These are the moments we strive for, when the hope of victory becomes real. When peace we can see peace on the horizon.
—Satele Shan
Jedi Knight , Tasiele Shan traveled to Brentaal IV where she gave birth to the famous Jedi, Satele Shan. A great controversy grew around Tasiele Shan about if she was still suit to be a Jedi, The Council debated the topic and came to the difficult decision of exiling Tasiele, but when arriving on Brentaal IV she was no where to be found. Satele inherited her families god-like force powers and began her training as a Jedi shortly later as a padawan under the watchful eye of, Ngani Zho, though she later traveled to the Sith home world Korriban to be trained by the Battlemaster, Kao Cen Darach. It was here when Satele witnessed the Sith retake their home world. Darach fought bravely to ensure that Satele escape with republic trooper, Jace Malcom, and a Smuggler. During her escape Satele senses her masters death from the Smuggler's ship and in honor has a moment of silence. Threw out the next few years she achieves the rank of Jedi Knight under master, Dar'Nala, and lead the Jedi and Republic Military into The Great Galactic War. It was during this war Satele started watching over an elite team of criminals that secretly worked for the republic known as, The Black Knights, which she mainly used to retake Coruscant after it was concurred by the Sith during the Massacre Of The 902nd during The Great Galactic War, waging their own war that became known as, The War For Coruscant. Shan grew close to Havoc Squad leader, Jace Malcom, during The War For Coruscant and The Great Galactic War despite what the Jedi Code commanded from her, this relationship drove her to act impulsively and leave the war in the Coruscant sector to aide James in battle. Satele had a six month affair with Malcom drawing her farther and farther away from the Kades and the to wars at hand before cutting it off because of a great darkness she sensed in the hearts of his men. Satele returned to the explosive battlefield in the Coruscant sector after giving birth to her and Malcom's son, Theron Shan, and handed him over to Ngani Zho to be raised by the old man. Satele soon later married the famed warrior, Drew Kade, better known as, Kleos and gave birth too three more children over the next few years of the war. During the finale year of the war Satele was selected to attend a meeting on Alderaan with the Sith thinking she was going to be signing a peace treaty, but in reality the Sith used this as away to push the attacks on Coruscant and begin bombing the Galactic City. After agreeing with the Sith's demands Satele, Dar'Nala, and the other Jedi that came on this mission where unexpectedly visited by, Archer Kade, who had murdered multiple of the Sith that signed the treaty in order to inform the Jedi of what the empire was really doing on Coruscant. Satele rushed back to Coruscant but met with multiple major challenges and didn't arrive until the fight battle. During the battle Kyle Kade managed to redeem himself and killed the infamous emperor, Exelixi. After the war the Galactic Republic feel into turmoil as Jedi turned to the Dark Side and slaughtered other Jedi and soldiers before leaving The Order forever. Drew and Kyle Kade feel into a deep depression after blaming the entire War For Coruscant on themselves, Satele was able to convince Kyle into forgiving himself and joining the FreeLancer Military. In the mean time Kyle's wife, Elin Garza , promoted former Black Knight members Teth Wolffe, Justin Gain, and Leo Hunt to the ranks of captain and commander. As the galaxy settled into an uneasy Cold War Satele convinced Drew to return to the battlefield as the Republic's much needed Supreme Commander, and foiled a conspiracy to sabotage the new peace with the Sith created by, Dar'Nala, herself. Satele then embarkedon an oddessy inspired by The Force, this lead her across the galaxy and took her to the long lost Home world of the Jedi, Tytoth. Shan returned to the crippled Coruscant and told the remaining council members about her discovery and was then made the Jedi Order's much needed Grandmaster. Satele bravely led the Republic into the Cold War and used her allies from The War For Coruscant to prevent multiple threats from the empire by using them as reinforcements. As the fragile calm of the Cold War erupted into a full on war Satele witnessed her and Drew's youngest son fall to the Dark Side and shortly later divorced Drew because she was fearful if they stayed together both of them would fall to the Dark Side as well. Satele deeply regretted this choice And remained very close to Drew struggling to abandon her feelings. In the first days ofThe Galactic War Satele worked closely with each of the ex-Black Knight's and the R.E.R.C. While protecting the strains of peace that remained in the galaxy, Shan took in her daughter, Valery Kade, as her Padawan. With in days of returning to the battlefield Shan was alerted by a former servant of The Emperor, Lord Scourge, who explained to her that The Emperor planned on destroying all life in the galaxy. Satele with the help of Drew, Crash, and the 902nd Attack Battalion foiled The Emperor's plans in and explosive and bloody battle with aid from the FreeLancer's. Drew and Satele personally led the invasion fleet that destroyed the Imperial city capital Dromund before Drew, Crash, and the 902nd Attack Battalion attacked The Emperor's palace, only to find Lord Necray murdering The Emperor claiming the title for himself. In the next few years Satele worked with her former flame, Jace Malcom, took of the role of Supreme Commander after Drew Kade retired. Together they did everything they could to bring an end to the renewed that was now being waged all across the galaxy. With the help of their son, Theron, they where able to capture the Imperial prototype ship, Ascendants Spear, at Duro. As Drew and Valery prepared the troops in the fleet for the missions highly possible failure. Once the war finally ended the empire had seemingly disappeared from the galaxy until three years of peace passed and sightings of Sith started to pop up all over the galaxy, As the Republic started to retake Sith planets like Zoist, and Korriban. Suddenly the Wookiee's started begging the Republic for urgent aide, Satele and Drew took Kingston and Valery to investigate the problem. Sadly the Sith managed to surprise the broken family, Drew and satele where able to defeat the attack party but once their evil son Hunter attacked then revealing that he was now a full fledged Sith Lord, the old war hardened warriors did their best to survive but un the end where murdered by their son, Lord Demarian. Dawning The Kade Civil War...
In the clone wars a young jedi named, Atele Shan, was a descendant of both Satele and Bastila Shan.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
He was my first master—he always made me proud, even when he was speaking nonsense.
—Satele Shan speaking to Drew about her master, Ngani Zho
Satele with her first master, Ngani Zho
Satele Shan was born in the year 3699 BBY to the Human Jedi Knight Tasiele Shan, who was the descendant of the legendary Jedi Revan and Bastila Shan. Born on Brentaal IV, Shan was recruited into the Jedi Order like her mother, though Tasiele was the subject of a political controversy not long after her daughter's birth—Shan's controversial belief that one could draw strength from attachment alarmed the Galactic Republic, which feared that she would fall to the Dark Side of the Force like her famous ancestor Revan. The Republic pressured the Order into exiling Tasiele to an uninhabited planet in Jedi Knight, but Tasiele was nowhere to be found—the only thing the Order could locate in Tasiele's abandoned dwelling was a series of journals written to Satele, which where delivered to the missing Jedi's daughter. Apprenticed to Jedi Master Ngani Zho, Shan studied the ways of The Force as a Padawan until 3681 BBY, when she traveled to the Republic's space station in orbit of the Sith homeworld of Korriban to study under the Order's Battlemaster, Kao Cen Darach. Under Darach's tutelage, Shan learned how to wield and fight with the blue double-bladed lightsaber that she constructed for herself. He also guided the Padawan through some of The Jedi Trials, though her ascension to Knighthood was not completed by the end of that year. The reconstituted Sith Empire soon began attacking the edges of the Republic, instigating The Great Galactic War.
Satele and her second master, Kao Cen Darach
Not long into Shan's stay, she and her Master were alerted to the landing of an unidentified freighter on the surface of Korriban by the space station's crew. Shan and Darach traveled to the surface along with Corporal Jace Malcom of the Republic Special Forces Division and were able to capture a smuggler captain named Nico Okarr, though they failed to capture Farel Wickes, the infamous grave robber from whom Okarr was attempting to purchase Sith artifacts. Impounding Okarr's ship, an XS stock light freighter named Redshifter, the three brought the smuggler back up to the space station and were in the process of escorting Okarr to his cell along with another trooper when Shan was overcome with an intense feeling of pain and dread in The Force. Outside the station's viewport, an armada of over thirty Harrower-class dreadnoughts jumped out of hyperspace into the Horuset system. Darach immediately recognized that their attackers were Sith and that the outpost would not withstand the attack, so he quickly decided that their priority had to be warning the Republic of the Sith Empire's attack. When Malcom warned Darach that they would be unable to out run the Sith's starfighters, Okarr surprised the Jedi and the soldiers by reminding them of his ship's speed. Darach, Shan, Okarr, Malcom, and the other trooper immediately made their way to the hangar where the Redshifter was docked, fighting off attacks by Imperial boarding parties who spoke of two rising sith known as, Katharos and Kleos, in the process.
Shan and Darach dealt with the Imperials who had entered the hangar while Okarr, Malcom, and the other trooper defeated their pursuers, though the soldier was killed in the fighting. As the remaining four prepared to take the Redshifter, an Imperial interceptor landed in the hangar, and Darach ordered the smuggler to ready his ship. While Malcom and Okarr prepared the ship, Shan and her Master engaged the two Sith arrivals—a masked Sith Inquisitor named Vindican and his Human apprentice, Malgus. The two apprentices battled each other as their Masters fought, but when Malgus ultimately knocked Shan to the floor, Darach stopped Malgus from killing Shan with a toss of his lightsaber, giving her time to recover. Summoning her lightsaber back to her hands, Shan tried to jump to her Master's aid, but Vindican stopped her with a blast of lightning. Darach threw his opponent across the hangar with the Force and rushed to his apprentice's side, and the Redshifter's attempt to lift off caused Vindican to blast the ship with lightning as well.
Satele senses her master's death from the Redshifter
At Darach's urging, Shan left her Master behind and boarded the Redshifter so that she could warn the Republic of the Empire's return, and she gave the Battlemaster her lightsaber as a parting gift before leaping aboard the smuggler's vessel with Malcom's help. Okarr urged both Malcom and Shan to man the Redshifter's guns, and the Padawan took the lower emplacement as the smuggler began to weave through the Ashes of Korr asteroid belt to escape the pursuing Mark VI Supremacy-class starfighters. However, as they were leaving the belt, Shan felt the death of her Master at the hands of Malgus. Shan was able to push aside her grief as Okarr strafed the superstructure of a Harrower-class dreadnought, continuing to fire on the pursuing fighters until the Redshifter jumped to hyperspace.
Once sure that the Redshifter was safe Shan left the turret she was manning and returned to the ships cock pit. Okarr was piloting the ship when she entered and asked him if he knew anything about the Sith known as, Katharos and Kleos. Immanently the smuggler started telling her about all the different urban legends involving the "pureblood" twins that claimed they are the living force, that they are powerful sith assassins that do The Emperor's bidding, but they where just myths. Upon her return to the Jedi Temple Shan started to research these Sith trying to learn as much as possible about them but couldn't find any official sights, or even conformation of their existence. However as these "pureblood"'s became more and more famed and loved with in the empire Satele slowly managed to gather a collection of leaked mission files, videos, and the names of imperial bases they have visited lately, all this information was kept hidden from her master's and the rest of the Jedi council. Shan didn't open up about her discoveries until she formed a close friendship with rising republic Sargent, Elin Garza, who was also every interested in these seemingly mythical Sith Lords.
The Great Galactic War[]
Fighting The Empire[]
This was the power of democracy at work, the validation of the principles we fight for, and the proof that, when cornered, the Republic can come together to make a courageous stand.
—Satele Shan, on the Republic's destruction after, the Massacre of the 902nd
Returning to the Republic, the trio brought word of the Sith attack, though by the time the Jedi Council learned the news, the Empire had already launched an invasion in The Minos Cluster, an attack on Sluis Van, blockaded The Rimma Trade Route, and was starting to set up highly sucre outpost on Platoril. The Council requested several debriefings of Shan, and the Padawan was even permitted to sit in on one of the Council's strategic discussions. During this time she helped them map out the outpost on Platoril and overview the plans for a top secret military outpost known as Port 5 and she payed very close attention to how they created their battle plans in hopes of learning a thing or two. She was present at the Jedi Temple when a contingent of Jedi, including the Kel Dor Gnost-Dural, departed the capital planet of Coruscant for the occupied Minos Cluster, and she witnessed the riots that broke out across Coruscant as a result of the recent Dark Moon attack that nearly crippled the republics military. Shan then spent the next part of the war partnered with various Jedi Masters such as Erdric Lokar,Gar Salen, and Rhel Covel before she was apprenticed to the Togruta Jedi Master Dar'Nala, who helped her become a full-fledged Jedi Knight. A diplomat and political strategist, Dar'Nala helped to temper her student's aggression and impatience, and Shan became one of the Republic's most famous champions in the years to come. Eventually Katharos and Kleos became aware of her fame threw out the galaxy and secretly feared that one day the would have to fight her. In 3671 BBY, Shan and Dar'Nala were stationed at the Temple when news arrived of the Republic's victory at the first Battle of Bothawui in 3670 BBY, her meditation was interrupted by intense cheering that echoed across the planet from the Senate Plaza. With out the public knowing the Republic had arrested the Famed Sith Lords, Katharos and Kleos, and had selected her to interrogate both of them. Before the brother's would be sent off to a republic medical facility for surgery, it wasn't until after the interrogation's where completed that the council assigned Shan to advise the classified mercenary group known only as, The Black Knights, with republic captain, Royal Kade, and Jedi Master Thawn.
Shan formed solid friendships with all of the teams members including her fellow advisor's helping herself learn how to create plans that all of the members could agree on and accept. Despite what the Jedi Code commanded of her, Shan almost allowed her relationship with Kleos to escalate to the next level but stopped it before anything happen. Although the teams first mission ended in a complete failure when Theed was destroyed in a huge sink hole and the empire took control of Naboo, enslaving the Gungans. Shan managed to convince the council into giving the team another chance. Threw out the next year The Black Knights redeemed themselves and proved their worth, multiple times the Jedi tried to add new members to the mix but it almost always failed. It wasn't until The War For Coruscant broke out and Shan escaped the hellish Coruscant after being trapped there for a year sacrificing everything to ensure that the others would survive, proving herself to be a true hero of the republic. Once she arrived on Teth Shan was placed on a panel of republic leaders who would create the plans for the surviving republic forces. Here she met people such as the nuatomlen king, Fongg Doo, and future FreeLancer supreme commander, Justin Kennedy.
Massacre of the 902nd[]
Abandoned[]
We have traveled threw all of hell, we have suffered heart break and tragedy, the only reason that we stand here today is because of the bonds we have formed with one another. Now we must leave all of our struggle and hardship behind us so we may travel to the heart of the enemy and regain our freedom!
—Satele rallying the troops before attempting to steal an imperial communications
Satele trying to escape from a group of Sith trying to arrest her on Coruscant
With the incredible success with recent Black Knight missions some of the republics leaders where beginning to ask when they would meet these rising war heroes, including Grand Master Zym himself. In 3662 BBY they finally where giving the chance to speak with each of the teams members Zym and Berooken got to know the men by simply sitting down and chatting with them. Learning each member stood for something completely different from another, Satele Shan was a beginning to become a symbol of hope, Vasco Unic had become well known for his reliablity, Kyle Kade better known as Lord Katharos had become a symbol of vengeance and violence, Drew Kade better known as Master Kleos was known as a symbol of Legacy and Honor, Chalahab had become a stability of termination, Justin Gain had gained the right to be veiwed as a symbol of courage, Leo Hunt was a symbol of redemption, Teth Wolffe was considered a symbol of Devotion, and R9 was wildly considered a symbol of faithfulness. The stories of each team member inspired these high ranking leaders and reminded them of their own lives and the dark paths they had to overcome.
With in hours after the meeting Grand Master Zym sent the Black Knights after the Jedi killer known only as Sarnoff with hopes of eliminating one of Exelixi's many Hunters. However despite the efforts of the entire team Sarnoff successfully got away and survived the attack although he did loose one of his swords in the long chase, with an unknown origin and four Mysterious symbols on the blade Shan suggested that the FreeLancers take the sword and study it due to the destruction of the Republics data banks. Three long and brutal rescue missions later FreeLancer scientist, Choas, attended a meeting with Zym, Berooken, Shan, York, CT, and King Doo where he explained the the swords origin was untraceable but with the obvious damage on the main blade he determined that it was over four hundred years old. Choas also explained the the Lightsaber part of the metal sword was indeed powered by a green crystal from Ilum that had been reverse engineered to harness more power and allow a none force sensitive to wield it. Although he did figure out the one of the symbols was the hunt family crest and and other was a damaged old empire symbol the remaining two remained a mystery. Master Zym had Shan arrange a meeting with Drew, Kyle, and Leo once they all returned from their current mission of helping a team of 902nd rookies carrying valuable information about the super weapons the dark council was designing.
A few days passed before the meeting to place and the first question Zym asked became his biggest mistake, after asking the men to honestly state where their loyalty stood Leo claiming he would die for the republic, Drew said his loyalty belonged to neither the republic or empire, and finally Kyle ignited his lightsaber as he demanded they all bow down the sith as he murdered the republic military's supreme commander. With out warning Sarnoff smashed the the sky light and murdered the guards escorting Zym, Berooken, Doo, York, and CT out of the room leaving only Drew and Satele to fight the battle. Naturally Kyle attacked Drew with a swift and power strike that would be difficult to block yet Drew managed to stop the blade just before it cut his leg open. Satele charged towards Sarnoff and engaged him in an intense fast pasted lightsaber duel although it ended shortly after Shan gained the upper hand by forcing Sarnoff into the reinforced glass windows. Kyle could sense Shan's hatred for the sith was her driving force in this battle and started to persuade her give into her hatred and anger and allow it to free her but once Drew sensed that Kyle was actually coming close to making her join the dark side just like Revan did he quickly stabbed Kyle in leg and grabbed Satele as he forced the widow to explode into thousands of tiny pieces.
Satele was broken hearted when she saw the violent battle taking place on the ground as explosions sent soldiers and Jedi alike soaring in air bursting into flames and screaming for someone to save only to die shortly later. Everything she was fighting for was lost in a matter of seconds with the republic's elite attack battalion the 902nd being massacred next to her fellow Jedi and Freelancers who had no place in fighting this war. Images of The Sith massacring the soldiers on the ground flashed threw Shan imagination as she tried to defeat the potentially dangerous darkness with in herself. Determined to end the hell that was breaking loose Shan launched herself towards the ground and left off a large amount of force energy upon impact launching multiple enemies away from her to give her just enough time to ignite both lightsaber blades and start fighting. Together with the help of Kleos these force gods nearly charged the tide of the battle but after Exelixi joined the battle was lost and those surviving fled the battle even the sector if possible. Shan wasn't lucky enough to get a transport off the planet and was forced to live on Coruscant which horrified her. Left with no choice Berooken made an agreement with the Freelancers that they would transfer all of their supplies to the sewers and live there until the republic could rescue them although their last hope betray them and left the republic survivors to die.
Betrayed[]
Imprisoned[]
The War For Coruscant[]
Left For Dead[]
Braking trust[]
You must abandon your beloved Jedi Code or else we won't stand a chance against The Empire, because this Hell we leave in is only the beginning! If you think we stand a chance, think again! The Emperor with start eliminating entire planets for the sheer joy of it! Satele I love you but if you can't open your eyes and wake up you won't last long in this war.
—Drew Kade trying to help Satele realize how far gone the galaxy truly is
Satele fighting with Havoc Squad on Alderaan
In 3667 BBY, Shan traveled to the Core World of Alderaan leaving The Black Knights to investigate rumors that one of the planet's royal houses was harboring Imperial spies. However, the Empire invaded Alderaan while she was there, and Shan raced to the royal palace in order to protect Queen Silara Panteer, though the structure was in ruins by the time she got there. It was then that Shan had a vision showing her that you current flame, Jace Malcom whose unit, Havoc Squad, was training injured troopers on Alderaan at the time would need reinforcements. Shan and Malcom had worked together on previous missions, and the soldier had tried to pursue a relationship with her, though she refrained from doing so because of the Order's restrictions on attachments. Sending word to the Jedi Council, Shan rushed to the Juran Mountains to aid them in their guerrilla war against the Imperial forces marching on Castle Organa. The Imperials were led by Darth Malgus, the Sith whom Shan had fought on Korriban fourteen years earlier, and by the time she arrived, the members of Havoc Squad were fighting a losing battle against a disorganized but far larger Imperial force.
Just as Malcom was about to be executed by three Sith warriors, Shan leaped into the valley and landed behind the two holding Malcom. Unleashing a powerful Force blast into the ground before killing the three disoriented Sith, Shan located Malgus nearby and drew her lightsaber as a challenge to her opponent. The Jedi then vaulted across the battlefield, destroying an Imperial war droid and eliminating four Sith in the process before engaging Malgus in a fierce duel. After a series of blows, Shan was forced to her knees as she tried to hold back Malgus's blade, though she reached out with The Force and brought down a nearby tree to grant herself a reprieve. The two then continued their duel atop the fallen tree branch before Malgus threw her against another tree trunk with The Force, and Shan was barely able to somersault over the Sith Lord's head before Malgus buried his lightsaber in the tree where she had been moments earlier. However, Malgus quickly spun and sliced her double-bladed saber in two before she could spin it and attack, and he immediately followed up with a stab directly at her chest—an attack that the Jedi blocked with her hand, holding it back through the power of The Force and sheer will.
Satele gathering a large amount of force energy to blow the cliff on top of Darth Malgus
Malgus's attack was interrupted when Malcom charged the Sith Lord with a ferocious yell, catching him about the waist and engaging in a short fistfight before revealing the primed thermal detonator in his hand. The explosion threw the commando backward out of the clearing, though a scarred Malgus was able to withstand most of the explosion with The Force. Yet before the Sith Lord could pursue either Shan or Malcom, Shan gathered The Force and unleashed a powerful blast that sent Malgus flying into a nearby cliff side. The Sith Lord continued to fight against her power as she pinned him against the cliff, and Shan gathered her strength into a second and more powerful blast that tore the entire cliff to pieces. With her enemy buried under tons of rubble, Shan joined an injured Malcom in surveying the battlefield, and the commando sent up a flare to signal victory—one of many that began to light the surface of Alderaan as the reinforcements Shan had requested arrived in the system.
Malcom was given kolto treatments to deal with his injuries, the most prominent of which left him with a permanently scarred face. Shan visited him later while the Republic forces were celebrating their victory on Teth, and she informed Malcom of the vision that had brought her to his aid. In response to Malcom's questions about Malgus, Shan confided in him her belief that the Sith Lord had survived the battle. Malcom then reminded Shan of his feelings for her, and her attempts to remind the soldier of her vows as a Jedi were not enough to suppress the feelings she had for him in return. Succumbing to her emotions, she and Malcom entered into a secret relationship—one that led to her becoming pregnant around six months after the Battle of Alderaan, not long after Malcom had been promoted to the rank of general. In addition to working with Colonel Elin Garza to develop the Special Forces Division, Malcom was conducting a campaign near the city of Gell Mattar on a planet with Shan, and she decided to speak with him about his desire for vengeance against the Empire before informing him of her pregnancy. Their conversation revealed that Malcom's hatred of the Empire was his driving force, and Shan was forced to confront the possibility that she would turn to the Dark Side if the Empire caused Malcom's death. That fear, and the fear of the darkness within Malcom's spirit, drove Shan to break off their relationship and make plans to give up her child—as she understood that having them in her life put the Republic even more at risk. Once handing over her son to her first master Ngani Zho who promised her that he would protect the child with his life she returned to the battle eager to work with The Black Knights again.
Satele handed her son over to, Ngani Zho, while Drew Kade waits in the ship
For the next few months, Shan continued to serve on the front lines next to fellow Jedi, Drew and Kyle as one of the Republic's greatest heroes, inspiring the remaining soldiers of the Republic Military to achieve victory on battlefields across the galaxy. However, as her pregnancy advanced and her Jedi robes were no longer able to conceal the signs, Shan went to her first Master, Ngani Zho with the help of Drew, and told him of her pregnancy—but not of the father's name. Zho did not question her story and immediately agreed to help, approaching the [[Jedi] Council and the Republic Military's leaders with the story that he had sent them on a vital and clandestine mission. Shan bore her son with Kade and Zho's help on a planet far from the war, and Zho took her child to raise on his own as per their agreement—but not before she named her son Theron. On their way back to Teth Drew questioned her about the sudden rebellious actions against the Jedi Code and for the first time Shan felt as if she had some one who was actually there for her and decided to open up to Kade, after making him swear to secrecy.
Apparent Victory[]
Bombing of Teth[]
Battle of Platoril[]
Battle of Vandor-1[]
Satele fighting against the massive amounts of Sith on Vandor-1
Battle of Vandor-2[]
First Battle of Vandor-3[]
Hopeless Crusade[]
Second Battle of Vandor-3[]
Hero of The Republic[]
And the last… Satele Shan, guardian of the Republic, whose words inspired armies. They had fought separately, on the Ash Plains of Lenico and in the asteroid-hives of Gelpog the Tyrant. They fought twenty thousand years of evil, incarnate in the Sith Emperor and his servants. They never faltered. Of them all, it was Satele who made me the most proud.
—Ngani Zho, on Shan and his other former students
A year later, in 3665 BBY, Drew and Satele learned that Satele was Pregnant with a young boy but there excitement was shortly lived when Shan and 902nd Captain Scar where assigned to a Republic Navy contingent tasked with protecting a fleet of prototype warships that were being gathered for an attack on the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas. However, the fleet was ambushed in The Outer Rim Territories by the Imperial Navy, sparking a week-long battle that crossed several star systems before reaching its peak in the Hoth system. Hundreds of vessels on both sides met their end during the conflict, and Shan was aboard one of the few Republic ships that managed to escape destruction. However Scar wasn't as lucky and had to fight for his life on Hoth for two weeks until a small party republic soldiers managed to save him. In 3661 BBY, Shan was recalled to Vandor-3 when the Mandalorians, a culture of warrior nomads, began a blockade of The Hydian Way Trade Route and amped up the intensity in their concentration camps in the Coruscant sector. Shan witnessed the riots that broke out across the capital in response to the deadly supply shortage caused by the blockade, and she was dismayed to see the turmoil only worsen after the Jedi failed to break the blockade near Devaron. But took comfort in the fact that the turmoil here was only temporary because if the Jedi destroy Exelixi's Castle on Coruscant then the war would end.
Satele fighting Sith Troopers on Rhen Var
As the war neared the end of its third decade, Shan joined Jaric Kaedan, Bela Kiwiiks, and Syo Bakarn—all former apprentices of Ngani Zho like herself—in leading the men of the 45th Battalion and the 902nd legion in a counterattack on the icy planet of Rhen Var. Between the four of them, the Jedi had fought previously on battlefields such as a conflict with Gelpog the Tyrant and a battle on the Ash Plains of Lenico IV, and the four led the Republic forces in a charge that brought them within reach of the fortress of Darth Mekhis, a former member of the Empire's Dark Council. Breaking open the door to Mekhis's chamber with The Force, she asked the Sith Lord to surrender and offered protection in exchange. However, Mekhis refused, and the two began a fierce duel that resulted in Mekhis being grievously injured before she escaped. During this battle Shan pretended to be confident and strong when in reality she was horrified with the idea of leaving her husband and young children in the bloody battlefields in the Coruscant sector and when she returned to her secret family a feeling of comfort fell upon the heroic warrior knowing that they where still alive and well, and was also concerned fighting a Sith Lord as strong as Mekhis while pregnant could possible get both her and the baby killed. But even on Vandor-3 the fear remained knowing that every second hundreds of innocents are slaughtered by the sith on Coruscant.
During The War For Coruscant, the Empire approached the Republic with a surprising offer of peace in 3653 BBY. As a gesture of good faith, the Empire withdrew its forces from The Minos Cluster, and the Galactic Senate agreed to peace negotiations on Alderaan. A Republic delegation led by the Cerean Senator Paran Am-Ris traveled to Alderaan, accompanied by several Jedi: Satele Shan, Dar'Nala, Syo Bakarn, Rhel Covel and Aryn Leneer. Shan spent the first morning in meditation seeing flashes of Drew fighting herds of Sith with Kyle right there next to him but flash's of a mysterious Sith Lord who was fighting a young girl Jedi keep appearing and the quickly disappearing, though her efforts were not enough to conceal the tension she felt at the conference, and she confided in her former teacher that she believed there was something more to the meeting than the Council believed. At that moment, Shan's suspicions were being proven correct—an Imperial fleet under the command of Darth Ares was approaching Coruscant, and it began attacking the Republic fleets above Coruscant, the moment that Darth Malgus and his strike force bombed and destroyed the senate building which was the republics only outpost on the planet. Supreme Chancellor Berooken contacted Drew and Kyle Kade who where in the battlefield and attempted to warn them of the Sith's treachery, but to and instead the entire conference room was imprisoned and forced to watch as Necray stormed the Chancellor's office and execute the Mon Calamari throwing the senate into turmoil.
Satele currently pregnant With Hunter with Dar'Nala on Alderaan
Realizing that the Sith had resorted to treachery and having confirmation from Drew, Shan drew her saber and charged the Empire's emissary, Darth Valdor. Valdor blocked her strike with his own blade and cautioned her to restrain herself before explaining to Am-Ris that the peace talks would proceed as planned—only the Republic would have to agree to the Empire's terms while the Imperials destroyed their capital even more and murdered it's leaders in cold blood. At Dar'Nala's urging, Shan reluctantly disengaged and exited the room with the rest of the Republic delegation—only to find Leneer embroiled in a fight with the two Sith members of the Empire delegation who had been waiting outside, one of which was Drew and Kyle Kade's cousin Archer Kade. Dar'Nala's voice quickly brought the Jedi's fight to a halt but Archer ended the fight for good by killing Leneer, and Shan was barely able to stop Am-Ris from attacking Valdor when the Sith Lord goaded the Republic delegates with reminders that they were there to discuss the peace treaty.
After departing the hall, Dar'Nala took command of the group and ordered Shan to set up a secure link communication to Grand Master Zym. While waiting for the Grand Master to answer and fearing he was murdered on the battle fields on Coruscant, the group discussed the uneasy situation on Coruscant, and Rhel revealed that his empathic bond with his former padawan, Arris Moragon, had caused him to sense Arris' death during the attack on the Senate building. Later that night, Drew informed Dar'Nala and Am-Ris that the Republic had no choice but to accept Valdor's terms because Coruscant wasn't going to be able to be freed with the recent death of Grand Master Zym and also warned Dar'Nala that Shan had to apologize to Valdor if the negotiations were to proceed after privately speaking with Satele and telling her she had to apologize but she refused. Despite Dar'Nala's feelings on the matter, she complied with the former Sith's request, and Shan begrudgingly apologized to the Sith Lord the following day. After contacting Drew a second time that night to informing him of the unpredictable change of events on Alderaan that only complicated things and how she was feeling with a baby after he asked her if she wanted to stayq.
The Cold War[]
A Tense Treaty[]
One thing is sure—you will never defeat the Sith. You know that now."
—Darth Baras and Shan
Satele escaping from the empire
In the days following the signing of the Treaty of Coruscant and the bloody battle that became known as The War For Coruscant, Republic forces were ordered to withdraw from every battlefield across the galaxy, and Kyle sent both Shan and Dar'Nala to enforce the withdrawal on Dantooine. The two were aboard the Republic ship Envoy in the Kuat sector, conversing in their suite, when Dar'Nala detected an eavesdropper outside in the hall—the Imperial protocol droid SP-99, which had been assigned to the vessel in order to ensure the fulfillment of the Treaty's terms. The Togruta Jedi Master then departed for the bridge in anger as Shan comm-linked into Drew before she settled down to sleep holding hope Drew would be able to be at his son's birth. Shan was still in her room when Dar'Nala arranged for the Envoy to attack a passing Imperial transport, as part of a plan to dismantle the Treaty and restart the war. Shan was alerted to the Imperials' returning fire by SP-99, and her attempt to investigate led her straight into a pair of Imperial commandos, who tried to kill her on sight. Quickly dispatching the attackers and ignoring SP-99's protests, the Jedi raced to find Dar'Nala, only to witness her capture by several Imperials. The Togruta ordered her former student to run and warn the Council, and Shan raced to an escape pod with SP-99 before the Imperials could capture her as well. While escaping she contacted Drew and Kyle to informed them on what happened and told them to Warn the two remaining council members but both the bothers where still waging war on Coruscant and where unable to contact The council members who where currently on Muscave holding off an incoming imperial fleet from reaching Coruscant.
A Mandalorian raider vessel bound for the Geonosis slave markets eventually found the escape pod in the Barma sector, but a Rendaran-class assault shuttle piloted by Jedi Master Orgus Din and Lieutenant Harron Tavus located the pod's distress signal and destroyed the slavers before they could capture Shan. The Jedi Knight told them her story immediately upon being rescued, and Din decided that Shan needed to be taken to Coruscant right away. Tavus laughed down Shan's argument that they should also rescue Dar'Nala, but Din agreed that they did need more information on the attack before they could make a judgment. They contacted Drew and Kyle from their ship, but Shan was dismayed to learn that an intercepted Imperial transmission had reported that Dar'Nala was dead. Saddened by the loss of her former Master, Shan accompanied the two on their original mission to enforce the ceasefire on the nearby planet Balmorra, where Din forced his former student Fortris Gall to withdraw from the battlefield. After completing their mission on Balmorra, they prepared to go to Dantooine, but Shan's request to lead the mission was accepted by Din, who was planning to remain on Balmorra while Gall and Tavus went to Dantooine with Shan.
As they were traveling through the Raioballo sector, Tavus approached Shan with the possibility of starting a romantic relationship, but Shan reminded the lieutenant of her vows as a Jedi keeping her marriage secret. Their conversation was interrupted by SP-99, who reported their arrival at Dantooine, and Tavus informed Shan that the offer still stood if she changed her mind. Meeting with Major Dael at Base D-55 on Dantooine, the two were dismayed to learn from Am-Ris that Grand Master Zym had been killed—in a bombing run on republic forces on the streets of Galactic city. With the Treaty of Coruscant crumbling under the strain of recent events, Am-Ris reiterated his order to withdraw to Dael and ended the holotransmission with the hope that Shan and Tavus would succeed in convincing the major to heed the orders. To Shan's surprise, Tavus did not object to Dael's refusal, and the lieutenant decided to return to their ship until Shan came to her senses and realized that the Treaty was not worth protecting. Despite Tavus's departure, Shan remained committed to the mission, and she stayed behind to speak with Dael. With her pregnancy becoming more and more noticeable Shan started to worry about what would happen if another Jedi questioned her.
Satele fighting Valdor and Ghost
A little while later, Din arrived on Dantooine with the bounty hunter Braden, whom he had captured on Nar Shaddaa. Upon learning Shan's name, Braden delivered the message that Dar'Nala had tasked him with before her death—Dar'Nala believed that the Treaty was being sabotaged by Darth Valdor. This confused Shan, who had sensed that Valdor was more committed to the Treaty than Dar'Nala had been on Alderaan, and she returned to the ship to find Tavus. To her surprise, Shan found only a heavily damaged SP-99, as Tavus had shot the droid after discovering it spying on him. The protocol droid was barely able to communicate before losing power that Tavus had gone to the ruins of the Jedi Enclave, and Din called Shan just then to report that Braden had escaped. Din ordered her to remain there until he arrived, but Shan decided to pursue Tavus herself and set off for the Enclave after informing Drew of the possibility that Darth Valdor is purposely starting another war. Following The Force, Shan entered the Crystal Cave near the Enclave to find a fierce firefight in progress. Valdor, Ghost, and several Sith troopers were battling Tavus, Gall, a Wookiee bounty hunter named Dalborra, and—to Shan's astonishment—Dar'Nala. Surprised to see her former teacher alive, Shan nonetheless joined the Togruta in her fight against Valdor.
Valdor revealed that one of the Treaty's purposes was to show the Jedi their own hypocrisy and hatred of the Sith, and Dar'Nala proved his point by admitting that she had been behind both the attack on the Envoy and the Senate bombing. Valdor then tried to convince Shan to join the Sith, claiming that she belonged on the other side of the war—but Shan broke away after a difficult struggle, realizing that the Sith were manipulating her and the others to continue fighting to allow more innocents to die. Calling out to Tavus, who had pinned an unarmed Ghost to the ground and was preparing to execute him, she warned him to stop. An enraged Dar'Nala leaped at the soldier when he refused to kill the Sith, and she knocked aside Gall when the confused Jedi blocked her attack. The fallen Jedi Master ordered Dalborra, who was under her mental control, to kill Gall, but the Wookiee instead broke free of her thrall and slew Dar'Nala with a single blow to the head. Shan rushed to Dar'Nala's side as Dalborra fled the cave, and Ghost took advantage of his opponents' distraction to summon his lightsaber back to his hand and throw Tavus across the cave with The Force. The Sith prepared to continue their battle, but Shan held back her allies and informed Ghost that their fight had ended. Valdor agreed with Shan and departed with his fellow Sith but not before warning the Jedi Knight that Sith was not only in her heritage but also her families—the Dark Side was the destiny of all the heirs of Revan. Returning to the surface, the trio explained what had transpired in the caves to Din, though none of the three mentioned many details or explained Dar'Nala's role in the recent events. Din was suspicious about what Valdor had said about Satele having a family, and made her tell them everything from her starting a relationship with Drew Kade up to modern day. At first he was troubled by her choice to walk away from the code but decided to keep her secret safe because of everything her and Drew have sacrificed for the Jedi. On their trip back home Satele gave birth to Hunter.
Grand Master Of The Order[]
I am simply tired. Like you, I wish a speedy resolution to these times.
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But not through war.
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Not if it can be avoided, no.
—Shan and her Padawan and daughter, Valery Kade
Not long after the events on Dantooine and celebration of the republics victory in the war for Coruscant, Shan embarked on a journey across the galaxy, exploring new worlds and making new allies as she followed the call of the Force that she felt through deep meditation. During this period, she ended the Eberon–Kashyyyk War and had made an enemy of an individual named Thresh-ahantu Azuloz. Finally, in 3651 BBY, the Force revealed a previously lost hyperspace route that led Shan far into the Deep Core—where she discovered the Order's long-lost homeworld of Tython. For her achievement, Shan was granted the rank of Jedi Master and given a place on the Jedi Council, and it was not long after her appointment that the Order was informed that the Jedi Temple on Coruscant would not be rebuilt but the sith castle would be destroyed. In light of the news, the Council decided that the Order would move its headquarters to Tython. By 3645 BBY, the Council had appointed Shan as the Order's Grand Master and Drew to rank of Supreme commander, and she guided the Jedi throughout the Cold War as they rebuilt their ranks and recovered from the fighting. Sometime during that period of time, she took on a young kiffar named, Shigar Konshi, as her Padawan after Rhel Covel took over Valery's training. In 3645 BBY Kyle Kade died from a parasite implanted in his body during the first year of the war for Coruscant throwing Drew into a deeper state of depression, Satele into a socking feeling of defeat, and Elin into a light Depression.
Around 3643 BBY, Supreme Chancellor Dorian Janarus approached the Council with the request that Master Oteg assume a position as Fleet Admiral. After meditating on the matter, Shan had flashbacks of the war for Coruscant showing everything Kyle did as a sith before decided that Oteg would play a pivotal role in the upcoming conflict, and she agreed to Janarus's request. Oteg's seat on the Jedi High Council was taken by Oric Traless, and sometime afterward, Drew and Satele were on Coruscant to meet with General Elin Garza and when the Council deemed her Valery was unfit to take the Jedi Trials at the moment. Sensing Valery's disappointment and conflicted emotions, she told him to take a walk while she went to her meeting with out her knowing her son Kingston tagged along and tried to lift the boys sprits. However, Drew soon found himself caught up in a firefight with an armored Mandalorian named Drako Namor. Namor escaped despite the efforts of Drew and Republic Captain Scar, but Scar had learned that Namor was seeking something called the Cinzia and a person named Lema Xandret. Drew immediately reported these events to his Satele, who relayed them to the council before contacting Tython regarding her earlier meeting. She later met with Drew near the Galactic Justice Center, where she gave her apprentice all of the information that the Republic Strategic Information Service had gathered on the Cinzia and Xandret—the Cinzia was a ship that the Hutt Tassaa Bareesh was planning to attack Mandolore with, and Xandret was somehow involved in the ship's history. Sensing that Drew had set something in motion, the Grand Master decided to send her apprentice and Scar to Nal Hutta to investigate the ship.
Drew's mission uncovered the existence of droids known as hexes, combat droids that the Cinzia had been carrying, and Bareesh's attack proved effective when the droids were released and began to wreak havoc. The Padawan and Kade were able to escape Mandolore with the Republic envoy Ula Vii and the smuggler Jet Nebula aboard Nebula's ship, Auriga Fire, and Drew and the padawan contacted Satele to seek guidance on what to do next. Shan was troubled by two aspects of her apprentice's report: The droids were adaptable in combat, and a Sith apprentice named Eldon Ax had been present at Bareesh's palace during the fighting. As Drew was planning to use R9 to track the source of the hexes, Shan gathered a 902nd task force and traveled to a rendezvous at the planet Honoghr. Using his powers, Shan's apprentice tracked the hexes to a planet named Sebaddon before R9 could, which was located near a black hole, well above the galactic disk. Shan soon followed them to the Sebaddon system aboard the Corellia, a cruiser among the Republic flotilla under the command of Colonel Gurin. Shan attempted to contact Xandret's Sebaddon colonists three times before receiving a response—a woman's voice, saying they did not recognize the Republic's authority and that they wanted only to be left alone. As the conversation continued, Sebaddon launched eight missiles at the Republic fleet, and the Republic was only able to destroy seven of them before they hit the Corellia.
To the Republic's dismay, the missiles were actually composed of thousands of hexes, and the "destroyed" projectiles quickly took control of several Republic vessels. The section of the Corellia in which Shan had been in was largely intact, and the Grand Master was able to seal herself within a pressurized section of the ship. She reached out to her husband to convey her situation, and Drew used one of the Auriga Fire's enviro-suits to reach her. While waiting for Drew to find her, the Grand Master encountered nine hexes, but she was able to influence a biological component in them to halt their aggression. However, she was unable to make the hexes leave, which forced her Padawan and husband to walk carefully through the hexes to let the Grand Master out. Shan used a Force shield to keep the air around her while Drew cut them a path out of the ship's wreckage. After Drew rescued Shan, the Mandalorian Namor contacted the Auriga Fire with instructions to meet him on a nearby moon.
Shan and Drew met with Namor on the First Blood, his personal ship, and they were surprised to encounter the Sith apprentice from Nal Hutta there as well. Namor explained that the hexes' creator, Lema Xandret, had originally approached the Mandalorians with her droids in hopes of forming an alliance to bring down the Sith Empire. Xandret's droids had intrigued Mandalore the Vindicated, but the Mandalorians soon realized that the hexes were, in fact, a galactic plague and he manage to convince Mandalore not to form an alliance with her—Xandret had lost control of her droids not long after she contacted the Mandalorians, and the droids' drive to consume and their incredible replication speed would allow them to destroy the entire galaxy within a matter of years. That was the reason that Namor had called the Empire and the Republic to Sebaddon: Only together could the two galactic powers destroy the scourge of the hexes and ensure the galaxy's safety. Though both sides initially refused to form such an alliance, they eventually agreed to a temporary cessation of hostilities in order to eliminate the hexes. As part of the joint assault, Shan led a strike team to destroy the hexes' coordinating intelligence while another team led by Drew and Leo took out the main factory. Despite her apprehensions, Shan accepted the demands of Darth Chratis—the Sith Lord in command of the Imperial force—that she would take his apprentice with her while he took Valery on his own mission.
As the battle began, Shan and the rest of the allied forces of Republic, FreeLancer, and Sith Troopers dropped onto Sebaddon's surface using jet-chutes, though she soon began to tail Eldon Ax in order to speak with Chratis's apprentice. Once the allied troopers found an entrance to the coordinating intelligence's complex, the Grand Master led the charge into the facility, destroying hundreds of hexes with both the Force and her lightsaber. Yet the joint task force soon realized that it was unable to penetrate the complex's main structure to reach its target, so Shan had her allies withdraw so that something else could do the work for them—a crippled transport was heading straight for the complex. The transport breached a subterranean mining complex beneath the facility, but an explosion of what seemed to be lava consumed both Shan and Ax before they could get out of the way. To their surprise, the two discovered that it was not lava; it was a lake of warm, reddish fluid that concealed an Imperial vessel far beneath its surface. Shan and Ax boarded the ship to find a massive glass tank containing the same red fluid in one of the vessel's compartments, and they soon realized that the fluid was some kind of organic material that gave the hexes a semblance of life—and that the tank contained a clone of Eldon Ax.
The clone explained to Shan that Eldon Ax was actually Xandret's daughter, a fact that the Sith apprentice had concealed, and that the fluid in which she was submerged was suppressing her Force powers. Further conversation with the clone revealed that Xandret had infused the droids with her own intelligence, but the remnant of Xandret within the fluid killed the clone when she tried to shut down the hexe droids. With her dying words, the clone instructed Ax on how to take control of the hexes, and Shan and Ax returned to the surface to test whether it would work. Ax's control of the hexes allowed her to end the battle in a matter of minutes, and Shan retreated with the rest of the Republic forces as Ax used the hexes to kill her Master before destroying them and ending the threat they posed to the galaxy. In the aftermath of the conflict, which was labeled Independent Operation Sebaddon, Shan proudly stood by as her Padawan was deemed ready for the Jedi Trials and returned to Tython with her student so that he could become a Jedi Knight.
Mysteries Of Tython[]
"Taking a life affects the Living Force—and the one who does the killing. This is why Jedi enter battles calmly, with reason. Emotions like fear and anger can lead to the dark side." ―Satele Shan, to the Padawan who defeated Callef—
Sometime after returning to Tython, the Grand Master and the rest of the Council were involved in a recent conflict with the Twi'lek Pilgrims of Kalikori village. The village was technically an illegal settlement, and the Order was restricted from aiding the villagers in their fight against the savage Flesh Raider natives who regularly raided the village. However, Kalikori's resentment of the Jedi reached a peak when the villager Nalen Raloch was seduced to the dark side and driven insane by the Force ghost of Rajivari, one of the founders of the Jedi Order and the instigator of the Force Wars, which had ravaged Tython over 20,000 years earlier. Fortunately for the Order, the apprentice of Council member Yuon Par defeated Raloch before he could destroy the Forge, the ancient machine used by the Order's Padawans to construct lightsabers as part of their Trials, and the injured villager was brought to the Jedi Temple for healing. Shan oversaw the man's treatment herself with her husband, and she later attended a Council meeting with Par, Par's Padawan, Jaric Kaedan, Gar Salen and Syo Bakarn. Taking the Padawan's advice into account, Shan and the rest of the Council began making overtures to Kalikori in an attempt to heal the rift between the villagers and the Jedi, and Raloch was taken in for Jedi training. Par's student was also elevated to a full Jedi of the Order, but Par herself collapsed halfway through the meeting. The Council and the Temple's healers discovered that she was suffering from a kind of sickness, and they decided to send her and her former Padawan to Coruscant in hopes that Jedi artifacts from the ruined Temple could aid Par's seemingly untreatable illness that had similar effects of the parasite that killed Kyle Kade.
Another conflict eventually arose on Tython—this one involving the Flesh Raiders. When the Flesh Raiders invaded the Tythonian Gnarls region and attacked the Jedi outpost there, the Jedi were able to repel the natives' attack, but the assault ended when a young initiate defeated the Dark Jedi Callef, who was commanding the Flesh Raiders. Master Din sealed the cave that the Flesh Raiders were using to enter the Gnarls and ordered the apprentice to meet him at the Jedi Temple after commanding a team of 781st soldiers to guard the cave for a while, but Shan learned of what had transpired in the Gnarls and contacted the student as the young Jedi arrived at the Temple. She asked the learner to meet her within her private chambers before the Council meeting, and she discussed the Jedi Code and the dangers of emotions with the student briefly before going to the Council chambers. In the meeting, Shan and the few Masters present were surprised when Din announced his intention to take on the apprentice who defeated Callef as his own Padawan, the first he had taught since his previous student, Bengel Morr, who was believed to have been killed in the War for Coruscant a decade earlier. After contemplating a dark presence of which the Council had recently become aware, Shan came to believe that the source was on Coruscant, and she dispatched Master Kiwiiks and her Padawan, Kira Carsen, to investigate. However, over the next few days, Din and his new student uncovered the truth behind the Flesh Raiders' recent increase in attacks—they were being commanded by Morr, who had survived the destruction of the Jedi Temple and turned to the dark side.
After the Padawan defeated Morr in battle and rescued Din, who had been betrayed by the villagers of Kalikori and captured by Morr, Shan and the rest of the Council elevated the student to the rank of Jedi Knight. When the Grand Master and supreme commander asked for the newly promoted Knight's opinion on what should be done about the villagers, the young Jedi believed that the Order needed to openly aid the Twi'lek villagers so that Kalikori would not turn on them again. The meeting was interrupted by a priority call from Kiwiiks, who confirmed their suspicions that something malevolent was working on the capital, and Shan decided to send both Din and his former student to assist her.
The Grand Master then accompanied a Republic Military convoy who was ferrying a high-level Imperial defector, codenamed the General. However, the convoy was ambushed by the Imperial Navy, forcing Shan to send the general ahead aboard the Thranta-class corvette Brentaal Star while her fleet fought off the attack. Yet Imperial Grand Moff Rycus Kilran learned of the Brentaal Star's location and sent the Gage-class transport Black Talon to attack the Republic vessel and recapture the defector. By the time Shan and the sixteen remaining vessels of her convoy were able to disengage from their attackers—crippling three Imperial dreadnaughts in the process—an Imperial strike team was preparing to board the damaged Brentaal Star and capture the general, and the Grand Master's requests that the Imperials withdraw and respect the Treaty of Coruscant went unheeded. Shan's convoy raced to the Brentaal Star's aid, but by the time she arrived, the Imperials had already eliminated the general, and the Black Talon was long gone.
When the Voidstar, a prototype Imperial warship lost during the first war, was rediscovered, Shan commanded the Republic forces that fought for control of the warship.
During that time, the Jedi on Coruscant had uncovered the source of the dark presence with the help of supreme commander Kade—a Sith Lord named Tarnis, who had been posing as a top Republic scientist on the Planet Prison superweapon project since the early days of the war for Coruscant—and also learned that Tarnis had stolen files on all of the Republic's weapon projects and a couple FreeLancer's as well to give to the Empire. Din, Kiwiiks, and Agent Galen had been dispatched to secure the Republic's offworld facilities, and Din's former student had joined forces with Drew and Valery Kade to defeat Tarnis in the depths of the Jedi Temple before he could turn the Planet Prison against the Republic capital. However, the Knight's defeat of Tarnis incurred the wrath of his father, Darth Angral, and the elder Sith Lord had promptly declared a personal war against the Republic and the Jedi in order to gain revenge for the death of his son. Din's old friend Var Suthra, the general in charge of the Republic weapon projects, contacted Shan, who authorized the young Knight to work with Suthra to stop Angral's crusade. Shan also assigned Carsen as the Knight's own Padawan in the absence of Kiwiiks, and she wished the young Jedi luck as the two departed for Ord Mantell with their astromech droid ally, T7-O1.
Guiding The Heroes Of The Order[]
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Shan had also begun working with the Republic Emergency Response Corps to deal with crises across the galaxy that threatened the extremely fragile peace, and a situation in the Outer Rim came to her attention. The Advozse Hegemony, a xenophobic political faction of the Advozsec people, had acquired a prototype battle station codenamed "Hammer" that used asteroids to bombard planetary surfaces. The station had been designed during the Great Galactic War but scuttled when the project's destructive potential was fully understood, and the prototype was set on autopilot to collide with a nearby white dwarf. However, a mechanical failure shut off the station's engines before it was destroyed, and the Hegemony had discovered it several months before. The station was brought to the Republic's attention when the Hegemony bombarded the capital city of the planet Skine after it refused to surrender, and Shan put out a call to as many Jedi and Republic heroes as were available. In hopes of reuniting the Black Knights and the heroes from the war for Coruscant. Gathering a small strike team aboard the Republic's staging area of Carrick Station, the Grand Master briefed the team on the situation and dispatched it to infiltrate the Hammer above Saleucami. However, Darth Malgus, Shan's opposite number in the Empire, had gathered a strike team to destroy the station at the same time, and only one of the two teams was successful in their attack on the station.
Once returning from a debrief on Coruscant Shan went straight to her apartment in the temple to rest only to be intrupted by the an immedent distress call from Jedi master, Rhel Covel, that stated Hunter was on a bloody rampage killing everyone in the youngling's training room with the door locked. Satele hurried to the scene and had R9 attempt to open the door but the droid failed because Hunter had destroyed the system by cutting the access panel in half. Faint screams for help could be heard but with the system locked it seemed as if the children would be murdered however Satele refused to allow her son to murder the his fellow youngling in cold blood and started to cut a hole in the door with her lightsaber. Before entering threw the hole she made Shan order the rest of the rest to remain outside, the didn't go over well with most the order but Sham didn't care. Hunter stood in the room passing back and forth in of three more youngling with dead youngling's and master's surrounding him. Shan started to run towards her son and talk him down but before she could reach him he force her across the room and slammed her into the wall. Hunter proceeded by stabbing one of the youngling's in the chest before considering to listen to his mother desperate cry's of mercy, for a splint second he almost stopped himself but then his anger and hate would cloud his thoughts and cause him to murder yet another youngling. Satele screamed in tears begging Hunter to end the murder and bloodshed and he responded by decapitating the last child. Hunter forced his mother into the air and put his trainers lightsaber only an inch away from her throat, and promised her when he returned he would kill both her and Drew. The boy threw Shan onto the ground and as a Jedi crawled threw the hole in the door Hunter created a fireball with the force and threw at the Jedi setting him a blaze. The young pureblood forced the window to shatter then jumped out of the temple and landed on a near by ship that was leaving. Satele told Drew about the horrible event that night and told him that she could no longer be married because sooner or later she to would fall to the dark side, both war-hardened veterans agreed it was in their best intrest and the galaxies best intrest that they get a divorce.
A short time later, another crisis arose—but one that involved a powerful threat from the dark side. An archaeological survey team from port 5 was excavating Sith ruins on the planet Athiss when the Order received a distress signal from the planet that coincided with the Council's sudden sensation of an intense disturbance in the Force. Summoning several powerful Jedi and other trusted allies, Shan had Drew dispatched a strike team to Athiss to investigate. The Republic strike team competed with an Imperial strike force to recover the Sith artifacts and contain the dark side threat. The two strike teams combined to eliminate the primitive worshipers of the Sith Lord Vodal Kressh, who had been exiled to Athiss by the Sith Emperor centuries ago, and the destruction of Kressh's servants ended the possibility of his influence spreading out into the larger galaxy. Shan was still on Tython when Din's former student and Carsen arrived to reveal that Carsen was a native of the Empire. The two had been pursuing Angral's agents across the galaxy when they were lured into a trap by a Sith named Valis in order to capture her, and Carsen had revealed her past to her Master after they defeated the Sith. After Shan gathered the few Council members who were on Tython at the time, Carsen explained her tale in full: Born on Dromund Kaas to Sith parents, she had been raised at the Sith Academy on Korriban and was a Child of the Emperor—a servant of the Sith Emperor who would have been bound to the Emperor's will if Carsen had not escaped before the process was completed. Master Kaedan immediately called for Carsen's imprisonment, but Satele disagreed because of her husbands similar background—the Council had first learned of the Children's existence from his own Padawan, Sajar, a former Dark Councillor whom Braga had turned to the light side of the Force. While the conversation was ongoing, Shan reached out and probed Carsen with the Force, only to find no trace of the dark side within her. Carsen's teacher convinced the Grand Master that the Padawan would never betray the Order, so Shan decided to allow Carsen to remain a Jedi but had Valery and Ravenous keep a watchful eye on her.
Shan returned to her chambers in the Jedi Temple to find that she was not alone. Sensing her visitor in the Force, she asked him to reveal himself and was greeted by a tall, dark-haired man with a cybernetic implant above one of his eyes. Informing the Grand Master that Master Zho was dead, he gave her the man's lightsaber and told Shan that he had died saving others. However, Shan recognized something in the man and realized that he was actually her son, Theron, though her visitor did not show any signs of recognizing her before he departed. Sometime later, the Republic alerted Shan to the theft of the Allusis, a highly-advanced Valor-class cruiser that had been undergoing refits at the Fondor Shipyards, and she gathered a strike team to reclaim the vessel from the Mandalorian Clan Varad, which was using it to pillage and raid the planets of the Tamarin sector. As the Empire was attempting to destroy the Allusis after Clan Varad attacked several Imperial planets, Shan led a Republic fleet to engage both the Mandalorians and the Imperial fleet while her strike team—a four-man group consisting of the Jedi Consular Magnus, the Jedi Knight Ezeraline, a smuggler named Taklan, and a Republic trooper named Keenor—boarded the Allusis and attempted to take control of the vessel. However, the team was opposed by an Imperial strike force that included the Sith Rotham and Vincine, a bounty hunter named Kyrenic, and an Imperial agent named Andan, and only one of the teams survived the battle and captured the Allusis for its side.
Yet another crisis also arose on the planet Cademimu V, a missile depot that supplied Republic defenses on worlds along the Celanon Spur trade route, when the planet's corrupt Governor Chornarov declared his independence before the Republic could begin investigations into his actions. With the help of the Mantellian Separatist Movement, which had recently been forced off Ord Mantell at the end of the Separatist War, Chornarov declared martial law and had the Separatist General Ortol deploy his troops to seize control. The governor also took control of the planet's missile depots, ensuring that neither the Republic nor the Empire could launch an invasion, so both Shan and Darth Malgus dispatched strike teams to infiltrate Cademimu and shut down the weapons. Both the Empire and the Republic sent fleets to the Cademimu system to ensure they could take control quickly, but only one galactic power was successful in taking the missile depots and conquering the planet.
When the Jedi enclave on Rhinnal was attacked by an Imperial warship and the Republic frigate Toron Voq was destroyed trying to investigate, the Republic believed that the Empire had attacked and broken the Treaty. Shan was deeply affected by the attack on the enclave, as she sensed the simultaneous deaths of many Jedi, although it was no where near as painful as it was during the war for Coruscant it came close. However, an intercepted coded transmission from Malgus to the Dark Council revealed that the fortress of a Sith Lord named Senu and another fortress had suffered a similar fate; the message also identified the attacker as the Red Reaper, the flagship of the Sith Pureblood Darth Necray. Necray desired to purge the galaxy of all non-Purebloods, and, as the Red Reaper was detected near the agricultural world Chandrila, Shan immediately dispatched a Republic strike team of Jedi to board the vessel and defeat Necray just as Malgus did the same. Between the two teams, Necray and his forces weren't defeated and the Red Reaper got away, although the Republic gained valuable astrogation and strategic data from the mission.
When the Jedi Ako Domi, who had been captured at the Battle of Sullust in the previous war and fell to the dark side while imprisoned on Nar Shaddaa, was defeated and returned to Tython by Republic forces,Shan sent messages thanking those involved in his reusuce.
The crisis with Darth Angral came to its peak when the Sith Lord, having killed his rival, Orgus Din, and constructed a superweapon known as the Desolator, tested the weapon on the Republic agriworld of Uphrades before launching an assault on Tython. Angral's flagship, Oppressor, deployed mini-bursts of the Desolator technology that ionized the planet's atmosphere, preventing the Jedi from launching any fighters, and Shan was unable to do anything more than send a distress signal. Fortunately for the Order, Din's former Padawan had discovered Uphrades not long after Angral's departure, and General Suthra relayed Shan's distress signal to the Jedi Knight. Along with Carsen and T7-O1, the Knight was able to board the Oppressor above Tython and disable the Desolator, allowing the Order to launch its fighters. By the time that the Knight and Carsen defeated Angral on the Oppressor's bridge, Jedi and FreeLancer starfighters were beginning bombing runs that tore apart the warship and permanently ended the threat of the Desolator. When the Knight and Carsen returned to Tython's surface, Shan learned that the Emperor himself had tried to take control of the former Child, but Carsen had severed the link between them permanently, and the Grand Master promoted the Padawan to the rank of Jedi Knight as a result. She also granted Carsen's teacher the ceremonial title of "Hero of Tython" in recognition for the Jedi's service.
Return To War[]
Against The Empire[]
As the Cold War dissolved into a renewed Galactic War due to the recent proxy conflicts and heightened tensions between the two galactic powers, fellow Council member Tol Braga approached Shan with a bold plan—a strike team would capture the Sith Emperor himself and bring him to Tython, where the Sith ruler would be converted to the light side of the Force. As part of Braga's plan, the Jedi Knight Kassidee Kingston scouted the Dromund system, though she was pursued and shot down over the planet Tatooine. Kingston was rescued by a 902nd response team, who had been drawn to Kassidee's location by the instructions of Drew Kade, and Shan and Braga ordered the Team to bring Kassidee's sensor logs to Tython while the Human Jedi awaited medical aid. The Grand Master authorized Braga's mission and allowed the Jedi Master to recruit the Hero for the strike team, but as the strike team completed its preparations, Kassidee experienced a Force vision that the Hero would fall to the dark side. She confronted the Council and her former master the supreme commander, but despite her protests and Master Kleos's, Shan permitted the mission to proceed. True to Kassidee's vision, the Emperor turned the entire group to the dark side and trained them as his servants for months.
The Hero only escaped the Emperor thanks to the Din's ghost and the unlikely aid of the Emperor's Wrath, Lord Scourge, who freed the Knight's companions and promised to explain his actions on Tython. There, before the Council, the Sith Lord revealed his past: Centuries earlier, he had foreseen the destruction of the galaxy at the hands of the Emperor, and the vision had shown that only the Kade's where capable of stopping the emperor. Who was attempting to repeat the dark side ritual that had granted him immortality over a thousand years earlier but on a galactic scale, a feat that would kill every living thing in the galaxy. However, the Emperor required a sacrifice of billions of simultaneous deaths, and Scourge urged Drew and the Council to halt the Sith's plans on the prison planet of Belsavis. To Kaedan's shock, Shan decided that Scourge's help was essential in stopping the Emperor, and she allowed the Sith Lord to accompany Drew to Belsavis while the Grand Master sent a Jedi named Enna Tabord ahead to investigate.
By the time Drew arrived at Belsavis, Shan's investigations had identified there the presence of a high-ranking servant of the Emperor, Executor Krannus. Scourge confirmed that Krannus was likely the Emperor's intended agent of destruction, and the Grand Master gave Tabord's coordinates to Drew so that the ex-Jedi could meet the other Jedi on the surface. She also attempted to notify the prison administration of Drew's presence on Belsavis, but the chaos resulting from the Imperial attack on the planet prevented Shan from making contact until she located Colonel Bartaph, the Republic officer in charge of the military reinforcements that had been dispatched to secure the prison. Bartaph was able to send a Special Forces squad under Sergeant Bedd to reinforce Drew in a final battle with Krannus, helping him prevent Krannus from destroying the entire planet. Upon learning of her husband's victory on Belsavis, Shan dispatched Drew to the Imperial space station Korriban's Flame to investigate rumors of a meeting between high-ranking Sith and also to find His former padawan, Kassidee Kingston, who had disappeared on a previous mission.
Senator Broo Sphinx on the planet Sarkhai, speaking with a member of the Rift Alliance splinter government, was kidnapped above Belsavis by a man named Stark. The former student of Yuon Par, who had been granted the title of Barsen'thor—Warden of the Order—and the rank of Jedi Master after resolving the earlier crisis involving the Force-induced plague that had afflicted Par and other Jedi Masters, investigated Broo's kidnapping with his daughter, Nadia, but the two were too late to prevent his death. Upon learning of the death of Broo, who had been an ally of the Jedi Order even after the Rift Alliance's split with the Republic, Shan convened the Council to offer the Order's condolences to Nadia and the Rift Alliance. Master Salen also displayed the Senator's will, which included a request that the Barsen'thor take on Nadia as a Padawan, and Shan informed the Consular that she and the Council had decided to approve Broo's request. Before ending the transmission to the Barsen'thor's ship, the Grand Master led Nadia through the traditional vow to honor one's Master and the Jedi Code, and Shan then returned to her investigations of the Emperor's plans.
Rhel Covel soon contacted Shan and relayed that the Korriban's Flame had been a trap set by a corrupted member of the strike team, Leeha Narezz, but the Jedi also learned something during the mission—the Emperor had dispatched a Sith named Antis to the planet Voss, a world ruled by Force-using Mystics who rejected the Jedi Code. While Covel and Valery crossed the galaxy on their way to Voss, Drew and Satele gathered as much information as they could about the possible situation there, discovering that Antis was communicating with the Emperor through an encrypted communications relay. However, the presence of several signal scramblers in the area prevented the Jedi from tracking Antis' precise location, so the Grand Master sent Covel to disable the scramblers upon arrival. Rhel pursued Antis across the planet in a race to prevent him from unleashing a plague of madness upon the world, until Valery was ultimately able to defeat the Sith Lord before his plans came to fruition. However, while the two where on Voss, Shan was alerted to the return of another fallen strike team member—Warren Sedoru had captured the Republic flagship Valikery and taken its commander, Admiral Albec, hostage in order to gather information on the Republic's war plans. Shan immediately dispatched Kingston to defeat Sedoru and rescue the admiral with Drew's help, and Sedoru revealed during Kingston's mission that Master Roshi was on the embattled world of Corellia as the Emperor's agent.
Upon learning that only a few Jedi remained alive on Corellia, Shan immediately sent out a call to the Outer Rim and summoned as many Jedi reinforcements as possible, organizing them into the Outer Rim Jedi Forces and lead all Jedi forces on the planet. Not long after Satele's arrival on Corellia, the Barsen'thor arrived with the combined military forces of the Rift Alliance to aid the Republic. The Consular had also been able to recover a damaged holorecording of the First Son, the leader of the Children of the Emperor, and Shan was in the Jedi Archives on Tython with Master Kaedan when the Barsen'thor's crew contacted the Temple for access. Upon learning of the reason for the request, Shan immediately granted the Consular remote access to the Archives' systems. However, the recording showed a terrible truth—the First Son was none other than Syo Bakarn, Shan's friend and fellow Council member. When contacted, the First Son revealed that he had suppressed Bakarn's personality and had granted control of the fortresses known as Guardian Holds to his fellow Children, and the First Son cruelly thanked Shan and Kaedan for their gift before terminating the call. Horrified, Shan and Kaedan watched as communications with the Holds vanished, and the two Jedi Masters ordered the Barsen'thor to retake the Holds with the Alliance's forces.[39] The Barsen'thor was successful in these efforts and also managed to defeat the First Son in a final duel, during which Bakarn broke free of the Son's control and locked the Child away within his mind. At the moment of the First Son's defeat, Shan and the rest of the Masters suddenly became aware of the presence of the Children across the galaxy—without the First Son's shield, the Children were exposed to the Jedi. Shan was also glad to hear that Bakarn had survived, and she immediately sent Jedi to retrieve her friend and return him to Tython after conveying Supreme Chancellor Leontyne Saresh's request for a meeting to the Barsen'thor.
At the same time the Barsen'thor was reclaiming the Holds, the Outer Rim Jedi under the Hero of Tython's leadership foiled each of Braga's attempts to supply the Emperor with the necessary sacrifice for his ritual, and the Hero was finally able to defeat and redeem Braga aboard the warship Eclipse above Corellia's capital of Coronet City. From Braga, the Knight learned that the Emperor was weakened and that he was in the structure known as the Dark Temple on Dromund Kaas, and Shan decided to pursue a radical course of action—while the Hero infiltrated the Imperial capital and confronted the Emperor, she would lead the Republic Navy in an all-out assault on the planet. While the Hero traveled from Corellia to the heart of the Sith Worlds, the Grand Master departed Tython and joined the invasion fleet that had been gathered at her request, and her task force arrived at Dromund Kaas and engaged the Imperial First Defense Fleet in a furious space battle. With Shan and Admiral Dabrin leading the fleet at the head of the Valiant, their ships caught the Imperial defenders by surprise and kept the planet's attention firmly on them, allowing the Hero to slip down to the surface and enter the Dark Temple with the aid of the Jedi's compatriots. Together with T7-O1, the Hero confronted and defeated the Emperor in a final battle, and the Knight immediately communicated success to Shan upon returning to the group's ship. Shan ordered an immediate withdrawal to the Colonies region.
During a ceremony aboard the Valkery, which was attended by many of the Republic's influential figures and allies of Drew and Satele, Shan presented Drew with another the Cross of Glory, the Republic's highest award, that he placed his to Kyle's lightsabers in honor of his brother, and she granted Kingston the title of Jedi Master. The Grand Master then returned to Coruscant for a meeting with the Chancellor, general Enil Garza, FreeLancer supreme commander York, and the Rift Alliance, where she awarded the Kassidee Kingston with Bakarn's vacant seat on the Jedi Council.
During the Battle of Ilum, Shan traveled to the icy world of Ilum when Darth Malgus declared his New Empire. On Ilum, Shan participated in a war council with Supreme Commander Kade, General Elin Garza, Fleet Admiral Numinn, and several other high-ranking officials in which they decided to send a small strike team to board Malgus's space station and defeat the Sith Lord.
Family Ties[]
Sometime after the battle at Dromund Kaas, Shan had begun to reside in an apartment on Coruscant with her family, by which time Jace Malcom had been promoted to Supreme Commander and Drew gave up the role to be a general. Malcom soon became aware of his son, Theron, while working with the Strategic Information Service on Operation End Game, a joint operation between the military, FreeLancers, and the Jedi Order to take down the powerful Imperial warship Ascendant Spear and its commander, Darth Karrid. Upon seeing Theron's name on an analysis report, as Theron became an agent for the Republic military because of his step father, Drew Kade, Malcom attempted to reconcile with his son but was initially rebuffed and told that Drew was more of a father then he ever was. After Theron, Master Gnost-Dural, and Drew Kade returned from a mission to the planet Ziost, Shan contacted Gnost-Dural and asked him to relay a request for a meeting to Theron. Her son arrived at her and Drew's apartment that night by disabling the perimeter sensors and climbing up the wall of the building, though Shan was aware of his presence and left the balcony doors open. Despite Theron's initial hostility, Shan expressed her pride in her son's accomplishments, and she attempted to warn Theron about Malcom's desire to destroy the Empire, but Theron grew angry with her and departed. Upon her son's departure, Shan allowed herself to experience the painful memories of her split with Malcom which then turned into bloody flashbacks of the war for Coruscant, and she reminded herself of the choice's she had made although the flashback continued until Drew comforted her later that night.
A few days later, the Coruscant Security Force called Shan to Diplomatic Spaceport 27-B, where a young Twi'lek female was holding a CSF officer hostage after the police had attempted to arrest her upon arrival—for she had landed in the Prosperity, the shuttle that Theron, Gnost-Dural, and Drew had taken on their most recent mission. The young woman had forced the CSF officers to contact the Grand Master, and Shan immediately knew that she was telling the truth when the Twi'lek informed her that Theron had sent her to deliver a message. At Shan's apartment, the Twi'lek Teff'ith explained Theron's message to the Kade family: Malcom planned to sacrifice the planet Duro to the Imperial Moff Nezzor to prevent the Empire from realizing that the Republic had one of its black cipher encryption devices, and Theron and Gnost-Dural intended to prevent this by boarding the Ascendant Spear, which the two would ensure went to Duro. As a result, Theron needed his mother to convince his father to send the Republic fleet to Duro with his step father in command of it—and Malcom was furious to learn that Theron had told Shan about his plans when she called him in the middle of the night and arrive at his apartment with Drew and Valery. While Knigston preped the 902nd for the coming imperial invasion lead by Lord Necray on Kashyyyk.
Remaining calm throughout their entire conversation as the man she once loved grow even angrier with her, Shan worked to convince Malcom to listen to their son, and her statement that Malcom had forgotten the difference between the Empire and the Republic cut deep in both him and Drew. Shan acknowledged that Malcom was still a good man despite his hate and anger, and she revealed that her choice to hide Theron from his father might have been the wrong one. Teff'ith's interruption brought the trio back to the matter of Duro, and Satele's request that Malcom have faith in their son was the final argument that convinced the Supreme Commander to accept Theron's plan but he didn't agree to aide until Drew revealed his past as a way to show that it was time for him to put his personal agenda aside and fight for the greater cause. Shan then shot down Malcom's objections and insisted that she and Drew where coming to Duro with him, and the two boarded Malcom's flagship, Aegis, within an hour along with Teff'ith and Valery. Nine hours later, The Kade's stood on the bridge with Malcom and Teff'ith when Moff Nezzor's fleet arrived, and they watched as Malcom and his subordinate Admiral Gorwin pounded the Extempus and the rest of the Imperial fleet. Just as Malcom's ships finished destroying the Extempus and preventing its suicide run on one of Duro's orbital cities, Shan sensed the impending arrival of Darth Karrid and alerted the bridge mere seconds before the Ascendant Spear dropped out of hyperspace on the edge of the Duro system.
The Ascendant Spear's initial attempts to attack the Aegis were hindered by Theron's slicing efforts aboard the Imperial warship, but the Republic fleet scored relatively few hits on the vessel before Karrid assumed control again and took out 30 percent of the Aegis's shields in a single hit. As the battle continued, the Kade's watched as Malcom withdrew his fleet to a position where it could not inflict lasting damage on the Ascendant Spear but one that also prevented Karrid from completely destroying the Republic fleet in a single attack. Karrid's Force-enhanced mental control over the Ascendant Spear was lessened when Gnost-Dural engaged her apprentices in a duel and deprived her of their strength in the Force, but as the Ascendant Spear drew close enough for its long-range weaponry to attack the Aegis, Shan and the rest of the bridge were plunged into darkness when Malcom ordered the vessel to divert all power to the shields from everything except the sensors and life support. As Karrid's attack pounded away at the shields, Drew, Satele, and Valery held hands as they prepared for the Aegis's destruction.
However, the Republic fleet was spared by the Ascendant Spear's wrath when Theron succeeded in separating Karrid from its controls, leaving the vessel dead in space as its commander, Moff Lorman, struggled to decide whether to assume control or wait for Karrid to take back the ship. The bridge crew of the Aegis waited in silence for Karrid's attack, but Drew soon realized that the Ascendant Spear was vulnerable and ordered the entire fleet to attack. As the fleet pounded away at the defenseless warship, Theron succeeded in killing Karrid, and he and Gnost-Dural fled to the escape pods when Karrid's apprentices withdrew to save themselves. The Kade's and Malcom watched as the Ascendant Spear was consumed by a hypermatter explosion, but the entire bridge realized that the ship's destruction might have also killed both Theron and Gnost-Dural. Fortunately for Shan and Malcom, the missing duo hailed the Aegis from one of the escape pods and were quickly brought aboard the vessel. Both parents were overjoyed to see their son alive, though they contained their emotions in front of the Aegis's crew and confined themselves to congratulatory remarks after. Drew was troubled when he sensed that Satele still had some feelings for Malcom however after confronting her about this she reminded him of her loyalty to him.
Three days later, Shan attended a debriefing in Malcom's office with Gnost-Dural and SIS director Marcus Trant, with neither Shan nor Malcom having spoken to their son or one another other than an earlier ceremony in which Theron, Gnost-Dural, and Teff'ith were awarded the Cross of Glory. Both Shan and Malcom were disappointed that Theron failed to show up to the debriefing, but Shan remained behind afterward to speak with Malcom, reassuring him that their son would seek them out when he was ready. Shan then departed after holding Malcom's shoulder for a moment to convey her sadness for what was lost. As she left he sensed that Malcom knew something about her he wasn't telling her about and before she walked out of the room Malcom asked Shan to say hi and thank you to her family for him.
That same year, the Hutt Cartel invaded the planet Makeb, and Shan and the Jedi Council meditated on the invasion to determine more information on it. Through its meditation, the Council came to believe that the conquest of Makeb was a stepping stone to a full-fledged Hutt expansion that could across a forth of the galaxy. As a result of the Hutt transgression, Supreme Chancellor Leontyne Saresh arranged to meet a Republic operative aboard Keylander Station above Makeb, a council in which Shan, Kade, Malcom, and Garza participated via hologram. At Saresh's request, the Grand Master communicated the Council's findings on the Hutts' intentions. When Tython was attacked later that year, Shan was off-planet, serving as an emissary to the Drayvos League.
Grand Master, Shan continued to guide the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic through the war with the Empire as new threats arose, until her son Kingston sent her and Drew a distress call asking for their personal help on Kashyyyk. Upon arrival Shan bravely fought next to her husbands side until their youngest son, Hunter, now known as Lord Demarian revealed himself to them and dueled his legendary parents in a duel to the death. Despite Drew and Satele efforts they where both over powered and slaughtered by their son, dawning the Kade Civil war. Through the efforts of the Jedi and the Republic, the Empire eventually met its destruction sometime before 2000 BBY. By the time of the Galactic Empire, 3,600 years later, Shan was commemorated by Satele Shan Boulevard, a street on Coruscant. The street was located in the Pyochayarit district of Coruscant's Azda Cluster region next to Kade avenue, and the war for Coruscant museum was built in between Satele Shan Boulevard and Kade Avenue.
Personality And Traits[]
We're not going to hold them off. We're going to push past them, and march to the black heart of our enemy! We fight for our homelands, and for our freedom—may the Force be with us!
—Shan rallies the troops on Rhen Var
A Human female with fair skin and blue-gray eyes, Satele Shan wore her brown-black hair cut short for most of her life. Shan sported bangs on either side of her face as a teen, though she later replaced them with a pair of braided ponytails. Shan was a relatively short woman, though she radiated a sense of power, confidence, and resolute calm throughout her life that was far beyond her short stature. In her youth, Shan—who preferred to be addressed by her first name, even as a Jedi Master—inherited her ancestor Bastila's impatience and impetuousness, though those aspects of her personality were later tempered under the tutelage of Master Dar'Nala. Shan was a powerful presence on the battlefield, and her reputation as one of the greatest heroes of the Republic was directly inspired by her actions in the Battle of Alderaan and the war for Coruscant.
As a Jedi Knight, Shan was sworn to serve the Republic, and her devotion to her cause and her selflessness drove her to give up the chance at a normal life and a family when she had her son, Theron. Until she ended up giving into her desire for a family and marry the famed warrior, Drew Kade, and hade three kids with him, Kingston, Valery, and Hunter. This same sense of duty, coupled with her fear of the dark side's corrupting influence, had caused her to break off her relationship with Theron's father several months earlier and remain unsure of her secret marriage and family, forcing her to constantly worry that she would one day fall to the dark side's power. Shan recognized that she would do everything in her power to protect her husband and kids, coupled with the powers and responsibilities she possessed as a Jedi and a Republic hero, she believed the risk was too great and therefore gave Theron to Ngani Zho, however with the pain that she went threw by doing this she refused to give up her next three children. Zho himself was a paternal figure to Shan, who felt that he and Drew where the only peoplr she could trust enough to tell about her pregnancy. Of all of his many students, Zho felt that Shan was the one who made him the most proud, and she was greatly saddened by her Master's passing. However, despite her Jedi teachings and devotion to placing the galaxy's needs above her own, Shan some times deeply regretted ending her relationship with Jace Malcom and giving up her son, and the memories that were dredged up after meeting her son as his mother for the first time were still painful even twenty-six years later. Shan also dreaded that one day her husband, Drew Kade, would fall to the dark side after learning that he still held on to his anger and hatered, and after Hunter betray her and promised he would one day return to kill her Satele began to worry that Kingston and Valery where vulnerable to the dark side's temptation.
By the end of the Great Galactic War, Shan was still struggling with her impatience and strongly distrusted the Sith sparking intense arguments with her husband, leading her to aggressively attack Darth Baras when she discovered that the Sith's peace negotiations were a sham. However, over the course of the next few weeks, Shan was confronted with the hypocrisy of her former Master Dar'Nala's efforts to disrupt the Treaty of Coruscant and realized how Dar'Nala herself had become consumed by the very emotions that she had taught Shan to resist. As a result, Shan came to believe that the current peace away from the hellish Coruscant was the best possible thing for the galaxy at the time and dedicated herself to doing good as she traveled the galaxy after the end of the war. As a Jedi Master and later Grand Master, Shan possessed a warm demeanor and an approachable personality, holding herself equal to even the youngest Padawans of the Order, which also helped her repair some of the damage in her secret marriage. However, Shan's outward attitude belied her true determination and strength of will, and the sense of authority that her voice conveyed could bring even her husband the Supreme Commander of the Republic Military to a halt. Shan was renowned for her wisdom and considered by many to be the Order's voice and conscience, and her prowess in battle and experience with the dangers of the dark side made her a wise teacher, a powerful warrior, and a vulnerable mother.
Relationships[]
Jace Malcom[]
Shan first met Jace Malcom when she came to Korriban to study under Kao Cen Darach, and the two escaped the Sith Empire's return with the help of Nico Okarr. The two had other experiences together over the next fourteen years, during which Malcom made clear that he had feelings for her ever since they first met. However, Shan resisted reciprocating those feelings until the aftermath of the Battle of Alderaan, where she acknowledged that she felt the same way and began a romantic relationship that lasted for six months. That relationship ended when Shan, worried over the growing darkness within Malcom's spirit and his desire for revenge against the Empire, broke it off after confronting him over his reasons for waging war and decided not to inform him of her pregnancy. Shan's trepidation over Malcom's closeness to the dark side kept them apart for over two decades, and their few interactions were relatively cordial. However, when Malcom discovered the existence of Theron, Shan and Malcom were forced to reconcile over their decisions and actions in the past. Shan deeply wished that she could explain to him why she couldn't pursue their relationship, but, during the battle at Duro, Malcom was able to figure out that she was married to Drew Kade and had a family with him and decided out of his love for her and to repay the two for everything they sacrificed in the War for Coruscant he would keep their secret safe. In the days after Duro, Malcom revealed to Shan that he knew about her marriage and agreed to keep it secret as he gradually came to terms with the status of their relationship, and started understand that they could not allow their past feelings to interfere with their responsibilities as Grand Master and Supreme Commander.
Theron Shan[]
Shan bore her son, Theron, during the War for Coruscant, but, upon viewing her child for the first time, she realized that she would have done anything to protect her son, even if it meant danger to the galaxy, and so she gave Theron to Ngani Zho. Shan did not see Theron again for over twenty years, and when she finally did meet her son, it was when Theron—by then a republic agent—was bringing his mother news of Zho's death. Neither openly acknowledged their relationship during their conversation, though they were both aware of each others' identities. A few years later, when Theron participated in Operation End Game, a covert mission organized by his father, Jace Malcom, Shan contacted her son and asked to speak with him. Shan was proud of her son's accomplishments and loved him deeply, but her attempts to warn Theron about his father's dark desire to destroy the Empire only angered her son. Shan's relationship with Theron complicated her relationships with Drew, who had taking Theron under his wing long ago and revealed he was his step Father, and Malcom, who had been unaware of his child's existence until Operation End Game, but she trusted Theron's judgment and was willing to stand up to Malcom with Drew and Valery's help in order to help Theron. Both she and Malcom were overjoyed to see Theron survive the battle at Duro, though they managed to contain their emotions in public. Shan did not speak with Theron in the days following Duro, but she remained confident that her son would reach out to his parents when he was ready.
Drew Kade[]
Satele first learned about Drew after the battle of Korriban and become interested in the urban myths surrounding the sith pureblood. Gathering large amounts of information on him and his brother trying to prove their existence to the Jedi council that was adamant Katharos and Kleos where nothing more then sith ledgend. It wasn't until 3670 BBY after the battle of Balmora a small group of jedi returned the the temple with two unconscious sith, none other than the famed Katharos and Kleos. Satele was assigned to interrogate the brothers before sending them to their Scheduled surgeries to have nano droids planted in their blood stream. For the next couple years Shan fought with the classified team known as, the black knights. As the war for coruscant broke out Satele formed an extremly close freindship with, Drew Kade, and eventually expressed that she had devopled feeling for him. Altough also said that she couldn't allow it to turn into anything more altough she regreted her decision not to allow a romantic relationship to form and once her affair with havoc squad leader, Jace Malcom, Shan gave into her emontions and began a relationship with the sith turned jedi. With in the next year or so she agrred to marry Drew and shortly afterwards had her second son, Kingston, and eventually had her first daughter and thrid son, Valery and Hunter. However for the first six years of her marriage she came close to ended her marriage and leaving Drew not because of her vows to the order but because of her strong dustrust in the sith. But despit her distrust she managed to preserved the marriage and keep it hidden from most of the order, as for the few who knew about her love for the famed warrior decide that they would protect her secret of having a family in a way of repaying her and Drew for everything they did during the Great Galactic War. However after their youngest son, Hunter, feel to the dark side Shan divorced Drew knowing that if she stayed with him she to would fall down a dark path although she still loved him and wished that it didn't have to happen but Shan knew it was the right thing to do. Satele continued to remain loyal and work with Drew up until the day she was slaughtered by their youngest son Hunter.
Kingston Kade[]
Kingston was born with in the first year of Satele's marriage with Drew Kade and was named after Drew's apperentice at the time, Kassidee Kingston. Threw out his entire childhood he struggled with finding his place in the galaxy and waged an entiral war against himself hoping that one day he would prove to himself the desipt the evils his ancestors, Revan and the Kade's held in their heart he would overcome the darkness inside his heart and become a Jedi master. With the help of his parents he slowly defeat his tempation and with the help of his mother he stopped looking to anger and hatred for answers. Once he proved he was ready to be a Jedi padawan the council assigned him to train under Kassidee Kingston. Until her death on Altora when he was assigned to finish his training under Jedi master, Gar Salen. When Hunter betray the Jedi and ran away he lost faith in his parents teachings for nearly a year. When he turned twenty one he was prompted to the rank of Jedi Knight and began working very closely with Shan on the battlefeild. Satele couldn't wait for the day her children became Jedi Masters but was sadly killed before be able to witness the event, and with her death Kingston vowed to bring Hunter to Justice and get revenge for what he'd done. He spent most of his life trying to draw on the living force to contact his parents force ghost, after deciding to move on and let the rest in peace he had a muesum deticated to the War for Coruscant built on Satele Shan boulevard and Kade avenue.
Valery Kade[]
My mother was brave, inspiring, and honorable she sacraficed everything do that the people in the galaxy could live their lives as they pleased. She was everything I've ever wanted to be and more, no one will ever be able to be as amazing as she was."
—Valery speaking about her mother, Satele Shan
Valery was Satele's thrid child and only daughter, and was horrified that she would fall to dark side because of her families past. Satele did her best to explain that just because their ancestors like Wynt, and Revan where ruthless Sith Lords doesn't mean that she will fall as well. But the Grand Master was scared as well knowing that because Drew is a sith pureblood all of their children where more vulnerable to falling the the dark sides temptation. Valery was inspired by her parents and wanted to be everything they where, however she felt that her fathers story was more compelling. Once Valery became of the age and was promoted to Jedi Padawan Shan made sure that she trained her daughter in the way of the Jedi but eventually gave up the role of Valery's master after Drew pointed out that because of their emotional attachment both of them where vulnerable on and off the battle feild. Threw out the Cold War Valery worked closely with both parents and expressed that one day she wanted to become the Grand Master like her mother. Satele hid Valery from most of the order because she looked exactly like her mother, which would of allowed the entire order the figure out that she had gone against what the code commanded of her. When Valery was forced to watch her parents slaughter she fell into depression and started to give into her hatred and anger, but eventually she redeemed herself and became the second youngest Jedi to become the Grand Master.
Hunter Kade[]
During the eleventh year of the infamous War for Coruscant Satele birthed her forth child, Hunter Kade, and imedently her and Drew sensed a great darkness in his heart that concerned both of them deeply. Satele meditated shortly after giving birth in hopes of discovering the boys future, suddendly flashs of anger, hatred, and fear appeared revealing that the boy would fall to the dark side. Drew did his best to hide his concern and comfort her but it never completed worked because she could sense his uneasyness on the matter. When their corrupt son opened his eyes to reveal his red pureblood eyes Shan was broken heart and broke out into tears believe there was no hope for her son know. Drew and Satele agrred that no one could know about existence including Drew's brother, Kyle, the only people who would know that Hunter was alive where their two kids to the rest of the world they would simply say that he died in her womb. As Hunter grew up the darkness in him only grew stronger but his parents refuse to end their efforts to bring him over to the light side of the force as they trained him in secrecy. Altough after Drew moved to Coruscant so he could lead the republuc's military as it's supreme commander Hunter began to reject the jedi code and allow his anger, and hatred to fuel his actions. Shan tried to slowly guide him over to the light side, but her efforts failed and he betray his family and everything he'd ever known promising his mother that he would day return to kill her. Satele was deeply huanted by this causing her to divorce Drew out of paranoia and it huanted her until the day she died and Hunter fulfilled his promised by slaughtering his parents in cold blood.
Powers And Abilities[]
She does have the gift, Master Zym, just like Bastila did. I'm sure of it.
—Dar'Nala, regarding Shan's lineage
As the descendant of Revan and Bastila Shan, two of their generation's most powerful Jedi, Satele Shan was incredibly strong in the Force. Shan was skilled with the use of telekinesis, and her strength with such abilities even as a Jedi Knight was enough for her to bring down an entire mountain on top of Darth Malgus during their battle. She was also able to dismantle the door to Darth Mekhis' fortress using the Force and was skilled enough with tutaminis abilities to block a lightsaber blade with her bare hands without injuring herself although she did have hints of force weirder DNA that helped her do this as well. Shan's powers continued to grow over her lifetime; by the Battle of Rhen Var, she was able to destroy a blast door simply by using the Force to break it into pieces. During the incident on Sebaddon, she dismantled hexe droids with a mere gesture, when the droids proved more than a match for other Jedi and Sith alone.
Throughout her life, Shan was known for her affinity for foresight—she predicted the arrival of the Sith Empire at Korriban, and her ability to view the future grew stronger over the course of her life. By the time of the renewed war with the Sith, many Jedi believed that the Grand Master could change the future simply by predicting it. Shan was also an accomplished telepath, to the point that she could both read the minds of others and communicate in full sentences with them. She could influence the biological components of more than half a dozen hexes to keep them at bay, though Shan could not influence the hexes and maintain a Force shield strong enough to seal in the air around her at the same time for long. Shan's Master Dar'Nala suspected that she had inherited her ancestor Bastila's skill with battle meditation, though her suspicions were never confirmed. The Grand Master also developed a strong bond with her husband through the Force, which allowed her to sense Drew's emotions from halfway across the galaxy. Trained by the Order's Battlemaster, Kao Cen Darach, Shan was exceptionally skilled with the use of both a normal lightsaber and a double-bladed lightsaber. In combat, Shan was an agile fighter who utilized acrobatics to both evade her opponents and quickly strike them down, even after her murder she continued to guide her children as a force ghost.