Ussej Padric Bac

"Redemption comes from the release of self, not the exaltation of self. It comes through compassion, not greed. One lone candle is enough to fight the darkness. Love is more than a candle. Love is the answer to the darkness. Love can ignite the stars."

- Ussej Padric Bac

Ussej Padric Bac, sometimes referred to as Ussej Padric Bac the First, was born to a long line of legendary war heroes and politicians from Alderaan. His ancestor, Jonathan Bac, was the first Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. His father was the honorable and renowned Senator Padric Curtis Bac and his mother, Talia Antilles, was an Alderaanian Princess. Ussej’s grandfather, Curtis Bac, had been an old, freeloading Senator who had attempted to usher in a new era of corruption on Alderaan.

The first Bac to bear the name “Ussej Padric”, Ussej was instrumental in galactic affairs during the Great Territorial War, fighting in numerous battles for both sides of the war. For thirty years, he lived the sheltered life of a Jedi Knight within the walls of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. However, that all changed when he met Laili Jeyna Rendar, sister of the dreaded Darth Ravinos.

Just after the end of the war, Ussej and his family exiled themselves to the Unknown Regions to escape execution from the Sith Empire. There they found the Bendu Order and Ussej discovered that he was the one spoken of in an ancient prophecy known as the Prophecy of The Voyager, one that foretold the coming of the Shaman of the Whills, a mandate that Ussej was given immediately after his mortal journey ended in the mountains of Kal'Shabbol.

Early Life
"There’s a whole galaxy of people out there and they need people like us."

- Senator Padric Bac

Ussej Padric Bac was born into a long line of legendary war heroes and politicians from Alderaan three thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven years before the rise of the Galactic Empire. His ancestor, Jonathan Bac, was the first Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic after the Unification War. His father was the honorable and galactically-renowned Senator Padric Bac and his mother, Talia Antilles, was an Alderaanian Princess. His grandfather, Senator Curtis Bac, however, had been an old, freeloading politician who nearly ushered in a new era of corruption on Alderaan. Padric challenged him for re-election in a rarely seen father vs. son campaign and Padric won out. For the sake of Alderaan, it was not too late and Padric was able to fix the damage his father had done.

When Ussej was only six months old, his parents traveled to Coruscant for a seminar at the Galactic Senate on homeland security for the Core Worlds. They remained in the capital for one week and when they planned to return home they were assassinate by a mysterious sniper’s bullet. The Coruscant Security Forces tried desperately to solve the case, but no matter how hard they tried they were unable to do so.

Ussej was placed under the care of his grandfather, King Antilles. However, when a Jedi Master named Brarh Kefle came to Alderaan, it was discovered that Ussej had an amazing sensitivity to the Force. When he was presented before the Jedi Council, they went so far as to believe that he was the Chosen One spoken of in the ancient Prophecy of the Son of the Suns, the only remaining prophecy from the days of the founding of the Jedi Order.

For six years, they believed that they were correct in saying that Ussej was the Chosen One. He was constantly reminded about how he would have to live up to those standards, inadvertently instilling traces of a superiority-complex within his young mind. However, after further analysis of the prophecy, they realized that Ussej could not have been the Chosen One as the one spoken of in the prophecy would have to be born to a virgin mother. Though Ussej felt as if a great weight had been lifted off of his shoulders, he could not help but be disappointed.

Jedi Training
"His abilities have made him, well, arrogant. I fear he may slip down the dark path."

- Brarh Kefle

When Ussej was thirteen years old, he was placed under the tutelage of Brarh Kefle. For the next ten years, Ussej studied under his guidance. During his training, Ussej became close friends with three of his fellow Jedi Padawans: Damien Nightblade, Remer Ather and Estamme Eerar. Ussej and Kefle went on numerous missions with them and their masters and the group ended up making a great name for itself. However, Ussej was always looked upon as arrogant and reckless, a trait that led many to believe he would get himself killed before he ever faced his trials.

When Ussej was twenty-three, Ussej and Kefle were transferred to the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine. Not long after, however, the Great Territorial War officially began and the forces of Darth Sin and Darth Midknight attacked the small, helpless planet in what Ussej believed to be a cowardly attack. To the surprise of many, Ussej was able to survive the encounter. The Jedi emerged victorious from the battle and he took great pride in himself for it. Due to his brave actions, he was promoted to the rank of Jedi Knight.

The Great War
"You were the one who led the Jedi on Dantooine and the retaking of Centerpoint Station, weren’t you?"

- Laili Jeyna Rendar

Due to his heroic actions on Dantooine, the Jedi Council felt that Ussej would be a competent and useful leader in their war effort. Therefore, he was promoted to the rank of Jedi Colonel and was first assigned to the small, backwater world of Onderon as the leader of the Republic task force. Ussej believed that the assignment was meaningless at first and that he was simply being shoved out of the way, but when Queen Arael EbonClaw declared that the Dark Lordess Viea, who had once been Matron of Onderon, could no longer set foot upon the planet, the Sith fleet made its way to the backwater world and attempted to unleash its fury.

Luckily for Onderon, Ussej had foreseen such an attack as the likely form of retaliation so the Republic fleet had arrived hours earlier than the Sith. Damien Nightblade, who was the queen’s lover, made his way to the planet’s surface to lead the ground defense while Ussej made his way into space where he would be the most valuable. Taking command of Gold Squadron, the best pilots in the Republic, he was able to help repel the majority of the Sith fighters and troop carriers before they reached the surface. When the Sith ground forces were defeated, the imperial armada retreated, leaving the Republic to celebrate it’s victory.

After receiving a medal from Supreme Chancellor Urius Columba, Ussej was assigned to travel with Jedi Master Kit Corwin Rendar to Corellia, Kit’s homeworld, to oversee the defense of the Corellian Jedi Academy. While they were on the surface, Ussej and Kit were able to become good friends and came to implicitly trust one another, though Ussej was concerned with Kit’s closed personality. Six months after they arrived, the Sith managed to infiltrate Centerpoint Station in orbit around Corellia, gaining a tactical advantage over the Republic. Ussej pleaded with the Jedi Council to allow him to mount a re-taking of the station, but they told him that it would have to wait.

After Kit gathered intelligence that the Sith had taken over key technological and manufacturing facilities on Pho Ph’eah, Ussej gathered Gold Squadron and joined the fleet that Kit planned on leading to take back the facilities. While Ussej led his squadron in a raid on the Government Complex, the planet’s administrator contacted him and demanded to know why they were being attacked. Ussej did not believe him when he said that there were no Sith on the surface, so he continued the raid. When the battle ended, Kit openly admitted to the captain of his flagship that he was truly Darth Ravinos, the Dark Lordess’ Apprentice. His captain defied him, attempting to kill him, so as a show of force Ravinos skinned him alive in front of his command crew. Hours later, Ussej received security footage of what had happened between Ravinos and the captain and could not help but feel a heavy guilt for causing the deaths of countless innocents.

With the Jedi’s image strongly weakened in the wake of the Pho Ph’eah disaster, Ussej began questioning what was said in the Jedi Code. To think that such a respected Jedi Master would simply turn to the Dark Side of the Force was hard to bear. He could also see that many of his fellow Jedi Knights and many Jedi Masters were becoming too influenced by the promise of love, notable examples being Dexon Kyjar and Damien Nightblade.

Two months after the assault on Pho Ph’eah, Ussej was chosen to lead an assault force in the retaking of Centerpoint Station. Because Ravinos had heard the basics of the plan while he was still a member of the Jedi Order, the Sith were prepared for the assault. The two massive assault fleets squared off for days before the Sith were finally forced to retreat. Darth Invidius, the Grand Admiral of the Sith Fleet, vowed that he would have Ussej’s head by the end of the war and that what the Empire had planned would make Pho Ph’eah seem like a historical footnote.

Genesis
"Don’t you Jedi believe that no one is beyond redemption?"

- Laili Jeyna Rendar

After the retaking of Centerpoint Station, Ussej was reassigned to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. He did not know why he was no longer being sent on missions, but he assumed that it had something to do with the Jedi Council being unwilling to send one of their least expendable leaders to the front lines to wage a losing war. Therefore, he helped to oversee training in the temple, but he did not feel up to taking on an apprentice of his own until the war ended.

After a routine training evaluation, Ussej planned on attending a meeting with the Supreme Chancellor. However, as he was making his way down the grand staircase of the Jedi Temple to the streets below, he noticed a small battle taking place on a nearby rooftop. He rushed to their aid and found Estamme Eerar and Jedi Knight Jonas Matchek in a battle with a bounty hunter. He found a young, weaponless smuggler named Laili Jeyna Rendar crouched underneath a dumpster for cover. He was taken aback by her beauty and, knowing he had to get her to safety, he threw her over his shoulder and began to take her to a Jedi safe house a kilometer away from the battle. However, they were attacked by the bounty hunter as they were attempting to escape, so Ussej was forced to kill him before heading towards the safe house once again.

When they arrived at the safe house, Ussej introduced himself and asked who the girl was. Without telling him her name, she expressed her relief when she heard his name because she had traveled to the Jedi Temple looking for him. Though he was flattered, he asked her once again what her name was. She introduced herself as Laili Jeyna Rendar, the sister of Darth Ravinos, and she told him that she had come to find Ussej so he could assist her in rescuing her brother from the hands of the Dark Lordess. Ussej told her that it was not possible, but Laili reminded him that the Jedi Order believed that no one was beyond redemption. Ussej reluctantly agreed to help, but told her that it would be some time before he could do so as he could not simply run off from his assignment to help in what he believed to be a fool’s errand. Laili said that she could live with waiting for some time and quickly left. Ussej knew that, for the first time in his life, he began developing a powerful attraction towards someone.

A month later, Ussej was assigned to Dantooine to help mediate a border dispute between a group of farmers. Before making his way to Dantooine, however, he intercepted intelligence that Laili was on Nar Shaddaa trying to solicit help for her quest from local mercenaries and bounty hunters and that Estamme had been assigned to track her down and stop her from embarking on a suicide mission. Knowing that one person could not stop Laili on their own, Ussej made his way to the smuggler’s moon to help his good friend.

When he arrived on the smuggler’s moon, he found Estamme in a bar watching Laili who had been sitting in the far corner with a mercenary named Mathias Helsdain, a man that Ussej recognized as a member of a shadowy organization called Shadows of the Phoenix that operated out of the Unknown Regions. Only minutes after he arrived, Laili and Mathias spotted him and made their way out of the bar. With Ussej and Estamme close behind, Laili and Mathias quickly made their way through the streets towards the Nightsider, Mathias’ starship. Ussej grabbed Laili’s shoulder, but she shouted for all to hear that he had a thermal detonator and was threatening to destroy the entire complex. Laili got away during the ensuing mayhem. Before they had a chance to follow them, Ussej received a transmission from Jedi General Boreguard Madet saying that the Dark Lordess had launched an attack on Coruscant. Ussej and Estamme quickly made their way to their starfighters and set a course for the capital.

True Love
"You try to hide your past but deep down inside of you good remains still."

- Laili Jeyna Rendar

Not long after, Ussej traveled to Corellia in an effort to find Laili and begin their search for Darth Ravinos. His search eventually took him to a small graveyard just outside of Coronet. When he arrived, he found Laili trapped in a stasis created by the Dark Apprentice of the Sith. He managed to get her away from her deranged brother and was able to convince her to go with him to Onderon for Jedi Training.

Laili arrived late to their first training session, and once it began things certainly did not go well. They argued over Jedi philosophy, specifically philosophies on redemption, and the two ended up saying things they both regretted. Laili left the chambers in tears and Ussej could not help but feel like an arrogant fool for what he had done. The next day, Laili reluctantly returned for another session, but instead of training Ussej professed that he had fallen in love with her and proposed. Laili, happier than she had ever been before, accepted the proposal. Later that night, after finding an abandoned apartment, the two made love. Little did they know they had conceived a child.

Friendship and Betrayal
"Love, although the greatest power of good in the universe, can be used as a truly evil weapon."

- Damien Nightblade

The next morning, Ussej received a message from Damien Nightblade asking him to meet him at the Jedi Enclave on Kashyyyk. After kissing a sleeping Laili goodbye, he took an enclave starship and flew to the Wookiee homeworld. Once he arrived, he found his old friend sitting at the edge of the lake that sat up against the enclave. Damien attempted to speak with him about the beauties and dangers of love, but Ussej took it as Damien was trying to take Laili away from him. Enraged, he told Damien never to speak with him again and made his way back to Onderon.

Royal Advice
While Laili was gone, Ussej became an advisor to Onderonian Queen Arael EbonClaw. She advised him, however, to apologize to Laili and show her that he truly loved her. Arael believed that a love as strong as Ussej and Laili’s could not be turn apart by a mere fight. When Laili returned, Ussej stood at the starport waiting for her with flowers. As the ship landed, Mathias held Laili in his arms as she had been injured and Ussej believed this to be an act of betrayal on Laili’s part. Laili ran after him but collapsed in pain. Lying in Ussej’s arms, her life signs were fading. He rushed her to the nearby medical center and she was placed into their care.

Damien soon arrived at the medical center and bestowed the rank of Jedi Master upon Ussej. Unsure why he would choose this moment to do so, Ussej questioned Damien’s motives. Before Damien could respond, the doctor revealed to Ussej that Laili was pregnant. Ussej was shocked. When Laili awoke, Ussej told her the good news and she was ecstatic. However, Ussej could not help but wonder if the child was really his.

Visions of the Future
After spending a few days in the hospital, Ussej and Laili returned to their home and began talking of their future together. Ussej told her that he believed that even if the Galactic Republic was to return to power again it would not last forever, and neither would the Jedi Order. However, he told her that it would most certainly happen in the far future. As he got up to go to bed, Ussej began to turn ghostly white. He collapsed to the floor, and all became white as a vision came to him....

'''It was as if he had been living a dream as he walked through an area completely blanketed in nothing but white. Soon, his surroundings changed to that of a small, medical center. The cries of a young woman could be heard from around a corner. Though her face was a blur, her presence was familiar to him. Turning the corner, he could see the pregnant figure of the young woman lying on a delivery table. A man, apparently a Jedi Knight though his face was a blur to him, stood over her. The young woman cried out in terrible pain while a nurse droid stood at the end of the table. With one final scream, the young pregnant beauty delivered a child.'''

'''Though he was still in the same area, the circumstances had changed. As the labor moved into delivery and the child was born, the young beauty had grown increasingly weak. She looked up to the Jedi Knight, and all that could be heard was “There is good in him....” The woman fell limp, succumbing to death.'''

Ussej passed out in a cold sweat and almost fell into shock. Soon, he quickly awoke and ran outside only to throw up in the streets. He fell against the wall of the apartment, believing the woman in the vision to be Laili. The next morning, Ussej told her that he had to speak with Damien once again on Kashyyyk. Fearing that the Jedi would try to make a move on her while he was away, he brought her to a small moon of an Outer Rim world and dropped her off with enough supplies to last for weeks, should the worst happen.

Darkness Falls
However, Ussej never traveled to Kashyyyk. He went to Korriban to confront Darth Ravinos, as he knew that he would somehow be behind whatever would happen to Laili. After a heated exchange of words and a brutal fight that injured them both greatly, Ussej conceded. He knew that he had to find out the truth about Laili and Mathias while trying to save her at the same time. He bowed before the Apprentice to the Dark Lordess Viea and was dubbed Darth Mantus, Lord of the Sith. The two Sith Lords left Korriban to find Laili once again on the Outer Rim world. As they were attempting to persuade her to come back with them, Mathias arrived. In his anger, Ussej murdered Mathias and tried to put that part of his life behind him. Using her strong sense of family values against her, Ussej was able to finally convince Laili to come with them. She took his hand and they left together, along with Darth Ravinos.

Near Losses
Three months later, Laili went for a walk in the Valley of the Dark Lords on Korriban. In an attempt to anger Darth Ravinos and Darth Mantus, the Grand Admiral Invidius attempted to kill Laili and her unborn child. Mantus was able to save her, but she had lost a great deal of blood and was suffering from heavy premature contractions. Mantus was able to sustain her injuries in his shuttle and took her to Telos where she would be far from the hands of the Grand Admiral. When they landed, Laili received medical attention. It was there that the vision that had plagued him months earlier returned to him.

Mantus and Laili not the only ones who had traveled to Telos. Damien, along with Jedi Master Remer Ather who was a good friend of the former Ussej Padric Bac, followed them to the world and engaged Darth Mantus. Mantus thought it hardly worthy of a challenge and continued the fight, toying with them. Damien was knocked across the room and Mantus faked an injury, allowing him access into Remer’s guard. Remer fell to the ground and died soon after. Realizing that his effort’s had been futile, Damien fled the medical center and Mantus went back to check on Laili.

Awakening
Mantus trained heavily with Darth Ravinos in the following months until the day that he received a message from the medical center on Telos that Laili had been taken to the medical center after going into labor. He rushed back to find that she was ready to deliver the baby. After a painful labor and an even more painful delivery, Laili gave birth to their son whom they named Ussej Padric Bac II, although Mantus was hesitant about giving his son the name of his former life. Just days after the delivery of their child, Mantus and Laili became husband and wife.

The Final Battle
One year later, the Macabre Alliance of Sith Lords attacked Korriban itself. Invidius would fight no one other than Mantus and the two engaged in a brutal duel of destruction and mayhem. After almost killing them both, Invidius fled and prepared to make his final assault against the Sith Empire. Mantus returned to Laili, where she sensed something in him had changed. Through Laili’s love and for the sake of his child, Ussej Padric Bac returned and was able to redeem Kit Corwin Rendar. The two traveled to Coruscant where they engaged Empress Viea, slaying her. With her death, her Sith Empire fell with her. Soon after, the Macabre Alliance attacked Coruscant. Darth Apocalus and Darth Invidius stormed the throne, hoping to kill the Empress, but engaged Ussej and Kit when they saw that Viea was no more. However, Ussej and Kit were forced to flee when they realized that they could not win. As they were leaving, a Jedi led-Republic army stormed the area.

The Birth of Dreams
Ussej quickly met up with his old friend, Damien Nightblade, and explained to him the situation. Though hesitant, Damien thanked his old friend for almost sacrificing his life, as well as being a true friend for over twenty years. As Damien rushed into battle, Ussej and Kit left Coruscant. They never saw each other again. Ussej and Kit quickly picked up Laili and Ussej II on Telos and began a long journey towards the Unknown Regions.

New Friends
Months after the new Sith Empire rose to power on Korriban, the group of escapees was picked up by a ship in the Unknown Regions. Fearing for their lives, Ussej and Kit prepared for a fight. However, the unknown people were not attackers: they were rescuers. The people introduced themselves as Bendu Knights, part of the Bendu Order. They had been on an exploration mission in the area. The Bendu explained their philosophies and Ussej and Kit were stunned to learn that the Bendu had once been part of the Jedi Order. Normally, the Bendu would not allow outsiders to become part of their order but they believed Ussej to be the one spoken of in an ancient Bendu Prophecy, so they made an exception for them.

A Hero's Destiny
The journey to Kal’Shabbol took three months, but it was well worth it. Laili received Bendu training, but she decided not to become an active Bendu Knight so she could raise Ussej II. She and Ussej had another child, a girl named Talia, but the child died of a leukemia-like disease on her eighth birthday.

It wasn’t long before Ussej and Kit became Bendu Priests, traveling throughout the villages to conduct sermons and such. Ussej II became a Knight on his eighteenth birthday, which was one of Ussej and Laili’s proudest moments. Ten years later, Ussej and Kit were appointed to the Council of Priests and, after the deaths of the two High Priests to old age, Ussej and Kit took over the roles.

On the fortieth anniversary of their arrival on Kal’Shabbol, a terrible storm began ravaging the area surrounding the Bendu Temple of Light and the Ashlan Mountains. During the storm, Ussej II’s wife Bara went into labor. After hours of despair, Ussej realized that the storm was meant for him. He climbed to the Holy Ridge atop the Ashlan Mountains and sacrificed himself to save his family and friends. At the same moment of Ussej’s supposed death, Bara gave birth to a baby boy. This joyous event was marked by sadness as Laili, Kit and Ussej II were devastated by the loss of a father, a husband and a friend but they soon came to terms with his sacrifice. At that moment, Ussej II decreed that all first born males in the Bac family would carry the name of his father, so he and Bara named their son Ussej Padric Bac III.

There are still many who believe that Ussej Padric Bac did not die that day. They believe that he now dwells within the light of the Ashlan Nebula with the Whills on Ashlan Four. The believers say that he is now telling the story of the Great War so that the Whills can record it within the Journal of the Whills. Some believe that Ussej Padric Bac will show himself again someday. One wise man prophesied that he shall return with The Skywalker when the Chosen One brings balance to the Force. The Bendu have dismissed this as just wishful thinking, but some...including the Bac Family...believe that the prophesier could in fact be right....

Ussej did indeed dwell within the light of the Ashlan Nebula, and he did tell the story of The Great Territorial War to be recorded into the Journal of the Whills. But, he was not all that he had seemed. He was no longer living, yet he was not dead. He no longer had his elderly body, but instead the body of his youth from when he was in his prime had been returned to him. Should he have materialized on Ashlan Four, his body would look the same as any other persons. But, should he materialize on any other world he was simply a shimmering, blue-tinted spirit of what once was.

Ussej eventually realized that his eternal life was granted through the compassion and selflessness he demonstrated by sacrificing himself for Kal’Shabbol during the great storm. The Skywalker spoke to him and told him that the great storm was a test to see if he was ready. It was revealed to him that it was pre-ordained at his birth that he was to be the Shaman of the Whills should he have passed The Skywalker’s tests. Becoming a Jedi Master, turning to the Dark Side, sustaining his relationship with Laili for over forty years, his redemption and his sacrifice were all tests that The Skywalker had put before him and he had passed them all.

The effects of his new state were not all that he had discovered. At the same moment of his realization of what he had become, he discovered the truth about the Force. He knew that the Jedi way had been flawed for years, but on Ashlan Four he discovered that, for the most part, it was flat out wrong. It was not their conservative way of viewing things and their conducting of training that the galaxy needed. It was the Living Force that guided all life. The Living Force, or the Ashla as the Bendu would call it, was what a living being truly needed to believe in to survive without the shadow of the Dark Side falling upon them.

Ussej was not done helping people, however. Forty years after his “death”, a new Dark Lord of the Sith emerged from what was thought to be extinction. After a large disturbance in The Force, Ussej knew that it was time for his grandson, the Bendu High Priest Ussej Padric Bac III, to begin the fulfillment of the destiny that had been pre-ordained at his birth so he ripped him through time and space to Kal’Shabbol. It was there that they spoke of destinies and how it was up to Ussej III to put aside his prejudices held against the Jedi and seek out the Jedi Council to help in the fight against the Dark Lord of the Sith in order to prevent the galaxy from being thrust into turmoil. Ussej III agreed and the Bendu Order left Kal’Shabbol. Unbeknownst to the High Priest Bac III, this journey was the beginning of his tests that The Skywalker and Ussej had laid out for him.

The next three and a half millennia seemed like mere minutes to him. After being killed on Naboo by the Dark Apprentice of the Sith, a powerful Jedi Master named Qui-Gon Jinn appeared before him. Being a believer of the true way of the Living Force, Qui-Gon was able to decipher what the knowledge of eternal life meant and was granted the ability to do so. However, because he had to teach it to others, his abilities had to be limited to appearing only as a disembodied voice. Ussej then instructed him to teach the ability to those who needed it the most: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, the soul-surviving Jedi Masters after The Great Jedi Purge. However, they were able to return as a spirit much like Ussej had been able to because they were not charged with the responsibility of passing on the knowledge.

Ussej eventually met both of them on Ashlan Four, where they all appeared as their younger, more youthful selves. It was only a matter of days after Yoda’s arrival that the Chosen One named Anakin Skywalker fulfilled his destiny and destroyed the Sith Order forever. Because of the nature of his destiny and the circumstances surrounding his death, Ussej and the others were able to combine their powers to rip Anakin’s soul to Ashlan Four where he too appeared as his younger self. Questioning what had just happened, Ussej revealed to Anakin that they had granted him eternal life. That was not all that was revealed. Ussej told them that, should they wish to, their bodies could appear as they did at any point throughout their lives at any given time if they so chose. That night, Obi-Wan and Yoda chose to appear as they did at death when they appeared before Luke Skywalker, but when Anakin materialized before him he kept his youthful features. His son had always wanted to know the young Jedi Knight that was his father, so Anakin felt that Luke deserved to see who that man was.

As Luke turned away with his beloved sister, Ussej and Qui-Gon materialized and stood next to the other three Jedi as they watched the Alliance to Restore the Republic celebrate the fall of the Galactic Empire. Ussej took pride in the fact that he was able to help in the completion of an epic story of love and loss, courage and sacrifice, brotherhood and betrayal and the birth of dreams. But, as was the way of life, he knew that with this ending a new story was about to begin.

Legacy
"Everywhere we go, we are reminded of his power, his legacy, his compassion. His enemies believed him to be a curse. The rest knew him to be a messiah."

- Ussej Padric Bac III

Behind the Scenes

 * Ussej Padric Bac is featured in Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac by Brandon Rhea, as well as its two sequels
 * In the mind of his creator, he is portrayed by actor Alec Newman
 * "Ussej" is a respelling of "Jesus"
 * Ussej Padric Bac was originally desinged to be RPd as a false Chosen One, but that idea was later dropped. However, the idea that Ussej was a false Chosen One still remains in the backstory of his youth.

Appearances

 * The Beginning: The Legend of The Skywalker
 * Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac
 * Star Wars: The End of Life As We Know It
 * Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac II
 * Shadows of the Jedi: The Legend of Ussej Padric Bac III
 * Lettow: The Curse of Carden Mannux
 * Star Wars: The Tragedy of Damien Nightblade
 * Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Beginning