Owen Kenobi, Jr.

Owen Kenobi Jr was what some would call a Jedi and what others would call a renegade. Owen Kenobi was never part of Yoda's or Luke Skywalker's Jedi Order, but was trained in the ways of the Force by the Force-ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi, his uncle.

Heritage
Obi-Wan Kenobi, though raised in the Jedi Temple from the time he was a baby, knew his brother, Owen Kenobi. Owen Kenobi was not strong in the Force, as his brother was, though he carried a recessive gene inside that granted direct interaction with the Force. Owen Kenobi married several years after the Blockade of Naboo, in 29 BBY. The father of a future great man gave birth to a single son, which the mother named after himself.

Early Life
The couple raised the boy on Alderaan, and they lived a peaceful life even into the Clone Wars. Owen Kenobi Jr grew strong and content through his childhood, living normally from the struggles at school to the joys with the HoloNet. The boy grew in a family whose father was an architect and the mother investing in stocks. The family shared a strong bond and the father, mother, and child were inseparable.

Rise of the Empire
The family was disrupted by the fall of democracy in the Galactic Senate, as Owen Senior was politically minded and was an action-taking soul. Stormtroopers invaded the family's home one night, after the Jedi named Kenobi. As Owen Senior looked exactly like his brother, the Stormtroopers fired, but did not strike down the target, as Owen Senior fired first. The family moved, Owen Junior then only eight years old, and Owen Kenobi Sr joining the Rebellion that was growing.

Custody of the Rebellion
Owen Kenobi Jr grew up with the Rebel Alliance, and learned to hate the Empire. But Owen felt that the best way to overthrow the new order was to undermine the government the same way that it had been when Palpatine declared himself the Emperor. Owen tried to spread the idea that a galactic civil war would only prolong the Empire's reign and provoke many to attempt to continue the legacy of the Empire even if Palpatine was overthrown. Owen thought that Palpatine had to make himself look bad in front of everyone to lose political support, and then gain consent of a complete rebellion when nearly nobody left is loyal to the Emperor.

Battle of Hoth
After the Battle of Yavin, the Rebel fleet moved to Hoth, and was invaded by Imperial troops sometime later. Owen Kenobi's mother had died of hypothermia while there was a shortage of medical supplies, and the Battle of Hoth killed Owen's father. Owen Kenobi fled the Rebellion in his personalized X-Wing, and fled to the middle of nowhere.

Destiny as a Jedi
Though Owen Kenobi though he chose his destination randomly, his feelings guided him to select a planet the ghost of Obi-Wan wished to meet him at. The X-Wing pulled out of hyperspace over the lava-scorched planet, and he landed at, "coindidentally," the same landing platform where Padme's cruiser touched down at the end of the Clone Wars. Owen Kenobi was now fully-grown and headstrong, teeming with energy, just as Obi-Wan was when he was a youngling. And as he exited the fighter, the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi appeared, having just finished saying to Yoda on Dagobah "So was I, if you remember."

Obi-Wan prophesized that Owen's path would be a great one, and took Owen as an apprentice, teaching his nephew the ways of the Force. Owen Kenobi learned to control his feelings and listen to the will of the Force, learning to be a Jedi as effectively as any knight. Owen Kenobi excelled in lightsaber combat, and was a vigorous learner, thinking that he was destined to be the one to undermine the Empire as Palpatine had undermined the Republic.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, just as the Death Star II was being destroyed, told Owen that it was indeed his time to prove himself as a Jedi, and his trial mission was to search Endor and wipe out any Imperial forces that may remain on Endor. Obi-Wan promised that Owen Kenobi would become a Jedi Master if his mission succeeded, and Owen became excited. His trial was to change the entire course of his life, and for the better.

...But not in the way Owen Kenobi suspected...

Fate on Endor
Owen Kenobi travelled to the Forest Moon of Endor to search the planet for any remaining Imperials, and piloted his T-65 X-Wing over the moon. A piece of debris from the Death Star II collided with his spacecraft, however, and he lost control of his starfighter. The X-Wing crashed onto the surface of the Forest Moon, and the impact knocked the Jedi unconscious.

Owen Kenobi awoke among curious Ewoks, who, despite their confusion and curiosity, chose to take care of him until his intentions were revealed. The local Ewok shamans saw his starfighter fall from the sky, and thought he was a sign from the gods. Owen Kenobi used the Force to communicate with the Ewoks, and through much effort and despiration, Owen was able to convince the Ewoks to help him elliminate the Imperial forces that remained on Endor. He led the Ewoks against the escape shuttles and generator sentries that found refuge on the planet, and several months later, long after the Rebel Alliance departed, Owen Kenobi concluded that he had fulfilled his mission, though he was unable to return to the civilized universe.

Immersion into the Ewok Tribe
Owen Kenobi, knowing how to tap into the Force, brought awe to the Ewoks, and the primitive mammals respected the Jedi almost as a god. Owen Kenobi learned their language after months of immersion and was able to deny their worship, saying that his power came from the Force, and he was not an entity of any sort. He discovered several Force-sensitive Ewoks among the tribe, and taught them to use the Force and to be Jedi as he was. Owen Kenobi taught the Ewoks simple techniques of weaponcraft with the supplies available and helped unify the tribes in the area.

As a Jedi Order of Kenobi's started, the Ewok shamans became jealous of the human, and plotted against the Jedi. Owen Kenobi solved this problem by having the Endor Jedi Order work for the Ewoks' leadership. Owen Kenobi's Jedi shaped the local Ewok primitive government into a democracy, though the Endor Jedi were unable to make the system appear over the entire planet; they were limited to small areas on the Forest Moon. The new trade system introduced by Owen Kenobi proved effective for the several allied tribes with the Tree Tower village, and the many neighboring tribes adapted a less traditional economy.

One of the main missions of an Ewok Jedi was to slay the Goraxes that preyed upon the Ewok community. The Goraxes, which were dull-brained and brutal, were not so great a challenge for a gang of Ewoks with lightsabers and Force-skills. The security of the Tree Tower Village and neighboring tribes improved greatly because of the Endor Jedi's efforts. Negotiations and agreements were commonly settled between bickering clans and tribes with the help of the Endor Jedi Order.

In the meantime, Owen Kenobi learned to better speak the language of the Ewoks, and he in turn taught some eager scholars to speak Basic. Owen Kenobi befriended the leaders of Tree Tower, and became an informal advisor to the clan leaders.

Though Owen Kenobi had hoped for a life of galactic significance, he fell in love with the naturally harmonious nature of the Ewoks and became dedicated to the Endorian species. He was a Jedi Master, as he was the leader of an order just as Jedi as the Senate-supported Old Republic Jedi Order and the Order, which Owen Kenobi was unfamilliar with, that was led by Luke Skywalker.

Second Clone War
Endor's face was not touched so much by the New Republic, and the Tree Tower Village and the other villages made prospering by Owen Kenobi were unaware of the start of a galactic threat introduced by Darth Infineus. The Ewok Jedi and the human Master did sense the growth of the Dark Side, and the Endor Jedi Order did become suspicious of the growing dark activity.

Arrival of Jacen Solo and Tenel Ka
The mood of the tribes changed vigorously when Darth Monarchist chose the Forest Moon of Endor for a place to gather Force energy to feed the Dark Reaper. Several captured Jedi were placed in the path of the Harvester's field to strengthen the Force that was to be harnessed. The Harvester was set up near the Tree Tower Village, and the reaping field receeded just at the edge of the village.

Two curious visitors, accompanied by a couple of weary apprentices, were knocked out by the field on the edge of the Harvester's range. The visitors, who were Jacen Solo and Tenel Ka in their late teens, awoke to the same quarters that Owen Kenobi found himself in decades before. The Jedi explained their situation, and Owen Kenobi admitted that he considered himself a Jedi, as well as many Ewoks in his Order. The revelation of a separate Jedi Order on Endor startled the Jedi Knights, but they considered themselves in debt of them, nevertheless.

Owen Kenobi was reluctant to trust the newcomers immediately, but their interests became similar enough to cooperate when there became an appearance of Separatist outposts on Endor. Owen agreed to send some Ewok warriors (and Jedi) with Jacen and Tenel Ka to a Separatist outpost to send a distress signal. The outpost was overwhelmed, but the main base was unshaken. The communication was sent, and the Jedi returned to await a planned takeover to capture the Jedi before they could inform the New Republic of the Dark Reaper. (Medicio Kindoo had already discovered the plans, but the CIS II was unaware of it)

Owen Kenobi laid out a trap for the droid army that was approaching the Tree Tower Village, and sent Jacen, Tenel Ka, and three of the Ewok Jedi in the Endorian Order to mislead the massive convoy. The battle droids were directed straight into the path of a moonfall that started at the dawn.

The remaining forces attacked from outposts not exposed to the moonfall, and the Ewoks outnumbered them. Though technologically disadvantaged, the Ewoks fought the battle droids just as mercilessly as the instance of the Battle of Endor.

Owen Kenobi was the first to spot a wedge shaped figure in the sky. Thinking that it was a Star Destroyer, carrying menacing Imperials from his early life, he exclaimed "A Star Destroyer!" Jacen corrected him, saying that the Justice-class Assault Ship was on their side, and Owen Kenobi finally told the Jedi Knights his name, and told them not to reveal his existence to the Jedi Order that looked out for the rest of the Galaxy. Owen Kenobi hid from the New Republic forces, which easily defeated the remaining battle droids, and returned to help the Ewoks who had lost their homes to the Harvester rebuild their lives.