Celeste Morne

"When you go hunting&mdash;send a hunter."

- Lucien Draay

Celeste Morne was a female Human Jedi Knight who served the Jedi Covenant as a Shadow, an agent whose records of their existence had been erased and were known only to a few of the Covenant's members. Her losses from the Great Sith War channeled her dedication to the cause of the Covenant to stop the Sith from rising again.

In 3,963 BBY the Covenant assigned her a mission to retrieve an ancient Sith artifact known as the Muur Talisman and kill Zayne Carrick, the Jedi Padawan fugitive. However, in the course this mission she doubted Zayne's criminal charges and faced off against the rampant Rakghoul plague, caused by the Muur Talisman, infecting the Mandalorian invasion force on Jebble. In the course of her struggle to complete her far more complicated mission and dealing with her own doubts about Carrick, Celeste fell under the possession of the Muur Talisman. In order to protect the galaxy from herself, Celeste allowed Zayne to seal her in Dreypa's Oubliette where she would remain until 19 BBY.

Early Career
After the destruction of Ossus, Celeste's family became homeless and wandered the Galaxy for years until they fell apart. However, Celeste found herself a new family in the Covenant as a secret agent devoted to stopping the rise of the Sith in the galaxy again. She was known to have destroyed the last copy of the Epistle of Marka Ragnos, and recovered Jori Daragon's amulet and the Eye of Horak-mul on behalf of the Covenant. Around 3,963 BBY Lucien Draay contacted her and gave her the task of bringing in Zayne Carrick and finding the Muur Talisman on Taris.



On Taris, Morne came to the aid of Sector Constable Noana Sowrs under attack from rakghouls, killing all of them before they overwhelmed the former officer. However, Morne discovered Sowrs was infected with the Rakghoul Plague and cut Sowrs down as she mutated. Just then, Zayne and his companion, Marn Hierogryph, rushed passed her, chased by another horde of rakghouls; she quickly cut them down. After learning Zayne's identity, they fell into a cavern with Mandalorians, who had just acquired the talisman. She strapped on a jetpack and flew after them to complete her mission.

The Muur Talisman
Celeste, Zayne and Marn Hierogryph stowed away on board the Mar'eyce and traveled to Jebble. On board, Celeste tried to convince Pulsipher to throw the Muur Talisman out of the airlock by using a Jedi mind trick, but he resisted. On Jebble, she tried to separate herself from Zayne and Gryph, but was found by Zayne who informed her that the Mandalorians were planning a raid on Alderaan. Gryph, dressed as a Mandalorian, convinced Celeste and Zayne to pretend to be his captives Joam and Hettie Hierogarl, the Taris Techno-Terror Twins, allowing the trio to pass the guards and enter the War Forge. Inside, Celeste determined that Zayne should warn Alderaan about the upcoming raid. However, Gryph accidentally discharged his weapon causing a cave-in, Celeste to lose her lightsaber and alerting the Mandalorian guards to their presence. Before Celeste and Zayne could be taken hostage, a guard transformed into a Rakghoul, dropping Celeste’s lightsaber in the process and forcing the other guards to fire on their former comrade. Afterwards, those guards also transformed into Rakghouls. After engaging and killing the Rakghouls, Celeste and Zayne tried to find a way out and ran onto a balcony where they discovered that Jebble was not just a local War Forge or training center, but a staging area for invasion with all the recruits from the Outer Rim present about to become infected.

After sliding down the mountain side to escape, Zayne informed Celeste that the Masters on Taris had framed him for the Padawan Massacre of Taris. Celeste attempted to be ignorant of a secret cabal within the order though she let it slip that it was a Jedi Covenant. Celeste contacted Lucien Draay to inform him about the impending invasion of Alderaan and the Rakghoul plague. Lucien ordered her to stop the invasion and to kill Zayne Carrick. Celeste questioned the order to kill Zayne but he reminded her of her family's past and of the Sith War. As Zayne contacted his friends at Taris, Celeste activated her lightsaber to kill Zayne. However, she stopped when Zayne also contacted Cassus Fett to warn him about the plague. Celeste witnessed that Zayne wasn't just trying to save the Republic worlds, but Mandalorian ones as well, making it difficult for her to have justification to kill Zayne.

While Zayne went off in search of Marn Hierogryph, she followed, cutting down the rakghouls that she encountered. She managed to find Zayne, restrained by Pulsipher and under attacked by the Muur Talisman itself. Celeste attempted to pry it away from Zayne while he protested, suggesting that he might be able to stop the plague from spreading if he controlled the Muur Talisman. Celeste ordered the Talisman to come to her, informing it that she was a Jedi. The Talisman released itself from Zayne and attacked Celeste, binding itself to her neck. Celeste encountered a vision of Karness Muur, who informed her that he was the future and she was his. When Celeste managed to climb to her feet, she discovered that she commanded the rakghouls.

It quickly became obvious what was happening to Celeste. She became corrupted by the talisman and began to use its power to manipulate the Rakghouls into killing the Mandalorians and cause further infection on Jebble. Zayne was appalled at her apathetic reactions as the Rakghouls tore apart Mandalorians. Gryph revealed to Zayne that Celeste was an agent for the Covenant and for Krynda Draay, Lucien's mother. Celeste became enraged at them for questioning her devotion to the Draay family and the Covenant. As Celeste was about to deal with the two of them, Zayne informed her that she was only assisting the Sith, the faction she had sworn to protect the Galaxy against by expanding the growing Rakghoul army. Celeste managed to break free from the Talisman's control and asked Zayne to strike her down. However, he could not and opted for another solution.

Zayne took Celeste to Pulsipher's laboratory to have her temporarily sealed inside Dreypa's oubliette and contain the Muur Talisman's influence. Celeste willing did so and asked him to take her to the planet Odryn, into the Sanctum of the Exalted using her key. She hoped that there, Covenant researchers, experts in Sith artifacts, might be able to help her. Before sealing the oubliette, Celeste told Zayne that she believed that he had not killed the Padawans of Taris and ordered him to reach Krynda Draay in order to stop the corruption of the Covenant. After closing the oubliette, Zayne and Gryph managed to make their way to higher ground, surrounded by Rakghouls, when the Moomo Williwaw, carrying Jarael, Alek, Rohlan, Slyssk, Shel, and the Moomo Brothers, arrived and rescued them.

However, Zayne was not yet ready to leave. He still planned to retrieve Celeste when Cassus Fett's fleet arrived in the system. While Zayne believed them to be landing, they instead fired nuclear warheads onto the surface, destroying the citadel with Celeste still inside. He was devastated at the loss of Celeste, but felt motivated again to stopping the Covenant. The first course of action would be to travel to Odyrn and use the key Celeste had given him.

Emerge from Stasis
However, Celeste was not dead but still in stasis inside the apparently impregnable oubliette, where she remained for almost 3,950 years until around 19 BBY. Eventually, she would encounter the Sith Lord Darth Vader.

Personality and traits
"Zayne, leave murdereena alone."

- Marn Hierogryph

Celeste's constant dedication to the Covenant's goals and her visits to many of the galaxy's nastier places formed a rough personality. She found the presence of Zayne and Gryph highly annoying and regularly threw them insults. However, Celeste began to doubt her orders when she witnessed Zayne go out of his way to protect Cassus Fett's Mandalorian Army from the rakghoul plague.

Behind the scenes
Celeste is the Spanish word for a light blue color.

'Celeste' and 'Morne' both appear in the random name generator for the Jedi Exile in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Vector
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 29: Exalted, Part 1
 * Star Wars Dark Times: Vector
 * Star Wars Rebellion: Vector