K'Kruhk (Powerstaark)

K'Kruhk was a male Whiphid Jedi Knight who fought during the Clone Wars.

Early life
K'Kruhk was born on Toola and at a young age he was taken to the Jedi Temple. He still had vague memories of his homeworld. The Whiphid eventually became the Padawan of and based on her apparent youth he was probably her only apprentice.

Yinchorri Uprising
K'Kruhk and Twoseas fought alongside, Plo Koon, and Qui-Gon Jinn during the Yinchorri uprising. The uprising was typical of the many isolated skirmishes of the decades before the Clone Wars—a minor, petty squabble inflamed by dark puppeteers behind the scenes. As the Jedi attempted to hold the crumbling Republic together, the Sith secretly worked to undermine them.

Along with Jinn, Koon, Giiett, and Jinn's apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, the diplomatic group comprised such notables as Mace Windu,, Adi Gallia, Eeth Koth, and Saesee Tiin. The Jedi Council, believing the Yinchorri to be cowardly bullies at heart, believed an appropriate show of force would defuse the situation without the need for military action. Unfortunately, the Yinchorri were already being goaded to war by agents of Darth Sidious, and reacted to the Jedi mission with an unusual amount of hostility and attacked the Jedi as soon as their consular ships entered the Yinchorri home system.

Giiett performed a simple trick involving simple misdirection with cups and balls to K'Kruhk and Obi-Wan Kenobi. This seemingly innocuous piece of entertainments was intended to teach the Padawans an important lesson: do not always rely on the Force, as there are far more mundane ways to confound and mislead one's enemies. K'Kruhk remembered this and used the concept to help the Jedi evade pursuing Yinchorri starfighters, by jettisoning a few empty escape pods, which the easily-fooled Yinchorri immediately chased, thinking their prey had abandoned ship. The Jedi were able to then crash-land on the planet, the Yinchorri believing their ship to be empty.

Once the Jedi arrived at their rendezvous locations, the situation escalated. Koth, Gallia and Choi were ambushed by Yinchorri on Yitheeth while Windu, Jinn and Tiin found no sign of the Yinchorri High Command on Yinchorr. K'Kruhk, a member of the group led by Koon and Giiett found himself fighting for his life on Yibikkoror, after their crash site was ambushed by Yinchorri warriors who had finally seen through K'Kruhk's ruse. In a brief moment of levity during the blaster-fire, K'Kruhk asked Masters Giiett and Koon why they claimed to be friends even though they bickered constantly. Koon gave a typically longwinded and philosophical response, whereas Giiett simply made another sarcastic remark. K'Kruhk and the others were eventually rescued by Adi Gallia's team, who arrived just in the nick of time, helping the stranded Jedi on to their still-functional ship. After their escape, K'Kruhk and the Jedi Masters at Yibikkoror reunited with Koth's team and set out to rescue Windu's squad, trapped by a large group of Yinchorri on Yinchorr.

It was in this rescue mission that his Master was killed, battling for her life on Yinchorr. As they attempted to escort Windu's strike team back to the ship, they were ambushed by hordes of Yinchorri. K'Kruhk was threatened by the weapon of a Yinchorri warrior; Twoseas leapt in to save her Padawan. Positioning herself between K'Kruhk and his assailant she took the full force of the blow, dying at the hands of multiple Yinchorri in front of her stunned Padawan. Maddened by the loss, K'Kruhk went into a battle frenzy, not halting his slaughter of Yinchorri until he was able to recover his master's body. He completed his training under another Jedi but continued to miss Twoseas.

Leaving the Jedi Order
K'Kruhk eventually became a Jedi Knight and General during the Clone Wars. He was one of the many Jedi to fight on Geonosis and one of the few to survive though he was not in the circle of survivors.

When the call for Jedi to serve as Commanders came after the Battle of Geonosis, K'Kruhk obeyed without question. In the early months of the Clone Wars, Jedi General K'Kruhk led the 416th Star Corps into the Battle of Teyr on the planet Teyr. It was a terribly costly battle. Many clones died under his command, despite K'Kruhk's best efforts, and the Whiphid considered calling off the attack to save the lives of the others. The troops under his command, however, persuaded him otherwise. They could still achieve the objectives and their lives were unimportant in the greater scheme of things. In essence, they were born to die for the Republic.

Against his better judgment, he pressed ahead with the attack. Whether the Republic was ultimately victorious is unknown, but the high death toll deeply wounded K'Kruhk, and he was so distraught he dropped out of the war entirely, leading many to believe he was dead.

Return to the Jedi Order
It was later discovered K'Kruhk had gathered with other Jedi unsure of the war on Ruul, led by Master Sora Bulq. When their refusal to serve in the war became known, Mace Windu came to negotiate with them. Unlike other dissidents, such as and, K'Kruhk never doubted that Windu's appeals were made in good faith, but he sorely misjudged the motives of Bulq.

In truth, the whole event was a set-up, organized by the Sith to either kill Windu or, failing that, kill other Jedi and blame it on the Jedi Councilor. An acolyte of Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress, arrived at Ruul, ready to carry out the plan. She attacked Sora Bulq and inflicted a minor wound upon him before killing his former Padawan and simultaniously fighting K'Kruhk, Jeisel and Tarn. Mace Windu arrived and the Dark Jedi pretended to be his servant before leaving. Master Windu went after her and Tarn followed him, believing that Windu was in league with Ventress. Ventress succeeded in turning Tarn to the dark side and K'Kruhk and Jeisel duelled with the two Dark Jedi. Jeisel manage to slay Tarn but K'Kruhk was wounded by Ventress. Master Windu arrived and quickly overwhelmed Ventress forcing her to flee, before telling K'Kruhk and Jeisel that Sora Bulq was part of the conspiracy. The Weequay had gone to the dark side and allied with Dooku. His duel with Ventress had been a sham to conceal their alliance.

K'Kruhk rejoined the war effort, declaring simply that "Evil must be opposed".

Survivor
Soon after, K'Kruhk was chosen to be part of a strike team on Hypori. The mission was a disaster from the start and turned into a Separatist trap. Orbital mines destroyed most of their fleet and the surviving troops and Jedi, including K'Kruhk, were marooned on the surface of Hypori, forced to make a desperate last stand against the droid armies.

It was here that K'Kruhk became one of the first Jedi to face General Grievous and live to tell the tale. Halting the advance of his legions of droid troops, Grievous took on the surviving Jedi alone utilsing all four of his lightsabers. ,, and were killed. When K'Kruhk charged Grievous and engaged him single-handedly, he was quickly struck down by a slash across the waist and a near-fatal overhand strike.

Critically wounded and thought dead, he was left behind by the rescue team that recovered Ki-Adi-Mundi, Shaak Ti, and Aayla Secura. In reality, K'Kruhk had entered a state of hibernation, allowing himself to heal his wounds while feigning death.

After the departure of Grievous, K'Kruhk awoke, and was able to escape Hypori to once more assume the role of General in the Grand Army of the Republic. However, Grievous did steal K'Kruhk's green lightsaber, though the Whiphid built another one after returning to the Order.

Personality and traits
Unlike most Whiphids, K'Kruhk was a gentle, caring and thoughtful individual. He deeply respected all life and was devastated by the loss of life on Teyr. K'Kruhk even offered to spare Asajj Ventress during their duel on Ruul. K'Kruhk initially felt that fighting in the Clone Wars was wrong and briefly left the Jedi Order. However after discovering the treachery of Sora Bulq, K'Kruhk returned to the Order believing that evil had to be opposed.

Though he usually possessed a gentle personality, K'Kruhk's natural Whiphid instincts sometimes caused him to become ferocious as displayed during the Yinchorri uprising after his master was killed. He also hated treachery, particularly when he was betrayed by his friends such as Quinlan Vos. Despite his hatred of betrayal, K'Kruhk was also very forgiving, and was willing to forgive Vos for turning to the dark side.

Powers and abilities
Despite his gentle soul, K'Kruhk was a skilled warrior, able to fight against some of the Republics deadliest enemies during the Clone Wars and survive. He was a practitioner of Djem So, using his large size and great strength to try and overwhelm his opponents. K'Kruhk also had some skill in Form I: Shii-Cho (Powerstaark)|Shii-Cho]]. However despite his skill, K'Kruhk lacked agility and therefore could be outmaneuvered by more agile opponents. His lack of speed led to his defeats at the hands of Asajj Ventress, General Grievous and Quinlan Vos, though he survived all three encounters.

After his defeat at the hands of Quinlan Vos, K'Kruhk realised his lack of speed was his greatest weakness and therefore trained himself to use Force Speed, in order to keep up with more agile opponents. Despite his large size K'Kruhk was much faster than he looked.

K'Kruhk also possessed an incredible talent for survival. Thanks to the natural endurance of a Whiphid along with his Hibernation Trance power, K'Kruhk was able to survive wounds that would prove fatal in most other species. Because of his Hibernation Trance he was able to fully recover from his battle with Grievous and even survived a fall from the heights of Coruscant during his duel with Quinlan Vos, though this was partially because he used the Force to cusion his landing.