Ryas Mor

"Hope you don't plan on this happening every time we upset an entire colony of Trandoshans..."

- Ryas Mor

Ryas Mor was a Jedi Knight during the twilight of the Old Republic. He was the father of Jaled Zolesa and one of the few Jedi to survive the Imperial Order 66. His actions were a major catalyst for Darth Sarith's "Sith Resurrection"

Ryas Mor was born on Corellia, in the higher levels of the capital city of Corunet. His father was a famous explorer, and his mother was simple housewife. She constantly begged her husband not to go on his travels, fearing they he wouldn't come back. When Ryas was found to be Force Sensitive, his mother knew that, although his father was a good man, he had made many enemies, including H'sok, the leader of the Trandoshan capital city. Ryas was sent to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to begin learning in the ways of the Jedi.

At the Jedi Temple, Ryas was skilled with a lightsaber, but he had a talent for hiding and sneaking. He was often found stealing food from the kitchens, right under the eyes of his masters. Ryas eventually learned to control and manipulate this talent through the Force, becoming a master of the Force Camouflage power. When he wasn't training, he could most often be found with his two friends, Kala Zolesa and Den Ibanek.

Ryas was trained as a Jedi Sentinel, and even found a yellow crystal for his lightsaber. He was mostly trained by Cin Drallig and Yoda, but many other Jedi tought him private lessons on the Force. Soon his teachers thaught it was time to promote him to Knighthood. Then...the Clone Wars arrived.

Ryas was eager to rescue his fellow Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker from the Separatists on Geonosis, but Master Windu felt that his abilities were not up to the task. However, driven by a sense of duty, he stowed away on an Acclamator Assualt Ship filled with clone troopers and Jedi. When the ship touched down, he donned a spare set of clone battle armor and joined the battle. However, when his "squad" stormed a Geonosian spire in persuit of the Separatist leaders, the were ambushed by a prototype droid unit, which would later be revealed to be General Greivous. Ryas was forced to draw his lightsaber to defend his squadmates. Grevous laid waste to Ryas and his forces, however, and as he prepared to strike Ryas down, Count Dooku radioed Grievous to return to his ship. Mace Windu eventually discovered Ryas' ploy. But, respecting his dicision, did not expel him from the Order.

Nearly three years into the war, Ryas was stationed on Kashyyyk. He was fighting the combined forces of Trandoshan slavers and battle droids when he was confronted by his old friend, Den Ibanek. Ibanek had become one of Count Dooku's elite Dark Jedi. Ibanek had been exiled from the Jedi and somehow blamed Ryas. Ryas realized his old friend had been driven insane by the power of the dark side. Ibanek then attacked Ryas in a mindless fury. Ryas defeated him easily. As Ibanek lay at his feet, Ryas could not strike down his old friend in cold blood. Unfortunantly, a Wookie warrior who believed Ibanek to be the enemy, grabbed him and threw him against the wall, killing him.

Deeply disturbed by the death of his friend, he was relieved to find out that he was to be sent to the icy planet of Rhen Var. But when he was told he would be leading the rescue mission of his other old friend, Kala Zolesa from an under- ground fortress. Ryas and his elite clone assassins sneaked into the fortress, where they found out that Grievous was guarding Kala. Unfortunantly, before they could formulate a plan, the droid patrols discovered their presence. Ryas pressed forward through the droid fortress until he found the interrogation chamber where Grievous was torturing Kala for information. Ryas stealthed his way toward her. As soon as he freed her, Grievous' infrared photoreceptors detected Ryas, and he attacked him a second time. Grievous had him pinned down, and was about to kill him, when Kala hurled an orb of Force energy at Grievous, knocking him unconsious.

Ryas and Kala escaped the fortress as soon as the clone army detonated the reactor core. At the Republic command base, Ryas and Kala came up with a plan of attack to drive the droids off the planet. As she spoke of the plan at the briefing, Ryas noticed how beatiful Kala had grown in the years since they were Padawans. He shook off the feelings, however, since Jedi weren't allowed to love. Unknown to Ryas, Kala felt the same way, but denyed them in the same way Ryas did.

The fighting on Rhen Var continued for weeks. Ryas and Kala fought off the droids until the Supreme Chancellor put Order 66 into effect. The clone assassins that Ryas trained himself ambushed them from behind. The assassins were no match for the combined skills of Ryas and Kala, however. Before the other clones could come after them, the fled into the desolate Rhen Var ice plains.

Ryas and Kala continued to flee further into the frozen wasteland, afriad to head toward any Republic bases. Soon a terrible blizzard started up. Any ordinary being would have cracked far before, but they drew on their Jedi training and each other for support. After two grueling days in the blizzard, they found shelter in a large stone structure. As they went in, the massive door sealed behind them.

The two explored the building, searching for a way out, they came toward the rotunda of the building: a massive crystal spire, inlaid with markings. Kala read the markings, and realized that they were in an ancient Sith temple. As she continued to read, the crystal opened, and a dark fog emerged. Before they could stop it, it seeped through the wall and disappeared. They investigated where the crystal had been. All they found was an ancient Sith holocron. As Ryas approached, it started up and began speaking to him. It told a tale of Darth Sarith, how he killed hundreds of Jedi, and finally, how he led a rebellion to liberate Korriban from the Infinite Empire of the Rakata.

Ryas and Kala shrugged off the tale, deciding that escaping Rhen Var was more important. They discovered a hidden tunnel leading out of the temple. Following it, they discovered it led to the central Republic campsite. Devising a plan, Ryas stealthed his way to the hangar. He then stole an ARC-170 fighter, picked up Kala, and escaped. They then jumped to hyperspace before the now-stormtroopers could stop them. Unfortunantly, the Imperial troops had locked on to their hyperspace coordinates and were on their tail.

Ryas and Kala spent the next few months on the run from the Galactic Empire. With no one to turn to, and nowhere to run, the Jedi were more alone than ever. One day as they stowed away on a passenger frieghter, they had a vision of a dark, lanky figure, killing it's way through stormtroopers. The two of them felt the best choice was to head to Korriban to investigate.

When the two of them touched down on the Korriban spaceport, they found out that many stormtroopers had disappeared excavating the Sith ruins. When they used the Force to convince the guard to let them into the Valley of the Dark Lords. Ryas and Kala found the tomb of the vision they had. Making their way through the tomb, fighting off Tuk'ata, Shyrack, Hississ, and finally, a Terentatek that had been awoken by the dark side echo from the death of the Jedi Order. At the end of the tomb, the pair found an empty Sith coffin and a enscribed tablet. It chronicled Sarith's obession with Rakatan technology. It told of the mighty Star Forge, and how to find it. It told to find the last remaining Star Maps: Sleheyron, Corellia, Trandosha, and Coruscant. Ryas felt that they needed to find these Star Maps to stop this new Sith threat.

The two traveled to all four of the planets, finding the Star Maps. On Corellia, the Ryas and Kala were assisted by Ryas' father. He helped them gained entrance to the "slumlands" of the planet, where they found the Star Map. His father warned him of H'sok, the leader of Trandoshan colonies.

When they arrived on Trandosha, They attempted to meet with H'sok. When they did, he recognized Ryas as his father's son and had them arrested. That night, a mysterious person broke them out of their holding cells. Unfortunantly, Kala was kidnapped by H'sok himself. Deep in the Trandoshan jungle, the figure revealed himself to be an ex-Jedi named Onasi. He told Ryas that H'sok would sell Kala into slavery if they didn't rescue her. The two stormed H'sok's camp in an attempt to save Kala, but found that she had already been shipped to spice mines on Sleheyron.

When Ryas and Onasi arrived on Sleheyron, Ryas was shocked by the aura of pain that resonated from the planet. Eventually they found Kala and freed all the slaves from the mine she had been working in. Unfortunantly, H'sok had put a tracking device on their ship, the Nova Blade