Bruck Chun Bruck Chun was a twelve - year old male Human Jedi Initiate from Telos IV enrolled in the academy at the Jedi Temple in the final decades of the Galactic Republic . Biography . At the Temple academy . A Force - sensitive Human male with ice - blue eyes and white hair , Bruck Chun , the brother of Kad Chun , was born to Vox Chun of Telos IV in 57 BBY . Given to the Jedi Order for training in the ways of the Force , Initiate Chun was enrolled in the academy at the Coruscant Jedi Temple . Befriending fellow Initiate Aalto , Chun and his friend often taunted their peer Obi - Wan Kenobi , whom they called " Oafy - Wan " after Kenobi had lost his balance on one occasion , colliding with Chun . He also attempted to impress the attractive Initiate , Siri Tachi , many times , but to no avail ; he eventually moved on . Around 45 BBY and 44 BBY , Chun had secretly learned from Dark Jedi Xanatos , a business partner of Chun ' s father and fellow Telosian , that his father Vox was the Treasurer of Telos . He bragged about it at one time to Siri Tachi , something the girl would later bring up during a future investigation . As both Chun and Kenobi reached their final years at the academy , both vied for the attention of a Jedi Master who would select them as a Padawan . During an unsupervised sparring session , Chun deliberately started to antagonize Kenobi and both students walked away with minor bruises . Chun , in an attempt to get Kenobi in trouble with academy instructors , went to the Halls of Healing to report an attack by Kenobi and receive treatment for his wounds . Instead of disciplining Kenobi as Chun had hoped , Grand Master Yoda set up a duel between the two Initiates to demonstrate their skills for visiting Master Qui - Gon Jinn . Completing the duel fairly , Master Jinn did not select either of the Initiates , much to Chun ' s chagrin . By this time , Chun was no longer using one of the Temple ' s training lightsabers ; instead , he wielded a red - bladed weapon available to senior Initiates . In the following months , Kenobi had been selected by Master Jinn after all , but the Master - apprentice bond was broken after the disastrous mission to Melida / Daan . There , Padawan Kenobi had forsworn his oath to the Order and joined a militant group called the Young and fought in the Melida / Daan Civil War . Returning to the Temple without his Padawan , Master Jinn could not be bothered by Initiate Chun ' s attempts to get him to accept him as his next student . Betraying the Order . Crestfallen with Master Jinn ' s constant refusal to take him on as an apprentice , Chun was easy prey to the temptations offered by Xanatos . Corrupted by Xanatos , Chun assisted the Dark Jedi as Xanatos infiltrated the Temple and began wreaking havoc . A pawn of the manipulative former Jedi , Chun stole many artifacts from within the Temple , including the precious Healing Crystals of Fire . He was secretly caught in the act by Jinn and Master Tahl while he was covering up some of the stolen items from the Temple ' s Lake Level . Jinn tried to follow him , but Tahl ' s navigation droid 2JTJ accidentally alerted Chun of the Jedi ' s presence . He was forced to disappear after that . Keeping close to the masters , Chun transmitted recordings of conversations with the Jedi via a transmitter installed secretly in his lightsaber hilt . When Xanatos had finally been found out , he kidnapped Initiate Bant Eerin and chained her underwater in the Room of a Thousand Fountains . While Master Jinn attempted to halt Xanatos stealing the Temple ' s supply of valuable vertex , the Dark Jedi ordered Chun to kill Initiate Eerin immediately . Kenobi chased Chun to the Room of a Thousand Fountains and engaged his opponent in a lightsaber duel . They made their way up the slippery slope of the chamber ' s central waterfall . As Kenobi struggled to break away from Chun in order to rescue Initiate Eerin , who was chained to the bottom of the room ' s lake , Chun lost his footing and toppled over the edge of the waterfall . Chun tried his best to hold on , but couldn ' t hold on for along , though Kenobi apologized for everything and attempted to save his life , which surprised Chun . Chun ignored him , and preferred to die for everything he had done , and saying that he wasn ' t truly a strong apprentice to begin with . Kenobi didn ' t want him to die and tried to reach him , but it was far too late for the young Initiate . Chun couldn ' t hold on and plummeted to the rocks below , breaking his neck . Legacy . Following his death , Chun ' s father initiated an investigation into his son ' s death . Employing Senator Sano Sauro as prosecutor , Initiate Kenobi was implicated in the death of his peer . Appearing before the Senate ' s Inquiry committee , Kenobi was rescued from prosecution by Master Jinn . Entering Chun ' s recovered lightsaber into evidence , Jinn played the recording of Chun ' s final words for the committee : the evidence proved Kenobi innocent , although it would be many years before Chun ' s brother , Kad would forgive Kenobi and before Kenobi could forgive himself . Personality and traits . Bruck Chun was described by Obi - Wan Kenobi as cruel and manipulative . Even Yoda and Mace Windu could see Chun ' s deceptive nature . He also valued his dignity greatly , and was known to hold grudges . This was especially evident when Obi - Wan tripped him in the halls of the Jedi Temple accidentally , and he soon found an enemy in the boy . Chun was also impatient and quick to anger . Yoda appeared to have helped him improve on his faults . Yet he was very eager to become Qui - Gon Jinn ' s Padawan , just as Kenobi was . Siri Tachi also depicted him as a showoff and a " bore . " When Chun felt his hopes of becoming a Padawan dashed , Xanatos preyed upon his feelings . Turning the Initiate to the dark side , he taught him cunning and let him feed on his hatred for Obi - Wan Kenobi . Powers and abilities . During his sparring duels with Obi - Wan Kenobi and Qui - Gon Jinn , respectively , Chun did acrobatic leaps toward his opponents , suggesting that his style may have been Ataru . In fact , he tried to mimic the moves of Siri Tachi ' s fighting style during training exercises . At age 11 , possibly younger , Chun could also see to duel wearing a blindfold , and wore one while fighting Obi - Wan . However , Obi - Wan defeated Chun in this match , greatly angering the boy . After having been converted to the dark side , Chun was believed to have been taught Force stealth by Xanatos . Behind the scenes . Bruck Chun was created by the author Dave Wolverton for the first young readers novel " " in the Jedi Apprentice series . He was used later by fellow author Jude Watson who wrote the rest of the series and he would appear in the novel " " before his death in " " .