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Kol Skywalker was a Jedi Master and member of the Jedi Council. Descended from the famous Luke Skywalker, he grew to be a powerful and respected Jedi. A chance meeting with Imperial assassin Morrigan Corde led to love and the birth of a son, Cade Skywalker. Kol raised Cade on his own after Corde left to continue her Imperial career and eventually entrusted him to the care of Kol's former Padawan, Wolf Sazen, as an apprentice. Skywalker took on his own apprentice yet again in Shado Vao.

Skywalker spearheaded the Ossus Project, designed to rehabilitate the Yuuzhan Vong's public image by having them restore war-torn worlds, but the biotechnological experiment was sabotaged, provoking war in 127 ABY between the Empire&mdash;joined by the Sith&mdash;and the Galactic Alliance and Jedi with them. When the Galactic Alliance surrendered three years later, Skywalker refused to serve the Empire and withdrew to Ossus, where the Sith followed and attacked the academy there. In a one-man last stand, Skywalker held off the hordes of Sith, giving his own life to buy enough time for the Jedi younglings, his son, and Vao and Sazen to escape.