Olren Baran

"Master Olren is one of the greatest Jedi I have ever met. She fully deserves a place on the Council."

Olren Baran was a female and a lifelong member of the  during the waning years of the time that would be known subsequently as the. Born on, the metropolitan capital world of the , Baran ascended through the ranks of the Order until reaching the rank of and being granted a seat on the  prior to the emergence of the.

Throughout her life, Baran participated in the ongoing conflict between the Jedi and their ancestral enemies, the. This came to a conclusion several decades after Baran's birth with the, which saw both the Jedi and the Sith engage in a drawn-out struggle over the planet that resulted in thousands of deaths on both sides. Eventually the Sith, led by, deployed a superweapon known as a. One hundred Jedi, led by, confronted the Sith at the deployment site of the bomb.

Among these Jedi was Baran, whose spirit was trapped for over a thousand years after the bomb's detonation, along with the other Jedi and Sith who had been present. Just over a millennium later,, a self-taught Jedi, arrived on Ruusan and freed the spirits that had been trapped inside the thought bomb, finally allowing Baran to become one with the Force.