Kleeve

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**Kleeve** was a Devaronian who was a General in the Separatist Alliance during the Clone Wars. Nearing the end of the war, he and his droids occupied the planet of Kaller, until clone troops commanded by Jedi Depa Billaba intervened. Some time after the end of the war, Kleeve moved to Lahnand took on the alias "**Jondo**". While there, he was met Billaba's apprentice, Caleb Dume, who was now traveling with Janus Kasmir. Although he was initially hostile towards Kleeve, now that the war was over they chose to put aside their differences. Kleeve had made a deal with Kasmir, but before the deal could be done, the three were taken into Imperial custody before they solely collected Caleb and let the other two go. Kleeve agreed to aid Kasmir in rescuing Caleb, and the pair succeeded in the rescue attempt. After the battle, the team landed on Kaller, Caleb went out on his own, taking Kleeve's ship, which he renamed the *Escape*.

## Biography

### Separatist General

**Kleeve** was a Devaronian born in the last years of the Galactic Republic. Years later, war came to the galaxy when thousands of galactic star systems seceded and formed the Separatist Alliance, which was led by Count Dooku, a former Jedi Master. The Confederacy yearned to form a galactic government that was independent from the corruption, bureaucracy and taxes of the Republic. The Separatists found themselves at war with the Republic, using their droid armies against the clone army of the Republic. Kleeve joined the Confederacy, valuing their plight for freedom from the Republic, and became a General in their Separatist Droid Army. Kleeve fought in multiple battles in the Clone Wars, becoming quite a prestigious commander on the battlefront, earning himself a reputation.

#### Near the End of the War

Near the end of the Clone Wars, Kleeve, along with Grievous, then planned a suicide attack on the Jedi Temple. Using the specifications on the Jedi Temple from Cad Bane, Kleeve sent the top explosive expert to carry out the attack. After the failed bombing, General Kleeve then discovered that the Republic had sent clones under the Jedi General Depa Billaba to Kardoa. He objected to to Grievous attacking Kardoa for no other reason besides Billaba. Kleeve received orders from Count Dooku to lead the conquest of Kaller. During the Outer Rim Sieges, Kleeve led a droid army to the planet Kaller, which was located in the Outer Rim. Kaller's leader, the Kalleran Gamut Key, resented the Confederate occupation of his world. Kleeve had bigger problems to worry about, however, when the Republic dispatched a legion of clones and Jedi Master Depa Billaba and her Padawan Caleb Dume to free Kaller from the Separatists and annihilate Kleeve and his forces; bringing forth the Conquest of Kaller. Kleeve led his forces from Key's palace, and watched as his forces were routed by the Jedi and their troopers. A battle droid informed Kleeve that the droids had been overrun, so Kleeve, realizing the battle was lost, informed Key of his intent to retreat and left the planet in a shuttle before Depa Billaba, Caleb Dume and the Clone Troopers invaded the compound and freed Kaller from the Separatist Alliance.

### Living as a Scoundrel

#### After the End of the War

The day after Kleeve retreated from Kaller, Chancellor of the Republic, Sheev Palpatine, in front of the Senate, declared himself Galactic Emperor of the galaxy, transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire and declared all of the Jedi Order enemies of the state; dispatching all clones to execute them on sight. Kleeve abandoned the Confederacy as it dwindled out, it's leaders were assassinated, and much of the rest of the Confederacy was absorbed into the Empire or formed into holdouts that rebelled against the Empire. Kleeve knew the new Empire would punish and execute him if he was identified as Separatist General Kleeve, so he took on a new life over the next several months, he went into hiding on the Outer Rim planet Lahn, changed his name to Jondo, and established himself as a crime boss who worked outside of the Empire's laws and regulations. He took up residence in a hut in a Lahn settlement, where he traded illegal goods, such as spice, an illicit drug that was in high-demand throughout the galaxy. Months later, about a standard year since the end of the Clone Wars, Kleeve and Kalleran smuggler Janus Kasmir arranged a trade with Kleeve giving the Kalleran a starship, the *Farbrooke's Hope*, in exchange for a valuable shipment of spice. Kasmir's partner happened to be former Padawan of Billabla, Caleb Dume, and he came to Kleeve's residence to ensure the deal was still on.

Dume, under the impression that Kleeve was his alias of Jondo, was horrified when he recognized Jondo as Kleeve, therefore pulled his blaster on him. Kleeve didn't recognize Dume, but due to Dume's hostility towards him, deduced that they had met during the war, where they had been enemies. Kleeve explained that he had fought in the war in order to establish freedom in the galaxy, but he had put his faith on the wrong leadership and suffered for it when they had failed, adding that they both had put their trust in governments that ended up a much different entity than what they had signed on to protect and fight for. Dume holstered his weapon, prompting Kleeve to get to business and asked if the trade was a go. Dume was excited to learn that Kasmir had signed on for a ship, and raced out to thank Kasmir, who intended the *Farbrooke's Hope* to be Dume's. However, Dume soon returned with ill tidings: Kasmir had been arrested by Captain Grey, who was hunting Dume because he, as a Jedi, was an Imperial enemy. Dume, on the basis of the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" convinced Kleeve to loan him the *Farbrooke's Hope* in order to rescue Kasmir, even though Kleeve wasn't going to receive anything from it. The pair set out aboard a boat to a Lahn spaceport. On the trip, Kleeve remarked that he believed himself to be out of his mind in helping the Jedi and not receiving anything in return.

The pair reached bay seventeen, where the ship was docked, however, Commander Styles, Grey's partner, tracked Jedi Padawan Caleb Dume to the spaceport and knocked him unconscious while a pair of other clones detained Kleeve and put him on Stuncuffs. The Clone Troopers, however, did not recognize Kleeve as a former Separatist, so they released him along with Kasmir, and took Caleb Dume prisoner and to a *Gozanti*-Class cruiser and traveled back to the system of Kaller. Kleeve and Kasmir quickly boarded their ships and jumped into pursuit of the cruiser. The pair of ships emerged from hyperspace soon after, and near the Imperial cruiser. Dume, however, manged to eject himself from the airlock of the cruiser using the Force and was sucked into space. Kasmir quickly pulled Dume into the *Kasmiri* and revived him. The cruiser raised its deflector shields and prepared to attack, so Kleeve and Kasmir did likewise in their vessels. Kleeve asked Kasmir whay men such as them—criminals—were risking their lives for Dume, a child. Kasmir replied that he did not even pretend to understand that. Kleeve was relieved that it wasn't just him, and attacked the cruiser. Both pilots quickly learned, however, that they were hopelessly outmatched, so the began to retreat. Although, Dume ordered them to stay and fight. Kleeve and the Kalleran obeyed, even when both their vessel's shields percentage fell to single digits.

#### Parting Ways and Reunions

With little choice, the Devaronian and Kasmir followed Dume's instructions and looped around to strafe the Imperial ship. They opened fire and the cruiser unexpectedly exploded; killing all aboard. The two ships then landed on Kaller to regroup. Kleeve examined the damage to the *Farbrooke's Hope* while Dume informed Kasmir that he had decided to leave his company and seek his own way in the galaxy. Kasmir was bewildered at the boy's decision, but let him go after Dume struck out and attacked him. Dume took only his Lightsaber, his Jedi Holocron, and the *Farbrooke's Hope*, which he renamed the *Escape*. After fifteen years, the former Separatist General Kleeve was still working with Kasmir, and, one day, Kasmir helped a kid get away from Stormtroopers, while in Lahn, without knowing that this kid was, no more no less, Ezra Bridger, the apprentice of their former partner and friend Caleb who know went by Kanan Jarrus.