Ferus Olin

"We are not tricksters. We are ambassadors of peace and justice."

- Ferus Olin

Ferus Olin was the Jedi Padawan of Master Siri Tachi. Very mature for his age, Olin was well-respected by all for his dedication to the Jedi Order. Olin often clashed with fellow Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker, mostly over adherence to Jedi rules and protocol.

Shortly before the onset of the Clone Wars, Olin resigned from the Jedi Order due to the guilt he felt over the inadvertent death of fellow Padawan Darra Thel-Tanis. After founding a rebellion against the Empire on the planet Bellassa, newly in control of the galaxy after the destruction of the Jedi, he would later retrain himself in the Jedi ways with the help of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Olin also created a safehouse for fugitive Jedi on a hidden asteroid. During his search for Jedi refugees from the Empire, he became a double-agent working for Emperor Palpatine, and attempted to learn of the plans of the Empire from the inside.

Life as a Jedi
"Everyone was my friend, but nobody was my particular friend."

- Ferus Olin

The Evacuation of Radnor


"Obi-Wan doesn't see you clearly. He is a great Jedi Knight, but he is blinded by affection. But I see. And I will keep looking. I will watch you, Anakin Skywalker."

- Ferus Olin to Anakin Skywalker after a mission to Radnor

Ferus first came into close contact with Anakin Skywalker at about 27 BBY during a mission to evacuate the planet Radnor when a deadly toxin was released into the air. They were sent to the planet along with their masters, Siri Tachi and Obi-Wan Kenobi, along with two other master and apprentice pairings, Ry-Gaul with his apprentice, Tru Veld, and Soara Antana along with her apprentice, Darra Thel-Tanis. The Masters and Padawans were forced to separate, and when that happened, Ferus and Anakin clashed over issues of leadership. Despite this, the Padawans managed to work together well enough to continue following clues to discover the motive behind the release of the toxin. When attempting to trace a group of thieving looters who were ransacking the homes of fleeing civilians to steal their valuables, the Padawans began following a trailthat led them to believe the natives of the neighboring planet of Avon were planning to invade Radnor, using an offer of assistance in the evacuation as a smokescreen for a landing of attack droids. The Jedi teams thwarted the invasion, but not without many arguments between Anakin and Ferus over how to do so. At the end of the mission, Ferus, distrusting Anakin for his maverick, controlling behavior and hunger for leadership, warned him that he would watch him, further infuriating Anakin and driving the two apprentices apart even more.

The Galactic Games
Two years later, the two apprentices met again, along with their masters, at the Galactic Games on the planet Euceron. The two Padawans, joined by Tru Veld, helped their masters to discover a plot to rig the games, but still did not get along. When Anakin discovered that an illegal podrace was rigged, he decided to compete in it to discover how. Ferus was against this idea, though. The mature Padawan believed that Anakin was racing for fun, and his feelings irritated his rival again. Anakin did race, but discovered that he was the one with the advantage. The two Padawans left Euceron with the feelings of dislike between them continuing to grow.

When Anakin took private lightsaber training lessons with Soara Antana, the cunning Jedi Master chose Ferus to surprise Anakin with an attack. Anakin, angry at Ferus for all their past disagreements, unleashed his anger, and defeated Ferus. However, Ferus only smiled as he left, infuriating Anakin yet again with his appearance of superiority.

Infiltrating the Leadership School
"I am sorry for needing rescue, Master."

- Ferus Olin to his master, Siri Tachi

When Gillam Tarturi, son of Senator Berm Tarturi and a student at the luxurious Leadership School on Andara, disappeared from the high-security school, his father suspected that his political rivals had kidnapped his son. Also, a squad of young mercenaries was suspected to be training at the Leadership School. In order to look into both Gillam's disappearance and the secret squad, Ferus and Anakin Skywalker were sent to infiltrate the school disguised as students and identify as well as investigate the mercenaries in hopes of finding a clue to the motive behind Gillam Tarturi's disappearance. When they arrived at the school, Ferus befriended a troublesome student named Reymet Autem, the son of Senate Guard Sagoro Autem, who seemed to know something about the inner workings of the school. As Ferus began to get to know Reymet, Anakin managed to infiltrate the secret squad the two Jedi had been assigned to find. However, when Anakin gradually became more and more in agreement with the ideas of the squad, and decided to join them on a mission to penetrate Andara's airspace, Ferus adamantly opposed him. Anakin agreed to meet with him later to consult Obi-Wan, but before the two Padawans had a chance to contact Anakin's master, Ferus disappeared. He had searched for Gillam in an effort to find him before Anakin left the school, which would eliminate the reason for Anakin to search for Gillam on Ieria, the base of the secret squad's operation against Andara. However, Gillam, hidden in the old, abandoned system rooms inside the school, stumbled upon him, and he, along with a few members of the secret squad, imprisoned Ferus there. Anakin, when he discovered that Ferus was missing, chose to go with the secret squad instead of searching for him, and Ferus remained imprisoned until Obi-Wan and Siri arrived at the Leadership School to rescue him. However, Ferus had discovered Gillam's datapad, and when he discovered that Gillam had staged his own kidnapping, and planned to pin it on his father, he and the two Masters realized that he was planning to stage his death as well, and to kill Anakin, allowing him to disguise the young Padawan's body as his own. By the time the three Jedi arrived on Ieria, though, Anakin had already dealt with the secret squad, amazing Siri and Ferus with the power he wielded as he destroyed the attack droids sent to kill him. However, the fact that Anakin had not even looked for Ferus when he discovered that he had disappeared infuriated Obi-Wan, creating a rift between the Master and his Padawan that would take some time to heal.

The Invasion of Typha-Dor
In 25 BBY, Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi were sent to the Uziel system to the planet Typha-Dor, the only planet that continued to hold out against the aggressive invasions masterminded by the system's largest planet, Vanqor. Their mission was to inform the members of a Typha-Dorian surveillance post that the Vanqors had nearly discovered their position, and they needed to evacuate. When the two Jedi arrived, however, they discovered that the members of the surveillance post had the invasion plans the Vanqors intended to use in their invasion of Typha-Dor. When they and the team attempted to escape, however, Anakin was captured and taken to Vanqor itself, where he was placed in the Zone of Self-Containment by the criminal scientist Jenna Zan Arbor. While this occured, Olin and Siri Tachi, along with the Jedi Garen Muln, Clee Rhara, Ry-Gaul, and Tru Veld, were dispatched to rescue Obi-Wan and Anakin and aid them in getting the invasion plans to Typha-Dor. Kenobi managed to rescue Anakin, and the Jedi team landed just in time to rescue Obi-Wan and Skywalker from Vanqor forces. Evading Vanqor starships, the Jedi team arrived safely at Typha-Dor. When the Typha-Dorian General Bycha mentioned that rumors had arose of medical experiments being performed on the prisoners in the camp Anakin was imprisoned in, the young Jedi revealed that he had undergone the procedure, surprising the Jedi, most of all Obi-Wan, who he had not yet told. This made Ferus believe that Anakin had refrained from telling his Master because he enjoyed the lack of feeling, saying that it even overcame his loyalty to Obi-Wan. ALthough the Typha-Dorians managed to force the Vanqor forces into surrendering without firing a shot, Jenna Zan Arbor escaped Vanqor, giving the four Jedi their next mission- find the evil scientist.

Uprising on Romin
"What worries me is his will. His power is so great that he thinks his judgment is as well. He sees something is right, so therefore he must do it. He argues against you without hearing you. He thinks he can change situations, beings. Maybe he can't do it alone, not yet. But someday he will. Should we trust someone who always believes he speaks with the voice of absolute right?"

- Ferus Olin to Obi-Wan Kenobi, on Anakin Skywalker

During the following few months, Kenobi and Skywalker tracked Zan Arbor across the galaxy, while Tachi and Olin only assisted them occasionally. However, Siri had promised to help Obi-Wan finally effect Zan Arbor's capture, and when Kenobi and Skywalker traced the deranged scientist to the planet Romin, Siri, along with Ferus, planned to join Anakin and Obi-Wan to assist in capturing the criminal. However, the Senate's bureaucracy held the Jedi back, as a law stated that it was illegal to arrest or transport a galactic criminal off Romin, enabling the planet's corrupt leader, Roy Teda, to make a fortune offering refuge to criminals. This did not deter Obi-Wan, however, and when he learned that a gang of thieves known as the Slams had just been captured, and their capture had not yet been publicized, he managed to convince the Jedi Council to allow the four Jedi to impersonate the Slams in effort to gain entrance to Romin. Olin disagreed with the plan, arguing that the Jedi were above using deceit to capture Zan Arbor. However, despite his disagreement, the Council agreed, and the team of Jedi arrived on Romin in the starship of the Slams.

While Obi-Wan and Siri visited Zan Arbor, under their cover as the Slams, Ferus and Anakin were sent to reconnoiter the city. During their expedition, Teda's aide Hansel trailed them to give them an invitation to a reception the ruler planned on holding the next day. But while returning, Anakin and Ferus were kidnapped by mysterious assailants. They met a man named Joylin, leader of the resistance on Romin, who revealed to them that a coup was planned against Teda's governement on the night of the reception, and they wished to hire the Slams to steal codes from Teda's palace that would allow the resistance to deactivate his droid army, allowing them to bloodlessly secure power. Anakin also managed to secure a guarantee that the resistance would take Jenna Zan Arbor to their ship, allowing them to return her to the prison planet she had escaped from. Although Ferus objected once more, the undercover Jedi agreed to assist the resistance movement.

That night, Ferus could not sleep, and met Obi-Wan in the garden of the villa the Jedi were staying in, who also could not sleep. Ferus confessed to him his fears about Anakin's power, but Obi-Wan disagreed. This would later haunt Obi-Wan, when he remembered that Ferus had warned him about the dangers of Anakin's incredible potential, and he had not heeded the young Padawan's warning. In any event, confessing his fears for Anakin seemed to release a weight from Ferus, and the two Jedi later became, if not friends, certainly much less antagonistic towards each other during the rest of their search for Zan Arbor.

At the reception the next day, bad luck struck the Jedi. Obi-Wan met the real Slam, but, since the resistance had been interfering with communications, Teda had not yet learned that the Jedi were imposters. The Jedi successfully stole the codes controlling Teda's droid army, but when the army was inactive, the revolters vandalized and damaged much of the city. Unfortunately for the Jedi, both Teda and Zan Arbor fled. However, Teda and Zan Arbor requested to meet with the Slams, and due to the fact they had not yet discovered that the Jedi had impersonated the infamous gang of theives, the Jedi once more had a chance to capture Zan Arbor. When the Jedi met Teda and Zan Arbor, the criminals offered the "Slams" a chance to partner with them in a scheme they had planned, that would bring them enormous riches. Just at that moment, however, the real Slams entered, and denounced the Jedi as imposters. When they arrived, something triggered a mental reaction in Zan Arbor's mind, and she suddenly recognized Anakin, realizing that the imposters were Jedi. Before they could be imprisoned, however, the Jedi freed all of Teda's prisoners, and managed to demoralize his army enough to force them to surrender. As the army surrendered, a Jedi team led by Mace Windu arrived on Romin to assist the Jedi. Teda and Zan Arbor were captured and taken before Joylin, who was convinced by Ferus to rescind the order for Teda's aide's execution, which Joylin had ordered in an attempt to cajole Teda into surrendering. The Jedi seemed to have won a victory that day. But Joylin had other plans. He released Teda and Zan Arbor and gave the true Slams permission to leave to give him justification to execute the followers of Teda. Although Anakin sensed this soon enough that the Jedi would have been able to capture the villains, Obi-Wan decided to let them go, so they would lead the Jedi to Granta Omega, who the Jedi, and Kenobi in particular, had been attempting to capture after his murder of Jedi Master Yaddle. The Jedi planted a tracking device on the Slams' ship, and prepared to follow them in order to capture Omega.

Investigation on Falleen
The four Jedi tracked Zan Arbor and Teda to the planet Falleen. On Romin the Jedi had discovered that Zan Arbor and Teda were in league with Granta Omega, the wealthy son of Qui-Gon Jinn's former Padawan Xanatos, and an enemy of the Jedi who was responsible for the death of Jedi Master Yaddle. They believed that he was attempting to assist Zan Arbor in her attempts to perfect the transmission of the Zone of Self-Containment. The Jedi discovered that Roy Teda, who fled Romin along with Zan Arbor, was staying at a luxurious hotel on Falleen, which Siri and Ferus went to investigate. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan and Anakin investigated a relatively new factory, Blackwater Systems, that had been built without respect for safety laws, and had bribed investigators to overlook these oversights. The factory was destroyed by the owners to cover up the illegal activities that took place inside, and Siri and Ferus barely arrived in time to rescue Kenobi and Skywalker, only to discover that Teda had fled Falleen, along with Zan Arbor. Before the Jedi could continue to follow the trail, Mace Windu called them back to Coruscant to help defend the Jedi Order from an anti-Jedi faction of the Senate working to deprive the Jedi of official Senate authority for their actions.

Attack on the Senate
"I have to go. Don't leave his side."

- Anakin Skywalker to Ferus Olin

During a Senate hearing regarding the Jedi's actions on Romin, Siri and Ferus discovered what they thought was the hideout of Omega and Zan Arbor. The Master and her Padawan called in Obi-Wan and Anakin to assist them, but when they entered, the only occupants were three droidekas and a group of seeker droids. The Jedi destroyed the droids, but found the hideout devoid of any evidence of Omega's plans. Discovering that the criminals planned to use the Zone of Self-Containment to allow them to steal the vertex being donated to the All Planets Relief Fund, the Jedi captured the Slams and prevented the theft, only to discover that it was a diversion. Omega and Zan Arbor really planned to use the Zone of Self-Containment in the Senate to assassinate Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, allowing Bog Divinian, the leader of the anti-Jedi movement, to propose the election of Senator Sano Sauro, an ally of Omega's, as Palpatine's succesor. Obi-Wan arrived at the Senate in time to prevent Omega from unleashing the Zone, but he could not prevent the criminal from launching hundreds of seeker droids programmed with the vitals of Republic Senators, including the Supreme Chancellor. Anakin, Siri, and Obi-Wan attempted to prevent Omega's escape while Ferus guarded the Chancellor, but Omega and Zan Arbor escaped once more. During the chaos that followed in the Senate, Ferus saved the life of Palpatine, but twenty-one Senators died amidst the carnage, as well as Roy Teda. For his heroics in saving the life of the Chancellor, Ferus received a special commendatino from the Jedi Council. And the Jedi continued to search for Granta Omega.

Life on Bellassa
Ferus went from world to world looking for a place to call home until he met a man around his age named Roan Lands on the world of Bellassa and the two started a business together, Olin and Lands. They essentially did what Ferus did as a Jedi, without aid of the Force however. Together they would protect people who would expose intentional wrongdoing going on in various companies. Ferus and Roan had also been officers in the Republic Army for sometime. Then the Galactic Empire was formed. Since he was no longer a Jedi, Ferus was saved from the Jedi massacre known as Order 66. But he still was not entirely safe, for the Empire was imprisoning all Force-sensitive beings now. Learning of the atrocities that occurred across the galaxy, Ferus, Roan, and nine other people of Bellassa, including Wil, Rilla, and Loran, started a resistance movement known as The Eleven. Over this time Ferus changed from the strict, "dull", Padawan he used to be. He became the charismatic leader of the Eleven and also a target for the Empire. Ferus and Roan made a pact that if one of them were captured, the other would not come to rescue them for the sake of the survival of the Eleven. Ferus and Roan were arrested by Imperials; however, Ferus managed to escape.

Reunion
A number of months following Order 66, Ferus was reunited with his old comrade Obi-Wan Kenobi, in the cabin of his friend Dona, a supporter of the Eleven. While Obi-Wan and Ferus were talking, Dona informed them that the Empire had issued an ultimatum—if Ferus Olin was not surrendered to them in 48 hours, all the people taken in the mass arrests that took place earlier that day would be executed. Ferus planned to give himself up, but at that moment, Boba Fett and D'harhan, bounty hunters in the employ of an Inquisitor named Malorum, attacked the cabin, and Ferus and Obi-Wan fled to Ussa. They contacted the Eleven and planned for Ferus to give himself up if every victim of the mass arrests was released first. Then, Obi-Wan would follow him into the Imperial garrison and help Ferus escape. The plan worked out well enough; however, they did not make a clean escape. Boba Fett followed them along with D'harhan in the Slave I. They jumped to hyperspace to escape Fett, and traveled to the Red Twins, a system with very little Imperial presence. Arriving there, however, they discovered that Boba Fett had managed to follow them.

After a brief confrontation in the spaceport, which led to the arrest of D'harhan, the three of them escaped the planet and tricked the pursuing Boba Fett into crash landing on Deneter. They headed for the nearby world of Acherin for fuel, only to fly directly into a battle between the Empire and a local resistance movement. They met a commander of the resistance, Raina Quill, who led them to the resistance's base in the city of Eluthan. There Raina introduced them to fellow commander Toma. While Obi-Wan discussed battle tactics with Toma, Ferus flew with Raina in a futile attempt to ward off the rapidly advancing Imperials. However, the greater numbers of the Imperials prevailed, and the bombing of Eluthan began, under the of Imperial Admiral Riwwel, despite Toma's offer of surrender. Obi-Wan, Trever, and Toma met up with Ferus and Raina and fled through a set of standing stones, losing a few of their pursuers with the cloaking device of Toma's ship. They lost the rest of their pursuers by flying into the thick atmospheric storm near which they had lost Boba Fett.

There, they discovered an uninhabited asteroid, which they soon found was capable of supporting life. Toma and Raina remained in hiding on the asteroid while Ferus, Obi-Wan, and Trever departed for Ilum, where Toma revealed that a Jedi he had met on Acherin, Obi-Wan's friend Garen Muln, was hidden.

Rescue on Ilum


As the two Jedi traveled to Ilum, Ferus thought about how he left the Jedi Order, only to rejoin with a Jedi to save one of the order's last survivors years later. However, during the trip, Obi-Wan told Ferus that he would have to rescue Garen on his own, because he had something else he needed to do. Ferus was shocked and angered that Obi-Wan was leaving him to rescue Garen on his own, but Obi-Wan offered to take him there, and pick him up when he finished, since the place he was going wasn't far from Ilum. Obi-Wan warned him that there would be an Imperial presence on the world, so he would have to enter the caves through a secret entrance. Unfortunately, the secret entrance passed through a gorgodon nest.

When they arrived on Ilum, Ferus left Trever to keep watch for Imperials outside the caves while he went inside to find Garen. He narrowly escaped the gorgodons and found Garen Muln in the crystal cave, malnourished and weak. Garen gave Ferus his lightsaber and told him to leave him. Ferus refused to let him stay, and brought Garen with him. Ferus helped Muln escape the caves. Ferus, along with Trever eliminated the Imperials camped near the caves, marking the first time he had used a lightsaber since his days in the Jedi Order.

Trever hotwired the Imperials' ship, and they sent a distress call to Obi-Wan from an empty cave that the Jedi once used as a hangar.

After being picked up by Kenobi, Ferus explained that Garen had told him there was another Jedi at the caves who had gone to Coruscant. In addition, during their earlier confrontation, D'harhan had said that there was another Jedi prisoner on Coruscant. Garen had identified the Jedi as Fy-Tor-Ana. Obi-Wan felt that Ferus would risk too much by going there, but Ferus was determined to find her. He told Obi-Wan that he planned to mold the asteroid they had discovered into a sanctuary where surviving Jedi could hide. When Obi-Wan countered, saying that there were no supplies or shelters, Ferus told him they were going to the Nixor Spaceport to meet up with Roan Lands, his longtime associate, who he had contacted with a request for supplies.

After they arrived at the spaceport, Roan reunited with Ferus, and gave him the necessary supplies and prefab shelters that he would need for this new safe haven. After collecting the supplies, Ferus, Trever, and Ob-Wan returned to the asteroid to meet Raina and Toma. They set up shelters and created a clinic where could Garen recover. Ferus thanked Raina and Toma for their help and asked them to help him create and maintain the Jedi shelter, to which they readily agreed.

When Ferus asked Obi-Wan to come with him to Coruscant, Obi-Wan refused, asking to be returned to Tatooine, despite Ferus's incredulity that he could walk away from the Jedi. Obi-Wan did not tell him what secret he was hiding, for it would potentially risk the lives of the Skywalker twins. Ferus, although he was disappointed that Obi-Wan would not stay with him at the asteroid base, agreed to the Jedi's request and returned him to Mos Eisley. He bid him farewell and, accompanied by Trever, set a course for Coruscant.

Stop at Korriban
En route to the capital, however, Toma's ship needed refueling. As fate would have it, the nearest refueling station was on Korriban. Upon landing on the Sith burial world, Ferus and Trever noticed the Imperial presence that now held its grip on the planet, like thousands of other worlds across the galaxy. Ferus was also haunted by the voices of the Dark Side, tempting him to give in. Ferus managed to hold back the temptations and soon both he and Trever left Korriban, but not before Ferus spotted Jenna Zan Arbor in Dreshdae, who seemed to be interested in returning to the Valley of the Dark Lords.

Infiltrating the Temple


Arriving at Coruscant for the first time in years, Ferus was devastated to see the Jedi Temple after Order 66, burnt and battle-scarred. He vowed to save as many Jedi he could, no matter the cost. To enter the Temple, Ferus hired an air taxi pilot who would fly over one of the burnt-out towers of the Temple to allow Ferus and Trever to rappel down to the tower.

Once inside, Ferus realized that he was in the garden that had formerly been tended to by Yoland Fee. Being in the Temple for the first time in six years brought back old memories of his former life as Siri's apprentice.

Exploring the Temple, Ferus and Trever also came across the droid repair room, where Ferus had met Anakin Skywalker for the first time. Thinking Anakin was dead, Ferus somberly remembered him, despite their rivalry. Continuing to search for Fy-Tor-Ana, they encountered a group of stormtroopers, but, fortunately for Ferus and Trever, their helmet sensors confused them into believing the intruders were only large meer rats. When the stormtroopers left, Ferus used his knowledge of the Temple's various passages to reveal a hidden service tunnel buried behind rubble, which he and Trever used to search for the place where Fy-Tor-Ana was imprisoned. They went through the Room of a Thousand Fountains, which unearthed painful memories for Ferus.

Later, searching the Temple, Ferus and Trever came across an enormous pile of lightsabers, taken from slaughtered Jedi. This was a devastating blow for Ferus, and he was even more emotionally jolted when he discovered his friend Tru Veld's lightsaber among the pile. However, he was jolted from his reverie when Trever heard stormtroopers. Ferus realized that the Empire had rigged a silent alarm and spread rumors that Jedi were imprisoned in the Temple so any survivors would attempt to rescue them, and be trapped. After narrowly escaping more stormtroopers, Ferus and Trever discovered that Inquisitor Malorum himself had his office in the Temple. What infuriated Ferus the most was the fact that Malorum had arrogantly placed his office in what had once been Master Yoda's private quarters. Ferus and Trever escaped the stormtroopers in the library and attempted to enter Malorum's office, since they had heard he was not returning to the Temple until the next day. However, they discovered that Malorum had returned to the Temple earlier than expected, and soon, Darth Vader entered Malorum's office, with Ferus and Trever hidden behind a grating.

The Dark Lord forced Malorum to tell him why stormtroopers were patrolling the hallways, and Malorum reluctantly revealed that there were two intruders who he was attempting to capture. When Malorum used the intruders as evidence of the success of the attempts to spread rumors of a Jedi prison, an annoyed Vader reminded Malorum that he had failed to take the intruders into custody. Vader suggested that Malorum blow up the Temple to ensure the death of the intruders, but it was only a trick. When Malorum protested that he had vital files that would be destroyed, Vader was immediately on him for having files not registered with the main databank of the Inquisitors. Vader knew Malorum was ambitious and planned to replace him and he used the opportunity to remind Malorum of his place. Malorum mentioned that he had spies in the sublevels, and mentioned his investigations into Polis Massa as an attempt to impress Vader, but his words had the opposite affect. An enraged Vader held Malorum in a Force choke, and the sheer force of his anger began to shake the walls itself. Just as Ferus realized the danger and began to flee, the grating he was hidden behind crashed, exposing him and Trever to Darth Vader. Ferus and Trever simply ran, and later Ferus realized that Vader had let them escape, either to humiliate Malorum, or because he simply didn't really care that much. Either way, he and Trever needed to escape the Temple before Malorum captured them.

By using the Force to confuse a few guards, Ferus and Trever managed to steal an airspeeder and escape safely from the Temple. But their quest to find Fy-Tor-Ana had failed. Ferus still believed that Fy-Tor was somewhere on the planet, though, so he and Trever went to Dexter Jettster's Diner to find Dex, who Ferus suspected would have information on a fugitive Jedi.

Finding the Erased


When Ferus arrived at Dexter's Diner, he was shocked to find it destroyed. Without Dexter, he had no leads on Fy-Tor's whereabouts. However, he ran into a woman who, after confirming he was not an Imperial spy, recommended that he "not" enter the Orange District at sunset. From her, he learned that Dexter was rumored to have joined the Erased, a group of people active in the Republic who had virtually disappeared rather than face arrest and even execution. Realizing the hidden message in her warning, Ferus and Trever headed further into the sublevels of Coruscant, towards the Orange District. When they arrived in the district, the two noticed a clue showing they were on the right track. They discovered an orange street lamp that looked like a dying sun. When Ferus tried to enter a cantina for information, he was immediately thrown out by a fierce Whiphid. When he refused to be shrugged off, a group of about ten thugs emerged as well, drawing various weapons. Before they could attack, however, Dexter Jettster emerged from the cantina. Recognizing Ferus, he prevented the thugs from attacking Ferus and Trever, and invited them inside.

Entering the cantina, which was the hideout of the Erased, Dexter introduced Ferus and Trever to the Erased, the group of thugs who had hassled them earlier. Dexter was surprised to find Ferus on Coruscant, and Ferus further shocked him when he told him Obi-Wan Kenobi was alive. He had seen a Jedi matching Fy-Tor-Ana's description, and explained that he had suspected that the Jedi Temple was a trap for Jedi, and had warned her not go to the Temple. She had told him that if ever he needed her, find Solace. The Erased appointed Ferus as their unofficial leader to help them hunt for Solace, because Ferus had warned them that the Empire was preparing to crack down and enforce stringent regulations in the sublevels. Ferus was not happy to be the leader of this expedition, but didn't protest. He contacted Obi-Wan on Tatooine and informed him of the recent developments. Obi-Wan warned Ferus that Malorum's investigations into Polis Massa must be stopped.

Although Dexter decided to remain in the Orange District, Ferus, Trever, and the rest of the Erased headed down towards Coruscant's surface. Many of the rumors they heard regarding Solace were extreme and obviously untrue; however, all of the rumors had one common thread- they all said Solace was located at the crust. When they reached the massive city's lowest level, they were attacked by a local street gang of around fifteen people. However, with Ferus's fighting skills and the overall ferocity of the other Erased, the gang was handily defeated. During the battle, Trever, lagging behind, was nearly pulled into a fissure in the ground by a duracrete slug. After the attack, the Erased went to a local cantina to ask for information about Solace. However, after finding nothing, the group checked in at a local hotel called the Underworld Inn to stay the night. That night, in a flash of intuition, Trever told Ferus he knew where Solace was. When he was attacked by the duracrete slug, he had seen more than just a burrow in the stone flooring down there. There was open space. Trusting Trever's instincts, Ferus immediately woke the Erased, and they headed back to where the duracrete slug had attacked Trever to continue the search for Solace.

A Jedi is found
When Ferus shined a glowlight into the fissure, he realized Trever was right. There was some sort of cavern inside the hole. He and Trever climed down, and discovered the remains of an ancient, rusted transportation system. The rest of the Erased followed them into the inhospitable tunnel. During their explorations, a short, helmeted being with reflexes rivaling Ferus's leapt down upon them. The person claimed to have visited Solace, and returned, and offered to take them there. The Erased were unsure if they could trust the being, but recognized they had no other option except to search for Solace themselves, and decided to follow the being, who identified himself only as "Guide." Although Guide was supposed to be leading them to Solace, none of the Erased completely trusted him, and Ferus was sure something was off about him. Guide explained that before Coruscant's skyscrapers were built, and the planet became a bustling city, vast oceans had covered it. When the building began, the oceans were drained into caverns below the crust. That was where Solace was located. Guide led the Erased through the caverns until they arrived at a city above huge lakes. However, when they arrived, Guide turned on them, and left them to the residents of Solace, outnumbered and surrounded. Based on the scattered murmurs of the residents, Ferus realized that Solace was not a place but a person: Guide.

Trever set off a smoke grenade as a distraction, and the Erased prepared to fight, but when Solace saw Ferus's drawn lightsaber, he commanded the settlers to halt. He examined Ferus's features, and appeared to recognize him, for he called him a Padawan. Suddenly, something clicked in Ferus's brain, and he realized what had confused him about Solace. Only a Jedi could have known about his impromptu resignation from the Jedi Order. Solace was Fy-Tor-Ana.

Ferus told Fy-Tor about his plan to search for fugitive Jedi and bring him to a secret base, but she said that her new identity was that of Solace, not Fy-Tor-Ana. She felt that there was nothing she could do to stop the Empire, and that the underground city would provide her with all she would need. Ferus told her about Malorum and Darth Vader's plans, and warned her that there was a spy in her midst, which she scoffed at. It was only when he told her about the pile of lightsabers sitting in a storage room in the Jedi Temple that Solace realized that the Empire had to be fought. She, Ferus, and Trever planned to enter the Temple and steal back the lightsabers to prevent them from falling into Sith hands.

In order to enter the Temple, Solace already had a plan in mind. She had built a custom ship out of a mole miner and an ARC-170 that was capable of burrowing underground. They would burrow under the Temple, and come up inside an abandoned turbolift shaft. Once they were inside, however, something seemed wrong. Ferus almost tripped over conductor wire in a corridor, Malorum's office was empty of holofiles, and there wasn't a stormtrooper in sight. Since they could learn nothing from Malorum's office, the two Jedi decided to collect the lightsabers and leave. Then, all of a sudden, Trever connected the strange events. By opening a power vent, he discovered that power was being drained from the core of the Temple. The Empire was using it to power a bomb. Malorum was trying to blow up the Temple, and blame it on Darth Vader by claiming that he gave the order to do so. Neither Solace nor Ferus could bear to allow the Temple to be blown up, so they disabled it, saving the Temple from destruction.

Captured by the Empire
Ferus, Solace, and Trever headed towards the Temple entrance, but ran into numerous stormtroopers, with Malorum at their head. The Jedi and Trever tried to flee, but more stormtroopers arrived on AT-RT's, and Ferus gave himself up to the stormtroopers, knowing that without his sacrifice, Solace and Trever had no hope of escape. However, he first entrusted Solace with his lightsaber. As Solace and Trever fled in her esoteric craft, Ferus was hit with a stun baton and fell unconscious.

Ferus awoke in a prison, and Malorum entered. Malorum tried to learn the identity of the Jedi with Ferus, but Ferus simply mocked him. Indifferently, Malorum walked out, ignoring Ferus's jibes.

Ferus was sent to Dontamo, where a high-security Imperial prison was located. His cellmate, Prisoner 934890, introduced him to the routine of the prison, Ferus immediately began looking for a way to escape. In the midst of a squabble over rations, Ferus was saved by Clive Flax, a friend of his from the Clone Wars. They escaped the prison, with Ferus narrowly avoiding execution by lethal injection, but were nearly shot down by Imperial fighters over the planet. Only the timely arrival of the Erased, fresh from the unexpected destruction of Solace's city, prevented Ferus and Clive from being reduced to space dust. After a brief layover on Alba-16, Ferus, Clive, Solace, Trever, and the Erased traveled to Naboo, where Malorum was investigating the funeral of Padmé Amidala.

Mission to Naboo


Ferus and his companions traced Malorum to the residence of Ryoo Thule, the grandmother of the deceased Padmé Amidala. They discovered her near-death, but with her dying breath, she warned Ferus that "he suspects." The group pursued Malorum in boats, but he destroyed most of them using wrist rockets, and escaped them. Only the assistance of a Gungan bongo pilot named Yunabana prevented them from drowning. He took them to Boss Rugor Nass. Ferus contacted Queen Apailana for a holoconference, where he revealed a daring plan. The Gungans and Naboo would attack and destroy the Imperial garrison on Naboo, while Ferus neutralized Malorum. Since the Imperials were storing illegal explosives in their garrison, the explosives could be set off after the garrison was destroyed, accounting for the destruction of the garrison. The Empire would cover up the explosion, and would not retaliate against the Naboo.

Ferus chased Malorum through the Theed Royal Palace. He drove the Imperial Inquisitor into the reactor core where Qui-Gon Jinn had been killed, and Obi-Wan had defeated Darth Maul years before. Ferus had assumed that he would easily defeat Malorum; however, although he had previously sensed Malorum's sensitivity to the Force, he had not expected Malorum to be capable of using a lightsaber. He soon saw the error in that belief. The battle was surprisingly evenly matched, and the two combatants progressed through the energy walls, finally emerging at the melting pit where Qui-Gon Jinn was slain.

In the end, Malorum was not powerful enough to hold off the former Jedi apprentice. Pinning Malorum against the melting pit, Ferus saw his chance and left himself open to an attack. When Malorum charged him, Ferus slammed an elbow into Malorum's forehead, stunning him for a split second. That was all Ferus needed to knock Malorum's lightsaber out of his hand and into the pit. Malorum leaped over the pit, straining to catch the lightsaber with the Force and harness it to carry him across the pit, but he was blinded by need. He lost his grip on the Force, falling into the pit to his death, and taking the secret of the Skywalkers with him.

After the duel, Ferus and Clive successfully blew the explosives, preventing retaliation on the Naboo, and planned to return to the secret base with much needed supplies for Toma, Raina, and Garen. After departing Naboo, Ferus and the others planned to head back to the hidden asteroid where Toma, Raina, and Garen waited. Before they could get there, Ferus received a message from Emperor Palpatine himself. He offered Ferus amnesty for all his past "crimes" if Ferus would agree to meet him on Coruscant. Even if he didn't agree with the Emperor's offer, Palpatine said that he would allow Ferus to go free.

Agent of the Empire


"So, what should we do? Accept a date with the Emperor?"

- Ferus Olin

Ferus went to Coruscant and listened to the Emperor's offer, which was to find the saboteur of the computer systems in the city of Sath on the planet Samaria. Ferus refused at first, but Palpatine delivered his catch. Two friends of Ferus, Roan Lands and Dona Telamark, had been arrested by the Bellassan government. The Emperor said that if Ferus did what he wanted, then Palpatine could request leniency, even clemency, from the government. Ferus was forced to accept the offer.

He then began his trip to Samaria, secretly telling his friends, the Erased, what he had to do. Solace told Ferus that she, Trever Flume, and Oryon would travel to Bellassa to try to rescue Roan and Dona so that Ferus wouldn't have to do Palpatine's work. Clive Flax would follow Ferus to Samaria, and Keets Freely and Curran Caladian would stay on Coruscant at the Erased's hideout with Dexter Jettster.

Ferus arrived on Samaria, where he met the Prime Minister of the planet, Aaren Larker, and the Imperial Advisor he would be working for, Bog Divinian. Ferus had known Bog from before, when he was a Senator who tried to overthrow Palpatine. Bog had married a friend of Obi-Wan's, Astri Oddo. Ferus told Bog that he did not need to work with him.

Ferus began tracking the saboteur through ship hangar records and other things, first alone, and later with Clive. They finally tracked the saboteur to an apartment, and the person they found was none other than Astri, who they found with her son, Lune. She told them that Aaren Larker himself had actually contracted her to do it, because he knew that the Emperor was simply using this as a stunt to gain complete control over Samaria. Ferus had thought this had been Palpatine's motive as well. Larker wanted to use it as an opportunity to help the resistance cells that were forming. Ferus suddenly stopped Astri from explaining. He sensed something on the roof, and checked it out. He found none other than Darth Vader on the roof. He saw him with squads of stormtroopers, searching door to door. He went back down into the apartment and told everyone that they had to escape. He then heard a knock on the door. Instead of panicking, however, he recognized the knock, and opened the door. It was Solace, Oryon, and Trever, along with the just-rescued Roan and Dona. They all escaped into Solace's ship, which she had recently stolen from an Imperial Senator by the name of Sano Sauro. Ferus, however, stayed on the planet and told his friends he'd catch up with them later. He went to the roof again to talk to Vader. Unbeknownst to Ferus, he was actually talking to his childhood rival. Vader didn't think Ferus was worth his time, and went to deal with the matter of the stolen ship that Solace had escaped with the others in. Ferus stayed on planet, knowing that Palpatine would have other offers to give him, and he waited for the next one.

His next job was to help clean up on Samaria. Even though the slicer had been stopped, she still had to be found. In addition to that, there were the rebels to consider. The Emperor wanted Ferus to offer the Samarian rebels a choice simlar to his own: either they could stop the rebellion and receive clemency or they could remain rebels and be hunted down. Although he gave them the message, Ferus offered to help the Samarian rebellion as a double agent. He discovered that combining Samarian technology with Roshan technology could create a formidable army against the Empire; however, the Empire already knew this and wanted to destroy the threat before it was enhanced. Sensing an invasion of the Roshan leaders on Samaria, Ferus sent Trever and Flame, a member of the resistance Moonstrike, and the Roshans to their homeplanet Rosha. Instead of saving them, though, they ran straight into an ambush of the Empire. Watching the attack on the Holocast news, Ferus thought Trever was dead. Plus, he was stuck side by side with Darth Vader, which cast doubt on Ferus' loyalties to all of his friends.

Ferus Olin was then sent to Bellassa. Palpatine wanted him to destroy the rebellion just by displaying Ferus on the Empire's side. Ferus Olin had no choice but to go unless he wanted to throw away his status as a double agent. He ran into Roan, Trever, and Amie Antin on the way. Talking to a gardener called Russell Wake, he gained fifteen minutes to break into the Empire's computers and gather information. A three part team—Trever, Roan, and Amie—was assembled from the Eleven to accompany him. After they had gathered all the information and stored it on a computer chip, Ferus gave the chip to Trever to guard in case the rest of them failed to get out. When he returned to his friends, Darth Vader was there. In an almost unnoticeable move, Darth Vader struck down Roan Lands. The move enraged Ferus, who attacked in an outburst despite Roan's last warning not to do so. Darth Vader easily evaded their attacks and in the end Ferus and Amie were captured.

Ferus was extremely saddened after his friends death. He was prepared to be executed; however, the Emperor showed up unsurprisingly and offered to halt the execution. He offered Ferus his teachings, ones that could control life and death. After catching Ferus' attention, Palpatine consented to Ferus' agreement which was secretly made to kill Darth Vader and avenge Roan's death.

"I'm ready to learn."

- Ferus Olin

Behind the scenes
Ferus Olin was created by author Jude Watson to be a dramatic foil for Anakin Skywalker in the Jedi Quest series, much the same role that Siri Tachi had fulfilled with Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Jedi Apprentice series.

In Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice, Ferus is stated to have a red lightsaber, but on the cover of Jedi Quest: The Master of Disguise, he wields a green weapon.

Appearances

 * Jedi Quest: The Way of the Apprentice
 * Jedi Quest: The Dangerous Games
 * Jedi Quest: The Master of Disguise
 * Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
 * Jedi Quest: The Moment of Truth
 * Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
 * Jedi Quest: The False Peace
 * Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown
 * Secrets of the Jedi
 * The Last of the Jedi: The Desperate Mission
 * The Last of the Jedi: Dark Warning
 * Ghosts of the Sith
 * The Last of the Jedi: Underworld
 * The Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo
 * The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web
 * The Last of the Jedi: Return of the Dark Side
 * The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon
 * The Last of the Jedi: Against the Empire
 * The Last of the Jedi IX
 * The Last of the Jedi X

Notes and references
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