Ferus Olin

"We are not tricksters. We are ambassadors of peace and justice."

- Ferus Olin

Ferus Olin was the human 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, who disagreed with Ferus's strict adherence to Jedi rules and protocol. The two and their masters, Tachi and Obi-Wan Kenobi, often worked together on missions, traveling to such varied worlds as Radnor, Euceron, Andara, Typha-Dor, Romin, Falleen, and finally, Korriban. Many of these missions were designed to capture the escaped scientist and criminal Jenna Zan Arbor, who the Jedi later discovered was working with Granta Omega, the murderer of the Jedi Council member Yaddle.

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 on Korriban, where Omega was finally killed battling Master Kenobi. Eventually, he befriended Roan Lands, and the two started a business together, Olin and Lands. 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 retrain himself in the Jedi ways with the aid of Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the few Jedi who still drew breath. 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.

Jedi Apprentice
"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 with her Padawan 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 aggravating the feelings of dislike between the two apprentices even further.

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 continued to disagree 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. However, he narrowly escaped death when his pod was sabotaged, and the two Padawans left Euceron with mutual feelings of animosity between them.

When Anakin took private lightsaber training lessons with Soara Antana, the 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 young Skywalker's rage had fueled him, enabling him to defeat his fellow Padawan. This led to her 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 be using 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; with this cover, the two would hopefully be able to identify and 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 unit's ideals, which led him to decide to join them on a mission to penetrate Andara's airspace. The mission was based on Ieria, a planet in the system, and Anakin suggested Gillam might be there to justify participating in the raid. However, 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, hoping to eliminate Anakin's rationale for seeking Gillam on Ieria. However, Gillam, actually hidden in the old and abandoned system rooms inside the school, stumbled upon him. Along with a few members of the secret squad, Tarturi imprisoned Ferus there, before leaving for Ieria in secret. 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.

During his explorations of the system rooms, Ferus had 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; this would enable him to disguise the young Jedi's corpse as his own after the Padawan's death. The trio traveled 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 into 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 gotten hold of 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, none of whom had yet been told this by Skywalker. 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, and 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 chose to continue attempting 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.

The Senate's bureaucracy held the Jedi back, though, as a law stated that it was illegal to arrest or transport a galactic criminal off Romin; corruption in the Senate caused the passing of the law, which enabled 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 by the Republic, 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 the Padawans 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, allowing a nearly bloodless transition of 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 after Skywalker became Darth Vader, 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 one-another 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's warnings 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 impostors. Zan Arbor then recognized Anakin from her experiments upon him on Vanqor, and realized the impostors were Jedi; after this the four 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. Unfortunately, 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 the accusations of 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. Planning for 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, Omega and Zan Arbor nearly succeeded in using the Zone.

Although Kenobi arrived at the Senate in time to prevent Omega and Zan Arbor from unleashing the Zone, 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 their efforts were in vain. Omega and Zan Arbor escaped the Jedi's clutches once again. 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 Knight. In addition, the Council revealed to the two rivals and their masters, along with Darra Thel-Tanis and Tru Veld and 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 and 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. However, when they finally made contact with her, they were attacked by droids of the Commerce Guild army, and fled with the thief 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 a victory no longer seemed in doubt to him, 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 after his reckoning with Ferus during the flight to Korriban, 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; however, angered by the fact that Tru had gone to Ferus instead of him, 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 as well, 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 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.

Return to the Jedi Order
"The truth is that&mdash;''" "The truth, is that the Republic is now an Empire, and power is consolidated in the hands of one man. He will do anything to keep it, anything to make it grow, and you are his lackey"

- Inquistor Malorum and Ferus Olin

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 lauded as evidence of the dangers in returning to the city by the Jedi, but when Dona activated the Holonet the next day, Ferus 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, his location was discovered before he got the chance to leave the mountain cabin. 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 building.

Narrowly escaping the bounty hunters, the duo commandeered the landspeeder of one of Dona's friends, and safely reached 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 and a former friend of Ferus during his days at Olin and Lands, 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: after Raina and Ferus exited their fighters and boarded Toma's escape craft, the group barely escaped Eluthan ahead of the orbital bombardment of the city 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. They planned to take refuge within it before making a jump to hyperspace. 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. This planet, according to Toma, was the sanctuary that a Jedi fighting on Acherin during the Clone Wars and a good friend of Kenobi, Garen Muln, had fled to after Order 66 was given.

Rescue on Ilum


"Garen?''" "Who wants to know?"

- Ferus Olin and Garen Muln in the Crystal Cave of 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 Olin, 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, who they had discovered was on Ilum. Muln gifted Olin with his lightsaber, to which Ferus added the crystals he had taken from the cave, and tried to persuade the Jedi apprentice to leave him. However, 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 another Jedi had sought safety 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 galactic capital, however, Toma's ship needed to be refueled. As fate would have it, the nearest refueling station was located on Korriban, the location of Ferus's last mission, and where Darra Thel-Tanis had died. Ferus chose to land on the Sith burial world in part to test himself, and to see if he was capable of resisting the dark side. After touching down, however, ghosts of the Sith tempted Ferus to stay on Korriban to learn to use the Force more powerfully. Ferus resisted the dark forces, and decided to continue on to Coruscant. However, before leaving, Ferus sighted Jenna Zan Arbor on Korriban, who left the city of Dreshdae to return to the Valley of the Dark Lords even as Ferus and Trever left the former Sith stronghold.

Infiltrating the Temple


Returning to Coruscant for the first time since his resignation from the Jedi Order, Ferus was devastated to see the Jedi Temple in its current, damaged state after being set fire to during Order 66. Following information gleaned from D'harhan and Garen Muln, Ferus planned to infiltrate the Temple to free the Jedi Fy-Tor-Ana, whom he suspected to be in Imperial captivity there. He hired an air-taxi pilot to fly over a burnt tower of the Temple, allowing he and Trever to rapple down to gain entrance to the former stronghold of the Jedi without attracting the notice of stormtroopers.

Inside the Temple, Ferus came across the area where he had first met Anakin Skywalker, many years ago. Deceived by Obi-Wan Kenobi into believing that Anakin had been killed by the Empire, Ferus solemnly remembered the young Jedi he had known, and looked upon his death with sadness, although the two had never liked each other. Before the two left the room, they narrowly escaped a run-in with stormtroopers, escaping only because of the failings of the white-armoured troops' helmet sensors. With his knowledge of the various passages of the Temple, Ferus led Trever through the Room of a Thousand Fountains, among other locations, before eventually reaching the basements of the vast building. There they discovered an enormous pile of lightsabers, taken from Jedi slaughtered at the hands of the Empire during the Jedi Purge. This devastated Ferus, especially when he discovered the lightsaber of his friend Tru Veld among the others, making his death almost certain.

Olin was jolted from his reverie, though, when Trever heard stormtroopers entering the room. Realizing that the Empire had spread rumors that a Jedi was imprisoned in the Temple in order to ensnare any survivors in a trap, Ferus and Trever fled the area, and evaded their pursuers by a very slight margin. However, the damage was done. The Empire was now alerted to the presence of the two intruders.

To escape scrutiny, Olin and Flume fled to Malorum's private office, located in what was once Yoda's quarters. Believing the Inquistor to be absent from the Temple, Ferus saw the unlikely area for an infiltrator to hide as both a safe refuge and a place where he had the opportunity to slice Malorum's files and attempt to aid Obi-Wan Kenobi by informing him Malorum's reasons for investigating the world of Polis Massa. However, Malorum was not absent from the Temple. He had returned earlier than expected, forcing Ferus and Trever to hide behind a wall panel in his office just before he arrived with Darth Vader, at the Temple for a surprise visit.

During Vader's visit, the Inquisitor revealed that he had planted spies in the lower levels of Coruscant, and when Vader mentioned he had heard of another Jedi on Coruscant, Malorum claimed to have a spy in the Jedi's group. When he revealed his investigations into rumors about Polis Massa to Vader, though, the Sith unleashed his fury on the Inquisitor, choking him with the force. As yet another mention of Polis Massa appeared, Ferus's curiosity was piqued, making him realize the necessity of Obi-Wan's detour while Garen was rescued. But he and Flume were not safe yet. In Vader's rage, he ripped off the panel which the two were hiding behind, exposing them to Malorum and the Dark Lord. The duo managed to elude Malorum, while Vader simply let them escape, likely because it would humiliate his rival Malorum.

Using the Force to confuse a squad of Imperial guards, Ferus and Trever stole an airspeeder and managed to safely escape the Temple. Although they had discovered that Fy-Tor-Ana was not in the Jedi Temple, Ferus still believed she was on the planet. He and Trever flew to Dexter's Diner to fine Dexter Jettster, an old friend of the Jedi and of Obi-Wan in particular. If anyone knew where a fugitive Jedi would be hiding, in Olin's opinion it was Dexter Jettster.

Meeting the Erased
"Would you mind not killing the poor fellow, chums? I think I might know him."

- Dexter Jettster to the Erased

When Ferus arrived at Dexter's Diner, he was shocked to find it destroyed. Without Jettster, 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 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.

Searching the streets of Coruscant, the two deciphered the woman's clues, inferring that the orange street lamps that glowed similarly to a setting sun were characteristic. When Ferus tried to enter a cantina to find information, though, he was immediately tossed out by a Whiphid. Olin refused to be shrugged off, and attempted to enter, but a group of thugs emerged, drawing weapons and preparing to drive him off. Before they attacked, however, Dexter Jettster emerged from the cantina. Recognizing Ferus, he prevented the thugs from attackign him and Flume, and invited them inside.

They entered the cantina, the hideout of Dexter, and in it were introduced to the Erased, none other than the thugs that had been so eager to attack them only seconds before. Dexter was surprised to find Ferus on Coruscant, and he was further shocked when the Jedi informed him that Obi-Wan Kenobi, a good friend of Dexter, was still alive. The Besalisk had seen a Jedi matching Fy-Tor's description, and expressed his suspicions that the Jedi Temple was merely a Jedi trap, which Ferus confirmed. Because of this, he had warned her to avoid the Temple. When Ana left, Jettster said, she had told him that if ever he needed her assistance, to find Solace. When Ferus warned the Erased of Malorum's plans to crack down on the lower levels of Coruscant, the group decided to search for Solace, a rumoured refuge said to be all the way down to Coruscant's crust, that was considered almost indiscoverable by the Empire. Dexter maneuvered the Erased into appointing Ferus the leader of the expedition; Ferus was not happy with this, but did not protest. Before leaving, Olin contacted Obi-Wan and informed him of the recent developments on Coruscant. Kenobi warned the Padawan that Malorum's investigations into Polis Massa needed to be stopped.>

Hunting for Solace
Though Jettster chose to remain in the Orange District, Ferus, Trever, and the rest of the Erased set off deeper into the underworld of Coruscant in search of Solace. At last reaching the lowest level of Coruscant, they were attacked by a local street gang numbering about fifteen. Olin's fighting skills, along with the assistance of the Erased, allowed him to defeat the gang with ease. During the fight, Flume was attacked by a duracrete slug emerging from a hole in the duracrete; however, a well-placed vibroshiv from Keets Freely stunned the slug into retreat. At the Underworld Inn that night, Trever realized that there was space in the crack where the slug had emerged from to attack him. Ferus did not doubt the boy's intuition; after all, some rumors heard stated that Solace was below Coruscant's crust. Immediately, Olin roused the Erased, and they returned to the site of the battle.

Climbing beneath the duracrete, Ferus, Flume, and the Erased discovered the remains of an ancient transportation system, confirming that sentient life had once existed within the tunnel. Within the caverns, they met a creature calling himself "Guide." He claimed to be able to take the group to Solace. Realizing they had little other choice, Olin agreed to allow him to lead them there. When they reached the refuge, however, it became clear that Solace was not a place, it was a person&mdash; Guide. Guide was not trustworthy, though, and turned the Erased over to the refuge's residents. Ferus's drawn lightsaber, however, elicited a reaction. The mysterious man called Olin a Padawan, not quite a Jedi; this caused him to realize who "Guide" really was... not a man at all, but Fy-Tor-Ana in disguise.

Recognizing Olin, Fy-Tor ordered the crowd to disband. Ferus told her of his plans to search for fugitive Jedi and collect, them, but she disagreed. Ana said her identity was that of Solace, not Fy-Tor; she believed that the hidden city provided her with all she needed, and she could not stop the Empire anyway. When the Padawan told her of Malorum's claims that there was a spy in her organization, Solace scoffed. Only when Ferus told her of the pile of lightsabers collected in the Temple did Fy-Tor come to believe that the Empire had to be fought. She, Olin, and Flume planned to reenter the Temple and steal back the lightsabers rather than leave them in Sith hands; also, she and Olin could slice Malorum's data files to ensure that he did not, in fact, have a spy in her organization.

Captured by the Empire
"We could go out the front entrance. Take our chances. Leave the Temple and let it be destroyed''" "I can't. " "Neither can I. "

- Solace and Ferus Olin, before disarming a bomb rigged to destroy the Jedi Temple.

To enter the Temple, Solace devised a plan. Earlier, she had built a customized ship utilizing parts from a mole miner and an ARC-170 starfighter that was capable of burrowing beneath Coruscant's crust. The two Jedi planned to utilize this feature to get under the Temple, then to head towards the surface, coming up in an abandoned turbolift shaft. This plan worked to perfection. Once the three entered, though, something seemed wrong. Ferus nearly tripped over conductor wire in the middle of a corridor, and stormtroopers were nowhere to be found. Also, when the group reached Malorum's office, it was emptied completely. Unable to learn anything from Malorum's files any longer, the Jedi decided to collect the lightsabers and leave quickly. However, in a burst of intuition, Trever connected the mysterious events. Opening a power vent, he discovered that the conductor wire was being used to drain power from the Temple's core to be used to power a bomb. Malorum was trying to obliterate the Temple; also, this would enable him to blame it on Darth Vader by claiming that he gave the order to do so, though Vader had only suggested such an idea to prove that Malorum was keeping private files outside the main Imperial databanks. Unable to bear the thought of fleeing the Temple and leaving it to be destroyed, the Jedi chose to risk their lives and attempt to disable the explosives. Although they successfully deactivated the bomb, the three were not safe yet. Squads of stormtroopers with AT-RT's entered the Temple before they could escape, with Malorum at their head. Realizing that without a drastic measure, Solace and Flume had no hop of escape, Olin surrendered to the stormtroopers, giving his companions time to flee in Solace's esoteric craft. However, the Jedi first entrusted Solace with his lightsaber, unable to bear its capture by the Empire.

Awaking in a prison, Malorum entered and interrogated Ferus, attempting to learn the identity of the Jedi who infiltrated the Temple with him. When Olin refused to reveal the information, however, Malorum indifferently walked out. That prison was the planet Dontamo, the location of Dontamo Prison. Introduced to the prison routine by his cellmate, Prisoner 934890, Olin immediately began searching for a way to escape. However, when Ferus fought Prisoner 677780 over rations, the man immediately began preparing to get Olin back. One morning, the Jedi was ambushed by "Prisoner 67" and five of his henchmen. Only the quick action of Clive Flax, a fellow prisoner and a friend of Olin from the Clone Wars, saved Ferus from being suffocated. The two developed a plan and managed to steal a starship, but were nearly shot down by Imperial fighters over Dontamo. Only the timely arrival of the Erased prevented Olin and Flax from being reduced to mere space dust. They headed to Alba-16, where Ferus learned that the ranks of the Erased had been thinned by an Imperial raid on Solace's hidden city. When Keets Freely told Olin that Malorum had gone to the planet Naboo, however, the Jedi remembered the warnings of Obi-Wan Kenobi that Malorum's investigations into Senator Padmé Amidala's death must be stopped. He, the Erased, and Flax left for Naboo.

Mission to Naboo
"He can't tell anyone what he knows. You must protect..."

- Ryoo Thule's dying words.

Olin and the Erased traced Malorum to the residence of Ryoo Thule, the grandmother of the deceased Senator Padmé Amidala, after speaking with former Captain Gregar Typho and Queen Apailana. Ferus discovered her near-death after being mortally wounded by the Inquisitor, and the old woman warned him with her dying breath that Malorum suspected the truth of a great secret, which Obi-Wan Kenobi thought vital to protect. Spotting Malorum, the group pursued him in boats, but the Inquisitor destroyed them by using wrist rockets, and managed to escape. Only the assistance of a Gungan bongo pilot named Yunabana saved the Erased from drowning. Yunabana brought the group before Boss Rugor Nass. He and Olin contacted Queen Apailana for a holoconference, where the Jedi revealed a daring plan. The Gungans and the Naboo would attack and destroy the Imperial garrison while Ferus neutralized Malorum. The Empire was storing illegal explosives in their garrison, according to Naboo intelligence; if these were detonated after the Imperials were killed, it would destroy the garrison, and prevent the Empire from unleashing retribution on the Naboo since they would not want it known that they were storing outlawed weaponry.

Olin drove Malorum backwards into the Theed Royal Palace, pressing him into the Theed reactor core, where Qui-Gon Jinn and Kenobi had dueled Darth Maul during the events of the Battle of Naboo. As a Jedi, Olin had assumed he would defeat Malorum without difficulty; although he had sensed Malorum's aptitude for using the force, he had not expected Malorum to be trained in the use of a lightsaber. He soon realized his error, as the Grand Inquisitor revealed a red lightsaber and attacked. The battle was surprisingly evenly matched, and the two combatants progressed through a corridor containing energy walls, finally emerging at the edge of the melting pit where Qui-Gon Jinn was slain. In the end, Malorum was not powerful enough to hold of the Padawan. Pinning Malorum against the melting pit, Ferus left himself open to an attack. The Inquisitor took the bait and charged him, only to be disarmed, and to have his lightsaber knocked over the pit. Attempting to leap across the pit and summon the lightsaber with the Force, Malorum was blinded by need; he lost control and fell into the melting pit, taking the secret of the Skywalkers with him.

Leaving the melting pit behind, Olin exited the palace to discover that the Empire had been routed. He and Flax successfully destroyed the explosives, preventing blame from being pinned on the Naboo. They, the Erased, and Solace planned to return to the secret base with much needed supplies for Toma, Raina, and Garen. Before they could set a course, however, Ferus received a message from Emperor Palpatine himself. The Emperor offered Olin amnesty for all his past "crimes" if Ferus would agree to meet with him on Coruscant. Even if Olin refused the Sith's offer, Palpatine said that the Jedi would be allowed to take the amnesty and go free without retribution. "So, what should we do? Accept a date with the Emperor?"

- Ferus Olin, after receiving a message from Emperor Palpatine.

Double-Agent


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
 * 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
 * The Last of the Jedi X