Te Corso

"I am Te Corso. The Bothan is Sayar Dun'la, the Togrutan Jedi is Asaak Dan, and my Nikto brother is simply Drok. We bring you greetings from the Jedi Council."

- Te Corso, to Admiral Gar Stazi

Te Corso was a female Elomin Jedi Master of the New Jedi Order in 137 ABY. She was present at the Hidden Temple in Taivas when it was visited by Cade Skywalker. She was familiar with Ona Antilles from her youth.

Before the storm
"I know Te Corso&mdash;She visited Coruscant to consult with my father and the rest of the Triumvirate, Admiral."

- Ona Antilles

The Elomin female Te Corso was a member of the New Jedi Order prior to the end of the Sith–Imperial War. On at least one occasion, she visited the galactic capital world of Coruscant to consult with the Galactic Alliance Triumvirate, the ruling body of the Jedi-allied Galactic Alliance. On the capital, Corso additionally met Ona Antilles, the young daughter of Triumvir Bail Antilles. Jedi Master Kol Skywalker was also an advisor to the Triumvirate, but in 130 ABY, they ignored his urgings of caution and approved a plan to strike at the Galactic Empire over the planet Caamas.

An Imperial trap at Caamas soundly defeated the Alliance Fleet and cost them the war. Concurrent attacks by the Empire's One Sith allies on the Jedi Temples of Coruscant and Ossus decimated the Order's ranks and scattered its surviving members across the galaxy. Corso was among the survivors, and by 137 ABY, she had made her way to a Hidden Jedi Temple on the planet Taivas, where the Order was working to covertly rebuild its ranks and avoid the notice of the Sith, who had since seized control of the galaxy. In that year, Corso had attained the rank of Jedi Master.

In 137 ABY, the temple was visited by a delegation of Imperial Knights who came on behalf of Emperor Roan Fel, whose Empire-in-exile opposed the Sith Empire from which he had been ousted. Corso was on Taivas when the princess Marasiah Fel proposed an alliance to the skeptical Jedi Council, who wrongfully believed that Marasiah's father had ordered the attack on Ossus. Although her fellow Knights left Taivas to assist the former Jedi Cade Skywalker on a mission to assassinate the Sith Lord Darth Krayt, the princess remained at the temple to continue her negotiations.

Forging friendship under fire
"I had thought your Order broken, dead, or scattered.''" "''Largely true, although some Jedi have made a refuge and established a new council. The council feels it is time to again take an active part in the struggle against the Sith."

- Gar Stazi and Te Corso

Severely injured by Skywalker's strike team, Lord Krayt was taken to the brink of death and believed dead by the Jedi Council. Around the same time, the Empire-in-exile formally allied with the remnants of the Galactic Alliance, and the council decided that the time had come for the Jedi to take an active part in the ongoing war against the Sith–Imperials. Corso was chosen to be an emissary and was sent to meet with Admiral Gar Stazi of the Galactic Alliance, along with fellow Masters Sayar Dun'La, Asaak Dan, and Drok. Princess Marasiah provided a holomessage to vouch for them and prove that they were not Sith in disguise. The four Masters formed a squadron of X-83 TwinTail starfighters and rendezvoused with the Alliance fleet, stationed in the Arkanis sector.

The Jedi were cleared to land in a hangar of Stazi's flagship, the Alliance, where they were greeted by the Admiral and several other Alliance officers. Corso introduced herself and her fellows, and her identity was confirmed to a wary Stazi by Ona Antilles, who was serving the Alliance as a lieutenant. After Corso informed the Admiral of the council's intentions, she was interrupted by Imperial Knight Sigel Dare, who had come to the Alliance to request the use of a captured Imperial shuttle. Corso suggested retiring to a private location and invited the Imperial Knight to come, but Dare was eager to reach the planet Dac and retrieve her stranded fellow Knight Treis Sinde. Intrigued by Sinde's role in helping Dac's resistance groups fight the Sith–Imperials, Dan joined her, and the three remaining Jedi followed Stazi to the Alliance bridge.

On the bridge of the Star Destroyer, Corso sensed something amiss seconds before the Sith–Imperial First Coruscant Task Force dropped out of hyperspace. The traitorous Shipman Tealart had kept the Alliance deep-space alarms off and used the distraction to shoot Stazi in the back just before being maimed by Drok's lightsaber. Stazi's second in command, Jhoram Bey, began to shout orders as Dun'La took the Admiral to sick bay, and Corso volunteered both herself and Drok to join the Alliance starfighters' rear-guard defensive action as the fleet prepared for lightspeed. Bey allowed it, and the two Jedi added their Twintails to the Alliance's CF9 Crossfire starfighter complement; the group defended against attacking Predator-class fighters until the fleet was ready. After releasing anti-ion emission tracers, the Alliance forces jumped to a rendezvous point in the Opoku system.

The fleet was followed by the Imperials, however, who were tracing the frequency vibrations of the Alliance communications array. Bey ordered another hyperjump, and was advised of the Imperials' tactic by a barely-conscious Stazi during the trip to the next rendezvous point in the Teraab sector. After reversion into realspace, Bey shut down the array and ordered the entire fleet&mdash;save for the Alliance&mdash;out of the system. They promptly returned to trap the attacking Imperials, who quickly fled into hyperspace themselves. The starfighters were recalled before the fleet left the system; Corso and her brethren remained with the Alliance forces over the following weeks as Stazi recovered from his injury.

Race against time
"The Jedi know a haven that can accept the refugees. In addition, enough Jedi have arrived with our fighters that we can form a squadron&mdash;Sword squadron&mdash;at your disposal, Admiral.''" "''Excellent, Master Te Corso. Then, to continue with our plan&mdash;"

- Corso and Stazi, prior to the evacuation of Dac

Shortly thereafter, the Alliance's Rogue Squadron discovered during a reconaissance flight that the Sith–Imperials had poisoned the oceans of Dac. Volunteers from across the galaxy flocked to Stazi's banner as he arranged a massive evacuation, and Corso stood on the Alliance bridge with the Admiral as he appealed to General Oron Jaeger of the Empire-in-exile for help. Without word from his Emperor, who was out of contact while negotiating with Jedi representatives on Agamar, Jaeger was unable to send aid. However, Corso shared her knowledge of a potential safe haven for the refugees and offered to organize an ersatz squadron of Jedi who had arrived with the volunteers. Stazi consented and quickly began to formulate a plan.

Sword Squadron, as Corso dubbed it, worked in cooperation with Rogue Squadron and infiltrated the Mon Calamari Shipyards. They took control of the shipyards' turbolaser emplacements while ground and space forces eliminated the minimal Imperial resistance that remained. The volunteer Emergency evac fleet then spent ten hours evacuating as many of the water world's residents as possible before more Imperials arrived. The reinforcements came in the form of the Outer Rim Third Fleet, whose guns targeted the fleeing refugees. Every present fighter squadron fought back, and the Sith–Imperials fled after General Jaeger arrived with a fleet of his own. With the Empire-in-exile's help, twelve more hours of evacuation allowed twenty percent of Dac's population to be saved before time ran out.

Enemy at the gates
"Masters Dun'La, Te Corso, Drok&mdash;stick with Cade and me. Cover Master Saa until she’s ready. Everyone else&mdash;move out!"

- Rawk, while defending the Hidden Temple

In 138 ABY, Corso, Dun'La, and Drok returned to Taivas. The negotiations on Agamar had bore fruit, and a three-way Alliance was solidified against Darth Krayt's Empire. While several Imperial Knights were visiting the Hidden Temple, Cade Skywalker arrived with another Knight: Antares Draco, who had been tortured by the Sith into revealing Taivas's location. Darth Krayt, again in control of his Empire, had released Draco onto Skywalker's ship, the Mynock, with the aim of gathering the Alliance to one location. Hoping to outsmart Krayt, Skywalker formulated a plan to trap the Sith–Imperials between the planet and the combined fleets of the Galactic Alliance and the Empire-in-exile. Emperor Fel, Admiral Stazi, and the Jedi Council agreed, and the present Jedi and Imperial Knights, Corso included, began to prepare their defense.

Taivas's magnetic forces prevented the attacking Imperial fleet from orbitally bombarding the planet, and a ground assault was consequently launched. Jedi, Imperial Knights, and the Mynock defended the temple's gates while Corso, Dun'La, and Drok remained in the Council Chamber with Master T'ra Saa, who coordinated the engagement with battle meditation. After the rest of the allied forces arrived, Darth Krayt unleashed his secret weapon: an army of powerful Sith troopers, whose starfighters plowed through friendly and enemy forces alike on their way to the Temple. The defenders of the gate fell back to the Council Chamber, where Corso, Dun'La, and Drok joined them in making a stand against their new foes.

While the Jedi and Imperial Knights resisted the lightsaber attacks of their mysterious foes, Skywalker's uncle Rawk ordered the majority of the group to escape, but Corso, Dun'La, and Drok remained with the Skywalkers to protect Master Saa, who was working to gather large amounts of energy. Corso was killed when a Sith trooper's lightsaber slashed her across the chest. Dun'La and Drok were also felled, just before the buried ships that comprised the Hidden Temple rose into the air, ferrying the Jedi younglings to safety. Master Saa survived until a Sith trooper's starfighter crashed into the Council Chamber, at which point both she and Rawk focused the gathered energy into a beam of light. The light shot into space, destroying enemy ships and creating an escape corridor for the overmatched Alliance, whose ships used the opportunity to flee the seemingly-invincible Sith troopers.

Personality and traits
"Still, I respect what you do&mdash;assuming you are, in fact, Jedi&mdash;and not Sith in disguise. If you don’t mind my saying so.''" "''Not at all, Admiral. Admirable caution and tact."

- Gar Stazi and Te Corso

Te Corso was quick to take action in times of military urgency and provide her services as a starfighter pilot. She volunteered to fly for the Galactic Alliance Remnant before formally striking an alliance with them; Corso additionally referred to the Empire-in-exile as the "true Imperial forces" despite their lack of an official partnership with the Jedi. Her judgment was trusted by the Galactic Alliance Triumvirate. Corso took no offense when Gar Stazi suggested that she was potentially a Sith in disguise, instead expressing admiration of the Admiral's caution and tact. Possessed of lavender skin, purple eyes, and no hair, Corso used a lightsaber with a blue blade.

Powers and abilities
"Admiral Stazi, something is not right&hellip; I sense&mdash;"

- Corso, prior to the arrival of a Sith–Imperial task force

In 137 ABY, Corso was a Jedi Master who was trusted by the Jedi Council to act as an emissary to the Galactic Alliance. She was able to sense through the Force the impending arrival of an enemy task force from hyperspace and was additionally an apt pilot. While defending the Hidden Temple, Corso was killed in lightsaber combat by one of Darth Krayt's Sith troopers.

Behind the scenes
"Originally they were going to join Cade on the kill Krayt mission. Then sanity prevailed as we realized we had just too many characters so we took them out. The cover was already done. (They get done in advance of the actual issue for promotional purposes.) Every once in a while, that will happen but we try to keep it to a minimum."

- John Ostrander, on Corso and the other Jedi who appear on the cover of Star Wars: Legacy 26

Te Corso was introduced into Star Wars canon as a character in Star Wars: Legacy, a comic book series penned by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema. She first appeared in 2008 on the cover of Legacy twenty-sixth issue along with Sayar Dun'La, Asaak Dan, and Drok, in a drawing by Omar Francia. However, none of the four were included in the issue itself. Ostrander and Duursema originally intended them to accompany Cade Skywalker on his mission to assassinate Darth Krayt &mdash;an event seen in the pages of the Star Wars: Legacy: Vector story arc, released later in the year &mdash;but they were ultimately dropped from the storyline due to a surplus of characters.

Corso went on to make her first appearance in the pages of Legacy in 2009, playing a large role in the series' forty-second issue, penciled by Dave Ross. She and her three Jedi fellows were included in a rough version of the issue's cover, done by Chris Scalf, but the final version included only Drok and Gar Stazi. Corso later appeared in Legacy forty-seventh issue, released in 2010, and the fourth issue of the followup miniseries Star Wars: Legacy&mdash;War, released in 2011. Both issues were penciled by Jan Duursema.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Legacy 26: The Hidden Temple, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Legacy 42: Divided Loyalties
 * Star Wars: Legacy 43: Monster, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Legacy 47: The Fate of Dac
 * Star Wars: Legacy&mdash;War 4