Garon Jard

Garon Jard
Descriptive information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Hair color	Gray
Eye color	Brown
Skin color	Fair
Chronological & political information
Affiliation(s)	Jedi Order

"Activation protocol begins. So, after the long silence, finally someone comes. I am Garon Jard. Millennia ago, I stood as a founder of the Jedi Order."

―Garon Jard's hologram

Garon Jard was a Human male who was a founding member of the Jedi Order. A powerful Jedi Master, Ward and fellow Master Rajivari would invite peers to week-long convocations on the Force and was part of the informal councils that predated the more structured Jedi Councils. Jard pushed for seeking peace without violence to be a core trait of the Jedi and recorded a teaching hologram that was stored on the planet Tython.

Twenty thousand years after Jard's time, the hologram was rediscovered by the Jedi in the Tythonian Gnarls region but came under threat from native Flesh Raiders. Around 3643 BBY, the new Padawan of Jedi archaeologist Yuon Par was sent to save the hologram and conversed with it before recovering it from its holoprojector and taking it to Par at the Jedi Temple on Tython.

Biography

Founding Jedi

"When the Jedi Order began, I saw we must be dedicated to peace. To calming our emotions, and ending war across the galaxy. If we fought, it should only be in self-defence. That is the founding principle of civilization."

―Garon Jard's hologram

A Force-sensitive Human male, Garon Jard was one of the founders of the Jedi Order and came to serve as a powerful Jedi Master, sitting together in council with other Jedi on the order's homeworld, Tython, to share new discoveries and explore the true nature of the Force. Alongisde fellow Jedi Master Rajivari, Jard would invite their peers to week-long convocations with the aim of increasing the Order's wisdom and strengtheing the Jedi's defenses against the Dark Side of the Force.

These informal and fluid councils also took on the responsibility of recruiting new Padawans and ensuring their proper training, acting as the basis of the later, more structured Jedi Councils, including the Jedi High Council. The High Council formed within Ward's lifetime, and the Jedi Master was quoted as saying that each of the twelve members of the High Council arrived there at the right time and place all according to the will of the Force. Jard pushed for the early Jedi to be dedicated to peace and ultimately recorded a teaching hologram stored in a holocron for future generations to use.

Legacy

"The Jedi may have changed, but galactic peace has always remained one of our goals. Activation protocol complete. Go well."

―Garon Jard's hologram

Garon Jard recorded a teaching hologram.

The holocron was stored in a holoprojector on a stone bridge in the northwest area of the area of Tython known as the Tythonian Gnarls, but was eventually lost to the Jedi. After the Jedi returned to Tython following the destruction of the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant twenty thousand years later in 3653 BBY, Jedi researchers eventually uncovered Jard's hologram along with several other teaching holograms in the Gnarls region.

However, before they could be fully studied, Tython's native Flesh Raiders began attacking the Jedi training grounds in the Gnarls region, putting the holoprojector housing Jard's holocron at risk. Around 3643 BBY, the Jedi archaeologist Yuon Par dispatched her new Padawan from the nearby Masters' Retreat to save the teaching holograms as the first task in his Jedi Trials.

The Padawan discovered the northwest holoprojector in the Gnarls and examined it, beginning activation protocols for Jard's hologram, which acknowledged how long it had been silent and shared some of the Jedi Master's wisdom with the Padawan through discussion before completing its activation protocol and deactivating. The Padawan then brought Jard's hologram and the other teaching holograms back to Par at the Jedi Temple on Tython.

Personality and traits

"To protect without fighting. A trait I wanted at the core of our beliefs."

―Garon Jard's hologram

Jard wanted one of the core traits of the Jedi to be protecting others without fighting, seeing that the the order must be dedicated to peace and ending war across the galaxy. Wanting Jedi to calm their emotions, Jard believed that they should only fight in self-defense or defense of those weaker then themselves, acknowledging the mark that such actions left upon history and the Jedi themselves. The Jedi Master saw these ideas as the founding principles of civilization, seeing developments made during war time like dealier weapons or stronger armies no good for feeding the hungry of healing the sick. Jard had gray hair, light skin, and brown eyes.

Equipment

The hologram of Garon Jard depicted the Jedi Master as wearing a set of brown Jedi robes.

Behind the scenes

A hologram of Garon Jard appeared in the 2011 BioWare–LucasArts video game Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Appearances

• Star Wars: The Old Republic (First appearance) (Appears in hologram)

Sources

• Star Wars: The Old Republic Encyclopedia

Notes and references

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