Texos Draycen

Rebel Alliance

Nova Squadron

'Jonn' Padrino (Former)

Jen'doon (Former)

Zurok Terrum ( Former)

Tarkkata

" *The Jedi Order failed, the Sith deceived us all with the shroud of the Dark Side. The galaxy turned against us and the Jedi were utterly crushed, that will not happen again*."- Texos Draycen

Texos Draycen was a Korun male Jedi Master of the reformed Jedi Order after the Great Purge. He holds the distinction of being the first Jedi Knight to fully pass the trials in the new Order. Draycen was later appointed to the new Jedi Council. He was noted for his highly adaptive mixture of styles in lightsaber combat, and was a well known pilot in the Alliance Navy.

Texos was a recently promoted padawan in the later years of the Clone Wars, residing in the Temple at the time of Order 66. He was alerted to the Purge by the death of his master Saesee Tiin as he was slain by then Chancellor Palpatine. Texos used a Temple Guard secret passage to bypass 501st troopers, arriving in the hangar bay to steal his masters Eta-2 Actis Starfighter. He eliminated a clone fireteam standing guard and escaped into Coruscants lower levels . The ex Padawan would stay hidden in the planets dark Mega-cities for many years.

When word reached the Coruscanti Underworld of a growing resistance against the Empire, Texos lept at the chance to fight back. He used his underworld contacts to locate a Rebel cell close to the core worlds, surrendering to them to join the cause. This marked the beginning of Texos' career within the budding Rebel Alliance. He spent the next 7 years working with Senator Bail Organa and his extensive network of Rebel Cells. General Jan Dodonna's Massassi Group was the unit Texos was assigned to for most of the time period. Over these seven years, he rose through the ranks of the Alliance Navy, achieving the rank of Captain in command of his own vessel. a CR90 Corellian Corvette, he christened the ship as the Kaal's Heart after his home-world of Haruun Kaal. It was a tribute to a world devastated by the Empire shortly after its rise.

After the Disastrous losses at the battle of Scarif, Texos' resolve was shaken to the core, He relinquished his squadron command and went on an extended leave from the Alliance. Texos spent over a year wandering the galaxy, trying to find his purpose. He encountered Master Kev'al Darkrider on Lok while doing mercenary work for the Pirate Boss Nym. Kev'al sensed the force within Texos, and brought him back with him to the New Jedi Temple on Dantooine. This was the critical moment in his life where he decided that the galaxies peril was beyond the scope of the Rebel and Imperial conflict, but an imbalance in the Force itself. Texos spent the next year and a half Re-learning all he had forgotten in the prior decades. He was taken on by a new master, the Wookie Jedi Master Neminyyk. He completed his training, and helped Texos find peace within himself. This newfound resolve brought with it the will to fight once more, now a true Jedi Knight, Texos rejoined the Rebellion against the Empire with new allies at his side. The true Galactic Civil War had begun. Over the next few years, Texos rose through the ranks of the Order, helping to train many students in the ways of the Force, as well as the more mundane yet crucial skills of piloting, tactics, and other technical skills a Jedi could need beyond the Force. Although his actions within the Order and the growing Rebel Alliance helped to bolster and stabilize both factions as they fought against the Empire, it also drew the attention of those at the highest level of Imperial leadership. Texos was discovered and shortly killed in an ambush over Bothawui. With his death, Texos left behind a stronger rebuilt order and a more hopeful Rebel Alliance.

## **Biography**

**Early Life**

Texos was born in 33 BBY on the planet Haruun Kaal. His parents are unknown, their record was lost in the old Jedi Archives, and Texos himself was a mere infant when the Order found him. His true childhood began within the walls of the temple. After his initial years of care were complete, he was inducted into the Bear clan under Jedi Master Yoda at age 3.

This would serve as Texos family within the Jedi Order, he spent the next eight years learning, meditating, training and living with his fellow Bear clan younglings. In his youth, Texos was noted for having a very inquisitive mind, he never needed encouragement to do his daily meditations or to visit the library for study. Often he would be found hours later still studying past curfew. Everything about the Force enraptured him, from its origins to its effects on the galaxy around him, every application of the force that he had access to was studied extensively. When he wasn't learning about the force, Texos would study the history of the galaxy and the various cultures within it. He recognized the unique qualities as lessons to be learned, and it helped him understand how the Republic stood for as many eons as it did. Texos also became a skilled leader and mediator for the conflicts that arose within his clan. Arguments and disagreements could often be rectified before their senior Jedi even noticed. Recognizing his young students affinity for study and pacifistic qualities, master Yoda was more than willing to endure hours of discussion with the youngling. Often there seemed no end to the questions he would ask, but it was an endearing pastime in the grand master's otherwise chaotic and dark world. Later in his life, shortly before Texos became a padawan, master Yoda gifted him with a holocron. This holocron had its personality matrix imprinted on by Master Yoda himself, and would serve to guide Texos in the ways of the Force for years to come. However, Texos excessive studies came at the expense of his lightsaber combat skills for several years, a deficiency that would come to haunt him in the long run. Regardless, Texos mastered Form I, Shii-cho and chose to study Form VI Niman. The latter form he found to be serviceable enough to open himself up fully to the force in combat, but not spend endless hours training precise cadences and sequences. He did however have a rudimentary understanding of all the Forms, with an above average competency in Forms III and IV from his many long discussions with master Yoda. Some of the moves and sequences of Soresu and Ataru were then incorporated into his overall style .

Like many younglings, Texos cherished any opportunity he had to learn from the Jedi masters when they returned to the temple from their missions. Although he never formally met master Mace Windu, he was on the edge of his seat for any demonstration or sparring match he took place in. Master Windu was also the only opponent to ever duel battle master Cin-Drallig into total exhaustion. This curiosity was further enhanced by the fact that he and master Windu shared the same home world, this gave Texos an unspoken kinship and an ideal to strive towards.

When the time came for Texos to enter the Apprentice Tournament , Texos was very uneasy, given that he was very mediocre when it came to lightsaber combat. He had also heard rumors of how varied and challenging the tournament was each year. There was a distinct possibility that he would have to fight underwater, blindfolded, in zero g or even all of the above. Therefor, in the last year before he turned 11, Texos drastically increased the intensity of his lightsaber training.He knew he wanted to join the ranks of the Jedi consulars, and could most likely get by on his scholarly and diplomatic abilities alone, but Texos didn't want to just get by. His goal was to become the best Jedi he could be, and that meant well developed swordsmanship. Over this year long prelude to the tournament, Texos improved upon his stamina most of all, increasing both his defensive Soresu technique as well as his acrobatics for some of Ataru's more demanding sequences. By the date of the tournament, he was ready. The first round was daunting, the dueling ring was configured into several moving platforms hovering on repulsorlifts. floating in every direction. The goal of each duel is to land three burn marks on your opponent with a training saber. This circumstance was perfect for an Ataru practitioner, and Texos made sure to finish this duel quickly and scored three marks before his stamina depleted too severely, however, his opponent scored at least one mark that sent him off one of the platforms right into the ground. Despite winning this duel, it would set him back with this injury. The next duel was blindfolded in a still and completely silent room. None of the initiates or Jedi in the audience made a sound. All that could be heard was the hum of the duelists training sabers. This was a test of sensory ability as well as decisive strikes. Texos knew his opponent well, a Herglic, a large aquatic mammal standing at least 2 meters tall, he wielded a training club instead of a saber. Texos knew he would lose a battle of strength given the circumstances, so he resorted to parrying the large creature whenever they made contact, each blow was heavier than the last, but with each parry, he had the chance to score a burn. The injury from last matches fall caught up to him, and he was scored on twice before scoring his third burn. Texos ended up in a near stalemate in the semifinals, his opponent this time was a Form II specialist, and after nearly 10 minutes of holding up his Soresu defenses, Texos lost without scoring any burns on his opponent. After the match, one master called out from the crowd. Texos looked up, and the Iktochi master Saesee Tiin had chosen him for apprenticeship. This was a surprise, as master Tiin had not taken an apprentice since before the Naboo crisis.

### **The Clone Wars**

The galaxy spanning conflict known as the Clone Wars was the largest and most damaging mass conflict since the New Sith Wars 1000 years prior. One of the many controversial decisions of the Jedi at the time was to take young padawans into heated combat zones to fight the Separatists. Many of these young Jedi were barely 13 years of age, such was the case for a young Texos. After his selection by master Tiin, he was transferred aboard his masters Venator-class Star Destroyer, the Vanguard. This would serve as Texos' home away from home when not stationed at the temple. The ship served as a perfect place to train his force abilities in its combat simulator bay. For the first year of his apprenticeship, Texos had gone without a starfighter of his own, and instead served as a gunner for clone y wing pilots for most space assignments. On missions deemed to dangerous by his master, Texos would stay aboard the Valor's bridge. The ships captain and bridge crew would be a great example of naval tactics for Texos, and would influence his ability to command ships of his own in later life.

##### **Battle of Lola Sayu**

 Texos accompanied his master Saesee Tiin and master Plo Koon on a rescue mission to retrieve Anakin Skywalker, Obi-wan Kenobi, Ahsoka Tano and Wilhuff Tarkin From the Citadel Prison on Lola Sayu. This was the first engagement where Texos was granted command of his own wing of ARC-170 starfighters. He served as a wing commander using an older model Jedi starfighter, breaking the Separatist blockade to escort an LAAT gunship down to the planet's surface. Although few survivors remained, the Intel they gathered was critical to the Republic war effort, leading to much safer ambush hyperlanes for use by the Republic navy.

##### **Battle of Umbara**

 Saesee tiin and his padawan Texos would fight alongside Anakin Skywalker, Pong Krell and Obi-wan Kenobi in the Umbaran Campaign, merging their clone battalions into an invasion force. The goal of this battle was to quell the local Umbaran resistance, and close off another planet from Separatist control. Texos and his master fought alongside Obi-wan's 212th clone battalion on the south side of the planet, gradually working their way towards Anakin's 501st battalion in a pincer maneuver from the north. This battle was Texos' first major conflict with non-droid opponents, and made him call into question everything about the war the Republic was waging. Pong Krell's betrayal was made known the moment he tricked the 501st and 212th into direct conflict, by tricking each side into thinking the other were Umbaran's disguised as clones. Once the clones discovered the plot, Krell was captured and interrogated, he was revealed as an aspiring agent of Count Dooku. With Krell's fall to the dark side, Texos saw how far some jedi had fallen during the course of the war. He recognized the danger of the Jedi losing their way, and it influenced his study of the force for years to come.

##### **Battle of Coruscant**

The last major conflict of the Clone Wars, and easily the largest space battle of both the clone wars itself and Coruscant's history since the great hyperspace war millennia prior. This conflict was one of the CIS' last desperate attempts to get an edge in a losing war by kidnapping Chancellor Palpatine. Removal of the Republic's head of state by a massive attack on the Republic home world was meant to take the Republic off guard and devastate moral. Instead, the 5th fleet and the Coruscanti defense fleet combined forces against the invading Separatist fleet. The space battle was comprised of hundreds of ships on both sides. During the battle the Vanguard was badly damaged and falling out of orbit, in a very shocking move in Texos' eyes, Master Tiin suited up for a near suicidal manual ship boarding without any boarding craft. Master Tiin along with Captain Fordo and a battalion of clones jumped from the Vanguard's starboard hangar into open space. the force landed on a passing Providence-class dreadnought. As Master Tiin cut his way into the ship, Texos and his wing of ARCs attacked the point defense guns along the ships surface, trying to reduce the danger to commander Appo and his clone jet troopers . the gambit proved a success, and the ship was commandeered for the Republic. Despite losing the Chancellor temporarily, the defeat of Count Dooku and the invading Separatist fleet would break the back of the CIS campaign, and signal the end of the Clone wars.

### The Jedi Purge

After the battle of Coruscant, Texos and many other Jedi that participated in the battle retreated to the Jedi temple for a reprieve. Over the next few days, he relaxed for the first time in months at the only home he had ever known. Most of his days in this period were spent in deep meditation in the room of a thousand fountains, or studying in the Jedi archives, here he stumbled across records of the old Jedi enclave on Dantooine, and saved this information to his personal datapad. His initial thoughts were to visit this old enclave when the war was over, to try to find peace in himself once more. However, the majority of the Jedi masters set out on clean up campaigns to the outer rim, mostly to deal with holdout CIS forces on planets like Mygeeto and Utapau. One night, Texos was forced from his meditations by a horrific pain. Every fiber of his being was thrown into a sensory overload, he realized it was caused by his strong force bond with his master Saesee Tiin, Texos felt a searing pain in his chest and heart, and knew that his master had been killed. He felt similar aftershocks of other masters deaths nearby, and knew something was wrong. Texos got geared with his combat robes and lightsaber just as the newly anointed Darth Vader and the 501st attacked the temple. Almost all of the knights on guard died in the opening moments of the attack due to confusion at Anakin's actions and overwhelming blaster fire in an open entry hall. The older Jedi and padawans attempted to escape to the hangar, and failing that, sealed themselves in secluded sections of the temple. Texos met up with a friend from his younger initiate days, the Trandoshian Jedi temple guard Durkessk, The two used a hidden passage known only by temple guards to quickly traverse the temple in crisis. the tunnel led them to the control tower of the temple hangar. From there, the two made their way across the upper catwalks, they lept down and ambushed a group of 501st troopers guarding the hangar ships. After dealing with the clones, Texos stole his masters Eta-2 actis interceptor, while Durkessk took an older model Jedi starfighter that would better suit his large frame. They barely had time to engage the sub-light thrusters on their ships before another 4 squads of clones flooded the hangar. In that instant, Texos shot out of the hangar with blinding speed, heading towards the nearby Works sector, and its various sub-levels. Durkessk attempted to do the same, but his ship was heavily damaged by a clone heavy's Z-6 rotary cannon, his thrusters were too damaged, and when they failed, Durkessk plummeted into one of the undercities upper levels. He was presumed dead by Texos when he saw the crash, he couldn't even feel Durkessk through the force in the confusion, so he reluctantly fled the site in mourning.

##### Tragedy at Kashyyyk

There was only one noted incident of Texos leaving the Coruscanti underworld in the entire decade he spent there. According to his journal uploaded to the archive record. In the opening days of the Empire, there was a major propaganda push as the galaxy was brought to heel. The new Imperial order was making its dominance assured in many rebellious systems, one particularly brutal case was the subjugation of Kashyyyk. The Holonet had overwhelming coverage of the world as it fought the hardest out of any rebelling system. Texos saw countless reports with footage of the great wroshyr trees burning, wookiee villages bombed from orbit, and wookiees being loaded into ships in chains. This atrocity greatly disturbed him, and he felt he had no choice but to act. Texos smuggled himself off world just a few months after the Empire came to power. He was taken to multiple ports across the galaxy, including Corellia, from which he was smuggled again to Kashyyyk within a cargo container on a mining guild transport. Texos' lept from the ship as it passed by the active war zones, landing nimbly on the side of a great tree.

His worst fears had be realized, the Empire was using scorched earth tactics, including pyro troopers and orbital bombardment to drive the wookiee warriors out of hiding. The local resistance was losing badly, his only hope was to help as many escape as he could. Texos revealed himself to the rest of the planet when he engaged clone troopers attempting to overwhelm a much smaller force of wookiee freedom fighters holed up in a storehouse. The clones had the building surrounded with infantry and light armor units. Texos engaged the clones by throwing his ignited lightsaber, cutting through the legs of two AT-RTs bunched too close together. He threw the upper halves back towards infantry in cover behind them, and the legs splayed out to either side to knock the other AT-RT drivers off their mounts. Upon catching his saber, the other clones opened fire on him, setting him back into a defensive soresu stance. This gave the wookiees their chance to finally return fire, while their leader let out a ferocious roar, and lept from the storehouse to the fight below. To Texos' surprise, the wookiee chieftan landed on top of an approaching AT-RT, and cut down the clone driver with his heavy wookiee twinblade, cutting the clone nearly in half. With the driver gone, the cheiftan took control of the AT-RT and turned its light turrets on the clones still in cover, decimating them with the help of the wookiees firing above. When the battle was over, the Chieftan stepped down from the vehicle and introduced himself to the young jedi. He said his name was Tarfful, and that he was the leader of the planetary resistance. Tarfful revealed that other jedi had also gathered on the planet, but where gathered at the city of Kachirho . Texos paused for a moment, trying to figure out the best course of action. He desperately wanted to reunite with the other Jedi, but he knew it would not help the Wookiees in other battles across the planet. Reluctantly, he decided to stay with Tarfful in the region he landed in. The group fought for several days together, trying to buy as much time for wookiee civilians to either escape off world, or go deep into hiding in the Shadowlands. At night, Texos would meditate in the pale moonlight atop the wroshyr trees, trying to find peace as well as contact the other Jedi on the planet. He could not sense anyone familiar, but he wanted them to know he was there, and they sent similar echos in reply. He was a bit disheartened that he could not fight by their side, but he understood his duty to the wookiee people.

So far the battles had been brutal but not overwhelming, the Empire only had a small fleet of Venators and other republic-era cruisers to bring the wookiees in line. These where formidible ships, and their fighters where tough on any escaping wookiee transports, but these where designed as carriers, and did not have a high yield for orbital bombardment. This slowed the process and gave the Jedi & the Wookiees more time to evacuate or go into hiding. This was the case until about a week into the invasion, a fleet comprised of Imperial warships dropped out of hyperspace over the planet. This fleet included a pair of Imperial Star Destroyers. Texos had never seen these ships before, he had heard rumors of another model like these used in the waning months of the Clone Wars, but had never seen one up close. Within minutes of arriving, the new ships sent down waves of troop transports. Sentinel-class shuttles filled with new clone troopers and heavier vehicles. Once the reinforcements landed, the two Star Destroyers opened split up and began bombarding the planet continent by continent. These warships did the job much faster than the old venators, and within hours it seemed the entire planet was on fire. Throughout the chaos, Texos could sense a dark presence aboard the first ship, as well as several others not far behind it. Not since the battle of Coruscant had he felt such a cold rage, the feeling shook him, but he knew he had to stay focused on the task at hand.

As Tarfful and the wookiees increased the pace of their retreat, they took heavy casualties, the retreat became sloppy and more desperate the more Imperial reinforcements arrived. Texos defended them as best he could, deflecting as many bolts as possible, even taking out an AT-TE, slicing through its right set of legs and pushing it off the platform with the Force into the trees below. It was not enough however, and several score of wookiee commandos fell or where taken captive, including Tarfful. Just when the situation couldnt get any worse, an imperial decimator transport soared overhead, and a shadow lept from its loading ramp to land right in front of the clone battle line.

The figure wore all black armor, with a visored helmet and dark robes over the metal plates, it stood at over two meters tall and had ebony scaled skin with the features of a Trandoshian. The heavily armored figure rose and uttered only a low hiss at Texos, before igniting his dual red blades. The two engaged in a fierce lightsaber duel that pushed Texos back multiple times, well beyond where the rest of the wookiee resistance was heading. Effectively cut off from his allies, Texos, battered and exhausted from days of fighting without sleep made his final stand in the Shadowlands. Texos could sense the strongest of the dark figures had snuffed out all but one of the other Jedi on the planet, and similar dark echoes had spread across the planet. Texos fell back on his original Niman based style, attempting to break the dark warrior's defenses with trees, rocks and other environmental debris. This strategy proved ineffective, and the Inquisitor closed the distance with ease. As the two fought, exhaustion set in even more. Texos was slashed across with a Cho Mai strike, severing his right arm just below the elbow. before being force pushed down to the forest floor. Texos attempted to flee through the massive trees, and into a nearby clearing a few dozen meters away, but only managed to buy a few extra seconds. Their presence on the forest floor did not go unnoticed, drawn by their strong presence in the Force, as well as the blood from the Jedi's injuries, a fierce battle-scarred Terentatek emerged. The pursuing Inquisitor turned into the clearing at full speed, nearly running headlong into the beast. The inquisitor struck the beast with his lightsaber, drawing it into a frenzied rage. As the two battled, Texos escaped deeper into an underground cave system, and masked his presence in the Force as much as possible to slip away.

The young ex-padawan, totally exhausted and severely wounded, found a small secluded space deep in the caverns to rest and heal his injuries. Far beyond where any predator or force user could find him, he waited for several days before attempting to leave the caves. When he finally emerged from the Shadowlands, he saw the entire planet devastated around him, the forest was largely burned to cinders, and over 200,000 wookiees where enslaved and taken off world, with the rest remaining in planetary prisons. The only city left standing was occupied Kachirho, reluctantly flying the Imperial flag. Texos carefully limped and crawled from the Shadowlands gate towards the city, and up along the rear side of the Great Tree, there he met back up with his mining guild contact to smuggle him off world to Corellia once more. Texos spent the rest of that trip in the cargo container lamenting his failure, and hoping what little difference he and the other resistance fighters made was worth the horrific price. He also felt that he had some kind of connection to the trandoshian inquisitor who attacked him, but he was unable to discern their identity. He continued to mull over the tragedy all the way to Coruscant, where he spent the next 9 years hiding.

### Years in Hiding

Texos spent nearly a decade living within the lower levels beneath Coruscant's surface. His activities during these times are mostly unknown, very little information can be found from outside sources for obvious reasons, and the Jedi Master is reluctant to make a thorough report for the official record. However, there is enough data within this archive to piece together a rough estimate of his activities during this time.

Upon his arrival to the Coruscant Underworld, Texos descended down deep into the cities. He passed thousands of levels worth of structures before setting down on level 1313. For the latter half of 19 BBY to 18 BBY Texos seemed to focus mostly on isolation and keeping a low profile, getting just enough credits to afford a very cramped but private living space with minimal resources. Upon his arrival to the lower cities, he destroyed his lightsaber, com-link and old robes and discarded the remains in a random dumpster, only saving Master Yoda's holocron and his original kyber crystal. It was a unique viridian green-hued shard from the caves on Ilum. Texos knew that this crystal would be impossible to replace should he ever need a lightsaber in the future, so he took the risk of keeping it. Leaving the crystal among his other belongings, he would spend long periods of time scouting out the local levels near his home, getting a feel for the local populace, the economy, and what gangs and businesses held the most influence. He discovered early on that 1313 was the most infamous levels of all, a near forgotten level wracked with poverty, crime, and disrepair. The only bonus was it was completely written off and forgotten by the empire. The primary criminal group of 1313 as well as many other levels was well known throughout the galaxy, the Black Sun crime syndicate.

The Black Sun had always maintained a strong presence in Coruscant's Underworld, but it had only gotten stronger when Maul's Shadow Collective rolled in midway through the war on planets all over the galaxy. Although the shadow collective would dissolve into its component groups, the Black Sun found far more success than the Hutts or the Pikes in subjugating the lowest levels. The iron grip of these crime organizations led Texos to spend most of his time avoiding criminal patrols as well as the rare Imperial ones. His most common work was as a warehouse worker on level 1325, and when that work was in low demand he would salvage old tech from even lower levels like the power distribution networks. Occasionally Texos would find a worthwhile opportunity to work with two-bit smugglers and other isolated small time groups to work against the black sun. These rare operations would often involve taking supplies, weapons, munitions, armor and even ship components from Black Sun transports.

One such smuggler named Thurmo Habat gave Texos his first blaster, an illegally modified DL-44 blaster pistol which he still uses to this day. Thurmo was one of Texos few real friends in the Underworld that he could trust enough to work with semi-regularly. Together they took down more black market operations than any other. Thurmo was a very old Ithorian who spend most of his years traveling the galaxy in search of adventure and profit, by the time he ran out of options one too many times, he settled in hiding on level 1316, where he eventually met Texos. The two would build a bond through strife just as Texos did with Captain Fordo and his clones before the Purge. Despite some difficult times where ends didn't quite meet, Thurmo and Texos' friendship continued through the years , and Thurmo served the Order alongside his friend as Nova Squadron's head technician for many years before passing away peacefully in his sleep.

Most of the latter years of his time in Lower Coruscant were spent fighting the bigger crime syndicates, especially the Black Sun. Texos had seen firsthand what the Black Sun did to the worlds they corrupted and subjugated. They were even worse when they joined the Shadow Collective, taking on Maul's brutal Sith-inspired tactics in addition to their own. They increased drug trafficking, slavery, wanton slaughter, and even open warfare with the Republic and local governments like the takeover of Mandalore. He knew there was nothing he could do to stop Palpatine and his Empire, and he lived in fear of ever using the Force again with threats like the Inquisitors and Shadow Guards looming, but at least he could use some dexterity and guile from his Jedi days to thwart local criminals. And so from 18 BBY to 11 BBY, Texos grew up from a young disciplined ex padawan into an experienced wisecracking scoundrel .

### Early Rebellion Era

After many years of working out of the Coruscanti underworld, Texos began hearing whispers of a growing rebellion against the Empire. More than just the simple small scale hit and runs he and his associates had pulled off in the past, but real resistance cells, He knew he couldn't remain in hiding any longer. Although his strength in the Force had waned considerably due to nearly a decade without training, he was still capable as a soldier and pilot.

In the year 11 BBY, Texos took his masters old Eta-2 out of storage and reassembled it for long distance travel. He was able to jury rig an older model hyperspace ring he bought off the underworld market to travel beyond Coruscanti space once more. He called in a few favors with the local smugglers to get the most recent location of the Massassi rebel cell out near Yavin 4. After a few days of tracking and scouting out the system, he surrendered himself to a rebel patrol and was taken into custody. Over the next few weeks he was a prisoner of the rebels, he did not reveal his past as a Jedi, but was as compliant as possible about all of his other relevant activities, including his criminal and smuggling enterprises. Over time, he gradually gained their trust, and was sent out on preliminary missions to test his abilities. Originally these missions consisted of mundane supply deliveries, low stakes scouting missions, information gathering, mining guild escort work, and the occasional smuggling work. For the latter, after enough time had passed, Texos was provided with a Corellian YT-1300 light freighter that was " stolen" from a Csec convoy a few months prior. This ship would later be refitted for escort and smuggling duties and renamed "the Starhawk". With this ship, Texos was able to take on more significant missions for the Rebellion, and was thus able to increase his prominence in the growing movement. Although he began by fending off mere pirate raids or local planetary police forces, more and more missions allowed Texos to display his proficiency as a pilot to Alliance command, within a few years, he was selected to lead a squadron of his own.

## Personality and Traits

Texos Draycen was known for his usually reserved manner, inquisitive mind, quick wit and his affinity for unusually mundane skills outside of most other Jedi's skill sets. He was also a well known and accomplished pilot as a captain within the Rebel Alliance. Texos was a knowledgeable mechanic, able to repair various types of droids, vehicles, and especially spacecraft. He was often found refitting and upgrading his ships throughout his many careers as a pilot, with his skills increasing over the years with several mentors. Given his Jedi education from early childhood, Texos was fluent in several languages including Basic, Huttese ,Ithorese Traders Argot as well as understanding Shyriiwook.

A varied and excitable learner, Texos had always maintained his interest in learning foreign skills from a very young age. Although he started as a loner, studying the ways of the Force in the library and numerous meditation sessions, as he matured Texos became much more outgoing and adventurous, willing to try anything new at least once. This eventually led to his love of artisanship, mechanics, and robotics. throughout his life, Texos was always crafting or tinkering with something.

Although he was a kind, laid back and often approachable in times of need, Texos did posses a strong disdain for selfishness and betrayal, especially towards matters involving the Empire given the traumas of his past. He was watchful over his new Jedi and would do anything necessary to protect them. This could lead to some harsher punishments for wrongdoers both inside the order and beyond. However, he always strove to put justice and duty before personal feelings, and would defer to the councils judgment if their reasoning was sound.

After the rise of the Emperor Palpatine and his Imperial order, Texos came to understand the value of subterfuge and deception, how it could topple even the mightiest of civilizations at its apex. Given how it was used against him during the Clone Wars and Order 66 itself, he came to value it as a skill that should be honed in his own arsenal. Texos felt that such secrecy and subversive tactics could be used in the service of justice given time and training. As such he would make the study of these tactics his focus for a much of his adult life.

Given his varied career as a Jedi and beyond, Texos brought much to the table when training the next generation of Jedi. He taught a variety of padawans from various schools, focusing on the strengths of each individual. He trained them to develop those strengths as far as they possibly could, but also encouraged them to not forgo developing their weakest skills either. The goal of his lessons where always the same, no matter the talents of the individual, the end goal needed to be a Jedi Knight of good character and varied but equal ability.

## Powers and Abilities

Although he did carry many of the typical Jedi abilities in his arsenal of Force powers such as telepathy, telekinesis, physical heightening and precognition, Texos also had some more uncommon skills he developed over the course of his career.

### Moving Meditation

Moving meditation was a common state of mind in which he centered himself in the Force while actively doing something hands-on, rather than simply meditating in one place. Oftentimes this would manifest when working on machines, such as droids or starships. It was also part of what made him an accomplished pilot, able to delve even deeper into his connection to the Force during flight than most other Jedi of his era, heightening his reaction time and perceptions far beyond the norm.

### Force Cloak

As many Sentinels had mastered before him, Texos similarly became an adept practitioner of Force Cloak. This ability allowed the user to mimetically blend into the environment around him, useful for espionage and infiltration as well as a quick escape or counter attack in the midst of battle. This ability was a drain to use for long periods of time, and thus was used sparingly and only when necessary.

### Hibernation Trance

Throughout his missions within the Alliance Navy, Texos was required to travel long distances and wait in stationary positions for scouting assignments. Like many Jedi, Texos was able to use the Force to enter a hibernation trance within his snub-fighter, to slow down his biological functions to minimal in order to stay out in space for long periods of time. This ability allowed him to expand his reach and stamina for lengthy missions with much waiting or travel required.

### Force Breath

As a Jedi with a varied history of roles and specializations, Texos understood the necessity of striking a balance between his reliance on the grounded mundane skills and equipment at his disposal and his force powers. In preparation for when his suits filtration systems failed him due to a puncture or otherwise unavailability, he would call on the Force to sustain himself on what little air he had in his lungs for inhuman lengths of time. This also blocked entry of poisons or airborne toxins that worked on skin contact such as through pores or cuts. Although not the most proficient in this technique compared to other Jedi masters, Texos was able to hold his breath for many hours at a time if the situation demanded it.

### Lightsaber Telekinesis

The common telekinesis ability of controlling an object through space with grips, pushes and pulls could often extend to dexterous control of lightsabers in combat. Long range and precise throws of the ignited blade had a variety of uses for otherwise close-ranged Jedi but also allowed for use of a lightsaber in close range combat while freeing up the users hands for other tasks. This allowed Texos to be able to deflect blaster bolts and even go on the offensive while still using Teras Kasi techniques to incapacitate foes instead of killing them. This kind of concentration was very taxing however and could only be used for very brief amounts of time and thus was not a common technique Texos employed.

## Death

The following record was recovered from the wreckage of the Dauntless, using its ejected onboard black box and limited corrupted security camera footage to piece together the Jedi Master and his crew's final moments. Due to his increasingly overt activities in the Galactic Civil War, Texos became a known target of Imperial high command in the months preceding the Rebel evacuation from Hoth. after some direct engagements in small sector space battles, he became a target of the Emperor's enforcer Darth Vader. in late 2 ABY, Texos undertook a routine patrol over the world of Bothawui. The Bothan homeworld was sympathetic to the Rebel's cause due to the xenophobia and harsh economic sanctions brought on by the Empire. Thus the planet served as an information network for Alliance intelligence. This spy network was a crucial yet covert necessity to the Rebel war effort. Thus the Dauntless and a few nondescript fighter escorts were chosen to protect the local sector rather than more easily recognizable alliance vessels. This proved to be Texos' undoing however as the small patrol was ambushed and incapacitated by Vader's personal flagship the Devastator as it dropped out of hyperspace right on top of them. Taken in by the Star Destroyer's tractor beam before any possibility of changing course or fleeing could be exploited, Texos was left no choice but to stand his ground. Within seconds, the Dauntless was pulled into the hangar with docking clamps and a boarding tube. the Jedi and his crew took up defensive positions around the corners of the first decks entryway, using the short hallways towards the lower turrets and bays for cover as the door was breached. Vader entered the ship alone, easily breaching Texos' barrier and lifting him up by his throat before blasting him back with the Force into the door of the engine bay. Over the next few moments, Texos had to watch as the rest of his crew was cut down and crushed helplessly before him. Before he could even get back to his feet, he and Vader were alone aboard the Dauntless. In one final act of defiance, Texos stood up and reignited his lightsaber. the two engaged in a brief lightsaber duel, with Vader's strong blows clearly winning out over Texos' more dexterous fighting style, unable to make the most of his greater agility in such a confined space. the Jedi's lightsaber was knocked from his hand and he was once again grabbed by the throat, yet this time it was with Vader's own hand. He struggled to break free or to pull his lightsaber to him but was unable to overpower Vader in the Force in a fruitless effort. The Sith lord impaled the Jedi sideways through the torso, bypassing his beskar armor plating with a stab through the heart. With his mission accomplished and the Jedi and his crew dead, Vader retrieved the Sentinel master's lightsaber and departed back to the Devastator. After the ship was released from the tractor beam, it was obliterated by the capital ship's turbolasers, leaving only a floating shell of disjointed beskar armor and ship debris in its wake. the Black Box and armor was retrieved by an Alliance patrol weeks later, after the investigation was finished, the remaining equipment was checked for bugs and returned to the Jedi Order on Dantooine, many of which had long since felt Texos' death in the Force weeks prior. It was unknown why no body was found within the armor, and the disappearance of Texos' body remained a speculative subject for years to come.

### Legacy

Although Texos' time with the rebuilt Jedi Order was brief, he left behind many capable friends and former students to further rebuild the Order in his absence. The likes of master Kiace Eroed who would rise to lead the Order in its next chapter, using his skill as a leader and in the Force to teach future generations of Jedi. Jedi Knight Zurok Terrum was another noteworthy student, who went on to enjoy a long career with the Order, and passed on his master's lessons of strength and variety of skill beyond the Force to many more Jedi in the coming years. Others such as Jedi Knights Jonn Padrino, Jen'doon and Wisiog Eroed also served well in their own capacities as lone adventuring Jedi within the larger galaxy, righting wrongs as all Jedi do. Although they did not see the Order often, they would carry on the lessons of their former master to the furthest stars.