Ferus Olin

"We are not tricksters. We are ambassadors of peace and justice."

- Ferus Olin

Ferus Olin was the Jedi Padawan to Siri Tachi. Somewhat mature for his age, Olin was well-respected by peers and Jedi Masters, alike for his dedication to the Jedi Order. As he grew older, Olin would often clash with fellow Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker, mostly over adherence to Jedi rules and protocol.

Shortly before the onset of the Clone Wars, Olin would resign from the Jedi Order due to the guilt he felt over the inadvertent death of a colleague. After leading a rebellion on the planet Bellassa, he would later with the help of Obi-Wan Kenobi retrain himself in the Jedi ways following beginning of the Great Jedi Purge and the rise of the Galactic Empire. Ferus Olin would also create a safehouse for fugitive Jedi and create a plan to rescue those Jedi that were spread across the Galaxy.

Life as a Jedi
"Everyone was my friend, but nobody was my particular friend."

- Ferus Olin



As a Padawan, Ferus was very mature for his age, something that impressed many Jedi Masters and most of his peers. Despite this popularity, he never had any true close friends. Many were surprised when he constructed a lightsaber with a red blade. During his times back at the Temple, Ferus made it his top priority to focus on his training, which led to some students considering him boring and dull.

Ferus got to know Anakin Skywalker at about 27 BBY during their first mission together to evacuate the planet Radnor. They were sent with their masters, Siri Tachi and Obi-Wan Kenobi, as well as two other Master and Apprentice pairs, Ry-Gaul with Tru Veld, and Soara Antana with Darra Thel-Tanis. At one point in the mission, the masters and apprentices were forced to split up and soon trouble began between Anakin and Ferus. The two Padawans did not get along, with Ferus being the rule follower, and Anakin being the rule bender. They argued over who would be better fit to lead the group. At the end of the mission, they both swore to keep an eye on each other, not sure of what the other might do.

Over the next few years the two apprentices encountered each other again numerous times, such as at the Galactic Games on Euceron. Back at the Jedi Temple, Ferus and Anakin were assigned to a special lightsaber session with Master Soara Antana in the back alleys of Coruscant. Ferus was outmatched by Anakin, who let his anger get the best of him. The match fueled the tensions between the two Jedi.

Ferus and Anakin were sent on a mission to Andara posing as students at a senatorial school. Anakin managed to infiltrate a secret society in the school. Ferus warned Anakin about the risks of joining them but Anakin scoffed at his warnings. Anakin started becoming too involved with the society and started helping them, when he should have been focusing on the mission. This led to Anakin getting in trouble with Obi-Wan when the mission was over.

Later, Ferus and Siri were paired with Anakin and Obi-Wan, this time to locate the deranged scientist, Jenna Zan Arbor on the planet Romin. Anakin and Ferus were assigned by their masters to disguise as criminals to explore the capital city of Romin, Eliior. It was during this time that Anakin and Ferus started to forget their past rivalry and started to understand each other better, learning each other's reasons for acting the way they do.



The two began to work as a team. Their pursuit of Jenna Zan Arbor, Granta Omega, and the dictator of Romin, Roy Teda led back to Coruscant. They averted an assassination attempt on Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's life but later on they realized that Omega planned to use seeker droids to kill Palpatine and a number of other Senators inside the Galactic Senate building. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Siri, went on to find Omega, while Ferus remained at the Senate to protect the Chancellor and the Senators. Ferus fought bravely to fight off the droids, but a few casualties were taken, including Roy Teda. For his actions, Ferus was chosen by the Jedi Council to participate in a program to advance Padawans to Knights earlier. He was to keep quiet about this, however this would lead to problems later on.

Siri and Ferus were again paired with Anakin, Obi-Wan, Soara, Darra, Ry-Gaul, and Tru to confront Omega and Zan Arbor on the ancient Sith world of Korriban. It was on this mission that the Padawans split up from the Masters again and Anakin found out about Ferus's advanced training. Anakin became jealous of Ferus, feeling he should have been chosen to be trained. Ferus began to befriend Tru, who agreed that Anakin was being irrational and putting his own problems before the mission. When Tru's lightsaber was damaged in a battle in the tombs of Korriban, Ferus offered to fix it. What the two did not know and Anakin did was that his repairs would lead to its energy to decelerate faster. Anakin didn't do anything about it to try and make Ferus look bad, but in a battle with Omega's traps, Tru's lightsaber shorted out and was unable to stop blaster fire from hitting Darra in the chest. Ferus was guilty about Darra's death, feeling that it was his fault. When the Jedi defeated Omega and returned to Coruscant, Ferus announced that he would resign from the Jedi Order.

Life on Bellassa
Ferus went from world to world looking for a place to call home until he met a man around his age named Roan Lands on the world of Bellassa and the two started a business together, Olin and Lands. They essentially did what Ferus did as a Jedi, without aid of the Force however. Together they would protect people who would expose intentional wrongdoing going on in various companies. Ferus and Roan had also been officers in the Republic Army for sometime. Then the Galactic Empire was formed. Since he was no longer a Jedi, Ferus was saved from the Jedi massacre known as Order 66. But he still was not entirely safe, for the Empire was imprisoning all Force-sensitive beings now. Learning of the atrocities that occurred across the galaxy, Ferus, Roan, and nine other people of Bellassa, including Wil, Rilla, and Loran, started a resistance movement known as The Eleven. Over this time Ferus changed from the strict, "dull", Padawan he used to be. He became the charismatic leader of the Eleven and also a target for the Empire. Ferus and Roan made a pact that if one of them were captured, the other would not come to rescue them for the sake of the survival of the Eleven. Ferus and Roan were arrested by Imperials; however, Ferus managed to escape.

Reunion
A number of months following Order 66, Ferus was reunited with his old comrade Obi-Wan Kenobi, in the cabin of his friend Dona, a supporter of the Eleven. While Obi-Wan and Ferus were talking, Dona informed them that the Empire had issued an ultimatum—if Ferus Olin was not surrendered to them in 18 hours, all the people taken in the mass arrests that took place earlier that day would be executed. Ferus planned to give himself up, but at that moment, Boba Fett and D'harhan, bounty hunters in the employ of an Inquisitor named Malorum, attacked the cabin, and Ferus and Obi-Wan fled to Ussa. They contacted the Eleven and planned for Ferus to give himself up if every victim of the mass arrests was released first. Then, Obi-Wan would follow him into the Imperial garrison and help Ferus escape. The plan worked out well enough; however, they did not make a clean escape. Boba Fett followed them along with D'harhan in the Slave I. They jumped to hyperspace to escape Fett, and traveled to the Red Twins, a system with very little Imperial presence. Arriving there, however, they discovered that Boba Fett had managed to follow them.

After a brief confrontation in the spaceport, which led to the arrest of D'harhan, the three of them escaped the planet and tricked the pursuing Boba Fett into crash landing on Deneter. They headed for the nearby world of Acherin for fuel, only to fly directly into a battle between the Empire and a local resistance movement. They met a commander of the resistance, Raina Quill, who led them to the resistance's base in the city of Eluthan. There Raina introduced them to fellow commander Toma. While Obi-Wan discussed battle tactics with Toma, Ferus flew with Raina in a futile attempt to ward off the rapidly advancing Imperials. However, the greater numbers of the Imperials prevailed, and the bombing of Eluthan began, under the of Imperial Admiral Riwwel, despite Toma's offer of surrender. Obi-Wan, Trever, and Toma met up with Ferus and Raina and fled through a set of standing stones, losing a few of their pursuers with the cloaking device of Toma's ship. They lost the rest of their pursuers by flying into the thick atmospheric storm near which they had lost Boba Fett.

There, they discovered an uninhabited asteroid, which they soon found was capable of supporting life. Toma and Raina remained in hiding on the asteroid while Ferus, Obi-Wan, and Trever departed for Ilum, where Toma revealed that a Jedi he had met on Acherin, Obi-Wan's friend Garen Muln, was hidden.

Rescue on Ilum


As the two Jedi traveled to Ilum, Ferus thought about how he left the Jedi Order, only to rejoin with a Jedi to save one of the order's last survivors years later. However, during the trip, Obi-Wan told Ferus that he would have to rescue Garen on his own, because he had something else he needed to do. Ferus was shocked and angered that Obi-Wan was leaving him to rescue Garen on his own, but Obi-Wan offered to take him there, and pick him up when he finished, since the place he was going wasn't far from Ilum. Obi-Wan warned him that there would be an Imperial presence on the world, so he would have to enter the caves through a secret entrance. Unfortunately, the secret entrance passed through a gorgodon nest.

When they arrived on Ilum, Ferus left Trever to keep watch for Imperials outside the caves while he went inside to find Garen. He narrowly escaped the gorgodons and found Garen Muln in the crystal cave, malnourished and weak. Garen gave Ferus his lightsaber and told him to leave him. Ferus refused to let him stay, and brought Garen with him. Ferus helped Muln escape the caves. Ferus, along with Trever eliminated the Imperials camped near the caves, marking the first time he had used a lightsaber since his days in the Jedi Order.

Trever hotwired the Imperials' ship, and they sent a distress call to Obi-Wan from an empty cave that the Jedi once used as a hangar.

After being picked up by Kenobi, Ferus explained that Garen had told him there was another Jedi at the caves who had gone to Coruscant. In addition, during their earlier confrontation, D'harhan had said that there was another Jedi prisoner on Coruscant. Garen had identified the Jedi as Fy-Tor-Ana. Obi-Wan felt that Ferus would risk too much by going there, but Ferus was determined to find her. He told Obi-Wan that he planned to mold the asteroid they had discovered into a sanctuary where surviving Jedi could hide. When Obi-Wan countered, saying that there were no supplies or shelters, Ferus told him they were going to the Nixor Spaceport to meet up with Roan Lands, his longtime associate, who he had contacted with a request for supplies.

After they arrived at the spaceport, Roan reunited with Ferus, and gave him the necessary supplies and prefab shelters that he would need for this new safe haven. After collecting the supplies, Ferus, Trever, and Ob-Wan returned to the asteroid to meet Raina and Toma. They set up shelters and created a clinic where could Garen recover. Ferus thanked Raina and Toma for their help and asked them to help him create and maintain the Jedi shelter, to which they readily agreed.

When Ferus asked Obi-Wan to come with him to Coruscant, Obi-Wan refused, asking to be returned to Tatooine, despite Ferus's incredulity that he could walk away from the Jedi. Obi-Wan did not tell him what secret he was hiding, for it would potentially risk the lives of the Skywalker twins. Ferus, although he was disappointed that Obi-Wan would not stay with him at the asteroid base, agreed to the Jedi's request and returned him to Mos Eisley. He bid him farewell and, accompanied by Trever, set a course for Coruscant.

Stop at Korriban
En route to the capital, however, Toma's ship needed refueling. As fate would have it, the nearest refueling station was on Korriban. Upon landing on the Sith burial world, Ferus and Trever noticed the Imperial presence that now held its grip on the planet, like thousands of other worlds across the galaxy. Ferus was also haunted by the voices of the Dark Side, tempting him to give in. Ferus managed to hold back the temptations and soon both he and Trever left Korriban, but not before Ferus spotted Jenna Zan Arbor in Dreshdae, who seemed to be interested in returning to the Valley of the Dark Lords.

Infiltrating the Temple


Arriving at Coruscant for the first time in years, Ferus was devastated to see the Jedi Temple after Order 66, burnt and battle-scarred. He vowed to save as many Jedi he could, no matter the cost. To enter the Temple, Ferus hired an air taxi pilot who would fly over one of the burnt-out towers of the Temple to allow Ferus and Trever to rappel down to the tower.

Once inside, Ferus realized that he was in the garden that had formerly been tended to by Yoland Fee. Being in the Temple for the first time in six years brought back old memories of his former life as Siri's apprentice.

Exploring the Temple, Ferus and Trever also came across the droid repair room, where Ferus had met Anakin Skywalker for the first time. Thinking Anakin was dead, Ferus somberly remembered him, despite their rivalry. Continuing to search for Fy-Tor-Ana, they encountered a group of stormtrooopers, but, fortunately for Ferus and Trever, their helmet sensors confused them into believing the intruders were only large meer rats. When the stormtroopers left, Ferus used his knowledge of the Temple's various passages to reveal a hidden service tunnel buried behind rubble, which he and Trever used to search for the place where Fy-Tor-Ana was imprisoned. They went through the Room of a Thousand Fountains, which unearthed painful memories for Ferus.

Later, searching the Temple, Ferus and Trever came across an enormous pile of lightsabers, taken from slaughtered Jedi. This was a devastating blow for Ferus, and he was even more emotionally jolted when he discovered his friend Tru Veld's lightsaber among the pile. However, he was jolted from his reverie when Trever heard stormtroopers. Ferus realized that the Empire had rigged a silent alarm and spread rumors that Jedi were imprisoned in the Temple so any survivors would attempt to rescue them, and be trapped. After narrowly escaping more stormtroopers, Ferus and Trever discovered that Inquisitor Malorum himself had his office in the Temple. What infuriated Ferus the most was the fact that Malorum had arrogantly placed his office in what had once been Master Yoda's private quarters. Ferus and Trever escaped the stormtroopers in the library and attempted to enter Malorum's office, since they had heard he was not returning to the Temple until the next day. However, they discovered that Malorum had returned to the Temple earlier than expected, and soon, Darth Vader entered Malorum's office, with Ferus and Trever hidden behind a grating.

The Dark Lord forced Malorum to tell him why stormtroopers were patrolling the hallways, and Malorum reluctantly revealed that there were two intruders who he was attempting to capture. When Malorum used the intruders as evidence of the success of the attempts to spread rumors of a Jedi prison, an annoyed Vader reminded Malorum that he had failed to take the intruders into custody. Vader suggested that Malorum blow up the Temple to ensure the death of the intruders, but it was only a trick. When Malorum protested that he had vital files that would be destroyed, Vader was immediately on him for having files not registered with the main databank of the Inquisitors. Vader knew Malorum was ambitious and planned to replace him and he used the opportunity to remind Malorum of his place. Malorum mentioned that he had spies in the sublevels, and mentioned his investigations into Polis Massa as an attempt to impress Vader, but his words had the opposite affect. An enraged Vader held Malorum in a Force choke, and the sheer force of his anger began to shake the walls itself. Just as Ferus realized the danger and began to flee, the grating he was hidden behind crashed, exposing him and Trever to Darth Vader. Ferus and Trever simply ran, and later Ferus realized that Vader had let them escape, either to humiliate Malorum, or because he simply didn't really care that much. Either way, he and Trever needed to escape the Temple before Malorum captured them.

By using the Force to confuse a few guards, Ferus and Trever managed to steal an airspeeder and escape safely from the Temple. But their quest to find Fy-Tor-Ana had failed. Ferus still believed that Fy-Tor was somewhere on the planet, though, so he and Trever went to Dexter Jettster's Diner to find Dex, who Ferus suspected would have information on a fugitive Jedi.

Finding the Erased


When Ferus arrived at Dexter's Diner, he was shocked to find it destroyed. Without Dexter, he had no leads on Fy-Tor's whereabouts. However, he ran into a woman who, after confirming he was not an Imperial spy, recommended that he "not" enter the Orange District at sunset. From her, he learned that Dexter was rumored to have joined the Erased, a group of people active in the Republic who had virtually disappeared rather than face arrest and even execution. Realizing the hidden message in her warning, Ferus and Trever headed further into the sublevels of Coruscant, towards the Orange District. When they arrived in the district, the two noticed a clue showing they were on the right track. They discovered an orange street lamp that looked like a dying sun. When Ferus tried to enter a cantina for information, he was immediately thrown out by a fierce Whiphid. When he refused to be shrugged off, a group of about ten thugs emerged as well, drawing various weapons. Before they could attack, however, Dexter Jettster emerged from the cantina. Recognizing Ferus, he prevented the thugs from attacking Ferus and Trever, and invited them inside.

Entering the cantina, which was the hideout of the Erased, Dexter introduced Ferus and Trever to the Erased, the group of thugs who had hassled them earlier. Dexter was surprised to find Ferus on Coruscant, and Ferus further shocked him when he told him Obi-Wan Kenobi was alive. He had seen a Jedi matching Fy-Tor-Ana's description, and explained that he had suspected that the Jedi Temple was a trap for Jedi, and had warned her not go to the Temple. She had told him that if ever he needed her, find Solace. The Erased appointed Ferus as their unofficial leader to help them hunt for Solace, because Ferus had warned them that the Empire was preparing to crack down and enforce stringent regulations in the sublevels. Ferus was not happy to be the leader of this expedition, but didn't protest. He contacted Obi-Wan on Tatooine and informed him of the recent developments. Obi-Wan warned Ferus that Malorum's investigations into Polis Massa must be stopped.

Although Dexter decided to remain in the Orange District, Ferus, Trever, and the rest of the Erased headed down towards Coruscant's surface. Many of the rumors they heard regarding Solace were extreme and obviously untrue; however, all of the rumors had one common thread- they all said Solace was located at the crust. When they reached the massive city's lowest level, they were attacked by a local street gang of around fifteen people. However, with Ferus's fighting skills and the overall ferocity of the other Erased, the gang was handily defeated. During the battle, Trever, lagging behind, was nearly pulled into a fissure in the ground by a duracrete slug. After the attack, the Erased went to a local cantina to ask for information about Solace. However, after finding nothing, the group checked in at a local hotel called the Underworld Inn to stay the night. That night, in a flash of intuition, Trever told Ferus he knew where Solace was. When he was attacked by the duracrete slug, he had seen more than just a burrow in the stone flooring down there. There was open space. Trusting Trever's instincts, Ferus immediately woke the Erased, and they headed back to where the duracrete slug had attacked Trever to continue the search for Solace.

A Jedi is found
When Ferus shined a glowlight into the fissure, he realized Trever was right. There was some sort of cavern inside the hole. He and Trever climed down, and discovered the remains of an ancient, rusted transportation system. The rest of the Erased followed them into the inhospitable tunnel. During their explorations, a short, helmeted being with reflexes rivaling Ferus's leapt down upon them. The person claimed to have visited Solace, and returned, and offered to take them there. The Erased were unsure if they could trust the being, but recognized they had no other option except to search for Solace themselves, and decided to follow the being, who identified himself only as "Guide." Although Guide was supposed to be leading them to Solace, none of the Erased completely trusted him, and Ferus was sure something was off about him. Guide explained that before Coruscant's skyscrapers were built, and the planet became a bustling city, vast oceans had covered it. When the building began, the oceans were drained into caverns below the crust. That was where Solace was located. Guide led the Erased through the caverns until they arrived at a city above huge lakes. However, when they arrived, Guide turned on them, and left them to the residents of Solace, outnumbered and surrounded. Based on the scattered murmurs of the residents, Ferus realized that Solace was not a place but a person: Guide.

Trever set off a smoke grenade as a distraction, and the Erased prepared to fight, but when Solace saw Ferus's drawn lightsaber, he commanded the settlers to halt. He examined Ferus's features, and appeared to recognize him, for he called him a Padawan. Suddenly, something clicked in Ferus's brain, and he realized what had confused him about Solace. Only a Jedi could have known about his impromptu resignation from the Jedi Order. Solace was Fy-Tor-Ana.

Ferus told Fy-Tor about his plan to search for fugitive Jedi and bring him to a secret base, but she said that her new identity was that of Solace, not Fy-Tor-Ana. She felt that there was nothing she could do to stop the Empire, and that the underground city would provide her with all she would need. Ferus told her about Malorum and Darth Vader's plans, and warned her that there was a spy in her midst, which she scoffed at. It was only when he told her about the pile of lightsabers sitting in a storage room in the Jedi Temple that Solace realized that the Empire had to be fought. She, Ferus, and Trever planned to enter the Temple and steal back the lightsabers to prevent them from falling into Sith hands.

In order to enter the Temple, Solace already had a plan in mind. She had built a custom ship out of a mole miner and an ARC-170 that was capable of burrowing underground. They would burrow under the Temple, and come up inside an abandoned turbolift shaft. Once they were inside, however, something seemed wrong. Ferus almost tripped over conductor wire in a corridor, Malorum's office was empty of holofiles, and there wasn't a stormtrooper in sight. Since they could learn nothing from Malorum's office, the two Jedi decided to collect the lightsabers and leave. Then, all of a sudden, Trever connected the strange events. By opening a power vent, he discovered that power was being drained from the core of the Temple. The Empire was using it to power a bomb. Malorum was trying to blow up the Temple, and blame it on Darth Vader by claiming that he gave the order to do so. Neither Solace nor Ferus could bear to allow the Temple to be blown up, so they disabled it, saving the Temple from destruction.

Captured by the Empire
Ferus, Solace, and Trever headed towards the Temple entrance, but ran into numerous stormtroopers, with Malorum at their head. The Jedi and Trever tried to flee, but more stormtroopers arrived on AT-RT's, and Ferus gave himself up to the stormtroopers, knowing that without his sacrifice, Solace and Trever had no hope of escape. However, he first entrusted Solace with his lightsaber. As Solace and Trever fled in her esoteric craft, Ferus was hit with a stun baton and fell unconscious.

Ferus awoke in a prison, and Malorum entered. Malorum tried to learn the identity of the Jedi with Ferus, but Ferus simply mocked him. Indifferently, Malorum walked out, ignoring Ferus's jibes.

Ferus was sent to Dontamo, where a high-security Imperial prison was located. His cellmate, Prisoner 934890, introduced him to the routine of the prison, Ferus immediately began looking for a way to escape. In the midst of a squabble over rations, Ferus was saved by Clive Flax, a friend of his from the Clone Wars. They escaped the prison, with Ferus narrowly avoiding execution by lethal injection, but were nearly shot down by Imperial fighters over the planet. Only the timely arrival of the Erased, fresh from the unexpected destruction of Solace's city, prevented Ferus and Clive from being reduced to space dust. After a brief layover on Alba-16, Ferus, Clive, Solace, Trever, and the Erased traveled to Naboo, where Malorum was investigating the funeral of Padmé Amidala.

Mission to Naboo


Ferus and his companions traced Malorum to the residence of Ryoo Thule, the grandmother of the deceased Padmé Amidala. They discovered her near-death, but with her dying breath, she warned Ferus that "he suspects." The group pursued Malorum in boats, but he destroyed most of them using wrist rockets, and escaped them. Only the assistance of a Gungan bongo pilot named Yunabana prevented them from drowning. He took them to Boss Rugor Nass. Ferus contacted Queen Apailana for a holoconference, where he revealed a daring plan. The Gungans and Naboo would attack and destroy the Imperial garrison on Naboo, while Ferus neutralized Malorum. Since the Imperials were storing illegal explosives in their garrison, the explosives could be set off after the garrison was destroyed, accounting for the destruction of the garrison. The Empire would cover up the explosion, and would not retaliate against the Naboo.

Ferus chased Malorum through the Theed Royal Palace. He drove the Imperial Inquisitor into the reactor core where Qui-Gon Jinn had been killed, and Obi-Wan had defeated Darth Maul years before. Ferus had assumed that he would easily defeat Malorum; however, although he had previously sensed Malorum's sensitivity to the Force, he had not expected Malorum to be capable of using a lightsaber. He soon saw the error in that belief. The battle was surprisingly evenly matched, and the two combatants progressed through the energy walls, finally emerging at the melting pit where Qui-Gon Jinn was slain.

In the end, Malorum was not powerful enough to hold off the former Jedi apprentice. Pinning Malorum against the melting pit, Ferus saw his chance and left himself open to an attack. When Malorum charged him, Ferus slammed an elbow into Malorum's forehead, stunning him for a split second. That was all Ferus needed to knock Malorum's lightsaber out of his hand and into the pit. Malorum leaped over the pit, straining to catch the lightsaber with the Force and harness it to carry him across the pit, but he was blinded by need. He lost his grip on the Force, falling into the pit to his death, and taking the secret of the Skywalkers with him.

After the duel, Ferus and Clive successfully blew the explosives, preventing retaliation on the Naboo, and planned to return to the secret base with much needed supplies for Toma, Raina, and Garen. After departing Naboo, Ferus and the others planned to head back to the hidden asteroid where Toma, Raina, and Garen waited. Before they could get there, Ferus received a message from Emperor Palpatine himself. He offered Ferus amnesty for all his past "crimes" if Ferus would agree to meet him on Coruscant. Even if he didn't agree with the Emperor's offer, Palpatine said that he would allow Ferus to go free.

Agent of the Empire
"So, what should we do? Accept a date with the Emperor?"

- Ferus Olin

Ferus went to Coruscant and listened to the Emperor's offer, which was to find the saboteur of the computer systems in the city of Sath on the planet Samaria. Ferus refused at first, but Palpatine delivered his catch. Two friends of Ferus, Roan Lands and Dona Telamark, had been arrested by the Bellassan government. The Emperor said that if Ferus did what he wanted, then Palpatine could request leniency, even clemency, from the government. Ferus was forced to accept the offer.

He then began his trip to Samaria, secretly telling his friends, the Erased, what he had to do. Solace told Ferus that she, Trever Flume, and Oryon would travel to Bellassa to try to rescue Roan and Dona so that Ferus wouldn't have to do Palpatine's work. Clive Flax would follow Ferus to Samaria, and Keets Freely and Curran Caladian would stay on Coruscant at the Erased's hideout with Dexter Jettster.

Ferus arrived on Samaria, where he met the Prime Minister of the planet, Aaren Larker, and the Imperial Advisor he would be working for, Bog Divinian. Ferus had known Bog from before, when he was a Senator who tried to overthrow Palpatine. Bog had married a friend of Obi-Wan's, Astri Oddo. Ferus told Bog that he did not need to work with him.

Ferus began tracking the saboteur through ship hangar records and other things, first alone, and later with Clive. They finally tracked the saboteur to an apartment, and the person they found was none other than Astri, who they found with her son, Lune. She told them that Aaren Larker himself had actually contracted her to do it, because he knew that the Emperor was simply using this as a stunt to gain complete control over Samaria. Ferus had thought this had been Palpatine's motive as well. Larker wanted to use it as an opportunity to help the resistance cells that were forming. Ferus suddenly stopped Astri from explaining. He sensed something on the roof, and checked it out. He found none other than Darth Vader on the roof. He saw him with squads of stormtroopers, searching door to door. He went back down into the apartment and told everyone that they had to escape. He then heard a knock on the door. Instead of panicking, however, he recognized the knock, and opened the door. It was Solace, Oryon, and Trever, along with the just-rescued Roan and Dona. They all escaped into Solace's ship, which she had recently stolen from an Imperial Senator by the name of Sano Sauro. Ferus, however, stayed on the planet and told his friends he'd catch up with them later. He went to the roof again to talk to Vader. Unbeknownst to Ferus, he was actually talking to his childhood rival. Vader didn't think Ferus was worth his time, and went to deal with the matter of the stolen ship that Solace had escaped with the others in. Ferus stayed on planet, knowing that Palpatine would have other offers to give him, and he waited for the next one.

His next job was to help clean up on Samaria. Even though the slicer had been stopped, she still had to be found. In addition to that, there were the rebels to consider. The Emperor wanted Ferus to offer the Samarian rebels a choice simlar to his own: either they could stop the rebellion and receive clemency or they could remain rebels and be hunted down. Although he gave them the message, Ferus offered to help the Samarian rebellion as a double agent. He discovered that combining Samarian technology with Roshan technology could create a formidable army against the Empire; however, the Empire already knew this and wanted to destroy the threat before it was enhanced. Sensing an invasion of the Roshan leaders on Samaria, Ferus sent Trever and Flame, a member of the resistance Moonstrike, and the Roshans to their homeplanet Rosha. Instead of saving them, though, they ran straight into an ambush of the Empire. Watching the attack on the Holocast news, Ferus thought Trever was dead. Plus, he was stuck side by side with Darth Vader, which cast doubt on Ferus' loyalties to all of his friends.

Ferus Olin was then sent to Bellassa. Palpatine wanted him to destroy the rebellion just by displaying Ferus on the Empire's side. Ferus Olin had no choice but to go unless he wanted to throw away his status as a double agent. He ran into Roan, Trever, and Amie Antin on the way. Talking to a gardener called Russell Wake, he gained fifteen minutes to break into the Empire's computers and gather information. A three part team—Trever, Roan, and Amie—was assembled from the Eleven to accompany him. After they had gathered all the information and stored it on a computer chip, Ferus gave the chip to Trever to guard in case the rest of them failed to get out. When he returned to his friends, Darth Vader was there. In an almost unnoticeable move, Darth Vader struck down Roan Lands. The move enraged Ferus, who attacked in an outburst despite Roan's last warning not to do so. Darth Vader easily evaded their attacks and in the end Ferus and Amie were captured.

Ferus was extremely saddened after his friends death. He was prepared to be executed; however, the Emperor showed up unsurprisingly and offered to halt the execution. He offered Ferus his teachings, ones that could control life and death. After catching Ferus' attention, Palpatine consented to Ferus' agreement which was secretly made to kill Darth Vader and avenge Roan's death.

"I'm ready to learn."

- Ferus Olin

Behind the scenes

 * Ferus Olin was created by author Jude Watson to be a dramatic foil for Anakin Skywalker in the Jedi Quest series, much the same role that Siri Tachi had fulfilled with Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Jedi Apprentice series.

Appearances

 * Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice
 * Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games
 * Jedi Quest: The Master of Disguise
 * Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
 * Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
 * Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
 * Jedi Quest: The False Peace
 * Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
 * Secrets of the Jedi
 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission
 * The Last of the Jedi: Dark Warning
 * Ghosts of the Sith
 * The Last of the Jedi: Underworld
 * The Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo
 * The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web
 * The Last of the Jedi: Return of the Dark Side
 * The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon
 * The Last of the Jedi: Against the Empire
 * The Last of the Jedi IX
 * The Last of the Jedi X