Star Wars: The Chosen

"Ken Elegin of the Jedi, I have need of you. The Galaxy has need of you. Find the ones that I have shown to you and lead them to greatness, for if you should fail, then the Galaxy shall lie in ruin for the remainder of its days. May the Force be with you."

- The voice in the vision

| Star Wars: The Chosen is a work of Star Wars fan-fiction written by NKSCF and published on | FanFiction.net. It follows Jedi Master Ken Elegin as he receives a vision from a mysterious source that claims he is needed to gather a group of Jedi, traitors, and civilians in order to fight a bent on possessing a malignant power that could give him control of the entire Galaxy. The story is currently on-going, and is planned to have thirty-three chapters, as well as one prologue and epilogue.

The Search
Two years after the fight with the Lost Tribe of Sith, Jedi Master Ken Elegin receives a vision from an unknown source, and discovers that a monstrous creature mired in dark side energies will envelop the Galaxy and kill all sentient life. Recently the Jedi have foreseen their destruction, but their search into Sith-affiliated worlds has come up with no evidence of any threat existing and the search was called off. After being shown the planet and being told to head there, Ken is accosted by Jedi Master Kyle Katarn, who has become wary of Ken due to his frequent absences from the Jedi Order to find his place in the Galaxy. As the two debate their differences, they find that a recent mission to find a missing Jedi named Sothais Saar has discovered that he is no more, murdered by his contacts inside of Hutt Space, where he had attempted to get the Hutts to abolish slavery. Learning this, Kyle reveals to Ken that his former apprentice, was killed on  during the search for information on the hidden threat, and that he wanted to go there himself, but was forced to stay on  by his fellow Council members, who feared losing yet another Jedi Master as they had in years past. Ken, now with Kyle's approval, leaves, knowing that on Lehon he will find Tash and Zak Arranda.

In space, pilot and bounty hunter Malinza Thanas and her co-pilot Zomil wait for two Jedi Knights to transfer the recently recaptured pirate Three-Eye, who escaped from Galactic Alliance custody and began experimentation on animals from an old work site of hers. When Shul Vaal and Tiu Zax arrive with Galactic Alliance soldiers to pick up the prisoner, they find that they have been double-crossed, and that Three-Eye allied with the and, who extract her from the Jedi, and also take Shul as a captive, leaving an unconscious Tiu with an angered Malinza, who swears to get Shul back alive.

On, Danni Quee and Kunra encounter the living consciousness of the planet, and are told to leave for Lehon, where they will assist an unknown figure in his quest to save the Galaxy. Recently married, the two take a modified coralskipper to get away from their hidden part of the Unknown Regions and make their way to Lehon.

As his fellow slaves depart for their service, Garindan, once famed information broker, dwells on his past, knowing that he has been marked as cursed by his people for giving information to the Empire that could have killed  on  before he had a chance to destroy the. Despite his setbacks, he managed to gain access to a privileged life, but the Hutts placed a bounty on his head that was eventually collected by, and then he was sentenced to live the remainder of his life on , where he would have been indoctrinated into the recently resurrected cult on the planet, if not for a bribe he made that allowed him to secure access to an enzyme that broke off the of the. This leaves him one of the few slaves on Ylesia able to keep his own mind and not be broken by his overseers, causing another slave to notice him. The slave, a named Maber Yeff, tells Garindan that he is planning a slave revolt to make up for his past as a member of the, and that he wants Garindan's help, which Garindan offers when he realizes that he has nothing to live for anymore.

Tash and Zak Arranda investigate the ruins of the on Lehon, in an attempt to disprove wild theories that the  could return to menace the Galaxy. As they work, they find themselves under attack by a group of who are bent on killing them. Before the battle can truly start, however, Ken arrives in his and forces the Mandalorians to flee without killing any of them. The Mandalorians return to their camp to talk to their leader, Ram Zerimar&mdash;who has been told by an individual known as Durrei that the Arrandas were secretly supplying the Empire with weapons&mdash;vows to kill the Jedi himself, as he thinks that he will be doing the Galaxy a favor.

Behind the scenes
Star Wars: The Chosen is NKSCF's attempt to branch off from his earlier works, which were considered on the site to rely too much on Mary Sue-ish qualities that detracted from otherwise great ideas. In order to distance himself from these works, NKSCF came up with an idea to find a canon Sue and work it so that he or she had flaws and could be respected. During a visit to TVTropes, NKSCF found out that many fans considered Ken from the '' series to be such a Sue. From there he came up with a way to incorporate Ken into a story that he was already planning that dealt with obscure or rarely used characters from canon to give them a chance to be in the spotlight. This was sparked by a visit to Wookieepedia, where NKSCF read about the Jedi healer. Knowing that he was unlikely to be used too much in the future, NKSCF made Shul the first character for his fan-fic, and then built the story around Shul and Ken, filling other characters in to make the story more stable.