Ylenic It ' kla Ylenic It ' kla was a Caamasi Jedi Knight of the Old Jedi Order . Born to the Kla clan of Caamas , he became one of the few Caamasi to join the Jedi , where he served as a negotiator and mediator . It ' kla also befriended Human Jedi Nejaa Halcyon . When the Clone Wars broke out , It ' kla was not able to fight at the Battle of Geonosis , but only seven days later , he went on a mission to Corellia with fellow Jedi Aayla Secura in a complicated plot that he worked on with Halcyon to help the Techno Union scientist Ratri Tane defect to the Republic . Later in the war , It ' kla joined Halcyon and another Jedi he knew as " Desertwind " on a mission to investigate the return of the Sith . Pursuing a number of archaeological thefts to Susevfi , they encountered the Dark Jedi Nikkos Tyris and his followers . Tyris was defeated , at the cost of Halcyon ' s life , and It ' kla returned the late Jedi ' s effects to Halcyon ' s family , whom he helped to take care of afterward . It ' kla survived the Jedi Purge and the Destruction of Caamas , relocating to Alderaan to become the Trustant of that world ' s Caamasi Remnant and a personal aide to Viceroy Bail Organa . It ' kla helped in the formation of a resistance to the Empire , serving as a representative of the Alderaanian Resistance at Bria Tharen ' s meeting on Cloud City and aiding fellow Purge survivor Rahm Kota in his own search for Organa . He died when the Empire ' s Death Star destroyed Alderaan in 0 BBY . Biography . Knight of the Republic . Ylenic It ' kla was born to the Kla clan of Caamas , along with at least one sibling , a sister . When he became a Jedi , one of a rare few Caamasi to do so , It ' kla brought great pride to his clan . He left Caamas , and by 28 BBY , had become a Jedi Knight . For almost their entire shared lives , It ' kla was friends with the Corellian Jedi Nejaa Halcyon , and the Caamasi visited Corellia at least once , serving in the position of mediator . A pacifist , It ' kla spent much of his Jedi career mediating and counseling , as well as using his piloting skills in service to the Jedi Order . It ' kla rarely used his lightsaber , preferring to solve situations with negotiation or diplomacy . In 22 BBY , the Clone Wars broke out with the Battle of Geonosis . It ' kla did not fight at Geonosis , though he would say later that he would gladly have done so . Within days , a Techno Union scientist named Ratri Tane fled to Corellia , seeking asylum for himself and his family and carrying stolen prototype technology — sabotaged in case the Separatists ever retrieved it — as insurance to protect his family . When Nejaa Halcyon learned of this , he contacted It ' kla to serve as a liaison with the Jedi Council for a plan he was working on . Halcyon , It ' kla , and Jedi Master Mace Windu decided to move Tane and his family off Corellia . Meanwhile , Halcyon would pose as Tane , and Jedi would be sent to Corellia to distract any Separatist agents and force them to move against " Tane " , giving the Jedi of Corellia — if not Corellia itself — cause to side with the Republic . Windu chose the Jedi Knight Aayla Secura to join It ' kla on the mission , and seven days after Geonosis , he called It ' kla and Secura to the Jedi Temple to brief them . Secura was not let into the entire plan , and told instead that they were being sent to retrieve the real Tane . Leaving Coruscant from a commercial spaceport to attract as little attention as possible , It ' kla and Secura flew the smuggling vessel " Flare " , carrying supplies for Corellians and Republic expatriates . Landing in the city of Coronet , the two Jedi , in their guise as traders , sold off their goods , while It ' kla put out the word that they were looking for passengers . Two buyers pointed the Jedi to the Homestar cantina . At the cantina , Secura spotted Halcyon — believing him to be Tane — and a pair of Gotals , who had the ability to detect Force - usage . The two Jedi moved towards Tane , as did the Gotals ; however , a Toydarian named Lorfo , one of those in on It ' kla ' s plan , caused a distraction around Secura to draw the Gotals ' attention . One Gotal opened fire on Secura while the other moved after Halcyon ; a number of other cohorts revealed themselves when Secura drew her lightsaber , and a firefight began between them and the two Jedi . It was soon interrupted by agents of the Corellian Security Force , who briefly interrogated It ' kla and Secura before allowing them to leave , but Halcyon was gone by then . The Jedi had carried a tracking device , meant to lead It ' kla to the hideout of the criminals who had taken him , but it failed to work . When It ' kla found himself unable to locate Halcyon , Lorfo approached the two and offered to lead them to Tane . At the warehouse where the criminal boss , Tendir Blue , was hiding , Lorfo alerted Blue to their presence , and the Jedi were taken hostage . Halcyon was brought out in front of them , Blue ' s blaster trained on him , and Blue explained that they had taken the sabotaged prototype technology Halcyon had been carrying . Blue revealed that he also had been provided battle droids by the Separatists , as they too trained their guns on the Jedi , and It ' kla and Secura were disarmed . Meanwhile , Halcyon projected an image of his plan for escape into Secura ' s head ; when the Gotals sensed the Force was being used , Blue shot Halcyon , who turned the energy into an act of telekinesis and sent his own lightsaber flying into Secura ' s hand . As she dealt with the droids , Halcyon disabled the Gotals with the Force , and It ' kla stood guard over the downed criminals . At last he revealed Halcyon ' s true identity and the extent of the plan to Secura . She had a suggestion to improve it , though : their original idea was to implant a memory in Blue ' s head that would convince him the prototype was real , which Secura believed would be unraveled by the Separatist leader Dooku . Instead , she chased him off the planet , pretending that he had killed It ' kla and she was seeking vengeance . It was successful , and Blue went back to Dooku unknowingly carrying the sabotaged technology . Return of the Sith . With the start of the Clone Wars , It ' kla took up guarding the planet Alderaan , and he met the Alderaanian Viceroy Bail Organa . Meanwhile , with the Sith having returned only about a decade prior , the Jedi Council asked Nejaa Halcyon to research the rumors about them . It ' kla , insisting that his talents for discussion would prove useful , joined his friend ; another Jedi , a general whom It ' kla knew as " Desertwind " , led them . After over a month of searching , they found a looted archaeological dig that led them to the world of Suarbi . The locals on Suarbi proved unhelpful , slowing the search and showing an allegiance to what seemed to be Sith cultists living among them . The three Jedi eventually located an area of the moon Susevfi where a void in the Force seemed to exist , and they could not use their powers . There , in an ancient arena underneath a duracrete dome , they found three of their " Sith " — actually Dark Jedi who had been thought lost in the conflict on Baltizaar . The Jedi attempted to persuade the other three from their path , but the Dark Jedi leader , the Anzati Nikkos Tyris , attacked . Each of the Jedi moved to take on a Dark Jedi in combat ; It ' kla ' s opponent was able to injure him in the flank with her lightsaber , but It ' kla got beneath her guard and bisected her . He was only then able to see how the other battles were progressing . Tyris , who had been fighting Halcyon , had disarmed his opponent and was preparing to kill him . It ' kla tried to send the Jedi ' s lightsaber back to him , but as Halcyon dove for his blade , Tyris impaled him . Mortally wounded , Halcyon was able to absorb enough of the lightsaber ' s energy to crush Tyris with the Force . The dark side energy that exploded from Tyris ' body brought down the dome , and Desertwind was able to hold it up long enough for It ' kla to pull Halcyon to safety . Shortly thereafter , Halcyon died and vanished into the Force . It ' kla and Desertwind made their way via Susevfi ' s capital , Yumfla , back to Corellia . There , It ' kla delivered Halcyon ' s personal effects to his family , asking them not to inquire about the details of the mission . At the Galactic Museum ' s request , he donated Halcyon ' s lightsaber to them . Sad at the loss of his friend , It ' kla increased his commitment to the Order and helped take care of Halcyon ' s family . When Supreme Chancellor Palpatine declared himself Emperor and turned on the Jedi , It ' kla was able to develop the skills in the Force he needed to avoid the architects of Palpatine ' s Jedi Purge . Alderaanian advisor . It ' kla was on Alderaan , visiting a friend , when his homeworld of Caamas was immolated in a surprise attack by an unknown enemy . The Jedi convinced his friend to provide a home on Alderaan for displaced Caamasi ; along with the other leaders of the ravaged world , he also decided that the Caamasi Remnant needed to spread out to a number of new settlements . Bail Organa found It ' kla a job as one of his personal advisors , placing him as Trustant of the Alderaanian Caamasi Remnant . In 2 BBY , Bria Tharen , a member of the Corellian Resistance against the Galactic Empire , summoned a number of resistance groups from across the galaxy to Cloud City to discuss combining their efforts . It ' kla , along with the Humans Winter and Hric Dalhney , represented Alderaan . It ' kla did not speak much , and while little was accomplished at the meeting — Dalhney vociferously opposed violent action — Winter promised to speak with Organa further about it . Organa eventually set out to find other Jedi , and when he traveled to Felucia in search of Jedi Master Shaak Ti , he left word with It ' kla . Organa vanished upon landing , and when Rahm Kota , a fellow escapee of the Purge , contacted It ' kla in search of him , the Caamasi told him as much , and Kota was able to help rescue Organa . Though the viceroy was integral in the creation of a new Rebel Alliance , which It ' kla became a part of , it drew the eye of the Empire to Alderaan . It ' kla was on the world when the Empire ' s first Death Star arrived in 0 BBY . Sensing his impending fate , he could do nothing but give in to the will of the Force as Alderaan was annihilated , killing him . Legacy . Before his death , It ' kla transferred a memnis — a kind of memory that Caamasi could share with each other — of the Susevfi battle to his nephew Elegos A ' Kla . Eleven years after It ' kla ' s death , A ' Kla provided it to the Jensaarai , a group of Force - users formed out of Tyris ' teachings . Though they had been laboring under a misapprehension about the Jedi and their motives for decades , after seeing the events from It ' kla ' s point of view , the Force sect was able to be coaxed into once again opening dialogue with the Jedi Order . Shortly before this , the Jedi Knight Corran Horn had received his own vision of It ' kla and the Susevfi duel from the perspective of his grandfather , Nejaa Halcyon . A ' Kla later made the journey to the remains of Alderaan to leave a gift in It ' kla ' s memory , and Horn asked him to leave one of his own in Nejaa Halcyon ' s name . Personality and traits . Ylenic It ' kla was a pacifist , striving for harmony and peace like many of his species , and among the Jedi , he was often called upon to counsel and mediate . However , It ' kla believed that refusing to take action when the peace of others was threatened was the point at which pacifism turned to evil , and he would take action if necessary . Though he did not fight in the Battle of Geonosis , and he was grateful he did not carry the memories of it , it was something he later said he would have done gladly . It ' kla placed great stock in nobility of character ; he took responsibility for those he took under his care , from the family of Nejaa Halcyon after the other Jedi ' s death to the planet of Alderaan when war struck . It ' kla had an inquisitive nature , and behind a quiet front , he was possessed of power and confidence . The Caamasi believed doubts were important to have , as they kept one from arrogance and hence the dark side of the Force . He counseled against fear , emphasizing that the Jedi could offer freedom from that fear that brought people to the dark side . Powers and abilities . Possessed of strength , speed , and power , and a long reach that gave him an advantage in lightsaber dueling , It ' kla had the capabilities to be a formidable warrior . It ' kla possessed a green lightsaber ; though he rarely used it , he was an able fighter . He was also , however , versed in the art of peaceful discussion , and he used negotiation where possible . The Caamasi was a skilled pilot , a talent the Jedi Order used . It ' kla had a strong sense of smell . He remembered the identities of others chiefly by scent , rather than name . The Caamasi could project the equivalents of smells through the Force into the minds of other beings ; strong odors could be used in this way to immobilize them . Typical of his species , It ' kla could produce memnii , a kind of stored memory that could be shared with other Caamasi and Jedi . When the Jedi Purge began , the Caamasi developed new Force techniques to escape Emperor Palpatine ' s agents . Behind the scenes . Ylenic It ' kla was created in Michael A . Stackpole ' s " I , Jedi " , where the character only appears in the form of visions to Corran Horn . He would make his only live appearance in the short story " Elusion Illusion " , also by Stackpole , where he was illustrated by Jan Duursema . It ' kla ' s fur , described as golden with purple stripes in both " Jedi " and " Illusion " , appears gray with black stripes in the story ' s illustrations . A timeline discrepancy occurs in " Power of the Jedi Sourcebook " , where it is implied that the fight with Nikkos Tyris occurs before the Clone Wars ; however , this is not only contradicted by " I , Jedi " , but all stories during the Clone Wars where Nejaa Halcyon appears , including " Elusion Illusion " .