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**Corran Horn** was a Force-sensitive Human male Corellian pilot who served as a Corellian Security Forces investigator, an ace pilot of the New Republic Starfigther Corps, and later a Jedi of the New Jedi Order. Born on Corellia, Horn lived his early life unaware that his grandfather was a Jedi Master. He followed his father and adoptive grandfather into the Corellian Security Forces, where he excelled. However, he came into conflict with his Imperial liaison officer, and eventually fled Corellia after the Battle of Endor in order to evade execution. Horn spent months lying low on Garqi before saving several locals from the Imperials and making the decision to join the Republic. A highly skilled pilot, Horn joined the New Republic Starfighter Corps and became a flight leader.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Formative Years

**Corran Horn** was born in 18 BBY, the son of Valin Halcyon, known widely as Hal Horn, and Nyche Horn. Valin was the biological son of Jedi Nejaa Halcyon, but when Nejaa was killed, Valin was adopted by a friend of his father, Rostek Horn of the Corellian Security Forces. Rostek married Valin's mother as well and, as the Jedi Purge began, Rostek hid all evidence of Valin, who now went by Hal. Corran was raised in Coronet City, unaware of his family's past or his own Force-sensitivity. As a child, he was taught Jedi mediation techniques by his father, who told him to not reveal them to anyone as they were part of a secret game. As he grew, his father and grandfather encouraged him to always follow his hunches and to heed any internal sense of situational discomfort, knowing that they were manifestations of his Force abilities. Corran Horn entered the CorSec Academy after graduating secondary school, where he excelled, and set new records.

#### CorSec Police Officer

Around 2 ABY, Horn graduated from the academy and became a full CorSec officer. He frequently worked alongside his father, developing his skills as a bright young prospect, and participated in many undercover missions. At some point, he was part of a security detail for actress Wynssa Starflare during a visit to Corellia. Later in 2 ABY, Horn's mother was badly injured in an accident with a drunk driver, and Horn and his father rushed to the hospital to be with her. She spoke with them about their future before passing away, leaving Horn and his father to grieve. Around 3 ABY, he transferred into the Smuggling Interdiction Division of CorSec. Horn sometimes had to fly escort duty, which he hated. Corran was, however, an excellent pilot, his skills honed during space missions. Corran was a relentless investigator, using brute force to push through investigations, while his CorSec partner preferred subtlety, making them a powerful parternship.

Around six months after joining the Smuggling Interdiction Division, Horn and his father went on a mission in which they anticipated trouble. With Horn watching from a remote as Hal met with two other men, he found little to worry him and so relaxed. However, a bounty hunter entered the room and sprayed fire across the table at which Hal Horn was sitting, killing him and his companions. Horn rushed out, but could only hold his father's body in his arms. Horn was impressed by his father's wake and the outpouring of respect for Valin Horn at it, so impressed that he hoped his life could be celebrated the same way. However, without his father, he felt adrift emotionally. Horn kept his father's lucky medallion and began wearing it as his own. It was in fact a commemorative medallion marking Halcyon's ascent to the rank of Jedi Master, a secret family heirloom the full meaning of which Horn did not understand, although he valued it highly.

Months after the Battle of Endor, Horn and his partner were assigned to investigate the kidnapping of a two-year-old nephew of Baron Soontir Fel. At the same time a trio of New Republic operatives were sent to offer the Fels asylum in the New Republic, to which Soontir Fel had defected. As Horn and his partner began looking into the kidnapping, the Imperials arrived and took control of the investigation. After Corran discovered that Soontir defected, he correctly deduced that the trio were New Republic operatives. Though not happy about working with these agents, Horn was committed to rescuing Fel’s nephew and decided that, with the Empire against them, he would have to take what allies he could get. After rescuing Soontir Fel’s nephew from the kidnappers, Corran allowed the New Republic operatives to leave with the Fels and put off filing his reports on the incident as long as possible so that the Imperials would not be tipped off.

#### Fleeing Corellia

Corran's CorSec division wished to focus on spice smugglers and other serious criminals, but after the Battle of Endor, they were ordered to pursue any possible Rebel activity. When they preferred to focus on what they felt were criminals actually hurting Corellia, the division was threatened with being charged with treason if they did not follow their orders. After Endor, numerous high-ranking Imperial officers began seizing territory and assumed control of the populations. After coming into conflict with his Imperial liaison officer, Horn planned on fleeing Corellia in order to evade execution. Horn and a number of fellow officers who feared they were in danger planned to flee using false identities they created. In order to be clear of suspicion, they made up a file on a group of smugglers that would allow them to meet outside the office and set up escape routes. Eventually, Corran was assigned to investigate the supposed smuggler activity.

Horn took his CorSec starfighter, with his astromech droid Whistler in the astromech socket, to investigate. However, while he was trying to escape Corellia, Horn found multiple TIEs waiting for him as part of an ambush. Horn shot down a few of the TIEs and jumped into hyperspace. Whistler had the complete files for the cover identities set up, and Horn moved through several of them. Whistler encouraged him to join the fledging New Republic, but Horn insisted that he simply wanted to lay low. During his time on the run, he always managed to fly once a week. He spent months lying low on the Outer Rim planet Garqi and used the cover identity **Eamon Yzalli** to make a living as a confidential aide to a succession of governors, working closely with military prefect Mosh Barris. He hid his starfighter along with Whistler in an abandoned building but visited the droid and took the fighter for night flights frequently, easily evading the local patrols.

A series of minor slicing attacks displaying New Republic crests created fear of a Rebel presence on Garqi, though Horn knew they were only the work of dissatisfied agricultural students. He thought that when the Imperials realized that the students knew nothing, that they would let them go, but instead they seemed convinced the students were genuine Rebels and subjected them to interrogation and imprisonment. Horn was convinced by the Imperial attention to Garqi that it was time for him to move on, but he was driven to action when it was made clear that the Imperials intended to execute the students as an example to drive any Rebel supporters to reveal themselves. He devised a solution to the situation, and made a proposition to military prefect Mosh Barris. Horn would tell the students that he would arrange an escape, using his false identity's Alderaanian origins to convince them that he’d decided to oppose the Galactic Empire.

Corran Horn would have the imprisoned students and their Rebel friends attempt to escape aboard a light freighter. Horn proposed to the Imperials that Garqi's TIE complement could destroy the entire Rebel presence in one stroke as they fled, a kill ensured by sabotaging the shield of the light freighter ahead of time. As the slicers could access the Imperial system, neither Horn nor the Imperials could enter any information on the plan into the computer system. Delighted by the concept of terminating the Rebel slicers once and for all, military prefect Mosh Barris approved the plan. In fact, Horn would use the supposed Rebels' escape to cover his own, allowing him to escape and free those he brought into danger. He removed them from prison and told them of the escape plan, though he did not reveal his true identity or plans. The gathering of the crew and the Rebellion slicers went smoothly, and the freighter began its escape.

Horn's final act as Eamon Yzalli was to send a report stating that Mosh Barris had arranged the escape as part of a plot to turn Garqi over to the New Republic, a report that resulted in Barris' arrest. Horn then made his way to the building where his starfighter was stored and prepped it for departure. There, Horn was shocked to have Whistler reveal to him that the droid, through HoloNet contact, had been the mysterious leader of the students slicing ring. Horn launched, caught up to the freighter, and provided the codes to restore the sabotaged shield. After engaging four pursuing TIE fighters in combat and destroying them, Horn escaped. Horn followed the freighter to a New Republic base, where a New Republic officer was extremely impressed upon hearing of Horn’s performance over Garqi. He urged Horn to join the New Republic, but Horn, wary of becoming involved in the conflict, maintained that he just wanted to be left alone.

The people Horn helped free told him that the New Republic needed him, and that he was better off fighting the Empire with others than on his own. When the Republic officer told him that an elite squadron was being re-formed and was seeking pilots, Horn was intrigued. He realized that he missed having companionship, and that he would never be able to truly escape the Empire without the Republic. He decided to join the cause. Before joining the Starfighter Corps, he underwent several weeks of training alongside other pilot trainees. Used to being on his own, he was relatively distant from other the trainees, but as the weeks went by, he began to learn the value of teamwork. Horn was a more talented pilot, but was no more important than anyone else. Horn received training from notable rebel pilots Wedge Antilles and Tycho Celchu. After one month of training, Horn was promoted to lieutenant and made flight leader of a starfighter unit.

### **BIO (Edit)**

**Corran Horn** was born on the planet Corellia and grew up following in his father's footsteps to become a member of the Corellian Security Force, where he excelled. However, he came into conflict with his Imperial Intelligence liaison officer, Kirtan Loor, and eventually fled Corellia after the Battle of Endor in order to evade execution. Horn spent a year lying low on Garqi before saving several locals from the Empire and making the decision to join the New Republic as a pilot of Rogue-Squadron.

He participated in the captures of Borleias and Coruscant, taking the shields of the latter down and being captured by the Empire in the process. He was incarcerated in the infamous *Lusankya* prison, where he resisted Ysanne Isard's brainwashing due to his Force-Sensitive abilities, and became the first individual ever to directly escape the prison. On his return, he was hailed as a hero, but on learning that the New Republic would not purse Isard due to the recently enacted Galactic Concordance, he led a rogue faction of Rogue Squadron pilots in resigning and waging a guerrilla war against Isard's remnant on Thyferra. During the course of that campaign, Horn was married to Mirax Terrik, the love of his life and the daughter of his father's old rival, Booster Terrik. After the campaign Horn rejoined the New Republic and was reinstated into the Rogue Squadron, helping defeat Zsinj and Thrawn and free the Lusankya prisoners.

After Mirax was taken, Corran began to develop his Force-Sensitive abilities and was sought out by recently exiled Luke Skywalker. Luke revealed to Corran his grandfather was a knight of the old Jedi Order, a fact which Luke learned while studying the records of the Jedi Temple, and locating the Jedi's descendants. Skywalker judged Corran as not being tempted by the Dark-Side and taught him the skills needed to save his wife, in additon to giving Corran a green lightsaber. Corran would then use Luke's jedi training to save his wife from a band of pirate's. Corran then was told to repress his jedi teaching's by Luke for fear of the growing First Order finding him. Corran then settled down with his wife and started a family, having two children. When his children reached maturity Corran felt the need to tell them about their heritage and after discovering they two were Force-Sensitive, Corran taught them how to control their abilities and showed them the ways of the Jedi. Despite being retired and having a peaceful life, with the First Order laying siege to the Hosnian System, Corran felt he couldn't allow such a evil like the Empire to rise again, so he joined Leia Organa's Resistance in repelling the First Order. Along with him, Corran's children joined him feeling that they two had a moral responsibility to use their abilities to protect those who cannot protect themselves. After Luke Skywalker came to the Resistance to join them, Corran recognized Luke and thanked him for what he taught him. Corran then offered to help Luke and Rey rebuild the New Jedi Order. Corran was afterwards greated the title of Jedi-Master while his children were given the titles Jedi-Knights. Corran and his children then helped Luke in his conflict to defeat Kylo Ren and Snoke's First Order.

## Powers and Abilities

**The Force:** Horn was able to enter a state in which he was calm and centered, giving him better reflexes and helping him avoid being shot even before he realized he was Force-sensitive. Sometimes in combat, he was able to enter an even more advanced state in which time seemed to slow, giving him incredible reflexes and foreknowledge of others' actions. This ability was further developed by his Jedi training under Skywalker. Another ability he had while still untrained was the capacity to implant thoughts in individuals, though he did not even realize he was doing so, an artifact of his strong talent with the mind trick power.

Horn learned many basic Force abilities from Skywalker's teaching's. His precognition was refined, and he learned to sense through the Force, expanding his senses and using the Force as a new sense entirely. He also gained the capacity to erect a shield through the Force, and the ability to protect his mind from mental probes by other Force users, as well as masking his Force presence almost entirely. Healing was another of the skills he mastered, as was speeding his movements through the Force.

However Horn lacked significant telekinetic abilities, and it took great strain to make a stone so much as wobble. He made up for them with a powerful affinity for mind tricks, implanting thoughts, sensations, and images in others, and a great skill in the absorption of energy, Another advantage Horn displayed was absorbing energy—electric, heat, Force, and otherwise—Horn was able to redirect it into telekinetic feats, but it took such an infusion of power to do so.

### Abilities

* **Lightsaber Skills:** Horn was quite skilled with a lightsaber, and many Jedi students regarded him as an elite combatant.
* **Expert Pilot:** His Force abilities also aided his already considerable talent as a pilot.

### Weapons and Equipment

As a Jedi; Corran's valued weapon and possession is the lightsaber.