Saba Sebatyne

"The Jedi are few and the Yuuzhan Vong many, yet look at the forces they direct against us: voxyn, blockades, whole hunting fleetz. We are doing something they fear, and the Force tellz this one she must continue."

- Saba Sebatyne to Luke Skywalker

Saba Sebatyne was a Barabel Jedi Master.

Biography
Saba Sebatyne was discovered by the Jedi Knight Eelysa. Despite Luke Skywalker's resistance to the training of aggressive species like Barabel, Eelysa undertook to train Saba until she was run off Barab I by the Diversity Alliance.

Between the two of them they also trained a number of other Force-sensitives, including Saba's son, Tesar Sebatyne, and his hatchmates Bela and Krasov Hara, who, while one of them shared a father with Tesar, were not her children. Most of her apprentices were Barabel Jedi Knights, including Drif Lij; but she also trained the Brubb Jedi, Wonetun. Saba formed her apprentices into the Wild Knights Squadron.

Later integrated into the New Jedi Order, Saba would go on to hold a seat on the Galactic Alliance High Council. She fought in numerous battles with the Wild Knights, taking on Danni Quee as well.

While traveling to Barab I to visit one of her hatchmates, she found her homeworld a lava ridden wasteland, and that there was still a Yuuzhan Vong ship there. Saba opened fire, but when the hole was reached, the ship's contents began to drift out into space. Saba realized that what she at first thought to be junk were actually Barabels and the incident caused her great guilt. She eventually realized the Barabels would rather have died than be made slaves to the Yuuzhan Vong. After the costly war with the Yuuzhan Vong, she became a Jedi Master and sat on the Masters' council that was formed by Luke Skywalker.

During the Dark Nest crisis, Saba fought Welk in a lightsaber duel, altough she sucessefully crippled Welk, she was nearly killed from poisoning strikes from gorog assassins commanded by Welk as well as attacks by him. When Leia Organa Solo asked Saba to train her in the Jedi way, Saba first thought it was a joke, but finally accepted to train Leia. Saba witnessed the battle between Leia and Alema Rar. Though there, she did not intervene, trusting in the training of her apprentice. Leia's skills in the Killik-Chiss conflicts led Saba to call for Leia's advancment to the rank of Jedi Knight.

Behind the scenes
Saba and Tesar were created by Troy Denning and first appeared in Star by Star & Recovery.

Appearances

 * Recovery
 * Star by Star
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Destiny's Way
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * The Joiner King
 * The Unseen Queen
 * The Swarm War