Tenzin Roan

Tenzin Roan was a Whiphid Jedi who lived from shortly before the founding of the Rebel Alliance to the end of the empire. He was found as an infant on Toola by Rahm Kota, where, abandoned by his parents, he had nearly died from cold. Master Kota took him to the temple, and later took Tenzin as his padawan, not long before he would have been sent to the Agricorps. Tenzin was ever loyal to his master, sometimes to the point of refusing to see other points of view.

Roan was stationed on Mygeeto alongside Ki-Adi Mundi when Order 66 was executed. Shortly before Roan became a knight, Kota was attacked by Starkiller, Darth Vader's secret apprentice. Escaping Mygeeto, he 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. Roan trained several Jedi during the days of the new republic.

Although he had achieved the level of skill necessary to become a knight and even a master, and he was considered a knight by his allies, Roan was not officially given the title of Jedi Knight until the end of the empire, around the same time as the celebration on Endor.

= Biography =

Early life
Tenzin knew very little of his early life, other than that for an unknown reason, he had been abandoned. A year after he became a Jedi Padawan, He met and spoke to his uncle while on a mission to Toola, who told him his parents had left him in favor of raising their other, older son. After learning this, Roan thought no more of his family, knowing that most of them didn't care at all about his existence. 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, with several Jedi masters watching, among them Rahm Kota, who had been watching in hopes of finding a potential padawan. After the exercise, Kota spoke with the council, and Tenzin became his padawan.

First missions
Tenzin went for various missions with his master. His first mission was to Obredaan, to investigate a Jin'ha cult that was composed of Force sensitive Jin'ha warriors. Before too long, they had found and infiltrated the temple of the cult. After listening in on a conversation in a meeting hall between it's leaders, they learned that the cult, which was called the Order of Keldiri (the word for "power" in the Jin'ha language, intended to take over the republic by surprise, using a powerful army they had built. Before long, Kota and Roan had found the army.

Watching from a catwalk, they saw an enormous force of millions of Jin'ha soldiers, all wielding disruptor rifles, blasters and cortosis melee weapons. Tenzin opened his comlink and tried to warn the 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, leader of the cult. Rahm Kota managed to trick their adversary into thinking he knew nothing, but Tenzin was not so lucky. His attempts to trick the Keldiri Master failed. The Master stripped Tenzin of his Force Power. He didn't have much time to realize the implications of this, because a few minutes later, The Keldiri Master left and Kota broke out. Freeing his apprentice, Tenzin and Kota escaped Obredaan.

Jedi healing


Rahm Kota took Roan before the council and asked if anything could be done to restore his apprentice's force power. 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 Ragoon VI to speak with Jensir Tahn. Tahn was a Shistavanen Jedi Master who chose to live on the remote world to discover more of the Force.

After receiving direction from the council, Roan found Jensir 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, Roan 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, along 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, Ki Adi Mundi 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, Roan accidentally lost Mundi in the twisting passages of the underground library. He entered an enormous chamber and saw a figure standing across the room. He drew a double bladed black lightsaber. Tenzin drew his blue, and they clashed. With the glow of the lightsabers, Tenzin could see his enemy. He was Ubese, and he looked to be some sort of Sith. Roan fought well, but was eventually cornered and disarmed by his combatant. "Who are you?" Tenzin asked. "I am Sindri," he replied. "The Lord of the Shadows, and your doom!" But as he raised his lightsaber for the killing blow, Ki Adi Mundi ran in, lightsaber drawn. Sindri vanished in a cloud of vapor. As they left the library, Roan told Ki about his battle with the mysterious Sindri.

Clone War Espionage
During the Clone Wars, Tenzin was given a long term assignment that would end up lasting most of the war. The council sent him to Ziost to investigate a corporate establishment that was discovered to have ties to Count Dooku. 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.

"I see you have discovered my army. They will serve my purpose quite well. Dooku is a pathetic excuse for a Sith, merely a pawn of Darth Sidious. Soon I shall wipe him out with my army of Sith Acolytes. And then, I shall challenge Master Sidious himself, and become Dark Lord of the Sith!" 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 cuff's weakening lasers were deactivated. Roan 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 Roan 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 disloged 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. Roan, 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. Roan 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 Mygeeto. There, while taking down droids alongside the Cerean 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 Roan to the ancient Jedi stronghold of Ossus. After a few days of meditating and wondering what had happened, Roan 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 Roan 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
Roan spent the next 3 months of his life on Ossus. It was rather quiet, but Tenzin felt peaceful there. 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. Roan 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 when Roan 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 Sidious' 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 and took off into space. Thinking quickly, Roan contacted his master and told him the news. 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 (bacta, pain relief) 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= This has been my most detailed article to date. I hope to continue adding to it, but for now I am calling it "Completed". It was written over the span of a few months.