Kol Skywalker Kol Skywalker was a Jedi Master and head of the Jedi Council . Descended from the famous Luke Skywalker , he grew to be a powerful and respected Jedi . A mission alongside Imperial agent Morrigan Corde led to love and the birth of a son , Cade Skywalker . Skywalker raised Cade on his own after Corde left to continue her Imperial career and he eventually entrusted Cade to the care of his former Padawan , Wolf Sazen , as an apprentice . Kol Skywalker took on his own apprentice yet again in Shado Vao . Skywalker spearheaded the Ossus Project , designed to rehabilitate the Yuuzhan Vong ' s public image by having them restore war - torn worlds , but the biotechnological experiment was sabotaged , provoking war in 127 ABY between the Fel Empire — joined by the One Sith — and the Galactic Alliance and Jedi with them . When the Galactic Alliance surrendered three years later , Skywalker refused to serve the Empire and withdrew to Ossus , where the Sith followed and attacked the academy there . In a one - man last stand , Skywalker held off the hordes of Sith , giving his own life to buy enough time for the Jedi younglings , his son , and Vao and Sazen to escape . After his death , Skywalker continued to appear to his son as a Force ghost , exhorting Cade to reject the dark side and live up to his heritage . Biography . Jedi Master . A descendant of the legendary Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker , Kol Skywalker was raised as a Jedi and trained to wield the Force . Along with his older brother Nat , he served as a Jedi Knight . When the Jedi Council of Seers saw Skywalker ' s importance to a mission with Imperial Intelligence agent Morrigan Corde , he was assigned to it . Serving with her , he fell in love . Though he knew that Corde ' s loyalties ultimately lay with the Empire , he understood and loved her nevertheless . They had a relationship for as long as two years , marrying secretly , before Corde gave birth to a son named Cade . Skywalker took Cade to the Jedi Academy on Ossus , where Cade was introduced to other Jedi , including Nat Skywalker , but Corde ' s identity was kept largely secret . Skywalker , a family - minded man , wished Corde to remain on Ossus where they could live together as a family . Corde , unprepared to be a mother and soon summoned back into service , departed despite Skywalker ' s pleas to stay with him and their son . Skywalker , brokenhearted , was left to raise Cade alone . When he had business on Coruscant , he frequently left Cade with Nat , but as Cade grew older Skywalker took the boy to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant with him . Corde went on to become the Director of Imperial Intelligence and a member of the Council of Moffs under the name Nyna Calixte . As Calixte , she was involved with naval officer Rulf Yage , bearing him a daughter , and then Grand Admiral and High Moff Morlish Veed . A talented Jedi and natural leader skilled in the Force , Skywalker became a member of the Jedi Council and soon ascended to the status of its leader . Though he accepted this role , Skywalker disliked politics and formality ; as time went on he preferred to spend most of his time as a trainer on Ossus , where he provided tactical training to the Jedi students from his own considerable expertise . Skywalker had an apprentice , Wolf Sazen . He trained the Zabrak Padawan to Knighthood ; Sazen eventually achieved Mastery himself and took Skywalker ' s son Cade as his own apprentice . Afterward , Skywalker took the Twi ' lek Shado Vao , a friend of Cade ' s , as his Padawan learner , training Vao to a mastery of the lightsaber . With Sazen now his peer , the two became close friends as well as master and student . In the year 123 ABY , Kol Skywalker reflected on his journals about Darth Sidious ' master plan to eradicate the Jedi Order , from the Clone Wars to Order 66 , summarizing the lengths Sidious took , to achieve such goal . The Ossus Project . During his time on the Council , Skywalker conceived of and championed the Ossus Project , in which Yuuzhan Vong shapers used their biological techniques to terraform a barren patch of Ossus . Skywalker wished to help integrate the Yuuzhan Vong , long stigmatized due to the war they had brought to the galaxy , into society and rehabilitate their reputation by proving that they could use their knowledge to heal the worlds they had devastated in the past . He worked closely with Master Shaper Nei Rin to bring it to fruition , developing a friendship with her . With that project successful , the Galactic Alliance was persuaded to allow the shapers to restore life to worlds devastated by the Yuuzhan Vong War . In 126 ABY , he and Nei Rin , with whom he had become extremely close , selected the devastated world of Wayland to revive after Skywalker saw the world restored in a vision . They successfully established new life on the planet , ridding it of Chom - Vrone bioweapons and making it habitable for the Myneyrsh i survivors . However , after six months , the project turned from dream to nightmare in one day of sudden transformation . As soon followed on the other Vongformed worlds , secretly sabotaged by the Sith , the Ossus Project went awry , with individuals becoming malformed and plant life dying as brutal forms of Yuuzhan Vong life and surge coral implants took over . On the planet with Rin , Sazen , Vao , and his son Cade , Skywalker had to battle vicious wildlife and infected Myneyrshi to reach their ship . The Myneyrshi cried for justice , believing Rin had acted to destroy them , but Skywalker insisted there had been sabotage from without and promised to return and undo the devastation as soon as he could . They fled , but their ship was too damaged to make orbit . Skywalker had Sazen send a distress signal as he worked to repair the ship , and they were quickly picked up and rescued by an Imperial Star Destroyer with Nyna Calixte aboard . Skywalker immediately sensed that she was Corde and asked her to explain her surprising double life , but she avoided the question and refused his request that she speak with Cade . Disappointed , he insisted that she would have to tell her son the truth about herself in time . Many in the galaxy were outraged by the developments , among them the Galactic Empire ' s Moff Council . Skywalker and the Jedi were accused of complicity with Yuuzhan Vong sabotage . Skywalker met with Galactic Emperor Roan Fel over the matter , and Fel promised to restrain the Moffs while Skywalker investigated the project for the sabotage he believed must be the cause of its failure . Skywalker and the Jedi worked with Rin to discover the cause , but public blame fell firmly on the Yuuzhan Vong . Before Skywalker could gather any proof , the Moff Council overruled Fel and , in 127 ABY , invoked the Treaty of Anaxes and declared war . Skywalker and the Jedi were able to convince the Galactic Alliance to back them and protect the Yuuzhan Vong in the war . Skywalker , seeing the need for a fallback if the war should go unfavorably , commissioned the construction of a highly secret redoubt . Skywalker worked with his brother to construct the Hidden Temple out of scrapped starships in a rift Nat had discovered on Taivas where the Force could not be sensed from afar . Skywalker used Yuuzhan Vong terraforming techniques to increase Taivas ' s atmosphere to breathable levels , creating a safe and well - hidden refuge on a world no one expected to be habitable . The order of One Sith , until then hidden — and secretly responsible for the sabotage of the Ossus Project — emerged on the Empire ' s side and helped turn the tide of the war against the Jedi and Galactic Alliance . After three years of battle , Skywalker was called to speak his mind to the Galactic Alliance Triumvirate about the possibility of a strike at Caamas to capture Emperor Fel . He spoke against it , having sensed it was a trap , but Rear Admiral Piers Petan and Triumvir Nu Toreena , a detractor of the Jedi who also blamed them for the war , pushed the plan forward anyway , resulting in the defeat of the Alliance Defense Fleet while the Jedi held off a Sith strike on Coruscant , undefended due to Petan ' s battle plan . Without the Galactic Alliance Core Fleet , however , they could not hold off the Sith on their own . With that , the Galactic Alliance surrendered . Roan Fel called upon the Jedi to surrender as well , but Skywalker withdrew the Jedi to Ossus with Fel ' s guarantee of safe passage . Massacre at Ossus . The forces of Darth Krayt , Dark Lord of the Sith , followed the Jedi withdrawal from Coruscant to Ossus . They claimed to seek a diplomatic meeting , but instead attacked during the night . Led by Darth Nihl and supported by Imperial troops commanded by Rulf Yage , the Sith assaulted the academy . Skywalker organized a defense while evacuating the young students . He and Sazen made a stand at the landing platform on which the evacuation shuttle stood , holding off waves of stormtroopers while Vao and Cade Skywalker , among the older apprentices present , shepherded the younger Jedi students into the shuttle . Skywalker and Sazen could sense the Sith oncoming and ordered Cade and Vao to take off when all the others were aboard , prepared to give their lives to save the younglings . Cade refused to follow instructions , however , joining the battle with his father . Skywalker ordered his son to follow his master ' s instructions and leave with the children . As Cade departed for the shuttle , Nihl approached at the head of a column of Sith warriors . Skywalker and Sazen engaged them , but Sazen quickly received grievous injuries . Skywalker drove Nihl back and stood over his former student ' s body , summoning Sazen ' s lightsaber and warning the Sith back . He stood alone against an army of Sith but successfully held them back despite being surrounded ; however , upon seeing Sazen fall , Cade once more left the shuttle and went to his father ' s aid . Skywalker admonished his son for placing his emotions above his duties , and commanded him to take Sazen , not yet dead , from the field and evacuate . Tearfully , Cade complied . Skywalker continued battling , holding back the Sith and standing upon a heap of the dead . Nihl , however , was able to strike Skywalker with Force lightning , killing him as Cade watched from inside the shuttle . Skywalker sent a final message through the Force to Vao , ordering him to launch the shuttle . Beyond death . The transport escaped , though Cade launched in a fighter to defend it and was disabled . He was picked up by pirates , who did not know that he was a Skywalker . They brought him back to the surface to help them loot the academy , where Cade found his father ' s body lying as it had fallen on the landing platform . Upon returning from a mission into the Ossus wilderness to find samples , Rin found Skywalker ' s body lying exposed and gave it a proper funeral . During the cremation , Skywalker ' s body disincorporated , becoming one with the Force . To honor Skywalker and the Jedi legacy , the Yuuzhan Vong with Rin gathered all the Jedi artifacts remaining and kept them safe in the bowels of the academy . Cade became a bounty hunter and turned to death sticks , rejecting the Force . Luke Skywalker ' s Force ghost appeared to him at times , urging him to take up his family legacy , but Cade wished only to be left alone , free from the burden of saving the galaxy . Cade continued to hear his father ' s words in his mind as well , but was never able to sense his presence , driving even farther into bitterness and depression . Kol Skywalker was unable to appear to his son , as Cade ' s anger blocked him from communicating . Cade eventually returned to Ossus in 137 ABY and began training under Sazen , Vao , and K ' Kruhk before departing for Coruscant to rescue Hosk Trey ' lis , a Jedi he had turned over to the Sith as a bounty hunter . Rin gave him Kol Skywalker ' s lightsaber , which she had recovered and repaired with a lambent crystal after the original crystal had suffered battle damage . Cade took it to Coruscant , where he was captured by Darth Krayt and the lightsaber was taken from him and encased by Krayt to honor a foe even he respected . Cade , meanwhile , joined the Sith while Calixte , again using her Corde identity , devised a plan to free him . When Cade confronted Krayt , Kol Skywalker appeared to his son for the first time as a Force ghost , suggesting he use his healing powers in reverse to break the transparisteel and free his lightsaber . Cade did so , taking up his father ' s lightsaber and attacking the Sith before escaping . Kol and Luke Skywalker both appeared to Cade after his escape , when the young man was seeking to take death sticks at the home of Nat Skywalker , who had renamed himself Bantha Rawk and gone into hiding . Kol Skywalker warned his son against the use of dark side techniques and of death sticks , while Luke also criticized his death stick use and warned that Cade would soon have great challenges to face . Cade ultimately blocked the two spirits from appearing by taking the death sticks , which dulled his connection to the Force . After Corde ' s double identity was revealed to Veed , he poisoned her , forcing her to escape from Coruscant and go to Cade on the Wheel space station , hoping that Cade would heal her with his unique powers . Cade was reluctant to help her , however , fearing that doing so would bring him closer to the dark side . Kol then appeared to his son , asking him to heal Corde if not for her then for him . Convinced , Cade tried to use his powers , but was too angered by the memories of his mother abandoning him . Kol then told his son to let go of his anger and forgive Corde . The spirit of Kol himself leaned over to Corde ' s side , telling her that he still loved her and that he forgave her ; in her near - death experience , Corde seemingly heard Kol ' s words . Cade then finally managed to let go of his anger and healed his mother . Personality and traits . Kol Skywalker was a man of honor and driven to serve justice . Though a natural leader , he had little love for politics and preferred the more relaxed atmosphere of Ossus to the stuffier Jedi Temple on Coruscant . He firmly believed in the Living Force , a trait he passed on to his apprentice Sazen . Skywalker valued family and was proud of his Skywalker heritage , and he wanted himself and his son to live up to their ancestors ' names . He was disappointed that Calixte would not speak with Cade after she abandoned the family , but he still loved her and protected her secret identity . Even after his death , the spirit of Kol still loved Corde and did not blame her for leaving him . Kol asked his son to forgive her as well , telling him that forgiveness was one of the greatest lessons of the light . Although Cade believed that his father always asked too much of him , Kol felt that he had never asked more of Cade than his son could handle . Skywalker had a significant talent for tactics , leading him to teach the discipline to his fellow Jedi . He believed that a mastery of the skills of warfare made the Jedi better suited to keep the galaxy peaceful . Focused on serving and protecting others instead of himself , he was willing to , and ultimately did , give his life to save another . Powers and abilities . Kol Skywalker was a talented Jedi , demonstrating skill with and understanding in the Force that made him a standout among the Jedi . He was skilled in battle , having an aptitude for tactics as well as personal combat ; Nei Rin considered him the Jedi ' s greatest warrior . Skywalker was skilled enough in the use of the lightsaber to train Shado Vao to an extremely high degree of competency and would use the two - lightsaber Jar ' Kai style with proficiency when confronted by multiple foes . In the Massacre at Ossus , he killed at least seven Sith and numerous stormtroopers , holding off even more , before being overcome and dying on a pile of those he had slain . In his final battle , Skywalker demonstrated skill in telekinesis but found himself unable to stop Darth Nihl ' s Force lightning while defending from the lightning of another Sith and striking down a third . Though his body lingered after death , it disappeared while being cremated . Skywalker indeed became one with the Force while retaining his identity . Afterward , he was able to appear as a Force ghost , and in this state taught his son to use the Shatterpoint technique . Behind the scenes . The character of Kol Skywalker was created for " " by writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema ; in the introductory " " arc , Skywalker dies defending the Jedi academy in events that push his son Cade , " Legacy " main character , onto his eventual path . Skywalker was actually debuted in the informational preview " " along with most of the rest of the cast of " Legacy " . Skywalker ' s only actual physical appearance was in " " , not counting a brief time - collapse sequence showing the events of that issue in " " ; however , frequent flashbacks and mentions on the parts of various characters have revealed more information about Skywalker in several more " Legacy " issues . Skywalker first reappeared in Force ghost form in the " " arc and did so again in " " .