His tactical thinking may be restricted, much as he is accessed a power far stronger than thousands of soldiers.
—Commander Ralf Vanders, on Braw Neck
Braw Neck was a human Jedi Master who served the Galactic Republic as a General during the Clone Wars. A survivor of Order 66, he was strictly involved in bringing relief to those threatened by the Galactic Empire.
Following the downfall of the Galactic Republic, Braw Neck took shelter from the newly proclaimed regime on the planet of Zuomiarra. While originally accommodated in Gienna's place, he eventually erected a clay hut to reside in henceforth. In 18 BBY, at Gienna's request, he succored the nearby village's residents in repulsing an attack by the Empire, which had arrived in the pursuit of Diego, a remaining Confederacy of Independent Systems officer, and suspecting them of covering for him, threatened to burn down all the settlement in case he was not turned in. During the direct confrontation with the clone troopers, Neck identified himself as Ladir Voe. Although he failed to defend the inhabitants, the man managed to leave the planet with Gienna and Diego, with whom the two joined forces and undertook a daring escape from the regime on board of the freighter Sepich.
In his times within the structures of the Order, Braw Neck was responsible for the training of Padawan Marr Chinn, who betrayed in the Imperial era and turned to the dark side of the Force. Becoming an inquisitor, he strove to localize his former master in order to kill him. Their unusual bond was not revealed until Braw Neck's squad was on Zuomiarra, contributing to the exposure of the Jedi Master's whereabouts. In spite of the companions' success in repulsing two duels with the Inquisitorius, one involving Marr himself, they were made to leave the planet upon the Zuomiarra Cataclysm, commanded and arranged by Commander Ralf Vanders. The escape took place on board of the Monster, a reconstructed Republic gunship belonging to the local boy Kai Teck. On their further way, Julie Taa—a fat housekeeper encountered by chance, whose thickness roused Braw Neck's fascination about her—was expelled from the team due to her obesity. The squad shortly attained Unconquerable, the headquarters of the remaining Separatists. After Diego's betrayal, Neck, Gienna, Luc—a mechanic traveling with them—and Kai Teck were disarmed and placed in a cell, out of which they managed to get during a subsequent Imperial attack. The latter, however, stayed back in the base, thought to be dead while in fact only injured.
Neck valued life over all, which constituted his principle philosophical-social view. By that virtue, the Jedi would encounter difficulties having to kill in fight, as well as enter into disputes with his apprentice, who denied the humanity of clones. However strong in the beginning, his views finally underwent a metamorphosis the moment Kai Teck accused him of taking life despite factually wanting to safe it whenever possible, devastated by the loss of his mother and everything he knew.
Biography
Early life
He cannot be ignored. Nor overvalued, nonetheless.
—Ralf Vanders, on Braw Neck
A man of the human species, Braw Nack was one day incorporated into the Jedi Order. His training was the responsibility of a master whose tragic death in time prior to 29 BBY resulted in the padawan's promotion to the rank of Knight; it also made it possible for him to take his own apprentice under his wings, whom Marr Chinn became in 30 BBY. He was also a good Dejarika player.
Training of Marr Chinn
One day… one day, you'll be much more powerful than me. That's the course of events, an apprentice usually outdoes their master.
—Braw Neck, to his padawan Marr Chinn
By reason of his master's neglect, Marr Chinn's padawan's braid was twined to the wrong side. In 29 BBY, the Master shared with his apprentice a plan to solve that problem, and the case was overlooked as a result.
Marr entered Braw's chamber and saw him repairing his lightsaber manually, without using the Force. The 12-year-old padawan passed on the good news before cuddling him. The man also expressed his happiness before he sat on his berth, where Chinn soon sat beside him. Asked whether he missed his parents, he nonverbally admitted so, though Braw asserted that he could not substitute for them.
When the two trained lightsaber combat another day within the Coruscant Jedi Temple, the Master was satisfied with his apprentice's noticeable progress. However much praised by his mentor, the boy nevertheless ascribed him with his own success, but his defeat coming after the compliments strongly imprinted on his mood. Neck attempted to console the saddened boy, devastated by another failure for all the severe training, by assuring him that with every subsequent day he would become better and better and emphasizing that one day his abilities were going to outperform his own, since „Coruscant wasn't built in a day”. As a support of that thesis, he showed him the sun rising out of the window, lightening the landscape of the planet along its way up. The apprentice acknowledged his master was right and mentioned that he had never thought of it in that particular way before both went for a council.
Clone Wars
Siege of Mygeeto
There were two hundred people down there! You led them for certain death!
—Braw Neck, to Marr Chin
The year 22 BBY brought along the outbreak of the Clone Wars, and armed conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Similarly to many other knights, Neck took part in the fight by the side of the Republic, which gave him an opportunity to meet many clones as their General during the conflict.
Exile of Marr Chinn
Order 66
Attack on the Kashmarr'k village
Support for the inhabitants
Escape from the locality
Escape from the planet
Interplanetary escape from the Empire
Confrontation with the Imperial Fleet
Cases on Zuomiarra
First duel on Zuomiarra
Force bond with Marr Chinn
Second duel on Zuomiarra
Initial clash
Final clash
Escape from Zuomiarra
Incident on the Fide Space Station
Fall of Unconquerable
Arrival on Unconquerable
Stay in the cell
Escaping from the headquarters
Personality
Personality traits
And if they they happen not to make things easier, my charisma and your power will solve this problem straightaway.
—Diego, on Master Braw Neck's personality
Braw Neck was a person of a specific sense of humor. A devout believer of the Force, he wanted and wanted to preach about it to whoever possibile. He was as though absent-minded, but however prone to distraction, he was nonetheless capable of cutting off from the surroundings and devoting himself to sudden meditation, without reacting to external stimuli at such moments.
For all the feeling he had to Julie Taa at first sight, Braw Neck strove to resist it, bearing in mind the importance of the Jedi Code.
Philosophical views
But it's your principium, Master Jedi. It's exactly what you wanted to do back on Kashmarr'k, remember? Give yourself to the hands of the Empire and sacrifice your life so the inhabitants could save their lives and Gienna and I, smoothly escape.
—Diego, pointing to a variety of possibile interpretations of Neck's worldview.
The major philosophical principium of Braw Neck was the importance he ascribed to human life. He articulated that value during talks with his padawan, taking into account that Marr Chinn denied the humanity of clones, by reason of which he was eventually excluded from the Order. Unlike him, Braw Neck respected the soldiers of the Great Army of the Republic as such, disrespecting their broad-scale breading and unnatural origins. He did not compromise that viewpoint even once the clones turned against him after Order 66. (Braw Neck did not kill Lieutenant Shark, even though he anticipated the disorientation among the clones following his potential death, and while running away, he deflected laser beams in a way so as to strike as few opponents as possible).
Neck did not resign from his precepts in favor of conformism when he was about to sacrifice his life in order to save Kashmarr'k residents, but once stunned by Diego, who would prefer to escape, he found himself in need of confronting his views with the reasoning put forth by the young Separatist. He asserted that, by acting as he proposed, their help could attain a yet broader spectrum of recipients in other corners of the galaxy. In addition, the juvenile used the principles of the Jedi in order to imply his intent to kill him so as to protect himself; that incident inclined Neck towards a deeper reflection over his convictions, as during the consequent attack by Marr Chinn, he ordered him to be killed himself for all the bind once taking place between the two.
Yet the eventual metamorphosis of the Jedi Master's morality did not come until Kai Teck, going off the deep end, pounced on his back and started punching his head, in his anger accusing him of sewing havoc where life was to be saved. Albeit technically aware of everything that had happened by that moment, it was not until then that he realized what his actions brought about in fact, namely death of many people on Zuomiarra and the vanquishing of Filip herself. Once the boy was shot and ended up fainted on the floor, the Jedi did not walk towards him, as he was certain of his death, and the words of the juvenile himself euthanized his romantic position in favor of stoic rationalism.
Sexual preferences
Braw Neck was attracted to women of over-average mass, but, on the other hand, remained aware of the prohibition of Jedi Order members' romantic relationships.
Skills
Physical appearance
In his seclusion on Kashmarr'k, Braw Neck would sport a bright tunic and trousers of a higher quality. His feet would be covered with footwear, also more expensive than the top clothing. Shortly before the Attack on the Kashmarr'k village, he cut his graying hair in order to shine a baldhead henceforth. Every morning, he used to shave his beard, in addition to nurturing the characteristic mustache located under the noce. When he was no more than forty-some years old, his age was often overestimated.
On the surface of Zuomiarra, Braw Neck altered his outfit due to the plan of selling the tunic. He nonetheless left on the green T-shirt thus far worn under it, covering it with old jacket found among ruble.