Tenzin Roan

Tenzin Roan was a  who lived from before the founding of the  to its final days as the. He was found as an infant on by , where, abandoned by his parents, he had nearly died from the cold. Kota took Tenzin to the to be trained. It was here that Tenzin spent most of his early life, first becoming a member of the youngling Bear Clan then later joined an unofficial group of initiates who called themselves the Knights of the Vornskr. Rahm Kota later took Tenzin as his shortly before he would have been sent to the. Tenzin was ever loyal to his master, sometimes to the point where he refused to see the point of views of others.

Tenzin was stationed on alongside Master  when  was executed. After escaping Mygeeto, Tenzin hid on Ossus until he discovered that his master, Rahm Kota, was alive and well. He made contact with Kota and became an important member of the Rebellion. Later in life, Tenzin trained several Jedi during the days of the.

Although he was considered to possess Knight-level skills by his allies, Tenzin was not officially given the title of Jedi Knight until after the fall of the Galactic Empire in 4 ABY.

Early life
Tenzin had been abandoned by his parents one month after his birth. A year after he became a Jedi Padawan, he met and spoke to his uncle while on a mission to. His uncle told him his parents had left him in favor of raising their other, older son. After learning this, Tenzin thought no more of his family, knowing that most of them did not care at all about his existence. Tenzin began his Jedi training in the Bear Clan under the tutelage of Master Yoda. A few years later, he would also join the Knights of the Vornskr, a group of older initiates. On what would have been his last day in the Order before being sent to a service division, he and a group of other Jedi hopefuls fought in a large training exercise. Several attended the exercise, among them, who had hopes of finding a potential apprentice. After the exercise, Kota spoke with the Jedi Council, and Tenzin became his Padawan.

First mission
Tenzin went on various missions with his master. His first mission was to to investigate a  cult that was composed of Force-sensitive Jin'ha warriors. Before long, they had found and infiltrated the temple of the cult. After listening in on a conversation in a meeting hall between its leaders, they learned that the cult, which was called the Order of Keldiri, intended to take over the Galactic Republic, using a powerful army they had built.

Soon, Kota and Tenzin had found the army's location, and, watching from a catwalk, they found it was an enormous force of millions of Jin'ha soldiers, all wielding disruptor rifles, blasters, and cortosis melee weapons. Tenzin tried to warn the Jedi Council, but one of the Jin'ha cult members heard him and bound him and Kota in Force-resistant chains. Later, they were interrogated by the Keldiri Master, who was leader of the cult. Rahm Kota managed to trick their adversary into thinking he knew nothing, but Tenzin was not so lucky, his attempts at tricking the Keldiri Master failing. The Master stripped Tenzin of his Force powers, using a technique developed by the Jin'ha. He did not have much time to realize the implications of this because, a few minutes later, the Keldiri Master left and Kota broke out. Upon freeing his apprentice, Kota and Tenzin escaped Obredaan.

Jedi healing


Rahm Kota took Tenzin before the Jedi Council and asked if anything could be done to restore his apprentice's connection to the Force. The council said that only one Jedi in contact with the Order had the ability to return the gift of the Force to an individual. Tenzin was sent to to speak with Jensir Tahn, a  Jedi Master who chose to live on the remote world to discover more of the Force.

Upon arrivingl, Tenzin found Tahn and asked for his help. Over a period of several months, Tahn put Tenzin through a series of exercises to bring him back him back in touch with the Force. After much meditation, practice and guidance, Tenzin was reconnected with his Jedi power. He returned to Coruscant and was reunited with his master.

Encounter with Sindri
Kota and Tenzin were sent on a mission back to Obredaan with a large strike team of Jedi and Republic soldiers. Their objective was to shut down the Keldiri cult headquarters and factories and take the leaders into custody. The Jedi on the strike team included Plo Koon, Gurax Pard, and Tekta Mikoras. Before long, the Jedi had shut down the factories. Ki-Adi-Mundi and Tenzin decided to investigate the library of the cult. While they were exploring, Tenzin accidentally lost Mundi in the twisting passages of the underground library. He entered an enormous chamber and saw a figure standing across the room. When the figure drew its double-bladed lightsaber, Tenzin drew his blue and the two fought. During the fight, Tenzin saw that his attacker was an Ubese in the traditional garb of a Sith and bore a tatoo of the insignia. Not long after, Roan was disarmed by his combatant, who introduced himself as Sindri, the Lord of the Shadows before attempting to finish killing Roan. Before he could, Ki-Adi-Mundi ran in to defend Roan, but his opponent vanished in a cloud of vapor. As they left the library, Tenzin told Ki about his battle with the mysterious Sindri.

Clone Wars espionage
During the Clone Wars, Tenzin was given a long-term assignment that would end up lasting most of the war. The Jedi Council sent him to to investigate a corporate establishment that was discovered to have ties to. While he was there, he was instructed to learn anything he could about Sindri, the mysterious Ubese Sith. Tenzin took a small group of clones to Ziost, instructing them to find various places to wait around the city where they would be ready when the time came to move.

Roan adopted the alias of "Zeynar Krekk," an aspiring entrepreneur offering to sell technology to the Obsidian Crescent, as the company was called. He gave the Obsidian Crescent an anonymous datapad, which was secretly control linked to the Jedi Order. They were sent false information through this control link by the Jedi in order to convince the group that Tenzin was trustworthy and his business offer was real. Before long, he was given the job of overseeing communications and data exchange with his "company" and the Obsidian Crescent. After a week of waiting, Roan decided to make his move. He set up special cameras around the premises that could be viewed by his clones. He told his clone commander, Commander Dexri, to have his men infiltrate the complex and find any and all data pertaining to the corporation's dealings with the Confederacy.

Tenzin left the building and began to look for other Sith control nearby. During the second day of his exploration, he found a large cave, which was filled by an enormous lake. In the middle of the lake was a temple. Tenzin dove under and swam up to the base of the hill on which the structure stood. Then he slowly made his way up the hill and entered the temple. Before long he had infiltrated a training room, where he saw a large group of trainees practicing fighting drills. They all had lightsabers, and wore Sith robes. As he watched, an adept knocked him out from behind. When he awakened, he was in an enormous room, bound by laser cuffs. A few minutes after, Sindri entered the room.

Sindri introduced himself to Tenzin, and spoke of his plan: he would challenge Darth Sidious and become the new Dark Lord of the Sith. Completing this task, he would then conquer the Republic and the galaxy. Tenzin was confused by the Sith's talk of a Darth Sidious. Gathering strength, Tenzin dislodged a large section of a wall using the Force, and threw it at the laser generator. The cuffs' weakening lasers were deactivated. Tenzin force pulled his lightsaber and sliced the cuffs open. Sindri force leaped up to the high platform surrounding the chamber and pulled a lever. A cage door opened, and an enormous krayt dragon ran out. Tenzin drew his saber, and attacked the krayt dragon. It was a long fight, but Tenzin eventually managed to send part of the ceiling crashing down on the creature's head. The krayt dragon was destroyed. Sindri flipped down to the floor of the chamber, and their sabers clashed. A long battle ensued. Finally, Sindri, becoming increasingly tired, decided to try and finish his opponent using a different method. Moving quickly, Sindri dislodged five pillars, which formed a makeshift wall around Tenzin. Then, he brought down an enormous part of the ceiling. Tenzin took the full force of the collapsing rubble. Presuming him dead, Sindri left to continue overseeing his army. Tenzin, however, was alive. Extremely weak, and close to death, Tenzin went into a healing trance, a technique that was taught to him by Jensir Tahn during his time on Ragoon VI. There he lay for three days, healing and making no contact with his clones. On the fourth day, he awoke and Force Lifted the rubble off of himself, pushing it away with a strong Force Push. Picking up his lightsaber, he jumped out the hole that had been made when he freed himself by taking out a wall. He swam out to the cave mouth, and left.

Tenzin returned to his clones, who told him that the Obsidian Crescent was merely a setup to keep them distracted, while Dooku began amassing a large Ziost droid army to challenge Sindri, the one threat to the current Sith. Tenzin contacted the council and told them the news. He was told to move his troops off Ziost, so the Order could send a team of Jedi in to see what would become of this Sith power struggle, and to keep the droid armies, or the armies of Sindri, from attempting to take control of the planet.

Mygeeto


Towards the end of the war, Tenzin went with Ki-Adi-Mundi to. There, while taking down droids alongside the Jedi master, Commander Dexri and Mundi's clone commander, Commander Bacara fired on the two Jedi. Mundi did his best to defend himself, but was no match for the clones and droids firing at him all at once, and he perished. Confused, but understanding quickly that something was wrong, Tenzin flipped over his clones and stabbed Commander Dexri and his battalion while they fired on Roan's comrade. Then he took out Bacara and his clones. Fleeing the large numbers of droids he would now have to fight alone, Tenzin ran out into the uninhabited frozen wastes, taking a long route to the city, so he would not be spotted by clones or droids. Finally, he made it to his ship and left the planet. Avoiding the primary Republic worlds, the Force guided Tenzin to the ancient Jedi stronghold of Ossus. After a few days of meditating and wondering what had happened, he decided to try contacting his master, Rahm Kota. After boosting his signal through his ship's comlink, he made contact with Kota. His master told him that the Republic had ordered the clones to turn on their generals, and had been reformed into an Empire. Kota also told Tenzin that Anakin Skywalker had become Palpatine's new Sith apprentice. Then he told Tenzin he planned to defeat Skywalker, who was now named Darth Vader, by setting a trap for him on an Imperial shipyard. Tenzin, having heard all he needed, thanked his master, and switched off his comlink.

Ossus
Tenzin spent the next three months of his life on Ossus. Eventually, however, he decided he needed to hear what was happening in the galaxy. He decided to go to Coruscant.

Coruscant
Tenzin reached Coruscant and parked his ship in a old abandoned dock. Then he drew his lightsaber and carved several scratches in the hull, to make it look old. Tenzin inconspicuously walked onto the street. He heard an Imperial official speaking in one of the city squares. He said that another Jedi had been successfully defeated by Imperial Police. The holoscreen above the officer showed Rahm Kota. Horrified, Tenzin left Coruscant and returned to Ossus. He remained there for another year, meditating and learning from the few remaining archives on the planet.

Rebellion
Tenzin received a signal from his master. It stated that Kota was alive and well and was now a member of the growing Rebellion against the Empire. After asking his master if he could join him in the Rebellion, he was told to come to Yavin IV, where the rebels were meeting. When he arrived, planning was in progress to steal the plans to the Death Star. When this mission was to be executed, Roan received the task of guarding the rebel base from Imperial attack. Sending several troops to guard the various doors, Roan positioned himself at the front of the base, lightsaber at the ready. The sun had begun to set on Yavin IV, when suddenly, Tenzin was attacked. After exchanging several blows with, to Tenzin's surprise, another lightsaber, the attacker revealed himself to be Sindri.

Sindri explained that, using a special disruptor code, he now had control of the Death Star. As revenge for his defeat at the hands of empire, Sindri planned to use the Death Star's superlaser to destroy Coruscant while the Emperor was on it. Then he would sweep through the rest of the Empire, conquering other planets and destroying them if they resisted, making him the ruler of the galaxy. Then Sindri explained he needed to test the superlaser, and had decided to do it on Yavin IV, after he had left the planet. He spoke a few orders into a comlink, sending his acolytes into position to fire. Throwing a sudden smoke bomb, Sindri disappeared, then reached his starship and took off into space. Thinking quickly, Tenzin contacted his master and told him the news. Rahm Kota told Tenzin to leave the highest rebel officer in command, and meet him at a certain space coordinate. When he did so, Kota explained the plan. A rebel command ship would be of sufficient size to block the superlaser from hitting the planet. The rebels had agreed to fly a command ship into the beam's path, ejecting the escape pods at the last minute. In the resulting chaos, Kota and Roan were to sneak onto the Death Star and take out Sindri's acolytes, then Sindri himself.

Tenzin and Rahm piloted a small two-man starfighter into a maintenance port in the side of the Death Star, then managed to make their way up to the main hangar. From there, the two Jedi split up, attempting to find Sindri's Acolytes while simultaneously avoiding the Imperials. An hour or so later, Roan received an urgent comlink message from Rahm Kota. Kota had taken out Sindri's acolytes, though he had not found Sindri himself, but he had been discovered by Darth Vader. Kota urged his apprentice to find Sindri and make his escape.

Final confrontation
While crossing a narrow bridge that spanned the temporarily deactivated superlaser chamber, Tenzin was surprised by Sindri. Sindri swore that he would make Roan suffer for the ruination of his plans, despite the fact that Kota was the one who had disabled Sindri's disruptor code. Pointing three fingers at Tenzin, noxious fumes shot from Sindri's hand, leaving Roan coughing and wheezing. Dizzy from the attack, Roan nevertheless kept fighting, locking sabers with Sindri just before he could shoot another vapor blast. The two dueled in the chamber until finally Roan split Sindri's lightsaber in two. Sindri was about to attack with more Force attacks, but suddenly the two combatants heard a noise, gradually growing louder. Tenzin realized the superlaser was charging. The room began to glow. Thinking fast, Tenzin did a backflip off the bridge and into the observation chamber behind it. Sindri went the opposite way, climbing onto the platform opposite of Roan immediately before he was disintegrated. The heat he had been in, however, severely charred large sections of Sindri's skin. Roan turned to leave, but then turned back and felt a sudden compassion for Sindri. He threw a small pouch of medical supplies across the bridge to his opponent, knowing that while Sindri would still be unable to escape or even live without proper treatment, at least he was giving him small relief from the amount of pain the burns caused. Satisfied, Roan left to find his master.

Personality and traits
Roan was an immensely loyal Jedi, both to his master and to he anyone he believed he owed a debt to. Sometimes this loyalty would be carried too far, leading him into dangerous situations.

Tenzin was also a believer in the tenet that actions speak louder than words. He was a classic example of a "Jedi Guardian". Roan occasionally found empathy difficult, due to his rather upsetting early life. However, he would often surprise his teachers and comrades by suddenly taking compassion on an individual. Often this individual was one whom Tenzin had considered an enemy. His master jokingly called this tendency a "defrosting".

Behind the scenes
Tenzin Roan was created by Darth Taikin, a user on Star Wars Fanon, the Star Wars wiki of fan invention. The author considers the character his most complete to date, having written it over the span of a number of months. He plans to continue developing the character in the future.