Jaska (Mandalorian Knight)

Jaska was a female Falleen Jedi Knight who served as a member of Jedi Master Dorjander Kace's Mandalorian Knights, a rogue faction of the Jedi Order who eschewed Jedi teachings for Mandalorian culture.

Biography
Jaska was a Falleen female Jedi Knight who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the Mandalorian Wars. By 3,962 BBY, Jaska had become disillusioned with the Republic, believing it to be overly corrupt. She was not the only Jedi to have come to this conclusion during this time. Former Jedi Council-member, Jedi Master Dorjander Kace, who had spent a lot of time in Mandalorian captivity during the Great Sith War, had come to believe that, sooner or later, the Republic would inevitably lose the new war. However, Kace thought that the Mandalorian rule over the galaxy would be a better alternative for the Republic, provided the Jedi Order was there to guide the victors. Jaska and several other Jedi were approached by Kace and accepted his teachings, forming the clandestine Mandalorian Knights group. Never officially leaving the ranks of the Jedi Order, Jaska and the Mandalorian Knights pledged their allegiance to Mandalore the Ultimate. To bring about his dream of a Jedi Order-supported Mandalorian rule of the galaxy sooner, Kace developed a plan to kidnap Jedi Younglings. He planned to raise them in Mandalorian traditions and expand the ranks of the Mandalorian Knights.

Jaska, Kace, and the rest of Kace's disciples volunteered to join the ranks of the Revanchist, a faction of Jedi that fought on behalf of the Galactic Republic in the war. The Mandalorian Knights were dispatched to the planet Essien, alongside a Republic military unit called the Phaeda militia under the command of Captain Dallan Morvis. Once there, Jaska followed Kace in an attack on the Mandalorian bastion established under Mount Savage, a mountain located on an island. Jaska and the Mandalorian Knights rode off to supposedly fight the Mandalorian defense on the beach line, leaving Morvis and his men to engage the enemy on the approach to the beach. When they returned to Morvis's position, Kace claimed that the Mandalorians had retreated into the forests surrounding Mount Savage. He asked Morvis to help his Knights root out the enemy from the forest, a task which Morvis planned to accomplish by burning the forest with Tibanna Six. Kace specifically asked the Captain to bring every man from his command ship, the Axehead frigate Reciprocity, claiming that there were prize vessels to claim at the Mandalorian shipyards. Jaska and the Mandalorian Knights then left Morvis and rendezvous with the Mandalorian forces. With the Recipority left without guard, the Mandalorians secured it. They then ambushed the Phaeda militia, while they were trekking through the forest. Kace's followers and Mandalorian soldiers surrounded Morvis and his troops and forcibly conscripted them to join their cause.

A Force-sensitive Falleen, Jaska was trained in the ways of the Force by the Jedi Order, achieving the rank of Jedi Knight. During the height of the Mandalorian Wars, Jaska grew disillusioned with the Order; believing the Jedi High Council and the Galactic Republic to be forcing the Jedi into the role of errand runners. Supporting former Councilor Jedi Master Dorjander Kace, Jaska left the Order to become one of the Mandalorian Knights. Embracing Mandalorian customs and culture, Jaska donned grey and green armor and wielded a lightsaber with a yellow crystal.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic&mdash;War 1
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic&mdash;War 2
 * Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic&mdash;War 5