Cope Shykrill Cope Shykrill was a male Padawan of Jedi Master Sar Agorn , and a member of the early Galactic Republic and Jedi Order , circa 25 , 000 BBY . Discovered by Agorn and Nuck Lyu on Sarcophagus , the graveyard moon of Sacorria , Shykrill became a member of the Jedi Order and excelled in his studies . Soon , however , it was discovered that Shykrill had fallen to the dark side of the Force and was responsible for the murder of three of his fellow Jedi trainees . Seeing no other recourse , Agorn and Lyu killed the young Jedi . The tale of his fall to the dark side was recounted in the Great Holocron by Master Agorn . Biography . Early life . Cope Shykrill was a male , born to a family of groundskeepers on Sarcophagus , the moon of Sacorria . According to the Great Holocron , around 25 , 000 BBY , Jedi Master Sar Agorn and his fellow Jedi had been searching for other Force - sensitives in the outlying systems of the Corellian sector . On Sarcophagus , they landed and met a Selonian widower who had just witnessed a Shykrill using the Force to lower his wife ' s coffin into the ground . After being contacted by Agorn , Shykrill ' s parents were more than grateful to the Jedi for expressing interest in their child . Shykrill left with Master Agorn to become a Jedi , and blossomed under his tutelage . Agorn took notice of the zeal with which Shykrill went about his studies . He was pleased by the boy ' s pleasant demeanor when requesting further study , and how he never asked a wrong question or even gave a wrong answer . To Agorn , Shykrill had become quite the poster - child in his group of students . Yet his peers felt differently . Nuck Lyu , a close friend of Agorn , was the first to express concern about Shykrill . Lyu had been instructing a group of Jedi on how to use the Force to throw a new weapon of his own creation at wooden targets . During the lesson , Master Lyu was surprised at how Shykrill excelled over the others by repeatedly hitting the targets with precise efficiency . Agorn however , was not too concerned and wrote off the event , seeing as how he considered Shykrill a prodigy amongst his peers . Lyu was not convinced , saying that the Padawan was learning far too quickly , surpassing even Lyu ' s proficiency . Lyu then returned to his post at Esseles , leaving with Master Agorn samples of his new blade . He also gave a stern warning to Agorn , telling him to pay closer attention to Shykrill , who was still a Watchman - in - training himself . Encountering the dark side . Some time later , Agorn found a group of trainees around a campfire . A Fian , a Nosaurian , and a Human sat around the fire being entertained by Shykrill , who was using his hands and the firelight to make animated shadows against a stone wall . Shykrill told a compelling story of two brothers , one good and one bad . The good brother sought to plant seeds and grow vegetables , while the bad brother sought to consume them . His audience laughed as Shykrill made the good brother seem very knowledgeable , while the bad brother seemed like quite the blunderer . Yet as Master Agorn watched Shykrill ' s hands cast their shadows from a distance , feelings of envy and shame came over him . He retreated to his own quarters in confusion as he tried to meditate on what he had felt . Twenty - three minutes later , Agorn was startled by the sound of screams . The screaming attracted every Jedi in the camp , and they all set out for the campfire . Agorn was horrified to find Shykrill , the Human , and the Fian lying on the ground covered in blood . The Nosaurian stood amidst the fray , tightly clutching one of Lyu ' s weapons . The other Jedi realized that it was he who had cut down his mates . The Nosaurian began screaming that there were shadows in his mind . With that , he slashed his own throat and collapsed , now joining the Human and Fian in death . Shykrill , however , survived . Death . Some weeks passed before Shykrill was mobile again . Though he was still bandaged , Master Agorn encouraged the Padawan to join him for a walk . Shykrill wasn ' t the least bit surprised when Agorn led him back to where his fellow trainees had met their demise . Agorn informed the young man that he ' d seen part of his " shadowplay " , and he was astonished that Shykrill was quite the storyteller . He then asked the boy if the " shadows " ever spoke to him . Shykrill responded that Agorn knew the truth already , and that the shadows indeed had spoken to them both , but Shykrill was unsure whether it had started before or after he had become a Jedi . Agorn pressed on further , now asking whether Shykrill represented the good brother or bad brother from his shadowplay . Shykrill stated simply that he was the brother who lived , and that Agorn would soon join the shadows himself . Agorn was suddenly overwhelmed with extreme cold , and feelings of dread and sickness that attacked him inside and out . Yet as quickly as he was assaulted by these feelings , they dissipated ; as he looked upon Shykrill , he saw the boy ' s head fall to the ground , having met the blade of one of Lyu ' s signature weapons . It was Nuck Lyu himself who ' d hurled the weapon from his hiding spot , having been secretly summoned from Esseles by Agorn . The pair instinctively knew that Shykrill had been responsible for the trainees ' deaths , and they had believed that the only way to free him of his evil was to end his life . Powers and abilities . From an early age , Cope Shykrill was talented in telekinesis , which he demonstrated on his homeworld of Sarcophagus by lowering a coffin into a grave . He further demonstrated his telekinetic abilities by excelling in throwing lessons given by Master Lyu . Shykrill was so skilled that he made Lyu uncomfortable , as the youngling had mastered a skill that Lyu himself had taken much longer to master . Shykrill also seemed to be somewhat skilled in Dominate Mind , having caused a Nosaurian Padawan to murder two others and attack Shykrill as well . This could have also been an instinctual application of Torture by Chagrin or Force Horror . His attack on Master Agorn suggests that he knew some form of the Force drain ability , based on how Agorn describes feeling at the onset of the assault . He didn ' t seem to be too adept at Force sense , as he was clearly unaware of Lyu ' s presence behind him , resulting in his death . Behind the scenes . The story of Cope Shykrill is recounted by Master Agorn as he talks about his first encounter with what he described as a " Dark Jedi . " The story appears in " " .