Julias Randal

Julias Randal, also known as Lord Randal, was a human male serving the  during the.

Biography
Julias was born on Fresia thirty-seven years before the Battle of Yavin. After being found by the old Jedi Order to be force-sensitive, he was taken to be trained by Jedi Master  shortly after his birth. Julias participated in missions with Master Koon for years, usually assisting the Kel'Dor Jedi in negotiation of disputes. He served in several battles during the until he was promoted to the rank of. After his promotion, he was assigned to be a protector of the.

At the war's end, Randal was one of the few Jedi who escaped the assault on the Jedi Temple by Darth Vader and the Republic army. Like the other Jedi survivors, Randal went into hiding for nine years. However, he was eventually hunted down and captured by the Galactic Empire. After prolonged torture and interrogation, he agreed to turn to the dark side of the force in exchange for being spared. Randal was then trained and recruited into the ranks of the Inquisitorius, a division of Imperial Intelligence agents.

Randal eventually became a highly capable servant of the Empire, hunting down remaining Jedi, defecting Imperials, and Rebel agents. He survived most of the Galactic Civil War and lived well past the Battle of Endor, where Emperor Palpatine was killed and the Empire broke apart. After the disaster at Endor, Randal traveled throughout the Empire for years, attempting to reunite the Moffs and fleet commanders who were quickly being reduced to greed-driven warlords. Randal initially tried to convince the Imperial leaders to elect a new emperor, but all of his attempts ended in failure as the Empire lost power and the New Republic began to spread across the galaxy. The aspiring Dark Jedi eventually came to believe that he should rule the Empire, but saw no way to take control. Therefore, he went into hiding and waited for an opportunity to do so.

In the year 10 ABY, Randal saw the opportunity when four Imperial warlords combined their forces for an incursion into the Core Worlds and succeeded in driving the New Republic from its capital world of Coruscant. When the warlords then predictably failed to elect a new Emperor following the victory and began to fight among themselves again, Lord Randal called the warlords to a meeting to negotiate a truce between the four. During the Galactic Civil War, Randal had learned much about the locations of Rebel Alliance bases, strategic assets, and so on during his time as an Inquisitor. Using this information, he convinced the warlords to transfer overall command of their forces to him, promising to lead the Empire to total victory against the New Republic. After defeating the Republic, Randal claimed that he would give up his position and appoint a new Emperor himself, allowing the Empire to continue as it had before. The warlords agreed, but on the condition that Randal give up his power and refrain from interfering with them again if he failed to destroy the weakened Republic within two years.

Having united a section of the Empire, Lord Randal gained a territory stretching from the fortress world of Bastion to an industrial center in the Deep Core. From there, Randal sent wave assaults against the New Republic. The objective of this campaign, referred to as Operation Shadow Hand, was to destroy the Republic's industrial power and leadership, causing it to collapse. While initially successful, these assaults were eventually turned back by the Republic fleet, and in several major strategic victories Randal's war machine was crushed. Afterward, he made a final stand on his capital world of Byss, where he was killed by the Jedi and his Empire fragmented.

Personality and traits
Before the execution of Order 66, Julias was described by some as a model Jedi, efficiently skilled in all basic aspects of Jedi training. He was loyal, patient, reserved, and for the most part, level-headed. However, he disliked occasions which involved having to make decisions and preferred to follow rather than lead. This could lead to paranoia before said occasion, but usually his fears would be ungrounded.

When Randal became a Dark Jedi, he changed considerably. He grew to enjoy being in control of things and became ruthless in his interrogations of captured Rebels. His qualities of loyalty to his superiors and patience remained intact through his transition to the dark side., but ultimately his weakness was lack of confidence in himself. Although he was an effective strategist and tactician, he did not actually believe that he was, and therefore unwisely turned such duties over to others.

Powers and abilities
Randal was a very specialized practitioner in lightsaber combat, focusing primarily on combat against other wielders of melee weapons in his training of the second and sixth forms of combat. To compensate for battle against enemies with ranged weapons, Randal eventually became a master of channeling the force to increase his speed for evading projectile weapons. Although he wielded a single green blade as a Jedi, he eventually switched to use of a staff lightsaber and fought with a primarily one-handed style, which was unusual for users of double-bladed weapons. Ironically, Randal's greatest weakness in lightsaber combat was battle with other users of two blades.

Appearance
As an Inquisitor, Randal wore a heavy cloak, colored black with a maroon tint, over a simple black-gray tunic. He also wore black leather gloves and sometimes a hood to conceal his face. After the Battle of Endor, Randal changed the color of his robes to what he described as "a sickly dark green". Usually he kept his lightsaber and any other weapons concealed in order to avoid attracting attention on missions.

Behind the Scenes

 * Lord Randal was created for the purpose of overwriting the events of the Dark Empire series.