Aaron Kel

Who am I? I am a Jedi Knight.

I am the Champion of Kiffu.

I am the Captain of the Platinum Revenge.

I am Aaron Kel.

- Aaron Kel to Corran Horn

Aaron Kel was a Kiffar Jedi who survived Order 66 and lived until the times of the New Jedi order and became a Jedi master. He was captain of the Platinum Revenge and the pilot as well. He was a member of the Clan Kel of Kiffu. He was also a member of the Kiffu Eagles.

Early life
Aaron was born on the planet Kiffu at the time of 34 years BBY. His father, Sorreck Kel, was a wealthy man and head of Clan Kel. He ran Kel Freighting Industries. Aaron first brush with the force happened when he was only 2. He managed to dodge a droppind durasteel girder. He commented later that he had no idea the girder was coming but it was just his instinct. Jedi Master Mace Windu visited the planet as an investigation to a growing crime circuit on Kiffu. He was walking through the streets of the port town Elirec. Mace Windu then ran into a young Kiffar. Aaron smiled and said hello to Windu. Windu replied and said he would like to meet his parents. Windu came to Aaron's home and spoke with his father and mother. He told them of Aaron's force sensitivity and said he would require a blood test. The results showed that his midi chlorian count was incredibly high. Windu was ready to take Aaron to Coruscant. However Sorreck refused saying Aaron was his only heir. Mace Windu stayed on Kiffu even after his lead was a dead end. Sorreck fell into a deep illness and even deeper debt. Collecters started showing up making vicious threats. Knowing Kiffu was no longer safe for his family, he changed his mind and let Mace Windu take Aaron to the Jedi temple. He had but one condition. He wanted the jedi to arrange housing for his wife. In 3 days Aaron and his mother, Alisia Kel, were on their way to Coruscant. In five days Sorreck died of his illness.

Early Jedi training
Aaron was a younlgling of the Cat Clan. Many called him gifted in the ways of the force. He was always studying in the archives on Jedi Lore. He was especially interested in the escepades of Revan and Ulic Qel-Droma.

He also constructed his lst ightsaber at a very young age at the age of 8 (26 BBY). He was a member of the jedi pilot class, a class that taught advanced piloting skills to jedi with exceptional prowess in this area. Another member of this class was Anakin Skywalker. The class was headed by Sassee Tinn. Shortly before the Battle of Geonosis, He was apprenticed to fellow Kiffar Tanric Serrin. However he wasn't picked to be one of the 200 jedi to go to Geonosis to rescue Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Padme Amidala. He and Master Serrin were to stay as temple guardians along with Depa Bilaba.

Battle of Muunilist
During the Battle of Muunilist, he was deployed as a commander of Neyo Squadron. His squadron was essential in destroying a seperatist attack cruiser. They also decimated many enemy fighters while sustaining very few casualties. He piloted the Crimson Crusader. It was it's first run in actual combat and it was the first Eta Actis to be used in the war. However it was only a prototype. His exceptional skill in this battle was anknowledged by Obi Wan Kenobi. He was coplimented by the jedi master after the ensuing battle.

Attack on Astrotech Station
The Trade Federation was low on resources. They decided to recruit Astrotech Corporation to their cause. However, Astrotech was a firm supporter of the Republic and refused. After their rejection, the Trade Federation sent a small fleet of warships to attack the ship manufacturing station in orbit over Raxus Prime. The Republic sent a fleet of their own to engage the Trade Federation Cruisers. Aaron Kel lead this mission due to his reputation at the battle of Muunilist. He and Neyo Squadron quickly liberated the station. The CEOs were so greatful they built him a Custom Sigma 88 Personal Starcruiser. He refused at first but they wouldn't take no for an answer. The station later modified his Jedi Interceptor.

Mission to Ziost
Republic intelligence informed the Jedi Order that some sith fanatics were attempting to take the Holocron of Infininte Knowledge from a sith temple on Ziost. Aaron and Master Serrin went to the sith planet of Ziost. They then landed on the wasteland of a planet. However they were attacked and captured by a swarm of foes wielding electrostaffs and vibroblades. They were taken into the temple where a man stood and berate the two jedi. During his rant, the jedi used the force and grabbed the lightsabers and cut the bonds that held them. They then fought and slew the man and his body guards. The rest of the people fled. They then journeyed deep into the temple and found the chamber of the holocron. Oddly, the force it contained was not dark but grey. They then left the planet and transported the holocron to Coruscant.

Battle of Jabbiim
Aaron then deployed to Jabbiim to assist in the war effort. He was appaled at the brutality of the Jaabiimi soldiers. He lead his garrison to assault a bunker deep in the Jabbiim Plains. They succeeded but with the cost of heavy casualties. He faught at the front lines on the final battle of Jabbiim. He witnessed the brutality towards the Jabbiimi loyalists by Anakin Skywalker. After the troops left the planet. He looked down solemnly at the enraged loyalists. He asked Skywalker why he was so cruel. Anakin only said, it was necessary. When he returned to Coruscant he met Allana Feylon, Don Metros, and Sora Thunne. Allana and Don were two pilots at the Coruscant Acadamey for young pilots while Sora was an engineer intern working at the acadamey.

Mission to Tatooine
Republic intelligence told the Jedi that a group of raiders were working for the Seperatists by attacking Republic starships. When Aaron and Master Serrin landed they ran into Jabba the Hutt and a young boy in Mandalorian armor. Jabba said this was his private landin pad. Aaron said in the transmission, this was a public landing station. Jabba said they'll meet again. They went into town and discovered that the raiders worked in an Mining Camp in the Dune Sea. Aaron and Master Serrin stayed a night in their ship and then left for the dune sea. They found the camp and detained the raiders. They then called for a republic ship in the area to pick them up. After the raiders were detained, they left for the landing pad im Mos Espa. However, they ran into Jabba again. This time he brought a whole band of pirates. Jabba ordered them to attack. In the ensuing fight, They managed to lift off but at the cost of Aaron's Lightsaber. After thet he traveled to the crystal caves of Ilum to build his Jar'Kai dueling sabers.

Second Battle of Coruscant
Along with Masters Windu and Yoda, he was part of the ground defense on Coruscant. He destroyed many droids with the ARC captain Madarin as the second in command of his garrison. He also sabatoged a droid landing craft with a detonator charge. He then took to the skies in the Platinum Revenge and then launched in the Crimson Crusader. He lead Neyo Squadron once aqain in the battle. They broke through seperatist defense aroud the Invisible Hand and made it possible for Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to access the ship.

Battle of Kashyyyk
Aaron was a commander during the battle and destroyed a seperatist bunker on the planet. He lead a squad of BARC troopers along the beach to the base where the encountered a sizeable defense force. They were than aided attack support by an Acclamator Assault ship loaded with troopers, AT-TEs, LAAT/is, and some fighter tanks. Aaron then infiltrated the seperatis base. He mind tricked the leader in the control room for him to tell the control personel to go to the meeting room. He stole their battle holocron and the placed a timed Orbital Strike beacon at the dashboard. He exited the base and 5 seconds later, the base erupted in explosions also destroying many of the droids coming from the base with it. He then fought his way back to the clones and then told master Serrin mission accomplished. He returned to Coruscant and was greeted by his friends, Allana, Don, and Sora, He then told them of the previous battle. However, nothing could prepare them for the carnage they were about to face.

Order 66: Operation Knightfall
Unbeknownst to Aaron and his friends Anakin Skywalker and the 501st were marching up the steps of the temple. Aaron sensed the death of master Jurrock through the force. From his console he viewed the gates and saw Anakin marching his troopers up the into the temple. He asked the temple librarian, Jocasta Nu, for him to access the Holocron of Infinite Knowledge. Aaron told his friends what he saw and said he would download all the information from the archives also deleting all info on the group. He completed his work as soon as Anakin arrived in the library. Aaron could sense the dark cloud hanging over the jedi. He heard Anakin asking for access to the archives. Jocasta sensed his dark intentions. Aaron heard her lightsaber snap hiss but Anakin's lightsaber skewered the Jedi through the gut. Immediatly Aaron ignited his lightsaber and and grasped to clones in the air while blocking blasterfire. He threw the two unlucky troopers into the rest of the troopers. He started hacking at troopers with his lightsaber so he could get to his room. Sora, Allana, and Don pulled out their blasters firing at toppers behind Aaron's lightsabers for protection. They managed to fight their way out to the fury of Skywalker. They ran through the temple to the dormitory level. Luckily, the clones had not made it up there yet. He told his friends that they were all fugitives. He packed his travelbag with the holocron, his blaster, his serrated vibroblade, holopad, a long black overcoat, and some crystals. He was then going to tell them his plan for their retreat when a dark figure appeared in the doorway. It was Anakin Skywalker. Anakin ignited his lightsaber and started force choking Aaron. Aaron was helpless in the air. Sora fired a few rounds at the Dark Jedi but Anakin simply blocked it. Aaron then remembered a technique Master Yoda taught him. It was a way to scatter the the force and neutralize a certain power. He concentrated on on the force gripping his neck he then destroyed the force strangeling him. He was released and then forced pushed Anakin off the nearby balcony. He then went across to the turbolifts to the ship hangar. He killed many clones on his way. He then discovered the body of Serra Keto, a good friend of his during his time as a youngling. He saw that a pillar was dropped on her but moved. He remebered she said that if she died, she didn't want her lightsabers in the hands of a looter. He then took her lightsabers and left for the nearby turbolifts. They rode the turbolifts down to the ship hangar. They then boarded the ship the Platinum Revenge. They then launched and left the hangar. They recieved heavy fire from the anti aircraft turrets mounted on many millitary buildings. They managed to leave Coruscant orbit and entered hyperspace.

Kashyyyk
After entering hyperspace, the group headed to Kashyyyk. However, the Republic launched an entire squad of ARC 170s to intercept the ship. Aaron had forgot the Platinum Revenge was registered in the Temple Mainframe as a jedi vessel. He sent Sora to man the quad laser turrets while he ran to his Jedi Interceptor. He went to the interceptor and exited the ship. He started shooting down ARCs. Sora at the Platinum's turrets made short work of the rest of the fighters. They zipped by the cruiser but before they entered the atmosphere, an incoming escape pod launched a comm call. The call read, ''Yoda this is. Permission to board, I ask.'' Aaron had just docked in the hanger of the platinum. He had just recieved the comm call and gave Yoda permission to dock. He emediatly left the hanger. A few minutes later the diminuitive Jedi Grand Master appeared in the doorway to the cockpit. He greeted the young padawan as well as his fiends. The group bowed in respect to the master. Aaron asked about Master Serrin. Yoda reluctantly told him the Juggernaut tank he was in was attacked by Clone Heavy troopers with a volley of rockets and the tank exploded. He handed Aaron Master Serrin's lightsaber. Aaron took it and sighed. Yoda then ignited his lightsaber and swung at his soldier. It landed a fraction of an inch from his shoulder. Yoda was knighting Aaron. He told him the trials he faced at the temple were more than enough for him to pass the Jedi Trials. Yoda then left to his escape pod. He then left the Platinum Revenge on his way to Bail Organa's Tantive IV.

Dantooine
After the rendevouz with Yoda and Aarons informal knighting, the crew of the Platinum Revenge headed to Dantooine the home of the abandoned Jedi Enclave. When they landed on Khoonda, He told Don and Allana to shop for supplies while Sora stayed with the Ship. Allana and Don used the airspeeder inside the ship's garage. Aaron commandeered the his personal DX-2000 Sport Swoop and headed to the jedi enclave. He searched through the ruined sublevels of the enclave. He then came to a dead end. However he saw a glowing crack in the wall. Then all of the etchings in the wall started to glow. And then the wall gave way and reveald a small room. In the center was a single podium and mounted on it was a dodecahedronal shaped holocron, the holocron of the Jedi Exile. The item he had been searching for. He immediatly left the ruins of the Enclave. On his swoop he commed Allana and told her that they are leaving. He made it into town and headed to the docks where the Platinum Revenge was docked. He parked the swoop in the Garage of the ship and was soon followed by the airspeeder with Allana and Don and the supplies they purchased in town. They took off and stayed in orbit over Dantooine for three days while Aaron studied the holocron of the Jedi Exile. After all the holocron's teaching were devulged, Aaron dismantled the holocron and stored the components in the hidden safe in his quarters. They then left the system behind for good.

Tatooine
After a year or so of wandering, Aaron set the Platinum Revenge on a course to the world of Tatooine. Aaron headed there to rendevouz with Obi Wan Kenobi. He also wanted to recover his ligtsber from Jabba the Hutt. When they arrived on Tatooine, he headed to the Mos Eisly Cantina. When he contacted Obi-Wan a few days earlier, the Jedi Master told him to refer to the Lars homestead. He asked around and found out that the Lars family were moisture farmers. He the took his swoop and headed to the farm. On the way he was attacked by some swoop thugs. He tried to avade the thugs, but one managed to land a blaster shot to his arm. He then used the cannon on his swoop and blew up the lead swoop. After that the thugs retreated. He managed to drive the swoop until he made it to the moisture. The Larses originally thought he was a swoop raider. When he told them his prediciment, they took him in and treated his wound. Aaron then asked him where he could find Obi Wan Kenobi. Owen Lars told him hw was camped out in the dune sea. Aaeon thanked the family and left. Hed did a bio scan of the area and found a single blip. He headed towards that blip and found Obi Wan. He was in a hut he had built of adobe. The two jedi greeted each other. Obi Wan asked how the young jedi was doing. He told him how he had to deal with Tuskens and having to make sure he leaves no technology out of his sight or it will be Jawa loot. Obi Wan asked why he was here. Aaron said he was here to recover his stolen lightsaber. Obi Wan aked why he wanted it. Aaron replied it held his Ubami Ice Shard he had recovered from Ziost. Ubami Ice was actually a crystal that was found in underground caves in Ziost. They were extremely powerful. Obi Wan nodded and said Aaron should leave. Aaron then moved across the Dune Sea to the palace of Jabba the Hutt.

Personality and Traits
During his time at the Temple, Aaron Kel was known as a very copassionate and generous. He lived up to the Jedi ideals of non possesionism, refusing the Platinum Revenge at first. He was also very helpful. He helped many sentients on Coruscant during his downtime. He also had excellent control over his emotions. He never had outbursts of anger. He was a natural born leader and very intelligent. He was very calculating and presice. He honored the Jedi trait of watching and feeling the right moment for action. The Clans thought this is why the Kel were assurped in the first place, but this trait proved toturn the tide of battle many times.

Talents
Aaron had a very powerful mastery of the force. He could manipulate the force to mask his presence and the presence of others. He was also an accomplished swordsman. He employed a Jar'Kai variant of Ataru, which made him very hard to touch. He also utilized Djem So and was deadly with it. He was one of the very few members of the order to utilize Jar'Kai. In the New Jedi Order, next to knowone new how to use Jar Kai. He was an accomplished hand to hand fighter trained in Echani by an Echani Jedi in the order. His skills were an asset to the New Order. He was also an extremely accomplished pilot. The Yuuzon Vong called him Anka'Lorda or the Wasp be cause of his quick movements and deadly accuracy.

Equipment
Aaron Kel owned a lot of weaopons being trained as a Jedi Guardian despite his Mastery of the force. He owned a total of 6 lightsabers. 3 of them he built. Two were Serre Keto's and one was Master Serrin's. He owned a millitary grade blaster pistol that was holstered to his utility belt that was modified with an enhaced scope and a power upgrade. He had a cortosis vibroblade he hid in his boot. He also has a sport swoop modified with an upgraded engine and a blaster cannon. He owned the Platinum Revenge and an Eta 2 Actis Interceptor. He owned some poison darts that he would launch with the force. They were topped with synox venom. He also owned traditional Kiffu battle gauntlets equipped with a vibroblade and a blaster. These quantlets he hid under the sleeves of his robe but rarely used them.

Behind the Scenes

 * If you recognize some items, I use many movie props to represent Aaron Kel's world.


 * I used the image of A'Sharad Hett, the human jedi knight who was adopted by Tuskens, for Aaron Kel's likeness.


 * I used the lightsaber of a background Jedi character, Bultar Swan, for Aaron Kel's Lightsaber.


 * Aaron's Eta 2 is actually Obi-Wan's.