Relin Druur

Relin Druur was a male Human Jedi Master active around 5,000 BBY. As a member of the Jedi Order, he trained the Kaleesh Saes Rrogon as his Padawan, but Rrogon eventually turned to the dark side of the Force. Druur then took on another apprentice, the Askajian Drev Hassin. Druur and Hassin then tracked Rrogon, soon discovering that he had become a Sith Lord in the Sith Empire. They finally found Rrogon in the Phaegon system, where he was harvesting Lignan, a powerful dark side ore, for use in the upcoming Sith invasion. The Jedi ambushed Rrogon with the purpose of disabling his ship, the Harbinger, so that the ore could not be delivered to the Sith fleet. During the ensuing skirmish, Druur fought with Rrogon and lost his arm during the duel, before charges he had previously set on the Harbinger hyperdrive exploded, damaging the hyperdrive and incapacitating Rrogon. Druur fled to an escape pod, but Hassin, who had been holding off several Sith fighters in the Jedi's Infiltrator starfighter, saw that the Harbinger was still preparing to jump into hyperspace and sacrificed himself, flying the Infiltrator into the bridge of the Harbinger to prevent it from escaping.

Druur attempted to flee in the escape pod, but the heavily damaged Harbinger continued its jump and Druur's pod was pulled along with it into hyperspace. However, due to the damage the ship had sustained, it failed to fully enter the hyperlane, causing it to travel through time to 41.5 ABY. Druur, finding himself in a foreign system, spotted a freighter of a make he had never seen. He flew his escape pod to the vessel and blasted his way into the ship&mdash;which was named Junker&mdash;where he was confronted by Jedi Knight Jaden Korr and the ship's pilot, Khedryn Faal. After a brief duel with Korr, the two realized that they were both Jedi, and Korr revealed to Druur that the Sith Empire had been defeated millennia ago before concluding that Druur must have traveled through time during the misjump. After evading two squadrons of starfighters sent by Rrogon to destroy the Junker, Druur, Korr, Faal, and Faal's First Mate, Marr Idi-Shael, agreed that the Lignan ore needed to be destroyed. As Korr continued his own task with the assistance of Faal, Druur, along with Idi-Shael, embarked on a mission to destroy the Lignan aboard the Harbinger.

As he infiltrated the ship, Druur began to realize that he had fallen to the dark side. After the First Mate helped Druur to fight off a wave of Massassi warriors, Druur convinced Idi-Shael to flee. The Jedi Master then fully embraced the dark side of the Force, making his way to the Lignan in the Harbinger cargo hold, where he was confronted by Rrogon. The two engaged in a duel of Force powers, and Rrogon soon gained the upper hand, claiming that his rage was older and thus more powerful than Druur's. Druur, however, turned to his despair at his failures in life and used it to draw on the power of the Lignan, overpowering Rrogon and then killing him with the Sith Lord's own lightsaber. Druur then continued to consume as much of the Lignan's power as he could, until finally he unleashed it upon the Harbinger, engulfing the ship in flames and destroying it even as he died.

Hunting Rrogon
"He is searching for something.''" "''Saes? His conscience, no doubt. He seems to have misplaced it somewhere."

- Relin Druur and Drev Hassin, on Saes Rrogon

Relin Druur was a male Human Force-sensitive who lived during the time preceeding the Great Hyperspace War. He was trained as a Jedi in the Jedi Order, and eventually attained the rank of Jedi Master. At some point during his life, he took on the Kaleesh Saes Rrogon as his Padawan. Rrogon, however, eventually turned to the dark side of the Force, and Druur took on a second Padawan, the Askajian Drev Hassin. Around 5,000 BBY, the Sith Empire, which Rrogon had joined as a Sith Lord, was discovered to be preparing to invade the galaxy. Druur believed that the planet Kirrek would be attacked, as well as the capital world Coruscant. Meanwhile, however, Druur and Hassin began to track down Rrogon.

The two Jedi, flying an Infiltrator starfighter, eventually found the Sith Lord at Primus Goluud, where they also found the Sith fleet preparing to strike the galaxy. There, the Jedi saw Rrogon's dreadnaught, the Harbinger, alongside another ship, the Omen, leaving the present armada. After Druur reported his findings to Kirrek and the Jedi Order on Coruscant, he received an order to follow Rrogon in hopes of discovering the Sith's purpose. They tracked the Kaleesh as the Harbinger and Omen traveled to several remote systems. At each stop, the dreadnaughts released recon droids for scanning, before quickly moving to another system.

As the Jedi still had no clue as to Rrogon's goal, several agents managed to place a homing beacon on the Harbinger. Following the beacon, the Jedi jumped through hyperspace from the Remmon Nebula to the Phaegon system. As they prepared to exit hyperspace, Druur quickly masked their presences in the Force so that Rrogon would not be able to sense them. Upon entering the system, the two Jedi were instantly affected by a strong wave of dark side energy. They quickly recovered and flew the Infiltrator into the system's asteroid belt, where they observed the Harbinger and Omen over the largest moon of Phaegon III. The Sith ships were mining the moon for Lignan&mdash;an ore that was intensely powerful in the dark side of the Force&mdash;and Druur and Hassin found that, in this act, the Sith had completely destroyed the outer crust of the moon, eliminating all of the moon's life.

Skirmish over Phaegon III
"We cannot let that cargo get to Kirrek."

- Druur, to his Padawan, Drev Hassin

The two Jedi realized that the ore was the source of the powerful dark side energy that they had felt upon their arrival; and also that it must have been what Rrogon had been searching for. Druur also believed that the Sith might be gathering the ore for use during the upcoming Battle of Kirrek. Deciding that they could not allow the Sith to leave the system with the ore, Druur and Hassin decided to ambush Rrogon's forces. Using the Infiltrator's scrambler nad baffler to keep them temporarily hidden from the Sith ships' sensors, Hassin flew Druur over one of the Sith cargo transports that was carrying the ore from the surface of the moon to the Harbinger. Druur donned a flexsuit and leapt from the Infiltrator to the transport.

As the transport carried Druur toward the Harbinger, the Infiltrator was spotted and the Sith deployed ten Blade-class starfighters to assail the fighter. Druur arrived in one of the landing bays and quickly made his way to the hyperdrive chamber. As he passed several Massassi crew members, he hid himself from their perceptions. One Massassi, Drophan, attacked the Jedi, and Druur was forced to kill him; however, Drophan's body was soon discovered, alerting Rrogon to the presence of a Jedi onboard. Rrogon decided to capture the Jedi and present him to Dark Lord of the Sith Naga Sadow as a gift, and Druur soon felt Rrogon's presence reaching out for him to hunt him down.

Confrontation with Rrogon
"I learned much from you, but it was not what you sought to teach. You should not have come here, Relin. But then you were always a fool."

- Rrogon, to his former Jedi Master

As Druur made his way to the ship's hyperdrive, Hassin reported via comlink that the dreadnaughts were preparing to jump into hyperspace. After fighting off a group of Massassi warriors, Druur augmented his speed with the Force and soon arrived outside the hyperdrive chamber, where he fought off eight Massassi warriors standing guard nearby. He used an overrider to open the hyperdrive chamber and quickly incapacitated two Human engineers. As the ship prepared to jump into hyperspace, however, deadly radiation filled the room. He quickly attached three mag-grenades on timers to the hyperdrive and ordered his apprentice to flee into hyperspace. Hassin, however, refused to follow his order, and before Druur could leave the chamber, Rrogon arrived.

The Sith Lord confronted Druur and both briefly attempted to convince the other to join him on their respective sides of the Force. Rrogon then attacked the Jedi Master, and the two began to duel. Druur easily beat back Rrogon's first assault, but the Sith Lord then blasted him with Force lightning, which Druur failed to dodge. As the Jedi Master recovered, the two squared off once more, but Druur was distracted as Hassin suddenly reported through his comlink that the Infiltrator had been hit. Rrogon jumped at the opportunity, rushing forward and getting past Druur's slow parry to cut off his arm.

Rrogon moved in for the kill, but the mag-grenades that Druur had set on the hyperdrive went off, cracking Druur's ribs and sending Rrogon flying across the chamber into the wall, knocking him unconscious. Druur contemplated killing Rrogon, but decided against it and fled the chamber for the ship's escape pods. Despite the destructive effects of the grenades' explosion, however, the Harbinger continued its jump sequence; Druur insisted that he had destroyed the drive, but Hassin replied in turn that his scanners still read an active hyperdrive aboard the ship. As Hassin's Infiltrator suffered more damage, Druur entered an escape pod and attempted to launch from the Harbinger. Hassin, however, knew that the Harbinger would still jump and, knowing that they could not risk allowing the ship to meet up with the Sith fleet at Kirrek, crashed the Infiltrator into the ship's bridge, sacrificing himself to stop the ship from entering hyperspace.

Travel through time
"You laugh too little."

- Relin Druur, to himself, after the death of his Padawan

Through the escape pod's viewport, Druur witnessed the death of his Padawan, which caused him great anger and despair. He then watched as the heavily damaged Harbinger drifted toward the Omen, but realized with shock that neither ship was aborting its jump sequence. Druur attempted to move his escape pod away from the Harbinger, but was unable to get far enough away before the ship jumped, pulling the escape pod with it as it entered hyperspace. Druur instantly realized that the jump had gone wrong; the hyperspace tunnel was unstable, and he occasionally caught flashes of black space through the streaks of hyperspace. Druur attempted to pull the pod out of hyperspace with the assistance of the Force, but failed.

Most of the Harbinger was destroyed by the jump, but Rrogon, who had since regained consciousness, managed to hold it together with the Force, coupled with assistance from the Lignan; and he finally managed to pull the dreadnaught out of its misjump and back into realspace. Druur and the pod were also pulled out of hyperspace, and the Jedi Master found himself in a system he did not recognize, containing a blue gas giant with an icy moon. Druur spotted a disk-like vessel the likes of which he had never seen before and launched his escape pod for it.

Druur latched the pod onto the freighter and used his overrider to enter it, before preparing mag-grenades to blow open the inner airlock doors. The ship's occupants&mdash;Jedi Knight Jaden Korr, who was following a Force vision that had led him to the system; the ship's captain, the salvager Khedryn Faal; and Faal's First Mate, the Cerean Marr Idi-Shael&mdash;realized someone was trying to board the ship, and Korr and Faal rushed to meet the intruder. They arrived just as Druur blasted open the ship's inner air lock doors, and Korr engaged Druur in a brief duel.

Aboard the Junker
"You are a stubborn fool, Khedryn Faal.''" "Better a live fool than a dead fanatic, which is the course you've charted for yourself. You've got radiation poisoning, broken ribs, a severed arm. You haven't even paused long enough for treatment. You haven't even asked for some pharma for the pain or bacta to help the healing." "''I do not stop for treatment because I will not shirk doing what needs to be done. Even if it causes me pain."

- Relin Druur and Khedryn Faal

Both Korr and Druur soon realized that the other was a Jedi, and broke off the duel. Druur insisted that he needed to commandeer the freighter&mdash;the Junker&mdash;in order to get back aboard the Harbinger and prevent it from delivering its cargo to Kirrek. However, Korr revealed that the Battle of Kirrek had been fought 5,000 years previously, and that Sadow had been dead for centuries. Korr went on to suggest that Druur's misjump had taken him through time as well as space, to which Druur replied that the Jedi was mad. Korr, however, added that lightsaber technology had evolved&mdash;Druur's lightsaber was connected to a power pack which he wore, as opposed to Korr's newer lightsaber, which contained a power cell in the hilt. Druur still attempted to deny what Korr was saying, but Korr insisted that, as a Jedi, he would not lie to Druur, and went on to reveal the galaxy's recent history&mdash;including the First and Second Galactic Civil Wars.

Meanwhile, Rrogon saw Druur's escape pod on the Junker and ordered two squadrons of Blade starfighters to attack the freighter. Faal wanted to enter hyperspace to flee the fighters, but Korr and Druur both refused; each wanting to stay in-system in hopes of achieving their respective missions. Korr quickly piloted the freighter into the gas giant's rings while Druur took up position in control of the freighter's tractor beam. Druur used the tractor beam to briefly ensnare chunks of rock and let them go into the path of the pursuing Blades, destroying several of the fighters. In a plan formulated by Faal, Korr suddenly yanked the freigher's nose down, getting out of their pursuers' line of sight as Idi-Shael vented the ship's cargo. Korr flew the freighter back up into the rings as the cargo&mdash;coupled with two mag-grenades supplied by Druur&mdash;hit a rock and exploded, causing the pursuers to believe the ship had been destroyed.

Korr parked the Junker on one of the larger asteroids in the rings. Faal offered Druur treatment for his many injuries, but Druur refused, believing that pausing for treatment would mean shirking his duties. Faal, however, had decided that he did not want to continue catering to the two Jedi, as things had become too dangerous for his taste. Korr revealed that Idi-Shael was slightly Force-sensitive, and insisted, along with Druur, that it was the Force that had brought them all together there for a purpose. Druur then insisted that he needed to get to Harbinger quickly, reiterating the danger the Lignan presented to the galaxy, although he refused Korr's help when the Jedi Knight offered, stating that his presence would be too powerful for him to mask from Rrogon. Idi-Shael, however, proposed that he go with Druur, and the Jedi Master accepted.

Druur, Korr, Idi-Shael, and a reluctant Faal formulated a plan in which Faal would pilot Korr to the gas giant's moon in the shuttle Flotsam to continue the Jedi Knight's mission, while Idi-Shael would pilot Druur in the Junker to the Harbinger so that the Jedi Master could destroy the Lignan. As Faal and Idi-Shael began to prepare the Junker and Flotsam, respectively, Korr confronted Druur, revealing that he could sense the Jedi's anger. Korr also expressed concern for Idi-Shael, saying that he was Druur's responsibility during the upcoming mission and requesting that Druur give his word that he would return Idi-Shael safely. Druur promised that he would do so before confronting Korr in turn about the Jedi Knight's doubt. Druur went on to say that Jedi always expected too much of themselves and added that he had no wisdom for Korr; simply wishing him luck.

Final mission
"You do not intend to escape.''" "''I am no longer a Jedi, Marr. I am just&hellip;a murderer. And there's yet more murder that I must do."

- Marr Idi-Shael and Relin Druur, shortly before they part ways

As Korr and Faal left in the Flotsam, Druur's body began to fail him&mdash;the radiation poisoning had caused much internal damage, and regardless of the outcome of his upcoming mission, he realized he would die. Idi-Shael began piloting the Junker out of the planetary rings and toward the Harbinger; however, they found that the dreadnaught had moved into orbit around the moon, and Druur realized that the ship was too far away for the Junker to cover the distance before the Harbinger would notice them and scramble its fighters. Idi-Shael then suggested jumping right under the Harbinger, and although Druur was hesitant at first, he agreed to the plan, seeing no alternative.

Idi-Shael completed the required calculations mentally in under an hour, and they made the jump successfully, coming out of hyperspace right under the Harbinger. The power of the Lignan seeped into Druur, and though he resisted it at first, he finally allowed it to fuel his anger, believing that Hassin's death warranted such fury. Idi-Shael powered down the Junker, shifting power to the freighter's power crystal and firing it at the Harbinger shields, boring a hole in them. Druur realized that Idi-Shael was having trouble repelling the effects of the Lignan and tought him a technique to resist it. The Junker then drifted through the hole in the dreadnaught's shields created by the power crystal. As they entered the Sith ship's landing bay, Idi-Shael powered up the Junker once more.

Druur ordered Idi-Shael to land the Junker in a freight corridor just off of the landing bay and several Massassi warriors moved in to position to defend against the intruders. Druur disembarked from the freighter's cargo bay and quickly took the offensive, attacking the Massassi crew. He defeated several of the assembled warriors, but a blaster bolt skimmed off of the stump of the arm that had been severed during his duel with Rrogon. Druur found that he was no longer able to use his powers to heal himself or replenish his energy&mdash;only to attack. He realized that this meant he had fallen to the dark side, but no longer cared, as long as Rrogon was defeated and Hassin avenged.

Druur ordered Idi-Shael to leave, but the Cerean instead decided to stay and help the Jedi Master, taking Faal's swoop bike from the Junker cargo bay and flying it straight toward the Massassi. The Massassi fired on the bike, damaging it, but the distraction allowed Druur to decapitate two more warriors as Idi-Shael was forced to roll off of the bike. It careened into the corridor wall and exploded, and as Druur dispatched the rest of the Massassi, he realized he was enjoying the fight, smiling and laughing as he slaughtered the warriors. Idi-Shael again urged Druur to allow him to stay and help, but Druur quickly grew angry and refused the Cerean's help, claiming that this was something he had to do alone. He finally managed to convince Idi-Shael to go, and also urged him to give one final message to Korr&mdash;that nothing was certain; there was only the search for certainty, and things became precarious only when one thought that the hunt for certainty had ended. As the Cerean returned to the Junker and fled the Harbinger, Druur finally fully embraced the dark side.

Second duel with Rrogon
"I hate you for what you did!''" "''I hate me for what I am. But I hate you more."

- Saes Rrogon and Relin Druur

Druur used the feel of the Lignan in the Force to guide him to the cargo hold, killing everyone he passed along the way. Meanwhile, Rrogon sensed that Druur was on his way to the cargo bay, and decided to confront his former Master alone. Upon arriving in the cargo bay, Druur found the containers which held the Lignan ore. As he waited for Rrogon to arrive, Druur was plagued by his failures, intensifying his anger and hate. He felt Rrogon's presence as the Sith Lord entered the cargo bay and urged Rrogon to show himself. Rrogon advised Druur to join him in the dark side, almost managing to convince Druur until the Kallesh added that if Druur did not join him, then Hassin would have died in vain.

Pushed into a rage, Druur located Rrogon's presence in the Force and began telekinetically smashing some of the nearby containers of Lignan together, yelling at Rrogon to show himself. The Kaleesh finally obliged, drawing on the Lignan ore to enhance his strength and attacking Druur with Force lightning, which the fallen Jedi drew into his lightsaber blade before flinging it back at Rrogon. Rrogon simply absorbed the energy; but as the Sith drew on the Lignan to augment his power, the ore erupted into flames, burning out as it was used.

Meanwhile, Druur then decided that&mdash;as he was no longer a Jedi&mdash;he would not use a Jedi weapon, and threw aside his lightsaber. He and Rrogon then jumped at each other over the Lignan and collided in mid-air, engaging in hand-to-hand combat. Druur finally pushed Rrogon with the Force into a container of Lignan and attempted to drop another container on top of the Sith Lord, but Rrogon caught the container and threw it back at Druur, who dodged it. Rrogon strode toward Druur, challenging the his former Master's newfound anger, claiming that his own rage was older and stronger; thus Druur had no chance of matching it.

Rrogon hit Druur with a telekinetic blast that sent the fallen Jedi through one of the containers of ore, cracking several of his ribs. Continuing to walk toward Druur, the Sith Lord began choking him through the Force. Druur struggled against Rrogon's power, but was unable to counter it; his vision began to grow blurry as he lost his breath and collapsed to the ground. Rrogon called his lightsaber to his hand and prepared to kill his former Master. Realizing he had failed yet again, Druur was overwhelmed with despair; however, he used the despair he felt to draw on the power of the Lignan. Rrogon quickly realized what Druur was doing and began to draw on the ore's power himself, but Druur suddenly grasped the Sith Lord in a Force Choke of his own, easily overwhelming Rrogon's attempts to counter it.

Death
"Laugh even when you die."

- Relin Druur's final words, repeating a phrase once spoken to him by Hassin

Druur continued to draw on the power of the Lignan as he choked his former apprentice. Rrogon stumbled forward with his lightsaber, but Druur quickly called the Sith Lord's weapon to his hand. Rising to his knees as Rrogon collapsed to his own, Druur stabbed Rrogon in the chest with the Sith Lord's own blade, killing him. So filled with the dark side of the Force that he felt as though he had transcended past being Human, Druur accepted that he had been consumed by it and welcomed the fact, deciding that he would not allow himself to fail his final mission.

He continued to draw in the power of the Lignan, causing the ore to continue to erupt into flames as the power of the dark side grew inside of him. Knowing that he would die no matter what, Druur consumed as much of the Lignan's power as he could&mdash;causing energy to spiral about him and his flesh to become translucent. He grabbed Rrogon's hand and was so overcome with emotion that a large mass of Force lightning exploded out from his body into the cargo bay. He continued to draw in the Lignan as the lines of dark side energy spread throughout the ship. Druur finally unleashed into the dreadnaught the immense power he had consumed, engulfing the Harbinger in flames and destroying it even as he died.

Legacy
"He thinks&mdash;thought&mdash;that doubt keeps us sharp. That we should not consider its presence a failure.''" "''I saw what happened to him, Jaden. I think he was wrong."

- Jaden Korr and Marr Idi-Shael

Shortly after Druur's death, Idi-Shael reunited with Korr and Faal, who had successfully completed their own mission. Idi-Shael revealed to Korr that Druur had begun to teach him some Force techniques, and Korr agreed that he would continue to teach Idi-Shael about the Force. Idi-Shael also relayed Druur's final message to Korr as the Jedi Master had requested; the Cerean went on to say that he disagreed with Druur's outlook, and that it may have been one of the reasons that Druur fell to the dark side.

Personality and traits
"There's nothing certain. There's only the search for it. Things only turn dangerous when you think the search is over."

- Relin Druur

Relin Druur was a solemn man; as a Jedi Master, he advocated calm in his apprerntices, and was often pensive. He rarely laughed or smiled, especially after the fall of his first Padawan, Saes Rrogon, to the dark side of the Force. Despite this solemnity, Druur's second apprentice, Drev Hassin, was lighthearted and often able to get Druur to smile, although the Jedi Master still usually remained grave and serious in his manner. Druur also had a strong sense of duty, refusing medical treatment aboard the Junker because he believed that accepting the delay of treatment before finishing his mission would mean shirking his duties.

After Rrogon's fall to the dark side, Druur began to be consumed by doubt&mdash;he believed Rrogon's fall to be his own failure as opposed to the Kaleesh's. At first, Druur believed that such doubt kept him sharp, although he later came to realize that it was the doubt that had been building inside of him ever since Rrogon's fall that had caused his own descent to the dark side; and this led him to believe that his descent had thus been inevitable. Throughout his life, Druur fed his doubt by blaming many failures on himself&mdash;by the time of his second duel with Rrogon, Druur believed he had failed Rrogon, the Jedi Order, Drev Hassin, as well as Idi-Shael, for introducing the Cerean to the Force so that his first experience in intentional application of the Force was the feel of the Lignan. During his duel with Rrogon, Druur found that he considered his whole life to be just one long line of failures.

Relin Druur cared deeply for his Padawans; Rrogon's betrayal and Hassin's death both caused him great sorrow and filled him with self-doubt. After Hassin's sacrifice, Druur became consumed by a desire for revenge. He accepted this, believing that not wanting vengeance would be a disgrace to the memory of Hassin. During his final mission to the Harbinger, Druur found that he enjoyed killing the Massassi, and also found that he could no longer use his powers to heal or replenish himself. He realized this meant he had fallen to the dark side, but no longer cared, as long as Hassin's death was avenged, Rrogon was killed, and the Lignan was destroyed.

Powers and abilities
The Force-sensitive Relin Druur trained with the Jedi Order, eventually rising to the rank of Jedi Master. He was proficient in telekinesis techniques and used them frequently during his missions; he also was able to use the Force to effectively augment his running speed. Druur wielded a green-bladed lightsaber and was an accomplished duelist, although he lost his arm in a duel with Rrogon when Hassin distracted him by announcing his Infiltrator had been hit. Druur was able to cloak his appearance from the perception of other beings, and was also able to mask his Force presence and the presence of another Force-senstive simultaneously. Druur also utilized Dun Möch during his duels with Rrogon.

After falling to the dark side of the Force, Druur found that his offensive powers were stronger, although he could no longer use the Force to heal or replenish himself. He was able to utilize very powerful forms of telekinesis with ease and was also able to draw on the Lignan ore to enhance his powers. During his duel with Rrogon, Druur managed to catch the Sith Lord's Lignan-enhanced Force lightning on his lightsaber blade and throw it back at the Sith Lord, although it had no affect on Rrogon. With the help of the Lignan, he was also able to overpower Rrogon's Force Choke with a Force Choke of his own, from which the Sith Lord was unable to escape. Druur found that his powers in the dark side of the Force were less enhanced by rage or fury than by despair. Even after killing Rrogon with the Sith Lord's own lightsaber, Druur continued drawing on the power of the ore as he died, finally unleashing it upon the Harbinger, engulfing the ship in flames and destroying it.

Behind the scenes
Jedi Master Relin Druur first appeared in Paul S. Kemp's debut Star Wars novel, Crosscurrent, released January 26, 2010.

Appearances

 * Crosscurrent