Kenan Verso

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## Family information

### Family

* Verso family
* Naterrie family
* Adonis family

### Parent(s)

* Keleran Verso
* Hela Naterrie Verso

### Children

* Lana Verso
* Mase Verso

## Chronological and political information

### Affiliation(s)

* Jedi Order
	+ Pikobi Clan
* Galactic Republic
	+ 71st Delta Corps
* Alliance to Restore the Republic
	+ Phantom Cell
	+ Alliance High Command
* New Republic
* Resistance

### Apprentices

* Lana Verso
* Mase Verso

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"*My father died trying to save the Jedi from extinction. I won't let his death be in vain.*"

―Kenan Verso
**Kenan Verso** was a legendary Force-sensitive human male Jedi Master who became a central figure in the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire. During the Clone Wars, Verso was assigned to be the Padawan of Jedi Knight Del Morrigan and fought with him against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. As the conflict came to an end, Verso and Morrigan were forced into hiding after escaping the Great Jedi Purge that would all but destroy the Jedi Order. While living in exile with Morrigan on Batuu, Verso completed his Jedi training, earning his knighthood, then formed a rebel cell against the Empire. As a prominent leader of the growing rebellion leading up to the Galactic Civil War, Verso would be remembered as one of the most legendary Jedi in galactic history.

Born in 35 BBY on the Inner Rim planet Milano, Kenan was the son of Jedi Knight Keleran Verso and Senator Hela Naterrie. Prior to Keleran's death during his attempted resurrection of the Jedi Order, Hela gave birth to Kenan and raised him in secret on Milano. Despite Hela's best efforts to keep her family secret, Kenan was discovered by Jedi Master Tark Doon in 34 BBY and taken to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to be admitted into the Order, just as his father was. During the Separatist Crisis, Senator Wes Norven of the Galactic Senate pieced together Kenan's relation to Naterrie in a desperate attempt to silence her opposition of the Military Creation Act. Ultimately, Norven manipulated members of the Senate into believing her influence on the bill was biased and voted for her resignation. With the galaxy entering a state of war, Verso continued his training in the Pikobi Clan with other initiates such as Ahsoka Tano. After the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Verso was assigned as the Padawan of Jedi Knight Del Morrigan and made a Jedi Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic, commanding the clone troopers of the elite 401st Legion.

In 19 BBY, Verso and Morrigan survived the initial onslaught of the Great Jedi Purge during the Battle of Abrion Major, which Keleran foresaw and attempted to prevent decades ago. As a result of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious' machinations, the Jedi Order was all but destroyed and the Galactic Republic was transformed into the Galactic Empire. Verso lived in exile on Batuu with Morrigan and adopted the alias "Jerret Caster" to hide his true identity. Although adopting a hermit lifestyle, Verso continued to train under Morrigan in the Jedi temple on Batuu—which was built during the High Republic Era—and eventually earned his knighthood. After serving in the Batuu Liberation Front with the Zygerrian Rozin Nadir, Verso and Morrigan formed the Phantom Cell, seeking to take the fight directly to the Empire. Throughout the early years of the Empire's reign, Verso participated in the insurgency on his homeworld Milano and helped the Milano Resistance liberate the world from the Empire, even gaining the attention of Imperial Fleet Admiral Erend Kane.

## **Biography**

### **Early life**

#### **Birth**

"*I can't worry about that right now. We have a baby to prepare for, and I wish to enjoy this moment with you.*"

―Keleran Verso, to Hela Naterrie
Kenan Verso was born on the Inner Rim planet Milano in 35 BBY. He was the son of Jedi Knight Keleran Verso and Senator Hela Naterrie of the Galactic Senate. Prior to Kenan's birth, his father foresaw the destruction of the Jedi Order, and although the reason remained unclear to him, he made it his personal mission to save the Order. After learning that Hela was pregnant, Keleran made the hard decision of leaving his family behind to attempt saving the Order off-world. Therefore, Hela gave birth to Kenan in her personal villa on Atex Bay in Milano's Lake County. With Naterrie's position in the Senate, she tried her best to keep her marriage to Keleran a secret by retaining her surname, cutting off any ties to him. Hela even considered giving Kenan her surname during her pregnancy, however, she fulfilled her promise to name him after Keleran.

#### **Discovery**

Like most Force-sensitive children born within the parameters of the Galactic Republic, Kenan was discovered by the Jedi Order in 34 BBY. The Jedi High Council sent Jedi Master Tark Doon to Milano to bring Verso before them in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. Doon traveled to Milano and visited Naterrie on Atex Bay, discussing the reason for his visit. After Doon introduced himself, he inquired about Kenan's unusually strong connection to the Force for someone so young, speculating that his father might have been Force-sensitive as well. As he asked more questions, Doon noticed that Naterrie grew more anxious and felt she was attempting to keep things from him regarding Kenan. Doon asked for her to confess anything about the boy that would help him and promised to keep anything he learned between the two of them. Knowing that the lies were futile, Naterrie decided to confide in him about her secret marriage with Keleran, Kenan's biological father.

Doon honored her request of secrecy and suggested that it would be better for Kenan to be trained to harness his abilities. Although hesitant at first, Naterrie realized there was no other choice for Kenan and allowed Doon to take him, only under the condition that he would be protected. Doon assured her that all younglings were properly looked after and trained, but he also promised to personally protect Kenan with his life. With that, Naterrie said her farewells then Doon, with Kenan cradled in his arms, boarded his T-6 shuttle and departed from Milano. As they began to depart, Verso looked outside the shuttle with eyes full of wonder as he was about to embark on an adventure far away from his mother and homeworld.

#### **Initiate of the Jedi Order**

As assigned, Doon brought Verso to the Temple on Coruscant and was accepted into the Jedi Order, beginning his new life. Training as a Jedi Initiate, Verso was placed in the Pikobi Clan, including Ahsoka Tano, and was trained by Grand Master Yoda. At some point, Verso traveled to the Jedi Temple on the ice planet Ilum with his clan to acquire a kyber crystal for a lightsaber. As he entered the temple's cave, Master Yoda told everyone that they would know which crystal to choose when they found it. Verso and his fellow initiates entered the cave and began searching for their crystals. With the opening to the cave slowly closing as the star Asar began to set, Verso urgently searched for his crystal until he calmed himself, thinking back on Yoda's words and focusing on a crystal to call out to him. After leaving Ilum with his kyber crystal, Verso would construct his own lightsaber under the tutelage of the architect droid Huyang. At some point, Verso confided in Yoda about his fear of the future and burdening sense of duty, and Yoda told him that it was natural to feel afraid but warned him not to be consumed by those emotions. Yoda taught him to use meditation to quiet his mind and connect with the Force.

In 22 BBY, tensions maintained between the Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems, sparking a state of war across the galaxy. In the wake of the Separatist Crisis, Naterrie became the target of a conspiracy by Senator Wes Norven of Carida that involved Kenan. With the Senate debating the passing of the Military Creation Act, which would allow for the creation of an army against the Confederacy, Naterrie opposed the bill and further delayed it from being passed. Norven, who was eager for the bill to pass, began searching for anything on Naterrie that would hurt her credibility and ultimately silence her. In his search, Norven discovered that Naterrie gave birth to a boy, who was Force-sensitive, according to the Republic records. With that evidence, Norven proposed to the Senate that Naterrie's stance on the bill was biased due to her son being amongst the Jedi, who were expected to become commanding officers of the Republic army, and as such, he proposed a voting process that saw to her resignation from the Senate. Nevertheless, Norven wasn't able to identity Kenan as Hela's son, so he continued to train as if nothing happened.

### **The Clone Wars**

#### **Del Morrigan's Padawan**

At the age of thirteen, mere months after the First Battle of Geonosis that marked the beginning of the Clone Wars, Verso was assigned to Jedi Knight Del Morrigan to learn the ways of the Force as his Padawan on the order of Yoda. Like all the other Padawans his age, Verso's training was accelerated due to the Clone Wars which overshadowed his apprenticeship with Morrigan. After earning the rank of Padawan, Verso was also made a Jedi Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic, according to the Jedi Military Integration Act. Years ago, Yoda struggled to find a Master willing to teach Morrigan due to his behavior, but his developed maturity and determination were examples that Yoda believed Verso could learn from. Yoda thought they could both learn more about themselves and, in tern, grow together as master and apprentice.

The Jedi Council sent Verso on his first mission to meet his new mentor on the planet Zygnost, where Morrigan was leading a campaign against the Far Tech Alliance after its President Meeko Shrike conspired with Confederate Head of State Count Dooku. However, after arriving on Zygnost and introducing himself to Morrigan, he learned that the Republic forces had in fact failed to take the planet as the Jedi Council believed, leaving Morrigan and his forces trapped as the battle dragged on.

## **Equipment**

After becoming apart of the Jedi Order, Verso wore Jedi robes and carried his own lightsaber after finding a kyber crystal on Ilum. Following the outbreak of the Clone Wars, when Verso earned the rank of Padawan, he was given a Padawan braid and wore pieces of commander armor over his Jedi clothing. Later in the war, he wore different Jedi robes with less armor for a more relaxed fit, and often wore a brown cloak over his robes when he wasn't in combat.

During the Clone Wars, Verso flew his own Delta-7B *Aethersprite*-class light interceptor, but later replaced it with an Eta-2 *Actis*-class light interceptor, both of which were blue. While training under Del Morrigan, Verso often commanded his master's flagship, the *Venator*-class Star Destroyer *Protector*. As a Jedi Commander, he would also be transported to battlefields aboard a Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry gunship, such as when he was sent to first meet Morrigan during the Battle of Zygnost.

## **Appearances**

* *Star Wars: A Legacy Lost* (Indirect mention only)
* *Star Wars: The Spark of War* (First appearance)
* *Star Wars: Fall of the Republic*
* *Star Wars: Rise of the Rebellion*
* *Star Wars: Wrath of the Sith*
* *Star Wars: The Last Stand*
* *Star Wars: A New Age*
* *Star Wars: Shadows of the Past*
* *Star Wars: The Light of Redemption*