Raynar Thul

Raynar Thul (c. 9 ABY&mdash;) was an antagonist, then a friend, of the Solo twins.

He was the son of former Alderaan nobles Bornan and Aryn Dro Thul, and the heir of their shipping enterprise, Bornaryn Trading.

As a member of the House of Thul, he was often seen in garments bearing the colors of his noble family's house&mdash;purple, gold, and red.

Biography
Raynar was born on the flagship of Bornaryn Trading, the Tradewyn. His family's home planet of Alderaan was destroyed approx. 10 years before his birth, and his parents and uncle kept the spirit of their homeworld alive by participating in family customs such as the Ceremony of Waters.

Spoilt and boastful, Raynar took after his uncle Tyko Thul in personality. He was raised with the best of everything money can buy, but lacked physical affection from his family.

Jedi training
At some point, Raynar was discovered to be Force sensitive and sent to Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum on Yavin 4 to train his ability in the Force. Raynar was not a popular student at the academy, and was often found annoying fellow students by either interrupting Luke Skywalker's lessons with a lot of questions, or claiming to be superior in the Force to everyone else.

During the Shadow Academy attack, Raynar's boasts about how good he was with the Force were proven wrong, as he was trounced by Dark Jedi, and would have been killed had Zekk not thrown him into the mud. From then on he vowed to work harder on his mastery of the Force to back up his boasts.

Shortly after the attack by the Shadow Academy, Han Solo told Raynar that Bornan Thul had gone missing. After offering to form a search party, Raynar was told to stay at the academy. As weeks went by without any word from Bornan, Aryn Dro Thul recalled her son to the flagship Tradewyn for his security and her peace of mind. After a traitor was discovered and dispatched, Raynar stayed aboard the ship for a few more weeks. Missing his new friends Jacen Solo, Jaina Solo, Tenel Ka, and Lowbacca, he got a ride back to Yavin 4 with the supplier old Peckhum. After hearing about the human-hating Diversity Alliance and its leader, Nolaa Tarkona, from former Diversity Alliance member Lusa, Raynar understood why his father disappeared on the way to meet Tarkona. Bornan Thul had acquired a navicomputer with coordinates to a plague warehouse that he was supposed to have given Tarkona, but found out what she planned to do with it and hid. Unfortunately, Bornan Thul had visited the warehouse, and Boba Fett (actually Ailyn Vel in disguise) had hacked into his navigation logs, found the coordinates, and turned them over to Tarkona.

After being reunited with his father, Raynar, along with Zekk and the Jedi trainees, helped his father wire the warehouse with explosives. Unfortunately, The Diversity Alliance showed up, and Bornan Thul was exposed to a human-killing virus in the ensuing confrontation. Raynar had to watch his father die hours after being reunited with him.

After a mourning period, Raynar went back to Yavin 4 and built his lightsaber. He was also delighted to learn that Lusa, to whom he had become close, was now a full-time student at the Academy.

Warrior
During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Raynar was chosen as a member of the Myrkr strike team mission to kill the voxyn queen, mainly to avenge the death of Lusa. He was wounded and was put on a ship until he recovered. Dark Jedi Welk and Lomi Plo captured him and flew off.

UnuThul
Raynar was thought to have died when the ship he was on, a YV-888 transport named the Tachyon Flier, was captured by the Dark Jedi Lomi Plo and Welk and later crashed in the Unknown Regions. Shortly after the ship took off, the rest of the strike team felt a surge in the Force that may have been his death. In truth, he survived, but was horribly mutilated, not to mention psychologically traumatized, and had been absorbed into a colony of Killiks, and took on the persona of UnuThul.

UnuThul insisted that Raynar is gone, but Luke Skywalker also insisted that there was a part of his former apprentice still in him.

Raynar had moved the Killiks close to the Chiss' territory, which angered the Chiss. When the Chiss attacked, war almost broke out. Luke, Han, Leia, Mara, and others helped stop the war, or at least avoid it. Leia and Han gave a suggestion that Raynar move his people to a new planet that they had discovered named Woteba. Raynar agreed. One year later, a disease called the Fizz started to attack the Killiks that had settled on the planet. The planet's disease harmed everything that was not naturally part of the planet.

Raynar was furious and he imprisoned Han and Luke under the influence of the Dark Nest. He sent all of the Killiks back to the Chiss Frontier. While on their way, they were attacked by the Galactic Alliance fleet. Raynar commadeered one of the shuttles and took off with most of the Killiks. Many considered Raynar to be an enemy after that, but some still thought of him as the Jedi he once was.

In 36 ABY, at the height of the Swarm War, he and Luke Skywalker battled. Luke knocked some sense into Raynar and demanded that he leave the Killiks. After the defeat of Lomi Plo, Raynar, who was knocked unconscious by Luke and dragged back to the Jedi headquarters, was given a mask to wear so that if he tried to communicate with the Killiks, he would be zapped. Raynar is currently in the custody of the Jedi Order, and his fate after this is unknown.

Appearances

 * Heirs of the Force
 * Jedi Under Siege
 * Shards of Alderaan
 * Diversity Alliance
 * Delusions of Grandeur
 * Jedi Bounty
 * The Emperor's Plague
 * Crisis at Crystal Reef
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Nest Trilogy