Wookieepedia:Featured article queue/July 11, 2011

Nichos Marr, a Human male, was a Jedi trainee at the Jedi Temple on the galactic capital of Coruscant during the last days of the Galactic Republic. With the emergence of the Galactic Empire and the beginning of the Great Jedi Purge in 19 BBY, Marr was among a group of students who went into hiding in the enclave of the Ho'Din Jedi Master Plett, which was located on the planet Belsavis. Galactic Emperor Palpatine, however, discovered the group, and in 18 BBY he commissioned the colossal dreadnought Eye of Palpatine to destroy them. When the vessel failed to arrive because of Jedi sabotage, Palpatine sent a backup force of starfighters to finish the task. The Jedi repelled the attack, but had to evacuate from Belsavis, taking separate paths.

Marr eventually became an artificial intelligence programmer at the Magrody Institute and fell in love with his colleague, Cray Mingla. The two joined Jedi Master Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 in 11 ABY, where Marr trained for about a year before being struck with a fatal disease, Quannot's Syndrome. Mingla tried to save his life by transferring Marr's consciousness into a droid body using Ssi-ruuk technology, but she was unable to do so, as the droid Marr turned out to be just that&mdash;a droid, while the real Marr had died. Willing to rejoin Marr in the afterlife, Mingla later sacrificed her life to destroy the reactivated Eye of Palpatine and save Belsavis from its impending attack.