Nejaa Halcyon Nejaa Halcyon was a Human male Corellian Jedi Master who served the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic as a General in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars . Unbeknownst to the Jedi High Council , Master Halcyon was married to a Corellian woman and was the biological father of Valin Halcyon . During his service to the Order , he befriended the Caamasi Jedi Ylenic It ' kla , who remembered him as Spicewood in his " memnii " . He was soon slain by Nikkos Tyris during the beginning of the war , but was survived by his family even after the fall of the Republic and the disbandment of the Order . His wife , Scerra , married Halcyon ' s friend Rostek Horn , and took his surname in order to further hide their identities from the Galactic Empire . Biography . Early history . Like almost all Jedi in the later days of the Galactic Republic , Nejaa Halcyon was identified at an early age as Force - sensitive and taken to Coruscant for training as an Initiate of the Jedi Order . Crafting a silver - bladed lightsaber for his own use , Halcyon would progress through the ranks of the Order in the ensuing years — achieving the rank of Jedi Knight by 60 BBY . After additional training as a Jedi Guardian as well as dabbling in the work of the recruiters of the Acquisition Division , Halcyon ascended to the rank of Jedi Master and was presented with a Credit chip , a tradition amongst the Corellian Jedi . He would later present this medallion to his good friend and Corellian Security Force member Rostek Horn . Master Halcyon worked with the Acquisition Division circa 30 BBY , working as a recruiter on the Outer Rim Territories . It was around this time that Master Halcyon discovered the Force - sensitive Twi ' lek Boc Aseca ; Halcyon determined the boy to be too old to begin training on Coruscant and refused him admittance into the Order . While loyal to the Order and the Jedi High Council , Master Halcyon disobeyed the Jedi Code by taking marriage vows with a Corellian woman named Scerra . Together , without the High Council ' s knowledge , the couple had a child who they named Valin . While Halcyon worked to hide his family from the Order , he always suspected that Grand Master Yoda knew of the child . The Clone Wars . When the Corellian sector closed its borders during the Separatist Crisis , Halcyon led a contingent of Corellian Jedi to the planet to insure that the system ' s security was up to par . The groups ' involvement in the sector raised questions as to where their loyalties were placed ; the group returned to the Republic proper after their investigation , stating that , " " Our commitment is to the Jedi Council and the Republic that it serves , but we are Corellians by blood and will always have a connection to our home . " " As the Separatist Crisis between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , Master Halcyon led a team of Jedi Knights to locate and recapture the " Scarlet Thranta " , a rogue Judicial Department corvette whose captain and crew had defected from the Republic . Intercepting the ship , Halcyon hailed the rogue Captain Zozridor Slayke over the planet Bpfassh . Slayke dispatched his lieutenant , a Rodian named Grudo , to aggravate Halcyon and attempt to defeat him in a fight . While Halcyon was distracted with Grudo , Captain Slayke managed to slip under the notice of the Jedi and board Halcyon ' s ship , the " Plooriod Bodkin " . Fleeing the world , Halcyon and his crew were left stranded for months with their single prisoner ; Halcyon was disgraced in the media and lost the respect of many of his peers , though no one mentioned his failure around the Temple . Having been rescued by the High Council , Halcyon was stripped of his command of the mission to hunt Slayke and found himself resigned to sitting around the Temple without an assignment . When the Clone Wars erupted out of the Separatist Crisis , Halcyon received many minor missions , but did not lead many large battles early in the war . Assigned to Corellia late in 22 BBY , Halcyon went undercover as the scientist Ratri Tane so as to gain information against the CIS . Later , Jedi Aayla Secura and Ylenic It ' kla were dispatched to find Tane and retrieve the information he had gathered . Discovering that Tane was actually Master Halcyon , the Jedi managed to succeed in the mission and keep the information from the Confederacy . Eventually , Master Halcyon was given his first major assignment by the High Council . Recommended by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine by name , Halcyon quickly accepted the mission , and took the news that he would be serving alongside Captain Zozridor Slayke with grace . Charged with protecting the Intergalactic Communications Center on Praesitlyn from the Confederacy , Halcyon chose Jedi Anakin Skywalker as his second in command , having gotten to know him during his time stationed at the Temple . Devising a battle plan to relieve Slayke ' s outnumbered organization , the Freedom ' s Sons , Halcyon and Skywalker ' s initial plan was met with failure . Crafting a desperate rescue mission for the men and women on the ground , Halcyon was able to lead a successful assault on the planet while Skywalker was able to capture Separatist Admiral Pors Tonith . Having regained the full confidence of the High Council , Halcyon was granted the title of General in the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic . Accepting many missions , Master Halcyon served alongside Jan Dodonna at some point in the conflict . In the last year of the war , Master Halcyon accompanied his friend , Master It ' kla , and " Desertwind " , to Susevfi on a mission to neutralize the threat posed by the Jensaarai cult . Confronting the Dark Jedi Nikkos Tyris , Halcyon entered into a duel to the death which neither combatant walked away from . Recovering Master Halcyon ' s lightsaber , Master It ' kla reported his friend ' s demise to the High Council and turned over the lightsaber to the Galactic Museum ' s Jedi exhibit . Learning of his friend ' s death , Rostek Horn broke the news to Scerra and her son . Vowing to help them through their hardship , the family was even more troubled when the Jedi Order was disbanded and the Republic replaced by the Galactic Empire . Horn and the widow Halcyon eventually fell in love with each other and married , with the family adopting the Horn surname to further hide from the Empire . Adopting young Valin , they began to call him Hal , in honor of his father ' s legacy . Passing on Halcyon ' s Jedi Credit coin , who in turn passed it on to his son Corran , the family did not know much of Nejaa Halcyon ' s legacy until the ship the " Lusankya " launched out of the Coruscant cityscape . Locating the lost museum of the Jedi , Corran Horn discovered Halcyon ' s lightsaber among the exhibit . Personality and traits . Considered to demonstrate a reserve demonstrative of a true Jedi Master by Grand Master Yoda , Nejaa Halcyon was able to maintain calm in the midst of diversity , capable of laughing off even the wary looks of his peers . Halcyon befriended the young Anakin Skywalker after just a few sparring sessions at the Jedi Temple , admiring his technique learned in the war and from Halcyon ' s acquaintance , Obi - Wan Kenobi . Halcyon shared the fact he was secretly married , which prompted Skywalker to reveal his secret marriage as well . Powers and abilities . Like other Jedi from the Halcyon family , Nejaa Halcyon had virtually no telekinetic ability under normal circumstances . However , he had a talent for absorbing energy , such as from blaster bolts or lightsaber blades . With this energy , Halcyon could perform the same telekinetic feats that most Jedi could accomplish normally . Halcyon was also very skilled in the use of mental projection via the Force . He possessed a lightsaber with a silver blade .