Alex Cunradi (character)

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*"...death is inevitable, and the best we can hope for is to make the most out of our lives."*

--Alex Cunradi

Alex Cunradi was a Human male Jedi Knight who served the Republic, the Rebel Alliance, and the Resistance, and was the leader of the 1028th Legion of the Republic.

He lived on Dantooine for 13 years before being discovered by the Jedi Order and was trained under the guidance of Ki-Adi Mundi, who later became his master. He fought in several important engagements throughout the Clone Wars, including Geonosis, Yarningi, and Coruscant, and received a Jedi Padawan, Ervok.

After surviving Order 66, he went into hiding on Coruscant to live with his non-Force-sensitive brother Zach, joined the Cloud-Riders, then left them. Years later, the Empire discovered he survived Order 66 and shut down all spaceports on the planet until he was found. Zach helped him escape off the planet, and they joined the Rebellion. He became a general and undertook various missions for the Rebel Alliance, including persuading Prince Ghool of Darmanad to join the Rebellion and a failed attempt to steal lightsabers from the Empire.

After the downfall of the Empire, he joined the New Republic and later the Resistance. He later participated in the Battle of Takodana and the Battle of Starkiller Base. Following the Battle of Crait, he was one of the members of the Resistance who escaped Crait in the *Millennium Falcon*.

## **Biography**

### **Early life**

Alex was born on the planet Naboo 44 years before the Battle of Yavin to Lisa and John Cunradi. Two years later, Lisa gave birth to Alex’s brother, Zach, who was not Force-sensitive. Him and his parents moved off-world to the planet Dantooine soon afterwards.

Throughout their childhoods, Alex and Zach became skilled pilots, and when they were older, they flew speeder bikes with other local kids in races. Eventually, the Republic occupied Dantooine and Alex was discovered to be Force-sensitive, and was sent to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.

### **Becoming a Jedi**

When he arrived at the Jedi Temple, he passed a test for initial acceptance into the Jedi Order. With some reluctance, Alex was accepted.

He had to pass three tests that increased in difficulty. The first was memorizing the Jedi Code, which he passed easily.

The second test was to meditate for four straight hours, which tested his patience.

His final test was to travel to the frigid planet Ilum to find the kyber crystal for his lightsaber. He encountered many obstacles, including a wall of ice he had to break through, and a collapsing cave that held his kyber crystal. When he returned, the droid Huyang helped him build his lightsaber.

### **Mission to Parnaga III**

28 years before the Battle of Yavin, Alex Cunradi and his Master, Ki-Adi-Mundi, were sent to the planet Parnaga III, where the Malrino Clan had attacked a Republic cargo ship. Alex and Mundi discussed what to do before the pirates entered their ship and took them prisoner.

They were put in cells, but Alex tricked a guard to release him, then knocked him out. He freed Mundi, and they fought their way to the control room to get their lightsabers.

However, it was a trap, and they were captured again. The leader of the pirate group, Malrino, started telling them that he would keep their lightsabers and be feared across the galaxy. Suddenly, Alex used the Force to hurl his lightsaber at his captor, activating it, and killing him.

Alex released Mundi, and the two of them killed several pirates before getting the rest to surrender. While Mundi retrieve the stolen cargo, Alex released the Republic prisoners. They then returned to the Jedi Temple.

## **The Clone Wars**

### **Battle of Geonosis**

In 22 BBY, the Confederacy of Independent Systems captured Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Amidala and sentenced them to public execution for espionage.

Mace Windu gathered together 200 Jedi, including Alex, to stage a rescue attempt. Alex fought a few droids and leaped into the arena, fighting and defeating many of the robotic soldiers. As the other Jedi were killed off one by one, Alex and the other surviving Jedi gathered in a circle.

Count Dooku, the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, ordered Windu and the other Jedi to surrender, but Windu refused. Just when it seemed as if all hope was lost, Republic gunships arrived, blasting all the droids in the arena. Alex climbed aboard a gunship and it dropped him off in the desert where the droid army was fighting the Republic clone army. Alex led a squad of clone troopers into battle and the Republic eventually won the fight, but the Clone Wars had just begun.

### **Battle of Parnaga VI**

One year after the Battle of Geonosis, the Confederacy of Independent Systems invaded the planet Parnaga VI because the rocky surface contained minerals for building battle droids and weapons. Alex and his master, Ki-Adi-Mundi, volunteered to attack the droids on the planet.

Nine Republic Star Destroyers, one of which was the command ship that Mundi and Alex were on, entered hyperspace on course to Parnaga VI. When they arrived, they discovered that the Separatists were waiting for them. They engaged in a space battle, but vulture droids nearly destroyed the Republic command ship.

Alex climbed into his Jedi starfighter and told Mundi to launch the Republic starfighters. With the help of Y-wings, V-19 Torrents, and ARC-170s, all but one Separatist warship was destroyed. Said warship descended toward the planet, the Republic in hot pursuit.

When they landed, Alex took an AT-RT and sneaked inside the mining facility. He hid inside an empty crate and ambushed the droids working there, which was the cue for Mundi, Commander Bacara, and the Galactic Marines to attack. A huge battle ensued, and the droids were all destroyed.

The Republic army marched toward the last enemy ship and easily destroyed it. Alex remarked that destroying it was too easy, and behind him came Count Dooku, who said that it was. Some clone troopers tried to kill Dooku, but Dooku killed them all.

Mundi and Alex engaged in a duel with Dooku, but Dooku defeated Alex by shocking him with Force Lightning, Force-choking him, and burning his right arm with lava. Alex used the Force to throw lava and boulders at Dooku, forcing him to retreat. Alex was later submerged in a bacta tank to recover from his wounds.

### **Battle of Logrena**

Soon after the Battle of Parnaga VI, Alex was assigned to go to the planet Logrena in the Kamino System to establish a base there, to watch for any signs of the Separatists attempting to invade Kamino again. Alex took the 1028th Legion to the planet, where a temporary base was built along side the permanent one. After the temporary base was completed, Alex and Commander Droidkiller toured the base, but soon it was attacked by the Separatists.

Alex and Droidkiller returned to the Republic Star Destroyer *Oblivion* in the shuttle they came in, and joined the battle in starfighters. While Droidkiller engaged the enemy above Logrena, Alex took an escort of starfighters to fly to the enemy command ship and capture it's leader. When they arrived, they encountered multiple groups of droids, but they were all destroyed.

When they arrived in the bridge, they discovered the commander was Asajj Ventress. Alex told Ventress to surrender, but she activated her twin lightsabers, and the two engaged in a duel. After they had been fighting each other for several minutes, Ventress ordered a droid commander to open fire on the command ship, in an attempt to kill Alex and his men.

She escaped in a *Droch-*class boarding ship, and it entered a Separatist dreadnought, which entered hyperspace, escaping the battle. Alex and the remaining clones with him ran back to the hanger and left the ship, which was destroyed shortly after.

After the final dreadnought was destroyed and they returned to base, Commander Droidkiller asked Alex how the Separatists had discovered the base in the first place. Alex replied saying that there was probably a Separatist droid working undercover in the base, and he told Droidkiller to check recent droid assignments. A while later, Droidkiller returned with a datapad listing all the recent droid assignments. Alex selected the astromech R5-D9, and Droidkiller and Alex went to the west armory, where the droid was.

When Alex asked him what he knew about the recent attack, the droid used his fire extinguisher to cloud their vision then grabbed two blasters from the armory. Droidkiller threw an EMP grenade at the droid, and Alex and him carried the disabled droid to another room.

When Alex questioned him, the droid did not reply. To persuade him to talk, Alex ordered Droidkiller to shoot the droid, and the droid confessed that he was in fact the mole. Alex told Droidkiller to search the droid’s memory, then reprogram him. Though the droid’s memory was wiped clean of any valuable data, it was reprogrammed.

### **The Senate assassinations**

One day, Alex was watching the HoloNet, when a news announcement stated that three Senators, Bhirga Conkle from the planet Akslon, Querna Flods from Ledrif, and Ver Zanak from the Parnaga System, had been killed by persons unknown. When Alex talked to Obi-Wan Kenobi about these crimes, Kenobi told him that the Jedi High Council had assigned Alex the task of capturing whoever killed the Senators.

When Alex arrived at the Senate Office Building, he was met by the Coruscant Security member Tan Divo, who openly expressed his irritation at having to work with another person. However, Alex retorted by saying that unlike Divo, he could read minds, since he was a Jedi.

When they arrived at Zanak’s office, Alex found a mark on Zanak’s chest, which Divo identified as a mark from a slugthrower rifle. Divo then analyzed that the assassin had hidden in a ventilation shaft, then fired a shot at Zanak, killing him, then taken the slug and crawled back down the shaft and escaped. Alex used a fingerprint scanner to sweep the shaft, but came up empty.

They then examined Conkle’s office and discovered she was killed by a vibroblade. When Alex scanned a fingerprint scanner over the blade’s handle, he found the fingerprints of Eskof Falingi. He was a Gotal, and he owned a store that sold Gotal cone socks on Coruscant. When Alex and Divo arrived at the shop and questioned Falingi, he told them that someone ambushed him and knocked him out, and he took his vibroblade. He provided a description of his assailant, and also told them that he wore gloves, which was why they didn’t find his fingerprints on the vibroblade.

When Alex and Divo returned to the Senate Office Building and searched Flods’ body, Alex found the mark of a poisoned dart in her back. Divo identified the poison used to kill Flods as poison FX32. Alex then sensed through the Force that someone was about to shoot him with a poison dart, and he leapt out of way. After another dart was fired at him and also missed, Alex found the shooter and used the Force to pull him out of the ventilation shaft where he was hiding. The two fought, resulting in the person injuring Alex but eventually being cuffed by Divo while being pinned down. They took the man outside, where Alex contacted the Coruscant Guard.

When they arrived, Commander Thire and clone shock troopers took the criminal to the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center. When Alex interrogated him, he revealed that his name was Bok Warvi, and he killed the Senators because they were apparently corrupt. After Alex left, Warvi was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

### **Mission to Yargovana**

In 19 BBY, about nine months before the end of the Clone Wars, a Republic Star Destroyer was sent to the planet Yargovana in the Mid Rim. When the Republic contacted the ship, there was no response, so the Jedi High Council sent Alex to investigate. Before he set out, Alex visited the Jedi Archives, where he was greeted by the head of the Jedi Archives, Jocasta Nu. When Alex told her what he was looking for, she found a holobook titled Flora, Fauna, and Geography of Yargovana. Later, Alex took the 1028th Legion and three Star Destroyers, and they soon arrived at Yargovana. Alex attempted to contact the ship twice, but to no avail. Alex then ordered a scan of the planet, and the missing ship was located. Alex’s ships landed in a clearing in Yargovana’s rain forest, which was where the missing ship was found. Alex, Droidkiller, and 15 clone troopers examined the ship and found no signs of damage.

When they entered, they found no one. After a while, they came across the corpses of six clone troopers displaying horrific injuries. When Alex was examining one of their bodies, they were confronted by a clone trooper, which looked similar to the corpses. Another clone tried to shoot him, but he did not die. He called for reinforcements, and Alex and his men were attacked. After one of Alex’s clones was killed, he gave the order to open fire. None of the other clones were defeated however, so Alex and his troops retreated.

He came to the conclusion that the other clones had become zombies, and he and his men stuck together and headed to the command center, where Alex believed they would find the answer to why the clones became zombies. When they were attacked by more zombies, they were shot through their brains, permanently killing them.

When Alex and his allies reached the control room, they found a Rodian scientist working for the Separatists. He attempted to use a gas bomb to turn Alex and his clones into zombies as well, but Alex used the Force to protect him and his men. Alex took the Rodian prisoner, and he forced him to make the cure for the infection. After the entire ship was cured, Alex contacted the clones guarding the Rodian, only to discover he had escaped.

While Droidkiller and the clone troopers pursued the escapee, Alex headed into the jungle and found a native predator, a survocos, and used the Force to make her recapture the Rodian. Alex took the prisoner to Coruscant, and he was later executed.

### **Invasion of Karul**

About 2 years after the Battle of Parnaga VI, the Republic lost contact with their outpost on Karul. Alex led a fleet of Republic ships to the planet, where they met a group of 6 Separatist ships. A battle started, and the result was that the Separatist fleet was almost completely destroyed, with one ship escaping.

The Republic army, led by Alex and Commander Droidkiller, discovered that the outpost was obliterated. There was a clone in the wreckage that was still alive, and when Alex questioned him, the clone said that he and the other clone troopers at the outpost were ambushed by the Separatist army and he was the only survivor. Alex ordered the clones to set up a defensive perimeter in case the droids came back when they discovered the Republic was there.

When Alex used a pair of electrobinoculars, he saw a large army of droids in the distance. He called for walkers as backup, and soon the droids arrived. A massive battle began, and soon it was pure chaos. After the battle had continued for a while, the Republic ships orbiting Karul were destroyed by the Separatists, who had called for reinforcements.

Suddenly, Commander Droidkiller was shot in the chest by a super battle droid. Alex knelt down to the badly wounded Droidkiller and protected him. The droids stopped firing, parting to let General Grievous pass. Alex attacked Grievous, and the two engaged in a duel.

The fight went on for a while, until Alex retreated, took Droidkiller’s body, and carried it aboard Grievous's shuttle. He took it to the nearest Republic fleet and when he arrived, clone troopers took Droidkiller to a medical room, and he became better a few hours later. However, because of sheer numbers, Karul had fallen to the Separatist army and proved to be a devastating defeat for the Republic.

### **Battle of Yarningi**

Several months after the failed attack on Karul, Alex attended a meeting in the Jedi Temple. The Separatists had destroyed a Republic base on the planet Yarningi and occupied it because it was part of a hyperspace route that leads to Coruscant. Alex volunteered to retake the planet, but since there were thousands of droids there, three more Jedi volunteered, them being Saesee Tiin, Jonks, and Khinn Wold. They left and took 20 Star Destroyers, and while they were in hyperspace, all four Jedi agreed to send out interceptors first, then bombers, but first they would destroy the dreadnought's hangers to prevent vulture droids from being launched. When they arrived, the hangers of only two dreadnoughts were destroyed before the rest of them launched their vulture droids. Alex and Tiin joined the battle in their starfighters, and they protected their allied starfighters.

After several dreadnoughts had been destroyed, enough enemies had been obliterated for Republic gunships to land on the planet’s surface. With heavy gunships casualties, the rest deployed their clone troopers, Jonks, and Wold. Alex and Tiin joined the battle on the ground, but shortly afterwards Alex decided to re-enter his starfighter and strafe the battlefield, causing many droids to be destroyed.

Soon after a Star Destroyer had been destroyed, it crashed onto the planet’s surface. Tiin picked up a distress signal coming from the wrecked ship, and the four Jedi went over there. However, the distress signal turned out to be a trap, and the four were ambushed by General Grievous.

A fight began, but Grievous quickly gained the upper hand, killing both Wold and Jonks. However, Alex called for reinforcements, and they rapidly arrived. Grievous realized he was massively outnumbered, and he retreated and escaped in his starfighter, the *Soulless One*, even managing to escape after a missile was fired at his ship.

His ship entered hyperspace before a tractor beam could capture it, and Alex and Tiin decided to leave the Jedi’s bodies there for the time being, while they went to the nearby Separatist base. When they arrived, they broke in easily and found the control room, where potentially valuable data was being wiped. They destroyed all the droids in the room and searched through the memory banks.

Alex discovered that the Separatists were going to go directly to Coruscant, unleashing an orbital bombardment to destroy the Senate Building and the Jedi Temple, and using the droids to wipe out any survivors. After he and Tiin left, they rejoined the battle, and Alex ordered Admiral Dakarva to bombard the battlefield while Alex’s forces were faking a retreat, resulting in the droid army’s complete destruction and the Republic’s victory. Later, he participated in Jonks’ and Khinn Wold’s funeral.

### **Meeting Ervok**

About 8 months before the end of the Clone Wars, Alex was assigned a Jedi Padawan, and he, along with his former Master, went to a Padawan training room, where Alex watched the Padawans train. He was impressed by the agility of the Kyuzo Ervok, who became his apprentice. He then took Ervok aboard his personal Star Destroyer, Oblivion, where they met with Commander Droidkiller. The Star Destroyer took off, accompanied by three others.

### **Battle of Ergozona**

While they were in hyperspace, Alex explained to his new apprentice about their mission. He told him that the Ergozonians were under attack by the Separatists because the native are a very high-tech species, and the Republic was coming to help them.

When they arrived, they almost immediately destroyed one of three Dreadnoughts. The other two launched their vulture droids, and Alex and Ervok rushed to the hanger, where they climbed in two Eta-2 Actis-class Jedi starfighters. Alex and Ervok stuck together, protecting each other from surprise attacks by vulture droids.

They led an attack on one of the remaining Dreadnoughts, and after two attack runs, it was destroyed, and the final one entered hyperspace, escaping the battle. Alex contacted Droidkiller to send a request for five more Star Destroyers, because Alex suspected the surviving Dreadnought was going to get reinforcements.

*Oblivion* landed on the planet’s surface, and Alex, Ervok, and clone troopers went to the location of the ground battle. They bolstered the Ergozonian forces, and the battle was soon won, with the assistance of Ergozonian starfighters.

General Zarkinax of the Ergozonian Army arranged a luxury craft to take Alex, Ervok, and some clone trooper escorts to meet with President Shekerigra. When they arrived, six Ergozonian guards escorted them to the President’s office. When they arrived, Alex introduced himself and Ervok. Both Alex and Shekerigra agreed to sign a document that officially made Ergozona a part of the Republic. They signed it and shook hands.

Alex suggested that Shekerigra ready his defenses, and he agreed. Alex, Ervok, and their troops visited the military command center, and when they arrived, they discovered the Separatists had returned. Alex contacted Droidkiller, and he said that their reinforcements should arrive soon, before the transmission was cut. Alex then contacted Shekerigra to get him to launch his starfighters, but he said that it was too late.

The message ended just as he said that droids had entered the city. Alex instructed Ervok to take a starfighter to help the Republic in space, while he and his clones take out the droids on the surface and rescue the captured President. They crawled through a ventilation shaft until they reached the President’s office. Alex looked through the grate and saw the President, several magnaguards, and the leader of the Techno Union, Wat Tambor.

Tambor tried to get him to sign a treaty, but the Shekerigra refused. Just as the magnaguards were about to kill him, Alex and his clones burst from the shaft. Alex defeated the mangaguards and told Tambor to surrender. In response, Tambor released a cloud of poison gas. Alex used the Force to protect himself and Shekirigra, and the clones captured Tambor. While Tambor was put in prison, Alex contacted Ervok. He said that the reinforcements had arrived, and the Separatists were being beaten, and that he sent gunships to support them. Alex met with Commander Droidkiller, and they went with the troops to the location of the droids.

When they arrived, the final battle to take the city and the planet began. Alex sent clone troopers Cobra and Rapid behind enemy lines to find routes to ambush the droids from. They found a valid location, and Alex sent two dozen clone troopers there. After a long time, all the droids were destroyed, making the Republic victorious. A gunship carrying Ervok arrived, and he met with Alex. Alex then contacted the President, who had evacuated shortly before the battle, telling him that it was safe for everyone to return to the city. After they arrived, Alex left the planet in his Jedi starfighter, and headed back to Coruscant, to give the Jedi Council his report on the mission.

### **Battle of Qunda Minor**

About one month after the Battle of Ergozona, Alex and Ervok volunteered to retake the planet Qunda Minor along the Perlemian Trade Route, which had been taken over by the Separatists. When they arrived with a fleet of seven Star Destroyers, they found no one else.

Alex, his Padawan, Droidkiller, and nine clone troopers went in a gunship to the planet’s surface. They split up into groups of three, and it wasn’t long before Alex, Droidkiller, and clone trooper Blaze were ambushed by two commando droids. One of them alerted the Separatists of the Republic’s presence, and a battle began above the planet. The group met up again, and they went back into the gunship an took off, and Alex used the Force to protect them from enemy fire before they returned to the *Oblivion*.

Alex and Ervok entered starfighters and engaged the Separatists. The enemy retreated, and the Republic established a base on the planet. Droidkiller then informed him that the Separatists were approaching from three separate directions. Alex responded by sending clones to combat them, resulting in two victories and a defeat. In the battle that resulted in a Republic defeat, tanks and the fact that Asajj Ventress was leading them contributed to it.

Alex and Ervok flew to Ventress’s location, and a fight began. Alex succeeded in injuring Ventress, and then as the droids attacked them, they retreated back to the gunship and flew back to their base. Soon after they returned, Alex received a message from a native Nafakan, who begged for the Jedi’s help in overthrowing their tyrannical leader Yoman Durron, just before he was killed by said leader.

Alex decided to face him, and when he arrived at the village where Yoman was, a duel began. Alex succeeded in killing him, and he introduced democracy to the people of the village, who elected Yoman’s brother, Gondoni Durron, as their leader. Alex joined in the village’s party to celebrate the death of Yoman, then he went back to the Republic base.

Him, Ervok, Droidkiller, and their clone forces met an approaching droid army. Alex got a jetpack, and he attacked the droids from above before flying away. The droid army soon retreated, but they returned with all of their remaining forces. Alex ordered the clones to use the Reek Horns formation to create basically a force field of blaster fire. The tactic worked, and the droids suffered extensive casualties.

However, it turned out that the battle was near the village from where Alex killed their leader, and knowing that the citizens there were in danger, he and Ervok evacuated the villagers. He told Ervok to stay there and guard the villagers, and he returned to the battle only to find that it was over and the Republic had won, although Ventress had escaped. He then returned to the village, where Gondoni gave Alex a kikiri crystal as a gift of thanks for saving his village. Alex and Ervok then returned to the Republic base.

### **Coruscant and Christophsis**

In 19 BBY, near the end of the Clone Wars, Chancellor Palpatine was kidnapped by General Grievous and was brought aboard Grievous's flagship, the *Invisible Hand*. The Republic intervened, resulting in a massive space battle. In the heat of the fight, 3 Jedi starfighters, one of which was Alex’s, exited hyperspace over the battle.

While the other two Jedi, Anakin Skywalker and Kenobi, rescued the Chancellor, Alex directly engaged the Separatists. He eventually decided to sabotage a Separatist Dreadnought by sneaking aboard it and blowing it up from the inside. When he was aboard, he fought the droids that tried to stop him, but before long he reached the command center of the ship.

When he arrived, he encountered the Dark Acolyte Crownan Uindi, and they dueled. They traded strikes back and forth, but Alex cut the Acolyte’s lightsaber in half and then killed him, his blade impaling the Dark Side warrior's abdomen. After he placed the explosives, he left and set off the charges, destroying the entire ship.

After the battle was over and the Chancellor was rescued by Skywalker and Kenobi, Alex was sent to the crystalline planet of Christophsis, where the Separatists were trying to retake the planet. When he arrived, he briefly consulted with Admiral Dakarva before heading down to the planet to lead the battle, where he met with Commander Droidkiller. Although the droids outnumbered clone troopers, the arrival of their Jedi General gave them a moral boost, and the droid army retreated.

### **Order 66**

While Alex, Droidkiller, and the clone troopers were waiting for the droids to return, Droidkiller received Order 66 and ordered his soldiers to open fire on their former general. Alex activated his lightsaber and deflected the lasers, managing to kill three of the clones. He then decided the best way to avoid getting killed himself was to pretend to get killed.

The clones fell for the ruse, and after they left, Alex escaped in an Republic V-19 *Torrent* starfighter. He escaped to Coruscant to live with his brother Zach.

## **Imperial era**

### **Joining the Cloud-Riders**

10 years before the Battle of Yavin, Alex tracked down the Cloud-Riders on their ship Aerie in an an attempt to join their ranks. After defeating the Cloud-Rider Benthic in a duel, Alex was accepted as a Cloud-Rider by their leader, Enfys Nest, and he received a new weapon, a Z-7 rotary blaster.

### **Heist on Vandor**

Alex was one of the Cloud-Riders who participated in the Vandor heist on a 20-T Railcrawler conveyex transport to obtain coaxium. Nest ordered him to take out several range troopers, but after the car the range troopers were one got separated from the rest of the transport by the Wookiee Chewbacca, Alex attacked him and his companion, Han Solo. Chewbacca succeeded in destroying Alex’s swooop, but he survived the crash by gripping onto a rail support beam. Aerie picked him up, and they then got the rest of the Cloud-Riders.

### **Skirmish on Savareen**

After learning that the smugglers they faced had went to the planet Savareen to turn the coaxium to the criminal organization Crimson Dawn, Alex and the Cloud-Riders went there to confront the smugglers. When they arrived, they convinced the smugglers to give Crimson Dawn’s leader, Dryden Vos, fake coaxium, but shortly after they went to do that, they were ambushed by Dryden’s Hylobon Enforcers. After a fight broke out and the Cloud-Riders emerged victorious, they went back to the *Aerie*.

### **Located on Coruscant**

Many years after Order 66, the Galactic Empire discovered that Alex was hiding somewhere on Coruscant and locked down all spaceports on the planet until Alex was captured or killed. When two stormtroopers arrived at their home, Alex killed both of them, then he and Zach visited a nearby cantina to eat. After they started eating, a few stormtroopers entered the cantina, and Alex and Zach ran home to get their pet Loth-cat, Kitten Fisto.

After they retrieved him, they were attacked by 10 stormtroopers, supported by an AT-ST. Alex activated his lightsaber, confirming to the troopers that their quarry was indeed a Jedi. After all the troopers were dead, Zach hijacked the walker and they both climbed inside. Zach drove the walker to the spaceport where their starfighters were. They flew off, followed by TIE fighters. The TIEs were easily destroyed, and Alex and Zach escaped to the planet Yavin 8.

### **Escape to Yavin 8**

When they arrived, they decided to make their new home inside a mountain so it could not be seen from above, therefore preventing it from being found by the Empire. As they were making it, they were attacked by an avril, a large native bird, but Zach killed it with his rocket launcher. After they finished making the house, the Empire arrived.

An Inquisitor flew his starfighter toward them, but Zach used his rocket launcher to destroy it. However, the Inquisitor survived and attacked Alex. A duel began, but it seemed there was no clear victor. They attacked each other with strikes over and over, but apparently they were evenly matched. Suddenly, Zach fired his rocket launcher at the Inquisitor, hitting him and killing him instantly.

Rebel Alliance ships exited hyperspace and destroyed the Imperials over Yavin 8, and Alex received a holographic message from Admiral Ackbar asking him if he wanted to join the Rebel Alliance. Alex accepted, and when he asked Zach to join as well, he agreed, as long as he got to keep Kitten Fisto.

### **Mission to Jadarna**

Alex’s first mission after joining the Rebellion was to team up with the Rebel pilot Ganod Lintra and go to the planet Jadarna to persuade Prince Ghool of Darmanad to join the Rebellion. When they arrived, they rented a room at the Sondona Hotel and scouted out the hotel’s casino to search for the prince.

Alex found him and convinced him to join the Rebellion, although Ghool’s parents both supported the Empire. Just as they made the agreement, they were ambushed by the Inquisitor the Seventh Sister. She and Alex began a duel, and Alex faked his death to escape her. When he met up with Ganod again, they returned to Yavin 4, and because of Alex’s success, he was promoted to lieutenant.

### **Search for Vjara Lafra**

Soon after becoming a lieutenant, Alex was assigned to search for his Jedi friend Vjara Lafra, who was in hiding on the planet Molkonda. When he arrived, he was ambushed by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, who took him to Lafra. Alex attempted to persuade him to join the Rebellion, but discovered that he had joined the Empire and became the Inquisitor the Fourth Brother.

They fought, with Boba aiding Lafra, but nevertheless, Alex killed Lafra, but was forced to flee from Boba, and while he was escaping in the *Acklay’s Maw*, he was trapped in the tractor beam of an Imperial Star Destroyer. He managed to escape, however, and after a skirmish with Boba in his ship, the *Slave I*, he went to the planet Takodana.

### **Duel on Takodana**

When he arrived, he hid out in Maz Kanata’s castle before Boba arrived, who had followed Alex via a tracking device. A fight began between the two, with Boba successfully injuring Alex and using his cortosis sword to temporally short out his lightsaber. However, Alex managed to knock Boba unconscious, and he used the opportunity to disable the tracking device on his ship and escape to Yavin 4, where he reported his failure with Mon Mothma.

## **Galactic Civil War**

### **Battle of Scarif**

In 0 BBY, the Rebel Alliance launched their first major battle against the Empire to infiltrate the Imperial base on Scarif and steal the plans to the  Death Star. Alex participated in the attack to destroy the shield surrounding the planet. When they arrived, Alex and the ships under his command opened fire on the shield, causing significant damage to it.

When TIEs engaged the rebel forces, Alex and some other X-wings attacked them. When the shield became temporarily deactivated, Alex took some ships to Scarif’s surface to provide support for the rebels already there. Alex climbed out of his starfighter and assaulted the stormtroopers.

He killed several of them before the Death Star arrived, and Alex realized it was about to destroy the Imperial base on the planet, along with the area miles around. He dashed to his X-wing and left the planet. He arrived aboard the *Profundity*, the rebel command ship, and escaped the battle by rushing aboard the *Tantive IV*.

### **Retreat from the Tantive IV**

Shortly after the Battle of Scarif, the *Tantive IV* was attacked by the Star Destroyer *Devastator*. When stormtroopers boarded the rebel ship, Alex, along with multiple Rebel soldiers, fought the Imperials. The Rebels were overwhelmed, so Alex escaped and entered an escape pod. He used the Force to protect him from Star Destroyer fire, and the escape pod landed on the perimeter of the city of Mos Eisley, on Tatooine. He then sneaked into a nearby Imperial base and stole a shuttle, which he took back to Rebel headquarters on Yavin 4.

### **Battle of Yavin**

After the Death Star plans were brought to the Rebel base, the Rebel Alliance attacked the Death Star to destroy it, while Alex stayed in the Rebel control room alongside other Rebel leaders to survey the battle. After many casualties, Luke Skywalker eventually managed to fire proton torpedoes into the Death Star’s exhaust port, destroying it.

### **Operation Sandstorm**

About a year after the destruction of the Death Star, the Empire built a large collection of upgraded laser cannons in an Imperial base in Mos Eisley and was about to ship them to an Imperial factory on Corellia. Alex and another Rebel, a male human named Atari Shon, volunteered to destroy the shipment. When they arrived at the base where the laser cannon shipment was being loaded onto a shuttle, Alex used a Jedi mind trick to make two stormtroopers let them enter.

Alex ambushed the four officers inside the base’s control center and Shon used his slicing skills to discover that the shuttle was at hanger 4B. After they arrived at the hanger, Alex and Shon set explosive charges on the shuttle, and they escaped via a ventilation shaft. As they were making their escape, they were ambushed by the bounty hunter Bossk, who stabbed Shon, killing him.

Alex and Bossk fought each other, but Alex severed Bossk’s arm with his lightsaber. After Alex activated the explosives and the shuttle was destroyed, he was attacked by a group of stormtroopers, but they were killed. Alex then returned to the rebel base to report that the mission was a success.

### **Mission to Kashyyyk**

18 months after Operation Sandstorm, Alex was tasked with destroying the Shadow AT-AT factory on Kashyyyk, and if possible, free the Wookiee slaves working there. He took a stolen Imperial shuttle to the factory, but when an officer refused to let him land, Alex used a Jedi mind trick to get him to let him land. When two stormtroopers entered the shuttle, Alex stole one of the stormtrooper’s armor and located the slaves.

Alex located a Wookiee, gave him his stolen blaster, and he shot a stormtrooper. A fight began, and in the chaos Alex escaped unnoticed. He placed explosives, but when he arrived at the command center, he discovered that the officer in charge was Commander Droidkiller.

A fight between the two ensued, ranging from blaster and lightsaber to fists. When Droidkiller was about to press an alarm button, Alex was forced to kill his old friend. Alex brought the Wookiees aboard the shuttle he came in, and he detonated the explosives, destroying the factory. When they arrived at the rebel base, Alex had a brief conversation with Mon Mothma before he repaired his lightsaber, which was damaged during the attack.

### **Battle of Akslon and impact**

Two years after the Battle of Yavin, Alex and Silver Squadron were assigned to help the Aksloninians in their fight against the Empire. When they arrived, they were confronted by a Star Destroyer and its squadrons of TIE fighters. Although Silver Eight, Yandle Wimdar, was killed, the rest of Silver Squadron succeeded in destroying the Star Destroyer and all of the TIEs.

When they arrived on the planet’s surface, Alex leaped out of his X-wing and took the fight to the ground. However, after he had fought for a while, an Imperial shuttle arrived, carrying the Emperor’s Hand Drok Inzizor. After he had killed Silver Five, Olka Sloada, he advanced on Alex and the two engaged in a duel. After several minutes, neither duelist had gained the upper hand.

However, the Star Destroyer *Cataclysm* soon arrived at the battlefield, and it released an orbital bombardment, killing all of the Imperials and Aksloninan soldiers in the battle, save for Alex, Aksloninian commander Fru’Har, who escaped by stealing an AT-ST, and Inzizor. Fru’Har took Alex to the Aksloninan underground city of Kriana, and he contacted Silver Two, Ralcc Pulna, and told him where he was and to get him and his surviving squadmates there.

Soon after they arrived, Inzizor followed, and after he had killed Fru’Har, him and Alex dueled again. Inzizor attempted to kill Alex with a crateful of thermal detonators, but Alex turned the tables on him and used his lightsaber to slash one, and just got out before the entire room exploded. After noticing that Inzizor was alive but with serious injuries, Alex left in his X-wing with his squadron and an Aksloninian ship, and they went to the Rebel Alliance's temporary base on the Mon Calamari cruiser Home One.

Alex requested an Alliance High Command meeting, and he informed them that Akslon had been taken over by the Empire, and about his duel with Inzizor as well. Commander Luke Skywalker suggested that Inzizor was an Emperor’s Hand, and Alex agreed. Later, after experiencing a Force vision, Alex called another High Command meeting. He proposed that he and the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry, led by Captain Micha Evon, could break into the Imperial Palace and steal lightsabers stored there, for the Alliance's use. Everyone agreed, and Alex got his ship, the *Acklay’s Maw*, ready for the mission, with the help of his astromech droid, R3-D8. After Evon got his soldiers ready, they piled into Alex’s ship, and they set off for Coruscant.

### **Mission to Coruscant**

When they arrived on Coruscant, they rented a KS-3 airspeeder and traveled to the Imperial Palace. As Alex was using his lightsaber to cut through the Palace wall, Imperial transports, stormtroopers, and shock troopers led by Captain Minoy Sargus arrived, and a firefight ensued. Although the Rebels suffered several casualties, all of the Imperials, including Sargus, were killed, and Alex got them into the Palace. They found the room that held the lightsabers, but Alex was confronted by Inzizor once again. Alex got another lightsaber, which was his late former master’s Ki-Adi-Mundi’s and they dueled for a third time.
The duel led them past the Palace’s entrance and two Royal Guards, which Alex killed, and out to a landing field, where Inzizor had set a trap, stating that an overhead Imperial light cruiser would destroy him. However, Alex used the Force to bring the cruiser down on his opponent, finishing him once and for all. Darth Vader arrived, congratulating him on killing Inzizor, but that Vader would not be as easily defeated. A duel began, and although Vader was nearly blown up by the Acklay’s Maw, with Evon flying it, Vader quickly gained the upper hand, slashing his blade across Alex’s chest. Alex retreated into the Acklay’s Maw, where a soldier healed him until they got back to Home One, where Evon reported that the mission was a failure. After Alex was fully healed, he and Evon concluded that the room that held the lightsabers was Darth Vader’s quarters.

### **Battle of Hoth and aftermath**

Several months after the mission to Coruscant, the Empire discovered the rebel’s Echo Base on Hoth and sent forces to destroy it. Alex, along with rebel soldiers, attempted to stall the Imperials while the transports escaped. After Alex boarded the second transport, he and some other rebels agreed to only use ships for bases due to their bases on Yavin 4 and Hoth being discovered and destroyed by the Empire.

### **Battle of Endor**

The Rebel Alliance discovered that the Empire built a second Death Star and the rebels decided to try and destroy it, with Alex flying in an A-wing. When they arrived, they discovered that it was a trap and a chaotic battle started. Alex managed to destroy a TIE fighter, but the numbers were overwhelming. His A-wing got hit by laser fire and his ship crashed down toward Endor. He survived the crash and fought Imperials in the ground battle before the Death Star II was destroyed. He later participated in the celebration party in Bright Tree Village.

## **New Republic**

### **Return to Geonosis**

Six years after the Battle of Yavin, Chancellor Mon Mothma of the New Republic sent Alex to Geonosis, where it was rumored that the Empire was attempting to rebuild battle droids for their army. When he arrived, he discovered that there were no Imperials there. When he returned to his ship, he killed a merdeth attacking a hive of acklays and managed to save a baby, which he decided to keep as a pet. After he had reported his findings to Mothma, he went to Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Temple on Yavin 4.

### **Mission to Parnaga IV**

After he had arrived at Luke’s Jedi Temple, Mothma contacted him and told him that the rumors of the Empire on Geonosis was a diversion, and they were attacking the planet Parnaga IV. Alex left his acklay with his Jedi friend Hadari Kandor and went to Parnaga IV. When he arrived, he attacked the Imperial forces there and they engaged in a dogfight, but Alex  and his ship, the Acklay’s Maw, was shot down, and he and his astromech droid, R3-D8, crashed in a nearby mountain range.

After surviving an attack by a native snow panther, he got the attention of the Charon Soung Tralada, who took Alex and R3 into his home to shelter them from an approaching blizzard. However, it wasn’t long before Tralada took out a lightwhip and attempted to kill Alex, declaring his hatred for the Jedi and that he killed the Jedi Master Katar Bendim. A duel began, and eventually Alex gained the upper hand. He used Electric Judgment to weaken his opponent, then decapitated him. Alex and R3 repaired their ship, and they flew to the New Republic capital of Hosnian Prime to inform Chancellor Mothma of their experiences.

### **Journey to Hosnian Prime**

When Alex arrived at the New Republic senatorial complex, he helped several New Republic soldiers arrest the Empire-supporting Senator Kachan of Kooriva, then went on to Mothma’s office. He told her about his duel with Soung Tralada and Jedi Master Katar Bendim’s death, and they both agreed that Alex should scout the Unknown Regions to ensure there were no treats there. After he left, he returned to Luke’s Jedi Temple, and there he named his baby acklay Varkon.

### **Attack on Tuanul Village**

34 years after the Battle of Yavin, Alex was in his home in Tuanul Village when two First Order stormtroopers tried to capture him. They failed, and after Alex killed them, he fought stormtrooper after stormtrooper, killing any he encountered. Realizing that he was too powerful, the surviving stormtroopers retreated and executed the other villagers. Alex then flew his X-wing to Takodana, to attempt to escape the First Order.

## **First Order-Resistance war**

### **Battle of Takodana**

When Alex arrived at Takodana, he met a squadron of Resistance X-Wings and he joined in the Battle of Takodana. The First Order retreated, and he went to the Resistance base on D’Qar.

### **Battle of Starkiller Base**

Soon after the Battle of Takodana, on D’Qar, Alex attended a briefing about how to destroy the First Order’s Starkiller Base. He and the other Resistance pilots attempted to destroy it, but failed at first. It was made even harder when missiles decimated most of the squadron, but not Alex. He did so by flying close to the thermal oscillator with a missile following, then pulling his ship up at the last second, the missile hitting the oscillator. The battle continued for a while, with the Resistance losing many ships. Finally, Alex and the other surviving pilots fired their proton torpedoes at the oscillator and obliterated it, destroying Starkiller Base.

### **Escape from D’Qar**

Shortly after the Battle of Starkiller Base, the Resistance realized that the First Order knew the location of their base and started an evacuation. Meanwhile, Alex took off in a Resistance A-wing along with the other pilots and engaged the First Order. Alex destroyed numerous enemy starfighters and helped protect the Resistance bombers, which were trying to destroy the First Order dreadnaught leading the battle. A

fter the dreadnaught was destroyed, the Resistance escaped to the Crait System, but the First Order followed them, led by Supreme Leader Snoke himself. Alex attempted to get to his A-wing, just as the TIE Silencer, piloted by Kylo Ren, and 2 TIEs destroyed the hangar. He then entered one of the U-55 orbital loadlifters and they all were launched toward the nearby planet of Crait. Although many of the ships were destroyed, the one Alex was on remained in tact. Soon, the remaining ships had reached the abandoned Rebel Alliance base on Crait.

### **Battle of Crait**

After the Resistance arrived at the base, the First Order sent walkers to destroy them once and for all. Alex piloted a ski speeder and attempted to crash it into the superlaser siege cannon. The cannon was not destroyed, but a few TIEs tried to kill Alex, who survived, and they failed. After the First Order broke through the Resistance’s defences, Alex and other few surviving members of the Resistance escaped Crait in the *Millenium Falcon*.

## **Personality and traits**

*“Freeze, you rebel scum!”*

*'“I’m already frozen. Do you know how cold it is on this planet?”*

--An Imperial snowtrooper and Alex Cunradi

Being a male human, Alex had fair skin, blue-gray eyes, and brown hair, which turned white as he aged. Unlike most other Jedi, Alex was known to have a sense of humor, displaying it on multiple occasions. He was also generally more aggressive than other Jedi because he joined them at a later age, sometimes attacking enemies before they could attack him. He was known to be compassionate toward his troops, protecting Commander Droidkiller after he was shot by a super battle droid. Finally, unlike almost all other Jedi, he sometimes seeked revenge. An example of this is that he joined the Rebellion mainly to avenge his fellow Jedi, showing no mercy to Imperials.

### **Powers and abilities**

With a midi-chlorian count of 8,000 per cell, Alex was strong with the Force and often used his Force powers on missions.

### **General combat**

Having participated in over 15 large-scale battles, Alex had experience in leading armies and displayed a willingness to kill his opponents.

### **Lightsaber abilities**

Alex was a proficient lightsaber duelist, able to go head-to-head against some of the most powerful lightsaber users in the galaxy, including General Grievous and Darth Vader. He favored Forms II and V, using both often, and he also used Form III occasionally. On a Separatist Dreadnought during the Battle of Coruscant, Alex encountered the Dark Acolyte Crownan Uindi and used Form II to overwhelm and kill him. When using Form V, he was a dangerous opponent to blaster-wielding foes, deflecting laser fire back at them with ease.

### **Force powers**

Alex displayed an impressive number of Force powers throughout his life. He used basic Force powers, including Force push and Force pull, but also many others. They include Force barrier, Jedi mind trick, Force leap, saber throw, Force crush, and Force throw, amongst others.

### **Other abilities**

Even as a child, Alex was an amazing pilot, making impressive maneuvers on his speeder bike others would have a very hard time doing. This skill was put to good use later in his life, flying circles around Separatist vulture droids and blasting TIE fighters out of the sky.

He was a brilliant military strategist, once using 9 Republic Star Destroyers to surround 11 Separatist ships around a planet, causing them to either be destroyed or crash into the planet. He also fought and defeated Bossk and Boba Fett,  experienced bounty hunters, and was fluent in Shyriiwook, as demonstrated while he was freeing Wookiee slaves on Kashyyyk. Finally, he had good aim with a blaster, but being a Jedi, he used his lightsaber more often.

## **Behind the scenes**

Alex Cunradi was based off a real-life person named Alex Cunradi, who first created the character for his non-canon short story *The Battle of Concrete* for a writing assignment in sixth grade. Afterwards, he took up writing short stories as a hobby, and as of July 2019, he has completed over 25 of them.