Wookieepedia:Featured articles/History/2015

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 * 2005

April 16, 2006 – Booster Terrik
Booster Terrik, an imposing gundark of a Human from Corellia, was a complicated man; depending on whom you asked, he was either a double-crossing, no-good swindler, or a noble, loyal-to-a-fault family man. What everyone could agree on, though, was that Terrik—the only civilian ever known to own and operate an entire Star Destroyer single-handedly—was anything but subtle.

Little is known of Booster Terrik's childhood, but having been brought up on Corellia certainly carries with it distinct impressions. As sure as young Booster was anything, he was independent—though his earliest work, honest or otherwise, involved piloting freighters for large corporations, he soon resolved to start his own shipping ventures, independent of anyone's authority but his own.

April 9, 2006 – Zsinj
Zsinj was a former Imperial Admiral and post-Imperial warlord.

A human male from Fondor, Zsinj was a unique and dangerous individual. An undeniably brilliant man, Zsinj was a skilled linguist, a cunning strategist, a master of technology, a successful businessman, and, perhaps most of all, a clever actor. How much of his image was factual and how much was a facade was something known only to the Warlord himself.

Recognized by many as the most powerful of the post-Imperial warlords, Zsinj commanded a formidable fleet, and at the height of his power he controlled a third of the known galaxy.

April 2, 2006 – Grievous
General Grievous, born as Qymaen jai Sheelal, was the Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars.

His body was a fusion of a powerful robotic structure and an organic brain, nervous system, and sensory organs. Brilliant gold eyes with a reptilian black pupil and red sockets were the only visible reminder of his organic past as a Kaleesh warlord.

Grievous was a cold and calculating general, a brilliant strategist, and a cunning military mastermind. He was known as a Jedi hunter and a collector of fallen Jedi lightsabers, which he used in battle with his foes. It was believed he killed well over thirty-two Jedi, and it is highly likely he killed even more.

March 26, 2006 – Ackbar
Admiral Ackbar was a Mon Calamari, and perhaps the foremost military commander in the service of the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic. He held the distinction of having been the Supreme Commander of the New Republic Defense Force for nearly two decades and defeating two Imperial Grand Admirals, Osvald Teshik and Peccati Syn. He wrote the manual for the New Republic Fleet Academy, titled Fleet Combat and Methodology.

Near the very end of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, shortly before the final climactic Liberation of Coruscant, Ackbar passed on. His death caused great grief to the Mon Calamari, the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances, and the Galaxy at large. A grand memorial service was held on both the newly reclaimed Coruscant and his watery homeworld, attended by countless Mon Calamari and numerous dignitaries from across the Galactic Alliance.

March 19, 2006 – Rokur Gepta
Rokur Gepta was the last known Sorcerer of Tund, the Scrivinir of the Centrality, and nemesis of Lando Calrissian.

A Croke, he came from the planet Crakull in the Unknown Regions. His exact age is unknown, but he was at least 20,000 years old, predating the Sith and possibly the Jedi and Galactic Republic themselves.

Gepta was Force-sensitive and was a master of illusion and shapeshifting, using his Force abilities to supplement the natural traits of the Crokes. His preferred form was a humanoid with whirling eyes, dressed in ash-gray robes, his face mostly hidden by a turban.

March 12, 2006 – Darth Bane
Darth Bane, born Dessel on Apatros, was one of the most pivotal Dark Lords of the Sith. By the time of the Seventh Battle of Ruusan, a thousand years before the Battle of Yavin, Bane was one of the last of the legitimate Sith Lords and, as only survivor of the battle, reinvented the order after its destruction. Bane's revolution included the founding of the Rule of Two, a stricture that, in limiting the number of Sith and eliminating the infighting plaguing the order, would allow Bane's eventual successor, Darth Sidious to finally triumph over the Jedi and the Galactic Republic.

March 5, 2006 – Galactic Republic Chancery election, 32 BBY
The Galactic Republic Chancery election of 32 BBY was the last time a new Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic was chosen. The election was held after Chancellor Finis Valorum lost a vote of no confidence in the Galactic Senate due to the Republic's mishandling of the crisis on Naboo. Though Bail Antilles and Ainlee Teem were nominated as Valorum's successor, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to support then-Senator Palpatine of Naboo, at the time a relatively obscure figure. Though outside observers considered Palpatine's election to be a surprise, he had manipulated events (both in his public identity and in his secret role as Darth Sidious, Dark Lord of the Sith) to ensure not only that an early election would be held, but that he would win it. After winning the election, Palpatine led the Galaxy as Chancellor and as Galactic Emperor for thirty-six years.

February 26, 2006 – Anakin Solo


Anakin Solo (10 ABY – 27 ABY) was the youngest child born to Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo. Anakin was named for his maternal grandfather, Anakin Skywalker, and, like his namesake, was prodigiously talented in the Force, a gifted pilot, and a skilled mechanic. He had two elder siblings: his sister, Jaina and his brother, Jacen.

Unfortunately for Anakin, he would not live long enough to see the defeat of the Yuuzhan Vong. In 27 ABY, he led a Jedi strike team to destroy a cloning facility for Jedi-hunting voxyn on the worldship Baanu Rass which orbited Myrkr. The mission was a pyrrhic victory for the Jedi since despite destroying the facility, many members of the strike team were killed, including Anakin himself. He died after achieving complete oneness with the Force, one of the few Jedi to do so.

February 19, 2006 – Lumiya
Lumiya, formerly known as Shira Elan Colla Brie, was a dark side adept trained by Darth Vader. Brie was a member of Imperial Intelligence, and on Vader's orders she went undercover to infiltrate the Rebel Alliance and discredit Luke Skywalker.

After Brie had suffered serious injuries due to being shot down by Skywalker, Vader rescued her and had her enhanced with cybernetic parts. Now calling herself Lumiya, she was secretly instructed in some Sith lore by Vader and was offered to Palpatine as an Emperor's Hand. After the deaths of Palpatine and Vader at the Battle of Endor, Lumiya proclaimed herself Dark Lady of the Sith.

February 12, 2006 – Gilad Pellaeon
Grand Admiral Gilad Pellaeon (c. 57 BBY&mdash;) was a military officer in the Imperial Navy who later became head of the Imperial Remnant and achieved the rank of Grand Admiral.

As the captain of Chimaera, Pellaeon was Grand Admiral Thrawn's second-in-command during the latter's campaign against the New Republic. Pellaeon often questioned Thrawn's tactics, but he learned a lot from the Chiss Grand Admiral and regarded him as a mentor.

In later years, Pellaeon had become the head of the Imperial Remnant and signed the Pellaeon-Gavrisom Treaty that brought peace to both the Remnant and the New Republic.

February 5, 2006 &mdash; Exar Kun
Exar Kun (&mdash;3,996 BBY, spirit incapacitated 11 ABY) was a highly talented Jedi apprentice to the Galactic Republic Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas, and Dark Lord of the Sith who, alongside Ulic Qel-Droma, initiated the Great Sith War, tearing the Republic asunder throughout several battles until he sealed his own spirit away in one of many Massassi temples on Yavin 4.

Exar Kun was masterful at lightsaber combat, known to have been a double-bladed lightsaber combat Form II (Makashi) master, and was also known to have fought with two blades on occasion, being adept at the Jar'Kai style of fighting. Exar's lightsaber, unlike nearly all Sith lightsabers that followed it, was also blue.

January 29, 2006 &mdash; Ulic Qel-Droma
Ulic Qel-Droma (4,018 BBY–3,986 BBY) was a highly ambitious Jedi Knight of the Galactic Republic, who was eventually seduced by Dark Lord of the Sith Exar Kun and fell to the dark side. As a Jedi, he was largely responsible for ending the Beast Wars and the Naddist Uprising on Onderon, and as a Sith Lord laid waste to several Republic planets in the Great Sith War. With the death of Exar Kun, Ulic returned to the light, and exiled himself to Rhen Var, where he was killed by the spacer Hoggon.

His spirit lay dormant for four thousand years until it was awakened by Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars. Qel-Droma taught the young Jedi much, and because of his own experiences frequently warned Anakin to heed the wisdom of the light, while at the same time avoiding the destructive path of the dark side.

January 22, 2006 &mdash; Beilert Valance
Beilert Valance (&mdash;0 ABY), also known as Valance the Hunter, was a former Imperial stormtrooper officer who later became a bounty hunter. Hardened on the mining world of Shinbone, Valance served with distinction in the Stormtrooper Corps until he was maimed in a Rebel raid on Telos IV and forced to receive cybernetic replacements to mend his broken body. Ashamed of his failure, Valance hid his cybernetics with artificial skin and harbored a deep hatred toward droids.

His hatred of droids drove him to find Luke Skywalker after learning that he defeated the Death Star with the aid of droids. In their confrontation, C-3PO's willingness to sacrifice himself for Skywalker changed Valance, who then took it upon himself to protect Skywalker from Darth Vader. He sacrificed himself on Centares to prevent Vader from learning the identity of Skywalker.

January 15, 2006 – Chiss
The Chiss were a tall, blue-skinned Near-Human species from the Unknown Regions, best known as the species to which Grand Admiral Thrawn belonged. The Chiss were very mysterious to the rest of the Galaxy, largely keeping to themselves in their home beyond the Outer Rim Territories, expanding the Chiss Ascendancy across much of the Unknown Regions thousands of years before they made any significant impact on the rest of the Galaxy, when Thrawn launched the infamous Thrawn campaign.

January 8, 2006 – Imperial I-class Star Destroyer
The Imperial I-class Star Destroyer was a monumental starship designed by Lira Wessex and built by Kuat Drive Yards. They were massive, powerful warships capable of laying waste to entire worlds (provided those worlds did not have planetary shields).

The ship began development as the Imperator-class under the Galactic Republic, but was changed following the Great Jedi Purge. The Imperial-class became infamous as the prime enforcer of Imperial rule.

It belonged to the Star Destroyer family of warship, exemplified by its dagger/arrowhead design. A single Imperial-class vessel cost the Empire at least 3.88 billion Imperial credits&mdash;the equivalent of several star systems' annual economic output.

January 1, 2006 – Yoda
Master Yoda (896 BBY–4 ABY) was one of the most renowned Jedi in the Galaxy, and one of the few Galactic Republic Jedi to survive into the Galactic Civil War.

Standing a mere 66 centimeters tall, Yoda was the Grand Master of the Jedi Order, one of the senior members of the Jedi Council in the last days of the Galactic Republic, and arguably one of the wisest and most powerful Jedi Masters in the Galaxy of his time. He had exceptional skill in lightsaber combat, employing whirling and acrobatic Ataru techniques. From c. 800 BBY to 19 BBY he trained almost every Jedi in the Galaxy&mdash;as Grand Master, he instructed all younglings in the Jedi Temple before they were assigned to a master.