Lucien Draay

"How can I even contemplate such a thing? Your Master Lucien is the scion of an important family&mdash;both in the Republic and in the Jedi Order."

- Vandar Tokare, to Zayne Carrick regarding the Padawan Massacre of Taris

Lucien Draay was a near-Human Jedi Master and a member of the Jedi High Council during the Mandalorian Wars. Regarded as a warrior by his fellow Jedi, Lucien was the son of Barrison Draay, a former financier turned Jedi who was killed during the Great Sith War while Lucien was still very on the other hand, was concerned with matters with the Jedi Order and due to the difficult birth of Lucien, was unable to serve in the war. As a result, Lucien was left under the care of a droid in the Draay's large estate.

Growing up, Lucien felt neglected by his mother as she trained seers at the estate, wishing himself to be trained by his mother and become a great warrior like his father before him. He began training in the Jedi arts under under the tutelage of Haazen, Krynda's retainer, after she rejected his pleas for her to train him along with her many students. Some time after his training was complete and he was made a Master, Krynda and Haazen officially formed the Jedi Covenant and arranged for him and a select group of Masters to be together. However, the Jedi High Council ordered that each be given a Padawan. The Masters hesitantly took the Padawans and trained them at the Jedi Tower on the planet Taris. Lucien was given the Padawan Zayne Carrick to train though he would neglect his training in favor of concentrating on his mother's secret organization.

During the final trials of the group's Padawans, the WatchCircle encountered a vision of their deaths and what they believed to be the return of the Sith. The WatchCircle as a result struck their Padawans down during their Knighting ceremony save for the late Zayne Carrick. The WatchCircle framed the murders on Zayne which resulted in a galaxy-wide chase for the supposed fugitive.

Matters turned for worse as two of the four members of the WatchCircle were killed and Zayne was posed to set course for Coruscant and the High Council to prove his innocence and expose the secret organization. At this time, Lucien was the new appointee to the Council and used his position to further keep the Council from entering the Mandalorian Wars to aid the Republic and demean the actions of the Revanchist and his followers who were beginning to be viewed as heroes.

Early years and Jedi training

 * Krynda: "But it was my destiny to have sight and second sight. It was yours to have sight alone. Too much like your father!" Lucien: "My father? My father was a great warrior!" Krynda: "Your father is a dead warrior." &mdash;Krynda Draay and Lucien Draay discuss his "limited ability". [src]

In the year 4,000 BBY, Jedi Master Krynda Draay gave birth to hers and her husband's, the wealthy financier-turned-Jedi Barrison Draay, son Lucien. The birth however had it's complications and Krynda was unable to serve in the Great Sith War as Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma ravaged the Republic in the very same year of Lucien's birth. Barrison, and his Padawan, Haazen, served in the war. Unfortunately, Barrison was killed when a missile devastated the camp he was stationed in. The war continue to rage on and Krynda herself, caring for the young Lucien, became greatly saddened by the death of her husband, her sister and her master, the esteemed Vodo-Siosk Baas. This resulted in Krynda ceasing to train Padawans and to be active in Jedi affairs though kept Haazen, a failed Padawan due to the sudden death of Barrison, as a retainer.

While still in infancy, Lucien was left under the care of a house droid, Ninebeedee, in the family estate. Though not involved in Jedi affairs, Krynda hoped that Lucien had inherited her "sight" and precognition due to his maternal grandfather being a Miraluka. However, he could not and Krynda denied him training as a Jedi.

For four years, Krynda denied potential Jedi trainees until Haazen brought to her a young Miraluka girl named Q'Anilia. With her arrival, Krynda started training Padawans again. Other Padawans that came to her included the Togruta and insomniac Raana Tey, the much older and unexpected Feeorin, Feln, and the Khil named Xamar. Krynda trained them, along with various others including Miraluka, at the Estate. Lucien, feeling neglected by his mother, begged his mother to train him while doubting the blind Miraluka's ability to see. Krynda gave into his wishes but had Haazen train him instead &mdash; a fact to which Lucien was not pleased with due to Haazen's "failed Padawan" status. After his father's death, Lucien often spent summers on Arkania with the son of Barrison's financial colleague, Alok Adasca, Arkoh Adasca. Though Arkoh considered Lucien to be a friend, Lucien found him to be a typical spoiled child. Despite being invited to various parties hosted by The Adasca BioMechanical Corporation of Arkania, Lucien rarely enjoyed himself there though on at least one occasion, he was accompanied by Q'Anilia. Sometime after, Lucien and the Jedi Order "spirited away" Arkoh's niece and the second heir to the Adasca fortune, Aurora.

Under Haazen's tutelage, Lucien became a warrior much as his father had before him. Krynda allowed her students &mdash; Q'Anilia, Feln, Raana Tey and Xamar &mdash; sparring sessions with Lucien but after he defeated all four of them, she became angry at him hurting her students though Haazen praised Lucien's ability. Due to this, Haazen made a deal with Master Vandar Tokare agreed to officially allow Lucien into the Jedi Order on a probationary trial. Despite these successes, Krynda was more focused on her students, whom she considered to be the greatest seers she'd had ever seen. Krynda and Haazen determined that this group was one that Krynda had foreseen &mdash; a group that would see the rise of the Sith and prevent it from unfolding. This group became the First WatchCircle in Krynda and Haazen's secret Jedi Covenant, financially backed by Barrison Draay's trust. The group needed protection and someone to handle arrangements. For this, they agreed that Lucien would fit this role. The group went on to become full fledged Jedi Masters and all five were sent to the ecumenopolis and non-aligned planet of Taris in the Outer Rim Territories.

Lucien and Krynda did formulate another branch off of the Covenant. From the Jedi Shadows during the Great Sith War, she and Lucien formed a large group of individuals called Covenant Shadows. The Shadows were absolutely loyal to Krynda but their documentation was destroyed which allowed for maximum mobility in retrieving artifacts that could potentially bring about the return of the Sith. These agents were placed under Lucien's command and he'd deploy them from the Draay Estate. When the artifact was retrieved, Lucien would send them to a secret storehouse somewhere in the Galaxy to have the artifact studied and then finally destroyed. However, unknown to Lucien, Haazen did not wish for the artifacts to be destroyed for his own purposes. Haazen arranged it so Lucien would have a more personal relationship with Q'Anilia than just working together in the Covenant. Haazen would later find this arrangement amusing.

The Padawan Massacre

 * Xamar: "Oh? What was it when we killed our Padawans?!" Lucien: "Our duty!" &mdash;Xamar questions their actions during the Padawan Massacre. [src]

Stationed inside the Jedi Tower on the Taris, each of the Masters were assigned a Padawan learner themselves. The group however reluctantly took the Padawans, not wishing to detract from their mission in seeing the return of the Sith. Lucien was assigned the Padawan Zayne Carrick from Phaeda. Zayne, as well as the other Padawans, were initially trained at the Jedi Enclave under the supervision of Vandar Tokare. Zayne was said however to have a special connection with the Force. This was something that Lucien and the other masters did not see during Zayne's training. Due to Lucien's concentration on other matters regarding the secret Covenant his mother had formed, Zayne fell behind his classmates. Lucien gave up on Zayne and regarded his training as a lost cause. Though the other Padawans and the masters simply believed that Zayne was an example that the Force had a sense of humor and as a result, never took him seriously.

The Masters set a challenge for their Padawans in 3,964 BBY on Taris' Rogue moon, where the Force flowed freely. The other four Masters, Feln, Q'Anilia, Raana Tey, and Xamar, meditated, attempting to see the future. Raana and Feln saw themselves being struck down by a Sith Lord wielding a red lightsaber and wearing an environmental suit while Q'Anilia envisioned the same being standing over the body of an unknown woman. Xamar on the other hand envisioned his death as Republic vessels turned on him and destroyed the vessel he was on. The environmental suit was identical to the ones the Padawans were wearing at the time. Raana Tey suggested that they kill them to prevent the return of the Sith. Xamar was the only one who disagreed, saying that they should first consulted contact Krynda on Coruscant. Lucien agreed though he'd be the one to make the call. Lucien then noticed that the the bulk-loader droid Elbee was listening in on their conversation. Lucien told the droid to take a few steps back and pushed it off the ledge they were meditating on.

The Padawans returned with Zayne, as expected, arriving last. The Masters acted as if nothing had happened and returned to Taris where they announced that they were to be knighted. Lucien and the others held a banquet for the Padawans and their families. While the Masters prepared to kill their Padawans during the Knighting ceremony, believing Krynda had given the go ahead. They would then shift the blame for the deaths onto him and claim that they rejected him for knighting due to his headstrong ways resulting in him attacking the others in rage. However, upon Shad's arrival in the Council chambers, he noticed Lucien's lightsaber hanging from his belt. Shad couldn't believe that Zayne would be knighted as well as the rest of them. Shad saw through the Masters ploy, forcing them to strike preemptively. As Zayne walked into the chambers, late from capturing Marn Hierogryph, he witnessed the massacre that had took place. Zayne sprinted away from the chambers and attempted to make a getaway. Lucien asked that he not waste time and give up. Zayne continued to run away, down the elevator shaft. Despite Lucien locking down the entire tower, Zayne managed to make it out to his speeder, with the cuffed Hierogryph, and escape to the skies of Taris.

Crashing into a local school, the Covenant lost track of Zayne as he made his way into the Lower City. Lucien returned to the Jedi Tower where the Padawans were being carted out of the Council Chambers. Q'Anilia reported to Lucien that Taris Civil Authority Constable Noana Sowrs will capture Zayne quickly though Q'Anilia was still skeptical about letting the Civil Authorities in on a such a sensitive subject. Lucien expected as much and assured Q'Anilia that though Zayne still may not be the one to bring about their deaths, they still had to eliminate him. Despite that, Q'Anilia expressed some concern that Marn Hierogryph would allow for Zayne to evade them though the two expected that he'd abandon Zayne in due time. The four seers sat together again to foresee where Zayne would be next and that was the Undercity of Taris, a region infested with Rakghouls and slavers. Only, the group did not find Zayne in the Undercity but found themselves fighting off the creatures that lurked there. Lucien pulled Q'Anilia away from fighting to speak with her though she admitted that Hierogryph's involvement has clouded her vision. Lucien then received a communication from Xamar that Zayne and Hierogryph were headed toward the refugee camps outside Machineville in the Lower City.

With the aid of the Civil Authorities, Lucien and the others invaded a particular area called Junk Junction where an old Arkanian offshoot called Camper set up a junk shop with his protector, Jarael &mdash; another Arkanian offshoot. While they called for Zayne's surrender, the elderly Camper wished to make a get-away from what he believed would expose him to "the Company", and activated the junk hauler called the Last Resort out of it's resting place and took off with Zayne and Gryph in tow. Lucien refused Sowrs' offer of help to continue the pursuit after them, telling Sowrs it was "a Jedi problem."

Searching for Zayne
Lucien and a group of soldiers managed to track Zayne to the Rogue Moon, who was determined to find answers and found Elbee. But the Master's craft was shot down by the Resort.

It was the bounty hunter Valius Ying that captured and brought Zayne into custody to the Jedi Council on Taris. Lucien told Zayne the truth in front of the hunter. He then murdered Ying in cold blood, and said they will also go after his crew and Zayne's friends because they know too much would have been next if not for the surprise rescue from Jarael and the crew of the Last Resort. Lucien, finally seeing that Zayne could become a Sith, warned him to fear what he may become. His former Padawan couldn't, as fear leads to the dark side.

Weeks later, after a series of riots breaking out due to the escape of Zayne, Lucien and the other four members of Jedi Covenant lost Taris and were ordered by the Jedi High Council to go to Coruscant&mdash;but not before they received a message from Zayne Carrick. He gave them an alleged vision of his own and threatened to hunt them down and force one of them to confess and clear his name.

Upon returning to Coruscant, Lucien and the other masters attempted to meet with Krynda Draay. However, they were denied entrance by the household droid. Lucien met with the Jedi Council and informed them that he might as well have killed the Padawans of Taris, claiming he was guilty of not taking action upon sensing the dark side in Zayne. Lucien asked that the his group be leading the search for his renegade Padawan claiming he might discover Sith knowledge and convert other Jedi. Master Vrook Lamar denied him and ordered that they be reassigned to separate postings.

Before separating, Lucien was given a report on a "project" by Raana Tey. Lucien once again attempted to see his mother. However, back at the Draay estate, all he found was Haazen who lectured Lucien on how he caused the Covenant to just escape exposure. Lucien demanded to know where his mother was, but Haazen refused to give him a straight answer. Lucien left yelling that there was something that he wasn't telling him&hellip; but there was also something that Lucien wasn't telling Haazen.

Betrayal on the Arkanian Legacy
When hearing that Zayne was captured by Admiral Saul Karath, Lucien was on his way to fetch him on the Republic starship, Courageous. But while on Telerath, he was shocked to hear that the Mandalorians had just destroyed the entire ship. Haazen sent a holographic transmission to the planet's boardroom for Lucien, telling him that Krynda was safe in the Draay estate. Now believing Zayne was dead, Haazen also related that Arkoh Adasca, now the owner of Adascorp, was behind a very evil plan. He then ordered Lucien to investigate the situation and discover the source of the dark power.

Lucien would not believe his old friend could possibly turn to crime, but he had to know. He met with Arkoh on board his flagship, the Arkanian Legacy, which he was able to find through corporate leaks. Arkoh brought upon memories of the past and of business though Lucien was not pleased with his avoidance of discussing the exogorths. Arkoh brought in drinks for the two to share. However, he could not afford any uninvited guests on his ship and drugged Lucien, putting him into a coma. When Lucien finally awakened, he was surrounded by HK-24 units and bound to his thought-dead Padawan, Zayne Carrick.

Despite being bound to he that Lucien had swore to kill, Lucien found himself having to work with Zayne in order to escape their binds. When free however, Lucien struck out at Zayne, who was protected only by a pair of vambraces he had received from Camper. Lucien agreed to settle things with Zayne after they dealt with Arkoh.

After destroying the remaining HK-24's in the security room, Lucien and Zayne discovered that Arkoh was allying with the Mandalorians. Carth Onasi joined in after he had slipped out and brought Zayne's lightsaber from his vessel, the Deadweight, to him. Lucien thought it would be best to kill Jarael in order to stop Arkoh. But Rohlan Dyre, with a blaster pointing right behind the Jedi Master's back, would not allow that. Eventually, the Mandalorian turncoat calmed down and decided to help, in order to take Jarael with him. Zayne decided to wear Rohlan's spare armor as a disguise, causing Lucien to feel that his former Padawan had been around Gryph for too long. Lucien later participated in the Battle of Omonoth as he revealed himself to Arkoh after Zayne disguised as a Mandalorian shoved Carth who retaliated and Zayne in turn ignited his lightsaber and destroyed several HK-24 units, falling for the ruse, Mandalore the Ultimate responded by attacking both the Republic and Arkoh's forces. Later, the elder Arkanian scientist: Gorman Vandrayk caused the exogorths to devour the observatory aboard the legacy after the group escaped, killing Arkoh though Mandalore escaped to his personal shuttle.

After escaping the observatory, Lucien offered Zayne a deal, if Zayne would turn himself in, he would save them all from the crumbling vessel. Zayne agreed but the arrival of the Moomo Williwaw prevented Lucien from successfully capturing Zayne. However, Lucien did manage to learn that Zayne would be returning to Taris where the hunt began. He fled in his shuttle away from the burning Legacy.

The hunt continues
On Coruscant, Lucien and Q'Anilia later sensed the death of Raana Tey on Taris. Q'Anilia said the worst part was that Zayne had learned a name from Raana: Krynda, Lucien's mother and the founder of the Covenant.

While Feln and Xamar have arrived back on Coruscant, the Covenant prepared a memorial for Raana, their lost companion. But before they could begin, the remaining three Seers received a vision of an ancient Sith artifact, known as the Muur Talisman. Acting on this vision, Lucien contacted Covenant agent and Shadow Celeste Morne, who was stationed on Taris to retrieve the talisman as well as bring in his former Padawan.

However, Celeste later came to believe that Zayne was innocent and did not kill him. Also, when Celeste fell under the influence of the Muur Talisman, Zayne was able to snap her out of it, and put her in a stasis until they could find help. Unfortunately, a fleet of Mandalorians led by Mandalore's second-in-command, Cassus Fett, launched nuclear warheads at the planet they were on, hoping to eliminate the rakghouls on it, before Zayne could get Celeste off planet. However, Zayne had been given a lead by Celeste, and headed for the homeworld of Master Feln.

On the Jedi Council
"So it is that I, Lucien Draay, humbly submit to your wishes by accepting this seat on the Jedi High Council."

- Lucien

Soon after Carrick left Jebble, Lucien was elected to join the Jedi High Council, thanks to Haazen, so that the Covenant's agents could move about freely. While thanking the Council, he said that the true honor belonged to his parents, and that he would do his best to live up to their examples, beginning with an agenda for the future, and preventing the return of the Sith. He next declared his opposition to the interventionist path sought by the Revanchist and that it was wrong for both the Republic and the Jedi. His first motion on the council, which was approved, was ordering the recall, and if necessary, the detention of the prowar renegades. He ended his speech by declaring his fervent hope that, in the days ahead, "justice" would find his former Padawan, and bring an end to "all Sith threats".

When Zayne and Gryph were captured on Odryn, Lucien contacted Feln, who was on the planet at the time. He incorrectly deduced that Zayne was corrupted by the Talisman, killed Celeste, was going to blackmail the Covenant and use the Sith artifacts stored in the Sanctum of the Exalted to further spread his poison. He orders Zayne's death again and to execute Option Ossus &mdash; destroy the Sanctum. But Haazen, who had been monitoring the hologram channel the two Jedi had been using, told Feln to disregard that order. Lucien then argued with Haazen about this, but Feln jumped to his own conclusion -- he was going to kill Zayne whether they liked it or not.

However, Feln executed Option Ossus anyway after his fight with Zayne and, enraged at his arrogance, his fellow Feeorin turned on him and killed him. Lucien sensed his death through the Force and began to doubt his own abilities. Xamar and Q'Anilia met with him at the Draay Estate to discuss their next move. Lucien told Xamar that he had told Admiral Karath that Zayne was planning to use the Moomo Williwaw to raid Coruscant for the Mandalorians. Karath was very interested in intercepting him; he still believed him to be a Mandalorian spy. In order to make sure Karath took no prisoners this time, Lucien asked Xamar to join him within the hour.

Xamar agreed, however reluctantly, as he remembered that his part of the Rogue Moon Vision showed him being shot down by friendly fire while with the Republic Navy. Satisfied, Lucien left the Estate in his personal speeder.



Tempted by the dark side
Little did Lucien know that after Zayne had been captured, Xamar confessed to the Council in order to clear Zayne's name and absolve Krynda of her involvement. Xamar brought Zayne, disguised as a Sith, and Gryph to the Draay Estate in order to bring Krynda out into the open. Lucien then finally met Gryph and was prepared to kill Zayne once and for all when Haazen interjected, wanting to personally examine the so-called Sith. He quickly saw through the facade and as the Jedi Order attacked, Haazen issued Vindication, a command in which all Covenant members must stop the Council should it be infiltrated by the Sith. Also, the man who had taught him, surprised and horrified them all as he revealed himself as a servant of the dark side. Soon he, not Krynda, was the leader of the Jedi Covenant, and his actions pitted the Jedi of the Order against the misguided Jedi of the Covenant. Both Lucien and Zayne would be tempted by the dark side whilst the Draay Estate burned; and Lucien would at one point fight Zayne's accomplice, Marn Hierogryph, wielding a red lightsaber.

Personality and traits
As the Hand of the Covenant, Lucien did what he believed was necessary to prevent the rise of the Sith, even if it meant acting on his own without authorization. He and the other members of the Circle hated the Sith, a feeling down turned by the Jedi way. He believed in the Revanchists' fight against the Mandalorians.

Though he did not possess his mother's second sight, he was an able fighter like his father was.

Behind the scenes
The name "Lucien Draay" is similar to "Lucien Debray", the name of a character in The Count of Monte Cristo. However, John Jackson Miller, the writer of the Knights of the Old Republic comics, said that it did not, nor was it inspired by anything.

Lucien was originally spelled Lusion.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 0: Crossroads
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 7: Flashpoint, Part 1
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 9: Flashpoint Interlude: Homecoming
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Reunion
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 15: Days of Fear, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 18: Nights of Anger, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Daze of Hate
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 24: Knights of Suffering, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 25: Vector, Part 1
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 26: Vector, Part 2
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 27: Vector, Part 3
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 28: Vector, Part 4
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Exalted
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 31: Turnabout
 * Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Vindication