Jaxson Cand

Jaxson Cand was a jedi apprentice at the same time as Yoda was, they shared the same master, N'Kata Del Gormo. He was a strong and powerful jedi, but couldn't live up to his old friend Yoda.

His Family
Jaxson's father, Orson Cand, was a pilot who served for the Republic, he was also a strong believer in the force. Miranda Keller Cand, his mother on the other hand believed that the only thing that Jedi could do is get in the way of the hard working people. He had an older brother by the name of Luke Keller. Luke wasn't actually his brother, he was his mother's child from a previous relationship. Jaxson's closest family member was not even family at all, it was his best friend Yoda. The two were about the same age but Yoda was over a meter shorter than his friend.

Jaxson's family loved Yoda but felt that he shouldn't be friends with a human, it didn't seem safe to them. Yoda was quick and had dangerous talons while Jaxson and boney fists that couldn't do much. Despite this feeling, they never stopped Jaxson from being with his only friend.

The Crash
Jaxson and Yoda crashed on an unknown world where, for days, they searched for food water and other means of survival. During this time, Orson drove himself crazy looking for his son, he finally convinced his wife to let the Jedi search. On the fourth day of living of strage fruits they were found, but not by the search team looking for them, but by a Jedi master who would soon train them to be two of the most powerful force-sensetive creatures ever seen. He provided the two with a good shelter as he observed them, and then he told them that they were force-sensitive.

Training
"Size does not matter. Look at me, I am not as skilled as you and are we judged by our size? Hmm? Well. And we shouldn't. For our ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."

- Jaxson, to Yoda

Year One
N'Kata Del Gormo promised to train both of them, despite being against the Jedi Code to train two younglings. The training spanned for a year, and during this time the Galactic Republic presumed them both dead. During the year Yoda's power grew but he lost confidence because of how small he was.

It took a pep talk from him to finally make Yoda believe that he would someday be a great jedi master. N'Kata Del Gormo said that they had done in a year what some Jedi Knight's didn't do. He asked them to train for a little bit longer, Yoda felt strained, but said yes after Jaxson convinced him.

Year Two
The second year seemed to start out like the last one had finished, well until a wild Rancor appeared on the second week while N'Kata was meditating. Both children hadn't built their lightsaber so they were forced use the force to pick up rocks and large boulders to throw at the beast. The Rancor hit Yoda, and the force of the blast alone almost caused him to die. This angered Jaxson, he looked around and saw the largest boulder and used the Force to attack the Rancor. With one swift blow, the Rancor was dead.

N'Kata rushed out and could sense the anger radiating off he student, then he knew that he may have failed his apprentice.Even though he knew this, he wouldn't banish him for it would only increase the anger that was already provided. N'Kata would have to put off saving his young apprentice from the dark side because Yoda was injured and dying.

Jaxson did all he could to save his friend, and finally Yoda opened his eyes and he was alive and alright.

Construction of the Lightsaber
It was finally time for Jaxson and Yoda to build their lightsaber, after finding all the pieces, N'Kata led them to a cerimonial site where they picked their crystal. Yoda picked green and when he made his lightsaber happiness was shining off him. Then it was Jaxson's turn, he looked for several minutes trying to find one that he liked, and finally he found it. It was hidden behind several other crystals, but he was able to rummage through them and grab the yellow crystal. When he constructed his lightsaber and activated it for the first time, there was silence. As the yellow light hit his face a sense of gloom filled the cave. Yoda couldn't tell, but N'Kata and Jaxson knew something was wrong.

After the traveled back from the cave the sound of a ship was overhead, as they all looked up they saw a Republic Star ship land. Before the ship could touch the ground three Jedi Knights rushed out with there lightsabers ready to attack. They then quickly saw the children with Master N'Kata and a sense of relief filled the Jedi.

The Short Return Home
The ship flew to the two families waiting for their children, but when Jaxson got there he felt like he didn't belong. He had been so serious for so long that he forgot to laugh, it was weird but he always knew it would happen, ever since he started training. Soon after the Jedi return and asked then to train some more at the Jedi Temple. Jaxson was quick to say yes, but it took Yoda a little more time, but he did say yes.

The Formal Training
When they arrived at the Jedi Academy they were put straight to work, they had to be tested and they met and were spoken to by the Jedi Council. Soon after they were appointed their masters, Yoda was able to keep N'Kata but Jaxson was forced to have a new master.

The New Master
Jaxson was given a new human Jedi Knight as a master, his name was Nearar Kayne, but he liked Jaxson calling him Master Kayne. Jaxson thought that his new master was decent, but he never tought him anything new and Jaxson always beat him in sparring. Jaxson really couldn't complain, his master was nice and they respected eachother.

Even though his new master was good he didn't even match the power that N'Kata had, Yoda was learning new things and improving while Jaxson was beginning to lose faith in himself.

Vandoid Sickness
In 880 BBY, when Jaxson was 16 years old he and his master were requested to go to the planet of Maynus to help a party of sick that were stranded there, it sounded easy at first until they were told that they would be forced to search on foot to find them because of the recent mist cover. Jaxson was excited to hear that he would be going on a mission finally, he had never been on a mission before and he was beginning to grow jealous because he'd constantly see his friend and his former master returning from their adventures.

Before they left they were briefed about the sickness, they were told that in small amounts the person would get light headed and begin to ake all over while if exposed for more than one day they would begin to get a fever and red boils on the back on the legs that would eventually go away after a week of intoxication. After a week they would begin to see things differently, things would look to be more dangerous than they were. To prevent inhaling any toxic substances the two Jedi would have to wear masks to clear the air they were breathing.

Touch Down
As their ship touched down the men put on the masks and walked into the grassy plains, all around was grass except in the distance where you could see the shapes of trees. It would be most likely that the people were camped out in the forest to escape the mist that grew thicker as they stepped in the knee high grass. It would take several hours to walk over to the forest and night was beginning to creep over giving them two options, sleep in the ship and wait till tomorrow or start out on foot and reach them early. After much thought they decided that it would be best if they headed out now and found them in the morning becausse if they delayed, several more people may die

Behind the Scences
Jaxson was created because of the article on Yoda saying that he crashed on a planet with an unknown human. This is where the idea was sprung.