one of the few individuals the necessarily paranoid crimelord believed he could trust.

After the fall of Black Sun and the death of Xizor, Guri set out on a personal quest to locate Thrumble and get him to purge her assassin programming so she could start a new life, though Xizor's niece, Savan, attempted to stop her and to ensure the droid's continuing service to Black Sun.

After defeating Savan, Guri teamed up with Dash Rendar, working together as a mercenary team before agreeing to serve as the template for a new range of Human replica droids.