Tom Norton

Tom Norton was a Human male Jedi Padawan, specializing as a, during the. He had known fellow Padawan since he was five and she was four and was her closest friend. After becoming a Padawan Tom became the apprentice of Camen Conrose before Conrose's death at the hands of Sora Bulq. Norton then became the second Padawan of. During his training, Norton began learning the combat forms of Ataru, Shien, Soresu, and Djem So, though he had yet to master any of them.

Childhood
"Hello, I'm Thomas Norton from planet Bespin."

Tom Norton was discovered by Jedi Master Adi Gallia on Bespin while he was a baby and brought to the Jedi Temple to be raised as a Jedi. At five years old he met Ahsoka Tano who became his best friend. They got up to mischief together and sometimes got in trouble during their training. One notable occasion was when they slipped woopie cusions onto every Jedi Council Members seat. Most of the Council was furious but a few, like Plo Koon, thought it was amusing though Plo warned Tom and Ahsoka that he wouldn't be so playful if they did it again. Woopie cusions were banned from the Jedi Temple after that but a lot of younglings thought it was worth it.

Tom and Ahsoka were almost inseperable and they liked to train and spend time in the library and occasionally went swimming in the room of a thousand fountains. Tom also became close friends with Plo Koon through his friendship with Ahsoka, Tom's friendly feelings towards Ahsoka eventually evolved into a crush and he considered her very attractive despite being a different species.

During his childhood Tom developed a rivalry with a boy called Abron Strife and lost to him in his first fighting tournament when he was twelve before beating him in his second the year after and winning the third. After winning his third tournament Tom became a Jedi Padawan.

First mission
Tom was assigned to a green skinned twilek Jedi Knight named Carmen Conrose, who had been the only Padawan of Saesee Tiin. He, his new Master and Jedi Master Sora Bulq (who ironically would become the very person who was responsible for Carmen's death) were sent to the planet Ryloth to rescue Senator Orn Free Taa from a group of terrorists. On Ryloth they met Cham Syndulla who led them to the canyon where Taa was being held prisoner. The three Jedi and their guide found a large cave which would eventually become Cham's headquarters during the clone wars, and were surrounded by about fifty blaster wielding terorists.

The leader of the terrorists, who looked almost identical to Orn Free Taa, except thinner, told the Jedi that he intended to replace Taa in the Senate and become the successor of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. It turned out that the terrorists were not interested in a ransom. Tom, Bulq, Conrose and Syndulla fought the terrorists and Tom felt slightly disturbed about harming living creatures, especially when he saw Sora using Vaapad to kill many of them. Without Sora they probably wouldn't have survived since the terrorists were not mere droids. They defeated the terrorists and the leader agreed to hand over Orn Free Taa. Carmen meanwhile set about healing the terrorists with the Force. Then the group handed the terrorists that hadn't been killed by Sora's Vaapad frenzy over to the Ryloth authorities. Tom, proud about the success of his first mission, was looking forward to telling Ahsoka what had happened though he still felt a little uncomfortable about Sora's massacre.

At some point in his time with Carmen the Twilek began to teach him to heal wounds with the Force but Tom's healing abilities were limited.

Battle of Geonosis
Three months after his first mission Tom and Carmen were sent on a negotiation mission on Demos 4. The mission was succesful but the two of them had barely gotten back to the temple when they set out again, along with over two hundred other Jedi to rescue Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Padme Armidala from Count Dooku on Geonosis.

Tom and Carmen fought bravely in the arena and Tom managed to kill the fearsome Ackley during the battle. Shortly before the end to the battle in the arena Tom was temporarily distracted by Jango Fett's helmeted head shooting past him and recieved a wound to the shoulder. Despite the wound Tom was one of the few survivors though his old rival Abron Strife was cut down in the battle. Tom had never been fond of Strife and they got on rather badly as younglings but even so the Padawan was slightly upset by his death.

Tom wanted Ahsoka to be his last thought when the droids finished him off but then Master Yoda arrived with clone reinforcements and all the Jedi in the survivors circle, with the unfortunate exception of Joclad Danva, managed to get into a gunship and flee the arena. Tom used the Force to heal the wound on his shoulder as he'd been taught by his Master and then he and the other surviving Jedi fought alongside the clones against the Separatist droids. The battle was ultimately a victory for the Republic.