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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Galethorn" data-source="post: 2150499" data-attributes="member: 7888">Jorran KaaraiAh jeez...I've had a bit of a change of heart. First of all, now he's Jorran Kaarai (or just 'Jor' for short), and I decided I like the whole middle-aged thing, and want to be all-jedi, so I'll put together a somewhat updated history...BackstoryJorran can't even remember what planet he's from, or what his parents were like. He was taken by the Jedi Council when he was very young. Because of this, his earliest memories all take place within the austere walls of the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. He was somewhat ahead of his class, but no prodigy.While the Clone Wars raged, Jorran was a new Padawan and was travelling with Master Kirrun, his mentor, in the outer rim on a ship with another Master and Padawan, Master Annai and Iurra Khsan, respectively. They had been sent by the council to find Ruusan, the planet where the fabled 'Valley of the Jedi' was rumored to be. They were deep in an uncharted system when the two masters sensed the masacre at the Jedi Temple.Knowing what this meant, Annai and Kirrun decided that they should seek out safety for themselves and their padawans. To begin, they landed outside of a settlement on a small moon. They easily convinced a local mechanic to buy their transport for parts, and then sell them a less conspicuous transport. They bought civilian clothes with the money left over, and set off for the other side of the rim.While chaos wracked the core worlds, and darkness fell on the republic, Jorran and his fellow Jedi were hopping from system to system, trying to find a safe-haven. As the fear of the Jedi Purge subsided, the four Jedi were able to stay longer and longer on each planet, until they found a barely colonized moon orbiting around a blue-green gas giant.Living just over the horizon from a small frontier town, they were able to establish a farm, and began to live peacefully. During the following years, Jorran and Iurra learned much from the two masters, and were nearly able to forget the empire and the core worlds. They lived this way for almost twenty years, but it all ended on one day about a year before the battle of Yavin.Imperial agents arrived on the moon and found the Jedi enclave. In the ensuing battle, Master Kirrun and Annai were killed, and Iurra was badly wounded, but Jorran was unscathed when he killed the last of the attackers. Knowing that more foes would inevitably come, Jorran tended Iurra, burned the two masters on a funeral pyre, and began preparing the old transport for takeoff.With Iurra performing the necessary calculations from the sickbay, and Jorran at the controls, the two Padawans--for lack of a council to make them into Knights--successfully made a long jump out of the system and into an asteroid belt they had hidden in once, years and years before. After Jorran used his powers to help Iurra's wounds heal, both of them made another jump, and they began a two-year series of hops from planet to planet, fleeing the Imperial agents who always seemed to be on their heels.Eventually, they stumbled on Baltimn by accident--or destiny--and learned of the School of Hidden Wisdom. There, they found that they weren't the last Jedi in the Galaxy, and were able to hone their skills for a while. After a year or two, however, rumors came of their pursuers getting closer again.After a long discussion with the Jedi at the school, Jorran declared that he didn't want Iurra to have to continue her life on the run, and he would lead all eyes away from the school. Despite his long-time companion's pleading, Jorran left Baltimn, after leaving enough clues to lead the Imperial agents after him.They closed in quickly; his flight became more and more desperate, until one all signs of his pursuers disappeared; news was all over the Holonet: the second Death Star was destroyed, and the Emporer was dead.Relieved, Jorran returned to Baltimn, only to find that Iurra had already left. He took what information he had about where she had last been seen, and set out on his search for her and and other surviving Jedi he could find.After years of fruitless searching, a vision came to him in the force; a wild planet in the depth of space, and it was strong in the force. He followed his instincts, made jump after jump, and finally found himself over the planet that had been 'calling' to him. One final jump found him far too close to a small planet, and the ancient transport's engines finally failed when he tried to correct its trajectory. So, gathering all of his belongings, he got into the escape pod and ejected the smaller craft before the transport burnt up in the atmosphere.DESCRIPTIONJorran Kaarai is tall and lanky, although broad-shouldered. He has relatively long, dark brown hair that he wears back in a pony-tail, and keeps a beard like many Jedi did before him. His eyes are blue-grey, set in a fair-skinned but somewhat careworn face.He usually dresses in a simple button-up shirt (usually black) and a pair of heavy pants (usually tan or brown), and wears a reddish brown, knee-length coat over everything. He keeps his blaster pistol on his right hip, and--when the situation calls for it--his lightsaber on his left.His voice is naturally deep and booming, but he tends to speak softly and quietly most of the time.PERSONALITYJorran is calm, self-assured (even for a Jedi), kind, and thoughful. However outwardly grim and haggared he looks from his forty-one years of hard living, he's a deeply optomistic man, and always gives people the benefit of the doubt. And, although his ultimate goal is to complete his training, and reunite with fellow Jedi (especially Iurra), he helps people whenever he can--even if it means going well out of his way--and he never asks for a reward.OTHER/Jedi StuffHis lightsaber is blue; it's the one that he was given by his master when he became a Padawan; another of his goals is to make his own, a task he feels ready to complete.</blockquote>

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