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"I was a cold-blooded killer. I am now a Jedi. But that does not mean I am weak. Try me... If you dare, of course!"

- Lytt Clemens

Theodore, or Lytt, Clemens was a male Jedi Sentinel during the Old Republic. He started his life as a free-lance after training under Darth Malak in his youth. He was lethally wounded when he faced his former master moments before the attack a group of Jedi led against Revan's flagship. After his recovery, he started training in the ways of the Jedi under the tutorship of Qassyie Shal, a female Selkath Jedi Knight. He quickly became a great Jedi, leaving his past life behind him thanks to an amnesia due to the wounds Malak inflicted on him.

After many missions at the side of his master, he helped the team of a redeemed Revan enter the Star Forge and destroy the ancient artefact of the dark side of the Force. During the attack, he helplessly witness his master's death at the hand of Malak's Dark Jedi. He managed leaving the Star Forge in time, an joined the celebration on Lehon, and was made a Jedi Knight later that same day.

Early life
"Sometimes, I feel you are very peculiar, my son. You can understand in seconds what I learnt in many years. I sense those skills will serve you well in the future, as soon as you understand how to control them."

- Mark Clemens to his son

Theodore Clemens was born in a family of Tatooine smugglers. His father, Mark Clemens, was indeed a smuggler, and more generally a con. His mother was a very handy slicer. As an infant, his parents' job forced him to follow them in most of their interstellar travels. Already, he demonstrated impressive skills: he learned to speak and read in mere months, and soon began repairing all sort of technological items before developing his computer skills thanks to his mother. His parents were intrigued, and had thought about bringing the boy to Dantooine, far away from the eyes of potential clients who would not feel secure around a Force-sensitive, to have him tested by Jedi Masters. But they never did in the end.

In 3,966 BBY, Darth Malak, Darth Revan's apprentice, caught his parents' ship while the were on a business trip to Taris. The parents tried to hide in scan-proof compartments, Malak was intrigued by a strong feeling. In fact, he was feeling the boy's fear through the Force. As he embarked on the ship, he was almost overwhelmed by the energy of little Clemens's strength in the Force. When he opened the compartment in which the boy was hiding, Theodore unleashed his fear and anger, impressively Force-pushing Malak and almost crippling him in the process. However strong the boy was in the Force, he could not defend himself - nor his parents - against a whole squadron of Malak's best troopers. All the more so as Clemens was blinded by his rage and could not control most of his actions. As he got a grip on himself, Malak asked the guards to spare the boy, though he killed the parents on the spot, hoping to anger the boy. But Clemens was unconscious, having spent all his strength in this access of rage.

Training as Darth Malak's apprentice
"You are strong in the Force. Still, I cannot feel you anger... Hence, you will always be limited in your actions. This is sad, very sad. Grow strong - use your anger and your hatred - and you will really become a Sith."

- Darth Malak to Theodore Clemens

From that day on, Malak kept training the boy in the ways of the Force, hiding his new apprentice from Revan. Malak was soon to be very disappointed: he understood that the boy could not hate him. He barely tried to tap in the power of the dark side. Soon enough, Malak grew wary of his apprentice's innocence. He stopped training him in the ways of the Sith and tried to recycle his teachings by turning him into a good soldier. The boy indeed demonstrated the most impressive skills with all kind of blasters. He just had to touch a weapon to understand how to take the best of it. Malak sensed that, with the help of Force-enhanced skills, the boy could easily become the most efficient assassin in the galaxy. He also hoped that this job would help the boy get in touch with the basest instincts of his species and give in to rage once and for all. In the same time, Malak helped the boy perfect his other skills: slicing, repairing, piloting, etc. The boy was very handy, and was more than a quick learner. Except when it came to lightsabre combat. While Malak kept trying to teach him Form II: Makashi, to complete his skills, the boy showed almost no real ability.

Soon, Clemens became what would later be called a Sith Assassin, even if there was no such organisation at the time. Malak sent him on different missions, most of which were an utter success. Malak was very proud of Clemens, and started providing him with many prototypical weapons to reward him. But the boy also understood how to make the best of his capacities. He started working for other people, collecting more and more bounties. He was so good at the job he could easily kill three targets in a day, while it would have taken months for any other bounty hunter to do the same.

Life as a free-lance assassin
"He is the best gunslinger I have ever seen. In action, he is but a blur. When he swoops down on you, you do not stand a chance. You are dead before even knowing what hit you. Plus, He has weapons you have never even heard of. Our best armours are all but useless against them!"

- Cassandra Bisz to Tarla the Great

Clemens mostly worked in the Outer Rim, far from Republic authorities. A good assassin, nobody really knew who he was. He was dubbed "Death Aim" in those days, and was protected by many Hutt Lords he worked for. One of his best clients was a Hutt from Klatooine, Tarla Bissh Yedijila, also known as "Tarla the Great". He quickly became one of his favourites, hunting and killing all those who did not pay their debts or betrayed the powerful crime lord. He even became one of the most efficient Jedi killers, thanks to his unconventional weaponry.

Indeed, he had personally modified the prototypes Darth Malak provided him with. He chose not to use as many blasters as the other bounty hunters and soldiers. He realised he would be much more efficient with a set of completely original rifles and guns. Therefore, he invented a mechanism that did not use energy cells, but cartridges he dubbed quarrels. They were small pieces of metal he carefully handmade. They had the practical advantage of ignoring energy fields, and being quasi invisible, even to Jedi. At that time, he started working on a HK assassin/protocol droid of his own. But he never got round to finishing it: he was too busy protecting the interests of major crime lords.

The popularity of his feats grew stronger and stronger, and he began to make a name for himself in the Outer Rim, espcially in the Hutt-controlled territories.

However, he started being confronted to opposing interests when he stopped working for regular clients, and only took on the biggest bids. In 3,959 BBY, he was almost constantly on the run from Tarla's bounty hunter after he was hired to kill scores of the Hutt's henchmen. Surprisingly enough, one of them - Cassandra Bisz, a female Taung - stood up to him, and he almost lost an arm in the fight that followed. In the end, she was one of the only survivors ever of all of his career as a free-lance assassin.

Duel on Taris


Soon after the incident, and as soon as he was healed, he decided to work in other areas of the galaxy, and came closer and closer to the Inner Rim. There, he was hired to kill many Jedis, causing the Jedi Order to notice his work. Once again, he was on the run, and had to fall back on more isolated planets in the Outer Rim. A female Selkath Jedi Knight, Qassyie Shal, was sent by the Jedi Order to capture him and bring him to the Jedi Enclave on Dantooine to stand trial before the Jedi Masters.

In 3,958 BBY, they encountered briefly on Taris. During their fight, Clemens managed to kill two of Shal's fellow Jedi, but did not manage to get rid of her and the last Jedi that was accompanying her, a female Togruta named Traala Rhey. She got close enough to him to engage him in lightsabre combat. Clemens only survived thanks to his reflexes: he caught one of the dead Jedi's lightsabre and attacked the two surviving Jedi. Even though he was not a great duelist, he survived long enough to catch the attention of local Sith troopers. Rhay was unsettled by the sudden appearance of hostile faces, and Clemens had the opportunity to kill her, and he did not hesitate to seize it. Shal barely escaped, killing some of the troopers on her way.

Betraying Malak
"You were never strong enough to be a Sith. You are an insect I will have pleasure to crush. Literally."

- Darth Malak, to a dying Theodore Clemens

Malak soon heard of this little exploit, and decided to get rid of him: Clemens clearly had become a liability since Malak hoped nothing would disturb his plan to overthrow his master.

In the beginning of 3,957 BBY, only weeks before the attack of Revan's flagship, Darth Malak sent the boy to try and kill Revan, knowing his failure would be his death. He tried and concealed the job, not giving Clemens the name of the target. But the boy instead went to Tatooine to buy a proper hideout to store all his weapons and the droid he had started working on. He had understood Malak's plan as soon as his master's gave him the job. He had sliced into his personal files and discovered blatant clues of his treason. He then travelled the galaxy to try and build a lightsabre for himself, in order to fight Malak. He knew there was a big chance he was no match for his former master, but he also knew he could not escape his wrath if he disappeared. Still, he counted on Revan to help him eliminate his treacherous master.

An impossible survival
"The Force was clearly stating something: you had to survive. That is why I helped you, even if I felt the festering force of the dark side in your heart."

- Qassyie Shal to Lytt Clemens, years after the incident.

A few hours before the Jedi attack on Revan's flagship, he tried to warn Revan about his apprentice's plans. But he did not sense Malak's presence on Revan's ship. As he was going for the main deck, Malak was going out of the room. Malak understood Clemens's plans. Malak quickly gained the upper hand and cut his former apprentice's left arm. But he did not stop there. He decided to torture him to be sure he could not warn Revan posthumously. He cut through most of the left side of Clemens's body, inflicting unbelievable pain. But before he could kill him, the Jedi attack started. Clemens was left for dead while Malak was heading for his own ship.

When the team of Jedi led by Bastila Shan made it to Revan's spaceship, one of them, who turned out to be Qassyie Shal, felt a small spark of life left in the mutilated body. More important, she felt the Force surrounding the dying corpse. Clemens had indeed subconsciously entered a sort of trance when Malak cut off most of the left side of his body. Hassh'el decided to stay behind and help him, even though she had recognised the ruthless assassin. Before Malak's attack, she managed to get the body on her ship, and immediately headed for Manaan. There, she succeeded in obtaining the best kolto she could find there. After months in a tank, Clemens was finally - even if slowly - getting better. The best Republican medics of Ahto operated him, implanting cybernetics to replace his missing limbs and organs. Shal herself stayed at his side most of the time, meditating to give him strength.

Finally, after spending a little more than six months in a tank, he was cured. But he had lost most of his memory. Shal decided to take him as her padawan and train him in the ways of the Force once again. This is when he was first nicknamed Lytt by his new master.

"You were surrounded by the strongest streams of the Force I have every felt in a boy your age. It was as if you were lit by the Force. You literally were half dead, but you were glowing with Life. Henceforth, you shall be called "Lytt"."

- Qassyie Shal to her young Padawan

Training in the ways of the Force
"You are not strong. Neither physically nor in the Force. At least not enough to be a good Guardian or a wise Consular. But your are charismatic, you are fast, you are handy, you are intelligent, and you know all there is to know about cunning. That is why you shall become a Sentinel."

- Qassyie Shal to Lytt Clemens

Learning about the light side of the Force, Clemens grew stronger and stronger. He even started developing impressive skills in lightsabre combat when his master chose to teach him Form IV: Ataru. In weeks, he had become a great duelist. He was impressively fast, and intuitively knew how to mislead his opponents into letting their guard down. In the same time, he tried to cure his amnesia, with almost no success. Anyway, he was decided to embody his new identity: he was no longer Theodore Clemens, and learnt to become Lytt Clemens. His master learnt about some of his previous deeds, but she decided not to inform him and to let him grow stronger in the Force before he had to face the burden.

Soon, he was fit enough to embark on a Grand Tour of the galaxy at the side of his master. But they were caught back by the events that led Revan to the Star Forge for the second time.

Becoming a Jedi Knight
Qassyie Shal was called by the Jedi Order to help the fleet of the Galactic Republic destroy the ancient artefact. He entered the Star Forge to help Revan with Malak's Dark Jedi. After almost an hour of constant fighting, he let his guard down and was incapacitated by one of them. At the same time, his master, exhausted, failed to hold back the unending flow of dark apprentices. Lytt was thus forced to witness his master's death at the hand of a mere Sith soldier, shot in the back as she tried to defend herself against a powerful Dark Jedi.

In a burst of anger and hatred, Lytt managed to free himself from the Force stasis field that paralysed him. In a blur of lightsabre blows, he killed most of the Sith in the room. But he calmed his anger by calling to the light side of the Force, and never drew close enough to the dark side of the Force to fall under its attraction. He went for his dying master, holding her hand as she passed away. Her last words were words of confidence:

"Do not despair... You do not need to cry... I will be one with the Force, at last. In many ways, you have surpassed me. It is time for you to become a weapon of the Light... I foresee you will become a great Jedi Knight... Farewell my Padawan, my friend..."

- Qassyie Shal's last words

As Revan was defeating Darth Malak, Lytt left the Star Forge with his master's dead body, just in time to be safe from the explosion of the space factory. He joined the troops of the army of the Republic and the Jedi on the Unknown World (Lehon), where he burnt his master's body according to the Jedi rites. After Revan was rewarded with the Cross of Glory, Lytt was knighted by Jedi Master Vandar Tokare. In the following days, he constructed a new yellow lightsabre, which is said to be the trademark of Jedi Sentinels.

The First Jedi Purge
"You are now a Knight of the Republic. You will be one of our scouts, chartering unknown territories, driving evil far away from the Republic. We trust your judgement, Lytt. Do not betray yourself. You will be tempted. Do not give in to your anger. It will be hard, but know that you always can trust the Force to strengthen your will."

- Vandar Tokare to Lytt Clemens, about the dangers of the dark side