John White

Terran Alliance

* Anti-Sith Assault Team

Colonel John White, a human male, is a former member of the British SAS, and a current member of the Anti-Sith Assault Team. He joined the SAS several years into his career in the British Army, and was chosen for the Anti-Sith Assault Team when it was first formed. He took part in several important operations throughout the Clone Wars.

## Biography

### Early Life

John White was born on December 30, 1961, in a suburb of London. At the age of 18, he began attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He graduated in 1983, and commissioned into the British Army as a 2nd Lieutenant and joined.

In 1989 he was accepted into SAS training. He completed his training early 1990 and joined the 22nd SAS Regiment. Around the same time, he bought a home in Scotland.

Shortly before he was accepted into SAS training, White began dating a young woman named Emma Lane. When White was deployed to Middle East for Operation Desert Storm, he proposed to Emma before shipping out. Two weeks after he returned from the Gulf, they were married.

### Anti-Sith Assault Team

#### Induction and Training

After the Republic arrived on Terra in 1991, the Anti-Sith Assault Team was formed to serve as a Terran defense against the threat of the Sith. White was one of the 12 men chosen as the first members of the team.

On December 5, 1991, White and the other members of the team began their training under Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker. In their initial meeting, White chose a blue bladed lightsaber as his weapon. During their training, White advanced quickly under Windu and Skywalker's tutelage.

#### Operation Thunderstrike and the Terran campaign

On January 8, 1992, White was one of six members of the ASAT team to take part in Operation Thunderstrike, the joint Terran/Republic effort to capture Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, and Kim Il-Sung. White and his fellow team member, Colonel Dennis Rommel, joined the task force led by Obi Wan Kenobi to capture Gaddafi. White, Rommel, and Kenobi, accompanied by a joint team of SAS, German KSK, and Egyptian Unit 777 commandos, stormed Gaddafi's residence in Tripoli and captured Gaddafi and a number of his officials.

Immediately after the operation, White was sent to Cairo, where he would be stationed for the duration of the Terran campaign. When the Battle of Nigeria began turning against the Nigerians, he prepared to deploy along with Egyptian troops, but a nuclear attack by the *USS Alaska* stopped the Separatist army and forced them to retreat, depriving White of the ability to fight in the Terran campaign.

After the Terran campaign, White, on executive order from the Joint Terran Command, was promoted to the rank of Colonel. When Terran forces began to deploy to the Andromeda Galaxy to assist the Republic in the Clone Wars, White was one of the members of the ASAT team which remained behind on Terra.

#### Senate Hostage Crisis

In November, 1992, White was ordered to deploy to Coruscant to relieve Colonel Daniel Mofaz. He arrived on Coruscant on November 24.

On December 1, White was training at the Jedi Temple. After having a discussion with Master Yoda, White left the Temple to have a lunch with Colonel Tyler Hall. However, on his way to meet Hall for lunch, White received a transmission from an SAS officer on Coruscant, Captain Sam Jones, letting him know that Cad Bane and his bounty hunters had taken a number of Senators hostage in the Senate building.

Reacting immediately, White made his way to a building given to the Terran Alliance, where the A squadron of the 22nd SAS regiment were stationed. White assumed command of the squadron and led them to the Senate building in a rescue mission.

Once White and the SAS entered the Senate building, White dispatched three men to protect Chancellor Palpatine, and three more to turn the power in the building back on, while the rest followed him to locate Cad Bane and the Senators.

It took White and his men only a matter of minutes to locate the room where the Senators were being held. White sent six men to trail the bounty hunters, whom they had seen disappearing down a corridor, while he and the rest of the SAS made their way into the room where the Senators were being held, and disabled the explosives keeping them from moving. Once the explosives were disarmed, White ordered his commandos following the bounty hunters to engage them, but the bounty hunters were able to escape with Ziro the Hutt before the SAS could catch them.

White remained on Coruscant while Obi Wan Kenobi and Quinlan Vos chased after Ziro and the bounty hunters, and was informed by Kenobi when they discovered Ziro's body on Teth.

#### Chasing Savage Opress

White remained on Coruscant over the next month and a half, training at the Jedi Temple and preparing for his next mission.

In late January, 1993, White was present when the bodies of two Jedi killed on Devaron by an unknown assailant were brought to the Jedi Temple. The killer was identified as a Zabrak, thanks to security footage. White was tasked, along with Kenobi and Skywalker, with tracking down the killer.

The three of them made their way to Dathomir, where they went to the home village of the former Sith Lord Darth Maul. After interrogating the Zabraks of the village, they learned the mysterious killer had been taken by the Nightsisters.

Travelling to the other side of Dathomir, the three were taken by the Nightsisters and taken before Mother Talzin. After pressing Talzin a bit for answers, White, Kenobi and Skywalker were able to get the name of the killer: Savage Opress. Talzin also told them that Savage was on Toydaria.

White and the two Jedi set off for Toydaria immediately. When they arrived on the planet, they found Savage attempting to capture King Katuunko.

White and the two Jedi immediately engaged Savage in an attempt to protect the king. Katuunko attempted to take advantage of the attack to escape, and Savage used the Force to choke him, hoping to hold him back.

Seeking to preserve the king's life, White drew on a Spetsnaz technique taught to him by his Russian comrades, and leapt on Savage's shoulders, scissoring him and beating Savage about the head until he relinquished his hold on Katuunko. White then took the king and fled the throne room, hiding himself and the king until Savage fled.

White remained on Toydaria, and was joined by some former SAS comrades. Together, they remained on Toydaria for two weeks to ensure no Separatists came for a second attempt to kidnap the king. After two weeks, White finally left Toydaria and returned to Coruscant, after which he returned home to Terra for several months.

#### Apprehending Barriss Offee

By October, 1993, White had returned to Coruscant. He was on the planet when the Jedi Temple hangar was bombed, but he did not take part in the investigation or the hunt for Ahsoka Tano.

When Captain Samuel Adams, the leader of the ASAT team, and Anakin Skywalker discovered a possibility that Barriss Offee was secretly behind everything, Adams called in White, as well as Colonel Grant Wilson and Colonel Mofaz, to help apprehend Barriss. Skywalker spoke with Barriss first, forcing her to reveal her guilt. He then forced her into a corridor where Adams, White, Wilson, and Mofaz, supported by several US Navy SEALs and several SAS commandos, were able to contain Barriss until Adams was able to knock her out.

White and the other three ASAT commandos escorted Barriss to the court where Ahsoka Tano was on trial, where Barriss publicly confessed her guilt in the bombing. White and the others then escorted Barriss to the Republic's military prison, where Barriss was imprisoned.

#### Wounded at Anaxes

In mid January, 1994, the Separatists invaded the critical world of Anaxes. White and his ASAT teammate, Colonel Cheng Han, were deployed to Anaxes along with soldiers from the United States, Canada, Germany, and Saudi Arabia.

Only a few days after arriving on Anaxes, White was leading a charge by Canadian troops against a droid battalion when he was wounded by shrapnel from an exploding rocket. He was immediately taken back to the main Republic base on Anaxes, and from there was evacuated from the planet for medical treatment. He was replaced by Colonel Hall. After a short period at the medical facility, White was returned to Terra to ensure he had time to recover. He remained on the planet after he was declared combat ready again and helped to train the Zulu Force.

In July 1994, White was still on Earth when the Republic turned on the Jedi and the Alliance. White helped some of the surviving Jedi that came to Earth to adapt to their new lives. A month after the retreat, White traveled to the Terran Jedi Temple's construction site for the first meeting of the entire ASAT team since December 1991, where the entire team swore an oath to see the Empire and Sith destroyed.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*