Vel Orset

Vel Orset was a male Kel Dor Jedi Knight, friend of the fellow Kel Dor Jedi Master Plo Koon. A swordsmaster with the lightsaber, Vel fought in the Clone Wars on many planets. He was eventually killed when his own clone troopers of the 98th Division turned on him, following the execution of Order 66.

Orset was born and raised until the age of three on the Kel Dor homeworld on Dorin. Found by Ithorian Jedi Master Roron Corobb. Orset never was given a master, not even Corobb, and Orset was given the responsibility of working in the AgriCorps. However, after about fifteen years of working in the AgriCorps, the Clone Wars broke out, the Jedi Council held a test for all of the AgriCorps members and some of them could be accepted into the Order to help fight. Orset passed and he fought in the Clone Wars.

Orset at first accompanied small Jedi forces to minor battles such as the Skirmish over Sriluur and the Battle of Gamorr. Orset distinguished himself in these battles, often using strategy to overcome the Separatists. Eventually, Orset was promoted to Jedi General but was still held back from leading his own division. After capturing Lowek in a six-month battle, Orset was given control of the 98th Division with CC-1243, also known as Commander Mark. During the Outer Rim sieges, Orset helped protect the purple-hued planet of Wol Cabassh from Separatist warships, but was killed in action by Mark, after Order 66.

Early life
Vel Orset was born to an unknown mother on Dorin. By the time Orset was born, his father had been killed by a group of criminals. Orset was raised by his mother the entire three years of his life that he was with her. In the middle of his third year, a Jedi by the name of Roron Corobb came to Dorin to stop for a drink on his way to an Outer Rim planet. Corobb stopped in a nearby bar, close to the street where Orset was. Corobb immediately felt the Force around the child.

Corobb asked his mother to hand him the baby, telling her in the native Kel Dor language that the child was strong enough in the Force to be a Jedi. The mother, feeling it was best for the child, and though reluctantly, gave up the child to Corobb. Corobb went all the way back to Coruscant, headquarters to the Jedi Order, to be trained in the ways of the Force and become a Jedi.

As Orset progressed through his childhood, he was often a target of jokes from his peer younglings, as he had to wear a mask much of the time because Kel Dors were unadaptable to oxygen-rich atmospheres. Although he did not let this stop him from becoming a Jedi, it did lower his self-esteem. Eventually, he did think to low of himself to even try. He was put into the Jedi's AgriCorps for younglings not assigned to Jedi masters.