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. Considered very mature for his age, Olin was well-respected for his dedication to the Jedi Order. Olin often clashed with fellow Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker over Ferus's strict 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 aid 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, and two other master and apprentice pairings; Ry-Gaul with his apprentice Tru Veld, and Soara Antana and her apprentice, Darra Thel-Tanis. The Masters and Padawans were forced to separate, since there were not enough envirosuits to enable all of the Jedi to investigate an area of Radnor already struck by the toxin, 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. While tracing a group of thieving looters who were ransacking the homes of fleeing civilians to steal their valuables, the Padawans began following a trail that led them to discover that 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 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 argued with each other. When Anakin discovered that an illegal podrace was rigged in favor of one competitor, he decided to compete in it to discover how. Ferus was against this idea, though. The Padawan believed that Anakin was racing for fun, and his opinions irritated his rival again. Anakin did race, but discovered that he was the racer with the advantage. He narrowly escaped an attempt at sabotage, however, and 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, Antana felt how the young Padawan's rage had fueled him, enabling him to defeat his fellow Padawan. This led to the Jedi's decision to end her training with Skywalker, after warning him to beware the temptation to use anger as an advantage in battle.

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 by the Jedi Council to beusing the Leadership School as a training ground. In order to look into both Gillam's disappearance and the secret squad, Ferus was sent with Anakin Skywalker 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, attempting to learn about the mercenaries from him, Anakin managed to infiltrate the secret squad. However, as he learned more about the squad, he gradually became more and more in agreement with the ideas of the squad, which led him to decide to join them on a mission to penetrate Andara's airspace. Ferus adamantly opposed the flagrant violation of the Jedi Code, and attempted to stop Anakin from participating in such a potentially inflammatory act. 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, eliminating 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, even after discovering that Ferus was missing, chose to go with the secret squad instead of searching for him, which left Ferus imprisoned until Obi-Wan and Siri arrived at the Leadership School to rescue him.

In his explorations of the system rooms, Ferus discovered Gillam's datapad. Using the Force to deflect the mercenaries attention from it, he managed to keep it from being confiscated. With study of the datapad, he and the Masters discovered that the Senator's son had staged his own kidnapping, and planned to pin it on his own father. The Jedi also realized that he was preparing to stage his own death, killing Anakin instead, and disguising the Padawan's body as his own. The trio travelled to Ieria in an attempt to rescue Anakin. Tarturi had underestimated the power of the Jedi, though, for the teenager easily disabled the squad's starfighters, along with attack droids sent in to assassinate him. The other Jedi then arrived in time to take the mercenaries into custody. 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. During the attempted escape of the team, Anakin was captured by the Vanqors and taken to Vanqor itself, where he was placed in the Zone of Self-Containment, a drug that induced a state of blissful content, by the criminal scientist Jenna Zan Arbor. Skywalker also discovered later that the Zone interfered with his ability to use the Force. While this occurred, 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 spring Anakin from the Vanqor prison, and the Jedi team arrived just in time to rescue the two 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 Skywalker 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, causing Anakin to become defensive of his actions. Although with the Jedi's aid the Typha-Dorians managed to force the Vanqor forces into surrendering without firing a shot, Jenna Zan Arbor escaped Vanqor, after which the four Jedi continued their attempts to track her down.

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 criminal 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, despite the disagreement of Olin, who argued that the Jedi were above using trickery to capture Zan Arbor.

Arriving on Romin, Obi-Wan and Siri split up with their Padawans, meeting with Zan Arbor and stealing her datapad while Anakin and Ferus explored the city. Before they could return to their villa, however, they were ambushed by mysterious assailants and captured. Their attackers took them to Joylin, leader of the anti-Teda resistance, who revealed to them that a coup was planned against Teda in one day, at the reception Teda held for the wealthy residents of Romin. Believing the Jedi to be the Slams, Joylin asked them to steal codes from Teda's palace that would allow the resistance to deactivate his droid army, to allow them to bloodlessly secure power. Despite Ferus's objections to the plan, the Jedi agreed to assist the resistance in removing Teda from power, believing it to be an act of justice against the dictator.

That night, Ferus, unable to sleep, came across Obi-Wan in the garden of the villa the Jedi were staying in. 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 much of the remainder of their search for Zan Arbor. During the reception the next day, the Jedi successfully managed to steal the codes required by the resistance. However, with Teda's droids out of commission, the revolters vandalized much of the city, proving Ferus correct. Teda and Zan Arbor fled the capital, and summoned the Slams for a job. When the Jedi reached the hideout of the two, though, the real Slams, freshly escaped from prison, arrived, denouncing the Jedi as imposters. Zan Arbor recognized Anakin from her experiments upon him on Vanqor, and the Jedi were taken captive and sent into the prisons. Before they could be locked away, they freed the other prisoners of Teda, and demoralized the dictator's army, forcing them to surrender. Teda and Zan Arbor were captured and taken before Joylin, the new leader of Romin, making it seem like the Jedi had won. But Joylin had other plans. He released Teda and Zan Arbor, and gave the true Slams permission to leave, attempting to use their flight as justification for his planned execution of Teda's followers. Anakin sensed his plan soon enough that the Jedi would have been able to capture their enemies, if not for a bit of information discovered on Jenna Zan Arbor's datapad by Obi-Wan. She had been corresponding with Granta Omega, a notable enemy of the Jedi responsible for the murder of Jedi Master Yaddle. Hoping Zan Arbor would lead them to Omega, the Jedi instead planted a tracking device on the Slams' ship, allowing the Jedi to follow them to 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.

On Falleen, 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 their quarry had fled Falleen. 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. Later 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 successor.

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 killing 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 commendation from the Jedi Council. Then, the Jedi once again continued the search for Omega and Zan Arbor.

Mission to Korriban
Due to the noticeably increasing influence of the dark side, in 24 BBY the Jedi Council made a decision to accelerate the promotion of Padawans to the rank of Knight. Due to the magnitude of the decision, the council decided to proceed cautiously, beginning the program with one test case- Ferus. This enraged Anakin, who believed he was better than Ferus, and deserved to be the first to become a Jedi. In addition, the Council revealed to the two rivals and their masters, along with Darra Thel-Tanis and Tru Veld, along with their masters, Soara Antana and Ry-Gaul, respectively, that they had discovered the location of Granta Omega, along with Zan Arbor, his companion. The two villains were on Korriban. Inferring that the mysterious, secretive Sith Lord had finally noticed Omega, and decided to reward him for his dedication, the Jedi were sent immediately to Korriban to apprehend Omega and Zan Arbor.

During the flight to Korriban, Anakin made clear his feelings toward Ferus, angering him, and leaving Darra and Tru in embarrassed silence as they futilely attempted to defuse the tensions between the two foes. When they landed, Anakin and Ferus were sent to infiltrate the planet's black market in order to find Zan Arbor and Omega by meeting a thief named Auben. When they finally made contact with her, however, they were attacked by droids of the Commerce Guild army, and fled with Auben into a nearby Sith monastery, and were soon followed by their fellow Jedi. Before the trio could escape the monastery, however, Ferus and Anakin sensed dark power within the hangar that contained the exit, and they fled along with Auben back towards the droids, not knowing that they had just sensed a Sith in the hangar. Meeting up with Darra and Tru, the four Jedi were attacked by numerous battle droids, and when the battle seemed in hand, Anakin noticed a shadowy figure heading towards the exit.

The young Padawan followed him, believing he was Omega, only to be thrown backwards with a surge of Force energy from the fleeing man, who was in fact the unknown Sith. Despite the Jedi's efforts, the Sith escaped the hangar, and slew Auben as he fled. In the battle with the droids, however, Tru's lightsaber was damaged. A rift had begun to grow between Tru and Anakin, and he asked Ferus, not Anakin, to repair the lightsaber. Ferus repaired it, but was ignorant of a prior repair done by Anakin, which was offset by the power boost he had done. Anakin saw Olin fix the lightsaber, but jealously chose not to mention the need to double-check the area of the weapon he had repaired. The Jedi then took an airspeeder to the Valley of the Dark Lords, where Obi-Wan had discovered that Omega and Zan Arbor planned to meet the mysterious Sith Lord.

In the Valley of the Dark Lords
"And now, for the hard part."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

During the flight to the Valley, the Jedi were forced to evade Commerce Guild security craft, but managed to reach the Valley unscathed. In the Valley, they were confronted by a pack of tuk'ata, which they managed to defeat, along with Korriban zombies activated to protect Omega by the ancient Sith. During the battle with the zombies, however, Tru's lightsaber began to fail because of the repair that Anakin failed to double-check, and he switched his lightsaber with Ferus. When the lightsaber began to fail, Darra rushed to help Ferus, only to be blasted to death by Omega. Her death caused Ferus much grief, and would later cause him to leave the Jedi Order.

The son of Xanatos fled the tomb, closely pursued by Obi-Wan and Anakin, as he ran to meet the Sith Lord. But Omega was betrayed. The Sith Lord escaped Korriban, and Obi-Wan struck down Omega, ending his vendetta against the Jedi once and for all, but leaving repercussions throughout the Jedi that would never fully fade. Jenna Zan Arbor escaped Korriban, and disappeared for a time, eventually joining the Confederacy of Independent Systems as a scientist.

Leaving the Jedi
"The legacy of this mission is pain."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi, on the mission to Korriban.

Grief-stricken with guilt that he had not told Ry-Gaul about the damage to Tru's lightsaber, and believing he had inadvertently caused Darra's death, Ferus made the decision to resign from the Jedi Order. Upon exiting the Council Chamber after submitting his resignation, Ferus met Anakin outside. When he told Anakin the reason for his abandonment of the Jedi, Anakin unintentionally revealed that he had known that Ferus had fixed the lightsaber. However, lightsaber expert and Jedi Master Tolan Hing had told Ferus that it was, in fact, the failing of the piece that Anakin had neglected to tell Tru to adjust that had caused the saber's failure. Tru was shocked by this, and renounced his friendship with Anakin. The trauma of Darra's death had brought Tru into closer friendship with Ferus, however, and the two parted as good friends. Returning to the Temple in search of imprisoned Jedi after the execution of Order 66, Ferus discovered Tru's lightsaber in the Jedi Temple along with many others and was saddened to discover this evidence of Tru's death. Despite the revelation of Anakin's indirect involvement in Darra's death, Ferus left the Jedi with a promise to help any Jedi in need, even Anakin. "If the Jedi need me, I will be there. That includes you, Anakin"

- Ferus Olin's last words to Anakin Skywalker before leaving the Jedi Order.

Life on Bellassa
A few months after resigning from the Jedi Order, Ferus met Roan Lands one morning in a cafe. The two became fast friends and started their own business, Olin and Lands, on the planet Bellassa. They protected whistleblowers like Dona Telamark from vengeance, enabling them to testify in court against dishonest and corrupt businesses that cut corners on their products. When the Clone Wars broke out, the two joined the Grand Army of the Republic, serving as officers. During the dark days of the Jedi Purge, Ferus escaped the notice of the Empire because he was no longer a Jedi, and therefore not considered a threat to Palpatine's new regime. However, Ferus refused to stand on the sidelines when he heard of the atrocities the new regime had committed. He and Roan founded a resistance group on Bellassa known as the Eleven, with nine other Bellassans, including Wil Asani, Rilla, and Loran. The Empire, in an effort to crush the Bellassans' resistance, made finding Ferus and Roan a top priority. Eventually, Roan was captured, and Ferus barely escaped. He found refuge in the mountain cabin of Dona Telamark, he and Roan's first client, as the wound he had received in his escape from the Empire began to heal. Despite he and Roan's vow never to come rescue one another if they were captured, Ferus planned to go back to rescue Roan once his wound healed. His plan changed, however, when his old friend Obi-Wan Kenobi tracked him to Dona's mountain cabin.

Reunion
"You're staring.''" "I'm sorry, it's that you seem so different." "You too. You've gone completely gray. In fact, you don't look all that well."

- Ferus Olin and Obi-Wan Kenobi, upon their reunion.

Kenobi revealed that he had spirited Roan away from prison to the Eleven's safehouse, where he was recovering from neurotoxins administered to him by the Empire. The mass arrests that had occurred in Ussa while Kenobi was there were evidence of the dangers in returning to the city, but when Dona activated the Holonet the next day, he was given no choice. The cabin's occupants discovered that the Empire had issued an ultimatum: if Ferus Olin did not surrender to them within two days, all the people imprisoned in the mass arrests would be executed. Though Ferus planned to give himself up, they were discovered before he got the chance. Boba Fett and D'harhan, bounty hunters in the employ of an Inquisitor named Malorum, attacked the cabin sanctuary, and Ferus was forced to flee with Obi-Wan into the old mining tunnels located under the cabin.

Narrowly escaping the bounty hunters, the duo commandeered the landspeeder of one of Dona's friends, safely reaching the Eleven's safehouse in Ussa. The Eleven developed a plan with the two to ensure that all the prisoners were returned safely, in case of a double-cross by Malorum. Sure enough, the Inquisitor attempted to double-cross the Eleven, claiming the prisoners were rioting even as stormtroopers dragged Olin into the Imperial garrison. But before the garrison's doors closed, Obi-Wan piloted a small airspeeder into the garrison and fled into an air vent with Ferus after cutting down his guards. The two managed to escape the prison and steal a ship. Their troubles were not over, however. Boba Fett and his partner followed them in the Slave I, forcing the two to jump to hyperspace to the Red Twins, a system that lacked an Imperial presence. Trever Flume, a teenage street thief who had assisted the two in their escape, stowed away aboard the spacecraft, increasing the size of the group to three.

However, Fett and D'harhan tracked the trio to the Red Twins spaceport, and after a confrontation in the spaceport, which resulted in D'harhan's detainment by authorities, the three fled the Red Twins. Boba Fett continued to trail them in his Firespray with the tenacity of a mynock. Flying into an atmospheric storm, Ferus managed to lose Fett, forcing him to crash-land on the planet Deneter.

In the heat of their escape from the Red Twins, Trever had not had time to trade the stolen Imperial ship for a ship with a hyperdrive. This greatly limited Ferus's options, and he had no choice but to head to the planet Acherin to refuel. When they reached Acherin, however, they landed right in the middle of a civil war. A resistance movement on Acherin was engaged in a desperate last stand against an Imperial fleet, and one of its starfighters forced Ferus to land. The pilot, Commander Raina Quill, led the three to the resistance's stronghold, the hidden city of Eluthan, once she discovered that Kenobi was a Jedi. There, they met the resistance's leader, Toma. Ferus and Raina each volunteered to pilot a fighter against the Imperial forces, but their resistance was futile. The Empire shot down ship after ship, until Toma had no choice but to call a retreat. The Admiral commanding the Imperial fleet, Riwwel, refused to accept Toma's surrender, and after Raina and Ferus exited their fighters and boarded Toma's escape craft, the group barely evaded the orbital bombardment of Eluthan delivered by Riwwel's Star Destroyer.

Dodging Imperial fighters, Raina piloted the ship to the atmospheric storm where Ferus, Obi-Wan and Trever had evaded Boba Fett, where the group planned to take refuge. However, within the storm, they discovered an uncharted asteroid capable of supporting life that traveled within the storm. Raina landed the ship there, where she and Toma stayed, waiting for Kenobi, Olin, and Trever to return from Ilum, where Toma had revealed that a Jedi fighting on Acherin during the Clone Wars, Garen Muln, had fled after Order 66 was given.

Rescue on Ilum


During the flight to Ilum, Obi-Wan told Ferus that he would need to rescue Garen on his own. Although he did not inform Ferus, Kenobi, receiving guidance from the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn, had decided to go to Polis Massa, to ensure that records showing his visit to the asteroid with Yoda and Padme Amidala were destroyed. Despite his anger and bewilderment with Obi-Wan, Ferus agreed to the plan. The Jedi Master disclosed to Ferus the location of a secret entrance through the caves, which would enable Olin to enter the caves without attracting the notice of the Imperial garrison that was sure to be on Ilum. Unfortunately for the rebel, the passageway led straight through the middle of a gorgodon nest, home to fierce native beasts of Ilum.

After dropping Olin and Flume on Ilum, Obi-Wan departed, leaving the two alone on the icy planet. Ferus left Trever outside the entrance of the cave, much to the young thief's chagrin, and entered the gorgodon nest. He narrowly escaped an attack from the creatures, but advanced further into the crystal cave unhindered. After enduring visions of his former master Siri, his rival Anakin, and Palpatine's apprentice Darth Vader, Ferus reached the rear of the cave, where he met a tattered, exhausted Jedi- Garen Muln.

Before the Jedi could tell Ferus much of how he came to reach the cave, an agonized howling rang through the cave. Stormtroopers were exterminating the gorgodons in an effort to reach Ferus. Muln gifted Olin with his lightsaber, which Ferus added the crystals he had taken from the cave to, and tried to persuade the Jedi apprentice to leave him. But Ferus refused the weakened Jedi. He convinced Garen to distract the stormtroopers waiting at the cave's main entrance, while he destroyed the Imperials, wielding a lightsaber for the first time since his days in the old Jedi Order. They escaped the Crystal Cave in an Imperial ship hotwired by Trever, who rescued the two Jedi from another Imperial onslaught.

In a hidden cave formerly used as a hangar by the Jedi, Obi-Wan picked the three up in Toma's ship. They returned to the asteroid after meeting up with Ferus's friend Roan, who had brought him the supplies he needed to create a secret base for Jedi refugees on the asteroid. Unable to risk leaving young Luke Skywalker unprotected any longer, Kenobi was forced to return to Tatooine, angering Ferus, for the apprentice was ignorant of Obi-Wan's reasons for staying hidden. Ferus had other priorities, though. He learned from Garen that he had met another Jedi at the Crystal Cave... Fy-Tor Ana. She had gone to Coruscant to search for other Jedi. Combined with D'harhan's insinuation that there was a Jedi prisoner on Coruscant, Ferus inferred that Fy-Tor had been captured by the Empire. Along with Trever, he set out to Coruscant to rescue her, leaving Raina and Toma to care for Garen at the asteroid.

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 climbed 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 similar 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 home planet 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. 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 to Emperor Palpatine, after offering Ferus the Teachings to kill Vader

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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