Lorian Nod Lorian Nod was a male Human Jedi serving the the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic as a member of the Agricultural Corps following his expulsion from the Coruscant Jedi Temple ' s academy in the decades preceding the Clone Wars . Nod eventually turned away from the Order to become a pirate on the Outer Rim of the galaxy before achieving elected office on the planet Junction V . Biography . Early life . A Force - sensitive Human born on the planet Junction V in 102 BBY , Lorian Nod was trained in the ways of the Force by the Jedi Order at the Coruscant Jedi Temple . As an Initiate in the Temple ' s academy , Nod was sorted into a clan of his peers where he became quick friends with fellow student , Dooku . As a student , Nod possessed no personal lightsaber , and had plans on becoming a Jedi Consular upon achieving knighthood . Training for over a decade in each other ' s company , Nod was jealous of Dooku when he was selected in 89 BBY by Jedi Master Thame Cerulian to continue his training as a Padawan . In the days following Dooku ' s apprenticeship , the pair investigated Cerulian ' s private chambers while the Corellian Jedi was away on a mission . Eager to learn about the Jedi Master , the pair discovered several documents and journals , including one which contained information drawn from a Sith holocron that was stored in the Holocron Vaults of the Temple Archives . Fascinated by the device , Nod attempted to convince Dooku to help in gain access to the device . Citing the regulations of the Archives and the Vaults , Dooku refused his friend and chastised him for broaching the subject . Undeterred , Nod slipped into the Vaults and stole the Dark Holocron in secret , accessing its hidden knowledge within his own chambers . Sickened by the dark side of the Force which was imbued in the holocron , Nod came to Dooku for help . As Dooku scolded his friend for stealing the ancient artifact , Jedi Councilor Oppo Rancisis was drawn to the darkness emanating from the room and confiscated the holocron . Nod accused Dooku for stealing the holocron and Dooku , who was shocked by the accusation , was unable to say anything In the following days , the Council placed the two former friends on opposing teams during a group exercise through Coruscant . The teams , tasked with obtaining a muja fruit from the Old Galactic Market in the Senate District , eventually crossed paths and Dooku and Nod engaged in a fight . Upon returning to the Temple , the Council called the pair to a meeting , during which Dooku , who was infuriated with his friend ' s betrayal , explained that Nod was the only one to seek out the holocron and he alone bore the guilt . With this knowledge , the High Council deemed Nod unfit to continue along the Jedi Path at the Temple not for stealing the holocron , but for lying and implicating a friend . Dooku would maintain his apprenticeship with a mild warning to watch his pride . Following the High Council ' s decision , the Council of Reassignment placed Nod in the Agricultural Corps , a division of the Order ' s Service Corps , where the failed Jedi would stay for the next thirteen years . Eventually , Nod abandoned his post with the Service Corps and became the leader of a band of space raiders along the Outer Rim . In 76 BBY , Nod was secretly hired by the Sith Lord Darth Tenebrous to kidnap Senator Blix Annon . During the kidnapping , he encountered an older Dooku , who by then had obtained the rank of Jedi Knight and taken on the training of sixteen - year - old Qui - Gon Jinn . Nod managed to capture the two Jedi on Von - Alai but was unable to keep them ; their escape nearly resulted in Nod ' s death after a brief encounter with an enraged Dooku . Before Dooku could kill him , Padawan Jinn calmed his master and Nod was arrested , tried , and sent to prison . Released around 52 BBY after many years imprisoned , Nod returned to his homeworld where he rose to become leader of a group called the Guardians , a group meant to protect the world from the rogue government of Delaluna , Junction V ’ s moon . With the people in fear of a destructive weapon called the Annihilator , which Nod propagated as being in the possession of the Delalunan government , Nod assumed control of the planet ' s government for eight years . It was not until Qui - Gon Jinn , now a Master , and his own apprentice Obi - Wan Kenobi were passing through Junction V on a stopover during a mission and learned about the supposed threat of the Annihilator that Nod ' s power was questioned . The two Jedi soon discovered that Nod ' s rule was built on lies and propaganda and with the help of a woman named Cilia Dil , the Jedi managed to overthrow the leader and once more send him to prison . Separatist crisis . Following a prison sentence of nearly two decades , Nod reconsidered his life and changed his outlook on things . Once released , he returned to Junction V to truly help out its citizens rather than do things for his own gain . Elected through a proper election , Junction V , along with Delaluna and the Bezim and Vicondor system s , created the Station 88 Spaceport under Nod ' s governance . As the lives of his constituents began to prosper , the galaxy broke out in all out war , as the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems began the Clone Wars . Several weeks after the start of the war , the Confederacy sought to claim the Station 88 spaceport for themselves , given its strategic Mid Rim location . Dooku , now the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus , contacted Nod , telling him that with his support , he could convince the leaders of the other worlds controlling the spaceport to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems . However , Nod sought to do the exact opposite , and contacted Grand Master Yoda of the Jedi Order , hoping to redeem himself for all of the terrible crimes he had committed . Nod informed the Order that he would be attending a meeting with the other rulers and Dooku on the Separatist - held world of Null in which he would formally decline the Confederacy ' s offer . The High Council sent Obi - Wan Kenobi , now a Knight , and his apprentice , Anakin Skywalker to Null to meet with Nod in secret as a way to spy on Dooku during the summit . Shortly after they arrived , the leader of Delaluna , Samish Kash , was assassinated by the Confederacy as a means to draw out the Jedi which Dooku suspected were in attendance . Kenobi , uneasy with the forced alliance with Nod because of their past encounter suspected that Nod was indeed a turncoat and a Separatist sympathizer . After accusing Nod , Kenobi learned that the assassination attempt had been botched and that Kash was indeed alive . At the conference , the rulers of Junction V and its neighbors announced that they would not join the Separatist cause , causing Dooku to order their deaths . As the droids prepared to assassinate the leaders , the Jedi arrived to cut down the Separatist soldiers and save the leaders . Noticing Dooku flee during the battle , Nod followed his former friend into a secret hangar where he attempted to stop the Separatist leader from escaping . Sensing Nod ' s approach , Dooku stood in wait and impaled his former colleague through the back with his crimson lightsaber , killing Nod .