Tekli Tekli was a female Chadra - Fan Jedi Knight of the New Jedi Order , who was apprenticed to Master Cilghal . She was among the most skilled healers in the Order and served during the Yuuzhan Vong War and the Dark Nest Crisis . Later , Tekli was a member of Jaina Solo ' s covert group of Jedi known as Darkmeld , which actively worked against Chief of State Natasi Daala ' s attempts to take control of the Jedi Order . Biography . The Yuuzhan Vong War . After the Battle of Duro , Tekli assisted her master in the Eclipse Project and in helping form the Great River . While not as strong in the Force as the other Jedi in her class , she was one of seventeen Jedi members on the Myrkr strike team , and was instrumental in keeping the team alive through her healing techniques . She survived the mission , and was made an official Jedi Knight in a ceremony on Mon Calamari some four years into the conflict . Thereafter , she was part of the team that went to search for the living planet Zonama Sekot . During that journey , it was Tekli ' s healing abilities that helped save Admiral Pellaeon ' s life following the Battle of Bastion . During her trip on Luke Skywalker ' s task force to find Zonama Sekot , Tekli developed an ability which allowed her to read someone ' s life signs through the Force , enhancing both her healing prowess and her abilities as a Jedi . During the Battle of Yuuzhan ' tar , Tekli was one of many Jedi who defended the world from the Yuuzhan Vong Warmaster Nas Choka and the Alpha Red bioweapon . After the war , Tekli opted to stay on Zonama Sekot , where she eventually became a Magister - in - training . The Dark Nest . In 35 ABY , Tekli and the other surviving members of the Myrkr strike team disappeared into the Unknown Regions to investigate a mysterious summoning through the Force . This summoning led them to aid a species known as Killik s who had found themselves embroiled in a border dispute with the Chiss Ascendancy . In addition , prolonged exposure to the Killik ' s caused one to become a Joiner , as it did to the former members of the strike team . When Luke Skywalker and company found the group , they were tested by Cilghal in the Jedi Academy on Ossus to determine what was causing the Jedi Knights to act as Joiner s . Tekli later attended the Conclave on Ossus where she decided to stay a Jedi . Tekli , Tesar Sebatyne and Lowbacca were Joiners much like Zekk and Jaina Solo , but not to the extent that they could read each others thoughts and feel the other emotions . She along with Tesar Sebatyne and Lowbacca were exiled to Dagobah to meditate on their actions regarding Raynar Thul , who at the time was known as UnuThul and still thought dead by his mother , Aryn Dro Thul . They overheard the Masters discussing battle tactics , one of those being assassinating Raynar . Upon discovering that Aryn Thul possessed the only droid left that could fix R2 - D2 , they went to inform her of both her son ' s survival and the assassination plan . When Grand Master Luke Skywalker and his wife , Jedi Master Mara Jade Skywalker , went to to buy the droid that would fix Artoo , they were both shocked and outraged that any Jedi would deluge such information . However , the two kept their calm , and Aryn Dro Thul agreed to give them the droid if they promised to do everything within their power not to kill her son . It is unknown how long the three were made to stay on the planet , but the were back in time to help finish the three way war between the Killiks , Chiss , and Galactic Alliance . Later , she was on board the " Megador " with her former Master during the attack on the Dark Nest . Unlike Zekk and Jaina Solo , Tekli was only partially affected by her exposure to the Killiks , and while she sympathized with their cause , she did not come into conflict with the Masters ' Council to the extent they did . Political tensions . In 43 . 5 ABY , the relationship of the Jedi Order and the Galactic Alliance reached a breaking point . Chief of State Natasi Daala , who achieved power following the Second Galactic Civil War , fostered an anti - Jedi sentiment which culminated in the arrest of Grand Master Luke Skywalker ; who was then exiled and replaced by Kenth Hamner . Tekli disapproved of Daala ' s blatant bid to take control of the Order , and as such , joined Jaina Solo ' s covert group , Darkmeld , which sought to undermine the Chief of State ' s efforts . In this capacity , she helped to alert the group to Seff Hellin ' s plan to free Valin Horn from prison . This led to the Darkmeld members capturing him and beginning the process of studying the strange Force disease that plagued him , in the hopes of discovering a cure . Following the apprehension of Natua Wan at the Coruscant Livestock Exchange and Exhibition by the Solos and fellow Jedi Knight Radd Minker , a report by Javis Tyrr revealed that the New Jedi Order had secretly been keeping Seff Hellin locked up in the lower levels of the Jedi Temple . Infuriated , Daala issued a series of demands to acting Grand Master Kenth Hamner , who had no knowledge of Hellin ' s presence inside the Temple . As part of the deal struck between Daala and Hamner , the Jedi conspirators of Darkmeld were unveiled and punished , including Tekli , who was forced to give a live interview discussing her role in the incident . Shortly after that , Tekli took a human male named Josat as her Padawan . He worked as a nurse for her while working on his force healing abilities . She would assign physical conditioning ( such as running laps ) as punishment for failure to learn his assignments . Tekli ' s Padawan Josat was assigned to see if the Horn Jedi were in fact cured of their Force psychosis , he talked and talked through the whole testing that the Jedi were going under , he ' d ask a question the tell them not to answer . He did a good job . Jedi Leaving Coruscant . Tekli was one of the Jedi that left Coruscant at Grand Master Luke Skywalker ' s order , they retreated to their secret base somewhere and began learning how to fool the Sith who had taken over Coruscant . Liberation of Coruscant . Tekli went with Raynar Thul and Lowbacca to find the Killik Thuruht nest to find out more about Abeloth . After the Sith were dealt with the Senate asked to leave Coruscant , and after a meeting with the Jedi High Council they agreed to leave but said they would always be willing to help . Preparing to leave . It took almost three months to move the entire Jedi Order , and moved it to their secret base on Shedu Maad . Leaving Coruscant . Tekli was in attendance of the Wedding of Jagged Fel and Jaina Solo .