Kresdi Durn (Jedi Renaissance)

Kresdi Durn was a male Nuknog Jedi Master who served both the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars. A member of the Jedi High Council, Durn was trained as a scout by Ruati, serving as a member of the Exploration Corps for decades before joining the High Council in 18 ABY.

Early Career
A Force-sensitive male born to a family on the ruined world of Sump, Clan Durn begged the Jedi Order to take their youngest son away from the destitution he would surely suffer his whole life to overcome should he remain on the planet. A student of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Durn was educated in the ways of the Force in a clan of fellow Initiates alongside his bunk mate, Tru Veld. Veld and Durn were friendly but never took to each other; instead Durn became friends with a young Human named Ferus Olin. Olin and Durn spent many nights within the Temple Archives researching together, with Durn taking a special interest in galactic maps and charts. In 29 BBY, Durn was selected for further training by Jedi Knight Ruati, an Iktochi and a member of the Exploration Corps. Together the master and Padawan pair traveled across the galaxy, searching the fringes of the Republic's reach to find new worlds previously undiscovered. As the Separatist Crisis threatened to tear the galaxy asunder, Durn and his master were forced to return Coreward to take assignments to worlds threatening secession. During this time Durn was sent to Ilum for the Gathering ritual where he constructed his blue-bladed lightsaber which he would carry for the rest of his life.

When the Clone Wars erupted on Geonosis, Durn and his master were waylaid at a port on Alderaan and could not join in the battle. Taking a ship directly to the Coruscant Temple, Durn was made a Commander in the Grand Army of the Republic and began to lead clone troopers in battle on many fronts against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Durn's skill at piloting ships through dangerous areas of space impressed the troops under his command and earned him a strong reputation among those under his command. Durn was on a solo assignment to the world of Vurdon Ka when reports reached him that Master Ruati had been beheaded by an unknown assassin on the world of Nauton IV. Devastated by the loss, Durn returned to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant where the High Council evaluated him and, after deeming him fit for combat once more, elevated him to the rank of Jedi Knight for his strength in the face of such a terrible loss. Assured that Master Obi-Wan Kenobi would bring his master's killer to justice, Durn returned to the front lines as a navigator and scout.

Jedi Renaissance
Durn was aboard the Heroic Death during the Siege of Saleucami and attached to the 91st Reconnaissance Corps when his emergency beacon was activated. The holoimage of Master Mace Windu warned him to be wary of his clones and prepare for a shift in command so that all Jedi could return to the Temple on Coruscant. Turning over command of the bridge to his clone sergeant, Durn assisted in the extraction of Master Stass Allie from the surface and piloted their shuttle back to the capital. Once safely inside the Temple Durn began hearing rumors of a Sith Lord and Windu's hand in killing him. During a conclave within the Temple's Great Hall, Windu announced that the Supreme Chancellor was in fact the Sith Lord behind the war and that he had been eliminated. Grand Master Yoda was announced to have exiled himself and Tomac Moorcé would now lead the Order. Under Moorcé's direction the Order was to reclaim Ossus and Tython and a time a new renaissance would unfold.

As the Republic's temporary triumvirate negotiated a peace with the Confederacy and the Clone Wars came to an abrupt and quiet ending, Durn would not aid in the clean-up process as he was assigned to relocate Tython and make it suitable for recolonization. Taking his own ship into the Deep Core, Durn and several other Jedi scouts successfully charted a safe route to the Tython system where they discovered eleven planets suitable for re-habitation. Landing on Tython, Durn and his party were quick to realize that the world was a place of power as the planet was bombarded by a violent Force-storm heralding their arrival. Reporting back to the High Council, Durn led construction teams to the world as they set about reconstructing the nine Great Temples and rebuilding the old Jedi Grand Temple used during the Cold War.

With his work done on Tython, Durn took a position within the ExplorCorps to assist in the rebuilding the institution of leading Jedi into the unknown. After years helping to rebuild the Corps' depleted membership, Durn was elevated to the rank of Master in 1 ABY and appointed as an instructor within the ExplorCorps' mobile academy, the rebuilt Chu'unthor. Following over a decade of dedicated work, Durn was appointed to replace outgoing Master Lorbei Harves on the High Council. Serving the Council on Ossus for several years, Durn was instrumental in paving a way into Hutt Space during the Council's campaign to liberate the worlds under Hutt control. Retiring his seat in 25 ABY, Durn retained his residence in the Jedi Grand Temple on Ossus and coordinated the ExplorCorps' offices on the world. Becoming one with the Force at the age of 92 in 50 ABY, Durn's body was cremated on the Temple pyre and his ashes dispersed among the stars per his request.