Valin Horn

"Hey. I'm not a brat."

- Valin Horn

Valin Horn was a male Human Jedi Knight, the son of Corran Horn and Mirax Terrik Horn, and the brother of Jysella Horn.

Biography
"You're a fraction the man your father is." "Funny. That's what I was going to say to you."

- Darth Caedus and Valin Horn

Valin, named for his paternal grandfather Valin Halcyon, was born about four years after Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaign against the New Republic. A Force-sensitive, Valin eventually attended Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 to train as a Jedi Knight.

Valin developed skills similar to those of Jacen Solo, particularly his affinity with animals. Around the age of eleven, Valin found he could communicate with animals through the Force, though, like his father and grandfather before him, he was weak in the art of telekinesis. Since he couldn't lift a stone with telekinesis, he instead used the Force to get small insects called garnants to move it by convincing them it was food. His father saw the stone move and thought Valin had used telekinesis, until Valin explained how it had really happened. He had brought food and left it for the garnants to keep his promise before leaving.

During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Valin was trapped on Yavin 4 with the other Praxeum students when the Peace Brigade blockaded the system. Fortunately, Valin, Sannah and Kam Solusar managed to survive long enough to escape during Anakin Solo's risky mission to save the trapped Jedi. Valin then spent some time training with the remaining Jedi initiates onboard his maternal grandfather Booster Terrik's ship Errant Venture.

After the Fall of Coruscant, he and the other Jedi children were sent to the Maw for safety for the remainder of the war. At the end of the conflict Valin traveled to Zonama Sekot for Luke's meeting with the surviving Jedi.

By the time of the Confederation-Galactic Alliance War, Valin was performing missions for the Jedi Order, and from his age he would be presumed to have reached the rank of Jedi Knight. As conflict developed against his ancestral homeworld, Grand Master Luke Skywalker ensured that his duties kept him well away from anywhere that his loyalties might be tested.

During a mission in the underlevels of Coruscant, accompanied by Jedi Master Kyle Katarn, fellow Jedi Knights Thann Mithric and Kolir Hu'lya and Jedi Apprentice Seha Dorvald Valin and the group came into confrontation with Jacen Solo. During the ensuing battle, Katarn was severely wounded after being stabbed in the chest by Jacen, forcing Valin and Seha to remove him from the fight, culminating in the death of Mithric.

Valin would later participate in the operation to destroy Centerpoint Station, disguising himself as a GAG trooper alongside fellow Jedi, including Kyp Durron and Jaden Korr.

Personality and Traits
Valin Horn is a follower, and wanted to be a hero. He wanted to be a jedi as powerful as Anakin Solo, which got him and a few other young jedi into a lot a trouble when Anakin came to Yavin 4 to rescue Tahiri Veila.

Like his father, he was lacking in telekinesis, but he made up for it with his affinity with animals. At one point his father Corran Horn said he was proud of him when he thought Valin had "lifted" a rock a minisicule height off the ground. In actuallity Valin had made a nest of garnants think the rock was food. A few seconds later Ganner Rhysode showed up and implied that all Valin would be was a failure, and Valin made the garnants think he was food. In a way, Valin had made Ganner eat his words.

Appearances

 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future
 * Star Wars: Union
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Star by Star
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Betrayal
 * Exile
 * Fury