Vel Orset

Vel Orset was a male Kel Dor Jedi Knight, friend of the fellow Kel Dor Jedi Master Plo Koon. A swordsmaster with the lightsaber, Vel fought in the Clone Wars on many planets. He was eventually killed when his own clone troopers of the 98th Division turned on him, following the execution of Order 66.

Orset was born and raised until the age of three on the Kel Dor homeworld on Dorin, and found by Ithorian Jedi Master Roron Corobb. Orset never was given a master, not even Corobb, and Orset was given the responsibility of working in the AgriCorps. However, after about fifteen years of working in the AgriCorps, the Clone Wars broke out, the Jedi Council held a test for all of the AgriCorps members and some of them could be accepted into the Order to help fight. Orset passed and he fought in the Clone Wars.

Orset at first accompanied small Jedi forces to minor battles such as the Skirmish over Sriluur and the Battle of Gamorr. Orset distinguished himself in these battles, often using strategy to overcome the Separatists. Eventually, Orset was promoted to Jedi General but was still held back from leading his own division. After capturing Lowick in a six-month battle, Orset was given control of the 98th Division with CC-1243, also known as Commander Mark. During the Outer Rim sieges, Orset helped protect the purple-hued planet of Wol Cabassh from Separatist warships, but was killed in action by Mark, after Order 66.

Early life
Vel Orset was born to an unknown mother on Dorin. By the time Orset was born, his father had been killed by a group of criminals. Orset was raised by his mother the entire three years of his life that he was with her. In the middle of his third year, a Jedi by the name of Roron Corobb came to Dorin to stop for a drink on his way to an Outer Rim planet. Corobb stopped in a nearby bar, close to the street where Orset was. Corobb immediately felt the Force around the child.

Corobb asked his mother to hand him the baby, telling her in the native Kel Dor language that the child was strong enough in the Force to be a Jedi. The mother, feeling it was best for the child, and though reluctantly, gave up the child to Corobb. Corobb went all the way back to Coruscant, headquarters to the Jedi Order, to be trained in the ways of the Force and become a Jedi.

As Orset progressed through his childhood, he was often a target of jokes from his peer younglings, as he had to wear a mask much of the time because Kel Dors were unadaptable to oxygen-rich atmospheres. Although he did not let this stop him from becoming a Jedi, it did lower his self-esteem. Eventually, he did think to low of himself to even try. He was put into the Jedi's AgriCorps for younglings not assigned to Jedi masters. Vel Orset, while working in the AgriCorps, was not pleased with the amount of work he had. He found that the AgriCorps was not what he expected. Soon, Orset was forced to hate the Jedi Order because of his isolation from the rest of the Order. Soon, Orset began to dream of going home and visiting his mother.

Clone Wars
At 22 BBY, after the Battle of Geonosis suddenly took the Galaxy by surprise, the citizens of the Galaxy finally acknowledged that they were in the midst of another war, possibly worse than any other imagined. With the newly-formed Grand Army of the Republic against the factory-made Separatist Droid Army, many important planets of the Galaxy prepared themselves for an invasion.

Atraken and Muunilinst were two of the planets that went first. Both were attacked by the Republic, and both were won, but with many casualties on both sides. With the loss of two hundred Jedi at the Geonosis battle, and now the war, the leaders of the Jedi Order decided that they needed to promote Jedi who deserved it. Soon, the Jedi Council began holding tests for AgriCorp members to see if they were eligible to be promoted to Jedi Knight.

One of the first Jedi to be called to the Temple was Orset. The Jedi tested him on lightsaber skill, hypothetical situations, and use of the Force. After many hours of continous nonstop tests, Orset was promoted to Jedi Knight. Although he knew he would not be respected by other Jedi for almost cheating the system, he knew he deserved it, and he vowed he would do everything to keep his position.

Sriluur


Years before the actual Outer Rim Sieges, Dooku planned on taking minor Outer Rim planets in hopes of having power there. Sriluur, the homeworld of the near-human species Weequay, was one of the Count's first targets. Sending a small invasion fleet in hopes of taking a quick victory, Dooku hoped this would be the first of many fast captures. Dooku sent one Trade Federation cruiser, the Colicoid Swarm, and two Banking Clan frigates as escorts. Orset, near the Sriluur system in the Venator destroyer Victory &mdash; which would later become his personal ship &mdash; monitoring signals in the area. After a few days of monitoring the billions of radio waves coming from a nearby star, the ship's internal computer intercepted a signal clearly artificial, sent from a very nearby starship. Orset and his clones eventually deciphered the code, which read Sriluur invasion commencing. Orset ordered full speed to the planet, hoping to stop the invasion.

As they arrived near the planet, they found that they were too late to stop the surface invasion, as the Colicoid Swarm was continually bombarding the planet while sending down Trade Federation dropships. After destroying a dropship with continuous laserfire from the Victory, the Colicoid Swarm noticed the Venator and began diverting fire to the ship. The two Banking Clan frigates also began to fire at the ship. Soon, the shields were down to only 75%, and Orset was forced to think fast. Orset ordered a destruction of one of the Banking Clan frigates. All fire was then concentrated on the one frigate. Soon, the Victory overpowered the Banking Clan's weak shields and destroyed the ship completely. Then Orset ordered a tractor beam to be placed on one of the larger pieces of wreckage. The Victory through the wreckage at the Colicoid Swarm's starboard side. The cruiser was forced to move its shield intensity to the starboard side to protect from the collision. The Colicoid Swarm easily destroyed the piece of wreckage, but, in the split second that the shields were diverted, Orset ordered a complete attack on the hull. Soon, the Colicoid Swarm was disabled, its shields taken out.

Retreating to hyperspace, the Colicoid Swarm was defeated and Sriluur was protected. The remaining Banking Clan frigate also retreated, as it had no backup and it did not want the same fate as the other frigate. Although Orset's quick thinking did not go unnoticed, his actions were overshadowed by the major victories of Master Kenobi and Skywalker on Muunilinst and Master Windu's on Dantooine. Meanwhile, on Sriluur, Orset remained part of the Weequay culture as the one who had stopped them from destruction.

Gamorr
Still early in the war, Gamorr, homeworld of the porcine Gamorreans, began to become a target for the new Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies, General Grievous. Grievous felt that the Gamorreans would be too unintelligent to make any kind of counterattack or form any strategy worth executing. Grievous thought it would be an easy take over. Still overshadowed by great Jedi such as Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Orset wanted to prove himself worthy of earning a clone division to himself. When Republic ships in the Opoku system alerted a massive incoming invasion fleet, Orset personally requested permission to lead the counterattack. Knowing they didn't have much time, the Jedi High Council granted Orset's permission and Orset gathered a huge fleet for the battle, including his now repaired ship, the Victory.

Immediately following the exiting of hyperspace, the fleet began firing on the Separatist ships, which were scattered in orbit above Gamorr. As the battle raged above the planet, Orset took a force of gunships down to the planet to stop the Separatists from capturing major cities on the planet. As the gunships sped towards one of the cities being invaded, they were not only attacked by the Separatists but also by Gamorreans &mdash; the Gamorreans did not know which side was which. As the gunship landed, he tried to advise the Gamorreans not to draw attention to themselves, but the Gamorreans did not understand Basic or Kel Dor. Orset advised his troopers to not fire on the Gamorreans if they could avoid it. This was only a burden, because now he had to worry about the droids and the Gamorreans. The Separatist war machine drew nearer to the city and Orset and his clones began trying to do everything the could to stop the invasion.

Orset called on the Force to destroy several things, but it was not enough. Tank after tank after tank was tearing apart his army. Orset did everything he could, but it was not enough. Soon, spider walkers and hailfire tanks were turning entire Gamorrean fortresses to rubble. Orbital bombardment from Separatist ships made the matters even worse. Gamorr was nearly captured. Although it was a complete loss for the Republic, Orset did learn not to have overconfidence. Grievous did capture the planet, and it was not recaptured until the end of the war, when the Empire took control and forced the Gamorreans into slavery.

Lowick
As more and more systems fell to Dooku and Grievous's Separatist war machine, the leaders of the Republic began to worry that the war might somehow turn to the Separatist side. Several planets fell to the Separatists. Soon, the Separatists began threatening the planet Lowick, homeworld of the Pa'lowick species. Dooku sent Grievous to fight, but Grievous was busy on Duro. As Dooku noticed that most of his good leaders were not in the Outer Rim and could not get there fast, Dooku had to face the last choice &mdash; he would lead the battle himself.

He entered with a mildly large invasion fleet, three Trade Federation cruisers and several other large ships.