Ranik Solusar

Ranik Solusar was a male Human Jedi Master disciplined by the Jedi Council for fathering a son, Kam Solusar. Ranik flew a Delta-7 Aethersprite-class starfighter in the Battle of Geonosis.

In the early years of the Great Jedi Purge, he was still at large, although he was eventually killed by Darth Vader&mdash;but not before imparting some Jedi training on his son.

Biography
Ranik Solusar was a Jedi Master of the Jedi Order who served the Galactic Republic during the Republic Classic era. He sired a boy at some stage, named Kam. Solusar would go on to train his child in the ways of the Force. In 22 BBY, as the Separatist Crisis continued to brew, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi was captured on the world of Geonosis, which was a part of the seceding Confederacy of Independent Systems. As Kenobi was thought to be in danger, Jedi Master assembled a strike team, of which Solusar was a participant. Solusar, piloting a Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor, flew alongside the likes of A'Sharad Hett, Bant Eerin, and The Dark Woman to Geonosis, where the Jedi were engaged by Cavik Toth's Sabaoth Squadron.

While Windu and the bulk of the strike team liberated Kenobi and led the newly-formed Grand Army of the Republic into combat against the Separatist Droid Army on the planet surface, Solusar and his compatriots continued to do battle with Toth's forces. Toth attempted to deploy the trihexalon bioweapon on the Geonosis surface, but Solusar and the other Jedi worked with Master Adi Gallia to destroy the Hex Deployers and the Sabaoth destroyers. The Lok Revenants, headed by the pirate Nym arrived to reinforce Solusar and the other Jedi, while Gallia was able to personally kill Toth, who had joined the battle himself in a personal starfighter. The battle was won by the Jedi and the Republic, although it heralded the opening of the pan-galactic Clone Wars. Solusar was eventually slain by the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader.

Powers and abilities
Solusar was heralded by his son as a "great" Jedi Master. He was able to fly a Delta-7 interceptor, and did so successfully during the Battle of Geonosis. His skills did not allow him to overcome the Sith Lord Darth Vader, however, and he was later killed.

Behind the scenes
Ranik Solusar was first mentioned in the comic issue Dark Empire II 1: Operation Shadow Hand, written by Tom Veitch and published in 1994. Eight years later, he made his first appearance in the 2002 video game, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter. The character appears alongside several other Jedi from the wider Expanded Universe, including comics and novels, and is identified as the pilot of one of the Jedi starfighters at the Battle of Geonosis.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
 * Dark Empire II 1: Operation Shadow Hand
 * Empire's End 1: Triumph of the Empire
 * I, Jedi
 * I, Jedi

Notes and references
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