Ambaln

Ambaln was a male Mon Calamari Jedi Knight prior to the Clone Wars.

Biography
Ambaln served as a Jedi scout, searching for Force-sensitive children to take to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant for training. He also served as a Jedi investigator, hunting down criminals. Ambaln spent 18 months deep undercover amongst a criminal syndicate, which corrupted him to the dark side of the Force, a fact which the Jedi Council discovered only after sending him to Lobaoc in the Outer Rim to investigate a Force-sensitive young girl.

When Ambaln arrived on Lobaoc, he convinced the girl's parents, marsh farmers by the surname of Glirin, to let him take her for training, but had no intention of taking her to Coruscant: he wished to take her as his own student and found a new Jedi Council. The next day, an intervention team arrived on Lobaoc, sent by the Jedi Council to capture or, if needed, kill Ambaln. They discovered that his Whitecloak Fighter was a mile away from the village of Koab: the Glirin girl was in the fighter. The team met Z-N0, a J9 droid assigned to Ambaln by the Jedi Council. Z-N0 led the team to a boathouse, supposedly to meet Ambaln, but on a causeway leading to the boathouse Z-N0 and the team were attacked by dianogas manipulated by Ambaln. Z-N0 fell into the marsh and sank.

The team members who made it past the dianogas found the boathouse deserted: during the dianoga attack, Ambaln had leapt into the water. Evading pursuit, Ambaln swam to his Whitecloak Fighter and flew off with his new Padawan. The team returned to their ship and attempted to pursue him. Ambaln planned to lie low for a few weeks, the return to Lobaoc to train his Padawan in the use of the dark side. The Jedi assigned to the team were charged by the Jedi Council to track him down. The Jedi fished Z-N0 out of the Lobaoc swamp, and the Council assigned Z-N0 to help them find Ambaln. Z-N0 had understandably mixed motives about bringing down his master.