Wookieepedia:Featured article queue

This is the queue for featured articles scheduled to appear on the Main Page. The dates listed indicate when they will be showcased. For a list of articles already featured on the main page, see History, History 2006, and History 2005.

April 1, 2007 – Darca Nyl
Darca Nyl was a Human mercenary who, after falling in love with a woman named Teril, retired and settled on an unknown planet in the Outer Rim Territories. Nyl bore numerous deep emotional scars throughout his life, especially after his wife died in childbirth and a deranged Dark Jedi killed his son. Taking up a lightsaber given to him by a dying Jedi, Nyl went on a anger-filled quest to find and kill his son's killer. Along the way, he encountered various groups of people who assumed he was a Jedi and who were in need of his help. Although he eventually confronted and defeated the Dark Jedi, his encounters with various others along the way spurred him to begin a life dedicated to aiding the helpless.

April 8, 2007 – Zuckuss
Zuckuss was a successful Gand bounty hunter during the height of the New Order. Known as "The Uncanny One" by his fellow hunters, Zuckuss was known for his ability to discover hidden quarry due to his training as a findsman. Being Force-sensitive, Zuckuss was able to use what he called his "intuition" to reveal anything ranging from the location of a person to the motives of an untrusted foe.

During his long career, Zuckuss had many associates but was known primarily to partner with the droid 4-LOM. The two made a formidable bounty hunting team and were successful in retrieving the Yavin Vassilika over such opponents as Bossk and Dengar. Their success eventually attracted the attention of the Empire, and they were hired by Darth Vader to find the Millennium Falcon near the end of the Galactic Civil War. Due to his famed abilities, Zuckuss was highly sought after, and he found employment with the Bounty Hunters Guild, the Hutt Cartel, TaggeCo, and even the Rebellion for a time. Somewhat of a Rebel sympathizer, Zuckuss eventually began to hunt primarily for New Republic targets near the end of his career.

Although incredibly successful, Zuckuss was not without major flaws. He was plagued with schizophrenia and an advanced case of multiple personality disorder which caused him to speak in two different dialects. Despite his mental health, Zuckuss became incredibly popular on his homeworld of Gand, eventually inspiring an entire generation of Gand bounty hunters to seek success off-world.

April 15, 2007 – Tunroth
The Tunroth were bipedal sapients, indigenous to the Jiroch system of the Mid Rim. Towering and physically strong, Tunroth had distinctive elongated heads. They were renowned throughout the galaxy for their hunting and tracking skills, with the Tunroth Hunters in demand for employment as bounty hunters and big-game hunters.

They were members of the Galactic Republic for thousands of years, but during the reign of the Galactic Empire, Lortan fanatics virtually wiped them out in the Reslian Purge. The Tunroth slowly recovered, joining first the Empire and later the New Republic.

April 22, 2007 – Panaka
Panaka was the head of the Royal Naboo Security Forces before, during, and after the Invasion of Naboo, and later was the Moff for the Chommell Sector during the Galactic Civil War. He was a vocal militarist among the peaceful people of Naboo, a fish out of water amongst his peers.

Shaken by the murder of King Veruna, he installed various security measures to make sure that the same thing did not happen to his second monarch, Queen Padmé Amidala. By learning from the mistakes of his predecessor, Magneta, he was able to successfully defend her in several periods of danger, and continued to serve Naboo, the Republic, and eventually, the Empire.

Notoriously conservative, Panaka often clashed with the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn during the Invasion of Naboo, deriding the Jedi's controversial methods and retaining the utmost faith in his own. Nevertheless, with Jinn's help he was able to get his chance at military action, in the Second Battle of Theed.

April 29, 2007 – Hoth
Hoth was a famous Jedi Master and Jedi Lord who led the Army of Light against Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness during the New Sith Wars, until their final confrontation in the Ruusan campaign.

Hoth's temper was as legendary as his battle prowess, and a feud between Hoth and Valenthyne Farfalla almost delivered victory to Kaan. Despite their animosity, the pair reconciled, allowing Hoth to face his foe in a final confrontation. Knowing that the desperate Sith would utilize the thought bomb in an attempt to stave off defeat, Hoth went to face him anyway, forcing the Brotherhood of Darkness to destroy themselves in the process.

Hoth's act of self-sacrifice saved the Galactic Republic and ended the Sith as a galactic threat for almost a thousand years.

May 6, 2007 – Bastila Shan
Bastila Shan was a female Human Jedi Padawan who became one of the key figures involved in the Jedi Civil War and its immediate aftermath. She was known for having an impressive talent in Battle meditation and as such was seen as the key to winning the war. Bastila was the only survivor of the Jedi strike team sent to neutralize Darth Revan, forming a Force bond with him when she saved his life. The Jedi Council then reprogrammed Revan's damaged mind and put him under Bastila's care, hoping he could subconsciously lead them to the Star Forge.

While transporting the amnesiac Revan during the war, her ship was ambushed over Taris and she was captured by the Black Vulkar gang. After being rescued by Revan, Bastila accompanied him on his mission to find and destroy the Star Forge. Bastila was later captured by Revan's former apprentice, Darth Malak, who turned her to the dark side. However, Revan confronted her and redeemed her from the darkness to which she had succumbed, and she aided the Galactic Republic in the Battle of Rakata Prime. Bastila was also one of the few Jedi to survive the purge which followed the war.

May 13, 2007 – Armand Isard
Armand Isard was the Director of the Senate Bureau of Intelligence, and respectively, post 19 BBY, the Director of Imperial Intelligence. From humble beginnings as an SBI agent, he worked his way up through the ranks, doing sterling work for the Republic, and constantly aiding the war effort during the Clone Wars.

During Palpatine's reign, Armand worked closely with Lord Vader and the Inquisitorius to hunt down the survivors of Order 66. On several occasions, Isard's men were able to pinpoint the location of Jedi for the benefit of Vader or Inquisitor Tremayne. Simultaneously, Armand began grooming his daughter, Ysanne, for a career as a field operative.

As she grew, she became more and more capable in her role, and, naturally, Armand felt threatened. He sent her on a suicide mission to Darkknell as a means of getting rid of her, but, much to his surprise, she survived and completed the mission. On her return to Imperial Center, she had Armand framed for treason, and personally executed him, ending his decades-long career as Director of Intelligence and launching her own.

May 20, 2007 – Mount Sorrow
Mount Sorrow was a mountain on the Forest Moon of Endor. The tip of the mountain was in fact sentient, and had the power to both blow people off the summit, or cry tears of healing. Sorrow was a figure of legend in Ewok lore, albeit an obscure one, known only to the shamans and witch doctors of Endor. Sometime during the Imperial era, Mount Sorrow was able to cure budding poet Teebo of the perilous laughing spell, inherited from a loonee bird in the Endor Woods.

Despite being a mountain, Sorrow was in a constant state of depression, be it either stern or sad. He had excessively high standards, granting the benefit of his powers only to those deemed "worthy." He also had no qualms about sending children to their death, which he demonstrated by attempting to murder Wicket W. Warrick and Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka.

May 27, 2007 – Form IV: Ataru
Form IV: Ataru, Way of the Hawk-Bat, or the Aggression form was the fourth of the seven forms of lightsaber combat. The history of Ataru stretched back through the Old Republic, at least as early as the Mandalorian Wars, where it was commonly employed by Jedi of that day. Ataru continued to be a common form among the Jedi in the latter stages of the Republic.

An aggressive style, Form IV was fast-paced and effective against single opponents, though weaker in prolonged combat and confined spaces. Ataru was characterized by Force-assisted acrobatics, both for attack and defense, and fast, powerful strikes. Notable users of this combat form included Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn.

June 3, 2007 – Joram Kithe
Joram Kithe was a resourceful, if cowardly, accountant for the Galactic Republic who received a temporary commission as a lieutenant in Republic Intelligence in order to study the performance of clone troopers on Pengalan IV. When that mission turned into a disaster, Kithe was put into the unusual position of leading the isolated survivors off the planet, destroying a missile factory on the way. Over the course of the mission, Kithe moved beyond his admitted cowardice and selfishness, bonding with the clones under his command and sharing in their danger.

Kithe chose to continue as an intelligence agent after the mission, finding new purpose in fighting the Clone Wars. His success inspired the Republic to create a pilot program putting bureaucrats, with their analysis skills, into the field as intelligence agents. In a mission to Tarhassan, Kithe found the results of that program extremely lacking. He was barely able to keep the mission from being destroyed by overly officious bureaucrat-agents, but managed to use his budding skills to complete it successfully.

June 10, 2007 – Isolder
Prince Isolder was the former Chume'da of the Hapes Consortium. As the second son of Queen Mother Ta'a Chume, Isolder was not expected to rule. However, after his older brother Kalen was murdered, Isolder went on an undercover quest to hunt down the person responsible. Impressed by his finding of the culprit, his mother granted him the rank of Chume'da.

In 8 ABY, Isolder fell in love with Leia Organa when she came to Hapes to discuss a possible alliance between the New Republic and the Hapes Consortium. However, after a series of events led him to the planet Dathomir, he instead fell in love with Teneniel Djo, one of the local Witches of Dathomir.

Shortly after his marriage to Teneniel, Ta'a Chume stepped down as Queen Mother, and Isolder and Teneniel ruled over the Consortium. During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Isolder was pivotal in allowing the Hapan Royal Navy to participate at the ill-fated Battle of Fondor, and later suffered the murder of his wife due to his mother's plotting.

During the Second Corellian Insurrection, Isolder served as an advisor to his daughter, Queen Mother Tenel Ka.

June 17, 2007 – Sun King
The Sun King was a powerful entity who ruled the summer season of the forest moon of Endor. He could only bring about summer with the Season Scepter, although the power was not exclusive to him. He was the brother of the Flower Queen, the Leaf Queen, and the Snow King. During the Imperial era, his brother, the Snow King, entered into an affair with Odra, Duchess of Sleet, and placed a large portion of the forest moon under perpetual winter. To avert the crisis, the Sun King sat in on a cabal with his sisters, and enlisted the help of the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village. Thanks to the efforts of Wicket W. Warrick and friends, Orga was defeated, and summer restored.

The Sun King himself had a cavalier attitude towards life, and despite his lofty political position, he had no grasp of formality. He surrounded himself with courtiers, whom he would refer to as "dudes." It is perhaps this apathy and laid-back stance that allowed the Snow King to mount his coup against the Sun King.

June 24, 2007 – Keyan Farlander
Keyan 'Lucky' Farlander was an Agamarian who joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic after his parents were killed in an attack by the Galactic Empire. Serving as a pilot in Red Squadron aboard the Independence, he participated in many of the early battles of the Galactic Civil War, including the Battle of Yavin.

He later trained as a Jedi Knight, combining the life of a Jedi with his life as a military commander for the New Republic. By the Yuuzhan Vong War, he had been promoted to general and served as one of the Republic's senior commanders, leading their forces in several battles including the Battle of Ebaq 9 and the Second Battle of Coruscant.

July 1, 2007 – Jaina Solo
Jaina Solo was a Jedi Knight of the New Jedi Order and the twin sister of Jacen Solo. Born to Han and Leia Organa Solo, she inherited her father's mechanical adeptness and her mother's Force sensitivity, resulting her eventually training at the Jedi Praxeum. During her time there, she had many adventures, including helping to thwart the Second Imperium.

When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the Galaxy, Jaina joined the New Republic military and distinguished herself as a Rogue Squadron pilot. She was constantly on the front lines of battle during the Yuuzhan Vong War, earning the title of Sword of the Jedi from her uncle, Luke Skywalker, and becoming known as an avatar of the Trickster Goddess Yun-Harla to the Yuuzhan Vong. However, the death of her brother Anakin caused Jaina to walk dangerously close to the dark side. She was later redeemed, and led Twin Suns Squadron. As the war waged on, Jaina discovered a way for the Alliance to use Yuuzhan Vong warships and biots to their advantage, and was present at the final conclusion of the war. Jaina, as a survivor of the Mission to Myrkr, later became Joined into the Killik community, and was involved in the subsequent Dark Nest Crisis and Swarm War. At the war's conclusion, she underwent reconditioning to un-join her, but the conflict separated her from long-time love interest Jagged Fel.

In 40 ABY, she assumed control of the Hardpoint Squadron and participated in the Battle of Tralus, choosing to side with the Galactic Alliance. Afterwards, she and her brother Jacen commanded Rogue Squadron during the Blockade of Corellia. The resulting crisis resulted in a split between her and Jacen due to his increasingly aggressive actions, though she remained an active member of the Jedi Order.

July 8, 2007 – Orman Tagge
Orman Tagge, Baron Tagge was the head of the House of Tagge from 20 BBY until his death in 1 ABY, and elder brother to Cassio, Silas, Ulric, and Domina Tagge. Tagge was also the head of the Tagge Company, a massive conglomerate that encompassed many of the galaxy's most successful franchises. Tagge himself became so famous that his likeness was used as the logo for the fast food chain Biscuit Baron.

But beneath the public façade, Tagge's life was rife with problems. In trying to curry favor with Galactic Emperor Palpatine, Tagge earned the ire of Lord Vader, and in turn, Vader blinded the Baron for life. From that moment on, Tagge swore revenge, leading him into a personal vendetta that would get him involved with Alliance figureheads such as Luke Skywalker. The vendetta came to a close after 20 years, ending unresolved, when Skywalker was forced to strike down the Baron in combat.

July 15, 2007 – Trioculus
Trioculus was a three-eyed mutant warlord of the Galactic Empire who declared himself Emperor a year after the Battle of Endor. As a figurehead of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs, led by his mentor Bertroff Hissa, Trioculus took control of the remnants of the Empire in opposition to Ysanne Isard.

The self-proclaimed son of Palpatine, Trioculus was in actuality a pretender to the throne, usurping the role of Palpatine's real three-eyed son, Triclops. Spurred on by a prophecy of the false Kadann, he sought the glove of Darth Vader to establish his legitimacy. Trioculus's pursuit of the Jedi Prince Ken and his infatuation with Leia Organa pitted him against rival Zorba Desilijic Tiure, and led to him being taken captive by the Hutt and frozen in carbonite. Trioculus was eventually betrayed by Kadann, who sought the Imperial throne himself, and in the end was assassinated by a New Republic droid.

July 22, 2007 – Ebon Hawk
The Ebon Hawk was a freighter-turned-smuggler ship that rose to fame due to its use around the time of the Jedi Civil War. It was well-known throughout the Galaxy as a ship associated with the Exchange, and it passed through many hands before coming into the ownership of the amnesiac Jedi Revan. The ship then became instrumental in Revan's search for the Star Forge.

After Revan left known space, the ship eventually fell into the hands of the Jedi Exile, who used it on her quest to stop the Sith Triumvirate. Soon after, the Exile used the Ebon Hawk to follow Revan into the Unknown Regions. The ship was heavily modified over the course of its use, to the point that it was difficult to determine its origins. With its extremely powerful hyperdrive, the ship was believed to be the fastest in the Galaxy during its time.

July 29, 2007 – Padmé Amidala's wardrobe
Padmé Naberrie Amidala, Queen and later Senator of Naboo, maintained a large wardrobe of extravagant, ornate and in some cases very elaborate disguises, gowns, and robes of office throughout her life. As a Princess of Theed, her gowns were more simple, geared more towards practicality than style. However, her gowns and dresses during her terms as Queen were ornate and uniquely styled, geared highly towards Naboo tradition than comfort. After her second term as Queen was ended, the more practical and fashionable clothing made her realize her physical beauty, and she more and more sought to accent it, realizing that, before, it had been neglected. This led to less dramatic and striking clothing, leaving more attention to her than to her clothes. After her marriage to Anakin, she began wearing more conservative clothing in public, almost symbolizing her dedication to only him.

August 5, 2007 – Snow King
The Snow King was a powerful "god" who ruled the winter season of the forest moon of Endor. He could only bring about winter with the Season Scepter. He was the brother of the Leaf Queen, the Sun King, and the Flower Queen. During the Imperial era, he was seduced by Odra, Duchess of Sleet, and engaged in an affair with her. During this time, she froze his heart, turning him into a merciless dictator.

Just shy of declaring war on his siblings and turning the forest moon into a battleground, he had his Ice Head Commandos apprehend the Season Scepter from the Sun King, and then used the scepter to cast an eternal winter over Endor. Only the efforts of Wicket W. Warrick, under the banner of the Coalition of the Freezing, were able to stop Odra and the Snow King, and in an altercation at the Snow Palace, the King's heart was thawed. Seeing the wrong he had done, the Snow King reversed his evil, and any damage he had caused was repaired.

August 12, 2007 – Arbra
Arbra was a densely-forested planet that became the headquarters of the Rebel Alliance after the evacuation of Golrath Station, around 3 ABY. Home to the lagomorphic Hoojibs, Arbra was once inhabited by an ancient race who had resided in subterranean cities.

As a safe haven in a desperate hour for the Rebellion, Arbra earned the nickname "Salvation." They launched many missions against the Empire from the world during their stay. The location of Arbra was kept top-secret, and the Rebel base on its surface was heavily secured. Though the planet was never attacked by Imperial forces during the Rebels' stay, there were close calls, and Arbra offered its own share of dangers.

After the Battle of Endor, Arbra remained a member of the Alliance of Free Planets, and later the New Republic. The system was overlooked by the Yuuzhan Vong during their invasion, and served as a location to slowly build up military forces.

August 19, 2007 – Voren Na'al
Voren Na'al was a prominent historian in the service of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and its various successor governments. He began his career as a reporter for the Galactic News Service. His experiences and imprisonment during the Imperial overthrow of the government of Corsin drove him into the arms of the Alliance. There, he became a historian under Master Historian Arhul Hextrophon, tasked with compiling the histories of the Heroes of Yavin.

His historical works led him to continued advancement, first as Director of New Republic Council Research and Assistant Historian to the Republic, and later as Archivist Emeritus of the Historical Council of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

August 26, 2007 – Gaeriel Captison
Gaeriel "Gaeri" Captison was a member of an influential political family on Bakura. Her father, Dol Captison, and his brother, Yeorg Captison, were both senators in the Bakuran Senate. As a result, she was raised in the presence of notable political figures, and with a desire to follow in her family members' footsteps.

Gaeriel was influential in the Battle of Bakura, siding with the resistance. She went on to become the Prime Minister of Bakura and lead as a staunch ally of the New Republic. She married Pter Thanas, with whom she had a daughter named Malinza. Gaeriel later accompanied the Bakuran fleet during the First Corellian Insurrection as a diplomat, sacrificing herself and the Intruder to destroy a large portion of the insurgent fleet.