The Iteration The Iteration was a clone of the Human male Jedi Knight Jaden Korr . He was created at some point before 41 ABY by the resurgent One Sith order and was kept in suspended animation on the planet Korriban . The Sith intended to use the Iteration as part of a plot to allow them to infiltrate the New Jedi Order . In 41 ABY , on the orders of the Sith Lord Darth Wyyrlok , the Umbaran Sith agent Nyss Nenn awakened the Iteration , one of the many such " blank slate " clones available to the One Sith , and used an ancient Rakata n device called a mindspear to imbue some of Korr ' s memories into the clone . Nenn then placed the clone into stasis and departed Korriban with the clone , planning to track down the real Jaden Korr and to use another mindspear to transfer Korr ' s more recent memories into the Iteration . The clone could then take Korr ' s place within the Jedi Order and be activated by the Sith at a later date . Nenn and the Iteration tracked Korr to a Rakatan space station known as Mother , where both Korr and the Umbaran were killed , and the Iteration filled the mindspear with Korr ' s memories . However , the clone was defeated by Korr ' s apprentice , Marr Idi - Shael , who used the mindspear to transfer Korr ' s memories into the Iteration ' s mind before the latter was ready to accept them , resulting in Korr ' s consciousness overwriting that of the Iteration and taking control of the clone ' s body . Biography . A tool of the Sith . At some point before 41 ABY , an Iteration was created by the One Sith organization residing on the Sith world of Korriban . Iterations were clones of Human individuals bred in cloning tank s , essentially blank slates filled with basic memories equivalent to that of an adolescent . That programming allowed the Iterations to operate until their basic memories were rewritten through the use of the Rakata n mindspear device , an ancient technology designed for memory transfer . The One Sith then used the Iterations to replace the person they " iterated " as the Sith cult ' s sleeper agents . In 41 ABY , one specific Iteration was chosen to replicate Jedi Knight Jaden Korr , whom the One Sith intended to replace in the New Jedi Order to do their bidding when they required it to do so . On the orders of the Chagrian Sith Lord Darth Wyyrlok , the Iteration ' s appearance was adjusted to match that of Korr . The Iteration was being kept in his cloning tank , which was filled with liquid and outfitted with machinery that provided life support and used electro - impulses to stimulate muscle development and growth . Soon , the Iteration was approached by the Umbaran Nyss Nenn , whom Wyyrlok had tasked to awaken the clone . With the assistance of the medical droid 1B - 7 , Nenn did as ordered , and the Iteration had his mind filled with the basic knowledge . Having never used his vocal cords , the clone had to adjust to speaking , after which Nenn inserted a mindspear containing the information on Korr ' s early life into his head . The Iteration ' s brain was subsequently filled with memories from Korr ' s life , ranging from the young Korr ' s time with his adoptive parents on the galactic capital of Coruscant up to his resolution of a crisis in 14 ABY involving a Sith cult that venerated the Dark Lord of the Sith Marka Ragnos . Because of those memories , the Iteration believed himself to be Korr , and he at first did not understand how he ended up wherever he was and was alarmed at not being able to sense the Force , as his connection to it was being blocked by Nenn ' s unique mental power . However , Nenn spoke a code word that activated the Iteration ' s programming , and the clone realized who he was and his designed purpose . Nenn stopped using his talent , letting the clone feel the Force again . The Umbaran then released the Iteration from his cloning tank , informing him that he was not irreplaceable and his mission could be delegated to another Iteration if required . Iteration had barely any time to adapt to walking when Nenn ordered two guards to escort the clone to the Umbaran ' s scout flyer . Nenn and his sister , Syll Nenn , then had the Iteration placed in a state of suspended animation in a stasis chamber aboard the flyer until his services were needed to iterate Korr . The Iteration continued to be kept in stasis as the Umbaran siblings tracked the real Jaden Korr and another clone of his , Soldier , the latest among a so - called Community of Force - sensitive clones produced as part of the late Grand Admiral Thrawn ' s secret project to create powerful Force - using servants for the Galactic Empire . Believing Soldier to be Thrawn ' s greatest creation — or the " Prime , " as they called him — the One Sith wanted to capture him for study . The Nenn siblings followed Soldier to the planet Fhost and later to a medical supply ship that the Community used to try to reach the entity known as Mother , which called to them with promises of refuge and salvation . In reality , Mother was a self - aware organic space station , created by the Rakatan Infinite Empire , that wanted to lure the clones to use them for its own needs . Nyss infiltrated the medical supply ship on Fhost , which Korr and his companions also pursued aboard the starship " Junker " , as well as Syll aboard the scout flyer . The chase culminated in a brief skirmish between the " Junker " crew , the Community clones , and the Umbarans in a remote star system . The fight resulted in Soldier and his surviving clone brethren escaping on the medical ship , pursued by " Junker " . Syll was killed in the fight , but Nyss had been able to extract the coordinates of the star system that Soldier planned to travel to from the medical ship ' s navicomputer before returning to the scout flyer . Time to iterate . Pursuing Soldier and Korr , Nenn decided that it was time to awaken the Iteration . Upon doing so , Nenn tested a code word that momentarily shut down the clone before reawakening him again and escorting him to the scout flyer ' s cockpit . When the Iteration witnessed Syll ' s corpse still laying in the cockpit , he offered to take care of her body for Nyss , but the Umbaran , distraught after her death , ordered the clone not to touch Syll ' s body and carried her away himself . The Iteration and Nenn soon arrived in a star system filled with radiation coming from a pulsar , where the two spotted " Junker " flying on the outskirts of an asteroid belt . However , the Iteration did not feel Korr ' s presence aboard the ship , and Nenn believed that the Jedi had taken " Junker " Starhawk shuttle , " Flotsam " . Nenn attacked " Junker " but stopped firing when the Iteration felt a dark side presence near one of the two planets in the system . There they found that the presence was coming from Mother , which consisted of a surface installation linked by a tether to a section out in space . Both the medical ship and " Flotsam " were docked with the station . The Iteration and Nenn also docked with the station and went aboard , taking the one remaining mindspear , which they intended to fill with Korr ' s more recent memories and transfer them to the Iteration . The pair descended through organic lifts to the planetary portion of the station , though the Iteration soon fell behind Nenn . When the Umbaran had found Korr , he contacted the Iteration by comlink and ordered the clone to lay in wait while he engaged the Jedi . However , when Nenn did not return after a while , the Iteration proceeded forward to find the Umbaran dead ; Korr heavily injured and unconscious ; and Marr Idi - Shael — Korr ' s Cerean apprentice — also neutralized . Willing to proceed with the One Sith ' s plans , the Iteration took the mindspear from Nenn ' s body and stuck it into Korr ' s brain , starting to fill it up with his memories . Idi - Shael awoke at that moment and tried to stop the Iteration , but the clone believed him to be nonthreatening , even going so far as to reveal his plans to him . The Iteration tried to kill the Cerean with his lightsaber , but Idi - Shael blocked the strike with a lightsaber of his own before trying to shoot the clone with a blaster . The Iteration easily disarmed his opponent of both weapons and prepared to strike again , but Idi - Shael surprisingly parried the blade with his bare hand and immobilized the clone by driving his fingertips into his throat , rendering him unconscious . Meanwhile , Korr had succumbed to his injuries , both from the fight with Nenn and from the insertion of the mindspear , and died . Hoping to preserve his Master ' s persona , Idi - Shael took the mindspear and stuck it into the Iteration ' s head as the clone came to his senses . Yet the clone was not ready for the transfer , resulting in the Iteration ' s memories and consciousness being completely rewritten with that of Korr , essentially killing the clone . Idi - Shael dressed the Iteration in Korr ' s clothes , severed three fingers from his right hand to match an injury that Korr had recently received , and hid Korr ' s dead body . When Korr awoke in the Iteration ' s body , he was unaware of what had happened , believing that he had been merely knocked out by Nenn . Korr and his companions teamed up with Soldier and the clone child Grace to try to escape from Mother , which possessed a consciousness of its own and was trying to kill them . Despite the station ' s hostility , the group managed to escape and destroyed Mother in the process . Not knowing that he was in the Iteration ' s body , Korr continued to act the same way that he had been before , but Idi - Shael was worried that the Iteration could have survived the transfer and was waiting for the One Sith to activate its programming . Korr continued to serve the New Jedi Order from inside the Iteration ' s body , participating in the Force psychosis crisis and the emergence of the Lost Tribe of Sith . Personality and traits . The Iteration was a nearly perfect clone of Jaden Korr , sharing his appearance as a tall man with brown hair and gray eyes . In order to match Korr ' s appearance , the clone ' s hair was cut short , his facial hair was styled in the same goatee , and he wore modern clothing . However , the Iteration , immersed with the dark side of the Force , had a much more violent and cruel look , with Marr Idi - Shael noting that the clone ' s eyes looked different from his Master ' s , despite being the same color . He also lacked a small scar on his right cheek , which Korr had acquired when he was a child , and Korr noticed its absence when he tried to shave after escaping from the space station Mother . Unlike Korr , who had recently lost three fingers on his right hand before his death , the Iteration originally had all of his digits . Yet Idi - Shael accounted for this discrepancy , severing three of the Iteration ' s fingers to match Korr . The clone shared Korr ' s memories up until the defeat of the Disciples of Ragnos and initially believed himself to be Korr as a result , but he soon learned his true identity . The Iteration had at least some sense of compassion , trying to be helpful toward Nyss Nenn by offering to take care of his sister ' s dead body , but the Umbaran did not accept his help . The Iteration did not find Nenn to be very talkative , while the Umbaran suspected that the clone was uncomfortable knowing that his mission required him to effectively die and become another person , even though the One Sith ' s programming was designed to make him accept his fate . The Iteration underestimated Marr Idi - Shael , revealing the mindspear ' s capabilities to him and believing that he would easily kill the Cerean , menacingly laughing as he tried to do so . However , Idi - Shael fought back and incapacitated the clone . As he realized what Idi - Shael was planning to do , the Iteration was horrified , since he was not ready for the memory transfer , which killed him . Powers and abilities . The Iteration was Force - sensitive and was deeply immersed with the dark side as a result of being created by the Sith . He could sense the dark side aura of Mother and the lack of Korr ' s presence aboard " Junker " . However , his Force sense ability was limited , and he could not pick up his targets from far away , being unable to detect Korr aboard Mother . The clone could use telekinesis , using it throw Idi - Shael ' s blaster away when the man tried to grab it . The One Sith provided the Iteration with a red - bladed lightsaber , which he wielded in the fight against Korr ' s apprentice . The Iteration was also able to use the weapon to deflect blaster shots . Behind the scenes . The Iteration was created by Paul S . Kemp for the 2011 novel " Riptide " . Jaden Korr , who dies and reawakens in the Iteration ' s body in Kemp ' s story , previously appeared in the " " novel series , chronologically taking place after " Riptide " . By establishing that Korr inhabited the Iteration ' s body after its events , " Riptide " effectively retcon ned the Iteration ' s first physical appearance , as a vessel for Korr , to be the 2009 novel " " , written by Troy Denning . " Riptide " ended in a cliffhanger by mentioning the possibility , through Marr Idi - Shael ' s doubts , that the One Sith ' s plan had been successful and that the Iteration continued to live on , waiting to be activated at a later date .