Ferus Olin (Jedi Renaissance)

"We are not tricksters. We are ambassadors of peace and justice."

- Padawan Ferus Olin

Ferus Olin was a male Human Jedi Knight from who served the Jedi Order during the decades preceding the Clone Wars up into the early years of the Golden Age of the Jedi. A powerful Force-user and a skilled slicer, Olin resided on Tython and roamed the Free Cities of Thyr as a Shadow ensuring that the Balance was kept on the volatile planet.

He often clashed with fellow Padawan learner Anakin Skywalker, who disagreed with his strict adherence to Jedi rules and protocol. The two and their masters, Tachi and Obi-Wan Kenobi, often worked together on missions, traveling to such varied worlds as Radnor, Euceron, Andara, Typha-Dor, Romin, Falleen, and finally, Korriban. Many of these missions were orchestrated with the goal of capturing the escaped scientist and criminal Jenna Zan Arbor, who the Jedi later discovered was working with Granta Omega, the murderer of the Jedi Council member Yaddle. However, Zan Arbor consistently eluded them.

Shortly before the onset of the Clone Wars, Olin resigned from the Jedi Order due to the guilt he felt over the inadvertent death of fellow Padawan Darra Thel-Tanis on Korriban, where Omega was finally killed in battle with Kenobi present. Eventually, he befriended Roan Lands on Bellassa, and the two started a business together&mdash; Olin and Lands. Olin grew fond enough of Bellassa to adopt it as his homeworld.

Soon after the execution of Order 66, Olin founded a rebel organization on Bellassa in opposition to the Galactic Empire, newly in control of the galaxy. He would later retrain himself in the Jedi ways with the aid of Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the few Jedi to survive the Great Jedi Purge. Olin also created a safehouse for fugitive Jedi on an asteroid hidden within an atmospheric storm. Here he would begin to form the early stages of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. During his search for Jedi refugees from the Empire, he was blackmailed into aiding Emperor Palpatine, but would act as a double-agent, seeking information and attempting to undermine the Empire from the inside, eventually confronting Darth Vader himself. His resistance movement spanned the galaxy from Bellassa, Acherin, Coruscant, Naboo, Samaria to Alderaan as well as other planets. This lasted until the Empire thwarted his plans for early rebellion by destroying his secret asteroid base. He eventually accepted a mission from Obi-Wan to watch over Princess Leia Organa on Alderaan where he would reside for many years until Darth Vader killed him a year after that planet was completely destroyed.

Early life
"Everyone was my friend, but nobody was my particular friend."

- Ferus Olin, reflecting on his time at the Coruscant Jedi academy.

A Forceful Human born in orbit over his homeworld of, Ferus Olin was turned over to the Jedi Order at they early age of two months old and was taken to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant for training in the ways of the Force. Entering into the academy system at the age of four, Olin trained as part of a clan of twenty fellow Initiates known as the Momong Clan. A friend to all, Olin did not have any close friends like his fellow students, a fact which would plague him throughout the rest of his early career. An above-average student, Olin was highly-skilled at all his undertakings and split his time between studying in the Temple Archives or practicing in the sparring arenas against droids. When it came time to participate in the Apprentice Tournament, Olin won each match and was successfully taken as a Padawan by Jedi Knight.

Under Tachi's tutelage, Olin continued to grow and improve his skills in the Force. Considered very mature for his age by many Jedi, Olin was well-respected for his dedication to the Order but his master also noticed his lack of significant friendships with other Padawans his own age. Hoping to see him bond with others, Tachi asked the High Council to pair her and her student with other Master-Padawan pairs. In Year 9, Olin first came into close contact with Anakin Skywalker when the pair was assigned to tackle the evacuation of after the world's air supply was contaminated with a deadly toxin. In addition to Skywalker and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, the four Jedi were joined by Master-Padawan pairs Ry-Gaul Chicri with his apprentice Tru Veld, and Soara Antana with her Padawan. During the mission the Masters and Padawans were forced to separate, since there were not enough envirosuits to enable all of the Jedi to investigate an area of Radnor already struck by the toxin, and when that happened, Olin and Skywalker soon clashed over issues of leadership. Despite this, the Padawans managed to work together well enough to continue following clues to discover the motive behind the release of the toxin. While tracing a group of thieving looters who were ransacking the homes of fleeing civilians to steal their valuables, the Padawans began following a trail that led them to discover that the natives of the neighboring planet of were planning to invade Radnor, using an offer of assistance in the evacuation as a smokescreen for a landing of attack droids. The Jedi teams thwarted the invasion, but not without many arguments between Skywalker and Olin over how to do so. At the end of the mission, Olin, distrusting his new rival due to the desire for control he had shown, warned him that he would watch him, further infuriating Skywalker and aggravating the feelings of dislike between the two apprentices even further than before.

A companion of the Chosen One
"Obi-Wan doesn't see you clearly. He is a great Jedi Knight, but he is blinded by affection. But I see. And I will keep looking. I will watch you, Anakin Skywalker."

- Ferus Olin to Anakin Skywalker after the mission to Radnor.

Following the experimental pairing, Tachi recognized Olin's problem: he came off as a know-it-all when working with others and placed himself, unintentionally, on a pedestal. While forming some connections with Skywalker, Thel-Tanis and Veld, Olin failed to truly bond with these Padawans and was often viewed as difficult to get along with. Tachi continued to work with him, joining Kenobi, Chicri, Skywalker and Veld two years after their initial work on Radnor when they were assigned to serve as Peacekeepers at the Galactic Games on. Helping to uncover a plot to rig the games, the Padawans struggled to work together. When Skywalker discovered that an illegal podrace was rigged in favor of one competitor, he decided to compete in it to discover how; an idea Olin disparaged. The Padawan believed that Skywalker was racing for fun rather than for the mission's success, and his opinions irritated his rival. Skywalker did race, but discovered that he was the racer with the advantage rather than Hekula, the son of his former podracing rival Sebulba. Narrowly escaping death when his pod was sabotaged the two Padawans left Euceron with mutual feelings of animosity between them. Other Jedi in the Temple took note of Olin and Skywalker's mutual dislike of each other. When Skywalker took private lightsaber training lessons with Soara Antana, the Jedi Master chose Olin to surprise him with an attack after one of their lessons. Angry at Olin for all their past disagreements, Skywalker unleashed his anger and defeated him. However, Antana felt how Skywalker's rage had fueled him, enabling him to defeat his fellow Padawan. This led to her decision to end her training with Skywalker, after warning him to beware the temptation to use anger as an advantage in battle.

When Gillam Tarturi, son of Senator Berm Tarturi and a student at the luxurious Leadership School on, disappeared, his father suspected that political rivals had kidnapped his son. Coincidentally, a squad of young mercenaries was suspected by the Jedi High Council to be using the Leadership School as a training ground. In order to look into both Tarturi's disappearance and the secret squad, Olin was sent with Skywalker to infiltrate the school disguised as students; with this cover, the two would be able to identify and investigate the mercenaries in hopes of finding a clue to the motive behind Gillam Tarturi's disappearance. When they arrived at the school, Olin befriended a troublesome student named, the son of Senate Guard Sagoro Autem, who seemed to know something about the inner workings of the school. While Olin began to get to know Autem in an attempt to learn about the mercenaries from the student, Skywalker managed to infiltrate the secret squad. However, as he learned more about them, he gradually became more and more in agreement with the unit's ideals&mdash;this led him to decide to join them on a mission to penetrate Andara's airspace. The mission was based on, a planet in the system, and Skywalker suggested Gillam Tarturi might be there, trying to justify his planned participation in the raid. However, Olin adamantly opposed the violation of the Jedi Code, and attempted to convince his rival not to participate in such a potentially inflammatory act. Skywalker agreed to meet with him later to consult Kenobi, but before the two Padawans had a chance to contact Skywalker's master, Olin disappeared. As Olin had began a search for Tarturi in an effort to find him before Skywalker left the school, hoping to eliminate Kenobi's apprentice's rationale for seeking the boy on Ieria. However, Tarturi, actually hidden in the old and abandoned system rooms inside the school, stumbled upon him. Along with a few members of the secret squad, Tarturi imprisoned Olin there, before leaving for Ieria in secret. Skywalker, even after discovering that Olin was missing, chose to go with the secret squad instead of searching for him, which left the young Jedi imprisoned until Kenobi and Tachi arrived at the Leadership School to rescue him, under the cover of parents considering enrolling their children in classes there. During his explorations of the system rooms, Olin had discovered Tarturi's datapad. Using the Force to deflect the mercenaries' attention from it, he managed to keep it from being confiscated. With study of the datapad, he and the Masters discovered that the Senator's son had staged his own kidnapping and planned to pin it on his own father. The Jedi also realized that he was preparing to stage his own death, killing Skywalker instead; he would then disguise the young Jedi's corpse as his own. The trio traveled to Ieria in an attempt to rescue Skywalker. Tarturi had underestimated the power of the Jedi, though, for the teenager easily disabled the squad's starfighters along with attack droids sent in to assassinate him. The other Jedi then arrived in time to take the mercenaries into custody. However, the fact that Skywalker had not even looked for Olin when he discovered that he had disappeared infuriated Kenobi, creating a rift between the Master and his Padawan that would take some time to heal.

"I hear you're wondering why I didn't tell Obi-Wan what happened at the prison camp.''" "Yes, I did wonder. But then I figured it out. You were afraid to tell Obi-Wan because you enjoyed it. You enjoyed feeling nothing. It even overcame your loyalty."

- Anakin Skywalker and Olin

In Year 10, Skywalker and Kenobi were sent into the Uziel system to the planet, the only planet that continued to hold out against the invasions masterminded by the system's largest planet,. Their mission was to inform the members of a Typha-Dorian surveillance post that the Vanqors had nearly discovered their position, and they needed to evacuate. When the two Jedi arrived, however, they discovered that the members of the surveillance post had obtained the invasion plans the Vanqors intended to use in their invasion of Typha-Dor. During the attempted escape of the team, Skywalker was captured by the Vanqors and taken to Vanqor itself, where he was placed in the Zone of Self-Containment, a drug that induced a state of blissful content, by the criminal scientist Jenna Zan Arbor. Skywalker also discovered later that the Zone interfered with his ability to use the Force. While this occurred, Olin and Tachi, along with the Jedi Garen Muln, Clee Rhara, Ry-Gaul Chicri, and Tru Veld, were dispatched to rescue Kenobi and Skywalker and aid them in getting the invasion plans to Typha-Dor. Kenobi managed to spring Skywalker from the Vanqor prison, and the Jedi team arrived just in time to rescue the two from Vanqor forces. Evading enemy starships, the Jedi team arrived safely at Typha-Dor. When the Typha-Dorian General Bycha mentioned that rumors had arose of medical experiments being performed on the prisoners in the camp Skywalker was imprisoned in, the young Jedi revealed that he had undergone the procedure. This surprised all of the Jedi, but most of all Kenobi&mdash;none of them had yet been told this by Skywalker. This made Olin believe that Skywalker had refrained from telling his Master because he enjoyed the lack of feeling, saying that it even overcame his loyalty to Kenobi, and causing Skywalker to become defensive of his actions. Although with the Jedi's aid the Typha-Dorians managed to force the Vanqor forces into surrendering without firing a shot, Jenna Zan Arbor escaped Vanqor, after which the four Jedi chose to continue their attempts to track her down.

Soon after Olin and Tachi embarked on a mission to the mining planet of where they were to oversee peace talks between a trinium mining cartel and another faction; the two groups wanted to form a coalition government of the planet. Although their mission was successful, Olin was uneasy with the result, believing that the cartel had made too many concessions to the other group. However, Tachi reminded him that their mission was complete, and they could not interfere with the government to investigate the Padawan's suspicions. At the beginning of the Clone Wars, however, Olin's misgivings were proved correct. The cartel allied with the Trade Federation to take control of Quas Killam's government, giving the Separatists control of all the factories and trinium mines. Many Killams not in the cartel were conscripted or killed. Later, during a mission undertaken by Tachi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Amidala, the female Jedi Master recalled the mission to Quas Killam with regret, wishing that she had observed more of the occurrences there, and possibly prevented the Separatists' takeover of the planet.

Tracking Jenna Zan Arbor
"What worries me is his will. His power is so great that he thinks his judgment is as well. He sees something is right, so therefore he must do it. He argues against you without hearing you. He thinks he can change situations, beings. Maybe he can't do it alone, not yet. But someday he will. Should we trust someone who always believes he speaks with the voice of absolute right?"

- Ferus Olin to Obi-Wan Kenobi, on Anakin Skywalker.

During the following few months, Kenobi and Skywalker tracked Zan Arbor across the galaxy, while Tachi and Olin only assisted them occasionally. However, Tachi had promised to help Kenobi finally effect Zan Arbor's capture, and when Kenobi and Skywalker traced the criminal scientist to the planet, Tachi, along with Olin, planned to join Skywalker and Kenobi to assist in capturing the criminal. The Senate's bureaucracy held the Jedi back, though, as a law stated that it was illegal to arrest or transport a galactic criminal off Romin; corruption in the Senate caused the passing of the law, which enabled the planet's corrupt leader, Roy Teda, to make a fortune offering refuge to criminals. This did not deter Kenobi, however, and when he learned that a gang of thieves known as the Slams had just been captured by the Republic, and their capture had not yet been publicized, he managed to convince the Jedi High Council to allow the four Jedi to impersonate the Slams in effort to gain entrance to Romin, despite the disagreement of Olin, who argued that the Jedi were above using trickery to capture Zan Arbor.

Arriving on Romin, Kenobi and Tachi split up with their Padawans, meeting with Zan Arbor and stealing her datapad while Skywalker and Olin explored the city. Before the Padawans could return to their villa, however, they were ambushed by mysterious assailants and captured. Their attackers took them to Joylin, leader of the anti-Teda resistance, who revealed to them that a coup was planned against Teda in one day, at the reception Teda held for the wealthy residents of Romin. Believing the Jedi to be the Slams, Joylin asked them to steal codes from Teda's palace that would allow the resistance to deactivate his droid army, allowing a nearly bloodless transition of power. Despite Olin's objections to the plan, the Jedi agreed to assist the resistance in removing Teda from power, believing it to be an act of justice against the dictator. That night, Olin, unable to sleep, came across Kenobi in the garden of the villa the Jedi were staying in. He confessed to the Jedi Master his fears about Skywalker's power, but Kenobi disagreed. However, confessing his fears for his rival seemed to release a weight from Olin, and the two Jedi later became, if not friends, certainly much less antagonistic towards one another during much of the remainder of their search for Zan Arbor. During the reception the next day, the Jedi successfully managed to steal the codes required by the resistance. However, with Teda's droids out of commission, the revolters vandalized much of the city, proving that Olin's misgivings were warranted. Teda and Zan Arbor fled the capital, and summoned the Slams for a job. When the Jedi reached the hideout of the two, though, the real Slams, freshly escaped from prison, arrived, denouncing the Jedi as impostors. Zan Arbor then recognized Skywalker from her experiments upon him on Vanqor, and realized the impostors were Jedi; after this the four were taken captive and sent into the prisons. Before they could be locked away, they freed the other prisoners of Teda, and demoralized the dictator's army, forcing them to surrender. Teda and Zan Arbor were captured and taken before Joylin, the new leader of Romin, making it seem like the Jedi had won. Unfortunately, Joylin had other plans. He released Teda and Zan Arbor, and gave the true Slams permission to leave, attempting to use their flight as justification for his planned execution of Teda's followers. Skywalker sensed his plan soon enough that the Jedi would have been able to capture their enemies, if not for a bit of information discovered on Jenna Zan Arbor's datapad by Kenobi. She had been corresponding with Granta Omega, a notable enemy of the Jedi responsible for the murder of Jedi Master Yaddle. Hoping Zan Arbor would lead them to Omega, the Jedi instead planted a tracking device on the Slams' ship, allowing the Jedi to follow them to Omega.

The four Jedi tracked Zan Arbor and Teda to the planet Falleen where they discovered that Roy Teda was staying at a luxurious hotel which Tachi and Olin went to investigate. Meanwhile, Kenobi and Skywalker investigated a relatively new factory, Blackwater Systems, that had been built without respect for safety laws, and had bribed investigators to overlook these oversights. The factory was destroyed by the owners to cover up the illegal activities that took place inside, and Tachi and Olin barely arrived in time to rescue Kenobi and Skywalker, only to discover that their quarry had fled Falleen. Before the Jedi could continue to follow the trail, Mace Windu called them back to Coruscant to help defend the Jedi Order from the accusations of an anti-Jedi faction of the Senate working to deprive the Jedi of official Senate authority for their actions.

During a Senate hearing regarding the Jedi's actions on Romin, Tachi and Olin discovered what they thought was the hideout of Omega and Zan Arbor. The Master and her Padawan called in Kenobi and Skywalker to assist them, but when they entered, the only occupants were three droidekas and a group of seeker droids. The Jedi destroyed the droids, but found the hideout devoid of any evidence of Omega's plans. Later discovering that the criminals planned to use the Zone of Self-Containment to allow them to steal the vertex being donated to the All Planets Relief Fund, the Jedi captured the Slams and prevented the theft, only to discover that it was a diversion. Omega and Zan Arbor really planned to use the Zone of Self-Containment in the Senate to assassinate Chancellor Palpatine. Planning for Bog Divinian, the leader of the anti-Jedi movement, to propose the election of Senator Sano Sauro, an ally of Omega's, as Palpatine's successor, Omega and Zan Arbor nearly succeeded in releasing the Zone. Although Kenobi arrived at the Senate in time to prevent Omega and Zan Arbor from unleashing the biochemical, he could not prevent Omega from launching hundreds of killing seeker droids programmed with the vitals of Republic Senators, including the Supreme Chancellor. Skywalker, Tachi, and Kenobi attempted to prevent Omega's escape while Olin guarded the Chancellor, but their efforts were in vain. Omega and Zan Arbor escaped the Jedi's clutches once again. During the chaos that followed in the Senate, Olin saved the life of Palpatine, but twenty-one Senators died amidst the carnage, as well as Roy Teda. For his heroics in saving the life of the Chancellor, Olin received a special commendation from the High Council. Then the Jedi once again continued the search for Omega and Zan Arbor.

"How good you are is not the point.''" "What makes Ferus better?" "That is not the point either. The fact is he is ready!'"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, on the Jedi Council's choice of Ferus Olin to be the first Padawan to take part in the Jedi Council's new program to accelerate the promotion of Padawans to Jedi Knights.

Due to the noticeably increasing influence of the dark side, in Year 11 the Jedi High Council made a decision to accelerate the promotion of Padawans to the rank of Knight. Due to the magnitude of the decision, the Council decided to proceed cautiously, beginning the program with one test case&mdash;Olin. This enraged Skywalker, who believed he was better than Olin and deserved to be the first to become a Jedi Knight. In addition, the Council revealed to the two rivals and their masters, along with Darra Thel-Tanis and Tru Veld and their masters (Soara Antana and Chicri, respectively), that they had discovered the location of Granta Omega, along with Zan Arbor, his companion. The two criminals were on. Inferring that the mysterious and secretive Sith Lord had finally noticed Omega, and decided to reward him for his dedication, the Jedi were sent immediately to Korriban to apprehend Omega and Zan Arbor. During the flight to Korriban, Skywalker made clear his feelings toward Olin, angering him, and leaving Veld and Thel-Tanis in embarrassed silence as they futilely attempted to defuse the tensions between the two rivals. When they landed, Skywalker and Olin were sent to infiltrate the planet's black market in order to find Zan Arbor and Omega by meeting a thief named Auben. However, when they finally made contact with her, they were attacked by droids of the Commerce Guild army, and fled with the thief into a nearby Sith monastery, and were soon followed by their fellow Jedi. Before the trio could escape the monastery, however, Olin and Skywalker sensed dark power within the hangar that contained the exit, and they fled along with Auben back towards the droids, not knowing that they had just sensed a Sith in the hangar. Meeting up with Darra and Tru, the four Jedi were attacked by numerous super battle droids, and when a Jedi victory no longer seemed in doubt to Skywalker, he noticed a shadowy figure heading towards the exit.

The young Padawan followed him, believing he was Omega, only to be thrown backwards with a surge of Force energy from the fleeing man, who was in fact the unknown Sith. Despite the Jedi's efforts, the Sith escaped the hangar, and slew Auben as he fled. In the battle with the droids, however, Veld's lightsaber was damaged. A rift had begun to grow between he and Skywalker after the latter's showdown with Olin during the flight to Korriban, and he asked Olin, not Skywalker, to repair the lightsaber. Olin repaired it, but was ignorant of a prior repair done by Skywalker, which was offset by the power boost he had done. Skywalker saw Olin fix the lightsaber; however, angered by the fact that Veld had gone to Olin instead of him, chose not to mention the need to double-check the area of the weapon he had repaired. The Jedi then took an airspeeder to the Valley of the Dark Lords, where Kenobi had discovered that Omega and Zan Arbor planned to meet the mysterious Sith Lord. During the flight to the Valley, the Jedi were forced to evade Commerce Guild security craft, but managed to reach the Valley unscathed. In the Valley, they were confronted by a pack of tuk'ata, which they managed to defeat, along with Korriban zombies activated to protect Omega by the ancient Sith. During the battle with the zombies, however, Veld's lightsaber began to fail because of the repair that Skywalker failed to double-check, and he switched lightsabers with Olin. When Veld's finally failed utterly, Thel-Tanis rushed to aid Olin, only to be shot with a blaster pistol by Omega. Her death caused Olin much grief, and would later cause him to leave the Jedi Order. Omega, closely pursued by Kenobi and Skywalker, fled, planning to meet the Sith Lord. But he was betrayed. The Sith Lord escaped Korriban, and Kenobi struck down Omega, ending his vendetta against the Jedi once and for all, but leaving repercussions throughout the Jedi that would never fully fade. However, Jenna Zan Arbor escaped Korriban as well, and disappeared for a time, eventually joining the Confederacy of Independent Systems as a scientist.

Leaving the Jedi
"I'm seeing something that surprises me. I would not expect that life outside the Jedi Order would suit you.''" "I would have said the same. But I adjusted. Siri used to always tell me that I must accept change. Welcome it, she said&mdash;change is what keeps the galaxy spinning."

- Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ferus Olin upon their reunion

Grief-stricken with guilt that he had not told Chicri about the damage to Veld's lightsaber, and believing he had inadvertently caused Thel-Tanis's death, Olin made the decision to resign from the Jedi Order. Upon exiting the Council Chamber after submitting his resignation, he met Skywalker outside. When he told his rival the reason for his withdrawal from the Order, Skywalker unintentionally revealed that he had known that Olin had fixed the lightsaber. However, lightsaber expert and Jedi Master Tolan Hing had told Olin that it was, in fact, the failing of the piece that Skywalker had neglected to tell Veld to adjust that had caused the saber's failure. Veld, also present, was shocked by this, and renounced his friendship with Skywalker. The trauma of Darra's death had brought him into closer friendship with Olin, however, and the two parted pleasantly.

A few months after resigning from the Jedi Order, Olin met Roan Lands one morning in a cafe on Alderaan where Lands was studying at the University of Law there. Sharing a similar philosophy, Lands revealed his interest in starting a business that focused on helping individuals who had been victimized by corporate entities and assigned them new identities. Without the weight of the Order on his back, Olin was able to relax and commit himself to being happy with Lands. Forming a strong bond, the pair decided to settle on where they opened their business on a quiet corner in the capital. They protected whistleblowers like Dona Telamark from vengeance, enabling them to testify in court against dishonest and corrupt businesses that cut corners on their products. During this time Olin improved upon his non-Force skills that he had picked up here and there, and quickly became an accomplished slicer. When the Clone Wars broke out, the two joined the Grand Army of the Republic, serving as officers in the Green Mantle Command under the authority of Moff Fliry Vorru and headquartered out of. Olin and Lands came to serve alongside the Senior Jedi General in their Command, Master Chicric who praised Olin's service to the Republic and commended him on finding happiness outside the Order. Wielding his lightsaber in conjunction with a blaster, Olin helped in the taking of several Neimoidian purse-worlds.

Olin-s return
When the Clone Wars came to an end, Olin and Lands assisted the Grand Army by taking command on various fronts following the Jedi Order's withdrawal back to Coruscant. Maintaining their occupation of the Neimoidian purse-worlds, the pair were eventually ordered to wind down the operations as Judicial Forces were appointed to oversee the transfer of power. Reporting back to Nubia for reassignment, Olin was surprised to be approached in transit by Jedi Master Kenobi. Introducing his old friend to his partner, Kenobi came with a plea from the new Grand Master Tomac Moorcé that Olin rejoin the Order. Intrigued by Kenobi's description of the Order's planned future, he agreed to return to Coruscant on the condition that Lands could come with him. Agreeing, Kenobi took the pair to Coruscant where they stood before the Council of Judgment to formally ask for re-admittance to the Order. Standing before the Council, Olin agreed to be reinstated as a full-ranking Jedi Knight and requested that his partner, Roan Lands, be permitted to live with him short of having a legal marriage. Agreeing, the Council requested that Lands consider working with the Order in some way as he would be living among them.

Following their meeting with the Council, Olin and Lands resigned their commissions within the Grand Army and prepared to leave. Departing Coruscant to take up residence on Ossus, Olin sharpened his skills as a Shadow while Lands looked into joining the Security Corps. After only a few years on Ossus, the allure of the Free Cities attracted Lands and Olin to Tython, where Lands and Olin settled down in Lys where they explored the sexual side of the Force. In addition to his studies in the city, Olin served as a Shadow in the Free Cities, ensuring that the non-Forceful citizens kept their cities within the Balance so as not to cause a Force Storm. In order to see to this, Olin sought out any signs of slavers gaining power as well as monitoring the levels of violence, political maneuvering and other such actions which might tip the scales of the Balance. Necessarily, some dark side acts were let slide to help counter the predominantly light side-leaning Jedi practicing on the world. As Lands settled in on the world, he opened offices which provided work for those young people who were reliant on the pleasure houses for money. If any of them were being forced into the service, Lands would help to place them in safer working conditions to ensure they were not abused or enslaved.

Personality and traits
Ferus Olin had thick dark hair with gold streaks running through it. Although it was always strictly emphasized in the Jedi Temple that one student is never better than another, Olin seemed to have all gifts. He was steady and brilliant, a physically gifted athlete, and popular with all the students. He excelled at everything he tried, causing everyone to admire him and want to be like him, and there was not a single person at the Jedi Temple who did not speak his name without praise, the only exception being Anakin Skywalker. He felt driven by the need to excel at every waking moment and as a result, he hadn't made friends easily. However, through his relationship with Roan Lands after leaving the Jedi Order, he was able to open up and become more independent.