Kyle Katarn!!

[Foshjedi2004]

Ok...Here is a History of Jedi master Kyle Katarn:(Gathered from Games, Books and Card Game):

 

Katarn was never actually an official member of the Rebel Alliance, but rather a mercenary working directly for Mothma. Kyle was secretly dispatched by Mothma on missions deemed too dangerous or sensitive for actual Alliance operatives, and was extremely well paid for his services.

 

Shortly before the events of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Katarn single-handedly infiltrated an Imperial facility to retrieve the plans for the first Death Star as a part of Operation Skyhook. The plans would eventually be forwarded to Princess Leia Organa, leading to her pursuit and capture by Darth Vader.

 

After the Battle of Yavin and the destruction of the first Death Star, the Empire retaliated against the Rebel Alliance by unleashing the Dark Trooper Project, a secret Imperial research initiative which was manufacturing powerful battle droids to attack Alliance worlds with. After several adventures (including run-ins with Jabba the Hutt and Boba Fett), Kyle managed to defeat the Dark Troopers and destroy the Dark Trooper Project utterly.

 

Upon witnessing Kyle's performance in battle, Vader made an off-hand remark about the young mercenary's Force potential, causing players to expect a sequel having to do with the Jedi.

 

In the aftermath of his victory over the Dark Troopers, Kyle supervised the training of crack Alliance undercover commandos and quickly formed a tight-knit group of agents known as the Katarn Commandoes. Lieutenant Page, one of his cadets, took over as the leader of the squad when Kyle retired. Kyle also took part in a SpecForce mission put together by Corwin Shelvay, in which he teamed up with Force-sensitives Shira Brie and Erling Tredway to sabotage the superlaser of Death Star II en route to D'rinba IV.

 

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

 

A year after the Battle of Endor, Kyle was visited by the spirit of the Jedi Rahn, who told him of the Jedi heritage of his father: Morgan Katarn had helped the Jedi Master close off the Valley of the Jedi. Kyle traveled to his father's workshop, located on Sulon, a moon of Sullust, to find the family droid named WeeGee to decipher a message from his father. After his father's message was complete, the droid then ejected Rahn's lightsaber from its internals. He embarked on a journey where he battled against the Dark Jedi faction, led by the Dark Jedi Jerec, who had murdered his father and Rahn. During his journey, he fought the other six Dark Jedi who followed Jerec. He defeated, but spared, Yun. He then fought and killed Gorc, Pic, and Maw, but, with each duel, Kyle brought himself closer to the dark side. His adventure took him to a secret Jedi burial ground, the Valley of the Jedi, where the spirits of many Jedi and Sith lay quiescent, trapped there after the Battle of Ruusan. This site was a nexus of power from which Force-sensitives could draw great energies of the Force. Jerec was attempting to gain this power for his own ends.

 

Kyle's ship, the Moldy Crow, was destroyed, but Kyle escaped, rendering himself unconscious. One of the last Dark Jedi, Sariss, and her adopted son, Yun pulled the unconscious Jedi from the wreckage out of gratitude for sparing his life. Boc, another Dark Jedi, destroyed Katarn's lightsaber and left to assist Jerec. Sariss was about to kill Kyle, but Yun, out guilt for executing Rhan, blocked her blow with his lightsaber. Sariss' blade was deflected and struck Yun, mortally wounding him. As Kyle woke up, he heard Yun saying Katarn shouldn't have died a coward's death and that he deserved a true fight. Yun breathed his last, possibly returning to the light side. With his lightsaber destroyed, Kyle picked up Yun's saber (he carried the lightsaber as his own before he created his own) and defeated Sariss, being careful not to fall to the dark side in the process.

 

Kyle rushed to the Jedi Temple and confronted Boc, who wielded two lightsabers, but was no match for Kyle's dueling skills. After defeating Boc, Kyle rushed in to stop Jerec. The two dueled, Jerec was disarmed, and tried and failed to turn Kyle to the dark side. Katarn tossed Jerec his lightsaber back, and as Jerec was about to stab Kyle in the back, Kyle defended himself and killed Jerec, freeing (according to prophecy) the souls of the Jedi, trapped millennia ago by Lord Kaan.

 

Although the player has the option to follow the dark side alternate ending, in which Kyle takes on the Powers of the Valley and becomes the new Emperor, the canonical ending is that Kyle continued to be a light-side Jedi.

 

Kyle continued working with Jan for the New Republic, cooperated with Bey, Dash Rendar and Guri on an insertion mission to the Tof fortress world Saijo and nearly razing Space Station Kwenn while apprehending a Ketton spy. Kyle took a more permanent role with the New Republic and served with Page's Commandos, executing missions in various worlds like Kashyyyk, Boudolayz and to Garos IV.

 

Luke Skywalker offered to train Kyle further but Kyle was too afraid of falling to the dark side and refused.

 

Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith

Approximately five years after the original "Jedi Knight", former Imperial assassin Mara Jade came under Kyle's tutelage, taking up the rare bond of reciprocal apprenticeship, a facet of the "Jedi Concordance of Fealty" little practiced since the "Cleansing of the Nine Houses". During this period, while investigating Sith ruins on the long dead world of Dromund Kaas, Kyle came under the influence of the dark side, but Jade went to him and convinced him to come back to the light. After nearly succumbing to the dark side herself, Mara helped him turn back.

 

Skywalker made a second offer to Katarn, and this time he accepted, believing that further training would help him tame his dark self. Kyle gave up Yun's lightsaber and built his own special blue one. Kyle developed a friendship with fellow Jedi trainee Corran Horn, but when two students of the Academy fell to the dark side, Kyle's fear of the dark side multiplied. Kyle gave up studying the Force, gave his lightsaber to Luke Skywalker and returned to his mercenary ways as Jan Ors' partner. New Republic Intelligence reports of his missions suggest Kyle's tactics were particularly "bloodthirsty." He almost always deliberately made a complete search for targets. Of particular note was a mission on Tatooine on which only one Imperial survivor was left alive for interrogation. The Imperial was so shocked all he revealed was that his orders originated from a planet named Kejim.

 

Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast

Three years after MotS, Kyle encountered many enemies like the Rodians Beedo, and Reelo Baruk, the Gran Ree-Yees, and the Dark Jedi Desann and his apprentice, Tavion.

 

Jan Ors was taken prisoner by Desann and apparently killed by Tavion. Angered by his partner's death, Kyle returned to The Valley of the Jedi on Ruusan to restore his powers, but was warned by the Jedi Spirit of his late father of the corrupting power of The Valley. He also warned Kyle about the coming dangers. Kyle then stepped in The Valley's core beam to restore his Force Powers and once again treaded dangerously close to the dark side. He returned to the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 to begin training again and to retrieve the lightsaber he had left with Luke Skywalker for safe-keeping, also learning Desann was a fallen student of Skywalker's. Luke and Kyle then set across the galaxy to bring Desann to justice. During his travels, he learned that Jan was still alive. She was eventually rescued, allowing Kyle to overcome his thirst for revenge. He learned as well that Desann had located the Valley of the Jedi by following Kyle and had begun to create an army of Dark Jedi "Reborn" warriors to rule the galaxy. Kyle tracked Desann to the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4, and after an intense lightsaber duel, killed him, ending his plan for domination.

 

After Desann's defeat, Kyle decided to keep his lightsaber and continue in the ways of the Force as an instructor and Jedi Master at Luke's academy.

 

Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

 

In this game, Kyle is relegated to the role of supporting character. He becomes the Master of two students, Jaden Korr and Rosh Penin. Both students being talented, they quickly learn Kyle's wisdom. Kyle's quest in the game is to defeat the Sith cult known as the Disciples of Ragnos. Rosh eventually succumbs to the dark side and joins the Disciples of Ragnos. Kyle again meets Tavion, leader of the cult, who possessed a device known as the Staff of Ragnos, and plans to resurrect the ancient Sith Lord Marka Ragnos.

 

Kyle's other student, Jaden Korr, eventually becomes a Jedi, but depending on the player's choice, Jaden may either turn to the dark side by killing Rosh, or remain a Light-sider by forgiving him. In the latter choice, Kyle is proud of his student, who defeats Tavion. If Jaden goes to the dark side, Kyle later duels with his former pupil, who overpowers him using the Staff of Ragnos, stolen by defeating Tavion. Jaden escapes, and Kyle then questions whether or not he should be a Jedi, taking a leave of absence to apprehend Jaden.

 

While it is not yet explicitly clear which ending is canonical, the official stance from Lucasfilm on games where players can choose between the light side and dark side has traditionally been that the light side ending is the canonical one.

 

New Jedi Order

Kyle became the academy's foremost battlemaster, a close friend of Luke Skywalker, and a respected Jedi Master, educating many famous Jedi, such as Jaden Korr. He managed to slay the former Emperor's Hand Jeng Droga. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, in the New Jedi Order saga, Kyle helped develop strategies against the invaders, and participated in the rescue of human captives of the Imperial Remnant world Ord Sedra from the Yuuzhan Vong. Near the end of the war, the living planet Zonama Sekot agreed to help the Republic; Kyle was one of several Jedi Knights bonded to seed-partners and provided with Sekotan starships to use in Sekot's defence.

 

Kyle heard a rumor that the Sith Order still existed. Due to his experiences on Drommund Kaas, Kyle investigated after the invasion, following clues from Ord Sedra in the Clacis Sector to Yaga Minor, resulting in the Cloak of the Sith. During the mission, Kyle was captured by the Dark Jedi Daye Azur-Jamin, who presumably attempted to turn Kyle back to the dark side. After a successful rescue mission led by Jan Ors and Jaden Korr, Kyle revealed all that he knew about the new threat. A Force-sensitive Yuuzhan Vong is causing havoc in the galaxy, and it's apparent that an even more powerful threat looms on the horizon.

 

Some time later, during the Killik Expansion, Kyle is one of four Jedi Masters who attempts to destroy the dark nest. Kyle also speaks his mind during a Master's Council session, where he stands up to Chief of State Cal Omas. He, along with Corran Horn and other Masters believed that Jaina and Zekk could be the next leaders of the dark nest. During the Swarm War, Kyle led a squadron of Jedi Stealth X's against the Killiks.

 

Talents

Despite being almost completely self-trained, Kyle became one of the New Jedi Order's most respected and powerful Jedi Masters. With relatively little lightsaber combat training, Kyle defeated seven trained Dark Jedi: Boc, Gorc, Pic, Maw, Sariss, Yun, and then Jerec himself - an amazing accomplishment for someone of his status of training. Kyle again showed great skill defeating the Dark Jedi, Desann - a Dark Jedi so powerful, Luke Skywalker couldn't defeat him. It is believed that his raw power was increased to rival that of Luke Skywalker's when Katarn visited the Valley of the Jedi after first encountering Desaan. Kyle also showed a strong will, resisting the many taunts and mind tricks Desann used on him in the Yavin temple. During the events of The Disiples of Ragnos, Kyle had already become the strongest swordsman in the New Jedi Order, and successfully trained one of the youngest and unarguably most famous Jedi Knight during these events, Jaden Korr.

 

While Kyle's fighting style may be a fighting style created by the New Jedi Order, it's also possible that it is a personal style. If the player chooses the Dark Side in the computer game, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Kyle uses many Force techniques, such as Force pulling the charcters lightsaber away during a battle, as well as many physical attacks such as putting his lightsaber away, grabbing the character with one hand, and punching them with the other.

[Dorkthehunter]

I thought you weren't Kyle Katarn in Jedi Academy. You are just some guy and Kyle is one of your trainers.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn 889]

it does say that in the first paragraph. but the name KAtarn is known also as Judder Page's 'Katarn' Commandos.

[Katarn]

Foshjedi, Quite a nice summary of my adventures. 

 

-Katarn

[Foshjedi2004]

You are very welcome.... :

[Guest]

I thought it was bria tharen that got the plans of the death star and beamed to the Tantive IV before she was killed.

 

Once again EU has gone and contradicted itself.

[Dorkthehunter]

I thought it was bria tharen that got the plans of the death star and beamed to the Tantive IV before she was killed.

 

Once again EU has gone and contradicted itself.

 

That is correctm but EU did not contradict itself. There were two parts of the plans. One that Kyle Katarn got, and the other that were gotten, and Bria Tharen had something to do with them, and then the Tantive IV got it. No contradiction.

[Foshjedi2004]

Bria Was on Toprawa.  That is the system that was subsequently bombarded back to the Stone age by Vader's Flag.