Ichi Go

Ichi Go was a male Human/Arkanian hybrid and a Jedi Knight. He was also one of five people that the Rutsenafo scientist, Crie Krobos, had experimented on at an early age. He was one of the most long-lived Jedi Knights the Galaxy had ever known, living for hundreds of years.

Born into a scandal, Ichi Go was quitely brought to Nar Shaddaa to live away from his family, who were ashamed of his existence. Thanks to the intervention of a visiting Jedi Master, he and another hybrid&mdash;who later became his best friend, Renton Thur'ston&mdash;were saved and brought to Novus Kamino Prime.

Being Force-sensitive, he was taught along with Renton by the Jedi Masters there, until the Great Schism, where several of their Masters died in the first attack. Deciding that the way the leaders of Novus Kamino Prime were carrying the war were wrong, they hooked up with the Kelakan resistance and stayed there until they were delivered by the true savior, Nathaniel Kenobi Solo.

He would later meet his greatest foe, and half-brother, the dreaded Darth Gloed when the latter wished to extract revenge for the pain he had suffered from the scandal. Several meetings and battles proved ineffective between the two, until the Sith Order of Decreto came and took Novus Kamino Prime.

Forced to flee, Ichi and the remaining Jedi joined with Nathan to form the Scourges of Those Bad Guy People. Over the next few years, they would cripple and scuttle several Sith operations. Eventually, Ichi fell into trouble with Gloed again, but emerged victorious. He would eventually join the Galactic Commonwealth as well.

After several years of living his life looking eternally young, he sought the help of his old friends who were also suffering from the same thing and set out to find what he truly was. Investigations found that he had been tampered on at birth and that he would soon have to enter a state of hibernation for untold centuries, awaiting the day he would be needed next.

Early Life
In 15 ABY, Ichi Go was born to the Arkanian politician Lilb Go and his secretary/mistress Noor Conaim. The scandal that followed would leave him the object of much hate and desire. Many wanted to find him so that he could be proven as the son of Lilb, while others wanted to kill him.

The Go family, unsure as to what they wanted to do next, sought the advice of a family friend, an old, mysterious Arkanian named Regy Orfec. Regy advised them to take Ichi to Nar Shaddaa, where he would be found by someone else and raised properly. In actuality, Regy was a Jedi Purge survivor, a Potentium advocate, and had foreseen what would happen to Ichi Go in the future. The family grudgingly took his advice and left their son on Nar Shaddaa, where they expected him to die.

Ichi was then sent to a flophouse and brought into a native crimelord's group. He, along with another child, Renton Thur'ston, were to be reared until they were three and then they were to be enslaved to the highest bidder. Luckily for the two young children, an elderly Ho'Din named Plett had come to buy them before that could happen.

In actuality, Plett had gone to Nar Shaddaa because he had felt a disturbance in the Force and had received a vision that he needed to save the lives of two small children. He quickly bought the two and left Nar Shaddaa for his home: the secluded and virtually untouchable Novus Kamino Prime. He planned to train the two and see if they were somehow going to affect the growing Schism that was going on.

Personality and Traits
Ichi Go was a take charge kinda guy and rarely listened to another's advice. It was always the way he wanted to do or it was the wrong way, which was one of the many reasons why he liked Nathan.

He was also noted for his orange hair, which was highly unusual for a Human&mdash;even a hybrid&mdash;to have. He was constantly ridiculed by his peers over this and that only helped to sharpen his personality.

Ichi was also one of the more cynical Jedi and rarely let his true feelings out. One notable exception was during the several duels he had fought with his half-brother. Ichi fought with Gloed different than any other Sith, as he actually tried to redeem him, a very odd occurance for him, as he was noted more for his fighting prowess than his diplomacy.

Talents
He, Ori Hi-Me, Renton, Darth Divat, and Darth Gloed were also noted for their ability to stay almost forever young in appearance. This was due to an experiment that had been performed on the five of them at birth. The rogue Rutsenafo scientist Crie Krobos had done so because of a crazed vision he had seen regarding a false god arriving to destroy the Galaxy.

He was an excellent swordsman and duelist and was noted for his unique fighting style. At times he would only use a lightsaber, others his personalized vibroblade, and finally, he was known to have combined the two unique combat blades into his own unorthodox version of Jar'Kai.

Ichi was also an expert planner and was responsible for the coordination of many attacks that the Scourges of Those Bad Guy People participated in. This was in stark contrast to his personality, which usually portrayed him as impatient and foolhardy. Nathan would later joke that only a Kenobi Solo could be that contradicting and get away with it. (There was a rumor that his mother had been a distant relative of the Kenobis, but this was never proven.)

Behind the Scenes

 * Ichi Go is based upon and portrayed by the character Ichigo Kurosaki off of the anime/manga Bleach.
 * Ichi Go's name means 1 and 5 (or 15) in Japanese. Together the word Ichigo means strawberry, or "first guardian" in Japanese.

Appearances

 * Schism: A Tale of the New Jedi Order