Nuru Kungurama

Nuru Kungurama was a male Chiss Jedi Padawan in the waning years of the Galactic Republic. He wielded a blue lightsaber. He participated in the mission to Kynachi, in which he stowed away on a transport and pursued the mission without his master's consent.

Early life as a Jedi
Nuru was originally apprenticed to Jedi Master Skaa. Master Skaa was part of the Jedi task force sent to Geonosis to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Amidala from the Separatist leaders just prior to the outbreak of the Clone Wars. Nuru was too young and stayed on Coruscant. Master Skaa fought in the Battle of Geonosis but never returned. Nuru was then apprenticed to Jedi Master Ring-Sol Ambase, eventually becoming commander of Breakout Squad.

Mission to Kynachi
A squad of clone trooper "shinies" under the charge of Clone Captain Lock were dispatched from the Republic Star Destroyer Demolisher to sort through the wreckage of the dreaded Separatist heavy cruiser Malevolence, which had previously been sabotaged and crashed into a moon by Anakin Skywalker. Republic intelligence reports indicated that the Malevolence had been constructed at the Pammant Docks by the Free Dac Volunteers Engineering Corps, part of the Quarren Isolation League. The clone reconnaissance and recovery mission confirmed this report. Exotic circuitry was also discovered, however, among the debris. This on-board circuitry was delivered to Jedi General Ring-Sol Ambase, who brought it directly to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine on Coruscant. It was the Jedi Master's very firm conclusion that the circuitry was manufactured by KynachTech Industries on the planet Kynachi, which was previously believed to manufacture it's unique brand of technology solely for peaceful purposes. Though Kynachi had isolated itself and severed all ties with the Republic ten years earlier, the existence of their circuitry aboard the Malevolence came as a grave surprise. Given that Ambase was born Kynachi and had studied his home planet and people extensively, Palpatine asked Ambase to undertake a secret mission to Kynachi to discover the true nature of what was going on there.

Returning to the Jedi Temple, Ambase informed his newly-appointed Padawan Nuru Kungurama of his imminent departure and that the apprentice would not be joining him. Young Nuru is a Chiss, but didn't know any more about his heritage than most others, as he was an infant when he was brought to the Temple. Nuru was too young to be called into action at Geonosis and his original master, Skaa, did not return from the battle. Further, Nuru was only recently assigned to Ambase. As Ambase left for the hanger, Nuru experienced a strong sensation in the Force that this new master would also not return from his mission. In the hopes of somehow preventing any such undesirable events from transpiring, Nuru used the Force to influence a clone trooper and stow away on the freighter the task force was using to infiltrate Kynachi.

The two groups crash-landed in their escape pods and were almost immediately beset on the cold and rainy planet by native crustacean creatures and more Vulture droids. Nuru's group attempted to continue the mission while also trying to discover what happened to General Ambase and his group. Along the way, they were assisted by grounded smuggler-turned-diner-owner Lalo Gunn and beguiled by an unusually helpful ally in the bounty hunter Cad Bane, who was under unknown orders from Darth Sidious. Gunn's navigator droid Teejay was destroyed by droid commandos, who were tipped off by none other than Bane. After taking out the droids and based upon information of Ambase's whereabouts from the bounty hunter, Nuru, Gunn, and the clones plotted a prison break that involved combining a droid commando body with Teejay's brain. The droid was renamed Cleaver.

By holocomm, Yoda was none too pleased with Nuru's unauthorized absence from the Temple and his stowing away on the task force's freighter, but Palpatine intervened and, seeing that the Padawan was a Chiss, assigned him and the newly-christened Breakout Squad to an immediately pressing mission to meet a Chiss ambassador on Csilla. Lalo Gunn and Cleaver volunteered take the squad in their freighter.

Appearances

 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Secret Missions 1: Breakout Squad
 * Star Wars The Clone Wars Secret Missions 2: Curse of the Black Hole Pirates