The Iteration

"What's your name?''" "You know my name. Jaden Korr." "''No. You are the Iteration."

- Nyss Nenn speaks to the Iteration, upon first awakening him

The Iteration was a clone of the Human male Jedi Knight Jaden Korr that was created at some point before 41 ABY by the resurgent One Sith order on the planet Korriban as part of a plot to allow the Sith to infiltrate the New Jedi Order. In 41 ABY, on the orders of the Chagrian Sith Lord Darth Wyyrlok, the Umbaran Sith agent Nyss Nenn awakened the Iteration, one of the many such "blank slate" clones available to the One Sith, and used a mindspear, an ancient Rakatan device, to imbue some of Korr's memories into the clone. Nenn then placed the clone into stasis and departed from Korriban with the clone, planning to track down the real Korr and to use another mindspear to transfer Korr's more recent memories into the Iteration. The clone could then take Korr's place within the Jedi Order and be activated by the Sith at a later date. Nenn and the Iteration tracked Korr to an ancient Rakatan space station, Mother, where both Korr and the Umbaran were killed, and the Iteration filled the mindspear with Korr's memories. However, the clone was defeated by Korr's apprentice, Marr Idi-Shael, who used the mindspear to transfer Korr's memories into the Iteration's mind before the latter was ready to accept them, resulting in Korr's consciousness overwriting that of the Iteration and taking control of the clone's body.

Biography
"Why did you awaken me? What am I to do?''" "Nothing, yet. You're just along for the ride until I need you." "Until you need me for what?" "''Until I need you to iterate."

- The Iteration and Nyss Nenn

At some point before 41 ABY, an Iteration was created by the One Sith organization residing on the Sith world of Korriban. Iterations were clones of Human individuals bred in cloning tanks, essentially blank slates filled with basic memories equivalent to that of an adolescent. That programming allowed the Iterations to operate until their basic memories were rewritten through the use of the Rakatan mindspear device, an ancient technology designed for memory transfer. The Iterations were then used by the One Sith to replace the person they "iterated" as the Sith cult's sleeper agents. In 41 ABY, one specific Iteration was chosen to replicate Jedi Knight Jaden Korr, whom the One Sith intended to replace in the New Jedi Order to do their bidding when they required it to do so. On the orders of the Chagrian Sith Lord Darth Wyyrlok, the Iteration's appearance was adjusted to match that of Korr. The Iteration was being kept in his cloning tank, which was filled with liquid and outfitted with machinery that provided life support and used electro-impulses to stimulate muscle development and growth. Soon, the Iteration was approached by the Umbaran Nyss Nenn, who had been tasked by Wyyrlok to awaken the clone. With the assistance of the droid 1B-7, Nenn did as ordered, and the Iteration had his mind filled with the basic knowledge. Having never used his vocal cords, the clone had to adjust to speaking, after which Nenn inserted a mindspear containing the information on Korr's early life into his head.

The Iteration's brain was filled with memories from the young Korr's life with his adoptive parents on the galactic capital of Coruscant, to his discovery of his Force-sensitivity and construction of his first lightsaber, to his enrollment in the Jedi Praxeum and finally to his participation in the Disciples of Ragnos crisis, a conflict with a Sith cult venerating Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos that Korr had been crucial in resolving in 14 ABY. Because of those memories, the Iteration believed himself to be Korr, and he at first did not understand how he ended up wherever he was. However, Nenn spoke a code word that activated the Iteration's programming, and the clone realized who he was and what his purpose was. Nenn released the Iteration from his cloning tank, informing him that he was not irreplaceable and his mission could be delegated to another Iteration if required, and Nenn ordered two guards to escort the clone to his scout flyer. Nyss Nenn and his sister, Syll Nenn, then had the Iteration placed in a state of suspended animation in a stasis chamber aboard the flyer until his services were needed to iterate Korr. The Iteration continued to be kept in stasis as the Umbaran siblings tracked Korr and another clone of his, Soldier, whom they wanted to capture for study, to the planet Fhost and later to a medical supply ship which Soldier and the Community of clones used to try to reach the entity they called Mother. After a brief skirmish in a remote star system, Soldier and his clone brethren escaped on the medical ship, pursued by Korr and his companions aboard the starship Junker. Syll had been killed in the fight, but Nyss had been able to extract the coordinates of the star system that Soldier planned to travel to from the medical ship's navicomputer. Pursuing Soldier and Korr, Nenn decided that it was time to awaken the Iteration. Upon awakening him, Nenn tested a code word that momentarily shut the clone down, before reawakening him again and escorting him to the cockpit.

When the Iteration witnessed Syll's body still laying in the cockpit, he offered Nyss to take care of his sister's body, but the Umbaran, distraught after her death, ordered the clone not to touch Syll's body and carried her away himself. The Iteration and Nenn soon arrived in a star system filled with radiation coming from a pulsar. Inside the system, the two spotted Junker flying on the outskirts of an asteroid belt. The Iteration did not feel Korr's presence aboard the ship, however, and Nenn believed that the Jedi had taken Junker Starhawk shuttle Flotsam. Nenn attacked Junker but stopped firing when the Iteration felt a dark side presence near one of the two planets in the system. There, they found that the presence was coming from an ancient organic space station, created by the Rakatan Infinite Empire and consisting of a space portion and a portion on the surface of the planet, connected by a tether. Both the medical ship and Flotsam were docked with the station. The Iteration and Nenn also docked with the station and went aboard, taking the one remaining mindspear which they intended to fill with Korr's more recent memories and transfer them to the Iteration. The pair descended through organic lifts to the planetary portion of the station, and the Iteration fell behind Nenn. The clone was soon contacted by Nenn via comlink. The Umbaran had found Korr, and he ordered the Iteration to lay in wait while he engaged the Jedi.

However, when Nenn did not return after a while, the Iteration proceeded forward, finding the Umbaran dead and Korr heavily injured and unconscious. Korr's Cerean apprentice, Marr Idi-Shael, was also present there, knocked out as well. Willing to proceed with the One Sith's plans, the Iteration took the mindspear from Nenn's body and stuck it into Korr's brain, starting to fill it up with his memories. Idi-Shael awoke at that moment and tried to stop the Iteration, but the clone believed him to be not a threat, even going so far as to reveal his plans to him. The Iteration tried to kill him with his lightsaber, but Idi-Shael blocked the strike with a lightsaber of his own, before trying to shoot the clone with a blaster. The Iteration easily disarmed his opponent of both weapons and prepared to strike again, but Idi-Shael surprisingly parried the blade with his bare hand and immobilized the clone by driving his fingertips into his throat, rendering him unconscious. Meanwhile, Korr had succumbed to his injuries, both from the fight with Nenn and from the insertion of the mindspear, and died. Hoping to preserve his Master's persona, Idi-Shael took the mindspear and stuck it into the Iteration's head as the clone came to his senses. The clone was not ready for the transfer, resulting in the Iteration's memories and consciousness being completely rewritten with that of Korr, essentially killing the clone. Idi-Shael dressed the Iteration in Korr's clothes, severed three fingers from his right hand, to match an injury that Korr had recently received, and hid Korr's dead body. When Korr awoke, he was unaware of what had happened, believing that he had been merely knocked out by Nenn. Korr and his companions teamed up with Soldier and the clone child Grace to try to escape from the space station, Mother, which possessed a consciousness of its own and was trying to kill them. The individuals did escape, destroying Mother in the process. Korr, not knowing that he was in the Iteration's body, continued to act the same way that he had been before, but Idi-Shael was worried that the Iteration could have survived the transfer and was waiting for the One Sith to activate its programming. Korr, in the Iteration's body, continued to serve the New Jedi Order, participating in the Force psychosis crisis and the Lost Tribe of Sith emergence.

Personality and traits
"Who are you, Cerean?''" "I'm his friend." "''Then I suppose it's well that I won't remember that I killed you."

- The Iteration and Marr Idi-Shael

The Iteration was a nearly perfect clone of Jaden Korr, sharing his appearance, being a tall man with brown hair and gray eyes. In order to match Korr's appearance, his hair was cut short like Korr's, his facial hair was styled in the same goatee, and he wore modern clothing. However, the Iteration, immersed with the dark side of the Force, had a much more violent and cruel look, with Idi-Shael noting that the clone's eyes looked different from his Master's, despite being the same color. He also lacked a small scar on his right cheek, which Korr had acquired when he was a child, and Korr noticed that fact when he tried to shave after escaping from the station. The Iteration, unlike Korr, also had all his fingers on his right hand, as the Jedi had only recently acquired the injury. When trying to hide the fact of Korr's death, Idi-Shael accounted for that fact, severing the fingers from the Iteration's body. The clone shared Korr's memories up until the defeat of the Disciples of Ragnos, and he initially believed himself to be Korr but was soon made aware of who he really was. The Iteration was trying to be helpful toward Nenn, offering to take care of his sister's body, but the Umbaran did not accept his help. The Iteration did not find Nenn very talkative in general, while the Umbaran suspected that the clone was uncomfortable with the fact that his mission required him to effectively die and become another person, but the One Sith's programming was designed to make him at peace with that fact. The Iteration underestimated Idi-Shael, revealing the mindspear's capabilities to him and believing that he would easily kill him, menacingly laughing as he tried to do so. However, the Cerean fought back and incapacitated the clone. As he realized what Idi-Shael was planning to do, the Iteration was horrified, since he was not ready for the memory transfer, which killed him.

Powers and abilities
"Use the Force. Tell me if you sense the Jedi.''" "''I don't, but he could be too far away."

- Nyss Nenn and the Iteration.

The Iteration was Force-sensitive and was deeply immersed with the dark side as a result of him being created by the Sith. He could sense the dark side aura of Mother and the lack of Korr's presence aboard Junker. His Force sense ability was limited, however, and he could not pick up his targets from far away, being unable to detect Korr aboard Mother. The clone could use telekinesis, using it throw Idi-Shael's blaster away when he tried to pull it. The Iteration was provided by the One Sith with a red-bladed lightsaber, which he wielded in the fight against Korr's apprentice. The Iteration was also able to use the weapon to deflect blaster shots.

Behind the scenes
The Iteration was created by Paul S. Kemp for the 2011 novel Riptide. However, Korr had previously appeared in the Fate of the Jedi novel series, chronologically taking place after Riptide. Since Riptide established that Korr inhabited the Iteration's body after the events of the novel, it retconned the Iteration's first physical appearance, as a vessel for Korr, to be the 2009 novel Fate of the Jedi: Abyss, written by Troy Denning. The ending of Riptide provided a cliffhanger, mentioning a possibility, through Idi-Shael's doubts, that the One Sith's plan had been successful and the Iteration continued to live on, waiting to be activated at a later date.

Appearances

 * Riptide
 * Fate of the Jedi: Abyss
 * Fate of the Jedi: Backlash