Shaul Peretz

Shira Peretz (daughter)

Terran Alliance

* Anti-Sith Assault Team

Colonel Shaul Peretz, a human male, is a former member of the Israeli Army's Sayeret Matkal, and a current member of the Anti-Sith Assault Team. Peretz joined the Israeli Army at age 18, and later became a member of the Sayeret Matkal. He was chosen for the ASAT team when it was first formed. Peretz has taken part in several battle throughout the Clone Wars.

## Biography

### Early Life

Shaul Peretz was born on July 17, 1960, in Tel Aviv, Israel. His family were immigrant to Israel from the United States shortly after Israel was officially formed.

At the age of 18, as part of Israel's mandatory military service, Peretz joined the Israeli Army and became a paratrooper. At age 20, he left the military to attend college at Tel Aviv University. He graduated at age 24, and returned to service in the Army, now as an officer.

During his time at Tel Aviv University, he met Naomi Avital. The two were married shortly after his graduation in 1984. The couple became parents in 1986 when they welcomed a set of twin daughters, Abigail and Shira.

In 1986, at the age of 26, and just two months after the birth of his daughters, Peretz was selected to undergo training as a Sayeret Matkal. He finished his training in 1988, and was assigned to his unit.

### Anti-Sith Assault Team

#### Induction and Early training

Soon after the Republic arrived on Terra in 1991, the Anti-Sith Assault Team was formed as a Terran defense against the threat of the Sith. Peretz was one of 12 men chosen for the team.

The training of the team began on December 5, 1991. In the team's first meeting, Peretz chose a green bladed lightsaber as his weapon.

Peretz advanced quickly in lightsaber training, aided by his skill in hand to hand combat from his time as a Sayeret Matkal.

Peretz did not see action during the Terran campaign, due to being stationed in Israel. However, following the Terran campaign, Peretz was promoted to the rank of Colonel by executive order of the Joint Terran Command.

When Terran units began to deploy to the Andromeda Galaxy, Peretz was one of the ASAT team members to deploy. He was initially sent to Coruscant, where he would await further assignment, and undergo further training at the Jedi Temple.

#### Fighting Death Watch

In mid February, Peretz received his first assignment when he was ordered to accompany Obi Wan Kenobi to Mandalore to investigate rumors that Duchess Satine of Mandalore was secretly raising any army to fight for the Separatists.

Peretz flew a Delta-7 interceptor to Mandalore, his first time flying a starfighter. After arriving on Mandalore, Peretz and Kenobi went to meet with Satine to question her regarding the rumors. Upon meeting Satine, they were able to convince her to talk with them, and she left her palace to go on a walk with Kenobi. Peretz remained behind at the palace, taking the time to eat.

Kenobi soon returned, letting Peretz know that there had been a bombing, which had seemingly been conducted by a terrorist organization called Death Watch. Satine had said that the man was also from Mandalore's moon, Concordia. Kenobi and Peretz agreed that they needed to investigate Concordia.

The two, along with Satine, made their way to Concordia. Upon landing, they were met by Concordia's governor, Pre Vizsla. After exchanging pleasantries, Vizsla accompanied the body of the bomber away to tend to it.

As Vizsla left, Kenobi held Satine and Peretz back from following him, asking for them to keep Vizsla occupied at dinner so that he could have time to investigate a mining facility to see if there was any chance they were still in use.

Peretz and Satine made their way to the dining hall, where they told Vizsla that Kenobi was meditating and would join them later. They attempted to keep Vizsla occupied, with Peretz sharing some of his stories as a paratrooper and later as a member of the Sayeret Matkal.

During dinner, Kenobi contacted Peretz and Satine over his earpiece, letting them know he was in trouble, and to follow a tracker he kept on him to find him. Satine excused herself, saying she needed air, and Peretz continued to keep Vizsla occupied with his stories. However, Vizsla soon excused himself, saying something had come up.

Not buying Vizsla's story, Peretz left the fortress as soon as Vizsla was out of sight, and headed in the direction Kenobi's tracker. He found the signal coming from an old mining facility, and as he reached the facility, saw two Mandalorian warriors of the Death Watch. The two warriors attacked Peretz, who quickly knocked them out.

Peretz made his way into the mining facility, where he found Satine in the process of freeing Kenobi. Once Kenobi was free, the three of them attempted to make their way out of the facility, only to find themselves in a crater where more members of the Death Watch were.

Peretz gave his lightsaber to Kenobi, and began using his blasters to engage the Death Watch soldiers as Kenobi fought back with Peretz' lightsaber. One warrior managed to get in close and knock Kenobi down, causing him to let go of the lightsaber. Peretz then killed the warrior.

Seconds later, Peretz and Kenobi saw four warriors approaching. One of them, the leader, removed his helmet, revealing himself as Pre Vizsla.

Peretz took up his lightsaber again, and moved to meet Vizsla. Vizsla returned Kenobi's lightsaber, but Peretz insisted on fighting Vizsla himself. Vizsla drew a unique lightsaber, the Darksaber, and attacked Peretz. Peretz and Vizsla engaged in a lightsaber duel, but Vizsla quickly realized that Peretz, with his training as a Sayeret Matkal and later as an ASAT commando, had the advantage.

Peretz quickly knocked Vizsla on his back. Vizsla ordered his warriors to finish off Peretz, Kenobi, and Satine. The three warriors fired rockets from their jetpacks, but Peretz and Kenobi escaped down an elevator shaft with Satine to escape the missiles. They then made their way back to their ship and returned to Mandalore.

The following day, Satine set off for Coruscant to plead her case to the Senate against Mandalore's involvement in the Clone War. Peretz and Kenobi, along with Anakin Skywalker, a number of clones, and 4 Sayeret Matkal commandos, accompanied her as protection in case of further attack by the Death Watch or Separatists.

Peretz and the two Jedi coordinated patrols of Satine's ship, the *Coronet*, then made their way to Satine's meeting room to speak with Satine.

In the meeting room, Peretz sat by and watched Kenobi and Satine argue, then accompanied Kenobi and Skywalker back to their own quarters. In their quarters, Skywalker questioned Kenobi about his relationship to Satine, and why he left Satine if he had feeling for her. After Kenobi brought up the Jedi Code, Peretz joined the conversation, saying that he believed that the Jedi Code was wrong, and that feelings of affection were not evil.

The conversation was quickly interrupted by a report from Captain Rex that something was amiss in the cargo hold. Peretz and Skywalker made their way down to the cargo hold to assist the clones. The two quickly encountered an assassin droid. The two destroyed the droid with help of the clones and Israeli commandos, but a second droid escaped up the lift.

Peretz and Skywalker suspected there may be more droids, and were ordering their men to split up to look for more when the presumably dead assassin droid began to release dozens of tiny droids. Peretz and Skywalker, along with their men, fought off the droids and were able to successfully destroy them all.

Peretz and Skywalker then questioned the droid in charge of the cargo bay to find out who had shipped the container the droids came from. The discovered evidence it may have been smuggled aboard the ship by one of the Senators aboard the ship. They brought the evidence to Kenobi, who said he would try to expose the traitor, and sent Skywalker and Peretz back down to the cargo hold to destroy the last assassin droids.

Skywalker and Peretz, as well their men, began searching every part of the cargo hold, looking for more droids. As they searched, they received a message from Kenobi, letting them know that Senator Tal Merrick of Mandalore was the traitor and he was pursuing the Senator. Only moments later, the two located the droid and destroyed it, and Rex destroyed the smaller droids in the mother droid's head before they could be deployed.

Peretz and Skywalker then led their men up the lift, and sent their men to cover the escape pod while they themselves went to find Kenobi.

Soon after they found Kenobi, Separatist ships carrying a number of B2 battle droids crashed into the *Coronet* and deployed their droids. Skywalker took the clones and Matkal to take on the droids, while Peretz and Kenobi separated to try and find Senator Merrick and Satine.

Peretz searched some of the lower decks, then headed further up the ship. Eventually, he found Merrick and Satine, as well as Kenobi, as Satine and Kenobi were trying to get Merrick to surrender while he threatened to blow up the ship. Peretz, tired of him and his jabs at Satine and Kenobi, pulled out his P226 pistol and shot the traitorous Senator in the back and killed him.

Peretz and his men assisted in cleaning up the mess left behind by the battle. When the ship arrived on Coruscant, Peretz disembarked and returned to the Jedi Temple.

Peretz remained at the Temple for another few months. In early April, he and another member of the ASAT team, Colonel Vasily Stasevich, were sent on a rescue mission to help rescue Mace Windu after he had been targeted by Boba Fett. They saw no combat during the mission, but were successful in the rescue.

#### Back to Terra

In late May, 1992, Peretz was ordered back to Terra. He was replaced on Coruscant by Colonel Daniel Mofaz.

Upon returning to Terra, Peretz took up the role of combat instructor, traveling around the world to serve as an instructor for various special ops units around the world.

Initially, he had been intended to return to the Andromeda Galaxy in October. However, in September, there was a terrorist attack in Israel, and Peretz returned to work with the Sayeret Matkal for a brief time to track down and capture the terrorists responsible. After the culprits were caught, Peretz was released from his temporary assignment, only to find that the Joint Terran Command had decided to re-assign him to extend his stationing on Terra until the end of 1993.

#### Black Hawk Down

In early 1992, Peretz was ordered back to the Andromeda Galaxy. He had returned to the galaxy and was on his way to Coruscant to receive his assignment when a UH-60 Black Hawk carrying his teammate Colonel Cheng Han and a number of other men was shot down on Skako Minor. After persuasion from Senator Padme Amidala and Senator Bail Organa, the Senate voted to send a rescue team.

Captain Adams elected to join the rescue, and called in four other ASAT commandos to join him on the rescue, with Peretz being one of them.

Upon arriving at Skako Minor, Peretz and the other ASAT commandos made their way down to the planet on a gunship, and located the area where Han's team was pinned down by battle droids. Peretz and the other ASAT commandos jumped down from the gunship and, along with Han, destroyed the remaining battle droids and two AAT droid tanks. Peretz then helped get Han's team off the planet.

After the rescue task force retreated from Skako Minor, Peretz returned to Coruscant.

#### Retreat to Terra

Peretz remained on Coruscant for several months following the rescue mission before he received orders to deploy to the planet Felucia, in command of a Brazilian Jungle Warfare Brigade, to assist Aayla Secura in capturing the planet.

Peretz remained on Felucia for several months, assisting Secura in slowly driving the Separatists off the planet, as well as training with the Brazilians in jungle warfare.

In mid July, with the campaign on Felucia nearly over, the Terran Alliance received intelligence hinting that the Separatists were intending to launch another attack against Terra, and Peretz was ordered back to Terra to prepare for it.

Peretz was still on Earth in July 1994 when the Republic turned on the Jedi and the Alliance, and the Alliance retreated to Terra. Peretz helped two surviving Jedi who wished to retire to find new careers and lives on Terra. In late August, Peretz traveled to the Terran Jedi Temple construction site for the first meeting of the entire ASAT team since December 1991, where the team swore an oath to see the Empire and Sith destroyed.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*