Tyneir Renz Tyneir Renz was a male Human Jedi Knight who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic in the final years of the Republic Classic era . A veteran of the Clone Wars , Jedi Renz survived the Great Jedi Purge and went on to become a member of the Rebel Alliance in the years leading up to the Galactic Civil War . Biography . A native of the planet Jiaan , Tyneir Renz was discovered to be Force - sensitive at a young age and was sent to the Coruscant Jedi Temple for training in the ways of the Force and the light side . Studying at the Temple ' s academy , Renz went onto train one - on - one with a Jedi Master before passing his Trials of Knighthood and ascending to the rank of Jedi Knight . Pursuing independent studies as a Jedi Consular , Renz enjoyed the study of archaeology and anthropology as a researcher . Despite his loyalty and sense of duty to the Order , Renz violated the Jedi Code and the will of the Jedi High Council by marrying and fathering two children in secret ; a son and a daughter named Padija . When the Separatist Crisis between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems erupted into full - scale war , Renz reported to Coruscant and took up the rank of Colonel within the newly formed Grand Army of the Republic . Leading troops in battle , Renz confronted the leader of the Separatist Droid Army , General Grievous in battle on Parein II 4 . Mounted on his wheel bike , Grievous conducted a full frontal assault against Renz and two other Jedi ; Valin Draco and Sannen . While Sannen was killed and Draco left for dead , Renz managed to limp away from the battle defeated but still alive . When the Clone Wars ended abruptly with the dissolution of both the Republic and the Confederacy and the rise of the Galactic Empire , Renz managed to escape execution at the hands of the Grand Army , who had been ordered by the duplicitous Supreme Chancellor of the Republic to destroy all Jedi . The Chancellor , in fact the mysterious Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious , had the Temple on Coruscant razed and all Jedi hunted to near extinction . Avoiding detection , Renz rendezvoused with his family on Jiaan briefly before fleeing an Imperial blockade . While he had hoped his family would be safe if they remained on Jiaan , the Empire invaded the world and Renz ' family was killed in the fighting there , excluding his daughter who he managed to rescue . Sending his daughter Padija to live with her in - laws on Alderaan , the girl matured into an educated scholar , studying at the University of Alderaan the field in which her father excelled : archaeology . As opposition to the Empire ' s reign grew stronger , Renz joined the Rebel Alliance , a loose confederation that hoped to overthrow the Empire and return to democracy . On a mission as a field operative for the Alliance , the Force reunited father and daughter who eventually went on to journey the galaxy in search of relics stolen by the Imperials . Carrying a concealed lightsaber he had crafted before the Clone Wars , Renz protected his daughter as much as he could so as to spare the two any more time apart . On a mission to recover a pair of crystallite skulls for the Nercathi Twi ' lek clan , the pair managed to garner support for the Alliance in thanks for recovering the artifacts . Behind the scenes . Tyneir Renz was considered by Abel G . Peña to use as Jerec ' s Jedi Master , but ultimately he went with Jocasta Nu .