Ko Westef

A force sensitive human male, Ko Westef was born on the planet Itaar in the Outer Rim near the start of the Clone Wars. His powers were not discovered until he was a young child, and since and his parents were opposed to the an education at the hands of the Jedi Order, he was never sent to the Temple on Coruscant. The Jedi did, however, record his name onto a list of other force sensitives which was placed into a holocron. Near the end of the Clone Wars, the holocron was stolen among other Jedi artifacts by an unknown Separatist operative. The Separatists sent forces to capture the uneducated force sensitive children, who would be trained as assassins. By this time, Ko was 17. When they came to capture him, he put up a fight, but being untrained, he was quickly overwhelmed. Taken onto a Separatist ship, he and the other children were frozen in carbonite after several incidents which some of them escaped. Deemed too dangerous to be kept conscious, they were loaded into the ship's cargo hold. On the way back to the Separatist stronghold worlds, they were attacked by pirates, who severely damaged the ship's engines. Stopping on a remote moon, the Separatists attemped to repair the ship. However, the ship was damaged beyond repair and was disabled. With no comms and no way of repairing the ship, they were stranded. The Jedi Purge occurred soon afterwards, and with the restrictions on trade and exploration brought by the Empire, they were never discovered.

Some 30 years later, a scrapper found signals emanating from the moon and decided to investigate. By now, the New Republic was in power and the galaxy had greatly changed from how it once was. He found the carbonite frozen captives and decided to investigate. Loading them onto his ship, he brought them even further out into Wild Space. Upon reaching a small jungle planet far into the unmapped galaxy, he unloaded and sold them to a slaver in a tiny outpost and left. When the slaver freed the frozen captives, he was surprised to learn how long they had been frozen. Ko used a mind trick on the slaver and the group fled into the untamed jungle. When they started talking, they realized they all had similar abilities and the Force. After setting up a camp and securing a food supply, the group started talking over training and Ko was appointed the leader of the group. Using primitive weapons they made themselves, they trained for years in the jungle, learning of the fate of the Jedi Order through talk at the outpost. They formed their own fragmented section of the Order and vowed to return the Jedi to their true station. After working for years, they earned enough credits to buy tickets off the planet and started operating in the surrounding system. Learning of the First Order, they kept their heads down until they were able to liberate the system. Since it was so far out in Wild Space and the First Order couldn't be bothered much by such an unimportant section of the galaxy, the system was left alone. They set up a government with one of the Jedi acting as ruler or advisor to the ruler of each of the planets. They trained new generations of Jedi and raised a militia to defend against the First Order, and governed the system justly and separately from the rest of the galaxy.