Satele Shan

Satele Shan was a legendary Force-sensitive human female who served as the Jedi Order's Grand Master during the Cold War and the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire. The daughter of Jedi Knight Tasiele Shan, who was herself a descendant of the legendary Jedi Knights Revan and Bastila Shan, Satele Shan would go on to become an important figure in galactic history. Even after her passing, her actions and decisions would have a lasting effect in shaping the destiny of Jarik Shan, her direct descendant thousands of years later.
==History==
===Early life===
Satele was born on the planet Brentaal IV in the year 3699 BBY. Inheriting her family's Force-sensitivity, she was inducted into the Jedi Order and became the Padawan of Jedi Master Ngani Zho, though she later traveled to the Sith homeworld of Korriban to study under the Zabrak Battlemaster Kao Cen Darach. It was there that she witnessed the recapture of the planet by the Sith Empire in 3681 BBY, and she escaped to warn the Republic with the help of the smuggler Nico Okarr and a Republic trooper named Jace Malcom at the cost of Darach's life.
===The Great Galactic War===
====Republic Hero====
Achieving the rank of Jedi Knight under the tutelage of Master Dar'Nala, Shan led her fellow Jedi and the forces of the Republic Military into battle in the Great Galactic War, becoming a well-known hero to the Republic.
====Forming a relationship====
During the war, Shan grew close with Jace Malcom despite the Jedi Order's restrictions on attachments, and their bond drove her to rescue Malcom and his small band of Special Forces troopers on the Core World of Alderaan when the Empire invaded the world in 3667 BBY. Her arrival turned the tide of the Battle of Alderaan in the Republic's favor. After defeating the Sith Lord Darth Malgus in combat with the help of Malcom, she and Malcom began an affair that lasted for six months before Shan broke it off in fear of the darkness in the soldier's heart. However, she was pregnant with Malcom's child, and Shan eventually gave birth to her son, Theron, in secret with the help of Master Zho before giving the child up to the Jedi Order and returning to the battlefield.
====End of the war====
In 3653 BBY, Shan was selected to be part of the delegation that was to attend peace talks with the Sith Empire on Alderaan. However, the Empire used the conference as a distraction while it attacked the Republic's capital of Coruscant, holding the world hostage to force the Republic to accept the terms of the Treaty of Coruscant.
===The Cold War===
====Grand Master of the Order====
As the galaxy settled into an uneasy Cold War, Shan foiled a conspiracy to sabotage the new peace perpetrated by Dar'Nala herself and afterward embarked on an odyssey inspired by the call of the Force across the galaxy. The journey led her to the long-lost Je'daii homeworld of Tython in the Deep Core, and for her rediscovery of the planet, Shan was appointed to the position of Grand Master and given leadership of the entire Order. In her new role, Shan guided the Order through a number of crises that arose during the Cold War also and trained her Kiffar Padawan, Shigar Konshi, to Knighthood.
====Unexpected visitors====
Near the end of the Cold War, Shan and her son Theron encountered a young Cybertronian by the name of Bumblebee, who had accidentally found himself crash landing on Tython, far away from his homeworld in another galaxy; the two humans established a friendly relationship with the young Autobot, and sought to help him find his way back home. During this time, Shan would be lured to the planet Lothal by Darth Sidious, a Sith Lord from far into the future, who used the World Between Worlds in a plot to ensure the destruction of his greatest enemy. His plans were foiled however when Shan's own descendant, Jarik Shan, traveled to the past to prevent Sidious from killing Satele and Theron. After the incident, Satele Shan continued to ponder over the future, worrying over the possibility that she may accidentally alter the course of Jarik's destiny.
===Return to war===
====Threat of the Sith Emperor====
As the fragile calm of the Cold War began to collapse, Shan worked with the Republic Emergency Response Corps to protect the unsteady peace and the innocents of the galaxy, and she was alerted to a dangerous threat from the Sith Emperor by his former servant Lord Scourge when a daring mission that she had authorized to capture the Emperor ended in disaster. Learning that the Emperor intended to extinguish all life in the galaxy, Shan helped the Jedi Knight known as the Hero of Tython foil the Emperor's plans and personally led an invasion fleet in an assault on the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas while the Knight confronted and defeated the Emperor.
As the renewed war continued to spread across the galaxy, Shan worked with her former flame, Malcom, in his capacity as Supreme Commander of the Republic Military, and the two achieved victory over the prototype Imperial warship Ascendant Spear at Duro thanks to the efforts of their son, Theron. Shan also forged a temporary truce with the Empire's Darth Marr in order to combat the threat of the Order of Revan, and the two led their combined forces in defeating the returned Revan on the moon Yavin 4.
====Retreating into exile====
After the Eternal Empire conquered the Republic and Sith Empire, Shan was disheartened by the casualties the Jedi Order suffered under her command and renounced her title, going into a meditative exile with the spirit of the Sith Lord Darth Marr.
===Later life===
====Finding peace and solitude====
At some point after the defeat of the Sith Emperor, Satele Shan would discover the Jedi Order's long-lost homeworld of Ahch-To and, sensing the galaxy no longer needed her, would retreat there to peacefully live out the remainder of her life in solitude. Over the course of fifteen years, Shan wrote about her life experiences in a journal, preserving it alongside the sacred Jedi texts, before eventually becoming one with the Force in 3609 BBY.
===Legacy===
Three thousand years after her passing, Satele's bloodline would live on in the life of her descendant, Jarik Shan, who she had met during his brief incursion through time. Shan's spirit would observe as he grew up to become a Jedi, providing him wisdom and guidance at various points in his life. During the reign of the Galactic Empire, Jarik would also discover Ahch-To, as well as the things she had left there, including her lightsaber and journal.
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