Corran Horn

"I'm glad you think I'm not bad, but I want to be the best."

- Corran Horn to Wedge Antilles

Corran Horn was a Human security officer with the Corellian Security Force who eventually joined the New Republic and learned of his powerful Jedi heritage. He became a powerful Jedi and a Master on the new Jedi Council. Horn's command qualities and experience made him a natural leader among the Jedi, which saw him become the temporary head of the Order during the term of Cal Omas.

Early history
For most of his life, Corran grew up believing that he was the grandson of Rostek Horn, and the son of Valin "Hal" Horn and Nyche Horn. Corran followed their footsteps by joining the Corellian Security Force (CorSec) and dedicating himself to law enforcement. He entered the CorSec Academy at the age of eighteen. Corran had always had hunches and instincts; these turned out to be early manifestations of Corran's latent Force abilities. He and his father worked together until the Trandoshan bounty hunter Bossk murdered Hal Horn.



During his time in CorSec, Corran and his partner Iella Wessiri protected several well-known individuals from kidnapping threats. Two such people were Wynssa Starflare and Siolle Tinta, the latter of whom Corran enjoyed a brief but passionate romance with. After a harrowing raid on a glitterstim den, he and Iella had nearly slept together; however, Kirtan Loor took them in for debriefing, and when they saw each other again, the moment had passed.

Corran crossed paths with Rogue Squadron during a mission to rescue Soontir Fel's nephew who had been kidnapped by a man from Fel's past. He and Iella teamed up with Wes Janson, Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian and Plourr who were trying to rescue Fel's family before Ysanne Isard could get to them. During their escape, Corran shot several Uglies down who were pursuing the Rebels. Plourr recommended that they might want to invite Horn to join the squadron.

Another time, he paid an individual to escort Chandra Conrad, a witness who had agreed to come forward to testify for his investigation against the Black Sun, back to him. He would have done this himself but had to attend an important meeting with his Black Sun contacts or else his cover would have been blown. Soon after this, he once again paid the individual; this time to bring Obrio Caldori, a Black Sun crook, to him for questioning. Caldori was eager to cooperate with him once he discovered how much Horn's witnesses already knew and turned over evidence implicating Voydd Blancken, one of Black Sun's major players. Horn knew that bringing him to justice would be a major blow to Black Sun as he knew where a lot of bodies were buried and so he once again called on the individual to bring Voydd in. This was a huge blow to the Black Sun operatives on Corellia, and they took a long time to recover.



Knowing that Kirtan Loor—the Imperial Liaison officer—was planning to have them arrested on trumped up charges Corran, his mentor Gil Bastra, Iella Wessiri, and Iella's husband Diric Wessiri, made plans to escape. Corran was lucky to escape as Loor was planning on having him murdered. Corran left with a CorSec X-wing and Whistler—his R2 astromech droid.

Diric and Iella Wessiri escaped to Coruscant. Corran Horn spent the next two years on the run before joining the New Republic. For around a year before joining the Republic, Corran spent as an aide to a series of incompetent Imperial Military Prefects on an Outer Rim planet.

Gil Bastra made sure that he was easy for Loor to track him down, allowing his comrades to escape. Bastra was eventually killed by Loor during a botched interrogation.

Rogue Squadron
About two years after leaving Corellia, Corran Horn joined Rogue Squadron. He was the roommate of Ooryl Qrygg. He did well enough during training that he was promoted to Lieutenant and given command of the squadron's Three Flight. His promotion came after he was the only potential Rogue to manage to beat the Redemption Scenario (also known as Requiem). Corran's call-sign was Rogue Nine. He excelled in a number of early missions and was instrumental in the taking of the planet Borleias, which opened the way for the invasion of Coruscant.

During transit to the Rogues' new forward base at Talasea, the Rogues stumbled on a Baudo-class star yacht being ambushed by an Interdictor cruiser. Rogue Squadron drove the Interdictor off without any losses but Corran, wandering too close to the cruiser, got struck by a ion bolt and became immobilized and had to be towed to Talasea by Mirax Terrik, the daughter of smuggler Booster Terrik, at Wedge's request. This was the first encounter between them that would prove to pave the way for a relationship. Because Hal Horn had once arrested Booster and sent him to Kessel for five years, early animosity existed between Mirax and Corran, and between Booster and Corran, especially when Booster found out about his daughter's interest in his archenemy's son. However, over time, Corran and Mirax became close friends that were hurt immensely when they heard of each other's death early on in the Krytos Campaign.

Coruscant scouting mission


Corran participated in a scouting mission to determine the best way for the New Republic to take Coruscant. He traveled with fellow squad mate Erisi Dlarit to the Imperial capital, and made a number of observations on the planet's security setup. During his time on Coruscant, Corran was reunited with Iella Wessiri. Her husband Diric had disappeared about a year before, so Iella joined the New Republic.

Corran became convinced during this time that Tycho Celchu—the Executive Officer for the squadron—was an Imperial sleeper agent due to Celchu's time at the Imperial prison known as Lusankya. Corran was convinced that he saw Celchu and Kirtan Loor meeting together at a cantina in Coruscant's undercity. He told Celchu that he was going to conduct a thorough investigation after the completion of the Coruscant mission; Celchu, however, was nonplussed at Corran's threat and continued about in his duties.

Corran then participated in activities to bring down Coruscant's shields, which allowed for the successful invasion of the planet with a minimum number of casualties. However, right after bringing the shields down, a remote radio link was made to the Z-95 Headhunter Corran was flying. This disabled Corran's inertial compensator and wrested control of the craft from him; Corran blacked out from inertial forces. When he came to, he found himself as the prisoner of Ysanne Isard—the head of Imperial forces, in Lusankya; the prison specialized in using drugs and psychological conditioning to turn rebels into sleeper agents that would activate and perform acts of terrorism against the Empire's enemies.

Lusankya and escape


Despite attempts to use both psychological conditioning and drugs to turn Corran into an Imperial agent, Corran was able to successfully resist Isard. Corran was placed into a holding unit where Isard intended him to remain for the rest of his life. There, Corran made friends with a number of other prisoners, including Jan Dodonna—the General who planned the attack on the first Death Star. With the aid of these friends, Corran was able to escape from the prison. At one point during his escape, once his presence was noted missing, his nascent Force abilities were exercised, as he was able to successfully mind-trick a searching stormtrooper that he wasn't hidden in a cupboard where he was really hiding. He then made his way to a library room that no prisoner would have access to and found a datapad. It was there that he learned that not only did he successfully resist Isard, but that Tycho Celchu had also resisted her. Corran learned that he had been in captivity for six weeks.

From there, Corran Horn was able to take a shuttle to a back room of the Galactic Museum. Once he arrived at the museum he learned he had never left Coruscant; the Lusankya was buried under the planet's surface. He found a lightsaber that belonged to Jedi Master Nejaa Halcyon. Corran also found a holographic image of Nejaa, and a young boy who looked a lot like Hal Horn. Corran used the lightsaber to defend himself when patrolling stormtroopers tried to kill him. After this, Corran took the skywalk over to the Justice Court where Tycho Celchu was being tried for Corran's murder and treason. He was bringing Admiral Ackbar and the rest of the court up to date on his experiences, when disaster struck.

A Super Star Destroyer had blasted out of its hidden location underneath the city; this SSD turned out to be the Lusankya. In the process millions were killed. Corran learned that he and the other prisoners had been on board that ship all that time. The ship left Coruscant, and headed to the bacta-producing planet Thyferra.

It was then that Rogue Squadron leader Wedge Antilles informed Ackbar that Erisi Dlarit was the Imperial mole that had betrayed Corran, instead of Tycho, when she flew to the Lusankya. Corran was able to confirm this, and when they worked back through the events of the past several months her guilt became obvious. General Cracken of Alliance Intelligence confirmed that he knew of Celchu's innocence all along. He had allowed the trial to go ahead to make it easier to tag Dlarit as the spy. All charges against Tycho were dismissed, and Alliance Intelligence made it publicly clear that this was a counter-intelligence operation that Tycho was a willing participant of, and Celchu's public image was fully restored. After this, Corran and Celchu both rejoined Rogue Squadron. They participated in a number of actions against Imperial terrorists working on Coruscant.



Meeting with Luke Skywalker
At the celebration party on Coruscant following Tycho's dismissal and Corran's return, Corran met Luke Skywalker for the first time. Luke had examined the closed portion of the museum and learned that Corran was actually the grandson of Jedi Master Nejaa Halcyon, who had died after the Clone Wars, and that Rostek Horn married his grandmother and adopted Hal to protect them from the Empire's Jedi hunters. Luke invited Corran to train with him to become a Jedi Knight, which Corran declined because he felt it was his duty to aid Rogue Squadron in what would appear to be their next mission: apprehending Ysanne Isard and rescuing the prisoners still aboard the Lusankya. When Borsk Fey'lya made it clear that this would not be allowed, Corran and his fellow pilots resigned their New Republic commissions en masse to wage a personal war with Isard, becoming a true 'Rogue' Squadron.

Fight for Thyferra
The squadron moved to the Yag-prime space station in orbit around Yag'Dhul. Over the next several months, they fought a war against Ysanne Isard and the Xucphra corporation. Due to some fancy legal footwork by supporters in the New Republic, as well as a ready supply of credits from Tycho Celchu, the group was able to privately finance their campaign. Eventually they were able to eliminate the Imperial military defenses over Thyferra. The Lusankya was captured in the process, and Isard was thought to have died. Iella Wessiri and Elscol Loro helped stage an uprising that helped free the planet. The prisoners on the Lusankya were not found; apparently they had been shipped out several months prior. Corran and the rest of the squadron rejoined the New Republic, and Corran and Mirax Terrik married.

Post-Bacta War
Over the next few years, Corran and Mirax continued to battle the Imperial Remnant. Corran fought against Grand Admiral Thrawn's fleet in several engagements. After Thrawn's defeat, he was finally able to fulfill his promise and free the remaining prisoners of Lusankya. During the operation to rescue the prisoners, the Rogues learn that Ysanne Isard hadn't died on Thyferra, but had survived and tasked a clone of her to disperse the prisoners. In the ensuing battle, the Rogues were able to kill the clone, and Iella Wessiri killed Isard during an attempt to pirate the newly-restored Lusankaya.

Corran and Mirax had a home on Coruscant. When the resurrected Emperor Palpatine returned to helm the Empire, Coruscant became a battlefield. Debris from the conflicts above devastated vast swaths of the city, including the Horn family home. Luckily, none of the family were in residence at the time.

Jedi training


"Anybody goes missing next time it's me. You can do all the worrying, okay?"

- Mirax Terrik

In 11 ABY Mirax Terrik was captured by roving warlord Leonia Tavira's Invids pirate group, who were seemingly invincible in battle. To find her, Corran began studying the ways of the Force. He enrolled in Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4 under the alias Kieran Halcyon, who was an ancestor of his grandfather Nejaa Halcyon. Corran played a message left by his father which told him more about his Jedi heritage.

Corran and Luke initially had differences over the training methods Luke used. Corran was convinced that Kyp Durron's fall to the dark side could have been prevented if Luke had enacted more control over his students. After aiding in the defeat of the spirit of Exar Kun, Corran left the academy to find his own Jedi path. During this time, he successfully slipped into Corellia, where he met his (step)-grandfather and learned more about his Jedi heritage. There, Rostek Horn and he decided on a plan for Corran to infiltrate the Invid pirate organization. With some help from his old flame Siolle Tinta, and his father-in-law Booster Terrik, Corran was able to successfully infiltrate the pirate group.

"If the wind no longer calls you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name."

- Elegos A'kla to Corran Horn



During his infiltration, Corran learned that Tavira's success was due to a group of Force-users called Jensaarai, who also happened to be the true reason of his Jedi grandfather's death after the Clone Wars. During one particular mission as a pirate, Corran rescued a Caamasi named Elegos A'kla, whose grandfather had fought alongside Nejaa Halcyon when he died. With the knowledge he'd gathered from Rostek, and some intrepidity from Elegos, Corran was able to spook the idle pirates into a frenzy, making them believe that doom was coming to them for all their misdeeds. Eventually, word of this reached Tavira, who sent some Jensaari to kill the Jedi. Corran revealed himself to the Jensaari in a 5-1 battle, only to find that Luke Skywalker had foreseen the battle through the Force and came to help. It was also during his time as an Invid that Horn constructed his lightsaber. It was silver-bladed dual-phase lightsaber with a Durindfire crystal; its blade was normally 133 centimeters, but could extend up to 300 centimeters.

Interrogating the captive Jensaarai, Corran and Luke were able to find out the location of Tavira's forces and set out to destroy the Invid organization once and for all. During the battle at Susevfi, Corran found himself saber-to-saber with the Saarai-kaar, the leader of the Jensaarai, whose master had killed Nejaa Halcyon. After a pitched battle, Corran and Luke were able to defeat the Jensaarai, and through them find Mirax, who had been placed into a Force-induced hibernation.

After Mirax's successful rescue, Luke awarded Corran his Knighthood, but Corran chose not to pursue a full-time career as a Jedi. Rather, he chose to continue with Rogue Squadron, where he felt that his time would be better spent helping the New Republic as well as allowing more freedom to start a family.

New Jedi Order
Corran and Mirax had a son, Valin, in 13 ABY. Later they also had a daughter, Jysella. Corran continued his activities with the Jedi, and eventually became a member of the restored Jedi Order. In 14 ABY Corran was dispatched to Wayland to determine whether or not the Disciples of Ragnos had visited the planet to drain its Force energy. He also took an apprentice named Raltharan at the same time Kyle Katarn took Jaden Korr and Rosh Penin as apprentices, it is also probable that he took part in the following Battle of Korriban where the Jedi triumphed over the Disciples of Ragnos. Corran finally resigned from Rogue Squadron following the signing of the Bastion Accords in 19 ABY, choosing to devote himself fully to Jedi training.



During the Yuuzhan Vong war Corran fought with Commander Shedao Shai with the fate of the planet Ithor in the balance. Corran won, but Shedao Shai's aide destroyed the planet anyway. With public sentiment against him, Corran returned to Corellia and went into seclusion. Due to the color of his lightsaber, at this time the Yuuzhan Vong began calling him Silverblade.

Eventually, Corran Horn came out of hiding, and began to assume a more active role in fighting the Yuuzhan Vong. He helped Nen Yim escape the Vong-formed Coruscant, and accompanied her, Tahiri Veila, Harrar and Yu'shaa to Zonama Sekot, a living world. There, Nen Yim learned of the connection between Sekot and the Yuuzhan Vong, though Yu'shaa—Nom Anor in disguise—killed her before she could impart her secrets. Corran attempted to stop Nom Anor, though the former Executor fled the planet.

In the following battle for supremacy of Coruscant, Corran flew a Zonama Sekotan Fighter into battle against the Yuuzhan Vong, though all ships were grounded on Zonama Sekot as the living world attempted to bring about peace between the Galactic Alliance and the Yuuzhan Vong.

As of 35 ABY, Corran was a Jedi Master and a member of the Masters' Council, where he felt that the Jedi were answerable to the Galactic Alliance, coming into conflict with Kyp Durron on a number of occasions. With Luke Skywalker away on a mission to Woteba, Cal Omas manipulated the Council into appointing Corran as the temporary leader of the Jedi Order&mdash;believing that Corran's disagreement with other Masters about the role of the Jedi would split the order, thus ending their interference in the growing Dark Nest crisis. After the Conclave on Ossus, Corran attempted to resign over his role in the schisms the Order had been facing, but Luke Skywalker refused, telling him to stop shouldering the blame for the Jedi, both over the schism and the destruction of Ithor. It was Horn's second attempt to resign, but Luke said that he would not refuse if Corran tried again.

Second Corellian Crisis
"I'm just reading the mood like everyone else."

- Corran Horn

In 40 ABY, tensions between Corellia and the Galactic Alliance led to a civil war that tore the Jedi Order apart. Despite his Corellian roots, Corran helped Luke and the Jedi Order by providing new Jedi trainees shelter on Coruscant.

Like all of the other Jedi Masters, Horn was shocked about Jacen's and Ben's actions during the GAG raid.

Powers and abilities


Corran discovered his Force connection into his adult life when he escaped from Ysanne Isard's prison ship, the Lusankya. Although Luke Skywalker offered to train him, he felt that his first duty was to freeing the Lusankya prisoners and declined the initial offer. Luke did teach him some Jedi relaxation techniques, which proved useful in battles to come. After beginning Jedi training, Corran quickly discovered that the Halcyon family was weak in telekinetic abilities, but made up for it with their ability to influence beings by projecting illusions and ability to absorb energy and if needed redirect it to greatly enhance their Force powers, including telekinesis. His abilities to manipulate energy even allowed him to withstand lightsaber contact with only minor charring of the skin. His abilities to manipulate energy were not restricted to lasers and similar sources but also spread to include things like heat and fire. He had the ability to absorb the heat and flames and convert them into Force power which could then be used to bolster his own powers and make his relatively weak telekinetic powers very strong. One should mention that the absorbed power must be used relatively soon after absorption otherwise his body will not be able to cope with the increased amount of energy.

The power of Alter Mind was a unique gift of the Force for Corran. Similar to a Jedi Mind Trick this power gave Corran the ability to project not only an image but all other sensory information into another beings head. It was discovered during his training and has since been nurtured into one of his most powerful abilities.

Corran favored a dual-phase lightsaber and constructed one shortly after he left the academy, in its initial phase it was a standard length silver blade, but if he twisted the grip a second crystal fell into place and the blade doubled in length and changed to a brilliant purple. When he first joined the Jedi Academy he helped Kam Solusar build the initial training program that would later be expanded and thus helped lay the foundations for the training structure of the New Jedi Order. Corran seemed to favor a more regimented type of training, no doubt a by product of his time with CorSec and when the Jedi relocated to Ossus the new academy adopted just this sort of regime, but still with an emphasis on trainees advancing at their own pace.

In many ways Corran embodies some aspects of the Old Jedi Order, both in the way he was trained and in his outlook on the Jedi as a whole, perhaps mirroring the Jedi of old he did feel that they should serve the Galactic Alliance. Mace Windu held a similar view in his time, but remarked that the Jedi should rather serve civilization as civilization brought peace and justice with the Old Republic being the primary civilization to emerge in his time. Corran seems to feel the same way, realizing that a stable Galactic Alliance was the best way to ensure lasting peace.

Corran also embodied the spirit of the Corellian Jedi of the Old Republic, who were often regarded as unorthodox by other Jedi.

Behind the scenes

 * Michael A. Stackpole, the author who first introduced Corran Horn and wrote the majority of the pieces in which he appears, was asked to pose as his character for a card in the Star Wars Customizable Card Game. Despite his vastly different appearance from the illustrations and descriptions of the character, Stackpole agreed and appears in the image above.
 * Despite his appearance in Betrayal, at the moment there are no concrete plans to feature him in further Legacy of the Force books.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galaxies
 * Side Trip
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Family Ties
 * Missed Chance
 * X-wing: Rogue Squadron
 * X-wing: Wedge's Gamble
 * X-wing: The Krytos Trap
 * X-wing: The Bacta War
 * X-wing: Iron Fist
 * X-wing: Solo Command
 * X-wing: Isard's Revenge
 * I, Jedi
 * Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future
 * Union
 * Survivor's Quest
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Emissary of the Void
 * Star by Star
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Destiny's Way
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
 * Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Betrayal
 * Bloodlines