Carnor Jax

Carnor Jax - By: Dave Dorman

**Carnor Jax** was a Force-Sensitive Human male Imperial Sovereign Protector trained by the self-proclaimed Dark Lady of the Sith, Lumiya, and served her after the deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine. Carnor Jax excelled as a Stormtrooper, earning the right to begin his training as an Imperial Royal Guard, and rose to become one of the most elite warriors in the galaxy. Jax eventually became involved in the ways of the dark side and became an aspiring Dark Side Adept.

## Biography

### Imperial Service

#### Royal Guard Training

**Carnor Jax** was born in 25 BBY on the Inner Rim planet Thyrsus during the Fall of the Republic. Jax’s father was a Thyrsian Sun Guard warrior employed by the Separatist Alliance during the Clone Wars, and briefly trained Jax when he could in his youth. After the Galactic Republic was reformed into the Galactic Empire, a young Jax joined the Stormtrooper Corps and was enlisted as a Stormtrooper, even serving under Lord Cronal as one of his Shadow Troopers. Jax stood out among his squad as one of the best, and it was not long until Jax was recognized and removed from his squad to receive training to become a Royal Guard. Alongside other recruits, Jax was brought to Yinchorr, where they would be subjected to a year of harsh and brutal training methods in the roughest conditions to become the most elite warriors of the Galactic Emperor. During their training, the Royal Guard cadets were taught to master the deadly martial art Echani.

#### Death of the Emperor

Echani was supplemented by thorough instruction on the use of the force pike, the vibroblade, and the double vibroblade. While on Yinchorr, Jax was considered to be one of the best trainees and had enough skill in martial arts and with vibroblades to defeat his opponents in combat. After a year, Jax passed the training with fellow cadet Kir Kanos, who became Jax’s rival. Little is known of Carnor Jax's subsequent service in the Emperor’s Royal Guard, but it is assumed that Carnor served with distinction as one of Palpatine's Royal Guards. However, throughout the entire time of Carnor Jax's service in the Empire, his loyalties lay not with Emperor Palpatine, but with himself and his chances of rising to higher power. Jax was not one of the guards present on the Death Star II during the Battle of Endor, and so escaped death. After the demise of the Emperor and Darth Vader, Carnor continued to serve the Empire, under the command of Director Ysanne Isard.

#### Imperial Sovereign Protector

When the Dark Lady Lumiya requested a detachment of the Royal Guard from Isard, Jax's unit was the one dispatched to the Dark Lady. Lumiya recognized Jax's Force potential, and began to train him as her apprentice. During his training under Lumiya, Carnor specialized in telekinesis and precognition. Carnor Jax may have also received training from other senior Dark Side Adepts. Under Lumiya, Jax began to meet many of the higher-ups in Imperial politics and high-ranking officers of the Imperial military. With support from political associates who saw the two Force-Users as potential figureheads and military commanders, Lumiya and Carnor Jax moved to take control of their own Imperial Remnant. Jax, a former soldier, preferred to surround himself with Army officers, as opposed to most Navy warlords. Their political allies managed to secure Jax the position of an Imperial Sovereign Protector, a Star Destroyer task force, and a military contingent.

### Fall of the Emperor

One of the notable encounters being an advisor to the Emperor who considered himself a Sith historian, Yupe Tashu. Tashu, a leader in the Acolytes of the Beyond cult, saw Jax as a potential military commander, capable of providing forms of leadership that he could not. Tashu's words of wisdom had something of an impact on Jax, because of his own connection to the Force which to Jax was more fueled by the Dark Side as a result of his own dark impulses and desires.

Also during this time Jax met a mysterious man who called himself Nom Anor, who somehow managed to infiltrate the failing Galactic Empire.

With a longing to harness his inner power, Jax with assistance from Imperial officers tracked a group known as the Church of the Dark Side to their hiding place in the Unknown Regions. During his training in the Force, Jax specialized in telekinesis and precognition.

Together the religious group moved to ensure the success of the coming darkness by ensuring the survival and proper rebirth of the Galactic Empire.

During this time he met with Nom Anor, later telling Lumiya of the strange agent.[3]However, when Jax was killed, all connection between this agent and Lumiya was severed. She was therefore unable to act on a proposed Sith alliance with this extragalactic race.[9]