Kessar Jedd (Jedi Renaissance)

Kessar Jedd was a female Human Jedi Master who served both the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic while placing her devotion to Corellia above her duties to the Republic during the Clone Wars. A member of the Jedi High Council during the Jedi Renaissance, Jedd had distinguished herself as leader of the sect known as the Corellian Jedi and for uniting the often schismatic group with the Order proper.

Early career
A Force-sensitive female from Corellia, Kessar Jedd was detected by the Corellian Jedi stationed on the planet and turned over to the Jedi Order at a young age to begin her education in the ways of the Force. Passing through the Coruscant Jedi Temple's academy with ease, Jedd was skilled with a lightsaber and had an especially sharp wit true to her Corellian heritage. An independent young woman, Jedd was selected by the silent and stern Weequay Jedi Knight Kossex to train as a Padawan. Constructing a green-bladed lightsaber under the tutelage of her master, passing her Trials of Knighthood on the eve of the Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY. As a Knight Jedd's interest in her heritage was piqued and she traveled to Corellia to learn from the Corellian Jedi who lived there. During this time, Jedd devoted herself to the protection of the planet she had been born on, placing its well-being above that of the Republic. When the Clone Wars broke out, two dozen Corellian Jedi declared that the enactment of Contemplanys Hermi by the sect was ill-favored and returned to the Temple to aid in the Clone Wars. Refusing to participate in the war, Jedd's peers on Corellia recognized her as a Master and voted to make her the unofficial leader of the sect.

As the war ground itself into a stalemate, Jedi Knight and Corellian Jedi Neeja Halcyon approached Jedd and asked her to keep his son a secret from the High Council and safe from war. As he was one of the Jedi who had returned to Coruscant at the start of the war, Jedd was not particularly fond of Halcyon but took his son nonetheless. Raising the young man at the small enclave on Corellia, the young Halcyon was sensitive to the Force and had already received education from his father during his earlier childhood. After Neeja Halcyon was killed during the war, Jedd officially declared Valin Halcyon her Padawan and vowed to finish his training. When the Clone Wars came to a sudden halt, Jedd and the Jedi under her command heard nothing from the High Council for two months following the conclusion of the fighting. Finally Jedd received a message from the new Grand Master Tomac Moorcé requesting a meeting with her at the Temple on Coruscant. At the urging of the rest of the Corellian Jedi, Jedd took a ship to Coruscant and was received along the shore of the Temple's interior lake under the Tower of Reconciliation. Moorcé expressed his desire to work with Jedd and hoped to affirm the Corellian Jedi's commitment to the Order. Skeptical of the new Grand Master's ability or even desire to deliver on his promise, she was pleasantly surprised when Moorcé recommended establishing a larger academy on Corellia and allowing Jedi there to have relationships and accept missions pertaining to the well-being of Corellia and neighboring planets. Offering Jedd the title of Watchman of the Corellia system and headmaster of the new academy once it was constructed, Moorcé's main concern was that the Jedi on Corellia always answer to the High Council and the academy's curriculum be submitted to the Council of First Knowledge for review. Agreeing to Moorcé's terms, Jedd was heralded by the High Council as the Jedi who would lead the long ostracized Corellian Jedi back into the Order proper.

Jedi Renaissance
As the Order welcomed the Corellian Jedi back into the fold of the mainstream academy system, initiation in the Order saw a significant boom. Championing strong reform within the Order and Corellian Jedi way of life, Jedd joined the High Council in 18 BBY and was key in uniting her people under the authority of the High Council. Corellian Jedi felt comfortable traveling from Corellia to Ossus to study at the Great Library or to Tython to study as Journeyers at the Great Temples. Serving as a long-term member of the Council, Jedd preferred to reside on Corellia and attend meetings via hologram technology. Despite this preference she spent several Humid Seasons on Ossus to bond with her fellow Councilors and mediate in the dense fogs of the planet during the month long season. Jedd's time on the Council was marked by her proficiency with a blade and her sharp tongue when it came to dealing with disobedient Jedi or disrespectful diplomats.

Despite her successes, Jedd's service was not without its slight mishaps. During her first year on the High Council her apprentice, Valin Halcyon, impregnated his girlfriend at the age of fourteen. While the High Council reserved passing harsh judgement on the boy, Jedd was permitted to discipline him in her own way and ordered him to Bogan, the moon of Tython to mediate on his own personal responsibilities. In addition, Jedd insisted that Halcyon's son be raised within the Order and that he not interfere in his son Corran's training. Agreeing to his masters terms, Jedd retreated to the Temple of Balance on Tython to meditate on her own well-being for two months. Returning to Ossus to serve, the High Council was pleased with her handling of the situation and commended her work.

When Valin Horn passed his Trials of Knighthood, Jedd traveled to Tython to participate in his knighting ceremony at Padawan Kesh. As his son had recently came of age three years later, Jedd selected the young Corran Halcyon as her Padawan and vowed to tutor him to overcome his family's genetic condition which limited their telekinetic abilities. While the young Halcyon suffered greatly from his disability, he would go on to flourish under Jedd's instruction and was eventually promoted to the rank of Knight. Participating in the fateful Battle of Yavin which saw the final destruction of the spirit of Exar Kun and heralded in the end of an era in galactic history, Jedd aided in the calender change which placed the battle as Year Zero and all future dates as ABY or after the Battle of Yavin. Moving forward, the Republic entered into a period of expansion and sought to aid the Jedi Order in destabilizing the Hutt Empire and granting freedom to worlds enslaved by the Hutts for generations. In 10 ABY, Jedd and other members of the High Council participated in raids on Hutt worlds until eventually seizing Nal Hutta and dissolving the Hutt Council. It wasn't until 17 ABY that Jedd decided to finally step-down from the High Council, citing that her mind was weary and the time had come for a new voice to be heard on the Order's governing body. Thanking the Grand Master for championing her and giving her the chance to united the Order and the Corellians, Jedd left Ossus after a large farewell celebration and retired to Corellia's academy to teach senior Padawans the political history of the Order's relationship with Corellia. Jedd became one with the Force at the age of 96, her body was cremated on the pyre in Coronet City and her ashes dispersed through across the planet's vast mountains and forests.