Thaddik Jesevas

"They say only a Sith deals in absolutes but if I walked around with Sulfuric eyes and a red lightsaber, i'd absolutely have to be a Sith"

- Jerun Othorne while speaking about the flaws in the Jedi Code

Jerun Othorne, born Thaddik Jesevas, was a Human male born in 30 BBY to a pair of biologists studying the fauna of in conjunction with the Jedi Order. After his mother,Saramona Jesevas, experienced him float in his sleep, she took him to the and requested that he be checked for Force-sensitivity. His count showed that he was in tune with the Force enough to be trained, and he was taken into the Jedi Order. Inquisitive by nature, during his infant years, he explored the Great Jedi Library and its surrounding flora much to the dischagrin of his early teachers who were afraid that others might join him in his dangerous ventures.

This proved to be to his advantage, however, because he had more knowledge of the wildlife and plant-life on Ossus, which was included in the early curriculum. At the age of five in 25 BBY, he was inaugurated into his youngling class and began to train in the more advanced and subtle arts of the Force. By the age of seven, Jerun was talented enough with the lightsaber that they forwent his assigned lightsaber classes and he was allowed to train with older younglings and to observe practice duels between the prospective Padawans. Jerun proved to be an exemplenary scholar and was known to visit the Archives constantly. With the exception of times of combat training, Jerun was known to be a thinker in all situations and never gave an answer unless he had verifiable evidence and firm backing into why he gave that answer.

Thaddik would eventually come under the the eye of the powerful Jedi Guardian Ahsoka Tano due to his formidable lightsaber skill. He was well on his way to mastering Djem So yet he was still an apprentice. Ahsoka, without much deliberation, took Thaddik as her apprentice. Thaddik's power grew rapidly under Ahsoka and he became very powerful but also wiser and a clearer thinker. He was proficient to the point that even before he was knight, he was given his own individual mission by the Jedi Council. He was to infiltrate the Crimson Nova chapter of the Bounty Hunter's Guild on and to provide the Council with intelligence of their projects and to find out who put the bounty on Jedi Knights and to find out who was the leader of the Crimson Nova. Thaddik would remain at this post for the remainder of the war and personally eliminated the entire Crimson Nova per the Jedi Councils order before departing for Kashyykk with to warn Yoda of Order 66.

When Thaddika and Kai arrived on Kashyykk, they were met by Shaak Ti and Yoda who decided to Knight Thaddik due to his sucess with the Crimson Nova. Thaddik was encouraged to hide away until a resistance could be formed by Yoda and Thaddik left the planet only to recieve an emergency transmission from Bail Organa who asked Thaddik and Barriss Offee to travel to Cophrigin 5 and to warn An'ya Kuro of Order 66.

In 2 BBY, Thaddik recieved a transmission to his personal ship the ,Blue Justice, from Barriss Offee and her resistance asking that he join the newly formed Rebel Alliance. At first glance, Jerun was skeptical of this invitation but after scouting their forces on Dantooine, Brigia,and Orion IV, Jerun agreed and was sworn in as a General of the Rebel Forces by Bail Organa who had been advised by Yoda to do so. In the same year, Luke Skywalker turned 17 and Thaddik and Offee, true to their word, traveled to Tatooine. Their they imparted upon Luke the truth behind his parentage and that he contained the potential to become a Jedi, people who Luke had heard about in legends. Luke refused at first but when he returned to his farm one day to see that his uncle and aunt had been killed by the Empire and the Farn destroyed, he agreed and traveled to Hoth with the two where they began his training.

One day, while they were transporting rebels from Corellia to safety, they were captured by Imperial Forces. Shortly after their interment at a Imperial Prison Installation, they and the Corellian Rebels were rescued by a smuggler known as Han Solo who would go on to ride many missions with the Rebel Alliance. On one mission, they were captured by the Death Star along with Solo and submitted to torture by Darth Maul, who had become Vader's apprentice. Leia Organa and a Rebel strike team rescued them from their holding cells before the group was assaulted by Vader who Offee heroically engaged Vader while Luke watched as Vader mutalaited her several times before he threw her down an energy shaft. Just as Luke rushed Vader, Jerun intervened and grabbed Luke and carried him to Solo's shuttle, the Millenium Falcon. After this mission An'ya and Yoda began training Luke in place of the grieving Thaddik, saddened at Barriss, a constant companion of his's, death. For a brief period, Thaddik once again wandered the Outer Rim Territories, seeking knowledge and trying to come to terms with Offee's death.

During his travels, he met a group of hunted space pirates from Rapeon called the Rapeon Pirates who were led by a smuggler known as Osik De'Grear who was seeking to join the Rebel Alliance. Osik, who knew of Jerun's connection with the Rebel Alliance and of his departure, asked Thaddik and eventually talked him into rejoining the Rebel Alliance. The two would fly even more missions than Luke Skywalker and Han Solo did together, building a firm and strong friendship.

During the short rebuilding period of the galaxy after the Galactic Civil War, Jerun guided Luke in reconstructing the Jedi Order, watching as its numbers swelled to almost Old Republic NNUMBER.

Othorne was captured by the Vong, along with Jacen Solo, and tortured tp the edge of insanity. He was said to have been tortured so badly that he lost his sanity and went insane, becoming what most thought was a non-sentient monster. Through all the pain of being tortured constantly on the Embrace of Pain, a metaphorical monster truly was awakened in Thaddik, a monster borne of his anger which he had been keeping at bay all his life. When his dark side (the metaphorical monster) was unleashed, he became, in all but name, Sith and escaped the Vong and fought independently against the Jedi and the Vong during the remainder of the war.

After the war, Thaddik took a journey into the Unknown Regions, a place full of his family's history, to discover how this monster had gotten into his family and how to fight it. With his new powers, he destroyed many villages and massacred whole planets, unable to control it. Deciding that he was far too dangerous and far too submerged in the dark side to be called Thaddik any longer and changed his name to Jerun Othorne, in homage to a legendary member of his family who, as Thaddik had learned, fought the Monster and eliminated it from the family at the cost of his life only to have the monster reawaken in Thaddik.

Once again Jerun changed his name as a result of the unhuman things he had done, took the Sith name Darth Rayze, in reference to the villages and towns he had razed. He became a fugitive in the Unknown Regions, hunted by the Galactic Alliance and the Chiss Ascendancy. During his travels, Rayze discovered the lost True Sith Empire deep in the Unknown Regions who captured Rayze. From the True Sith, he learned the monster, actually the spirit of a destructive Sith Spirit, had been in his family since the first ancestor, known only as Darth Truasis, founder of the True Sith and indirectly the Sith Empire and also Rayze's maternal ancestor, the first Sith ever. Truasis had become so powerful that after his death, he became a Spirit that dwelled in the bodies of his descendants which granted them his dark side power.

Fighting for control of his body, Rayze trained with the True Sith until the time of the Confederation-Alliance War when he left the True Sith and once again began his wanderings. He'd eventually encounter his mother, Saramona Jesevas, who had found out that Truasis spirit had reawakened in Thaddik and had been hunting him in order to kill him to end Truasis forever. After a long and vicious duel on the world of Khar-Delba, Rayze triumped over his mother and was forced to kill her as she wouldn't stop attempting to kill him.

He returned to the Jedi Council and told them on his plight and they helped defeat the Spirit inside Rayze, who once again took the name Jerun, as a result of his struggle and return to the lightside, Jerun was deemed a Jedi Master.

During his time as a Jedi Master, Jerun fought in the Rapeon Civil War and in the remainder of the Confederation-Alliance alongside Osik De'Grear in his ship the Rapeon's Treasure', personally defeating Turr Phennir in combat and capturing him. When the war grew, what he described as, too political he once again took to wandering the fringes of Known Space and also the the edges of the Unknown Regions. In his travels, he disvoered the Force-sensitive abundant world of Kean-Taan where Jerun landed adn stayed there for three years before founding the Jedi Knights Guild, a guild which was just liike the Jedi Order except that Padawans were trained by various teachers for twelve years and to past a series of tests before they could officially be named Jedi Knights. The Guild was noticeably different from the Jedi order and the Order had non knowledge o f its founding. Jerun recruited the Force-sensitive natives of the planet as his first inaugural class, training them for twelve years until they became Jedi Knights. Of the 150 that he recruited, only 2 of them were advanced to Jedi Councilors on the Knights Guild Council of which Jerun was leader. The Knights Guild was not known to most of the galaxy with the exception of the majority of planets the Unknown Regions, which the Guild patrolled. Jerun lead the guild until he was forced to leave to fight once again in the Confederarion-Alliance War and left the Guild in the care of the two natives and returned to the New Jedi Order, but kept the knews of th Guild to himself.

He would survive the war and go on to fight the New Sith Order in the Sith-Imperial War and survive the raid on the New Jedi Temple only to be captured by Krayt who revealed himself to be A'Sharad Hett, an old friend of Jeruns. Captured once again, Jerun was tortured by Krayt for not revealing the location of the fabled "Grand Jedi Convocation", a place were the remaining Jedi gathered and trained. Truasis spirit once again awakened and in the newly reawakened Rayze's bloodlust, he killed Darth Nihl and Darth Wyyrlok and gouged out one of Krayts eyes before being surrounded by Sith and, in Jerun's/Rayze's last act, he let all his energy explode out of him, killing all the surrounding Sith but killing Jerun/Rayze also, in turn killing the spirit of Truasis before it could find a new host. Krayt took the body and gave it a proper Jedi Funeral, encasising his Lightsaber in translucent Electrum.

Early life (1-9 years old)
Thaddik was born to a pair of Republic biologists and spies who were researching wildlife on Ossus to chart changes that needed to take place to restore the planet to its original climate and original state. When Thaddik's mother noticed him float while he slept, she immediately found a transport en route to Coruscant and boarded it. When she landed on Coruscant, she contacted an old friend of hers Yaddle who took Thaddik to the Jedi Temple where he was confirmed to be Force-sensitive. During his youngling years, his group was trained in swordsmanship by Anoon Bondara who took a liking to young Thaddik because of his dedication and proficiency. Unlike other younglings, he did use his emotions to fuel his dedication but kept his feelings in check so that the masters wouldn't detect him doing it. Because of his tacticm he was far ahead of his entire class and allowed to train and spar with the older younglings and even Padawans. He was an early favorite of Jedi Master A'Sharad Hett who intended to train him before Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano, who was proficient with a Lightsaber like Thaddik,took him as her apprentice when he was eight in 32 BBY.

Early Stages
10 years later, when Thaddik was 18, the Clone Wars began. Jerun was one of the few Padawans at the temple sent to fight in the Jerun showed his proficiency with Djem So, which he had completely mastered in with Tano's help in those 10 years, and was a invaluable asset to the Clone forces on Geonosis as he fought his way through Separatist barricades. When hs sensed Anakin Skwalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi's distress through the Force, he sped to their destination just as was about to finish the both of them off. He entered a duel with Dooku and evenly matched him, as the disadvantages of their styles against one another was matched. Jerun managed to score a hit on Dooku's hip but discovered that he had hit a pouch on Dooku's hip. The destroyed plan's for the "" fell out of the pouch and Dooku, in a flash of anger, landed a ferocious swipe on Jerun. The slash left a thin scar on Jerun's face only because Jerun dodged at the last second. The two continued to duel before Jerun was hit with a blast of Sith lightning just as Yoda entered the outpost and he and Jerun engaged Dooku. Dooku was forced to flee after that onslaught and cursed Jerun and swore to have his revenge. Not realizing the entirety in what he had done in destroying the plans, Jerun took this battle as a huge loss for the Republic and the Jedi even though the Separatists forces had been defeated. After the duel, he and assisted the Medics in healing the wounded and found the body of Eeth Koth, a master whom Jerun had taken a liking to and one who had been a constant mentor to Thaddik, and secretly took his lightsaber to 1, honor his close friend, and 2, to honor him by using it in his ventures.

Second Battle of Jabiim
After participating in three unimportant battles, Thaddik and Ahsoka where shipped off to and immediately landed at  where the Jedi Generals and the Clone Commanders where going over the battle plans. After a task force was sent out to secure the enemy defensive position, Thaddik and Ahsoka where instructed to prepare for a second strike in 21 days after their arrival and after the first strike went out. On that 21s day, Shelter Base was attacked by the Jabiimi Nationalist. During the assault, Thaddik and Ahsoka were separated and Thaddik was under the impression that she had been killed. After his Masters death, he came under the jurisdiction of, a Jedi Master. At choal, Thaddik was nearly killed and grievously injured. Thaddik was thought to have been killed when an AT-AT-Walker fell atop him. However, just before contact, Thaddik used the Force to create an impression on the side of the walker which cradled him when the walker fell. On the outside, it looked like he had been crushed, which is why his death was logged by a Clone Trooper. Covered by the AT-AT, Thaddik sunk into a healing trance to heal his vast injuries. After a day and a half, Thaddik cut his way from under the AT-AT to discover that nearly all if Norcunas troops were dead. Almost immediately after healing himself, Thaddik took a part in the assault of Razor Coast, which was sucessful but costly. When Thaddik sensed that his close friend Anakin Skywalker was in danger, he took a small force of soldiers and raced to Cobalt Station in a Clonr gunship. He arrived in the midst of an ambush of the supply convoy that Anakin was leading. As a result of the mines placed in the convoys path, Jeruns thigh was blown off. He was taken to the medic station at Cobalt station and was fitted for a prosthetic enhancement. However, Barris Offee arrived and requisitioned his blown off thigh and using the Force, she re-attached it to the rest of his body. Shortly after this miraculous surgery, Thaddik and Barriss were transported to Monsoon Mesa and where immediately beat back unto Cobalt Station by the newly-arrived Droid Army. Thaddik and Barriss joined the shortly after and  joined them in defending Cobalt Station. They would defend the station for five days until Aubrie Wyn,at the cost of her life, killed Alto Stratus and, per the orders of Chancellor Palpatine, Anakin Skywalker evacuated his troops from the planet, refusing to evacuate the pro-Republic civillians and leaving them behind to face the wrath of the loyalists. Thaddik was the only Jedi to stay behind and assist the pro-republic citizens. After a 2 months of leading guerilla attacks against the Nationalist forces, Thaddiks efforts proved fruitful when the Nationalist were defeated with his help. During the many skirmishes, Thaddik sustained many major injuries but due to a lack of time, he could never enter a healing trance so he fought with his injuries unattended. Now a hero of the Jabiimi people, Thaddik was provided a transport off planet by the new restored government.

Jedi Knight
Thaddik returned to Coruscant and was given a month of resting time by the Jedi Council, whom, unbeknowest to Thaddik, were considering him for Knightship. During his resting time, Thaddik began studying Vaapad intensively and became one of its foremost practioneers alongside Mace Windu and Sora Bulq. When his rest time was over, he sprang back into action in the alongside Anakin Skywalker,A'Sharad Hett,Bhat Jul, and Ki-Adi-Mundi. Thaddik fought in earnest during the Battle of Aargonar before being knocked unconscious by a Sonic Grenade. He was captured by CIS agents and taken to an underground prison. Once he awoke in his cell, he discovered his master,Ahsoka Tano, in the cell across from him. He tried to use the force to break the barrier of his cell but found that his concentration was blocked by sonic frequencies. He and Ahsoka would begin formulating a plan involving her s before CIS guards busted into their cell quarters and took Jerun. They took him to a small chamber which housed a large torture-rack like device which took up the whole room. They tortured Thaddik on this rack for hours upon end, constantly questioning Jerun on the Republics objectives on Aargonar and angered by his resilience. When he wouldn't submit to their torture, they returned him to his cell. Astonishingly, when Thaddik returned, he showed no traces of torture and got right back to the plan, as if nothing had happened. When they completed their plan, Ahsoka used her Montrals to find a weak spot in the sonic frequencies where she could effectively concentrate her power. Using, she broke down the cell wall and freed them. Before exiting the prison facility, Jerun and Ahsoka traveled to the Armory and retrieved their lightsabers before returning to the battle uptop.

After the Battle of Aargonar, the Jedi Council, who knew of his exploits on Aargonar, sought to reward him. He and Ahsoka were jointly summoned to the Jedi Council Chamber where they were instructed to kneel. Jerun was Knighted while Ahsoka became a Jedi Master after the sucessful training of her first apprentice. Jerun and Ahsoka also recieved new milirary commissions,Jerun as a General,Ahsoka as a Senior General.

His first indepdendent mission was to command the Clone Troops on Null alongside in the. In the course of the battle, Thaddik, Barris, and, deeply entrenched, were forced to make trees collapse on them to protect them and injured civillians from a wildfire that was spreading. It was on Null that Thaddik would combat his first dark sider alone. , who was beleived to be dead, cut through the trees after sensing the Jedi's presences and attempted to kill the three of them in one swift swipe. Thaddik, the Jedi who was best in health at the time, immediately took up the defense of the three. Thaddik, who wasn't as much a brawler as Ventress, was caught off guard by her tactics. He had been taught to use only the lightsaber and the Force in combat but she used her fist and legs to atribute her. Thaddik was forced to adapt with Vaapad, which he had mastered. This brung him to the edge of the Dark Side and this would be the first time that the dark side in Thaddik awoke. He attacked with a ferocity that Ventress had never seen before, not even from the likes of Anakin Skywalker. When one of Thaddiks powerful strikes knocked Ventress' lightsaber away, he scissored her legs out from under her and prepared to strike upon the unconscious form of Ventress. He was stopped by Barriss, who calmed his spirit with the Force. They spent the rest of the day tending to wounded before Barris and Jerun sat down to have a personal conference. Barriss consoled Jerun about his actions and calmed him once again by telling him that everyone faced the dark side at some point in their life.

After Barriss consoled him, he was summoned to the Jedi Council Chamber. Expecting reprimand for his close brush with the dark side, Jerun was shocke dto find that he would be given a mission of utmost importance. He was to go under cover as a bounty hunter in the in order to investigate operations on  in order to provide information on a bounty place on Jedi Knights from there. Jerun was first to elimnate the Bounty Hunter known as Red Jack in order for Jerun to impersonate him. Jeurn was to travel to in order to dispose of Jack so in order for Jerun to maserquade as him during his mission. After murdering Red Jack and taking his equipment and armor, Jerun threw his body out of an air shaft so that it wouldn't be found and proceeded to where he would was met by Mika who immediately began questioing his whereabouts. After improvising with in answer, she pardoned him and escorted him to the Conference room. The Crimson Nova was debating Mika accepting a Bounty on Jedi. Thaddik listened intently during the meeting, rarely giving any output. Upon the conclusion of the meeting, Thaddok was given his first Bounty Hinting mission. He was to disregard the bounty on Jedi Knights and to travel to Coruscant in order to assassinate, though his contracter never revealed his face.

For his first Bounty, this was an incredibly difficult mission because Valourm was escorted by a small platoon of Red Guards himself so the assassination would have to be from far away and he couldn't use his lightsaber for fear it might be linked to the Jedi Order. So in order to efficiently carry out htis mission, Jerun had to travel back to Arkam 13 where they were in the process of investigating Red Jack's disappearance. After asking a series of questions, he discovered that all Red Jacks leftover equipment was in a  Military Lockup which Jerun infiltrated, in his Jedi guise, and retrieved Jack's Plasma-bow and his vibro-daggers and a gauntleted glove with an extendable vibroblade. Afetr adding all these to Jacks outfit, which he had hid on his ship, he redonned the outfit, left his ship in the Arkam 13 hangar, and stole a random Smugglers ship and departed for Coruscant. Jerun xhose an ideal opportunity as on that day, there would be a massive parade in memorial of the lives lost in the Clone War and Finis Valorum was personall giving a speech to commemorate the lives lost. Security was tightly pacj and any buildings within a 400 meter radius were eather manned by a Red Guard or under surveillance. This forced Jerun to operate from an industrial tower 900 meters away. Using the force to guide his bow in conjunction with the Bow's homing system, Jerun released a Plasma arrow, whose trail could only be seen for one millionth of a second before it hit the podium which Valorum was standing on, causing an explosion that not only killed Valorum, but killed his entire platton of personal guards and a blast that sent debris and shrapnel towards Chancellor Palpatine, who recieved a thin scratch along his arm.

Behind the scenes

 * Jerun Othorne was inspired by