Xaset Terep

Xaset Terep was a Jedi Knight who lived during the and. He joined with and  in their effort to aid the  in their efforts against the invading. After the end of the war he fell to the of the Force, joining with the newly-proclaimed  and their  in another invasion of the Republic.

Service as a Jedi
Xaset Terep was among a cadre of Jedi that was personally recruited into the s' effort by, which included a Knight who would later become known as the , as the  reached new heights. Once and Malak were given overall command of the  forces confronting the Neo-Crusaders, Terep was assigned as the Jedi liaison to the  Wrangler. He served aboard the warship as it fought in the last campaigns, including the of, the  on , the second  of  and the final  at.

Fall to the dark side
After the defeat of the Mandalorians, Terep journeyed into the Unknown Regions with Revan, Malak, and the rest of the surviving Jedi. When the two leaders fell to the of the Force and proclaimed themselves to be the new  of the, Terep joined them and became a Dark Jedi. Sensing a chance to secure more power for himself, he executed the captain of Wrangler when the officer balked at, and took personal command of the warship.

Fighting the Republic
Terep then led Wrangler on a series of interdiction missions, placing the cruiser along contested galactic s with its s powered up. These skirmishes bore mixed results, with the ship and crew often coming to grief and needing to retreat back to Sith-controlled space for repairs and replenishment. As Terep's lack of leadership ability and tactical skill became more and more evident, his temper became increasingly erratic. He began issuing brutal punishments to s, crewers and who he saw as guilty of deliberate subpar performance.

In 3,956 BBY, Wrangler encountered a small patrol in the Upestis system, an uninhabited binary star system some three parsecs Rimward of the. With the Republic force technically outgunned, Terep ordered a full attack and the launching of his. Unfortunately for him and his ship, the two Hammerhead-class cruisers and their squadron of were under the nominal command of Jedi Padawan. With on her side, Shan was able to influence the battle by improving the performance of the Republic ships and crews while at the same time demoralizing Terep and his forces.

Breakdown and death
With his starfighter forces being decimated as the Republic cruisers closed into range and pounded through Wrangler's dorsal shields, Terep angrily ordered a recall and retreat into. Once the warship had successfully disengaged, the Dark Jedi became so apoplectic with rage that he lost control of his powers and began using the Force to indiscriminately murder his bridge crew before running amok throughout the rest of the ship. Josef Farfax and Secar Dunnigal, two officers who had served aboard Wrangler since the Mandalorian conflict, sought to bring the madness to a halt by any means necessary. After securing support from a company's worth of Sith troopers who had also formerly served the Republic, Farfax and Dunnigal chased Terep throughout the vessel's interior, eventually cornering him in the ship's hangar bay. Terep was finally overcome in the intense lightfight that followed, killed by shrapnel from a fragmentation grenade.

Legacy
With Xaset Terep dead, the major source of dark-side influence aboard Wrangler ceased to exist. Though other senior officers would attempt to wrest command of the warship for themselves, these plots were ultimately self-destructive. This resulted in Farfax, who had been the off-watch executive officer and Dunnigal, the sensor officer, being the two highest-ranking officers left aboard. Using the deaths of Terep and the other Sith officers as examples, the two managed to persuade the rest of the crew to return to the Republic, which they did in time to participate in the mission to capture Darth Revan.

In 3,951 BBY, the image of Terep as a Jedi appeared to, the Jedi Exile who Malak had recruited, in a while she explored the  of. This Force-generated image, along with several others, attacked her when she refused to relive the scene from her past and declared that she would not have followed these Jedi down the path taken by Revan and Malak.

Personality and traits
Even before his fall to the dark side, Xaset Terep was not an even-tempered man. He was eager to join the fight against the Mandalorians, and did not care to be assigned to a warship as its liaison. This was evident in his disdain for the accepted tactics and strategies of ship-to-ship combat, which manifested itself in poor leadership and tactical ability when he finally seized command of Wrangler. He was also a harsh disciplinarian, even before he joined the Sith where brutal punishments were the rule instead of the exception.

Behind the scenes
Though Xaset Terep was originally intended to be simply a dark-side extension of his limited appearance in the computer and video game , his depiction in the fan fiction novel The Last Full Measure by Sean "Goodwood" Nash necessitated the establishment of an actual backstory. As with the original character, "Xaset Terep" is an anagram of "Texas Pete".

Appearances

 * The Last Full Measure