Darrus Jeht

Darrus Jeht was a Jedi Master and Senior General during the Clone Wars. He was a black-eyed, black-haired human male who wore dark gray and black robes, black light battle armor, and battle gloves. He was trained at the Almas Academy and, although never officially his Padawan, Jeht received much teaching from Mace Windu. In addition to his purple lightsaber, he was an expert at the use of blasters and metal swords.

Biography
As a Jedi Knight, Jeht was assigned a Delta-6 Aethersprite by the Jedi Council, an experimental design that preceded the Delta-7 Aethersprite; Jeht's Delta-6 had two astromechs, R4-D1 and R4-D2, who constantly argued with each other. While Jeht was an active student in need of transport, he was assigned a Z-95 Headhunter purchased by the Academy, which he named the Night Gyre.

Return to the Almas Academy
During the Clone Wars, Jeht was sent from Coruscant by the Jedi Council to Almas Academy to inform the Jedi there that all Knights and Masters with more than three years of experience had been recalled to wartime duty and ordered to report to new sector staging areas for debriefing and tactical assignments; only the faculty members of the Almas Council were exempted from the order. As a result, the Academy had to expand class sizes, ignore the usual role of only one Padawan per Jedi, and assign Padawans to Knights with only a year or two of experience. Jeht was instructed to oversee the transfer of personnel. When he had completed that task, he remained at Almas Academy as part of the faculty, teaching his skills as a Jedi weapons master.

While at Almas, Jeht began receiving crates from a mysterious source near the Taris system. The crates contained many of the parts of a two thousand-year old custom vessel partly of Corellian design. He named the completed ship the Legacy and over the next six months piloted it almost exclusively, clocking fewer than ten flight hours in the Night Gyre and only using his Delta-6 during a combat mission in the Torrad system. Jeht rescued a transport convoy from a Separatist blockade--the convoy turned out to be that of Sien'Soro's band. As reward, Jeht was given three backstage tickets to a Sien'Soro concert only four parsecs from Almas, to which Jeht treated Aayla Secura and the Corellian Trilinae.

When the mysterious gangster "R" blew up the ship belonging Trilinae and her twin sister Milinae, Jeht helped the two escape the gangster's goons and steal one of the gangster's star yachts. During the escape, Trilinae used some of the elementary Force skills Jeht had taught her.

Later, Jeht crashed his Delta-6 on a jungle world, where he was hunted by Asajj Ventress. Ventress drove a lightsaber into his chest, and Jeht responded by giving into the Dark Side and tormenting her with Force lightning. Jeht was repulsed by his own actions, and tears were in his eyes when he boarded the LAAT/i gunship that his clone troops used to rescue him. Ventress reported the results of the conflict to Dooku--they were exactly what Darth Sidious had intended them to be, the planting of a dark seed in Jeht's heart.

The Maelstrom
After healing from the fight, Jeht was assigned a Delta-7. Due to his guilt, Jeht refused to teach anymore at the Academy. Afterwards, the Jedi Council ordered all Jedi, save younglings, to report to strategic locations for reassignment and military commissions. When Darrus returned to Almas with these marching orders, Lanius Qel-Bertuk and most other members of the Almas Council chose the Right of Denial, but pledged whatever support the Academy could give to those Knights and Padawans who went to war, led by Jeht in his ship, the Maelstrom. The choice meant that the staff had to surrender their lightsabers to the Jedi Council, meaning the Academy was seemingly left powerless to protect the Cularin system. In response to this fact and to the suspicions that Cularin's Senator Lavina Wren was in league with the Separatists, the Cularin system was placed under martial law as dictated by the Emergency Powers Act. Jeht ordered the forces sent to patrol the edges of the system and blockade its worlds to leave Almas alone, which they did.

The Maelstrom led the attack to Kromus, a Separatist world where a secret weapon called Starkiller was being constructed. Jeht was forced to bomb the planet before the superweapon fired, effectively killing 1.3 billion people. After the massacre, Jeht was called back to Coruscant. expecting to face a Board of Inquiry, he was surprised to find himself reporting to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself. Palpatine praised the resolve of the Jedi Master and dismissed the charges. During the meeting, Darrus found himself not only tempted with vague promises of power but also alerted to some secrets the Council of Almas could have been keeping from him. The Maelstrom returned to Almas, Jeht detremined to confront Headmaster Qel-Bertuk and find the truth by any means necessary.