Tholme/Legends

"This was Tholme's plan. He always did think himself more clever than he really is."

- Count Dooku

Tholme was a Jedi Master during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. A contemporary of Qui-Gon Jinn, the Dark Woman and Ki-Adi-Mundi, Tholme trained several Padawans during his long career, including Quinlan Vos and Aayla Secura.

Early Years


While the who and how of Tholme's Jedi training is anyone's guess, he is known to have apprenticed himself, perhaps unbeknowst to fellow Jedi, to the Anzati master Akku Seii. Under Seii, Tholme learned how to totally mask his presence and vanish in the Force in addition to techniques of espionage and stealth, which he put to good use at many instantances throughout his Jedi career.

At some point, Tholme became obligated to track down an Anzati by the name of Katichak, who had also been a student of Seii's. He suceeded in his task though the true fate of Katichak is unknown; he is assumed dead.

For a time, Tholme had been the Jedi Watchman of the sector that included Kiffu, but when he took a young Quinlan Vos to the Jedi Temple for training, he handed those duties over to the Neti Jedi T'ra Saa. During their long partnership, Tholme and Quinlan undertook many duties for the Republic, and fought in the Stark Hyperspace War. On Ryloth they found a young Twi'lek named Aayla Secura, who would eventually become the Padawan of Vos and (later) Tholme himself.

A few years after the Battle of Naboo, both Quinlan and Aayla were captured by criminals. They were investigated, drugged, and left on separate worlds, bereft of their memories. Their amnesia left both of them skirting dangerously close to the dark side - Quinlan Vos nearly murdered a senator before submitting to Mace Windu for retraining.



Tholme was assigned to watch over Quinlan by the Jedi Council, and the pair went to the planet Kiffex, where Aayla was believed to be hiding. With Tholme's guidance, Quinlan was able to help Aayla escape the control of the Dark Jedi Volfe Karkko. To complete her training as a Jedi, Aayla was reassigned to Tholme, as having her continue as Quinlan's Padawan was seen as too risky, in light of both nearly falling to the dark side.

Tholme and Aayla were sent to mediate the troubles on Ryloth that were brought about by the death of Pol Secura. When the Morgukai Tsyr and Bok attempted to kidnap Nat Secura, Tholme attempted to take both Niktos on at once. However, a combination of skill and cortosis staffs left Tholme defeated and injured, with Nat Secura taken.

Tholme hid himself on the Inferno, which was taking the Morgukai back to Kintan, but he was discovered and captured whilst communicating with Secura. He was repeatedly tortured on Kintan by Kh'aris Fenn before being placed in a cell with Nat Secura.

As Quinlan Vos and Aayla Secura tried to rescue Tholme, the AX/RX torture droid entered their cell and attempted to execute both prisoners. Tholme was electrocuted, but used a Jedi technique to fool the droid into thinking he was dead. Tholme used this as a distraction to damage the droid, but would have been killed had Aayla not appeared and destroyed the droid.

Vos and Secura helped Tholme escape the planet with Nat Secura, and he was present at the ceremony that made his former Padawans a Jedi Knight and Jedi Master respectively.

Clone Wars
"He's still alive and causing them grief. It's his way."

- Quinlan Vos



In the years leading up to the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Tholme helped Vos to set up a number of spy networks throughout the galaxy, though they were unable to predict the upcoming Battle of Geonosis.

Immediately following that battle, Tholme took Sora Bulq to Bakura, where he believed Count Dooku would return. He was right, but the two Jedi Masters were quickly outmatched by the Sith Lord. Tholme was stabbed through his right shoulder, had his right leg crushed by rocks and lost his left eye to a strike that left a long scar down his face. It was many months before Tholme recovered from these injuries. Sora Bulq was turned to the dark side while Tholme was incapacitated, and "rescued" Tholme to further Dooku's plots.

Tholme was also the mastermind behind the plot to have Quinlan infiltrate Count Dooku's inner circle. To this end he had Quinlan battle with Master Agen Kolar before escaping, in the hopes of creating a believable defection story. However, Tholme constantly suffered with guilt when it seemed that Vos actually had turned to the dark side and joined Dooku.

Tholme was one of the Jedi sent to stop the pirate raids coming from Devaron, along with the Dark Woman, Kit Fisto, Aayla and Tr'a Saa. Tholme was once again injured, this time in a trap set by Aurra Sing. Tholme was forced to recover in a bacta tank, and found himself unable to conduct missions for much of the Clone Wars.

Tholme was in love with T'ra Saa, though he believed their love was above the bitterness and foolishness that attachment brought. He was troubled when Saa was grievously injured by bounty hunters, causing him to regret the plans he had devised and the costs they had brought with them.



With information from Akku Seii, Tholme discovered Sora Bulq's plans to clone an army of Anzati-trained Morgukai warriors on Saleucami to fight the Republic. The two clashed briefly, but Tholme chose to retreat into the surrounding caverns. From there, he spent month sabotaging the operation while evading Bulq and his minions.

Not long before the Clone Wars came to an end, Bulq sent Quinlan Vos to find and destroy the saboteur, as a means of proving his loyalty to Dooku's cause. Sure enough, Quinlan confronted Tholme deep underground, and the two engaged in a fierce battle. Sensing how far his former apprentice had fallen due to his plot to locate the second Sith, Tholme faked his own demise, plunging off a precipice toward a river of lava. He blocked himself off entirely from the Force, allowing him to hide his presence until Quinlan's ultimate battle with Bulq, where he revealed himself and, together with Aayla Secura, gave Quinlan enough strength to defeat Bulq once and for all, and to remain in the Light while doing so.

Tholme helped to identify the LiMerge Power building as the one being used as the Sith headquarters on Coruscant. In the final days of the Clone Wars, Tholme went with T'ra Saa to Nar Shaddaa where they met up with Khaleen Hentz and stayed with her for a while. They survived Order 66 and reunited with Quinlan Vos on Kashyyyk, but their final fate in the Great Jedi Purge is unknown.

Behind the scenes

 * Tholme's name is a reference to Sherlock Holmes. (With the "s" in Holmes transposed to the front, and advanced a letter). His alias of Miles Croft also is a Sherlock Holmes reference: Mycroft ("Mi. Croft") Holmes was Sherlock's brother.
 * He was created by John Ostrander and Jan Duursema and debuted in the Star Wars: Republic story arc Darkness.
 * Tholme is a possible character that may be explored in the Star Wars: Live-Action TV Series, as he survived Order 66 and traveled to Kashyyyk to be reunited with his former Padawan Quinlan Vos.
 * In contrast to his appearances elsewhere, in The Stark Hyperspace War Tholme is blonde and blue-eyed (no doubt due to that being his only appearance not drawn by Jan Duursema).

Appearances

 * Star Wars Republic: Darkness
 * Star Wars Republic: The Stark Hyperspace War
 * Star Wars Republic: Rite of Passage
 * ''Star Wars Republic: Sacrifice
 * Star Wars Republic: Double Blind
 * Jedi: Mace Windu
 * Jedi: Aayla Secura
 * Jedi: Dooku
 * Star Wars Republic 63: Striking from the Shadows
 * Star Wars Republic: Show of Force
 * Star Wars Republic: The Dreadnaughts of Rendili
 * Star Wars Republic: Trackdown
 * Star Wars Republic: The Siege of Saleucami
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Republic: The Hidden Enemy