User:Ace Progan

The following information is unofficial. It has not been approved by George Lucas.

"So... Master Progan!" "That's Grand Master Progan to you!"

- Darth Vader and Ace Progan

Ace Progan is rumoured to be the greatest Jedi that ever lived. Many people believe this because of many events throughout his life as a Jedi, such as turning to the Dark Side and coming back, mastering Sith Force powers and because of his skill with a lightsaber. He is most well-known for his unnatural long-life.

It was only after the formation of the New Republic that he revealed himself to be one of the survivors of the Great Jedi Purge.

Joining the Jedi 41 BBY
Ace was born in 43 BBY. His father was a senator, his mother was a teacher. Nobody knows any more about his parents. He was born on Coruscant 11 years before the Battle of Naboo. When he was just a little older than 18 months, he was noticed by the Jedi Order as being a Force-sensitive.

Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi were given the task of visiting the Progan home and taking Ace to the Jedi Temple to be trained. Ace's parents willingly let him go, mainly because their home was very close to the Temple.

Obe-Wan took to him immediately. He had come across many Force-sensitives up till then, but he sensed something about Ace that was different to everyone else.

Training as a Jedi 38 BBY–32 BBY
When Ace was just over five years old, he was put into a class of younglings under the tutorage of Jedi Master Yoda. When Ace was given his first lightsaber, although it was only a training lightsaber, he took to it with great joy. He treasured it as one of his most prized possessions and always kept it clean. Because of his good behaviour, he was favoured by many Jedi Knights and Masters, making him the envy of his classmates.

After a few months of training, Ace had progressed a lot further than the other younglings. Master Yoda noticed that the other younglings were becoming less sure of themselves because of Ace's unique abilities. Yoda decided that if Ace were to continue training without upsetting the other pupils, he would have to be tutored alone.

Ace happily took to this new plan, as it allowed him to visit his parents during the day, and be trained in the evenings after dinner.

When his mother wasn't teaching, he would go home and spend the day with her, and she would take him for trips around the city. If his father was called to a hearing in the Galactic Senate, he would take Ace along with him. Ace's father was close friends with the Supreme Chancellor at that time, and so Ace learned many things while he was there.

During his evening training sessions with Master Yoda, he would learn to control his emotions, use a saber skillfully and master Force powers.

Becoming a Padawan 32 BBY
When he was 11 years old, Master Yoda took Ace to the Jedi High Council to find him a master. It was quite clear to the council that a master was needed to take Ace as their Padawan because of his power at such a young age. Ace was sent away for the night while the council discussed his future as a Jedi.

It seemed that three Jedi masters were willing to take Ace as their Padawan: Yoda, Mace Windu and Ki-Adi-Mundi. In the end, it was decided that Windu would be Ace's master.

The following morning Ace was once again summoned to the Council chambers. There he was told that he was to be the apprentice of Mace Windu, but a further rule was passed. Ace must not tell anyone outside of the Council that he was the Padawan of Windu. Unfortunately, Ace was never very good at keeping secrets.

Ace met up with Obi-Wan later that day, as Qui-Gon was on a mission with Adi Gallia that was unsafe for Padawan learners. Ace had been granted permission to visit the Galactic Senate, as his father was taking part in a hearing. Obi-Wan agreed to accompany. Although there were 14 years between Ace and Obi-Wan they had a close friendship. Once they were at the hearing, Ace broke the rule laid down by the Council and told Obi-Wan that he had become the Padawan of Master Windu. Surprisingly, Obi-Wan was delighted. Yoda had wanted to keep it a secret in case it upset other students, but Obi-Wan was happy for Ace. He obviously also knew that Ace was no ordinary Jedi.

The Battle of Naboo 32 BBY
During the Battle of Naboo, Mace Windu taught Ace all he could. He instructed him in Vaapad (Form VII of lightsaber combat) and taught him all the Force powers Windu knew. By the end of the battle, Ace had become a strong swordsman and had mastered Force Push, Force Pull, Force Jump and Mind Trick.

Of course Obi-Wan played a vital role in the battle as Qui-Gon had been assigned the task of protecting Queen Amidala, and so Obi-Wan accompanied him.

The Final Years as a Padawan 33 BBY–22 BBY
During the time span between the Battle of Naboo and the Clone Wars Mace Windu completed Ace's training. By 22 BBY Ace had mastered Vaapad and had also mastered the techniques of Force Deflection, Saber Throw and Force Absorb.

Ace and Windu went on their first mission together in 35 BBY, shortly after Ace was presented with his first lightsaber. It was blue and he took it everywhere with him. They were sent to the crystal caves on Dantooine to prevent a group of miners from excavating them. Mace Windu had already planned a trip back here in a few years, but told nothing of it to Ace.

Another mission came a few years later when a civil war broke out on Bothawui. Windu and Ace were sent to protect the King of Bothawui until the war died down. It didn't take long, as some assassins killed the leader of the traitors and the King had them all flogged.

These were Ace's only missions as a Padawan, and so he never got to use a lightsaber or a Force power outside of the Jedi Temple until he was sent on his own missions.

The Clone Wars and Ace's Solitude 22 BBY–10 ABY
When the Clone Wars came Mace Windu had decided that Ace knew enough to become a Jedi Knight. The High Council agreed and Ace was made a Knight. Obi-Wan had been made a Jedi Knight 10 years previously and they had not seen each other since the Battle of Naboo. They would never see each other alive again.

The High Council decided that since Ace was so powerful, he could be dangerous at such a young age, so to prevent him from getting caught up in the war, Windu told Ace about the trip he had planned when they were on Dantooine. Ace was to go and find solitude in the crystal caves until a member of the Council contacted him again. Ace was unhappy about this, but respected each and every member of the Jedi Order and so did as he was told. However, this was the worst decision the Council ever made for Ace.

He was given a Eta-2 Actis-class light interceptor as a gift from the Council and so he flew to Dantooine to begin a long time of being a hermit. At least he was in the crystal caves where he knew his way around.

While he was there, Ace unexpectedly came across some old scrolls, written by Darth Plagueis. They described how to learn the power of creating life and reventing people from dying. The same power Darth Sidious describes to Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith. Being a curious person in nature, Ace naturally kept the scrolls and attempted to tech himself this power. It took him many years until he finally perfected it. When he reached the age of 31, Ace decided that if he was going to try out his newfound power on anyone, it would be himself. He nearly killed himself in the process, but eventually managed to grant himself immortal life. However, he could still be killed.

The Fall to the Dark Side 10 ABY
Not long after the Death of Darth Vader, a new Dark Lord of the Sith appeared. He had travelled to Dantooine to collect crystals to construct lightsabers. There he came face to face with Ace. Since this new Sith Lord did not have a lightsaber Ace did not realise his true identity. The Sith Lord knew at once that Ace was a Jedi Knight, and so decided to trick him into falling to the Dark Side. Since Ace had never encountered a Sith Lord before, this was not hard. The Sith Lord introduced himself as Nova, an old Jedi Master who had survived the Great Jedi Purge.

Since Nova had called himself a Master, and Ace was still only a Knight, it seemed fitting that Nova had higher authority over Ace. Since Ace remembered that he would be contacted by a Jedi Master he assumed this was it. He went away with Nova, who began to seduce him to the Dark Side. It was not long after Ace had left Dantooine that Yoda appeared in the crystal caves as a hologram to tell Ace to fly to Dagobah.

Nova taught Ace how to use Sith powers such as Force Lightning, Force Choke and Force Drain. Ace was under the impression that these were ancient Jedi powers and took to them with delight. He was always eager to learn new powers. Nova then took Ace on missions around the galaxy. Most of the missions involved killing important people or supervising invasions.

Eventually, Ace was seduced to the Dark Side and was renamed Darth Rona. Nova then revealed that his full name was Darth Nova and they became a Master-Apprentice Sith team. Ace discarded his blue lightsaber and was given a red one. Ace was now a Sith Lord.

Returning to the Light Side 13 ABY
It was only three years after Ace had fallen to the Dark Side that he returned to the Jedi Order, now the New Jedi Order. It had happened during a mission with Darth Nova to Coruscant. They had gone there to oversee a hearing as to whether a second army of the New Republic should be created in case of a second war. Of course, Darth Nova was all for it, remembering the last time an army was created.

Before they had even reached the Galactic Senate their air taxi took them past the Jedi Temple. Ace stared at it and remembered the first time he stepped in the Council chambers, the first time he had held a lightsaber. He remembered Yoda and Mace Windu and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Realising what had happened to him he pulled out his red saber and smashed it with his bare hands. He then turned to a shocked Darth Nova and pushed him off the side of the air taxi. Nova fell thousands of feet to his death. Ace then told the air taxi driver to turn around and take him back to the nearest space port. Ace paid a space traveller to take him to Dantooine, where he went into solitude in the crystal caves once more.

When he was back in the caves he came across two identical rare crystals. He built himself two lightsabers that had handles that would fix together to make a saberstaff. He coated the handles in electrum and used the two crustals he had found. They produced white saber blades. Ace remembered his old blue lightsaber and vowed never to throw these ones away.

Joining the New Jedi Order 18 ABY
Ace had noticed that the immortality power he had cast upon himself not only prevented him from dying of old age, but it also prevented him from ageing. He still looked 31 when he should have been 54 years old.

He came across his old Eta-2 starfighter and flew back to Coruscant. There he learned that his parents had been murdered by Darth Nova many years ago. He swore that although he had killed Nova, every Sith that stood in his way would never stand again. He requested an audience with the Jedi High Council, where he met Luke Skywalker and many other Jedi Masters.

After explaining to Luke who he was and what he had been through, Luke calmly announced that he had been told about Ace by Yoda's Force ghost, and that he would happily agree to have Ace upon the Jedi Council. Ace was now an official Jedi Master.

Nothing is known about Ace between 18 ABY and 2006 ABY except that his right arm was severed by a Wampa on Hoth and was replaced with a bio-mechanical one.

The Resurrection of Darth Vader 2006 ABY
Ace was alone in the Council chambers one night hundreds of years after he had been made Grand Jedi Master after Ben Skywalker's death (Ben had inherited the position from Luke), when he rediscovered Darth Plagueis' scrolls. He decided that since he had successfully prevented himself from dying of old age, he should try to use the other power and create life. He decided that he would bring Anakin Skywalker back from the dead so that the name of Skywalker could live on, and because he had been the Chosen One.

He took the scrolls to the roof of the Temple and began to perform the power. Unfortunately, half-way through the procedure a bolt of lightning came down and hit his right arm. Fortunately for him that was his bio-mechanical arm, however it messed up the procedure and instead of brining back Anakin Skywalker he had brought back Darth Vader. This time there was no good in him. He was a ruthless tyrant and he created a reborn Empire.

News reached the Council that Darth Vader had returned, but no one knew that it was because of Ace that he was back. Only Ace knew that Darth Vader was full of htred. Unfortunately, he also knew that he would never die of old age either. Ace decided that because of his stupidity he would send himself into exile and tell everyone that he was going on a long mission.

A prototype starship that could travel between different galaxies was set to travel to a planet called Earth in the Milky Way galaxy. Ace had sensed that there was a Force-sensitive there too. Therefore Ace stowed away on the prototype as it was launched and settled back.

The Crash Landing on Endor and Max Tenner 2006 ABY
Just after the prototype reached the Outer Rim it was attacked by Star Destroyers that Vader had managed to find lying around. The prototype took heavy damage and crash landed on the forest moon of Endor. Ace however thought he was on Earth.

After exploring the planet more closely he was confronted by a man named Max Tenner, who was in fact from Earth. After a short duel between a lightsaber and a regular Earth-made 9mm Beretta, Ace and Tenner came across Darth Vader, and so teamed up with each other to defeat the reborn Empire. They joined a tribe of Ewoks and destroyed the Imperial base on Endor. It was during this time that Ace realised that Tenner was the Force-sensitive.

Ace took Tenner as his Padawan and they returned to Coruscant to the Jedi Temple. There they petitoned for a temporary army to defeat the reborn Empire. The army was created and the Empire was destroyed.

'''Note: The information you have just read was created by a Star Wars fan and Wookieepedian who used Ace Progan for a fan film. It is entirely unofficial.'''

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode VIII: Origins (First appearance) (Fan-film)