Jaxson Cand

Jaxson Cand was a Jedi Apprentice at the same time as Yoda was, they shared the same master, N'Kata Del Gormo, but a small time after making it to the Republic, Jaxson was given a new master, Nearar Payne. He was a strong and powerful Jedi, but couldn't live up to his old friend Yoda, and that want and envy is what turned him into a Sith Lord until his old friend came to stop him.He took his weakness and turned it into his advantage towards his enemy, but when it really mattered, he failed. Though his life wasn't always evil, he was always remembered for his duties as the ruthless man known as Darth Keller in his later years. The battle against Yoda and Jaxson left one alive and the other became known as a ghost, seen only at night. He took his weakness and turned it into his advantage towards his enemy, but when it really mattered, he failed. Though his life wasn't always evil, he was always remembered for his duties as the ruthless man known as Darth Keller in his later years.

His family
Jaxson's father, Orson Cand, was a pilot who served for the Republic, he was also a strong believer in the force. Miranda Keller Cand, his mother on the other hand believed that the only thing that Jedi could do is get in the way of the hard working people. He had an older brother by the name of Luke Keller. Luke wasn't actually his brother, he was his mother's child from a previous relationship. Jaxson's closest family member was not even family at all, it was his best friend Yoda. The two were about the same age but Yoda was over a meter shorter than his friend.

Jaxson's family loved Yoda but felt that he shouldn't be friends with a human, it didn't seem safe to them. Yoda was quick and had dangerous talons while Jaxson had bony fists that couldn't do much. Despite this feeling, they never stopped Jaxson from being with his only friend.

The crash
Jaxson and Yoda crashed on an unknown world where, for days, they searched for food water and other means of survival. During this time, Orson drove himself crazy looking for his son, he finally convinced his wife to let the Jedi search. On the fourth day of living of strange fruits they were found, but not by the search team looking for them, but by a Jedi master who would soon train them to be two of the most powerful force-sensetive creatures ever seen. He provided the two with a good shelter as he observed them, and then he told them that they were force-sensitive.

Training: year one
"Size does not matter. Look at me, I am not as skilled as you and are we judged by our size? Hmm? Well. And we shouldn't. For our ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is."

- Jaxson, to Yoda

N'Kata Del Gormo promised to train both of them, despite being against the Jedi Code to train two younglings. The training spanned for a year, and during this time the Galactic Republic presumed them both dead. During the year Yoda's power grew but he lost confidence because of how small he was.

It took a pep talk from him to finally make Yoda believe that he would someday be a great Jedi master. N'Kata Del Gormo said that they had done in a year what some Jedi Knight's didn't do. He asked them to train for a little bit longer, Yoda felt strained, but said yes after Jaxson convinced him.

Training: year two
The second year seemed to start out like the last one had finished, well until a wild Rancor appeared on the second week while N'Kata was meditating. Both children hadn't built their lightsaber so they were forced use the force to pick up rocks and large boulders to throw at the beast. The Rancor hit Yoda, and the force of the blast alone almost caused him to die. This angered Jaxson, he looked around and saw the largest boulder and used the Force to attack the Rancor. With one swift blow, the Rancor was dead.

N'Kata rushed out and could sense the anger radiating off he student, then he knew that he may have failed his apprentice.Even though he knew this, he wouldn't banish him for it would only increase the anger that was already provided. N'Kata would have to put off saving his young apprentice from the dark side because Yoda was injured and dying.

Jaxson did all he could to save his friend, and finally Yoda opened his eyes and he was alive and alright.

Construction of the lightsaber
It was finally time for Jaxson and Yoda to build their lightsaber, after finding all the pieces, N'Kata led them to a cerimonial site where they picked their crystal. Yoda picked green and when he made his lightsaber happiness was shining off him. Then it was Jaxson's turn, he looked for several minutes trying to find one that he liked, and finally he found it. It was hidden behind several other crystals, but he was able to rummage through them and grab the yellow crystal. When he constructed his lightsaber and activated it for the first time, there was silence. As the yellow light hit his face a sense of gloom filled the cave. Yoda couldn't tell, but N'Kata and Jaxson knew something was wrong.

After they traveled back from the cave the sound of a ship was overhead, as they all looked up they saw a Republic Star ship land. Before the ship could touch the ground three Jedi Knights rushed out with there lightsabers ready to attack. They then quickly saw the children with Master N'Kata and a sense of relief filled the Jedi.

The short return home
The ship flew to the two families waiting for their children, but when Jaxson got there he felt like he didn't belong. He had been so serious for so long that he forgot to laugh, it was weird but he always knew it would happen, ever since he started training. Soon after the Jedi return and asked then to train some more at the Jedi Temple. Jaxson was quick to say yes, but it took Yoda a little more time, but he did say yes.

The formal training
When they arrived at the Jedi Academy they were put straight to work, they had to be tested and they met and were spoken to by the Jedi Council. Soon after they were appointed their masters, Yoda was able to keep N'Kata but Jaxson was forced to have a new master. They were told training at the temple would be tougher, but Jaxson knew that nothing could compare to training into the night, just to find food in the morning.

The new master
Jaxson was given a new human Jedi Knight as a master, his name was Nearar Kayne, but he liked Jaxson calling him Master Kayne. Jaxson thought that his new master was decent, but he never tought him anything new and Jaxson always beat him in sparring. Jaxson really couldn't complain, his master was nice and they respected eachother.

Even though his new master was good he didn't even match the power that N'Kata had, Yoda was learning new things and improving while Jaxson was beginning to lose faith in himself.

Vandoid Sickness
In 880 BBY, when Jaxson was 16 years old, he and his master were requested to go to the planet of Maynus to help a party of sick that were stranded there, it sounded easy at first until they were told that they would be forced to search on foot to find them because of the recent mist cover. Jaxson was excited to hear that he would be going on a mission finally, he had never been on a mission before and he was beginning to grow jealous because he'd constantly see his friend and his former master returning from their adventures.

Before they left they were briefed about the sickness, they were told that in small amounts the person would get light headed and begin to ache all over while if exposed for more than one day they would begin to get a fever and red boils on the back on the legs that would eventually go away after a week of intoxication. After a week they would begin to see things differently, things would look to be more dangerous than they were.

To prevent inhaling any toxic substances the two Jedi would have to wear masks to clear the air they were breathing.

As their ship touched down the men put on the masks and walked into the grassy plains, all around was grass except in the distance where you could see the shapes of trees. It would be most likely that the people were camped out in the forest to escape the mist that grew thicker as they stepped in the knee high grass. It would take several hours to walk over to the forest and night was beginning to creep over giving them two options, sleep in the ship and wait till tomorrow or start out on foot and reach them early. After much thought they decided that it would be best if they headed out now and found them in the morning because if they delayed, several more people may die and the fog may be too thick to see.

When they reached the end of the forest the sun was down and like they thought, the fog was thick. So thick that it would probably suffocate them if they weren't wearing their masks. They decided it would be best if they camped out for the night and searched for them at sun up.

When the sun peaked through the heavy mist and awakened the two Jedi they started back on their journey, only about an hour after they started searching they heard coughing and wheezing. When they walked toward the area they found a clearing where they fog had disappeared, but it was filled with sick people who couldn't bend their legs because the enlarged boils prevented them from moving. Jaxson and his master tried to help them but the ship was too far and the clearing was too small and crowed to land the ship.

Before they could come up with a plan a group of the sick jumped out of the fog and attacked the two Jedi. Jaxson quickly activated his lightsaber and wildly slashed and dashed, slaying the small group that attacked them. Master Kayne scolded him for killing the innocent people because they were sick, not crazy.

For the night they decided that they would camp with the sick people and help them to ship the next day, but while in their sleep a couple of the sick began screaming in horror as the boils popped and their thoughts changed. Quickly the two's mind drastically changed, in only a matter of minutes they began violently thrashing around. When they found a pile of rocks they began throwing it at the Jedi, and Jaxson suddenly had a flashback to when he attacked the wild Rancor that had nearly killed Yoda with a large boulder. This reminded him that what they were throwing was dangerous, so he decided to use the force to throw the rocks back. He forgot however that because of the sickness they were extremely weak so when they were hit in the head they instantly died.

If it hadn't been for the fact that only two people could walk made it tough to get back, most on the people were practically dragged across, several dying on the way. When they finally made it back to the ship, only four lived, two Jedi and two of the sick. When they got on the ship they put the two on soft cushions in a quarantine like room, but still as a precaution they wore their masks.

When they reached the Jedi Temple they raced to get the sick into a room where they could be cured but no cure had been found. For days scientists tried to find a cure, but couldn't find one until one had died because they began to research his body. Before they could get the cure into the second one's system, he died, leaving no active strand of the virus other than the air on Maynus.

The rise of a sith
"I can hear you Jedi, but don't worry soon you will dead!"

- Darth Z'Colt, to Jaxson and Master Nearar

After speculation a new enemy had risen, he went by the name Darth Z'Colt and he had grey hair and his only ally was the force and a small lightsaber. Intel came in saying he was on the planet of Shermac, a planet that had recently been inhabited by humans, but it was rumored that a flying, bug-like species roamed the planet. Jaxson and Master Nearar were sent to Shermac to check for the rising Sith Lord, but within the first day they had found nothing, no one knew anything.

Days later, still nothing but is seemed that either they were closing in on finding him or just looking for someone who isn't there. When the sun set, they saw a shadow flying in the distance, they couldn't tell what it was, but they ran on foot anyways. After several minutes of chasing, the creature finally slowed down and went into a cave. The two Jedi crouched and sneaked into the moist cave, all was going well until they heard a ghostly voice. A split second afterwards a white haired man with a long green lightsaber struck, he wore a black robe and fought calmly for a sith.

At first the sith stayed quiet, focusing on his fighting technique, but what was after what felt like forever he finally begun to talk. The words that he spoke were of peace within the sith and he also tried to make him kill his master. Jaxson fought the sith's evil lies, but Jaxson was to weak, he began to turn to the dark side, but before Z'Colt could turn him fully Jaxson threw his lightsaber and fled while dragging an unconscious Nearar.

The dream
Soon after escaping Dath Z'Colt Jaxson had a vision about him. In the vision Z'Colt and Jaxson were battling in a forest. Jaxson had to keep distance from the sith's extended lightsaber, but then Jaxson's arrogance made him charge the enemy and get slashed in the stomach. He quickly awoke in a cold sweat and he had a pain in his stomach. He quickly ran to his master the next morning telling him of the vision, but Master Nearar Payne saw it as a sign not to be arrogant or cocky in battle while Jaxson thought it was a vision of a battle soon to come.

Behind the scenes
Bluethunder came up with Jaxson while he was reading the article about Yoda on Wookieepedia that said he crash landed on an unknown planet with an unknown, unnamed human male.