Owen Devis

**Owen Devis** was a knight of the New Jedi Order.

## History

### Early life

Born to two Rebel fighters in 4 ABY, Owen was raised from the start in a family favoring the newly formed New Republic. At a young age he would be taught, later alongside his younger brother, the very basics of the force by his mother, a survivor of the Jedi Purge. In 11 ABY, when he was six years of age, he was sent by his parents to the Jedi Order recently reformed by Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, and was trained on Makasa Prime.
At nine years of age, he reestablished contact with his father and brother who had both returned to the Mandalorian Clan Devis, with whom Jason had biological ties. This contact would eventually begin to plant the first seeds of doubt that would later lead to a change of heart for the young Jedi. Also around this time, Owen’s mother, an Alliance Intelligence/New Republic Intelligence agent was killed after being tracked down in response to an old intelligence operation she took part in.

### Hutt campaign

Owen's training would continue until 21 ABY, where, with the help of his master, he would be sent on what was officially an extended solo mission for the New Republic. Instead, this was a cover to allow him to join his distant clan and the Mandalorians in their campaign against the Hutts. At this time, he pledged himself to the *Resol'nare* as a Mandalorian, with a new identity: Herik Devis. For the remainder of the official campaign, two years, he fought in several lower battles of the campaign.

In 23 ABY, after the official campaign ended, the clan continued fighting for around half a year. In this final battle that he took part in, Owen had an unexpected change of heart as he ultimately decided to return to the Republic and the Jedi Order. Faking his death, Owen soon made his way back to Coruscant where he would complete his training, more dedicated to the Jedi than he may have ever been before.

### Knighthood

By 26 ABY, Owen had been knighted within the Order. Additionally, he had begun training as an officer in the New Republic Navy. Around this time, he also began a limited study of the force in ways he had not been taught by his master directly.

In 27 ABY, while responding to a minor dispute on the Republic world of Ryloth, Owen and his former master were led into an ambush by a group of pro-Imperialists who wished to force a secession to the Galactic Sith Empire. While the two made it out of the resulting skirmish, his master soon succumbed to a mortal wound inflicted by one of the Imperialists. Following this, Owen retained her lightsaber.

In 29 ABY, as a result of the Jedi Service Accommodation, Owen would receive a near equivalent rank in the New Republic Army, although this was less of priority to him. Also during this time, during the Sith-Mandalorian war, he discovered the existence of a half-sister among the Sith ranks: the assassin Nilya Brello, now known as Darth Tyranny. By this time, Owen had become the Jedi Order’s Head of Security, overseeing the defense of the Order’s facilities including the Jedi Temple.

### Republic-Mandalorian War

As tension and, subsequently, conflict grew between the New Republic and the Mandalorian Empire, Owen would primarily remain in the Core Worlds to better support the Order. While usually remaining on Coruscant, he would continue to develop a greater series of galaxy wide connections with the help of former NRI agent Corran Torrek.

One of these contacts managed to warn the Jedi about a Mandalorian plot to infiltrate and sabotage the Republic Engineering Corporation’s shipyard. As the New Republic Security Bureau failed to take his warning seriously, Owen was then forced into his own response as comms chatter broke of an incident at the shipyard, but failed to apprehend the Mandalorian infiltrator due to the presence of a Ysalimiri.

Owen would later attempt to assist in quelling the brawl in the Galactic Senate building on Coruscant immediately preceding the Second Battle of Coruscant, and would subsequently return to the Jedi Temple where he would receive authorization from Master Elizabethe Snowbourne, Head of the Order, to assemble a Jedi strike team to board the *Haran Tal*, personal flagship of Lana Beumaryn, the Mand’alor. Before a team could properly be assembled, however, Tirannan Industries announced a plan to evacuate the planet, which the New Republic took part in.

### Post-evacuation

Following the Evacuation of Coruscant, Owen began to study the force on a deeper and broader level than he had before, and other necessary avenues as he saw fit to refine himself. In 32 ABY, for this reason, he would reestablish contact with the Mandalorian outcast, Jaxon Macer, on Vutura, who he would train with for as long as he was available. After this, he decided that it would be best to not keep open contact with the Mandalorian or his group, to avoid any hostilities that may have been temporarily set aside between the two.

During this time, he would be promoted to the rank of Jedi Master and instated as a member of the Jedi High Council. In respect to his position as the Order’s Head of Security, Owen would eventually be put in charge of the Jedi Investigators. By 33 ABY, he would also become the Jedi Order’s representative to the New Republic Military Council to strengthen the necessary relationship between the two organizations and taking into account his higher, but otherwise non-Council worthy, rank within the New Republic Defense Force.
In 33 ABY, Owen would be part of the Military Council as it ruled on proposed offensive campaigns against the Crimson Empire, broken apart as it was reorganizing itself as the Imperial Medical Provider Service, and the Hapes Consortium. He later would be present for the council debrief on the New Republic’s failure at the Battle of Andalia.

## Appearance

Owen had brown hair, kept decently short, and brown eyes, with a couple of scars on his face. Standing at five feet and eleven inches, and with an athletic physique, Owen is of average to slightly above average build.

## Equipment

In contrast to most Jedi who would stray away from certain technology, Owen did not see a great reason to shun it, meaning he tended to be more open to certain technologies than some more traditional Jedi. While Owen’s standard equipment was largely similar to other Jedi’s equipment, this provided a bit of variety and leeway.

### Utility belt

Between different belts, Owen carries a similar kit to other Jedi. This includes:

* Rebreather
* Comlink
* Grappling hook and line
* Grappling spike launcher
* "Energy rations"
* A small toolkit that included a lightsaber maintenance tool
* An NRDF issue multi-tool; a tested and popular design even on the civilian market
* A small holoprojector that could function as a holomap
* A small medkit
* A Jedi beacon transceiver
* A handheld position tracker and guidance system
* Nylasteel restraints, NRDF issue
* A code cylinder for use within New Republic military facilities, carried on the belt
* Clips for a pair of lightsabers
* Included was a holster for a blaster pistol
* Often a sheath for a knife of some type

#### Chest harness

With Owen’s type IIB uniform and his armor, he made use of a MATCH compatible shoulder harness that served primarily for weapons carrying. It featured two clips on the front for his lightsabers, when he chose to carry them there rather than on his belt, and a detachable, back-mounted sheath component that held a pair of short swords and a pair of knives.

### Clothing

Owen utilized a larger variety of clothing than was the traditional norm, when compared to those ultra-traditional Jedi, for use as necessary. While regularly wearing Jedi robes when at Jedi facilities, he often would switch over to a Jedi-produced field uniform, or armor, when the situation required it. As a New Republic Defense Force officer, Owen also made moderate use of certain Defense Force uniforms. Additionally, he was known to wear civilian clothing when an assignment required a lower profile.

#### Jedi Robes:

* Standard; pre-30 ABY

In the past, Owen wore a set of brown and black robes modeled after those of the Jedi Adventurers. These were complemented by a pair of black combat boots and matching gloves.

* Standard; 33 ABY

More recently, Owen began to wear a set of robes including darker shades of brown and lighter shades of tan and white. These followed a mostly traditional style for the time, and a traditional leather utility belt, modified to include a matching holster, was included along with a pair of dark brown boots. With this, a brown cloak was worn during ceremony, but was routinely neglected for mobility reasons.

* Shadow robes; 33 ABY

A recent concept, so-called “shadow robes” exist for those Jedi who wish to have increased anti-detection capabilities without relying on the force, allowing for more concentration on the rest of the situation at hand, while not overly compromising the basic traditional garb. Like most sets, Owen's consisted of darker shades of brown, gray, and black and had a sensor-damping material on the inside.

#### Other Jedi uniforms:

* Type IIB Field Uniform; 33 ABY

When out in the field, or when conflict might be expected, Owen often wore a green, brown, and black type IIB Jedi Field Uniform.

One of his more commonly worn Jedi outfits, this uniform, was worn with its optional shin guards, vambraces, knee pads, and elbow pads, and was usually combined with a Class I armor set. It was finished off with a pair of high-traction boots, and a military utility belt in place of the traditional leather utility belt worn by many Jedi. The armor consisted of a split chestplate primarily protecting the upper portion of the torso and a pair of shoulder plates.

#### NRDF and other:

Notably, Owen made use both the NRDF service uniform and Dress uniforms, the latter of which he wore in the Jedi specific, white jacketed variant.

Owen also possessed a gray, scalable, multi-piece jacket that could theoretically be worn as anything from a vest, a light jacket for use in extreme rain, or to keep warm as necessary.

### Armor

By 33 ABY, Owen possessed a complete set of predominantly gray, lightsaber resistant armor that resembled Mandalorian armor in its design, although its exact origins were unknown. The limited blue accents and Jedi insignia on either shoulder left little doubt as to the owner’s affiliation. The helmet, when worn, featured a simple black visor on its gray and blue exterior, and a partially external filtration system lined the lower half of the helmet on either side. Internally, the helmet featured a Heads Up Display and an integrated comlink, although this seemed to be more of an afterthought for coordination with Defense Force units and their technology.

### Weapons and combat

The lightsaber, the recognizable weapon of the Jedi, was likewise the weapon that Owen used most often, but was not the extent of his training, which may be partly attributed to Mandalorian influence and training or to other training provided by the New Republic.

#### Lightsabers

Throughout his life, Owen had developed two distinct pairs of lightsabers. The first, which he used until his participation in the Mandalorian Hutt Space campaign, were silver with dark red painted highlights, and produced orange blades. These were designed separately from each other, as the first was constructed prior to the young Jedi studying Jar'Kai. During his absence, these were trusted to his master as he had no need for them while under the *Resol'nare*.

The second pair were constructed after Owen's return. These featured silver and gunmetal hilts, each engraved with the Jedi crest and other markings, and had blue blades indicating him as a Jedi Guardian. Additionally, these notably featured controls for length, capable of contracting or extending to twice their normal length for a short period of time, and intensity; and were designed to operate underwater should it be necessary.

While unused, Owen later came to possess the lightsaber of his master after her death. This was kept somewhere within his quarters, along with his original pair and a green-bladed lightsaber of unknown significance.

##### Form

As a padawan, Owen had set out to form a hybrid style of his own incorporating principles and techniques from several forms, to include Soresu, Ataru, and, Djem So; and to eventually include Jar’Kai at the heart of this form as he learned to use a second lightsaber.

While this form, as he called it, worked adequately, it was nonetheless truly unrefined and the focus on a broader fighting style left individual principles weaker than those of a true master of an individual form. Following the Evacuation of Coruscant, Owen began to refocus and would rework his lightsaber style to be based around Form V, balanced between Shien and Djem So, mixed with Jar’Kai.

#### Blasters

While some Jedi were still opposed to the use of blasters, Owen, like many younger Jedi, often made use of a blaster pistol as an alternative to his lightsabers; sometimes as a primary weapon if the circumstances required it.

Prior to his time with the Mandalorians, Owen carried a single blaster pistol that most often was used as an offhand weapon alongside a lightsaber. In 18 ABY, he came to possess a pair of WESTAR-35 blaster pistols, the iconic Mandalorian weapon; although he only carried one of them in the time before he temporarily left the Order. He began to carry both of them upon his return, and would continue to use them until 29 ABY. Later into the Republic-Mandalorian War, Owen began to use a pair of Heavy Blaster pistols, although he would soon return to carrying only a single pistol on his person.

When a more capable blaster was required, Owen used an E-36 Blaster rifle due to its widespread availability.

#### Other

While uncommon among Jedi, Owen occasionally made use of traditional edged-weaponry in combat. This usually consisted of a pair of short swords, or, more commonly, a knife which could be used equally as either a utilitarian tool or a weapon.

This could be supplemented by a collection of throwable knives and multi-bladed stars that could be used at range. While already accurate with them, Owen often added to this in directing them with the force; allowing for otherwise impossible accuracy.

Like with edged-weapons, Owen was well trained in the use of non-bladed weapons ranging from short batons to full length staffs of simple or complex design.

#### Unarmed combat

During his training as a Jedi, Owen was taught the Order’s form of unarmed combat to use in addition to a lightsaber. This later would be added to by greater training from the Mandalorians, and by other training, possibly by the New Republic.